It is mind boggling to me, the amount of equipment/weapons/ammo and unfortunately, bodies, that remain on those battlefields. If 20,000 people spent 20 years searching and recovering, there would probably be literally tons still out there. As a former Military Officer, I commend you men giving respect to fallen soldiers, even your former enemies.
@@orlandoquaresma7619 this will never end even our cells have wars. Its a part of evolution I think, well in my opinion or hypothesis anyway . But now our strong hereditary attubutes will be marksmanship, close combat and artillery. So I probably have a OK marksmanship from my dad. You have to be artistic to be a sniper dad was a sniper very artistic in his way. My sister is lat teens so still got a good natural shot. Where I'm late 20s I've dabbled life a little and forgot my natural talents so have to relearn how to shoot properly. But keep your positive mind set you make us stoic people have a little rethink sometimes. Even if at first impressions we go lol that person is gonna get eaten by life. You can humble us out a little.
This has to be dangerous af. Imagine all the unexploaded grenades and bombs etc. And it’s sad seeing dead soldiers. To their country they’re just another statistic or number on the wall. But every single one of these soldiers had moms and dads and siblings etc. most were probably under 25 years old I bet.
I wouldn’t be too worried about it. They would need some sort of ignition source and after being underground for so many years I’m sure any source of ignition is probably gone or rusted away. Although it can get dangerous don’t get me wrong
@@stevenlee1075 eh then why do ww1 grenades explode yearly on the farmlands in flanders, recently close to my area there was a smoke bomb going off from ww1, gladly it wasnt a fragshell or mustardgas
It's hard to imagine the desperation these soldiers must have felt. To have been that cold, that hungry and that tired all the while fighting a very well equipped and trained army is unimaginable.
This is so fascinating , yet sad that these guys didn’t receive a burial by their families. Someone in the comments mentioned all the bodies left on the battlefields who were never found. It reminds me of a friend in Georgia who let someone take a metal detector in her backyard and it ended up becoming an archeological dig. They found remains and arrowheads, musket balls etc back there. Her house sat on a skirmish site that went back to the colonial times and she feels there are more bodies due to all the paranormal activities she’s experienced since she was a kid
Seeing those helmets so close together makes me envision a machine gun nest that was overrun. The bullet holes in the canteen cups and helmets give you the chills. I can't imagine what those soldiers on both sides felt.
Many times bodies were dropped in holes with the equipment,German/Russian...and or heavy blast could have buried the dead itself...much of this is never investigated but it is assumed...Many of the stories by Private 2nd class Peter Weller were written in excavated letters.
@Tobi Look again there were 2 USSR helmets and one German. There were also weapons and equipment from both sides including a German Dog Tag which most likely means a German soldier died there.
I think about that all the time, there has to be so much unfound from Operation Barberosa, and from the retreat back to Germany with the Red Army on their heels. Some never to be found, I'm sure.
@@who_is_dis yes, all the munitions that completely still useable still. I'd love to have that job. Even just out of the shere respect I have for all the soldiers that made the ultimate sacrifice. And the eastern front was some nasty business for sure
تنتهي الحروب ويتصافح القادة وتبقى تلك العجوز تنتظر ابنها والمرأه تنتظر زوجها والأطفال ينتظرون والدهم والبنت تنتظر حبيبها لا أعلم من باع الوطن ولكنني رأيت من دفع الثمن
These guys got to do the excavation more safely, not only not to damage the antiques, but the way they handle explosives is crazy, as if they do not have a chance to still explode.
It is touching seeing these men digging out remains of war materials like pieces of weapons, equipment and helmets, probably human bones of young fighting men probably burried there for 80 years without their families ever knowing about them. Sad, RIP brave men, whoever you are.
Isn't it heartbreaking to see these historical relics and human remains being tossed around without any feel for the human lives lost during the war regardless of which side they belonged?
Well, good luck getting to fire the guns after 80 yrs buried in weathered ground. The explosives may have more chance. Experts (they may be) would know more.
The way the trench is open and how they pull items out of the ground. How about tag it, record it and let the curator look at it. Don't handle it! Leave it as is. Perhaps this is not meant to be treated as an actual archeological site. Although it looked like they did some geo phys.
I truly hope you honored the German Soldier by sending his Identification Disk and GPS coordinates to the German Embassy so the family can know that while the remains were beyond retrieval, the family will know where their loved one died in battle, as were the brave unknown Russian troops who stormed their position. Do the right thing, my friends.
who cares they were genocidal invaders and they died on foreign soil. If they want to respect a soldier who fought for the actual worst regime that has existed that is their choice, but truly I don't think the Wehrmacht deserve respect as a whole.
@@kamikazemelon787 Thats your opinion, and im not gonna get into a whole argument about this, alot of people care, and alot of familys want closure to the story, alot of people were forced to fight, or fought because of patriotism, most didn't care for the nazis or the ideologys, in fact most really didn't realize what they fiught for in till everything unfolded after. but again, im not gonna back the innocent Wehrmacht act, alot of them commited just as bad acts as The SS, but again, not every soldier was bad. (and yes, just because you think their bad, doesn't mean a family shouldn't have closure, and the body brought home)
@@kamikazemelon787 Your opinion is based purely on feelings. The Wehrmatch is a standing army. You are free to hate the SS tho. Cant stop u there neither is ok to defend them since rarely a ss member showed humanity
Pat- ahh know a man who had a hoard of photos he took of every germen he shot/other in Italy. This man may be dead now but he allways had a black ora light beaming around his body, and had those pile off photos beside his bed ever since he got back from italy in 1946. ahh not sure if those German photos still around but ahh know which house they were in on Highway 50 in new Zealand,..
Absolutely Amazing that something that's been in the ground for so long and farmed on top of as well for many years now, that these artifacts are still in many cases intact and legible in some cases of their dates and ordinance numbers. This blows my mind that even something as simple as a stamped steel helmet can survive the time underground in the worst of circumstances for anything man made. The great work you've been doing to bring back these soldiers to their homelands and possibly giving these families closure to their lost loved ones is a priceless endeavor. Keep bringing them home guys and be safe out there. 🙏👍
@@Malabus73 They’re still quite dangerous. On beaches here in the UK the military are constantly at work detonating volatile explosives that’ve been found. We’ve even got a huge ship full of explosives from WW2 sat at the entrance to the Thames that nobody knows what to do with
@@Malabus73 I always wondered why stupid people open their mouths and belch out their unbearable folly upon the world, unsolicited. Why type this if you could have taken 5 seconds to do a simple Google search and educate yourself? It utterly amazes me that you felt so bold in your ignorance as to post it for the whole world and all of time to see.
My great uncle is buried abroad, but i think he would have placed more value on coming back alive, his names on a local monument, its the remembrance of each soldier that matters most, poor buggers got a raw deal.
Some people are stating that the machine gun they dug out is an MG42. WRONG...the machine they dug out is an MG34. The MG42 is a successor to the MG34.
LMFAO. WTF are you even talking about? WWII deniers? Well that's a new thing for me, lol. Oh, and they aren't preserving history, they are digging WWII shit up because there is a huge market for it. It's just for money. It's cool, but they do it for money. Thiscommentor needs to get F'd right off the end of a pier.
Sorry, but Indonesia is one of the countries most at risk of flooding. And as with any disaster, there will be insecurity and emigration to other countries. But perhaps you already know that by saying a prayer...
That revolver was in excellent condition. Nice finding the complete Dog Tag, hope its sent on to the German embassy so they can take someone off the Missing Presumed list & inform the family. Nice work.
@@phoenixzappa7366 They know and care about this soldier, beside at least 7300 persons watching this video. His death hit me hard because he could be against nazis, judging by pictures it seems he likely didn't know what hit him, i really hope so.
without war you probably couldn't see current high tech development, technology pushed to growth 100x faster during war and also there is no peace without war
Makes me wonder if perhaps the German machine gunner got sprayed with the PPSh (with half-charged magazine) and then the Red Army soldier met his demise judging by the bullet holes in the helmet. The Eastern Front was a vicious meatgrinder in unimaginable weather in which getting KIA was preferable to getting wounded or taken prisoner.
Imagine the energy that some of these items hold. These guns, ammo, cartridges, helmets and so on was all they had to survive. The last things in their possesion before died.
Hi! Thanks for all of these videos I really enjoy them! I wonder if you could tell where this things was found and from which battles they are, that would be really cool and informative!!!
Erik, the helmet and the side armor look distinctly German. The Germans took the war to the Russian in a war code named operation Barbarossa. With the help of the Russian winter, which the Germans underestimated They were massacred en masse. This here is a well kept proof.
@@wojaffochicago6591 Yeah I know about this and that it was extremely brutal. My Great Grandfather fought in Operation Barbarossa. I just really would enjoy if they share which specific battles this relics are from.
I think the items were buried purposely, since they are being gathered in a centralized point The soldiers left them buried for whatever reason, they know
That MG 44 was an earlier production gun. Must’ve been used either earlier in the war or at the end when supplies were short since the MG 42 was a more superior and more lethal gun. The MG 42 was the one used against the invading forces on Normandy beach.
Mg 34* my friend, and id like to add that both the 34 and 42 were produced and used side by side extensively till the end of the war.. The 42 was much more cheaper and simpler to produce than the rather complex mg34. The MG34 started production in 1935 through 1945 and they made over half a million of em where as the 42 only had 3 years of production and had just under half a million made. Just shows how much the 42 was an improvement to mass production..
@@ItchyPilauBoto The MG34 was also more often mounted on armour etc. rather than the MG42 . It was often canibalized off broken down vehicles in the Russian campaign.
The MG 42 has been considered by many an expert as probably the best machine gun ever produced. The USA M60 and the British GPMG are considered to modelled on the design of the ‘42.
@@jazzybass41 No doubt it was a gamechanger. It was unbeatable as a zonal cover weapon. If set up in groups of 3 or 4 nests its high rate of fire laid out a virtual wall of death.Of course the downside is you need a lot of ammo. It was also not as accurate as its British and US counterparts.
@@robotsonmars1989 I am trained in both MG42 and M60, I think the accuracy is the same, the MG42 in a fixed mounting is extreme accurate, fast and funny..
Just subscribed! You guys have a really cool channel! We are located in west virginia, we detect alot of old coal fields mostly, and we've found a few war items! Nothing like finding a piece of history! 😊
The grenade that he unscrewed the plug was “safe” as there was no detonator/ blasting cap. The explosive component is pretty much inert until one activates it with an initiator….
@@claudesturm6706 all we see is a number of unearthed explosives being stacked amongst each other. I was speaking in general when coming across explosive devices whether it's inert or not. Even unexploded mines and torpedos underwater are dangerous as well.
Please can anyone tell where the names of the found soldiers are listed? Is there a chance to identify them with their names batallion etc? I am looking for my granduncle who went lost in Stalingrad. Thank you for your amazing work.
Contact Jean-Loup Gassend. He's an expert on identifying WWII soldiers. You'll find his email via his channel Crocodyle Tear: ua-cam.com/users/CrocodileTearfeatured
they probably won't find it you say it was lost in stalingrad it was probably buried among all the rubble and slaughterhouse left by that battle but that's what I think
They should be registered when they are found like in this video, but if not then he will most likely have died at Stalingrad or in a gulag after, a small chance that he became a Russian citizen like that Japanese POW.
@@ПетрПетров-б4о he was force to go. It was not his choice he obeyed the laws as many others. Exactly as today many russian and ukranian young men are forced into a conflict they probably would avoid if they could. I really hope i can find him my great grandmother never found peace same as so many russian mothers who lost their children. war is Ugly, not the people.
Even though they were the enemy, it breaks my heart just seeing the remains of them laying there knowing that they possibly died in such pain and possibly loneliness. ❤
@@Sntmob The Russians didn't care about the Jews. They did like using the concentration camp footage for propaganda. It helped excuse the atrocities committed against the German civilians.
It looks as if they spent all of their ammo for the most part and we’re just overran in the trenches end it also looks like they resorted to using some of the enemy weapons they came across because they weren’t getting re-supplied. 🙏😕 God bless these brave men.
Is there any information about this area? the fact there is both Soviet and German equipment in the same hole is mind boggling although the scenario in my head is that it was a German position which was overrun by the soviets only for then coordinated artillery fire to blast the position afterwards, Or the hole was just filled in quickly after the battle which had seen both forces use it in a short space of time.
Gracias amigos por estos vídeos siempre desie ser militar nunca lo logre saludos desde Honduras lástima por los soldados que entregaron sus vidas para salvar la de otros
Much of explosives found in the ground still have capacity to go off with the grain still active...Many times they would need someone trained in ordinance to fully disengage what they pull up from the ground.
Wow, what a history encounter. How did you know to look there? I have never seen so many items located together. My dad served in WW II but his time as an enlisted man was cut short due to medical reasons. He never got over that. He felt that he let everyone down. He was an avid reader of the WW II history books to learn about what his fellow soldiers encountered. He would have loved to see this video & others who put out similar videos. Thank you for sharing.
Every time they pull out a dogtag I feel so sad. Someone was probably waiting for that soldier to come home, and was broken hearted when the war ended and they didn't.
Soldiers are the poor souls that carry out orders, they are really no one's enemy and they are not greedy/power hungry politicians. You all should say a Prayer for them...if you have not done so already. God Bless all of you.
Nossa que triste tantos soldados perdeu a vida nessa batalha que a família nunca recebeu o corpo do seus entes queridos que estão enterrados aí nesse lugar muito triste que bela matéria parabéns
You know wts messed up, none of the upper people that sent these men to die never fights themselves. They always die peacefully, with their family, in their home around their family and grandkids.
It's hard to believe you could just toss an antique helmet of someone who (possibly/probably) got killed in one of the largest wars in the world to ever be recorded.
It’s great this stuff is being unearthed but no care taken just throwing stuff around. This should be done by professionals after being located. This stuff is very fragile.
Stop being a wuss. These guys are out there digging all day. They don’t have millions of dollars in funding to “baby” everything like it’s the Declaration of Independence. You want it done differently. You go do it.
@@7gerez People like you are the reason artifacts get damaged in the process, bitching about having to dig, yet that's your job. YOU are the wuss who cries about having to do your job properly. Don't have that job if you can't do it right. It doesn't take 'millions of dollars' to be careful with something.
@@jakub204 Value is subjective, somebody out there would definitely buy one of these helmets for something, therefore, treat it with care considering they're originals. Not to mention someone easily could've ACTUALLY used the helmet you found, meaning it has a story behind it.
5:16 Interesting detail is you can see that the MG-34 was still loaded- Not dangerous in its condition but with the stock blown off and rounds still chambered? One could only imagine what happened to the gunner and if the same shard that had damaged his machine gun ripped him apart too
Saludos desde Venezuela Ver todos esos objetos de la Guerra hace que Uno se imagine las Situaciones Vividas Por los Soldados Que Combatieron en la Guerra y Hace que uno se Traslade o se haga una idea de como Fueron esos Últimos momentos antes de Morir ..
Being an ex soldier my all the love and effections from the depth of my heart for the soldiers of all the world who died or mortayered for their mother land .... I proudly bow my head for them 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💖💖💖💖💖💖
Их видно места где проходили бои, даже можно отлечить окопы нетронутые. Бывает поверху валяется чтото. Я винтовку нашол из лествы слегка выглядывала. Патом смотришь куда смотрело оружие туда и идёшь.
It is mind boggling to me, the amount of equipment/weapons/ammo and unfortunately, bodies, that remain on those battlefields. If 20,000 people spent 20 years searching and recovering, there would probably be literally tons still out there. As a former Military Officer, I commend you men giving respect to fallen soldiers, even your former enemies.
there is a lot of leftovers because 2/3 of german army + their allys were in the soviet union.
Millions of dead bodies. Someone’s bound to dig one up
@@Rlip Not millions of missing though. Most missing Germans on the Eastern Front perished in Siberia as POW's.
Que cada pessoa em si,pare e reflita e que tragédias como essa jamais volte a acontecer.
@@orlandoquaresma7619 this will never end even our cells have wars. Its a part of evolution I think, well in my opinion or hypothesis anyway . But now our strong hereditary attubutes will be marksmanship, close combat and artillery. So I probably have a OK marksmanship from my dad. You have to be artistic to be a sniper dad was a sniper very artistic in his way. My sister is lat teens so still got a good natural shot. Where I'm late 20s I've dabbled life a little and forgot my natural talents so have to relearn how to shoot properly. But keep your positive mind set you make us stoic people have a little rethink sometimes. Even if at first impressions we go lol that person is gonna get eaten by life. You can humble us out a little.
This has to be dangerous af. Imagine all the unexploaded grenades and bombs etc. And it’s sad seeing dead soldiers. To their country they’re just another statistic or number on the wall. But every single one of these soldiers had moms and dads and siblings etc. most were probably under 25 years old I bet.
I would think any explosives would be inert almost 80 years later. Especially being buried.
He know they are all soldier bro
@@niharkhan1931 his comment literally says otherwise
I wouldn’t be too worried about it. They would need some sort of ignition source and after being underground for so many years I’m sure any source of ignition is probably gone or rusted away. Although it can get dangerous don’t get me wrong
@@stevenlee1075 eh then why do ww1 grenades explode yearly on the farmlands in flanders, recently close to my area there was a smoke bomb going off from ww1, gladly it wasnt a fragshell or mustardgas
It's hard to imagine the desperation these soldiers must have felt. To have been that cold, that hungry and that tired all the while fighting a very well equipped and trained army is unimaginable.
Then, you never knew you'd be left like that; with no dignity left from anyone
@@NotOnDrugs you'd think we'd have learned our collective lessons from all of this, but no, we didn't.
@@NotOnDrugs That's what strikes me too. Fallen and left where you died with no-one to care. And now we have the Ukraine situation. We never learn.
@@thinghammer and never will ..
@@thinghammer How prophetic. Just five months ago and Putin is making the exact mistake again
Just how prophetic.
Their desperation to fight the enemy is frozen in time
heute ich und morgen du
Das ist keine respekt-
volle Bergung von Kriegstoten durch Fachleute sondern
sensationsgeile Leichenfledderei!
@@tonyseparovic9881 Soviets were trash
Haunting and... Descriptive
This is so fascinating , yet sad that these guys didn’t receive a burial by their families. Someone in the comments mentioned all the bodies left on the battlefields who were never found. It reminds me of a friend in Georgia who let someone take a metal detector in her backyard and it ended up becoming an archeological dig. They found remains and arrowheads, musket balls etc back there. Her house sat on a skirmish site that went back to the colonial times and she feels there are more bodies due to all the paranormal activities she’s experienced since she was a kid
To find a German helmet and a Russian helmet so close in proximity you know some shit must've really gone down.
Seeing those helmets so close together makes me envision a machine gun nest that was overrun. The bullet holes in the canteen cups and helmets give you the chills. I can't imagine what those soldiers on both sides felt.
And the Russian is the one who had grandkids that ended up being Nazis.
Many times bodies were dropped in holes with the equipment,German/Russian...and or heavy blast could have buried the dead itself...much of this is never investigated but it is assumed...Many of the stories by Private 2nd class Peter Weller were written in excavated letters.
It was a Soviet helmet, not Russian
@Tobi Look again there were 2 USSR helmets and one German. There were also weapons and equipment from both sides including a German Dog Tag which most likely means a German soldier died there.
Imagine the millions of WW1 and WW2 who lie in fields like this, never to be found.
I think about that all the time, there has to be so much unfound from Operation Barberosa, and from the retreat back to Germany with the Red Army on their heels. Some never to be found, I'm sure.
@@bryanjames5256 what blows me away is how well preserved so many of the remains that are found are.
@@who_is_dis yes, all the munitions that completely still useable still. I'd love to have that job. Even just out of the shere respect I have for all the soldiers that made the ultimate sacrifice. And the eastern front was some nasty business for sure
In Kentucky we found a few remains of confederates with their weaponry in a deep trench
There still 700.000 thousand soldiers from WW1 lying on the North field of France, kinda crazy if you think about it
تنتهي الحروب ويتصافح القادة وتبقى تلك العجوز تنتظر ابنها والمرأه تنتظر زوجها والأطفال ينتظرون والدهم والبنت تنتظر حبيبها لا أعلم من باع الوطن ولكنني رأيت من دفع الثمن
Truly said.
أحسنت القول، انا ايضا فقدت والدي في الحرب قبل أكثر من 37 سنة فلا جسده وجد و لا عاد مع الأسرى العائدين .
These guys got to do the excavation more safely, not only not to damage the antiques, but the way they handle explosives is crazy, as if they do not have a chance to still explode.
They're russian. I don't have to say more
the russians my friend! what do you expect?? Crazy is their business XD XD
They're not Antiques
Sounds more like Ukrainian boays
They are slavs, mishandling explosives is what they do
It is touching seeing these men digging out remains of war materials like pieces of weapons, equipment and helmets, probably human bones of young fighting men probably burried there for 80 years without their families ever knowing about them. Sad, RIP brave men, whoever you are.
I don't know how touching it is. They do it to sell the relics.
@@tylerswatikin504 I feel no empathy for this useless comment
@Stranger Danger Even more creepy the terror they experienced at the hands of the Inglorious Basterds! Tarantino is the one with no empathy!
say that to Lt Aldo Raine and Tarantino! They'd oppose your point my friend, they support the inglorious basterds!
Isn't it heartbreaking to see these historical relics and human remains being tossed around without any feel for the human lives lost during the war regardless of which side they belonged?
What I find totally amazing is the casual way they handle the ordinance they come across!😩
Well, good luck getting to fire the guns after 80 yrs buried in weathered ground. The explosives may have more chance. Experts (they may be) would know more.
The way the trench is open and how they pull items out of the ground. How about tag it, record it and let the curator look at it. Don't handle it! Leave it as is. Perhaps this is not meant to be treated as an actual archeological site. Although it looked like they did some geo phys.
They were tossing those bombs around with gusto, looks like they had a great time
they're Russians - их много :-D
Love how they are throwing nearly 90 year old guns,grenades,helmets,bones how careful you are
Obviously they know something you don't
@@LonnieHarrington-z7bstill throwing peoples remains is disrespectful and throwing old grenades is like playing Russian roulette except it’s explosive
I truly hope you honored the German Soldier by sending his Identification Disk and GPS coordinates to the German Embassy so the family can know that while the remains were beyond retrieval, the family will know where their loved one died in battle, as were the brave unknown Russian troops who stormed their position. Do the right thing, my friends.
they will usually take thes e bodys home, this is (more than likely) a recovery team.
who cares they were genocidal invaders and they died on foreign soil. If they want to respect a soldier who fought for the actual worst regime that has existed that is their choice, but truly I don't think the Wehrmacht deserve respect as a whole.
@@kamikazemelon787 Thats your opinion, and im not gonna get into a whole argument about this, alot of people care, and alot of familys want closure to the story, alot of people were forced to fight, or fought because of patriotism, most didn't care for the nazis or the ideologys, in fact most really didn't realize what they fiught for in till everything unfolded after. but again, im not gonna back the innocent Wehrmacht act, alot of them commited just as bad acts as The SS, but again, not every soldier was bad. (and yes, just because you think their bad, doesn't mean a family shouldn't have closure, and the body brought home)
@@kamikazemelon787 Your opinion is based purely on feelings. The Wehrmatch is a standing army. You are free to hate the SS tho. Cant stop u there neither is ok to defend them since rarely a ss member showed humanity
Pat- ahh know a man who had a hoard of photos he took of every germen he shot/other in Italy. This man may be dead now but he allways had a black ora light beaming around his body, and had those pile off photos beside his bed ever since he got back from italy in 1946. ahh not sure if those German photos still around but ahh know which house they were in on Highway 50 in new Zealand,..
Absolutely Amazing that something that's been in the ground for so long and farmed on top of as well for many years now, that these artifacts are still in many cases intact and legible in some cases of their dates and ordinance numbers. This blows my mind that even something as simple as a stamped steel helmet can survive the time underground in the worst of circumstances for anything man made. The great work you've been doing to bring back these soldiers to their homelands and possibly giving these families closure to their lost loved ones is a priceless endeavor. Keep bringing them home guys and be safe out there. 🙏👍
I am surprised that more care is not taken in recovering this stuff.
That grenade tip opening moment was intense 🤯
The slow fuse would have been decayed over the years - It's as good as dead
@@Malabus73 They’re still quite dangerous. On beaches here in the UK the military are constantly at work detonating volatile explosives that’ve been found. We’ve even got a huge ship full of explosives from WW2 sat at the entrance to the Thames that nobody knows what to do with
@@Malabus73 Some old exclusives have exploded before. They are still very dangerous.
@@MrSapperb3 lol no, wimp
@@Malabus73 I always wondered why stupid people open their mouths and belch out their unbearable folly upon the world, unsolicited. Why type this if you could have taken 5 seconds to do a simple Google search and educate yourself? It utterly amazes me that you felt so bold in your ignorance as to post it for the whole world and all of time to see.
Keep up the great work guy's, every soldier deserves to go home.
My great uncle is buried abroad, but i think he would have placed more value on coming back alive, his names on a local monument, its the remembrance of each soldier that matters most, poor buggers got a raw deal.
Some people are stating that the machine gun they dug out is an MG42. WRONG...the machine they dug out is an MG34. The MG42 is a successor to the MG34.
Finally someone who knows what they’re talking about
Mg42 has a more square barrel shroud to allow for quick change of barrel in sustained fire. The weapon found is a mg34.
Wrong... that's a Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range
Just a 42 In the thumbnail as click bait .
Thanks for the info
And to think there are disrespectful little collage grads that genuinely believe this never happened. Your work is preserving history! Thank you!
I don't think anyone is denying that the war happened.
@@mikeobama69 right, wtf is this person even trying to say
LMFAO. WTF are you even talking about? WWII deniers? Well that's a new thing for me, lol.
Oh, and they aren't preserving history, they are digging WWII shit up because there is a huge market for it. It's just for money. It's cool, but they do it for money.
Thiscommentor needs to get F'd right off the end of a pier.
Thank you for your job 🙏🏻 🕊God bless you
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Rugi kalau tidak ada perang
Sorry, but Indonesia is one of the countries most at risk of flooding. And as with any disaster, there will be insecurity and emigration to other countries.
But perhaps you already know that by saying a prayer...
That revolver was in excellent condition.
Nice finding the complete Dog Tag, hope its sent on to the German embassy so they can take someone off the Missing Presumed list & inform the family.
Nice work.
Nobody cares about him any more probably. Or even knows that he existed
@@phoenixzappa7366 not the point
@@phoenixzappa7366 you are probably wrong
@@phoenixzappa7366 They know and care about this soldier, beside at least 7300 persons watching this video. His death hit me hard because he could be against nazis, judging by pictures it seems he likely didn't know what hit him, i really hope so.
The revolver was an 1895 Nagant revolver
Imagine how great the world would be without violence and wars RIP my Deutsche brothers
without war you probably couldn't see current high tech development, technology pushed to growth 100x faster during war and also there is no peace without war
Imagine how great the world would be if everyone would believe in Jesus .
@@ladislaugabor2985 which Jesus?
@@ladislaugabor2985 time will come when the true 1000 years reich comes
I still can't believe the Germans lost
Thanks for doing this.These guys deserve it too.
Parabéns! Pelos achados, infelizmente uma história triste para humanidade, tantas vidas perdidas por causa de disputa de poder.
Makes me wonder if perhaps the German machine gunner got sprayed with the PPSh (with half-charged magazine) and then the Red Army soldier met his demise judging by the bullet holes in the helmet. The Eastern Front was a vicious meatgrinder in unimaginable weather in which getting KIA was preferable to getting wounded or taken prisoner.
I think it's far more likely this is a trash pit.
@@chuckschillingvideos i didnt see any remains
@@whitetiger5181 Nor did I.
Так же будут находить и кости американских наемников задумайтесь черти😁😈👹
Imagine the energy that some of these items hold. These guns, ammo, cartridges, helmets and so on was all they had to survive. The last things in their possesion before died.
“Energy?” 🤣🤦🏼♂️
@@bryonsturgill6906
Just guessing here, but I think he means the story they tell. Not some spiritual stuff. Again, just a guess.
@@bryonsturgill6906 There might be more to this life that we can't comprehend.
They are haunted by the dead, literally not in a movie but in real life that makes it more macabre and tragic.
@@bryonsturgill6906 hi genius
Hi!
Thanks for all of these videos I really enjoy them!
I wonder if you could tell where this things was found and from which battles they are, that would be really cool and informative!!!
Erik, the helmet and the side armor look distinctly German. The Germans took the war to the Russian in a war code named operation Barbarossa. With the help of the Russian winter, which the Germans underestimated They were massacred en masse. This here is a well kept proof.
@@wojaffochicago6591 Yeah I know about this and that it was extremely brutal.
My Great Grandfather fought in Operation Barbarossa.
I just really would enjoy if they share which specific battles this relics are from.
@@erikgothberg8078 Wow Erik, that's nice to know.
you're absolutely wright
that mg 34 is still amazing to survive after almost 70 years under the ground
*Almost 80 years
If someone had the time an inclination, that bad boy could be cleaned-up & restored. It would take time but definitely do-able.
@@ericb2501 would that be legal tho?
I am amazed at the depth the items are buried. In less than 100 years, maybe 4 to 5 feet of dirt is covering everything already.
That might be a foxhole or trench, in which case it could be pretty deep.
I think the items were buried purposely, since they are being gathered in a centralized point The soldiers left them buried for whatever reason, they know
You know they dug holes and buried the stuff/bodies, right?
May there souls Rest In Peace.watching from Jamaica 🇯🇲
They will burn in hell like every German soldier in ww2
Looks like an ammo dump. Was common when german troops were retreating. Burying the ammo would ensure the enemy didn't get the stash
BS. You don't burry the ammo AND your dog tags.
Ya they also burried the dog tags just in case 🤣
Yup 😏👍
@@hansdampf5267 ។
But they don't even share the same caliber
keep up the great work guy's, every soldier deserves to go home.
BRAVO
TERIMA KASIH KEPADA PENEMUAN PENEMUAN BARANG BARANG PENINGGALAN PERANG DUNIA 1 DAN 2 ......
SALAM SEHAT DAN SUKSES SELALU
Dude has balls of STEEL. Bad enough worrying about land mines. Unscrewing the fuse on a grenade is reckless af. Even if the spoon isn't there.
This reminds me of the state highway workers around where I live. One guy digs the ditch while four other guys stand around and watch him.
IN RUSSIA , THE SAME
In Illinois?🤣
In Ohio
its funny because thats how you do it digging in a specific spot, u switch turns. Excavation aint easy, you get out of breath quick.
EXCAVATIONS OF GERMAN MACHINE GUNNER'S DUGOUTS, MG MACHINE GUN FOUND..TOP VIDIO 🇮🇩😍🙏🌺👍
Seeing this makes me want to know who their names were, ages, how they died, etc.
Same here. Unfortunately we will probably never know, which pains me a lot.
و مازالت الحروب والدمار ليومنا هذا للاسف
متابعكم من فلسطين
That MG 44 was an earlier production gun. Must’ve been used either earlier in the war or at the end when supplies were short since the MG 42 was a more superior and more lethal gun. The MG 42 was the one used against the invading forces on Normandy beach.
Mg 34* my friend, and id like to add that both the 34 and 42 were produced and used side by side extensively till the end of the war.. The 42 was much more cheaper and simpler to produce than the rather complex mg34.
The MG34 started production in 1935 through 1945 and they made over half a million of em where as the 42 only had 3 years of production and had just under half a million made. Just shows how much the 42 was an improvement to mass production..
@@ItchyPilauBoto The MG34 was also more often mounted on armour etc. rather than the MG42 . It was often canibalized off broken down vehicles in the Russian campaign.
The MG 42 has been considered by many an expert as probably the best machine gun ever produced.
The USA M60 and the British GPMG are considered to modelled on the design of the ‘42.
@@jazzybass41 No doubt it was a gamechanger. It was unbeatable as a zonal cover weapon. If set up in groups of 3 or 4 nests its high rate of fire laid out a virtual wall of death.Of course the downside is you need a lot of ammo. It was also not as accurate as its British and US counterparts.
@@robotsonmars1989 I am trained in both MG42 and M60, I think the accuracy is the same, the MG42 in a fixed mounting is extreme accurate, fast and funny..
Вечная слава и память соажавшимся и павшим за Родину.
These videos would have SO much more meaning if we could get a small story of each of these battlefields and what happened.
Who would know? They’re all dead Dave
Scheisse ! Hans sie haben uns gefunden
@@y_fforddim sure it’s documented. They’re not asking about every individual soul, just the battle fought.
I would fly to Europe to get to go along with these guys for a couple of days.
I bet these soldiers never thought that they would die without a burial and be rediscovered 80 years later.
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They were more concerned with what was going on right then!
Just subscribed! You guys have a really cool channel! We are located in west virginia, we detect alot of old coal fields mostly, and we've found a few war items! Nothing like finding a piece of history! 😊
Handling of the explosives is dangerous to this day. Can't believe how nonchalant they are with it.
Makes my butt pucker watching
Years ago someone found a grenade and they were handling it and it just exploded, I was thinking that when he was looking at the grenade lol
@@solidrockofjesuschristmini2423 Even mines and unexploded torpedos in the ocean are prone to explode regardless of how old.
The grenade that he unscrewed the plug was “safe” as there was no detonator/ blasting cap. The explosive component is pretty much inert until one activates it with an initiator….
@@claudesturm6706 all we see is a number of unearthed explosives being stacked amongst each other. I was speaking in general when coming across explosive devices whether it's inert or not. Even unexploded mines and torpedos underwater are dangerous as well.
Это потрясающе! Это возвращает историю к жизни.
It's crazy how little military field tech has changed in the last 100 years. You could almost recreate that same pile with modem tech.
Seeing this every time I can't help but think that these findings should make us reflect on how terrible the madness of man is.
what about dead ukrainian und russian soldiers it will continue unfortunately, my grand dad was volonteer at 16 Northern France and Belgium Ypres
All I think of is finding treasures. But yeah. Man is mad crazy
What about the madness of the Inglorious Basterds!
Madness of communism, yes. Not all men.
These guys blew themselves up doing this last year.
Great job boys. I´m always buzzed on how much of that stuff is still in the ground...
I hope the remains are given to authorities. I saw finders and spines, femurs and other bones. What do you guys do with the remains?
Super vidéo et très très intéressant merci pour vos travaux vidéos 🤙❤👍🤙❤👍🤙🇨🇵👍
Please can anyone tell where the names of the found soldiers are listed? Is there a chance to identify them with their names batallion etc? I am looking for my granduncle who went lost in Stalingrad. Thank you for your amazing work.
Contact Jean-Loup Gassend. He's an expert on identifying WWII soldiers. You'll find his email via his channel Crocodyle Tear: ua-cam.com/users/CrocodileTearfeatured
they probably won't find it you say it was lost in stalingrad it was probably buried among all the rubble and slaughterhouse left by that battle but that's what I think
They should be registered when they are found like in this video, but if not then he will most likely have died at Stalingrad or in a gulag after, a small chance that he became a Russian citizen like that Japanese POW.
@@ПетрПетров-б4о he was force to go. It was not his choice he obeyed the laws as many others. Exactly as today many russian and ukranian young men are forced into a conflict they probably would avoid if they could. I really hope i can find him my great grandmother never found peace same as so many russian mothers who lost their children. war is Ugly, not the people.
Even though they were the enemy, it breaks my heart just seeing the remains of them laying there knowing that they possibly died in such pain and possibly loneliness. ❤
Do you think that’s how they were feeling about the Jews during their time?
@@Sntmob The Russians didn't care about the Jews. They did like using the concentration camp footage for propaganda. It helped excuse the atrocities committed against the German civilians.
@@Sntmob do you think most of them wanted a pointless war
They weren't ever the enemy. The bankers funding both sides of every war are the enemy.
Me too mate .
I hope you will give this to a Museum.
Great Video
Most likely many of those items (except for the weapons) will end up on ebay.
@@hansgruber6455 Even the skeletons, skull? I dont think so, they may have reburied the skeleton.
Cuántos soldados que quedaron sus cuerpos enterrados y olvidados en esos lugares, salieron de casa y nunca volvieron 😢😢 una triste realidad.
الله اكبر 😔
It looks as if they spent all of their ammo for the most part and we’re just overran in the trenches end it also looks like they resorted to using some of the enemy weapons they came across because they weren’t getting re-supplied. 🙏😕 God bless these brave men.
Religious beliefs are what caused that war
@@RilgoHodnda If it isn’t religious beliefs that starts a war, then next in line is greed.
In fact a war is a combination of both.
@@mikehurtle ideology is the new religion
@@mikehurtle religion has hardly been the cause of any wars.
@@mikehurtle wrong on both counts, power is the main reason for war
EXCAVATIONS OF GERMAN MACHINE GUNNER'S DUGOUTS, MG MACHINE GUN FOUND / WW2 METAL DETECTING so danger..good job
Is there any information about this area? the fact there is both Soviet and German equipment in the same hole is mind boggling although the scenario in my head is that it was a German position which was overrun by the soviets only for then coordinated artillery fire to blast the position afterwards, Or the hole was just filled in quickly after the battle which had seen both forces use it in a short space of time.
вероятно, эта позиция переходила из рук в руки, и возможно несколько раз.
Here we learn the contrast between "excavation" and "archeology" ...
As well as grave robbing.
How to disrespect the fallen and disturb/loot graves. For shame . .
Gracias amigos por estos vídeos siempre desie ser militar nunca lo logre saludos desde Honduras lástima por los soldados que entregaron sus vidas para salvar la de otros
Sus? 🤨
While Ukraine and Russia war just started i remembered these videos and came back to watch it again
And seeing germany entered the chat once again, this is going to be interesting.
Easy digging for Russian soldiers now
wow oh my God🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩I am from Bangladesh
Made me cry 😢
Amazing finds. Thank you for sharing.
Much of explosives found in the ground still have capacity to go off with the grain still active...Many times they would need someone trained in ordinance to fully disengage what they pull up from the ground.
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Wow, what a history encounter. How did you know to look there? I have never seen so many items located together. My dad served in WW II but his time as an enlisted man was cut short due to medical reasons. He never got over that. He felt that he let everyone down. He was an avid reader of the WW II history books to learn about what his fellow soldiers encountered. He would have loved to see this video & others who put out similar videos. Thank you for sharing.
Poveriiii
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Do you make a restoration of these findings before exhibit them in the museum, and does this museum have a web site and page on Facebook?! .
THEY SELL THE S!!! Why are you people so fng ignorant?
Every time they pull out a dogtag I feel so sad. Someone was probably waiting for that soldier to come home, and was broken hearted when the war ended and they didn't.
Soldiers are the poor souls that carry out orders, they are really no one's enemy and they are not greedy/power hungry politicians. You all should say a Prayer for them...if you have not done so already. God Bless all of you.
For each group, yes to Christianity, yes to freedom and war merchants
Amazing history right there great finds
Hey 👨
The amount of metal used always astounds me.
Respect every soldier who die for us Love from 🇮🇳 India
My favorite Is Mg 42
Nossa que triste tantos soldados perdeu a vida nessa batalha que a família nunca recebeu o corpo do seus entes queridos que estão enterrados aí nesse lugar muito triste que bela matéria parabéns
That’s what they get for supporting Hitler, and letting their loved ones support Hitler.
Um marco para história mundial.
That mg has a big body count I’m sure
Kinda like my ex girlfriend. 🤣
You know wts messed up, none of the upper people that sent these men to die never fights themselves. They always die peacefully, with their family, in their home around their family and grandkids.
So much in war is lost but never the memories left behind found by others.
It's hard to believe you could just toss an antique helmet of someone who (possibly/probably) got killed in one of the largest wars in the world to ever be recorded.
It’s great this stuff is being unearthed but no care taken just throwing stuff around. This should be done by professionals after being located. This stuff is very fragile.
Stop being a wuss. These guys are out there digging all day. They don’t have millions of dollars in funding to “baby” everything like it’s the Declaration of Independence. You want it done differently. You go do it.
@@7gerez People like you are the reason artifacts get damaged in the process, bitching about having to dig, yet that's your job. YOU are the wuss who cries about having to do your job properly. Don't have that job if you can't do it right. It doesn't take 'millions of dollars' to be careful with something.
ww2 helmets are pretty much worthless metal scrap, almost everybody I know have some in family attics.
@@jakub204 Value is subjective, somebody out there would definitely buy one of these helmets for something, therefore, treat it with care considering they're originals. Not to mention someone easily could've ACTUALLY used the helmet you found, meaning it has a story behind it.
As always. ...very interesting video and artifacts a sobering reminder of Russias titanic struggle, thankyou.
This would have been more interesting if there were captions available in english.
WOW EPIC
5:16 Interesting detail is you can see that the MG-34 was still loaded- Not dangerous in its condition but with the stock blown off and rounds still chambered? One could only imagine what happened to the gunner and if the same shard that had damaged his machine gun ripped him apart too
Stock mightve rotted off, I'm pretty sure they were wooden on some of the 34s.
Saludos desde Venezuela Ver todos esos objetos de la Guerra hace que Uno se imagine las Situaciones Vividas Por los Soldados Que Combatieron en la Guerra y Hace que uno se Traslade o se haga una idea de como Fueron esos Últimos momentos antes de Morir ..
I wonder what the last words that were said in the field telephone
Madre mia, una situation muy muy dificil..no puedo imaginar El dolor de Los Padres..
@@raffaele5725 its ok ,, god bless him
Following what have been dug up I could tell this is a trench or a fox hole that was interchangeably occupied by each opponent in the same battle.
Out of 5 millions German soldier killed in WWII, 4 millions died on the eastern front.
Being an ex soldier my all the love and effections from the depth of my heart for the soldiers of all the world who died or mortayered for their mother land .... I proudly bow my head for them 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💖💖💖💖💖💖
May all those souls finally find peace.
Fascinating,how do you guys know where to dig for these lost souls,is it knowledge or do you just metal detect,either way,very fascinating.
Их видно места где проходили бои, даже можно отлечить окопы нетронутые. Бывает поверху валяется чтото. Я винтовку нашол из лествы слегка выглядывала. Патом смотришь куда смотрело оружие туда и идёшь.
A segunda guerra mundial foi uma pagina triste de nossos tempos e da historia da humanidade...mas é sempre bom descobrir mais sobre esse assunto.
Excellent work
Hi
Nice one guys very interesting video 👍
A reminder the average person and soldier is manipulated, used, controlled, and discarded by masters.
The chap handling the grenade was brave!
Personally I would stay clear of mines & grenades, regardless of their age.