Berlin Airlift - The Story Of A Great Achievement (1949)

[bwild61]

Ron Paul 2012.

[proteeus]

@hangarrat101, thank you, but I ment the sung song what starts at 2:53,I`m not native speaker,and I`m having troubles to understand the lyric well :)

[hangarrat101]

@proteeus I think there are a few, certainly one of them is "The RAF march past" but I'm not too sure about the others.

[proteeus]

Is there someone who knows the name of the song, please?

[pennyandhistoy]

This has to be one of the noblest acts in human history

[deliow]

Wonderful historic film. Thanks for posting. Excellent clarity.

How I miss the throbbing noise of piston engined airliners

[thisis26]

Very cool! Told me everything I needed to know! :D

[saifrelsvenja]

yes all what you hearling and reading is america but never canada^^ finally canada is mentioned^^

[perigrin6]

I like how the video shows that Canada aided in the operation.

Too often the Canadians are simply not mentioned in world-wide events

[jdpage01]

I don't think that the Western powers were trying to starve anyone, quite the opposite, we supplied 2 million people. It was the Soviets and Stalin who cut the city of Berlin off.

[topherjohnston92]

Ahhh... Made in Canada. Not too often one would see that today :(

[deetjay1]

Arrogant Ruskies thought they had Berlin and Eastern Europe by the short hairs, and could make the rest of the free world dance to their tune...Fat chance!

[WawsestilL]

THE NAZI PIGS SHOULD HAVE BEEN LEFT TO DIE OF HUNGER ...

[MERCENARIE]

@WawsestilL You dont pay attention to the video do you? They arent Nazi's

[WawsestilL]

@MERCENARIE The staff of the berlin airlift were not nazis ... were useful idiots like all those that participated in WW2.

Nobody was innocent in germany.

Every damn german should have been left to starve to death.

But the spectacle had to continue ...

[Karash770]

@WawsestilL Explain to mean, why small children, women or elderly people in 1948 deserved to starve for the crimes of the nazi party and the SS until 1945.

You, Sir, are an inhumane racist. Thankfully, the majority of the american population didn't share your view back then.

[painoftheheart12]

@Karash770 Well, what you need to see is the entire human race is 'inhumane'. It comes to a point where nothing is right or wrong, just what is fair. I am German, Prussian actually, myself, so I hold nothing against the Germans, but nor do I hate the Soviets because they saw it as fair. If people look at history as Good and Bad then they blind themselves to every aspect of humanity. No one is good or bad in the end. It's all about what is fair to them at a given time.

[Invesigator]

@Karash770 There is nothing racist about believing that the racist perputrators of WWII should have starved to death. If you want to know what racism is, realize that Britain and America subjected Iraq to a decade long embargo after they illigally destoryed the country. As result of this embargo, 500,000 innocent children died. America and Britain have also used depleted uranium against the Iraqi people in the latest illigal invasion.

Racism is protecting and feeding racists i.e. the Germans.

[bwild61]

@Invesigator Your comment is pure Psycho Babble.

[Invesigator]

@bwild61 No, my comment is true. Every country America has bombed since Nagaski and Hiroshima has been non-white. Why? Britons and Americans were prepared to die to save German Berliners. However, with Iraq they were prepared to let maybe a million people die through starvation to uphold their sanctions. The difference between Hitler and the so-called Allies is that the former has killed less Muslims and was an OPEN racist. Today's westerners are just closed racists. Just look at Libya.

[njdevil281]

@Invesigator It has nothing to do with race you fuckhead, most of the white countries were in a state of military alliance between Nato and the USSR thus militarily gridlocked. The USSR was America's arch enemy for 50 years and they were white. Every military action in those 60 years around the world was aimed at stopping Soviet expansion. And Cuba is a white country numb nuts. And yes look at Lybia...North Africans are considered to be white shithead.

[Invesigator]

@njdevil281 It has, unfortunately, EVERYTHING to do with race. Which country that is populated by Europeans has been bombed by America since it did Hiroshima and Nagasaki? If North Africans were considered white I can assure you that NATO would never attack Libya. Does Ghaddafi look white to you?

[njdevil281]

@Invesigator Arabs are considered to be white that is fact that you could look up. I already told you Cuba is white. You seemed to have ignored everything else I said.

[JDBlessin]

@Invesigator The bombing of Bosnia comes to mind.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@Invesigator other than your utter ignorance adn blatant antiamerican bigotry you are totally full of bovine excrement. Persians are a caucasoid peoples. Oh and FYI your' whole race screed is a LIE, there is no such thing. Ask any biologist or geneticist. Just thought I'd fix that bit of your education you never ever had...it's so cute when you 5th grade drop outs try to act all educated and intelligent.

[Invesigator]

@GrigoriZhukov The truth is ugly. Americans themselves have admitted they are more likely to military attack a country if it is populated by non-whites. Persians are non-white and the US & Israeli army would have no problem in using nuclear weapons against it secretly. Depleted uranium and enriched uranium has already been used secretly against the population of Iraq. Just think of Fallujah. If you don't see the race element of it you are deluding yourself.

[Hperman09]

@Invesigator No, not every country the U.S. bombed is non-white. Technically, the bombing of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Serbia are majority populated white countries.

[zzremington]

@Invesigator Who has "attacked" us? Japanese, Mexicans, Arabs - can't reacall, since our independence from the Brits, many whites who have "attacked" us.

[Fattboy26]

@Invesigator

Right so the people of Germany who were already defeated had already surrendered. And the perpetrators already imprisoned, charged or executed with the population of Berlin under American, British, French control should have been made to starve. Not only the inhumanity of that but what sense would have that made?

Racism is not feeding women, children , men but discriminating against a race. You sir if given that chance would be a war criminal exactly like the nazis

[Fattboy26]

@Invesigator

Sir you seem to be obsessed with race are you sure you are not a racist yourself? Its been my experience that those that scream about racism are usually racist.

[Invesigator]

The above is an example to what extent european & westerners will do to save their own kind. With Iraq they let the country they impose genocidal sanctions. The difference between Hitler and the so-called Allies is that the latter have killed many more non-europeans than the former.

[TheVampyreCat]

@WawsestilL You're a fucking jackass-asshole-bitch-poo-head­. Immature retarded-ness against immature-like response. Dickhead.

[saifrelsvenja]

@WawsestilL what are you meaning by every damn german should have been left fo starve to death??? you want to say you want that or the russian wanted that?? because if that is your opinion i want to tell you that not all germans are bad and hitler was an austrian not german he just brainwashed the germans, you may know in america they made an experiment caled the wave, so its easy to manupulate people!!! so many germans in the WW2 fought against hitler!!!!

[saifrelsvenja]

@WawsestilL what are you meaning by every damn german should have been left fo starve to death??? you want to say you want that or the russian wanted that?? because if that is your opinion i want to tell you that not all germans are bad and hitler was an austrian not german he just brainwashed the germans, you may know in america they made an experiment caled the wave, so its easy to manupulate people!!! so many germans in the WW2 fought against hitler!!!! and germans are not idiots!!!

[WawsestilL]

@saifrelsvenja All were guilty. Racists, imperialists. They should have been left to starve? Yes.

[reading70]

@WawsestilL You are a stupid, no other words.

[WawsestilL]

@reading70

I am because I know what the germans did.

[reading70]

@WawsestilL Ahah, and russian were better in your opinion? There are good and bad people everywhere, and as human beings it fair to help who's in trouble. I don't like too much french government, but if I'd see a frenchman in trouble you can be sure that I'd help him immediately.

[WawsestilL]

@reading70

Nazis and Bolsheviks are two sides of same coin.

Stalin and Hitler they drank from the same source.

Who financed Hitler, fiananced Stalin.

All to lead the cattle to the slaughterhouse.

[kadampa1]

Thanks for posting this.

[vne1981]

It was a great thing the western world did in 1948-9, not likely to be forgotten.

[jrwel14]

Of all the anti American and British talk on YouBoob. But, the Russians created the Blockade, the Germans would go into a city like Warsaw, kill many civilians, put many others in jail. But, ONLY the Americans and British woud do something like this. Help those that they had just fought against

[vne1981]

@jrwel14 don't forget the commonwelth. The Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians also involved in the airlift. These nationalities are often classed as British.

[FLUSEM666]

It could also be called the consequence of the first post war monumental failure of international diplomacy. A waste of recourses at a time when Europe could not afford such excess.

[DrPilotRedC]

Why Berlin blockaded?

[log140]

@DrPilotRedC the russians wanted to occupy westberlin, because it was in their sector... a "pain in the ass"!

they thought that, if they put some pressure on (block it) the americans, britts and french, they will get westberlin!!

germany was divided in 4 sectors and the capital berlin also in 4 sectors..

[Guydabest]

must have been fun to take off/land in the waves

[DrPilotRedC]

@Guydabest or to be in one of those tenders.

[express49]

Amazing document ! Thanks for posting !