6 Curiosities of the Waffen SS That will Surprise You!
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- Did the Waffen SS have priority when it came to receiving military equipment? What happened when they were detected by the Allied Intelligence Services? Were they their political bosses? Were the members of the Waffen SS volunteers? What did Marshal von Manstein think of them? Why didn't they use all their men in combat? These are some of the curiosities that we are going to see in this program. Most have been taken from Jean Luc Leleu's book on the Waffen SS.
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00:00 The Waffen SS
01:01 1- Its Dissuasive Use
02:43 2- Propaganda Failure
03:43 3- Did they have weapons priority?
04:59 4- Waffen SS Political Commanders
05:35 5- Reserves SS
06:47 6- Recruit Quota Rate - Розваги
Little is ever mentioned about the non-German volunteers who comprised 40% of the SS divisions. For instances: The French 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division of the SS Charlemagne were the last defenders of Berlin. There was the Flemish SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division Langemarck, and the Belgian 28th SS Division “Wallonie”, the Spanish Blue Division (Spanish: División Azul, German: Blaue Division), the Hungarian 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Gömbös, the Ukrainian SS Division 'Galicia' , the Scandinavian SS Viking Division... and so on.
Traitors to their own country
@@gordonfleming458 Were anti-communists!
MIght have been forty percent of the formations designated as "divisions", but certainly NOT forty percent of the Waffen SS PERSONNEL. Many of these non-German SS divisions had either an all-German HQ staff and/or COs. Also, the Spanish "Blue" Division, its Heer designation being the 250th Infantry, was NOT an SS formation. Franco, though certainly a fascist and strongly anti-communist himself (with good reason, as the Communist Internationale, supported by the Soviet Union, backed the "Republicans" in the Spanish Civil War), forbad these volunteers from joining the Nazi Party. The Blue Division didn't lack for volunteers, as the "Phalangists" were eager for some "payback" against the Soviet Union, but, at the same time, Franco didn't want war with the UK and/or the USA.
@@selfdo plenty Spanish waiters manuel
@@frederickwarren4158 still traitors!
Most of them were also anti-Jew. Guess you are ok with that bit too or now pretend that it is just the communist part honest...
I spoke to an Obersturmbanfürer and asked him who were the best soldiers and he highlighted the ordinary german soldier.
"W" in German is pronounced like the English "V". "Vaffen SS", not "Waffen SS".
Ja!
Such a fundamental error. Manche Leute machen ihre Hausaufgaben nicht.
And it does not rhyme with "laughin' ".
V = F (fau) and W = V, F is just F.
@@petersoerent2554 yes, a VW (beetle) car is pronounce fau vee in German.
"The old men and children
They send out to face us
They can't slow us down"
-Al Stewart: Roads To Moscow
You've added to my appreciation of one of my favourite historical ballads.
I don't think my opinion of the Waffen SS changed (as a fighting force) based on this video. Nitpicking through a few interviews and we're rewriting history. They weren't supermen but they were an elite fighting force. Best soldiers are politically motivated.
Nonsense !
Mien Herr, the correct pronunciation of theWaffen SS is not waafen but waffen SS I am not with you to help with the correct pronunciation, but I hope that this gives you an idea of the correct pronunciation 😮
In the beginning of the war the Waffen SS was an elite highly motivated fighting force. Later in the war, to fill the dediminished ranks, captured country populations were allowed in
@@rickflorke7605willing people who wanted to fight for Fascism were let into the SS. They still had to be trained.
Not all of them. Some where very good and definitely elite but others were 2nd or 3rd rait units. And then there were the real bottom of the barrel units like Dirlewanger and the Kaminski brigade.
This was VERY interesting, thank you!👍🇺🇸
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling the viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project!!!
The SS panzer and panzer grenadier divisions were by definition larger and had more and in some cases, different equipment in their standard order of battle than the wehrmacht divisions. With other factors and priorities being equal, more was consistently put into them. It would also be natural to use such larger and more powerful divisions in crucial situations thus increasing the priority they were given. The exceptions would the Gross-Deutchland, Panzer Lehr and the Herman Goering which were also out-sized, special divisions.
It is easy to conclude that such complications and favouritism hurt the overall German war effort. For example all those extra assault guns and nebelwerfers organic to the SS units could have been placed in independent units to be held at the corps level and deployed as needed instead of being tied to one division.
interesting point about keeping part of the unit behind to rebuild. I'll need to look into that. Thanks for bringing it up.
thank you, very valuable information.
Ty
Did you know that the character portrayed by John Wayne in the American movie Green Beret was inspired by a real-life Nazi Lauri Torni. Later adopted the name Larry Thorne and he was a Waffen-SS captain during WW2 and served the Eastern Front under the alias Larry Lane. In the late 1940s immigrated with many other Nazis to the U.S. and joined the U.S. Army in 1954 in 1963 he was a member of the Special Forces A-734 and fought in Vietnam, he went missing during a mission in 1965 and was declared MIA After searching he remains were discovered in 1999 and officially identified in 2003 he is buried in Arlington Nation Cemetery.
So, yeah: Waffen -SS members buried in Arlington Nation Cemetery next to American soldiers.
He did that because he was a Finn and he hated communism. Between that and the fact that his own nation tried to prosecute him for joining the SS after they gave up fighting over Karelia, I have a feeling he was ready for greener pastures. Many many captured SS troops ended up in the French foreign legion too. Ultimately, they had to find a way to sustain themselves, and I'm going to guess SS men had issues drawing a pension.
He served in our military too, I got no problem with it
Why shouldn't he have been buried in Arlington?
@@blakekenley1000 SS never had any issues getting their pension.
@@blakekenley1000 "SS troops ended up in the French foreign legion". Growing up in the late 60's my Mom made a friend who ended up staying with us. She was French but had a Spanish name. Turned out her father was on the losing side of the Spanish Civil war and joined the French foreign legion so that the family could emigrate. I met him one time and he said some of the hardest parts was having to serve with the some of the same Germans that forced him to leave Spain.
Interesting . nice compilation.
I heard from a combat veteran of the British🇬🇧 army, that the Waffen SS was not all that different from the rest of the German army, but that the main thing was psychology. He also said that at Normandy, the Germans had soldiers from many different countries.
Maybe half the waffen ss weren't German
@@dannypickering5623
The Nazis had in mind that their organization would become an international white supremacists movement. That is its greatest danger!
My great uncle Arnhold was an officer in the SS. He ran Buchenwald for a short period of time, and ultimately met his fate in Nuremberg.
Another wonderful historical coverage video about 6 curiosities of waffen SS divisions... involving 6 curiosities. The 2nd one attracted my attention, which was intelligence detections exchange between Germany and its foes ( intelligences struggle)...also General Gudarian explanation about accurate militarily standardized of supporting weapons due to defensive and offensive priorities amongst Wermakht and waffen SS divisions ...thank you (War academy) channel ...for sharing this remarkable video....
One of the few thing's Grandad told Dad about the war was they were the best soldiers he ever faced...
I had a friend whose father was drafted by the SS months before the end of the war. He even showed me his uniform which he kept more as a curiosity than as memorabilia. He was no fan of the Nazi party but in Germany you werent given many choices.
They never were. They were all that one guy who rebelled, and stood up against the man. That, or they know that the communist propaganda took over and to admit wrongthink is to lose your life. The Nazi's opposed foreign interference in their country. Three times their attempt at unification was quashed by foreign interference, because keeping their country broken into 25+ tiny states meant they could be micro managed easier. Even Churchill said 'the greatest wrong Germany has committed is to rob international banking of it's rightful dues'. That's what it was all about. They opposed the money lender megacorps that kept their people enslaved to the point women had to sell themselves to feed their children. To understand the situation more, read about the unification of Germany, or simply read Mein Kampf. Hitler wasn't 'crazy'. We were just misled to fight against our brothers.
Also - my maternal great grand father was Das Reich SS. My paternal grandfather was a communist partisan who got shot for blowing up railway lines with his mates. My paternal grandparents were all on the allied side. Made for interesting Christmas dinners. Nah, they never met unfortunately. BUT. Every allied fighter before their death conceded that they fear they fought for the wrong side - and if they knew this is how the world would turn out they'd never have raised arms against Hitler. Even the partisan grandfather, who literally still had six bullets in his body when he died of old age not so long back. (It was a pretty crazy story, he passed out and came too in a pile of corpses, gnarly scars from it too - when he returned home he saw the rest of his friends had been hung because they blew up the train with him, it killed a bunch of innocents though - when the war ended these communist war criminals were positioned as police to enforce the 'denazification' of Europe, which was basically just mass murder all over again as commies always do).
It is history now however it is not true that they weren’t given a choice like they were forced to join the SS. Yes military service was mandatory and it is true that the SS troops unfortunately committed atrocities. It is always like this when a nation is defeated. Just in 1939 millions and millions were saluting Hitler and the Nazis. Suddenly as of May 1945 no one is Nazi or pro Nazi anymore. This is the true human nature: Denial. Sarcastically In the end the victorious will write history and they paint themselves like angels fighting a clean war. All parties committed atrocities to a different extent. There is no clean war.
@@TommyAtkins-eh8cd you don't half talk a load of BS
@@TommyAtkins-eh8cd wow - epic comment - thank you for sharing
Come on admit it. That SS insignia was pretty cool.
One of the largest differences was that the officers of the waffen ss often fought side by side with the non commissioned soldiers. They also ate and slept in the same quarters.
The premier divisions were truly elite and as such their deployment was welcomed by regular wehrmacht troops-I know , many of them told me how relieved they were when Waffen SS came in to tidy up. Their equipment preference is a bit exaggerated too: In the battle of Prochorovka they fielded mainly Panzer IV and less than 40 Tigers, which were "blamed" for the high Soviet losses. Yes, they were often rough with the enemy, but their high losses and the expected special treatment (torture or outright murder when captured ) by Soviets as well as US troops contributed to the you or I spirit.
Yeah lets just skip over the fact the SS would get brutal treatment because of what they did to the Soviet prisoners and civilians when they invaded.
It wasn't a "you or I" as you put it, it was "oh crap they will be really brutal after all the stuff I've been doing to their mothers and children"
Good video
As I understand it many of them were foreigners. Many were drawn from Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, and France. They also had some drawn from other neutral countries like Switzerland and Sweden and some were considered "spiritual Aryans" by Himmler such as the Muslim members and even some drawn from India. The last group fighting was the Charlemagne Division, the French division, during the Battle of Berlin. There were even cases of British and Americans in the SS, but they were actually very few in number.
The so-called "foreign legions" were the result, in part, of Himmler's ploy to circumvent army-imposed restrictions of Waffen recruitment. Belgians, Danes, Swedes, etc. may have been "aryans," but they were also not Germans and thus could be added freely to the Waffen's strength. Many of the more exotic formations (Muslims, Serbo-Croations, etc) were pretty far from the quality of the seven elite panzers divisions cited in this video and many were trained and deployed in the vicious anti-partisan fighting in the East. The Charlemagne unit, if I remember correctly, was never a division, but rather a "legion" of indterminate strength, probably closer to a battalion -- if that -- by the time of the fall of Berlin. The Indian Waffen was largely a propaganda device, numbering no more than a hundred or so at best. Even fewer on the ground were the members of the British SS, who were never deployed in any battle. American SS members could literally be counted on fingers and toes, the most notorious of which was a USAAF pilot who stole a P-38 in North Africa, defected to the Germans in Italy, served briefly as a radio propagandist and later as a German war correspondent before improbably enough re-enlisting in the American air force under his mother's name at war's end and rising to the rank of staff sergeant before being discovered.
Forgot finnish 5ss wining
Schizophennia SS Looking at film footage off Germens on east front ahh spotted Tongans/ Samoans with them- Allot off Samoa/ Tonga/ New Zealand had German ancestry and called Germany Their Motherland
And treated a lot of them like crap, there were at least 2 documented mutinies I know of...
@@HankWest-er8iw There was one that happened with some Ukrainians who wanted to fight Russia, but ended up in France instead. They not only deserted but killed their German officers and joined the French Resistance bringing all their heavy weapons with them. Most later joined the Foreign Legion.
Can you make a video of the Japanese army? What unit was the best like the SS of the Germans please I would like to learn more about their elite troops because I love your channel is very intelligent.
After WW II ended, many of the Waffen SS joined the French Foreign Legion, and fought in Viet Nam, at that time known as French Indochina.
Frl ? How yk
Please Read The Devils Guard WAFFEN SS Fighting in French Indochina DIEN BIEN PHU 1954 RIP. LBC. 🌊🏖️🍀🍀🍀
Danke
This ticklet my curiosity.
@6:33ish, Dietrich is looking to the left as we view the image.
His Iron Cross is, as we view, on the left. Also, the uniform buttons are as on a woman's uniform.
Conclusion: the image is reversed!!
I HATE inaccuracies such as these!!
What the Waffen SS were to the German forces, the whole Japanese army was in its entirety and then some.
Good history Channel
To all the linguists here I say Wienerschnitzel…😂
Not too revered in the beginning but became a better outfit later in the war. Getting some of the better equpitment
Initially the Waffen SS were not highly regarded by the Wehrmacht. They were considered too prone to high casualties, and not tactically sound. Eventually they came to be relied on as relief elements.
Bs
The Wehrmacht was run mainly by Prussian aristocracy who looked down upon the SS because the were commoners and not subservient to them. I mean they had their own command structure.
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Agree. And why would they respect them when some of the Waffen SS officers were randomly promoted without a military academic training. However some of those excelled in battles. Wehrmacht officers remained better strategists by far compared to the SS
I knew a former member of the SS, actually a very nice man who had a fixation with black women, which I thought odd for a former SS member. He was a police officer before the war and was the reason he claimed he was placed in the SS. Interesting hearing the war described from a German perspective. The army most feared by German soldiers were the Russian army. He described US soldiers as usually very timid in battle, if a few shots were fired most scattered and hid in his experience. It was US air power that the Germans truly feared. He was the uncle of an old friend of mine, his mother actually earned an Iron Cross towards the end of the war. At the time of her death her biggest nightmares were her memories of the Gestapo who she greatly feared.
@@user-zg9yd2gx2s Clapped about my friends mothers death or her nightmares about the Gestapo? Both very joyful occassions!
Guess your friend didn’t fight in the Bulge…😏
@@francopasta3704 We are only talking one man's experience during ww2, that doesn't mean there weren't heroic Americans. My friends mother's ex-husband had an even better story. He was regular German army and tried to surrender to US troops at the end of the war. He ran into a young US soldier and tried to surrender. The soldier was lost and tried to head to the German lines. The ex had to take the US soldiers weapon away and had to march him at gunpoint to the US lines. When they finally saw a US flag he gave the weapon back and surrendered.
My Father flew PBY's in the Pacific and saw only Japanese.
@@user-vj2wt7jh7jIt was just a different experience for American boys, they weren’t accustomed to years of fanatical brainwashing by Soviet or Nazi authorities, their life was generally better even during the depression so you’re less incentivized to go runout in the field and get yourself blown up for a cause. Being careful is not the same as being cowardly. This is why Patton was such an effective leader, he knew it was his job to make the other SOB die not our own. It’s also why the American leadership chose to sit it out and let the Russians bleed capturing Berlin.
Very good and objective analysis of the subject. I remember clearly two details about the Waffen-SS:
A) The allocation of weapons and equipment was controlled by the d Equipment Office/department of the Army (Ausrüstung Amt des Heeres); therefore, the Waffen-SS did NOT have any privileges regarding equipment.
B) Members of the Waffen-SS received (before the war) only 1 or 2 hours of political education (Weltanschauliche erziehung) per week. The idea was to form top-quality soldiers; therefore, the ideological education was reduced to the minimum. Besides, a man who joined the SS was clearly a convinced national-socialist.
You forgot to mention that later in the war the ranks of Waffen SS where more and more filled with men from occupied territories, many of which rather commited suicide than getting captured.
Good less dogs to feed.
don't mind the ones nitpicking about the pronounciation, we know it's an ai voice and you can't fix every other word manually...great vid as usual
The fiercest? Heard of the SAS? They made the Waffen SS frightened.
The German Army of the First World War and Especially the Army of the Third Reich and WW2 were the best land Army the world has ever been and seen. The took on everything and everyone and fought until they couldn't get anything to fight with. The Allies and with a little luck with the people who was in charge of the German empire during WW2 is what lost everything and the war. Those who don't heed history are doomed to repeat it. And instead of doing what the Allies were doing and mass production of the same type Germany would have been able to get enough to keep going instead of less and slower production. Stupid decision making and lack of tactical reason they were easily squashed out and ended up in bad situation with the troops being surrounded and squashed 300,000/ 500,000 at a time here and there. Stalingrad, Courland, Crimea, and many many more that could have been used in way better actions than being pounded out of existence. Great evening and I hope you keep it coming.
It has been said that Hitler was the best ally the Allies had.
Best army? Which army is among the best, Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS? Doesn't the "best army" win all its battles and campaigns? Where's these "best armies" now?
The WW1 helped to make a strict fact: just the best arranged army does not win the war. Country which has the biggest industrial capacity wins the wars! As we had seen in WW1 and WW2. Nazi Germany didn't even produce ordinary infantry's rifle ammo as much as in WW1!
Stiff militarism works in parades, but if it does not have industry's support, it does not matter in front, not at all.
The Soviet Red Army hit the shit out of these "best" during 1944 - 1945. And now: Red army is in the dark past...
@@esajuhanirintamaki965 FYI, the Wehrmacht was not the German Army of WWI, the term Wehrmacht refers to the entire German armed forces (Heer, Luftwaffe, & Kriegsmarine) but did not include the Waffen SS which fell under the command of the SS but were under the operational control of the Wehrmacht. The name for the German Army then and now is Heer.
@@esajuhanirintamaki965consequently the Red army was the worst army with terrible casualty ratios because of a lack of respect for life and most of the competent generals were purged by Stalin. But they won with sheer numbers.
@@mikeg2491 You're right. Russia wasted its muzhiks even in the WW1. And it's the same thing in Ukraine today.
Wait when you get the infomration about the other space program in slesia and in the area of Projekt Riese.
Outstanding
Fallscrimjager, the best troops of ww2!
The Longest Day
The Last Knights of Europe
The last Arseholes. But wait Putin -Hitler is doing the same
The Heer officers had a low opinion of the Waffen SS disregard for personal safety, and willingness to sacrifice themselves. In truth, only a few SS divisions were outstanding - LSSAH, Das Reich, Totenkopf, Viking, Hitlerjugend. And the Heer had divisions that were their equal too - Grossdeutschland, Hermann Goering, Panzer Lehr etc.... At Normandy, Panzer Lehr division was more effective than the Hitlerjugend.
Can’t agree with the statement regarding Panzer Lehr being more effective than the 12 SS.
Total rubbish.
Bayerlein was a nervous wreck by 44 and his division’s performance reflected this compared to the audacious and aggressive leadership of Meyer and Max Wunsche.
@@blaircalvin5025 The PL division was engaged in much of the heaviest fighting on the Normandy front. And they fought the Allies to a standstill on numerous occasions. By the time they were pulled out, they had almost virtually fought themselves to extinction. And this would not be the only time they did that. This was a division made up of the best, and most experienced soldiers the Heer had, not courageous but inexperienced, fanatical young boys. The 12th SS HitlerJugend got its baptism of fire at Normandy. Sure, their commanding officers were already experienced, but not the fighting men itself.
The PanzerLehr was already highly experienced by then. And by the end of the war, they had proven their mettle time and time again. And they achieved all this without having to commit atrocities.
Rarely brought up fact is that one of the SS founders and close friend of Hitler was of Jewish faith...Emil Maurice.
We wafflg SS armor divisions any better trained or equipped with maintenance and parts. If not they would not have been any more effecdiv then another unit from the wehrmacht.
Morale. Morale goes farther than proper equipment.
The gaurds for the Nuremberg trails were Estonian Waffen SS veterans. Mostly conscripted non politically affiliated or at least claimed not to be.
Latvian legion was part of Waffen SS too, and there were mainly conscripts not volunteers.
It's not " waff - en", it's " vhoffen".
Oh man! I think he musta said it about 100 times!!
Only when read in German.
Ha ha ha ha ha
Early in the war the Waffen SS didn't have priority in getting the best weapons. A lot of units had to forgo MG-34 in favor of captured Czech machine-guns for instance. There also were a lot of mediocre Waffen SS formations, many from non-German and even non-European ethnic groups.
God save Europe
Well obviously the benefits of hindsight people can nit-pick history, ask someone who had to fight them see what they say
I miss some curiousities the Waffen SS was well known for. One was the volume of captured weapons they were issued with, greater than in any other branch. Another was the training of SS soldiers, which besides being more political also was generally much shorter for non-armor units. Others have mentioned the large number of foreign volunteers. Finally I would like to point out that the overcommand tended to pick SS units for the jobs with the likely worst losses; the schism between the political wing and the old school wing in the Generalkommando had effects. Yes the SS were the most lively fighters but often also the worst trained, and they were given jobs that would otherwise raze out non-SS units considered more valuable. One more thing: with rivalry between the SS and the Heer causing infights for uniforms and other equipment, the SS actively turned to manufacture of such to the concentration camps to make up for the shortfalls. The Heer didn't run camps, that was an SS task, and could not directly affect what was manufactured although they too received some of the goods made.
Before I read your comment, I noticed that one of the SS appeared to be carrying one our M-1 or M-2 carbines in the video. Supposedly they would execute prisoners caught carrying German weapons....In the USAF from 1968 to 72, I spent a lot of duty time with an M-2 carbine.
@@cleondubois1270 You might be amused that the Germans captured and reissued enough M1 carbines to designate them with the name Selbstladecarabiner 455(a).
Nice piece. But why use thee computer generated voice narration? It makes the production sound artificial and tinny; mispronouncing numeriys words.
One of the Waffen SS's faults was "loving" ancient warfare. Thus they mostly fought using 18th century war tactics in Eastern Front. This led to enormous officer losses. Mainly due to female Soviet snipers!
SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) leading his company in the fore, to attack to the Soviet trenches was romantic, but no warfare!
Here in Finland, during the Continuation war, was an 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord", led by Austrian-born SS-Brigadeführer (General-Major) Karl-Maria Demelhuber.
"Nord"-division's effort in Northern Finland was so lousy (they simply didn't know how to fight in thick forest area! They didn't have fitting tactics!)), that Finnish General Hj. Siilasvuo once said, that he never would accept Demelhuber even as a troop cook!
''Loved' Ancient warfare- Using 18th century war Tactics? = REALLY? - May need to Read more! Versatility in Command & tactics, was part of their Operational ethos - Not to say that some early SS members were not 'grounded' in practical battlefield survival! Waffen SS were WASTED, in the Early parts of the 2ND WW 'Globalist Experiment', due to Disdain of said troops by Wehrmacht High command, until the same SS were reorganised into their own separated command structures. Must have been 18th Century 'Romantic' warfare skills, that got SS troops thru scenarios, that other units couldn't (no disrespect to normal German forces, & not a reference to Latter waffen SS 'Replacements') have, or shouldn't have survived. As for Counter offensives by small bands of Waffen SS, - How many times, even at great cost, did this Áction', save other forces from destruction/ being overrun? Only the Forces there, at that particular time, will EVER know! References to SS troops operational in Normandy, in This Video IS Simplistic! Loss of Luftwaffe Air support, & the large distances having to be traversed due to loss of rail infrastructure, caused excessive time losses & difficult, if not impossible Deployment options for these units, who even after Divisional refits, were hounded by Allied air forces, & Others, most of the way to their Destinations. How about a video on Mass murder of captured Waffen SS Divisions (& including standard German troops), after capture (Especially by U.S. forces), Without charge/ Trial/ representation - Maybe, the 'Reasoning' behind Allied forces, post WW2, Rebadging captured POWs as DEFs, to 'Wipe out' as many Captured forces as Possible - Orders from D.D. Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander, & W. Churchill - British P.M. Start with the The Rheinwiesenlager. - Very 'Romantic'.
I'm 4th gen Australian. Maybe, current German politicians, who were NOT alive - nor understand TRUE deprivations, during this period, should also read more, & appreciate ALL of their previous historic kinsmen & Women's energies/ tragedies/ Inputs & losses, & manifest it into wisdom Today! Allies of the Willing & All!
Wellness
I would think the reason for keeping troops in reserve was due to manpower shortages
See you soon
Not Uaffen but Waffen, pronounced "Vaffen" or vah-fen
Pretty sure it’s an AI voice, but ja.
@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz I know its a robot -- "he" can't pronounce names worth...well, he can't.
0:03 de Łafen SS : D
Some divisions of the Waffen SS were undoubtedly elite formations. Others were simply cannon fodder. And then there were formations expressively created to operate behind the lines as security detachments only. I would also suggest that in general, SS officers often lacked the professionalism of their army counterparts.
KRINGSAT AF FJENDER.
Surrounded by enemies, enter your time. During a bloody storm, we call you to battle. Can happen you ask' in anxiety, uncovered, open: "What shall I fight with, what is my weapon?" Here is your shield from violence, here is your sword: The belief in our life, the worth of man. For the sake of all our futures. Seek it and cultivate it. Die if you must, but increase it and strengthen it. Silently goes the sliding band of grenades. Stop their drive to death. Resist them with spirit. War is contempt for life, peace is to create. Throw in your powers - evil must lose Man is noble, the earth is rich If there is hunger and want here, it is due to fraud. Yes, in the name of life the clock must fall. Sunshine and bread and spirit are owned by all. This is our promise from sister, to brother: We must become good towards the land of men. We will take care of the beauty, the warmth As if we were carrying a child carefully on our arm...
A universal message from Scandinavia. 1937..
'Waffen' is correctly pronounced 'Vuffen' in German.
German had the best looking military uniform,
In the Wehrmacht you need Abitur (highest school graduation) to became a professional officer. In the Waffen SS you only need a regular graduation.
If would have been much more efficient had they been part of the regular German army
Pronounce waffen correctly the W has a V sound in the German language.
Your mispronunciation calls into question everything else you said! AI strikes again!
Please Respect
I agree: if you are serious about your history, you should also be serious about pronounciation of some important names... Same for Guderian, which should sound like "goo-derian" ... not "giyu-derian" ...
The English AI voice is truly distracting (in a bad way), which will lead me to not view more of your productions...
Watch Europa: The Last Battle.
17 year olds . Good gracious .
Did the Waffen SS have a priority claim on new weapons? The regular army bitched and moaned, but what I see in your video is a trooper with a WWI Mauser 98 AZ rifle and a halftrack carrying an armored barrel MG34 that must have been salvaged from the coax position or the glacis mount of a disabled Panzer. Add that to the photos I have seen of Kettenhunden carrying obsolete Bergmann submachineguns and the proliferation of Beutewaffen in the hands of SS units and I simply don't buy it. Onkel Willie was in the 2nd SS Das Reich and Onkel Max was in the Leibstandart. I heard that in the East they were always forced to go begging...
Wah'fin lol
May I suggest that you reprogram your robot narrator’s pronunciation to accommodate German words.
It sounds like a Death Sentence to be sent to the SS regiments
My great great great grandpapy Rumpelstiltskin wrinkledforeskins was in the war and i wear his name proudly.
The W is pronouced as a V in english. So Waffen is like Vaffen.
yes I read a bk called the waffen-ss hitler's elite guard at war several yrs ago in some ways they were ahead of their time and as far as the battle field is concerned don't think they were much worse than the wehrmacht which committed its share of war crimes and atrocities⚛
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It would be nice if the computer voice could pronounce German words correcrly
*Who has a strong feeling towards transcendent values* feels that _«communism is intrinsically perverse»_ ( _Divini Redemptoris,_ n. 58): *such people went as volunteers to fight on the Eastern Front* from Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and other countries. *Under communism,* if the rulers don’t dislike you, they give you a job, a home, health care; if they don’t like you, they don’t give you such things: *who is willing to rule* doesn’t want economic justice. He *makes slavery for you!* If you protest ➞ _GULag!_
As Gen. George Patton said that they are the best the world has seen to date and they will probably never be equalled or the likes that good seen again anytime soon. Great day and good evening and I hope you have a great weekend.
Remember: the Soviet Red army beated shit out of these "best".
Doesn't best mean that it wins all campaigns?
Best? It was easy to machine-gun innocent civilians to death...
I am not very knowledgeable on the subject but one thing I did not realize is how few divisions there were of the Waffle SS.
Many of the Waffle SS came from Belgium.
@@Chiller11😂 I love the waffless with chocolate
@@Chiller11 Whoops! Waffen Whoops
@@PeasantNo.471 yup, I waffled the Waffen.
It's those Luftwaffle squadrons you gotta be careful of. Crumbs, butter, syrup all over the f'in walls in the carpet. Luftwaffles seem to show up about the same time as the Grandkids.
Apparently, the Waffen SS had an entire legions of Belgian volunteers.
Unfortunately, the legions were given the generic name "Walloon" and "Flemish" instead calling them DER WAFFLE SS
Contrary to popular opinion (and western media) it was NOT the SS who were the darlings of Nazi Germany, but the SA Brownshirts. The SA were considered to be the heart and soul of Nazism and were Hitler's original followers. Even after the 1934 Blood Purge they remained the Nazi favorite, and were given the task of acting as an "internal political fighting force" in addition to other duties. They were under Hitler's direct personal command and control. And just like the SS they had their own military division, the Feldernhalle Division. During WW2 the SA were even used to rein in the power of the SS, when SS leaders began to question Party policy (in eastern conquered areas). The SA guys were sent over to straighten them out----and they did ( see the Wikipedia article on the SA). Also class differences between the SS and SA should be noted. The SS were mainly from the upper economic class------sons of dentists or doctors or lawyers----while the SA were mainly working class. Hitler himself, like most diehard Nazis, was working/middle class. Revolutionaries usually are.
The way he pronounce "waffen" , it's suppose to sound "vaffen", not "waffles "
Japanese soldiers were far and away the most feared soldiers of ww2, not the SS.
The SS divisions varied widely in their combat effectiveness. There were a few that were very good. The 1st: Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler, 2nd: Das Reich & 3rd: Totenkopf we’re considered quite effective. The 5th: Wiking made up of recruits from the Nordic countries was also a good division. The 12th SS Panzer Division was made up of fanatical little shits from the Hitlerjugend. They murdered 150 Canadian POW’s in Normandy after having massacred 70 or so random French civilians in Ascq on they way to the front. They suffered 80% or so casualties by the end of the Normandy campaign. Other units like Dirlewanger and Sonderkommando were essentially ill disciplined criminal gangs.
were they on meth like so much of germany at the time? how did it affect their performance?
Thete all wee boys at 7.00 mins lambs to slaughter
This Commentator needs to learn how to pronounce these German names.
in the british army the paratroopers have something about them that attracts other units who are based in the same area because they just look badass and different and have a reputation as anelite unit, so to be in germany during that time and wishing to join the waffen ss should have been very attractive to kids who are really into everything and who arent just seeking to stay away from the fighting because they dont like the idea of dying for something they dont give a shit about maybe, the rebellious kids that is, so I think the german ss divisions were naturally filled with kids who wanted to be the coolest and thats why they were far better
No.1 curiousity : They were not elite, contrary to what a lot of german army fanboys will tell you.
my dad was 17 when he has to go to the waffen ss 14 days in a training camp then to prag 1945 most of the Waffen ss where running towards Germany because the red army was behind them .He surrvived cause he has no tatoo under his Arm there was no time so has no tatoo he said to me the ones in his Company which where older or longer in his Company some from 1939 where absolute killers cause they doesn`no nothing else at the End they gave their Wappons to the Us army which was in Bavaria the Us took them on a truck and drove them to the russians near the cecheslowkie Broder the Russians selected them those with the ss tatoo under the Arm where Killed imediatly and my Father served 14 days for Adolf .goes to POw in Russia after 2 Years he comes Home weight 47 kg and without Tooth 19 Years so if i was aksing him about the Waffen ss he said to me shut your stupid Mouth -for someone who was grown up in a democracy it was not to understand what Shit that was and he never talked about Hitler and also if he saw some Tatoos he was angry
Holding soldiers in reserve sounds silly . Germany could have won more battle's
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please verify how to pronounce "Leleu" next time
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Really very irritating listening to the pronunciation of Waffen using the W English . The W should be pronounced as a V sound.
Total cringe every time I hear UAFEN, in german W is pronounced as V like in "Jeffery Epstine Very much didn't kill himself", so its Vaffen, not Waffles SS
I had to bail out after 2 minutes. I just can't take this guy repeatedly mispronouncing "Waffen." He utterly beclowns himself.
menschenskinder! Waffen is pronounced 'vuffen' in German; how hard is that to say?!
No @#&§% respect for those @#&§% who made suffer so millions people including all the witness from my family!
in English?
What about ur descendants who did bad things ? No respect for them ?