The Blitz On The Midlands - Full Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- The Blitz On The Midlands - Full Documentary
This is a powerful account of the German bombing raids on the central towns and airfields of England, including the terrible blitz on Coventry and the smaller raids of the Lincolnshire and East Anglia. It was here that the Luftwaffe attempted to knock out the RAF on the ground and launched attacks on the industrial areas and factories producing many of Britain's crucial tanks and aircraft.
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Its good to see this as its my dad talking in one or two spots in the documentary, its info that he had not shared with me and its so good to hear his voice.
My Nan lived in Aston, she used to make airplane parts in the war not too far away.
she told me that she saw Coventry being bombed and how it was all lit up. She’s 97 and I love her telling me about the war, we need to keep these horrific stories alive as a reminder of what war brings
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Did you ask your Nan if the number of American GIs with whom she had drunken sex was an extremely high number? I'm doing a research project for a history professor with whose wife I am sleeping. Actually, we don't get much sleep.😁
@@r.daillee1034Your stand-up act sucks.
My Grandma is 97 and still going. Her husband, my Grandpa, was in the US Army Air Corps based in England. He was a gunner on a B-17. He passed in 1970 at 53.
France and the British Empire started two world wars they could not win.
Churchill began civilian bombing.
My grandma a young girl fell asleep at the cinema during one of these raids, she missed her shift at work, a raid came her factory went into an air raid shelter and the entrance was bombed killing the lot including her family and friends, I wouldn’t be here today if she hadn’t fallen asleep. This raid was in Birmingham.
I’m from the US and I keep telling a friend of mine that it’s amazing how they never taught us this in high school
Schools have become nothing more than indoctrination centers. They are literally rewriting the history books.
They wouldn't have had time for such detail but I certainly got at least a survey of the war and some about the Blitz. Part of education is to stimulate you to do your OWN research. To expect to have it all done in high school is unrealistic. Perhaps had you grown up in the UK where it was part of your parents or grandparents lives, you'd have had more of it in school.
I'm from Birmingham we visited Coventry cathedral they have memorials the city was flattened you could see the sky lit up from Birmingham
@scottfoster3445 Well, the centre was, not entire city. The Luftwaffe only had medium bombers too - the Heinkel He 111 carrying the heaviest loads at that time. Imagine the German population on the end of the Halifax, Lancaster and Short Stirling raids.
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Germany had started a war they themselves could not keep up, the British would attack Germany with 1000 bomber raids, Coventry lost 800 people in one night but the British would kill 40 thousand in one night in Dresden. This war of attrition Germany could never win.
There were 33,000 bombing raids on the Uk right up to May 1945. Learn some facts.
Very true !
Germans could never win this war.
Western oligarchs would have sent ten times as much war material over the Atlantic and sacrificed ten times as many troops.
But Germans performed not so bad
@@armstronggermany2995Learn to read. They were talking about 1,000- bomber raids, not 1,000 raids. The last German attacks were in May 1944. So, you're wrong on all counts.
When people mention the blitz most people incorrectly assume it was just london that got bombed but most of the uk got affected also.
In response to the RAF bombing cities and towns in Germany.
indeed as we were at war..we gave as good as we took..Be rather foolish not to.
@@doctorsocrates4413 France and the British Empire committed suicide by backing the Soviet invasion of fascist Poland in 1939.
@@JamesRichards-mj9kw what has that to do with the midlands blitz.?...absolute nonsense.
@@doctorsocrates4413 We should have allied with Germany against the real threat.
I grew up in West Midlands and our house in Halesowen had a air raid shelter in the garden , made of concrete and sunken into the garden about 6ft.
What about the bombing of Birmingham and other towns in the Midlands?
It is covered. Weren't you paying attention?
I do feel the intro could be a little longer 😂
Some three minutes. Totally unnecessary.
Coventry was the Allied model for Germany funnily enough The Luftwaffe did such a thorough job on it we decided to copy their example and return it in spades! ....such is war!
Dresden was bombed to ashes in February 1945. Years after Coventry. Most of german cities had been bombed to ruins already when Lancs started against Dresden. And Lancs took off again for destroying another german city when the death were still beeing counted in Dresden. I think that hadn't to do anything with payback anymore. RAF area bombing directive was never about revenge or payback but about an act of recurring blind destructivness and terror. Well, but you are right. Such was war started by germans. Germany had to bear responsibilty for their warfare but british and especially bomber command for their warfare too.
I grew up near Newcastle. I used to visit my uncle in Coverntry every summer. It is a lovely city. There is still evidence of bomb damage from Nov. 14th, 1940. The old cathedral still stands as a monument.
I can only imagine what fear and trauma children must have endured during such bombing raids.
War crime, nothing else. My ancestors could tell you a thing or two about it. They lived in Cologne when war crime came back to Germany.
@@michaelengel3407 Then again the allies did some also, all unjustified.
To Kid, the power from a nearby/unexpected... Bomb explosion was, at first,... Frightening, Then, with the shockwave shudder gone, ... the flying bits turning, and slowly started back to earth, ... one discovered that ears were not working very well, ....and this quire silence, gave one the opertunity..... to think about it all , ....and take cover / do whatever was necessary.... to be,... (now, or never),.. Safe. Frightened feelings...then changed into.... covering one's face...... and moving one's arse.
@josephpostma17I87 Unjustified? Some of it was vengeance, which was justified, this video shows very little time span of the War. Fighting was still going on in other parts of the world, where soldiers were dying.I remember the brother of my Grandmother returning from being a prisoner of the Japanese, he was a walking skeleton. He never fully recovered, died a few years Soldiers were still fighting and dying in foreign parts. Those who survived could come to their wife, mother, father, grandparents or children. No home. Any one of these tragedies are bad enough. More even worse. After the war, information became known of the atrocities of Concentration Camps. Medical experiments on children, pregnant women etc.Anything regarding German or Germany were hardly flavour of the Month.
@@michaelengel3407Wrong. Perfectly permissable under the laws of war at the time.
While I find the documentaries on the London blitz really good, its actually useful to see it from a Midlands perspective. I'm from Notts so know the places mentioned. When was this done?
Between 1939 and 1945
Ahhhh... I meant the documentary, rather than the war itself 😁
@@torquilmacleod2577 😂😂😂👌
Look at how many Lancasters and crews never made it back from night bombing raids over Europe in WW2 , nearly 60000 RAF bomber crews lost , Germany sent up night fighters and had anti air craft guns
Looks like the midlands had nothing like that ? they were all in and around London
The alled raids on Germany took place later in the war than the majority of the German blitz raids on the UK, Germany had by then made advances in night fighters.. 👍
Keep Calm and Carry on.
My Dad and his family were in Coventry the night it was bombed, all hunkered down in an Anderson shelter in the back garden. Held told me when the "all clear" sounded, his oldest brother opened the door to the shelter , an unexploded incendiary bomb rolled in, he said you've never seen an Anderson shelter empty so quickly 😁
These un-exploded incendiary bombs were not dangerous. I was 11 yrs old, and I had a side business of fixing the bent Fins and then, later, reselling them as souvenirs (at 9 shilling each). I fixed /sold eleven of them before the raids stopped, and Hitler then left Liverpool alone and attacked Russia, etc,
Did we really need 3 minutes of weird music?
just one more point , fighters were scrambled when London was being bombed day & night
As we see today - attitude is as long as London is ok , nothing else matters in the UK , same applied in WW2 , same thinking 80 years on
So was Coventry just left to the hands of the German bombers because it wasnt London
Makes you think ?
Bullshit. London still got 68 consecutive days of bombing. London's military importance was as a port and its associated industry. What would be the logic of moving the RAF to the midlands?
Britain had converted some Blenheim bombers for night fighting but they were slower and not particularly effective so no, night air raids during Blitz did not have effective night fighter protection. Only day raids. All you had to do was look it up. I did.
The midlands is more than Coventry. Where’s the rest of it.
You didn't pay attention. Raids on Nottingham, Birmingham all covered. Coventry was the worst so of course it got the most attention. A lot was covered in just under an hour's documentary. You want to learn more do your own research!
Missing the hare coursing clip around 48mins with spitfire chasing heinkel/junkers while dogs coursing a hare in a field below
best german aircraft used in recon was the Junkers 86P it was also pressurised
How old is this documentary?
Maybe 10 years ? I’m not sure but for the way it looks like Most Guessable !!
At the end it says: 1999
England should leave Germany alone
Churchill started it sadly! Fantastic documentary!
rubbish the germans started it by dropping bombs on London first by accident
So Mike you clueless lefty propagandist... How did "Churchill start it"?
Started what??? Britain might have been the first air raid on Berlin, but be sure, the Lutfwaffe wasn't far behind; just a matter of timing.
WW2 1939-1945.
You have to think how far Coventry is from any coast line in the UK , to bomb Coventry they would have had to fly over 100 plus miles of land in England , plus over spotting posts on the coast , why werent fighters scrambled to bring the German bombers down , its not hard to keep track of the 100 plus bombers but they got through ? Makes you wonder what really happened and what the real story is ?
Because in that point in history fighter planes didn't have radar & low light vision systems, And pilots couldn't the bombers, That is why the Nazis switched to night bombing raids, as the defending fighters couldn't do much to stop them in the cover of darkness.. No conspiracy theories needed 🙄
The bombings usually happened at night. This was the 1940's, not yesterday.
The "real story" of what? It is true that the codebreakers at Bletchley had broken some of the Luftwaffe code but had specific warnings gone to Coventry the fact this had been done would have given it away--caused more long term damage to a desperate British war effort. Remember Britain was alone in Nov. 1940 Plus, Britain in Nov. 1940 did not have night fighters--You are using 21st century thiinking on a mid 20th century war. Doesn't work like that. Do some reading,