LAST NAZI SECRET ON THE GROUND IN PEENEMUNDE SPECIAL. EP 5
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Given that the Rocket program was one of the biggest and most costly in WW2 Germany. We need to visit Peenemunde and see what was there, and what is there now. To fully understand the scale of what was done there. Also I will visit a special private collector who have a farm full of original Rocket parts, where we will try to break down some of the special projects created here.
We will visit the remains of test stand 7 and go exploring into the woods where I found the remains of some of the amazing structures.
I will also break down the cost benefit analysis of the V1 / V2 program. and uses a lot of original footage through this special.
All this will give us a better idea as to what SS general Kammler could have done or tried to do at some of the many secret SS facilities, all we will visit in this series.
Many of you asked for a Peenemunde rocket episode so enjoy:-)
EXCELLENT description of the Penemunde rocket complex. Tino as military + historian + movie maker you are presenting the historical and technical facts of this site. I haven't seen any like this before and explained it in the way you did. Thanks very much.
Thank you so much for saying so I truly appreciate it I hope to bring you lots more
If you ever put together a DVD series of your work I would love to purchase it Sir
@@lastbluesplayer EXCELLENT IDEA ¡ It deserves to be kept in my collection of WW II films.
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I consider myself a WW2 history freak, and these videos are absolutely gems. Thank you for making this content.
Thank you so much I am trying:-)
tino is awesome facts and narrative of the TRUTH not propaganda like other's that spew hatred and b.s. thank you for you're dedication and hard work tino 👍
Lord knows I am trying...
Brothers war was the best wartime movie of all time in my eyes I'm a paratrooper and how you portrayed the soilders interaction with there buddy's so took me back and made me think how good my time was thanks TIno the movie should be on the box office
Absolutely agree with you re the destruction of V.I.P Historical sites such as Peenamunde Post WW2. We have an absolute duty to keep places like this intact so future generations can see for themselves.
I am absolutely fascinated by these, (any) of the historical German landmarks. To explore, amongst the remains and the fact that a lot of these sites still exist 70 + years later. Although the buildings and structures have long been destroyed, the foundations, and debris of their construction eerily lay scattered on site to this day.
You make a most valid point, it was at these sites at that time, technical advancements were discovered that have forever changed the world, most notably the foundation for space exploration. The importance of these advancements are valid, and therefore hold historical value, this has nothing to do with choosing "sides" or that the atrocities committed during this war should be shadowed, or forgotten.
Thank You Sir, for sharing your well documented, and onsite coverage of the Penemunde rocket complex.
That was just another great episode. Thank you for sharing.
One of your best yet!!!! Amazing research, photos, videos and details! Thank you !!!!!
Thank you I'm only just beginning
Somehow your knowledge and keen eye for detail has me enjoying this series far more then any high end documentary I've ever seen. No special effects just facts and adventure. Love it mate, awesome work you are doing and remember, there's always a hole behind you
Glad you enjoy it! thank you - well I cant afford the special effects so I just have to stick to actual history:-)
Loving it , just loving it :) Thanks for sharing.
Hello my brother you know you and I are doing something somewhere this year I'm coming back in less than a month
@@tinostruckmann Are we ? Let me know a little bit in advance then as there are so many projects and so few days :)
@@WW2HistoryHunter I will be stalking around Europe for 4 to 6 weeks:-) I'll shoot you an email in a couple of days when I have something that resembles a plan.
@@tinostruckmann Ok
@@WW2HistoryHunter lp
Truly amazing technology, so advanced for the times. Totally amazing !
wait wait there is more lol
First of all, thank you for yet another interesting and captivating video Tino! It hurts my heart to see such an important place demolished beyond any recognition. Apollo-program and all that came after that are direct results of that place.
Even here in America we destroy history other than what we already know but the second nuclear reactor the Chicago pile 2 was blowin up and buried as well, and Kurt Dibners reactor outside Berlin is just decaying in the forest
@@tinostruckmann It's a shame!
Brilliant show, thank you for putting in so much effort...
So nice of you to say so i try , thank you.
One of the most detailed and original doncumentary on special programs in WWII Germany.
Thank you I am trying
About 8 years ago, I worked at a dry cleaners in my city. An elderly couple came in regularly, and the wife was very friendly and asked for me each time they came. The couple was 98 year old Georg von Tiesenhausen and his wife, he a rocket engineer at Peenemunde. At 98, he drove he and his wife around in their little red Toyota Corolla; he didn't speak much, but was very polite. I always enjoyed visiting with his wife when they came. Their son was a teacher at a high school in the city. Georg died in 2018, and I so wish I had interviewed him. I was able to ask his wife very few questions, and I regret not asking more. I wonder today if she is still living.
Now that is the sad part of life, those fascinating people we should have spoken to much more, so many of them pass unnoticed. It is so very important for everybody to speak to those older generations and learn something. Thank you for sharing that story.
@@tinostruckmann Over the past few years since von Tiesenhausen's death, I have thought of phoning his wife to see if she would chat with me. She was 89 at the time I met them, and would now be nearly his age when we met. Von Braun's home during his work in the United States is just a few miles from me as well.
@@koba2348 seriously you should and you should do it today because you never know at that age if she's around tomorrow maybe she would like to talk and maybe she would like to share some of the photos from back then which would be amazing let me know how that goes
@@tinostruckmann She is alive as far as I can tell, I will give her a call today. I would like to make a video interview
@@koba2348 I think that is a wonderful idea
Excellent as always, happy Easter Tino, and thank you for your hard work and passionate presentation 👍
Thank you kindly! I appreciate it
Just came across your channel - very surprised it took me this long. Excellent videos - you have done amazing job on these
Hello from Nebraska! Thank you for this great video and all your hard work to bring your videos to us! My Mother was born in Bonn, Germany and met my Father during the war. Now that I am old and she is gone, I so wish I had learned more about Germany from her.
My brother I hear you, there were so many things I wish I could go back and ask my great-grandmother and grandmother but you know the folly of youth, you just dont think that way when you are young. I am glad I made it a point to sit and talk with my mom the last years she was here, and hear her stories. But maybe its time for you to visit Germany yourself and see?
@@tinostruckmann Thank you for your reply. I would love to go to Germany and to visit Bonn where my Mother was Bonn. In all honesty that would be the only thing that I might consider getting an Airplane for as I am not to keen on air travel. But there is so much history there and all of Europe as you know. Thankfully I have the web to learn and see these places. You do a wonderful job and I really appreciate all you do to bring these videos to us! All the best.....
Thanks Tino, you have done a fantastic job producing this presentation. Your talent and knowledge never ceases to amaze me. Your work should be taken up by mainstream TV.
My pleasure! but here I can take my time and be true to the subject lol
Did you notice that the rest of the electric wires at the workshop ruines and teststand 7 was made with (cheap) silver shiny aluminium cores, thats because copper was too rare and expensive for use in static locations and must have been saved for the submarine electric engines, planes, ships generator sets and the rockets themself... (you cant use aluminium core cables in mobile applications as airplanes / rockets etc...due to fragility)
So much lost history. Such a shame. Thank for your Videos Tino, great Boots on the ground footage!
Thank you
Making a V-2 rocket was actually cheap once it was mass produced in Nordhausen. The plan was 900 rockets a month, they achieved around 400-500, using prisoners with technical training. A mass produced V-2 rocket cost a fraction of a Messerschmitt Bf-109, and the most expensive weapon by far was the Tiger tank which cost close to a million RM. The V-2s at Peenemuende were hand-built, one at a time, industrial production required a completely different procedure.
I've read so much about Penemunde and the rocket programs that were based in that facility. It was so great to see the physical campus that I've read about for so long. I would LOVE to take a metal detector all over the Pennemunde ruins. Thanks again,For giving me the images to go with what I've read. After this,I want to watch your video on Hans Kammler
I totally agree! well I am going again soon and was planning on a bit more time with a detector too. One day you should visit.
I'm a huge fan of learning about nazi technology and I've never came across such a detailed on ground research. Thank you Tino. Please keep doing this. I wish more mainstream history channel carried could do this. Your channel is a gem. :-)
Another Awesome video. Really enjoy the journey, searching, and history lessons of your videos. Well, well done.
It must take you days and days or weeks even to do the amount of research and fact finding to produce these videos for us. Never mind visiting and filming. Nice ! Thanks so much for sharing.
You are correct I dont really get out much except for the day job lol
Thanks are definitely in order…. Thank you!
According to chapter 6 of “Das Geheimnis der deutschen Atombombe” by Edgar Meyer and Thomas Mehner the Peenemünde power plant consitsed of two turbogenerators of 12 MW each. The steam was supplied by four boilers which burned a total of 256 tons of coal per hour. If correct, these figures translate to a plant efficiency of less than 12% which is ridiculously low- I'd expect a plant efficiency of 20-25% for a plant of that vintage (the plant was built between 1939 and 1942 so was modern). This suggests to me that those four boilers supplied steam for far more than just those two turbogenerators. Question is, for what purpose(s)- heating? Heating what exactly? Power generation? Power generation for what? And where were the other turbogenerators located if not in the power plant itself?
Tino I really hope you get a role as presenter, With Control over content, on a large production WWII DOC series. Something like "WWII - Uncovering the true extent of Nazi technology with Tino Struckmann". Been studying WWII my whole life, Finding someone who is truly educated and takes the time to tell the real story is refreshing. And you cover things in depth and visit the actually sites. If you ever expand this series (which I hope you do). I shoot and edit video, and I'm a drone pilot. Let me film for you. Would love to go to every WWII historical site possible. Seriously nothing I would rather do. And I must say again as many others have EXCELLENT work. YOU filming alone WHILE commentating is on par dare I say not better than most WWII doc's in existence. Please Continue this content and make 100's of more videos. Great surprise to see a new upload in the series today iv been waiting! Happy Easter!
He actually has tried to work with history channel in the past but the shot his ideas down
One of the many things I enjoy is the scene overlay with black and white pics or movies that bring the people back to life in the very place Tino is showing us. Seem less and Highly artistic - reminds me of the opening scene in Titanic.
By the way it might be important to note that the V-1 was a type of jet engine and not a rocket. To be a rocket it much carry its own oxidizer. The V-1 was a pulse jet engine. It basically just ignited fuel and used that Ignition pressure to propel the craft.
It carried liquid oxygen on board ?
I visited Peenemunde shortly after it had been declared open for visitors, many years ago, from Denmark. They only had a few items present by that time. A model V2 built with some original parts, a wax mask from a dead officer, and a plate with signatures from former workers. And some modern planes. I think it closed after that for some years?
The greatest importance that Penemunde has is that it wasted lots of resources that Germany could have used attacking the allies. We should be thankful for that.
I do agree, those could have been spent better but hindsight I guess....
Yay!!! A new video, I can't wait to watch!
Happy Easter 🐣
Yay! Thank you! sorry for the late reply
Keep doing what your doing, As always love you work an great pride you show. Happy Easter an stay safe
Thank you! Will do!
Quite nice Tino. Thank you for putting so much effort into this series.
Glad you enjoy it!
Always informative, always interesting. Your historical adventures are vitally important as the years roll by and the memories fade. It's a unique RUclips site, thank you...
By far best series and Presenter on RUclips
Thank you so much I really appreciate you saying so:-) I hope more people will see it that way in the future
Great video and testament to the Peenemunde team. Many have passed but their genius lives on.
Together with the vile morality
Thank you, well they got us to the moon:-)
Well the world have been short on that for a very long time, but I do miss Civalry
Amazing stuff you find regarding history. Great work
Much appreciated
War is the mother of invention. A true saying . I didn't even know less than one percent of this what I eye opener to say the least.
The air raid shelters are exactly like those used on the Ho Chi Minh trail ! 6ft in diameter concrete sewer pipes figured into an H pattern, very very effective in surviving the B52 strikes !
Well that saved a guys sunday! Tino, so very exciting yet again, man i wish i could see it in person 😉 Cant get enough, well presented, we can surely feel your dedication trough the screen👍👍 Good job once again, now the next release cant come quick enough, excited to lern more about the Henge🙏 Thank you Tino
Thank you so much for saying so, maybe one day when I start doing tours. I can drag you out there so you can see it for yourself.
@@tinostruckmann That would be epic!🙏😃😃
That guy was great. Really enjoying and getting into this series.
Thank you:-)
Keep exploring 👍
Stay safe 👍
Thank you, I will
Imagine what mankind could do if All people worked together for a better Earth...🌏🌍🌐🌎🗺️🇺🇸🇺🇳🇺🇸🇺🇳🌄🌅
Patton said it perfectly and it was in the movie “ Next to War all other human endeavors pale in comparison !”
I agree with you on the great/horrible inventions, but as far as your use of the U.N. emoji characters @ the end of your reply.....You really really want the U.N. to administer the whole planet look how good the W.H.O. worked out for Covid 😆 thats rich, NO GLOBAL GOVERNANCE!!!
@@oceanhome2023 Absolutely true just happened to have viewed "Patton" & when he said that it really really dawned on me how correct / and prophetic his words would ring true till this day.
@@nickb7906 I am an artist and the United States Flag and the United Nations Flags next to each other means let All people on earth work together for a positive life on Earth.. 👍👍🗽🗽🍀😎
What UN Emoji?? I dont use any of them I do old fashioned smiley faces only :-)
For the last 20 minutes you did what I dream about doing at Peenemunde
Come with me next time!
The whole area is forbidden to enter by the way, there are hundreds of unexploded bombs in the ground. Those depressions in the ground are all bomb craters:)
@@NorceCodine you just have to learn how to float :-)
25km square is hard to envisage being on the ground with so much research happening there at one time. Did any part of the area give you unease or spook you out in any area Tino you’ve been in so far? You’re damned committed which makes your short films like a candy rush.😂
The TV system for the guided missile was designed by Walter Bruch, who later went on to design the PAL colour TV system in the 1960s, which became the european standard. Less well known is his first CCTV system which was used at Pennemunde to monitor launches, because film cameras, near to a launch, would often be destroyed along with their film, when a missile malfunctioned. The CCTV used a Bruch designed camera near to the launch, feeding a monitor in the control bunker, where a synchonised cine camera recorded the results. This might be worth following up, as a 'sideband' technology, indicating other dangerous experimental work. The camera was a brilliant design using largely the same valve, (tube), throughout, apart for the video tube.
The coal dust warhead, was basically a fuel-air explosion weapon.
Thanks again for another excellent informative piece.
Thank you so much for adding to that, I was always wondering if not von Ardenne was involved in some of those developments?
Thanks for your time and excellent work Tino!
My pleasure! I am glad you like:-)
Thanks again Tino, another fascinating episode ! looking forward to the next one.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@tinostruckmann Really did, thanks Tino 👍
"The fist that crushes the tyrant's head, becomes the tyrant in his stead" said a wise man. After "absorbing" so many SS officers along with their gadgets and creations... what would have surprised would have been if the US wouldn't have turned to fascism. Although, as Carlin said it best, American fascism wears a smiley-face.
Carlin was a great man lol
I would put it slightly differently.
The US absorbed all the German technology.
But it forgot that technology came as a result of that ideology. Or , as Professor Joseph P. Farrell says : with the technology came the ideology.
The US lost that war. Not militarily but from every point of view.
From the looted gold to the I.G. Farben. From the bankers to the US Military Complex.
After that the United States never won another war again. From Korea , Vietnam , ( Russia it’s back on its feet) Afghanistan , Iraq , Libya, Syria or the small skirmishes in Africa.
After it was this technology that gave birth to the likes of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld , Carl Rove , Paul Wolfowitz , Silverstein , and the whole cabal of thugs and gangsters.
NASA before NASA, great documentary thanks a deeep dive! Love it.
I quite agree with you on the destruction of historic places, and how this location created developments we still enjoy. I also like to point out that the vast majority of the scientists and technical staff that worked on the MANHATTAN project received at least a portion of their education in Deutschland. The mad dash for the assets of that country wasn't just in this location. The Russians would even go into ruins and if there were a solid brick, they chiseled them out and sent them to Russia. Yet they were forbidden to touch any Zeiss optics manufacturing plant, its employees, or their families.
I actually think there would be a good special in what the Russians knew towards the end, they had a much better idea of what they wanted then we may think. I look forward to my visit to the Russian archives.
@@tinostruckmann From what I have seen, you are a sensible man and I hope that you keep in mind that the Russian Archives are more heavily edited than a high school yearbook.
Fascinating video here.I once read somewhere that a Luftwaffe test pilot,Hans zissner,said that,while flying a shuttle,witnessed what appeared to be a nuclear explosion over Ludwigslust,south of Luebeck.Earlier,there is some speculation that a primitive 'dirty bomb' was used to make a Soviet rifle division vanish during one of the Kursk actions.Perhaps the war aim of the allies was to apprehend technology more than anything
I have a copy of his report, and I will be going to all the supposed test locations in about a month
@@tinostruckmann wow, I'm really looking forward to that. I just found your channel and I'm really happy I did.
More than likely a fuel & air mixture bomb. They produce the same sort of burns as nuclear flash. It is not just the temperature but the sheer amount of heat (calories) radiated out by such ordnance which can, even at a distance, causes the skin to detach and hang lose on the body (it melts). So personally I discount accounts like these as miss attributions. Of cause, that doesn’t mean to say all such accounts should be automatically dismissed as non nuclear. Still, had any type of nuclear device been used in an open war theatre, I’m pretty certain we would have come to know about it. Perhaps Tino will be elucidating further in the up coming episodes.
@@Nuts-Bolts oh you can be sure of that I am only just beginning :-)
The V-1's warhead was much more than 500 kg; it was 850 kg of Amatol-39, later Trialen. V-2 had 1000 kg of Amatol.
Been waiting for this!! Tino you are doing an absolutely amazing job here but where are we actually going ? Were they looking to create something bigger..Yes but they ran out of time!! Something happened in late Autumn 44 that really scared the Allies and and its in regards to all this its patently clear now that the Germans were decades ahead of us in weapons concepts and research and that in itself must have worried us incredibly especially when we found what we did at the end of the war im not suprised that they story about all this was re edited and redacted out of sheer embarrassment and and the realisation that a nation has to keep more than up to date on all that stuff at its peril!! Great video and quite frankly im pissed i missed the live Q&A !! Take care and keep Soldiering on pal DG
Ths is very interesting. Would love to see that museum. First of your videos I've seen, and am now a subscriber.
Welcome aboard my new friend, I will start to arrange tours to all the various sites, so hopefully soon.
Best ever on peenemunde and all those special weaponsi only read about. It is very difficult to see even being there. thank you for this wonderfull document!
Glad you enjoyed it! you are most welcome and lots more to come
Shining Bright! This clearly demonstrates the advancement of technology! I have always wondered what role IBM played!
Besides the IMB selectra to follow data!
MWM
Another great episode. Stay safe. Thank you.
Thanks, you too!
Another Great one Tino.. Thank you. Happy Easter dude
Glad you enjoyed it thank you brother
@@tinostruckmann Quite welcome ... I enjoy all your stuff for one reason or another ,, Even when you said *(bring me my Panzer)* just pickin on you ,, You have to admit it did sound funny !
All that historical heritage that has been destroyed to vanish the traces who really made this great development and moved technology forward.
Spontaneously disassembled itself....with force....oh that's great I'm going to use it!
And in 1948, Wernher von Braun could not make his American audience understand that something could circle around the Earth without falling down. Imagine how he felt.
Sigh
Analogue computers.
There seems to have been a LOT of work in this field going on pre WW2, all over the place.
The concept is the basis for all the "automatic pilot' trials and actual use in aviation at the time. It was also not a heavily-guarded secret, with there even being cartoon references to "George", the "auto-pilot"( a sort of skinny, robot-looking character) in the RAF.
The US Army fielded analogue computers for long-range artillery late in the war. The rudiments came from earlier gunnery calculators, which were essentially rotary slide rules, sometimes even mounted on the individual artillery pieces.
They became necessary because the serious guns were capable of firing their projectiles on a trajectory that took them to the limits of the atmosphere, and the gunners needed to be able to account for not only high-altitude, high-speed winds, but even the rotation of the planet, such were the flight times and characteristics involved. These considerations also applied to naval and coastal guns. This is why most serious armies have teams of meteorologists; not to predict "infantry weather" (constant, heavy, near-horizontal rain), but to feed data to the gunners. By the end of the war, the US was fielding ELECTRONIC gunnery computers and also using really big static ones to develop very accurate firing tables for the gunners.
Analogue computers stayed around for a long time. Aviation buffs will be aware that the "terrain-following" capability of the General Dynamics F-111, was achieved using very compact analogue computers. These were transistorized devices that were only replaced a few years before that entire aircraft series was retired. The problem with "digital" computers is that the real world is ANALOGUE. Thus, external data must first be ACCURATELY be converted to digital form, then, correctly-written code is used to process the data and THEN, it has to generate an output that will work in an analogue world. All of which takes TIME. In the days of vacuum-tube DIGITAL computers, this took a LOT of time, relatively speaking. It also took up a LOT of space and electricity. Side trivia: The Liquid Crystal Display was the result of an early 1960s requirement for a vibration resistant, compact display for battlefield computers mounted in armoured fighting vehicles. Once that technology was established, it was advanced at spectacular speed. Look a little deeper into the screen for your desk or lap-top machine. Then there was the Light Emitting Diode. The ones I remember from the mid 1970s were pretty fragile and came on one colour: RED. By the end of that deacade, buy the magic of Chemistry, we had green and yellow ones. BLUE was THE goal, but it took until the early 1990s for that to happen. Once you had Red, Green and Blue LEDsof carefully-tuned hues, the LED video screen was a reality. Consider the huge video screens used at major sports and and musical events. These monsters are not one big monolith, but made from addressable modules bolted together in site and wired to a prescribed recipe, depending on aspect ration and resolution, etc.. And it ALL comes from observation and imagination coupled with serious research.
So, I would imagine that our Teutonic cousins were also well aware of the possibilities for enhanced calculation speeds. Did they also have a development programme for large electronic computers?
Good docu., thanks!
This is a tremendous account about Peenemünde, so thorough and detailed. I share your dismay at the loss of so many historical buildings.
One thing though, and I could be wrong but the original Wachhaus is still there by the car park. It's now a cafe/ souvenir shop, on the other side is an original admin block. When I first went there 13 years ago the barracks and canteen where still standing and were only recently demolished. They had been used by the Russians and later by the NVA. I live just over the the river(Peene) from there.
Anyway, thanks a lot for showing a lot of things I didn't know still existed.
Thank you, that is the other guard house for the power and oxygen plant. It is there still and still an ice cream plant lol I had my breakfast ice cream there lol The destroyed one was for the entrance to the facility itself and the Luftwaffe site.
@@tinostruckmann Thanks for the answer.
I’m amazed the Soviets destroyed the facility rather than using it to house their troops. They could even have used it as an Air Force base & later as a tactical missile base...
It always did seem a useless endeavor to me, especially since they later used the site for an airbase... and had to rebuild all the barracks for that...
Best info I have ever heard thank you amazing. 👍
You are so welcome Im glad you liked it
Superb!I wish I could see it on my own! Great job Tino!
One day maybe you can!
Go there when you can. I had a visit there with the same guide, and yes, the guy is awesome with an unbelievable knowledge. You can also make out the make out traces from the takeoff strips of the ME 163 that was also tested there.
Very interesting video herr von Struckmann, better than the 'Nazi megastructures' episode, keep up the good work!
I prefer to be there digging and showing what is actually there. to many graphics sometimes gets in the way of the experience.. thank you so much for saying so
A few comments come to mind as watching -
To clarify concerning the V1 and V2 belonging to the Luftwaffe and Wermacht -
V1 - this was, as the wings imply, a flying bomb. So this was under the development of the Luftwaffe as you'd expect.
V2 - this was basically an artillery shell, fired by aiming towards a target.The army does this sort of thing, and that's why this rocket was not under the air force command, but the army, or Wermacht control. The V2 is basically a self propelled shell with no 'big gun' needed to fire it.
The 88mm shell used in anti aircraft capacity did indeed travel about 1,000 feet per 1 second. Thus the American B17, typically at 30,000 feet, the German gunners needed to predict where the aircraft was likely to be, 30 seconds after they fired the shell. Imagine that. For every shot.
A hidden bit of history is that most German anti aircraft guns were Radar directed. The big Flak towers in Germany, around major cities while housing the Flak guns on their roofs also had Radar up there too, to assist with laying the guns. The one thing the Germans did not have properly worked out is a Proximity Fuze, but only a timed Fuze.
On RUclips there are a couple of US Airforce training videos of about 1944 era which show training pilots the way they must fly through flak to avoid the predicted fire of the German gunners, and some of the techniques the Germans used in such difficult time prediction to maximise their fire power.
I can't remember the names of those two training videos I've seen on RUclips to recommend them concerning Flak, but one that is, is "The secret history of Silicon Valley" There are two versions of this talk, the older version I prefer, if you search for it on RUclips. This describes some attributes of German Radar and how every war film you've ever seen is wrong, because it conveniently misses out this fact of Radar assisted gun laying on the German side. In contrast you see, Britain always claims "We won the war because of Radar and the Spitfire." While there is some truth in this, if Britain was, cough cough, so advanced in Radar technology then why did we mount Operation Biting, otherwise known as the Bruneval Raid ? Meanwhile Watson-Watt, the inventor of the British Chain Home Radar systems decried it as "A third rate system better than nothing." As the war commenced this was what the British had on their side and perhaps its no wonder they wanted to know what the otherside knew about Radar technology.
The Atom Bomb is top of the list of technological achievements to come out of the second world war. Anyone got any idea's as to what's second on the list ?
It is considered the Proximity Fuze. That's second on the list.
The Proximity Fuze needs to explode when it hits the target. That much is obvious. But if it misses, it needs to explode as close to the target as it can, for maximum damage. How exactly can you do that ? Moreover, how exactly can you do that with 1939 technology ?
As we see all through this video, any weapon the Germans developed always had issues with either guidance or being only contact Fuzed or by time. While they were trying to develop an effective Proximity Fuze they never did as I understand it, and this is one of the issues that I hear mixed history on, because on one hand the British and Americans were forbidden to use Primity Fuze over land post D-Day, incase one did not go off and fell into German Scientist hands. On the next, during the Battle of the Bugle, German first hand accounts from their soldiers tell of being targeted by 'air burst' shells raining shrapnel on them, which I've always assumed to be Proximity Fuzed shells exploding before hitting the ground fired by the Allies. That leaves me confused. Did we or didn't we use them ?
The Proximity Fuze was a major contribution to British air defence such that it was our secret weapon, and its effectiveness was so great in reducing the number of shells that needed to be fired to down an aircraft. This is the reason why the Japanese turned to Kamikazi attacks later in the Pacific war as the US Navy was now equipped with Promixity Fuzes, the Japanese Airforce learned they just could not get through the anti aircraft fire and even if they did, expect to get out alive on the other side of the attack run. Therefore if their pilots did manage to be lucky enough to get through the anti aircraft fire, they might as well crash their aircraft into the target as it was almost certain they wouldn't get out alive on the other side. So add your aircraft to the 'bomb'.
There are a number of RUclips videos covering the development, technical difficulties and construction of Proximity Fuze shells kicking around too, from the 1940's.
About the middle of the war with America's involvement, the Proximity Fuze was married to American gun laying radar sets making a formidable weapon for aircraft to penetrate. This is what your looking at when watching the Kamikazi attack videos from WW2. Radar assisted Proximity fuz shells exploding as a wall of shrapnel the Japanese had to fly through.
This included the V1 which began soon after D-Day and was instrumental in bringing a technical advantage to shooting down as many V1's as we, the British did. Radar assisted Proximity Fuz. So you can see why with our 4 engined heavy bombers over Germany, Britain was keen the Germans did not get their hands on our Proximity Fuz and this would make the banning of Proximity shells in Europe understandable.
In contrast once a V2 was fired there was simply no stopping it. There was nothing that could stop a V2 once launched. *Falling* at super sonic speeds, as shell does, remember its really an artillery shell, it was too fast.
Back to V1 and V2 development, I can't recommend enough David Irving's book The Mares Nest. An utterly fascinating and I found un-put-downable read of the British Governments scoffing at the idea of a missile being developed in Germany that could do what the V2 was claimed by informers to do, together with the otherside, on how the Germans were doing it. A real tale of cat and mouse antics.
Irving, one of the few historians who can actually speak and read the German language, a fundamental issue missing from so many mainstream historians, makes this publication available for free from his website as a PDF download. It is a great introduction to this authors work which is so often labelled controversial while ignoring the fundamental grounds of his research - original sources while trying to get to the truth about history. Many people, often with a vested interest, don't like Irvings version of history and prefer to stick to that by historians who don't speak or read the German language that instead use each others English written work as the basis for their "original research".
On RUclips there are also some indepth technical talks about the A4 rocket in particular focusing on the Turbo pump assembly that is well worth a watch.,
On the topic of "Was it worth it to spend all this money on development ?" the real consideration, while put into perspective concerning 48,000 tanks instead, is these rockets were long range. Therefore its more realistic to compare the costs against the development of a heavy 4 engined bomber force, along with the crew training and eventual loss of their crews. History I think tells us the answer. No air force runs thousands of heavy bombers any more. They have all been replaced with missiles, now the 'guidance system' issue has been solved.
Great video. Loved it. Such a shame the 'official program' does not even take you out the very spot where the rockets were launched from. Such a crying shame this place of such significance is in such ruins. So glad they have done something where they feel they could - the power station buildings. Thanks so much for taking us there with you.
With regard to the VT or Proximity Fuse, it was only allowed over water until D-Day, then it was allowed over land afterwards, partly because of the V-1’s. American P-47 pilots have described being shot up by Allied AA batteries who had misidentified them as FW-190’s. Speer describes having no less than 20 separate groups trying to develop an effective mass-producible Proximity Fuse. Even reverse-engineering things take time, & then there was the beating we were giving to German Industry that also would’ve made that task even more difficult.
@@TraditionalAnglican The Wiki page clears the issue -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze#World_War_II
The British Anti Aircraft guns were centred in and around London until the advent of the V1 attacks, which just happened to coincide around D-Day. At this point the AA guns were moved from London to the South Coast where dud shells would fall into the sea and would not be found by the enemy.
Yes, the shells were used in the Battle of the Bulge, but otherwise first and foremost concern was given to the weapons continued secrecy.
Friendly fire incidents happen in all wars and will have no effect on a weapon deployment decision.
As the Germans presumably never got their hands on one our design, reverse engineering that design isn't something to concern us. They were working on their own solutions with lots of options as you suggest, but little in the way of production.
love your videos man! thanks a lot!! wish i could join yas!!
Glad you like them! come with sometime, I will start arranging tours when we can.
A bus driver i know grew up near pennemunde - the schools in the area had a tour around the pennemunde Every year as an form of outing
and there is still an old bus driving around there:-)
The Peenemunde site still exists, but is off limits due to many unexploded bombs from the RAF bombing raid in the marshy ground. SO after making enquiries 3 British males flew OVER the site in a 20 minute flight. It is very near the Polish Border. Besides test sites there is a huge pond there IN WHICH lies the wreck of a British Lancaster, shot down during the raid
The light plane flew from the former East German fighter Air base there.
Incidentally the bombing raid meant to STOP Rocket development there,
BUT killed one Scientist and his family + maybe 200 forced workers from the nearby Kolkshagen Camp
The move of all the personnel and rockets to Mittelbau underground tunnels in the Harz. This area had very strong rock that would withstand bombs if dropped. Although the ends of two 4km twin tunnels were blown up when the Russians left. However Germany drilled an access tunnel into one tunnel and now visitors can see inside on certain days by the Museum of the Dora Mittelwerke complex. I have been inside. Its impressive maybe 100 feet wide or more and the height - imagine 2 double decker buses one on top of the other. The main tunnels had side tunnels where work took place with machinery etc. This place was liberated by the US Army who moved everything they could to USA because post war it was agreed to be in the Russian Zone of Germany. A lot of people died at this camp
How can so much forest grow over the buildings at the one hour mark? That stuff is truly a testament to how fast mother nature can eat...
I know we need some weed-a-way here lol
Hey this is great I've seen 3 of your war movies and now this thankyou Tino at least you tell it like it is with no favouritism, cheers from down Under mate keep up the good work.
Thank you my friend, I try, I always thought that was the hallmark of a good historian to not take sides but provide the information for you to make up your own mind.
@@tinostruckmann mate I have been through about 7 of your documentaries so far and they are bloody excellent ,how long did it take ??, . I had no idea of half of the stuff you showed well nearly half, I have heaps of documentaries and yours are the best for just cruising along and checking stuff out , getting information from the past and chucking it all together for a good doco , and the most important thing is you know the mainstream crap is not true and you went out and found out for yourself, thanks mate, keep it up and stay safe.
Another quality job
Dude.. the wasserfall is one of my Favorites too!
perfect for home defense lol
Aye Tino you said something about a detonation in the neighbourhood of Ludwigslust and the ruins of the former luftwaffe airfield are maybe still there (probably worth visiting)
I am going to, I was there last year but the area is enormous and without a coordinate it means a lot of walking. But I will go back and approach from a different direction.
Top class as always,The German Government destroyed more of those era buildings than the Russians ever did.
Sad is it not ...
First time watching, and you got a follow, very interesting.
Excellent, I loved it !!!! One of the most interesting ones on RUclips.
Glad to hear that! I am trying to bring you all something interesting and there is a lot of history out there.
another quality documentary, the unofficial museum is impressive. keep up the good work 🍻
Thanks, will do! You can count on it - I am just beginning
I was waiting on this video. You always teach me so much and do it with humor which just makes it funnier. I learned so much about the v-rockets. I also would love to know what the hell that building was. If it was the factory.
Thank you so much for saying so I do try I'm afraid that humor may come out more this year LOL I'm sure the building is mapped out somewhere it's way too big to have been a secret it just doesn't seem to match up with anything according to the maps with the aerial photos I will ask the curator of the Met Museum when I go back next month
@@tinostruckmann if you can find anything about it will you do an update video? I would just love to know. If anybody can find out about it I believe it's you. Not to much pressure. Lol. Can't wait for more because I got about 15 more videos to binge on. Guess I will just have to watch them again. I really enjoy the Q&A ones. Have a great day sir.
@@nickcox3497 thank you so much and you can rest assured I will figure it out and there will be a lot more videos also from there
@@tinostruckmann thanks and look forward to them. I don't know if anyone tells you but thank you for responding to your fans. That is what we love.
@@nickcox3497 It took me 16 hrs to catch up --- lol there may be a time where I will either respond of edit new episodes, but its the least thing I can do, or try to do for all of you who bother write me:-)
Been waiting for this!! Thanks Tino!
So have I sorry for the wait
@@tinostruckmann No need to be! It’s always well worth the wait! WW2 is by far my favorite subject and always awesome to get your prospective. Thanks again!
Great information. I’ve learned a lot and enjoyed the video. Thank you
If Hitler would have moved more slowly with his invading or waited a few more years to develop his secret weapons, things might have turned out differently. We all might be speaking German now. Just think about it. I mean wow! Awesome video! 👍
Thank you, of course by waiting the allies and Russians were also re-arming, and Hitler did want to wait, he did not believe there would be a war if he invaded Poland. He was certain that the allied would not declare war, even postponed the invasion of Poland once with a few hrs notice. Just to reach out to the British diplomatically
This is amazing the Germans were so far ahead just a pity they couldnt get there act together....Russia and America were the winners here as they grabbed all the tech and proto types thank you Tino for this it was so amazing.
Thank you - more to come
* In Germany, the Bahn, *(DB)*Rail system,was the Best way to Travel ! *LOVED IT !
As always absolutely Amazing video. It's frightening to think that, if Germany was that close to creating a Nuclear warhead, and place it in a second generation V2 that had the capability of reaching America, and indeed allied countries, it might be a very different world.
Well they were working on the A9/10 to reach America, some people like von Ardenne and several others claimed it was tested, but until I see all the possibly launch facilities I will reserve judgment on that. And im going in a month
They weren't remotely close to achieving nuclear reactions at very small scales, let alone weapons.
This yap prof went to tojo min of war in 38 th he says what i hold in my hand equals 25 tons of coal tojo talks to the emperor and says this guy iscrazy he wants to bomb a city with coal banzai ronadamn
@@simonjohnston9488 sorry. The Germans exploded 3 Atomic or Nuclear bombs. First test at Borkum Island on the Baltic. Second and third tests on the Army training area a couple of miles east of Ohrdruf south of Weimar.
Now Ohrdruf had a forced Labour camp. The last test half incinerated dozens of the camp prisoners a couple of miles away.
Now Eisenhower only ever saw one Concentration Camp. He and Patton saw those half incinerated bodies and realised the risk during their tour.
Patton later was based at or near Dachau post war BUT was not there when liberated.
Germany could make a nuclear bomb, but had no means to use it on USA mainland
fantastic, informative as ever,did you discover what the huge complex was that you GPS tagged ?
Tino great job on this tour of Peenemunde. I was there about 4 years ago and did not find half of what you did!
Come with me next time:-)
Some archaeology, for sure!
Amazing stuff Tino ! I am slowly but surely catching up and will be current on all episodes. I wasn't able to join the live Q & A like I planned, but replayed on my commute after work. Great great stuff :-)
Thank you so much, I am trying to keep up and get some new videos out before I travel again:-)
@@tinostruckmann Enjoy the local eateries in Europe. I've only experienced world travel through stories by friends and family. I tend to pay attention when they start talking desserts. Apparently we can't do it justice.
On your next trip to TN maybe you could send me some San Francisco clam chowder. I ate my fill of this when I lived there. Nothing better !
Safe travels.
If only the trees had eyes! WOW the Germans REALLY built BIG!
Have you heard about the new patents by the Navy on the High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator (HEEMFG)? It uses counter rotating cylinders spun at high energy used to test/design a new form of weapon known as a “Spacetime Modification Weapon” which is said to make nukes looks like mere firecrackers.. News of this was just broke this year by thedrive.com/the-war-zone and counter rotating cylinders spun at high electricity sounds A LOT like the whats been theorized to be at the heart of "Die Glocke" from the hinge.. Could that be why it was kept so secret and covered up even to today because of what they found there and what it was proposed to accomplish? If this new patent for a "spacetime modification weapon" that would make "nukes look like firecrackers" was derived from information obtained from the testing at the hinge, I guess it was done for good reason..
I'm told that we Americans had a little help to win WWII in the last few
months of the war. What was this help? And who was this country? My
history teacher says that we won the war on our own, and that we needed
no help from other countries. My teacher gave the class a list of the US
inventions that won us the war, and that we use today. Radar, jet
engines, the enigma machine, the bouncing bomb that broke the German
dams, Microwaves and the wrist-watch to name but a few. What a wonderful
country we live in; don't you agree?
Your teacher if stupid. Lots of countries participated, and Soviets were the big dog at the end.
Quality as always.
Thank you so much for saying so
@@tinostruckmann I can see this being picked by discovery or another network for that instance. I would say your work rivals Mark Felton's and could easily make it onto terrestrial television.
Thank you for this video. I didn`t know there is still so much to see on usedom. I will make a visit after corona .
Go for it, there is no corona out in the deep woods lol -Maybe Ill see you there, Im going back next moneh