The Wehrmacht In Pictures: A Look At One of History's Legendary Fighting Force

[Nilgiri]

Which place was this do you know?

 

[The Sandman]

Which place was this do you know?

Nope no idea it was on my PC so i posted it but i will try to find it.

 

[The Sandman]

German Soldier with Flamethrower Somewhere in Russia 1941

Wehrmacht soldiers with MG34 Dimitrijewka Eastern Front July 1942

Wehrmacht soldiers 1941 Kowno Eastern Front

Wehrmacht troops MG 34 post with Zieloptik

Wehrmacht soldiers with a machine gun MG 34 and mortar

 

[Nilgiri]

 

[The Sandman]

Awesome share but from 3:40-4:00.... i mean wow so scary.....

 

[Nilgiri]

Awesome share but from 3:40-4:00.... i mean wow so scary.....

There was a really long Russian series on German invasion of USSR...with lots of CGI for the battles etc....but I learnt a lot from it. I will post it sometime when I find it again. But the episodes are full feature length long (45 minutes)....but full of lots of information about the individual operations.

Being Russian I expected it to be biased to their perspective....but it was pretty fair and neutral I have to say.

OK I found the first episode on youtube, tell me if its your sort of thing and we can maybe discuss the episodes etc over longer period of time.

@vostok Would you be interested in this kind of thing?

 

[The Sandman]

There was a really long Russian series on German invasion of USSR...with lots of CGI for the battles etc....but I learnt a lot from it. I will post it sometime when I find it again. But the episodes are full feature length long (45 minutes)....but full of lots of information about the individual operations.

Being Russian I expected it to be biased to their perspective....but it was pretty fair and neutral I have to say.

OK I found the first episode on youtube, tell me if its your sort of thing and we can maybe discuss the episodes etc over longer period of time.

@vostok Would you be interested in this kind of thing?

I've actually watched it watching it again because i love the CGI and that BG music the way they show large movements on map encirclement's etc uhh love it and yes i agree it was not that much biased still it's Russian check out their other channel it contains eng subs for every vid currently i have started two series 1812 Napoleonic wars and another one a TV series and if it is good than maybe i will share the documentary on 1812 wars here.

 

[Nilgiri]

I've actually watched it watching it again because i love the CGI and that BG music the way they show large movements on map encirclement's etc uhh love it and yes i agree it was not that much biased still it's Russian check out their other channel it contains eng subs for every vid currently i have started two series 1812 Napoleonic wars and another one a TV series and if it is good than maybe i will share the documentary on 1812 wars.

HAHA thats awesome coincidence bro. I loved that music too.

Napoleon one was not as good...I got bored half way through (and mostly because I have a much nicer one from longer time back...thats not as long but covered all his campaigns from start to end).

What is attackers about?

 

[The Sandman]

What is attackers about?

No idea haven't watched it yet it's a TV series will watch it and than i can tell you

HAHA thats awesome coincidence bro. I loved that music too.

Napoleon one was not as good...I got bored half way through (and mostly because I have a much nicer one from longer time back...thats not as long but covered all his campaigns from start to end).

Well thanks for that than looks like i am probably gonna skip it i thought it to be as same as Soviet storm in the east :/

 

[Nilgiri]

Well thanks for that than looks like i am probably gonna skip it i thought it to be as same as Soviet storm in the east :/

Yeah they focused too much on the generals day to day affairs, troop movements and so on....rather than the battles themselves.

Now I can appreciate why they went that way...since back then those were simply what occupied 99% of the battle time since it was all feet and horses for movement...but it just didn't have the same dynamism for me to watch it so intently.

It may also be because I had to watch the subtitles and it was not a dubbing

 

[The Sandman]

It may also be because I had to watch the subtitles and it was not a dubbing

That can also be a big turn off for me too :/

 

[The Sandman]

Trucks and cars of the Wehrmacht @Nilgiri
Büssing-NAG

Einheitsdiesel

Henschel 33

Horch 901

Mercedes Benz L1500A 1940

Mercedes Benz L3000

 

[The Sandman]

Opel Blitz

Krupp protze L 2 H 143 with a triple AA gun

Luftwaffe Krupp Protze Kfz70 with trailer

 

[The Sandman]

Time for Ze Kriegsmarine

At the outbreak of World War II, the German Kriegsmarine consisted of 11 Ships of the size of a CL or bigger, while 7 additional ships were under construction. This small fleet was supported by 21 destroyers and 57 U-boats, most of them only usable for small coastal operations.

Compared to British, French or American fleets of this time, the German Kriegsmarine was very small, but at the beginning of the war, the Kriegsmarine surface units achieved some spectacular victories against the British Royal Fleet.

The Z-Plan was Germany's fleet building program started shortly before World War 2.

According to this plan, the German Kriegsmarine should have grown to about 800 units, consisting of 13 battleships and battlecruisers, 4 aircraft carriers, 15 Panzerschiffe (Armored ships), 23 cruisers and 22 "Spähkreuzer" which were basically large destroyers. In addition to this many smaller vessels should have been build like torpedo boats etc.

Those ships should have been build between 1939 and 1946, in this time, the personal of the Kriegsmarine should have been enlarged to 200,000 men and over 33 billion Reichsmark should have spend for building the new units.

First Battleships:

Bismark: (my fav)
Laid down: Blohm & Voß Hamburg, 01 July, 1936 (Slipway 1)
Launched: 14 Feb, 1939
Commissioned: 24 Aug,1940
Displacement: 50405 tonnes (maximum)
Main Armament: 8 x 380 mm L/52 SK C/34 (4 × 2)
Secondary Armament: 12 × 150 mm L/55 SK-C/28 (6 × 2)
Armour: belt – 320 mm, turrets – 360 mm, main deck – 100 to 120 mm

Aug 1940

Just look at this beauty

Gneisenau:
Laid down: Deutsche Werke Kiel, 06 May, 1935 (Slipway 1)
Launched: 08 Dec,1936
Commissioned: 21 May, 1938
Main armament:
9 x 283 mm (11,1") 9 x 283 mm (11,1")
Secondary armament:
12 x 150 mm (5,9") 12 x 150 mm (5,9")

Tirpitz
Launched: 1 April 1939
Commissioned: 25 February 1941
Main Armament:
8 x 380 mm L/52 SK C/34 (4 × 2)
Secondary Armament:
12 × 150 mm L/55 SK-C/28 (6 × 2)
Firing it's main guns

Anchored July 1941

Scharnhorst:
Laid down: Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, 15 June, 1935 (Slipway 2)
Launched: 03 Oct,1936
Commissioned: 07 Jan, 1939

P.S is it just me or these names sounds really cool
@django @Nilgiri @waz @Kaptaan

 

[Nilgiri]

Ahhh....back in the good ole days when they had the original national anthem....with the non politically correct UBER ALLES IN DER WELT

Btw thats the actual grand-daughter of Otto Van Bismarck doing the christening with the champagne bottle.

Btw Sandman have you seen the movie "Sink the Bismarck"?