The German Invasion of Denmark 1940 | 9. April (2015)
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- Amateur Historian reacts and analyses [Step By Step] the ambush of the German motorized column by a Danish bicycle platoon in 1940. What did you think of my analysis? Did I miss anything?
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It's actually not a Darth Vader helmet (that's more like the German helmet), but like the rebel trooper helmet from episode 4 (and at the end of Rogue One). Just as it was the case with Walt Disney who was greatly inspired by Tivoli in Copenhagen when he created Disneyland, George Lucas also found inspiration by researching and visiting Denmark (including LEGOLAND).
a little bit to add to the Danish M1923 helmet is that it was designed for trench Warfare. to protect anything that comes from above, but yes it does look a little bit goofy compared to the other nations helmets. A lot of our military equipment at the time was from WWI, also explains why our helmets was designed that way.
Some updates were happening at the time. like modern uniforms, the WW1 uniform was grey or blue. The planned aquisition of tanks and armored cars. Modern artillery and so on. The army suffered from lack of funding and german friendly politicians
@@Mortenhendriksen Well, the Danish army was from what I gather the only one still based around the concept of volley fire by ww2. Their tactics and equipment was for the most part completly lacking, and like the Norwegians neither hand grenades nor mortars was in inventory, wich at that time was the main weapon of the infantry companies.
@@petermagnus9919 that much isn't true. That concept died already during ww1. The danish army has training/ instruction videos that they put on youtube years ago and they use more modern small unit tactics. Plus from the war of 1864 the danish army learned that volley fire was of the past. If anything trench warfare were more likely their main tactic.
Yeah the equipment was lacking, which was why the army was looking into getting updated, just too late.
very interesting, thanks for the knowledge
@@Mortenhendriksen The army suffers from underfunding to this day, with literally have frigates who don't have missiles on them, we have no attack helicopters and our troops have next to if not zero AA capability. It's been so bad a petition was made to increase funding and some officers have written letters but all of it were rejected by our left leaning government who holds a majority. Now, for the first time in 70 years, that same government have invited American troops to put up bases in our country while still refusing to spend more on our military.
It's sad, because I hate playing this left vs right stuff and if I took a test I were actually center left but this is just history repeating itself and people have made it just that a red vs blue thing when really it shouldn't be, it's simply logical you give your armed forces the equipment they need to solve the missions you ask of them or you stop sending them on those missions because Denmark does participate overseas with other NATO members.
Good stuff as always. Would love to hear you tear apart the bombastic battle scenes in Hacksaw Ridge.
i agree make a vid on this
Wow 20 likes! For sure
Didn’t expect to see you here
What I like about this is that people aren't falling everywhere and most of it is slow paced and mainly suppressive fire, which is what you'd usually have in a situation like this
I really think that Danish films are underrated, at least in the US.
Everything small in US is underrated
To be fair most of the films we make are shit mostly love comedis with the same actors and same stories
@@Draugen19 Wait, I thought that was us?
@@wetwillyis_1881 Watch ,, Under Sandet".
@@wolfgangemmerich7552 I will have to give that a watch.
I learn more history From you then my teachers
Glad to hear that!
What i loved while watching the movie was the orders of the NCOs and fireteam leaders. And the communication overall. Every order is given semsical, soldiers act accordingly, the NCOs issue orders with the troops survival and success in mind.
Every order is acknowledged so the MCO knows the soldier heard his command. The orders are all precise and to the point. They all move and act so realistically and so tactically, that you wouldn't even notice the low number of casualties compared to most holiwood movies. At least not negatively. It makes a lot of sense what happens and what decisions are made and when. The ones that "don't make sense" are not ones that are downright stupid, but are justified either by misjudgement or lack of knowledge or options. Or multiple of those. Such a damn good movie
I love 9th April! It's a shame tho you focused only on the fights tho, the other calmer parts are where the movie really excels. for me, the very best scene of the movie is after war is declared, them pedaling from the barracks to the border to intercept the germans and those night scenes ride full of angst as dawn approaches is some of the best scenes I've seen in any movie, period! looking at the movie for the first time and not knowing danish history, i legit expected them to be ambushed, which just gives an extra depth and tension to the scene.
Great video! Note: the largest surrender in the history of the British Empire came about due to an enemy equipped with bicycles: the surrender of Singapore to the Japanese. Bicycle troops were essentially akin to paratroops at the beginning of WW2 - lightly armed but super-maneuverable. There's a book devoted to this: The Bicycle in Wartime - great book!
thanks for book recommendation, Ive never heared of that book.
4:07 It was initially built in 1902 but production continued for several decades and though production has long since stopped the gun itself is still in unofficial use with the Brazilian police. Fun fact, after the Danish surrender the German army put in an order for several machine guns with DISA (the manufacturer of the Madsen) for field tests with the German army as they were impressed with it's effectiveness vs armoured vehicles.
6:52 yes that is indeed Euron Greyjoy
9:48 Seems you missed this, the tank driver or cmdr noticed the sd.kfz get knocked out and the panzer is wiggling to restrict the accuracy of the machine gun to prevent another penetrating shot.
I am Brazilian and there is a video of a police operation where one of the officers is using a madsen
The Madsen is used by some cops solely because it ended up in their armory after raiding thugs; the bandits they captured had stolen Madsen MGs from Museums apparently and put the guns to use the 7.62×51mm caliber, which the Police found interest in and some began using these captured guns.
Oh kool, how many is a brazillion?😊
Notice the Danish military tradition to adress privates by their number, “223”, Cavalry troopers by the name of their hometown or -area, “Kolding”.Bicycle units were kind of betwixt and between Infantry and Cavalry, but considered themselves to be mounted troops.
I really like how you're talking about a subject almost everyone forgets about thank you for that
The Danish bycycle batallion deployed was trained a wee bit better than just learning how to fix a flat tire - they were specifically rotated into the area because they were the most trained unit and replace raw recruits that hadnt been fully trained yet. They had also received longer training than the German infantry involved.
for sure 🤦🏻😂
Thanks for doing a video on this!
As a dane I'm glad you're bringing attention to this almost forgotten battle
Even today they teach squad leaders to use hand signals first, then voice and lastly radio. Hand signals work when silence is necessary, they also work when there's so much noise you cannot hear anything. The more your squad is trained, the more automatic responses you get and the more squad leader actually can think tactics and do less micromanaging. Basic combat drills (ex. when encountering enemy, spread automatically, when moving couple of guys scout etc. ) go a long way, and most armies in WW2 had those. Those basic combat drills are the ones that keep you alive.
Bicycle infantry was heavily utilized by the Finns, with Jaeger units. Roads were so bad that wheeled vehicles and even tanks could get stuck. The Japanese did the same. Bicycle increased the payload and distance soldier could go. Finland had bicycle units up to 2000s, as regular infantry units were supposed to move with bicycles if tractors were not available.
Considering ambush like this, I can see many problems. One can say that it shows the chaos and shock of overall situation and inexperience of the Danes. First is the overall positioning of the troops, second is the amount of time they spent while fighting.
Firstly, they are just roadblock. The other Madsen is other side of the road, which means that they have to retreate across open road to join the rest. There are no troops that are firing at the flanks of the enemy. Pretty much you want to make L-shaped ambush in terrain like this, with forest serving as retreat route. Placing the other Madsen on the right would cancel the flanking maneuver of Germans seen in the movie.
Secondly, they are getting prolonged firefight with mechanized enemy, without AT guns and limited ammo. The best they could anticipate is to delay and cause chaos. Giving an order that riflemen shoot one magazine in rapid succession and Madsens shoot also one mag and then retreat would had served them better. It is simple and although not causing much damage, would hinder German movement, with little casualties.
The Ukraine should upgrade all their foot soldiers at least to bicycle units.
The danish equipment in this film is spot on... note their Y-straps on their tornisters are not attached to their belts
Another note: their helmets offer good protection, but they are bad for shifting around on your head.
The percentage of casualties and how even few of them impact a squad (even considering it is an inexperienced one) also as the timing of surrender really is depicted realistically, because even a loss of 1/4 of soldiers usually causes the unit destruction. And, well, that most of the time soldiers surrender when they don't see a possibility to survive an enemy encounter. Some battles in WW2 (especially on the Eastern front) may be an exception because Nazis waged war on annihilation (which is not common) but in 1940 and with Danes it was definitely not the case
Excellent video!
12:35 The Madsen was very popular during ww1 - but Denmark was a neutral country and could not supply weapons to either side in the conflict.
oops - that would be 4:35 .....
Yeah nations that didn't have lmgs bought madsens there is also a lot of variants
The Russians, however, bought a lot of them in the interwar years. It was their most used LMG in the early stages of Barbarossa
to bad we didnt keep weapons production
Yes Pilou Asbæk who played Euron plays the Danish commander
Despite being a GoT fan I've never regonsied him up to now! lol
I like the way you described retreat. People need to know that there’s a difference between retreat and outright flight.
Absolutely. It bothers me so much when people treat all retreats as embarrassing or shameful things as if saving your guys' lives in an unwinnable engagement is somehow dishonorable.
Denmark is also relatively flat. Bicycle troops could move about road networks with little effort.
Road network in 1940s Jutland!? Where the hell are you from?? :-D
@@dallesamllhals9161 Clearly not from 1940s Jutland
@@ethanor +1 Nej. Det er du ikke!
Would like to see your breakdown of scenes from Band of Brothers, to my knowledge they’re practically identical to what actually happened and may shatter your belief that the German soldiers are all portrayed as stupid in American films
mostly the battle of Foy
Bend of Brother ist reine Hollywood scheisse und hat geschichtlich rein gar nichts mit der Realität zu tun !!!!!!!!!!!
German MG42 at 07:26 even though the invasion of Denmark occur in 1940
True! Didn't pick up on that
Mg 34
That’s the one only thing that lets it down really but it’s a tiny mistake
The quickest Blitzkrieg of all. Only twenty German soldiers overall were lost and Denmark surrendered by the end of the day. Occupied like Norway and Holland until the end of the war with only small scale combat with the allies.
Thinking about how rare mg34's are and that it's such a minor thing. In the grand scheme of the story telling. Its not that important
O e of the best war movies. Cant praise it enough.
Very good video.
just subscribed bro
Thanks for the sub!
This is a great movie. I do wish more movies about the Battle Of France were more known. Or at least French rear guard action.
Or just Early WW2 movies. It's always just remembered as a walk in the park for the Germans, but this took months to complete, longer had it not been Rommel and the 88mm flak.
You gotta do the last battle in the movie, I think it's the battle of Haderslev
Of course :)
Could you react to the siege of Jadotville please?
I have an old book from the 1950’s with pictures from the invasion. The Germans suffered a few vehicle casualties from anti-tank rifle fire.
I have a book that gave the conclusions the armed danish resistance happend because of information/ connetion lack between the danish goverment in kopenhagen and the armycorps in jylland.
23(20)mm MADSEN onna' a Motorcycle ♥
Sounds reasonable. many of the early war German armoured vehicles were so lightly armoured that an anti-tank rifle would have effect. In this scene we have an Sdkfz222 armoured car and Panzer 1; both very lightly armoured. Kudos to the producers for sourcing (I presume) actual vehicles(?) We also see some other vehicles in the background (a halftrack of some sort? [Presumably an Sdkfz251 - although that might be a mock up])
Great video!!! I love this film and your reactions are very interesting! Can you react to “El Alamein la linea del fuoco”? It’s an Italian film portraying a little company of Italian soldiers fighting in the southernmost section of the El Alamein front bordering the Qattara depression.
I'd really love to see your thoughts on this film.
Plz react to the Norwegian movie called "Kongens Nei"
Sdkfz 222 also known as Lt.Gruber's little tank from "Allo Allo" the comedy series.
Enjoyed the movie and glad it’s on UA-cam. It’s also cool to see Lars Mikkelsen in the movie. It’s like seeing Grand Admiral Thrawn as a good guy and speaking his native language (Chiss).
Well done again, discovered a new movie
Highly recommend it
@@historylegends if you like danish WW2 movies ,then check across the water , the shadow in my eye ,the boys from St Petri ,this life ( hvidstens gruppen ) , land of mines All of Them is based om true storys in dk under ww2
The Danish army in 1940 had anti-tank guns and artillery to fight the Nazi-German tanks, they just didint use them XD
Anti-tank gun name: 37 mm Fodfolkskanon m1937
Link to all equipment: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_weapons_of_Denmark
23(20)mm MADSEN got a few!
Bro called our helmets darth vader…
Funny thing is that the East Germans copied your helmets after WW2.
Can you make a video about hacksaw ridge
of course ;)
Fun Fact: The madsen mg was also used by the Kaiserlich Heer/Imperial German Army in the first world war
And the Kragh Jörgensen Rifels in the US - Spanish war by the US Army!
@@wolfgangemmerich7552 cool
The Krag rifle was a Norwegian rifle. We just used our own variant of it. The Madsen mg was, however, a danish designed and produced weapon. The last weapon we produced of any note.
Really amazing movie, i'd like to see more movies like this.
Recommend:
The King's Choice (Norway)
Land of Mine (Denmark)
The Unknown Soldier (Finland)
Can you react to the kings choice
Could you so react to the rest of the war scenes or react to some scenes at the land of mines or the flame and the lemon
I planned on only doing the battle in the village for now. Are the other scenes worth it?
@@historylegends i would say yes there a viliage where we see how they do their proganada to surender. And the last scene is at Haderslev. Where there was toufgh battles. And they do also get asked about somthing but no spoilers.
But there are 3 battle scenes in that movie. 2 long 1 short. In 9 april. The other is about after ww2 how the land mines are cleared by the germans pows. Basicly kids. At jutland. It did get a oscar. And the flame and lemon. You self chouse that. But i recomend the land of mines.
If you want to kno more about that of land of mines i do kno a channel who explains it more
You should React to tuntematon sotilas (unknown Soldier) it would Be interesting to hear your thoughts about The movie and The battle scenes in a video
What is the difference between the Movie and the MiniSeries?
@@historylegends the movie is good but for example the lines of the characters were cut so much i couldn't feel bond with them at all. The mini series however was perfect of telling a bit more of the characters which gave a more immerse feeling to the story. So i would highly recommend to watch The miniseries version because its just better experience
Watch unknown soldier (2017) in my opinion the best finnish movie ever made
Nope! You Finns have made WAY better war-films/movies!
I always laugh at those movie film covers, those planes look like B17s.
Nice
7:26 i just noticed that it's an MG42 unless my eyes are deceiving me lol
The German Army were working on the tactic that once an enemy is engaged the contact must not be broken for even one minute however, the Red Army learned that if they had to do a retreat, it must be a fighting retreat and , this is what caused the Nazi Armies fighting the Soviets to lose heavily .
HollyWood After a German Soldier Starts Shooting And killing and Wounding Some Men:''You aren't Supposed to do that!''
Europeans had seen Germany annexing territory for years, and yet in 1940 were still thinking Hitler would leave them alone.. Danes, Norwegians, Dutch etc had very small armies. their troops lacked squad weapons like heavy machine-guns and mortars.. they had outdated equipment and little combat training and zero combat experience.. lacking anti-tank guns was biggest issue, even for the British and French in 1940. units had little with which to stop German armour - who would call up the Luftwaffe if faced with serious opposition
.... with few words : Don`t try to stop a working machine"!
(Cough) Madsen 20 mm cannon! 11 armoured cars and 2 Panzer I's = not that bad...all in all!
Japanese troop also invades Malaya by using bicycle during WW2.
Yes that's true! They also had tanks though
Funny you did not see the german soldier was using a mg42 7:26 . Other then that thanks for taking a liking to our danish movies :)
Fun fact my birthday is April 9 and I'm starting to think a lot of bad things happen on that day
May you please review my film?
The Swiss still using Bicycle Troops
The Danes too I think :P
In Haderslev (denmark) have 1 anti tank gun
Don't forget the germans had a number of bicycle equipped infantry. Even in 44-45.
Bikes are cheap and don't need any specialist training
Germany and Hungary also had bicycle troops.
It was not an uncommon thing, really. Radio's was around, but it's not like every tank and armored car had one.
Bycicles was also very succesfull on vietnam against usa
Their only training was how to change bicycle tires... lol
crazy... will soon cover the battle of Haderslev
this loss figures in video do not match the official ones
the total personnel losses for Denmark on 9 April 16 killed and 21 wounded
Some German sources state a German casualty figure of 20-22 killed and 65 wounded 12 armert cars 3 tanks damaged
unofficial figures after the invasion 203 killed and an unknown number of wounded German soldiers in connection with the fighting in Southern Jutland
Blitz about the Nazi bombing of Rotterdam in 1940 is worthy of analysis. The bride is about to declare when....
Nice Video!
Have you seen our mothers our fathers
Just the battle scenes hehe
Look up the Finns! The had bicycles too!
The actor playing the lieutenant is actually playing his grandpa.
For real? 🤔
if you are refering to Pilou Asbæk, then i dont think i have read anywhere that his grandpa was a officer in the danish army on the 9th of april 1940
At 7:26 isnt that a mg42, by the barrel and fire rate looks like it, wich would be not accurate as this is 1940
The budget of the movie was 22 million Danish kroner (just over $3 million). I'd imagine they used what they could find.
Very good battle scene. The Danish really didn't stood a chance
German also used bicycles
Very common back then with bicycle infantry. Bit unsung in war films.
Surprisingly I believe it is still being used in Brazil by their police of some kind.
I was thinking about how if they had an anti-tank/anti-material rifle they would have at least been able to penetrate the armored cars in this ambush possibly demobilizing them.
They had exactly that, the Madsen 20mm Autocannon. You see it used by Danish motorcycle units in the full film. Historically, it was quite effective against the German armor. (There were just too damn many of them...)
@@CEngelbrecht ah, makes sense
@@CEngelbrecht But the motorcycles withdrew just before this battle, falling back to a nearby town.
@@ethanor
In this film, yes, but historically, the Madsen 20mil proved very effective against the enemy armor on the day. After Germany had occupied Denmark, the manufacturer DISA actually marketed the weapon to the German Wehrmacht, emphasizing how effective it had been in stopping German armor (no kidding). "Hey, buy this weapon, it shot the s**t out of your armored reconnaissance vehicles!"
Didn't become popular in ww1? A lot of nations used it, variants upon variants. It was def used
This is a great film. It shows heroic but over powered defence of Denmark. The time before that the Danes fought the Germans was 1864 ( please watch the TV series based on this war) . The Danes got beat back then too. The Heer Soldiers that were in Denmark were all veterans by then with the advantage of Mechanised Infantry, armour, airborne troops and an Airforce.
Bicycles work well in flat countries… is Denmark flat?
Very. The highest point in Denmark is Møllehøj, witch is only 171 meters above sea level.
Yep, the bicycle, the tank of the poor man.
Yeah, you keep running your tank. See how you laugh when the petrol runs out
So the actual number of German casualties is actually still debated to this day with the highest number said to be around 203 killed and an unknown amount of wounded, while this may seem like it was just Danish propaganda it is actually based on a report from DISA (Danish Industry Syndicate) and the then Waffenamnt and is the only written document regarding losses on the German side. It should be noted the main reason for the high losses was the 20mm Madsen autocannon which was also adopted to some degree by the Germans. Furthermore some Danish soldiers found it strange the number was so low as for example one remembered his friend shooting at least 10 before he was shot, of course they could also just have been wounded unless if that was with the autocannon, it didn't say in what I found. I'm not sure how much of this information is in English, I just found it interesting.
No the madsan was used by the German commonly and the Austrian Hungarians too
Mg42 in 1940??
The problem with only using wikipedia as your source, is that you rarely get a complete picture. According to Danish and German records overall manpower and materail loss favoured the Danish, with only 11 KIA and 20 WIA, the Germans took 22 KIA and 65 WIA plus numerous AFV's and Tanks, plus a medium bomber detroyed by AAA fire.
It was only in then initial stages of the invasion that the germans only met bicycle platoons, later Danish a motorcycle regiment with 20 AT cannons arrived to defend Sønderborg.
No. Obviously I didn't use Wikipedia only. Perhaps you had access to other sources. In this case, Danish ones. The point I made was to show that there should not have been hundreds of casualties in this battle scene.
I guess the movie was inspired from this battle:
"About 1.5 km to the north, a bicycle platoon prepared a defence of a railway bridge, but fire from the armoured cars and strafing fighter aircraft forced them to retreat, and a third of them were captured. The Germans lost two armoured cars and three motorcycles, while the Danes suffered one dead and one wounded."
you shouldnt dismiss what the wikipedia sources say, tho.
"In his first monograph, author Kay Søren Nielsen states that in the archives of the Danish weapons manufacturer DISA ('Danish Industrial Syndicate'), 203 German soldiers were claimed to be killed in Jutland.[33] However, the report is considered an exaggeration.[34][35]"
"In 2015, the Journal of Military History, Krigshistorisk Tidsskrift, published an article for the Royal Danish Defence College (RDDC), in which military correspondent Lt. Col Jürgensen H.J. (ret.) summarized key points in the German invasion. He argued that actual German losses were 2-3 killed and 25-30 wounded, and that the Danish military suffered a confirmed 16 dead and 20 wounded. Casualties among the civil resistance is not certain, but are given as 10 dead and 3 wounded." (from Jürgensen, H.J. March 2015. "Krigshistorisk Tidsskrift") The other source is Zebeckis book, both are considered reliable.
The Danish are considered as having exaggerated German losses, and the accepted casualty is even or higher Danish casualties
@@williamtyson9503 Only one source is considered to have exaggerated losses, far from all Danish historians
Even that is also ''wrong''. total KIA for the Danes was: 11 Soldiers, 2 Pilots, 3 Border guards = 16 killed. 3 Civilians were killed aswell. (I'm from Denmark)
Lets talk about the Norwegians during 9th of April now, shall we?
The Germans attacked Norway on the same day?
@@ethanor Yes. Norwegians actually fought back and sank the Admiral Hipper class cruiser "Blucher"
can you do the norwegian movie kongens nei it is very good
Aka. "The King's Choice", about the exact same date in history, April 9th, 1940.
I saw the CGI sequence of the sinking of the Blücher reused by NatGeo in an episode of "Drain the Oceans".
7:26 The german is firing mg42 in 1940🤔😆
LOL! IT's MG3s TEE-HEEE! Røvhul!
One thing that I would also like to point out is the fact that the Germans are using lightly armoured vehicles with only machine guns. Since this is the early war period, and the blitzkrieg days. The Germans used these tanks, the panzer 1 and 2. This is fairly obvious and the average historien would easily point it out.
Yes? and?
@@dallesamllhals9161 i think it's cool that the guys behind the movie paid attention to this
@@dallesamllhals9161 the point is that the Germans were using Panzer 1's and 2's which were light tanks and the rounds that are use by madsen 20mm cannon have enough velocity to penetrate both tanks but if the Germans had access to mid to late Panzer 3's or the Panzer 4's maybe the Panther then the Madsen 20mm cannon would be useless.
@@joeyreidelbach5509 Yeees. I know/agree. But how/why the hell would ze germans use PzKpfw IIIs and IVs(IF they were around) against tiny little Denmark in April 1940!??
Dansker er jeg nu er ;-)
Anyone else notice the MG-42?
@CipiRipi00 I saw the 34 as well, but I thought I saw a 42 during the first fight.
@CipiRipi00 that’s it
yes, and I even called the director on it. Probly it was too difficult to get an MG34 out of a museum, whereas an mg42 equalled an MG62 , the standard MG in the danish army. rate of fire of MG 34 was enuf to flatten a Madsen MG where you had to change magazine, whereas in an MG34 and MG42 you could just add another belt of ammo while still firing ( the job of the helper)
this loss figures in video do not match the official ones
the total personnel losses for Denmark on 9 April 16 killed and 21 wounded
Some German sources state a German casualty figure of 20-22 killed and 65 wounded 12 armert cars 3 tanks damaged
wth denmark only lost 16
🤝
7:00 Hollywood
The lmg in this scene is an mg42 which didnt exist at this time, it should have been an mg34
They may not have avaliable one ,it looks more like a NATO MG 3 made looks as MG 34 .
Minor passable mistake, the film do excellent portraying all type early German armor and Dannes weapons .
Far more accurate than many modern film using bunch digital adapted edited stuff and plenty wrong things ,specially Hollywood and Russian films.
Yep, but it's still (albeit a minor) error
@@erwinsell184 WOOOOOAW! And you can see the 7,92 vs 7,62? Om igen Pølsetysker!
You Know What I Like About your videos you speak of these wars as if you have fought in them so let me get this straight a young guy who wasn't even born at the time of these events supposed to be the one to educate us about these situations that took place before any of us was born... yeah that be a smart thing to do😤😤😤
That’s called HISTORY
@@historylegends no it's not call history it's called I think I know it all🧐🧐🤗
Germans used the Madsen machine gun in WWI. Photos are not too uncommon
Yeah madsens in german was common but also a bit uncommon, they had the mg08/15
@@Bunny-zn7ke yeah, and captured Maxims.. and a bunch of other stuff like even Vickers...
The invasion of Denmark, they could have made the whole invasion into a 6 hour movie, it's as long as it took in real life too
And you're from?
@@dallesamllhals9161 the Netherlands, for that one they can make a prolonged series
@@tomz5704 BLAAAH! WAIT!? I do like Paul V. Soldier of Orange and Black Book are GREAT!
@@dallesamllhals9161 haha I hate dutch war movies, maybe the battle of the scheldt is good, I haven't seen that one yet
@@tomz5704 WOOT! So you do NOT like Paul Verhoeven!?? :-O
Hmm, De Slag om de Schelde(2020) now on my see list
it was a very good movie, however the Danes with this movie showed how pathetic they were, basically their military was almost nonexistent.
In short it was very realistic and no BS.
why are the Germans not using their armor and just throwing infantry into the line of fire. A few armored vehicles can easily destroy a bunch of guys with no anti-armor weapons. Thank tank alone would completely wipe them out
Evidentemente la vergüenza no existe en algunos países ¡ hacer una película bélica cuando tu país fue conquistado literal en 2 horas y se tiraron 3 tiros ! ¿ de qué trata? , conociendo a los dinamarqueses sería algo así de como cambiar una cámara de bicicleta en combate 😂😂
What's the point of this video? Is it supposed to be a review of the movie, a reaction to the battle scene of this movie, a mini documentary highlighting the Danish invasion? Was left very confused, there was no intro to the video that helped make sense of it.
Every German soldier had 60 rounds.....
Danish military 2022 = running out of AMMO!
This old, Royal Life Guards (Denmark) 3 tours during the '00s veteran is mindblown :-O ..sry' NATO! ..yes..IT IS embarrassing :-(
Why is there an MG-42 at 7:25? A real obvious mistake for a movie set in 1940.
Probably because it was much easier to find, than a MG34. 42s are still in use in Denmark today (as MG M/62) in 7,62 NATO. Most viewers won't notice the difference in a halfsecond clip.
How about seing the MADSEN instead!??
The germans have an mg42
They did indeed!
@@dallesamllhals9161 in 1940, an mg 42
@@die_forelle8591 YUP! Well it's a MG3 7,62.(know that 'cause OLD Royal Life Guards and they used a few of ours)
BUT we in DK = small country = small films. Okay?
And IF ANAL-history Dane!? They came with more MG13s than MG34s in April.
BonusINFO: MG42s in the armoured cars?
At 7:26 there is an MG42. Obviously, during invasion of Denmark in 1940 only MG34 were used
Yes, well spotted.
Mostly MG 13s even a few 08/15! Try harder!
Brazilian Military Police in atate of Rio de Janeiro Still uses a madsen tô fight the Drug traffickers in favela... they like because the volume of fire
Oh SHIT! ZE Germans have MG42s and we have Madsen (L)MG from 1902 in 1940 :-O