Hitler Sent His Last Panzer Army to Antwerp — American Engineers Stopped It With Empty Fuel Tanks

HITLER'S LAST GAMBLE: STOPPED BY EMPTY FUEL TANKS

December 18, 1944. SS Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Peiper commanded Hitler's elite spearhead—4,800 men, 117 tanks including 42 King Tigers, racing toward Antwerp to split the Allied armies. He passed within 300 YARDS of 3 MILLION GALLONS of American gasoline. He never knew it existed.

American combat engineers had just set it on fire.

This is the untold story of how a few hundred engineers with TNT, bazookas, and matches stopped Hitler's last major offensive—not with superior firepower, but by denying the Germans the one thing they desperately needed: FUEL.

🔥 IN THIS VIDEO:

→ How Hitler gambled EVERYTHING on capturing Allied fuel dumps
→ Why Germany allocated only 4-5 million gallons for an offensive that needed 3x that amount
→ The moment Major Solis made the split-second decision to burn 124,000 gallons as German tanks closed in
→ How 26-year-old Colonel Pergrin's engineers blew EVERY bridge on Peiper's route
→ The four Americans who died manning a 57mm gun to buy 5 minutes—just enough time to blow the bridge
→ Why Peiper's King Tigers consumed 3 gallons PER MILE and became 69-ton paperweights without fuel
→ The Christmas Eve escape: 800 survivors walking out, leaving 92 tanks abandoned in the snow
→ Peiper's reaction when told post-war he'd passed within 300 yards of 3 million gallons: "I didn't know"

THE NUMBERS THAT DOOMED HITLER:
• German fuel allocated: 4.25 million gallons
• American fuel in Peiper's path: 3 million gallons
• Distance Peiper traveled: 80km
• Distance to Antwerp: 200km
• Fuel captured by Germans: 50,000 gallons (Büllingen only)
• Fuel burned by Americans: 124,000 gallons (Stavelot roadblock)
• Fuel evacuated by Americans: 2 million gallons (in 600 trucks over 3 days)
• German tanks abandoned at La Gleize: 92