Shit Nazi Kit - He 177A
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- In which Lord H discusses the rubbish He117A, how not lead people and which was the sexiestr of the Nazis
Photos reproduced from Wikipedia on Creative Commons licences and with kind thanks to the Imperial War Museum and Reuters Pathe for footage
Contains swearing. A lot. And a penis diagram for no reason. Also a dude who really like Stalin. Just so you know.
What happened between 25:35 & 26:54 ? -No video, I almost switched , but was busy atm. ~ FYI.
Fucking copyright bullshit
@@HardThrasher Do, please, let us know how you truly feel. ;-]
And you''re 100% right about Stupid Nazi Bastards, BTW: my Dad met them, in person, and didn't like them; not at all. Especially the SS.
Was it their arrogance? Certainty in who and what they were? Or just Criminals?@@michaelmcgovern8110
@@PeterTheVald Remembered the high ranking ones were basicaly religious fanatics and their heaven was the 1000 year reich and that believing in na**ism enough would grant them victory and that they were allways in the right
@@HardThrasher find out who filed and report them to FTC and Library of Congress not joking
My grandfather shot down six German aircraft. Unfortunately it was in 1956 and he was never given much praise for his achievement.
I mean if they were GDR then presumably medals all round and thank goodness we didn't start WWIII
Medals then back to the mess for Tea and Crumpets what.
Plot twist: He was a F-104 pilot and the downed aircraft were his own? But then years don’t add up.
@@HardThrasher : Quite possibly, we _should have_ allowed the two military leaders of the time to have started, and likely finished, WWIII - we wouldn't have to deal w/ the likes of Putin/Russia or Xi/China today---- *_probably/maybe..._* ? 🤔🤔🤔
@@brianford8493no and that's insulting for the men who served and died
The only thing funnier than the wit of this bloke is the amount of seething wehraboo pißbabies it’s drawn into the open lmao
Not forgetting the frothing MAGA Trumpaboos crying over their flop-haired fanny-grabber.
As the joke goes; to be the perfect Nazi, you had to be as thin as Göring, as tall as Goebbels, and as blonde as Hitler.
And as ethical as Mengle
Lazerpig was right. Absolutely love this channel
Me too
Here as well...
I came here too because of the...oh, no wait, this is my channel
Gone through most of the videos since I saw his post this morning 😁😊
Indeed?
"So what happened in this case?"
"The wings fell off, but I want to stress that is very unusual."
God I love those two
@@jonniezodiac As do we all, but I still get a twinge every time I stumble across a reference like this and am reminded that John's no longer with us. Such a sudden and sad loss.
Two minutes in, can i vote for that half hour of slagging nazis?
Seconded
@@michaelh42 Thirded
@@philipsalama8083
Fourded
Fifthed
"How the hell did they think they were going to establish a master race with only one chin and half a backbone between them?" That was a beautiful and excellent insult my man.
It’s like in the entire development process they forgot anti aircraft guns existed???
If you see a giant bomber flying towards you the bofors is gonna rip it to pieces.
"It's alright lads, save your ammo, he's in a dive...wait for it....aaannnndd yup there go the wings...."
Interesting you bring that up: it seems to have been an affliction shared by pretty much every nation in those interwar years.
Not only antiaircraft weaponry, but that erstwhile idea that bombers could fly to wherever with adequate self defense. Obvious examples being the B17 Flying Fortress, the innumerable Soviet TB's, just pretty much everything. Even in the tank department with those marvelous multi turreted land ships.
Tbh I feel to some extent this erstwhile thinking was a reflection on the human carnage in the semi static throes in WW1. The thought of the promise of technology overcoming the horrendous bleed white necessities of the early war.
Clinging to a prospect of sending but a daring trained few to wreak carnage on the foe, accepting the inevitable surrender after just a few days of the eagles of the air spreading their terrible cargo, that would've found immense appeal in any language.
The most disappointing thing I feel is that strangely unlike the Victors in WW1 who wanted to avert a repeat of 1914, the militant Germans (not as a generalisation: just the militant ones I.e freikorps, nazis, monarchists, whathaveyou) were all for avoiding a repeat of 1918...
There's an interesting story about Erhard Milch: When brigadier Derek Mills-Roberts accepted his sudrender, he asked what he thought of consentration camps. Mitch answered that ". . .these people are not humans the way you and I are.". Mills-Roberts, who had jewish ancestry and had liberated a camp, proceded to beat Milch on the head with his.own field marshall baton and, when it broke, switched to a champain bottle.
That's a fantasic story
He also got around having a Jewish father by having his mother sign an affidavit that his biological father was her uncle. He would rather have people believe he was inbred than admit to being the son of a Jew. I bet the head trauma from the beating had practically no visible effect on his intellect.
@@HardThrasher Its very nice, but a Brigadier does not have a Field Marshals Baton, because, you know, they are NOT a Field marshal.
More likely he beat Milch over the head with a swagger cane or some such. Not quite as fantastic but almost there! Personally would have shot him, accidentally of course....
Apparently he took Milch's and used that
Correct treatment of a top-brass Nazi.
The "one chin and half a back bone between them" gets me everytime.
I would certainly enjoy a half-hour long ad homonym roast
4:15 biased, selective assessment of luftwaffe. You completely ignore their accomplishments in bombing civilians as early as 1930s.
had me in the first half, not gonna lie
Fuck yea. The pig was correct!
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Wait..the Hitler Channel? I mean, the History Channel? I vaguely remember that. Didn't it get eaten alive by the Ancient Aliens Channel about 15yrs ago?
That insight at the end was genuinely uplifting, I think a few of us needed that in these interesting times.
And now we live in an era where actual candidates for actual parliamentary seats in the UK are arguing that we should've never fought the Nazis.
What a clown world.
Please tell me you’re kidding.
Nope, th party of Nigel "im not a rascist" Farage, has a few dubious candidates, one of whom happily stated that britain should never have opposed Hitler, we should have done a deal to leave th empire alone for a free rein to the east, but our evill warmongering leaders were more interested in sabre rattling and crushing th Nazis than looking after their own people.... Google the reform party candidates gaffes, its quite illuminating. Tho farage, th nicotine stained snaggle toothed merchant banker of th people also says he admires Putin and that NATO and th EU are to blame for Russia invading Ukraine....tho he has swigged from th red cap of maga quite a bit....
I heard the same shite from a local conspiracy nut about 8 years ago, here in Wasilla, Alaska. He went on to say we should have helped Hitler against Russia instead.
Lazerpig has done us all an enormous favor by bringing up your channel and I hope to see more content like this in the future. Subscribed.
That bit in the end about how "Societies and businesses that don't punish dissent always beat those that do." really feels validated by the Russian War in Ukraine. The Russian Army really seems to show signs of being hampered by its own inability to tolerate internal dissent. Allowing Dissent is the difference between a society or organization run sensibly and one that's ran by personal ego.
I love a military history nerd who has a proper degree of disdain for the Nazis and all their works.
Alt. History kiddies be like :Bro, Germany could have won WW2 if they had-"
My brother in Christ why are you so invested in the victory of a totalitarian state ruled by a bunch of genocidal drug addicts?
I've been through this discussion so many times and you can make arguments for this point in time or that one. But you always run into very fundamental issues with the logistics of he war itself. Be it oil or materials to produce hardened steel products or armor penetrating rounds, rubber etc etc. There is a lot of raw materials the Germans had no direct access by itself and needed to conquer specific regions for. Most alt-history kiddies argue about battles, but forget that logistics win or lose wars. And Germany's WW2 was doomed from the start.
It's interesting (nightmarish) to imagine what might have happened if the USSR folded like France and set up a collaborator government. There were some massive barriers to that actually happening (I've been told that USSR was ready to keep on fighting if they had lost their capital, which of course they never did). But if USSR somehow switched sides at gunpoint, a lot of the resources that Germany was missing would have been available. I think Japan would have been overpowered even quicker if the USA were never drawn into a European war though.
@@julianbrelsford Ok, this is the scenario that is feasable in my head. If the attack on the USSR had happened from both sides, so if Japan would have upheld their intent to invade the USSR from the east, the USSR might have had a problem.
You'd have a two front war, you would partially disable the ability of the USSR to "withdraw into the depths" of the country, although the middle would still be there.
But all that ONLY works if Japan never attacks Pearl Harbour. But the second the US industrial complex gets involved and lend-lease for the USSR kicks off, the Axis is effed gain. Unless they prioritise the ports of entry for lend-lease, which ... is questionable in some cases.
Take into account that the Wehrmacht was already significantly weaker and technologically outdated compared to what they were at the end of the France campaign....
No, again there is a set of parameters you can construct that would make victory conditions possible for the Germans, but I dont think they ever had a realistic chance.
Even if you entertain the what-if's about Germany fixing their mistakes in time, it ends up being ultimately pointless as all roads lead to Munich getting nuked by the Americans.
@@julianbrelsford Since the USSR had already switched sides at gunpoint once (in June of ‘41) their switching back to being allies with their 1939 allies and customers is only slightly silly, as long as both mustache men are dead and their whole governing aparat was dismantled. Otherwise it’s another case of “what if none of the people at the time were the people they were but instead some fantasy version of themselves?”
One good way to look at Nazi Propaganda is to look at footage of the Heer (no its not called the Wehrmacht, that was the collective name for all THREE services, the Heer was the Army). Almost all the footage is of the mobile Divisions, the Panzer and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Fully mechanised (at least at the start of the war). How much footage is there of the stupendous amount of Horse transport they used? Even early war before the 1943/44 reforms almost all the Infantry Divisions Logistics was horse drawn except for their heavy artillery. After the reforms even their heavy artillery was horse drawn. Something like 70% of the Heer relied on horse drawn logistics trains.
Yet if you look at the Nazi footage, you are hard pressed to see a single horse.....
Astute observation and very true.
I'm sadly reminded of a powerful passage from All Quiet On The Western Front (wrong war, I know, bear with me) in which Remarque describes the horrific sound of horses screaming in pain after a supply convoy is hit by an artillery barrage, the crack of rifles as soldiers go around putting them out of their misery. Detering, the horse-loving farmer, states with dignified rage: "Like to know what harm they've done! I tell you, it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war."
My grandfather downed more German aircraft than anyone else in World War II. They called him the "Luftwaffe's Worst Mechanic." :)
the British were able to introspect and question in order to improve designs. the nazis grabbed onto ideas and told the peons to make it work. the Americans both peons and leaders collectively said "guns? guns are good."
'Murica
@@xyz41100 ...WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT?!!
aah yes, the army of pigs is arriving
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"the bigger is better bullshit, it's just so nazi"
To be fair, it makes for some really funny self sabotage.
Fascism has a lot of very funny lore like that
I would make this into a series, calling out the fallacies spouted by Wehraboos, nazi military fanboys and fetishists. The classical argument Wehraboos will usually start with, is that the Jerries had the best technology, the best generals of the war, and would have won the war, had the allies not thrown superior numbers against Wehrmacht, and if the nazis have finished their super weapons projects, would have beaten the allies into ending the war favourable to the third reich. Even though nazi Germany was defeated, occupied and partitioned in two, the Wehraboos stick to their fantasies, writing fanfictions when daddy Hitler was victorious, yep, nazi Germany was so successful, their stories are told as fiction, nevertheless, there are lots of potential topics that will debunk the myths believed by Wehraboos, falling for nazi propaganda presenting it as fact.
The Reich had one good general born 1878, earned an Iron Cross in Flanders, repeatedly warned Paul von Hindenburg against appointing Hitler as Chancelor before Paul did it anyway in '33. He'd tried to invite Hitler to one of the camps on the western front where he would have arranged a fatal accident, and his two sons were involved July 44 "Wolf's Lair" assassination plot. He leaked information about planned persecutions of the Jews via his daughters who were secret agents of the Communist party. He retired in September '39 and found out he had incurable cancer in '43. After Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord's death his family refused an official funeral in Berlin because they didn't want a swastika draped over his coffin.
He wrote in '33 on the classification of officers in military unit command:
"I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage."
There is a great channel that has this anti-wehraboo action series of videos
Unfortunately it stopped as soon as it begin cuz the guy is Ukrainian so he went to fight the war
But the 3 or so videos he put were amazing
Nazis were unbelievably stupid and never had any chance, they didn't have genius generals, superior technology and firepower, nor did they have good strategies
Fucking hell their main rifle was an bolt action while the soviets and Americans were already using semi autos for most of their army
I mean it's not just Wehraboos, it's also pop culture and the mainstream information pipeline. Some of the most accessible information (or dramatizations) presents Nazi Germany this way and that's about as deep as it gets for most people. In America, holy hell do we like to portray ourselves as underdogs. Digging deeper, an aspiring WWII history buff will approach a crossroads: whether to consider information that challenges what he has learned, or double down on his elementary knowledge and become a Wehraboo.
Where have you been all may life? I knew the nazi's were bunglers, but never saw the comedy. Now I can't stop laughing! You just became my personal hero for WWII.
Between @HardThrasher, @Drachinifel, and @Animarchy I spend way too much time laughing at the stupidity of fascism, communism, and unelected idiots promoted far above their level of incompetence. Drach has one or two interesting things to say regarding the Mk14 torpedo! Btw, loving the content, only found this channel in last 48 hours and have watched far too much......
Me too. My tired eyes are almost as sore as my stomach from laughing (Also... someone's gotta tell @PeterTheVald about Hogan's Heroes).
@@Meatball-du1hm "I KNOW NOTHING! JA NOTHING!"
I've always found myself flip-flopping between admiring Nazi aircraft innovation and out-of-the-box thinking and wondering what they were thinking. Blohm & Voss in particular seemed to have found a supplier for some exceptional fine magic mushrooms. To quote Eric Fromm, "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties". Such as functionality. Or survival.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. You can come up with new ideas but they aren’t guaranteed to be good.
I *love* what this video actually is: 21 minutes of slagging off Nazis, & 10 minutes of using that political context to point out *why* & not just what makes the aircraft terrible.
,a,
All the salty trumpets getting upset because you had the temerity to disparage their Dear Leader is always hilarious.
It is a bit silly
When did he mention biden? Must have missed it.
@@DarthKyrmit
He was talking about *_you_* Froggy.
Why would he bring up Biden?@@DarthKyrmit
I cant stand Trump but the idea he is some kind of Nazi is moronic .
I never thought I would be in a position where it feels honestly refreshing to hear someone talk about democracy in a positive way vs the idiocy of autocracy but here we are
German logic: If a one-engine dive bomber is good, then a four-engine dive bomber will be four times as good.
Strange they never tried building destroyers with battleship armor.
I mean, obviously, can't fault that logic :)
That's why they tried to put cruiser guns on their destroyers.
I mean TECHNICALLY you could call the Panzerschiffs stretched out Light Cruisers with battleship guns, and were as effective as you could expect while being close enough to your original point
BIG TANK GOOD, BIGGER TANK BETTERER!!1!
This channel slaps
No, actually making an video roasting (ad hominem) nazis would be entertaining as fuck and you should absolutely do that
I'd like to see that too! I'd also really enjoy reading the comments afterwards too. :) I had no idea such content as above could attract so much hate!
At the moment I am binge watching Lord Hardthrasher's body of work. I had been blissfully unaware of his Lordships existence until a day of idle research into an aircraft that I remember having been enamoured with as a spotty teenager, led me inevitably to "As fast as Bucc" and that was it, I was hooked !!! I tug my forelock to you Sir.
same here
Crashing five of your own side’s aircraft makes you an enemy ace
The Porcine Prophet has guided us to your channel. Enlighten us.
Göring was so nuts he was locked up in "Stormavdelningen" at Långbro mental institution in Sweden which literally translates to "Sturmabteilung", just a bit of irony there.
Let's face it. As a fighter pilot who had served in WW1 under Baron von Richtofen, Goring was more qualified to run the Luftwaffe than say, a chicken farmer was to run the largest paramilitary organisation outside the USSR.
Compared to say Dowding, Göring was a rank amateur. However, so was that other idiot Trafford Leigh-Mallory.
It's so rare for CZcams to recommend a good channel to me before it's taken off. Glad to subscribe.
Your closing remarks about the differences between democratic and authoritarian states need to be shouted from the roof tops of every home in the Liberal West.
How democratic the liberal West really is, is the real question. I think the pandemic showed "democracy" has become a front for eco-facism and techno-anarchy.
We all have phones. We could vote on every law and would no longer need a parliament. But of course the "democratic" institutions do not want such a democracy... it is so laughable.
The Nazi supermen were tall, like Hitler, Blonde, like Goebbels, had perfect eye sight, like Himmler, and were as fit as Goering.
As a software developer for the last 20 or so years of my working life, a phrase that was constantly in my ears (and later as a boss, in my mouth) was “Fail fast”…in other words, recognise as early as possible that something was not working and change direction, rather than pushing on, to the bitter end, with something that was always going to be crap! Thankfully, the Nazi hierarchy never heard of “fail fast”!
There's nothing wrong with failing fast and often, provided that your ability to adapt and improve is similarly rapid.
The Nazi's superior perfect machines really had this cool feature of caughting fire spontaneously out of nowhere
Really cool design gotta love cooked nazi and nazi money getting throw in the trash
Not all of them (...some *exploded* spontaneously out of nowhere).
@@rogeratygc7895 amem comrade
yes what a shitty piece of junk.Not such a britishMasterpiece of engineering like the Gloster Meteor with a peacetime loss rate of just 25% that killed more RAF pilots then the Luftwaffe was able to do !!
@@rogeratygc7895.. Or dissolved their pilot
@@whtalt92coming back after I saw the video about it, just genius design, absolutely brilliant, the Nazi melting machine that can sometimes work as an glider
The "Ural Bomber" and the "America Bomber" are just some of the adolescent monickers I think of every time I see a battle plan with a name like "Operation Freedom Eagle", or call signs like "Rattler".
You, sir, deserve a medal.
I love the videos. But all the 100% spot on commentary about nazis is depressing.
It's depressing because I'm an american in a red state watching the same shit happen all around me.
Er, blue state I think you mean. Remember, the Dems crossed up the correct color assignment after gaining control of the media back in the '80s...
@@nunyabidniz2868 who cares
@@chingoputoh7969 Whatever MAGA says, just assume the opposite. You won't be far wrong.
@@nunyabidniz2868 Those Chinese made MAGAts hats are red. Not blue. I think Trump himself would tell you personally “Red means Trump, Trump means Republican, and Republican means “suspend the constitution” - the Trumpian SCOTUS just ruled the Constitution as “unconstitutional” - my question would be “Why do Trumpers like yourself hate democracy?”
The pig sent me
Comment section here illustrates the failure of the american education system in the fields of history and political theory
Liked the video, never realised how many He177's had been produced I had always assumed it was a late war aircraft who's production was just coming online as the war ended.
117 Greif more like Grief amirite? -‘splodes-
LOL
I wonder if the underlying message of a lot of your work is to point out that those who do not learn from the mistakes of history will be forced to repeat them.
4:45 According to Nicholas Moran (aka The Chieftain) WW2 planes were rubbish at shooting up tanks. Experienced German tankers in Normandy in 1944 found that one of the most important things they had to do was to persuade their rookie colleagues to stay in the damn tank when allied aircraft appeared.
Yes, some German tanks did get destroyed by allied aircraft, but very few - and those fell victim to the law of averages (if you shoot enough rockets blindly, you're bound to hit something eventually). but in terms of ordnance expended, it was virtually a waste of time. There was one action (during the closing of the Falaise pocket, if memory serves) when RAF planes - mostly Typhoons - plastered an area and claimed to have destroyed over a hundred German tanks. When ground troops moved into the area they found three wrecks.
Be that as it may (and honestly I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's right) if you have no troops, no fuel, no spares, no ammo, and no food because your trucks and horses have all been destroyed that'll work too
@@HardThrasher And also because French guys kept sabotaging the railways...
Air power was vital in WW2 - but was never quite as effective (tactically or strategically) as the high commands (of all belligerent nations) thought it was.
The problem with N. Moran is firstly he wasn't actually there in '44/45, his research is reliable as anyone else's and its his opinion at the end of the day. Secondly he is Irish and when it comes to all things British he tends to, subtly, down play/skew/dismiss/scorn any facts or figures that say the British did something positive in WW2 or since. In his eyes everything US is far better and anything British is never as good or reliable.
All sides, not just the UK, made massive errors/exaggerations in how much damage they had done or planes they had shot down or tanks taken out.
@@KP-viking88 Mr Moran - whose research I have a great deal of confidence in - simply said "WW2 aircraft were rubbish at shooting up tanks." He didn't say anything about the nationality of the attacking planes.
The example of the Typhoon attack was added by me, taken from my own bookshelves.
Yes, it was known that claimed kills were always greater than actual kills - mostly due to the confusion inherent in combat. Analysts of the time were used to downgrading claims by a third or a half - but when they found they had to downgrade by more than 90%, fingers were pointed.
I also remember hearing a claim that a certain US formation of aircraft "destroyed 2,000 Tiger tanks" - which is rather at odds with the fact that the Germans only built 1,300.
@@lomax343 He is generally good and informative, he does however down play anything British and build up anything US, there is a bias in his work which does detract from otherwise interesting videos.
Subbed because any channel that triggers this many bootlickers simply must be good.
They appear to be most upset. Obviously I am terribly sorry and have barely been able to eat nor drink and have rend my hair &etc
@@HardThrasher I’m one of those CZcams premium heathens that almost exclusively listen without watching.
I actually had to restart and fully watch the video to catch what had them specifically so upset. Amazing how little reality it takes to provoke such an outsized response.
Good observation. I speculate that a lot are here because: "ooooooo! Nat'l Socialist stuff!".
Just watched your B-17 video, made me chuckle as an aircraft enthusiast. Just had to subscribe. More aircraft vids please.
Is this Mark Felton’s older, hilarious, naughty brother? A perspective on WWII subjects that I’m assuming others are unwilling to expose. Unfortunately I won’t be able to use your videos to fall asleep to because of my constant giggling.
What a lovley compliment :)
Older???? Harsh!!
Please please please please please make a video consisting entirely of yourself making fun of the master races' s so called leadership!
He says we wouldn't like it, and I am curious what gives him that idea.
I feel obliged to offer a minor correction, Goering didn't walk... he waddled.
*He 177 Operations in Russia*
The end of He l 77 operations in the West was by no means the end of the He 177 in Luftwaffe service. During the late spring of 1944, Kampfgeschwader l under Obstlt Horst van Riesen began converting to the aircraft, the first Gruppe moving to its operational airfields in East Prussia in May. Before the end of the month, 1./KG 1 was joined by II and III. Gruppe, and the Geschwader now comprised some ninety He l 77As, undoubtedly the most powerful striking force on the Eastern Front.
Operations began almost at once, the bombers striking at troop concentrations and Soviet supply centres in support of the German army. No attempt was made to strike at strategic targets although many were within range. The bombers attacked in daylight at about 6,000 m (20,000 ft) and losses were very low. The few Soviet fighters that managed to reach the bombers' attacking altitude rarely pressed home their attacks because of the formidable defensive armament of the He 177. Also, very few He 177s were lost because of engine fires; constant modifications had ensured that troubles suffered by the coupled engine installation were reduced to a minimum. The machines that did crash due to this cause were mainly those flown by inexperienced pilots who mishandled the throttles, causing the engines to overheat.
At one time, KG 1 made several pattern bombing attacks, the only time such tactics were employed by the Luftwaffe. During one such operation, von Riesen led 87 bombers in a mass attack on the railway centre of Velikye Luki. Flying in three waves, each comprising a Gruppe of some 30 aircraft, the He 177s must have been a most impressive sight.
From:
“German Aircraft of the Second World War” by J. R. Smith & Antony L. Kay
Pages 187 to 188
Copyright 1972
ISBN 85177 836 4
It's easier to create a narrative than make an honest assessment, yes the plane was beset with a multitude of problems and constant changing of specifications and roles but it did become an efficient plane by the end of the war. It's problems with it's double engines were no different than the b29 a problem that was never fully solved and the tactics used in its late use probably give it the smallest losses of all German bombers
My dude at no point was this an efficent bomber - it couldn't hit anything even in level flight and then they gave up having wasted money, time and resources of a project that was unlikley to work in the first place. It was a superb aircraft. For the Allies.
@@HardThrasher *Citations/documentation please!*
Well researched WW2 aircraft facts AND non-stop taking the piss out of fascists? Outstanding.
Lazerpig recommended this channel
Same here
The pig was right, this is excellent. Thank you for your hard work.
Democracy is worth it.
I guarantee the triggered people here call others snowflakes on the daily.
Not really, I call them vaxxed sheep nowadays.
PS. Check the stats on excess deaths 😎 Well done, people!
Dive bombing heavy bombers = Sumo wrestling ballerinas, multitasking at its finest.
I feel like it's a lot closer to sumo wrestlers doing toe pointe or whatever they call it.... but I get ya.
You posted this in the beginning of the year, but most comments are within the past week. Seems the algorithm has deemed fit to bless you! Good you deserve it; this is a good video.
The Luftwaffe was never a strategic airforce, it was a tactical air wing. Ernst Udet and others wanted it to be otherwise thats all.
Spot on
I recently watched a video on allied test pilots who flew captured Axis aircraft. One of the British pilots assigned to the He-177 stated that unlike most other German planes it felt unstable and very poorly constructed...downright dangerous to fly.
That was Winkel Brown, amazing chap, he thought it was the most dangerous plane he flew - and he also flew an Me163B
@@HardThrasher thanks!
in a tad bit of irony, i read an account of a German test pilot who flew a prototype 177 that actually had 4 proper separate engines fitted, and its handling was described as far superior to the regular model, almost comparable to a fighter.
when even the Nazis themselves are saying the baseline 177 is crap. you really know it's a lemon.
Just discovered this channel and this is my first video…
I’m a dual national citizen - British and German - and in watching this I have just endured over half an hour of painful, buttock-clenching, toe-curling embarrassment coupled with equally painful laughing my bollocks at the Germans! 🤣🤣🤣
Subscribed!
Edited, posted my initial comment under the wrong video.
Still, brilliant video once again. Much appreciated and please make the "German Leadership Video Series". As a German I learned, and frankly still know, shockingly little about the people in the NSDAP aside from the obvious. I mean the Goebbels Story alone ... if that's not worth a short excourse in a history lessen I don't know what is. Same for Rommel and the whole Saubere Wehrmacht thing. I think it is going alright with the German way of dealing with the horrors of our ancestors ... kinda ... but there is definitely still much room for improvement. Thanks a lot for the video, keep them coming. .... pretty please! ;)
Appreciate the comment. Honestly I probably won't ever do a stand alone biography of the main players just because it's fucking bleak. The only exception would maybe be Speer who was as guilty as all hell but didn't hang so we have both his pre-Nuremberg and post-Nuremberg writings - and it's fascinating how duplicitous the bastard was in both
@@HardThrasher Thanks so much for the reply! I absolutely get that, I mean basically I could look it all up and do my own research but want you to do it ... mh, what does that say about me and my actual willingness to find out more about those topics ...
Anyway, Speer would be perfect! :)
Ah yes, the dive bomber the size of a heavy bomber. What could possibly go wrong? If you're going to do suicidal precision strikes, use a guided glide bomb like Fritz X.
Excellent channel sir, love the delivery! The only thing making me laugh more than the content is the reaction of some overly sensitive types in the comments, pure gold. It’s kind of like listening to Lindybeige and he’s just knocked off a six pack of Special Brew and decided just let rip with all the stuff he would actually like to say.
Hollywood is also largely responsible for this postwar image of the Third Reich as this hyper-efficient society peopled by warrior-scientist supermen. All their kit is always brand new and buffed to a fine polish, while Allied soldiers are generally shown as much sloppier and more disheveled in appearance. The officers are leering operatic villains who are highly cultured and steeped in philosophy and the fine arts, effortlessly fluent in several languages, highly adept at delivering villainous monologues.
Indeed! The German officers all spoke perfect English (albeit with a German accent). At least that is what Hollywood makes us believe.
@@BaronSamedi1959 I think its partly because like us Brits the average American *loves* a bit of an underdog story. The less well equipped but plucky and brave US soldiers winning against the enemy basically gets more bums on Movie Theatre seats.
The reality of course is by 1944 the US military was not only on the whole superbly equipped, it was also mostly very well trained. Sure there were lessons they needed to learn, but the real point is they learned them. One thing a friend of my fathers (a former British General, the friend, not my father, my father was what the Americans would term a Mustang, Mustangs generally do not make General rank) once said is that the trick is not to not make mistakes, but to learn from your inevitable mistakes faster than the other side does.
Dont forget many from Hollywood and in the services were first/second Generation Germans MacArthur had two maybe three on his General staff
My grand father died in a German concentration camps. The poor bastard fell out of a guard tower…….
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Another great video! Just found your channel and really enjoying your style 😊
Thanks Ryan, this was an early one and I like to think I've got better but who knows ;)
this is gold, can't wait for more
The fact that you didn't use crapwaffe is the greatest tragedy science ww1
Great video, you've earned yourself a subscriber. Also:
>Produces highly informative analysis of the implications of Nazi Germany's Mafia state on its weapons procurement and engineering culture, as well as the absolute fucking state of the Grief
>Half the comments are random bitching and moaning about three-second "current thing" soundbites and video clips while completely ignoring the point of the video
LazerPig sent me. I was not disappointed. Subbed.
same here
Another brave soldier of lazerpig
I was enjoying this, right up to the point you used Trump as an example, and then I was fucking loving it.
YES YES YES but the American Republican cannot see it.
I hope you are enjoying making these videos as much as we are watching them. Outstanding. Thank you.
For all the "Bigger Is Better" people out there, two words: The Northumbria.
But what if i want to hear you rant at nauseaum about the leaders.
Another case study in point might have been the Junkers Ju-288, which was intended to have been the Luftwaffe's next-generation bomber to replace the HE-111, Ju-88 and Do-217. The German Government expended vast sums of money on the project, not to mention years of man-hours. The result was 22 prototypes in a plethora of different versions, no two of which were the alike, and not one of which was suitable for production. The failure of the Ju-288 project has been compared with what the state of affairs in the United States would have been if, after all the money and effort put into developing it, the Boeing B-29 had NOT worked. It has also been alleged that the failure of the Junkers Ju-288 program did more to aid the Allied cause than any other German aircraft development program, simply because it absorbed so much time, effort and money.
To err is Herman; morphine is one heck of a drug.
Goring! I thought you were talking about Boris Johnson in detail
It's quite confusing sometimes. The brylcream is basically the only major difference.
@@HardThrasher BTW a recommend from Lazer Pig... interesting take on history, and a happy subscriber [bonus points for replying]
Entertaining video, catchy title, potty-mouthed and possibly intoxicated British man rambling at some length about military history, specifically military aviation history... what's not to like?
Decided to hit the button since the potty-mouthed (and definitely intoxicated) Scotsman who previously filled this role seems to be more interested in having virtual fireside chats with his wee mates these days. Which is perfectly fine if that's what he wants to do, it's just not something I find that enjoyable. Trolling rock-stupid Septic Tanks by comparing Little Donnie Trumpet to Hitler though... that's something I feel I can get behind. And aren't there some fascinating specimens in the comments! so much Engagement-with-a-capital-E! Subscribed.
My goodness me, these comments! I feel compelled to leave some positivity here to counter the trumpian idiocies. Lovely video, and I hope that the various Nazi wannabes show themselves out of your channel quickly. The negative side of sudden fame, I fear. Cheers.
I would love to just see a video of you and all the other British History CZcamsrs roasting Goering or Himmler or any other high level Nazis
The History Channel ... style over substance???
I'll have you know Bigfoot and Ice Road Truckers are ALL SUBSTANCE, mister!
Keep up the good work!
The History Channel, using the same eight feet of film since the 1980's.
Long story short: “Goering has two, but very small”
Ok that made me LOL
That's goering has no balls at all
Once had a workmate ask if I'd come to his meeting after work. He mentioned a codename with '18' in the title, and I thought '1 - 8, A - H.'
I said that, and had to ask him if that meant I was too smart to join, and he said, 'Wot?' We never spoke again.
Groups (if there are any people with above-average intelligence in them), use such things to spot the 'useful idiots'.
It's how secret societies have others inside them, or give out rings and secret handshakes to the outer members, to signify: 'obedient, useful, but do not promote'.
Most right-wing groups do not have these things, as they consist OF those useful idiots, and have no intellectuals at the top, just more thugs who were 'in' before the others.
Isn't 18 words also thing about "the white race" quote from some super racist book? I may be wrong
@@HardThrasher 14 Words. It's some line from a speech that Mr. Tiny Mustache did. It's the first half of the 1488 dogwhistle.
Ah that's it
God damn the comments section. They are so freckin triggered, also came from the Le Pig man himself but staying for the content.
I should probably weed it, but I find it funny that they can't cope with the obvious comparison between narcassistic populists who were/are wildly incompetent
same and same
@@HardThrasher
Naahh let them out themselves, besides the 'community engagement' will boost you in the algo. 🤣
Just don't get too comfortable with them, I've seen a lot of military history channels totally overrun by neo nazis, dog whistling alt rights, wehraboos, tankies and other such detritus. Hmm maybe you should weed them after all.
The He 177 story makes the B-29 development and production look efficient
Excellent work! Entertaining and extremely informative. Your comments about management are so accurate. I work in aviation and it's the free exchange of ideas, managers listening to subordinates, that keeps us safe and helps us to progress. We call it CRM.
I was under the impression that Crew Resource Management referred specifically to a Captain properly delegating tasks and making good use of their crew's knowledge and experience during a flight or in a non-normal situation? What you're describing simply sounds like plain old good management practices.
The Pig sent me here and I'm glad he did, enjoyable and surprisingly heartwarming.
They do fall in the end, but boy do they cause suffering before
no wonder they put a blindfold on that bird. without a blindfold the bird would have taken one look at Fatty's fingers and bit into them inna "give me some sausage action matey"
This is my 5th time watching this video! I got a husky puppy for my birthday, which was yesterday. I watched the bomber war series again on my birthday, for a little treat.
How dare you insult the Nazis by associating him with DJT.
Are you saying he was a bad president? You like Obama or Biden better? Is life better today or under trump? (Quite retorical, the last one...)
@@csonracsonra9962 Actually its much better under Biden.
@@csonracsonra9962, I'm saying he was an abysmal president and is a terrible person.