The S-boat could also have been used like the PT boats were, in attacking convoys and harassing allied ships. And they were used like that in the Mediterranean, as well as against the fleet on D day .
@eus478 Are you suggesting that Germany didn't intend to go to war in 1939 in Western Europe....followed by breaking the "non aggression pact" they signed with Russia whom Gemany then invaded in 1941?
If so then someone has been teaching you a very false set of historical facts!
@tomburley First of all: my point of view is neither national nor social. Nobody is teaching me, I've got a mind of my own, I can read and form my personal opinion. Fact is, first was the "non aggression pact" in August'39, which was'nt thought for eternity from both sides , to solve the problem in Eastern Europe, then Great Britain and France declared war to Germany, not conversely. From the start to the end Germany was clearly outnumbered. How should I call this? Military suicide or insanity?
@eus478 ARE YOU SERIOUS?? Britain and France declared war against Germany only after Germany had invaded both Poland and Czechoslovakia - having already annexed parts of Austria. Germany had been building up for war since the early 1930's in total disregard to the Washington Treaty and the conditions set out af the end of the first world war. It was always Germay's intention to take control of all of Western Europe before turning East to Russia and capture the oil fields etc.
@tomburley I don't want to argue and I agree that the second worldwar was a result of the first one. But check these facts: Germany wasn't involved in the Washington Navel Treaty from 1922, even not invented. The union of Austria and Germany was required of the majority on both sides (since 1919, but prevented by the allies). The solving of the german speaking parts of Czechoslovakia happened with assistance of France and Great Britain in a conference in Munich in 1938. (to be continued)
@eus478 (follow-up) Point of no return was 1939, when Germany realised that a war was inevitably and Czechoslovakia "an aircraft carrier 100 miles away from the capital". The allied reaction to the occupation was : none - except a guarantee for Poland, followed by a hubris over there. The expected help didn't come in '39, even not in '45, so you can call the wardeclaration hypocritical. Germany was miles away from world-domination, it even was unable to defend itself - what nobody will deny.
@eus478 Czechoslovakia just fell apart and certainly never fell due to any military action by the German Empire at all. The 12 March 1939 and preceding Slovak radical independence movement under the Slovak People's Party of Msgr. Jozef Tiso and Prof. Tuka (not Stuka) broke up remaining Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile the (Ukrainophile) Subcarpathian Lands were annexed by Hungary, as was southern Slovakia (ethnic Hungarian majority even until today). Emil Hácha did not want Benes' anti-Nazi adventures.
@szaki If you discount the Pocket Battleships, Heavy Cruisers that the Germans built up in violation of the Washington Treaty plus the Aircraft carrier they were building.....not to mention the largest Submarine fleet at the start of WWII well then I guess you could say they never had "a big Navy"
ja das waren wir
salatgesicht 1 year ago 3
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007meus 2 years ago
Cool color footage. Have any more like this from Germany or another country?
Kaigun06 2 years ago
if you scroll through my uploads, you will find some other colour film footage, and I will post more in the future.
skoblinI 2 years ago 3
This is from Monatschau 1944
Patriot1418 2 years ago
Germany never had a big Navy, match the British or US!
These speed boats are only good for coastal patrol!
szaki 2 years ago
The S-boat could also have been used like the PT boats were, in attacking convoys and harassing allied ships. And they were used like that in the Mediterranean, as well as against the fleet on D day .
Kaigun06 2 years ago
@szaki I agree. And that's the reason why Germany had no interest to start a big war in '39,'40 or '41, but GB, US and SU.
eus478 1 year ago
@eus478 Are you suggesting that Germany didn't intend to go to war in 1939 in Western Europe....followed by breaking the "non aggression pact" they signed with Russia whom Gemany then invaded in 1941?
If so then someone has been teaching you a very false set of historical facts!
tomburley 1 year ago
@tomburley First of all: my point of view is neither national nor social. Nobody is teaching me, I've got a mind of my own, I can read and form my personal opinion. Fact is, first was the "non aggression pact" in August'39, which was'nt thought for eternity from both sides , to solve the problem in Eastern Europe, then Great Britain and France declared war to Germany, not conversely. From the start to the end Germany was clearly outnumbered. How should I call this? Military suicide or insanity?
eus478 1 year ago
@eus478 ARE YOU SERIOUS?? Britain and France declared war against Germany only after Germany had invaded both Poland and Czechoslovakia - having already annexed parts of Austria. Germany had been building up for war since the early 1930's in total disregard to the Washington Treaty and the conditions set out af the end of the first world war. It was always Germay's intention to take control of all of Western Europe before turning East to Russia and capture the oil fields etc.
tomburley 1 year ago
@tomburley I don't want to argue and I agree that the second worldwar was a result of the first one. But check these facts: Germany wasn't involved in the Washington Navel Treaty from 1922, even not invented. The union of Austria and Germany was required of the majority on both sides (since 1919, but prevented by the allies). The solving of the german speaking parts of Czechoslovakia happened with assistance of France and Great Britain in a conference in Munich in 1938. (to be continued)
eus478 1 year ago
@eus478 (follow-up) Point of no return was 1939, when Germany realised that a war was inevitably and Czechoslovakia "an aircraft carrier 100 miles away from the capital". The allied reaction to the occupation was : none - except a guarantee for Poland, followed by a hubris over there. The expected help didn't come in '39, even not in '45, so you can call the wardeclaration hypocritical. Germany was miles away from world-domination, it even was unable to defend itself - what nobody will deny.
eus478 1 year ago
@eus478 Czechoslovakia just fell apart and certainly never fell due to any military action by the German Empire at all. The 12 March 1939 and preceding Slovak radical independence movement under the Slovak People's Party of Msgr. Jozef Tiso and Prof. Tuka (not Stuka) broke up remaining Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile the (Ukrainophile) Subcarpathian Lands were annexed by Hungary, as was southern Slovakia (ethnic Hungarian majority even until today). Emil Hácha did not want Benes' anti-Nazi adventures.
IustitiaPax 4 months ago
@szaki If you discount the Pocket Battleships, Heavy Cruisers that the Germans built up in violation of the Washington Treaty plus the Aircraft carrier they were building.....not to mention the largest Submarine fleet at the start of WWII well then I guess you could say they never had "a big Navy"
tomburley 1 year ago