LOL is it the same Gebbels studio, wich created film about summer 1944 "german victoryes", then in reality USSR executed series of most powerful offensive operations in human History and liberated all former USSR land, occupied by germans?
@winterkaneda it takes an even braver man to destroy 520 tanks, get your plane shot down 32 times (many times behind enemy lines) and to keep flying his Stuka when just had your leg amputated ... and then im not even talking about the planes, small vehicles even ships this man destroyed.
he only drank milk so as to better handle the G-forces during a near vertical dive, never any alcohol like his comrades even though they razzed him about it . a secret weapon to be sure... i would of done schnapps and beers and probably nosedived into the ground... Rudel figured it out, " got milk " ??
Nazi or not, Facist or not, Hitler follower or not its all immaterial. As a combat pilot he was untouchable, his combat record and kill tally is simply astounding. The attack techniques that he pioneered required split second reactions and total commitment. Remember this was all achieved in an airframe that was already dated by 1939. I dont care about his politics, I am more concerned about the man and pilot
He's no braver than any other man who steps up, and answers the call to defend his country. His combat record, however can not be ignored. Simply incredible, and will probably NEVER be matched. Respect.
Well,there is doubt that Rudel was brave.he was allegedly shot down 32 times. But there are certainly likely to be verification issues over his kill claims, In the West, Allied OR units determined that Allied fighter-bomber units claimed about ten times as many CAS targets as they actually destroyed.
His exploits were blown up by the Nazi propaganda machine. He never sank a battleship, Marat was anchored in harbor when she was heavily damaged in an attack by Rudel and another unknown Stuka pilot (but only Rudel is usually acknowledged). And 500+ enemy tanks? Impossible. How can you confirm those 'kills' anyway? If he had destroyed 500 enemy tanks entire campaigns would've been won on his accomplishments alone! Nevertheless, we can be sure he was a fantastic Stuka pilot and a legendary flier.
My Dad and I went to his funeral.It was cold and rainy.There where lot's and lot's of people.Then 3 Phantom fighter jets came racing straight in the Air and forming a Cross in the sky.It was breath taking.No active Millitary personel was erlaud to be there in uniform that day.
Most aircraft mounted automatic weapons were not designed for sustained fire. Apart from ammunition considerations, these weapons quickly overheated and would likely jam if fired for more than a few seconds at a time. Most often they were fired in shorter bursts suited to air to air combat.
Aircraft mounted weapons spent much less time in servic , then ground based weapons due to overall aircraft malfunctions.
Small pinpoint targets, like a moving tank, were very hard to hit because tanks required a direct hit with an AT weapon or a near miss with a very large air launched weapon to destroy it.
Even if the pilot was to point his aircraft straight at the tank, a difficult and dangerous manoeuvre against a heavily protected target like a tank spearhead, he would have had at most a few seconds to aim his cannon, MGs, rockets or bombs.
During WWII, aircraft with unguided weapons were relatively inaccurate. To a lesser extent this is the case even today and there is no comparison with modern combat aircraft with guided weapons. Against soft targets this was not as critical because bombs and rockets deployed by WWII aircraft were area weapons. Even so, small soft targets such as entrenched AT guns were difficult for WWII aircraft to destroy.
Studies after the war and during the war have told us that most of these tank killing stories by any pilots of any countries are 90-95% just myth. Reason is this:
AFVs, particularly medium or heavy tanks, were probably the most difficult targets for aircraft to attack in WWII. Given the more realistic historical assessments detailed for Normandy and Kursk, objective analysis shows why aircraft attempting to attack armour in WWII faced several major hurdles.
Truly an incredible and one lucky pilot EVER! I say that simply because a Stuka was a very vunerable aircraft to any fighter aircraft encountering it; being a slow bird, many first-mission Stuka pilots died on their first missions. But, for Rudel to endure over 2000 missions like that...
I'm not German, but, I'd give this man a full salute---not a Nazi style thou!!!
@Monkeyspankerelite We DO NOT need a new Hitler (Definitely not Barrack Obama, God helps us all), but, we do need a true patriotic leader who focuses on the assistance of the American people during these times...Einshoward, where are you now when we need you?!!!
In addition to having arguably the most decorated record of his combat performance, he may have gotten in combat with a "the hero of the soviet union" fighter ace Lev Shestakov and won. Imagine: a fighter-bomber being in combat with a interceptor and the bomber comes out on top. Simply amazing.
@chemicalman53 - Rudel claimed the 87 was capable of all normal aerobatics and that it was not neccessary to be shot down by fighters. He also shot down an Il-2 with 3.7 cm tank ammo- blew it to bits. Not a bad effort for a guy that was regarded as a wash out,for learning to fly so slowly . Few commanders would initially have him . Rudel also claims to have knocked out tanks with 2cm ammo,by firing at external fuel and engine area.He did this with friend Schwirblat, one of his tank snipers.
nice guy!..brave and fearless!..if every tank has 4 guys x 519 nos. tanks = 2076 red guys angels..grosso modo! ...with 100 guys like this ruSSia kaput....
SS gyues and vermaht killed over 18 billions noncombatants in Russia and that RUssian gyes in tankes took revenge to the germans for killed mothers, sisters and childrens.
Not Russian guyes attacked Germany. Hitler and Rudel began to kill rusian children.
Rudel was the convinced nazi and fervent supporter of Hitler. He bombed including settlements in which lived hateful to him "east hordes", killing peaceful habitants.
As a nazi on persuasions he bears the responsibility for the crimes of Hitler which brought an oath, and German nazism
I am still unaware of even one incident of Rudel targeting either women or children. There is always the possibility of a stray bomb or erroneous targeting, but these are usually referred to as "collateral damage". Dead either way, but there is a wide gap between intentionally targeting a civilian, and killing one by accident. So... the request stands.... give me an example of Rudel intentionally killing children, or be quiet. The Stuka and German records were both very accurate.
Yeah people better understand the whole "ALL GERMANS WERE NAZI'S DURING WW2!" - That's just bullshit. They were soldiers, whom got told what to do - Or get killed. I promise you the soldiers didn't care at all about the jews. They were only following orders. As far as what movies tell you - They're made by america, what the fuck do you expect? Most of us, are complete RETARDS. And documenatries? - That'd be officers, kissing HITLERS ass. Again - Not the soldiers. Amazing video!
He probably destroyed even more than the official figures indicate- as when he was instructing new ground attack pilots he'd let them take credit for kills on that sortie. It's not as if he needed the kill numbers after the first 1000 vehicles destroyed...
Also essential was the complete and utter ineptitude of the soviet fighter arm.
A particular instance that comes to mind: on one mission, Rudels flight of four was bounced by 30 russian fighters. Rudel, in his Stuka, shot down two, for the loss of 0 or 1, I cant recall which. The russians would make single passes, one at a time, and Rudel would juke at the last sec. to throw off their aim, then take a shot as the russkys overshot. It never occurred to the russians to make simultaneous attacks.
True, the REAL heroes are the Mielkes, the Markus Wolfs, the Walter Ulbrichts, and the many other Germans who mostly "studied" in Russia and helped to build the post-war worker's paradise that we called East Germany. When we look back at their kindness, the freedoms they introduced, and the technical breakthroughs that they were responsible for (see the Trabant performance family car as an example), my jaw drops in amazement. If only we had it so good today! A standout bunch.
@aufstand1848 Rudel was an unrepentant Nazi, don't defend him he does not deserve it.
Some Germans chose not to fight for or follow Hitler, many of them died because of that decision. You demean their sacrifice by excusing others who did not have the moral courage to do what those brave few did. Only real German heroes of WWII are people like Sophie Scholl and Konrad Adenauer. No points for those who followed along, their complicity laid the groundwork for WWII and the holocaust.
@Mcplkelly and this one chose to fight and didnt die! epic man tbh and fuck all holocauset lies,if wanna namew the holocauset n ame everything then,all those butchered people in russia and china and much more.hans ulrich rudel is a fucking legend.
@sheyon1000 Yeah the guy choose to fight for Nazism, and was an ardent believer in the racial superiority of certain groups over others, which justify the extermination of one race by another. He is frankly an example of the type of men the war should have destroyed when Nazi Germany fell.
As for the holocaust, I would name everything if I was not limited to 500 characters. Plus the Japs butchered the people in China which was separate from German atrocities in the east.
To really be brave would be to fight against agression, against invading other people. Knowing full well that millions were being slaughtered for being Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, ...or just against killing all of them. Following orders when everyone around is too is easy.
I think your English is letting you down a little?-but, no,conversely, one didn't have to be a Jew, a Gypsy or a Slav either to be "really brave" . Rudel was absolutely fearless, not just for "following orders" as you put it, but because, strange as it may seem he hated communists and believed in National Socialism.Now he may have had some of his beliefs misplaced,but for you to detract from his bravery here is more a reflection on your politics, not his.
@fokjock and a knightly gentleman of honour- like most Germans. It's sad that the few lunatics, psychotics and mainly foreign SS befouled the German name.
Rudel was Germany's most higly decorated fighting man during WW II. He died in 1968 and still believed in Adolf Hitler. After WW II he climbed a mountain in Peru. His fellow climber died. Rudel carried his body off the mountain. This wasn't easy, as Rudel had lost part of his leg during the War.
What's all this garbage about disliking him because he "may "have" had Nazi views? What's wrong with that? I guess you people think that all the American war heroes couldn't possibly be Democrats or Republicans? Nazis is nothing but being a strong Nationalist, THAT"S ALL. The only bad thing is that American and British propaganda has turned it into something that it isn't.
An amazing life ... and his wartime achievements are utterly astounding ... Sad that there are rumors he actually befriend Men and Eich ... hopefully just idiotic neo-nazi spewing.
the commissar order were primarily used by SS- Vehrmacht officers were given the order in writing, but the men under them were oftenly unaware- the reason for all the xecutions in russia were due to pure hate against the russian people. all the germans heard in propaganda movies & radio were about how horrible the russians were.- and the killing spread like wildfire when russians learned about the commissar order- they started xecuting all wehrmacht in style & hung em in trees for germ. to see.
It helps if you attempt to prove I am disillusion rather than shout profanities at me and (incorrectly) claim I am an American who should be horrified what is being done by my armed forces.
Something can only be a war crime if it was designated a crime at the time. During WWII there was no laws against area bombing by planes as there are today. Area bombing did not violate any laws of the time and was practiced by all nations who participated during the second world war. A dresden today would be a war crime because the rules of war were changed in the aftermath of WWII, but area bombing in WWII cant be called a war crime because it was not considered as such at the time.
At the Nuremberg Trials the SS, SA, GERMAN General Staff (only German) etc were declared illegal orginisations retrospectively (and by foreign governments) and thereby people like Jodl, Keitel etc were tried and murdered by the so-called "good guys". So please don't talk shit about a crime only being a crime "if it was designated a crime at the time" - a crime is a crime full stop.
Declaring an organization criminal has little to do with what was considered a war crime as dictated by the rules of war. THe SS and German high command were declared criminal because of the atrocities committed or sanctions by these groups.
Keitel and Jodl both signed and authorized the distribution of document allowing German soldiers to commit war crimes, among them the Commissar order.
The SS doesnt need to be explained, and the SA was a NAZI organization so it was declared criminal.
You're arguments are factually inaccurate (Jodl never signed the Commisar Order) and logically inconsistant. You say area bombing became a war crime after WWII. If that is the case then the area bombing practised by American and UN Foces in the Vietnam War MUST be a War Crime. You claim that if something like area bombing, or for that matter, shooting Commissars was not a crime at the the time of WWII it therefore "cant be called a war crime because it was not considered as such at the time".
Man I get 500 characters to write out a response, the commissar order was off the top of my head. Jodl signed the commando order, he also approved the draft of the Commissar order.
Shooting commissars was never specifically a '"crime" because only the Germans made the distinction. For everyone else commissars were included as POWs and the murder of POWs was a war crime.
As for US bombing during Nam, well yeah. US were not exactly shining examples of proper conduct during that conflict.
EXACTLY! Germans were the best army. What made them loose the war, was the rage from the russians, and everyone else, and the numerical disadvantage (literally the world against germany) Still I think they deserved losing.
Dude you are dillusional. Rudel did NOT kill 400 tanks. That is what he said and ALL ground attack pilots VASTLY overclaimed. Rudel is no exception. Air pilots overclaimed on ground kills by a factor of TEN according to post war studies.
Rudel probably killed a fair amount of tanks but i would be frankly surprised if it was near even a quarter of what he claimed. When flying at several hundred kilometers per hour its REALLY hard to know.
Your Canadian government helped the rendition program which is equal to the Nazis famous (Night and fog Decree)
(The commando order) was issued by Hitler after the British Canadian violation of the German POW convention of the Dieppe raid.
The lowest Nazi torturer is fare more decent, than guys like John Yoo , wolfowitz, or Gonzales. The Nazi did not hire shyster attorneys to do the killing. They did it themselves.
Um none of this has anything to do with rudels kills first off. Secondly my government didnt help with the rendition program, they just shared intel with your government about suspected terrorists like any allied country would. It was your country that arrested any Canadian suspects not my own.
As for dieppe the controversy was that perhaps that prisoners were executed. Given most Canadians causalities occured during the evacuation, its more likely the POWs were killed by German fire then.
This is actually untrue. During the two schweinfurt raids by the 8th airforce in 1943, the German Luftwaffe over confirmed kills for their pilots by a factor of 3. In other words they confirmed 3 times the number of kills in both raids than were actually shot down. Considering almost all the wrecks landed on German controlled territory this massive inflation of kill credits is hard to understand but it illustrates the Luftwaffe was in no way immune from over confirming kills.
That a bit idiotic from your sided, It is common sense that you have to do the job completely otherwise come back to finished it...pilots will not guess they killed nad then left...come on...
No that's idiotic, over claiming was a common aspect on all sides during WWII, it has nothing to do with not doing their job, it has everything to do with pilot error. German pilots claims were far in excess of what they really shot down, hence the confirmation process. Allied ground attack pilots over-claimed by a factor of 10.
During Kursk an attack on a Soviet Armored unit saw the German pilots claim 40 destroyed tanks when in fact only 4 were lost according to Soviet records.
How in the earth is possible that an enemy could know how many claims were made by the pilots of the opposite...unless they have a very good spy close to the unit or had intercepted any of the radio signals and breaking the code etc....I cannot think in another more possibilty......and what d be your arguments????
What? Dude its called historians looking at German claims years later and measuring them against declassified Russian tank loss reports and after action reports. Through that process the historians can determine if a side over claimed.
In the case of the stated example, Russian tank losses simply do not measure up to German pilot claims of knocking out dozens of Russian tanks in a single air attack.
I suspect that the Soviet record keeping was the source of the error. It is very likely that a "Pravda" shortage was involved. The Communists were never able to match the West's tremendous output of pravda, and thus used it very sparingly throughout their existence.
Russian records for their own losses are fine, you can't run an war if you can't keep track of your own losses, units need to be kept up to strength and tank losses replaced. The effectiveness of 1940's tank busting technology was very low, most of Rudel's kills came when the Germans no longer held the battlefield at the end of a battle, there was no way to confirm his kills. The allies who did hold the field realized their pilots overclaimed a lot, not surprising Rudel and others would also.
It was common for a knocked-out tank to be left on the field with its turret blown off. These tanks were visibly destroyed. The ground support role would be close to the front line, and destroyed tanks were thus seen by the observers who had called for support. Plenty of witnesses. My concern is not with the Germans' ability to count to 500, but with your logic that if the Allies made fantastic claims, then that is proof that the Germans did so also. Believe what you want.
Maj. Bruno Meyer story about seeing a Soviet tank brigade coming out of the woods at Gostishchevo on July 8 and calling in all five squadrons of the IV/9th Ground Assualt Wing of Hs-129s B-2 and halting the attack by destroying 40-50 Soviet tanks in a short time.
It was The 26th Guards Tank Brigade that was attacked, part of 2nd Grds Corps. The ENTIRE corps lost 11 tanks that day during hard ground combat with an SS Panzer Corps.
@Mcplkelly the soviet statistics are a little bit "modified" under operation Konrad the germans marked ~1300 kills, the soviets just "wright down" ~300 on paper. After war huge amount of recycling started and they melted in over 1000 soviet tanks in the area of the operation of Konrad. So i wont take any soviet data for 100%.
@berlin128g I think that is a bit of a stretch to say. The Russians may have written down the losses that were not salvageable and ignored the tanks that could be rebuilt. That was the exact same policy the Germans used, only a total loss was recorded as a loss. Tanks that could be returned to action were not recorded though they show up on the bimonthly reports.
Casualty figures by country are not easily comparable. This is why there is such debate over casualties by historians.
heinz knoke in his book called the russians 'Ivans" as he straffed them onthe ground,. he called the brits 'tommy' and the americans' yank'. pretty funny, great pilot great book he wrote
russian statistics always exagerate by at least 100%, they lie about everything else why would you belive them during ww2 when propaganda and no respect for human life was at its peak?
Every ship can be sunk if hit in the right spot and with enough powerful bomb. Some holes simply cannot be closed. But more incredible is around 457 tanks!!!
13 Martha of 1944, village Davydkovtsy of Khmelnitskiy area. Shestakov the six of La-7 attacked and has destroyed one Ju-87. Then, showing young conducted as it is necessary to attack from the minimum distance, has approached to another closely. Ju our fighter has blown up also has collapsed. Shestakov has had time to jump out with a parachute, but there was no hundred metres. Only, when in ravines has melted snow, its body with awards and "the Gold Star" Hero has been found.
This guy's tail gunner shot down a hero of soviet union a combat ace named Lev shestakov without even knowing who he had just shot down.. that was easy for him..he killed 24 tanks after his leg was amputated because of a direct hit from 40mm flak . had 10000 ruble bounty on his head by stalin himself .. The list goes on..
Yefimov Alexander Nikolaevich. Twice the hero of Soviet Union. The Pilot-attack plane. Has made 222 fighting starts. Has brought down 6 fighters. Has destroyed 30 echelons, has destroyed 126 tanks, 85 planes on the earth, 193 field and 43 antiaircraft guns and a lot of other technics of the opponent. And it not the nazi.
Yes but he fought for the wrong side! He should've have joined the one million plus honorable Russians who fought for the Germans. Then maybe he'd have glory associated with his name instead of disgrace.
hahahaha!you can bet all the good people likes the german side.you and your fuclking capitalism are going down...
and if is about glory,the waffen ss-kriegsmarine-panzerdivisions-fallshirm-etc.what more glory you want?even today they are examples of fighting units
An army that applied genocide on a international level does not inspire most armies today. Whether directly contributing to the fullfillment of Nazi racial doctrine or simply providing the opportunity for the government to carry out its racial theories, the German army helped or took part in the greatest series of attrocities seen in human history, and that will stain their country for generations.
For your humble information all armies in all wars conducted genocide And still (the embargo on Iraq from 1991 till 2003) killed estimated 1000,000 Iraqi baby. And still
The Nazi racial policy is fare more merciful than that of the allies. Let me remind you that segregation ended in 1960 in the west. So spare us the history lesson.
an embargo isnt an act of war its an ecomonic sanction. and where did you learn that anyway?
and how was the nazi racial policy more merciful than US policy? sure there was segregation. just like there was in germany. but the US didnt ship all of us to concentration camps and use our forced labor to fuel their war to ethnically cleanse the world
Gassing people and murdering millions in the drive to eliminate entire races and cultures was more merciful than racial segregation in the US?
Wow that view says all kinds of things about your perception of reality or lack of it. Racial segregation ended, black president now. German racial policy only would have ended with the murder of every last person who was considered an "Untermensch".
As for Iraq lets not forget why the embargo was placed in the first place.
Hey, don't forget the countless numbers of Native American Indians killed by the European settlers. Don't forget that early US Presidents like George Washington advocated the TOTAL genocide of the Indians. Land of the free, home of the brave? I don't think so...
Yea i know. im an american citizen and when i first read bury my heart at wounded knee it was a shock. its a part of american history that is incredibly shameful. but thats what it is. its history. america has changed since then, just like germany has changed drastically since WW2
On May 8th 1945 French troop killed estimated 20.000 civilians in Algeria (Sétif massacre) the French and Polak armed Italian POWs and unleashed them on the civilians.
On January 1945 (Indonesia) British and American troops armed the Japanese POWs and also unleashed them on to the civilians.
the event in indonesia was Dr David Illingworth arming japanese POWs to protect him from indonesian insurgents.
and the stif massacre was when muslim algerians killed raped and mutilated 103 europeans in the countryside. the retaliation by the french military killed 6k, not 20k
Yes maybe, but the German colonies were known to not be as oppressive as the French or English ones, but after what the Nazi's did, it is futile to say that the Nazis were 'only giving a taste of their own medicine.'
germany colonized africa too buddy. and the british didnt kill the most and they certainly weren't the most cruel. the dutch killed half of the population of the entire congo which was much bigger in those days
and the bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki to save lives in the long run. many millions more people would have died in an amphibious attack on mainland Japan.
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Cows are easier to milk when they don't kick or fight back. Good thing his career took place on the Eastern Front...he'd have been long parished on the Western one., or in Africa, or flying from Italy
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He did love his Fueher, and helped to hold back the soviet union, delay the inevitable allowing Dresden to be flattened, Berlin to be destroyed, and countless Dutch starved...my what a good Nazi pilot he was...oh and he also set up Odessa for Nazi's to emigrate to Brazil and provide funding through stolen funds from other countries...bless his sole...
Nitwit,one view from one side of fence.He was instrumental in developing the A-10 Warthog from German documents in Texas after war.Your country helped the Allied cause to enslave 1/2 of Europa for decades to communism terror, think before opening your small mind.
I just read Rudel's story on Wikipedia. It's amazing to think that he was probably flying with a plaster cast on at the time of this video and he still continued to fly fighters after losing part of a leg. I don't condone Nazism or what went on at the time but you have to admire the man's spirit.
This man had balls and skill.
Heil Rudel !!
konigtigertank 1 week ago
So much stupid nazi`s in the comments LOL.
foxheartmargo 1 week ago
True HERO !
TheStarlitetraining 1 week ago
Rudell is absolutely the best pilot of all times. Hoping his soul is in right place in Valhalla now.
hingst007 2 weeks ago
I will never get the "lovefest" for the Russians, idiotic then...idiotic today!
darkkhaki3 3 weeks ago
Should change the title...very obscure images and not one show Rudel "attacking" anything.
SSinc1981 1 month ago
LOL is it the same Gebbels studio, wich created film about summer 1944 "german victoryes", then in reality USSR executed series of most powerful offensive operations in human History and liberated all former USSR land, occupied by germans?
bodyguardik 1 month ago
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@bodyguardik liberated sovereign nations against their will? im am sure the baltic states were just thrilled to see the soviets returning...
LoveYourFuhrer 1 hour ago
LOL, can you imagine being a Soviet tank operator, and finding out that Hans-Ulrich Rudel was less than a mile away and rapidly approaching?
redwoodowl 1 month ago
Yep!
That's the real "NUTCRACKER"!
bayyagg 2 months ago
yep. trowing smoke grenade = destroyed tank. nice Joseph Goebbels, nice
RobotN001 3 months ago 2
this model is under rated to say the least
what a weapon
the82spartans 3 months ago
It takes a brave man to stand up against fascism and choose not to kill.
winterkaneda 5 months ago
@winterkaneda it takes an even braver man to destroy 520 tanks, get your plane shot down 32 times (many times behind enemy lines) and to keep flying his Stuka when just had your leg amputated ... and then im not even talking about the planes, small vehicles even ships this man destroyed.
MenapianWarrior 1 month ago
he only drank milk so as to better handle the G-forces during a near vertical dive, never any alcohol like his comrades even though they razzed him about it . a secret weapon to be sure... i would of done schnapps and beers and probably nosedived into the ground... Rudel figured it out, " got milk " ??
rjwintl 9 months ago
Nazi or not, Facist or not, Hitler follower or not its all immaterial. As a combat pilot he was untouchable, his combat record and kill tally is simply astounding. The attack techniques that he pioneered required split second reactions and total commitment. Remember this was all achieved in an airframe that was already dated by 1939. I dont care about his politics, I am more concerned about the man and pilot
gorbashuk 9 months ago 3
He's no braver than any other man who steps up, and answers the call to defend his country. His combat record, however can not be ignored. Simply incredible, and will probably NEVER be matched. Respect.
jonesy97 10 months ago
Well,there is doubt that Rudel was brave.he was allegedly shot down 32 times. But there are certainly likely to be verification issues over his kill claims, In the West, Allied OR units determined that Allied fighter-bomber units claimed about ten times as many CAS targets as they actually destroyed.
knutgordon 10 months ago
They should have invested more in CAS.
otester 11 months ago
He was the greatest combat pilot of all time. Like it or not, he was the greatest.
Slickdapj 11 months ago
Rudel was one of the best ground attack pilots in the war. None of the allied pilots came close to his numbers and he lasted 6 years.
jackzero99 11 months ago
didnt know the luftwaffe was still capable of offensive operations at this point in the war
ZturdfaceZ 11 months ago
I love reading all the comments about how people believe the lies they've been told about the Nazi's.
Impul23 1 year ago 7
His exploits were blown up by the Nazi propaganda machine. He never sank a battleship, Marat was anchored in harbor when she was heavily damaged in an attack by Rudel and another unknown Stuka pilot (but only Rudel is usually acknowledged). And 500+ enemy tanks? Impossible. How can you confirm those 'kills' anyway? If he had destroyed 500 enemy tanks entire campaigns would've been won on his accomplishments alone! Nevertheless, we can be sure he was a fantastic Stuka pilot and a legendary flier.
GermanOperaSinger 1 year ago
@GermanOperaSinger el compañero y lider de grupo de rudel en el hundimiento del marat se llamaba steen, el nombre no lo recuerdo
elbarto20101 1 year ago
My Dad and I went to his funeral.It was cold and rainy.There where lot's and lot's of people.Then 3 Phantom fighter jets came racing straight in the Air and forming a Cross in the sky.It was breath taking.No active Millitary personel was erlaud to be there in uniform that day.
stephaniebrugel 1 year ago
Most aircraft mounted automatic weapons were not designed for sustained fire. Apart from ammunition considerations, these weapons quickly overheated and would likely jam if fired for more than a few seconds at a time. Most often they were fired in shorter bursts suited to air to air combat.
Aircraft mounted weapons spent much less time in servic , then ground based weapons due to overall aircraft malfunctions.
tranmere789 1 year ago
Small pinpoint targets, like a moving tank, were very hard to hit because tanks required a direct hit with an AT weapon or a near miss with a very large air launched weapon to destroy it.
Even if the pilot was to point his aircraft straight at the tank, a difficult and dangerous manoeuvre against a heavily protected target like a tank spearhead, he would have had at most a few seconds to aim his cannon, MGs, rockets or bombs.
tranmere789 1 year ago
During WWII, aircraft with unguided weapons were relatively inaccurate. To a lesser extent this is the case even today and there is no comparison with modern combat aircraft with guided weapons. Against soft targets this was not as critical because bombs and rockets deployed by WWII aircraft were area weapons. Even so, small soft targets such as entrenched AT guns were difficult for WWII aircraft to destroy.
tranmere789 1 year ago
Studies after the war and during the war have told us that most of these tank killing stories by any pilots of any countries are 90-95% just myth. Reason is this:
AFVs, particularly medium or heavy tanks, were probably the most difficult targets for aircraft to attack in WWII. Given the more realistic historical assessments detailed for Normandy and Kursk, objective analysis shows why aircraft attempting to attack armour in WWII faced several major hurdles.
tranmere789 1 year ago
Truly an incredible and one lucky pilot EVER! I say that simply because a Stuka was a very vunerable aircraft to any fighter aircraft encountering it; being a slow bird, many first-mission Stuka pilots died on their first missions. But, for Rudel to endure over 2000 missions like that...
I'm not German, but, I'd give this man a full salute---not a Nazi style thou!!!
grumpypant 1 year ago 2
That was an real HERO!!!
Where are the heros now?
Arabs and niggas raping white women allover and hardly get punished.
Call me a racist, but we need a new Hitler!!!!
Monkeyspankerelite 1 year ago
@Monkeyspankerelite We DO NOT need a new Hitler (Definitely not Barrack Obama, God helps us all), but, we do need a true patriotic leader who focuses on the assistance of the American people during these times...Einshoward, where are you now when we need you?!!!
grumpypant 1 year ago
@Monkeyspankerelite Hej Hej. I was living in Sweden for one year. Sweds are very polite people, I am sorry but you seem to be a little bit scary.
jacob1363 1 year ago
Rudel die panzerknacker...!
88
Garza091 1 year ago 2
Too bad the Russians had 50,000 tanks.
killingamps 1 year ago 5
@killingamps
100.000
Miko19691 1 year ago
In addition to having arguably the most decorated record of his combat performance, he may have gotten in combat with a "the hero of the soviet union" fighter ace Lev Shestakov and won. Imagine: a fighter-bomber being in combat with a interceptor and the bomber comes out on top. Simply amazing.
chemicalman53 1 year ago
@chemicalman53 - Rudel claimed the 87 was capable of all normal aerobatics and that it was not neccessary to be shot down by fighters. He also shot down an Il-2 with 3.7 cm tank ammo- blew it to bits. Not a bad effort for a guy that was regarded as a wash out,for learning to fly so slowly . Few commanders would initially have him . Rudel also claims to have knocked out tanks with 2cm ammo,by firing at external fuel and engine area.He did this with friend Schwirblat, one of his tank snipers.
hogiesanKenobi 1 year ago
nice guy!..brave and fearless!..if every tank has 4 guys x 519 nos. tanks = 2076 red guys angels..grosso modo! ...with 100 guys like this ruSSia kaput....
GRATZIANI2002 1 year ago
@GRATZIANI2002
SS gyues and vermaht killed over 18 billions noncombatants in Russia and that RUssian gyes in tankes took revenge to the germans for killed mothers, sisters and childrens.
Not Russian guyes attacked Germany. Hitler and Rudel began to kill rusian children.
EgoriNovoros 1 year ago
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goldenhawk352 1 year ago
@goldenhawk352
Rudel was the convinced nazi and fervent supporter of Hitler. He bombed including settlements in which lived hateful to him "east hordes", killing peaceful habitants.
As a nazi on persuasions he bears the responsibility for the crimes of Hitler which brought an oath, and German nazism
EgoriNovoros 1 year ago
@EgoriNovoros
I am still unaware of even one incident of Rudel targeting either women or children. There is always the possibility of a stray bomb or erroneous targeting, but these are usually referred to as "collateral damage". Dead either way, but there is a wide gap between intentionally targeting a civilian, and killing one by accident. So... the request stands.... give me an example of Rudel intentionally killing children, or be quiet. The Stuka and German records were both very accurate.
goldenhawk352 1 year ago
Lot of tanks
Gwxzu 1 year ago
this guy is an absolute hero. having studied ww2 a long time i can't think of anyone who has done more.
flippertyjipperty 1 year ago
Just wonderful -- these are probably in Belarus, maybe western Russia -- how heroic to invade and slaughter other people. Would make Stalin proud!
marimbadearco 1 year ago
Maybe decent Germans had to fight, but did they have try this hard? I mean, he coulda missed a few, no one would've known!
dimgwalltameiben 1 year ago
Yeah people better understand the whole "ALL GERMANS WERE NAZI'S DURING WW2!" - That's just bullshit. They were soldiers, whom got told what to do - Or get killed. I promise you the soldiers didn't care at all about the jews. They were only following orders. As far as what movies tell you - They're made by america, what the fuck do you expect? Most of us, are complete RETARDS. And documenatries? - That'd be officers, kissing HITLERS ass. Again - Not the soldiers. Amazing video!
aztaclalz 1 year ago
The leader gives grounding after the promotion of the medal.
Hitler: " Its enough with that flies now . You must remain for the German youth as model and your experiences also."
Rudel answers without taking a page before the mouth:
My leader, I does not assume the honor and transport, if I may not further fly with my squadron.
Hitler: "All right, then fly! But take care, the German people need you."
CAYOSERJIO 1 year ago
@CAYOSERJIO Direct from Rudel's book "Stuka Pilot"
hogiesanKenobi 1 year ago
He probably destroyed even more than the official figures indicate- as when he was instructing new ground attack pilots he'd let them take credit for kills on that sortie. It's not as if he needed the kill numbers after the first 1000 vehicles destroyed...
tiggerdodds 1 year ago
Hans Ulrich Rudel flew 2,530 and destroyed:
800 vehicles of various types
519 tanks
150 artillery guns
1 destroyer 2 cruisers
1 battleship
70 landing craft
4 armored trains
9 aircraft
AmericanWarrior1776 2 years ago
Die hätten alle Russen platt machen sollen
xxx777x99y 2 years ago
Нихуя не помогло, взяли ваш Берлин. Сначала Зеелы, потом Берлин!
Слава советским воинам, павшим за свободу своей Родины! Вечная память героям СССР!
PALAZZIOOO 2 years ago
Ruhm und Ehre!
Christopher19990 2 years ago
He was a hell of a pilot! onyone know if he is still alive?
lothar804 2 years ago
died 1982 -
terryjohn 2 years ago
Rudel died in 1982
MrPpavlouk 2 years ago
he died in 1982
BurningWicky1 2 years ago
2 July 1916 18 December 1982
bannnjac33 1 year ago
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Essential to Rudel's success was a top cover of fighters to keep the Red Air Force off of his back.
oldcremona 2 years ago
Also essential was the complete and utter ineptitude of the soviet fighter arm.
A particular instance that comes to mind: on one mission, Rudels flight of four was bounced by 30 russian fighters. Rudel, in his Stuka, shot down two, for the loss of 0 or 1, I cant recall which. The russians would make single passes, one at a time, and Rudel would juke at the last sec. to throw off their aim, then take a shot as the russkys overshot. It never occurred to the russians to make simultaneous attacks.
Historiocality 2 years ago
Guess, then, the A10C wouldn't exist if he hadn't helped US to design it.
Well, that aircraft is the best ground support aircraft ever made and it's Avenger cannon is just an amazing weapon.
Rudel, what a legend!
AlexDIIM 2 years ago
What about the IL2, a much better plane than a Stuka, faster and better armed and armored
jakefree25 2 years ago
Damn right, a great bomber. One of the best of the WW2. I love it, honestly.
But the sound of the Stuka Airbrakes while it's diving is legendary aswell :)
AlexDIIM 2 years ago 6
There actually sirens mounted on the wheels.Theyre called "The Trumpets of Jericho." Theyre still scary sounding even today!
SgtBastard101 2 years ago 5
Rudel had only one regret at the end of the war.
-that Hitler had not been victorious.
fokjock 2 years ago 2
Real nice guy, he's my hero, NOT!
jakefree25 2 years ago
its immaterial whether he's your hero or not-historically he was a superb pilot and a very brave man.
fokjock 2 years ago 34
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I can agree with that line. Too bad he chose to fight for the wrong ones.
jakefree25 2 years ago
what choice does any one have? You fight for your country. Rudel was German so what country would he fight for? duh!
aufstand1848 2 years ago 40
You have a point. Trouble is that his enthusiasm perpetrated great horrors.
jakefree25 2 years ago
@aufstand1848 f
quite a few Germans worked against National Socialism. They are the heroes.
marimbadearco 1 year ago
@marimbadearco
True, the REAL heroes are the Mielkes, the Markus Wolfs, the Walter Ulbrichts, and the many other Germans who mostly "studied" in Russia and helped to build the post-war worker's paradise that we called East Germany. When we look back at their kindness, the freedoms they introduced, and the technical breakthroughs that they were responsible for (see the Trabant performance family car as an example), my jaw drops in amazement. If only we had it so good today! A standout bunch.
goldenhawk352 1 year ago
@aufstand1848 Rudel was an unrepentant Nazi, don't defend him he does not deserve it.
Some Germans chose not to fight for or follow Hitler, many of them died because of that decision. You demean their sacrifice by excusing others who did not have the moral courage to do what those brave few did. Only real German heroes of WWII are people like Sophie Scholl and Konrad Adenauer. No points for those who followed along, their complicity laid the groundwork for WWII and the holocaust.
Mcplkelly 1 year ago
@Mcplkelly and this one chose to fight and didnt die! epic man tbh and fuck all holocauset lies,if wanna namew the holocauset n ame everything then,all those butchered people in russia and china and much more.hans ulrich rudel is a fucking legend.
sheyon1000 1 year ago 3
@sheyon1000 Yeah the guy choose to fight for Nazism, and was an ardent believer in the racial superiority of certain groups over others, which justify the extermination of one race by another. He is frankly an example of the type of men the war should have destroyed when Nazi Germany fell.
As for the holocaust, I would name everything if I was not limited to 500 characters. Plus the Japs butchered the people in China which was separate from German atrocities in the east.
Mcplkelly 1 year ago
@fokjock
To really be brave would be to fight against agression, against invading other people. Knowing full well that millions were being slaughtered for being Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, ...or just against killing all of them. Following orders when everyone around is too is easy.
marimbadearco 1 year ago
@marimbadearco
I think your English is letting you down a little?-but, no,conversely, one didn't have to be a Jew, a Gypsy or a Slav either to be "really brave" . Rudel was absolutely fearless, not just for "following orders" as you put it, but because, strange as it may seem he hated communists and believed in National Socialism.Now he may have had some of his beliefs misplaced,but for you to detract from his bravery here is more a reflection on your politics, not his.
fokjock 1 year ago
@fokjock and a knightly gentleman of honour- like most Germans. It's sad that the few lunatics, psychotics and mainly foreign SS befouled the German name.
SignoroIncognito 1 year ago
Interesting comments and great video, too.
the82spartans 2 years ago
Rudel was Germany's most higly decorated fighting man during WW II. He died in 1968 and still believed in Adolf Hitler. After WW II he climbed a mountain in Peru. His fellow climber died. Rudel carried his body off the mountain. This wasn't easy, as Rudel had lost part of his leg during the War.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago 5
Wasn´t in Perú. It was in Argentina.
Balkjer 2 years ago
Right, had he of tried Peru, perhaps he would have run into either the Senredros Luminosos or Tupac Amaro?
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
1968? It says on his wiki page that he died in 1982
moondog999 2 years ago
You're right.
ErnstBecker 2 years ago
What's all this garbage about disliking him because he "may "have" had Nazi views? What's wrong with that? I guess you people think that all the American war heroes couldn't possibly be Democrats or Republicans? Nazis is nothing but being a strong Nationalist, THAT"S ALL. The only bad thing is that American and British propaganda has turned it into something that it isn't.
SSWolf80 2 years ago 9
I can't agree more with you!
Winners write the history, and also how the enemy was.
Draious 2 years ago 2
An amazing life ... and his wartime achievements are utterly astounding ... Sad that there are rumors he actually befriend Men and Eich ... hopefully just idiotic neo-nazi spewing.
lonewulf44 2 years ago
the commissar order were primarily used by SS- Vehrmacht officers were given the order in writing, but the men under them were oftenly unaware- the reason for all the xecutions in russia were due to pure hate against the russian people. all the germans heard in propaganda movies & radio were about how horrible the russians were.- and the killing spread like wildfire when russians learned about the commissar order- they started xecuting all wehrmacht in style & hung em in trees for germ. to see.
Revenaant 2 years ago
Where is this killing of unarmed civilians ? Show me a link . US soldiers have been prosecuted for war crimes .
dirtyhlbly 2 years ago
THIS IS FAKE, Mcplkelly NEEDS TO WAKE UP, PERHAPS HE HAS BEEN BRAINWASHED TOO MUCH BY THE NEW WORLD ORDER, DRINKING TOO MUCH ASPARTAME,
wolf1percenter 2 years ago 2
It helps if you attempt to prove I am disillusion rather than shout profanities at me and (incorrectly) claim I am an American who should be horrified what is being done by my armed forces.
Mcplkelly 2 years ago
Dresden bombing killed 30,000 to 150,000 people. that seems like a war crime...
SeanCorpse 2 years ago 2
Something can only be a war crime if it was designated a crime at the time. During WWII there was no laws against area bombing by planes as there are today. Area bombing did not violate any laws of the time and was practiced by all nations who participated during the second world war. A dresden today would be a war crime because the rules of war were changed in the aftermath of WWII, but area bombing in WWII cant be called a war crime because it was not considered as such at the time.
Mcplkelly 2 years ago
At the Nuremberg Trials the SS, SA, GERMAN General Staff (only German) etc were declared illegal orginisations retrospectively (and by foreign governments) and thereby people like Jodl, Keitel etc were tried and murdered by the so-called "good guys". So please don't talk shit about a crime only being a crime "if it was designated a crime at the time" - a crime is a crime full stop.
fredericusrex1945 2 years ago
Declaring an organization criminal has little to do with what was considered a war crime as dictated by the rules of war. THe SS and German high command were declared criminal because of the atrocities committed or sanctions by these groups.
Keitel and Jodl both signed and authorized the distribution of document allowing German soldiers to commit war crimes, among them the Commissar order.
The SS doesnt need to be explained, and the SA was a NAZI organization so it was declared criminal.
Mcplkelly 2 years ago
You're arguments are factually inaccurate (Jodl never signed the Commisar Order) and logically inconsistant. You say area bombing became a war crime after WWII. If that is the case then the area bombing practised by American and UN Foces in the Vietnam War MUST be a War Crime. You claim that if something like area bombing, or for that matter, shooting Commissars was not a crime at the the time of WWII it therefore "cant be called a war crime because it was not considered as such at the time".
fredericusrex1945 2 years ago
Man I get 500 characters to write out a response, the commissar order was off the top of my head. Jodl signed the commando order, he also approved the draft of the Commissar order.
Shooting commissars was never specifically a '"crime" because only the Germans made the distinction. For everyone else commissars were included as POWs and the murder of POWs was a war crime.
As for US bombing during Nam, well yeah. US were not exactly shining examples of proper conduct during that conflict.
Mcplkelly 2 years ago
the most condecorated man in WWII
telkines 2 years ago
im not saying at all the the setif massacre was justified by the killings.
DreadBoy531 2 years ago
This is not propaganda. Rudel really did destroy over 400 soviet tanks. And, his plane of choice throughout the war was the Stuka.
Gallagherfreak100 3 years ago 6
EXACTLY! Germans were the best army. What made them loose the war, was the rage from the russians, and everyone else, and the numerical disadvantage (literally the world against germany) Still I think they deserved losing.
arkinoth 3 years ago
Dude you are dillusional. Rudel did NOT kill 400 tanks. That is what he said and ALL ground attack pilots VASTLY overclaimed. Rudel is no exception. Air pilots overclaimed on ground kills by a factor of TEN according to post war studies.
Rudel probably killed a fair amount of tanks but i would be frankly surprised if it was near even a quarter of what he claimed. When flying at several hundred kilometers per hour its REALLY hard to know.
Mcplkelly 3 years ago
Your Canadian government helped the rendition program which is equal to the Nazis famous (Night and fog Decree)
(The commando order) was issued by Hitler after the British Canadian violation of the German POW convention of the Dieppe raid.
The lowest Nazi torturer is fare more decent, than guys like John Yoo , wolfowitz, or Gonzales. The Nazi did not hire shyster attorneys to do the killing. They did it themselves.
heydrich10 3 years ago
Um none of this has anything to do with rudels kills first off. Secondly my government didnt help with the rendition program, they just shared intel with your government about suspected terrorists like any allied country would. It was your country that arrested any Canadian suspects not my own.
As for dieppe the controversy was that perhaps that prisoners were executed. Given most Canadians causalities occured during the evacuation, its more likely the POWs were killed by German fire then.
Mcplkelly 2 years ago
luftwaffe had high standards for claiming a kill a wingman had to see the kill and pass it to an officer after the mission so stop talking crap
retardedspacealien 2 years ago
This is actually untrue. During the two schweinfurt raids by the 8th airforce in 1943, the German Luftwaffe over confirmed kills for their pilots by a factor of 3. In other words they confirmed 3 times the number of kills in both raids than were actually shot down. Considering almost all the wrecks landed on German controlled territory this massive inflation of kill credits is hard to understand but it illustrates the Luftwaffe was in no way immune from over confirming kills.
Mcplkelly 2 years ago
That a bit idiotic from your sided, It is common sense that you have to do the job completely otherwise come back to finished it...pilots will not guess they killed nad then left...come on...
CAYOSERJIO 1 year ago
No that's idiotic, over claiming was a common aspect on all sides during WWII, it has nothing to do with not doing their job, it has everything to do with pilot error. German pilots claims were far in excess of what they really shot down, hence the confirmation process. Allied ground attack pilots over-claimed by a factor of 10.
During Kursk an attack on a Soviet Armored unit saw the German pilots claim 40 destroyed tanks when in fact only 4 were lost according to Soviet records.
Mcplkelly 1 year ago
How in the earth is possible that an enemy could know how many claims were made by the pilots of the opposite...unless they have a very good spy close to the unit or had intercepted any of the radio signals and breaking the code etc....I cannot think in another more possibilty......and what d be your arguments????
CAYOSERJIO 1 year ago
What? Dude its called historians looking at German claims years later and measuring them against declassified Russian tank loss reports and after action reports. Through that process the historians can determine if a side over claimed.
In the case of the stated example, Russian tank losses simply do not measure up to German pilot claims of knocking out dozens of Russian tanks in a single air attack.
Mcplkelly 1 year ago
@Mcplkelly
I suspect that the Soviet record keeping was the source of the error. It is very likely that a "Pravda" shortage was involved. The Communists were never able to match the West's tremendous output of pravda, and thus used it very sparingly throughout their existence.
goldenhawk352 1 year ago
Russian records for their own losses are fine, you can't run an war if you can't keep track of your own losses, units need to be kept up to strength and tank losses replaced. The effectiveness of 1940's tank busting technology was very low, most of Rudel's kills came when the Germans no longer held the battlefield at the end of a battle, there was no way to confirm his kills. The allies who did hold the field realized their pilots overclaimed a lot, not surprising Rudel and others would also.
Mcplkelly 1 year ago
@Mcplkelly
It was common for a knocked-out tank to be left on the field with its turret blown off. These tanks were visibly destroyed. The ground support role would be close to the front line, and destroyed tanks were thus seen by the observers who had called for support. Plenty of witnesses. My concern is not with the Germans' ability to count to 500, but with your logic that if the Allies made fantastic claims, then that is proof that the Germans did so also. Believe what you want.
goldenhawk352 1 year ago
Okay Germans specific:
Maj. Bruno Meyer story about seeing a Soviet tank brigade coming out of the woods at Gostishchevo on July 8 and calling in all five squadrons of the IV/9th Ground Assualt Wing of Hs-129s B-2 and halting the attack by destroying 40-50 Soviet tanks in a short time.
It was The 26th Guards Tank Brigade that was attacked, part of 2nd Grds Corps. The ENTIRE corps lost 11 tanks that day during hard ground combat with an SS Panzer Corps.
40-50 claims vs 11 losses = overclaiming
Mcplkelly 1 year ago
@Mcplkelly the soviet statistics are a little bit "modified" under operation Konrad the germans marked ~1300 kills, the soviets just "wright down" ~300 on paper. After war huge amount of recycling started and they melted in over 1000 soviet tanks in the area of the operation of Konrad. So i wont take any soviet data for 100%.
berlin128g 7 months ago
@berlin128g I think that is a bit of a stretch to say. The Russians may have written down the losses that were not salvageable and ignored the tanks that could be rebuilt. That was the exact same policy the Germans used, only a total loss was recorded as a loss. Tanks that could be returned to action were not recorded though they show up on the bimonthly reports.
Casualty figures by country are not easily comparable. This is why there is such debate over casualties by historians.
Mcplkelly 2 months ago
Absolute Legend
phillipaj 3 years ago
heinz knoke in his book called the russians 'Ivans" as he straffed them onthe ground,. he called the brits 'tommy' and the americans' yank'. pretty funny, great pilot great book he wrote
OsamaBinLadenx 3 years ago 2
russian statistics always exagerate by at least 100%, they lie about everything else why would you belive them during ww2 when propaganda and no respect for human life was at its peak?
hzj79 3 years ago
one of the greatest pilots of all time, if not the greatest
helvete1991 3 years ago 4
so, this is the man who sank a soviet battleship with 1 bomb? incredible!
rdvd7 3 years ago 2
Every ship can be sunk if hit in the right spot and with enough powerful bomb. Some holes simply cannot be closed. But more incredible is around 457 tanks!!!
LucaTurilli89 3 years ago 6
13 Martha of 1944, village Davydkovtsy of Khmelnitskiy area. Shestakov the six of La-7 attacked and has destroyed one Ju-87. Then, showing young conducted as it is necessary to attack from the minimum distance, has approached to another closely. Ju our fighter has blown up also has collapsed. Shestakov has had time to jump out with a parachute, but there was no hundred metres. Only, when in ravines has melted snow, its body with awards and "the Gold Star" Hero has been found.
121216012 3 years ago
This guy's tail gunner shot down a hero of soviet union a combat ace named Lev shestakov without even knowing who he had just shot down.. that was easy for him..he killed 24 tanks after his leg was amputated because of a direct hit from 40mm flak . had 10000 ruble bounty on his head by stalin himself .. The list goes on..
sbvarma06 3 years ago 3
Hans Ulrich Rudel was a remarkable man. Heroic, tough, devoted and above all he had insane skills:
- 519 tanks
- 1000 other vehicles
- 150 various artillery pieces
- 1 battleship
- 2 cruisers
- 1 destroyer
- 70 landing craft
- 11 aircraft (thus making him a double ace)
That record is enough to show what that man is made of. He is my hero.
PanzerGrenadierLSSAH 3 years ago 3
Rudel had the biggest set of balls of any pilot in WW2.
In his words, he just got angry.Having read Trotzdem, I would recommend it to anyone.
fokjock 3 years ago 2
Yefimov Alexander Nikolaevich. Twice the hero of Soviet Union. The Pilot-attack plane. Has made 222 fighting starts. Has brought down 6 fighters. Has destroyed 30 echelons, has destroyed 126 tanks, 85 planes on the earth, 193 field and 43 antiaircraft guns and a lot of other technics of the opponent. And it not the nazi.
121216012 3 years ago
Yes but he fought for the wrong side! He should've have joined the one million plus honorable Russians who fought for the Germans. Then maybe he'd have glory associated with his name instead of disgrace.
therealalabamian 3 years ago
hahahaha!you can bet all the good people likes the german side.you and your fuclking capitalism are going down...
and if is about glory,the waffen ss-kriegsmarine-panzerdivisions-fallshirm-etc.what more glory you want?even today they are examples of fighting units
DERZWERGE11 3 years ago
An army that applied genocide on a international level does not inspire most armies today. Whether directly contributing to the fullfillment of Nazi racial doctrine or simply providing the opportunity for the government to carry out its racial theories, the German army helped or took part in the greatest series of attrocities seen in human history, and that will stain their country for generations.
Mcplkelly 3 years ago
For your humble information all armies in all wars conducted genocide And still (the embargo on Iraq from 1991 till 2003) killed estimated 1000,000 Iraqi baby. And still
The Nazi racial policy is fare more merciful than that of the allies. Let me remind you that segregation ended in 1960 in the west. So spare us the history lesson.
heydrich10 3 years ago
an embargo isnt an act of war its an ecomonic sanction. and where did you learn that anyway?
and how was the nazi racial policy more merciful than US policy? sure there was segregation. just like there was in germany. but the US didnt ship all of us to concentration camps and use our forced labor to fuel their war to ethnically cleanse the world
DreadBoy531 2 years ago
Patriot act 2001 = Enabling act 1934
Extreme Rendition 2001=Night and fog decree1940
Enemy combatant 2001-Commando order 1941
heydrich10 2 years ago
Gassing people and murdering millions in the drive to eliminate entire races and cultures was more merciful than racial segregation in the US?
Wow that view says all kinds of things about your perception of reality or lack of it. Racial segregation ended, black president now. German racial policy only would have ended with the murder of every last person who was considered an "Untermensch".
As for Iraq lets not forget why the embargo was placed in the first place.
Mcplkelly 2 years ago
"greatest series of attrocities "
13 million ucranians killed by stalin.
the millions the yanks killed (and still) in hiroshima-nagasaky.
guantanamo.
millions of niggers killed in africa by the british empire.
hamburg!
dresden!
WTF?
DERZWERGE11 3 years ago
Hey, don't forget the countless numbers of Native American Indians killed by the European settlers. Don't forget that early US Presidents like George Washington advocated the TOTAL genocide of the Indians. Land of the free, home of the brave? I don't think so...
cuttlefisch 3 years ago
Yea i know. im an american citizen and when i first read bury my heart at wounded knee it was a shock. its a part of american history that is incredibly shameful. but thats what it is. its history. america has changed since then, just like germany has changed drastically since WW2
DreadBoy531 2 years ago
Did you know that?
On May 8th 1945 French troop killed estimated 20.000 civilians in Algeria (Sétif massacre) the French and Polak armed Italian POWs and unleashed them on the civilians.
On January 1945 (Indonesia) British and American troops armed the Japanese POWs and also unleashed them on to the civilians.
heydrich10 2 years ago
the event in indonesia was Dr David Illingworth arming japanese POWs to protect him from indonesian insurgents.
and the stif massacre was when muslim algerians killed raped and mutilated 103 europeans in the countryside. the retaliation by the french military killed 6k, not 20k
DreadBoy531 2 years ago
Even if they killed 1 person still a crime, Hitler gave the french and the colonial powers a taste of their medicine.
heydrich10 2 years ago
germany was a colonial power too idiot. so no one gave anyone a taste of anything. they all had colonies.
DreadBoy531 2 years ago
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heydrich10 2 years ago
Yes maybe, but the German colonies were known to not be as oppressive as the French or English ones, but after what the Nazi's did, it is futile to say that the Nazis were 'only giving a taste of their own medicine.'
chemochance 2 years ago
germany colonized africa too buddy. and the british didnt kill the most and they certainly weren't the most cruel. the dutch killed half of the population of the entire congo which was much bigger in those days
DreadBoy531 2 years ago
British Boer war south Africa. and the opium war in china.
heydrich10 2 years ago
i agree with you about those wars, the boer wars and the opium war were horrible and based purely on the greed of colonial Britain.
DreadBoy531 2 years ago
when I see Hollywood making movies about British atrocities, and other. then I will admit that the Nazis were PURE EVIL
heydrich10 2 years ago
and the bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki to save lives in the long run. many millions more people would have died in an amphibious attack on mainland Japan.
DreadBoy531 2 years ago
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DreadBoy531 2 years ago
I have looked everywhere ....
but there is no "Yefimov Alexander Nikolaevich" or even someone named close to receive this medal ...
Many russian guys rewarded, had a fake record anyway ...
PurityBKK 3 years ago
he is undoubtly the greatest warrior of modern times
vonzuchter 3 years ago 14
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Cows are easier to milk when they don't kick or fight back. Good thing his career took place on the Eastern Front...he'd have been long parished on the Western one., or in Africa, or flying from Italy
gotcha109 3 years ago
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He did love his Fueher, and helped to hold back the soviet union, delay the inevitable allowing Dresden to be flattened, Berlin to be destroyed, and countless Dutch starved...my what a good Nazi pilot he was...oh and he also set up Odessa for Nazi's to emigrate to Brazil and provide funding through stolen funds from other countries...bless his sole...
gotcha109 3 years ago
Nitwit,one view from one side of fence.He was instrumental in developing the A-10 Warthog from German documents in Texas after war.Your country helped the Allied cause to enslave 1/2 of Europa for decades to communism terror, think before opening your small mind.
Panzertruppen1 3 years ago 6
um dumbass he never went to Brazil he lived in Argentina an then moved to the U.S an helped the USAF
Dogmeat7 3 years ago
GOTCHA,
It'd be better if you could speell SOUL properly-then we'd maybe take you more seriously.
As it is, you're dismissed as an ignoramous.
fokjock 3 years ago
I just read Rudel's story on Wikipedia. It's amazing to think that he was probably flying with a plaster cast on at the time of this video and he still continued to fly fighters after losing part of a leg. I don't condone Nazism or what went on at the time but you have to admire the man's spirit.
videograham 3 years ago 10
Stuka is nto a fighter. also Military Officers couldn't be Nazi's
Dogmeat7 3 years ago
Amazing men.A army for himself
molderscr 4 years ago 9
stuka Gs? or Fs?
ponchoyo 4 years ago
It´s a G.
KrautGoesWild 4 years ago
coool im gona build one with the anti tank guns on it.
ponchoyo 4 years ago
coool im gona build one with the anti tank guns on it.
ponchoyo 4 years ago
stuka Gs? or Fs?
ponchoyo 4 years ago