The city scene was indeed shot in Spain, the 1st time the crowd were smiling too much and it had to be re-shot with the threat that the extras wouldn't get paid if they didn't look scared. It worked. Most of the German aircraft in the film were actually old Spanish Airforce planes.
As an Englishman i find the craziest thing about the war between our two countries was that Hitler NEVER wanted to fight AGAINST Britain only WITH Britain!
It was totally the WRONG war as far as Hitler was concerned. He never planned to fight Britain. His heart was never in an invasion.
His war was to be in the East. Russia was to be to Germany what India was to England. That was his life's goal.
I'm proud of our history but we commited suicide as a nation in the 1940's. I had to leave UK
@ANGLORUSSIANCZ Indeed, and Chamberlain at the time agreed to cooperate with Germany. It was that idiot Winston Churchill who got Britain into trouble.
@ANGLORUSSIANCZ Hitler apparently was an Anglophile having spent some time in England as a student. He stated that if Germany and Britain ever went to war one of the two nations would end up completey destroyed- guess he was right
@Buggsy61 He had family in England (his half-brother married an Irish woman and lived in Liverpool) but he never visited. Would have been interesting if he had and stayed in England rather than go to Munich.
@ANGLORUSSIANCZ No matter what Hitler's intentions were, it's good that Britain fought against him. His regime earned to be destroyed. The bad thing is that Britain and France went into the war so late. They first let him to gain victrory after another until they finally went into the war for "helping" Poland with no plan how to do so. It's good that war became so long and heavy that the British robbery empire finally collapsed. But it still had been better to slaughter the Nazis in 1936.
@plugs313: I think Goering was referring to Meier or Mayer, as a typical jewish last name in an ironic way. He was so blatantly arrogant that he dared to say that if Berlin was ever bombed then people could call him Meier, a Jewish last name. Of course, Berlin was bombed, and from then on, till May 1945.
@billace90 I don't think Jewishness has anything to do with it: Meyer/Meier/Mayer is a fairly common German name. Not worthy of a self-conceived aristocrat like Hermann. So it'd be essentially the same as "call me Mr. Jones".
The joke later on was that the air raid sirens were referred to as "Meier-horns".
Yes, the city that simulates Berlin is in Spain, probably Madrid. After all, Franco and the Ejercito del Aire (Spanish air force)staff assisted in many ways in the filming if this epic movie.
Some of the subtitles are off. They're more correct on the DVD that I have, so I'm not sure why they're different here. Hitler doesn't really say 3,000 bombs, he says 300,000, "drei hundert tausend".
Hitler's speech was taken word for word from a portion of a speech he gave in the Sportspalast on September 7, 1940. Journalist William L. Shirer, who went on to write The History of the Third Reich, was in attendance and said it was one of Hitler's most sarcastic speeches.
@Beppo85 Listening to that, I have to say it may well be an actual recording of that speech. Adolf's voice is fairly distinctive, and his speeches were generally recorded as well as broadcast throughout the Reich.
This was a very interesting scene. Indeed, it really caught the Germans by curprise. I am sure Hitler had to have been thinking "How dare this little country attack us!" That is when Hitler decided to change tactics by targeting London and the major cities. A fatal blunder! And Goerring was more or less the fall guy,considering it was Hitler's idea to switch from bombing the airfields to the cities. That gave the RAF time to rebuild itself, who dealt the Luftwaffe a crushing blow in the end.
The context of the peaceful first scene is that the two German air officers are going to stand trial for bombing London against orders. I'd be scared shitless!
Of course this two Luftwaffe officers are not sent to a stand trial! In this phase of the war it was a kind of an investigating comittee due to their bombing of london which was not allowed at that time.
And another word to the surname Meier. That name has oviously nothing to do with a typical jewish name! Meier is the name of nearly 1/5 of the german population - exaggeration
That conversation between Molotov and Ribbentrop supposedly happend on Nov. 13, 1940, after the Battle of Britain was over.
The speech Hitler is making in this clip is an almost word-for-word excerpt from his speech opening the Winterhilfe charity campaign at the Sporpalast on Sept. 4, 1940. Shirer gives an account in ''Berlin Diary'' of how the mostly young and female audience ''hopped to their feet, and their breasts heaving, screamed their approval,'' very like what is shown here.
@halo4able This is a film production so it hardly has much value as a document.
But in fact 42 attempts against Hitler's life are known, and a significant underground movements which helped people who had gotten in trouble with the Nazi authorities.
After the war the Allied propaganda prohibited writing on the German anti-Nazi resistance. Churchill had earlier betrayed its leaders by giving them up to Gestapo.
The truth is ugly coz the target was Germany, not the Nazis.
pretty sure the subtitles on the amount of bombs Hitler wants to drop are wrong. When it says "2000,3000,4000 bombs" Hitler actually sayd they will drop "hundert" which is a hundred not a thousand and vice versa he says if the RAF drop thousands of bombs when the subtitles correctly say hundreds
I remember this story about a German Air Traffic controller who was trying to direct a British Airways pilot who was coming into Frankfurt for the first time. The controller kept berating the pilot for going to the wrong runway or some such. The pilot replied that it was easy to get lost because the last time he was here he was dropping bombs.
@Professor6871 please do not misinterpret my statement. I read that story as a piece of humor. You make it sound as though I am a closet Nazi or something.
Goering was very naive to think that Berlin would not have been bombed by the RAF. He should of remembered they had bombed Germany in the First World War so they would of done it again.
@Professor6871 my understanding is that the movie was correct, the Germans dumped bombs by accident in residential areas and Churchill retaliated once. Hitler
held back until the British retaliated once again then all hell broke loose. In retrospect one wonders if Churchill was trying to provoke the Germans into attacking civilian areas to take the heat off of military targets. I suspect that all participants did that.
@1276epr Interesting conspiracy theory that Churchill sacrifaced Londoners to allow his military airfields too recover from the German air attacks, and thus saving Britain from the danger of invasion and occupation. A bit heartless but some may argue that Churchill at times was very singleminded when came too winning the war. Mind you I believe Hitler would of bombed civilan targets even if he hadn't been provoked by Churchill's retalitory raid on Berlin in September 1940.
@Professor6871 yeah, you are undoubtedly right about Hitler, he did that in Poland. As far as the Western Allies, it sounds inefficient to make a bomb here in the States, risk shipping it overseas, all for the purpose of randomly dropping it on a German apartment building. I know there were rail yards everywhere back then, but it still sounds fishy. Though we gladly did all the revenge bombing we could on Japan, out of pure hatred and spite.
Goering was very naive to think that Berlin would not have been bombed by the REF. He should of remembered they had bombed Germany in the First World War so they would of done it again.
What is so damn impressive about this film is that non of it is CGI. These are actual planes. Of course, they had to scrounge all over the world to find a lot of them. I think most of the ME109's and Heinkels are actually spanish produced varients, but i'm not sure about that :D
I heard that in 1943 Goering, when he saw allies fighters ( mustangs probably) over the sky of berlin says: "The war is over, we have been lost". And in BoB decided two thinks - british air industry production-power and german aircraft little range.
@dakotabcn Rather odd them filming in Spain seeing that at the time they made that film 1969, it was being ruled by a fascist general called Franco, who even if they were neutral in WW2 were still supporting Hitler. I mean he helped Franco win the Spanish Civil War.
Goering means that because, of course, his name is "Goering", not Meier. He just totally believed that an allied bomber would never through it's charge on Berlin. He was so believing that he wanted to be called Meier instead of Goering in case that that happens :D
@Nascarrrrrrfan -- The expression "you can call me 'Meier' " means "you can call me 'stupid' ". (A "Meier" is a tenant farmer, so to be called "Meier" is to be regarded as a country bumpkin.)
haha yeah and the first ones are 2000 3000 4000 kg of bombs not 200 etc like it says in the text and then goes mad with 80,000 30,000 and 50,000 kg of bombs
@bunnjovi1988 Yes inndeeed. According to Channel's Blitz Street the biggest bomb that Luftwaffa dropped in the war on Britian was nicked named the Herman.
My favorite Goering quote from this movie was (with the Luftwaffe flying en masse towards Britain): "If we lose the war now, they'll tear our arses asunder!."
why did hitler stop guderians panzers from destroying the british army at dunkirk? major mistake!!!! the british government might have done a peace deal with hitler, who knows!!!
do you think the western powers would have done a seperate peace deal with hitler? i wonder what would have happened then, could the germans have defeated the soviets?
@goldyn12345 It would of been a nightmaire had the Nazis won the war. Have you read or seen the film Fatherland by Robert Harris, which brillantly explores this horrifying scenerio
@Professor6871 i have saw the film, rutger hauer stars in it, europe would be totally different to how it is now thats for sure!! living in a police state!! scary!!
@Professor6871 But... Nazi Germany would collapse eventually. As a totalitarian state, it needed an enemy. Once the Nazis killed all the Jews, Slavs, communists and socialists in Europe, then they would have run out of enemies and the society would come apart.
@CaptainWatson234 They did win it by huge manpower and a large quanity of arms, some of that given by us via the Artic convoys to the Soviet Union during the war.
After the Battle of Stalingrad - the Russian war machine was in over drive. At that point, there was nothing that was going to stop the Russian from getting to Berlin. I'm not even sure the US could have gone toe to toe w/ Russia by summer of '44.
yeah the red army in the summer of 44 was a formidable fighting force which was around 6 million strong!! if there was a country in the world that could take on the russkies then i think the usa could have done it. in 45 they were the only country in the world to have the atom bomb so i think it might have evened itself out a bit!!
@goldyn12345 In the summer of 1944 Weirmacht had no chance of stopping 6 million Red Army soldiers. It would of been like trying too stop a giant wave coming towards you with the man power they had on the Eastern Front. Apparently, in 1944 Hitler saw his last chance was to make peace with the US and Britain so that they could join forces and defeat the Russians. But of course this was a non starter from the beginning
@Professor6871 yes in 1944 the wehrmact was not what it was 3 or 4 years earlier. the red army was also much much better than it was in 1941. its a tough one to call, could the germans had held out against the russkies had they not had theor troops on the western front?
@bfahren Well the Americans had the Pacific War t too fight as well againist the Japanese. In 1942 FDR consciously prioritized the Pacific Theatre before the European one. That was why there was no second front in Europe until 1944 even if some of the American generals wanted it earlier.
I think it was about this time that Molotov was meeting with Ribbentrop. Germany was trying to mollify the Russians until Britain was conquered, after which Hitler secretly planned to invade the Soviet Union. In the middle of a gala banquet, as Ribbentrop was proposing a toast, the sirens went off. They all had to run down to the shelter. Ribbentrop kept assuring Molotov that "the British are finished". To which he replied "then why are we in this shelter, and whose bombs are these that fall?"
I remembering being at this gig, it was an awesome speech by the fuhrer at the time, but of course it was fabricated nonsense, pity we didnt realise until towards the end of the war
Does anyone know this piece of music, I love it because it perfectly sums up the 1930/40's. I have looked all over the web but can't find anything about it
The Score in the beginning is named "Threat" - it is also in the tune "Work and Play" - You will find both on the original Soundtrack - BoB - by Goodwin/ Walton
I think it is the same march played at the start of the film - the bomber inspection - but as a waltz - composed by Ron Goodwin - the original music for the the film was written by Sir William Walton - but the only piece that survives is the music that is used for the eagle day sequence - I hope that helps -
Yes, that is correct-Walton was commisioned orginally for the films score but so was Goodwin, and of course on hearing what Ron had written they wanted his- who could blame them? They kept the "battle in the air" of Waltons-and very good it was too.
I know this film was big money loser, but you can see that all the bucks went on the screen. It's just shot so impeccably well. Look at the detail and lighting as they land in Berlin. Thanks for the clip!
listen!!!!!!!! i read a book about the movie almost all the aircraft were from spain the heinkles were part of the airforce (at the time) and the messershmitds were auctioned this is the truth so just listen
In RAF Fighter Command 20% of the pilots flying for Lord Dowding in September 1940 were Poles - without them the Battle of Britain would have been lost.Britain's eternal debt to the Poles.
Poles eternal debt to the British as they were British planes, British radar and British money paying for the fuel. However I do admire the help the Pole gave the UK in WWII, they were brave and talented.
The Poles did help, but so did New Zealand and the Czechs. Without the British planes, training and of course superb radar then BOB would not happened.
You can ask yourself whether ww2 was a bad thing, ofcourse millions of people died but we were so tired of war that we in west-europe haven't had a war again!
In terms of armaments the British Spitfire fighter, and its adversary the ME 109 were well matched. The British Hurricane fighter was the workhorse of the battle, and had the crucial job of attacking the German bombers. Ironically, Hitler's great speech, depicted in this clip, was the prelude to the Germans greatest mistake. They switched their attacks away from the airfields and bombed the big cities. This gave the RAF the respite it desperately needed, and perhaps cost Hitler the War.
@Manfred58 Your right the Hurricane was the work horse of the Battle of Britain. Statistically speaking there were more Hurricanes than Spitefires during the war. Its interesting that in the popular history of WW2, or the mythology as I call it, that the Spitefire instead has been accorded with winning the Battle of Britain than the Hurricane. Without the Hurricane the Spitefire on its own would of been greatly outnumbered by the Lufftwaffa.
It certainly would have been an uphill struggle for anyone to invade the British Isles, the last time it was done successfully was 1066. Since then, there have been three major attempts to carry it out: Spain in 1588, France (under Napoleon) in 1805 and Germany in 1940.
German tactics in the Battle of Britain were initially correct, concentrating attacks upon the airfields and allowing thier fighters to stay above the bombers so they could engage the British fighters on their attack runs.
The RAF had taken out the top German pilots, they still had aircraft but no pilots. Young untrained pilots were easy targets for the RAF, Hitler knew the war was over after the RAF had defeated him.
where did you get that number? I wouldn't be shocked, though. the nazis never had a realistic chance of winning given the correlation of forces. You need to be able to overwhelm a competent enemy.Look at the odds the allies had when they brought down the luftwaffe. In the BOB. the Germans had 1 to 1 in single seat fighters for godsake! Where was their offensive margin?
one of the reasons we won was that guring made soo many mistakes druing the battle of britain e.g the figters had only 30 minites over here but when they were esccorting the bombers 2 london they had only 10 minites
thanks she and here sister were luck on 1occation my grandad said she and her sister were asked 2 come back and a shift a 6 in the eavnig as they were walking there a german air raid came over and bombed the factory and were not far away my grandad said his dad saw that raid come over when he was on the island of white
This is one of my favourite films, wonderful music and the aerial photography scenes of the battle are some of the finest ever shot. Today it would be almost impossible to do airbourne sequences like this, since many of these old aircraft are no longer flying, and CGI would never look as good.
In fairness, the story lines on the ground were a bit weak, but nevertheless the film is a fine tribute to those brave young men who, outnumbered and outgunned, saved Britain from invasion by the Nazis.
Thanks for posting these scenes from "Battle of Britain". This was a great and classic film and it's one of my many favorite movies as well. I really liked and enjoyed this film.
achtung means something like 'warning# and stillstanden means..hmmm there are many words that you cant translate.The translation in this movie sucks, like in may tranlated german movies
-interesting. I was reading that in Iran, they often curse by wishing "death" in all kinds of situations---traffic jams, etc. Here in the States, we get incensed about those crowds chanting "Death to America" but it may not mean exactly what we think it means...it's no expression of love and affection but maybe not what it sounds like in English, either.
make no mistake,the germans came very close to winning the battle of britain. if they carried on bombing our airfields then i think they would have won.
3:43 that music is so good, Luftwaffe March!
TalonMercenary 3 weeks ago
Terrible mistake!
mejor25 1 month ago in playlist Battle of Britain Highlights
Did this actaully happen, I mean were German officers actaully court martailled for bombing London accidentally?
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Göring used the jewish name of Meier/Meijer as a term of derision,
Lol my surname is Meijer :)
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P0ST0VANJE 4 months ago
the guy who is having a go at the two flyers is a captain (hauptman) but i cant tell what branch he is
pricey130 4 months ago
i like the music
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the crowd says SIEG HEIL SIEG HEIL
Selmak24 4 months ago
The city scene was indeed shot in Spain, the 1st time the crowd were smiling too much and it had to be re-shot with the threat that the extras wouldn't get paid if they didn't look scared. It worked. Most of the German aircraft in the film were actually old Spanish Airforce planes.
torbayguy1 5 months ago
Although I'm German, I only understood what the crowd was cheering because of the English subtitles xD
ElGnacko 7 months ago
@ElGnacko I've been there. I've watched video of English crowds chanting/screaming and WISHED I had subtitles :P
HenryvKeiper 7 months ago
Darwin didn't cop anything like this ! They just don't know what they missed out on down here....
BigDon62 7 months ago
This movie shows their behaviour in an unsual manner. I don't like their used vocabulary and so on! It's just not true!
supermathis2 7 months ago
This movie shows their behaviour an unsual manner. I don't like their used vocabulary and so on! It's just not true!
supermathis2 7 months ago
@celticthunder10 he's not Gestapo - he's Luftwaffe.
blueray1969 8 months ago
At 3:25 left and right of hitler is that Goering and Goebbels?
cpj93070 10 months ago
4:24
5:16
6:04
one word ...
poof
BasilFawlty4444 10 months ago
@BasilFawlty4444 Well, when you get shot in the groin during WWI, what can you expect? :)
HenryvKeiper 10 months ago
they say Sieg Heil not Never!
Selmak24 1 year ago
@Selmak24 Dummkopf... they're shouting "niemals!", not Sieg heil... they're shouting Sieg heil at the end of the speech..
helvete1991 11 months ago
As an Englishman i find the craziest thing about the war between our two countries was that Hitler NEVER wanted to fight AGAINST Britain only WITH Britain!
It was totally the WRONG war as far as Hitler was concerned. He never planned to fight Britain. His heart was never in an invasion.
His war was to be in the East. Russia was to be to Germany what India was to England. That was his life's goal.
I'm proud of our history but we commited suicide as a nation in the 1940's. I had to leave UK
ANGLORUSSIANCZ 1 year ago
@ANGLORUSSIANCZ Indeed, and Chamberlain at the time agreed to cooperate with Germany. It was that idiot Winston Churchill who got Britain into trouble.
Montyleeny14 1 year ago
@Montyleeny14
Too true mate. Who wanted and needed a war more than Churchill? And bankrupted us in the process.
As Hitler said only the USA,Japan and Italy could ever gain from war with Britain.
Crazy times
ANGLORUSSIANCZ 1 year ago
@ANGLORUSSIANCZ Hitler apparently was an Anglophile having spent some time in England as a student. He stated that if Germany and Britain ever went to war one of the two nations would end up completey destroyed- guess he was right
Buggsy61 11 months ago
@Buggsy61 He had family in England (his half-brother married an Irish woman and lived in Liverpool) but he never visited. Would have been interesting if he had and stayed in England rather than go to Munich.
ANGLORUSSIANCZ 11 months ago
@Buggsy61 Yeah Hitler wanted to ally with the British Empire. What a coalition that would have made
TalonMercenary 9 months ago
@ANGLORUSSIANCZ No matter what Hitler's intentions were, it's good that Britain fought against him. His regime earned to be destroyed. The bad thing is that Britain and France went into the war so late. They first let him to gain victrory after another until they finally went into the war for "helping" Poland with no plan how to do so. It's good that war became so long and heavy that the British robbery empire finally collapsed. But it still had been better to slaughter the Nazis in 1936.
lecterer 10 months ago
lol look at goreings face at about 6;00
usafisasome 1 year ago
Never again in history will we see ass many planes at 6:09
legoeasycompany 1 year ago
@legoeasycompany what you talking about the british and americans sent up 1000s of bomber raids lol
cpj93070 2 months ago
@plugs313: I think Goering was referring to Meier or Mayer, as a typical jewish last name in an ironic way. He was so blatantly arrogant that he dared to say that if Berlin was ever bombed then people could call him Meier, a Jewish last name. Of course, Berlin was bombed, and from then on, till May 1945.
billace90 1 year ago
@billace90 I don't think Jewishness has anything to do with it: Meyer/Meier/Mayer is a fairly common German name. Not worthy of a self-conceived aristocrat like Hermann. So it'd be essentially the same as "call me Mr. Jones".
The joke later on was that the air raid sirens were referred to as "Meier-horns".
BenAliGtor 1 year ago
Yes, the city that simulates Berlin is in Spain, probably Madrid. After all, Franco and the Ejercito del Aire (Spanish air force)staff assisted in many ways in the filming if this epic movie.
billace90 1 year ago
But..... but.... who the heck is this Meier guy?
plugs313 1 year ago
@plugs313 An antisemitic joke I suppose he was a Nazi.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@plugs313 It's a jewish name.
marvelmax03191 8 months ago
Some of the subtitles are off. They're more correct on the DVD that I have, so I'm not sure why they're different here. Hitler doesn't really say 3,000 bombs, he says 300,000, "drei hundert tausend".
Hitler's speech was taken word for word from a portion of a speech he gave in the Sportspalast on September 7, 1940. Journalist William L. Shirer, who went on to write The History of the Third Reich, was in attendance and said it was one of Hitler's most sarcastic speeches.
Beppo85 1 year ago
@Beppo85 Listening to that, I have to say it may well be an actual recording of that speech. Adolf's voice is fairly distinctive, and his speeches were generally recorded as well as broadcast throughout the Reich.
CoriolanusAtrox 1 year ago
This was a very interesting scene. Indeed, it really caught the Germans by curprise. I am sure Hitler had to have been thinking "How dare this little country attack us!" That is when Hitler decided to change tactics by targeting London and the major cities. A fatal blunder! And Goerring was more or less the fall guy,considering it was Hitler's idea to switch from bombing the airfields to the cities. That gave the RAF time to rebuild itself, who dealt the Luftwaffe a crushing blow in the end.
kenpalmer1965 1 year ago 2
@kenpalmer1965 your correct on that point
ectomy1235 1 year ago
the film is awesome, but the subtitles suck
Sicklehead88 1 year ago
The context of the peaceful first scene is that the two German air officers are going to stand trial for bombing London against orders. I'd be scared shitless!
bobafett1337 1 year ago 8
@bobafett1337 Things worked out for them :)
HenryvKeiper 1 year ago 5
@bobafett1337
Of course this two Luftwaffe officers are not sent to a stand trial! In this phase of the war it was a kind of an investigating comittee due to their bombing of london which was not allowed at that time.
And another word to the surname Meier. That name has oviously nothing to do with a typical jewish name! Meier is the name of nearly 1/5 of the german population - exaggeration
01bismarck 1 year ago
That conversation between Molotov and Ribbentrop supposedly happend on Nov. 13, 1940, after the Battle of Britain was over.
The speech Hitler is making in this clip is an almost word-for-word excerpt from his speech opening the Winterhilfe charity campaign at the Sporpalast on Sept. 4, 1940. Shirer gives an account in ''Berlin Diary'' of how the mostly young and female audience ''hopped to their feet, and their breasts heaving, screamed their approval,'' very like what is shown here.
jejdanecky 1 year ago
@MrsPangloss Your impersonating account will be erased soon. It is a violation of the YT conduct code.
TheMrPangloss 1 year ago
these subs are crap...
040392agh 1 year ago
its scary to see how brianwashed the german people were
halo4able 1 year ago 2
@halo4able This is a film production so it hardly has much value as a document.
But in fact 42 attempts against Hitler's life are known, and a significant underground movements which helped people who had gotten in trouble with the Nazi authorities.
After the war the Allied propaganda prohibited writing on the German anti-Nazi resistance. Churchill had earlier betrayed its leaders by giving them up to Gestapo.
The truth is ugly coz the target was Germany, not the Nazis.
TheMrPangloss 1 year ago
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V2VonBraun 1 year ago
4:55
German is the best language for yelling at people.
Rangerpl1322 1 year ago 7
@Rangerpl1322 I agree. Too bad R. Lee Ermey is not German.
bfahren 1 year ago
@Rangerpl1322 better than arab?
JohnJameson18y 4 months ago
The RAF was like a wild dog! Small but fucking lethal
marvelmax03191 1 year ago 3
5:46 ;-)
Hierophant69 1 year ago
pretty sure the subtitles on the amount of bombs Hitler wants to drop are wrong. When it says "2000,3000,4000 bombs" Hitler actually sayd they will drop "hundert" which is a hundred not a thousand and vice versa he says if the RAF drop thousands of bombs when the subtitles correctly say hundreds
TalonMercenary 1 year ago
I remember this story about a German Air Traffic controller who was trying to direct a British Airways pilot who was coming into Frankfurt for the first time. The controller kept berating the pilot for going to the wrong runway or some such. The pilot replied that it was easy to get lost because the last time he was here he was dropping bombs.
spacestevie2 1 year ago
@spacestevie2 Did he also say you must obey all orders without question?
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 please do not misinterpret my statement. I read that story as a piece of humor. You make it sound as though I am a closet Nazi or something.
spacestevie2 1 year ago
well it looks like mate you will be called meier over a million times in 1945, youre goddamn cities got flattened by us brits and the usa hahahaha
TalonMercenary 1 year ago
After this day many germans called him inofficial "Meier".
I can remember that my Grandma calls him always Meier.
"U can call me Meier if..."means: That will never happens.
Greenwood4445 1 year ago
Goering was very naive to think that Berlin would not have been bombed by the RAF. He should of remembered they had bombed Germany in the First World War so they would of done it again.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 good point!
tarzan694 1 year ago
@Professor6871 my understanding is that the movie was correct, the Germans dumped bombs by accident in residential areas and Churchill retaliated once. Hitler
held back until the British retaliated once again then all hell broke loose. In retrospect one wonders if Churchill was trying to provoke the Germans into attacking civilian areas to take the heat off of military targets. I suspect that all participants did that.
1276epr 1 year ago
@1276epr Interesting conspiracy theory that Churchill sacrifaced Londoners to allow his military airfields too recover from the German air attacks, and thus saving Britain from the danger of invasion and occupation. A bit heartless but some may argue that Churchill at times was very singleminded when came too winning the war. Mind you I believe Hitler would of bombed civilan targets even if he hadn't been provoked by Churchill's retalitory raid on Berlin in September 1940.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 yeah, you are undoubtedly right about Hitler, he did that in Poland. As far as the Western Allies, it sounds inefficient to make a bomb here in the States, risk shipping it overseas, all for the purpose of randomly dropping it on a German apartment building. I know there were rail yards everywhere back then, but it still sounds fishy. Though we gladly did all the revenge bombing we could on Japan, out of pure hatred and spite.
1276epr 1 year ago
Goering was very naive to think that Berlin would not have been bombed by the REF. He should of remembered they had bombed Germany in the First World War so they would of done it again.
Professor6871 1 year ago
What is so damn impressive about this film is that non of it is CGI. These are actual planes. Of course, they had to scrounge all over the world to find a lot of them. I think most of the ME109's and Heinkels are actually spanish produced varients, but i'm not sure about that :D
Jpdt19 1 year ago
I heard that in 1943 Goering, when he saw allies fighters ( mustangs probably) over the sky of berlin says: "The war is over, we have been lost". And in BoB decided two thinks - british air industry production-power and german aircraft little range.
Adam7510 1 year ago
One of Hitlers better speeche I think.
prudenceislandboy 1 year ago 2
The scene are in San Sebastian city.
The film use spanish airplanes, spanish citys... :)
dakotabcn 1 year ago
@dakotabcn Rather odd them filming in Spain seeing that at the time they made that film 1969, it was being ruled by a fascist general called Franco, who even if they were neutral in WW2 were still supporting Hitler. I mean he helped Franco win the Spanish Civil War.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 From what I remember the film was made in Spain because the Spanish Air Force was only just retiring all those Me109s and He111s.
Franco, being one of the fascist homies had access to all the German military equipment during and after the Spanish Civil War.
Misterb0z 1 year ago
A very happy and jublilant Reichsmarschall. However, in a few years, much of Berlin was in ruins .And, Hermann was indeed known as "Meier".
TheWhitehall 1 year ago
LOL Now you can call me Meier
Nascarrrrrrfan 1 year ago
@Nascarrrrrrfan
Him... thank god you are not Goering.
ReggaegandalfDerWeis 1 year ago
Pardon me for asking: But what does "Meier" mean?
Nascarrrrrrfan 1 year ago
@Nascarrrrrrfan
Meier is a normal German surname :)
Goering means that because, of course, his name is "Goering", not Meier. He just totally believed that an allied bomber would never through it's charge on Berlin. He was so believing that he wanted to be called Meier instead of Goering in case that that happens :D
Well - you can call him Meier.
ReggaegandalfDerWeis 1 year ago
K. Btw i was just having a laugh at the name. Sounded like a self curse name
Nascarrrrrrfan 1 year ago
@Nascarrrrrrfan -- The expression "you can call me 'Meier' " means "you can call me 'stupid' ". (A "Meier" is a tenant farmer, so to be called "Meier" is to be regarded as a country bumpkin.)
KevinByrne2 1 year ago
@KevinByrne2 That describes what Goering was to a tea.
Professor6871 1 year ago
hitler talks about kilogramm of bombs..the english test says just how many bombs...
haloha3 1 year ago
haha yeah and the first ones are 2000 3000 4000 kg of bombs not 200 etc like it says in the text and then goes mad with 80,000 30,000 and 50,000 kg of bombs
bunnjovi1988 1 year ago
@bunnjovi1988 Yes inndeeed. According to Channel's Blitz Street the biggest bomb that Luftwaffa dropped in the war on Britian was nicked named the Herman.
Professor6871 1 year ago
DIDNT WORK DID IT THOUGHT HITLER YOU RACIST PRICK
Hitlers Biggest Mistake of the entire war
he underestimated the RAF.
Englandrevival 1 year ago
ER KOMMT!!1 ER KOMMT!!!!!1111
T800System 2 years ago
My favorite Goering quote from this movie was (with the Luftwaffe flying en masse towards Britain): "If we lose the war now, they'll tear our arses asunder!."
SCE2AUX 2 years ago
Private polish chit-chat or serious german speech ? These girls and theirs shirts ojo-joj?!
loser1975fuckoff 2 years ago
why did hitler stop guderians panzers from destroying the british army at dunkirk? major mistake!!!! the british government might have done a peace deal with hitler, who knows!!!
goldyn12345 2 years ago
In 1944, Hitlers own Generals, especially Rommel, where begging him to sign a peace treaty with the UK and US to concentrate on Russia.
CaptainWatson234 2 years ago
do you think the western powers would have done a seperate peace deal with hitler? i wonder what would have happened then, could the germans have defeated the soviets?
goldyn12345 2 years ago
Hmmmm. Its an interesting question. I think the Russians would have won through sheer manpower.
CaptainWatson234 2 years ago
your probably right,either way europe would be totally different to how it is today!!
goldyn12345 2 years ago
@goldyn12345 It would of been a nightmaire had the Nazis won the war. Have you read or seen the film Fatherland by Robert Harris, which brillantly explores this horrifying scenerio
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 i have saw the film, rutger hauer stars in it, europe would be totally different to how it is now thats for sure!! living in a police state!! scary!!
goldyn12345 1 year ago
@Professor6871 But... Nazi Germany would collapse eventually. As a totalitarian state, it needed an enemy. Once the Nazis killed all the Jews, Slavs, communists and socialists in Europe, then they would have run out of enemies and the society would come apart.
Rangerpl1322 1 year ago
@Professor6871 Read it and saw it... Scary! isn't it?
plugs313 1 year ago
@CaptainWatson234 They did win it by huge manpower and a large quanity of arms, some of that given by us via the Artic convoys to the Soviet Union during the war.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@goldyn12345
After the Battle of Stalingrad - the Russian war machine was in over drive. At that point, there was nothing that was going to stop the Russian from getting to Berlin. I'm not even sure the US could have gone toe to toe w/ Russia by summer of '44.
yarbles67 1 year ago
yeah the red army in the summer of 44 was a formidable fighting force which was around 6 million strong!! if there was a country in the world that could take on the russkies then i think the usa could have done it. in 45 they were the only country in the world to have the atom bomb so i think it might have evened itself out a bit!!
goldyn12345 1 year ago
@goldyn12345 In the summer of 1944 Weirmacht had no chance of stopping 6 million Red Army soldiers. It would of been like trying too stop a giant wave coming towards you with the man power they had on the Eastern Front. Apparently, in 1944 Hitler saw his last chance was to make peace with the US and Britain so that they could join forces and defeat the Russians. But of course this was a non starter from the beginning
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 yes in 1944 the wehrmact was not what it was 3 or 4 years earlier. the red army was also much much better than it was in 1941. its a tough one to call, could the germans had held out against the russkies had they not had theor troops on the western front?
goldyn12345 1 year ago
Thats only because the US Army limited themselves to (iirc) a total of 70 divisions.
The Soviet Union just kept producing guns, tanks, airplanes and training men and women to use them.
bfahren 1 year ago
@bfahren Well the Americans had the Pacific War t too fight as well againist the Japanese. In 1942 FDR consciously prioritized the Pacific Theatre before the European one. That was why there was no second front in Europe until 1944 even if some of the American generals wanted it earlier.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 The other way around, europe first and containment in the Pacific...
plugs313 1 year ago
I think it was about this time that Molotov was meeting with Ribbentrop. Germany was trying to mollify the Russians until Britain was conquered, after which Hitler secretly planned to invade the Soviet Union. In the middle of a gala banquet, as Ribbentrop was proposing a toast, the sirens went off. They all had to run down to the shelter. Ribbentrop kept assuring Molotov that "the British are finished". To which he replied "then why are we in this shelter, and whose bombs are these that fall?"
frantic1971 2 years ago 18
You are of course correct frantic
fokjock 2 years ago
@frantic1971
Very True Frantic
westham89 1 year ago
I remembering being at this gig, it was an awesome speech by the fuhrer at the time, but of course it was fabricated nonsense, pity we didnt realise until towards the end of the war
ectomy1235 2 years ago
Diese spiel!!!
HPBrowningBoy 2 years ago
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wow, what a bad Hitler parody
Wittmann73 2 years ago
Does anyone know this piece of music, I love it because it perfectly sums up the 1930/40's. I have looked all over the web but can't find anything about it
squadco61 2 years ago
The Score in the beginning is named "Threat" - it is also in the tune "Work and Play" - You will find both on the original Soundtrack - BoB - by Goodwin/ Walton
ibrekke 2 years ago
I think it is the same march played at the start of the film - the bomber inspection - but as a waltz - composed by Ron Goodwin - the original music for the the film was written by Sir William Walton - but the only piece that survives is the music that is used for the eagle day sequence - I hope that helps -
from the son of a RAF survivor
chelseacoolblues 2 years ago
Yes, that is correct-Walton was commisioned orginally for the films score but so was Goodwin, and of course on hearing what Ron had written they wanted his- who could blame them? They kept the "battle in the air" of Waltons-and very good it was too.
fokjock 2 years ago
@squadco61 It was written for the movie. It is good, I'll say that.
mbabist01 2 years ago
4:53 Sergeants are the same in any army, no matter where you go!
5:47 Hundreds of Daimler-Benz and BMW radial engines sounding off all at once... "Ah, yes! Frightening, isn't it?"
NCTaikoDrumboy 2 years ago
how about the blond german chick at 3:06!!
ectomy1235 2 years ago
Is it OK to post a comment here even if I am not some f-in WWII expert who wasn't even there?
Thanks. Check out the Nazi nipple action at 3:33. Achtung!
uggati 2 years ago 2
Oh ya! Das ist WUNDERBAR! Or as an ol' mate of mine says: "Nipples like fighter pilots' thumbs!"
APRIL141958model 2 years ago 2
God bless Dowding.
20thCenturyBloke 2 years ago
Theres a very good & interesting point of the film when one German says to another'England is not our nautral enemy,fighting England is a disaster'.
Conservative2able 2 years ago
look at all the swine running for cover payback is a bitch
bearcub410 2 years ago
what the women say after *never*?
Selmak24 2 years ago
they say never never never!!! they loved adolf, but are embarrased about it today
ectomy1235 2 years ago
RAF? Red army fraction?
Selmak24 2 years ago
No.
RAF = Royal Air Force
haykier11 2 years ago
It's just a german/scandinavian way of saying: I'll bet my name on it! Meyer as itself dosen't mean anything in that comparrison.
JAK1978DK 2 years ago
What does Meier mean?
rickya350 2 years ago
It was a popular Jewish name. Goerring was making a joke. Sort of like how in English some people say, "This guy's hungry, or my name's Bob."
HenryvKeiper 2 years ago
It is a Jewish name
veevum 2 years ago
well its a german name very often in this country so goering would be called Meier!
Selmak24 2 years ago
one of the best scenes in the movie
s6u6r6f6 2 years ago
Was this Hitler's actual voice recorded on tape & used in the speech (frames 1:57 to 3:43) ?
Waistgunner39 2 years ago
england drops 2000, 3000 or 4000 then germany will drop 20000, 30000 or 40000 hitler says...
kimartperenha 2 years ago
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Montyleeny14 2 years ago
Berlin was raided something like 600 times in ww2 by Allied bombers which is one hell of a lot.
The much vaunted Luftwaffe was no match at all for the RAF and the USAAF
I'd be calling him meier I think
zaohad1 2 years ago
I know this film was big money loser, but you can see that all the bucks went on the screen. It's just shot so impeccably well. Look at the detail and lighting as they land in Berlin. Thanks for the clip!
hibob418 2 years ago
listen!!!!!!!! i read a book about the movie almost all the aircraft were from spain the heinkles were part of the airforce (at the time) and the messershmitds were auctioned this is the truth so just listen
gasmaskguy1999 2 years ago
In RAF Fighter Command 20% of the pilots flying for Lord Dowding in September 1940 were Poles - without them the Battle of Britain would have been lost.Britain's eternal debt to the Poles.
gendy943 2 years ago
Poles eternal debt to the British as they were British planes, British radar and British money paying for the fuel. However I do admire the help the Pole gave the UK in WWII, they were brave and talented.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago 3
The Poles did help, but so did New Zealand and the Czechs. Without the British planes, training and of course superb radar then BOB would not happened.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago 3
Don't forget the Canadians and other commenwealth pilots as well as the American eagle squadrons
NAllen828 2 years ago 2
You can ask yourself whether ww2 was a bad thing, ofcourse millions of people died but we were so tired of war that we in west-europe haven't had a war again!
atat42 2 years ago
i read the book its called The Battle OF britan the making of the film almost all the german planes are from spain
gasmaskguy1999 2 years ago 2
Planes were parked up at RAF Manston in Spring 1969
Jeremycj 2 years ago
In terms of armaments the British Spitfire fighter, and its adversary the ME 109 were well matched. The British Hurricane fighter was the workhorse of the battle, and had the crucial job of attacking the German bombers. Ironically, Hitler's great speech, depicted in this clip, was the prelude to the Germans greatest mistake. They switched their attacks away from the airfields and bombed the big cities. This gave the RAF the respite it desperately needed, and perhaps cost Hitler the War.
Manfred58 2 years ago 4
@Manfred58 Your right the Hurricane was the work horse of the Battle of Britain. Statistically speaking there were more Hurricanes than Spitefires during the war. Its interesting that in the popular history of WW2, or the mythology as I call it, that the Spitefire instead has been accorded with winning the Battle of Britain than the Hurricane. Without the Hurricane the Spitefire on its own would of been greatly outnumbered by the Lufftwaffa.
Professor6871 1 year ago
It certainly would have been an uphill struggle for anyone to invade the British Isles, the last time it was done successfully was 1066. Since then, there have been three major attempts to carry it out: Spain in 1588, France (under Napoleon) in 1805 and Germany in 1940.
German tactics in the Battle of Britain were initially correct, concentrating attacks upon the airfields and allowing thier fighters to stay above the bombers so they could engage the British fighters on their attack runs.
Manfred58 2 years ago 3
The RAF had taken out the top German pilots, they still had aircraft but no pilots. Young untrained pilots were easy targets for the RAF, Hitler knew the war was over after the RAF had defeated him.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago
very interesting, and then he went and attacked the USSR!
ectomy1235 2 years ago
Apart from Wick, what top pilots had the RAF "taken out"?
Fryfish9 2 years ago
70% of German pilots were captured or killed. Amazing stat. No wonder Hitler said his heart was broken when the RAF were victorious.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago
where did you get that number? I wouldn't be shocked, though. the nazis never had a realistic chance of winning given the correlation of forces. You need to be able to overwhelm a competent enemy.Look at the odds the allies had when they brought down the luftwaffe. In the BOB. the Germans had 1 to 1 in single seat fighters for godsake! Where was their offensive margin?
Fryfish9 2 years ago
The Lufftwaffe had 4 to 1 against the RAF. The RAF won at a ration of 4 to 1 hence a resounding defeat.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago
Give me a source?
Fryfish9 2 years ago
do research =p the germans had 3 times the losses of the raf
Allyness92 2 years ago
one of the reasons we won was that guring made soo many mistakes druing the battle of britain e.g the figters had only 30 minites over here but when they were esccorting the bombers 2 london they had only 10 minites
BossRoss999 2 years ago
One of the reasons the UK won was that they made good decisions and had superior planes, pilots and air defense. Credit to the UK.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago
that's right eventhou we were under soo much presure we won the battle my grandad's mum helped 2 build the spitfires in woolston here in southampton
BossRoss999 2 years ago
Credit to your great granma, she is a hero to the world. The BOB saved the world from a era of pure evil.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago
thanks she and here sister were luck on 1occation my grandad said she and her sister were asked 2 come back and a shift a 6 in the eavnig as they were walking there a german air raid came over and bombed the factory and were not far away my grandad said his dad saw that raid come over when he was on the island of white
BossRoss999 2 years ago
Actually a lot of German aircraft were superior. It's just that they wouldn't be able to get far in UK waters and had to turn back to refuel
ANACONDA360 2 years ago
Superior does not mean how far they coudl travel. Dogfighting is about turning and shooting accurately.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago
But range is about how much time you have to turn and shoot!
Gambrinus75 2 years ago
also we had the over enthusiastic homeguard who captured downed pilots
umakeiwatch 2 years ago
there are also inccidents where the home guard shot an our own pilots beliving them to be paratroopers
PilotBoris 2 years ago
This is one of my favourite films, wonderful music and the aerial photography scenes of the battle are some of the finest ever shot. Today it would be almost impossible to do airbourne sequences like this, since many of these old aircraft are no longer flying, and CGI would never look as good.
In fairness, the story lines on the ground were a bit weak, but nevertheless the film is a fine tribute to those brave young men who, outnumbered and outgunned, saved Britain from invasion by the Nazis.
Manfred58 2 years ago
Thanks for posting these scenes from "Battle of Britain". This was a great and classic film and it's one of my many favorite movies as well. I really liked and enjoyed this film.
NX74656 2 years ago
lol 6:24 that sentence is simply brilliant and it was true as hell too!
helvete1991 2 years ago
can any German language scholars explain why they sometimes use "achtung" and other times "stilltgestanden"?
1276epr 2 years ago
achtung means something like 'warning# and stillstanden means..hmmm there are many words that you cant translate.The translation in this movie sucks, like in may tranlated german movies
Ixzalit 2 years ago
-interesting. I was reading that in Iran, they often curse by wishing "death" in all kinds of situations---traffic jams, etc. Here in the States, we get incensed about those crowds chanting "Death to America" but it may not mean exactly what we think it means...it's no expression of love and affection but maybe not what it sounds like in English, either.
1276epr 2 years ago
"achtung" is like attention e.g. when an officer enters the room.
"stillgestanden" is more common in a formation.
but it's pretty much the same
p.s. note, there're also some differences in the different german-speaking countries. in austria it's "habt Acht!" for example.
phstke 2 years ago 2
make no mistake,the germans came very close to winning the battle of britain. if they carried on bombing our airfields then i think they would have won.
goldyn12345 2 years ago
The UK had superior tactics and were shooting down the best pilots the nazi had. The Nazi were producing more planes but with worse and worse pilots.
warriorprince1010 2 years ago