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The German defenses on the beaches of Normandy were weak, they were not defenses in depth because the area of ​​the beaches to be defended was enormous, there were not enough troops to cover in depth all these beaches up to Calais. There were casemates with heavy cannons against ships, some smaller caliber mobile artillery further back and a permanent garrison of a few infantry soldiers. This was because it was not known where the landing would take place, so the coastal defense force was spread across a huge area of ​​beaches. Hitler was convinced that the landing would be in Calais where the distance from Great Britain is very short and the Allied intelligence services were brilliant in convincing him of this, also keeping the Germans blind about the details of the invasion. The allies forced the Luftwaffe to abandon Normandy and move to Germany with an intensive bombing campaign on German cities, losing 35,000 crews. So the Germans were unable to even fly over the beach area to assess the size of the landing. A week later, when Hitler was convinced that that invasion was not a diversionary simulation, he released the Army and Waffen SS divisions, but it was already too late, the allied armies were already on the roads and in total control of the airspace, which caused catastrophic casualties to German divisions on the roads.

There are a lot of new 'woke idiots' popping up all over UA-cam now rubbishing the claims of the fighting men from both sides of WW2, I would strongly advise everyone to take these channels with a pinch of salt, saw another one this afternoon claiming Michael Wittman was a really bad tank commander🥱Shame on you attacking the memory of these men, delete your channel

Well.. Tbh, when in battle, fighting against “just” 50 guys seems endless. He had a machinegun that shoots 1.200 bullets pr minute. If he shoot just 600, and kept fighting for hours on end, seeing every single soldier he shoots Fall in the distance, then it’s easy to Imagen those 300-600 people felt like thousindes. Seein’ 50 dead people layin’ is quit a view. Imagen seeing so many bodys laying everywhere, knowing you did that..

As a mahine gunner and later leader of machine gunners I would guess in the course of the day maybe 100 casualties of all types kia/wia. His real contribution would have been slowing and stopping the advance and allowing the big, pre sighted 105s to work. So figure his 1/8th of the beach had him and 2 MG 08 in it. About 450 casualties in that space. Then each gun killed about 30 men and wounded 60 more. The rest pinned. Y the fire took mortar and 105 arty fire accounting for another 350 casualties in that small area. Also the explosive indirect fire probably caused the most deaths to wounded ratio as well. Did he make an important contribution? Surely. But otherwise no, just a lying nazi.

The aerial perspective tells it all, particularly on Omaha, where the tide must go out at least a third of a mile. Surprised anyone survived traversing that distance under fire.

I would think he was kind of busy so his recollection can easily be flawed. How on earth could you actually keep count? However he could has inflicted huge damage from his position.

Only a Yank could say something as stupid as that. He followed his orders, which is what every soldier does.

he couldnt kill that much because there werent that many troops its debunked

Aren't photographs mirrored? So if they point to the right on the photo they would really point to the left? So the tanks do point at serverlohs position

No, he didn't lie. The number 2000 is his estimation. Is it real? Nobody knows, we all weren't there. He fired at this beach for many hours and probably not into the sky.

Nice maps.

Why is that even in question? Without knowing anything about his position and the situation on the beach, it is impossible that one mg was responsible for up to half the losses. Clearly, he either lied deliberately or his perception was affected by the whole situation.

By storming the beaches the Allies had 4,400 casualties that very day. So Heinrich killed probably nearly half of them? I hardly believe this.

My relative was his commanding officer, Bernhard Frerking, still have his journal.

press "f" to pay respect for Heinrich

Maybe you should start with debunking the american Hero GI Joe propaganda show. This battle happened, Severloh didnt killed 2000 men, maybe several hundred of GIs, thats nothing new. But In fact, german and us soldiers mentioned his gunfire. This story of a brave german soldier does not fit with the american hero shit show.

I think he had severe PTSD from the war. In his mind it was probably like that. After spending time in combat your mind can play tricks on you regarding memory and even involuntary reactions. Unless you have been in combat you can't really judge.

I think under the circumstands given for him at the time, its real hard to estimate the number of KIA he inflicted. Most ppl including me, do hard already to guess the size of a standing croud

So essentially he’s saying basically he’s responsible for practically all the casualties that day 🤦‍♂️

Can never understand why they fly the French Flag alongside the Allies Flags. They ran away and let the Germans take France in 90 minutes.

He certainly is a known sherker ! Won’t walk won’t ride a horse doesn’t want to do anything! Makes sense he’d lie. It’s engrain in his character. He may have fired the rifle and contributed in killing of men but not to any degree he’s stating.

Of course he lied there’s no way one man with a machine can kill that many people without making himself a huge target. He would’ve been taken out if he was doing that much damage. All the attention goes to you when you’re the loudest man on the field.

Well this was an eye opener. It is very important that we know the full truth and not imagined stories that blur the truth. Well done in this observation it makes complete sense how things really turned out that terrible day.

Was there in June , great tribute , thx for the amazing video!!

I blame simple history and other pop history channels as well as Nazi Fan boys.

Absolutely great video !! Thx fantastic material !!

Great video thx, background music is excellent !!

Actually, a general had ordered the airborne not to take prisoners. The thought was that taking prisoners behind enemy lines would tie up soldiers babysitting, instead of doing their assigned missions…and also endanger Americans lives. Speirs was just following orders.

You acidently used a german ai to pronounce english text. You might think that sounds good, it doesnt. Its just anoiing

can you imagine being in his situation? I dont think hes lying on purpose. 9 hours of high stress. And shooting down on to enemy soldiers with a machine gun. How many details of that day fo you think he actually remembers. Ofcouse it could be completely fabricated as propaganda. Much like operation Red wings. which was entirely fabricated.

The WITTMANS myth has also been breaked down ua-cam.com/video/FwQh_XdcISg/v-deo.htmlsi=_qPJ3_-YYQ4BaMfC

The barrel needed to cool and so be replaced after every 250 rounds. The barrel life was about 3,500 rounds. Nah, he was lying. Also the crew was 2-3 men - who else was operating the weapon?

The allied forces has always down played the heroism of their enemies and exaggerated their own heroism.

Of course he lied. I don't know how anyone could have any doubts about that. You have to have absolutely no imagination to believe that one man can kill 2,000 enemy soldiers by himself.

This is great. Normalize debunking all the myths people took as fact because they wacthed a horribly written documentary on the history channel

He really spoke English...with this f... bad German accent? Hilarious.

I've been there, it's a pebbles beach so the tanks had no use! I also walked the bluf, real hard to do even without gear! I believe him, he shot the Americans back in the sea with his heavy machine-gun the MG 42. BARREL change in under 10 seconds. The only thing bothering you is that he killed so many. I have also a topografic card that shows many many more MG 42's. To me it's sad that even the winner writes the history but can't handle it that he shot 2000 poorly trained soldiers. Even the bombing of point du hoc was a failure. The guns where moved and used more inland what delivered more us casualties! If only tanks where there with General Rommel no us army would land on that beach. More land inward there where 2 big casements over seen who took whole us company's out 😂 so I strongly believe he took 2000 us soldiers out. I understand you won't believe it but your graveyard there shows it. End iof this history, now let's talk about what Americans did in Vietnam 🇻🇳

Outstanding soldier.

No he didn't

Irregardless the man fouught at Normandy stolen valor my ass

If he killed 2000 that's close to 1/2 of all allies killed in that battle... Then he woke up.

Fantastic video. Thank you.

99% of these guys books are exaggerated, not just Germans but soldiers from every part of the world like to exaggerate what they did in their memoirs when they’re trying to sell them. There are some genuine accounts but there’s mostly bullshit on the bookshelves. Severloh sounds like the type of guy that would be first to run away from combat. He couldn’t even travel with his unit without complaining to a doctor and ending up in hospital. His claims are absolute bs.

My grandpas was in that 116th a company photo wow he told me his whole platoon was wiped I didn’t know the whole company was almost destroyed

Are you suggesting that there’s a book titled WN62 . ? Please post a link as there’s nothing on the debased Guugle Search. Thanks.

I dont think you can take anything away from this man he is the beast and maybe he didn't kill a 1k plus men but he definitely killed alot and survived so no matter what hes still the man as far as im concerned

Personally I believe that he may have not even have been at that station on D-day. Because at many other times he has been hiding from his duties. I think that he knew the real gunner at that position was killed in action. Just my own opinion.

Maybe his nickname should be The Braggart of Omaha.

If this is called bullshit because he was in the axis i find it so hard to belive especially amongst the Pacific vets mostly marines about how many japs theg each killed its impossible bullshit considering the Japanese were out numbered always by ten to one

12000 rounds in nine hours? Should not have taken more than 10 or 11 minutes...