German Bf109 fighter pilot movie:"I Flew for the Führer"; Heinz Knoke diaries PART 2

German Bf109 fighter pilot movie:"I Flew for the Führer"; Heinz Knoke diaries PART 2

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Film & Animation

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• Luftwaffe
• bf 109
• bf-109
• bf109

[rjwintl]

I first read his book when I was ten years old in 1965...my bookreport horrified the nuns in Catholic school... reread the book in early 1993... called Heinz Knoke on the phone and was surprised to actually connect to him in Bad Iburg.. he said in perfect English " We were just boys doing our job " ...I sent him the Time-Life reprinted hardcover book and have it signed by him, Heinz Knoke ... he died two months later... his wife Lilo sold the house in Bad Iburg and moved in withone of her kids.

[biltongbru]

@rjwintl Great reply! thanks for sharring!

[rantanplan178]

...party had been forbidden in 1952 at german highest court. for beeing a fascist and racist party. its pretty sad that he never realised how senseless this all was.

[biltongbru]

@rantanplan178 I was not aware of this....thanks for info..but this movie is meant to be non-political and do not glorify any political party. This is purely about a young man who fought as a pilot in a sensless war on the wrong side....he just did his duty and I am sure was that he was not aware of nazi atrocities at the time during the war. The book is very well written and a good account of what went through the German pilots minds during the last horrible years of the war.

[cenkNL]

these luftwaffe pilots didn't only flew for hitler.!! they flew for them family's who were getting killed/burned by allie bombardements. even on city's like dresden which had nothing to do with the war.

[ghagas]

Well done!

[phambo101]

How is it possible that the P-47s and the P-38s portrayed in this video were used because they didn't have the ranges all the way to Berlin like the P-51s did?...

By the late 1943, the Me-262s were out and only had Hitler didn't delayed them as fighters, the outcome of those bombing campagnes would turn out to be devastated!!!

[boeing747ba]

nice movie my grandad was a member of the luftwaffe he flew as a radioman in a ju-88 a-4 and went down because the aircraft landed at an itallian airbase to refuel and they put sand in the fueltank the plane went down but he survived then he was sent to an airbase in holland for fighter pilot training he flew 2 messerschmitts and both crashed due to maintanance problems then the base was invaded by us brits he was sent to england as a prisoner when the war ended he was set free to live his life.

[facepalmworld]

great work on making this video! Thank you!

[Crashmx06]

it is il 2 1946 ? i have this game

[marzipann777]

JewSA is finish now.Hitler warned the yankees about jews. The jewisg propagande told them it was fun; It was not. Now the jews are building concentrations camps for the Yankees if the oppose them, and will kill them as they did with 43 millions Christian Russina in the USSR.14!88!

[GLOBALHAWKsimpit]

@Airphel Yes, we are here still flying, IL-2 1946 version. Updates are available or game can you can find sim on ebay for about $15. Join HyperLobby to find were to fly.

Cheers !

[WALTERBROADDUS]

@SuperNoname17 Same here. It is strange however, that so many aces seemed to have come from the 109. The Germans wasted to much time & money trying to develop too many different planes. The US Is kinda guilty of that too.

[Anlushac11]

Well made. I also read this book in Grade School. A Uncle gave me the book.