The sign around the woman's neck reads: "I didn't want my children to fight." The sign around the boys neck reads: "I am a coward and did not want to fight for the German people."
That was white phosphorus aka “Willy Pete” that stuff burns and burns and burns until it burns out completely. And sticks to anything it touches you have to full smother it with mud cause water doesn’t douse it.
Phosphorus combusts with contact with oxygen, that's why it's stored in vacuums or vats of oil. White P rounds were effective because the initial round would never stop burning. The ultimate incendiary.@@nightdirtclaw1799
@@matthewjones39 Who asked for the snide teenage-level reply? @nightdirtclaw1799 is earnestly handing out facts, and 18 other people appreciate that. At worst their comment was slightly tangential, but honestly it provides context valuable to understanding OP's comment; people who aren't war nerds aren't likely to understand the significance of the glowing white dots. I hope you're just some bot I've wasted time replying to, because it is incredibly sad when people are so insecure they need to tear down random internet strangers for validation. Attitudes like yours aren't special, they're just disappointing.
For several years, I lived in a small German village, near a US Air Force base. We lived there from 1958 to 1963. I was a little kid. There were burned out tanks and other army stuff in the woods behind our house. It was VERBOTEN, or FORBIDDEN, for me and my brother to go back there. This was just 13 years after WW2 had ended. All the bodies had been removed, but it was still a scary, spooky, and depressing place. We went back in there every chance we got.
@@ConReeseive heard of people renovating ww2 tanks etc and they still had ammunition in them. One set of a bullet with a cutting torch that ricocheted around the interior. He was lucky not to be another ww2 casualty.
German Sniper, ready and steady: "Should I kill the Grand Dad or the Tank Commander?" "Yeah, fuck that old fuck!" Apart from that.. I love the tracer ammo, because it is the reason why in Star Wars the Imperium shots green Lasers, while the Rebels shot red Lasers. Germans mostly used green and the Americans red.
Funny thing is that one of the novels I read bothered to explain that the lasers you see in the movie are tracer rounds for the ACTUAL lasers that do damage, which neatly explains WHY you can see a laser in space when physic says you shouldn't be able to. It's a ret con but as ret cons go it's a pretty good one.
@@Petey0707 Probably because there are many similarities between Star Wars and the real world. Rebels aginst Empire= American Revolution. Palpatine' s rise to Power = Hitler. Other sources say "Yeah Amercians use red tracer ammo, and the SOVIETS used green". And, more scientific approaching sources, say "Well, green lasers energy levels are higher than the red ones, and the Imperium is technologically more sophisticated than the rebels." You are right, Lucas opposes the Vietnam War and defintiely said, his story of rebels against an enormous empire referred to this conflict. The problem is, Lucas himself said repeatedly, that this situation occured multiple times in histroy and that he took inspiration from many. But the starting point for him, true, was the Vietnam War. Still, we can't be sure 100 % where he took inspiration for each and very part or fact for Star Wars from. As far as I know, it could be any conflict. Sooo... unless you really got a source, where Lucas says :"Oh well, that lasers come from the tracer ammo of this or that conflict." we are both right and wrong.
@@androlis671 Sure the tank firing its main gun at anything except that anti tank gun is inaccurate, but this fighting is actually alright in terms of ww2 urban warfare, see literally any urban battle in the history of the second world war, or even before it with the Japanese invasions during the 30's. Hitler Youth were commonly used as ground troops throughout the war, especially when Germany was breathing its last. Allies also definitely committed their fair share of no mercy type war crimes, and positioning for German machine gun nests at choke points looking over streets throughout a town are Tactics 101 for guerilla or military units today. Did you never study any war in the history of humanity before seeing this video or did you ride the short bus throughout your childhood?
This movie does a good job of never glorifying anything. In some other films you might get patriotic music on the killing of the SS officer, but Fury maintains its dark tone throughout.
@@TheArrowedKnee Actually it was very accurate. By that point in the war, the Krauts were desperate, made kids fight (see Hitler Youth, one of my ancestors took a pin off a corpse) and with the crimes against humanity of the Krauts in full display, the SS were often gunned down. The Allies committed plenty of war crimes, but we won so history tends to forgive it.
Hard to believe any of them did any of this, at any age. As is said in the film, "it will end, soon. But before that, a lot more people have to die". They depended on each other, and the world depended on them. It is because of the sacrifices and choices they made that we live the fortunate lives we live.
You did not become a mayor in a german town in the third Reich without being somebody in the party. They were not elected but appointed. But especially the lower echelons of the NSDAP and the communal administration were getting ready for the time after the war. So, his desire to capitulate is historically accurate. The "Goldfasane" (golden pheasants, so called for their brown uniforms) did not like the fanatical SS executioners. At least at this time of the war.
Many times when allied troops saw anyone surrendering with SS markings, they tended to shoot them on site. Especially if they saw heinous war crimes in the area.
Can you blame them? And yet German apologists today STILL whine about that. "Ooo..they got shot after surrendering" The SS (sometimes, and only sometimes) got treated precisely as they treated others....too damn bad.
I heard after a while they started interrogating them first since a number of ss officers would exchange their ss uniforms for some poor clueless regular army boi who doesn’t know any better
Give credit to the subtle patting of the dead soldier on the back. A simple "rest now friend, you fought hard". The only thing you can do while still in combat mission.
Thinking too much is not a good thing in those scenarios.. might be what you said but in a logical moment where you just reacting to the moment its more just is he alive no move on. Let the burial squad deal with him.
I take credit away for the loading in response to taking a hit (ridiculous, they'd be ready to go 100%) and for the MG to completely severe the leg of the soldier before the guy even started to fall, like idk, maybe being picky but is this legit made for 10 year olds? its not that hard to not include those two unrealistic details
@@ak4344 The MG42 fired at 1200 RPM, if my maths is correct then that is 20 rounds per second. 20 rounds have gone through his leg and out the other side before he knew what was happening and he was hit below the knee, which is usually the thinnest part of your leg. The 42 could cut someone in half if you shot them enough so it's no surprise that it removed his leg.
3:52 the way the soldier went and pat the back of another dead soldier was like saying “thank you for trying, you did good I’ll see you on the other side “
or checking if alive. most logical scenario in the situation. If so call medic if not move on. let the company that deals with dead bodies do their thing. Other than close friends in shock it doesn't make sense otherwise. Just how we think of how war should be vs how war is. and I'm putting a big on how it probably was. You really got to de connect your self to make it through heavy trauma like that.
@@AlphaQ23 i served in the infantry. the most important thing you can do to save those mens’ lives are actually to leave them where they be. move forwards and assault through whatever killed them and clear the area. when we secure objectives we always make sure to clear enemies and sort out epw before any aid and litter are called, in line with what you see depicted. calling a medic in this instance would make sense, yet is foolish, as a man distracted trying to carry bodies cannot defend himself, and as a combat leader you would be putting another man in danger trying to help.
@@VLSG Copy that man. I merely meant it the best case scenario I could see in that scenario of them leaning down checking then the patting would most likely just be well Hollywood in this case. Realistically I can imagine it be maybe that person checked for a response. In the scenario I'd imagine its more in the case of visual check that guy out but again that's focusing on Hollywood on this scenario. depends on the soldier i bet.. and I have no idea what your training would say. I'm imagining the focus would just be the visual if it resulted in that cool cold dead what ever but sad sure.. but in the moment that's not the focus.
@@VLSG I have 0 combat training and anything military training. Was just stating in that kinda scenario. It seems more Hollywood like. unless maybe if the person patting them knows the person and was just doing that.
My grandfather who is no longer with us worked inside aircraft carriers during ww2. He told me all sorts of stories. Though he didn't fight the Germans. It was the pacific for him.
The Germans, meanwhile, claim they were liberated and not defeated in 1945. This is no joke. Meanwhile, their propaganda is spreading this lie! One of many lies they spread!
Funny thing is, he probably wasn't even the a real SS troop or commander. There are stories of ones who switched gear with soliders so they didn't die, and some innocent (somewhat) solider would say yes, or got forced too, and would die. Many SS leaders did that
I learnt alot from my grandfather who fought in Tobruk and PNG, like how to use a knife properly to neck an animal, Kentucky windage and how to load n fire a howitzer. Whenever I see someone in a movie spray someone in the torso, it's rarely realistic, they rarely die instantly even if shot through the heart. My grandfather said they usually take a minute or so, coughing n suffering. War is not something to glorify. Wars will only stop when the common man says " no! We won't die for you politicians and filthy rich!"
when you sign up you are protecting the guys next to you, not the rich and the politicians. You must not have served. When you sign up you make a commitment, real men stand by their commitments. You can't just walk away, or can YOU?
no, you volunteer either because you have no other economic opportunities or you believe in patriotism. when you are in war, you're then fighting for your buddy, but what are you dying for? the same thing the roman legions and the greeks died for
Wars will never stop lol. Wars have been happening and will continue to happen. Since the Dawn of Man and one guy told another guy, “hey, that dude has a cool rock. Let’s work together and get ‘em, Larry.” There were no politicians or currency. Hell, the native Americans had no concept of owning land or not sharing and they fought all the time with eachother, with some of the worst brutality ever recorded in history. Stop with the moral speeches, you’re not as smart as you think you are. Way more naive, though.
Such an amazing scene. Brutal and dark. And yet evoking so much emotion. And even then still you pity the German survivors. But then you remember the sight outside the town, and maybe you too could have shot that guy, or at least given the order. And who would convict you? Who would ever name you? Who would ever even blame you?
From a legal standpoint this is clearly a warcrime. Even at that time it would be one. And in my opinion it's also not about the point of beeing convicted for such a crime. The main point in my opinion is this: It's a war and this SS-officer forced children to fight a already lost battle. He was an extremist to the core, even killing his own for disobeying or even questioning his orders. There is a chance he would get away with his crimes as many others did. And no one tried to save him, which is also a statement on it's own. And how could someone like him even be a part of a free society, an indoctrination like this as almost uncureable. How do you reintegrate someone in your society who killed a mother just because she feared for her children and stood up for them? So in my opinion this was a unlawfull kill but from a morale standpoint, it was absolutely right.
I wouldn't give a second thought about giving the order and been glad to pull the trigger. I mean, I quick death is a whole lot more compared to what they would do if the shoe was on the other foot. As Don states perfectly at the climax. “Please don't. They’ll hurt you real bad. And they'll kill you real bad” - Don to Norman who wanted to surrender to SS
Sadly, if something like this happened today, the US media would be jumping all over it as a "war crime" and using it to score points with the liberals.
The Germans, meanwhile, claim they were liberated and not defeated in 1945. This is no joke. Meanwhile, their propaganda is spreading this lie! One of many lies they spread!
I think for people that did the murdering, they are expecting to be killed, even if captured. So this seems like someone who hoped for the best, but knew it was a possibility. I think the actor did a decent job for that role.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars that’s exactly what I said, I said they’d hope for the best (actually, I said “East”. Clearly that was a spelling error due to “auto spell correct”. Which. Changes the spelling as I type.). Anyways, I said they hoped for the best when they surrendered, but wouldn’t be surprised if they were killed And yes the ones in the west that surrendered by and larger got away with it, not so much for the ones in the east. So. We agree. Try to read what someone says or is trying to say next time.
As a cinema lover all of my 76+ years, I will say that this film is a great film. even the interlude with the German young women , as distasteful as it is, is well done, & has a point to the story. NO ONE-----no one-----is left untouched by war. War is truly, Homo Sapiens at his very worst, & that;s the point of the " interlude". KUDOS to the entire cast. From Pitt on down, everyone is perfectly cast. This scene is also, well done, & all too true. Just because " the war is over " , killing still goes on & on & on. ----------------MJL, 76 y/o
My grandfather was part of this infantry push into northern Germany… he arrived post D-day and fought his way to war’s end straight through, achieving rank of Sergeant in the process. Took part in the Hurtgen forest battle and all that stuff. Naturally, he never spoke of any of it, condemned my uncle for volunteering for Vietnam, and largely lived a miserable existence until passing at 67 from emphysema, diabetes, heart failure, and a couple of different cancers.
My favorite part of this whole scene is the extra at 1:27 that looks out the corner of his eye to check the camera, do an awkward wave, and then put his hand on the bottom of the magazine like its a grip.
There's a movie with Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta called Two of a Kind. Skipping the details of the movie, there is a scene near the end where some police officers are mobilized. One of them takes position and has what looks like your typical M16... But as he takes aim, his trigger hand is holding the M16 like you would hold a rifle that didn't have a pistol grip. His thumb was up behind the charging handle, with his fingers wrapping around the part of the gun where the receiver and stock meet.
One mistake made in this movie was that the surrendering troops always kept their helmets on. In the German military, taking off their helmet was a soldier's universal sign they were done fighting, & the allies knew it. Doing otherwise was a good chance of getting shot, hands up or not.
That's interesting, but I've never heard that before. Do you have a source? Although it does appear common enough in pictures to have some truth to it, there are lots of pictures of surrendering Germans with helmets still on, including during combat operations (as opposed to a mass, negotiated surrender, where you'd be less likely to be shot).
@@kyleross8817, that came from my Grandpa, a Sherman tank driver in the 3rd Armored Division. He was in combat from the hedgerow country in Normandy in June of '44, across France & Belgium, into Aachen & Stolberg, Germany during the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, & then back into Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded his third & final time in January of '45. He saw a very great number of Germans surrender, & told me it was common knowledge that bare-headed & no helmet was a universal sign they were done fighting. This was most common among those who slipped away from their units & approached the allied lines to surrender, when not in direct combat. Considering his time & breadth of experience as an eye-witness, I considered him an authority on such matters, & he wasn't one to ever stretch the truth or tell tall tales about his wartime experiences.
That's a cool story! My grandpa was a sherman tank commander for the BC Dragoons in Italy. Unfortunately, he's not still around to tell me what Germans were doing in Italy, but I agree it sounds very likely. Pictures of surrendering Germans with helmets on aren't as common, and probably come from a relatively last-minute situation, where you're already wearing it and not thinking too straight.@@grantgarrod2232
@@A._.Neill26 To be fair, a lot of German officers did lack practical combat uniforms at many points in the war. Sometimes a combat uniform was simply a camo smock worn over the fancy uniform. and that's assuming logistics have supplied one
3:14. That is one of two reasons why the MG42 was known as Hitler’s buzzsaw. It tore off limbs from people for one, and two is the extreme fire rate sounding like a buzzsaw.
Yup. Napalm literally sucks the oxygen out of the air as you burn so that you suffocate as you burn to death. Willie Pete will burn right through you as long as it's exposed to oxygen. Makes dying from a bullet in the brain bucket a lot more appealing.
@@Partyaap050 they are strapped on the sides for ablative type armor. Irregular, asymmetrical materials other than standard metal plate armor(logs, sandbags, wood) can Aid in stopping HEAT or AP ROUNDS .
@@victorsforza5578 It is literally carried with tank crews at those times to help get the tank out of mud when it's stuck. They never intended for it to be used as armor. That's just Hollywood mate
@@victorsforza5578 No exactly the opposite. The frontal armor of the M4A3E6 or E8 was sloped enough to deflect a HVAP 75mm AT round. The logs would in fact deflect the round down, decreasing angle that strikes the armor plate thereby decreasing the effective thickness of the Sherman's armor. The fact was the Sherman's 56 degree sloped front plate was 3.6 inches of effective frontal armor. Almost as much as a Tiger I's 4.0 inches of vertical frontal plate armor.
If you like this movie and tanks I highly recommend reading the book Spearhead by Adam Makos. Documents both American and German tank combat. Clarence Smoyer rides in the experimental Pershing tank and later meets one of the drivers of the tanks he fought against.
Recommend Richard Von Rosen book Panzer ace too, gives good coverage on actually working and living with tank and he was first that had King Tigers in normandy under his wing. Book is filled with photos he took while in east and west fronts.
@@scrunchgumpkins623 , someone who hangs multiple kids, with the added aggravator of prejudice against a religion (Jews), would get the death penalty in the individual states of America where it is legal, even after due process of law. At age 17, you are tried as an adult, especially after such a heinous crime as murder. I did not observe any other POWs getting executed in that one scene. They even mention it's a bunch of kids.
True. Many of these people in uniform had been brutalized by the horrors of war. You see enough, feel enough physically - one more just blurs in with the rest of it. You go through that, or a death camp, or many years of hardcore abuse that was twice compared to such a camp - and it can do some *ugly* things to your mind.
@@johnjuiceshipper4963 As if the American (shadow) government hasn't done worse. Look up The Real Manchurian Candidate, what the US government does to its own people is just as worse, or worse even, as what the Nazis did, but the Nazis were defeated so it became known - what the US government is doing will never be known and anyone trying to effect that will be "slipped in the shower".
I'm not fluent in German either. Correct me if not fully interpreted. "Drehe zum Turm": Turn to the (tank) tower "Gerade" (exact) "Zum Ziel" (on target) "Feuer" (fire) "Boom" (Germans screaming in agony of phosphorus / schrapnel) Hope this helps ;)
My father was a bit too young to serve at this time. I myself have never been required to serve thanks to the bravery of these people. Two generations have passed but now the evil returns to Europe.
A BIG Roger that! The current younger generation need to see what the fight against fascism cost and how ugly it was. Pray God that we don’t have to fight it here at home
It took quite some time on yt before someone posted the full scene of entering the town. Those youngsters hung for not fighting and that dead body in the road run over by the tanks was not for the squeamish. So evil that the SS officer had people killed for not fighting and then he tries to surrender. I am suspicious that he was faking a broken arm. Holy justification that the soldier killing him was named ANGEL.
A todo cerdo se le llega su San Martin. THERE is a Spanish phrase that says 'every pig has his St Martin's Day coming to him' (A cada cerdo le llega su San Martín). It means that a person will get their comeuppance.
The part with the body on the road being ran over is very similar to a photograph from the Eastern Front that I saw in a book. The photo was of a soldier completely flattened on a muddy road which was revealed after the snow thawed.
The only relative I know, who was in a war was my great great grandfather. It was world war 1 and sadly, he was killed in 1914. He had a wife and had 1 or 2 children. Sadly I never got to meet my great great grandfather, as I was born many years later.
I think one scene that was completely overlooked was the fact the dead soldier just being rolled over by the tank. Idk why just really disturbed by that
i love to think that angel grew up to be a father and grandfather, his kids and grandkids blissfully unaware that their dad and grandpa was a killing machine
regardless of the war be it WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, First Gulf, Afghanistan or Iraq, all vets that were combat forward units have that ability, we just had to learn to turn it on and off. We have two side, our civilian side, what you and everyone else sees then the war side of us, the killer, which is a side I don't ever want anyone back here at home to see. Every day I hope that I never have to flip that switch again.
The second sign when they enter the village actually said “Ich bin ein (coward). Ich wollte nicht für das Deutsche Volk kampfen” so he’s not completely wrong
I don’t know much about this stuff… but at 4:30 can someone please explain why were they burning like that after the explosion instead of being on fire? It looked like they were cooking from the inside.
@@autisticgamer4949 I looked it up and you are correct. They are horrific! They used them in WW1 and WW2 and would call them Willy Pete. And that’s what Brad Pitt called it. Thank you, sir.
I think you answered it yourself, but it was a Willy Pete shell. To minimise explosive damage to the building (and the ordinance inside the building) they flushed the troops out with it. The problem is, even though Willy Pete (White Phosphorous base) is a waxy, smoke munition, in a tank shell against the human body, they were stumbling out of there blind, deaf and with shrapnel wounds being infected with fine burning particulate, cooking their organs, bones and lungs, basically the worst kind of chemical burn imaginable :(
shell* Edit: the sherman was at an angle when shot, and it was hit on it's frontal armor, the angle, slanted armor, and thicker armor would result in that happening
Yes, but better if the heroes survive! By the way, the Germans, meanwhile, claim they were liberated and not defeated in 1945. This is no joke. Meanwhile, their propaganda is spreading this lie! One of many lies they spread!
I love the look the other tank commander gives Don after his tank fires the round into the cellar the Germans were hiding. Don's reaction was pretty funny too "God damn!".
2:22 even tho the Nazis were bad people i doubt they would shot the old man over the tank commander, looked cool and was shocking but it pulled me out of the movie right away because it made no sense in my mind...
@@davidnavarro4821 I’m also half American Indian but 100% American ! I was given up for adoption because my Nazi grandmother refused to raise a child with tainted blood in her house. She also kicked my biological mother out when she found out that she was pregnant with me.
As much as I disliked this movie because it is purely fiction and at times very unrealistic. This scene did a great job portraying the dire situation and German desperation at wars end.
@@chrisbingley Like driving up to and then around the Tiger to hit it in the back, in full view on an open field... Those Shermans would have been toast!
@@roberthermann97 They would have been toast had the Tiger not stopped at just taking out one when they were running in tandem. Once the Shermans rushed it the Tiger would have been too slow, and it can't traverse its turret fast enough to take out Shermans trying to flank it on either side. A Sherman could turn its gun way faster. All accounts from history show that what happened here was their best chance of taking it out (other than the line formation rather than flanking).
The most realistic scene was at the table when the Sargent finally loses his patience and says "Shut the fuck up" his man says why should I shut up? He slams his pistol down on the table and spits on the guy, as if to say "You want any more reasons?
dude, there's literally no way you're missing a tank from THAT close. And paks were quite accurate as well. Like just aim for the front hull it will go through like butter from even mile away. Oh well, plot armor protects from anything.
It's a movie. Plot armor happens. Do you have the same complaint regarding the Tiger battle in the same movie, where Fury's 76mm could have punched right through the Tiger's front end multiple times at the distance they were fighting?
Idk about that bud. That almost looks like one of the older PAK guns, a 37 or maybe 50mm, at dead on yea, fury isn't a Sherman Jumbo and it'd cut right through the front plate, but it looks like the didn't account for the base upward angle of where they set the gun and the Sherman 76s already real steep upward angle of the front plate. The round would, probably, sheer a chunk out of the front plate but still ricochet off at what could be as much as a 70 degree angle with out much damage. Even more so if it was one of the lower velocity early war rounds they had a good stock of rather then the later war high velocity rounds that were hard to come by this late in the war. Just my two cents as a tank nerd.
People theorized that and I hopped on that but someone pointed something specific out. The guy who ended up getting shot wearing the uniform wore that uniform perfectly, had it tailored to him and all so he seems legit
Judging the insignia he was a SS-Untersturmführer, a junior officer typically young man in his 20. Fits perfectly. Maybe if the insignia indicates a Sturmbannführer or higher I could believe that plot twist
The thing that convinces me that the SS officer wasn't really the SS officer, is because that group managed to surrender despite him still being alive. The SS were aware that they would be tried for war crimes if they got captured, he would have executed anyone who would even suggest the idea of surrender and he would have needed to be killed before those kids managed to do so. I'm 75% sure that bank manager was the SS officer, and he forced one of the conscripts to wear his outfit so they could get out.
6:23 Honestly, this movie was a mixed bag for me; it had things I thought were well done and other things not so much. But the GI patting the SS officer on the shoulder and saying "Auf Weidersehn, asshole" before he gets a full clip of Thompson submachine gun pumped into him gives me a deep sense of satisfaction. At this time of the war, the SS were executing German civilians left and right, including many innocent children as you see in the movie...on top of the far more notorious crimes against humanity the Nazis committed.
I really like the face expresion of Brad Pitt when he say "Yeah, the SS cocksucker with the busted wing", that hate on his face, you can even feel the horrors of what he had seen
If you mean the Germans, it’s cause they just fired a round If you mean the Yanks, then it’s cause if you pre-load they might not be able to respond with the proper ammunition for an unknown scenario
This is not so strange. In ww2 the average count of hits to knock out a tank was 4.2 to Tiger, 2.5 to Panther and 2 to Sherman. And the rounds in ww2 wasn't so accurate like these days and wobble a lot. Tiger 231 in Kursk battle was hit 252! times and still drive despite heavy damage...
As a former tanker I can full say that we do talk the way the crew of Fury does in the movie. Commands have changed a little but between the crewmembers.... yeah we get dark like that still.
while i love the dark visual style of this movie....these german Pak 40 - Anti Tank 75mm turrets would have shredded these sherman tanks in every scene with one shot
This was a PaK 38. That being said at that angle, even an 88mm. would ricochet. This comes from a German study into armor penetrating ballistics when it comes vehicle angling
@@peterson7082 Very much true, if you angle the armor plating by at least 45 degrees which in turn makes 1 inch armor plating become 2 inch armor plating and making it harder to penetrate and the chance of ricocheting higher, thus why when you see tanks diagonal, it does the same thing for armor that is straight 90 degrees up and down, now if the sherman was straight up facing the pak 38 head on, it would've penetrated easily, just look at the scene where they take on the tiger head on, the tiger took them out easily, any experienced tanker would never do this cause one, it's armor is heavy all around except it's back, so in this case, speed and maneuverability so they can get behind the tiger since that is it's only weak point for allied tanks, unless you got air support then planes would just drop a bomb on it, taking it out.
@@LadyElaisha your trig isn't very good, 180-90-45=45. so there are 2 angles of 45, and one of 90, so the triangle is isosceles. adjacent is 1 and the opposite is 1, sqrt(1+1)=sqrt(2)=~1.4 The thickness of an 1inch armour plate angled at 45 degrees from normal would be about 1.4inches. effective RHA equivalent is dependant on the round fired at the tank, and how well (or poorly) it can normalise, but i dont expect that to make a massive difference at only 45 degrees.
that round into that Sherman from static gun at close range..... Sherman would have been toast... round doesn't have to penetrate to incapacitate crew either..
Back when there were only two monkeys on this planet…… one of the monkeys looked at the other one, pointed up at the sky and said, “He said for you to give me your share.” There will always be war. Recorded history covers about 7000 years. In that time it’s been a river of blood.
If this movie didn't have that completely unrealistic and drawn out scene where they eat food in the German family's house it'd be a masterpiece, also the ending was clearly changed by a script committee as its obvious everyone was supposed to die at the end.
" completely unrealistic and drawn out scene where they eat food in the German family's house" Curious as to what makes it unrealistic. The german family is pretty much terrified throughout. From their point of view, the invaders have them at gunpoint and they have to do what they want. It's perfectly in line with the grey morality of the rest of the film. "also the ending was clearly changed by a script committee as its obvious everyone was supposed to die at the end." Again, Norman was discovered, and then spared, by a boy-faced SS trooper. Again, the grey morality. This was definitely always the intent.
you had Nixon in Band of Brothers rummaging through civilian houses for liquor. Addiction. A sense of superiority. A sense of not giving a fuck. I don't see how it's unrealistic.
@@TheSaturnV did you ever feel that the original ending had all the characters dying? I felt the movie would have ended with the young gunner opening the top hatch to die fighting, and the was his final test as a soldier. The sudden emergency bottom hatch seems so sudden and out of nowhere and makes the entire lead up to it pointless. However I do really love that part where the German soldier decides to let him live.
The sign around the woman's neck reads: "I didn't want my children to fight."
The sign around the boys neck reads: "I am a coward and did not want to fight for the German people."
thank you good sir
Much appreciated.
ouch... talk about the highest sanction...
@@shep9231 for the Germans, it was either you fight, or become a victim of a warcrime.
creepy.
"Good shootin' kid, keep stackin' 'em up."
Those were mercy kills and Don knew it.
That was white phosphorus aka “Willy Pete” that stuff burns and burns and burns until it burns out completely. And sticks to anything it touches you have to full smother it with mud cause water doesn’t douse it.
@@nightdirtclaw1799Okay, but who asked?
Phosphorus combusts with contact with oxygen, that's why it's stored in vacuums or vats of oil. White P rounds were effective because the initial round would never stop burning. The ultimate incendiary.@@nightdirtclaw1799
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@@matthewjones39 Who asked for the snide teenage-level reply? @nightdirtclaw1799 is earnestly handing out facts, and 18 other people appreciate that. At worst their comment was slightly tangential, but honestly it provides context valuable to understanding OP's comment; people who aren't war nerds aren't likely to understand the significance of the glowing white dots.
I hope you're just some bot I've wasted time replying to, because it is incredibly sad when people are so insecure they need to tear down random internet strangers for validation. Attitudes like yours aren't special, they're just disappointing.
For several years, I lived in a small German village, near a US Air Force base. We lived there from 1958 to 1963. I was a little kid. There were burned out tanks and other army stuff in the woods behind our house. It was VERBOTEN, or FORBIDDEN, for me and my brother to go back there. This was just 13 years after WW2 had ended. All the bodies had been removed, but it was still a scary, spooky, and depressing place. We went back in there every chance we got.
"We went back there every chance we could" lol. I would too that was some crazy machinery I bet.
@@PlymouthVTthe machinery is fine, it's the UXOs that are the killers
@@ConReese Hi is UXO unexploded ordinance? If so yes that's a big concern.
@@PlymouthVT yes it is
@@ConReeseive heard of people renovating ww2 tanks etc and they still had ammunition in them. One set of a bullet with a cutting torch that ricocheted around the interior. He was lucky not to be another ww2 casualty.
German Sniper, ready and steady: "Should I kill the Grand Dad or the Tank Commander?"
"Yeah, fuck that old fuck!"
Apart from that.. I love the tracer ammo, because it is the reason why in Star Wars the Imperium shots green Lasers, while the Rebels shot red Lasers. Germans mostly used green and the Americans red.
Funny thing is that one of the novels I read bothered to explain that the lasers you see in the movie are tracer rounds for the ACTUAL lasers that do damage, which neatly explains WHY you can see a laser in space when physic says you shouldn't be able to. It's a ret con but as ret cons go it's a pretty good one.
Rebels were based on the Viet Minh not the Americans. No idea why this myth keeps getting spread even after Lucas himself mentions this.
@@Petey0707 Probably because there are many similarities between Star Wars and the real world. Rebels aginst Empire= American Revolution. Palpatine' s rise to Power = Hitler. Other sources say "Yeah Amercians use red tracer ammo, and the SOVIETS used green". And, more scientific approaching sources, say "Well, green lasers energy levels are higher than the red ones, and the Imperium is technologically more sophisticated than the rebels."
You are right, Lucas opposes the Vietnam War and defintiely said, his story of rebels against an enormous empire referred to this conflict.
The problem is, Lucas himself said repeatedly, that this situation occured multiple times in histroy and that he took inspiration from many. But the starting point for him, true, was the Vietnam War.
Still, we can't be sure 100 % where he took inspiration for each and very part or fact for Star Wars from. As far as I know, it could be any conflict. Sooo... unless you really got a source, where Lucas says :"Oh well, that lasers come from the tracer ammo of this or that conflict." we are both right and wrong.
@@Nauke90 Actually Palpatine looked a lot like JB
Sniper might not have been able to see Brad Pitt, idk
This whole fight sequence actually feels so terrifying and dark, and is just disturbing overall especially when you see those child soldiers.
also the most unrealistic ww2 scene i've ever seen!
It is ugly, because it is close to the truth.
Nothing is uglier than the truth.
Most of those soldiers carrying rifles for the USA are kids too.
You'll understand at 30, why 19 is still a kid.
They have videos about the Hitler Youth
@@androlis671 Sure the tank firing its main gun at anything except that anti tank gun is inaccurate, but this fighting is actually alright in terms of ww2 urban warfare, see literally any urban battle in the history of the second world war, or even before it with the Japanese invasions during the 30's. Hitler Youth were commonly used as ground troops throughout the war, especially when Germany was breathing its last. Allies also definitely committed their fair share of no mercy type war crimes, and positioning for German machine gun nests at choke points looking over streets throughout a town are Tactics 101 for guerilla or military units today. Did you never study any war in the history of humanity before seeing this video or did you ride the short bus throughout your childhood?
This movie does a good job of never glorifying anything. In some other films you might get patriotic music on the killing of the SS officer, but Fury maintains its dark tone throughout.
Absolutely. It may not be particularily accurate in terms of tactics or how it was actually fought, but it nails the feel and atmosphere
Idk Fury is still pretty cheesy and unrealistic.
Thats just because china owns hollywood
The Average German Soldier you became a POW now for the SS There was “No Quarter” that’s why Angel Mag dumped that SS officer with the busted arm
@@TheArrowedKnee Actually it was very accurate. By that point in the war, the Krauts were desperate, made kids fight (see Hitler Youth, one of my ancestors took a pin off a corpse) and with the crimes against humanity of the Krauts in full display, the SS were often gunned down. The Allies committed plenty of war crimes, but we won so history tends to forgive it.
Hard to believe my father did this in 1944 as a 19 year old.
Did what fought in world war 2.
Yes, it is. Unimaginable by todays standards but they did what they had to do. God bless them.
Hard to believe any of them did any of this, at any age. As is said in the film, "it will end, soon. But before that, a lot more people have to die". They depended on each other, and the world depended on them. It is because of the sacrifices and choices they made that we live the fortunate lives we live.
Your dad's not Brad Pitt
@@Fleetadmiralpawlikzeldaleader Yes
6:11 excellent acting from the Burgermeister. That look on his face says "I'm so done with this asshole too."
Plot Twist: The Burgemeister is actually the real SS commander and this poor young Hitlerjugend is dutifully following his order.
@@cid2852 look how shocked the burgemeister is after he was shoved by the executioner, in his mind he's like "I'm sorry buddy".
That exasperated "ja" says so much.
You did not become a mayor in a german town in the third Reich without being somebody in the party. They were not elected but appointed. But especially the lower echelons of the NSDAP and the communal administration were getting ready for the time after the war. So, his desire to capitulate is historically accurate. The "Goldfasane" (golden pheasants, so called for their brown uniforms) did not like the fanatical SS executioners. At least at this time of the war.
You misread that very badly.
My favorite part from the entire movie.
3:32 "Fuck you Jerry" always makes me laugh
I tought they said: “fuck you Germans”
Yup! Maine too. Decent accent 😂😂
Never caught that
I imagine as the soldier it would have been cathartic af.
Was soll daran lustig sein?
Many times when allied troops saw anyone surrendering with SS markings, they tended to shoot them on site. Especially if they saw heinous war crimes in the area.
Unwritten and unconfirmed orders from Ike was that he didn't want to see any SS POWs; especially after what happened at Malmedy.
Can you blame them? And yet German apologists today STILL whine about that. "Ooo..they got shot after surrendering" The SS (sometimes, and only sometimes) got treated precisely as they treated others....too damn bad.
Yup. They started doing it in retaliation for when SS troopers executed surrendered American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.
Yeah rightfully so. Why waste the time and effort to build a gallows for em?
I heard after a while they started interrogating them first since a number of ss officers would exchange their ss uniforms for some poor clueless regular army boi who doesn’t know any better
Give credit to the subtle patting of the dead soldier on the back. A simple "rest now friend, you fought hard". The only thing you can do while still in combat mission.
or just a is there signs he is alive? no move on.
Thinking too much is not a good thing in those scenarios.. might be what you said but in a logical moment where you just reacting to the moment its more just is he alive no move on. Let the burial squad deal with him.
I take credit away for the loading in response to taking a hit (ridiculous, they'd be ready to go 100%) and for the MG to completely severe the leg of the soldier before the guy even started to fall, like idk, maybe being picky but is this legit made for 10 year olds? its not that hard to not include those two unrealistic details
@@ak4344 The MG42 fired at 1200 RPM, if my maths is correct then that is 20 rounds per second. 20 rounds have gone through his leg and out the other side before he knew what was happening and he was hit below the knee, which is usually the thinnest part of your leg. The 42 could cut someone in half if you shot them enough so it's no surprise that it removed his leg.
stop playing so much call of duty it's not good for you
love how "Angel" just strolls up looking like the angel of death lol
Bitte was?
That was the entire idea of the scene. Look at the helmet wrap that made him look like the angel angle of death,
Wardaddy " Oppa! Wo sind die Deutsche Soldaten?"
Old man: >points<
German sniper: "And I took that personally"
that clip is such bullshit yeah let’s shoot a fellow german instead of the fucking tank commander
I shouldn't be laughing😂
German Sniper: "So, anyway, I started blasting!"
Didn’t he know it’s rude to point?? 😅
I mean I would be mad too If somone snitch on my hiding place
3:52 the way the soldier went and pat the back of another dead soldier was like saying “thank you for trying, you did good I’ll see you on the other side “
Even more impactful when you realize the dead soldier (Sergeant Miles) was their combat leader.
or checking if alive. most logical scenario in the situation. If so call medic if not move on. let the company that deals with dead bodies do their thing. Other than close friends in shock it doesn't make sense otherwise. Just how we think of how war should be vs how war is. and I'm putting a big on how it probably was. You really got to de connect your self to make it through heavy trauma like that.
@@AlphaQ23 i served in the infantry. the most important thing you can do to save those mens’ lives are actually to leave them where they be. move forwards and assault through whatever killed them and clear the area. when we secure objectives we always make sure to clear enemies and sort out epw before any aid and litter are called, in line with what you see depicted. calling a medic in this instance would make sense, yet is foolish, as a man distracted trying to carry bodies cannot defend himself, and as a combat leader you would be putting another man in danger trying to help.
@@VLSG Copy that man. I merely meant it the best case scenario I could see in that scenario of them leaning down checking then the patting would most likely just be well Hollywood in this case. Realistically I can imagine it be maybe that person checked for a response. In the scenario I'd imagine its more in the case of visual check that guy out but again that's focusing on Hollywood on this scenario. depends on the soldier i bet.. and I have no idea what your training would say. I'm imagining the focus would just be the visual if it resulted in that cool cold dead what ever but sad sure.. but in the moment that's not the focus.
@@VLSG I have 0 combat training and anything military training. Was just stating in that kinda scenario. It seems more Hollywood like. unless maybe if the person patting them knows the person and was just doing that.
My grandfather who is no longer with us worked inside aircraft carriers during ww2. He told me all sorts of stories. Though he didn't fight the Germans. It was the pacific for him.
Mine too. Got off of the Reservation by signing up for the Navy in 1937. Did 20 years. Biplanes to jets
germans with raw fish instead of sausage... same targets to me
"auf Wiedersehen, asshole!"
Also Angel, who shot the SS, gave me serious Lt. Speirs vibes.
You think he'd give them smokes first?
Nah, the look, stone cold vibe, and Thompson mag dump.
3:41 Top looks at Binkowski, and the hands are like “What did you expect, a napkin slap?”
The Germans, meanwhile, claim they were liberated and not defeated in 1945. This is no joke. Meanwhile, their propaganda is spreading this lie! One of many lies they spread!
I love it, he's just like "hey, _you_ said..."
We got us a German here who wants to die for his country. Oblige him. 6:29
This, so much this!!
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@@BackwoodsFilms Bawnjerno.
Funny thing is, he probably wasn't even the a real SS troop or commander. There are stories of ones who switched gear with soliders so they didn't die, and some innocent (somewhat) solider would say yes, or got forced too, and would die. Many SS leaders did that
I learnt alot from my grandfather who fought in Tobruk and PNG, like how to use a knife properly to neck an animal, Kentucky windage and how to load n fire a howitzer.
Whenever I see someone in a movie spray someone in the torso, it's rarely realistic, they rarely die instantly even if shot through the heart. My grandfather said they usually take a minute or so, coughing n suffering.
War is not something to glorify.
Wars will only stop when the common man says " no! We won't die for you politicians and filthy rich!"
Sever the spine and they will be dead instantly. A bullet will do that.
when you sign up you are protecting the guys next to you, not the rich and the politicians. You must not have served. When you sign up you make a commitment, real men stand by their commitments. You can't just walk away, or can YOU?
You can, but don't be surprised when your shunned for such actions.
no, you volunteer either because you have no other economic opportunities or you believe in patriotism. when you are in war, you're then fighting for your buddy, but what are you dying for?
the same thing the roman legions and the greeks died for
Wars will never stop lol. Wars have been happening and will continue to happen. Since the Dawn of Man and one guy told another guy, “hey, that dude has a cool rock. Let’s work together and get ‘em, Larry.” There were no politicians or currency. Hell, the native Americans had no concept of owning land or not sharing and they fought all the time with eachother, with some of the worst brutality ever recorded in history. Stop with the moral speeches, you’re not as smart as you think you are. Way more naive, though.
3:11 what a shame. Clint Eastwood would never get himself killed like that. Only his son
That's nepotism in Hollywood for yea.. and Eastwood dies all the time.
Such an amazing scene. Brutal and dark. And yet evoking so much emotion. And even then still you pity the German survivors.
But then you remember the sight outside the town, and maybe you too could have shot that guy, or at least given the order.
And who would convict you? Who would ever name you? Who would ever even blame you?
From a legal standpoint this is clearly a warcrime. Even at that time it would be one. And in my opinion it's also not about the point of beeing convicted for such a crime.
The main point in my opinion is this: It's a war and this SS-officer forced children to fight a already lost battle. He was an extremist to the core, even killing his own for disobeying or even questioning his orders. There is a chance he would get away with his crimes as many others did. And no one tried to save him, which is also a statement on it's own. And how could someone like him even be a part of a free society, an indoctrination like this as almost uncureable. How do you reintegrate someone in your society who killed a mother just because she feared for her children and stood up for them?
So in my opinion this was a unlawfull kill but from a morale standpoint, it was absolutely right.
it wouldn't even get written down
I wouldn't give a second thought about giving the order and been glad to pull the trigger. I mean, I quick death is a whole lot more compared to what they would do if the shoe was on the other foot. As Don states perfectly at the climax.
“Please don't. They’ll hurt you real bad. And they'll kill you real bad” - Don to Norman who wanted to surrender to SS
Sadly, if something like this happened today, the US media would be jumping all over it as a "war crime" and using it to score points with the liberals.
He had to go bad arm and all should have been hung up next to the kids he ordered to be hung
6:15: That guy just accepted his destiny without doubt.
He was gonna die no matter what might as well make it as painless as possible.
The Germans, meanwhile, claim they were liberated and not defeated in 1945. This is no joke. Meanwhile, their propaganda is spreading this lie! One of many lies they spread!
I think for people that did the murdering, they are expecting to be killed, even if captured. So this seems like someone who hoped for the best, but knew it was a possibility. I think the actor did a decent job for that role.
@@MyDogmatix Nonsense most of the Nazi nation's murderers hoped to get away with it. Unfortunately they were right.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars that’s exactly what I said, I said they’d hope for the best (actually, I said “East”. Clearly that was a spelling error due to “auto spell correct”. Which. Changes the spelling as I type.). Anyways, I said they hoped for the best when they surrendered, but wouldn’t be surprised if they were killed
And yes the ones in the west that surrendered by and larger got away with it, not so much for the ones in the east. So. We agree. Try to read what someone says or is trying to say next time.
As a cinema lover all of my 76+ years, I will say that this film is a great film. even the interlude with the German young women , as distasteful as it is, is well done, & has a point to the story. NO ONE-----no one-----is left untouched by war. War is truly, Homo Sapiens at his very worst, & that;s the point of the " interlude". KUDOS to the entire cast. From Pitt on down, everyone is perfectly cast. This scene is also, well done, & all too true. Just because " the war is over " , killing still goes on & on & on. ----------------MJL, 76 y/o
Russian soldiers treated german women and girls far far worse
My grandfather was part of this infantry push into northern Germany… he arrived post D-day and fought his way to war’s end straight through, achieving rank of Sergeant in the process. Took part in the Hurtgen forest battle and all that stuff. Naturally, he never spoke of any of it, condemned my uncle for volunteering for Vietnam, and largely lived a miserable existence until passing at 67 from emphysema, diabetes, heart failure, and a couple of different cancers.
My favorite part of this whole scene is the extra at 1:27 that looks out the corner of his eye to check the camera, do an awkward wave, and then put his hand on the bottom of the magazine like its a grip.
What? He turned around to check for hostiles around/behind and then made a wave with the hand to the troops to hurry up?
@@DutchGuyMike Ok?
@@Happymouth1 Ok.
There's a movie with Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta called Two of a Kind. Skipping the details of the movie, there is a scene near the end where some police officers are mobilized. One of them takes position and has what looks like your typical M16...
But as he takes aim, his trigger hand is holding the M16 like you would hold a rifle that didn't have a pistol grip. His thumb was up behind the charging handle, with his fingers wrapping around the part of the gun where the receiver and stock meet.
1:46 This same reflective shot was done with a Sherman Firefly in "A Bridge Too Far" in 1977.
One mistake made in this movie was that the surrendering troops always kept their helmets on. In the German military, taking off their helmet was a soldier's universal sign they were done fighting, & the allies knew it. Doing otherwise was a good chance of getting shot, hands up or not.
At least in this scene it’s forgivable. These were just scared kids who didn’t know what they were doing. In scenes with adult soldiers, not so much.
@@DLordSadow My thoughts exactly
That's interesting, but I've never heard that before. Do you have a source? Although it does appear common enough in pictures to have some truth to it, there are lots of pictures of surrendering Germans with helmets still on, including during combat operations (as opposed to a mass, negotiated surrender, where you'd be less likely to be shot).
@@kyleross8817, that came from my Grandpa, a Sherman tank driver in the 3rd Armored Division. He was in combat from the hedgerow country in Normandy in June of '44, across France & Belgium, into Aachen & Stolberg, Germany during the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, & then back into Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, where he was wounded his third & final time in January of '45. He saw a very great number of Germans surrender, & told me it was common knowledge that bare-headed & no helmet was a universal sign they were done fighting. This was most common among those who slipped away from their units & approached the allied lines to surrender, when not in direct combat. Considering his time & breadth of experience as an eye-witness, I considered him an authority on such matters, & he wasn't one to ever stretch the truth or tell tall tales about his wartime experiences.
That's a cool story! My grandpa was a sherman tank commander for the BC Dragoons in Italy. Unfortunately, he's not still around to tell me what Germans were doing in Italy, but I agree it sounds very likely. Pictures of surrendering Germans with helmets on aren't as common, and probably come from a relatively last-minute situation, where you're already wearing it and not thinking too straight.@@grantgarrod2232
Look at how neat and clean the SS Officer's uniform is. He's not been fighting.
It's not even a combat uniform.
@@A._.Neill26 To be fair, a lot of German officers did lack practical combat uniforms at many points in the war. Sometimes a combat uniform was simply a camo smock worn over the fancy uniform. and that's assuming logistics have supplied one
German officers were aristocrats. Some were, some thought they were
Heinrich Himler, his SS boss never fought in any war also...
Normally waffen ss officer had camouflage smock and helmet in combat
3:14. That is one of two reasons why the MG42 was known as Hitler’s buzzsaw. It tore off limbs from people for one, and two is the extreme fire rate sounding like a buzzsaw.
@Rob Yeah, they lost but still, one hell of a weapon, right?
They actually modernized it and call it the MG-3
@@justinthebeau2590 They barely even modernized it. The only differences between the two is branding and the MG-3 is chambered in 7.62 NATO.
Weird seeing Scott Eastwood play such a supportive role.
He can't get by by shaking hands, and saying, "I;m Clint's kid"
@@flawidajack2335 yup… I realize that. Still surprised.
The Mayor clearly doesn't speak german as mother tongue, but for a learned german speaker, he speaks damn well.
Who’s The Mayor?
@@jsullivan2112 the man with the white flag was adresses by Wardaddy as "Bürgermeister". That's german for Mayor.
I met the actor before in Ireland, he does speak German as a second language. Hes English but has German family.
Really nice fella.
@@hughmcnamara1790 I guess for those not familiar with German (the language), it's still good enough to pass
He fooled me, another learned German speaker. I thought the actor was German. I am Norwegian, by the way.
Dying from burning in white phosphorous or similar must suck so badly.
Yup. Napalm literally sucks the oxygen out of the air as you burn so that you suffocate as you burn to death. Willie Pete will burn right through you as long as it's exposed to oxygen. Makes dying from a bullet in the brain bucket a lot more appealing.
That one way of putting it lol
Well it doesn't suck for long
The Israelis use this weapon against Palestinian children...(see book by Lilienthal) which of course is a war crime.
@@jamielag4669 lmao Fer shur 🤣
I love that ablative armor (THE TREE LOGS) on the FURY tank .
Logs aren't armor, they are tools for when the tank needs grip
@@Partyaap050 they are strapped on the sides for ablative type armor. Irregular, asymmetrical materials other than standard metal plate armor(logs, sandbags, wood) can Aid in stopping HEAT or AP ROUNDS .
@@victorsforza5578 It is literally carried with tank crews at those times to help get the tank out of mud when it's stuck. They never intended for it to be used as armor. That's just Hollywood mate
@@victorsforza5578 No exactly the opposite. The frontal armor of the M4A3E6 or E8 was sloped enough to deflect a HVAP 75mm AT round. The logs would in fact deflect the round down, decreasing angle that strikes the armor plate thereby decreasing the effective thickness of the Sherman's armor. The fact was the Sherman's 56 degree sloped front plate was 3.6 inches of effective frontal armor. Almost as much as a Tiger I's 4.0 inches of vertical frontal plate armor.
@@Partyaap050 Or they need to use it to put pressure on the track for repairs.
I bought this movie on UA-cam. Soundtrack is really great. When they decided to fight on crossroads and that song on background I cried.
If you like this movie and tanks I highly recommend reading the book Spearhead by Adam Makos. Documents both American and German tank combat. Clarence Smoyer rides in the experimental Pershing tank and later meets one of the drivers of the tanks he fought against.
I wouldn't mind serving in a Pershing tank. But if it were named Perishing, I think I'd pass.....
@@stepinfetchit9394 thank you for the correction!
That book is one of my favorites. I hope to see it as a movie like his other book Devotion.
Recommend Richard Von Rosen book Panzer ace too, gives good coverage on actually working and living with tank and he was first that had King Tigers in normandy under his wing. Book is filled with photos he took while in east and west fronts.
So powerful...The look (of being the executioner) on the angel's face as he mowed down that SS kid killer. The music in the scene behind it.
Yeah killing POWs and SS soldiers who were 17 years old is sick dude
@@scrunchgumpkins623 , someone who hangs multiple kids, with the added aggravator of prejudice against a religion (Jews), would get the death penalty in the individual states of America where it is legal, even after due process of law. At age 17, you are tried as an adult, especially after such a heinous crime as murder. I did not observe any other POWs getting executed in that one scene. They even mention it's a bunch of kids.
True. Many of these people in uniform had been brutalized by the horrors of war. You see enough, feel enough physically - one more just blurs in with the rest of it.
You go through that, or a death camp, or many years of hardcore abuse that was twice compared to such a camp - and it can do some *ugly* things to your mind.
@@rudy8146 What about that german POW (casual soldier, not SS), who begged for his life, and Norman was forced by Wardaddy to shoot him?
@@gkiss2030 the one wearing an american GI overcoat? fuck that guy
I’ve seen this scene a dozen times and could watch it again another dozen😊
I do like how tiger 131 was used for this movie probably the most famous tiger tank in history
If they didn't kill that SS officer, he at least would had another broken arm along with two broken legs.
Would have moved the Tommy up his leg. Then choked him to death while he bleed from his groin.
Yeah he tripped on the curb and some how he broke all his limbs… crazy 😏
You should read about the revenge killings on SS members and concentrationcamp guards. It’s therapeutic.
@@johnjuiceshipper4963 As if the American (shadow) government hasn't done worse. Look up The Real Manchurian Candidate, what the US government does to its own people is just as worse, or worse even, as what the Nazis did, but the Nazis were defeated so it became known - what the US government is doing will never be known and anyone trying to effect that will be "slipped in the shower".
I honestly wanted him kicked around a little more.
4:05 does anyone know what the German soldiers on the anti tank gun are saying?
I'm not fluent in German either. Correct me if not fully interpreted.
"Drehe zum Turm": Turn to the (tank) tower
"Gerade" (exact)
"Zum Ziel" (on target)
"Feuer" (fire)
"Boom" (Germans screaming in agony of phosphorus / schrapnel)
Hope this helps ;)
3:26 the guy standing behind fury tank.
Your hearing loss was not related to your service
“Fuck you, Jerry!” - must’ve been that guy
Brutal, but accurate. By the last months of the war, there was no quarter left.
My grandfather parachuted in with the 82nd. Said the hardest part was landing. "After that, you just did"
2:33, what does Bible say before firing? He says it every time throughout the movie but I can't make sense of it
He says "on the way"! Meaning the shell is firing towards the enemy
My father was a bit too young to serve at this time.
I myself have never been required to serve thanks to the bravery of these people.
Two generations have passed but now the evil returns to Europe.
it was always there.... just threw out the swastika and took on the hammer and sickle instead.... different symbols, same evil
Real men in real time knowing what was important in life getting it done, I'm proud to say my father was one of them.
Why does that make them 'real men'?
@@the-blue-barron2791 the answer is in the statement "knowing what was important in life getting it done"
@@best5345 so you're saying what is important in life is killing each other?
@@the-blue-barron2791so your family can have a better future... Yes
That's what the blue Baron did.@@the-blue-barron2791
" Why so sour Kraut ? " ... Epic. So missed by 99.9 % of all viewers. ✌️
This movie was very good and realistic. Kudos to Brad Pitt and the rest of the cast!!
What? How old are you, 12? This movie is the ultimate "Merica fuck yeah" bs. It's ridiculous.
Realistic? right...
LMAO!!!
About as realistic as COD
It's a bit too grimdark to be realistic, but its still a good movie. The second act is REALLY hammy though, and almost ruins it
we need more movies like this. to remind every generation, what hero's really look like.
A BIG Roger that! The current younger generation need to see what the fight against fascism cost and how ugly it was. Pray God that we don’t have to fight it here at home
It took quite some time on yt before someone posted the full scene of entering the town. Those youngsters hung for not fighting and that dead body in the road run over by the tanks was not for the squeamish. So evil that the SS officer had people killed for not fighting and then he tries to surrender. I am suspicious that he was faking a broken arm. Holy justification that the soldier killing him was named ANGEL.
A todo cerdo se le llega su San Martin. THERE is a Spanish phrase that says 'every pig has his St Martin's Day coming to him' (A cada cerdo le llega su San Martín). It means that a person will get their comeuppance.
UA-cam only lets you see what benefits them now if it hurts the view of América they will red flag it and ban it because its not on their agenda
The part with the body on the road being ran over is very similar to a photograph from the Eastern Front that I saw in a book. The photo was of a soldier completely flattened on a muddy road which was revealed after the snow thawed.
I saw a remarkably similar photo taken somewhere in Ukraine a couple of months ago... “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”
The only relative I know, who was in a war was my great great grandfather. It was world war 1 and sadly, he was killed in 1914. He had a wife and had 1 or 2 children.
Sadly I never got to meet my great great grandfather, as I was born many years later.
I think one scene that was completely overlooked was the fact the dead soldier just being rolled over by the tank. Idk why just really disturbed by that
i love to think that angel grew up to be a father and grandfather, his kids and grandkids blissfully unaware that their dad and grandpa was a killing machine
*Angel (Thompson ready)* This is for the Little ones
regardless of the war be it WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, First Gulf, Afghanistan or Iraq, all vets that were combat forward units have that ability, we just had to learn to turn it on and off. We have two side, our civilian side, what you and everyone else sees then the war side of us, the killer, which is a side I don't ever want anyone back here at home to see. Every day I hope that I never have to flip that switch again.
@@Rocamurderface187 you served? thanks for your service man, dunno what we'd do without you guys.
At 0:53 was that supposed to be a dead body previously crushed by vehicles? Looks like just clothes laid out.
Yes, i think so
"ich wollte mein kinder nicht kampfen lassen"
Means she didn't want her children to fight
I just started learning German and i was like yo that's a lote worse than what they said that mean
The second sign when they enter the village actually said “Ich bin ein (coward). Ich wollte nicht für das Deutsche Volk kampfen” so he’s not completely wrong
3:09
Hats off to the bro who went inside to avoid death by MG-42
This movie is one that shows us how dark and terrible that war really was
Is
All wars, HandMan.
0:53 Is such a quick detail but it made my jaw drop. War is unimaginably horrible.
I don’t know much about this stuff… but at 4:30 can someone please explain why were they burning like that after the explosion instead of being on fire? It looked like they were cooking from the inside.
I’m 80% sure it was a wait phosphorous shell they shot into the building. It’s not a fun way to die
White phosphorus. Once inhaled….it scars the lungs and once contact, it burns flesh to the bone
@@autisticgamer4949 I looked it up and you are correct. They are horrific! They used them in WW1 and WW2 and would call them Willy Pete. And that’s what Brad Pitt called it. Thank you, sir.
I think you answered it yourself, but it was a Willy Pete shell. To minimise explosive damage to the building (and the ordinance inside the building) they flushed the troops out with it. The problem is, even though Willy Pete (White Phosphorous base) is a waxy, smoke munition, in a tank shell against the human body, they were stumbling out of there blind, deaf and with shrapnel wounds being infected with fine burning particulate, cooking their organs, bones and lungs, basically the worst kind of chemical burn imaginable :(
@@willmarsden7657 Jeez, hadn’t thought of all that. 😖 “What a man can do to another man”. Impartially speaking, both parties did horrible things.
1:29 - Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
the best movie showing the gruesome reality of war
"auf wiedersehen Asshole" Best fucking line for sure ahahaha
Saving Private Ryan
Used to be my top war movie
Now it's FURY 🔥💥🔥💥
I assume you have not watched a lot of those :)
It is good, but maybe try My Way as well...
the actor playing the burgermeister was great. put a lot into simply saying "ja".
A PAK75 firing at close range at a Sherman, and the grenade bouncing off ...... very realistic!
shell*
Edit: the sherman was at an angle when shot, and it was hit on it's frontal armor, the angle, slanted armor, and thicker armor would result in that happening
Cuz, is not time for Brad Pitt to die yet.
50mm PaK 38, and either one woulf ricochet at that angle
A Pak 43 aka "88" at that range could have gone through that entire column of tanks.
I think a pak 40 at 20 yards could penetrate even an easy eight
@@dancollins9307 Not at that angle
"Hey, shoot that guy."
'This guy?" lol, he sounded so happy
I mean, having a superior tell you to kill someone. Why would you ever second guess it when you had been through what they went through?
4:34 no no, let him cook
Lol
6:31 pink mist looks amaizing
need more gritty ww2 movies like this
Yes, but better if the heroes survive! By the way, the Germans, meanwhile, claim they were liberated and not defeated in 1945. This is no joke. Meanwhile, their propaganda is spreading this lie! One of many lies they spread!
Come and see is pretty gritty, but it doesn't show much combat, just german warcrimes. Pretty anti-war movie.
STALINGRAD 1993 is really good.
3:52 that was probably his buddy. Can't stop and mourn, just keep ,moving forward.
Id at least take his tags or something. Just to remember my friend
I love the look the other tank commander gives Don after his tank fires the round into the cellar the Germans were hiding. Don's reaction was pretty funny too "God damn!".
2:22 even tho the Nazis were bad people i doubt they would shot the old man over the tank commander, looked cool and was shocking but it pulled me out of the movie right away because it made no sense in my mind...
This movie is ONLY on Starz right now. I want to watch this movie again!!!!
R. I. P Clint Eastwood son
He had to get his Au Fait patty ass down the road
This is a top class WW2 movie in my opinion.
Enorme película bélica con estupenda actuación de Brad Pitt y compañía. De lo mejor. 👌 👍🏻
mucha fantasmada de pelicula
The Americans are speaking here.
My grandfather was a high ranking Nazi official who faced a firing squad. My family migrated to the USA after the war
Many other Germans did that. No grievances about emigrating in the country of the former enemy ?
@@davidnavarro4821 I’m also half American Indian but 100% American ! I was given up for adoption because my Nazi grandmother refused to raise a child with tainted blood in her house. She also kicked my biological mother out when she found out that she was pregnant with me.
As much as I disliked this movie because it is purely fiction and at times very unrealistic. This scene did a great job portraying the dire situation and German desperation at wars end.
It's not pure fiction.
It's based on an actual journal, but with the usual Hollywood bullshit added.
Like a Tiger being invincible.
Stop hating. Its a classic girlfriend
@@chrisbingley several accounts rather
@@chrisbingley Like driving up to and then around the Tiger to hit it in the back, in full view on an open field... Those Shermans would have been toast!
@@roberthermann97 They would have been toast had the Tiger not stopped at just taking out one when they were running in tandem. Once the Shermans rushed it the Tiger would have been too slow, and it can't traverse its turret fast enough to take out Shermans trying to flank it on either side. A Sherman could turn its gun way faster. All accounts from history show that what happened here was their best chance of taking it out (other than the line formation rather than flanking).
Did that shit in battlefield V yesterday with the last enemy left 6:32
The most realistic scene was at the table when the Sargent finally loses his patience and says "Shut the fuck up" his man says why should I shut up? He slams his pistol down on the table and spits on the guy, as if to say "You want any more reasons?
dude, there's literally no way you're missing a tank from THAT close. And paks were quite accurate as well. Like just aim for the front hull it will go through like butter from even mile away. Oh well, plot armor protects from anything.
It's a movie. Plot armor happens. Do you have the same complaint regarding the Tiger battle in the same movie, where Fury's 76mm could have punched right through the Tiger's front end multiple times at the distance they were fighting?
I took it as they got impatient, fired too early, and the shot bounced because it hit at an angle.
@singleproppilot also agree with this and they were probably some civilians forced to fight and not all regular army
Idk about that bud.
That almost looks like one of the older PAK guns, a 37 or maybe 50mm, at dead on yea, fury isn't a Sherman Jumbo and it'd cut right through the front plate, but it looks like the didn't account for the base upward angle of where they set the gun and the Sherman 76s already real steep upward angle of the front plate. The round would, probably, sheer a chunk out of the front plate but still ricochet off at what could be as much as a 70 degree angle with out much damage. Even more so if it was one of the lower velocity early war rounds they had a good stock of rather then the later war high velocity rounds that were hard to come by this late in the war.
Just my two cents as a tank nerd.
@@admiralsnackbarkekwalice6167 in the movie fury is an Sherman easy 8 (M4A3E8) not a Sherman jumbo (M4A3E2)
One of the best Hooah movies I've seen.
In a plot twist, the SS guy was actually the mayor and the guy playing the mayor was actually SS.
People theorized that and I hopped on that but someone pointed something specific out. The guy who ended up getting shot wearing the uniform wore that uniform perfectly, had it tailored to him and all so he seems legit
Judging the insignia he was a SS-Untersturmführer, a junior officer typically young man in his 20. Fits perfectly. Maybe if the insignia indicates a Sturmbannführer or higher I could believe that plot twist
The thing that convinces me that the SS officer wasn't really the SS officer, is because that group managed to surrender despite him still being alive.
The SS were aware that they would be tried for war crimes if they got captured, he would have executed anyone who would even suggest the idea of surrender and he would have needed to be killed before those kids managed to do so. I'm 75% sure that bank manager was the SS officer, and he forced one of the conscripts to wear his outfit so they could get out.
6:23
Honestly, this movie was a mixed bag for me; it had things I thought were well done and other things not so much.
But the GI patting the SS officer on the shoulder and saying "Auf Weidersehn, asshole" before he gets a full clip of Thompson submachine gun pumped into him gives me a deep sense of satisfaction.
At this time of the war, the SS were executing German civilians left and right, including many innocent children as you see in the movie...on top of the far more notorious crimes against humanity the Nazis committed.
I really like the face expresion of Brad Pitt when he say "Yeah, the SS cocksucker with the busted wing", that hate on his face, you can even feel the horrors of what he had seen
There is not a combat formation known that stacks men that closely together upon assault
Oh yes there is.... the Hollywood Stackup :--)
Well, this is a movie and everyone has to fit in the frame.
You are watching a movie, not a field training manual….let it go…
@@jimbailey5316 Of course I know that
I just appreciate historical accuracy
@@apacifistmachinegunner669 I always appreciate the effort of providing historical accuracy, too.
At 4:18, I don't understand why the canon was not already loaded...
If you mean the Germans, it’s cause they just fired a round
If you mean the Yanks, then it’s cause if you pre-load they might not be able to respond with the proper ammunition for an unknown scenario
"Nah, they're cookin" 🤣🤣
Ye very funny.
Hell of a sniper shot, though a closed window, must be them magic bullets.
Ghost bullets. Silent yet deadly!
Apparently every AT round in this movie ricochets or barely nicks this tank. Brad pitt plot armor at it's finest
Lets not forget a round from an Easy 8 Sherman would have decimated the Tiger at the range it was fired when the 4 shermans went up against the tiger
This is not so strange. In ww2 the average count of hits to knock out a tank was 4.2 to Tiger, 2.5 to Panther and 2 to Sherman. And the rounds in ww2 wasn't so accurate like these days and wobble a lot. Tiger 231 in Kursk battle was hit 252! times and still drive despite heavy damage...
As a former tanker I can full say that we do talk the way the crew of Fury does in the movie. Commands have changed a little but between the crewmembers.... yeah we get dark like that still.
while i love the dark visual style of this movie....these german Pak 40 - Anti Tank 75mm turrets would have shredded these sherman tanks in every scene with one shot
This was a PaK 38.
That being said at that angle, even an 88mm. would ricochet. This comes from a German study into armor penetrating ballistics when it comes vehicle angling
@@peterson7082 Very much true, if you angle the armor plating by at least 45 degrees which in turn makes 1 inch armor plating become 2 inch armor plating and making it harder to penetrate and the chance of ricocheting higher, thus why when you see tanks diagonal, it does the same thing for armor that is straight 90 degrees up and down, now if the sherman was straight up facing the pak 38 head on, it would've penetrated easily, just look at the scene where they take on the tiger head on, the tiger took them out easily, any experienced tanker would never do this cause one, it's armor is heavy all around except it's back, so in this case, speed and maneuverability so they can get behind the tiger since that is it's only weak point for allied tanks, unless you got air support then planes would just drop a bomb on it, taking it out.
@@LadyElaisha your trig isn't very good, 180-90-45=45. so there are 2 angles of 45, and one of 90, so the triangle is isosceles. adjacent is 1 and the opposite is 1, sqrt(1+1)=sqrt(2)=~1.4 The thickness of an 1inch armour plate angled at 45 degrees from normal would be about 1.4inches. effective RHA equivalent is dependant on the round fired at the tank, and how well (or poorly) it can normalise, but i dont expect that to make a massive difference at only 45 degrees.
What does the sign say on the hanged man at 4:00 mark ?
"I am a coward and did not want to fight for the German people"
@@bobflendorg1064 ....thanks
that round into that Sherman from static gun at close range..... Sherman would have been toast... round doesn't have to penetrate to incapacitate crew either..
Not even close to the case. The round would've ricocheted.
One of my favorites of all time. flock - em
Back when there were only two monkeys on this planet…… one of the monkeys looked at the other one, pointed up at the sky and said, “He said for you to give me your share.” There will always be war. Recorded history covers about 7000 years. In that time it’s been a river of blood.
And now the apes have nukes!
I agree. No matter how civilized we are, there will always be a leader that will think it's time for a land grab. Human nature.
This is such a reddit comment ffs
NAW THEY COOKING....Best line in the movie
If this movie didn't have that completely unrealistic and drawn out scene where they eat food in the German family's house it'd be a masterpiece, also the ending was clearly changed by a script committee as its obvious everyone was supposed to die at the end.
" completely unrealistic and drawn out scene where they eat food in the German family's house"
Curious as to what makes it unrealistic. The german family is pretty much terrified throughout. From their point of view, the invaders have them at gunpoint and they have to do what they want. It's perfectly in line with the grey morality of the rest of the film.
"also the ending was clearly changed by a script committee as its obvious everyone was supposed to die at the end."
Again, Norman was discovered, and then spared, by a boy-faced SS trooper. Again, the grey morality. This was definitely always the intent.
you had Nixon in Band of Brothers rummaging through civilian houses for liquor. Addiction. A sense of superiority. A sense of not giving a fuck. I don't see how it's unrealistic.
But 5 men holding up an entire battalion in a busted tank on a busted road surrounded by open fields is realistic to you?
Fully agree. I've thought a few times about editing together my own take on this flick. Be cool to have access to all the footage they tossed.
@@TheSaturnV did you ever feel that the original ending had all the characters dying? I felt the movie would have ended with the young gunner opening the top hatch to die fighting, and the was his final test as a soldier. The sudden emergency bottom hatch seems so sudden and out of nowhere and makes the entire lead up to it pointless. However I do really love that part where the German soldier decides to let him live.