The Oranienbaum Front | The Battle of Narva 1944 - Ep. 1 

He belonged to an elite Waffenbrüderschaft, one which inflicted 6 casualties upon the Bolsheviks for every casualty that they themselves suffered.

I recently have a Patient who was Tank Commander and member of the Nordland Division. He is native German AS well, but from czech Republik.

I fill never eat Lurpak again,😂

Thanks! And thank you for the extra information!

Did he make it back home?

My father was in the Seige of Stalingrad and the Battle of Narva. My uncle was the same he became a prisoner of war by the Russians in 45 and released in 56. My father returned home with severe injuries.

What his name

@@avengernemesis7990 what his name

@@avengernemesis7990 Hail to your father and uncle

Thank you! Very glad to see that you also liked the wobbly wiggle things. I finally found something small which can point the viewer to what unit I'm talking about!

If there is a way to make the wiggle a bit more visible, that would be great, but anyway, it's a very useful addition.

Thanks! I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it! I'm planing to do more series in the line of this one and the Hurtgen campaign. I was thinking about a '82nd Airborne Division during the Battle of The Bulge' series myself, so yes, I do think I might feature your fathers last battle. I hope he survived?

Thanks! I'm very happy to hear that!

I'm thrilled to hear that! Happy to see that you enjoyed it!

Thanks! Yeah, I too found that quite an improvement over the normal motionless maps.

My pleasure! I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it!

Thanks! Happy New Year to you too!

Well, I think it's going to be a four-part series, so three more episodes to go.

THIS IS NARVA, BABY! - Frank Wald

G'day, Well, as I heard it from my father in law, the Hungarian Air Farce Tailgunner, who was posted to the Luftwaffe in 1941 when Hungary trotted off to join in the great Operation BarbequeRussia - and they made of him a Fallschirmjaeger.... When they could, the brighter ones managed to sneak away from their units, hide in the Forests, wait till the wave of Shooting has passed through the immediate area, and then surrender to the fighting Infantry rather than waiting for the second-wave of Occupation Troops. Then, while everybody's drunk celebrating VE day, sneak off and run away, get accross a Neutral Border (from Hungary into Switzerland...) work there as a Lumberjack till in 1950 Britain starts importing EuroPeons as Labourers for Welsh Coal Mines - and in 1955 when Germans were permitted to travel then quit Coalmining to get work as a Flourmiller. Every one of them had a different story. The father of a school friend of mine, also Hungarian, hated Communists because Bela Kun's Government had put his father in a Camp as a Counter-Revolutionary, so he volunteered to be a Machine-Gunner in the back seat of a Stuka - for the thrill of shooting the Communists as they tried to bail out of the burning Tank his Pilot had just brewed up with a bomb, during the Climbout, hanging in his Straps. He was being railroaded to Siberia in 1946, for having fought against the Soviets, jumped off the Train, walked to India, married the daughter of a British Colonial Beaurocrat, and came to Oz to work on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. My General Studies teacher, Georges Szonyi, represented Hungary in the 1936 Oh-Limp-Dicks in Discus, Javelin, Heptathlon & Pentathlon...., in 1941 he, " Ven I vas your age I marched mit mein Horse (in an Artillery Regiment), from Berlin to visin 12 Km from Moscow... "Und zen I marched back again. It vas cold coming back. So cold zat I slept mit mein Horse, und ven mein Horse died, I cut it up und put it in my Pack, und zen I ATE mein Horse.... "Vat you know ? Vat haff you done ? "You haff bin novhere. You haff done nussink. You know nussink..., YOU Know SHIT...! "I am Australian by CHOICE..., You are only Australian by accident of birth...!" George Szonyi could speak 9 languages including Mandarin, & he could read & write 3 others - with Cantonese being one of those... He was licenced by both the Budapest & Sydney Musical Conservatoria to teach EVERY Instrument in the Philharmonic Orchestra except for the Violin... So, there's 3 Ostruppen stories - albeit all from Hungarians. A mate of mine emigrated to Oz at age 11, he's now 42..., discovered last year that his Grandfather was in the Dutch Viking SS - and he had never known of it until well after the old Hitlerite was long dead. He and his family were too ashamed of what he had done (for Adventure & for FUN !) to ever squeak of it to their next generation. So, there's a fourth. Such is Life, Have a good one. ;-p Ciao !

@@WarblesOnALot was this a Freudian mistake? "Hungarian Air Farce"

@@WarblesOnALot here is a fifth: my Granduncle was a Waffen SS NCO "fighting" old men and children in Yugoslavia. Even post-war he was a hardcore Nazi and not shy about his deeds (atrocities). When i asked him about Croat and Bosniaks in the Waffen SS he told me they were "worse than animals". Thus spoke the Animal!

Grindr…😂😂

@Andy FJK Thanks Andy, Happy to hear that!

@Clifton Brumbaugh Yeah, I really like Mr Felton's videos too! They're truly amazing!

@@TheAceDestroyer Yes, he is excellent. If you like naval history, Drachinifel is a real ninja. Check him out if you like.

Thanks! I will, but I must say I'm more into ground combat with tanks and infantry.

@@TheAceDestroyer ha ha me too

Yes the allies used many volunteers such as Polish regiments and many other countries, atleast 17 countries were involved in the invasion of Normandy... Most of 'em from occupied countries... They were volunteering

Thanks! I'm thrilled to hear that!

Thanks! Happy New Year to you too! Haha, well I largely feature the III. SS Panzer Korps front as that is the most featured in books, but there is still a lot out there to research.

Happy to hear that! Thanks and Happy New Year to you too!

Thanks! I'm very happy to hear that!

Lol no, the Americans never oficially released the number of casualties.

@@pomiklom2499 I dont get it?

The Germans never really appreciated how easily the allies could replenish their ranks.

The Russians won the demonic genocidal Slavic-germanic race war hands down. That's all the matters.

@@donaldsanver4744 pretty sure by 1944 they did.

My pleasure! I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it!

It’s easy to be aggressive when you have alcohol or captured Pervatin to run on. And your Political Commissar is behind you waiting to shoot stragglers.

Steve Wilson by 1944 they were not shooting people constantly! One a week maybe.... 😉

Depends on what you consider aggressive. It only took the Russians 4 years to go the same distance you can drive in less than 20 hours.

@@stevewilson4514 The wehrmacht stopped using Pervatin in the first few months of the war.

@@gutzzgutzz6795 You might want to read Sniper on the Eastern Front. Or watch the documentary on the use of Pervatin. While there may have been a policy restricting it, you could still get it through other channels. Such as having family members mail it to them. I watched an interview with a German officer that must have been made in the 1960’s. He stated on camera that in the fall of 1944 he was assigned to plan operations for his Panzer Corps part in Watch On The Rhine. Quote; we lived on coffee, cigarettes, and PERVATIN!!!

I'm very happy to hear that!

Thanks! And, welcome to the channel!

Thanks! I'm very pleased to hear that!

You shouldn't be proud of people who collaborates with literall nazis. I will never understand Belgians, Ukrainians who are proud of their forefathers who fought with not against germans.

@@mixererunio1757 they fighted against communism. Wich they thourght was worse.

fought * lol

@@mixererunio1757 who said that I was proud of them? the reason why some Ukrainians are proud of their forefathers could be that for Ukraine communism was much worse than national socialism

Were they really volunteers? I know the baltic "volunteers" were conscripted, was it the same for the Danes

Thanks!

Thanks! Welcome to the channel!

Where do u live in?

I have him features in the second or third part, I should check my scripts. But, he'll certainly be featured!

Agreed. A remarkable story. And the Graf Strachwitz operations.

High respect for little Otto, however there was another little known Tiger Ace who scored higher than Carius. Can't think of his name right now but he was killed in the Easten Front. I'm sure Ace knows of him.

@@billcallahan9303 I believe you're referring to Kurt Knispel, I made a video about him a few years ago.

@@TheAceDestroyer Thank you Ace! That name always escapes me.

@liebstandarte jagermeister - I agree and if Hitler had got his stupid face out the way the Generals would have done a lot better. Morally the Germans did not deserve to win but militarily they were hindered terribly by Hitler. One allied general once commented that Hitler's planning was the equivalent of giving 150 divisions to the allies!

@liebstandarte jagermeister You forget the millions of Russians, Romanians, Poles, Jews etc who served as slave labor in the rear to support the troops.

@@edravo What about them?

My pleasure! I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it!

My pleasure! I'm glad to see that you found it interesting!

WHO Trusts traitors?

Thank you very much! I really appreciate it!

Yeah, I always try to focus more on the battles themselves.

The Danish freedom fighters asked the King fir his permission before volunteering to the German/European freedom fighting forces. The Danish king gave his approval. After the war the King didn' t want to know anyhing more of his approval and the Danish volunteered were arrested after their return home thus betrayed by their own King.

Yeah, the Danish volunteers are a very interesting story as you pointed out. Thanks for the info! I appreciate it!

Thats right and All the papers from King and government"disappearred" after the war. Freicorr Denmark- Frikorps Danmark, Division Wiking, Sørensen was commander of reg.24 Dänemark last days in Berlin where he died, and get burried on a graveyard, after war hes parents brought hes corpus home and re burried in Viborg Denmark

I actually didn't. I used some books and articles on the subject but I presume that they used the diary.

@@TheAceDestroyer www.dropbox.com/s/lzhlqennv4a2sim/KTB%20Armeeabteilung%20Narwa.pdf?dl=0 this should be a good read for you ( lot of german words i hope you can make your way through :D)

@@truekraut367 Excellent. There is a more complete version of the Kriegstagebuch available here wehrmacht.rindeleht.ee/ktb/1/1.html. Even more info and maps can be found here: www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/ArmeeAbteilung/ArmeeAbtNarwa-R.htm and here www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KorpsSS/IIISSPzKorps-R.htm

Thanks guys! I really appreciate it!

Thanks! All music is from the RU-vid library, it's called 'Russian dance' if I'm not mistaken.

Thanks! You can always turn on the subtitles if you want. Je kan altijd de engelstalige ondertitels aanzetten hoor. Greetings from Belgium!

Well, they were more to the South East of Leningrad, near Wolchow. This series is more focused on the 3rd SS Panzer Corps which was to the north near the Gulf of Finland.

@@TheAceDestroyer Thanks, I appreciate it. I have trouble finding anything apart from the most basic info on them.

They are boxes of Scho-ka-kola, a famous German chocolate brand. The boxes were often used in German military rations. I think they still use those circular boxes as packaging today. Here's their website: www.scho-ka-kola.de/homepage-english.html

there were about 25000 dutchmen in the Waffen ss, about 4000-6000 men were killed or missed in action

​@John Beige the Fun part begins when you put one of them old ww2 mortars in to the fire ( never ever do or try to do this at home kids or anywhere else for that matter .its very , very dangerous and stupid thing to do ) .

How do you know theres stuff still there?

@@popiejopie5801 been there

Sorry...at that time 27 SS Langemarck was still 6. SS Freiwilligen sturmbrigade Langemarck.

Indeed, the 6. SS Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade Langemarck will make its entry in the next Narva 1944 video which will be released somewhere in July.

russian dance joey pecoraro

@@LactusTheIntolerant thank u

I believe the Soviets attacked more or less at the same time.

@@TheAceDestroyer Ok. Next can you tell me the difference pls between a russian division and german division, size difference.

@@pancakes3250 I don't know the actual size difference in numbers. I just know that the Soviet Divisions had fewer men than the German ones. I think TIK has a video on that, or at least I recall him saying that in one of his videos.

@@TheAceDestroyer He did. I just couldnt compile it. To him soviet organization level is one size less than a german counter part. But is it organizationally one size less? Anyway i wanted to know. My thing is. The pocket front was held by 2 german luftwaffe divisions. They were hit by a shock army. So if soviet organization is one size less, by troop strength, then they were hit by just one core. Thats 3 divisions strong. So 2 divisions got hit by three. Since i dont know if a russian army organization level is just troop strength smaller but has all the organization and support of the normal army level, extra artillery and priority for other extra things over a core, i dont know how hard the hit was. The biggest problem, is this shock army, 200 tanks, broke 2 'rifle' divisions, but couldn't break a pioneer battalion. It is very unbelievable to me. Am i missing something? TIK explained luftwaffe ground forces was poor in quality, but i dont think they were worse than a single pio battalion. So, how did russians break 2 divisions on defense for long time, yet stalled on a rushed pioneer defending battalion? I am only assuming pioneers just got there. Thank you.

@@pancakes3250 Here's a great link to unit sizes. militaryhistoryvisualized.com/tag/division/ The German Infantry division had around 3000 men more (comparison from GER 1940 - USSR 1941) I must add that the sources regarding the SS usually try to speak more highly of these SS units. I believe the brunt fell mostly on the 9th Luftwaffe Division and that only a part fell on the Pioneers making them able to initially hold them back. The Shock army didn't have 200 tanks at the start. From the weeks leading up to the offensive up until the week after, 200 tanks were brought inside the pocket. These tanks, I imagine were distributed among various units and not used all at once in a joint operation.

I think it's a plough of some sort. Something agricultural at least.

It's a specialized trench plough, used by engineers. It looks like the trenches it creates, are futher digged out by a RAD unit (or HiWis or SS Frontarbeiter)

It's quite interesting. It's not something I've ever seen mentioned in books about WW2 vehicles.

Probably. But it would be a very small amount. Perhaps they would just be lumped with German SS units in the Narva area.

It's called Russian dance, you can find it in the RU-vid audio library. Did you like it?

@@TheAceDestroyer Yes very much Edit : just downloaded the song thanks men

@@datboi3136 No worries! Always happy to help!

@@TheAceDestroyer And the documentary is not bad either , actually really well presented and edited , keep up the good work !

I don't really do that for multiple reasons. The front line changed so much that it was very difficult to track the exact line from day to day. Also the front line at Gatsjina and other parts held by Wehrmacht units was difficult to trace. I didn't want to guess so I decided to leave it out and use the unit symbols instead.

Did your grandfathers fight for Eesti?