I am not agree with this video. because every things has destroyed except those condoms after more than 50 years. I think it is one of thousands making fake video by the israel & their usa with western partners.
My grandfather fought in World War 2 and told me that he once put a condom on the barrel of his rifle to cross a river but then he took It off when he got to the other side, and all of his comrades were laughing at him. He said a French soldier gave him the idea, but other than him and that French soldier, he never really saw condoms used that way.
idk if it was really common or not. but i heard from my grandpa's friend basically the same thing and he said it was to keep the dirt or sand out of the barrels if they were going to be near water or mud.
@@MrEd8846 meanwhile communists in vietnam hide shoulder deep in the marsh an plop the AK out to fire a few rounds then fully submerge to reposition and fire again
@@sicsempertyrannis3782 Thanks to the people in power, and of course if no one fought the war, there would be no war. All wars are man's fault. Primarily those in power but we are all complicit; it takes two to tango.
@@CrocodileTear no they have just been spoon fed liberal/leftist bs their entire existence aka brainwashin. The Germans were not as evil as the russians, japaneese or chineese but because they are white, they get the brunt of the evil stigma. majority of people under 40 years of age has very little clue to factual history which is exactly the way leftists want it. .....................................................
@bastiat I sounds like your father is a war hero, and that your grandmother on the other hand, would need to be sent to a reeducation camp. Just kidding of course.
As a teenager I worked with a WW2 veteran; he was the brains, I was the hands. He would start telling stories about his wartime experiences in the afternoon as he got sleepy, and though I know he saw a lot of combat based on where he said he was and what I learned of the war studying later, he never talked about fighting besides complaining about old shrapnel still in him. ...On the other hand he had more stories about getting drunk and chasing women than any man I've ever known.
My neighbor was a WWII vet who did occupation duty in Japan. Since he was a trained draftsman he produced charts and graphs for a general to use at his weekly staff meetings. He told me one chart that he produced every week was the VD infection rate for the troops under the general's command. VD control was a serious concern for command and for a number of reasons. My neighbor told me that if the VD infection rate started to increase the junior officers would end up in hot water.
My Dad was an RMP (military policeman in the British army) who enlisted in 1945, and he told me that STD's as we call them today were considered a "self-inflicted wound" and the offender punished accordingly.
In the 70s the US Army could charge you with an Article 15 court martial for going on weekend leave and getting sunburned. Wilful Destruction of Government Property. (To be honest, it was never used that I knew about.)
@@tinkerstrade3553 we had a kid in ITB get charged for that on two accounts because he ate a piece of plastique explosive. So he was charged for harming himself and the C4
@@tinkerstrade3553 for sure. We had plenty of those. My staff sergeant told me about a guy in Bridgeport that was so cold he lit himself on fire with gasoline
Great common sense video that cuts through the typical BS. Well done. As a young US Army soldier stationed in Europe in the 1980s we were forced to take at least one condom whenever we signed out of the unit to go off post, and we wound up with way more than we could ever use in spite of our best efforts! Pretty often they got filled with water and thrown at each other like water balloons. As you stated, STDs were a serious problem and the mandatory condom issue was the Army's solution. Anyone that actually got an STD and went to the medics was also given an Article 15, fourteen days of restriction to the barracks and fourteen days of extra duty. Of course these dead German troops had condoms on them, that is the sign of an Army that is trying to maintain its fighting forces.
"Pretty often they got filled with water and thrown at each other like water balloons" So that is what all the commentators who said that condoms were also used for "storing water" meant ;)
I am puzzled that there is no sign of the protective wrapping for these condoms, or have I missed this? On the subject of various military forces using condoms to protect weapons, this is not likely on a general level, as too many would be ‘consumed’. On every cleaning, at least once a day, there would be a need to change the condom. But certainly condoms were carried for special use on occasions to carry water for emergency purposes, and for protecting electronics, but this could never explIn the large number carried by this German officer - poor chap. John A
My dad served as an infantryman in WWII in Europe. He joined the US Army in early 1942. He described to me how paranoid the Army was about VD. Condoms were handed out like cigarettes and most soldiers had them and used them for other things since, for the most part, they were unsuccessful with the girls. When he returned from WWII, when wearing his dress uniform, he would use them to blouse his trousers when wearing boots. While visiting his elderly Irish grandparents in Detroit, one of the condoms broke and went flying out into the middle of the living room. His Irish Catholic grandparents had no idea what it was! My dad quickly pocketed it and that was that.
My college roommate told me when he was a little kid that his family went to a diner near where I lived. He got up and went to use the men's room. He saw a vending machine in the bathroom and put a quarter in it and out came a condom. He didn't know what it was so he opened it and started playing with it. When he got back to their table his mother saw it and beat the crap out of him. His mother was very old fashioned and was from the old country back in Italy.
"Clearly the noble soldier who joined up for God, King, Country must have used these degenerate tools in their desperation TO KEEP THEIR RIFLE BARRELS DRY. Yes."
Excellent content as expected. Being a veteran myself, I met many young soldiers that got bitten by the VD bug. We had condoms by the care free for the taking, but it still happened. Makes perfect sense to try and reduce the number of soldiers going on sick call for VD during times of war.
The military HATES losing manpower to non-combat injury/illness. You're supposed to be healthy dealing death and/or receiving it. Let's be honest-the military's job is to destroy and kill, it's their job and a necessary evil in a world full of it.
It seems that for a change, youtube has censored the best comment of all, so I will rewrite it manualy. Democratic Totalitarian Societies: "Prostitutes who were spreading venereal diseases should be honored as War Heroes."
Did you know it was a common belief that most of the prostitutes in Saigon had a V.D./STD and we're working for the north Vietnamese government to infect U.S. troops.
@@majiktree9523 in my time in afganistan, Iraq and even Syria there wasn't a lot of talk about the locals having STDs it was mainly focused on not getting female service members pregnant.
Indeed, people tend to forget that the first country invaded by the Nazis, was Germany, and many people that grew during that time in Germany and Austria grew under the indoctrination of the party. Even if you did not agree with the party, you would still have to become part of the party if you wanted to keep your business if you were a shop or factory owner. Regardless of politics, soldiers are human, regardless of their side in a war they are not flawless.
For those of you that have never had the need to unroll one all the way. The manufactures name is written at the base. I was stationed in Korea. Three things you had to show the gate guard before leaving the camp on a pass. Your pass, your SOFA card, and three condoms.
When I was stationed in Germany we always 'got the talk' from our CO on Friday evening's final formation to 'wrap that little guy up' and he'd always blush saying it.
It's important to remember that in modern warfare a large proportion of soldiers never actually find themselves in combat -most are employed in transport and logistics, administrative roles, repair workshops, field hospitals, occupation forces and guard duties. Even those in the front line generally characterise their war as 95% boredom and 5% sheer bloody terror. In these circumstances it's hardly surprising that fit young men who have been trained to concert pitch, and then find themselves with nothing very demanding to do, are going to find alternative sources of excitement.
A deeply catholic Slovak General at the Russian front was extremely pissed his units recieved massive amounts of condoms when they were lacking basic gear. I think he wrote up the chain of command asking something like if they were supposed to use the condoms instead of raincoats.
interestingly my grandfather who fought in the Royal marines during WW2 and was part of a battle field tank recovery unit, mentioned that the issued Condoms were very useful for keeping cigarettes and matches dry especially during the D-Day landings... 🙂
My Aunt (by marriage) is a daughter of a German soldier who was stationed in the Champagne region of France. Her mother was treated quite badly after the war ended, but she managed to get away to England. We visit the village on a regular basis and have contact with the rest of the family who still live in France, although most of them have since passed away, and there is STILL bullshit spoken underhandedly, which is a shame, especially as my aunt never got to marry the man she loved due to the stigma of her mother.
I am here because my g.i. dad didn't use his when he came home on leave. I wish he had, I would be a little younger--oh, well, at this age what is a year or two.
In my opinion: That's not love. An honorable man will not pick a flower out of another man's garden without asking to do so. Love isn't exclusively between two emotionally sensitive people feeling the heat. What of the children? That's exactly why people should not have sexual play before the formality of legitimate marriage. If you'd want to throw your transgenerational family away for ever, then it wouldn't matter. Those who cast themselves out, will have to rebuild what the had, but they won't have much of any family again. If an attractive woman were to be naked in public of her own free will, she will always have an ugly man. That's just the way it is, was & will always be. In the now, then & end of all time.
@@_c_y_p_3they were heroes who were trying to defend Europe from a global financial institution that causes cultural degradation and debt servitude everywhere it thrives. They were trying to stop communism and the capitalist beast that is plundering the world today
@@CrocodileTear I called both my Uncles, one didn't answer but both served in Vietnam, one was in the Army but was stationed on a Hospital Ship and one was in the Air Force as a Radar Tech. The one Uncle I spoke to said there was a lot of girls and the girls always had condoms and so did the guys. He was also attached to a Ranger LRRP but not as a Ranger but in support of. He said basically he did all of the shit they didn't want to do. He said that's all the guys would talk about was going home, or leave, fucking and drinking. He said none of them talked about dying or getting killed. I asked about condoms and he said if you wanted to wear one, you could. They never used condoms on any of their weapons he said. He said he carried a "mini-14" with him and also a Tommy Gun until an Officer took it away. He carried a "blooper" but they didn't always have the ammo for it. Which I thought was surprising. He said there were a lot of WW2 weapons issued early in the war to all sides, from the US but also to the Vietcong by Russia and China. He said he saw German WW2 STG 44's as well as MG38's and 43's that the Russian's captured during WW2, warehoused and sent over to Vietnam in support of the North. So he knows a lot about weapons. He said he never seen or heard of anyone mentioning use of a condom to protect debris from getting into your weapon. He said that over there, you cleaned your weapon or you could die. The guys took it pretty serious. My Uncle is very old, in his 80's so I didn't keep him on the phone long. He did say in closing, "but I am sure there were a few jack-asses that did try and use a condom," He said the reason this wasn't done as it was not practical in that all those weapons had multiple entry points for debris to "jam" up the action. He said, "you can't wrap a condom around a fuckin' receiver." and as far as he knew, they don't make condoms big enough to fit over any issued weapons. He said little kids would run around the streets selling G.I. cigarettes and condoms. All of them did. He said there were so many hookers that you would never see the same one twice. He said the bar girls would say, "boom boom" ... haha. Pretty cool. "You want boom-boom?" I didn't ask him if he had messed with any of those hookers but he said he did have a girlfriend that was Thai and they dated for maybe 6 months until he changed posts. We talked for about 30 minutes. He did mention some names and that some other outfit were some of those guys did bring girls out the camps and got into some real trouble over that. One last thing I had never knew before. He said that Vietcong, when they were killed, the Family or Wife of the solider was given $125 dollars ( local currency ) or, one years salary and after that, nothing more.
@@all.day.day-dreamer Thanks for taking the time to tell us all this. I had to laugh when your uncle described no condoms being large enough to cover the whole weapon.
I'm really happy this video randomly showed up in my suggestions. I too had associated wartime condoms with r*pe, just like many other people. But you did a really good job dispelling that myth.
The condom on a rifle Is a Hollywood thing shown in old war movies where a beach landing is shown. I asked my father about it while watching an old war movie. He made several beach landings. He had no idea why they had shown them in the movies.
They were 100% used on gun barrels in the viet/american war. Stops corrosion of the inner barrell and you can shoot them off if you need to use your weapon. I cant comment about ww2 though. Im not sure if it was a common practice.
In England they were referred to as "Surgical Rubber". My Grandfather was career Royal Navy. My Father was born in 1937. At the time my straitlaced married Grandparents (and they always were to my observation) were not living together because he was a sea most of the time. Later on when my father was older, my grandfather used to joke with my father that he owed his existence to a failed "Surgical Rubber." So there is at least one case them being used legitimately for 'Family Planning', even if it didn't quite work.
Thank you very much for taking the time for the update. And I was very much surprised to learn that in some cases there were more cases of sexually transmitted diseases than actual combat deaths. That blew my mind! Thank you again and I thoroughly enjoy your video’s! You do excellent work! Frank from Philadelphia, PA.
@@lepersonnage371 ua-cam.com/video/6DKrFm6CGuE/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/eW1CzHe2KaY/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/g0Y_vr_GlT4/v-deo.html That's for the women. Men more often than not were shot, hanged, burned or beaten to death. With some notable exceptions.
@@lepersonnage371 in france im not sure about the rest of europe but women accused of sleeping with nazis would have their heads shaved and were publicly shamed after liberation
I don't know about WW2, Korea, or Viet Nam, but as I noted regarding the previous video mentioning condoms, my mobile training team placed condoms on the first two MK-19 Mod 3 40mm Grenade Machine Guns in the early 1980s (serial numbers 001 and 002, both manufactured at the Navy's Ordnance Station at Louisville) because there were no muzzle covers available. The Mod 2 did not have muzzle covers either (and we trained Marines in Division Schools, 2nd MARDIV, Camp LeJeune, on the Mod 2) but we did not think of the idea of using condoms as muzzle covers; we just made sure the weapons were always clean before training (because we didn't trust the young Marines to do the job when we were not around). The first time we used condoms as muzzle covers was at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, when we trained US Air Force security police who were training to defend ground launched cruise missiles in Europe from Soviet Airborne forces (who had armor like the PT-76; the 40mm High Explosive Dual Purpose round could penetrate four inches of rolled steel at zero degrees angle of deflection) and Spetznaz. My point is, I don't know if anyone used condoms before us for the purpose of keeping FOD out of a weapon, but we sure as hell did.
I remember my father telling me that during WWII he worked at the local factories here in town and he remembers getting off work and there were used rubbers all over the parking lots after shift change. They were not puritans but they like everyone else wanted some fun.
Thanks for the great video. De-bunking the condom on the rifle legend is almost like de-bunking the story that the sound of an M-1 clip being ejected would cause an enemy to charge.
While I was stationed at Chanute Air Force Base in the late 80’s there was a rash of births and the cause was traced back to defective condoms handed out by the base hospital.
While serving in my LRSD unit we always had non-lubricated condoms with us to use for many different possible needs. We didn't use them very often but we had them incase the need did arise. One use is that we could cover the barrel of our weapon in times where the barrel may be compromised by water, mud, dust, etc.. Also we would be able to use them to process, purify and carry water if needed. There are several other uses for these condoms besides anything sexual.
In some Wehrmacht units, the commanding officers gave the order that every soldier signing out for weekend pass had to carry a package of condoms, which had to be shown to the NCO in charge before being permitted to leave.
I'm quite shocked that condoms (presumably made of latex or a polymer of some kind) would actually survive in such a state for so long without decomposing.
I had the opportunity to meet a lady from Vietnam that had very beautiful blue eyes. Her father was an american soldier who was there during the Vietnam war.
In the military it was of utmost importance to maintain personal hygiene at all times. Soldiers were taught to ALWAYS wash thoroughly with soap and water BEFORE using their condom the second time. And most importantly of all, not to forget to wash their condom as well. Especially the third time, checking for wear and tear.
Very well and objectively presented content! German military authorities were indeed extremely worried about STDs. Initially, they called upon men to abstain from sexual relationships with local women. However, that - quelle surprise - didn't work out. During the first few months of the German occupation of France, for example, the number of cases of STDs among soldiers rose significantly due to frequent visits to brothels and contact with street prostitutes. There is a German online database where you have access to a huge collection of letters written by German soldiers during WW2 and these topics are definitely mentioned every now and then. In a letter to his wife, for example, a soldier reassures her that he will not go to a brothel (although it w o u l d interest him just to have 'a look around'). He tells her that his comrades go there frequently, though. To prevent a further rise in STDs among soldiers, German military authorities implemented the system of the so-called 'Wehrmachts-Bordelle' - brothels for members of the Wehrmacht only, supervised by German medical staff. Usually, they just commandeered existing brothels and ordered the prostitutes to have regular medical check-ups (there are cases, however, where women were forced into prostitution). Soldiers were registered and received an injection (I have no idea with what) after every visit. This system was implemented in all occupied countries apart from Denmark. There were about 500 Wehrmachts-Bordelle in total. The Wehrmacht commanders, who feared fraternization, also hoped it would prevent soldiers from having serious relationships with local girls (they hoped in vain). This system, however, was also heavily criticised by some officers, who considered it dishonourable and debauched and feared the young boys might become corrupted if their elder comrades took them along to the brothels. Condoms were distributed among soldiers as well as leaflets informing them about STDs. There is also a picture taken of a sign in a brothel in Brest which reads 'The use of condoms is mandatory for every soldier. Condoms are available for free'. As a means of punishment, a soldier who yet contracted an STD was not allowed to take any leave for a certain period of time.
Very interesting. This confirmed my reading of Japanese occupation as well. In the book "The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War" it was mentioned that the Japanese implemented the same armed-forces sanctioned brothels for their soldiers, with sex workers sourced from the Dutch prostitutes in Indonesia, Korean and Japanese brothels, and Chinese sex workers, and of course the local native populations. They were medically checked and (what I found most astonishing) is that they were paid regularly! It goes on to say that the so called "comfort women" were a modern invention put forth by the 90s feminists to demand "reparation money" from the Japanese government. Mind you, this book was written by Dutch and some Americans! Not by Japanese at all!
Zain. My friend. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. My neighbor was a survivor of the Japanese system of “COMFORT WOMAN”. She has passed away now, but I can tell you her story was harrowing. Her age 13yrs. 20 men a day.
The condom on rifle thing came from a movie called "The big red one"... Never heard anyone from WW2 who claimed to have done this including my father. (8th inf. 44-45)
Great informational dissertation. I served in more conventional times (Army '05 - '08 OIF/ GWOT), though it was brought up in Jungle/ Wet Climate and Condition training that a rubber can be used to cover the muzzle of the rifle, we usually just used some Electrical or 100mph tape. Not heard of many conventional forces actually using a rubber to protect their weapon (I believe Filipino forces utilize them at least in trianing, but that's just talk i've heard from a Marine).
@@sharonrigs7999 I live in the far north-midwest of the US, lots of snow here too over half the year, but I haven't had an issue with my firearms in the snow, have had snow in my barrel a couple times and it cleans right out, if it hardens up though say overnight when stowed outside, that could definitely be bad (of course you have to check it periodically). A Rubber or some Tape goes a long way for sure.
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary You are definitely no stranger to harsh winters! I live in NE Alberta. I also use the rubbers when hunting in muskeg, since its so easy to trip and fall. Im kinda paranoid about barrel obstructions after I ringed ( slight donut like bulge )the barrel of a 12ga with snow. Thankfully it was just a cheapo Norinco. The ring was about 1.5" from the muzzle, so I just trimmed it off
@@sharonrigs7999 Haha nope, I love Winter :) Oh wow, considering Shotshells are relatively low pressure that must've been a hell of an obstruction, glad you weren't hurt! Not a bad thing to be smart and mitigate the risk. Cheers from across the border!
My father was a war time surgeon and had to give medical exams to the local prostitutes and examine for venereal diseases. He was thrilled when given penicillin to treat them, then would witness their pimps outside the tent beat them up for getting the diseases. He felt guilty for helping them. I'm glad you made this video because people don't believe VDs were a huge problem. It wasn't a matter of good or bad behaviors, it was the fact many young men didn't want to die virgins. And yes, sometimes they were used to cover rifles.
I owned a Garand twenty years ago and the barrel was chrome lined. I'm not sure if it was a second world war era barrel or not. No need to worry about a little water.
I'm a product of WW2's legacy and the Vietnam War. WW2 left US troops billeted in West Germany, the Vietnam conflict caused my Dad to get drafted into the US Army but he lucked out getting sent to West Germany. (He was supposed to go to Vietnam as an artilleryman but last minute sent to West Germany 'because of a shortage of combat engineers'.) He fell in love 'with one of the local women' my mom. Incredibly enough my Dad was greeted by one of his high school classmates in the same unit the day he arrived in West Germany.
My brother in law's mother was a German post war bride...Interestingly, my late mother in law was an English post war bride. Her parents later divorced. Her mother married a German POW and her father married a German woman.
Similar story with my grandpa. He was actually set to go to Vietnam as he was enlisted since '65, but they sent him to Germany instead, where he met my grandmother working at a local pub. I still ask her to this day and she still can't remember how to say most stuff in German. She integrated very well, I'd say 😅.
My honest guess that the condom on a rifle is a silly joke (without proof that is). You have excellent videos and I look forward to more being posted. Keep up the good work!
I grew up around lots of WW2 veterans that were in my Dad's American Legion Post. Never heard them mention anything about using condoms over rifle muzzles. They were issued purely for 'action' of another sort. A pack of cigarettes would get you nearly any woman was one thing I was told as American cigarettes were highly prized and the soldiers had them issued for free-take as many as you can carry. They also served as a way of bartering with the locals in occupied territories as money would be nearly useless.
True, and a great deal of those French women wound up being ostracized head shaved and ran out of towns. French civilians kept track of the women that fraternized with the German soldier, the occupier
My Grandfather served during ww2 across various regions of conflict including Egypt, Burma, Borneo. Besides the obvious uses for condoms, they were also issued for some less obvious ones. Radio sets used valves, fragile glass enclosures with terminals that were prone to corrosion during operations particularly in humid environments. Sealing the entire valve packaging inside a condom and knotting it meant it could even survive swamp and river crossings without damage. In desert environments condoms were used to protect from sand/dust entry into both personal weapons and heavier armament and didn't require removal before firing. The issue condoms also served well for emergency containers for transporting 1 pint of water, without particular concern of bursting..being as they had the equivalent consistency of a bicycle inner tube.
When i metal detect, i find a lot of the old aluminum 3 Merry Widows condom containers,, never the condoms itself,, IM surprised the ground dont rot them out worse than they are!! Excellent video my friend!! Thanks!!
@@spiderreed350 what artifacts dug up just saying?? Are you talking about the aluminum three merry widows condom tins that were made after World War II?? which would make sense why you wouldn't find them??
Venereal Disease May have kept my Dad from becoming a casualty in WWII. He was in Boot Camp contemplating his future. Would he get a rifle and go to the Pacific or to Europe? Then he saw a notice on a Bulletin Board. Army needed people that had medical lab experience. Well, before getting drafted he had already completed two years of schooling in “Public Health”. Ended up in what was then called the “Sanitary Corps” and attached to a large General Hospital far behind the lines as a 2nd Lt . I never heard it mentioned by him why they had this urgent need for laboratory technicians. From what I read about a few years ago, I’ll bet it was to handle the epidemic of Venereal Disease occurring among US Army! Bad part is that he was stuck in Germany after VE Day to handle the crisis of Civilian, POW and Concentration Camp medical needs.
I was a teenager in the late 1950s and early ’60s and was very interested in military affairs and history. At the time I read many of the now-forgotten books written by veterans about their personal experiences in the wars. Although I no longer remember any other details, in one account the author mentioned using “prophylactics” to keep demolition materials dry. At the time it was a new word for me and without explaining where I ran across it, I asked my father, a European Theater veteran, what it meant. He told me it was a “chemical to keep women from having babies.” Although that didn’t make any sense in the context, I didn’t pursue the question. Much later I realized that the author had been referring to condoms. That word, however, wasn’t common at the time and it was another I never heard until years later. Added: But unless one were issued an “extra small” size, a condom would not provide any significant protection to a rifle barrel against being dragged through the mud or immersion in water because it wouldn’t seal tightly and would be dislodged by contact with virtually anything. They are also not very durable and would be broken easily if they were a tight fit. There are “gun condoms” marketed today, but they are much smaller than the real thing and evidently made of heavier material.
My uncle was a marine veteran in iwo Jima and he told me all the marines used condoms to keep sea water out of their rifles while they did amphibious landings. Also while on the beach condoms kept sand and debris out of the rifle but they were still completely usable even with a condom on the barrel. He told me he was shocked when they issued the entire battalion condoms, many even got excited thinking there were girls on the island then they found out the real reason prior to getting on the amphibious landing craft
When I served in the US Army in the 1980s, catching an STD was considered rendering yourself unfit for service, and it was prosecutable under Article 15 of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice).
Hey buddy, A really interesting video, with some very valid points. Personally, as an ex.RE soldier, I believe a few soldiers would of used condoms to cover their barrels, in WW2 but not most. This habit of a few, would naturally manifest itself to many over time, especially in damp or humid environments, like Vietnam. Moreover, I occasionly condoms to collect extra water, after I filled my NATO 1lt 58 pattern canister, when needed. Since most WW2 used aluminium or metal water bottles, which can get damaged, resulting in a hole or split - we could surmise that a condom could be used to 'line' the canteen, to prevent it leaking... Atb Gus👍
I had a friend in high school. His dad was a Vietnam vet. When he was came back from the war he was able to get his hands on some medical packs that were never used. He kept them for years. Until my friend got a hold of them. So out of his curiosity he open them up. He showed me everything that was in them. Not only was there condoms in there there was also methamphetamine in a pill form. We know it was methamphetamines because it was literally labeled that. Of course they were expired decades ago.
@@CrocodileTear you're right but they are the same. They use amphetamine in ritalin and adderall. It's the same difference as morphine and heroin. Both are opiates. As of methamphetamine and amphetamine. They are both stimulants. You're going to get the same effect.
I read of an English psy ops program that issued condoms to some commando special operations troops that were intended to sow seeds of amazement in the minds of German soldiers. The condoms when unrolled were upwards of 3 feet in length. The idea was to leave the condoms with unused gear that the Germans were bound to pick up and send back to HQ. It was one of many special programs that were conducted throughout the course of the war. I mentioned it to my neighbor, a retired Col in the US Army who was in such a branch of the Service and he too had heard of this program.
I've seen condoms on M16s once... a fragment of some movie I saw on TV. I was there, and never saw a condom placed on a weapon. Presumably it would be done to keep rain out of the action. All we did was sling the rifle muzzle down, and that only worked in lighter rains. In a monsoon the rifle would get flooded anyway since it's not waterproof.
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Always interested in your videos , honorable work you are doing ! Good job explaining this for the un-educated or the know it all clown's ! Keep up the good work ! 👌👍✔️
Contrary to popular belief raping civilian women was a capital offense in the German Armed Forces and German soldiers, if convicted were executed. After the war it was a common sentiment in France that compared to the Americans, the German soldiers gentlemen. They hated them for being German but they were comparitevly well behaved. well
American knuckle dragging barabarians raped over 40,000 women during their death and destruction rampage across Europe. Two books have been written on the subject. U.S. commanders told troops once freed from German occupation, women would be so grateful they'd want to thank American troops with sex. As for the French, I was on a tour bus to the Normandy Beaches. My brother, sitting on the other side of asile, across from me, being the typical American, as the French woman was explaining where we were and were going, he was sound asleep, and snoring. Which, of course, irritated her. So she said, 'I want the Americans on this bus to know not all French hated the Germans. Many of us thought they managed our country much better than our leaders'. I've seen film ofAmerican soldiers I manhandling French woman just trying to be friendly, congratulate them, and the women trying to get away with a angry look on their face. One thing I noticed in many photos of German troops in Paris just walking around sightseeing, outside in cafes, all were unarmed, relaxed. American soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc always armed to the teeth, looking like they want to kill someone.
there is another book - Soldaten. written by the German historians Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer. written on the basis of wiretapping of British intelligence installed in the camps for holding German prisoners of war. read, learn more about these "gentlemen"
_The commandant's office of Mecklenburg, Germany reported that in May 1945, 14 rapes and 104 cases of looting were recorded throughout the province, committed not only by Soviet soldiers, but also by local residents. Back in January 1945, Stalin issued an executrive order stating that the local population, regardless of nationality, should not be subjected to violence. For crimes of a sexual nature, Soviet soldiers were executed by marshall court. Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Rzheshevsky studied archival documents and found out that 4,100 officers and Red Army soldiers fell under the tribunal for crimes against Germans, Poles, Czechs civilians. Those accused of rape were often subjected to show executions._
_At the end of WW2, the imperial minister of propaganda, Josef Goebbels, addressed the Germans: “In the face of Soviet soldiers, we are dealing with steppe scums ... In some villages and cities, all women from 10 to 70 years old were subjected to countless rapes.” At the same time, the "mouthpiece of propaganda" of the Reich claimed that the enemy soldiers were committing violence on the orders of their command. The image of a rapist soldier was reinforced by colorful posters. US troops were presented to the Germans on propaganda posters in the form of blacks trying to rape blond German women. On April 30, 1945, a report was prepared for the Soviet command on the attitude of the German population towards the Russians. It said that, seeing our soldiers, the Germans raised their hands, cried and literally shook with horror but after being convinced that the Russians are not what Nazi propaganda painted them, they calmed down and agreed to cooperate._
_With the start of Hitler’s “war of annihilation” against the Soviet Union in June 1941, the scale of Einsatzgruppen mass murder operations vastly increased. The main targets were Communist Party and Soviet state officials, Roma, and Jews of any age or gender. Under the cover of war and using the pretext of military necessity, the Einsatzgruppen organized and helped to carry out the shooting of more than half a million people, the vast majority of them Jews, in the first nine months of the war. The 3,000 personnel of all four Einsatzgruppen did not conduct these killings alone. Units of the Waffen SS, Order Police, Wehrmacht, allied Romanian forces and local collaborators aided them. The latter helped to identify victims as well as kill them. Many of the killers and victims knew one another as neighbors and colleagues. For example, over two days in September 1941, a small detachment of Einsatzgruppe C along with larger units of Waffen SS, Order Police and Ukrainian auxiliaries conducted a mass shooting of Jews in Babi Yar, a ravine outside Kiev. According to reports sent to the Einsatzgruppen headquarters in Berlin, 33 771 Jews were massacred during this two-day period. When occupied territories came under civilian control, stationary offices of the SS and Police replaced the Einsatzgruppen and continued to conduct mass shootings._
I can confirm that the 'Black Cat' Cataliana flying boats had 50 Caliber machine guns in the nose, and the guns used to sit fairly low to the surface when landed on water and of course with wave action could ship some water into the barrels - which I need not explain is not good for guns if you actually want to use them again. So their solution was to roll Condoms over the barrels when landed on water. I can't find the story again, but I remember the guys at the shore base has some conjecture as to how lonely the flying boat men got on those long missions patrolling for shipping when they requested the box of Condoms. .
A survival article in Esquire said you can use condoms to carry water if you have no available canteen or such, but I 'd rather use it for its intended purpose.
They hold up to 5 litres. We used to carry one in our survival kits. We also carried a woman's tampon as they could be teased out and used with a flint and steel to start fires.
An excellent an informative episode as always. My grandfather said he used one as water bottle once as his canteen got shot up. I don't know if he ever used one in love though!
Well need for the condom for rifle is extremely rare and not for all units. There are other ways for water to go in barrel than barrel muzzle. Barrel is kept in gunoil to prevent moisture issues so there is no need to use condoms as pipe blockers.
Dad a desert rat told me they used condoms to reduce the sand getting down the barrel and rags round the breach. Apparently in the middle of the desert they were still issued and captured from the Italians so it was a case of use what you had. That said he was in the reme slightly to the rear fixing tanks and never fired his rifle. So much so his mate turned up on parade without his rifle as he had mislaid it.
A buddy of mine was in Desert Storm and he said they used condoms to keep sand out of the barrels of rifles. He also said they found that the Beretta M9 pistols had such tight tolerances that the sand would make them jam up so they brought out the old WWII Colt 1911 A1s.
By the way, US WW2 Veteran and director Sam Fuller had made a warmovie called "The Big Red One" (1980) starring Lee Marvin & Mark Hamill from his own experiences at the front. In the scene that squad lands on Omaha beach, we see that there are condoms on the barrels of the rifles. Perhaps this is how this myth was born. Hollywood often exaggerates things.
Or, it could have been, that Lee Marvin, himself a US Marine veteran of World War II, having made landings on Eniwetok and Saipan, told the director that when he was in the Marine Corps, they put condoms over the barrels of their rifles to keep seawater out for the simple reason that if you get water in the barrel of your rifle and then try to shoot your rifle, you could cause damage to the barrel of the rifle and even yourself. When I was in the USMC, this was hammered into my brain all the time when we did amphibious landings. We were issued dust covers to put over the end of the M16 to keep water out. Geez, doesn't any of the commenters who think that this is a Hollywood exaggeration use their brain for thinking that maybe this really isn't an exaggeration?
A little humor - my father broke his arm in airborne training. When convalescing he was taught to give injections to the injured. He was told by a doctor to give shots for VD with the largest needle - so it would hurt. "Maybe they will be more careful in the future" said the doctor. Can you imagine a one armed 19 year old coming at you with a syringe?
The only time I ever heard about condoms being used on rifle barrels was in the movie "The Big Red One", starring Lee Marvin. I do believe, however, that the author of the story wrote it as a sort of autobiography, so he may have experienced that during his time in WWII.
I just made part 2 of this video where I say the same thing: m.ua-cam.com/video/znzI8fmM4ps/v-deo.html I think it is a horrible movie. I didnt even manage to watch it till the end.
@@CrocodileTear WHAT? Yeah... the original release was kinda butchered in post production... but I have never heard anyone pan The Big Red One before. Great film. Find the extended Director's Cut. If you never made it to the end... you didn't get it. At all. Weird for a WW2 enthusiast of any kind. First place I ever heard of a Bangalor Torpedo.
@@bl4558 The extended cut? I dont want to torture myself to death. Seing evil Germans machine gunning each other and a sergeant who looked like he is 65 years old? Not my cup of tea. Young lions I think is a great war movie.
Plus it actually corresponds to what the video is about! It is not dishonnest click bait ;) There is also a part 2: ua-cam.com/video/znzI8fmM4ps/v-deo.html
Lots of the French woman regret there photos being taken because after the war lots of the woman were rounded up and teased,some had there hair shaved off in public and made fun of and worse.
German soldiers were issued condoms. A soldier who never used his issue might accumulate quite an inventory. US soldiers serving in the US were also issued condoms.
We in our military still carry condoms but not for what you think. Covering barrels in rain or river crossing. Can be stretched to use to tie bandages down. Improvised water carrier and a thousand other reasons. Any use today that a small (bungie) (streetchee) condoms can also be used.
Putting condom of the tip of your rifle is one more step when you need to take it off or if you start firing it simply going to melt to it. So I don't think that's the case
The reality is this - I asked an old German who had served in WW2, and ja, they had con-doms, and they used them if they got the chance, but they NEVER put 'em on the muzzles of their Mauser 98K rifles. The story of what happened to a young soldier with a white condom on his rifle's muzzle, which was spotted by the enemy at night, got around pretty fast and so it NEVER happened(or, not very often).
I am not agree with this video. because every things has destroyed except those condoms after more than 50 years.
I think it is one of thousands making fake video by the israel & their usa with western partners.
LOL
Inshallah
Diffrent materials, so ancient ruins don't exist bc something else ancient has rotted over the same time
Pin of shame
I am not agree with your logic.
My grandfather fought in World War 2 and told me that he once put a condom on the barrel of his rifle to cross a river but then he took It off when he got to the other side, and all of his comrades were laughing at him. He said a French soldier gave him the idea, but other than him and that French soldier, he never really saw condoms used that way.
Imagine being laughed at for something like that! Those men were serious but had full hearts. Bless them
Always thought it was for keeping dirt water etc out of gun barrel too tbh
idk if it was really common or not. but i heard from my grandpa's friend basically the same thing and he said it was to keep the dirt or sand out of the barrels if they were going to be near water or mud.
@@MrEd8846 meanwhile communists in vietnam hide shoulder deep in the marsh an plop the AK out to fire a few rounds then fully submerge to reposition and fire again
That's clever.
I remember asking one of my grandfathers who fought against the Germans in ww2 what were the Germans like, he said just "just like us son"
The youtubers born 60 years after the war know better than your grandfather what the Germans were like.... or so they think.
@@sicsempertyrannis3782 Thanks to the people in power, and of course if no one fought the war, there would be no war. All wars are man's fault. Primarily those in power but we are all complicit; it takes two to tango.
@@CrocodileTear no they have just been spoon fed liberal/leftist bs their entire existence aka brainwashin. The Germans were not as evil as the russians, japaneese or chineese but because they are white, they get the brunt of the evil stigma. majority of people under 40 years of age has very little clue to factual history which is exactly the way leftists want it. .....................................................
@bastiat I sounds like your father is a war hero, and that your grandmother on the other hand, would need to be sent to a reeducation camp.
Just kidding of course.
@@1dueceon9er The ones who think they have the cleaner brain are usualy the ones who have suffered a more intensive brainwash.
As a teenager I worked with a WW2 veteran; he was the brains, I was the hands. He would start telling stories about his wartime experiences in the afternoon as he got sleepy, and though I know he saw a lot of combat based on where he said he was and what I learned of the war studying later, he never talked about fighting besides complaining about old shrapnel still in him.
...On the other hand he had more stories about getting drunk and chasing women than any man I've ever known.
What job did u do with him?
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It’s nice to know that it wasn’t all pain and suffering and terror.
My neighbor was a WWII vet who did occupation duty in Japan. Since he was a trained draftsman he produced charts and graphs for a general to use at his weekly staff meetings. He told me one chart that he produced every week was the VD infection rate for the troops under the general's command. VD control was a serious concern for command and for a number of reasons. My neighbor told me that if the VD infection rate started to increase the junior officers would end up in hot water.
My Dad was an RMP (military policeman in the British army) who enlisted in 1945, and he told me that STD's as we call them today were considered a "self-inflicted wound" and the offender punished accordingly.
In the 70s the US Army could charge you with an Article 15 court martial for going on weekend leave and getting sunburned. Wilful Destruction of Government Property. (To be honest, it was never used that I knew about.)
@@tinkerstrade3553 My oldest brother was court marshaled for attempted "self deletion". 😥
@@tinkerstrade3553 we had a kid in ITB get charged for that on two accounts because he ate a piece of plastique explosive. So he was charged for harming himself and the C4
@@user-kv5lq9xm8c Seems like somebody looking for a section 13. ("Crazy Papers Discharge.")
@@tinkerstrade3553 for sure. We had plenty of those. My staff sergeant told me about a guy in Bridgeport that was so cold he lit himself on fire with gasoline
Great common sense video that cuts through the typical BS. Well done. As a young US Army soldier stationed in Europe in the 1980s we were forced to take at least one condom whenever we signed out of the unit to go off post, and we wound up with way more than we could ever use in spite of our best efforts! Pretty often they got filled with water and thrown at each other like water balloons. As you stated, STDs were a serious problem and the mandatory condom issue was the Army's solution. Anyone that actually got an STD and went to the medics was also given an Article 15, fourteen days of restriction to the barracks and fourteen days of extra duty. Of course these dead German troops had condoms on them, that is the sign of an Army that is trying to maintain its fighting forces.
"Pretty often they got filled with water and thrown at each other like water balloons"
So that is what all the commentators who said that condoms were also used for "storing water" meant ;)
Thank you for this interesting insight and the professional explanation without any ignorant and unscientific leftist nonsense.
@@rb3058 He just couldn't get laid. You can't either.
@@CrocodileTear did you use the condoms after you found them?
I am puzzled that there is no sign of the protective wrapping for these condoms, or have I missed this? On the subject of various military forces using condoms to protect weapons, this is not likely on a general level, as too many would be ‘consumed’. On every cleaning, at least once a day, there would be a need to change the condom. But certainly condoms were carried for special use on occasions to carry water for emergency purposes, and for protecting electronics, but this could never explIn the large number carried by this German officer - poor chap. John A
My dad served as an infantryman in WWII in Europe. He joined the US Army in early 1942. He described to me how paranoid the Army was about VD. Condoms were handed out like cigarettes and most soldiers had them and used them for other things since, for the most part, they were unsuccessful with the girls. When he returned from WWII, when wearing his dress uniform, he would use them to blouse his trousers when wearing boots. While visiting his elderly Irish grandparents in Detroit, one of the condoms broke and went flying out into the middle of the living room. His Irish Catholic grandparents had no idea what it was! My dad quickly pocketed it and that was that.
Thanks for sharing that story 😄
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aaahahahhaha.
thank you for this post👍
Thanks for that wonderful anecdote.
And more thanks because I now know what it means to blouse your pants :)
My college roommate told me when he was a little kid that his family went to a diner near where I lived. He got up and went to use the men's room. He saw a vending machine in the bathroom and put a quarter in it and out came a condom. He didn't know what it was so he opened it and started playing with it. When he got back to their table his mother saw it and beat the crap out of him. His mother was very old fashioned and was from the old country back in Italy.
"Clearly the noble soldier who joined up for God, King, Country must have used these degenerate tools in their desperation TO KEEP THEIR RIFLE BARRELS DRY. Yes."
Why is a condom a degenerate tool?
Exactly
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"Degenerate tools" yeah ok buddy
Excellent content as expected. Being a veteran myself, I met many young soldiers that got bitten by the VD bug. We had condoms by the care free for the taking, but it still happened. Makes perfect sense to try and reduce the number of soldiers going on sick call for VD during times of war.
The military HATES losing manpower to non-combat injury/illness. You're supposed to be healthy dealing death and/or receiving it. Let's be honest-the military's job is to destroy and kill, it's their job and a necessary evil in a world full of it.
The syph also poisons your ready to go blood/plasma pool
Thanks for youre effort
It seems that for a change, youtube has censored the best comment of all, so I will rewrite it manualy.
Democratic Totalitarian Societies:
"Prostitutes who were spreading venereal diseases should be honored as War Heroes."
Those people who think this, are the same who are TOTALLY with what is going on in Ukraine and with all those STUPID WARS even in 2023…..
Did you know it was a common belief that most of the prostitutes in Saigon had a V.D./STD and we're working for the north Vietnamese government to infect U.S. troops.
as well in Vietnam war... Syria, Lybia, Iraq, Afghan....
@@majiktree9523 in my time in afganistan, Iraq and even Syria there wasn't a lot of talk about the locals having STDs it was mainly focused on not getting female service members pregnant.
The US Govt is a hero for putting HIV in the Hepatitis B vaccine that it targeted the gay community with.
There, see how that works?
I appreciate how you humanized the German soldiers.. we tend to paint them as villains, but in reality they are just soldiers.
Shut up nazi
No ,they’re the villains
Indeed, people tend to forget that the first country invaded by the Nazis, was Germany, and many people that grew during that time in Germany and Austria grew under the indoctrination of the party. Even if you did not agree with the party, you would still have to become part of the party if you wanted to keep your business if you were a shop or factory owner. Regardless of politics, soldiers are human, regardless of their side in a war they are not flawless.
A very interesting book, The myth of German Villainy by Benton Bradberry. An excellent read to hear the rest of the story.
@@benamram9978 not all of them, some of them we’re probably on the wrong side of history
For those of you that have never had the need to unroll one all the way. The manufactures name is written at the base. I was stationed in Korea. Three things you had to show the gate guard before leaving the camp on a pass. Your pass, your SOFA card, and three condoms.
When I was stationed in Germany we always 'got the talk' from our CO on Friday evening's final formation to 'wrap that little guy up' and he'd always blush saying it.
Yiu just roasted someone who is probably 90 year old lmao
tf is this
Saved you from 300 sexually transmitted diseases!! Those 3 condoms
@@Skadi.- its a joke talking about your small penis. With some education.
It's important to remember that in modern warfare a large proportion of soldiers never actually find themselves in combat -most are employed in transport and logistics, administrative roles, repair workshops, field hospitals, occupation forces and guard duties. Even those in the front line generally characterise their war as 95% boredom and 5% sheer bloody terror. In these circumstances it's hardly surprising that fit young men who have been trained to concert pitch, and then find themselves with nothing very demanding to do, are going to find alternative sources of excitement.
Exctly, too many people think a soldier's average war is like an unending opening scene of Saving Pvt Ryan
A deeply catholic Slovak General at the Russian front was extremely pissed his units recieved massive amounts of condoms when they were lacking basic gear. I think he wrote up the chain of command asking something like if they were supposed to use the condoms instead of raincoats.
Don't even need to be religious to see that that man qas right
The pun here writes itself
interestingly my grandfather who fought in the Royal marines during WW2 and was part of a battle field tank recovery unit, mentioned that the issued Condoms were very useful for keeping cigarettes and matches dry especially during the D-Day landings... 🙂
Interesting tip, thanks for sharing 😂
Haha
My Aunt (by marriage) is a daughter of a German soldier who was stationed in the Champagne region of France. Her mother was treated quite badly after the war ended, but she managed to get away to England. We visit the village on a regular basis and have contact with the rest of the family who still live in France, although most of them have since passed away, and there is STILL bullshit spoken underhandedly, which is a shame, especially as my aunt never got to marry the man she loved due to the stigma of her mother.
I am here because my g.i. dad didn't use his when he came home on leave. I wish he had, I would be a little younger--oh, well, at this age what is a year or two.
In my opinion: That's not love. An honorable man will not pick a flower out of another man's garden without asking to do so. Love isn't exclusively between two emotionally sensitive people feeling the heat. What of the children?
That's exactly why people should not have sexual play before the formality of legitimate marriage. If you'd want to throw your transgenerational family away for ever, then it wouldn't matter. Those who cast themselves out, will have to rebuild what the had, but they won't have much of any family again.
If an attractive woman were to be naked in public of her own free will, she will always have an ugly man.
That's just the way it is, was & will always be. In the now, then & end of all time.
@@opinionsvary It's just my opinion but are you a bit bonkers 😂
Well Nazis are not so popular, maybe you don’t understand why.
@@_c_y_p_3they were heroes who were trying to defend Europe from a global financial institution that causes cultural degradation and debt servitude everywhere it thrives. They were trying to stop communism and the capitalist beast that is plundering the world today
3 years in Viet Nam, never saw a condom used on an M-16. We did have plastic caps that were rarely used. I think it was an availability problem.
Thanks for saying that. Everybody is speaking about this but not showing any proof.
@@CrocodileTear I called both my Uncles, one didn't answer but both served in Vietnam, one was in the Army but was stationed on a Hospital Ship and one was in the Air Force as a Radar Tech. The one Uncle I spoke to said there was a lot of girls and the girls always had condoms and so did the guys. He was also attached to a Ranger LRRP but not as a Ranger but in support of. He said basically he did all of the shit they didn't want to do. He said that's all the guys would talk about was going home, or leave, fucking and drinking. He said none of them talked about dying or getting killed. I asked about condoms and he said if you wanted to wear one, you could. They never used condoms on any of their weapons he said. He said he carried a "mini-14" with him and also a Tommy Gun until an Officer took it away. He carried a "blooper" but they didn't always have the ammo for it. Which I thought was surprising. He said there were a lot of WW2 weapons issued early in the war to all sides, from the US but also to the Vietcong by Russia and China. He said he saw German WW2 STG 44's as well as MG38's and 43's that the Russian's captured during WW2, warehoused and sent over to Vietnam in support of the North. So he knows a lot about weapons. He said he never seen or heard of anyone mentioning use of a condom to protect debris from getting into your weapon. He said that over there, you cleaned your weapon or you could die. The guys took it pretty serious. My Uncle is very old, in his 80's so I didn't keep him on the phone long. He did say in closing, "but I am sure there were a few jack-asses that did try and use a condom," He said the reason this wasn't done as it was not practical in that all those weapons had multiple entry points for debris to "jam" up the action. He said, "you can't wrap a condom around a fuckin' receiver." and as far as he knew, they don't make condoms big enough to fit over any issued weapons. He said little kids would run around the streets selling G.I. cigarettes and condoms. All of them did. He said there were so many hookers that you would never see the same one twice. He said the bar girls would say, "boom boom" ... haha. Pretty cool. "You want boom-boom?" I didn't ask him if he had messed with any of those hookers but he said he did have a girlfriend that was Thai and they dated for maybe 6 months until he changed posts. We talked for about 30 minutes. He did mention some names and that some other outfit were some of those guys did bring girls out the camps and got into some real trouble over that. One last thing I had never knew before. He said that Vietcong, when they were killed, the Family or Wife of the solider was given $125 dollars ( local currency ) or, one years salary and after that, nothing more.
@@all.day.day-dreamer Thanks for taking the time to tell us all this. I had to laugh when your uncle described no condoms being large enough to cover the whole weapon.
@@all.day.day-dreamer MG-34 and MG-42*
You are guilty of the Vietnamese people. You are the demons
I never expected ... in my life time .. to have a Master Class on Condom use during World War 2. Thank you.
I'm really happy this video randomly showed up in my suggestions. I too had associated wartime condoms with r*pe, just like many other people. But you did a really good job dispelling that myth.
The condom on a rifle Is a Hollywood thing shown in old war movies where a beach landing is shown. I asked my father about it while watching an old war movie. He made several beach landings. He had no idea why they had shown them in the movies.
They were 100% used on gun barrels in the viet/american war. Stops corrosion of the inner barrell and you can shoot them off if you need to use your weapon. I cant comment about ww2 though. Im not sure if it was a common practice.
In England they were referred to as "Surgical Rubber". My Grandfather was career Royal Navy. My Father was born in 1937. At the time my straitlaced married Grandparents (and they always were to my observation) were not living together because he was a sea most of the time. Later on when my father was older, my grandfather used to joke with my father that he owed his existence to a failed "Surgical Rubber." So there is at least one case them being used legitimately for 'Family Planning', even if it didn't quite work.
Thank you very much for taking the time for the update. And I was very much surprised to learn that in some cases there were more cases of sexually transmitted diseases than actual combat deaths. That blew my mind! Thank you again and I thoroughly enjoy your video’s! You do excellent work! Frank from Philadelphia, PA.
Blew your mind?, no fun intended I hope?
And back then we’re 2 sexually transmitted diseases, now 300 !!
Some soldiers thought it was better to get sick with a venereal disease than die on the battlefield.
They women with the German soldiers look much prettier before they got their heads shaved
What they get for want to survive
what do you mean shaved heads, where did they have shaved heads
@@lepersonnage371 Bas en france les femmes qui ont couché avec l'ennemi, donc des collabo, ont eu la tete rasé à la fin de la guerre.
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That's for the women. Men more often than not were shot, hanged, burned or beaten to death. With some notable exceptions.
@@lepersonnage371 in france im not sure about the rest of europe but women accused of sleeping with nazis would have their heads shaved and were publicly shamed after liberation
I don't know about WW2, Korea, or Viet Nam, but as I noted regarding the previous video mentioning condoms, my mobile training team placed condoms on the first two MK-19 Mod 3 40mm Grenade Machine Guns in the early 1980s (serial numbers 001 and 002, both manufactured at the Navy's Ordnance Station at Louisville) because there were no muzzle covers available. The Mod 2 did not have muzzle covers either (and we trained Marines in Division Schools, 2nd MARDIV, Camp LeJeune, on the Mod 2) but we did not think of the idea of using condoms as muzzle covers; we just made sure the weapons were always clean before training (because we didn't trust the young Marines to do the job when we were not around). The first time we used condoms as muzzle covers was at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, when we trained US Air Force security police who were training to defend ground launched cruise missiles in Europe from Soviet Airborne forces (who had armor like the PT-76; the 40mm High Explosive Dual Purpose round could penetrate four inches of rolled steel at zero degrees angle of deflection) and Spetznaz. My point is, I don't know if anyone used condoms before us for the purpose of keeping FOD out of a weapon, but we sure as hell did.
I remember my father telling me that during WWII he worked at the local factories here in town and he remembers getting off work and there were used rubbers all over the parking lots after shift change. They were not puritans but they like everyone else wanted some fun.
Yeah, he sure remembered getting off...
People are so stupid.
Servicing wives whose husbands where off fighting for their country
@@BBWahoo He never said, I never asked.
Thanks for the great video.
De-bunking the condom on the rifle legend is almost like de-bunking the story that the sound of an M-1 clip being ejected would cause an enemy to charge.
Rifles need love too
While I was stationed at Chanute Air Force Base in the late 80’s there was a rash of births and the cause was traced back to defective condoms handed out by the base hospital.
Haha. Probably a conspiracy to increase birth rates.
While serving in my LRSD unit we always had non-lubricated condoms with us to use for many different possible needs.
We didn't use them very often but we had them incase the need did arise.
One use is that we could cover the barrel of our weapon in times where the barrel may be compromised by water, mud, dust, etc..
Also we would be able to use them to process, purify and carry water if needed.
There are several other uses for these condoms besides anything sexual.
In some Wehrmacht units, the commanding officers gave the order that every soldier signing out for weekend pass had to carry a package of condoms, which had to be shown to the NCO in charge before being permitted to leave.
I'm quite shocked that condoms (presumably made of latex or a polymer of some kind) would actually survive in such a state for so long without decomposing.
One of my favorite comments was "They seen a lot of action, but they ready for more"
Depends on what kind of polymer, some can last 300-500 years
Why would you be shocked? isn't it a well known problem with polymers how indestructible many are so our trash ends up everywhere.
I had the opportunity to meet a lady from Vietnam that had very beautiful blue eyes. Her father was an american soldier who was there during the Vietnam war.
In the military it was of utmost importance to maintain personal hygiene at all times. Soldiers were taught to ALWAYS wash thoroughly with soap and water BEFORE using their condom the second time. And most importantly of all, not to forget to wash their condom as well. Especially the third time, checking for wear and tear.
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Very well and objectively presented content! German military authorities were indeed extremely worried about STDs. Initially, they called upon men to abstain from sexual relationships with local women. However, that - quelle surprise - didn't work out. During the first few months of the German occupation of France, for example, the number of cases of STDs among soldiers rose significantly due to frequent visits to brothels and contact with street prostitutes.
There is a German online database where you have access to a huge collection of letters written by German soldiers during WW2 and these topics are definitely mentioned every now and then. In a letter to his wife, for example, a soldier reassures her that he will not go to a brothel (although it w o u l d interest him just to have 'a look around'). He tells her that his comrades go there frequently, though.
To prevent a further rise in STDs among soldiers, German military authorities implemented the system of the so-called 'Wehrmachts-Bordelle' - brothels for members of the Wehrmacht only, supervised by German medical staff. Usually, they just commandeered existing brothels and ordered the prostitutes to have regular medical check-ups (there are cases, however, where women were forced into prostitution). Soldiers were registered and received an injection (I have no idea with what) after every visit. This system was implemented in all occupied countries apart from Denmark. There were about 500 Wehrmachts-Bordelle in total. The Wehrmacht commanders, who feared fraternization, also hoped it would prevent soldiers from having serious relationships with local girls (they hoped in vain). This system, however, was also heavily criticised by some officers, who considered it dishonourable and debauched and feared the young boys might become corrupted if their elder comrades took them along to the brothels.
Condoms were distributed among soldiers as well as leaflets informing them about STDs. There is also a picture taken of a sign in a brothel in Brest which reads 'The use of condoms is mandatory for every soldier. Condoms are available for free'. As a means of punishment, a soldier who yet contracted an STD was not allowed to take any leave for a certain period of time.
Thanks for taking the time to post all this information
Very interesting. This confirmed my reading of Japanese occupation as well. In the book "The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War" it was mentioned that the Japanese implemented the same armed-forces sanctioned brothels for their soldiers, with sex workers sourced from the Dutch prostitutes in Indonesia, Korean and Japanese brothels, and Chinese sex workers, and of course the local native populations. They were medically checked and (what I found most astonishing) is that they were paid regularly! It goes on to say that the so called "comfort women" were a modern invention put forth by the 90s feminists to demand "reparation money" from the Japanese government.
Mind you, this book was written by Dutch and some Americans! Not by Japanese at all!
Zain. My friend. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. My neighbor was a survivor of the Japanese system of “COMFORT WOMAN”. She has passed away now, but I can tell you her story was harrowing. Her age 13yrs. 20 men a day.
@@zainabe9503stupid!
The condom on rifle thing came from a movie called "The big red one"... Never heard anyone from WW2 who claimed to have done this including my father. (8th inf. 44-45)
I just made part 2 where I say the same thing: m.ua-cam.com/video/znzI8fmM4ps/v-deo.html
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excellent assessment, clear and to-the-point
Great informational dissertation.
I served in more conventional times (Army '05 - '08 OIF/ GWOT), though it was brought up in Jungle/ Wet Climate and Condition training that a rubber can be used to cover the muzzle of the rifle, we usually just used some Electrical or 100mph tape. Not heard of many conventional forces actually using a rubber to protect their weapon (I believe Filipino forces utilize them at least in trianing, but that's just talk i've heard from a Marine).
I use rubbers on my muzzle when hunting in deep, dense snow where a barrel obstruction could ruin your day
@@sharonrigs7999 I live in the far north-midwest of the US, lots of snow here too over half the year, but I haven't had an issue with my firearms in the snow, have had snow in my barrel a couple times and it cleans right out, if it hardens up though say overnight when stowed outside, that could definitely be bad (of course you have to check it periodically). A Rubber or some Tape goes a long way for sure.
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary You are definitely no stranger to harsh winters! I live in NE Alberta. I also use the rubbers when hunting in muskeg, since its so easy to trip and fall.
Im kinda paranoid about barrel obstructions after I ringed ( slight donut like bulge )the barrel of a 12ga with snow.
Thankfully it was just a cheapo Norinco. The ring was about 1.5" from the muzzle, so I just trimmed it off
@@sharonrigs7999 Haha nope, I love Winter :)
Oh wow, considering Shotshells are relatively low pressure that must've been a hell of an obstruction, glad you weren't hurt! Not a bad thing to be smart and mitigate the risk.
Cheers from across the border!
My father was a war time surgeon and had to give medical exams to the local prostitutes and examine for venereal diseases. He was thrilled when given penicillin to treat them, then would witness their pimps outside the tent beat them up for getting the diseases. He felt guilty for helping them. I'm glad you made this video because people don't believe VDs were a huge problem. It wasn't a matter of good or bad behaviors, it was the fact many young men didn't want to die virgins. And yes, sometimes they were used to cover rifles.
I owned a Garand twenty years ago and the barrel was chrome lined. I'm not sure if it was a second world war era barrel or not. No need to worry about a little water.
I'm a product of WW2's legacy and the Vietnam War. WW2 left US troops billeted in West Germany, the Vietnam conflict caused my Dad to get drafted into the US Army but he lucked out getting sent to West Germany. (He was supposed to go to Vietnam as an artilleryman but last minute sent to West Germany 'because of a shortage of combat engineers'.) He fell in love 'with one of the local women' my mom. Incredibly enough my Dad was greeted by one of his high school classmates in the same unit the day he arrived in West Germany.
My brother in law's mother was a German post war bride...Interestingly, my late mother in law was an English post war bride. Her parents later divorced. Her mother married a German POW and her father married a German woman.
Similar story with my grandpa. He was actually set to go to Vietnam as he was enlisted since '65, but they sent him to Germany instead, where he met my grandmother working at a local pub. I still ask her to this day and she still can't remember how to say most stuff in German. She integrated very well, I'd say 😅.
My honest guess that the condom on a rifle is a silly joke (without proof that is). You have excellent videos and I look forward to more being posted. Keep up the good work!
I grew up around lots of WW2 veterans that were in my Dad's American Legion Post. Never heard them mention anything about using condoms over rifle muzzles. They were issued purely for 'action' of another sort. A pack of cigarettes would get you nearly any woman was one thing I was told as American cigarettes were highly prized and the soldiers had them issued for free-take as many as you can carry. They also served as a way of bartering with the locals in occupied territories as money would be nearly useless.
True, and a great deal of those French women wound up being ostracized head shaved and ran out of towns. French civilians kept track of the women that fraternized with the German soldier, the occupier
Well they didn't defend their country! So plenty of time to feel guilty!!
My Grandfather served during ww2 across various regions of conflict including Egypt, Burma, Borneo. Besides the obvious uses for condoms, they were also issued for some less obvious ones. Radio sets used valves, fragile glass enclosures with terminals that were prone to corrosion during operations particularly in humid environments. Sealing the entire valve packaging inside a condom and knotting it meant it could even survive swamp and river crossings without damage. In desert environments condoms were used to protect from sand/dust entry into both personal weapons and heavier armament and didn't require removal before firing. The issue condoms also served well for emergency containers for transporting 1 pint of water, without particular concern of bursting..being as they had the equivalent consistency of a bicycle inner tube.
When i metal detect, i find a lot of the old aluminum 3 Merry Widows condom containers,, never the condoms itself,, IM surprised the ground dont rot them out worse than they are!! Excellent video my friend!! Thanks!!
I've watched many hours of WW2 metal detecting for artifacts and I've never seen any of those containers dug up,just saying.
@@spiderreed350 what artifacts dug up just saying?? Are you talking about the aluminum three merry widows condom tins that were made after World War II?? which would make sense why you wouldn't find them??
Good work. But please don't pick it up with your bare hands. You might get an infection due to the bacteria.
LOL right? they had the whole lot on their hat like they were planning to start trading them.
Know you got a lot going on your side of the world but would love to see more fascinating content like this!
I have some more planned for the next months ;)
Venereal Disease May have kept my Dad from becoming a casualty in WWII.
He was in Boot Camp contemplating his future. Would he get a rifle and go to the Pacific or to Europe? Then he saw a notice on a Bulletin Board. Army needed people that had medical lab experience. Well, before getting drafted he had already completed two years of schooling in “Public Health”. Ended up in what was then called the “Sanitary Corps” and attached to a large General Hospital far behind the lines as a 2nd Lt . I never heard it mentioned by him why they had this urgent need for laboratory technicians. From what I read about a few years ago, I’ll bet it was to handle the epidemic of Venereal Disease occurring among US Army! Bad part is that he was stuck in Germany after VE Day to handle the crisis of Civilian, POW and Concentration Camp medical needs.
very factual and precise. thank you
Excellent coverage - truth matters!
I had utmost disdain for grave robbers. But grave rubbers bring up a whole new level.
I was a teenager in the late 1950s and early ’60s and was very interested in military affairs and history. At the time I read many of the now-forgotten books written by veterans about their personal experiences in the wars. Although I no longer remember any other details, in one account the author mentioned using “prophylactics” to keep demolition materials dry. At the time it was a new word for me and without explaining where I ran across it, I asked my father, a European Theater veteran, what it meant. He told me it was a “chemical to keep women from having babies.” Although that didn’t make any sense in the context, I didn’t pursue the question. Much later I realized that the author had been referring to condoms. That word, however, wasn’t common at the time and it was another I never heard until years later.
Added: But unless one were issued an “extra small” size, a condom would not provide any significant protection to a rifle barrel against being dragged through the mud or immersion in water because it wouldn’t seal tightly and would be dislodged by contact with virtually anything. They are also not very durable and would be broken easily if they were a tight fit. There are “gun condoms” marketed today, but they are much smaller than the real thing and evidently made of heavier material.
Take a look at part 2 of this video as well m.ua-cam.com/video/znzI8fmM4ps/v-deo.html
My uncle was a marine veteran in iwo Jima and he told me all the marines used condoms to keep sea water out of their rifles while they did amphibious landings. Also while on the beach condoms kept sand and debris out of the rifle but they were still completely usable even with a condom on the barrel. He told me he was shocked when they issued the entire battalion condoms, many even got excited thinking there were girls on the island then they found out the real reason prior to getting on the amphibious landing craft
Please watch part 2 I just put online tonight m.ua-cam.com/video/znzI8fmM4ps/v-deo.html
When I served in the US Army in the 1980s, catching an STD was considered rendering yourself unfit for service, and it was prosecutable under Article 15 of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice).
Hey buddy,
A really interesting video, with some very valid points.
Personally, as an ex.RE soldier, I believe a few soldiers would of used condoms to cover their barrels, in WW2 but not most.
This habit of a few, would naturally manifest itself to many over time, especially in damp or humid environments, like Vietnam.
Moreover, I occasionly condoms to collect extra water, after I filled my NATO 1lt 58 pattern canister, when needed.
Since most WW2 used aluminium or metal water bottles, which can get damaged, resulting in a hole or split - we could surmise that a condom could be used to 'line' the canteen, to prevent it leaking...
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I had a friend in high school. His dad was a Vietnam vet. When he was came back from the war he was able to get his hands on some medical packs that were never used. He kept them for years. Until my friend got a hold of them. So out of his curiosity he open them up. He showed me everything that was in them. Not only was there condoms in there there was also methamphetamine in a pill form. We know it was methamphetamines because it was literally labeled that. Of course they were expired decades ago.
I think it would have been amphetamines, not methamphetamine.
@@CrocodileTear you're right but they are the same. They use amphetamine in ritalin and adderall. It's the same difference as morphine and heroin. Both are opiates. As of methamphetamine and amphetamine. They are both stimulants. You're going to get the same effect.
whoever's grandma in the thumbnail could've definitely gotten it
I read of an English psy ops program that issued condoms to some commando special operations troops that were intended to sow seeds of amazement in the minds of German soldiers. The condoms when unrolled were upwards of 3 feet in length. The idea was to leave the condoms with unused gear that the Germans were bound to pick up and send back to HQ. It was one of many special programs that were conducted throughout the course of the war. I mentioned it to my neighbor, a retired Col in the US Army who was in such a branch of the Service and he too had heard of this program.
If this occurred, the Germans were probably much amused by it.
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I've seen condoms on M16s once... a fragment of some movie I saw on TV. I was there, and never saw a condom placed on a weapon. Presumably it would be done to keep rain out of the action. All we did was sling the rifle muzzle down, and that only worked in lighter rains. In a monsoon the rifle would get flooded anyway since it's not waterproof.
All you need to do is grease the action, the blow back will clear the water, dirt and excess grease from the action as it is fired.
my great grandma was saying that in croatia when the Nazi's came they were more respectful than any other army that was here
But some Americans who didnt live through the occupation come here and post that the Germans were all barbarians, etc.
Apart from the obvious use of a condom, soldiers would put them on the barrels of their rifles to prevent dust and mud getting down the barrel.
Please watch parts 2 and 3 to ssee what I have to say about this well known theory:
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In the sport paintball they have "barrel condoms" which are to protect the barrel and to also prevent misfires.
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Contrary to popular belief raping civilian women was a capital offense in the German Armed Forces and German soldiers, if convicted were executed. After the war it was a common sentiment in France that compared to the Americans, the German soldiers gentlemen. They hated them for being German but they were comparitevly well behaved. well
American knuckle dragging barabarians raped over 40,000 women during their death and destruction rampage across Europe. Two books have been written on the subject. U.S. commanders told troops once freed from German occupation, women would be so grateful they'd want to thank American troops with sex.
As for the French, I was on a tour bus to the Normandy Beaches. My brother, sitting on the other side of asile, across from me, being the typical American, as the French woman was explaining where we were and were going, he was sound asleep, and snoring. Which, of course, irritated her. So she said, 'I want the Americans on this bus to know not all French hated the Germans. Many of us thought they managed our country much better than our leaders'.
I've seen film ofAmerican soldiers I manhandling French woman just trying to be friendly, congratulate them, and the women trying to get away with a angry look on their face.
One thing I noticed in many photos of German troops in Paris just walking around sightseeing, outside in cafes, all were unarmed, relaxed. American soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc always armed to the teeth, looking like they want to kill someone.
there is another book - Soldaten. written by the German historians Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer. written on the basis of wiretapping of British intelligence installed in the camps for holding German prisoners of war. read, learn more about these "gentlemen"
_The commandant's office of Mecklenburg, Germany reported that in May 1945, 14 rapes and 104 cases of looting were recorded throughout the province, committed not only by Soviet soldiers, but also by local residents. Back in January 1945, Stalin issued an executrive order stating that the local population, regardless of nationality, should not be subjected to violence. For crimes of a sexual nature, Soviet soldiers were executed by marshall court. Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Rzheshevsky studied archival documents and found out that 4,100 officers and Red Army soldiers fell under the tribunal for crimes against Germans, Poles, Czechs civilians. Those accused of rape were often subjected to show executions._
_At the end of WW2, the imperial minister of propaganda, Josef Goebbels, addressed the Germans: “In the face of Soviet soldiers, we are dealing with steppe scums ... In some villages and cities, all women from 10 to 70 years old were subjected to countless rapes.” At the same time, the "mouthpiece of propaganda" of the Reich claimed that the enemy soldiers were committing violence on the orders of their command. The image of a rapist soldier was reinforced by colorful posters. US troops were presented to the Germans on propaganda posters in the form of blacks trying to rape blond German women. On April 30, 1945, a report was prepared for the Soviet command on the attitude of the German population towards the Russians. It said that, seeing our soldiers, the Germans raised their hands, cried and literally shook with horror but after being convinced that the Russians are not what Nazi propaganda painted them, they calmed down and agreed to cooperate._
_With the start of Hitler’s “war of annihilation” against the Soviet Union in June 1941, the scale of Einsatzgruppen mass murder operations vastly increased. The main targets were Communist Party and Soviet state officials, Roma, and Jews of any age or gender. Under the cover of war and using the pretext of military necessity, the Einsatzgruppen organized and helped to carry out the shooting of more than half a million people, the vast majority of them Jews, in the first nine months of the war. The 3,000 personnel of all four Einsatzgruppen did not conduct these killings alone. Units of the Waffen SS, Order Police, Wehrmacht, allied Romanian forces and local collaborators aided them. The latter helped to identify victims as well as kill them. Many of the killers and victims knew one another as neighbors and colleagues. For example, over two days in September 1941, a small detachment of Einsatzgruppe C along with larger units of Waffen SS, Order Police and Ukrainian auxiliaries conducted a mass shooting of Jews in Babi Yar, a ravine outside Kiev. According to reports sent to the Einsatzgruppen headquarters in Berlin, 33 771 Jews were massacred during this two-day period. When occupied territories came under civilian control, stationary offices of the SS and Police replaced the Einsatzgruppen and continued to conduct mass shootings._
I can confirm that the 'Black Cat' Cataliana flying boats had 50 Caliber machine guns in the nose, and the guns used to sit fairly low to the surface when landed on water and of course with wave action could ship some water into the barrels - which I need not explain is not good for guns if you actually want to use them again. So their solution was to roll Condoms over the barrels when landed on water. I can't find the story again, but I remember the guys at the shore base has some conjecture as to how lonely the flying boat men got on those long missions patrolling for shipping when they requested the box of Condoms. .
Some viewers have located a few interesting photos, I will be making a follow up on this video soon.
@@CrocodileTear BTW, if I win this I should expect the money to be paid in Swiss Francs ok? 😅
@@shoominati23 That would not be an issue, except for the fact that someone else has won already.
you speak good english, it is pleasant to listen to you. and always very forensic and neutral
Thanks, and I hope things are going better with the wife Tiger ;)
what if you'll find a used one in the pocket?
Sex is NEVER far from a mans mind, no matter what the circumstances. 😮
A survival article in Esquire said you can use condoms to carry water if you have no available canteen or such, but I 'd rather use it for its intended purpose.
They hold up to 5 litres. We used to carry one in our survival kits. We also carried a woman's tampon as they could be teased out and used with a flint and steel to start fires.
An excellent an informative episode as always. My grandfather said he used one as water bottle once as his canteen got shot up. I don't know if he ever used one in love though!
Well need for the condom for rifle is extremely rare and not for all units. There are other ways for water to go in barrel than barrel muzzle. Barrel is kept in gunoil to prevent moisture issues so there is no need to use condoms as pipe blockers.
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Thanks. I am planing the next video for soon ;)
Dad a desert rat told me they used condoms to reduce the sand getting down the barrel and rags round the breach. Apparently in the middle of the desert they were still issued and captured from the Italians so it was a case of use what you had. That said he was in the reme slightly to the rear fixing tanks and never fired his rifle. So much so his mate turned up on parade without his rifle as he had mislaid it.
A buddy of mine was in Desert Storm and he said they used condoms to keep sand out of the barrels of rifles. He also said they found that the Beretta M9 pistols had such tight tolerances that the sand would make them jam up so they brought out the old WWII Colt 1911 A1s.
By the way, US WW2 Veteran and director Sam Fuller had made a warmovie called "The Big Red One" (1980) starring Lee Marvin & Mark Hamill from his own experiences at the front. In the scene that squad lands on Omaha beach, we see that there are condoms on the barrels of the rifles. Perhaps this is how this myth was born. Hollywood often exaggerates things.
LOL, ya think?
Or, it could have been, that Lee Marvin, himself a US Marine veteran of World War II, having made landings on Eniwetok and Saipan, told the director that when he was in the Marine Corps, they put condoms over the barrels of their rifles to keep seawater out for the simple reason that if you get water in the barrel of your rifle and then try to shoot your rifle, you could cause damage to the barrel of the rifle and even yourself. When I was in the USMC, this was hammered into my brain all the time when we did amphibious landings. We were issued dust covers to put over the end of the M16 to keep water out. Geez, doesn't any of the commenters who think that this is a Hollywood exaggeration use their brain for thinking that maybe this really isn't an exaggeration?
My grandfather was in the USA Navy in WW1 lots of fish but no girls
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That’s very interesting the use of condoms or lack thereof and why they were found with soldiers. Thank you for explaining
Are you sure this guy was going to war?
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What about the used one
Or the one that is using.
The use one could be used to clone Hitler 😄
A little humor - my father broke his arm in airborne training. When convalescing he was taught to give injections to the injured. He was told by a doctor to give shots for VD with the largest needle - so it would hurt. "Maybe they will be more careful in the future" said the doctor. Can you imagine a one armed 19 year old coming at you with a syringe?
@CrocodileTear Where was the first video of this youtube clip shot? The crew seems to be talking Croatian, what is the digging site location?
See my videos "Exhumation of 25 bodies from German field hospital cemetery" and "The Hell where youth and laughter go". All filmed in Slavonija
The only time I ever heard about condoms being used on rifle barrels was in the movie "The Big Red One", starring Lee Marvin. I do believe, however, that the author of the story wrote it as a sort of autobiography, so he may have experienced that during his time in WWII.
I just made part 2 of this video where I say the same thing: m.ua-cam.com/video/znzI8fmM4ps/v-deo.html
I think it is a horrible movie. I didnt even manage to watch it till the end.
@@CrocodileTear WHAT? Yeah... the original release was kinda butchered in post production... but I have never heard anyone pan The Big Red One before. Great film. Find the extended Director's Cut. If you never made it to the end... you didn't get it. At all. Weird for a WW2 enthusiast of any kind. First place I ever heard of a Bangalor Torpedo.
@@bl4558 The extended cut? I dont want to torture myself to death. Seing evil Germans machine gunning each other and a sergeant who looked like he is 65 years old? Not my cup of tea.
Young lions I think is a great war movie.
You can't not click with a title like that
Plus it actually corresponds to what the video is about! It is not dishonnest click bait ;)
There is also a part 2: ua-cam.com/video/znzI8fmM4ps/v-deo.html
Lots of the French woman regret there photos being taken because after the war lots of the woman were rounded up and teased,some had there hair shaved off in public and made fun of and worse.
German soldiers were issued condoms. A soldier who never used his issue might accumulate quite an inventory. US soldiers serving in the US were also issued condoms.
We in our military still carry condoms but not for what you think. Covering barrels in rain or river crossing. Can be stretched to use to tie bandages down. Improvised water carrier and a thousand other reasons. Any use today that a small (bungie) (streetchee) condoms can also be used.
Putting condom of the tip of your rifle is one more step when you need to take it off or if you start firing it simply going to melt to it.
So I don't think that's the case
I guess one could call these grave rubbers.
These soldiers were ready for action!
You have to remember, places like Australia, France, Belgium, Poland, all the men were off at war. Women get lonely, too.
9:31 thank you for taking your time to educate us ❤
You’re quite brave for touching them bare-handed
The reality is this - I asked an old German who had served in WW2, and ja, they had con-doms, and they used them if they got the chance, but they NEVER put 'em on the muzzles of their Mauser 98K rifles. The story of what happened to a young soldier with a white condom on his rifle's muzzle, which was spotted by the enemy at night, got around pretty fast and so it NEVER happened(or, not very often).
Sleeping with soldiers that occupy your country doesn't come across as very loyal.
BS, sex is sex.
Women love sleeping with perceived conquerors, news at 11.
Look how the French treated the women who slept with the German soldiers when France was liberated.
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@@tancreddehauteville764Treason is Treason 💀
Yeah brothels were very common to be working around barracks/deployment areas. It’s like they’re symbiotic almost
My grandfather also fought in WW2 - venereal diseases were a serious problem