Grenade Training - Before the Fall

Was that Grenade full of C4???

how powerful are those grenades lol

Why did he do that?

The fireball is Hollywood-BS but as to concussive power, the Stielhandgranate had close to 600g of explosive filling, the still current American M67 has 180g. So that's more than three times of the loud stuff, makes quite a difference. And btw, the layout of this training pit is exceedingly braindead. Practically guarantees multiple deaths in case of a dropped grenade. The Krauts were not stupid.

Don't give a grenade to a sweaty kid.

You can hear the last kid breathing heavily as he froze in fear as when he drop the grensde he just stand there

He was better suited to the transport corps. Drive a truck, unload stuff. In war, these poor chaps sometimes have to replace dead guys in combat units.

Noticed that only the Nazi officer ran away while the others stayed behind with their brother. What a coward lol

That movie was dumb .. only shockers. No real depth and well.. the "evil SS dude running away and letting the kids in there to die (could have easily thrown it out, anyone of the kids for that matter)" was just one of the many unnecessary scenes to try to persuade it into your face how black and white it all was..

Trenches especially during WW1 usually had big dugout areas every 40 feet for any explosives tossed in your trenches called a grenade sump. to kick any grenades into if needed you could attempt to swat away any explosives thrown in the trench in a desperate situation and all the fragmentatiom is hopefully absorbed by the hole walled with sandbags

Were people really this dumb back then, practicing with live grenades as a group and putting themselves inside a trench with nowhere to hide incase of a mistake?

My my

I can only speak for the US Army, but when I did this in basic, they only have one person at a time with the instructor Throw the grenade. Everyone else was behind a huge berm with a periscope so they could view the blast. If anyone bobbled the grenade, it was a simple jump for the instructor and trainee to get on the other side of the concrete and escape the blast. That said the blast was pretty damn scary, it was tremendous.

Those Russians in Call of Duty 2 at least had potatoes

Von mal zu mal wurden die Jungs nervöser. Am Anfang wurde die Grante noch schnell geworfen, dann verging immer mehr Zeit. Dem letzten stand zitternd der Schweiß auf der Stirn. Das hätte dem Ausbilder zu denken geben müssen. Keine Übungen sind gefährlicher als mit scharfen Handgranaten, habe ich einmal gemacht, war auch damals sehr nervös.
Every now and then the boys became more nervous. At the beginning the grant was thrown quickly, then more and more time passed. The last man had sweat trembling on his forehead. That should have given the instructor something to think about. No exercises are more dangerous than with live hand grenades. I did it once and was very nervous then too.

Not a single cellphone in sight. Just people enjoying the moment.

where can i find the full movie?

That kid was a idiot

Why didn't the CO grab it from him and throw it? o.o

Aka “Napola.”

They had a demonstration. When I was in boot camp on what the instructor would do if a recruit dropped the Grenade and then tried to retrieve the grenade themselves . They would simply exit the pit . So it was drilled into us that if an individual screwed up and bobbled or dropped the grenade go to the position of attention and allow the instructor to retrieve and throw grenade . If not you were on your own

Dam it Martin....

Great teaching class, they learn how to throw grenades and also experienced the horrors of war.

what movie is this?

is this movie a comedy 😂

German movies are so cliché it's hilarious.

How many ketchup packets were in that kid's pockets?!!

The Nazi’s version of Steve Rogers.

Those grenades are maybe 8 times as powerful as they should be

Well... Did he survives?

I think by the time they were using kids as soldiers they probably wouldn’t use live grenades because there were munitions shortages throughout Germany by the time 1945 had arrived.

Welcommen der kreig

this is fucking crazy. and maybe not the best way to train young kids to throw nades.

Wrong Friedham lol

Jay E Double Youish propaganda.

There is the guy from Generation war

I like how they get progressively worse. I’d love to see how the other dozen boys did.

Totally bogus. Ok. Let's gather a whole bunch of soldiers in a pit. Be sure to store an entire case of explosives at your feet. Then let's mindlessly scream at them so that they only respond to screamed commands. Then let's repeatedly scream increasingly loud and profane at each successive trainee. When the really shaky kid comes up, you stop half-way in your command process. Then the NCO bugs out instead of attempting to throw the grenade. (Confidence in leadership step.) What could go wrong? Next lesson: circular firing squad.

Whats the name of this stupid movie?

if i had to do this i'd had two feelings. One is scared as heck and two is really happy and wants to throw the grenade

Meanwhile, any sane man without a grenade handle stuck up his ass would have grabbed and thrown the grenade rather than just stand there screaming about it.

Packing c4 into those nades, are we.

i was going to make a joke about the cod 2 training mission......

but holy fucking jesus sideways

Boom. Iron Cross

Im honestly shocked we didnt see the commander throw the kid onto the bomb that daft bastard

Training kids with live grenades, what could go wrong?

God dammit Martin... my name is now dirty... coward... he dint deserve that name in the first place!

Nobody picks it up and throws it away lol, they just stare

I remember at us army basic the grenade instructor had special armor on and said if any of us dropped the grenade he would make one honest attempt to throw the candidate out of the hole to dave your life. In practice they had us chuck the grenade early in case we dropped it so he would have an extra few seconds.