EPIC!! 8 Nazi SA Stormtrooper Walther Pistol Rigs In One Place! 

This is YOUR style. We appreciate the background! Keep em coming Tom.

The only reason i subscribed because he does such a fine job of telling the story behind the weapon. If there was no story then it would not as interesting. Youre doing a swell job sir

Curtiss Sliwa, who started the Guardian Angels may run for mayor of NYC. I hope he is successful.

Nice video. Thanx for sharing this. The engraving "Niedersachsen" addresses the nowadays state Lower Saxony of Germany. Later in the video, the engraving "Thüringen" also addresses a state of today's Germany - Thuringia. And to follow the time line, "Niederrhein" is a region in today's state North Rhine-Westphalia, "Franken" is the northern region of Bavaria. And, the last but not least, "Kurpfalz" (that you pronounced really good - BTW) is the northern-west region in Germany's state Baden-Württemberg - in detail, the region around Mannheim/Heidelberg and down to the south of them. And, I think I can tell you what "Schiesien" is... It is "Schlesien" - Silesia. This was a (big) region in the south-east of the old Prussia and... of the 3rd Reich. Just think of a region where the city of Breslau was the centre of it. Breslau nowadays is named Wroclaw and is a city in the county ??? Lower Silesia ??? of Poland.

Another excellent educational treatise on the Walter PP and one of its variants. Thank you Tom.

The history is what gives value to the pistols. One 7.65 mm Walther peashooter looks like another. I watch as much for the history as to see the guns.

Spectacular Tom. Maybe one day you and Randy could shoot a video of your personal collection, I'm guessing we'd all love to see inside that treasure chest. Thanks Tom love the channel

I enjoy hearing the history I never think it's boring keep up the good work

What a fantastic video chock-full of knowledge. Thank you for all you do!

The prices make these out of my league. I enjoy the history...as unfortunately it often repeats itself. The parallels today are impossible to miss. Goebel’s would of LOVED the internet and the ability to control propaganda...

Excellent video Mr Whiteman! Just a quick correction/addition: at 23:30 you describe the Gruppe as being “Schiesen”, but it is actually “Schlesien” (Silesia). Somehow I didn’t get to meet you at the SOS this year, hopefully next time! I saw in your video that you were at Tom Wittmann’s stand after I visited, because you point out the Luftwaffe gravity knives. The case is minus a takedown model, which I now own! Keep up the good videos, I like the history aspect you throw in, even though it might lack in detail. In the end it’s about the firearms, not the political details!!

Stepped up the editing on this video very nice 👍

The first rule of flight club is don't talk about flight club...

Well done documenting this part of history. Thanks

Tom, please continue the history lessons--they make the guns more interesting.

Thanks for another great video. Love your history lessons and the beautiful guns.

Love the history portion of your video. 😊

History always repeats itself simply because human nature never changes.

You remind me of my high school psychology high school teacher was my favourite course and teacher

We love hearing the history, can't appreciate the firearm without the story behind it.

I enjoy hearing about the history.

I love your German pronounciation! Hilarious and not too far off. Cool stuff, top Bad it's forbidden here. :( Hi from capital of Niedersachsen, Germany.

Sorry Mr Whiteman, I have another correction: Feldherrnhalle was a monument. You are mixing history with the Putsch, at the Burgerbraukeller, which resulted in Hitler’s inprisonment.

Thank you Tom for your time and knowledge

4K...Had made this....SooooooooooooMuchBetterrrrrrrrrrr......Thanks awesome.....!

Bring ur rarest guns to pawn stars please I wanna see if he offers you more then 20$ plus with how rare these are u guaranteed to be in a episode lmfaoo

The comparison is apt. We need a new Guardian Angels nowadays to push back against the rising tide of urban crime.

niedersachsen has a ch that is between sh and a hard k, it isn't a soft sh like in this video. Keep in mind it is lower saxony in English.

When will these items be up on the website??

The history of the uniform designed by Hugo Boss is a myth... Hugo Boss just manufactured.

You know your keeping one of the .22 rigs and the PPK to sit next to the Brandenburg

Niedersachsen = Lower Saxony Thüringen = Thuringia Schlesien = Silesia Kurpfalz = Area around Mannheim and Heidelberg

Kind of like today. The youth like free stuff and want it from us older folks that worked for what we have. We like the older patriotic order of things and the youth like communism. So here we go again. "History does not repeat itself but it often rhymes." - Mark Twain

Great Info, History, Thanks!!!

Great Video!

Love history love guns love your channel

2:08 ... Wow, it's as though you were reading my mind. History lesson ends, sort of, at 13:50.

Here before LIBERALS demonetize this for being triggered over a historical flag that represents them.

You're spot on about history repeating itself. It's scary to see how the world has become and how's people morality has been weaponized and used against them.

The Guardian Angles still exist in cities around the the US. Their founder Curtis Sliwa is running for mayor of New York City.

STURM ABTEILUNG.... SA The Sauer is My Holy Grail..

GA are alive and well, but I haven't seen them in DC or Philly, but are all over NYC. I always felt better when they showed up particularly in NYC in the late 1970s, early 1980s, when Chalres Bronson's "death wish' become popular, as well as " The Warriors" as things were fairly nasty, as your video shows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels

Great video thanks Tom!!!!!!

great stuff tom

i want EVERYTHING in this video

Brandenburg is the Region where Berlin is situated. Not a part of Berlin.

Tom - love your channel, but please.. you shouldn’t compare the SA with the Guardian Angels. SA members were largely thugs and brawlers recruited in the beer halls. When Hitler realized they were a political liability, the result was the Night of Long Knives.

Comparing the SA to “guardian angles “ seems a stretch. From my German history perception they were more about beating the shit out oft he communists and their opposition in general… Also Brandenburg is an area outside of and around Berlin, I’d assume the group is from there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg

I’m a big fan of your videos and of these early Walther pistols. I’d like to collect them but I struggle with the morality of attributing value to objects of the Nazi regime. Do you have a video that discusses this conundrum? I understand the historical and intellectual aspects of studying this, but investing and anticipating greater future demand is troubling.

Totally Epic!

Thank you!!!

I don’t support by no means what happened during that time but I do find history fascinating. WW2 had a lot of fascinating history in itself people need to quit being so against history it always repeats itself if not remembered.

Love the history.

Click bait! The turkey holding a bunghole on the flag is just holding an x with extra lines

Love to buy one

some people have been having this happen to them every 100 years for thousands of years! lol!

Epic collectibles

History repeats itself....History repeats itself.... History repeats itself.... History repeats itself.... History repeats itself........................

Epic? He must have kids? When will he switch to sick? I prefer an adult friendly video

nah chief your good keep talking

Hugo Boss did NOT design the Nazis uniform. His company was one of three or four contracted to make the black SS uniform. The SA unfiform came from a job lot of army surplus bought in by the then impecunious Party. The black SS uniform was designed by SS members Karl Diebtisch (artist) and Walter Heck (graphic designer). Maybe stick to talking about the pistols? 😉

Fascinating History

D.R.G.M on one of the holsters means „Deutsche Reichs-Gebrauchs-Muster“. It's kind of a little brother of a patent to protect the intellectual property of the inventors. It was used between 1891 to 1945. Love your channel and your historical insides - but your german is horrible. :-D Greetings from Germany

Hindenburg or Bismarck. Get the story right if you're going to tell me.

Sorry, please learn how to pronounce those areas in Germany, it is not hard, Thüringen sounds like Tyyringen, Sachsen (Saxony) Sax en, loud big S short a and a hard x like in Tax and a soft en. Please try, here in Europe we always try to pronounce as the Natives do it if we do not have our own older name / pronunciation. So use Saxony if You could not say Sachsen in German. Here in sweden we say Saxen, the people is Saxarna, this is the same word we use for a pair of scissors, very strange I know, the will probably do not have anything in common.

Too much chatter.

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Tom. At 4:31 you stated: "...when you give one group power, the Nazi Party, they immediatly began rounding up their enemies, what they would call 'criminal element..." I strongly disagree with your assessment. After a series of events--the elections of 1932, the Reichstag Fire Decree which suppressed any civil liberties, and the Enabling Act which allowed the cabinet to rule by fiat, Hitler and his Nazi thugs TOOK power. Hindenberg's death was a relatively minor event, but it left Hitler as the only actor on the stage. I know you never intended to delve that much into the history of those years, but it is very misleading to state that Hitler was given power. Hitler and partially through intimidation and violence of the SA and SS, cemented the Nazi's seizure of power. You have a fanciful view of the SA as do-gooders, for they bodyguards for Hitler and the skull-cracking arm of the Nazis. The SA didn't allow any voice of dissent. Perhaps they went after a criminal or two to justify their existence, but their primary purpose was intimidation. They were thugs through and through. In no means, were they good-natured vigilantes akin to the Guardian Angels going around to make certain there was no crime on the S-bahn. For a better idea of the rise of the Nazis and the SA, here is a good video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G-6I1bnSWyg.html

There is almost no daylight between Democrats and Republicans at this point. Also I’m I was born In nyc and I can tell you the guardian Angeles were gay as a two dollar Bill. You were much safer on 3rd street. That’s where the hells Angeles clubhouse was. Hey Tom, I think mr boss was in the production end of the uniforms. Not the design. I’m sure if I’m wrong about that the community will let me know. Now that I think about it the SA were as gay as a 2 dollar Bill as well.

When you find yourself making comments like 'it's easy to see why people would've liked the SA at the time if you put yourself in their shoes' it may be time to re-evaluate and reflect on the way you see the world

With Hitler in Coburg 1920