The History of the 3 Most Powerful Divisions of the Waffen SS | The Praetorian Guard III Reich
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- Which was the most decorated Waffen SS Division? Which Division had the most firepower? Which Division was the most feared on the battlefield? How did each of them end? When did they get together and fight together in an SS Panzer Corps? Next, in this program, we are going to analyze the history of three of the most powerful units that the German Army had in World War II, these being the Leibstandarte, the Das Reich and the Totenkopf.
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00:00 Division Leibstandarte
12:55 Division Das Reich
23:30 Divisipn Totenkopf - Розваги
You left out Wiking that easily was as distinguished as the other three. As I understand it Wiking was the second most decorated Waffen-SS division after Das Reich.
Wiking should have been mentioned
One of the regiments of the Verfügungstruppe which was the das Reich was used for the Wiking division and that was Germania the other regiment was Westland
@@opoxious1592 have you watched the video? its mentioned multiple times
@@justusdahl No, my bad.
I always enjoy Documentaries that present Facts and not fall for the current attempt to erase and rewrite history to fit history into the current agenda. So thanks for the Facts
Man, you content creator's are getting lazy with all these AI voice overs.
The AI mispronunciation ruin the films.
It’s his real voice, he just sounds like a robot. 😂
agree the pronounciation of german is appalling
I'm getting really annoyed lately by these AI voiceovers on all history docs :(
No shit. It's was annoying at first, then I heard the hitler juju. They just lost me. I am turning this thing off
Don't worry, you won't find difference with real voice soon
Thank you for taking time to share
Ty
I’m sure you missed some actions which I wouldn’t know about anyways but you’ve done a superb job in this relatively short video covering these divisions throughout the war. A great addition to the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of actions that was WW2.
Good info. Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Ty
Great video
Ty
12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" were also a Waffen SS division of note from 1943 onwards.
The committed many crimes in their short lived existence!
Thank you for all the effort and video! Subscribed! (JUst FYİ! On "04.48"Sd. Kfz. is a four-whelled recon car!)
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication. Your work does not go unnoticed even if we rarely comment (as we usually watch UA-cam on the TV set). Impressive as usual!
Ty man
@@waracademy128 The most important fact is that all 3 divisions were CRUSHED mainly at the Eastern Front🙄
Just like your ability to understand as a chilld was crushed by the weight of your own fear Emma@@EmmaEgede
@@adambane1719 What does this even mean, Adam?
Step up your game. We're not here to spoonfeed you !@@fastyaveit
Excellent work here
German army in ww2. Was one of the Greatest fighting army's in history. ⚔️⚔️⚔️🏴☠️👀
PAVN...Viet Mhin...Viet Cong...NVA
Really? How so? They failed miserably in force projection and logistics. Most of Germany's success came from the actions on its own borders. The failed offensives in Russia and the inability to actually invade the UK are further proof that the German Army/SS are extremely overestimated. German Commanders knew as early as 1941 they were financially incapable of winning.
hahahahaha..... they were fighting the Americans, who never actually won a war .... anywhere, ever !!!!@@greasyflight6609
There was one army that defited them combined with their qusling armies of France, Norway, Romania, Finland, Debmark, Italy, Croatia, Albania... And so on. French alone lost 400.000 on eastern front fighting for Germans. Romanians well over million.
@@greasyflight6609they were all garbage
These videos really bring the war to light in a different way. Presenting the Germans great might as well as the desperate defensive and collapse. What a legendary story.
My late father was a Waffen-SS Officer in the Tenth SS Panzer Division Frundsberg, and saw action in both Ukraine and France/Normandy
Based
Warum schreibst du nicht auf Deutsch?
How many civilians did he kill?
@@jasonmiller5369 ...interessiert das jemanden nach 80 Jahren?!
Ihr US Amerikaner führt seit über 220 Jahren Krieg gegen die Menschheit! Wie viele Zivilisten habt ihr getötet. Ihr seid der Weltkriegsverbrecher Nr.1
There is far too less mentioning of the terrible war crimes that these units committed.
They are big parts of their history and cannot be ommitted.
There is a reason why the Waffen SS was pronounced a criminal organization at the Nuremberg trials.
We should never forget their thousands of innocent victims.
More like millions of victims
Commenting for the algorithm. Love your videos
Ty
Wait that counts toward algorithm ?? Cool
Finally...a factual Doc without any Nazi-not Nazi-Crap...thumbs up, good work❤
Then why are you here?
@@edwardbaeg7141 then why are you an imbec.le
A wonderful historical coverage video about three infamous SS divisions ( leib standarte division, Das Reich division, and Totan cup ( skull 💀 cap division ) .. video shared by an amazing ( War Academy) channel. Thank you for sharing this magnificent work
Totenkopf .. means literally Death’s Head.
IT'S TOTENKOPF YOU ASS; NOT TOTAN CUP
LEIBSTANDARTE, TOTENKOPF, DAS REICH
Infamous? More like heroic. Without these men the Eurasian hordes of the Soveits would have thrashed all of Europe and not simply taken Eastern Europe.
Wish you'd get the AI to pronounce the German words properly and not show your ignorance, which detracts from the message. The name of Michael Whitman is pronounced "Vitmann" and not "Whitman."
Are you not allowed to use the full name of the first division you talked about? It was the Liebstandart Adolf Hitler. When you just say Liebstandart, it gets kind of confusing, since there were several divisions of the SS that had that in their name, including the Liebstandart Das Reich, who you also talked about.
I would assume it’s because of that yes
Yes not Leib standard… lol
It is not the end of the world because he pronounced it differently than you think it should be get over it and grow up.
@@anthonynicholich9654 I don't care how he pronounces it. I just get annoyed that he only uses the first part of the name, which all of the units featured start with the word Liebstandarte. So that causes unnecessary confusion.
@@anthonynicholich9654 lol
If these soldiers ever went to Soviet captivity, most probably not many came back years later. They were worked to death like many others. In mines etc.
Good history Channel
A video about the Muslim Waffen SS Division would be great as most people I discuss WW2 with are unaware of this fact & don’t believe it, I understand that as they’ve been educated to believe that the NSDAP were full on Racist that hated all non white people so this fact is hard for many to accept as it goes against the narrative, a video on this subject would be extremely interesting & educational
Most of us with a brain and education know quite well that the NSDAP is not a racist organization, it’s a political organization first and foremost and it is fair to note the Jews weren’t favored, but steps were taken humane steps, to rid them out of Germany and what others also don’t know or wanna believe is that the countries that turned their back when asked to take them were Britain, Canada, Australia. America and Morocco, they sent ships loaded with Jews back to Germany, hence the concentration camps
They were full on racist and they did hate or at least view non whites with extreme disdain. Recruiting some european (white) muslims because islamic fatalism aligns with the insane 20th century scientific racism and ancestor worship doesnt make nazis any less racist.
Regards from a Bosniak my revisionist friend.
Well, they did still hate them. They just had to make..pragmatic moves to keep Germany atleast nominally alive. And notice the foreign divisions were titled "waffen grenadier of the SS" rather than being completely part of it.
These three divisions did NOT lead "the vast majority of German offensives from the beginning of the war". They played NO indispensable role in any German conquests. They were mixed in with more numerous German Army motorized divisions, with which they were interchangeable and to which they were inferior in 1939 in Poland. The conquests all relied primarily on German Army panzer divisions, of which there were none in the Waffen-SS at the time they took place. Why do people put up such falsehoods?
Why are you so mad bro!???? THESE three divisions did all the work and lead every operation to full success!!!!
The lucky three they were called!!!!
@@Clegane90 I am mad because the video is a bare-faced and easily checkable lie on this point. You, of course already know this, because your defence of them is too ridiculous to be taken seriously!
@@markaxworthy2508you are right bro, I was just trolling sorry for that ❤
Kursk
@@kerrygrittner5733 Kursk was a German conquest? I thought it was a defeat. Besides, it was in 1943, nearly four years into the war, they were not present in the northern half of the attack ay all and formed only a minority of German armoured units in the south.
Bro, PLEASE sort out your AI voice .
Its currently really bad and is negatively affecting your channel quality !!
Amazing sergio
You forgot about the Wiking Division.
Many people still believe that the Normandy invasion had any bearing on who would ultimately win the war. Although heroic, and saving Germany from total occupation, it was a sideshow compared to what was taking place on the eastern front.
Everybody knows that Aussies won the War.
If you compare how many Germans vs Soviets died on the east, the Germans were smashing the Soviets. If the allies didn’t open a front on the West, the Germans could’ve sent more reinforcements purely focused on halting the Soviets counter-offences. The Germans were 200 kms outside of Moscow.
What saved Russia was the Russian Winter and a second front opening up. History would’ve been a lot different if a second front never opened up.
@GloryHole6000 It is just my opinion; but I believe the most significant factor that saved the Soviets moreso than anything else was the mass amount of material, fuel, food, and munitions sent by the USA under Lend Lease to the USSR all the way through the siege of Berlin. It was American Jeeps running on American gasoline carrying the Red Army to the Brandenburg Gates, and thereafter it was American ammunition being fired, American rations being eaten, and American boots being marched in that truly helped the Communists finally defeat the Reich.
Looking at the timeline, it was the postponing of Barbarossa from April 1st to the 20th of June to save Mussolini's dumbass after completely fucking up the invasion of Greece and ordering that FUBAR clusterfuck dumpster fire mission to take Crete that really cost Germany the entire war. The battle for Moscow wouldve started nearly 3 months earlier, the winter wouldnt have been an issue, and well.. you know the rest.
@@NotaGabeItch 2nd front opening? War was already lost for the germans the moment they lost stalingrad
Das Reich
OK the butchering of the names means this is that load ai. Content and support videos outstanding.
Many of you call them infamous.
Well they were trained organized
Fought and die for their country
Loyal courageous and prove themselves.
I see qualities a man should have.
How much loyalty to our Country all of you see today.
Especially with all the domestic terrorists we have in the so called press local "govts" and current white house minions.
The pronunciation of German words needs a lot of work. This detracts from the entire presentation.
It's AI
robot voice = thumbs down
best soldiers of WWII? (Knispel, Rudel, Hartmann, etc.)
Best soldiers of ww2 without question are the allies of the Normandy landings, particularly the Americans
lol@@flicmydik
@@flicmydikLet's not mention the Army in the Pacific, North Africa and Italy. Normandy was large but it wasn't the only impressive thing the Army pulled off.
Where did you learn to pronounce German words or is this robotic AI? Hitler JERGEND? Really? It's pronounced YOO-GEND.
I don't know guy , the 2nd , 5th & 17th didn't play either .
14:40 Small correction... It's not Allied defense that was impenetrable, it's simply because Hitler allowed evacuation and even ordered troops to fall back behind the river. There are number of documentaries about this and when people are arguing about mistakes Hitler made they usually bring Dunkirk evacuation as well. Most common belief was that he wanted to sign peace with Britain and that slaughtering their soldiers on beach wouldn't help his cause.
Good history channet
So what happened to a guy who couldnt prove that 200 years of german heritage due to records being destroyed in fires or floods? was he out of luck?
The German and Prussian armies wore the "skull" the Hussars I believe. Most believe it was invented by the SS. which were the Brown Shirts before becoming the SS.
SA, Sturm Abteilung, were the brown shirts
the Shutz Staffel was created by Hitler in a power move against Rohm and the SA. look up Night of the Long Knives.
The SA and SS were at odds, see night of the long knives.
Put more effort into your battle strategy unit movement graphics. They look hap hazardously made in ms paint. Your entire script sounds chat gpt created, and thats not mentioning the AI narration. There are much better videos than this on the subject, which highlights the units warfare miracles and simultaneously divulges into their war crimes, as they should.
Are you forgotten the 5° Viking ( wich several historician recogniced like the best one) and the legendary 12° Hitlerjugdment, wich held the Caen sector against 5 English/Canadian divisions
They weren’t German. They were volunteers from Scandinavian countries with some Belgian and Dutch.
As melhores divisões alemãs.
I recognize one of those insignias from the azov battalion wonder where azov got that from 🤔
Part of Ukraine fought with Germany against Russia
Stop asking questions
-western media
The ends justify the means
Aint war hell ? Get some !! 😅
I wonder if it can tell bare and bear
What about Herman Göring?
He is dead.
@@Leon-bc8hm I mean of course the paratrooper division, not the person
the fallschirmjager were Luftwaffe units, not SS
In 1944 at Demjansk-kessel. There waere Danish & Norweigen SS Soldiers from DIV. NORDLAND! The only Thing was that div. Totenkopf were in the south sektor!
This part of the world has suffered many conflicts.
you are a grand narrator to listen to! these are hard 2 find nowadays here on yt :-(
At the time the German 🇩🇪 military was the most powerful army in the world 🌍
didnt even say wtf did they had to do to pass stalin line not 1 but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
These computer robot voice WW2 videos are lazy and highly inaccurate.
The content is really good, but you lost me when the AI mispronounced Leibstandarte!
Or between geese ot moose
Or a moose or the group of moose
Read great books people, the classics, read Clausewitz, Plutarch, Immanuel Kant, Tolstoy, read the greats. Talk about what you have read. We must train and develop ourselves and our children. We need intelligent people more than ever.
A major reason for "lack of intelligence" is capitalist elite (e.g. Rockefeller. Carnegie. etc ) introduced "Prussian schooling" to the rest of the west in order to have us "dumbed down" to become a "zombie work force" ( Ref: "Weapons of Mass Instruction" by John Taylor Gatto) amongst other things we're not taught PROBLEM SOLVING / CRITICAL THINKING- RIGOUR/LOGIC (SO WE'RE FORCED TO FALL BACK ON THE QUITE INADEQUATE ARISTOTELIAN LOGIC STILL BUILT INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE) / CAUSALITY TRAINS (& without them, you can't work out the ORIGINAL source & are stuck @ the level of symptoms-effects ! )
the map at 2:23 is totally wrong
"She" has the cheesiest pirate logo
They were also distinguished war criminals. Slaughtering prisoners of war from the outset to Malmedy. They may have been excellent soldiers but they were evil.
Why S. S division DasReich so popular in Ukraine, please reply if possible.
Fairly useful information, though the writer has a bit of trouble deciding whether a division is a "she" or a "he." Amateur presenter has a good voice but couldn't be bothered to learn how to pronounce place names.
It's a voice bot.
Incorrect info in the first few minutes about the invasion of The Netherlands and Belgium, the LSAH definitly did not do more than 200km on the first day, they were blocked at the Grebbeline, where they perpatrated many warcrimes due to that fact. They did not breakthrough till the 3rd day. At which time most if the Fallschirmjäger were killed or captured, except for a few near Den Haag, Rotterdam and the Moerdijk bridges. Please get your facts straight.
The magnificent Germans
Who lost two World Wars.
@@classicgalactica5879 they had a fair crack at it though. More than impressive infamous, but to be respected in battle.
so is Trump..losers. From CANADA!
@@classicgalactica5879 and you ignorant sheep will believe The Germans were the bad guys
German were losers.
Wot about wittman GREAT MAYBE BEST TANK ACE??
When the allies got up to speed these guys didn't stand a chance
You're still wrong
The Americans famously never won a war.... anywhere.... ever !!
Division Das Reich is very popular in Ukraine
Get rid of the computer voice and get someone who knows how to pronounce German and other European languages!!!.
Russia had horrific losses at the blind following of german people. It was the US obligation to send every single pow to russia to help them fix what they ruined.
I don't have an opinion because I don't know who "her" is?
poor pronunciation of the German for "army" heer
И 100 лет не прошло как Европа опять пробует *Druck nach Osten* история не учит совсем......
ты подвергся промывке мозгов пропагандой путина-большевика. Вы начали войну. Слава Украине!
It's a good documentary - Wiking, Hohenstaufen, Frundsberg, Hitler Jugend should also be mentioned. Also - and I'm sorry about this, but the pronunciation is awful
‘ Leibstandard’…..ugh!
URSS ?
Then after Normandy these kid killers ceased to exist
The Americans famously never won a war.... anywhere.... ever !!
Oh look, they have exactly same insignia like certain (not nazis at all) of today.
He said Hitler gugent instead of Hitler Jugent. Very bad pronunciation.
ma this is so so bcs bigest batlle after staljingrad das raich.didnt even ah noot good bcs they lost and he says like they lost bcs red army better nope sry AI but NOPE WTF ABOUT MONTE CASIONO WTCCCCCC AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
OK paratroopers were on monte but this iu learned i midlle school so wtf sry hahaahah:)
Which Division was Degrelle in?
SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Wallonien
@@victoriaeuropa426 Initially, before the Walloon Division was formed?
In July 1941, Degrelle requested to be allowed to serve in the Waffen-SS or the German army, but the Führer rejected it.
However, after Operation Barbarossa, the tide turned for the Third Reich, and Degrelle was given permission to establish the Légion Wallonie, as well as leave for the eastern front himself on August 8, 1941, as an ordinary soldier (in the Heer).@@MS-in3sl
Great video, but it's gonna trigger a bunch of woke snowflakes
Its not Lion its Lyon
🤍
panzer lehr was more powerful but arrived late in the war
All destroyed at the Eastern front. It was all gone when the Soviets done their handy work.
Nonsense there was NO such a status as Ellite waffen ss
Creators need to learn bit more about waffen ss cuz multiplied this lie about elite panzer division is just wrong
Shouldn't the 5th SS be ahead of the 3rd.
Agreed, Wiking was better than Totenkopf
Battle outcomes, % of achieving objectives of each engagement. Show facts, it would be a great study…
"Leib-standard??" C'mon. It's pronounced Leibstan"DAR-TEH". Easy to get it right. Along with Lyon and every place and unit name you screw up.
Good facts....rubbish pronunciation. A,I just cant get it right LSAH are worthy of correct use of their name and the way this AI thing pronounces it makes it sound like standed and unfortunately spoils it for me and I gave up . There must be hundreds of people who would voice this historical piece.
The leip standard? I think your talking about the leipstandarte adolph hitler unit of the Waffen SS. Know the hitler juju? R u talking about the hitler youth?
The real Aryan came around the time of Jesus Christ.
The real Aryan came from , today Northern Pakistan 🇵🇰, Afghanistan 🇦🇫 and Northern Iran 🇮🇷. Towards Europe , and in this elite group were 3 Slavic ARYAN tribes. Characteristics looks like the Scandinavian. It's the Poles, the Czech and the real European Russian.
Around the year 966AD those 3 nations became Christian.
And the ultimate border between Germanic and Slavic is the ODER RIVER. And Gdansk was built by the first Aryan Poles.
Prussia should never exist !
Azov Battalion Ukriane.
The video has interesting content but is spoiled by the terrible narration.
Because the allies handed them their asses,trying to get to Normandy took them two weeks and was air attacked,but they couldn't get back at allies,so they killed kids and women to naked themselves feel better and not weak
The Americans famously never won a war.... anywhere.... ever !!
😂 Are you constipated above your shoulders?
@@rolandgeorgschramm1839 it happened,abadour sure glen
AI Narration. Hard Fail. Awkward syntax, poor pronunciation, poor verbal flow. Simply LAZY production - after putting all that effort into good selection and editing of video.... Click Bait.
I got about 5 minutes in and the cringe factor of listening to "Lei-standard" over and over had me pausing the video to write this comment. If you can't pronounce (or even attempt to) the name of the unit, then I'll watch something else. You also left out the Viking Division, which is odd.
pretty sure its AI voice, so sick of everyone using AI voices on videos now
@@jayryan1956 yuck
@jayryan1956 It's just off-putting to be sure!
Horrible AI weirdness
Shocking loss of life - and mostly white.
Bwaah!
An entire generation was badly wasted. Very sad.
Very foolish when these divisions weren't holding flanks of 6th army around Stalingrad and doing almost nothing in this time . One was under Model against operation Mars but others were in Europe. Amazing bad idiotic, hopefully for Alliance.😮
The German Army was backstabbed. I read The Labyrint by Walter Schellenberg last week. It's a shame how that great army was destroyed.
Dude you are butchering the names of these German divisions oh my god please stop trying to pronounce these names as a German it’s a total cringe moment for me, kopf is not copf it’s ko-upf for starters, anyone wanna chime in shut your mouth not talking to you 😂😂😂😂
3 most powerful ? None were good enough to win ? Like the 3 best plays on a losing NFL team
It depends on how one measure "good". Germany never lost a battle when they were equal in numbers. Russia finally defeated them. But to unimaginable losses.
@@Mingus8the hell they didn't, they got their asses kicked just as much as anyone else by the end of the war. By 1944 you could put any of the best SS divisions against the 101st or 82nd airborne, 3rd armored, or any number of British and Russian divisions and the Germans would have no discernable quality advantage.
And arguing that they were one for one better than anyone is incredibly disingenuous since war's not about even odds, it's about overmatch. Germany failed to achieve that regularly because they opened wars on all fronts.
@@camrynsteward8425 You are mixing up time periods. In 1944, the war was already lost for them, due to the Soviets' superior numbers, willingness to sacrifice lives and logistical problems in a vast country. The German army that the USA faced in WW2 was a small shambles, short on manpower, training and above all fuel. Still, no one could take them without bringing more manpower, more tanks. Any us military had probably been wiped out by Germany until about mid 1943. They were simply too good in war fighting, had superior weapons. Germany brought war tactics and technology to a new level in ww2, the modern war and which all countries, especially USA adopted afterwards. There is plenty of literature that tells about this.
But, you are of course right that Germany also had hubris, underestimated the Soviet Union and bit off more than they could handle, obiously.
@mingus8 I'm not mixing up shit, you said that they never lost when facing even odds. 1944 was part of the war, so if we're just not gonna count that then what are we even talking about?
You make it sound like Germany invented and perfected modern warfare, this is not true. Blitzkrieg was effective, sure, but the Nazis were horrendous at logistics, a key aspect of strategy. Tactically they were generally fine, but to argue that the average Nazi soldier was superior to everyone else that he may have faced needs backup. There was never any discernable physical or mental difference between the average Nazi foot soldier and the Brits or Americans or Russians. As far as unit cohesion, the Nazis indoctrinated more than their opponents, sure, but I wouldn't call that good. Indoctrination feeds failure to innovate.
On the tech side, Germany attempted to make far too many different types of tanks, while the US and Russia generally preferred to mass produce one type (the M4 and T34). While this means many German tanks outmatched individual tanks, both the US and Russia were able to outproduce and out sustain the Nazis. That was their choice, not a decision forced on them, and it was strategically wrong.
Hell, they didn't even have an advantage in individual weapons. The MG42 was great, but the US had a better service rifle, the Russians had a better SMG.
So no, I don't think I'm mixing up time periods or bending the narrative. Germany had a good military (and I absolutely do not mean morally good, it was a morally reprehensible organization), but absolutely not an unbeatable one.
@@camrynsteward8425 I never said they were unbeatable. Only that they never lost a battle where they were equal in numbers, and the only way to get them was to bring more people. This also applies in 1944. And yes, they invented the modern warfare as we know it today, with combined arms and fluid battle tactics (Blitz krieg). Americans and English fought heroically and no one should forget their efforts, but they still had to outnumber the Germans, to beat them, even in 1944.