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Sources:
Dunning, Brian (January 17, 2012). "Skeptoid #293: Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons". Skeptoid.
Neufeld, Michael (13 April 2020). "The Myth of the German "Wonder-Weapons"". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
"The German Space Mirror". Life Magazine: 78. July 23, 1945.
Tooze, Adam (2007). The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. London: Penguin.
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Ok
Probably wont
How does your comment say 20 hours ago if the video came out three seconds ago???
Edit: Is there something you’re not telling us?
What were German "Wonder Weapons?" | Animated History
I am playing right now. And now Poland is defending against Yugoslavia, France and Germany
Germany: We have a rocket fighter plane that can shoot down an allied bomber in seconds
Allies: We have 3000 more bombers
It’s crazy to me that the Democrats allied with the USSR after they overthrew and started a insurrection, in Russia and murdered its royal family
Democrats have never been on the right side of history from slavery to joining overthrown interactions and abortion
That's it in a nutshell.
Also, while having small numbers of advanced types, Germany badly neglected general force modernization. At the end of WWII most German infantry had to walk wherever they went, never having been fully motorized. They were still using bolt action rifles. They were still using horse drawn artillery. The list goes on and on.
Outfitting every German soldier with a STG-44 would have done more for the German war effort than every V-2 IRBM combined. Building enough trucks to transport German troops and logistical supplies would have helped the war effort more than every King Tiger tank combined. Etc, etc.
@@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground nah poland was coo, russia wasn’t.
@dylanbillingsmrclean Russia would have just invaded Germany then, Germany still loses
@@christineshotton824 ok let's say that instead of building tanks like the tiger they began to motorize their logistics and army now tell me what fuel would they move with? That is why the Wehrmacht used horses or moved on foot since all the fuel went to planes, ships and tanks.
Steiner’s wonder weapons will solve everything.
Mein Fuhrer, Steiner...
This comment gon blow up
Mark my words
Lazy reference
A hammer isn't cutting edge technology.
The V2 rocket, the STG-44, and ME 262 jet fighter were probably the best weapon platforms created by the "wonder" weapon program.
StG-44 and Me262, yes. The latter could have used a bit more development time and focus as an aerial superiority fighter rather than a fighter-bomber. The V-2? Great idea, horribly poor execution.
@@shadiafifi54 Well the V2 was a fine piece of equipment, but even the best weapon in the world isn't going to do much if you're relying on the enemy to tell you if it actually works!
Jet fighters, missiles and assault rifles didn’t make an impact then but were the future
Amen fellow packer fan
The ME 262 didn't handle well; the materials for the jet engine had a tendency to burn up (the British Meteor, built at about the same time, was designed to avoid this problem). It was obviously the future but not practical given the technology.
The V2 did absolutely nothing for the war. It killed a bunch of British civilians but had no military impact and ate up resources that could have been used for actually important hardware. Symptomatic of the Nazi approach to warfare, which prioritized ideological goals over actually fighting the war.
The STG-44 seems pretty effective though.
Lies people tell themselves:
"Just one more year, and I'll get that promotion"
"Just one more lane, and we'll fix traffic"
"Just one more wonder weapon, and we'll win the war"
there were actually decent chances that it couldve been happening. Hortler wasnt a huge fan of the atomic program and reopened later. It could have been the tipping point if it wouldve suceed
@@semiramisubw4864 nah, from what I've remembered, when the US went to look the Nazi Germany's nuclear program, they estimated that it would take them around 10 years to make a similar weapon to the small boy and fat man if every went as plan
@@semiramisubw4864 the possibility of a Nazi nuclear bomb in our world is none
@@semiramisubw4864 Proof of what I stated
Just one more government to overthrow and we can have communism utopia
“It’s ok to be white” is labeled as hate
Just one more lie and we can convince the world that abortion saves lives and tranSEXual children is are future
As a Der Reise veteran, the Wunderwaffe DG-2 really helped me. It was really a unique weapon
As a call of the dead player i agree
I haven't got the chance to use it effectively because I haven't been lucky enough to pull it from the box and also because Der Riese doesn't have areas for me personally to easily train the zombies. But I've used the Thundergun in my last few games on Kino and Ascension, and it's immensely satisfying to see entire hordes being pulverised with one shot from a sonic weapon
@@spdfatomicstructuredude just get on the catwalk on Der Rise
@@nethanlock5008 This is the only way
Well it has one major downside. If you hit yourself with it your juggernaut doesn't work anymore and you can't get it again until you go down and either quick revive yourself (which I'm pretty sure wasn't a thing in WAW) Or you get picked up by your team.
History Channel depicts Nazi Germany’s “wonder weapons” as powerful tools that could’ve turned the tide of WW2. In reality, these “wonder weapons” would’ve been expensive and hard to repair; which is the main reason why most of these weapons never passed the prototype stage. The Tiger tanks were powerful, but the Nazis struggled with producing and supplying spare parts for the tank.
Yeah I remember it was sad seeing the history channel losing credibility with it's airing of stuff like that along with other dumb stuff
@@Spongebrain97 Ancient Aliens did the most damage to History Channel’s credibility.
Also, oil. Can’t imagine tiger tanks were very fuel efficient
Growing up with the misconceptions from the History Channel was damaging to my understanding of history
@@Ozz2021 yup, during the ending of the battle of the Bulge, the Germans had to abandon a lot of their tanks because of fuel shortages
They paved the way for some amazing stuff and they contributed to the Nazi's demise. 10/10
Only the Me 262 is good, the rest are useless.
@@chewyukechun350 The stg-44 wasn't the best, but it wasn't useless.
@@chewyukechun350 V1 rocket is also practical in a sense, however indiscreminate bombing against civilians in general is not as effective as it was percieved at that time thanks to all the effort that was done by all the government to mitigate the impact on moral.
@@spyj1900 A more pratical weapon would be a surface to air or air to air missles.
@@chewyukechun350 panzerfaust was the most effective and stg-44 also
"Sir, the Germans are finally after generations firing their Death Ray at us."
**Is mildly inconvenienced by slightly brighter sunlight.**
"Put my garden Petunias towards the north end of the garden, they need more light."
"Yes, sir."
He forgot to mention Dr Maxis and Edward Richthofen, both of them members of Group 935, working on teleportation, the wunderwaffe DG-2, and zombies.
Cue badass rock music and zombie slaughter.
and Die Maschine
Or haunebu
Fun Fact: the Teleporter IS the Bell (die Glocke)
Don't forget the Ray Gun by Ludwig Maxis, a weapon based on the devices found in a Japanese Research Center.
Tbh, Armchair Historian is one of the best channels on CZcams. This feels like an actual TV show. Something i would see on the Documentary channels. Thanks for such great content!
"Something i would see on the Documentary channels." But actually realistic this time around.
@@occam7382 indeed
amen, more so his videos are actually pertinent to current events, rather than trash regurgitation based off of pure bagdad bob tier propaganda like most military focused speculative channels.
better than TV
MidWesternMarx thinks otherwise, he just pushes the liberal narratives as usual but Stockholm syndrome runs strong with many.
I was personally a big fan of the Thundergun. Those Germans really pulled through for us Call Of Duty fans.
☝️🤓 actually the thunder gun was made by the Russians
That was made by the Soviets
The Type XXI submarines could be interesting.
yesss
The V 2 rockets were expensive, inaccurate, unreliable but were ahead of their time as missiles were the future of bombardment.
Bangladesh war
After WW2, the Stg 44 is still used especially in the hands of the Syrian rebels
so are other ww1 and ww2 weapons
You mean ISIS.
WW1 Lebel rifles are still being used in Yemen
and in Ukraine
If you ask CZcams and Reddit, no the Wunder Waffen were not good. However, if you ask the History channel, they’re the greatest pieces of ET tech ever developed.
In reality it's both. The luger is a perfect example, the thing is perfectly engineered and designed to the point where the original models could probably be tossed in an attic and then still functional today and was by far the best handgun of the era, but the immense amount of engineering and machining meant it was really useless in the terms of an actual war
It's unfair to call V-1 and V-2 a failure while they had to develop the technology from scratch
@@TheTeremaster If a piece of equipment isn't useful for the thing you need it for, then it really isn't "perfectly engineered".
@@benl2140
...uh... Yea... it is. You can use a tractor for farming but still have a hundred year old axe in perfect quality. That'd be a perfectly engineered axe.
@@spiffygonzales5160 Tools are made for a purpose. If a tool isn't suited for the purpose it was designed for, it isn't "perfectly engineered". It might be useful for some other purpose, but that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't meet the need it was designed to meet.
If I ask you to make me a tool I can use to plow a field, and you end up making an axe, then that axe wasn't perfectly designed, no matter how good of an axe it is. Similarly, if a country is trying to make wepons to help it win a war, but those weapons require large amounts of resources that the country doesn't have access to, then those weapons aren't perfectly designed.
Call of Duty taught me the zombies ended their wonder weapon projects
I would add another interesting weapons study which was the mosquito experiments. They tried to get mosquitos to spread deadly diseases in the enemy lines but naturally they couldn't control them well enough to do anything so the whole project was dropped.
I feel like the chance of friendly fire is also there similar to poison gas in ww1
@@The_whales except instead of them following the wind they go wherever they please injecting the itchy juice along with deadly diseases.
As far as I have been able to tell, the Wunderwaffen programs were of great help to the Allies simply because they sucked up so much time and resources from a nation already starved for resources...
And those inventions finally boosted allied after the war. V1 contribute to the birth of cruise missiles (Tommahawk, Iskander...), V2 become prototype of all ICBM and space rocket booster, Me-262 contributed a lot to jet fighter program during Cold War, and Maus contributed to the founding of the tank museum in Russia.
It's fun to see how Germany got fixated on some ideas like bigger battleships but missed some of the real game changers like the aircraft carrier.
There were a couple of aircraft carriers planned, and they were working on carrier aircraft for them before the war, but the naval buildup schedule was interrupted by the war starting and deprioritised as a result of the war. Carriers might well have been more useful than the battleships, but on the other hand, against the Royal Navy's dominance at sea, they might not have lasted long. Battleships aren't as decisive, but they were still harder to sink.
@@Draxynnic I've always heard that big hold up was the Navy and Airforce leaders didn't get along so that caused issues with developing the aircraft needed for a carrier. The ship can be impressive but as the US learned the hard way you have to have the right aircraft.
@@Draxynnic " Battleships aren't as decisive, but they were still harder to sink." Not for a gaggle of planes launched from an aircraft carrier they aren't. Just ask Yamato, Musashi, Arizona, Tirpitz and (to a lesser extend) Bismarck.
@@OnionChoppingNinja It still took hours for Yamato and Musashi to finally sink, so they are still definitely harder to sink compared to carriers.
Also, I won't use Arizona as an example since it was a surprise attack. I will use HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse instead where they got swarmed by the Army's bombers.
@@OnionChoppingNinja The Japanese battleships had no way to aim their anti-aircraft guns. They were sitting ducks.
It'd be cool if you cover the weapons and vehicles developed for the 1919 spring offensive!
1:54
I didn't know Germany made their own Glock.
The Schwerer Gustav (Rail Super Gun) was built in the 1930's by Krupp in Rügenwalde as a siege artillery to explicitly destroy the main fortifications of the French Maginot Line. The weight was an incredible 1,350 tons, and could fire 7 ton shells at 47 kilometers or 29 miles. (I also presume this is also a wonder weapon)
did they use it anywhere ?
Yes it was used once, and it's effect was minimal, considering it was a battle they were already probably going to win. The issue with the things was jt was to big to move effectively required a large crew to set up and shoot and was an easy target for bombers.
@@kylerocco7467 it got through 15-30m of ground and hit a shell room from a coastal artillery complex, and yeah it was used a few more times, still not enough to have a effect on the war ofc, but it did its job which was destroying statics
One "Wunderwaffe" design that often gets overlooked is the "Midgard-Schlange" (midgard snake).
Source: book Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933-1945 by Fritz Hahn (Weapons and secret weapons of the German army)
The Midgard-Schlange was planned by the engineer group "Ritter". It was envisioned as a vehicle that was supposed to be capable of moving on land like a tank, moving underground like a mole and moving underwater in depths of up to 100 metres. The idea was to dig tunnels towards enemy harbours, cities and fortifications, mine them and blow them up. It was a huge "snake" consisting of 77 cells, giving the vehicle a length of 399 metres when contracted and 524 metres when stretched. The envisioned weight was 60,000 tons!
thats sounds badass like something from gears of war
@@keuwlcat1319
Yeah. It's something you'd expect from video games like Wolfenstein, but someone in reality actually was like "yes, that's a good idea, i'll go with that"
@@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 fr
I'd like to have what the guys in Ritter are smoking.
There is a vehicle like that in 40k called a termite drill.
German real wonder weapons were the Flak 88, MG-42, Gewehr 43, Panther, Tiger, StG-44, Type XXI, Me 262
The Tiger tank could get penned though the front plate by a Sherman Firefly at long range.
@@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground yeah the tiger wasn't fantastic
You didn't mention the MG-42 enough
@@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground that's why king Tiger was developed
@@MrPro897 all 10 of them that could make it to the frontline without running out of fuel 😂
It's a shame that the Armchair Historian did not cover the works of Rudol von Stroheim and his contribution to the German effort. He really did lay the foundations for German science to be at the cutting edge of research that it is today.
German science is the best in the world!
I mean he could have also covered Group 935 and their successes but alas, he didn't ☹️
"BAKA MONOGA! DOITSU NO KAGAKU WA SEKAI ICHI!"
Missed talking about the V-3 cannon which was a multi-charge gun with extreme range. Basically it had charges at points along the barrel to continuously propel a projectile.
Bangladesh war
It was also a fixed spot, so it's not like it could have moved from its spot, or even changed targets. It was destroyed pretty early too, so it didn't get a chance to fire.
@@shadiafifi54 Bangladesh war
@@nitinshaji7692 no one asked
@@feosty5526 BANGLADESH WAR
I find it funny how everyone that covers the wunderwaffe always say "what you haven't heard" before covering it. Like if you look anywhere for about a minute you'll find loads of videos covering them
You know, Jimmy Neutron actually built Die Glocke
I can't get over how funny the the ridiculous thumbnail for this video is.
I just love how Hitler is pulling back the curtain with a stupid grin on his face.
It's always a good day when TAH uploads
It looks like the animators had fun with this video 😂
The little bell flying around in the Backgrounds 😃
Fun fact: The Ratte is a superweapon the is shown in Sniper Elite 3. The final mission consists of sneaking into the factory and destroying it before production is complete, as well as killing the guy in charge.
Bro the flying UFO In the background is killing me🤣🤣😂😂. Whenever You talk about absurd nazi stuff you guys should make it flying in the background in other videos too lol (of course only in outdoor shots)
Would have loved to see the fliegerfaust or the x-7 missle discussed in this video.
Loved watching this video Griffith! Your channel is incredible, thank you!! Greatings from Argentina!
i find it funny on how the space disc thing i cant remember the name on keeps flying around the video
German wonder weapons almost feel like satirical...until you find out that they were real or at least on concept
And so optimistic. They couldn't build Tiger tanks to be reliable and it was actually far more powerful than needed, eating up resources.
Solution? A tank 2.5X heavier, slower, and even more overpowered.
Yes, let's double down on our worst flaws.
My friends grandma was experimented on as a child by German "scientists" in a concentration camp
There were "scientists" and then there were scientists. SS units were just screwing around, but tons of scientists from Germany were brought into our space and aeronautical divisions after the war.
Another fascinating piece, thank you! As for other wonder weapons, would be good to look at the Allied side for a change, from bizarre ones that went nowhere like the Panjandrum (meant to break the defences on the French coast) to ones that sounded mad but worked, like the bouncing bomb used by the Dambusters, or the unbelievable for the time giant Tallboy "earthquake" bomb (also designed by Barnes Wallis, who created the bouncing bomb)
You should definitely cover the Atomic era nuclear weapons arms race where all sorts of cannons and such like the Davy Crockette were designed to launch tactical nuclear warheads
For someone who loves historical facts I appreciate all the hard work all of you put into this. Thank you.
The Horten Ho 229 and the Horten Ho 18 are very interesting. I once bought a very good book about wonderweapons, because they were so fascinating to me.
Other suggestions would be:
-Bachem Ba 349
-Flettner Fi 282 V21
-so called Fritz X guided bomb
-Raketenpanzerbüchse 54
and of course my absolute favourite the
-rc goliath anti tank vehicle.
The books name is "Die Deutschen Geheimwaffen des zweiten Weltkriegs" by the Roger Ford and the Dörfler Verlag.
As always nice video.
German wonder weapon:
-Rocket that barely hit city-sized target
-cruise missile that got defeated by being tipped by spitfires
-huge cannons that require hours to reload
-a flying wing that is so bad at flying Northrop put one to fly years before
American wonder weapon: a portable sun
Me and my friend is always confused about the wunderwaffen, so, thank you so much for making this video!
If only their wonder weapons didn't have such low drop rates from the mystery box, they could have armed every soldier with a wunderwaffe DG2
I believe Obert thought of the sun gun as a farming tool to give crops more sunlight but this was later changed into a weapon
It's always nice to see new armchair historian upload.
I loved seeing the Bell just happily flying around in the background.
2 Weapons were actually useful after the War. The V2 Heavily contributed to the ressearch of the Space Age and the STG44 was used by (Mercinaries, Rebels, Inserguents, Criminals, East Germany and West Germany and were sold and supplied to some African Countries)
More than that. The ME262 introduced the jet engine era. The V2 invented the ICBM. Stg44 introduced the Assault rifle. The nazis where years ahead. Thank god they lost
Hello, armchair historian. I am a huge fan! I was wondering if you could make a video on the battle of Midway! I think it would make a great video as it was definitely an important battle!
The Sonnengewehr would make for a pretty cool Call of Duty Zombies map gimmick
The STG 44 was the only good wonder weapon that was practical for the infantry of the wermarct
Also could you talk about the H-Class battleships which were supposed to be larger than the Yamato
U could've at least mentioned the Gustav...
Oh I've been waiting for an episode like this 😊
Excellent video thank you love the content .
I know its not exactly same with new stealth aircrafts but its worth to consider that Horten Ho 229,. I think it has futuristic design.
Would be incredibly interesting to deal about the Horten HO 229, a flying-wing type plane that was intended to answer the "3x1000 issue" (1000km per hour, carrying a 1000kg bomb, within a range action of 1000km)
I also heard of the Focke-Wulf "Triebflugël": a plane with jet-propelled three-wing rotating plane intended to take off vertically
There were other plane projects like those that might be interesting to study for their "unusual design"
Dealing with other "less-known Wunderwaffen" would certainly attract much more people
Very nice video :)
It would be wonderful if you made a video on the E or entwicklung vehicle series. They are a pretty interesting set of tanks and it would be cool to see them explained on a big channel like yours.
I love how in some of the shots Die glocke was just flying around in the background.
A good rule of thumb for if a German weapon is good is if people kept using it after the war, rockets, assault rifles and jets good, everything else not so much.
Nice video as always
Nafo Fella brother! 🇺🇦
No mention of the Wunderwaffe DG-2 or any other group 935 weapons?
Love the videos so far. I hope someday you cover the baltic independence wars.
The Wunderwaffe DG-2 was one of the best wonder weapons Germany has ever created
What about the ray gun?
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@@blackenedsymphony1234 mk2 is good. Sadly I don’t have BO2 or BO3 - only WaW and BO1 - so I’m basically stuck with the mk1
@@spdfatomicstructure why? don't have bo2 and 3 or can't run it?
@@blackenedsymphony1234 I literally don’t have those two games yet. I’m planning to get BO2 in the future - I’m not inclined to get BO3 at the moment because the campaign is a flop while the new N@zi Zombies maps, according to a friend of mine, don’t particularly stand out
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Thank you for mentioning this.
I like how Wolfenstein developers took all this stuff, cranked it up to 11 and actually implemented it in their games to be terrifying, even the ridiculous "Bell".
Always a great video like ki
britain had a superweapon too,
bomber harris, which removed dresde, lübeck and frankfurt from the map with one piece of paper! could you imagine?
You forgot about Hamburg, Stuttgart, Colonge, Essen, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Munich, Bonn, Wuppertal, Leipzig, Bremen, Heidelberg, Hanover, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Würzburg, Kassel, Mainz, Chemnitz, Berlin, Wilhelmshaven, Munster, Aachen, Augsburg, Wurnburg, Magdeberg, Kiel, Darmstadt, Osnabrück, Wiesbaden, Emden, Freiburg. All these cities were fire bombed by the Royal Air Force.
Bomber Harris REALLY meant it when he said "they sowed the wind and now they shall reap the whirlwind"
Hey bomber Harris's last name is mine!
Harris is a war criminal
Yes commiting many war crimes that did not contribute to victory! Well done!
It takes the Germans a week to replace a factory, it takes them twenty years to replace the common worker. Just sayin.
Ah sweet man made horrors beyond our comprehension
Meh not really most of these wonderweapons were expensive and a failure
Another example that would've been good for this video were the tank night vision scopes, which were more practical compared to the Vampir (since Vampir requires a heavy, external battery with a set of wires running to it)
always with the best content
Say what you want about Nazi wonder weapons, Their time machine was incredibly successful. Or rather, it would have been. They were completely successful in traveling back in time to change crucial events that resulted in their victory, even though it created a separate timeline and thus a parallel reality. The problem is that they didn't build a time machine in that reality to make the changes that they had already made, and caused a temporal paradox. I bet they were really pissed when they vanished in a poof of nothing!
No, they went forward in time. Just to confuse everyone.
I wish armchair historian would make a video about the Oder-Vistula offensive
“Could be built in 50-100 years.” Totally practical then.
I really enjoyed the bgm, especially on the latter half!
About the sponsor Call of War
It is one of the best games to play with friends, but gold spam in the realm of thousands of dollars and updates to limit the length of the game ruined it for me
There will never be another 6 month campaign for world domination
If you are wondering what the Bell in the thumbnail is, its an scp that is a German wonderweapon with the power of teleportation, but It is random
beautiful, keep up the good work!
Germany: we will make one of the best tech in the world
Also Germany: BELL
They are so beautifully expressive but ngl I would love to see them made with modern day technology
You sure about that 💀
@@GVisionnn yeah
@@GVisionnn I mean a tank the length of a basketball court and the width of 50 meters. Wouldn’t that be awesome to see?
@@shadowplayz2432 Sure, but it would immediately be hit with a dozen 2,000lb bombs.
@@Jake-rs9nq yea true but it would interesting to see.
Can you do one about allied wonder weapons? Germany for some reason gets a lot of attention but lets not forget allied weapons that actually had a real effect , e.g. Radars, the Atomic Bomb, Super Fortress, electronic computers , penicillin etc...
The difference is that the Allied weapons won us the war and worked perfectly.
Nah, to practical, not enough big guns or shock numbers. No allied weapons said "100 TON BEHEMOTH" or "20 POUND CANNON." The Phershing or Churchill tank is not flashy enough to write a 40-minute documentary on about how big and scary it was compared to everything it was facing.
The funny thing is that many Allied programs actually matched or exceeded the German wonder weapons. For example, Sherman and Pershing’s had pretty similar paper specs to German Cats (Sherman’s had armor that was pretty similar to Tigers IIRC and Jumbos and Pershings outmatched them, and similar guns once 17lbers and 76mm guns came into service) but don’t have the Wunderwaffe reputation (and actually worked well most all the time!)
@@hoosierfarmkid Well their practicality actually keeps them out of the "Wonder Weapon" category - the term itself is kind of derisive.
Germany's tanks already had powerful enough guns. They didn't exist in large enough numbers and had too many issues. How does fewer, less reliable, but more powerful help?
@@winstonchurchill5892 The Pershing was _anything_ but practical (czcams.com/video/bNjp_4jY8pY/video.html, start around 13:30), as was the Churchill in the early part of its life. The Pershing only got sent to Europe once the situation was already certain.
Have you ever heard of the zombie horror movie series called "The Outpost"? It's centered around Die Glocke, only instead of being a UFO, it's an electromagnetic bell that raises the dead, turning them into literal nazi zombies.
Also, I think we saw that giant mirror in an episode of Futurama about global warming. Only it was designed to reflect solar rays and cool the earth... until a small meteorite hit it and tilted the angle of reflection toward the earth, turning it into an actual sun gun.
4:09 die Glocke in the background lol, couldn’t have just been me who noticed
🤔 . . . The Ausführung T Super Tiger. I’ve heard it performed fairly well, deterring & one-shot killing any ground forces & air forces, but unfortunately couldn’t do both ground & air at the exact same time. It could repel any & all ground forces, but when they pulled back to let the air forces deal with ‘em, the air forces were repelled, thus forcing the ground forces to strike to no avail. Yes, they were taken down, but they pretty much had the same flaw that grounded anti-air defenses have, especially since they only made two & they could protect one hemisphere (half a circle; half a sphere) at any given time.
Answer:NO
What about Big Bertha? I know it may not seem like a wonder weapon, but it deserves a mention.
I love how Die Glocke is just spinning around in the video:)
Whenever i hear about german wonder weapons i always picture the wonder waffle from zombies
😂 true dat man haha
6:47 Wernher von Braun should have been tried for using slave labour to make the V-2 rockets (as well as the destruction and deaths from their use) but his knowledge on how to develop ballistic missiles was crucial for America and the West during the Cold War so they let that slide.
Wow! You really nailed the intro❤
V1 rocket and other project like Wasserfall rocket
Not me thinking abt cod zombies 💀💀💀
Would be nicer for the historical and linguistic accuracy if you actually used the german letters ä, ü and ö (Zielgerät not gerat). But these videos are very informative nontheless.
3:55 I spat my drink when I noticed Die Glocke hovering in the background.
The Me 262 and it’s variants had (approximately) 1,430 planes produced, allegedly when testing the Me 262’s 30 mm cannon on a Spitfire, the Spitfire broke in half however, 1430 planes weren’t enough to turn the tide of war.
Its crazy how the germans made (some) of these “wonder weapons” and either used them or ran out of time, no matter if they used them or not, they are amazing designs for the time, and even for todays world
Another wunderwaffe you didn't mention was the gustav railborne artillery.
It wasn't a huge success as a whole but it was fielded to great success in one particular siege of a city, where it crushed any fortified positions to dust.
It required half a division to operate and several weeks to be assembled, not to mention that in the end it wasn't even that accurate. There were way better things they could have done with those resources
Sevastopol, but Manstein's overall strategy surprised the Soviets, especially with the naval invasion
@@greg_mca Of course, but once set up and operating it did do some nasty work.
All the wunderwaffe were a waste of resources.
@@RealCaddeexcept the V-2
The V-2 pioneered rocket science (duh)
@@History_Nurd It was a waste on wartime resources.
rocket science was post war and all that science went to the USA and USSR, Germany got nothing out of it.
That being said, out of all the wunderwaffe, the V-2 was the one with the most promising future i won't deny that.
But as it were in the war, it costed more than it benefitted the war effort. Thus, a waste.
Such a meme video. But I love it! Script writer and artists definitely had a few good laughs with this one!
I remember seeing something on the History Channel years ago about the bell lol. This was a fun episode. Thank you!
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)