Battlegroup Böhm - The Furthest German Advance West, Ardennes 1944 

Good on you Sam. My grandfather was in Holland . During the German invasion they had Napoleonic weapons! Needles to say they stood no chance. Was prisoner of war for most of the war and the stories were few and far between but for the funny interesting parts that kept him going. Like two German soldiers arguing with a half a brick getting thrown and my grandpa happen to b in the way and ended up as collateral damage against the head.

Lucky his legs where not blown off.

For a nation with so little and uneven odds they did quite alot.

Kinda like if the russian troops run out of vodka

Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics..........................

Where's the Viagra when you Need it!

@@karlbrundage7472 And that ís why the USA cant win a war against insurgance anymore. No Idea of tactics but good logistics = Vietnam 2.0 Also the fuelshortage had nothing to do with bad german logistics at that point. After the surrender of Romania the german fuel production plummated significantly. Also the allies finally started bombing something meaningfull in spring 1944 that could actually harm the german army: german artifical fuel refineries and train lines. Finally somebody realized that (as already proven during the Blitz) citie bombings were useless and heavily counterproductive becasue it actually raised moral. If you are occupied with getting bombed you dont think abaout the future and maybe overthrowing the gouvernement, you only live and think from day to day. A good point to prove this is propably that the US populatian had comparabley low war moral and wanted a quick end to it while the germans, japanease and soviets not really wavered until the end in "going on". Back to the main point (sorry :D): In Germanys case you dont need to talk logistics except when you march into russia. From the main factory area to the frontline in France is about 100-300km, there are good roads, good train lines and no oceans to cross. So naturally logistics is much easier. It obviously is very important if you march 3000km on poor infrastructure east. Americans have to priorities logistics because otherwise they would even reach the bloody battlefield in the first place. If you have two powerfull nations as your neigbours who are your "enemys" for decades its obviously more important to know how to fight and ideally defeat one of them fast to then procede to defeat the other one. Thats prussian military doctrine chapter 1. IF you dont know tactics but have logistics you still get rekt as germany because longterm france and britain are economically equal (with their empires supirior) and russia "outbleeds" your army by a huge margin thanks to menpower and ressources. What would help germany would be: Amateurs talk logistics, professionells talk Realpolitik. Have a nice day :)

Yes - well spotted. Does anybody have anymore information?

Can you put a time stamp?

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@@PU8698 4:59 for the teddy bear

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couldnt agree more! no BS, just straight history

And the footage he uses is excellent too!

That's why I just went ahead and bought basically every documentary made over time. The World at War was expensive. The Complete History of WW2 I would highly recommend to you.

Like Discovery and History channels used to be. A long time ago.

The reason you don't see much is they don't have alot of archival film of the German side of the action. What we have is mostly German propaganda footage. It doesn't make for good documentaries unless you're doing a documentary about propaganda.

@@readhistory2023 do you really that optimistic that you believe that theres a difference beetween allied and axis footages by means of content reliability?

it's called brainwashing/framing, that's why US citizens think that they are the greatest of the world.

@@readhistory2023 ob allierte propaganda oder deutsche macht doch keinen unterschied..

Really?

Yes they got wishing 15 km of the Kremlin

@@James-sh8mu Yes really, a German reconnaissance team managed to get close, they claimed to see Kremlin tower with their binoculars. People today said it's not possible to see the tower. They stuck at a place called Khimkhi, a monument today marks the furthest and final German advance into Moscow.

@@James-sh8mu Sure. Why not?

Jawohl, good idea!

Charlie Manson any relation to Charles???

Danke

@GazB85 haha

>Greatest Generation >Most horrific genocide humanety has ever seen Yeah, not shure about that...

My parents, aunts and uncles ( all uncles WW2 combat veterans) were of that generation they are as different from Post Modern Americas as any simile could ever convey. They were good and thoughtful people but too trusting because their scope of understanding could never comprehend how fundamentally corrupt creatures like FDR, Churchill, & Stalin were. These essentially good people were used for what may be the greatest crime in Western Civilization the destruction of their own future generations.

@mitch there too busy showing garbage shows not only that they show them all day my how the mighty have fallen somewhere is warehouse full of WW 2 films and documents waiting to be found let's hope it's found before it's lost forever stay the course Bruce

Southpark did a brilliant spoof of the History Channel where they suggested the founding fathers of America were eating thanksgiving lunch with aliens because there was no evidence to say they hadn't hehe. Silly but true of the style of rubbish they have on History Channel.

Sadly that was just one more of several mistakes made by the allies in WWII. The shortfall of bombs and artillery have claimed many innocent lives and miscommunication has led to the wrong targets being hit. In every war, I have ever heard of innocents died.

You’re not using a VPN are you? Often even historical videos on the operations of national socialist Germany in WW2 and before are banned in Germany.

Astoria I‘m German and I have never come across a video that was banned because it has things about Nazism and World War 2 in it

@sanity logic check out The Battle of Arracount and Battle of the Bulge American Version on RU-vid hope you like them stay the course Bruce

I want to go camping in the Ardennes and make up ghost stories and eat frankfurters cooked over the fire.

Keith Bell Agreed

Yep, great channel and great detail. 👍

There’s a couple for me. This one and Ace Destroyer equally have a similar style. Short, sweet and concise focusing either on parts of specific battles or specific people. If you want a lengthy, in-depth piece of history that questions what you think you know, then TIK is the way to go. Each respectively have something nice to offer.

he probably died days later,so sad.

A good interesting vid. I enjoyed it. Thanks

Will do

Twas a wizard prang

No one has ignored the 28th or the 9th. Anyone who actually fought in that battle respected all sides and all warriors. My father was a First Sergeant in the 101st who went all the way from Normandy to Berchesgaden. The Bulge was mythical in my family because my father was delivered from it. My mother had cried all night Christmas Eve 1944, she didn't know why. Christmas means hope to my family. The Bulge was as bad as it got, but the French hedgerows and the Belgian bridges were just as bad.

How about the 7th Armoured at St. Vith???

A static defense along the Rhine would have been useless. There weren't enough prepared positions or manpower to hold the entire length of the River. The allies would have used a combination of air strikes and superior troop and armored strength to destroy weaknesses in the line and pour across the river. Once they had enough strength across the river they could turn and destroy the Germans left isolated along the river since they had no escape. Once the D-Day landings succeeded, Germany was doomed. A more interesting question is what would have happened if Hitler had not attacked the Soviet Union? With a much greater ability to resist attacks in the west and the Soviet Union not part of the Allies, the outcome would have been much different.

I've often thought of what that force could have done around Berlin in 1945

@@sarjim4381 I was thinking more along the lines of Iwo Jima. Having said that though much of Germany equipment was better then the Japanese they never had the chance to prepare in advance. A counter proposal for you. Germany uses diplomacy to get Poland on its side, remember Russia attacked Poland in 1919, and then they attack the Soviet Union as liberators. Many in the Soviet Union hated Stalin as much as Hitler did, in fact many did join the Germans viewing them as liberators. So proclaiming themselves liberators would have made life much easier for his armed forces. Many countries would have supported Germany, if only indirectly, because the communist had a foothold in their countries. Many would have flocked to Germany to fight alongside them while any communists would probably been arrested. I would be interested to know your thoughts.

@@sarjim4381 Im pretty sure the allied casualties would have rised way up if they had to conquer the rhine without any bridges

@@BELCAN57 surely they would of made a impact. But by then Germany ran out of tugstun, meaning very limited ammunition of the tanks. Perhaps slowing down the advance and causing a lot more casualties. But they'd probably be straffed by shtrumovik fighter bombers.

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29th wasn't at the Bulge. My uncle died the month before a mile from the Roer River. One of the few outstanding infantry divisions in the US, according to Ike.

@@MrProsat isnt 29th also called the bloody bucket? or was it the 28th?

I lived next door to one of the Hitler youth that fought in the battle for Berlin. He was 14. Madness!

@@TheNimshew People: THINK IF THE CHILDREN!!! Government: YES ARM THE CHILDREN AND SEND THEM AS WELL!!! People: That's not what we meant ;-;

@@TheNimshew liar

@@appmagician3240 The question is, was is meant with "fought in the battle of Berlin"? Die Hitlerjugend, as an NSDAP organisation, was subordinatet to the Volkssturm. Aufgebot III was the year's issues of 1925-1928. The year's issues from 1928/29 were conscripted in spring 1945 partialy in the RAD (labor service) and as Flakhelfer. In May 1945 (should) begun the military training for the rest of the year's issues from 1928 as Volkssturm units. The younger Hitlerjungen were used as messenger, couriers and helpers for the party. Like coordination of refugee housig and supply, minor infrastructural cleanups (no heavy work) etc. So, I guess the neighbor from forty two was responsible for the hot tea-supply in his scool for the refugees from the east, or took a trip to Rostock or Prag with a bag of rubber sealings or dental medicine. Of course, when he stayed in Berlin after the encirclement, he was involved like all other people in more or less combat situations as passiv participian, but I doubt highly it was with a Panzerfaust in the rubble of a destroyed cellar.....conclusion: He was at least 16 years old in May 1945, or he was a runner for a military unit and Wasilli Saitzef missed him by an inch - or he spun his yarn.....Of course, there were exceptions when the situation was chaotic (like Wilhelm Hübner), but this were exceptions......my humble opinion.....

@@mikeromney4712 Paragraphs ...great things.

Agree. The output is amazing.

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I guess meh not rly

I wonder if Jeep has ever made a commercial including that clip, and other WW2 Jeep footage!

From what I've read the US Artillery were the real unsung heroes of the Battle of the Bulge.

didnt two divisions have 80% losses or something crazy in hurtgen?

you get to that gas truck, then open all the valves.....then get the hell away from it.

I can her the narration in my head " later that evening the Germans ran out of toilet paper and disinfectant. The troops then walked 110 km to a McDonald's where the only functional toilet was appropriated"

tris mer the Germans didn't have much in the way of fuel reserves and what they did have had to travel down poor roads and couldn't keep up with the lead elements. Unlike in May 1940 the Germans could use civilian fuel supplies in the towns and villages they passed through; in 1940 the French hadn't removed fuel supplies from the border areas.

tris mer yeah, on a strategic level I think they had already lost access to Romanian oil as well, which was their main supplier.

After Stalingrad and the battle of kursk, the soviets were steamrolling the german army, they weren't "suffering massive casualties for every bit of ground taken". The most casulties resulted from the major battles before the turning point of the war.

:D

"at withstanding any kind of fire" Against small arms fire agreed but not against a concerted effort involving cannon fire.

Not really

Montgomery tried to take credit for the whole victory and tried to exaggerate the British contribution. I can understand the Americans being infuriated. Montgomery seemed to have that effect on people.