1940 German artillery bombards the English coast

September 1940. German long-range artillery and railway guns bombard targets along the southern coast of England.

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News & Politics

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• German
• Heavy
• Artillery
• Long
• Range
• Railway
• Guns
• France
• English
• Channel
• England
• Battle
• of
• Britain
• Calais

[giulene]

sorry, at the beginning the loading gun has a welin breechblock, instead all german guns had the sliding breechblock moreover the gunner seems a soviet and not german.

[skoblinI]

@giulene This may be a captured French artillery piece commandeered by the Germans after the Western campaign.

[peepeevagi]

Giant german long range guns.

They may not have been "effective", but sure as hell were scary and cool.

[gorque]

Thanks for sharing this fine video of significant historical value. 

[anondragon2012]

Germany...Why didn't you win...Europe would have been better today...

[Polypropellor]

Oh, yeah. They are the ones who got their asses kicked in that war. Germans just never know when to quit, huh?.

[Sardonicus83]

2:21 soldier's orgasm :D

[giulene]

@skoblinI  I agree.

[notaire2]

The French version of the Deutsche Wochenschau is very nice. The music by Liszt is also good.

[JimTLonW6]

The German military seemed to have a long standing fetish for the use of these enormous guns, but as can be seen from the newsreels, it's questionable if they were really effective. They seem to have had a very low rate of fire, and to have required a lot of men to operate them.

Add the rail-mounted requirement and they seem to become even more questionable.

[JimTLonW6]

I wonder if Liszt's descendants were paid royalties for the considerable use that the Germans made in their newsreels of his symphonic poem 'Les Preludes'?

Interesting too that as nationalistic a regime as Nazi Germany should have used music by a Hungarian Composer.

[longyearbyen17]

very nice sieg heil