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History - The Battle of the Bulge - 11/18/2021 7:11:13 AM

eddieballgame

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'loutro' posted the link in another thread.
Felt this deserved it's own thread...worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyHqSxokjCc

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RE: History - The Battle of the Bulge - 11/20/2021 2:21:07 PM

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Video not available !
This video was blocked in my country by the user who posted it.

DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU, NO. 2, 1945 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1rsiK1LIKk

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RE: History - The Battle of the Bulge - 11/20/2021 5:31:06 PM

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Shame on him.

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RE: History - The Battle of the Bulge - 11/20/2021 6:13:47 PM

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Thanks! Thought is was interesting how so few men could completely delay the Wehrmacht

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RE: History - The Battle of the Bulge - 11/20/2021 7:13:24 PM

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Those are both great vids.

Two takeaways for me from the Wochenshau; the distribution of Panzerfaust's looks much higher than what I've ever been led to believe; literally every other man was carrying one, actually it almost appeared that other than the MG crew, everyone else had one. This is higher than the usual 1 in 3 ratio most sources provide. Probably given out liberally due to the offensive, but still, any Ardennes scenarios should take this in to account.

Several of the soldaten were very young; there's a boy riding on one of the tanks, towards the end of the video who looks very young. I mean like 12-14. However on some of the young men, when the camera zooms in, you can see the wrinkles around their eyes which is a clear sign they've seen stress from some serious combat. Wrinkles are not normal for an 18 year old; I didn't notice mine until I was in my early 30's (the combat I saw in the Gulf War at 24 y.o. was minimal, and I was Infantry). Most soldiers on all sides smoked back then, which has an effect as well.

Anyway, thanks for those.

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