during operation barbarossa and the ensuing german retreat, lots of soviet firearms were captured by the germans. The germans even had whole factories just for converting stolen sovet firearms to use german ammo, mostly PPSH-41s to use MP-40 magazines. Though, the ones in-game are not converted, as shown by the curved magazine and original magazine release instead of the german conversion with the MP-40's stick magazines and mag catch.

Edit: Another thing I want to mention is that during germany's offensive campaigns, whenever they were able to capture an enemy arms factory, they often used those same factories to just keep pumping out the same weapons they were already producing and just slapping a german markings on them and giving them a new designation, like the FN factory during the ocupation of belgium where they just had them keep making browning high powers but just put nazi markings on them and designated them "Pistole 640(b)" but it was the exact same pistol as the allies used, and you could even use a "german" high power with an allied high power's magazine, or vise versa.

Dude this is genuinely the most ww2 footage from both perspectives and fronts ive ever seen in one video, this is so peak 😭

Bro gave me a history lesson better than any of my teachers for 11 minutes that I totally forgot this was about a COD game...gotta love this now.

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When general McCullough said nuts on the radio, it wasn't just a refusal to surrender. They had successfully bugged a German command base and the german guy on the radio got excited about something and when it didn't go the way he'd hoped, he responded by saying nuts. McCullough chose that word specifically to subtly let the German guy know that they were listening to their conversations. I don't recall if the germans ever connected those dots though

Ahh perfect timing was just about to have my dinner💯👌🏼

36:33 My great great grandfather fought in this war, my great grandfather hadn't been born yet. It's a cannon event for my great great grandfather to survive this battle so I can exist now. 🤘

15:17 The PPSH being in the level is actually historically accurate, the Soldiers fighting on D-Day against the Allies were most untrained recruits that were equiped with weapons captured in the east and brought to the west.

Fuckin A this came at an amazing time. Just starting dishes and cleaning the kitchen after dinner.

Lmao I literally just looked up “COD WWII” as I wanted to see if there were any good videos on it, & low-&-behold, 6 hours ago, a near hour-long video on the topic. Pretty awesome timing.

My favorite description of Pierson’s character was the person not even remembering his name so they just called him Josh Duhamel played by Josh Duhamel

The one time I listen to a history teacher

15:35 Daniels shouldn't even have a pistol as handguns, back then at least, were reserved for specialized units, vehicle operators, and commanding officers. Daniels is standard infantry and a private.

When you talked about the horror of artillery it reminded me of my grandfather.
He was a combat engineer in WW2 and went from Normandy to Berlin.
He kept a journal and was part of the force that liberated Buchanwald.
In that journal he mentions being scared one time, during the battle of the bulge when he had to blow up a bridge and artillery was raining down around him.
He said it was the most scared he had ever been in his life.

despite not being my favorite cod or even top 5, i put so much time into this. my 8th grade brain when this game came out after being raised on WaW thought this was the coolest shit ever. still got a place for it in my heart tho. amazing video man! i really enjoy your content!

Legit just finished replaying this campaign, this is great timing! Love your work, endlessly entertaining and informative.

so glad you finally got to this one, i really feel like you hit the nail on the head with your overall assessment, seriously could not have worded it better imo. I absolutely loved how you touched on those action-packed hollywood scenes of the game too, i remember on my very first playthrough, those scenes REALLY threw me out of the immersion i was experiencing. I get it’s all for entertainment but, as you said, it really made it seem like they were making a spectacle out of an inexplicably horrific war.

Even with its flaws I still love the campaign and have played it several times. This game came out when I was younger and I quickly became addicted to it. I love the music, atmosphere, gameplay and just everything about it. This game got me really into researching WWII and every possible thing about. Still one of my favorite games ever to this day.

Babe wake up, hoodedbeasts uploaded another history video :>

A surprise , to be sure, but a welcome one