Waffen SS vs. Vietcong - Who Would Win?

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This actually happened. Many SS joined the French legion which were then sent to Vietnam. There are also many stories about German soldiers who joined the Viet Minh.

Actually, most Vietcong AKs were Chinese variants, particularly the Type 56 with folding spike bayonet. Chinese made AK and SKS were far more common in Vietnam than Soviet ones.

You have also remember and put into consideration that they wouldn’t be able to hide within the local population. Germans officers/leaders especially in the SS had the ‘you kill Germans, we kill a village’ approach. This would eliminate a lot of that confusion in urban/ village environments.

Technically this actually has happened in history with former Waffen SS Soldiers signing up to the French foreign legion and fighting in French Indochina. There's even a book about it called Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford.

Technically the Waffen SS did fight them during the Indochina war. The French Foreign Legion had a ton of former SS and German Wehrmacht Soldiers.

This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object

I'm Vietnamese and In our old days when we were fighting France there were a lot of Germans in our army (SS troops from the French Foreign) who wanted to fight for us the Vietminh some of them became our national heroes. Now we still respectfully remember their contributions. OH there are also a lot of people in our army( Vietminh) these days too like Japanese, Greeks, Sweden, and Africans. Thank you guys a lot

VC: has tunnels Waffen-SS: releases gas

Some divisions were experts in fighting Guerillas. They were used extensively in Yugoslavia and the rear of the eastern front.

One of the goofiest commando raids I heard of, Operation: Stormtroopers. During the Korean War, a special forces officer named Lt. Colonel J.D. Vanderpool was in Seoul when he happened upon a depot full of all the gear needed to cloth a Waffen SS unit, including weapons. This officer had a novel idea. He went to his buddy, Captain George Lamm, who was preparing a jump behind enemy lines and convinced him to dress his men from head to toe as Waffen SS grenadiers. Two weeks later they jumped near Haeju, North Korea. Fourteen Americans dressed as SS grenadiers. For two days they caused confusion, grabbing twelve confused North Koreans as prisoners. They got out via swift boats without a single casualty over their two-day mission. According to author Ed Evanhoe, the Soviet ambassador handed a mystified West German ambassador a formal complaint, charging German troops were operating in Korea. There was no word on the German ambassadors response.

This was actually presented on that show "World's Deadliest Warrior" where they took different fighters from different periods and places and had them fight each other. The Waffen SS was pitted against the Viet Cong and likewise they claimed the Waffen SS would win. In regards to hand to hand fighting it seems the Germans placed less emphasis on it than the Allied forces limiting their fighting to bayonets and their spades and maybe something else. The Waffen SS might have had some other fighting moves taught to them that weren't taught to the rest of the German military. As for Vietnam they do have a few native martial arts like their neighbors do, so it is possible they may have learned some fighting techniques. This is all speculation on my part.

This was a very cool video, I like these type of content comparing military unit! Thank you

In these last 6 months I've learned a lot of things I didn't know about the war and I'm very grateful for this channel

Deadliest Warrior memories are coming back. Ahhhh, a classic

Ich hatte einen Arbeitskollegen, der am Ende WW II, als 17jähriger von der SS eingezogen wurde. Dann französische Gefangenschaft, Fremdenlegio in Indoschina, wenn er auf einer Betriebsfeier etwas über den Durst getrunken hat, fing er an , vietnamesisch zu singen und weinte für seine gefallenen Kameraden. Echt traurig. Er sagte, er hatte dort viele Menschen sterben sehen. RIP.

Thank you @Simplehistory, we need more video like this, putting German ww2 units against other historical units !

"SS vs Vietcong? Let's find out!" - French Officer in 1950, looking at some foreign legion soldiers

I love this concept ! Continue !

I remember along time ago seeing this on tv and im glad that its being brought to light again