Battle of Britain - "A squadron of spitfires"

Goerring yells at his inferiors for the shortcomings of the campaign. Relaxing a bit, he asks them what they need...and doesn't get the response he wanted.

The quote is a true one, although I've read it was actually said by a German fighter ace, not a superior officer.

From the movie "The Battle of Britain"

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[omcx1e]

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.

[HenryvKeiper]

@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 :)

[omcx1e]

@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.

[HenryvKeiper]

@omcx1e Ha ha, Reichsheini - I have to remember that :P

[omcx1e]

@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]

@NobleKorhedron The much-improved 410 entered service years later and saw service in many roles.

[omcx1e]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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.