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Regardless of his enemy status Wittman was incredibly talented, brave and a strong leader. As a tank commander MOS 19E30/armor instructor myself (1979-87, M48a5 and M60a1), I studied his tactics and qualities and can appreciate what he did for his men and in battle. It is only too bad he was on the wrong side of history.
Interesting when you think about it. Europe is somewhat rapidly becoming Africa and Yemen at the same time. Israel was founded again but what price for the people already there for two thousand years. Germanys loss meant 'uncle joe' had a free reign of commie terror for decades even after he passed.
They still put flowers on his grave. Bad or good, you gotta give credit where credit is due. The germans invented a whole new type of fighting tactics which are still used today and while i oppose everything the nazis did, they did create a bunch of new technology which also is still used today or made better by others. Wittman did do some brave stuff and created a few tactics of his own
Germany's number one tank ace; and the number one tank ace of ALL TIME was Kurt Knispel. Michael Wittman was a Nazi-SS; Knispel was far more noble than Wittmanand had BY FAR the most "kills" of all time.
Wasn't that the tank ace that was basically black listed from getting medals because he stopped a bunch of German soldiers from beating a group of Russian POWs?
@@evilstorm5954 Being a German soldier merely pitted you against your enemy. Being a Nazi allied you with Hitler and his racist views of superiority of all German Aryans above everyone.
I wonder what exactly made Wittman so successful in battle? That he commanded one of the best tanks of WWII was one thing, but he had a mastery of it that was phenomenal. To put it another way, he was the Bruce Lee among tank commanders.
The photo on the icon for this video is of the greater Tiger Tank ace Otto Carius of the regular German Army not SS man Wittman! Carius is posing standing in front of one the Tigers of the heavy panzer company he commanded!
It is rumored that it was a British Firefly that took him out. I have seen videos of the British Archer with the 17pdr making a Tiger 1 look like Swiss cheese. The 17pdr of the Firefly gave off such a muzzle flash that it was named the Firefly. The crew was instructed to close their eyes right before pulling the trigger to keep from being blinded!
Why dont we know the names of the tank crew, the men that drove ,armed and fired, those men must have been talented, i bet he wouldn't be famous with a rookie crew, which most of his kills were
Back in the seventies many expats and my Dad a WW2 historian would always argue over Michael Whitmans death! Some said it was allied air power which did him in. Also Uwe Feist said the same. You made it sound like another armored vehicle took him out? Which is it???
A Sherman from the Sherbrooke Fusiliers took him out. There were no aircraft in the vicinity at the time. Post War analysis confirms his tank was taken out by a Tank round.
A Sherman firefly to his fare right concealed in the forest hit him 2 times...first shit took his engine second went in the side and after several seasons the ammo cooked off and blow the turret off
Had Wittman stayed in concealment and waited for his unit to show up, there would have been far more damage to the allies. They had no idea he or his unit were there, he "let the cat out of the bag." Had he not gone "Cowboy", his unit would not have faced an alerted enemy and an ambush. He retires for fuel and ammo, and leads his unit back into an ambush... That should be the first clue something had been done wrong due to hubris.
Has anyone ever seen the story online, not sure if it was on here or a FB page, about a Tiger tank on the Eastern Front?, it was told by a Russian soldier. It concerned a Russian armoured column followed by supply trucks that was attacked by a lone Tiger. The Tiger blasted the convoy to pieces destroying lots of Russian tanks and then doing the same to the trucks. When the chaos settled down the Tiger had disappeared... or so the Russians had thought but it was hidden in a lower part of the terrain. When Russian reinforcements arrived the Tiger opened fire again destroying a lot more Russian tanks but it was eventually destroyed killing all of the crew. If anyone has a link to this or any other information I would appreciate it.
I DO NOT undersatnd from the get-go WHY British and American tank designers did not put bigger caliber and higher muzzle velocity cannons on their TANKS! You mean to tell me that they did NOT know that the cannons they were using on their tanks would be almost completely ineffective against German armor!!
I don't think they embraced mobile warfare as the Germans did. America wasn't looking for the next war. Britain was too far blinkered with appeasement and only kept light tanks. Mobile fortresses on tracks were not the current thinking of British armed forces
Buddy, bigger cannons mean bigger and heavier tanks, resulting in a heavier AFV. In turn, this causes maintenance problems, drains resources, and makes transport of said vehicles harder. Ever hear of soft and hard factors in a tank..?
Wittman was a fully trained artillery officer and like the stug commanders he would use the artillery’s sighting tool to range his shot and like the stug this made him an ace
Basically he crushed a bunch of conscripts and untrained soldiers and fought decently against guys who knew what they were doing but died after a few engagements... Not quite the legend he was made out to be.
We all know Knispel was better but he was a rebel. Not saying Whitmann was a kiss ass, he played the part Hitler wanted. All and all we all wish none of this ever happened. But it did and he was a bad ass
No doubt he had skill but he and his crew sat behind the 88 and a whole lot of armor destroying inferior armored vehicles, Kind of reminds me of German air aces with huge kill numbers on the Eastern Front. They had a field day destroying inferior Polish and early Russian fighters/bombers. When you look at the kill totals for American and British pilots as opposed to the German air aces that's the difference.
They always say the victor is the good guys but not true,if you look at who is destroying the workd today it's the same group people the germabs fought against. Ancient rome said all that was not Roman was barbarian
I don't agree with the comment made in this video of him being an "EVIL LEADER" he was an amazingly talented leader & tanker" it just so happens he was on the opposite Team"
This story is ... hrrrmm.. quite embellished and mostly untrue. Watch Lazerpigs video about Wittmann and he didn't actually accomplish anywhere near what this video claims during that battle.
If you got a movie now this guy would be a black woman surrounded by a gay/trans Asian and Middle Eastern tank crew. There would be no death and everyone would have a great time. Hollywood has committed suicide.
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This is the most disappointing dark docs I have watched. Whitman was not even a good commander let alone great. Whitmans kill count was the count of his entire unit. Kurt knispel was a significantly better tank commander
Not sure if you read the comments but I have been subbed for a very long time. This is the last dark docs vid I'm watching and unsubbing. I just can't take the misleading/click bait titles and irrelevant thumbnails. I don't know what you went this route with this channel as your other ones I'm subbed to aren't like this.
@@Charles-k9g5ynothing wrong with the video. Did he even mention tiger 007 in the video? The video is a out Michael Wittman. And when I clicked on it the thumbnail wasn't even tiger tanks some early war tank. And it's got yet a different thumbnail now probably still unrelated to the video.
@@Charles-k9g5y title of the video is "tiger 007 - the deadliest tank of ww2" and I didnt say anything about the video. Title and thumbnail. And the new thumbnail isn't even related to the video
@@JustinPivinski-cm2rh -- sorry, I liked the video and you just appear to be nit picky. Maybe you should stay off this platform since your comments apply to every video.
I saw nothing creepy. Nothing mysterious and given Wittman commanded a Tiger latterly, he wouldn’t have been in the driver’s seat as ringed in red on the video title. I was expecting some story of unfortunate deaths in that particular tank pictured in the title. Fortunately, I suspected it wasn’t as described and so scrolled along to the end, rather than watch all the way through. Very annoying. And pointless misrepresentation
It is sad that the Red Baron was shamed with the comparison to this lowly SS man 😔 the only SS man lower than him is that bastard defaming Arlington National Cemetery
He had by far the better tank that was largely impervious to Allied tank guns. So no, it wasn't that amazing. Dark Docs also needs to stop this trend of glorifying Nazi action from WW2. It's pretty sickening.
What the hell do you mean by "glorifying"? These video's are mainly about the tactical and battle skills of the soldiers. This is not about the ideoligy. Maybe guys like you should need to learn to understand the difference about the war being told pure on a tactical, strategic, and technical level. And if you are not able to do this, you should stop complaining about these documentairy's. It's the same like saying i can't be interested about the B-17 bomber and the Lancaster bomber, due the fact that arround 2 million civillians have been killed during the almost 6 years of indiscriminate bombing by the English and the Americans. So again, there is a difference between having an interest in WW2 on a battle level, or having an interest in WW2 on a political level or a ideological level. Some people are mainly interested in WW2 on a logistical level, what is also my new point of interest. About the machines that produced the weapons and ammuntion including the locomotives that transported everything to the warzone.
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You guys really need to do some content on LRRPs of the Vietnam War. How has this topic escaped you?
Regardless of his enemy status Wittman was incredibly talented, brave and a strong leader. As a tank commander MOS 19E30/armor instructor myself (1979-87, M48a5 and M60a1), I studied his tactics and qualities and can appreciate what he did for his men and in battle. It is only too bad he was on the wrong side of history.
Interesting when you think about it. Europe is somewhat rapidly becoming Africa and Yemen at the same time. Israel was founded again but what price for the people already there for two thousand years. Germanys loss meant 'uncle joe' had a free reign of commie terror for decades even after he passed.
Whitman was not a good tank commander. The kills they counted were from his entire unit.
@@achilles11751Please site your information. The truth is better than fiction. Thanks
@@achilles11751 Point proven he commanded them well
Michael Whitman Tank Ace of Tank Aces insane numbers and Luck which is always in short supply in War
They still put flowers on his grave. Bad or good, you gotta give credit where credit is due. The germans invented a whole new type of fighting tactics which are still used today and while i oppose everything the nazis did, they did create a bunch of new technology which also is still used today or made better by others. Wittman did do some brave stuff and created a few tactics of his own
Germany's number one tank ace; and the number one tank ace of ALL TIME was Kurt Knispel. Michael Wittman was a Nazi-SS; Knispel was far more noble than Wittmanand had BY FAR the most "kills" of all time.
Wasn't that the tank ace that was basically black listed from getting medals because he stopped a bunch of German soldiers from beating a group of Russian POWs?
@@thomasgreen8894 He even beated up a high ranking officer because of the abuse on the Russian POW's
Otto Carius was also quite a tanker.
Wittman was a patriot. Just on the wrong side. Get over the “he’s a Nazi” BS.
@@evilstorm5954 Being a German soldier merely pitted you against your enemy. Being a Nazi allied you with Hitler and his racist views of superiority of all German Aryans above everyone.
How is this creepy, and what was mysterious? Stop with the click-bait. I watch your videos, so no need to lower yourself. :(
Well said, I was gonna say the exact same thing.
Live by the armor piercing shell, die by the armor piercing shell
Brave and reckless, bold and careless, a formidable foe to Allied tank crews!...
I wonder what exactly made Wittman so successful in battle? That he commanded one of the best tanks of WWII was one thing, but he had a mastery of it that was phenomenal. To put it another way, he was the Bruce Lee among tank commanders.
What was creepy about it and where was the mysterious ending?
The creepy thing was he and ,crew took out 30 tanks all by themselves
It was a wonderful historical coverage video
I love watching these old war clips
I hate all these adds. I'm a prime member yet still have to watch these adds.
yea the IN VIDEO AD's (not adds) suck, its becoming a modern youtuber thing, its a pandemic.
Greed knows no bounds@@alexander1485
Premium here, never seen an ad yet, strange.
His Gunner and Driver deserve more credit than he does!!!
The photo on the icon for this video is of the greater Tiger Tank ace Otto Carius of the regular German Army not SS man Wittman! Carius is posing standing in front of one the Tigers of the heavy panzer company he commanded!
How the hell has this channel not made a video about the LRRPs of the Vietnam War!
He was a top stug ace too
It is rumored that it was a British Firefly that took him out. I have seen videos of the British Archer with the 17pdr making a Tiger 1 look like Swiss cheese. The 17pdr of the Firefly gave off such a muzzle flash that it was named the Firefly. The crew was instructed to close their eyes right before pulling the trigger to keep from being blinded!
Why dont we know the names of the tank crew, the men that drove ,armed and fired, those men must have been talented, i bet he wouldn't be famous with a rookie crew, which most of his kills were
Back in the seventies many expats and my Dad a WW2 historian would always argue over Michael Whitmans death!
Some said it was allied air power which did him in. Also Uwe Feist said the same. You made it sound like another armored vehicle took him out?
Which is it???
A Sherman from the Sherbrooke Fusiliers took him out. There were no aircraft in the vicinity at the time. Post War analysis confirms his tank was taken out by a Tank round.
A Sherman firefly to his fare right concealed in the forest hit him 2 times...first shit took his engine second went in the side and after several seasons the ammo cooked off and blow the turret off
Had Wittman stayed in concealment and waited for his unit to show up, there would have been far more damage to the allies. They had no idea he or his unit were there, he "let the cat out of the bag." Had he not gone "Cowboy", his unit would not have faced an alerted enemy and an ambush. He retires for fuel and ammo, and leads his unit back into an ambush... That should be the first clue something had been done wrong due to hubris.
I wonder if Witmann and Knispel ever met?
Has anyone ever seen the story online, not sure if it was on here or a FB page, about a Tiger tank on the Eastern Front?, it was told by a Russian soldier.
It concerned a Russian armoured column followed by supply trucks that was attacked by a lone Tiger. The Tiger blasted the convoy to pieces destroying lots of Russian tanks and then doing the same to the trucks. When the chaos settled down the Tiger had disappeared... or so the Russians had thought but it was hidden in a lower part of the terrain. When Russian reinforcements arrived the Tiger opened fire again destroying a lot more Russian tanks but it was eventually destroyed killing all of the crew. If anyone has a link to this or any other information I would appreciate it.
WITTMAN WAS A TANK COMMANDER NOTHING LESS.... HE FOUGHT LIKE MAN. AND WAS A GREAT TACTICIAN..
he was also a terrible human being.
you sure know how to pick heroes..
@@doctorboot7191what did he do that was so terrible?
@@barrymccokiner7559no response, he's probably trying to find something stupid Wittman did as a kid and use that as an excuse
It’s amazing how accurate he was.
Legend!
this guy needs his own movie... just saying.... oh but heaven forbid we hoist up a German hero.... the new world is so lame.
A British anti tank gun knocked his tank out in the town of Villiers Bocage,he didn't escape,he made a mess because of poor leadership.
I DO NOT undersatnd from the get-go WHY British and American tank designers did not put bigger caliber and higher muzzle velocity cannons on their TANKS! You mean to tell me that they did NOT know that the cannons they were using on their tanks would be almost completely ineffective against German armor!!
I don't think they embraced mobile warfare as the Germans did. America wasn't looking for the next war. Britain was too far blinkered with appeasement and only kept light tanks. Mobile fortresses on tracks were not the current thinking of British armed forces
Buddy, bigger cannons mean bigger and heavier tanks, resulting in a heavier AFV. In turn, this causes maintenance problems, drains resources, and makes transport of said vehicles harder. Ever hear of soft and hard factors in a tank..?
Most ports only had cranes rated at 30 tons. How are you going to get your 50 ton tank off the ship it came over on?
I thought this was a tank vid, not an add for another video
Brad Pitt fictional movie "FURY", Semi fictional "Saving Private Ryan" - there hasn't been a good "bad guys" movie since Downfall.
War story about German tanker ace ''shows German panther tank burning in the thumbnail with red clickbait bubble''
Wittman was a fully trained artillery officer and like the stug commanders he would use the artillery’s sighting tool to range his shot and like the stug this made him an ace
Dont you mean his gunner was , as commander you tell the gunner where to shoot and what at the gunner dose all the rest of the work
…tank you very much for this glorious video
Ah the "The Myth of Wittmann"
Yep, there's only so much "juice" one can squeeze out of that tomato.
There's been some recent documentary on yt downplaying his achievements.
@@Olebull93 you mean accurately reporting the entire timeline with actual explanation?
The the the the the
@@doctorboot7191ik right, W laser pig lol
Is the creepy bit in part 2?
Oops No that was Christmas Eve 1942, not 43. Citadel took place in July 1943.👌🏼
Sad that he lost his life a month before the was over.
Basically he crushed a bunch of conscripts and untrained soldiers and fought decently against guys who knew what they were doing but died after a few engagements... Not quite the legend he was made out to be.
A real soldier.
scary
he showed panther footage too...
We all know Knispel was better but he was a rebel. Not saying Whitmann was a kiss ass, he played the part Hitler wanted. All and all we all wish none of this ever happened. But it did and he was a bad ass
No doubt he had skill but he and his crew sat behind the 88 and a whole lot of armor destroying inferior armored vehicles, Kind of reminds me of German air aces with huge kill numbers on the Eastern Front. They had a field day destroying inferior Polish and early Russian fighters/bombers. When you look at the kill totals for American and British pilots as opposed to the German air aces that's the difference.
Evil??? No efficient🎉
Could not be stopped… until he was.
KV-1 lend lease footage😂
Anyone else notice the russian kv1?
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voiceover is so gruff-voiced that its so hard to understand.
They always say the victor is the good guys but not true,if you look at who is destroying the workd today it's the same group people the germabs fought against. Ancient rome said all that was not Roman was barbarian
I don't agree with the comment made in this video of him being an "EVIL LEADER" he was an amazingly talented leader & tanker" it just so happens he was on the opposite Team"
Ruthlessly Ruthless Panzer Ace is Ruthless!!!!
A dedicated soldier
Why creepiest?
Tiger's armor impenetrable?.......ask Wittman......oh wait, it wasn't
The front armor of the King Tiger has never been penetrated during WW2 by enemy fire.
So it was impenetrable during that era.
@@opoxious1592I think he was talking about the tiger h1
voiceover is gruff-voiced that its hard to understand.
This story is ... hrrrmm.. quite embellished and mostly untrue. Watch Lazerpigs video about Wittmann and he didn't actually accomplish anywhere near what this video claims during that battle.
Michael Wittman died a worriers death.
warriors?
Keep your cool
Michael Whitman Tank Ace of Tank Aces insane numbers and Luck which is always in short supply in War
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I’m surprised we don’t have a movie based on this man we should have a box office movie
If you got a movie now this guy would be a black woman surrounded by a gay/trans Asian and Middle Eastern tank crew. There would be no death and everyone would have a great time. Hollywood has committed suicide.
do not worry we dear friend !... have ''FURY'....another Hollywood masterpiece of deception....
Tiger Tank is the most powerful Tank ever produced during WW2 ! In Fact it was a Birthday Gift for Adolf Hitler he who said " The Bigger The Better "
And yet thanks for the Soviets it was T34s that rolled into Berlin and the war in Europe was over
Dark Docs uses the word 'furthermore' too many times.
Kursk is now Ukrainian
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Clickbait title.
In their pommie shitbox tanks
This is the most disappointing dark docs I have watched. Whitman was not even a good commander let alone great. Whitmans kill count was the count of his entire unit. Kurt knispel was a significantly better tank commander
History has a tendency to exaggerate!
Lmao your name says it all, I’m sure you didn’t even watch the video and went straight to the comments to cope.
@@ToasterStrudelFan You're late to the game. Troll.
@@StalinTheMan0fSteel what game?🤡
He wasn’t even fifth best ace
Not sure if you read the comments but I have been subbed for a very long time. This is the last dark docs vid I'm watching and unsubbing. I just can't take the misleading/click bait titles and irrelevant thumbnails. I don't know what you went this route with this channel as your other ones I'm subbed to aren't like this.
What’s wrong with this video?
@@Charles-k9g5ynothing wrong with the video. Did he even mention tiger 007 in the video? The video is a out Michael Wittman. And when I clicked on it the thumbnail wasn't even tiger tanks some early war tank. And it's got yet a different thumbnail now probably still unrelated to the video.
@@JustinPivinski-cm2rh -- remember he didn’t start out in a tiger and as far as 007 goes I’m not sure that’s very important. I liked the video.
@@Charles-k9g5y title of the video is "tiger 007 - the deadliest tank of ww2" and I didnt say anything about the video. Title and thumbnail. And the new thumbnail isn't even related to the video
@@JustinPivinski-cm2rh -- sorry, I liked the video and you just appear to be nit picky. Maybe you should stay off this platform since your comments apply to every video.
I saw nothing creepy. Nothing mysterious and given Wittman commanded a Tiger latterly, he wouldn’t have been in the driver’s seat as ringed in red on the video title. I was expecting some story of unfortunate deaths in that particular tank pictured in the title. Fortunately, I suspected it wasn’t as described and so scrolled along to the end, rather than watch all the way through. Very annoying. And pointless misrepresentation
Germany never just invaded Poland. There was a reason that western historians have written out of history.
It is sad that the Red Baron was shamed with the comparison to this lowly SS man 😔 the only SS man lower than him is that bastard defaming Arlington National Cemetery
No one with a knowledge of history would have a clip of a kv tank during this event you are a sham
He had by far the better tank that was largely impervious to Allied tank guns. So no, it wasn't that amazing.
Dark Docs also needs to stop this trend of glorifying Nazi action from WW2. It's pretty sickening.
What the hell do you mean by "glorifying"?
These video's are mainly about the tactical and battle skills of the soldiers.
This is not about the ideoligy.
Maybe guys like you should need to learn to understand the difference about the war being told pure on a tactical, strategic, and technical level.
And if you are not able to do this, you should stop complaining about these documentairy's.
It's the same like saying i can't be interested about the B-17 bomber and the Lancaster bomber, due the fact that arround 2 million civillians have been killed during the almost 6 years of indiscriminate bombing by the English and the Americans.
So again, there is a difference between having an interest in WW2 on a battle level, or having an interest in WW2 on a political level or a ideological level.
Some people are mainly interested in WW2 on a logistical level, what is also my new point of interest.
About the machines that produced the weapons and ammuntion including the locomotives that transported everything to the warzone.