The Black Baron: The Greatest Tank Ace of WW2
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- This documentary tells the story of the greatest tank ace of the second world war, Michael Wittman. Wittman was an infamous figure amongst the ranks of his enemies as well as his comrades. His ruthless actions and unparalleled skill inside of a tank made him a hero in his homeland and a feared antagonist amongst enemy ranks.
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Michael wittmann 💀✋⚡⚡
Einer der besten. Unbestritten
Kurt Knispel is rolling over in his grave. Whittman is the 4th greatest tank ace.
Don't forget Otto Carius
Well said...
Who cares.
@@Cultofpersonality09129people who watch history documentaries probably…
I agree, wittman was from the ss, that is the diverence
Can't give all the credit to Whittman, he had a good gunner, driver, and loader. They do all the work.
heil
they did mention that but also this crew switched quite a few times so I think he was the X factor tbh
WITTMANS GUNNER BALTAZAR (BOBBY) WOLL DID ALL THE KILLS !!!! HE WAS THE TANK ACE !!!!
@bengtwahlstedt1021
Bobby Woll wasn't at Villers Bocage (Wittmanns most famous action) though. Woll had command of his own Tiger in Normandy.
Kurt Knispel (20 September 1921 - 28 April 1945) was a Sudeten German Heer panzer loader, gunner and later commander, and was the highest scoring tank ace of World War II with a total of 168 confirmed tank kills; the actual number, although unconfirmed, may be as high as 195.
German Panzer ace Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank commander on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns with his Tiger.
He was also a bloody good person
Mind you, Wittman didn't just have one tiger tank. He had a few tiger tanks and vehicles, stugs immobilised and knocked out when he was commander.
Wrong - All of the Knispel history was made up by Kurwolski - Dr Toppel right here on youtube talked to Kruts commander show said everything about the knispel story was false. he was never put forward for an iron cross, he and they had zero idea how many kills kurt had and they never kept track, that he was a nice guy but not a smart soldier and was never put forward for promotion, and that he was a bit of a thief actually.
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all wrong
@@damianousley8833 He didnt even start out in a tiger, he made a name for himself commanding a STUG short barrel on the eastern front. He proved himself capable of independent thinking and quick action in a lesser tank with a lesser rank. The battle where he first made a name for himself in the STUG is damn near his best one. Incredible tanking.
Kurt Knispel and Johaness Bolter and Ott Carius scored more than him I thought.
Otto Carius survived as well which neither of the two did.
@@alericc1889 Yeah a very long life. Didn't pass until 2015. I read his book it was pretty great read. Tigers in the Mud.
@@HamanKarn567 He did a number of interviews over the years as well, and talked about the other men in his unit, he was pretty straight forward about how brutal it was.
Kurt Knipsel had the highest score out of everyone else in the Heer and SS. He almost never gets any credit or recognition for it because he was openly anti national socialist. He was a German Soldier to his very core and I got nothing but love and admiration for that.
Correction it was a Canadian tank ace that destroyed Witman and his Tiger Not the British, he ambushed Witman from the side concealed by a farm house and put a 17 lb Firefly round through Witmans side into the ammo compartment blowing the turret off and destroying the Tiger instantly, the British tanks were over a km away to the front of Witman
Thank you 🇨🇦
Does it really matter he was with a group of 4 tiger tanks that were ambushed side on and taken out of action. Mind you his remains, and those of his crew, as they were almost forgotten about and were only recovered and placed in a war cemetery some considerable time after the war. His grave headstone has been suvineered, and his grave desecrated numerously over the years.
@@damianousley8833 Yes it does matter. Getting facts right for the purpose of teaching history is extremely important. Stating wrong facts, no matter how small the fact may be, is just not morally or ethically right.
No it was NOT It was Trooper Eakers who was with the North Hamptonshires or INY for short firing from an Orchard between Le Castelet and Daumesnil roads and he got him in his Firefly The Canadians were engaging @1300 metres Eakins from 800 metres And Eakers got him in the RH side The Canadians were to Wittmanns Left Rear
@jacktattis
There were Canadian Shermans firing from holes in the wall of the chateau grounds literally within 200 yards of Wittmann's left.
Ekins didn't even see Wittmann.
Still pumping out these 20 years old history show eh!
It as the 132 anti - tank guns destroyed that elevates him to the top as this suggests a six sense on the battle field. What do reckon ?
Ah, the fevered legend of ol' Whitman is told yet again. Que the documentary-consumers falling into the re-hash.
leave it to a Brit to downplay Wittmans kill ratio and even call evry Russian tank inferior 😂 With the amount of Russian tanks they attacked the Germans quantity often beats quality. I dont know ANY British tank ace, but i do know Wittman, Knispel, Carius, Schroif, Bolter, Sandrock, Egger, Lang all had a + 100 kills under their belt. I tried to look up for Allied tank aces and quickly saw they barely scratch the German aces their kills. Radley-Walters was the most successful Allied tank commander in the theatre, and the British gave him the title of tank-ace of aces. He had 18 tank kills. PS Radley-Walters allegedly killed Wittman.
Yea the damn Brits! Bernard Montgomery can suck it too!
Russia are now the Nazis - Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦❤️🇬🇧
Stick any Brit in a Tiger and you’d see many aces !
In fact put my Granny in a Tiger and she’d have been an Ace 😝
They couldn’t win the war on their own anyways!
They couldn’t win the war on their own anyways!
The British Army Amoured Core WILL Never live down the Villers-Bocage Disaster...
Redditors trying to to mention Kurt Knispel when people talk about the Black Barron [Impossible challenge]
Wittmann was not fit to carry Knispels luggage.
How come Wittmann had a notable success in Normandy and Knispel didnt?
wrong, Knispels story is ALL made up by Kurwolski - wath this and see real info - Dr Topple TALKED to Kurts actual Commander who said Kurt was NEVER put up for the iron cross, was never up for promotion and they had NO IDEA how many kills he had
we have to stop with the reiterating made up history
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Excellent, the documentary did provide updated information! Perhaps to Europeans, all of this is old news, but in the the history-starved United States, we haven't seen it before!
Kurt knispsel is the greatest tank ace..he just wasn't flashy..
It didn't help him by intervening in an incident of an SS trooper abusing a Russian prisoner, with the SS trooper coming off second best with minor injuries. He would have been a marked man after this incident to some extent in the eyes of the Nazis and the SS.
Wrong ruclips.net/video/pfmilK8D0_Y/видео.html
I'm taken back but also proud as hellbat these comments the viewers know more about ww2 than those making these videos
Beg to differ. Top tank ace was Kurt Knispel, or as I call him; "Hitlers Hippy
At last I was beginning to think I was the only one who had a good knowledge of German tank aces
Wrong
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dr Topple talked to Kurts actual commander and asked him about Kurts info and his own commander said it was all a lie made up by kurwolski, that he was never ever put up for an iron cross, or promotion and they had zero idea how many kills they had, and he was a thief
The one guy reminded me of Michael Palin.
That's a cool nickname.
Kurt Knispel might be the best tank commander in history
He scored most of his "kills" as a gunner - not a commander. So you might want to explain your proposal?
wrong
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Dr Topple talked to his actual commander who said EVERTYTHING about Kurt's story was made up by Kurwolski
Lazerpig has something to say about this...
Yup
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I was just going to post something similar! 😄 I thought the video Lazerpig made about him was really funny but educational at the same time.
Excellent vid by lazerpig one of the best I’ve ever seen!
Lazerpig is just a nato shill.
He literally cherry picked specific stories to make Wittman look as bad as he could. Leave it to the britts..
Lazerpig couldn't even get the basics right. His video was poorly made. For example, Lazerpig stated Wittmann was the commander of Schwere SS Panzer Abteilung 101 during Villers Bocage. He wasn't. Heinz von Westernhagen was. Lazerpig also stated Wittmann returned for the second battle at Villers Bocage later that day and lost more Tigers. He didnt. Wittmann went on foot to the HQ of Panzer Lehr Division after the morning battle and played no part in the later battle. The later battle involved Rolf Mobius and his 1st Company.
So Lazerpig even messed up on basic facts.
A repeat, but hopefully an updated repeat.
(Kurt knispel) was a great ace ,commander ,and a brilliant star 🌟 in tanks warfare of Wermakht skies besides Whittman, a brilliant star 🪓🌟 ⚔️... he was a great tank ace .video was an informative and an attractive introduction video shared by an excellent ( war stories) channel and wonderful (History Hit) network page.
Totally wrong and all made up PER Kurts actual commander interviewed by Dr Topple
we need to stop passing on false info as actual history
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The amount of sheep's in this comment section who watched a Laserpig video makes me hurt inside.
Especially as Lazerpig didn't even get the basics right.
Has anyone else noticed that all these war history videos are only about a month old?
"Borrowed Tank with the number 007" ?!? That was his number because he was the leader of the battalion!
The 3 command Tigers were 007, 008 and 009.
Wittman was never, ever known as "The Baron - Black or otherwise! Yet another piece of mindless revisionism.
You're right about that.👍
Nah, he's been called that quite a lot after the war
Kurt was not Whittman
Personally I detest war because then we All Lose, we should better talk to one another and solve together our problems.
yep a hundred tanks they don't have enough
I liked it, but why did the original editors leave in a picture of a Sherman while talking about 1941 eastern front, and then a Lee/Grant in a other part of the video as well. I know many will say I am nit picking, but its not like the original editor was born this century. He must have had some idea about WW2. And there was so much captured war footage, that there is no excuse to use the wrong tank in the discussion before the dang thing was even deployed.
US gave the Soviets M3 Lee's and Stuart's in the Lend-Lease program. So it is not unusual to see those models on the eastern front.
In 1942 over 20% of the Russian tank force was British ( Valentine, Matilda II in the main) and USA (Sherman’s, Lee’s and Stuart’s) The Soviets were quite happy to show photos of these the Cold War set in and then they were suppressed. Most Russians now are completely unaware of this. The west sent many aircraft over as well, Spitfires and Hurricanes, Aircobras and Tomahawks amongst others.
On going back I see that one of the scenes shows a Stuart, a Lee and a T34 in the same frame and another shows two Lee’s and another T34 so definitely taken in Russia.
Kurt Knispel had the most confirmed kills at 186 making him the number 1. Michael Wittman was in the top 5 with 136 confirmed kills. Otto Carius was also in the top 5. You all need to fix this. Seriously. These men fought for their country and are heros in Germany.
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wrong, all made up about Knispel, Dr Topple talked to his actual commander who said it was all made up by kurwolski
You have some nerve, calling this a "documentary". And at the same time using the term "black baron" which is completely fake and modern.
"Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter" has a similar title, but it doesn't pretend to be a documentary.
Nothing like British historians to discredit German War Heros!
Kurt Knipsel: Am I a joke to you?
He didn't achieve anything of note on the western front in Normandy though, like Wittmann did. Knispel was in Normandy in July and August 1944.
@lyndoncmp5751 I know, I was just going by numbers. But yeah, Whittmann was more notable on the Western Front than Knipsel.
@@brennanleadbetter9708
Fair enough. I personally have no favouritism to either.
Everything Baout Knispel is made up by Kurwolski - Dr Topple talked to his actual commander who said Kurt was NEVER put up for an iron cross, was never put up for promotion, had no idea how many kills he had and was a thief
ruclips.net/video/pfmilK8D0_Y/видео.html
If I need machine learning references for an autistic guy who looks like a nosferatu vampire I know where to go!
Kurt Knispel and Otto Carius both German.
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The "greatest" tank ace was Kurt Knispel. He didn't survive the war, though.
Wittmann didn't either
Had he survived, he'd have taught both German and American tankers in the effective way of armored combat.
😂
@josephgibbs7423 I doubt it as he was a Sudetenland German he would have been stateless. All Germans who were not married to a Czech were deported immediately after the war. The Czechs had had a gutful of all things German at that stage. Most went to West Germany as refugees. However, if he had survived the attack on his tank, he most likely would have ended a German POW up in a Soviet gulag. Eric Hartmann flew his fighter to surrender to the Western forces only to be handed back to the Soviets as most of his service was on the eastern front, and the rest of his Luftwaffe unit, the ground staff, were captured by Soviet troops. The Soviets did not get involved in the ethnic cleansing of the Sudetenland and just let events occur without any or limited intervention. Any German who protested the forced deportation too loudly was simply killed / murdered by Czechs.
wrong
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everything about Kurt is made up, Dr Topple talked to his actual commnder who said everything about the Kurt story was made up by Kurwolski, he was NEVER put up for an iron cross, or a promotion, had ZERO idea how many kills he had and was a thief
He was not the Greatest . There were at least two better and I believe they survived the War Wittmann was beaten by a Firefly
What an awesome video
Not Liebstandarte = > Lovestandarte but Leibstandarte => Bodystandarte. Leib => body, maybe you should pronounce it like “Laibstandarte “. It is sad that you English now only the English language…. This was war and Leib = body has nothing to do with love, lieb = is kind, lovely, even you English speakers should be interested to enlarge your knowledge.
And I thought this was a video on Kurt Knispel😮 only bc you called it The Black Baron. This is an old video.
Wait! I thought the title was ”The greatest tank ace of ww2”?? Wittman is clearly not that person. 🤡
11:22 the fall of France
a hundred trillion i mean
Reading/listening to some of the personal diaries from the western front, pretty much all German commanders were acting on their own at that time as defencive manuvers were stricktly verboten in the training schools and only improvised from common sence and experience in feild.
Why do English speaking people keep insisting in calling the Leibstandarte, Liebstandarte. Don’t they know lieb means love in German 😂
what you say is tru, but leibstandarte comes from the old german word Leibgarde witch means guard of corps or bodyguard
@@DanteKenchi I think that is a bit misleadingly stated. Leib- comes from Leibgarde but standarte comes from the formation in the SA/SS and is a reference to the fact that they had their own standard (the type of flag not the concept). Leibstandarte as a whole does not have a linguistic link to Leibgarde beyond the one through Leib-.
@@davebaton8879 well, since the original concept for the unit was to be hitlers personal bodyguard i think the concept of the word remains the same
CANADIANS TOOK OUT BOTH THE RED AND BLACK BARON, WAY TO GO CANADA EH
I hope no war again in the earth 😂😊😢
He died an Aryan warrior and is looking down on us now from Valhalla.
i can almost smell the redditors in this comments section through my screen
Go watch the lazerpig and get closer to the truth about Wittman.
Just emotional and sensational repeating of outdated myths.
Of course there are those who geel the need to discredit Wittman, saying he destroyed less tanks than previously believed. I dont care for such nonsense. He was the best of the best during that war. Just let it be.
Made in 1998,
RIP
Whittman is the worst tank ace
Was.
@@paulpearson1855 fair
what is your BMI
@@KingTrump-25 3000
Wittman was not the "greatest tank ace" or even anything great. Just a propaganda figure. Whoever made this documentary should be ashamed.
Let me guess , your thought is some allied tank commander based on the movie "fury" .
I suppose you'll say the same for the luftwaffe not having significantly better fighter pilots than all the allies ?
Not the greatest tank ace, but 139 confirmed kills is nothing to sneeze at. The guy took out 3 T-34's by himself in a Stug in his first engagement. That's pretty damn impressive.
@@ryro1975 Calm down, Wehraboo
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@@ryro1975 There was an actual American tanker called "Wardaddy." Look him up.
This film was made 25 years ago.
Just after Villers Bocage the British high command based much of their thinking of the “disaster “ on the German propaganda without even asking their own troops as to what happened.
With all love and respect for Wittman he wasn't the greatest, Carius and Knispel outscored him
They had longer to rack up their kills, to be fair.
CENSORED.
Kurt Knispel was a beter and more human soldier that acieved more kills then Wittman, whom was placed on a pedestal by the SS , Kurt knispel was against the SS and that is why Wittman made quicker promotion , but neother of the two survide the war all was it for Knispel just a matter of days to survive , and Wittman was long gone by that time so calling Wittman the best and greatest is a foolish thought.
Pitiful Animations ...
This is a almost 25 years old documentairy, what else would you expect?
He were simply stupid & 100% Lucky!!! NO good Comander. 1shoot from a Firfly& boom he wood never had made more then 50meters. But 16 werecals 🤷♂️ Any one wood have made that! Fact is that he and he unit killed 36 Soldiers after Vielers-Borcage. Respekt for Waffen-SS but f... That form of figth!
Learn to spell and you might get taken seriously but I doubt it, lol