Adolf Galland in action (Jan 1941)

Combat footage. German Wartime Newsreel (Die Deutsche Wochenschau)

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[jboweruk]

@wompus111 Actually Galland did live up to his name, and that's from a British airman he saved. He was a believer in 'shoot the plane not the man'. So yes he was a gentleman. I read an account from the British pilot in question that having been shot down the 109 circled back towards him, he though the pilot was going to shoot him off his parachute but instead he saluted him and circled, keeping other German fighters away until he knew the British pilot was safe. He found out it was Galland.

[wirikuta14]

@wompus111 Galland asked for a set of new prostethic legs when Douglas Bader was shot down, he held him as a guest, he gave safe passage to the british plane that dropped the prosthesis (the plane dropped some bobmbs along with the legs) I call that a gentleman.

[esplorantes]

@esplorantes The Nazis immediately took a certain order, immediate improvements in living conditions, strong opposition to foreign military presence, but above all brought something that the Germans had lost: hope.

This is why many Germans then blindly they trusted the Fuhrer, in obedience to orders absurd and criminal.

Personally I wonder how they could have followed him so madly, but it certainly paid then the bitter consequences.

[esplorantes]

@FredDude27

Hello friend,

Well, some of the reasons why so many Germans were loyal to Hitler was made the extremely hard surrender's terms dictated by France, and not one based on 'self-determination of peoples from the U.S. proposal. In other words, Germany became a sort of slave for France and England,with a constant military(French) presence in the production areas.Do not was obliterated as nation just because,it could perceive already threat Russian, but life was impossible, really hard.

[FredDude27]

@esplorantes

Yer welcome dude.

Useless trivia: Rudel was apparently still a very convinced Nazi after the war and even joined a German extreme far-right political party after the war.

What a wanker! One would think 6 years of war and 12 years of political dictatorship & terror would have taught him something!

[esplorantes]

@FredDude27

Great!!

Thank you very much!

[FredDude27]

@esplorantes

Hans-Ulrich Rudel

[esplorantes]

Hi gents, I need help. Who knows the name of a Lufthwaffe' s ace.

This pilot decorated with the Iron Cross with leaves, swords and diamonds, and fought mainly on the Russian front of Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" as destroying tanks.Could be Adolf Galland?

[StimuLAZ]

@VanceJoudrey In my experience both informal and formal polls contain some leading questions, and a choice of answers limited by what the author anticipates or expects.

Often the allowed answers do not correspond to what I feel is a true answer.

Also, some opinions or sympathies should not be revealed to any organization connected to or responsible for the security of the Reich.

It is common practice to quote sources but we seldom question their methods and circumstances.

[VanceJoudrey]

That took place on Nov. 28, 1940 at 15:40 in the afternoon. He shot down a Hurricane of 249 Sqn, RAF with Stab JG 26 - but it was over Dartford (~10c on the ground), so he was on the attack not flying a intercept as depicted in the film.

[VanceJoudrey]

@StimuLAZ Regarding my claims re: The British - they are based on Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) informal polling they constantly did to take the temperature of the German people. Even Hitler had to regard public opinion somewhat and he actually took it more seriously than he probably had to. Not until '42 did he even stop the full compliment of women's cosmetics being manufactured.Quoted in Kershaw, Ian (2000b). Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis. ISBN 0393322521

[StimuLAZ]

@VanceJoudrey You may find that not all people think what they are told to think or dislike who they are told to dislike.

It would have been ideal for the NSDAP and the Third Reich to have all Germans think the same and feel the same, but real people are not like that.

It is interesting that you claim to know who the German people liked or disliked. If you can get enough people to believe you then you may change history, but you can not change what happened 70 years ago.