The surrender of German panzers to British and Norwegian troops in Norway, June 1945
Mute edited footage originally shot by US Signal Corps cameramen showing men serving with Panzer-Brigade-Norwegen handing over their tanks and assault guns to British army and Norwegian MILORG personnel in the Akershus district outside Oslo circa 10 June 1945 following the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Norway the previous month.
The location is Trandum, the site of a former Norwegian Army training camp. The British officer seen taking the surrender of the commanding officer of Panzer-Brigade-Norwegen (and his adjutant) has been identified as Lt-Colonel O J O'Connor.
The tanks seen in this film are late-mark Panzer III medium tanks armed with either short-barrelled 7.5cm L/24 cannon or the long-barrelled 5cm L/60 cannon and have been fitted with "Schuezen" 8mm armour plates as protection for their turrets and also in several instances seen here to their hull sides against anti-tank rifle rounds. By 1945, the Panzer III was regarded as obsolete by German panzer commanders but no doubt the German garrison in Norway, denied access to more powerful tanks by the Nazi high command on the grounds they were needed on war fronts where fierce combat was taking place, found their presence in its order of battle reassuring.
Many Panzer IIIs and a smaller number of Sturmgeschutz III 7.5cm assault guns were re-activated for use by Norwegian armoured units in 1948 and they remained in service until their replacement by US M24 Chaffee light tanks in 1951.
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Surrendering to Benny Hill :-)
I imagine these soldiers were relieved not to have to surrender to the Russians.
Thank you so much for not putting stupid music over this video.
Discipline maintained , correctly reporting to officers, impressive considering the war had been over for a month.
For modelers/lovers of the panzer III, this is absolutely phenomenal reference
Those German Panzertruppen were beyond lucky to have ended the war in Norway an not somewhere on the Eastern Front (Russian payback was absolute HELL).
Alot of the equipment was parked in a footbalfield i Grorud Oslo - my father and his friends played there after the war - tjey even found some guns like mp41 and pistol.
Fascinating to see some of the extra turret armour added to the older tanks
Enjoyed this.
Cool video.
FYI for all the people mentioning Benny Hill. :)
I love the bit at
Came across this by chance .Absolutely fantastic. I'd seen two or three photos of this event but never knew such a "mini-documentary" existed. All those zimmed-up PzIIIs. For me , this is better than any clip on Panthers, Tigers, whatever.....thank you, you have made my month!
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Amazing footage and historic footage! Thank You for sharing!
I remember sitting on top of 1 of these Mark 3 tanks in the mid 80s as a kid outside the Defense museum in oslo Akershus !
These guys were the lucky ones. They lived to tell their kids the story.
This was June 1945 in Norway with Wehrmacht units were surrendering their PzKw 111 M/N and Stug 111. Quite a number of older German armor just from this video. The troops seemed to act with respect towards the British conquerors. Most likely these tanks were salvaged out or shared with other countries to boost their armor units. Can you imagine their value today to restorations by military museums and collectors ?
First part of the video you see the houserow of Mosseveien 6 -20 in the background.
I can see this is in Oslo, around Ekeberg area. Since they drove up "Kongsveien".. (king's road) where you even today, can view all over Oslo from a hill :)