The Belfast Blitz / German Luftwaffe Blitz on Belfast 1941

[LizaTaloo]

nice videos

[colinlyons92]

Oisin Mulgrew Likes this

[sunmustbedestroyed]

His voice kills me... sigh...

[geoffwhite100]

so many lost, my mothers grandmother was one.

55million all lost cos of hitler

ireland was devided but thay came up north to sign on

as republic was ne nutreal finne e as bring in uboats we will refuel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChrisCarter1983]

You know........

[ChaosDynamics]

70 years from tomorrow (15 April 1941 - 15 April 2011) - R.I.P.

from Dublin.

[HAPPYDOORS]

*Barmp Barmp* Here's mee!!

[WintersWar]

you don't have to tell us the blitz was horrific for the victims 300 times, we got it the first 5 times. The music breaks got old too.

a lot of filler for this 20 minute video that should have been 5.

[thenewlodge]

@GerryDeignan Thats not what the official war documents seized by the russians from Berlin say. Belfast was an official target for the shipyard, that at the time was building war ships to be used against the Nazis, and the fact that the fair majority of the weapons for the British Army were made here in Belfast for those in european mainland.

[GerryDeignan]

@thenewlodge

Belfast may very well have been a legitimate target.

Simple fact remains that the first raid on Belfast was a target that was picked by the crews when the first, secondary etc.targets were unavailable.

The planes had taken off from Soesterberg (The Netherlands) rather than from Northern France.

bbc.co.uk/northernireland/scho­ols/4_11/pfocus/history/summer­2000/index.shtml

and

aryearsremembered.co.uk/home/b­elfastblitz.htm

[GerryDeignan]

@GerryDeignan

Oops. That is waryearsremembered the "w" dropped off. Sorry.

[Atomic440]

Very interesting... but someone needs to tell him how to conjugate the verb "to do". It's "I do ... I did... I have done..." "They do... they did... they have done..." - not "they done".

[SGRblink]

@Atomic440 Yes. Very annoying , still , good facts .

[rockinbillyboy]

@Atomic440 and @SGRblink There's only one thing worse than bad grammar, and that is bad manners!

Can you please check that i have spelt SANCTIMONIOUS correctly?

Forgive me Joe Baker, but surely Belfast suffered many more casualties than Coventry, did it not?

However, i enjoyed this very much, as i have a great interest in the Belfast blitz and WWII in general.

Thank you.

[TheSoulboy90]

@rockinbillyboy

Good point. It's a dialect thing, I'm sure you know. In Belfast, folk tend to say: "The boys done great" or " He done me a good turn", "the weans done this for ye Da!"

It's not standard English maybe, but they say the exact same things in Glasgow! (What a surprise!) So it's the vernacular, just how we speak & maybe the Ulster-Scots influence on our day-to-day language, ya big jessie! LOL!

[rockinbillyboy]

@TheSoulboy90 I agree 100% Soulboy, very well said...or should i say.."aye, yer right there, so you are"...lol

I enjoy history, especially military history, and World war two in general.

But it pisses me off when someone comes on to a great video like this, a video which is of great interest to many, and all they can contribute to it is,.."oh i say old boy, i say!!...the grammar, the grammar!!...it should be, i did, and not i done"..i wonder if they understand..."wind yer neck in ya plank"!.LOL

[TheSoulboy90]

@rockinbillyboy

"Ya plank!" Ah, thanks for that pal; haven't heard that in years! Gave me a right good hoot!

I guess the irony of being a Grammar Fascist on a video about Nazi bombing in WW2 is lost on some people! When they could be asking why Belfast was targeted or were the authorities here a bit complacent, wrongly believing Belfast was safe? You know, good questions?

And sure, wouldn't it be a dull old world, if we all spoke the same?

[SuperToonerz]

This is scaring me.

[PhilipK100]

I do wonder though - If the Nazi's had continued to have bombed Dublin would the Irish have declared war on Nazi Germany? Would the U.S and Britain have gained a new but small ally? - Not that Ireland was able to do much anyway... but I do wonder what the Irish REALLY thought of Hitler. There's just so much I'd love answered about WW2

[TheSoulboy90]

@PhilipK100

Many Irishmen did not agree with Neutrality Sir. 5,500 Free State Soldiers deserted en masse & joined the British Army: Their reward? To be Blacklisted for Life, & never again be employable in Eire!

And De Valera, NEVER had the moral courage to condemn the Nazis Attrocities of WW2! He was, in modern parlance, a Holocaust Denier!

Not something I'm proud of obviously.

[PhilipK100]

@TheSoulboy90 Ah Thanks, So De Valera was basically what Obama is today? afraid to stand up to bullies and those who kill, rape, pillage and ill treat others? Look and Iran's attitude towards Israle - no different to Hitlers attitude to the poor jews..... So basically there's no difference between De Valera and Obama?

[TheSoulboy90]

@PhilipK100

WTF are you talking about? Is there a World War on today that I'm unaware of? Is Obama guilty of skulking behind the War efforts of the Democratic Nations? Is Iran secretly running Extermination camps and committing Genocide?

Don't be dragging your ill-informed "Neo Con" crap into this debate about WW2 & Nazi Blitz of UK!

You should be proud that you've got a decent, intelligent man as US President! Just so you know, in the rest of the World, we finally see a President to admire.

[mufc201o]

@PhilipK100 look at israels attitude towards the people of palestine.. cant wait til israels over

[WeLoveToSurf]

@mufc201o Pretty sure the bad feeling between the two is mutual

[mufc201o]

@TheSoulboy90 blacklisted? lol do you know how many irish people have lived and worked in england and still do today? even today you dont even need a passport to travel between the countries.. you are such an idiot

[TheSoulboy90]

@mufc201o

No you're the only idiot here! The Free State Soldiers who deserted in WW2, to Join the British Army, were BLACKLISTED in EIRE you MORON!

Dev made sure they could not be employed back in the land of their birth after WW2, so most lived the rest of their lives in the UK of course!

I take it you're hard of reading maybe?

[mufc201o]

@TheSoulboy90 im in awe of your amazing knowledge... thats powerful information to know..wow

[carsieplg]

during the blitz my granda was serving on HMS Penelope light cruiser in the war even though he was a republican he still went to serve and served well he was proud of his medals he forgot say about malta the most bombed place in ww2

[msmjvandenberg]

My Dad was a volunteer fireman during the Blitz. Although he was a staunch loyalist he retained a lifelong admiration of President De Valera for sending relief.

[ballynafeighbluedog]

The German bombing of Dublin was a mistake,Not a warning.British pilots were also held as prisoners by the Irish government until 1944,this guys rewriting history.

[haahfunny]

Yea very interesting, thanks for posting :)

[jimisback]

My Da always told me the twin spire myth. Thanks for the clarification.

[martinmack1]

Brilliant video. I am a fireman and had heard about the cross-border run by the DFB. Good to note for those with their head in the sand regarding Ireland as a whole, the luftwaffe didnt care if you were protestant or catholic. To add though after the Dublin lads went back south Glasgow and Clydeside Firemen came to the aid of their Belfast "brothers"

[HateFenians]

I never knew why they attacked the south, now I do after watching this.

[thenewlodge]

It is a local history video of Belfast, and was NVTV who produced it for the Belfast History Project

[62fra]

@HateFenians THEY DIDNT DICK HEAD THE PILOTS WERE ENCOURAGED BY GERMAN HIGH COMMAND TO TRY AND LAND IN THE FREE STATE WERE THEY WERE KEPT AT GLENCREE IN 1ST CLASS ACCOMADATION

[HateFenians]

That wouldn't happen!

Wise up!

Suppose you low Jewish people and would die for them while they laugh at you!

[ozeangruen]

@HateFenians Bomben und Irland passt zusammen

Bombs and Belfast fits together

[HateFenians]

Why couldn't this vid include the south of Ireland too, since the north part(forgot name) was bombed that was close to our border.

[peter1886]

just couldnt bring yourself to say Northern Ireland, could you? bigot.

[tommymccotter]

yes very interesting

[cashbhoy67]

I'm a Belfast man myself and you hit me with a real good history lesson there and dispelled a few of the myths that i was brought up with, namely the waterworks bombing that was supposedly bombed because the germans thought it was the wats. well done i really enjoyed this wee part of history.

[FreedomSaoirse]

Thanks for the History there

[madnotbad44]

very interesting video...thank you..