This comment from Adolf Galland is always misunderstood. Galland was not praising the Spitfire or expressing the view that it was superior to the Bf 109. The context of the argument was that Galland was complaining about Göring's stupid order that the fighters fly with the bombers, matching their altitude and speed. This completely removed their advantage of attacking from above with the sun behind them. His comment was based on his feeling that a spitfire would be better suited for such a role.
@omcx1e From an interview with a former German fighter ace in Military History magazine, I gather it was fairly common for Luftwaffe personnel to make personal cracks or jokes to Goerring's face :)
@HenryvKeiper I have heard that too but I don't know how much room he gave them for that. I think it was probably mostly not to his face, similar to how the Waffen SS felt about Himmler. They saw him as a pathetic little school teacher type and referred to him not as Reichsführer, but as "Reichsheini", but not to his face.
@omcx1e I think you're right. Goering was known to be a glutton, drug addict, arrogant, and a thief, but he was NOT at heart a mass murderer. The pilots did take some liberty with him, and he had no use for the SS - when asked to turn all Jews in the Luftwaffe over to them, he refused (and had them change their names), saying "In the Luftwaffe, I'll decide who is a Jew." No one EVER accused Himmler of the slightest mercy or jest - he made Charley Manson look like a kindergarten kid!
@omcx1e: Ah, O.K. Anyone know who that German fighter ace people mention was, if it wasn't Galland himself who made the "squadron of spitfires" remark?
@HenryvKeiper From what I have read, Goering was an obese drug addict, glutton and theif, everyone knew it and the pilots did not respect him - but he was not a cold-blooded mass murderer - when asked to turn all Jews in the Luftwaffe over to the SS, he declined, saying: "I'll decide who is a Jew in the Luftwaffe", and saved a few lives. Himmler NEVER saved anyone's life, including his own family's. I.e., Goering was a joke and everyone knew it; Himmler was a monster, and everyone knew it.
The problem with the 'we need a squadron of spitfires' was that the spitfire had equally short range as the ME-109. If the situation was reversed, and the British were bombing Northern France, they would have a hard time protecting their bombers due to short range. If the Japanese had given the Germans the plans for their then new Zero fighter with it's 1,200 mile range (vs 395 for the spit and 412 for the ME) things would have turned out very differently.
@Hotshotter3000 well there where forms of the spitfire who could fly long range the ME 109 had a variant that uttempted it but i think it was scrapped because of poor test results on preformance.
actualy what gave the british such an edge was radar, the observer core, french spies and a well organized Fighter aircraft HQ
the british where able to use their aircraft to the maximum insted of having to scatter them around looking for enemies, that way their low numbers problem was solved
Another factor that gave the RAF the edge was the fact that pilots who abandoned their aircraft were generally landing on English soil, the exceptions being those who were unfortunate enough to land in the sea. The Germans who abandoned their aircraft were bailing out over hostile territory from which none escaped or of course had to deal with the English Channel.
@grubber7 And that is due entirely to Air Marshal Dowding's decision to fight over England with the ground spotters, when everyone else, and the conventional wisdom at the time, wanted to fight over the Channel since the Brits' radar only faced outward at the time. Dowding realized that in fighting over England, literally an RAF plane could crash land, the pilot get out, and be back up in the air within hours.
@alonmerlin: I honestly think you're wrong. In the 'Commando' comics where they show real military equipment on the covers, there was a new, replacment for the 109 which I think was called the Me. 209? So it wasn't really the 109, but did share a lot of components.
There were also a couple of twin-engined fighters tested aside from the Me. 110, I think one was designated Me. 210 and another was an experimental Heinkel airframe that looked a bit like a twin small engined P-51 or P-39.
@NobleKorhedron The 209 was never really intended as a replacement for the 109. It was designed to set a new speed record, which it did, but it was determined that once it was properly outfitted for combat it's perfprmance would not be equal to the 109 in speed or maneuverability. The Me 210, and it's later development, the Me 410, came along after the Me 110. The 210 was intended to replace the 110 but problems with in-flight stability led to it being discontinued shortly after delivery began.
I am really happy that our ancestors never dared the invasion! Even in the best outcome for the wehrmacht, it would had been the excuse for really bad actions to the british citizens and hence the basis for a real tough retaliation of the US...
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England used an integrated air defense systems. The airfields and radar stations weren't just linked to head quarters, they could contact each other by phone, wire etc. It didn't matter that German had more planes, the RAF knew most of the German codes and could always get enough in the right place. England won
because of technology not because of better pilots, planes etc.
don't feed the nazi troll. i'm german and he is a shame for all of us, but you have these nazi guys in your country too. look to the netherlands. they have a nazi party in the government led by geert wilders. we don't have this shit since 1945 and we don't want'em back. nazi's are organized all over the world but they are a minority especially in germany. i hope you all know that.
@rantanplan178 Most people do know that, but a few trolls are still, somehow, able to cause a lot of mayhem merely by posting a few pathetic comments. Sad, but true. I'm English and it saddens me to see the number of haters from my country bringing up Hitler on any video that even hints of Germany. They're no better than a Nazi troll.
you're right mate. sometimes it's just bad to see, how manny nazi germans are playing this game. so i felt the need of a statement. just to clear up any confusion about germany today, if there were any.
@rantanplan178 I'm English. Most Germans are good people. Anyone who suggests otherwise is an idiot. Good people everywhere should unite against political and religious fanatics wherever they''re from (we all have some) and reject nationalism.
Goering's problem was he was still thinking in WW I tactics according to the aircraft limits of that time. he could'nt adapt to the new reality of faster planes that could perform maneuvers only dreamed of in WW I.
i think sir winston said it all, never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to such a few, all hail those gallant men of the RAF, out numbered 3-1, at times as many as 6 spitfire's would swoop down on 50 nazi plane's, every time the nazi's attacked england our brave air men were there to meet them,
Goering was such fat moron with his head up his ass....if he would have paid attention to the likes a Galland, that might have stood a chance...(but be very thankful that he didn't listen)
@heybuddyheybuddy Quiz Time : Hitler's speech in this movie had two versions of the subtitles, my limited German confirmed this to me as a lad. Anyone one know what was left out in Der Fuehrer's abridged version ? Nice to be reminded of such things as we see Der Reichsmarschall & his bombastic ways in action, twas lucky for us he was such a fellow, along with one of the finest pieces of aviation that has ever taken to the skies !
The man that said it was General Adolph Galland. He was indeed a fighter ace, by the end of the war he had notched up 104 air victories, all of them against western allies.
In his book he says, when asked what he needed he said ' I should like an outfit of spitfires for my group.'
He always claimed his comment was misunderstood and it came out the wrong way at the time. The spit was better suited than the 109 to what Goring wanted them to do.
@heybuddyheybuddy what this part of the film was taken from was a discussion between adolf galland and goering, when he asked what he needed to defeat the raf, he declared he needed spitfires, not that he thought the spitfire was better than the 109 but more that he was so frustrated with the tactics goering had created.
@heybuddyheybuddy The dialog is repeated verbatim, from Major Adolf Galland's reply to Goering. Major Falke is modeled after Major Galland. Galland would eventually be promoted to General and fly Messerschmidt jets against allied bomber streams in the last months of the war.
@heybuddyheybuddy Adolf Galland was the Ace who was acredited with the request for Spitfires. That is in Robert Stanford Tucks autobiography and he was best pals with Galland after the war.
The BF109 lacked range.The Heinkel He112 should have been allowed to mass produce, its range superior.The English simply waited for the BF109 escorts to leave the Heinkle111`s then attack- easy prey!The English flatter themselves , the reality is that ,had the Germans a longer ranged fighter, things would have been different.Read a book called Fighter by Day, he was the main quartermaster for Brits, very clearly, the Brits lost 1680 Spitifres and Hurricans and Germans only lost 120 ME 109.
The phrase 'tommy cooker ' still applied to churchill's especialy after D DAY .The churchill was totaly under-gunned by german standards and was easily taken out before it could fire on a Tiger. We the inovators of the tank (exc. leonardo) and promoted by the great WSC during WW1, ironicaly never realised it's true potential during WW2. Thank god we were a lot better at producing planes!...
Give me spitfires!...and this is a true statement of a german decorated ace ,. They were 10 times as strong as us yet through people like, dowding etc. and using a combination of radar,comunication,centralisation and spirit and agression we beat a massive force! God bless all those involved, we owe them..
The Germans did not overwhelm the RAF in 1940. The affair was very one sided. The Germans did capture a Spitfire in France and assessed it. Strangely, they thought nothing much of it. They didn't even bother to assess captured Churchill tanks at Dieppe,which later came to haunt them.
@NearAbbeyRoad Why are you moaning at me?...... also unfortunalty churchill tanks were crap, especialy compared to the Tigers, remember the term 'tommy cookers'
I am not moaning at you; correcting you. Churchill's had the same armour as a Tiger. It was slow (which was not a great handicap) and had a smallish gun, which was later uprated. It was adapted for various functions as beach clearance, flamethrowing, heavy mortars, etc. It was very stable getting up the sides of hills. One knocked out a Tiger in the desert. "Tommy Cooker" was the name for the US Sherman not the Churchill.
the british where on thier knees(lack of pilots and aircrafts,they were totaly destroyed by the luftvafe)!!! every body knows that well...but the big error thet hitler made was that he changed the tactics in the last minute>instead of carring on bombing the military targets(wich were also totaly destroyed) he started bombing the cities and towns wich later was proved as a disaster!!!!!!!
@LovelyElbe11 Awe, poor, poor Nazi Germany. :( They just wanted the Rhineland. And Austria. And the Sudetenland. And Czechoslovakia. And Poland. And...
so fucking what. ussr conquered eastern europe, us expanded into the pacific coast, and china took over manchuria. if hitler or bin laden won the war we wouldnt be yapping on about how evil they are. nazi germany was no more evil than any other western superpower
@HenryvKeiper And the Rhineland, the Sudetenland, and more than half of poland was German territory until the allies ignored Wilson's promise to the Kaiser, in order to get the WWI armistice, that Germany would not be held responsible for starting WWI (which they didn't) and stole all those lands at Versailles. THat is why most historains say that Versailles all but guarantedd another European war.
@HenryvKeiper And in Austria, the Austrian people voted on whether or not they would join the German Reich, and 96% voted yes. Germany did not invade Austria. Look it up.
Well, the Brits literally declared war on Germany, not the other way around. Probably what he meant. Hitler even said he didn't want war with England or France.
@CaptainAmerica322 Correct. Hitler ADMIRED the British Empire. He always wanted them to join the Axis. In Hitler's vision, Britain would've ruled the sea, whereas Germany would have dominated the European continent. And that's exactly the reason why I don't understand how the modern English people can glorify Churchill as their "national hero". He DESTROYED the British Empire! They could be a world power together with us Germans, instead they are flooded with immigrants. I don't understand them.
Nope, you don't understand us :P We don't follow our leaders, we put up with them. And it was the people of the UK that declared war on Nazi Germany (not the Germany today, note). The people made sure that Churchill ousted Chamberlain.
Why? As you said...
Britain would've ruled the sea, whereas Germany would have dominated the European continent.
We tried fascism with the feudal system in the early days - didn't work.
@reichsadler1888 agree!but look at it this way, if the german did not axis herself with japan, will the british support the german?or let's say it, german vs ussr, i will take the german.i hate communist.but german vs USA?i will take USA becos USA respect human right.if only hitler did not killed the jews, did not invade britian.things might not be the way it was during 1944!!!
@mindawareness The decision wether Britain enters the war or not was made long before the USA-Japan-Germany war broke out. The English declared war on us in 1939, not in 1941, and not because we built up close diplomatic relations with Japan, but because we reclaimed our German territory in the east. Hitler would've done almost everything to get Britain into the Axis. As I said, he admired the British world empire, he saw the Britons as Germanic brothers.
@reichsadler1888 This is absolutely correct except with one additional reason for the invasion of Poland, that being the atrocities that the Poles were committing against German nationals in the former German territories. Diplomatic correspondence in the months leading up to the war shows that Germany was trying to secure international oversight of the situation but Britain, France, and Poland blocked every attempt. Hitler finally said "If you don't act, we will". And they did.
@omcx1e you are a sad, warped, ignorant, naive, and altogether lost individual. I don't know who or what got a hold of you and warped your mind and fed you complete lies as "history," but you're too far gone I assume. Go on thinking the Nazis were saviors. Reality and truth know better. You sick idiot.
@jros83 Unlike you, I actually know history. I am not a Youtube troll talking out of my butt about things I think I know. I have studied WWII for over 30 years. I have seen the diplomatic records in the Bundesarchiv and the British Public Record Office. I have seen witness testimony and press photos from places like Eichdorf, Hopfengarten, Bydgoszcz, Piecki, and Narzheim. I have seen the Polish government's admission of atrocities in Bydgoszcz where thousands of Germans were murdered.
@jros83 I actually do research. I have published articles. I knew more about WWII 20 years ago than you will know by the time you die. I have seen the evidence of Polish atrocities not only against Germans, but against Ukrainians all through the late 20s and early 30s. Pull your head out of your butt and read some books. Much of this is even available on the internet now for those who actually want to KNOW something.
@jros83 In the months leading up to the war the Poles constructed two concentration camps for ethnic Germans. One was at Polowanie, the other at Niemcow. Look them up. Try actually learning something for a change. Ever ask yourself why Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland from the west but didn't care that the Soviets also invaded Poland from the east in September of 1939?
@omcx1e there were not atrocities of the poles against the germans in that time. The poles were terrified of Germany and did everything to treat the german minority in their lands well. I am from Austria and i tell you you are seriously mistaken. The Nazis were a bunch of colossal assholes that were totally ignorant of anyone besides themselves and they plunged Europe into ruin.
@Tracchofyre Is that the fiction you learned in school in Austria, one of the few countries in the world where you can end up in jail for saying something about history that the government doesn't like? Sounds like....Nazi Germany. The Germans and Poles have hated each other forever and atrocities have been committed on both sides forever. The evidence is undeniable. There are even plenty of photos taken by the international press in the cities I mentioned to the idiot above.
@Tracchofyre See if you can get some books written outside of your oppressive country that locks people up for thought crimes. The first atrocities against Germans took place in Upper Silesia in 1921. In May of 1927 a massacre took place in Rybnik. Assaults increased from the fall of 1938 and became common after the spring of 1939.
In the last prewar months the Polish press was spreading the message that “In the case of war, no ethnical enemy (Germans in Poland) will escape alive.”
@Tracchofyre In the months leading up to the war the Poles constructed two concentration camps for ethnic Germans. One was at Polowanie, the other at Niemcow. Look them up. Ever ask yourself why Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland from the west but didn't care that the Soviets also invaded Poland from the east in September of 1939?
@CaptainAmerica322 What I hate about the English anti-German propagandists is their self-righteousness. What gave them the RIGHT to declare war on Germany because we had territorial disputes with the Poles?! These were NOT English matters! Did we Germans attack them when they brutally subjected large parts of the world for their colonial Empire? No! In my opinion, the plutocratic-jewish bunch leading the UK wanted to unleash another European war since Hitler came to power.
who do you mean with "us germans"???? speak for yourself nazi. i'm german too and you don't have the right nor the mind to speak for me or germany in general. your people are a minority in germany and you know that. you and your friends are megalomaniacs and this here is a good example for that.
i'm tired to say sorry, because of germans like you. plz stfu
@reichsadler1888 this is right,just because Germany wanted West Prussia back,GB and France get nasty.Mind you they also wanted large parts of Russia too.lol
@LovelyElbe11 indeed the brits and french declared war to germany these days. That is a fact. But they had to, because of the deal which they had with poland. don't wanna be smartass just correcting the past !
@LovelyElbe11 Buddy have you learned the history of this war. Hitler was breaking the Treaty of Versailles by building up his military, and invading other countries. Unfortunately the League of Nations didn't bother doing anything until the invasion of Poland in September of 1939.
@LovelyElbe11 actually you are right - britain did declare war on germany first, but only because we had sworn to defend poland, which you just decided to invade, oh so casually. if hitler hadn't been a totalitarian megalomanical greedy pig, wanting all of the land in europe for lebensraum for the 'master race', the situation wouldn't have arisen would it?
@LovelyElbe11 Wrong. The British appeased Germany for too long... Hitler expected to get away with Poland too! He was just a warmonger.
The only reason that he got away with so much in the first place (breaking Versailles Treaty, remilitarising the Rhineland, Anschluss with Austria, Czechoslovakia etc) was because public opinion was so firmly against another war - people didn't want to repeat the horrors of WWI! Every family in Britain lost someone, and people would do anything to stop a repeat.
@LovelyElbe11 We started world war 2 ha you make me laugh and Adolf hitler was a black gay jew How fuck did we start world war 2 you invaded poland you stupid go do us all a favour and quit youtube
And in response to sammni although Britain were alone against the Germans for that year we were aided by the polish and many pilots from the empire and beyond. And with out all these people fighting together we may not be living in a free would to day.
two squadrons 303 Fighter squadron and 304 bomber squadron.
there were 52 fighter squadrons in RAF. Polish 303 squadron got 7% of all kills!
they say that if the luftwaffe continued bombing the airfields for another week RAF would have callapsed. therefore operation sealion would happen. So if Polish pilots did not fight in the battle of Britain that 7% would never happen so
that week gap would be reduced to maybe two days lets say. Britain would have lost.
@PLrap96 That's a rather weak connection, especially given that the only reason the Germans stopped bombing airfields was not because of losses ("that 7%") but because of the bombing of Berlin.
thats true but Im talking about the "week gap" that would have been reduced to 1 or 2 days.
the germans would have probly noticed that RAF was about to collapse.
but thats only an "if"
What im tryin to say is that British people dont know about the Polish impact in WWII. They think its all British which is not true.If not the enigma you would have lost the war anyway we cracked the Enigma, 85% of MI6's intelligence came from Polish spys etc. That info was even in the Times the newspaper.
@PLrap96 I'm still not following how the German decision to bomb London having nothing to do with Polish fighters somehow had something to do with Polish fighters.
"is that British people dont know about the Polish impact in WWII"
Don't patronise us. We're well aware of what happened. We Won, don't attempt to take away our victory, Polish pilots took part, but ultimately it was OUR win.
@Gooner018 well said, can't stand people like him who try to take away the sense of achievement. The Polish did fight with us and so they should have, but they certainly didn't change the course of the War in any way. As someone once said, ' The Polish were our Allies, and what a great Allies they were, but i don't want one as my next door neighbour.'
britain were used by the americans just like you guys used us.
without the enigma you would have lost. PERIOD. u nearly did with it. in the entire war you knew were the nazis would attack and how and yet they nearly won. see the irony. no u dont
Bullshit; 2/3rds of Germany's Armed forces including its most elite troops "SS divisions" and allies "Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria" where concentrated purely against the Soviets. Heck, in the Pacific War the Chinese held up most of Japan's army in Manchuria so that your country could more effectively take Japan's pacific strongholds.
"in the entire war you knew were the nazis would attack and how and yet they nearly won."
The nazis never had a chance of winning WW2, their economy was too weak. They had no surface navy and and inferior air force. Without the USA the UK and the USSR would have defeated Germany. The USSR made more arms than the USA in 1942. The USA quickened the war's end, not the decisive factor.
@NearAbbeyRoad I actually think USA extended it a few months. If they hadn't provoked Japan, there would have been no surprise attack on Pearl Harbor or Wake or Singapore or war in the Pacific
It is true the Poles were the first to crack Enigma in 1932. However, Enigma was improved substantially and the British cracked subsequent machines. The British also developed the world's first electronic computer to decipher the data fast. Doing by slowly by hand would mean the event would have happened before decipher..
@craigbeaumont414 -- That is the trouble with movies; they for the most part are fiction, sometimes based upon a little fact. Consider U571 as it is only; a work of fiction. Then, it is just a story for entertainment purposes. U-505 is a better story; all true and the boat is in a museum in Chicago to view.
@oldbobg U571 was actually based on a true story, except it wasn't U571, but U-110, The real U571 was sunk near Ireland by a sunderland flying boat. Also it wasn't the US navy that captured U-110 but the Royal Navy,specifically HMS Bulldog.
@HenryvKeiper Also because they underestimated the losses of the RAF (thinking they were down to only 50-60 fighters) and because they thought they had damaged RAF fields much more than they had (sometimes bombing sites over and over, whilst missing main dispersal sites nearby).
You are right my friend, Poland paid dearly, in blood, for the allied victory.But believe me when I say, the invasion of britain was NEVER on the cards. Just ANOTHER of Churchills canards, that awaits to be debunked.
in the way of the Battle of Britain and the Enigma we did
even if the RAF would have won with the germans over the channel without the enigma you would have lost the battle of the atlantic and that means you would have starved. and secondly British would have lost in the war for north africa. British were very week compared to the germans. u new very well were they were attacking thanks 2 the enigma and yet u only just won.
@sammni HAHAHAHA you think you got the enigma? Actually it was the British that captured one and broke one. Out of 3,000 pilots 145 were Polish. Dont be so fucking stupid to say Poland saved the British empire. This is the worst comment ive ever seen !! Polish pilots had to be retrained in the UK as well. Poland was over run in a few weeks for a reaon
@sammni The Germans were so methodical that just prior to the outbreak of WWII, enigma machines were dispatched worldwide, and the Poles , sensing that something impotrant had been delivered to the German Embasssy in Poland , investigated , found the enigma , pulled it apart , copied it , and sent on to Britain an exact copy of the code machine.The Germans were ignorant of their codes being broken until late in the war. Enigmas were recovered from submarines as well.
@PLrap96 Just because small amount of polish helped doesnt mean that just because of you we won, so stop taking talking bullshit cuz we would of won it without your people.
@PLrap96 you really think britain would have lost whilst i am gratefull for polish and other nations help during this time its fanciful at best to suggest uk would have lost
Operation Sealion would never have happened as it was a ruse.. The Germans would have been slaughtered on the beaches if they reached the beaches of course. The RAF could never have been eliminated, with a large bomber force and planes stationed out of German fighter range. Germany had no surface navy, while they faced a gigantic navy in the RN. The army was re-equipped after Dunkirk. Six months later the British were posed to take all the south Med coastline.
Yes but there wern't 35'000 of them, most Aussie, New zealanders, Canadians served with their own Airforces, ie the RAAf, RCAF, RNZAF. Don't forget that the axis forces in Europe consisted not only of Germans, but also Austrians, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians and others, many of them flew with the Luftwaffe. It was after all a WORLD war. We allways talk of the Germans, but they like the Brits, didn't fight alone.
Apologies for the two questions about Galland. My internet decided to go wonky and I didn't know whether either of them was posted.
NobleKorhedron 2 weeks ago
My Grandma worked in Germany with him and with Moelders
HeatSplitter 1 month ago
@HeatSplitter Must have been a long time ago. Mölders died in a plane crash in november of 1941.
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
My Father met Adolf Galland at a Book signing.
Trashcansam123 2 months ago
Keep on repeating 1:23-1:28. Its surprisingly amusing.
NHLer92 2 months ago
This comment from Adolf Galland is always misunderstood. Galland was not praising the Spitfire or expressing the view that it was superior to the Bf 109. The context of the argument was that Galland was complaining about Göring's stupid order that the fighters fly with the bombers, matching their altitude and speed. This completely removed their advantage of attacking from above with the sun behind them. His comment was based on his feeling that a spitfire would be better suited for such a role.
omcx1e 3 months ago 14
@omcx1e From an interview with a former German fighter ace in Military History magazine, I gather it was fairly common for Luftwaffe personnel to make personal cracks or jokes to Goerring's face :)
HenryvKeiper 3 months ago 5
@HenryvKeiper I have heard that too but I don't know how much room he gave them for that. I think it was probably mostly not to his face, similar to how the Waffen SS felt about Himmler. They saw him as a pathetic little school teacher type and referred to him not as Reichsführer, but as "Reichsheini", but not to his face.
omcx1e 3 months ago
@omcx1e Ha ha, Reichsheini - I have to remember that :P
HenryvKeiper 3 months ago
@omcx1e I think you're right. Goering was known to be a glutton, drug addict, arrogant, and a thief, but he was NOT at heart a mass murderer. The pilots did take some liberty with him, and he had no use for the SS - when asked to turn all Jews in the Luftwaffe over to them, he refused (and had them change their names), saying "In the Luftwaffe, I'll decide who is a Jew." No one EVER accused Himmler of the slightest mercy or jest - he made Charley Manson look like a kindergarten kid!
jking1737 1 month ago
@omcx1e: W.T.F does "Reichsheini" mean?!
NobleKorhedron 2 weeks ago
@NobleKorhedron It doesn't have a direct translation. It implies a weak, pathetic little creature.
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
@omcx1e: Ah, O.K. Anyone know who that German fighter ace people mention was, if it wasn't Galland himself who made the "squadron of spitfires" remark?
NobleKorhedron 2 weeks ago
@NobleKorhedron It was Galland.
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
@HenryvKeiper From what I have read, Goering was an obese drug addict, glutton and theif, everyone knew it and the pilots did not respect him - but he was not a cold-blooded mass murderer - when asked to turn all Jews in the Luftwaffe over to the SS, he declined, saying: "I'll decide who is a Jew in the Luftwaffe", and saved a few lives. Himmler NEVER saved anyone's life, including his own family's. I.e., Goering was a joke and everyone knew it; Himmler was a monster, and everyone knew it.
jking1737 1 month ago
@HenryvKeiper: Mind if I ask which German ace? Udet? Molders?
NobleKorhedron 2 weeks ago
@omcx1e: Ah, but has the Generalleutenant ever confirmed this?
NobleKorhedron 2 weeks ago
@NobleKorhedron Yes, numerous times.
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
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NobleKorhedron 2 weeks ago
Adolf Galland was also one of the credited German technical advisors in the making of the movie.
MX3516 3 months ago
The quote is from Adolf Galland, you can see him @ watch?v=E5XG0LYz5B4&feature=related
HermesBird11 4 months ago
The quote is from Adolf Galland, you can see him at 0.55 @ /watchv=E5XG0LYz5B4&feature=related
HermesBird11 4 months ago
The problem with the 'we need a squadron of spitfires' was that the spitfire had equally short range as the ME-109. If the situation was reversed, and the British were bombing Northern France, they would have a hard time protecting their bombers due to short range. If the Japanese had given the Germans the plans for their then new Zero fighter with it's 1,200 mile range (vs 395 for the spit and 412 for the ME) things would have turned out very differently.
Hotshotter3000 4 months ago
@Hotshotter3000 well there where forms of the spitfire who could fly long range the ME 109 had a variant that uttempted it but i think it was scrapped because of poor test results on preformance.
actualy what gave the british such an edge was radar, the observer core, french spies and a well organized Fighter aircraft HQ
the british where able to use their aircraft to the maximum insted of having to scatter them around looking for enemies, that way their low numbers problem was solved
alonmerlin 4 months ago
@alonmerlin
Another factor that gave the RAF the edge was the fact that pilots who abandoned their aircraft were generally landing on English soil, the exceptions being those who were unfortunate enough to land in the sea. The Germans who abandoned their aircraft were bailing out over hostile territory from which none escaped or of course had to deal with the English Channel.
grubber7 3 months ago 5
@grubber7 And that is due entirely to Air Marshal Dowding's decision to fight over England with the ground spotters, when everyone else, and the conventional wisdom at the time, wanted to fight over the Channel since the Brits' radar only faced outward at the time. Dowding realized that in fighting over England, literally an RAF plane could crash land, the pilot get out, and be back up in the air within hours.
jking1737 1 month ago
@alonmerlin: I honestly think you're wrong. In the 'Commando' comics where they show real military equipment on the covers, there was a new, replacment for the 109 which I think was called the Me. 209? So it wasn't really the 109, but did share a lot of components.
There were also a couple of twin-engined fighters tested aside from the Me. 110, I think one was designated Me. 210 and another was an experimental Heinkel airframe that looked a bit like a twin small engined P-51 or P-39.
NobleKorhedron 2 weeks ago
@NobleKorhedron The 209 was never really intended as a replacement for the 109. It was designed to set a new speed record, which it did, but it was determined that once it was properly outfitted for combat it's perfprmance would not be equal to the 109 in speed or maneuverability. The Me 210, and it's later development, the Me 410, came along after the Me 110. The 210 was intended to replace the 110 but problems with in-flight stability led to it being discontinued shortly after delivery began.
omcx1e 1 week ago
@NobleKorhedron The much-improved 410 entered service years later and saw service in many roles.
omcx1e 1 week ago
@NobleKorhedron Another really interesting plane was the Heinkel He 219 Uhu (Owl). It was probably the best night-fighter to see service in the war.
omcx1e 1 week ago
@Hotshotter3000 Even the FW-190 would have made for a much different fight. The Zero gave up protection & weapons load to get it's performance.
WALTERBROADDUS 3 months ago
I am really happy that our ancestors never dared the invasion! Even in the best outcome for the wehrmacht, it would had been the excuse for really bad actions to the british citizens and hence the basis for a real tough retaliation of the US...
11Kralle 4 months ago
HA!
mrmemanme 4 months ago
Göring was an idiot!
ChannelxNo5 4 months ago
Whats the song just starting at the end?
TheMythtern5 4 months ago
@TheMythtern5 Aces High, or the Luftwaffe theme. It was written for the film. They play the full version at the beginning of the film.
HenryvKeiper 4 months ago
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
- Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers propaganda man
5149111 4 months ago
Dear god, the translation here is spotty.
harlequin2262 4 months ago
England used an integrated air defense systems. The airfields and radar stations weren't just linked to head quarters, they could contact each other by phone, wire etc. It didn't matter that German had more planes, the RAF knew most of the German codes and could always get enough in the right place. England won
because of technology not because of better pilots, planes etc.
duaneyo1 5 months ago
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@0091Eng, @inTHEwrongGENERATION, @BasilFawlty4444
don't feed the nazi troll. i'm german and he is a shame for all of us, but you have these nazi guys in your country too. look to the netherlands. they have a nazi party in the government led by geert wilders. we don't have this shit since 1945 and we don't want'em back. nazi's are organized all over the world but they are a minority especially in germany. i hope you all know that.
rantanplan178 5 months ago 2
@rantanplan178 Most people do know that, but a few trolls are still, somehow, able to cause a lot of mayhem merely by posting a few pathetic comments. Sad, but true. I'm English and it saddens me to see the number of haters from my country bringing up Hitler on any video that even hints of Germany. They're no better than a Nazi troll.
ePicPrOGaMeR12345 4 months ago
@ePicPrOGaMeR12345
you're right mate. sometimes it's just bad to see, how manny nazi germans are playing this game. so i felt the need of a statement. just to clear up any confusion about germany today, if there were any.
rantanplan178 4 months ago
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@rantanplan178 I'm English. Most Germans are good people. Anyone who suggests otherwise is an idiot. Good people everywhere should unite against political and religious fanatics wherever they''re from (we all have some) and reject nationalism.
137Newton 2 months ago
@137Newton
yeah, that's the way for the future. anything else will bring the bloody past back up.
rantanplan178 2 months ago
Don't mention the war!
TheHandymanQld 5 months ago
Goering's problem was he was still thinking in WW I tactics according to the aircraft limits of that time. he could'nt adapt to the new reality of faster planes that could perform maneuvers only dreamed of in WW I.
pinwizz69 5 months ago
i think sir winston said it all, never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to such a few, all hail those gallant men of the RAF, out numbered 3-1, at times as many as 6 spitfire's would swoop down on 50 nazi plane's, every time the nazi's attacked england our brave air men were there to meet them,
keanoman1000 6 months ago
@keanoman1000 pilots attacked England
jagdflieger100 5 months ago
General Adolph Galland- "Give me a squadron of Spitfire."
Goering- :) :I >:(
Dantinus 6 months ago
@Dantinus haha he said that in real life too
Brian79camino 6 months ago
@Dantinus haha!
whitee1992 5 months ago
Goering was such fat moron with his head up his ass....if he would have paid attention to the likes a Galland, that might have stood a chance...(but be very thankful that he didn't listen)
Brian79camino 6 months ago
I ***LOVE*** how Goering's smile just disappears when he hears that comment!
Priceless! :)
latte123 6 months ago
One of the best quote of old Galland...Imortalized on film.
ThePendrag0n 6 months ago
@HenryvKeiper is the man who says it in the video indeed not a german fighter ace? in the description it says he's not.
heybuddyheybuddy 7 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy I meant a more lower ranking pilot than the one in the video.
HenryvKeiper 7 months ago
@HenryvKeiper oh right i see :) thanks for posting this clip
heybuddyheybuddy 7 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy Quiz Time : Hitler's speech in this movie had two versions of the subtitles, my limited German confirmed this to me as a lad. Anyone one know what was left out in Der Fuehrer's abridged version ? Nice to be reminded of such things as we see Der Reichsmarschall & his bombastic ways in action, twas lucky for us he was such a fellow, along with one of the finest pieces of aviation that has ever taken to the skies !
BigDon62 7 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy
The man that said it was General Adolph Galland. He was indeed a fighter ace, by the end of the war he had notched up 104 air victories, all of them against western allies.
In his book he says, when asked what he needed he said ' I should like an outfit of spitfires for my group.'
He always claimed his comment was misunderstood and it came out the wrong way at the time. The spit was better suited than the 109 to what Goring wanted them to do.
TheSpiritof1969 6 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy
Was said by Adolf Galland
both ace and officer (Geschwaderkommodore of JG 26)
theRealDonX 6 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy what this part of the film was taken from was a discussion between adolf galland and goering, when he asked what he needed to defeat the raf, he declared he needed spitfires, not that he thought the spitfire was better than the 109 but more that he was so frustrated with the tactics goering had created.
pramboy09 5 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy i think it was fighter Ace Adolf Galland who said it
aesdevil666 5 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy The dialog is repeated verbatim, from Major Adolf Galland's reply to Goering. Major Falke is modeled after Major Galland. Galland would eventually be promoted to General and fly Messerschmidt jets against allied bomber streams in the last months of the war.
tmenator 4 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy Adolf Galland was the Ace who was acredited with the request for Spitfires. That is in Robert Stanford Tucks autobiography and he was best pals with Galland after the war.
MrCagivaman 3 months ago
he really asked for them!!!!! eat lead Fritz!!!!!!!
craigbeaumont414 7 months ago
Proszę o dywizjon Spitfire!
Göringa kurwa zatkało:)
Aronius14 7 months ago
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The BF109 lacked range.The Heinkel He112 should have been allowed to mass produce, its range superior.The English simply waited for the BF109 escorts to leave the Heinkle111`s then attack- easy prey!The English flatter themselves , the reality is that ,had the Germans a longer ranged fighter, things would have been different.Read a book called Fighter by Day, he was the main quartermaster for Brits, very clearly, the Brits lost 1680 Spitifres and Hurricans and Germans only lost 120 ME 109.
barbenH 7 months ago
The phrase 'tommy cooker ' still applied to churchill's especialy after D DAY .The churchill was totaly under-gunned by german standards and was easily taken out before it could fire on a Tiger. We the inovators of the tank (exc. leonardo) and promoted by the great WSC during WW1, ironicaly never realised it's true potential during WW2. Thank god we were a lot better at producing planes!...
BREDATOR1 8 months ago
10 people dont have a squadron of spitfires
Unstopablewrath 8 months ago
Give me spitfires!...and this is a true statement of a german decorated ace ,. They were 10 times as strong as us yet through people like, dowding etc. and using a combination of radar,comunication,centralisation and spirit and agression we beat a massive force! God bless all those involved, we owe them..
BREDATOR1 8 months ago
@BREDATOR1
The Germans did not overwhelm the RAF in 1940. The affair was very one sided. The Germans did capture a Spitfire in France and assessed it. Strangely, they thought nothing much of it. They didn't even bother to assess captured Churchill tanks at Dieppe,which later came to haunt them.
NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
@NearAbbeyRoad Why are you moaning at me?...... also unfortunalty churchill tanks were crap, especialy compared to the Tigers, remember the term 'tommy cookers'
BREDATOR1 8 months ago
@BREDATOR1
I am not moaning at you; correcting you. Churchill's had the same armour as a Tiger. It was slow (which was not a great handicap) and had a smallish gun, which was later uprated. It was adapted for various functions as beach clearance, flamethrowing, heavy mortars, etc. It was very stable getting up the sides of hills. One knocked out a Tiger in the desert. "Tommy Cooker" was the name for the US Sherman not the Churchill.
NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
Goering actor isn't fat enough for the part.
EvilHobo44 8 months ago
Gotta love the German language. Always sounds like they mean business!
JohnD1963 8 months ago
the british where on thier knees(lack of pilots and aircrafts,they were totaly destroyed by the luftvafe)!!! every body knows that well...but the big error thet hitler made was that he changed the tactics in the last minute>instead of carring on bombing the military targets(wich were also totaly destroyed) he started bombing the cities and towns wich later was proved as a disaster!!!!!!!
amirturist 8 months ago
@amirturist
"the british where on thier knees(lack of pilots and aircrafts,they were totaly destroyed by the luftvafe)!!! everybody knows that"
Brit plane production far exceeded German
Wages of Destruction pg 400
"in retrospect it seems an extremely one sided affair"
"To do the job the Luftwaffe would have need a much larger and more powerful fleet of bombers and plenty of long-range fighter escorts"
"the Luftwaffe's existing fighter escorts were hopelessly inadequate to the task"
NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
This was Their "Finest Hour"
God Bless Them......
penfloyd 9 months ago
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It was the British who started world war on the Germans - not the other way round.
LovelyElbe11 9 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 Awe, poor, poor Nazi Germany. :( They just wanted the Rhineland. And Austria. And the Sudetenland. And Czechoslovakia. And Poland. And...
HenryvKeiper 9 months ago 31
@HenryvKeiper the whole world :P. The british had enough of giving up!
leafer2009 9 months ago
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@HenryvKeiper @HenryvKeiper
so fucking what. ussr conquered eastern europe, us expanded into the pacific coast, and china took over manchuria. if hitler or bin laden won the war we wouldnt be yapping on about how evil they are. nazi germany was no more evil than any other western superpower
Garegin 8 months ago
@HenryvKeiper and stop russia from invading entire eruope ...:-D
CapitanoGUC 8 months ago
@HenryvKeiper nazi woman are pretty
aaron654lo 6 months ago
@aaron654lo
where do you know?
rantanplan178 5 months ago
@HenryvKeiper Not really, read WW2 history.
Etrajbe 4 months ago
@Etrajbe What about it?
HenryvKeiper 4 months ago
@HenryvKeiper well they did get money out of it at least...
alonmerlin 4 months ago
@HenryvKeiper And the Rhineland, the Sudetenland, and more than half of poland was German territory until the allies ignored Wilson's promise to the Kaiser, in order to get the WWI armistice, that Germany would not be held responsible for starting WWI (which they didn't) and stole all those lands at Versailles. THat is why most historains say that Versailles all but guarantedd another European war.
omcx1e 1 week ago
@HenryvKeiper And in Austria, the Austrian people voted on whether or not they would join the German Reich, and 96% voted yes. Germany did not invade Austria. Look it up.
omcx1e 1 week ago
@LovelyElbe11 how the hell did the brits start it? lol dumbest comment I'v ever read.
marvelmax03191 9 months ago 12
@marvelmax03191 Remember that episode of "Fawlty Towers"?
"You started it!"
"No we didn't!"
"Yes you did. You invaded Poland."
HenryvKeiper 9 months ago 32
@HenryvKeiper lmfao!!
debzeppeliniv 7 months ago
@HenryvKeiper "Remember that episode "Fawlty Towers"?" ...
This is exactly what came to my mind when I read the first comment in this thread!
You have read my mind! Where did you learn to read Polish? ;-)
factualinfo 6 months ago
@HenryvKeiper hahah that was great
btsiib3n 3 months ago
@marvelmax03191 Everyone was partly responsible, but the Germans had the trigger.
planeboy737 8 months ago
@marvelmax03191
They actually declared war on Germany after the Invasion of Poland
Exverlobter 7 months ago
@marvelmax03191
Well, the Brits literally declared war on Germany, not the other way around. Probably what he meant. Hitler even said he didn't want war with England or France.
CaptainAmerica322 4 months ago
@CaptainAmerica322 Correct. Hitler ADMIRED the British Empire. He always wanted them to join the Axis. In Hitler's vision, Britain would've ruled the sea, whereas Germany would have dominated the European continent. And that's exactly the reason why I don't understand how the modern English people can glorify Churchill as their "national hero". He DESTROYED the British Empire! They could be a world power together with us Germans, instead they are flooded with immigrants. I don't understand them.
reichsadler1888 4 months ago
@reichsadler1888
Nope, you don't understand us :P We don't follow our leaders, we put up with them. And it was the people of the UK that declared war on Nazi Germany (not the Germany today, note). The people made sure that Churchill ousted Chamberlain.
Why? As you said...
Britain would've ruled the sea, whereas Germany would have dominated the European continent.
We tried fascism with the feudal system in the early days - didn't work.
AlchemicalDavid 4 months ago
@reichsadler1888 Don't say "iI don't understand THEM". There are some of us who agree with you
TalonMercenary 4 months ago
@reichsadler1888 agree!but look at it this way, if the german did not axis herself with japan, will the british support the german?or let's say it, german vs ussr, i will take the german.i hate communist.but german vs USA?i will take USA becos USA respect human right.if only hitler did not killed the jews, did not invade britian.things might not be the way it was during 1944!!!
mindawareness 1 month ago
@mindawareness The decision wether Britain enters the war or not was made long before the USA-Japan-Germany war broke out. The English declared war on us in 1939, not in 1941, and not because we built up close diplomatic relations with Japan, but because we reclaimed our German territory in the east. Hitler would've done almost everything to get Britain into the Axis. As I said, he admired the British world empire, he saw the Britons as Germanic brothers.
reichsadler1888 1 month ago 2
@reichsadler1888 This is absolutely correct except with one additional reason for the invasion of Poland, that being the atrocities that the Poles were committing against German nationals in the former German territories. Diplomatic correspondence in the months leading up to the war shows that Germany was trying to secure international oversight of the situation but Britain, France, and Poland blocked every attempt. Hitler finally said "If you don't act, we will". And they did.
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
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jros83 2 weeks ago
@omcx1e you are a sad, warped, ignorant, naive, and altogether lost individual. I don't know who or what got a hold of you and warped your mind and fed you complete lies as "history," but you're too far gone I assume. Go on thinking the Nazis were saviors. Reality and truth know better. You sick idiot.
jros83 2 weeks ago
@jros83 Unlike you, I actually know history. I am not a Youtube troll talking out of my butt about things I think I know. I have studied WWII for over 30 years. I have seen the diplomatic records in the Bundesarchiv and the British Public Record Office. I have seen witness testimony and press photos from places like Eichdorf, Hopfengarten, Bydgoszcz, Piecki, and Narzheim. I have seen the Polish government's admission of atrocities in Bydgoszcz where thousands of Germans were murdered.
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
@jros83 I actually do research. I have published articles. I knew more about WWII 20 years ago than you will know by the time you die. I have seen the evidence of Polish atrocities not only against Germans, but against Ukrainians all through the late 20s and early 30s. Pull your head out of your butt and read some books. Much of this is even available on the internet now for those who actually want to KNOW something.
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
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@jros83 In the months leading up to the war the Poles constructed two concentration camps for ethnic Germans. One was at Polowanie, the other at Niemcow. Look them up. Try actually learning something for a change. Ever ask yourself why Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland from the west but didn't care that the Soviets also invaded Poland from the east in September of 1939?
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
@omcx1e there were not atrocities of the poles against the germans in that time. The poles were terrified of Germany and did everything to treat the german minority in their lands well. I am from Austria and i tell you you are seriously mistaken. The Nazis were a bunch of colossal assholes that were totally ignorant of anyone besides themselves and they plunged Europe into ruin.
Tracchofyre 2 weeks ago
@Tracchofyre Is that the fiction you learned in school in Austria, one of the few countries in the world where you can end up in jail for saying something about history that the government doesn't like? Sounds like....Nazi Germany. The Germans and Poles have hated each other forever and atrocities have been committed on both sides forever. The evidence is undeniable. There are even plenty of photos taken by the international press in the cities I mentioned to the idiot above.
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
@Tracchofyre See if you can get some books written outside of your oppressive country that locks people up for thought crimes. The first atrocities against Germans took place in Upper Silesia in 1921. In May of 1927 a massacre took place in Rybnik. Assaults increased from the fall of 1938 and became common after the spring of 1939.
In the last prewar months the Polish press was spreading the message that “In the case of war, no ethnical enemy (Germans in Poland) will escape alive.”
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
@Tracchofyre In the months leading up to the war the Poles constructed two concentration camps for ethnic Germans. One was at Polowanie, the other at Niemcow. Look them up. Ever ask yourself why Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland from the west but didn't care that the Soviets also invaded Poland from the east in September of 1939?
omcx1e 2 weeks ago
@mindawareness ''did not invade britian'' he didn't
jpogrossi778 3 weeks ago
@CaptainAmerica322 What I hate about the English anti-German propagandists is their self-righteousness. What gave them the RIGHT to declare war on Germany because we had territorial disputes with the Poles?! These were NOT English matters! Did we Germans attack them when they brutally subjected large parts of the world for their colonial Empire? No! In my opinion, the plutocratic-jewish bunch leading the UK wanted to unleash another European war since Hitler came to power.
reichsadler1888 4 months ago
@reichsadler1888 Your stupidity is unparalleled !
TheLloydA1 4 months ago
@reichsadler1888
who do you mean with "us germans"???? speak for yourself nazi. i'm german too and you don't have the right nor the mind to speak for me or germany in general. your people are a minority in germany and you know that. you and your friends are megalomaniacs and this here is a good example for that.
i'm tired to say sorry, because of germans like you. plz stfu
rantanplan178 4 months ago
@reichsadler1888 this is right,just because Germany wanted West Prussia back,GB and France get nasty.Mind you they also wanted large parts of Russia too.lol
bazzatheblue 4 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 indeed the brits and french declared war to germany these days. That is a fact. But they had to, because of the deal which they had with poland. don't wanna be smartass just correcting the past !
flipflopdrop2543 8 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 Was it the British who invaded the sudetenland and then Poland? Sorry i thought the Nazi's did that
lndac02 8 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 Buddy have you learned the history of this war. Hitler was breaking the Treaty of Versailles by building up his military, and invading other countries. Unfortunately the League of Nations didn't bother doing anything until the invasion of Poland in September of 1939.
FailGuyProductions 8 months ago
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@LovelyElbe11
"It was the British who started world war on the Germans - not the other way round."
Maybe in your fantasyland.
NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 congrats you just started world war 3 with that comment
CivicD 7 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 You are quite the retard, good sir.
AwesomeSauce64 6 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 actually you are right - britain did declare war on germany first, but only because we had sworn to defend poland, which you just decided to invade, oh so casually. if hitler hadn't been a totalitarian megalomanical greedy pig, wanting all of the land in europe for lebensraum for the 'master race', the situation wouldn't have arisen would it?
heybuddyheybuddy 6 months ago 2
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@LovelyElbe11 Wrong. The British appeased Germany for too long... Hitler expected to get away with Poland too! He was just a warmonger.
The only reason that he got away with so much in the first place (breaking Versailles Treaty, remilitarising the Rhineland, Anschluss with Austria, Czechoslovakia etc) was because public opinion was so firmly against another war - people didn't want to repeat the horrors of WWI! Every family in Britain lost someone, and people would do anything to stop a repeat.
BasilFawlty4444 5 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 We started world war 2 ha you make me laugh and Adolf hitler was a black gay jew How fuck did we start world war 2 you invaded poland you stupid go do us all a favour and quit youtube
inTHEwrongGENERATION 5 months ago
@LovelyElbe11 True to a certain extent Germany Started the war by invading poland but Britan And France did declare war on germany
Mr66D 5 months ago
I love these armchair experts running through the titles of the film for their stats :Dhahahaah
blobby1972 9 months ago
This Scene is Great Drama and is almost Completely Hysterical .
Roadracer987654321 9 months ago
Didnt hitler stop new plane designs during the early years of the war cause he thought his planes where good enough
lopido 9 months ago
There needs to be a reboot of this movie. A newer versions with current actors and current film tech. BUT I do love this movie.
Apockiller 9 months ago
When Germans have heard for first time Polish conversation in air they have take it for a very funny English joke.#
Thet didn t know what is coming yet.
odyniec127 9 months ago
DID ONE OF THEM LIE IN THE COURT MARTIAL,THAT IS A SENTENCE TO THE BRIG.
levelat350 9 months ago
A classic example of bullshit...........
NICHOLAS777100 10 months ago
IS THIS COURT MARTIAL.
levelat350 10 months ago
Fan vilken bra film!!
Skyisnotalimit 10 months ago
göring is very fat
winston66100 10 months ago
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fuckthissignoncrap 10 months ago
And in response to sammni although Britain were alone against the Germans for that year we were aided by the polish and many pilots from the empire and beyond. And with out all these people fighting together we may not be living in a free would to day.
neworder84 10 months ago
Unlucky Fritz...
bhoyjack 11 months ago
there were only 140 Polish pilots
two squadrons 303 Fighter squadron and 304 bomber squadron.
there were 52 fighter squadrons in RAF. Polish 303 squadron got 7% of all kills!
they say that if the luftwaffe continued bombing the airfields for another week RAF would have callapsed. therefore operation sealion would happen. So if Polish pilots did not fight in the battle of Britain that 7% would never happen so
that week gap would be reduced to maybe two days lets say. Britain would have lost.
PLrap96 11 months ago 4
@PLrap96 That's a rather weak connection, especially given that the only reason the Germans stopped bombing airfields was not because of losses ("that 7%") but because of the bombing of Berlin.
HenryvKeiper 11 months ago
thats true but Im talking about the "week gap" that would have been reduced to 1 or 2 days.
the germans would have probly noticed that RAF was about to collapse.
but thats only an "if"
What im tryin to say is that British people dont know about the Polish impact in WWII. They think its all British which is not true.If not the enigma you would have lost the war anyway we cracked the Enigma, 85% of MI6's intelligence came from Polish spys etc. That info was even in the Times the newspaper.
PLrap96 11 months ago 6
@PLrap96 I'm still not following how the German decision to bomb London having nothing to do with Polish fighters somehow had something to do with Polish fighters.
HenryvKeiper 11 months ago
@PLrap96 yeah congrats we already know polish are awesome
but one lone action cannot decide the win of a war, there are WAAAY too many variables,
so please don't be ignorant
Slynas 10 months ago
@PLrap96
"is that British people dont know about the Polish impact in WWII"
Don't patronise us. We're well aware of what happened. We Won, don't attempt to take away our victory, Polish pilots took part, but ultimately it was OUR win.
Gooner018 10 months ago 3
@Gooner018 well said, can't stand people like him who try to take away the sense of achievement. The Polish did fight with us and so they should have, but they certainly didn't change the course of the War in any way. As someone once said, ' The Polish were our Allies, and what a great Allies they were, but i don't want one as my next door neighbour.'
CityPuncher18 10 months ago
@Gooner018
the real winner of the war were the USA.
Soviet union secondly
britain were used by the americans just like you guys used us.
without the enigma you would have lost. PERIOD. u nearly did with it. in the entire war you knew were the nazis would attack and how and yet they nearly won. see the irony. no u dont
what have we done in ur eyes huh? plz tell me?
PLrap96 10 months ago
@PLrap96
Bullshit; 2/3rds of Germany's Armed forces including its most elite troops "SS divisions" and allies "Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria" where concentrated purely against the Soviets. Heck, in the Pacific War the Chinese held up most of Japan's army in Manchuria so that your country could more effectively take Japan's pacific strongholds.
PhilipineMan 9 months ago
@PhilipineMan
Im Polish
Poland is my country we did not fight in the pacific :-?
so...
what is bullshit bout my post???
PLrap96 9 months ago
@PLrap96
"in the entire war you knew were the nazis would attack and how and yet they nearly won."
The nazis never had a chance of winning WW2, their economy was too weak. They had no surface navy and and inferior air force. Without the USA the UK and the USSR would have defeated Germany. The USSR made more arms than the USA in 1942. The USA quickened the war's end, not the decisive factor.
NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
@NearAbbeyRoad I actually think USA extended it a few months. If they hadn't provoked Japan, there would have been no surprise attack on Pearl Harbor or Wake or Singapore or war in the Pacific
NathanH97 8 months ago
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NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
@NathanH97
Good point. Germany had been begging Japan to get into the war to divert British forces away from Europe and the desert. They got what they wanted.
The Royal Navy's blockade of Germany staved them of grain and raw materials.
NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
@PLrap96
It is true the Poles were the first to crack Enigma in 1932. However, Enigma was improved substantially and the British cracked subsequent machines. The British also developed the world's first electronic computer to decipher the data fast. Doing by slowly by hand would mean the event would have happened before decipher..
NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
@NearAbbeyRoad the Poles captured the machine and handed it to the British, unlike that load of crap film U571.
craigbeaumont414 7 months ago
@craigbeaumont414 -- That is the trouble with movies; they for the most part are fiction, sometimes based upon a little fact. Consider U571 as it is only; a work of fiction. Then, it is just a story for entertainment purposes. U-505 is a better story; all true and the boat is in a museum in Chicago to view.
oldbobg 6 months ago
@oldbobg U571 was actually based on a true story, except it wasn't U571, but U-110, The real U571 was sunk near Ireland by a sunderland flying boat. Also it wasn't the US navy that captured U-110 but the Royal Navy,specifically HMS Bulldog.
RupertEricshin 6 months ago
@HenryvKeiper Also because they underestimated the losses of the RAF (thinking they were down to only 50-60 fighters) and because they thought they had damaged RAF fields much more than they had (sometimes bombing sites over and over, whilst missing main dispersal sites nearby).
gavsky23 11 months ago
@PLrap96
You are right my friend, Poland paid dearly, in blood, for the allied victory.But believe me when I say, the invasion of britain was NEVER on the cards. Just ANOTHER of Churchills canards, that awaits to be debunked.
011258stooie 11 months ago
@PLrap96 Some people believe even without the RAF the Royal Navy and its AA capabilities would have prevented the invasion anyway.
The Royal navy was 100x stronger than the german navy so the invasion would have never happened anyway.
ViDeOMaStErPaUl 11 months ago
@PLrap96 lol you trying to say Poland saved the UK
sammni 10 months ago
@sammni
in the way of the Battle of Britain and the Enigma we did
even if the RAF would have won with the germans over the channel without the enigma you would have lost the battle of the atlantic and that means you would have starved. and secondly British would have lost in the war for north africa. British were very week compared to the germans. u new very well were they were attacking thanks 2 the enigma and yet u only just won.
still better u not them
have a nice day
PLrap96 10 months ago
@sammni HAHAHAHA you think you got the enigma? Actually it was the British that captured one and broke one. Out of 3,000 pilots 145 were Polish. Dont be so fucking stupid to say Poland saved the British empire. This is the worst comment ive ever seen !! Polish pilots had to be retrained in the UK as well. Poland was over run in a few weeks for a reaon
sammni 10 months ago
@sammni The Germans were so methodical that just prior to the outbreak of WWII, enigma machines were dispatched worldwide, and the Poles , sensing that something impotrant had been delivered to the German Embasssy in Poland , investigated , found the enigma , pulled it apart , copied it , and sent on to Britain an exact copy of the code machine.The Germans were ignorant of their codes being broken until late in the war. Enigmas were recovered from submarines as well.
6905632418 10 months ago
@PLrap96 "Britain would have lost." that's total bullshit
lewlew12345 9 months ago
@PLrap96 Just because small amount of polish helped doesnt mean that just because of you we won, so stop taking talking bullshit cuz we would of won it without your people.
lewlew12345 9 months ago
@PLrap96 you really think britain would have lost whilst i am gratefull for polish and other nations help during this time its fanciful at best to suggest uk would have lost
TheReapersToll 9 months ago
@PLrap96
Operation Sealion would never have happened as it was a ruse.. The Germans would have been slaughtered on the beaches if they reached the beaches of course. The RAF could never have been eliminated, with a large bomber force and planes stationed out of German fighter range. Germany had no surface navy, while they faced a gigantic navy in the RN. The army was re-equipped after Dunkirk. Six months later the British were posed to take all the south Med coastline.
NearAbbeyRoad 8 months ago
I bet their wearing stockings and suspenders under there nazi uniforms!!!
mentalmonkey26 1 year ago
Yes but there wern't 35'000 of them, most Aussie, New zealanders, Canadians served with their own Airforces, ie the RAAf, RCAF, RNZAF. Don't forget that the axis forces in Europe consisted not only of Germans, but also Austrians, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians and others, many of them flew with the Luftwaffe. It was after all a WORLD war. We allways talk of the Germans, but they like the Brits, didn't fight alone.
KevinJKtheman 1 year ago