This is YOUR style. We appreciate the background! Keep em coming Tom.

Curtiss Sliwa, who started the Guardian Angels may run for mayor of NYC. I hope he is successful.

The only reason i subscribed because he does such a fine job of telling the story behind the weapon. If there was no story then it would not as interesting. Youre doing a swell job sir

The history is what gives value to the pistols. One 7.65 mm Walther peashooter looks like another. I watch as much for the history as to see the guns.

Another excellent educational treatise on the Walter PP and one of its variants. Thank you Tom.

Nice video. Thanx for sharing this. The engraving "Niedersachsen" addresses the nowadays state Lower Saxony of Germany. Later in the video, the engraving "Thüringen" also addresses a state of today's Germany - Thuringia. And to follow the time line, "Niederrhein" is a region in today's state North Rhine-Westphalia, "Franken" is the northern region of Bavaria. And, the last but not least, "Kurpfalz" (that you pronounced really good - BTW) is the northern-west region in Germany's state Baden-Württemberg - in detail, the region around Mannheim/Heidelberg and down to the south of them. And, I think I can tell you what "Schiesien" is... It is "Schlesien" - Silesia. This was a (big) region in the south-east of the old Prussia and... of the 3rd Reich. Just think of a region where the city of Breslau was the centre of it. Breslau nowadays is named Wroclaw and is a city in the county ??? Lower Silesia ??? of Poland.

What a fantastic video chock-full of knowledge. Thank you for all you do!

Spectacular Tom. Maybe one day you and Randy could shoot a video of your personal collection, I'm guessing we'd all love to see inside that treasure chest. Thanks Tom love the channel

I enjoy hearing the history I never think it's boring keep up the good work

The prices make these out of my league. I enjoy the history...as unfortunately it often repeats itself. The parallels today are impossible to miss. Goebel’s would of LOVED the internet and the ability to control propaganda...

@mrdiplomat9018

2 жыл бұрын

@@regularperson9801 🤣🤣🤣🆗👍👍👍✅

Excellent video Mr Whiteman! Just a quick correction/addition: at 23:30 you describe the Gruppe as being “Schiesen”, but it is actually “Schlesien” (Silesia). Somehow I didn’t get to meet you at the SOS this year, hopefully next time! I saw in your video that you were at Tom Wittmann’s stand after I visited, because you point out the Luftwaffe gravity knives. The case is minus a takedown model, which I now own! Keep up the good videos, I like the history aspect you throw in, even though it might lack in detail. In the end it’s about the firearms, not the political details!!

History always repeats itself simply because human nature never changes.

@stokefandango

2 жыл бұрын

what a simpleton mindset you have

@AdamosDad

2 жыл бұрын

There will never be peace until the Prince of Peace comes.

@stokefandango

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdamosDad praise be to allah

@mrdiplomat9018

2 жыл бұрын

@@stokefandango - oh brother 🙄

Stepped up the editing on this video very nice 👍

Thanks for another great video. Love your history lessons and the beautiful guns.

Well done documenting this part of history. Thanks

The first rule of flight club is don't talk about flight club...

Love the history portion of your video. 😊

Thank you Tom for your time and knowledge

You remind me of my high school psychology high school teacher was my favourite course and teacher

I love your German pronounciation! Hilarious and not too far off. Cool stuff, top Bad it's forbidden here. :( Hi from capital of Niedersachsen, Germany.

@Simsonschieber

2 жыл бұрын

Hallo aus der Niedersächsischen Nachbarschaft.

I enjoy hearing about the history.

We love hearing the history, can't appreciate the firearm without the story behind it.

The comparison is apt. We need a new Guardian Angels nowadays to push back against the rising tide of urban crime.

@mrdiplomat9018

2 жыл бұрын

Naaaaaaah…….let’s defund the police, and pretend nothing bad will happen 🆗🙄. Duh…..⚡️⚡️

When will these items be up on the website??

Great Info, History, Thanks!!!

Niedersachsen = Lower Saxony Thüringen = Thuringia Schlesien = Silesia Kurpfalz = Area around Mannheim and Heidelberg

niedersachsen has a ch that is between sh and a hard k, it isn't a soft sh like in this video. Keep in mind it is lower saxony in English.

Great Video!

Sorry Mr Whiteman, I have another correction: Feldherrnhalle was a monument. You are mixing history with the Putsch, at the Burgerbraukeller, which resulted in Hitler’s inprisonment.

@josefigueroa941

2 жыл бұрын

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STURM ABTEILUNG.... SA The Sauer is My Holy Grail..

Great video thanks Tom!!!!!!

You know your keeping one of the .22 rigs and the PPK to sit next to the Brandenburg

2:08 ... Wow, it's as though you were reading my mind. History lesson ends, sort of, at 13:50.

4K...Had made this....SooooooooooooMuchBetterrrrrrrrrrr......Thanks awesome.....!

Bring ur rarest guns to pawn stars please I wanna see if he offers you more then 20$ plus with how rare these are u guaranteed to be in a episode lmfaoo

@detroitman1989

2 жыл бұрын

Not to sound rude but pawn stars only buy guns from 1899 or before. Guns that old are not considered firearms got to love the ATF.

@browngreen933

2 жыл бұрын

Nor would Pawn Stars touch Nazi stuff, although secretly I'm sure the dudes there are closet fans.

@pjbth

2 жыл бұрын

You realize it's 100% fake right? The producers go find items to put on the show, not the other way around. Though I'm sure there's the occasional person who wants the publicity of putting their item on it.

@drmott_gaming2392

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh i love when people leave paragraphs responses on a meme comment 💀 😂 yall take it to serious

@detroitman1989

2 жыл бұрын

@@drmott_gaming2392 You should look up the definition on how long a paragraph is. Edjamacation goes a long way.

The Guardian Angles still exist in cities around the the US. Their founder Curtis Sliwa is running for mayor of New York City.

Tom, please continue the history lessons--they make the guns more interesting.

great stuff tom

Love history love guns love your channel

i want EVERYTHING in this video

Kind of like today. The youth like free stuff and want it from us older folks that worked for what we have. We like the older patriotic order of things and the youth like communism. So here we go again. "History does not repeat itself but it often rhymes." - Mark Twain

The history of the uniform designed by Hugo Boss is a myth... Hugo Boss just manufactured.

Thank you!!!

Totally Epic!

Brandenburg is the Region where Berlin is situated. Not a part of Berlin.

@thomaswhiteman4261

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correct !!

I’m a big fan of your videos and of these early Walther pistols. I’d like to collect them but I struggle with the morality of attributing value to objects of the Nazi regime. Do you have a video that discusses this conundrum? I understand the historical and intellectual aspects of studying this, but investing and anticipating greater future demand is troubling.

@nathanaelsomerville3687

2 жыл бұрын

I think he does abit on that topic in the vis.35 'radom' episode

@potatofry1237

2 жыл бұрын

Stop crying

@jb4948

2 жыл бұрын

@@109ejg I don’t collect nazi era suits or cars either. Trading modern, non-fascist public companies isn’t a moral equivalent. I actually do own Walthers and Sauers but post war. Like I said, I have a collector’s interest but it comes at the cost of moral ambiguity when it brings value to items emblazoned with what is arguably the most recognizable symbol of hatred and genocide in the history of humanity. I guess I’ll just continue to watch the videos and learn the history of the Walther company and its various business dealings with the regime. Its historically interesting, I respect the studied approach and the engineering acumen demonstrated by Carl Walther’s PP and PPK.

@synchrome62

2 жыл бұрын

@@jb4948 Either you are interested, from a collector’s point of view, in the history of the artifact, the mechanics/workings of the artifact, the aesthetics of said artifact. Perhaps a combination, but a true collector does not collect these artifacts because of its connection to political and/or human evil. If you cannot stomach the period of history in which the artifact was made, then you shouldn’t collect them. You should then visit a museum and view the items without guilt. It really is a choice. On a personal level, I cannot stress enough how important it is to teach the younger generation about what happened and not to forget.

@hadrianaugustus5712

2 жыл бұрын

Quit acting like a boomer, just buy one already they’re excellent weapons and will most definitely appreciate in value.

Love the history.

Comparing the SA to “guardian angles “ seems a stretch. From my German history perception they were more about beating the shit out oft he communists and their opposition in general… Also Brandenburg is an area outside of and around Berlin, I’d assume the group is from there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg

Here before LIBERALS demonetize this for being triggered over a historical flag that represents them.

I don’t support by no means what happened during that time but I do find history fascinating. WW2 had a lot of fascinating history in itself people need to quit being so against history it always repeats itself if not remembered.

Love to buy one

Tom - love your channel, but please.. you shouldn’t compare the SA with the Guardian Angels. SA members were largely thugs and brawlers recruited in the beer halls. When Hitler realized they were a political liability, the result was the Night of Long Knives.

@nemesis1291

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't you listen to what he said!?

@Jason.cbr1000rr

2 жыл бұрын

Isnt the sa a army?

Epic collectibles

Fascinating History

some people have been having this happen to them every 100 years for thousands of years! lol!

You're spot on about history repeating itself. It's scary to see how the world has become and how's people morality has been weaponized and used against them.

nah chief your good keep talking

GA are alive and well, but I haven't seen them in DC or Philly, but are all over NYC. I always felt better when they showed up particularly in NYC in the late 1970s, early 1980s, when Chalres Bronson's "death wish' become popular, as well as " The Warriors" as things were fairly nasty, as your video shows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels

History repeats itself....History repeats itself.... History repeats itself.... History repeats itself.... History repeats itself........................

Click bait! The turkey holding a bunghole on the flag is just holding an x with extra lines

Epic? He must have kids? When will he switch to sick? I prefer an adult friendly video

Hindenburg or Bismarck. Get the story right if you're going to tell me.

Hugo Boss did NOT design the Nazis uniform. His company was one of three or four contracted to make the black SS uniform. The SA unfiform came from a job lot of army surplus bought in by the then impecunious Party. The black SS uniform was designed by SS members Karl Diebtisch (artist) and Walter Heck (graphic designer). Maybe stick to talking about the pistols? 😉

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D.R.G.M on one of the holsters means „Deutsche Reichs-Gebrauchs-Muster“. It's kind of a little brother of a patent to protect the intellectual property of the inventors. It was used between 1891 to 1945. Love your channel and your historical insides - but your german is horrible. :-D Greetings from Germany

Sorry, please learn how to pronounce those areas in Germany, it is not hard, Thüringen sounds like Tyyringen, Sachsen (Saxony) Sax en, loud big S short a and a hard x like in Tax and a soft en. Please try, here in Europe we always try to pronounce as the Natives do it if we do not have our own older name / pronunciation. So use Saxony if You could not say Sachsen in German. Here in sweden we say Saxen, the people is Saxarna, this is the same word we use for a pair of scissors, very strange I know, the will probably do not have anything in common.

@thomaswhiteman4261

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for challenging me. I certainly could spend more time on proper pronunciation.

@dmg4415

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomaswhiteman4261 Knowledge is easy to carry with You, but may be hard to get. I thank You very much for Your channel, the 3 most anticipated contributes to YT, in no special order. You, Ian and C&R/Anvil, Mr Novak is Gold in his commentaries. Thanks again!

Too much chatter.

Tom. At 4:31 you stated: "...when you give one group power, the Nazi Party, they immediatly began rounding up their enemies, what they would call 'criminal element..." I strongly disagree with your assessment. After a series of events--the elections of 1932, the Reichstag Fire Decree which suppressed any civil liberties, and the Enabling Act which allowed the cabinet to rule by fiat, Hitler and his Nazi thugs TOOK power. Hindenberg's death was a relatively minor event, but it left Hitler as the only actor on the stage. I know you never intended to delve that much into the history of those years, but it is very misleading to state that Hitler was given power. Hitler and partially through intimidation and violence of the SA and SS, cemented the Nazi's seizure of power. You have a fanciful view of the SA as do-gooders, for they bodyguards for Hitler and the skull-cracking arm of the Nazis. The SA didn't allow any voice of dissent. Perhaps they went after a criminal or two to justify their existence, but their primary purpose was intimidation. They were thugs through and through. In no means, were they good-natured vigilantes akin to the Guardian Angels going around to make certain there was no crime on the S-bahn. For a better idea of the rise of the Nazis and the SA, here is a good video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eWFqq5Obnra9qco.html

@thomaswhiteman4261

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that perspective. I'm always learning. It is my understanding that when Hitler first come to power, he did NOT have a majority but a coalition of moderates and the Nazi Party joined forces in order to keep the Communists out of power. So he was not elected by a majority of Germans. Later, due to "getting things done" he grew in popularity. Is that not correct ?

@glennellis1584

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomaswhiteman4261 Unser Hermann Out of either respect or fear of President Hindenburg, they did not do much until after his death. ~ THEN ~ things changed rather rapidly, & not for the better.

@thomaswhiteman4261

2 жыл бұрын

@@glennellis1584 got it. Thanks

@Vanya2893

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomaswhiteman4261 the NSDAP never actually got a majority until Hitler had already been given emergency powers. The Nazis lost dozens of seats in the last election in November 1932 before Hitler became Chancellor in Jan 1933. After the Reichstag fire Hitler was able to install SA thugs around the country to "monitor" the March 5 1933 election and intimidate non-Nazis from voting and gained seats, but was still short of a majority until the Reichstag fire was blamed on the KPD (modern historians largely consider this to be an early false flag operation carried out by the Nazis). The KPD was the third largest party in the Reichstag at the time so their expulsion gave the Nazis a majority. Later in March Hitler used this majority (well actually the supermajority granted by his coalition with the Conservative and Centre parties) to pass the Enabling Act giving him dictatorial power. Only after Hitler was already dictator did the NSDAP ever win a majority.

@hadrianaugustus5712

2 жыл бұрын

Keep watching the video before you get your panties in a bunch

When you find yourself making comments like 'it's easy to see why people would've liked the SA at the time if you put yourself in their shoes' it may be time to re-evaluate and reflect on the way you see the world

@hadrianaugustus5712

2 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@snowyren5135

2 жыл бұрын

Thomas provides a refreshing and honest interpretation of the historical issues, your censoring attitude is not appreciated.

@nemesis1291

2 жыл бұрын

Relax

There is almost no daylight between Democrats and Republicans at this point. Also I’m I was born In nyc and I can tell you the guardian Angeles were gay as a two dollar Bill. You were much safer on 3rd street. That’s where the hells Angeles clubhouse was. Hey Tom, I think mr boss was in the production end of the uniforms. Not the design. I’m sure if I’m wrong about that the community will let me know. Now that I think about it the SA were as gay as a 2 dollar Bill as well.

@stephenclemence5856

2 жыл бұрын

I have a couple of 2 dollar bills, they are not that uncommon. The expression used to be a 3 dollar bill, of which there never was any.

With Hitler in Coburg 1920