Rarest of the RARE! Thomas Wittmann collection review 

@Oliver Aeternus Im in the British Isles. Ive got an Iron Cross that was liberated from the Reichs Chancellery by a British Officer in July 45. Agreed our soldiers didnt tend to really bring stuff home.

most easely to fake

@@TheRdamterror Yep you are just a joke but that can’t be faked!!

@@mikewest5529 im no joke im real

@@mikewest5529 and i DIT NOT say it was fake only i say its the most easly thing to fake so to me to one of the least inpresive things in that collecsion

@@TheRdamterror Easy to fake the item but hard to fake the paperwork connecting it to someone who served and came back.

Been in militaria for over 40 years, he’s not as squeaky clean as you may think.

i want to buy a few pieces from him, could you tell me where he lives or how do i find him? i know he has a webpage but i want to buy personally. Thanks

Tom would make a great Dinner Guest for sure , He has become a International Treasure for Sure .

You would never know how old it is!! Stunning with a terrible story!!

I think the blade being broken on purpose according to tradition makes the blade even cooler, I love blades and items that I can associate a genuine story with.

I wonder how a US interrogator got it.

fred brant 🤣🤣🤣

@fred brant my mama told me he's my Daddy

How sweet would that be if you did a genealogy kit like ancestry.com and find out he is your long lost grandfather or something. That would be amazing.

@@b-radfrommalibu I'd be to scared to do a genealogy test. I'm probably third generation Neanderthal.😂😂😂

Lol

In the Hitler era, the gouvernement tried to use old designs, to show the german people, that they ( the Nsdap party) are keepers of german tradition. One of those things ,tradition keeping' had been the uncommon, strange soundig ranks of SS. Before the thirty years war the military words had been german, but after the war lots of french words came in use. A Hauptmann became a Capitaine, or a Feldwebel became a Sergeant or a Fähnlein became a battailon. So the Gouvernement tried to reintroduce german sounding rank names.

War spoils don't go back to the family ,that's the whole point.

‘War spoils don’t go back to the family, that’s the whole point’ is just childlike logic. If I looted like that in Iraq and Afghanistan, I would’ve lost rank and perhaps my freedom. We cannot claim the moral highground when we were especially known for looting and theft to the point where the British complained and asked us to reign it in. We eventually cracked down on it but far too late in my opinion Looting and theft (and ra pe…sadly we had the highest statistics in this field only beaten by the Russians) is seen as the hallmark of a highly undisciplined army and this in fact was our reputation both the the Germans and our fellow allies. We did many studies after the war and the lessons learned helped us to tighten up our act in later generations. Can you imagine the hew and cry we would’ve yelped if the Germans looted off of Prisoners and dead bodies? They were in fact quite disciplined in this aspect. POWs had their medals, etc placed in Red Cross bags to be returned upon repatriation or wars’ end.

Never thought nazis were keeping swords