The destiny of Kampfgruppe Peiper's Tigers - King Tiger 105 

I really enjoyed visiting the museum as well! I can highly recommend the 'aux écuries de la reine' hotel and restaurant across the street (I forgot the name of the restaurant). It is in fact Tiger 213, which was lost near the Wérimont farm that is on the town square. But the panzer is very impressive indeed!

you were never intended to be heard

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Agreed!

Hello! Happy to hear that!

Great to hear my video helped you a lot! I'm also interested to see the model! if you can, could you send me a picture through my Facebook page, or do you rather have me give you my Email address?

@@TheAceDestroyer I can send you a photo on Facebook, I've been - writing & re-writing this message mainly as I was thinking do I do any other of Piepers Unit but I've gone back to 105.

Usually yes, but I think the narrow streets didn't help and not knowing from where the shots came certainly didn't help either.

Ah no, you're at the wrong address for that!

still a great video youve earned a new sub

Thank you very much!

105 mm king tiger was never produced or really even contemplated seriously to my knowledge.. i think krupp did make a sketch proposing it though.

Yes, no prototypes were ever made, only a sketch like you said. You only see it in wargames like War Thunder or World of Tanks...

Yes indeed, most of them broke down, ran out of fuel or were damaged during combat. This '105' is however a completely different, but interesting story!

Very

The Tiger I certainly had weak spots en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_131

The side armour was penetrable. 17 pdr could do it.

Neil Wilson And an M8 Greyhound armoured car destroyed a Tiger II during the Bulge using it's 37mm gun. A 17lber would easily penetrate the side or rear hull of a Tiger II.

Thanks!

Thanks! I'm very pleased to see that you're enjoying the older content too. I have some more battle of the bulge content ready, especially Peiper and the 82nd Airborne. This particular video (Tiger II 105) will also get a remake. As for the 101st Airborne, I have planned to make several D-Day related videos which will include the five-o-deuce.

@@TheAceDestroyer Look forward to it absolutely!!

I saw the program as well. I do think he was referring to Tiger '105'.

greyone40 On D-day right?

Greatest tank battles weren't it

Yeah, it's one of my main points of interests as well

Not anything, surely.

His war crimes on your friends and family, I'd 'love' to see your 'loving' reactions to that you twat.

Happy to see that you enjoyed this older video! I'll remake these as soon as I get the chance to go to the Ardennes again.

Thanks!

Interesting! Thanks for the great additional information!

@James Diamond 🤮

ooookayyyy?? Not sure of the relevance to this video? Oh! by the way? I see the AIF reference, going to guess you are Australian, yes? If you still have the dynamo, I hope it's registered and licenced , yes? Illegal to possess without said licence, (surplus or not)

@@68Boca G'day, Well, maybe somewhere there's a Copper who feels like being humiliated in the Witless Box being Cross-Examined as to why they left it from 1947 and 3 generations of Ownership within the Family to decide to hold their hand out to be paid to save the Free World from an Antiqu Doorstop with an interesting History. I undertake to reduce any such Halfwit to tears of self vilification, while I have them under Oath... Just(ifiably ?) sayin'. Real Coppers have better shit to do with their working day ; in my experience. Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

Glad to see that you liked this older video. I'm planning on making an improved version though with better maps and footage, but I need to go to Stavelot first.

@@TheAceDestroyer , have a good trip . 👍

Of course it was stupid in 1944, but the results in 1940 speak for themselves. Sure it was bold and a little crazy, but it worked, and therefore wasn't stupid.

@@Topfblende Throughout the early years the Germans got away with doing things that were stupid because their opponents were stupider. Going into the Rhineland when the French and British could still crush them was stupid - but letting HITLER get away with it was even stupider. Invading Czechoslovakia was stupid but letting Hitler get away with it was even stupider. Attacking Poland with little to defend the western front was stupid but not attacking Germany's vulnerable flank was even stupider. Going through the Ardennes in 1940 was stupid but not having anyone there other than two Belgian Cavalry divisions was even stupider. Yes - it worked - but it worked BECAUSE it was stupid. It was so stupid the Allies didn't believe anyone would do it. The history of this is: Britain, France and Belgium had worked out mutual defense arraignments in the 1930's in case Germany attacked them again. Belgium was to raise as big an army as the nations could support - which they did - then have defensive positions prepared for the British and the French to come in and occupy if it looked like Germany was going to attack - which they didn't do. The big problem though was that when it became apparent that it was really going to happen the Belgians went into denial and wouldn't allow the British and the French to come in and set up. Only after Germany attacked them would the Belgians allow the British and the French in. Other than that - they were to be neutral. A light German aircraft carrying Staff Officers to a meeting got lost and landed in Belgium. The Germans were captured and with them the entire plans for the German attack. The Belgians gave the plans to the British and the French. The response was something like this: British & French "So! You want us to come in and set up?" Belgians "What?!? And violate our neutrality?" So - with the Allies in possession of the original plans - which were much like the 1914 plans - Hitler and the Germans were open to new ideas - such as going through the Ardennes. Had there been a line of French Infantry Corps through the Ardennes and had the RAF fully committed it's fighter force to the campaign - the Allies could have stopped the Germans in 1940. We can't, of course, know what would have happened but the Allies could have stopped the Germans and Belgium and France might never have fallen. So - yes - going through the Ardennes was stupid but nothing in comparison to the monumental stupidity of the Belgians. It is said, that the winner of a Battle is the one who makes the fewest or the least mistakes. Germany did so spectacularly well early in the war NOT because they were so smart but because their enemies were so stupid. Once their enemies stopped being stupid - the stupidity of what the Germans were doing became apparent. .

Thanks!! There should be a link in the info bar thingy below the video, but I'll place the link here as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BnmglWHoVrk.html

Everything is short, but the Tiger II had planned a diesel engine upgrade which would of been far more efficient in petrol. Even then subsequently, to divert resources for additional Diesel production other than the Naval demands would of strained an already collapsed system. But to supply 4 Tiger IIs would be a lot easier than supplying half a company of Panzer IV's at the same cost; not to mention the saving in manpower. At one point it can be argued the finese of training with the Schwere Abteilung Kompanies - but as shown here - Most replacement crews were combat inexperienced, only barely trained compared to the Panzer Lehr for the operation.

That is why it was such a surprise to the Allies. They were hoping to capture allied fuel depots also.

Thanks for your response. This has been argued so many ways that it quite frankly does my head in some times. I'm no historian, merely an armchair tactician but the Germans succeeded early in the war with Panzer ones, twos and threes partly due to their speed! I suspects speed was a limiting factor in their failure the second time.

Ah, terribly sorry, no they never actually built one, it is only a paper drawing.

Yeah, I'm terribly sorry!

some amphetamines may be in order...

It was a funeral. The death of KönigTiger #105. But yeah it did seem a little drab.

Well it is sad what he is talking about

@@TheAceDestroyer I *really* like your delivery, accent and unfaltering pronunciation of German. Such a refreshing change from screamingly loud fast talking dumber than dirt narratives of American mocumentaries. Don't change a thing. Subbed. = ]

It eventually got scrapped after the war I think.

You can find a link in the video description. It's Olympus by Ross Bugden.

No I don't, sorry! I also don' have a clue where you can find one. Sorry I can't help you!

Will you do one video of the 314 maybe? You do really good video and very informative as well.

names, numbers? personnel?

According to Duel in the mist 3 (excellent book by the way), Hauptscharführer Georg Lötzsch was in command of King Tiger 233.

Thank for the reply :-) will you do a video on Peiper?

No worries! I'm planing on remaking these King Tiger video's and I'm also working on a few more of those together with Kampgruppe Peiper's Panthers. If I go back to the Ardennes, I also might make a full video about Kampgruppe Peiper itself.

Amazing,can't wait to see your new videos :-)

Glad to hear that @@NihilistGhost! Thank you!

That looks good! My parents won't allow me to donate something however when it comes out, and I hope it does, I might very well put some money on the side. It looks really stunning!

thank you!

no donations required!

I probably said 501 for the abteilung number, not the tank. If I said 501 for the tank I was wrong and I'm sorry, but with 501, I meant the Schwere SS Panzerabteilung 501.

my bad buddy i should have listened better

Yeah the King Tiger was not suited for the dense and close combat of the Ardennes. It was designed to fight in long stretches of land like the Eastern front. And yes they could have done a far better job if they had reconnoitered the area!

What do you mean they weren't supersoldiers? Watch the narva battle video.

I wouldn't say they were supersoldiers. On the Narva video, they had an entrenched high ground position with a handful of outstanding Anti-Tank weaponry. There are battles where the SS and the Wehrmacht were completely annihilated. None the less, the Germans were excellent soldiers, but sometimes they were outclassed by the allies.

The AceDestroyer well if not super then the best soldiers the ever walk this planet lol

Well, to walk this planet, maybe not, but they were excellently trained in both handling the gun and war tactics.

Sorry to disappoint you...

@@TheAceDestroyer haha no problem mate 😉

WOw is shit , not even realistic, Warthunder is more Realistic

Michael Hawkins red orchestra tops em all!

Euhm sorry, but I don't understand any Russian and google translate isn't helping me either. Sorry mate!

The AceDestroyer destroyeng house kak tiger 1e filipsena iz swpzbtl division das reich in 44

Yeah sorry, I try to say the names in German as well...

No, I'm from Belgium actually.

What do you mean by 'Bljack? Did I pronounce something wrong?

Yeah! It wasn't suited for the narrow streets and forest roads.

Would have been perfect for the wide open fields of Russia. But possibly too heavy for mud and snow ?

MetalDetroit most kts were sent east