WW2 German Squad Tactics | Animated History

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Sources:
Buchner, Alex, Edward Force, and Alex Buchner. The German Infantry Handbook, 1939-1945: Organization, Uniforms, Weapons, Equipment, Operations. West Chester, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1991.

Bull, Stephen. World War II Infantry Tactics. Osprey, 2004.

The German Squad in Combat. Washington D.C.: United States Department. Military Intelligence Service, 1943.

McNab, Chris, and Johnny Shumate. German Soldier versus Soviet Soldier: Stalingrad 1942-43. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2017.

Töpfer, Harry. German Tactical Manual.

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[lucasduro]

7:20 .... the level of animation of this machine gun... perfect! Congrats for the animator team

[That-Belgian-Guy]

WHO DOESN'T LOVE THAT THUMBNAIL!?

[bananabonzai]

Missing the longer 30 minute videos, but understand the shorter length content to fight the algorithm. Great work as always.

[Mabbdaa]

5:58
No way he really just snuck in the Amongus horn 💀💀💀

[claypots]

The editing and animation is insane. Great video!

[landenfisher]

I really hope you all decide to do a series on the Spanish Civil War, hopefully something about the Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, great video as always tho.

[eduard-andreigorincu]

Hello Griffing. I would love if you could do a ww2 perspective of some smaller contribuit like romania hungary or even Bulgaria. Keep the good work comming :)

[DemonOfGadara]

I think it's interesting to see that the basic infantry fighting doctrine of infantry groups frog-leaping forward under heavy machine gun cover has been basically the same since then. In my basic training (2014) as a Panzergrenadier in the german army we were taught that exact standard tactic.

[hardcorehardo]

My grandpa was a Wehrmacht veteran. Thanks for this video! It’s really interesting to see what kind of tactics my grandfather saw in combat

[awesomehpt]

It’s these tactics that Steiner’s men will use when he launches his counter attack. Any minute now.

[reddot]

One of my combat instructors at SOI told me a lot of the tactics we use as infantry marines was founded from the wermachts blitzkreig tactics, after watching this I can say that the marine rifle squad and small unit tactics is definitely very close to the germans

[timv]

the animation quality was spot on !!!! you guys really improved over time and it shows !!!!

[Sirius]

Armchair Historian will never die.
Best of luck to you Griffin and the entire team. You've been amazing, been watching a good 2 years now. Loved them all.

[JahJah-CleverHandle]

That MG animation though… absolutely stunning.

[chrisbutsch]

I think the combat scenes from Generation War showcase these German squad tactics perfectly

[sjcobra]

The visuals get better each time. They have improved so much.

[atouristinreality]

Great video, My grandfather was a soviet veteran. Its real intresting too see what his enemies squad tactics were.

[googane]

I always admire that taking the initiative and maintaining fire superiority is considered to be of the utmost importance. Even infantry can be considered a mobile task force in their own right. Even modern militaries are still trying to learn this...

[alexrascon]

Thanks for making amazing history videos Griffin!