Finding WW2 treasures in Eastern Front Woods 

Want to get your hands on exclusive relics or merchandise? Check out our webshop: www.mdww2battlegrounds.com/shop/

Them: metal detecting in forest WW2 mine : i’m about to end this man’s whole career

Seems so peaceful and a relaxing place..just imagine all the horrors that field saw 75-80 years ago.

My grandpa served in ww2, he gave me a lot of cool items. He passed away 9 years ago but I will never forget the stories he told me. He said that after ww2 he couldn't bbq anymore because he would have panic attacks because it reminded him of the concentrationcamps. He gave me a chest full of interesting things, from both the Allies and the Nazis. He gave me an original Nahkampfspange Silver (30 days hand-to-hand combat of the Germans). Different buttons, socks, shoelaces, postcards and even bullets. He has given several Nazi ribbons, and medals which I now have hanging in my room on a special wall in remembrance of WW2. I loved my grandfather very much, I hope he is with all his friends in heaven now, and they will protect us from a better place. Amen.

That MP40 needs to be put in an electrolysis bath for about 24 hours to lift all the rust. I'd guess that once you've done that, some of the inner parts might still be operable.

He's gonna find Hitler's actual dead corpse and be like: "Oi, it's pretty good condition. Another one for the collection."

When you found that mp40 my mouth dropped

Just found this channel. Seems amazing. I'm interested in WW2 and archaeology generally, so I will spend many hours watching your videos. I actually gasped when you dug up the MP40. To imagine the history behind the objects really makes it all so deeply fascinating.

Holy crap only he finds an entire mp40 in great condition

It’s all fun and games until the 70 year old land mine goes off

probably lot of bones in that area too. soldiers don't just leave their weapons and bullets laying around a battlefield.

How amazing putting your hands on these actual Soviet and German relics. Incredible.

I’m from Peru , and my family is German Austria, the metal you founded is exactly what we have. My oma ( grandmother) told us they have to had a tree generation study before they give us the diploma and the metal , both were signed by Hitler , we keep this in my family memories, my grandfather knew Hitler from Austria and fought in war one , he meets Hitler again in 1938 and 39 , he said his personality change after surviving. The orange gas , ya. Thank you for preserver our history

Steps to take when finding an MP40: 1. Dig up MP40 2. Clean MP40 3. "What MP40? I didn't find anything out here."

Waiting for this guy to find a tank and raid the catacombs

9:22 thats a german "Mutterkreuz" you got it when you had 6 or more children. If you had this badge you got more food . Oh you allready found out .

Finds medal with hitlers signature. History nuts:🤯😀 These guys: so yeah this is pretty cool any way over here we got

imagine when he step in active landmines

It looks like fun, but of course, you know that you are playing around amongst 70-year-old explosives.

There must have been some horrendous fighting there for so much hardware to be left laying around. Really amazing.

Really like how you show the items cleaned up next to how were found or what they might look like from original photos Also like the captioning giving a little background on some of the items. All very great and interesting details. Thank you

Every piece he found, he know what he finds. This guy needs so be a historicteacher lol

50 years from now: "We've found alot of fragments from metal detectors and tons of shrapnel"

10:05 it just gave me goosebumps

R.I.P for all of them 🙏🏽

The mp40 is in unbelievable condition.

Waiting for this guy to find an abandoned nuclear warhead

This is impressive and incredible to think that you just have to bend down to pick up some WWI and WWII treasures in the European soil. History is still so close and present to us here everywhere around. All those relics mean dead men right under. Like the buckles, pins and buttons

For those who are doubtful over the mother's cross. Think to the late stages of the war, germ any was desperate and near enough everyone was conscripted to fight. It's possible that a mother was conscripted to fight or that the cross was given to either a son or a sibling as something of a good luck charm, in short there are many reasons why such a piece would be there.

Soldiers who died here have to be like: *yo* *dude* *wtf*

Imagine him pulling a skeleton with gear out of the ground

American metal detecting videos: “Wow, a belt buckle and a wheat penny! Cool” WW2 Metal Detecting Videos: “Here’s another machine gun”

The things this Guy found should be put in the museum

I’d love to go there and metal detect someday

Cross of Honour of the German Mother. Commonly known as the mothers cross. Wow! The mp40 is an amazing find, very lucky to find one complete. Well done.

The MP 40 find was absolutely insane!

Man that would be interesting to go WW2 metal detecting and finding cool stuff, especially guns and bullets and such, imagine finding an actual gun and it still fired

Strange that you found a Mothers Cross in a battlefield.

the fact you found a MP40 and a Swatsika award is AMAZING

That MP40 was an awesome find.

It's crazy to think of the story behind each item... who wore it or who used it. And, finding so many German and Soviet items together, they must have fought and died right there. I would be scared of finding human remains.

These places are like a time machine, really incredible.

14:37 I'm buying a metal detector. NOW!

It’s a Mother’s Cross in Silver. On a battlefield? Interesting.

Deve ser fantástico encontrar essas relíquias, tenho muita vontade de conhecer a Europa e ver de perto a história que é mostrada somente nos livros. Parabéns pelo vídeo conheci este canal agora e confesso que é o melhor dentre todos.

typically when allied forces found a weapon they would throw the bolt away from the weapon still a common practice today this keeps the enemy from reusing the weapon. If found by strageler enemy combatant also break the stock

Wow. The complete MP40 is insane.

Amazing! I would love to see the MP40 and the bayonets in depth when cleaned up!

ok, this is the BEST video I've watched on WWII metal detecting, so enjoyable to watch. Thank you.

It’s sad when you think about how many people who died there but it’s so fascinating to see their stuff 70 years later

funny, Jerry is digging up Jerry's stuff

it makes my eye watery whenever someone discover old relics of the past war even though I was never there

this guy when he said "you made me happy Jerry" sounded like vaas. don't get on his bad side he'll hit ya with a rocket 😂

These are the types of videos I don’t mind ads on.

His friend is probably the first Jerry there in decades

What great fun to find all those artefacts, great to watch as your in a hot spot. 👍

In the forest near my town in Poland there are several large bomb-made holes and you can clearly see the remains of some trenches. Do you think that there could be something interesting in that forest?

It is a German cross and that goes on the column wait will the Tigers

A young man probably carried his dead mother's cross that was willed to him in his pocket while in battle on the Eastern front

This guy can identify anything when it rusty and corroded, amazing!!!

I absolutely love these, man. Keep on treasure hunting!

That medal at 9:02 is known as the "Mother's Cross", and I'm certain there weren't many mothers out there on the battlefield. Needless to say, the German soldier was probably carrying this in honor of a mother who had already died, probably in one of the allied bombing raids.

The eastern front is still littered with WW2 treasures! I'm going on a trip soon to the eastern front as well, I'm so pumped!

Find stuff like this fascinating. 👍 Every time it beeps you never know what you're going to get

You guys really find the coolest stuff whilst metal detecting

Have you thought about giving the MP40 an electrolysis bath?

Them: moving around metal detecting WW2 mines: We don’t do that here

So interesting and so sad at the same time. Seeing that harmonica brings a tear to my eye.

Another amazing video! Thank you so much for sharin' all your adventures and finds. I can't say enough good things about your channel, thank you again and stay safe.

kinda funny if you were digging a deep hole down just to find a shovel.

Imagine the stories that lie here. So sad that they found so much stuff from people that died there. You didn’t just leave your bolt laying in a field.

American metal detector groups: look what we found! These guys: hold my beer.

10:16 This box is called "Black Box" I dont know how it was used but was very much used at least to turn on US Ally vehicles or even Shermans "Jumbo "

I agree with Pete Peterson below about throwing the bolts away. In Iraq, Whenever I found an AK 47 or whatever other weapon, I would always take the bolt and put it in my pocket. By the time it was time to redeploy, I had a whole box of them I tossed in the burn barrel.

Just wish they'd take a little more time digging around an object before pulling it out of the ground.

Europe in general just has amazing opportunities for metal detecting. Rich history. Id love to find some ww2 relics. Hold a piece of history in the palm of my hands. Knowing the last person to hold it was a soldier

I would love to do something like this again. When I was stationed on Camp Schwab, Okinawa in 1999 I went on the Tunnel Rat tour. We didn't find much but that didn't matter. It was still totally awesome to be there, seeing where this battle unfolded. Saw Hacksaw Ridge and heard the story for the first time. The day I didn't go, a Marine from my battalion found an authentic Samaria Sword. I heard it was pretty much spotless. The Japanese officer that hid it wanted it preserved and it was. 54 years later the grandson of one of the Marines he fought at the Battle of Okinawa ends up finding it and returning it to the family who then donated it to one of the rare WWII museums Japan has. My wife is Japanese and she didn't know very much about WWII. She knew there was a war, she knew Japan attacked the U.S first at Pearl Harbor, she knew the U.S. dropped two Atomic bombs on Japan and she knew Japan didn't have much of an army because of WWII. But that was really about all she knew. Now, Japan is starting to talk more about it. Japans greatest ally is their former enemy, us. And Japan is one of, if not the most loyal ally we have now. We shouldn't shy away from talking about the 2nd most important event that ever took place in human history. Nothing like WWII ever happened on that kind of a scale before or since. The only thing that ever happened more important than WWII was Christ. Other than that, nothing compares.

That Mother's Cross of Honor is so beautiful. The National Socialists had amazing sense of style and fashion.

The harmonica gave me chills

that mp 40 find was awesome. you can pass that down to your kids and their kids. one hell of a find.

Awesome work, going beyond of just finding scrap in the ground. These are artifacts. These should be considered archeological digs.

Just imagine going back in time and seeing the guy looking for his razor or his pin

Me metal detecting: Well, you see, what we have here is I dunno a chunk of metal or something.

Thanks Jerry Me: hoping he means his friend

nice video....very well put together....very nice job of placing the photos showing the weapons the parts belonged to and the cleaned up versions of the items.

Its a mothers medal given for having children the more children the better the medal. (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter)

Finding that mp40 gave me chills. Loved the condition of that silver and blue medal. Wow! Great episode

9:20 This is the Mothercross. You got them, if you had a lot of sons in your family.

The MP40 is an amazing discovery, that can be restored.

That cross is one of the most jaw dropping things I’ve ever seen come out of the ground. Congrats. To the right buyer that thing is worth a lot I’m guessing.

When i was about 8,im a nerdy kid who loves history, my father do metal detecting in the woods of Indonesia, he got back home wielding a gun then he said "What is This"?, then i said " No way.... Its a Mosin Nagant"

The badge was amazing! I am shocked that none of the color faded in the last 80 years being out in the elements. Wow. I am stunned. I wish I lived in Germany and could go on these treasure hunts for Nazi war memoribilia.

I would love to see a vid of all the finds of the year, when they're all cleaned up with some backstory !

*steps on mine* Oh its still in a pretty good condition Edit: time to brag these likes since ive never had much HAHAHAHAHAH thanks!!

I would have cryed when i found an MP40. Amazing video guys!!👍

Amazing that badge is beautiful, keep those finds forever. Extremely nice finds.

That forest reminds me of band of brothers when they come across the concentration camp

Iam german it means Der deutschen Mutter is the German mother

Perang hanya menyisakan kesedihan bagi keluarga yang di tinggalkan,semoga kita selalu damai dan tidak ada perang lagi yang ingin merebut kekuasaan tapi tidak memikirkan begitu banyak manusia yang jadi korban nya,ntah kenapa para penguasa tidak memikirkan efeck samping nya dari perang yang menimbulkan kerugian materi yang berkepanjangan dan terjadi kemiskinan yang begitu lama😢😢😢😢 Salam dari Indonesia🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

Findings on Eastern front often hits me when thinking how bad situation must have been at the end of the war. Both sides suffered, Germans more so because not many prisoners were taken from either side. If they were, future for Germans was probably worse than instant death... Finds like K98 bolts, their bayonets, Gewehr 43 and MP40 in good condition, badge and the rest show fighting was fierce with many dead soldiers. They are great finds anyway, i hope it shows people what war is about. Good job guys!