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“The most beautiful woman in the world would mean nothing to me, I only care about really tall soldiers” Just say you’re a power bottom and keep it moving
@@IhaveBigFeet your version fits the reality of history the most, Sir. Fuck these fans and freaks. Prussia was able to win cause of Russians, Austrians and Brits. In the previous years Napoleon played with them cause he was quicker and tossed them up one on one
Lol. may i say. everyone who has studied military history knows, we'd all speak German today if not the futuristic, glorious, inhuman, superior, strong wamen during ww2
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This was atleast a hundred odd years before rifles came on the scene. If you think about it they had longer arms to swing a sword, more reach to strike the enemy meaning they could slice up their opponent before their opponent was literally within arms reach (unless they were using pikes).
They were using smooth bore Muskets. Most armies of the day did use grenediers. Larger then average men with the purpose,of firing a volley then running in with bayonets.
If you have 3,000 giants it's probably worth the effort setting up a production line so you can arm them all with larger than normal muskets with better range, accuracy and stopping power. Give them thicker protection so they are more likely to survive getting shot and you probably have a very effective unit (if they were well trained and healthy. The problem is they were clearly hired because of Friedrich's fetish rather than sound military thought. Friedrich must have spent an absolute fortune finding, housing, arming and feeding them, money better spend on arming more regular guys instead.
A larger musket would have had no better accuracy, slightly better range, but since the accuracy was so bad already, battles were fought at less than 10% of the actual range of muskets. A .60 caliber musket does not require better stopping power. Its already huge. A thick protection against muskets was already used by cuirassiers, who would be on horseback due to the weight of the armor. Of course, an armor for a huge man would weigh more than one for short man, while the huge body has a worse strength to weight ratio. Meaning you would be better off with small guys in heavy armor. They were also not healthy, since they suffered from gigantism, and would die of heart attack where a normal man would merely be exhausted. And for the best training, you need the best minds to train. They were not chosen for their minds, but their bodies, like cattle. Lastly, there were no production lines. The first real production line was with Henry Ford´s Model T automobile a few hundred years later. The manufactories of the time were artisan craftmanship, with some specialization, for example a knife manufactory would have different guys for basic forging, final form forging, sharpening, finishing and shining, handle making, covering the handle with leather, sheath making, and possibly things like painting, gilding or lacquering. In practice, this was not more effecient than doing everything by hand, it just cut down education time for new workers, as they had less to learn at one go. So with muskets they would have been disappointing. However, units of grenadiers were already in use, where greater strength and longer arms would be actually useful, and these were seen as a kind of elite unit.
"A larger musket would have had no better accuracy" Would a longer barrel not lead to better accuracy? " Of course, an armor for a huge man would weigh more than one for short man, while the huge body has a worse strength to weight ratio. Meaning you would be better off with small guys in heavy armor." The taller you are (everything else being equal) the lower your strength to weight ratio but 3mm of protection will be a lower percentage of your bodyweight if you are scaled up because body weight will scale with the cube of height whereas the weight of the armour will scale by just under the square of height. Getting used to carrying an extra 20% of bodyweight is an easier adaption than getting used to 30%. "They were also not healthy, since they suffered from gigantism, and would die of heart attack where a normal man would merely be exhausted." Some of them did, most probably did not. The requirement was only 6'2 and almost nobody that height has gigantism even back then. Also I did say if they were healthy. "And for the best training, you need the best minds to train. They were not chosen for their minds, but their bodies, like cattle." I already acknowledged that. My point was replying to OP's view that larger soldiers are simply bigger targets without acknowledging that height also has it's benefits. ."Lastly, there were no production lines." Yeah wrong wording but I'm guessing there would be standardisation at this time period, each soldier having almost identical muskets and using the same size musket balls etc. If an individual soldier wanted a larger musket and larger ammunition this information would need communication to the blacksmith, the musket ball manufacturer etc, they would need to make another set of jigs etc and it would need to be separated from the rest, labelled and find it's way to the right person. Going to this effort for one person probably isn't worth the effort but doing this for 3000 people probably is. "However, units of grenadiers were already in use, where greater strength and longer arms would be actually useful, and these were seen as a kind of elite unit." Yeah I agree, I'm just saying that if you were smart about it even giving them muskets put them at an advantage over normal sized musketeers.
New Jersey I don’t know about that. My class size is about 500 and there at least 50+ guys above 6ft. I do live in the Midwest though. My school is 90% white
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Awesome material, I listen to your stuff while I train. It helps my attention span stay engaged while punching through he pain. Plus I’m learning something.
Originally there was a purpose to tall soldiers, usually they were made into grenadiers because of the height and reach advantage their length provided when lobbing a grenade. Obviously none of this is relevant to the Potsdam giants.
Certainly it would appear as though the king preferred to be the pitcher in this instance with his 'toy soldiers,' rather than the catcher. Those poor fucks never stood a chance.
No, they didn't need to put fake women soldiers into a usually fairly historically accurate game. No british cyborg women fought on the front lines, YET WOMEN DID FIGHT, why not celebrate real women who actually fought? That actually seems like a better idea to me. Men don't care about playing as women, we've been doing it for years. What PEOPLE care about is forced diversity for the sake of virtue points, what is actually so hard to understand about that?
There was an army of giants during the reign of Serbian Emperor Dusan the Mighty too. Dusan was 2.13m tall, I think, and only one soldier was taller than him, others were all over 2m. That army was one of the most feared of it's day
Slavs don't come from Asia. They are European, you utter moron. Genetic studies about phenotypes show this. On the other hand, our European identity is defined by cultural values, including religion. Muslims have never been and will never be European. Islamic religion is incompatible with European culture. You're probably just a sourpuss Muslim that will never be a European no matter how hard you wish.
Protector of the Republic Slavs are prominent from Europe to Central Asia you fucking idiot. People from the Eurasian steppes have been intermarrying for thousands of years, which means that Slavs have Asian DNA in them whether you want it or not. The Cumans and other Central Asian people fled to Europe during the Mongol conquests, changing the genetic and cultural landscape of Eastern Europe forever. " Genetic studies about phenotypes show this" Are you just talking out of your ass or do you just not know the meaning of phenotype? Phenotype refers to physical appearance, which can be deceitful when talking about genetic traits. If an African and a European have a child and that child looks 100% African, that doesn't mean that child is 100% African. Why then are Slavs considered a different ethnicity from Europeans of germanic origin? Because of the heavy Asian and Middle-Eastern genetic inheritance. You just threw a scientific sounding word in there to give some credence to your moronic statement. Grow a fucking brain.
bluegent7 Slavic people and turkic(avars,khazars,cumans,pecheneks,tatars,bolgars) people, magyars (hungarians) came to Europe from Asian steppes during 4-5th centuries .They invaded,migrated to Eastern Europe and chose European culture, christianity.Before migration and invasion , Eastern Europe belonged to nordic people,romans and greeks.Even today, tatars live in Poland, gagauzs live in Moldova, cumans live in Hungary.
The idea was that tall men could throw grenades further than normal grown man and could also use longer muskets which would be more accurate. His desire for a giant regiment is more comparable to someone who collects toy soldiers. But I guess today everything that involves men is gay. Says a lot about todays society.
@safnhuo You are a fool of the hypersexualisation of today. Any military man would understand the phrase clearly as " Love doesn't do much for me, but War is my passion."
The concept of couples fighting side by side was tried in the Israeli army as well (where both men and women serve) and was found to not be optimal, people just did crazy things when their loved ones were threatened, a more optimal fighting force can be achieved with friendships.
I have met 7 years ago one of the "Patton's Ghost" army, who was then youn 19 yeads old radiooperator. He told me that story, I was amazed as it wasn't widely known. He has died soon after. But the memory of him will live and he will be remembered by everyone who wathced this video
Nope it's not, but Lange Kerls is primarily used in german speaking countries while Potsdam Giants is usually used in the US to refer to them e.g. in reports about a steuben parade.
True. But a country is totally different. That's why it's also called "Germany" or "Allemania" in other languages. Same as with the "Vereinigte Staaten" in German or "The Colonies" in British-English. :P It just doesn't fit for Army-Divisions or Company-Names, I guess.
@Blumberg Music No, it wasn't a German but a prussian regiment. The regiment was long gone before Germany united. The term "Lange Kerls" is also slang, it is not even the official term used by the prussian military at that time. The term "Potsdamer Riesen" is also a German name so your whole argument makes literally no sense at all and Tobias Ommer is right, even if it would be an exonym it's not necessarily wrong to use exonyms. It is also common to use exonyms as well as endonyms to refer to military units e.g. Foot Companions, Sacred Band, Immortals, French Foreign Legion, etc.. Also the translation "Long Dudes" is not used at all, there seems to be no evidence for this translation. The German society that cultivates the traditions of the potsdam giants since 1900 ("Vereinigung zur Foerderung und Pflege der Tradition der Potsdamer Riesengarde 'Lange Kerls' e.V.") calls themselves "Long Fellows" and literally has "Potsdamer Riesengarde" in their name. Nothing you say is correct Blumberg
The "long guys" battalion is not as crazy as it seems. At his time soldiers where using muzzleloaders. For easy loading, the length of the gun needs to be shorter than the man. Huge soldiers could use longer guns. This would have provided this battalion with an extra reach. At a time when battalions marched straight into a battle, this would have been a great advantage.
@Dustin Eward More surface area and body mass. It would be like trying to kill someone with a letter opener by stabbing them in the torso. You have a very small chance of getting hit in a vital spot. I' sorry that you have a Napoleon complex, but tall soldiers have more advantages, especially in modern times. Being an "easier target" does not matter because you barely fucking see each other anyway, you sling bullets over long distances. Taller people can take larger steps during marches and patrols, meaning less stamina being used up. They can carry heavier equipment, and large quantities of equipment. Usually they have bigger hands and more muscle mass meaning they can handle their carbine/assault rifle/machine gun better. Being tall also means you can get better shooting angles on people from high up. He didn't send them into battle because he was gay and used them as his personal wank material. Tall soldiers back then also had advantages though. They could use bigger more accurate rifles, reload faster, throw grenades further, and cause fear and panic. It has always been this way, even since Roman times. When the Romans fought the Germanic Tribesmen who were 5"8-6"0+ on average, they always had to try and overcompensate by only taking tall soldiers to match them. They never had enough and always got destroyed. And guess what? Germanic tribes won in the end. They invaded an destroyed Western Rome, then replaced it with their own order.
@@beurteilung713 That's a lot of shit you've written down but it's mostly garbage. First off taller and bigger soldiers, unless they are those weirdos who only grow vertically not horizontally, make bigger targets, that's an undeniable fact, the bigger you are, the more margin of error a shooter has when they take aim at you, and it's not just limited to being fired upon either, you have higher chances of being hit by any projectile, fragmentation or even bayonets because you have a bigger surface area to hit, it's simple math. Sure bigger dudes can stride further and carry more weight, but then again they are heavier than normal dudes, even without the addition of equipment, they are gonna be burning more energy when marching and consuming more rations when not fighting, so you win some and you lose some in that regard Yeah bigger soldiers could probably wield longer muskets, not bigger since a bigger caliber wouldn't necessarily help with accuracy at that time, giving them an advantage in accuracy but then again they themselves because of their size would be bigger targets too, and eh being bigger doesn't make you reload any faster than a normal size soldier, you don't brute force the bullet down the barrel, it's the training and the drilling that makes you reload faster, not muscle lol you serious with that thing about the Romans lost to the Barbarians because they were taller? First off the ancient roman soldiers weren't even that short, they were like 5'7 average and they fought clad head to toe in heavy armour and in close formation with big shields so unless the germans had somehow fielded some 9 feet behemoths with full body metal armour, they weren't going to fare any better than their normal size counterparts, hell if height was the reason they managed to topple the Roman empire, why would they the germanic tribes flee from their homeland from the Huns, who were described as men short in stature?
@@beurteilung713 I read all of that and it was all bullshit lol. You want to be wider, not taller. Taller people are prone to joint injuries and thus endurance is limited. Wide and stocky is the way to be.
Txtspeak it's not like they let them fight Japanese, or get shot in the confusion being Japanese. If ya don't trust them let them kill Europeans, and it worked.
Gipsy Danger. I watched the old black and white film about that unit . Good flick . Didn't the 442nd rescue a US Army unit surrounded by German troops ?
It's JAKE McNiece not Jack. R.I.P. I met him when I was a little kid. My father wrote the book on the Filthy 13. The reason they painted their faces and cut their hair was because Jake was from Oklahoma and part Choctaw. He basically wanted to be a Choctaw Warrior and technically is. That's how they looked and they all thought it was cool. Buy my dad's book. www.amazon.com/Filthy-Thirteen-Airbornes-Legendary-Paratroopers/dp/1932033122
@@EineImLauf Thank you! It's made up. My great grandfather was a trucker back in the day. He ditched one of Capone's loads and ran away to Kansas. He changed his name and became a sheriff's deputy. My dad's a historian and tracked it all down.
The content is epic as you call it because it is well researched; which requires a lot of dedication and time (hard work that could be used for other things in this man’s life). So don’t expect more frequent uploads unless you desire content of a lesser quality.
I know man.But i still wish that there would be more epic content from him. Because this channel is not like anyother. Every video is well researched, well executed and that is why we crave more and more content. But i still wait for every video but would not like if the quality would drop. Still my favorite channel and will support it every upload
At first: "A king who had a dream to make an army of giants." Me: "Sounds like a pretty cool project." And then: "In attempt to satisfy a fetish." Me: Wait what? And then: And here are some other things he did to try to satisfy his sick obsession" Me: OMG make it stop!
Great job on this video, I had heard of a lot of these units but you included a lot of detail and information that I hadn't heard before; excellent research and presentation.
I really like #1 on this list. What an ingenious way to use people and their skills that had nothing to do with combat, firearms or training. Great top 5 man keep it up!
As an prop builder, architectural designer, actor, musician, and costume maker, I would think had I lived in that period, I would have tried to join the Ghost Army. They pulled off some amazing deceptions!
The fact that he sheds light on the thumbnail immediately deserves a like. Some women say short guys have “short man syndrome” We should say that they have “Frederick William Syndrome” lol
Awesome video. Thank you for your excellent work. Probably a very short list though, many anonymous heroes, even the animals and civil citizens participating. War shows the worst from people but also shows the best from them many times
13:55 well, women got legal equal rights in USA in 1960s and USSR right after it's formation (1924) women weren't allowed into combat roles for obvious reasons: they replenish the losses after the war.
The Prussian soldiers were Grenadiers, specialy trained to throw hand grenades. Size and strength is an advantage, they could throw grenades further than smaller weaker men.
1) Smaller doesn't mean weaker. Also, a taller man doesn't throw a granade much further, necessarily. 3) Most of them, as mentioned, would have had medical issues, further diminishing their effectiveness. So Allen, meh.
oh, my goodness, the filthy thirteen, sounds eerily like The Dirty Dozen....wow how cool is that!!? I never knew that movie was based on true events or real soldiers. Very impressive, you learn something new everyday!👍
12:15 Stalin didnt “resort” to having female brigades, there were all female units as early as World War 1 and females served in the Red Army during the civil war.
The "tall fellows" (Lange Kierls - which are referred to as 'Potsdam Giants' here) weren't a fighting unit. They had been choosen, pressed into service, shanghai-ed or inducively selected for guard duty, mere representation and occasionally for actual intimidation - most of that contrived information given about them is made-up bogus based on older bogus that was made up from hearsay.
Being a 'military' unit implies - as I, who watched this without narration, assume(d) - the possibility to take part in battle. These Kerls (guys) were more of a policing unit or stationary bodyguards for the King of Prussia.
@@shanghunter7697 The point is that historians are supposed to reference what they research from. I'm not being an asshole, just stating it's pretty blatant plagiarism otherwise.
For all out there wondering why such guard units were created and what purpose they served, look in the Books "On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace" and "On Killing" by Dave Grossman. There you will find the utmost reason for those tall Soldiers in those times: posturing. Posturing is on of the social/psychological forms of behaviour in combat: fight, submission, flight, posturing.
@@louisr7341 a legit statement at that. If he is indeed just reading off of wiki page, that reallu would be some BS. He could at least reword it a bit, if hes not going to put in any effort to research the topics himself.
@abdi adan um. Have you ever done an article or any sort of research? There's a word for what this guy is doing. It's called plagiarism and is heavily frowned upon. You're kinda meant to write it in your own words. Just reading off a wiki is lazy.
*ESPECIALLY the comment: FUCK FEET! WHY are you excluding every country in the world except USA, Burma (Myanmar) and Liberia still officially using the anachronistic “Imperial Measurement” i.e. Miles, Feet, Yards (not Scotland Yard) Inches and Pounds: “LBS” (Lot of Bull Shit). Fucking FAHRENHEIT, too! Bangkok Johnnie CarSanook Media Thailand*
What about the 'WIND TALKERS' REAL first nations soldiers who spoke in a language the enemy could never understand and sent / received all manner of important orders !!
@@britishpatriot7386 Gee, I remember my father talking about them back in the mid-50s, I've seen 2 documentaries on broadcast TV about them, and there was at least 1 big budget Hollywood flick on the subject--so, to imply that they've been ignored it seems to me, is a bit disingenuous...
That seems to have been a period joke about the Prussians, probably propaganda because the overly masculine martial culture was a bit of an oddity with its neighbors (compare with the debauchery of the French). Consider also that the spartans were accused of the same. Baron von Steuben that came to train the Americans was also accused of homosexuality. So its probably not true.
You can read a book it's called over the fields of Fire and it is FaceTime night witches and the most decorated Soviet woman pilot it was really hard to put down
