Die Deutsche Wochenschau 1940-06-22 Gneisenau u Scharnhorst

[Artas1984]

Why did the narrator said it was 26000 tons? Was he deliberately lying?

[gloi2]

lol i heard that these ships assfucked UK aircarriers without planes LOL rofl  spartan ships

[plarq]

Was it real footage taken in the war scene, or some modified version?

[ViennasNachos]

Englische Marine war besser als die Deutsch.

Das war immer so und wird auch immer so bleiben...

[leopard39]

naja das war so ist richtig aber IMMER so sein is falsch Deutschland besitzt mehr kriegsschiffe als england ...und hat ne groessere marine . is fakt

[braunovic]

@ViennasNachos du magst recht haben an der Flottenstärke! Aber die Bismarck und Tirpitz haben den Engländer mächtig angst eingejagt :) Churchill sagte der Tirpitz sogar "The Beast" und die Bismarck hat die HMS Hood im nu Versenkt aber war unterlegen gegen die anderen Schlachtschiffe und dann kamen noch die britischen Flieger... eigentlich unfair aber so ist krieg

[hoplite1766]

Great footage, first time seen it. Gneisenau visible by different mast set up ..further aft. Was this the sinking of the old carrier Glorious? Scharnhorst eventually got her karma being sunk by the battleship HMS Duke of york,

[littmann03]

Actually it was Scharnhorst which had her mainmast stepped further aft following her refit. Gneisenau retained hers mounted on the rear of the funnel after the fitting of her 'Atlantic bow"

[mannekkenpiss]

63 Jahre nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg wird hier immer noch weitergekämpft...

Alles Arschlöcher.

Tee- wie Kaffeesäufer!

[xxkiksx]

Deutsche Präzisionsarbeit auf hoher See :-)

[gaslopovo]

the German fleet was too poor. . the italian navy was even more powerful. . the only piece to consider was the bismarck the tirpiz and maybe the prinz eugen. . only the u-boot were keeping head

[Legas4ever]

*lol*

[LeonhardMunich]

more powerful maybe but the effect was less than zero...

[Blechbert]

Danke fürs reinstellen!

Mein Opa hat mir immer von der Wochenschau erzählt, aber nirgends konnt ich sowas sehen.

[Cumulonimbus82]

Hammer Material, danke!

[saigokun]

Despite the impression this news reel gives the Kriegsmarine was unprepared when the war broke out in September 1939. She wanted it to be postponed until at least 1942.

[dougstiro]

this is true, they wanted aircraft carriers and had more powerfull ships than Bismark/Tirpitz in the pipeline

[Rbbberlin]

Ist sicher nur ein Zufall das der schwere Torpedotreffer den die "Scharnhorst" von der HMS "Acasta" einstecken mußte hier nicht erwähnt wird - immerhin war der Schlachtkreuzer danach 4 Monate (!)aktionsunfähig.

[maggytec]

hat Propaganda so an sich du Schlaumeier

[daltonagre]

Sound is all in german.

[ZweiWO]

Oh, really?

[DQ0X]

Must be somehow a coincidence.... wasn't it the GERMAN news?

[derbbus]

Mounting 15in guns on Scharnhorst wouldn't have ghanged anything. She was sunk by radar linked to a early analog computer system which worked out the range.

Also the british were using flashless cordite so she couldn't even see her aggressors. As acknowledged by the kreigsmarine.

Her crew abandonded ship in a -40 snow storm covered in oil.

senseless waste of life all round.

[DQ0X]

more loss of life than in TITANIC...

the cordite wasn'T the cause - Scharnhorst lost radar in an earlier battle that trip; allied had destroyers; Scharnhorst got hit and slowed, only so Duke of York could catch up; Like Bismarck, the engines were still running; A german ship never exploded like HMS Barham, Hood, Royal Oak, Queen Elizabeth, Indefatigable, Queen Mary...

with radar and destroyers the battle might have ended differently

[persilbran]

the Scharnhorst was not so "heroic" when faced with anysort of opposition that might be able to shoot back, eg running when she and Gneisnau encountered HMS Renown and avoiding convoys that had battleship escorts

[havoc873]

It's called suicide to attack battleships with battlecruisers and the fight between the HMS Renown and the KMS Gneisenau ended in no conclusion with both ships damaged.

[dougstiro]

to be honest the Renown didnt have anywhere near the armour of the german ship

[z122643]

When the Scharnhorst was sunk there were 39 survivors. Take a moment and think about the word heroic.

[DQ0X]

Heroic enough that the british commander later dropped flowers in the sea at the site were SCHARNHORST sunk

RIP 1803 brave men, almost forgotten

(more casualties than HOOD, Royal Oak, ARIZONA, Titanic, Lusitania)

[slessorpr]

1207 went down on the Glorious and the RN still wont reveal Y the Captain of the HMS Glorious, D'Oyly-Hughes, ex 1st WW submariner, (who didn't believe in naval reconnaissance!) was so eager for the court martial of his best officers. Their testimony wd have branded him an incompetent alcoholic. Instead they ALL paid full price for d'O-H's stupidity and Churchills permission for HMS G. 2 leave 2 days b4 main convoy!

[zederkiah]

Heroic, and lucky, especialy for me as one of them was my father. You could say that I owe a debt of gratitude to those who pulled him from that frozen sea.

[pepe237]

OMG!!! The english received lots of "hello darling". Superb film!

[toolwerkz]

German engineering at their best!!

[technocar2]

Human losing lives dont come into it.....You Bastard crout

[syase]

Die britische Flotte zählte zwar mehr Schiffe als die Kriegsmarine, aber dieser Vorsprung war aufgrund der überlegenen deutschen Technik nichts wert. Deshalb hat die Kriegsmarine die allermeisten Seegefechte mit ausgewogener Gegnerzahl für Deutschland entschieden. Das können die meisten Fish&Chips-Fresser nicht ertragen, und daher verwundert es auch kaum, dass die bei diesem Thema ausrasten und geschichtliche Halbwahrheiten verbreiten. Man sieht sie dann bei der EM 2012...vielleicht ;-)

[LeonhardMunich]

blanker Blödsinn, sorry, aber das muss gesagt werden!

[LeonhardMunich]

nicht wirklich. Anfällige Turpinenanlage, überkommende See auf dem Vorschiff, zu schwache Hauptartillerie...da gab´s noch einiges zu optimieren.

[a6u5e]

Scharnhorst fired over 200 280mm rounds alone. The destroyers were dealt with using 150mm and 105mm secondary guns. After the action, Admiral Marschall was sacked for disobeying orders, getting Scharnhorst damaged as a result. This made Günther Lütjens the Fleet Chief who got to command the Bismarck on her fateful maiden journey into the Atlantic.

[joneebee]

sick how they never stopped firing, it was obviously going down, so everyone will have been abandonning ship, but the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst shot it to shit. well humaine.

[Held225]

@ jonee, Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau were also shooting at the destroyers and BTW to sink an Aircraftcarrier you have to fire a lot of shells.

[r1wantone]

a sinking ship is given no quarter, just look what happened to the Bismarck

[MEDENINE]

YYYYAAAA!! Scharnhorst sunk 1943 - great British victory!

[finfre]

propaganda?

neneneneneeeeeee, dass ist realität die im nachinein von den siegern als propaganda dargestellt wurde um die öffentliche sicherheit im besetzten deutschland sicher zu stellen

[Schlachtpaulchen]

bla

[hoimieke]

It's very important to keep Historical Documents such as this!!!

[WesleyHughes]

Sink Hitler's Bismark!!!

[LeonhardMunich]

It was still the Bismarck - and believe it or not: the Bismarck was sunk in 1941. Your wish comes a bit too late...;-)

[grabbor]

PURE NAZI PROPAGANDA incl. NAZI SYMBOLS !!!!!!!!!!

[DonMichael71]

That´s a typical reaction whenever a german sight of WW2 is shown anywhere...if you don´t like it, don´t watch it. This is not only Propaganda, it´s a part of technical history of shipbuilding and engineering.

[jamesknechtmann]

Oh, the horror!

[handxgrenadexx]

there twins!

[Xterraman]

elegant ships