@@jurekprzychodzen6454 They didn’t Ban Capitalism, just bent it to their own ends, look at which of the worlds largest corporations benefited from the Nazification of Germany. Including Ford and GM and Standard Oil. A'll these companies had ties to Nazi Germany and German Companies. Look it up, the history is there. Including that GM invested heavily in IG Faben who developed Zyclon B.
@@jurekprzychodzen6454 they gave contracts to their favoured firms, changed the labour laws to make labour cheaper, supplied forced labour to companies like Bosch, VW, Messerschmidt, and others, the contractors who built the Atlantic wall were supplied Slave labour, Schindler managed to save all those lives because they were slave labourers in his factories, he had to become a favourite of the local German military Government, he bribed and treated them to expensive gifts. This went all the way up the Nazi hierarchy, Goering, Hitler’s second in Command was particularly corrupt. So we’re many others. Private industry profited hugely under the Nazis, but the Economy couldn’t stand being on a continuous war footing and was beginning to collapse from before half way through the war.
Back in the early 70's the BBC showed a German documentary I think it was called Fire Falls from the Sky, it was about the experience of German pilots and aircrew during the Battle of Britain it gave a real insight into how their initial confidence rapidly dissipated into fear and despair at their mounting losses and how what they were experiencing was markedly different from how it was reported to the German People.
The German pilots began to suffer Kanal krank (sorry about the spelling - I'm not German) meaning Channel sickness... fear of what they were flying into.
And also, Hitler & Goering were SO proud of their Stukas - the dive bombers that would strike fear & rain death upon the Brits. In reality, the Stuka pilots would fly valiantly across the channel - then NEVER return. Didn't take long for the Luftwaffe to realize pretty much all stuka pilots were on one-way suicide missions. The slow & unmanueverable stukas were easy prey to the Spitfire & Hurricane pilots. To the Brits I say good show old boys!
My mum was in the Land Army and worked on the fields with German and Italian POWs. She made friends with one of the German POWs and they kept in touch until a few years ago when they both died. She told us kids about watching the trails of the planes when they were fighting. The most scaring thing she told me was when a German plane flew over the town and sprayed bullets into the road and pavement. War is such a horrible thing because most of the time the men (and women) on the ground have no argument with each other, but when you know the other side are bombing you and shooting at you, you fight back.
They did that (initially) to try and get the RAF into the air. Later on they did the same to some London schools where the auxiliary fire service were based. My grandfather was a metropolitan policeman during the war and got called to the scene.
Back in the 1980s a colleague was serving in the RAF and on a base with a Luftwaffe officer on an exchange posting. With Battle of Britain Day approaching no one dared raise the subject with this German. On the big day the German Officer appeared in the Officers' Mess in full dress uniform to join in the celebrations. When asked, he replied, "Well, we were there too, you know."
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." Sir Arthur Harris
@@sprinter1832 there's still a dispute over whether the condor legion really bombed Guernica. You are looking at a time when all those volunteers were used as enfant perdue,and sent on attacks thought too costly for trained troops
Great job. I'm a Veteran and a Historian at a Military Museum. Very well done. War is always going to be the worst thing mankind can do to each other. Not only for those of us forced to fight it but for the innocent people stuck in its path. Keep up the good work.
@@HistoryHustle just discovered this, an uncle served in the East Lancashire regiment alongside the American paratroopers at Nijmegen,sadly succumbed to his wounds RIP...
I’m really learning from these German perspective videos. It’s a subject that I’ve long wondered about. The quotes shown are excellent for giving the viewer a real feel for the people living through these momentous and difficult times. Keep up the good work!
Lol, he isn't giving you the "German perspective" but straight lies given to us by the victors of WWII, meant to gaslight the naive population to believe the war against Germany was in the name of "Democracy, freedom, religion and justice." He is literally misatributing letters to Germans (about the bombing of London) when in reality the letters are from the RAF pilots who bombed German civilians during night raids on Dresden, many other German cities using incedinaries with their bombs, the bombing and straffing of German civilians (mostly women and children) attempting to escape the Allied powers unrestricted and dispicable night and (later by the Americans) daytime bombings from 1939-1945. The German perspective comes from the Germans and from Hitler's perspective. Not from the victors. This "historian" neglected to mention any of the 24+ peace offers that the British refused to accept but then claim it is because the Germans fear and know they will lose.. When in reality, it was the Germans who won the war in the West and even after the British and French violated rules set by the League of Nation when they invaded and amassed their troops on the soil of neutral states in the war that surrounded Germany. It was France that first invaded Germany in 1939. The Germans didn't enter the French Capitol, Paris, until 8 1/2 months after their declaration of war. The Germans, thanks to Hitler, never used night bombing campaigns in Poland, Paris, or Norway and only targeted military targets.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 100% Spot on! However it's the small hat brigade running this thread so expect zero support and a full on attack on everything you're saying. Nice to read the honest truth for a change, don't let them grind you down.
Excellent presentation. Both of my parents were living in Lithuania in 1940. I was a history student at UCLA in the 1970s, and, in general, discussion of various perspectives on WW2 were common in our household. Your presentation provides another important perspective. Thank you.
Not bad, very watchable. Nice to hear a perspective from a Dutch historian on WW2, many people and channels try but few succeed, it's all down to the quality of the presenting in the end as well as the content. Can see myself watching more from History Hustle, one of the best I've come across since Indy from WW1 week by week, WW2 in real-time. and the rest of his excellent work.
@@douglasgreen437 Yes I've watched some of his stuff, but I find his vocal and delivery a bit boring. Stephan's on the other hand I love, drew me in and I enjoyed listening, watching and learning a bit more. Like WW2 in realtime, I only really enjoy Indy's presentation, can just about cope with Sparty (though I do find him boring and a bit overdramatic) but can't watch anything else on the channel. All personally subjective but glad I've come across Stephan and the History Hussle channel :)
When I think of German perspective of the war in general, I remember a personal incident. I am and American who moved with my family for work to the Netherlands in 1974. I lived in a rowhouse in Kijkduin that had been built before the war. One summer weekend day, there was a knock on my door. On opening it, I found a family standing outside, grandparents, parents and three children. The grandfather asked first in German, then in Dutch and finally in English if he could show his family the house. When I asked why, he said that he had lived in the house when he was stationed there to support the E-boats in the harbor and wanted to show it to his family. I could not imagine how he thought that he would have been received if the original owners had still been living there.
Dear Phil When I think of my grandparents, it was a time of unimaginable suffering. So if my family is anything to go by, the presentation at the door would have been talked through quite thouroughly beforehand, and they would have know how to deal with a pained or hostile reception, and would have withdrawn in a way that allowed both parties to retain their dignity. Like I say, the Dutch suffering was all to familiar.
@@martinmuller3244 One of my collogues at work was a 55 year old Dutch gentleman who had been conscripted into a forced labor camp in Germany, making hand grenades. He spoke with obvious relish of sabotaging them so that 1 in 100 would go off immediately in the soldier's hand when the pin was pulled. Even in the 70's he hated Germans with a passion. I know what he would have done if they had come to his door; slammed it in their faces.
Love your correct pronunciation! I am a post-war child of an American Air Force father, who brought us to Germany, where I have strong ties. Eventually I married a man, who had a German mother, whose brother was in the German Air Force. Now I have a son in the grandchild generation of two men who had been enemies in the air. Thank you for explaining and exposing war folly.
It is nice to see you living an example of how people can overcome differences. Of course that is much harder when there are deep seated grievances based on tragedy, but that is another reason why we should prevent war, which is the perfect instrument for proliferating such grievances. Another human tragedy is seeing people nurturing grievances over events that occured hundreds of years ago. Those people really need to learn to move on and focus on building a better future where such things no longer happen.
@@blrbrazil1718 The war with Germany was avoidable but the Allied powers wanted war. Not peace with Germany. Had they attempted to understand the vital concerns of Germans, then Danzig will be German but everything else would go back to the 1939 borders in Poland. Had Churchill took Hitler's pleading seriously for the end of all hostilies and to end the night time bombing of German civilian, there would be no war. Hitler waited three and a half months hoping Churchill would come to his senses before retaliating and bombing London. During those three months, his Air Force dropped leaflets containing his speech "A Last Appeal To Reason" and the pleading for the bombing of German civilians at night to stop, onto London and other British cities... Yet, Germany couldn't reach London or penetrate its air space? Crazy that the German pilots were able to reach London to drop leaflets pleading for peace and again after Hitler finally retaliated?
Thank you again Professor. A change to see Germany through 80 years old eyes, rather than through modern days eyes. Something that is often ignored. Truely an excellent lecture. Keep up the good work!!!
@@jacklewis5452 At least, there is a lot more to this part of history than the common cliché that "Hitler did it". Indeed, Poland did show quite some aggression in the advent of WWII. It waged war with the proto-Soviet Union in 1921, occupying large territories (causing disgruntlement within the Soviets, which incited the 17 September 1939 invasion). It showed aggression against neighbour Czechoslovakia and would rather have seen that Poland could have joined up with Hungary and Romania to swallow Czechoslovakia. It showed aggression against the Ukrainian and German minorities on its own soil. The German complaints about this treatment was no propaganda invention at all. Poland sabotaged the negotiations with Germany on otherwise reasonably negotiable issues, like the free city of Danzig (not Polish, but left by the League Of Nations to Polish administration), German traffic connection concerns between East-Prussia and Germany proper, and the fate of German ethnics in Polish areas. Germany demanded plebiscites in these areas, just as a plebiscite in Danzig. Those civilians ought to have been granted the right to decide for themselves. But that was not what the Polish rulers wanted.
Nikki now every country has become exhausted in the sense they don't want to fight any more. Soviet after the war has built so many nuclear bombs that it is enough to destroy the world 10 times. Britain close to Russia is no more a powerful country in terms of strength of mass destruction weapons that Russia has today. So the war zone in Syria is a test ground for Russian weapons like US used Afghan soil as the testing ground for their weapons but they failed and left Afghanistan leaving that country in ravage condition again.
A good history teacher, and this man is a gem, is something to be treasured. I had one at my school and we used to look forward to his lessns the way you might look forward to the next episode of a great TV series. How good is that?
You are never defeated unless you sign a treaty... That ' why British never surrendered. Thanks to uncle Winny, who acted against all the British establishment. Thank you Winston for what you did.
@@myday805 respectfully disagree. A treaty can easily be considered a defeat if the terms are unfavourable, especially if few/none of the war aims are achieved.
@@rickwalker2 the treaty that was offered by Hitler at that time, was one that gave a free hand to Germany all over Europe. Great Britain would be ousted once and for all from the european continent and the european affairs. Given the fact that the goal of the british foreign policy since the napoleonic wars is not allow any single power to dominate the European affairs, such an arrangement would have been a defeat.
@@rickwalker2 A treaty is an agreement by which two or more sides gain and give concessions that please all signees. Treaties are signed as part of an agreement where either no war has been engaged in as is often use by allies and where in that particular instance, outside of the alliance, it's not a one in all in but rather select roles and responsibilities in regard to a certain thing such as the ANZUS treaty between the US, Australia and New Zealand which was in and of itself not dependant on the alliance between the 3. But treaties can also used by potential enemies to avoid a war, such as the Molotov/ Ribbentrop pact where Nazi Germany and communist Russia agreed to not inhibit each others expansions. Treaties are also used between two or more waring peoples who have reached a stalemate and aren't going to manage to defeat each other so agree to stop fighting and just get along. There are of course gains and concessions made on all sides such as the Maori wars between Britain and the Maori's. People forget or don't know that the Maori's never surrendered. There was a treaty drawn up between the two instead. People who lose wars or are simply invaded or colonised ie defeated do not get treaties.
3:12 There‘s a joke by German comedian Torsten Sträter that says when the Allied bombers flew over his hometown of Dortmund and the pilots saw how desolute and ugly Dortmund is, the pilots thought that they must have been there before.
Duuuuude. I am a former RN officer and temporary Cloggie (I filled a space that was left between two Dutch Navy officers teaching air / surface warfare) and so I *LOVE* hearing different perspectives. Brilliantly presented. Really enjoyed that and I have (naturally) subscribed. Great job. Thank you!
My grandfather worked in the wages department for Rolls Royce in Derby where Merlin engines were made. As RR was a legitimate target it received a fair amount of attention from the Luftwaffe. He was an ARP warden as he was getting on a bit by the time that Derby was bombed. He had been a signals rider for the newly formed RAFin the Great War on the Italian/Austrian front and had picked up a stahlhelm as a trophy. So one night German bombs were dropping spreading shrapnel that made a steel helmet a must. Unfortunately he could not find his ARP helmet so he puts on the stahlhelm and goes to his warden duty. Luckily the first person to meet him knew him so my grandad was not shot as a German paratrooper. Not his best idea!
Ha! My grandad was in charge of honey production in Durham. One day, having found a bee-keeper with many colonies infected with foul brood, he confiscated the hives and took them up onto the moors to burn them. While he was burning them he was suddenly surrounded by a group of nervous gun-toting Home-Guardsmen. They arrested him at the point of a bayonet thinking he was signalling to German bombers!😂
My dad was evacuated when he was 11 and was working in Armstrong's factory when he was 14. (That still makes no sense). Anyway, one winter's day, on his way back home from work, the bombs started to drop. He reckoned that Carl Lewis - an American sprinter - couldn't have beaten him across the Blaydon bridge that night. He had four older brothers who fought. He did National Service in Malta when everything was over. "Our war was a picnic compared to Malta's!" Our war was a picnic compared to everyone else's, in Europe. Blessed by geography!
@@crashrr2993 My dad's side is Polish, and so I've heard some stories that are typically European, regarding the Germans and Russians during and post War years (I suppose we are still and always be in the post war years, I digress). However, as an American and relative to men who were Anerican GIs at this time, I can help but notice the difference in tone and view point of the war between Europeans and US. That is not to say we are lacking in stories of miracles, sacrifice and heroism. Basically we did what we've always did and will continue to do: Beat up bad guys, bail out our freinds, and put places in other people countries where our flag flys after everthing is said and done and so the way we look at things, isn't as personal... even for US second generation Americans!
Very interesting my grandparents on my mother’s side lived and sheltered in London during the Battle of Britain. Thanks for the well researched upload!
Interesting to hear about it from the other side. When I was learning about WWII at school, my mum got me to read Sven Hassel, they were an eye opener, I then adopted a different perspective about it all. Great video and thank you.
My father went through WW2 as a regular soldier, becoming an officer and eventually part of the occupation forces in Germany, where he was 'town major' in Bohn. I recall him in the 70's reading Sven Hassel books, a good number of them. He had no animosity towards the German people and said there was a mutual admiration between the two forces. ( What we didn't know for a long while was he tried to get back into Germany to be with his German girl. )
The repercussions of the German losses in the battle of Britain, would go on to haunt the Luftwaffe, so many experienced pilots and crew lost plus the time to get new working air craft back in the air would play a significant role in the war! Big shout out to the lads from 303 plus pilots from other nations too you are always remembered!
Some years ago, a group of us looked at various aspects of the Battle of Britain. My particular aspect was to try to identify the key deciding factor. Looking at various British and German accounts both at tactical level and command, aircraft, tactics and many other things were quite evenly matched. In the logistics of aircraft replacement and spares supply however, the British had quickly put together a highly resilient system that responded accurately to current and anticipated need. The Germans were hide-bound by rigid organisations and the perversion of supply by political influencing. The result was that Luftwaffe units struggled with replacements while the RAF was usually able to replace lost aircraft and damaged parts.
It is important to note that by the start of the battle the UK was producing significantly more new aircraft than Germany and that continued till the end of the war and the Soviets were not far behind Germany and the Americans were producing more everyone else including the Japanese put together. By the end of the battle Britain was also producing more pilots to a higher standard than Germany with the establishment of large training schemes in Canada and in particular South Africa, where pilots could be trained in conditions not compromised by both the war and British weather.
Wrong and right. The British replaced lost aircraft quickly but German aerial tactics were superior and this could have been a deciding factor. The Germans were generally better trained but suffered from the fact that they could not operate for very long over England especially if going fast - a keen requirement for air fighting. The German armament was also superior. Radar was good for the Germans as it got the British into combat earlier and so produced more losses. The figure cited of 625 in August for 120 odd Germans is b/s. British high command was poor. Dowding has been massively over hyped. Park was good but Leigh Mallory was always seeking to improve his position and undermine Park. This video is poor. Take care when citing its contents.
@@grahamariss2111 Yes, Graham, you are correct. Additionally, the U.S. and Great Britain both had Advanced Training programmes for pilots, using the excellent AT-6/Harvard. The Germans and Japanese did not have either such a programme or trianing aircraft. When a talented and experienced pilot was lost to U.S. and British air forces, he was immediately replaced by a very well-trained pilot. Just the opposite took place in the German and Japanese air forces. A raw, mostly totally inexperienced pilot took the lost pilot's place. This is a large reason why the Allies were able to sweep the skies over the Pacific and Europe after a while.
@@gramilwolf3448 So the German airforce had better planes, better pilots, better tactics, better guns and Goering was 'better' than Dowding. AND RADAR was bad for the Brits. BUT importantly by October 1940 Britain had more planes and trained pilots than it did in June 1940 and Germany had less....... AND the threat of invasion (which would never have happened anyway) was gone. SO how did Germany 'loose' the Battle of Britain? What went wrong? Could you please explain.
Sir you provided a lot of valuable and accurate information in a short time while staying interesting. Your balance from both sides was important to the understanding of the conflict. As one teacher to another I am learning from you - well done.
Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote: "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind"
Translation of what he said above: you aren't truly thinking if you believe in truth. I always suspected that Nietzsche was an idiot. Thanks for confirming it.
Just reading the book Alarmstart. Luftwaffe fighter pilots memories of the whole of the war. They knew they had lost the war after the invasion of Britain was abandoned and the RAF actually replaced lost aircraft and men quicker than the Luftwaffe. A very revealing read.
The RAF raid on Berlin in Aug. 1940 worked the same way as the Doolittle raid on Tokyo: while causing no significant damage, the enemy panicked and began to make strategic mistakes.
Let’s talk about the bombing of Dresden. Let’s talk about the allied powers unrestricted bombing of German civilians and across Europe. The Germans were bombed day and night until the end of the war. 1939-1945.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 Bombing of Dresden was done because war material was being made there and the Soviets demanded it so they didn't have to lay siege to it. Plus only @20,000 died. But I see you don't want to talk about the cities the Germans bombed all over Europe and Russia.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 Well, those cities were packed with civilians who worked in the industrial areas. They were continuously feeding the German war machine, resulting in millions of people dying each year in Europe as the war dragged on. If the Allies didn't destroy their cities how many more years would the war have lasted? How many more millions would have died with all that German production ability still active? The Allies were desperate to end the war as early as possible. If Germany had a remotely sane leadership during the war they would have surrendered long before they did. We mustn't forget who was ultimately responsible for the war in Europe.
@@MrPicklerwoof Clearly you are deeply invested in the version of events surrounding WWII, Hitler, National Socialist Germany, and so on that you are so ignorant (I do not mean that in a rude way) of the truth. If the "peace-loving democracies" fighting the war in the name of God, freedom, and justice truly wanted the war to come to a quick end, they would have not continued the fighting when it could have been stopped in 1940.. If the outisde world (namely the French and British, who encouraged Poland not to come to a negotiated settlement with Hitler on the aggression towards German minority by the Poles) took the vital concerns of Germany seriously and attempt to come to an understanding, Hitler would have never been forced to invade Poland in defense of the German minorities in Danzig. The "phony war" would have been prevented. The last generous offer to the problem by Hitler, the day before the invasion, would have meant that Danzig would stay German and everything else would stay the way they are.. No more claims would be made by the Germans to change borders, the borders of 1939 would not change, with the exception of Danzig..The claim that German minorities in Danzig were being subjected to cruel persecutions and massacres is not propaganda from the Germans nor is it false. You can easily find first hand witness accounts, pictures of the bodies, propaganda from the Polish government encouraging the murder of German civilians trapped in Danzig by the Polish military and Poles, and other evidence to show otherwise. The act of Poland declaring martial law on Danzig and trapping the Germans seeking to leave Poland was a violation of the pact Hitler and Poland's government (in late 1930s) reached in hopes that they could build a friendship and end all hostilities. In fact, Hitler has constantly spoke publically in his rallies and political meetings on his wish to bring the old enemies from the first World War and Germany together in friendship and not as enemies. Hitler was very vocal on wanting Germany to be left alone and allowed to live in peace, even before the war. The British and French, who claimed to wage this war to end all wars, certainly saw no problem with bringing neutral nations into the war by using their neutral status to amass their troops for an invasion of Germany. Hitler would not have had to push the Allied powers out of these states in the defense of Germany if the Allies respected the neutral status of the nations. Deaths of soldiers and civilians would have been prevented. The French and British declared war on Germany immediately and France briefly invaded Germany before being pushed out and forced back to their country, resulting in the signing of the armistice between Germany and France. The British had no reason to sink the French fleet carrying civilians and sailors under the false notion that Germany intended to use their ships to reach Britain. When the British were trapped at Dunkirk, surrounded by the Germans, Hitler forced his generals to stand down and let the British evacuate Dunkirk. This was a sign by Hitler that he wanted peace and an end to the bloodshed. Germany didn't set foot into France until 8 1/2 months after they declared war on Germany and briefly invaded. The Allies, in their so called "liberation" of France, killed more French civilians in their bombing of French cities than the amount of British civilians killed during the entire war. The "Battle of Britain" should be correctly called "Battle of Germany" because it was the British attempting to penetrate the air space of Germany, this is a historical fact. It was also the British who began bombing civilians at night, not Germany. Another historical fact. Hitler refused to retaliate against the British in kind because he hoped and falsely believed that Churchill would come to his senses and stop the bombings of civilians. He waited three and a half months to retaliate in kind, and in those three and a half months.. Germany's Air Force (who we are told couldn't penetrate Britain's air space and reach London) dropped leaflets of Hitler's "Last Appeal to Reason" over London and other British cities. His "Last Appeal to Reason" was a speech he made to the Germans and was aired across Europe, where he pleads for an end to the senseless war and the ceasation of British bombings against German civilians, for the world to forsake bombing warfare, especially against civilian populations. Hitler ordered the retaliation against Britain in September. The Allied powers rejected all 24+ offers of peace from Germany. Instead, used Germany's offers of peace as a false notion that Germany is on its last leg or that Germany knew they are going to lose. Or as a sign of weakness from Hitler. "Mr. Churchill ought for once believe me, when I prophesy that a great empire will be destroyed which it was never my intention to destroy or even to harm. In this hour, I feel it my duty before my conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense in Britain. I can see no reason why this war must go on!" - July 19th, 1940. "The blood of every single Englishman is too valuable to shed. Our two people belong together racially and traditionally. That is and always has been my aim. Even if our generals cannot grasp it!" - Hitler, on the evacuation at Dunkirk. The people responsible for the outbreak of war is the Allied powers and the deaths of millions falls on them for their refusal to accept peace, especially when it comes from the victor and the victor that wants nothing from France or Britain in return. Just peace and an end to the war. Their deaths fall on the Allied powers as they waged bombing campaigns against cities all across Europe and dared to claim they are liberating the people from an evil man and evil country and invoke God while bombing civilians.
Nice rundown. The real and lasting british victory in the battle was that fighter command broke the luftwaffe...the loss of deeply trained and experienced crews was never rectified, german aircraft production was diluted having to replace massive losses and complicated by starting behind the british in terms of production to begin with. The big kill was morale...the aura of luftwaffe invincibility died over the fields of southern england.
Small issue at 1:19, although initial breakage of 3 Enigma wheel rotor had been aced by the Polish codebreakers (and the overlooked Polish intelligence service agents) before Aug 1939 neither Rejewski, Langer nor Maksymilian Ciezki were involved in the successful breaking of the war-time 4 wheel system (at start of war, Polish intelligence could no longer read Enigma messages) and none of the codebreakers were present at Bletchley (nor even physically in Britain) at the time of Operation Barbarossa. They of course inspired the British (Turing & co), which based their work off the Polish mathematical techniques.
Thanks for bringing up this additional contribution by Poles. The Poles were great allies during the war. Remembering the contributions of the Polish Air Force, Navy and Army in the West, I think of Poland as occupied but never conquered by the Germans.
I remember an interview with one German pilot. He said Goring and the OKL (Oberkommando der Luftwaffe) underestimated the importance of radar to Britain's defence strategy. He recounted the frustration many German pilots felt when they were on mission and there would ALWAYS be British fighters waiting for them, without fail. Add to that, the strength of the RAF from some in the German perspective, Hitler included, didn't appear to be diminishing. Hitler began to grow frustrated with Goring's inability to definitively 'smash' the RAF!
My father told us that he was speaking to a German pilot after the war,and was told they never realised how big London was,and it was impossible to bomb all of it.
Hi Stefan, thanks for sharing again. Hitler did not believe that the British would accept his peace offer, but on the other hand was also afraid that if he brought the British to their knees, the colonies would be picked up by Russia, the US and Japan, at the cost of German lives (Kershaw) . Hitler considered attacking the Russians because they would be the last straw the British hoped for. These plans did not take shape until the end of 1940.
I think it is true that he admired the British and wanted them to be allies, but it is also true that he was treacherous and nothing he signed - much less uttered - could be relied upon.
It's probably not wise to ascribe too much logical insight to Adolph Hitler. He was a great orator and a hugely charismatic personanality, but on balance, a genuinely inept military strategist. A dark era in human history. His actions caused the deaths of millions - including his own countrymen.
Think how the Japanese, after Pearl Harbour, thought the US would sue for peace if they experienced a major defeat. They ignored the desire for revenge by a country with a huge manufacturing capability.
The British were not entirely alone, the governments in exile of the by Germany occupied countries supported GB, and e.g. Dutch Indonesia was not occupied then and was still in war with the axes (Germany, Italy, Japan), together with GB and later with the USA.
Good video - thank you. Germany underestimated the RAF fighter numbers - believing they had at maximum 500 Spitfires and Hurricanes. In reality they had over 700 in use and another 400 ready at a days notice. At the end of the Battle of Britain, despite heavy losses, the RAF had more fighters ready than at the start. Germany had struggled to keep up with building its fighters and had less available aircraft than they had started with.
Fantastic video, I have been watching a lot of battle of Britain videos recently and was always wondering what the German perspective was. Thanks for uploading!
Hello, I live in the small village of Gaianes in Spain & recently an old friend on the other side of the valley of the river Serpis died , having lost my dad in 2012 John Wedkake became dad # 2 he was a retired M.P. His daughter Katherine took sick leave from Canada to see his last days , he was bedridden for 5 years & died from covid ,Katherine gave me lots of his memorabilia including a set of D.V.D s of the Battle of Britain.I have my own dad's stuff here plus medals, just a cook /steward he survived the Arctic convoys , North Africa, the Italian campaign, the Dunkirk evacuation & the re taking of France, on a minesweeper his Captain was Worsely the navigator of Shakeltons search for the Falklands to rescue his entire crew of the Endeavor .My dad's captain at 71 , everyone involvement in the actual war , not pen pushers were brave men on all sides .What we have now are highly sophisticated weapons to fight Russia which has a rightful claim to a great part of Ucrania , calling fine Vladimir Putin a genocidal maniac not realising that annually in the States 600,000 plus are killed by their outrageous arms laws. I urge you all to read about the secret meetings between Churchill & Hitler , a proposal was made of sharing out Europe peacefully , Churchill turned it down & prolonged the war by 3 years , agreeing would have saved many of the Jews ! America would be stupid to turn down Russia's proposal , don't mess with Vladimir Putin ( a friend of our late Queen) North Korea is ready for Nuclear war if spy satellite data is picked up by the States , as you say Sir war is a terrible thing but America loves it , too many of it's government representatives have & are still making a fortune from weapons .I have a book "Longevity "in which a mutated virus in America was developed , called then COBID ! A W.M.D !!!! Certainly worked !
Thank you for another enthralling video. It is interesting to see how the Germans, as well as the other countries of the Axis, were convinced they had the God given right to ruin other countries, their cities and the lives of millions of people, but screamed bloody murder when attacked. As we say in French : Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête (sow the wind and reap the whirlwind). Long live the RAF!
Yeah, didn't the Germans march off to war with belt buckles that said "Gott Mit Uns" Governments sending their young men off to war will always claim that their cause is right. At least I can look back 80 years later at what my countrymen (Canadians) did with pride and the knowledge that, yes, we fought a just war on the right side.
@@iansneddon2956 I completely agree with you. Oups...I forgot the RCAF. Vive le Canada! (And respect to all the countries that fought on the side of the Allies.) Greetings from Montreal.
Another very well prepared program. Very informative and skillfully colored with emotional narration. I watched 3 today and I was impressed by every single one. Well done! Thank you Stefan. ( I hope I spelled it correct 😀)
It was very interesting to hear "the other side" as everyone on all sides regularly lied about what was going on, each for their own ends, some good, some bad.
Interesting to hear how the other side felt. I know my Grandmother born and raised in London at that time never used the Underground trains again due to sheltering in the stations through the blitz and also the V1/2 rockets I guess it must have been a scary time in London when you heard the drone overhead or when the drone stopped you know you were seconds away from hearing a big explosion.
Glad I found your channel. Very good video. Once upon a time (May 1983-May 1985) I was station at 32nd TFS Camp New Amsterdam, Soesterberg AB, Soesterberg, Nederlands. We frequented Zeist, Amersfoort, Utrecht and Amsterdam. I loved my two years there. Wonderful country and fantastic people.
My late Grandmother was born in 34. She remembered the War well. They could tell German & British planes apart by the noise of their engines, even as a child. She said the German plane's sounded rougher, probably to do with the Germans not synchronising multi engines to run in time with each other. When she was 9/10 year old a Luftwaffe plane opened fire on her & 4/5 others on their way to school one morning. No-one was hit but only because they jumped into a ditch. This was on a remote Scottish island too.
As Brit, I thinks it's great to see the Polish Code Breakers get a mention BUT it would have been nice to mention Polish Pilots along with all the other overseas Pilots that were vital in getting the RAF through the 1940 airwar. (I believe it was a Polish Squadron with the highest number of downed German aircraft. A combination of flying skill, aggression and vengeance that when combined with the Spitfire made them a force to be feared!)
Just to provide some context while celebrating the bravery, skill and success of Polish "Kościuszko" 303 sqd, the top scoring RAF squadron of the battle of Britain, also remember the other nationalities who flew as part of the squadron during the battle and who contributed SO much to its success. (All kill tallies mentioned are for during the period of the battle of Britain). Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd total kill tally - 58.5 confirmed kills Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills "A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills "B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills. Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills. We in the UK remember ALL the pilots (and NOT just the Polish ones).
@@rogerduncan2603 The Hurricane was the better gun platform and was used against German bombers. The Spitfire was there to ward off the German fighters.
The Hurricane was the best RAF fighter in 1940. It could outurn any enemy aircraft at that time. This why it was the mount of some great pilots, Dougie Bader, Robert Stanford Tuck, The Polish 303 squadron etc.
@@HistoryHustle Yes, that's the point! Britain declared war on Germany for the second time, don't forget that. After the First World War, the dictates of Versailles were imposed on Germany, Germany had to recognise "sole guilt", surrender the High Seas Fleet, territories were separated, etc. Without this Versailles dictate, there would be no Hitler and no "Battle of Britain". Yes, that's the point, my friend!🧐
As an English person, Its interesting to see this perspective, having obviously lived most of my life with a very Anglo-centric view of WWII. As the saying goes "The first casualty of war, is the truth'".
My Dad told me he was playing cricket for his school in Hove when a Messerschmitt roared over the field, pursued by a Spitfire. They had to stop the game to clear up the empty cartridge cases from the pitch.
I've just discovered this. Well done, good to hear from the Netherlands. One of the things that angers & disappoints Canadians is when British historians repeat the line "Britain stood alone". Britain had Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the remainder of the Commonwealth that came to her aid. In the case of Australia her military fought to aid Britain and she had her own war at home by 1942. Britain had vast material and human resources to draw upon, it may have felt like she was alone but she never was. Britain had the added advantage of manufacturing between the US & Canada that was integrated, even before Dec7th 1941 Americans were pushing aircraft across the boarder for Canadians to pick up. Now where did that DC-3 go??? I think we lost it. Now that we have a teacher from Holland on the internet perhaps you would like to do a story about your royal family's life in Ottawa Canada and also the special friendship that developed between the Netherlands and Canada. After WW2 farmers from Holland came to rural Canada and reinvigorated farming on a massive scale. Just a few interesting notes from the pages of history.
As a European country, Britain stood alone, unconquered. The fact that commonwealth and other foreign pilots joined the fight does not alter that. Nobody infers that only British pilots resisted, and much is made of those brave overseas volunteers who joined the RAF in 1940.....but it WAS the RAF, it was based in the only country in Europe still holding out. It was comprised of overwhelmingly British ground crews, plotters, radar operators, observation corps, civilians getting bombed, and yes, still 75% British aircrew. We were 22 miles from Nazi- occupied France, which tends to concentrate the mind.
@@adventussaxonum448 I'm interested in your thinking and I realize we will not come to a place of agreement, that said it is important to have a conversation. The British Empire was not perfect, none are, but Britain had the affection and support of her Empire in a way that is quite unique in world history. During wartime Canadians such as William Stephenson & Lord Beaverbrook made sure you were not alone. It is Stephenson that will do so much to bring the US into the war. Thank God he did have US friends & Churchill and including the top US man FDR. 100 Canadian fighter pilots participated in the Battle of Britain + so many more from the commonwealth. Britain had Polish & Czechoslovakian friends, united by hatred of Hitler. If Britain were alone than what about the lives of so many who who died on route to England? The Convoys that sailed from Halifax & Sydney, from Quebec & Montreal before the US was in? Britain because she was a different kind of imperial power was not alone. This is my contention and it is the gift of parliamentary Democracy to her children that made such a difference in her hour of need. It seems to the British people that they were alone but they had raw strength in what was then called the dominions. Canada had the electronics industry in Montreal & Toronto + car plants ready to be converted to build hawker hurricanes, eventually Mosquito & Lancaster bombers. All available to mother. Does this really sound like a country that was alone. British gold safely stashed at The Royal Canadian Mint. Gold ready to back the purchase of war material. So it took some time coming but from the outset the dominions made sure Britain was in great company, she had what the nations of mainland Europe did not have. The British people had friends and family abroad. Britain earned her right to not be alone. You realize this is from my perspective and I accept you have your own. Peace.
The Queen Wilhelmina did not go to Canada, she remained in London at the head of the Dutch Government in exile. The words; "Britain stood alone", means alone in Europe, ie it was the only non-neutral, allied, country not under the Nazi occupation. We all know of and indeed learned about in school, the support generously given by the Commonwealth countries, Polish and Czech pilots, even a few USA pilots, who joined the RAF and fought in the Battle of Britain.
I read that the Germans were the first to "bomb" British cities. Bombers would routinely ensure that they released all of their payload so there was no risk of a bomb exploding when the aircraft reached its home airfield and landed. Supposedly a German pilot realised he still had bombs on board when he turned for home so released them, "accidentally" onto a British city. In other words, the German pilots at that stage were not authorised to deliberately target cities. However, the UK government saw this as a malicious act and retaliated by bombing German cities which infuriated Hitler who returned the compliment.
Wow, I know a lot about the second world war but its ALL from the british perspective. This video is really really informative and eye opening. Thank you so much for doing this! I am looking forward to watching the rest of this series, and all your videos!
Very well presented and informative presentation Stefan! I always look forward to a new History Hustle video. Watching one of your historical educational presentations has become a Saturday tradition!
At 4.55 'By August 19 the Germans had shot down 624 British planes and had lost 174 themselves.' Er, no. August 13 - August 18 inclusive, RAF Fighter Command lost 116 aircraft and 40 airmen, the Luftwaffe lost 240 aircraft and 387 airmen. August 13 was Adlertag, generally accepted as the start of the Battle of Britain. 10 July - 12 August Kanalkampf, RAF Fighter Command lost 124 aircraft and 109 airmen whilst Luftwaffe lost 246 aircraft and 377 airmen. Source: Classic Warbirds, Battle of Britain Timeline.
@Amplass 333 You don't perhaps consider that the actual figures, as opposed to the exaggerated claims made by both sides at the time, have been in the public domain since 1945?
I found it funny how angry you suddenly sounded when saying "Kinderlandverschickung". I have similar problem with the German words, especially the long ones. We were probably subconsciously conditioned by all the movies and documentaries about the war.
I was in the US Army stationed in Germany in the early 80s. Met a German girl and shortly we wed in Denmark. Met her grandfather who was in the Luftwaffe in WW2. He must have been around 40 then so he flew Buckers, Feisler Storchs, transports and (cough) Stukas. (His words) He told me he was shot down by the Russians twice! It was well known Opa visited America after the war. He had a photo portrait of Mt Rushmore on his apartment wall. It turns out Opa was liberated by the US Army from a concentration camp!! Opa was an officer in the Luftwaffe. Officers in the German Forces had to have a Nazi Party card. I'm guessing Opa came home from the Russian Front and started telling everyone the war was lost! Nazis then put him in a death camp! Only speculation! Opa died in 1987....
Hey mate, Big hello from the U.K. Great work you doing I have learnt more from your videos then i did at school on World War II when at school 15 years back my school only taught us the brief events of the war so cheers mate keep up the good work.
Good stuff. one German pilot admitted, "we have seriously underestimated the British. To be in a Heinkel with oncoming British fighters attacking is....how shall i say? Unnerving. " A classic case of KanalKampf -channel sickness.
'Kanalkrankheit' was a typical example of blaming the victim. Along with 'There are few duties that men from the sonderkommando can perform after a few months...' Normal behaviour in right-wing governments.
My Grandfather told me that The Germans use to Joke that: "The only good thing to come from the Netherlands is the Train to Germany"... haha Stupid, I know...
Well, better not talk about trains going from the Netherlands to Germany... By the way, they stole this joke, like so many other things. The original ‘joke’ (in fact it is not a joke, but just true) is: “The nicest thing of Amsterdam is the last train to Rotterdam”.
@GodBAINS Yt . 6.1M views Trains from the Netherlands to Germany often contained Jews and other people on their way to the concentration camps. For the Amsterdam/Rotterdam joke, there is quite some rivalry between the people in these cities.
The Germans had to have enough petrol to fly home and limited ammo whereas the British needed less fuel and replenished ammo so the advantage was in the home country
But the British then started fighter sweeps over Europe with the same disadvantage, but you don’t hear them bleating. But I guess that’s because they didn’t loose.
As I recall, the bombing of London was an error to begin with. Some Luftwaffe planes got off coarse one night and bombed the wrong target... London. And that caused Churchill to order a retaliation on Berlin. That was the start of what would become a no-holds-barred air war and the targeting of whole cities. If I'm wrong someone pleas correct me.
Was the Bombing of London a mistake no it was not that more Nazi BS What you an experience team and you get lost when you never done before and you just happen to drop you bombs on the capital city of the only European power left in the war.... come on pull the other one it got bells on
@@daniellastuart3145 It was actually an experimental fighter bomber squadron Me110 & Me109 carrying bombs. The target was Biggin Hill fighter station but they got lost in the fog and bombed Croyden airfield which was a civilian airfield 4 miles away. This led to the reprisal bombing of Berlin. From memory the unit commanders name was Hauptmann Walter Rubensdorffer and he was killed in action a few days later when he stayed with his crippled Bf110 and steere it clear of a village. Unit was called Experimental group 210. Doesn't match the rhetoric but there you go.
Come on, you know he's referring to Europe. Of course, the British Empire, and its independent colonies still fought on, as well as refugees from occupied Europe. Poles and Czechs were particularly prominent in the RAF effort.
@@pebo8306 Mention what? The contribution of Aussies, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, or of the Polish and Czech airmen? The war memorials around the UK don't suggest that. Neither does the portrayal in films like the Dambusters or Battle of Britain. The Poles were given a prominent portrayal in the latter and one of the main characters was Canadian. There was even a roll of honour showing the countries of the airmen who took part and the casualties, shown at the end of the film. Let's not forget, though, that the planes, radar system, ground crews, civilians, and overwhelming percentage of aircrew were British.
@@adventussaxonum448 Was this mentioned here? Clearly :NO! Also:regardless of the RAF;the mere existence of the Royal Navy,was a guaranty that no realistic threat existed for British territory.Britain simply could not loose,as long as they did not capitulate themselves.
It’s so interesting hearing from the German perspective and that soldier’s letter to his wife was so telling...he truly believed that the British were the aggressors...propaganda is a hell of a drug; that, and there’s also more than the simple layers and perspectives that make up such complicated wars. Once you peel the onion back, wars become murkier and murkier. (As if war by itself wasn’t hella murky)
Wild Moutain, we were told that the war with Iraq was justified because of weapons of mass destruction. The MSM pushed the narrative (propaganda) on behalf of the UK Labour government so the country could go to war on false pretences. Continues today with most wars and personally wouldn't trust anything the MSM prints.
Having worked for two German companies I would say that it's a German tendency to believe what they want to believe irrespective of the facts. It actually helped Britain enormously during the war.
Excellent video , however I think you might have made a slight error. In timestamp 4:53 you claim the Luftwaffe had shot dow 624 aircraft and lost 174 to the RAF. I think you might have mixed these up.
In the documentary series World At War Episode 5 Luftwaffe General Adolf Galland himself said Hitler told him the Battle for Britain was a camouflage for the invasion of Russia. Gallands expression of this sad realization is noticeable even 30 years later.
History is not written by the victors, but written by those with the most consistent and compelling arguments based on the evidence, backed by a healthy dose of rational logic and passion for debate. The key is not to apologize for any side but to take a firm stand for what's right and what's wrong.
@@HistoryHustle I like your video, but I have an idea, given that in 4 days time it will be the 80th anniversary of the death of the former German Kaiser Wilhelm II in Huis Doorn.....have you ever considered making a video on Wilhelm II's life in the Netherlands following his abdication? That would be a good video! Just a thought
Shame you did not make the point that when a German plane was shot down the crew were either killed or captured, the RAF had a high percentage of pilots able to bale out and fight again, my Great Grand Father was shot down three times, and lived to fly through the war until 1943 were he was posted to training squadron, in his words he was done as a combat pilot due to constant ear and eye infections caused by stress and oxygen at altitude, he lived until he was 88yrs old.
@Alan: I didn't put much effort into this episode to be honest, since it's not of my greatest interest. Never expected it to be watch that much. It's insane. If I knew this I would to more indepth research on it. Oh well.
You should title this video as a review or an exposition of Stargardt's book. Not saying he's wrong, just that it's only a *single* source. Hardly a "history" video. Real history has to meld the perspectives of many sources to glean as much historical reality as possible.
Fair point. Actually this video was one of these videos I made so people wouldn't complain why there wasn't a video about it. Never expected this video to blow up with over 100K views. The YT algoritm works in mysterious ways...
@@georgeevangel3233 Nope Hitler was a Moron. We are not "Germanic" we are partly Germanic. And we didn't admire him one bit, wannabe Caesar/Alexander. English people have more native Brittonic blood than Germanic, according to DNA tests, which they didn't have in the 1940s. Germanic people migrated to Britain 1500 years ago. We are not Germanic in a sense that Hitler thought.
@@oktfg Hitler did not actively break an agreement with Chamberlain, if you are referring to the Czech crisis of 1938. Hitler felt he had to act, when the rump state of Czechia behaved more militarily than before, once the former Czechoslovakian state fell apart more and more (not to German meddling, but because the Slovaks, the Ruthenians, the Magyars, the Poles and the Germans wanted out of Czech oppression). Together with the French and Soviet alliance, the Prague ruled Czech army was quite a threat within the flesh of the Austrian-German Reich (just have a look at the map of Central Europe of 1938). Taking this threat out of the equation was on Hitler's mind then. It was not about mocking Chamberlain in some way. Besides, Hitler had promised (together with Mussolini, then not yet his political partner) to uphold the results of the Munich Conference, only if the Czech government would come up with proper solutions for its minority issues within six months. That did not happen, so the promise to stick to the Munich Conference points had become obsolete.
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can you give an exact date for hitler's abolition of capitalism in grmany, please?
@@michelguevara151 never was an official date as far as I know.
@@jurekprzychodzen6454 I'd say state-run economy. I haven't read much yet about Nazi economics, but on TIK History channel there's a lot about this.
@@jurekprzychodzen6454 They didn’t Ban Capitalism, just bent it to their own ends, look at which of the worlds largest corporations benefited from the Nazification of Germany. Including Ford and GM and Standard Oil. A'll these companies had ties to Nazi Germany and German Companies. Look it up, the history is there. Including that GM invested heavily in IG Faben who developed Zyclon B.
@@jurekprzychodzen6454 they gave contracts to their favoured firms, changed the labour laws to make labour cheaper, supplied forced labour to companies like Bosch, VW, Messerschmidt, and others, the contractors who built the Atlantic wall were supplied Slave labour, Schindler managed to save all those lives because they were slave labourers in his factories, he had to become a favourite of the local German military Government, he bribed and treated them to expensive gifts. This went all the way up the Nazi hierarchy, Goering, Hitler’s second in Command was particularly corrupt. So we’re many others. Private industry profited hugely under the Nazis, but the Economy couldn’t stand being on a continuous war footing and was beginning to collapse from before half way through the war.
Back in the early 70's the BBC showed a German documentary I think it was called Fire Falls from the Sky, it was about the experience of German pilots and aircrew during the Battle of Britain it gave a real insight into how their initial confidence rapidly dissipated into fear and despair at their mounting losses and how what they were experiencing was markedly different from how it was reported to the German People.
Thanks for sharing this!
The German pilots began to suffer Kanal krank (sorry about the spelling - I'm not German) meaning Channel sickness... fear of what they were flying into.
And also, Hitler & Goering were SO proud of their Stukas - the dive bombers that would strike fear & rain death upon the Brits. In reality, the Stuka pilots would fly valiantly across the channel - then NEVER return. Didn't take long for the Luftwaffe to realize pretty much all stuka pilots were on one-way suicide missions. The slow & unmanueverable stukas were easy prey to the Spitfire & Hurricane pilots. To the Brits I say good show old boys!
just like now from the ukraine front
@@sunfish340 Indeed!
My mum was in the Land Army and worked on the fields with German and Italian POWs. She made friends with one of the German POWs and they kept in touch until a few years ago when they both died. She told us kids about watching the trails of the planes when they were fighting. The most scaring thing she told me was when a German plane flew over the town and sprayed bullets into the road and pavement. War is such a horrible thing because most of the time the men (and women) on the ground have no argument with each other, but when you know the other side are bombing you and shooting at you, you fight back.
Interesting to read. Thanks for responding!
They did that (initially) to try and get the RAF into the air. Later on they did the same to some London schools where the auxiliary fire service were based. My grandfather was a metropolitan policeman during the war and got called to the scene.
Interesting, I must admit as a British citizen we don't hear much about how the Germans viewed the "Battle of Britain".
Back in the 1980s a colleague was serving in the RAF and on a base with a Luftwaffe officer on an exchange posting. With Battle of Britain Day approaching no one dared raise the subject with this German. On the big day the German Officer appeared in the Officers' Mess in full dress uniform to join in the celebrations. When asked, he replied, "Well, we were there too, you know."
@@neiloflongbeck5705 "Don't mention the War'...........
@@pittarak1 I think I mentioned it, but I think I got away with it...
Yeah cause so many german planes intercepted RAF cannon and machine gun shells 🤣😅😂 🇬🇧🇬🇧🎯
@@pittarak1 I did once but I think I got away with it...
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." Sir Arthur Harris
They practiced on Guernica first! a Spanish city with no air defence, no air raid shelters, and no chance!
@@sprinter1832 there's still a dispute over whether the condor legion really bombed Guernica. You are looking at a time when all those volunteers were used as enfant perdue,and sent on attacks thought too costly for trained troops
@@Trebor74 Oh well it must have been a heavy hailstone!
Propaganda for the naive masses. Thanks for nothing 'bomber Harris'.
If it hadnt been for russia and usa . We would of been utterly wiped out
Great job. I'm a Veteran and a Historian at a Military Museum. Very well done. War is always going to be the worst thing mankind can do to each other. Not only for those of us forced to fight it but for the innocent people stuck in its path.
Keep up the good work.
Respect. And thanks for your reply, sir!
@@HistoryHustle just discovered this, an uncle served in the East Lancashire regiment alongside the American paratroopers at Nijmegen,sadly succumbed to his wounds RIP...
I’m really learning from these German perspective videos. It’s a subject that I’ve long wondered about. The quotes shown are excellent for giving the viewer a real feel for the people living through these momentous and difficult times. Keep up the good work!
Great! One more will be coming up this Summer!
Lol, he isn't giving you the "German perspective" but straight lies given to us by the victors of WWII, meant to gaslight the naive population to believe the war against Germany was in the name of "Democracy, freedom, religion and justice." He is literally misatributing letters to Germans (about the bombing of London) when in reality the letters are from the RAF pilots who bombed German civilians during night raids on Dresden, many other German cities using incedinaries with their bombs, the bombing and straffing of German civilians (mostly women and children) attempting to escape the Allied powers unrestricted and dispicable night and (later by the Americans) daytime bombings from 1939-1945.
The German perspective comes from the Germans and from Hitler's perspective. Not from the victors. This "historian" neglected to mention any of the 24+ peace offers that the British refused to accept but then claim it is because the Germans fear and know they will lose.. When in reality, it was the Germans who won the war in the West and even after the British and French violated rules set by the League of Nation when they invaded and amassed their troops on the soil of neutral states in the war that surrounded Germany. It was France that first invaded Germany in 1939. The Germans didn't enter the French Capitol, Paris, until 8 1/2 months after their declaration of war. The Germans, thanks to Hitler, never used night bombing campaigns in Poland, Paris, or Norway and only targeted military targets.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 100% Spot on! However it's the small hat brigade running this thread so expect zero support and a full on attack on everything you're saying. Nice to read the honest truth for a change, don't let them grind you down.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 Where can I see the sources that your version of events appears please Michael?
@@foolonthehill731 You will need a powerful flashlight to see up his ass because that is where he pulled his version of events from.
Excellent presentation. Both of my parents were living in Lithuania in 1940. I was a history student at UCLA in the 1970s, and, in general, discussion of various perspectives on WW2 were common in our household. Your presentation provides another important perspective. Thank you.
Not bad, very watchable. Nice to hear a perspective from a Dutch historian on WW2, many people and channels try but few succeed, it's all down to the quality of the presenting in the end as well as the content. Can see myself watching more from History Hustle, one of the best I've come across since Indy from WW1 week by week, WW2 in real-time. and the rest of his excellent work.
TIK's channel on RUclips is great...He has a great historic perspective on WWII..
@@douglasgreen437 Yes I've watched some of his stuff, but I find his vocal and delivery a bit boring. Stephan's on the other hand I love, drew me in and I enjoyed listening, watching and learning a bit more. Like WW2 in realtime, I only really enjoy Indy's presentation, can just about cope with Sparty (though I do find him boring and a bit overdramatic) but can't watch anything else on the channel. All personally subjective but glad I've come across Stephan and the History Hussle channel :)
Thank you for replying. Indy's work is great indeed!
Very well done. Us Brits only get concerned when the tea starts running a bit low otherwise we carry on as normal.
My view of my Americans is similar if we ran out of coffee we would be worse off
Very wise
@@oceanhome2023 please! Diet Coke
@@oceanhome2023 Priorities Ron, priorities and standards of course everything else is a blip in time:)
Quite right old chap, my supply of tea is rather on the low side at present, must pop over to the shops shortly & replenish
When I think of German perspective of the war in general, I remember a personal incident. I am and American who moved with my family for work to the Netherlands in 1974. I lived in a rowhouse in Kijkduin that had been built before the war. One summer weekend day, there was a knock on my door. On opening it, I found a family standing outside, grandparents, parents and three children. The grandfather asked first in German, then in Dutch and finally in English if he could show his family the house. When I asked why, he said that he had lived in the house when he was stationed there to support the E-boats in the harbor and wanted to show it to his family. I could not imagine how he thought that he would have been received if the original owners had still been living there.
Interesting question!Clearly the Germans were the aggressors;yet on the individual level German soldiers often proctected and warned their hosts!
Dear Phil
When I think of my grandparents, it was a time of unimaginable suffering. So if my family is anything to go by, the presentation at the door would have been talked through quite thouroughly beforehand, and they would have know how to deal with a pained or hostile reception, and would have withdrawn in a way that allowed both parties to retain their dignity. Like I say, the Dutch suffering was all to familiar.
@@martinmuller3244 One of my collogues at work was a 55 year old Dutch gentleman who had been conscripted into a forced labor camp in Germany, making hand grenades. He spoke with obvious relish of sabotaging them so that 1 in 100 would go off immediately in the soldier's hand when the pin was pulled. Even in the 70's he hated Germans with a passion. I know what he would have done if they had come to his door; slammed it in their faces.
@@pebo8306 I don't believe that. I need some proof, You have any?
@@jusdafax1 No, I think slammed their faces.
Love your correct pronunciation!
I am a post-war child of an American Air Force father, who brought us to Germany, where I have strong ties.
Eventually I married a man, who had a German mother, whose brother was in the German Air Force.
Now I have a son in the grandchild generation of two men who had been enemies in the air.
Thank you for explaining and exposing war folly.
Hey Linda, many thanks for your kind words. Best regards!
It is nice to see you living an example of how people can overcome differences.
Of course that is much harder when there are deep seated grievances based on tragedy, but that is another reason why we should prevent war, which is the perfect instrument for proliferating such grievances.
Another human tragedy is seeing people nurturing grievances over events that occured hundreds of years ago. Those people really need to learn to move on and focus on building a better future where such things no longer happen.
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The war with Germany was avoidable but the Allied powers wanted war. Not peace with Germany. Had they attempted to understand the vital concerns of Germans, then Danzig will be German but everything else would go back to the 1939 borders in Poland. Had Churchill took Hitler's pleading seriously for the end of all hostilies and to end the night time bombing of German civilian, there would be no war. Hitler waited three and a half months hoping Churchill would come to his senses before retaliating and bombing London. During those three months, his Air Force dropped leaflets containing his speech "A Last Appeal To Reason" and the pleading for the bombing of German civilians at night to stop, onto London and other British cities... Yet, Germany couldn't reach London or penetrate its air space? Crazy that the German pilots were able to reach London to drop leaflets pleading for peace and again after Hitler finally retaliated?
Thank you again Professor. A change to see Germany through 80 years old eyes, rather than through modern days eyes. Something that is often ignored. Truely an excellent lecture. Keep up the good work!!!
Germany thought Poland was the aggressor too.
@@jacklewis5452 At least, there is a lot more to this part of history than the common cliché that "Hitler did it". Indeed, Poland did show quite some aggression in the advent of WWII. It waged war with the proto-Soviet Union in 1921, occupying large territories (causing disgruntlement within the Soviets, which incited the 17 September 1939 invasion). It showed aggression against neighbour Czechoslovakia and would rather have seen that Poland could have joined up with Hungary and Romania to swallow Czechoslovakia. It showed aggression against the Ukrainian and German minorities on its own soil. The German complaints about this treatment was no propaganda invention at all. Poland sabotaged the negotiations with Germany on otherwise reasonably negotiable issues, like the free city of Danzig (not Polish, but left by the League Of Nations to Polish administration), German traffic connection concerns between East-Prussia and Germany proper, and the fate of German ethnics in Polish areas. Germany demanded plebiscites in these areas, just as a plebiscite in Danzig. Those civilians ought to have been granted the right to decide for themselves.
But that was not what the Polish rulers wanted.
Thanks again, Nikki!
Nikki now every country has become exhausted in the sense they don't want to fight any more. Soviet after the war has built so many nuclear bombs that it is enough to destroy the world 10 times. Britain close to Russia is no more a powerful country in terms of strength of mass destruction weapons that Russia has today. So the war zone in Syria is a test ground for Russian weapons like US used Afghan soil as the testing ground for their weapons but they failed and left Afghanistan leaving that country in ravage condition again.
Love your work mate,from Aussie Mate
A good history teacher, and this man is a gem, is something to be treasured. I had one at my school and we used to look forward to his lessns the way you might look forward to the next episode of a great TV series. How good is that?
You are never defeated unless you sign a treaty...
That ' why British never surrendered.
Thanks to uncle Winny, who acted against all the British establishment.
Thank you Winston for what you did.
Signing a treaty isn't a defeat. It's not a win but it's not a defeat. Signing a surrender is a defeat.
@@myday805 respectfully disagree. A treaty can easily be considered a defeat if the terms are unfavourable, especially if few/none of the war aims are achieved.
I agreed, Churchill was right
@@rickwalker2 the treaty that was offered by Hitler at that time, was one that gave a free hand to Germany all over Europe. Great Britain would be ousted once and for all from the european continent and the european affairs. Given the fact that the goal of the british foreign policy since the napoleonic wars is not allow any single power to dominate the European affairs, such an arrangement would have been a defeat.
@@rickwalker2 A treaty is an agreement by which two or more sides gain and give concessions that please all signees.
Treaties are signed as part of an agreement where either no war has been engaged in as is often use by allies and where in that particular instance, outside of the alliance, it's not a one in all in but rather select roles and responsibilities in regard to a certain thing such as the ANZUS treaty between the US, Australia and New Zealand which was in and of itself not dependant on the alliance between the 3.
But treaties can also used by potential enemies to avoid a war, such as the Molotov/ Ribbentrop pact where Nazi Germany and communist Russia agreed to not inhibit each others expansions.
Treaties are also used between two or more waring peoples who have reached a stalemate and aren't going to manage to defeat each other so agree to stop fighting and just get along. There are of course gains and concessions made on all sides such as the Maori wars between Britain and the Maori's. People forget or don't know that the Maori's never surrendered. There was a treaty drawn up between the two instead.
People who lose wars or are simply invaded or colonised ie defeated do not get treaties.
"How Germans saw the Battle of Britain*
With a ruddy great pair of binoculars!
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hahahahaha that tickled me
From the viewpoint of the loser.
Your presentations are wonderful, pace, content, I wish only they were for longer. :-)
Many thanks.
3:12 There‘s a joke by German comedian Torsten Sträter that says when the Allied bombers flew over his hometown of Dortmund and the pilots saw how desolute and ugly Dortmund is, the pilots thought that they must have been there before.
lol
The successful bombing of Duisburg improved the moral of both sides.
The Germans have comedians? I never knew that.
@@Tiny-Tim Yes. And they are pacifists, too… 😂
One time the Luftwaffe bombed Southend, they did £20 million in improvements.
Duuuuude. I am a former RN officer and temporary Cloggie (I filled a space that was left between two Dutch Navy officers teaching air / surface warfare) and so I *LOVE* hearing different perspectives. Brilliantly presented. Really enjoyed that and I have (naturally) subscribed. Great job. Thank you!
Thanks for watching and posting a comment!
My grandfather worked in the wages department for Rolls Royce in Derby where Merlin engines were made. As RR was a legitimate target it received a fair amount of attention from the Luftwaffe. He was an ARP warden as he was getting on a bit by the time that Derby was bombed. He had been a signals rider for the newly formed RAFin the Great War on the Italian/Austrian front and had picked up a stahlhelm as a trophy. So one night German bombs were dropping spreading shrapnel that made a steel helmet a must. Unfortunately he could not find his ARP helmet so he puts on the stahlhelm and goes to his warden duty. Luckily the first person to meet him knew him so my grandad was not shot as a German paratrooper. Not his best idea!
Ha! My grandad was in charge of honey production in Durham. One day, having found a bee-keeper with many colonies infected with foul brood, he confiscated the hives and took them up onto the moors to burn them.
While he was burning them he was suddenly surrounded by a group of nervous gun-toting Home-Guardsmen. They arrested him at the point of a bayonet thinking he was signalling to German bombers!😂
My dad was evacuated when he was 11 and was working in Armstrong's factory when he was 14. (That still makes no sense).
Anyway, one winter's day, on his way back home from work, the bombs started to drop.
He reckoned that Carl Lewis - an American sprinter - couldn't have beaten him across the Blaydon bridge that night.
He had four older brothers who fought. He did National Service in Malta when everything was over.
"Our war was a picnic compared to Malta's!"
Our war was a picnic compared to everyone else's, in Europe.
Blessed by geography!
Literally lol!
@@crashrr2993 My dad's side is Polish, and so I've heard some stories that are typically European, regarding the Germans and Russians during and post War years (I suppose we are still and always be in the post war years, I digress). However, as an American and relative to men who were Anerican GIs at this time, I can help but notice the difference in tone and view point of the war between Europeans and US.
That is not to say we are lacking in stories of miracles, sacrifice and heroism. Basically we did what we've always did and will continue to do: Beat up bad guys, bail out our freinds, and put places in other people countries where our flag flys after everthing is said and done and so the way we look at things, isn't as personal... even for US second generation Americans!
Very interesting my grandparents on my mother’s side lived and sheltered in London during the Battle of Britain. Thanks for the well researched upload!
Thank you.
Interesting to hear about it from the other side. When I was learning about WWII at school, my mum got me to read Sven Hassel, they were an eye opener, I then adopted a different perspective about it all. Great video and thank you.
Thanks for you reply, William!
My father went through WW2 as a regular soldier, becoming an officer and eventually part of the occupation forces in Germany, where he was 'town major' in Bohn. I recall him in the 70's reading Sven Hassel books, a good number of them. He had no animosity towards the German people and said there was a mutual admiration between the two forces. ( What we didn't know for a long while was he tried to get back into Germany to be with his German girl. )
I read them books also.
The repercussions of the German losses in the battle of Britain, would go on to haunt the Luftwaffe, so many experienced pilots and crew lost plus the time to get new working air craft back in the air would play a significant role in the war! Big shout out to the lads from 303 plus pilots from other nations too you are always remembered!
Thank you for your reply.
Some years ago, a group of us looked at various aspects of the Battle of Britain. My particular aspect was to try to identify the key deciding factor. Looking at various British and German accounts both at tactical level and command, aircraft, tactics and many other things were quite evenly matched. In the logistics of aircraft replacement and spares supply however, the British had quickly put together a highly resilient system that responded accurately to current and anticipated need. The Germans were hide-bound by rigid organisations and the perversion of supply by political influencing. The result was that Luftwaffe units struggled with replacements while the RAF was usually able to replace lost aircraft and damaged parts.
It is important to note that by the start of the battle the UK was producing significantly more new aircraft than Germany and that continued till the end of the war and the Soviets were not far behind Germany and the Americans were producing more everyone else including the Japanese put together. By the end of the battle Britain was also producing more pilots to a higher standard than Germany with the establishment of large training schemes in Canada and in particular South Africa, where pilots could be trained in conditions not compromised by both the war and British weather.
Wrong and right. The British replaced lost aircraft quickly but German aerial tactics were superior and this could have been a deciding factor. The Germans were generally better trained but suffered from the fact that they could not operate for very long over England especially if going fast - a keen requirement for air fighting. The German armament was also superior. Radar was good for the Germans as it got the British into combat earlier and so produced more losses. The figure cited of 625 in August for 120 odd Germans is b/s.
British high command was poor. Dowding has been massively over hyped. Park was good but Leigh Mallory was always seeking to improve his position and undermine Park.
This video is poor. Take care when citing its contents.
“Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.” - General Omar Bradley.
@@grahamariss2111 Yes, Graham, you are correct. Additionally, the U.S. and Great Britain both had Advanced Training programmes for pilots, using the excellent AT-6/Harvard. The Germans and Japanese did not have either such a programme or trianing aircraft. When a talented and experienced pilot was lost to U.S. and British air forces, he was immediately replaced by a very well-trained pilot. Just the opposite took place in the German and Japanese air forces. A raw, mostly totally inexperienced pilot took the lost pilot's place. This is a large reason why the Allies were able to sweep the skies over the Pacific and Europe after a while.
@@gramilwolf3448 So the German airforce had better planes, better pilots, better tactics, better guns and Goering was 'better' than Dowding. AND RADAR was bad for the Brits.
BUT importantly by October 1940 Britain had more planes and trained pilots than it did in June 1940 and Germany had less....... AND the threat of invasion (which would never have happened anyway) was gone.
SO how did Germany 'loose' the Battle of Britain?
What went wrong? Could you please explain.
Sir you provided a lot of valuable and accurate information in a short time while staying interesting. Your balance from both sides was important to the understanding of the conflict. As one teacher to another I am learning from you - well done.
Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote:
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind"
Perfect description of Islamic indoctrination.
Sounds like christian indoctrination
Translation of what he said above: you aren't truly thinking if you believe in truth.
I always suspected that Nietzsche was an idiot. Thanks for confirming it.
@Donald Sinclair You should learn something about Islam and Christianity, before you make more false comparisons between them.
Sounds like today’s Republicans.
Thanks for the research. Interesting perspective.
Just reading the book Alarmstart. Luftwaffe fighter pilots memories of the whole of the war. They knew they had lost the war after the invasion of Britain was abandoned and the RAF actually replaced lost aircraft and men quicker than the Luftwaffe. A very revealing read.
The RAF raid on Berlin in Aug. 1940 worked the same way as the Doolittle raid on Tokyo: while causing no significant damage, the enemy panicked and began to make strategic mistakes.
Let’s talk about the bombing of Dresden. Let’s talk about the allied powers unrestricted bombing of German civilians and across Europe. The Germans were bombed day and night until the end of the war. 1939-1945.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 Bombing of Dresden was done because war material was being made there and the Soviets demanded it so they didn't have to lay siege to it. Plus only @20,000 died. But I see you don't want to talk about the cities the Germans bombed all over Europe and Russia.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 Well, those cities were packed with civilians who worked in the industrial areas. They were continuously feeding the German war machine, resulting in millions of people dying each year in Europe as the war dragged on. If the Allies didn't destroy their cities how many more years would the war have lasted? How many more millions would have died with all that German production ability still active? The Allies were desperate to end the war as early as possible.
If Germany had a remotely sane leadership during the war they would have surrendered long before they did. We mustn't forget who was ultimately responsible for the war in Europe.
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Clearly you are deeply invested in the version of events surrounding WWII, Hitler, National Socialist Germany, and so on that you are so ignorant (I do not mean that in a rude way) of the truth.
If the "peace-loving democracies" fighting the war in the name of God, freedom, and justice truly wanted the war to come to a quick end, they would have not continued the fighting when it could have been stopped in 1940.. If the outisde world (namely the French and British, who encouraged Poland not to come to a negotiated settlement with Hitler on the aggression towards German minority by the Poles) took the vital concerns of Germany seriously and attempt to come to an understanding, Hitler would have never been forced to invade Poland in defense of the German minorities in Danzig. The "phony war" would have been prevented. The last generous offer to the problem by Hitler, the day before the invasion, would have meant that Danzig would stay German and everything else would stay the way they are.. No more claims would be made by the Germans to change borders, the borders of 1939 would not change, with the exception of Danzig..The claim that German minorities in Danzig were being subjected to cruel persecutions and massacres is not propaganda from the Germans nor is it false. You can easily find first hand witness accounts, pictures of the bodies, propaganda from the Polish government encouraging the murder of German civilians trapped in Danzig by the Polish military and Poles, and other evidence to show otherwise. The act of Poland declaring martial law on Danzig and trapping the Germans seeking to leave Poland was a violation of the pact Hitler and Poland's government (in late 1930s) reached in hopes that they could build a friendship and end all hostilities. In fact, Hitler has constantly spoke publically in his rallies and political meetings on his wish to bring the old enemies from the first World War and Germany together in friendship and not as enemies. Hitler was very vocal on wanting Germany to be left alone and allowed to live in peace, even before the war.
The British and French, who claimed to wage this war to end all wars, certainly saw no problem with bringing neutral nations into the war by using their neutral status to amass their troops for an invasion of Germany. Hitler would not have had to push the Allied powers out of these states in the defense of Germany if the Allies respected the neutral status of the nations. Deaths of soldiers and civilians would have been prevented. The French and British declared war on Germany immediately and France briefly invaded Germany before being pushed out and forced back to their country, resulting in the signing of the armistice between Germany and France. The British had no reason to sink the French fleet carrying civilians and sailors under the false notion that Germany intended to use their ships to reach Britain. When the British were trapped at Dunkirk, surrounded by the Germans, Hitler forced his generals to stand down and let the British evacuate Dunkirk. This was a sign by Hitler that he wanted peace and an end to the bloodshed. Germany didn't set foot into France until 8 1/2 months after they declared war on Germany and briefly invaded.
The Allies, in their so called "liberation" of France, killed more French civilians in their bombing of French cities than the amount of British civilians killed during the entire war. The "Battle of Britain" should be correctly called "Battle of Germany" because it was the British attempting to penetrate the air space of Germany, this is a historical fact. It was also the British who began bombing civilians at night, not Germany. Another historical fact. Hitler refused to retaliate against the British in kind because he hoped and falsely believed that Churchill would come to his senses and stop the bombings of civilians. He waited three and a half months to retaliate in kind, and in those three and a half months.. Germany's Air Force (who we are told couldn't penetrate Britain's air space and reach London) dropped leaflets of Hitler's "Last Appeal to Reason" over London and other British cities. His "Last Appeal to Reason" was a speech he made to the Germans and was aired across Europe, where he pleads for an end to the senseless war and the ceasation of British bombings against German civilians, for the world to forsake bombing warfare, especially against civilian populations. Hitler ordered the retaliation against Britain in September.
The Allied powers rejected all 24+ offers of peace from Germany. Instead, used Germany's offers of peace as a false notion that Germany is on its last leg or that Germany knew they are going to lose. Or as a sign of weakness from Hitler.
"Mr. Churchill ought for once believe me, when I prophesy that a great empire will be destroyed which it was never my intention to destroy or even to harm. In this hour, I feel it my duty before my conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense in Britain. I can see no reason why this war must go on!" - July 19th, 1940.
"The blood of every single Englishman is too valuable to shed. Our two people belong together racially and traditionally. That is and always has been my aim. Even if our generals cannot grasp it!" - Hitler, on the evacuation at Dunkirk.
The people responsible for the outbreak of war is the Allied powers and the deaths of millions falls on them for their refusal to accept peace, especially when it comes from the victor and the victor that wants nothing from France or Britain in return. Just peace and an end to the war. Their deaths fall on the Allied powers as they waged bombing campaigns against cities all across Europe and dared to claim they are liberating the people from an evil man and evil country and invoke God while bombing civilians.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 Jesus Christ, seriously? Your whole argument is appeasement of a genocidal dictator? 😄
Nice rundown. The real and lasting british victory in the battle was that fighter command broke the luftwaffe...the loss of deeply trained and experienced crews was never rectified, german aircraft production was diluted having to replace massive losses and complicated by starting behind the british in terms of production to begin with. The big kill was morale...the aura of luftwaffe invincibility died over the fields of southern england.
Thanks for watching.
Small issue at 1:19, although initial breakage of 3 Enigma wheel rotor had been aced by the Polish codebreakers (and the overlooked Polish intelligence service agents) before Aug 1939 neither Rejewski, Langer nor Maksymilian Ciezki were involved in the successful breaking of the war-time 4 wheel system (at start of war, Polish intelligence could no longer read Enigma messages) and none of the codebreakers were present at Bletchley (nor even physically in Britain) at the time of Operation Barbarossa. They of course inspired the British (Turing & co), which based their work off the Polish mathematical techniques.
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Thanks for bringing up this additional contribution by Poles. The Poles were great allies during the war. Remembering the contributions of the Polish Air Force, Navy and Army in the West, I think of Poland as occupied but never conquered by the Germans.
And not forgetting Tommy Flowers, the Post Office engineer who built the valve based "electronic programmable computer" that did the grunt work.
I remember an interview with one German pilot. He said Goring and the OKL (Oberkommando der Luftwaffe) underestimated the importance of radar to Britain's defence strategy. He recounted the frustration many German pilots felt when they were on mission and there would ALWAYS be British fighters waiting for them, without fail. Add to that, the strength of the RAF from some in the German perspective, Hitler included, didn't appear to be diminishing. Hitler began to grow frustrated with Goring's inability to definitively 'smash' the RAF!
Interesting, thanks for sharing this.
My father told us that he was speaking to a German pilot after the war,and was told they never realised how big London was,and it was impossible to bomb all of it.
Hi Stefan, thanks for sharing again. Hitler did not believe that the British would accept his peace offer, but on the other hand was also afraid that if he brought the British to their knees, the colonies would be picked up by Russia, the US and Japan, at the cost of German lives (Kershaw) .
Hitler considered attacking the Russians because they would be the last straw the British hoped for. These plans did not take shape until the end of 1940.
Thanks for responding again! :)
I think it is true that he admired the British and wanted them to be allies, but it is also true that he was treacherous and nothing he signed - much less uttered - could be relied upon.
What an excellent series you have sir! I admire your authenticity & delivery.
Thanks, great to read.
It’s always a good thing when any story about war is heard from both sides. Only then can we fully understand the hell everyone went through.
Indeed.
Had Britain been completed isolated, perhaps she would have surrendered.
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This is the first video of this channel I have seen, and I found it very informative, so I did what you asked me to! Subscribed & hit the bell!!!
Thanks for your reply. Welcome to the channel. Enjoy the videos! There is much out already.
It has always been a slight puzzle that Hitler, who admired the British, got them so wrong. And what was that Hess nonsense?
It's probably not wise to ascribe too much logical insight to Adolph Hitler. He was a great orator and a hugely charismatic personanality, but on balance, a genuinely inept military strategist. A dark era in human history. His actions caused the deaths of millions - including his own countrymen.
@@ivanjulian2532 Really? Having spent 40 years reading history books..today you told me something new.
Not only Hitler but German politicians/academics to date have comtinued to do the same
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Think how the Japanese, after Pearl Harbour, thought the US would sue for peace if they experienced a major defeat.
They ignored the desire for revenge by a country with a huge manufacturing capability.
Thanks!
Many thanks Jack!
Howdy from south east Texas. Very well done! I am a WWII buff and I enjoy seeing different points of view. I enjoyed your video.
Many thanks, John!
The British Empire stood alone.
V different from Britain being alone.
Also don't forget the Polish fliers, bravest of the brave
There were fighters and soldiers from almost every allied country, but thanks to the UK that they didn’t surrender or made peace with Germany.
The British were not entirely alone, the governments in exile of the by Germany occupied countries supported GB, and e.g. Dutch Indonesia was not occupied then and was still in war with the axes (Germany, Italy, Japan), together with GB and later with the USA.
@Augustine Squirrel the bravest of the bravest couldn't wack the Hun in land battles.
@Augustine Squirrel Poland didn't have too many planes, but Poles themselves were excellent pilots, especially in the British Air Force.
An empire doesn't really do much to stop thousands of bombs being dropped on you.
Good video - thank you. Germany underestimated the RAF fighter numbers - believing they had at maximum 500 Spitfires and Hurricanes. In reality they had over 700 in use and another 400 ready at a days notice. At the end of the Battle of Britain, despite heavy losses, the RAF had more fighters ready than at the start. Germany had struggled to keep up with building its fighters and had less available aircraft than they had started with.
And that is the bottom line. Well put.
And Our men knew exactly what they were fighting for is it not?
The number of fighters available wasnt the problem, it was the airmen available to fly them
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Bit of both actually. British plane production was superior to German in 1940.
Thanks for your reply, Saxman!
Fantastic video, I have been watching a lot of battle of Britain videos recently and was always wondering what the German perspective was. Thanks for uploading!
Glad you found this video. Thanks for replying!
Hello, I live in the small village of Gaianes in Spain & recently an old friend on the other side of the valley of the river Serpis died , having lost my dad in 2012 John Wedkake became dad # 2 he was a retired M.P. His daughter Katherine took sick leave from Canada to see his last days , he was bedridden for 5 years & died from covid ,Katherine gave me lots of his memorabilia including a set of D.V.D s of the Battle of Britain.I have my own dad's stuff here plus medals, just a cook /steward he survived the Arctic convoys , North Africa, the Italian campaign, the Dunkirk evacuation & the re taking of France, on a minesweeper his Captain was Worsely the navigator of Shakeltons search for the Falklands to rescue his entire crew of the Endeavor .My dad's captain at 71 , everyone involvement in the actual war , not pen pushers were brave men on all sides .What we have now are highly sophisticated weapons to fight Russia which has a rightful claim to a great part of Ucrania , calling fine Vladimir Putin a genocidal maniac not realising that annually in the States 600,000 plus are killed by their outrageous arms laws.
I urge you all to read about the secret meetings between Churchill & Hitler , a proposal was made of sharing out Europe peacefully , Churchill turned it down & prolonged the war by 3 years , agreeing would have saved many of the Jews !
America would be stupid to turn down Russia's proposal , don't mess with Vladimir Putin ( a friend of our late Queen) North Korea is ready for Nuclear war if spy satellite data is picked up by the States , as you say Sir war is a terrible thing but America loves it , too many of it's government representatives have & are still making a fortune from weapons .I have a book "Longevity "in which a mutated virus in America was developed , called then COBID ! A W.M.D !!!! Certainly worked !
Keep up the splendid work. I have learned so much from you
Great, many thanks!
Thank you for another enthralling video. It is interesting to see how the Germans, as well as the other countries of the Axis, were convinced they had the God given right to ruin other countries, their cities and the lives of millions of people, but screamed bloody murder when attacked. As we say in French : Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête (sow the wind and reap the whirlwind). Long live the RAF!
Yeah, didn't the Germans march off to war with belt buckles that said "Gott Mit Uns"
Governments sending their young men off to war will always claim that their cause is right. At least I can look back 80 years later at what my countrymen (Canadians) did with pride and the knowledge that, yes, we fought a just war on the right side.
@@iansneddon2956 I completely agree with you. Oups...I forgot the RCAF. Vive le Canada! (And respect to all the countries that fought on the side of the Allies.) Greetings from Montreal.
@@mariyanadobreva8724 Greetings from Alberta.
@Mariyana: thanks again for your response!
Another very well prepared program. Very informative and skillfully colored with emotional narration. I watched 3 today and I was impressed by every single one.
Well done! Thank you Stefan. ( I hope I spelled it correct 😀)
You spelled it correctly. Thank you very much for your reply.
It was very interesting to hear "the other side" as everyone on all sides regularly lied about what was going on, each for their own ends, some good, some bad.
Thanks for your reply, Harry!
Just another excellent video 💯
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Very well presented and informative.
Many thanks!
Top video weer man! Je filmpjes zijn keer op keer weer uniek en een genot om te aanschouwen!
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That was super-interesting! I started learning about the Battle of Britain in 1968 and there’s always something new!
Great!👍
Interesting to hear how the other side felt. I know my Grandmother born and raised in London at that time never used the Underground trains again due to sheltering in the stations through the blitz and also the V1/2 rockets I guess it must have been a scary time in London when you heard the drone overhead or when the drone stopped you know you were seconds away from hearing a big explosion.
Thanks for your reply, Paul!
The RAF was outnumbered 4 to 1 and managed to win the battle of Britain. Luftwaffe loses were 3 times that of the RAF
Glad I found your channel. Very good video.
Once upon a time (May 1983-May 1985) I was station at 32nd TFS Camp New Amsterdam, Soesterberg AB, Soesterberg, Nederlands. We frequented Zeist, Amersfoort, Utrecht and Amsterdam. I loved my two years there. Wonderful country and fantastic people.
Thanks for your reply, and welcome to the channel!
My late Grandmother was born in 34. She remembered the War well. They could tell German & British planes apart by the noise of their engines, even as a child. She said the German plane's sounded rougher, probably to do with the Germans not synchronising multi engines to run in time with each other. When she was 9/10 year old a Luftwaffe plane opened fire on her & 4/5 others on their way to school one morning. No-one was hit but only because they jumped into a ditch. This was on a remote Scottish island too.
Thanks for sharing this.
As Brit, I thinks it's great to see the Polish Code Breakers get a mention BUT it would have been nice to mention Polish Pilots along with all the other overseas Pilots that were vital in getting the RAF through the 1940 airwar.
(I believe it was a Polish Squadron with the highest number of downed German aircraft. A combination of flying skill, aggression and vengeance that when combined with the Spitfire made them a force to be feared!)
Just to provide some context while celebrating the bravery, skill and success of Polish "Kościuszko" 303 sqd, the top scoring RAF squadron of the battle of Britain, also remember the other nationalities who flew as part of the squadron during the battle and who contributed SO much to its success.
(All kill tallies mentioned are for during the period of the battle of Britain).
Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd total kill tally - 58.5 confirmed kills
Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills
"A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills
"B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills.
Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills.
We in the UK remember ALL the pilots (and NOT just the Polish ones).
I think 303 initially flew hurricanes
@@rogerduncan2603 The Hurricane was the better gun platform and was used against German bombers. The Spitfire was there to ward off the German fighters.
@@cakemoss4664 yes, the hurricane also was easier to repair in field, and easier to fly
The Hurricane was the best RAF fighter in 1940. It could outurn any enemy aircraft at that time. This why it was the mount of some great pilots, Dougie Bader, Robert Stanford Tuck, The Polish 303 squadron etc.
Interesting perspectives, thanks for the video
Thanks for your reply!
Britain declared war against Germany, not the other way round.
Your point?
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@@HistoryHustle Yes, that's the point!
Britain declared war on Germany for the second time, don't forget that. After the First World War, the dictates of Versailles were imposed on Germany, Germany had to recognise "sole guilt", surrender the High Seas Fleet, territories were separated, etc.
Without this Versailles dictate, there would be no Hitler and no "Battle of Britain".
Yes, that's the point, my friend!🧐
Great episode. Thanks for the great video!
👍thank you!
As an English person, Its interesting to see this perspective, having obviously lived most of my life with a very Anglo-centric view of WWII. As the saying goes "The first casualty of war, is the truth'".
Love the perspectives series as it delves into the psychology of war which is fascinating. Looking forward to more of the same ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THANKS! :D
great stuff hus
Cheers!
Another great video Stefan! Seeing things from the German side is fascinating.
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you're really informative and entertaining. Thank you
Thank you David.
My Dad told me he was playing cricket for his school in Hove when a Messerschmitt roared over the field, pursued by a Spitfire. They had to stop the game to clear up the empty cartridge cases from the pitch.
I've just discovered this. Well done, good to hear from the Netherlands. One of the things that angers & disappoints Canadians is when British historians repeat the line "Britain stood alone". Britain had Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the remainder of the Commonwealth that came to her aid. In the case of Australia her military fought to aid Britain and she had her own war at home by 1942. Britain had vast material and human resources to draw upon, it may have felt like she was alone but she never was. Britain had the added advantage of manufacturing between the US & Canada that was integrated, even before Dec7th 1941 Americans were pushing aircraft across the boarder for Canadians to pick up. Now where did that DC-3 go??? I think we lost it. Now that we have a teacher from Holland on the internet perhaps you would like to do a story about your royal family's life in Ottawa Canada and also the special friendship that developed between the Netherlands and Canada. After WW2 farmers from Holland came to rural Canada and reinvigorated farming on a massive scale. Just a few interesting notes from the pages of history.
As a European country, Britain stood alone, unconquered. The fact that commonwealth and other foreign pilots joined the fight does not alter that. Nobody infers that only British pilots resisted, and much is made of those brave overseas volunteers who joined the RAF in 1940.....but it WAS the RAF, it was based in the only country in Europe still holding out. It was comprised of overwhelmingly British ground crews, plotters, radar operators, observation corps, civilians getting bombed, and yes, still 75% British aircrew. We were 22 miles from Nazi- occupied France, which tends to concentrate the mind.
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@@adventussaxonum448 I'm interested in your thinking and I realize we will not come to a place of agreement, that said it is important to have a conversation. The British Empire was not perfect, none are, but Britain had the affection and support of her Empire in a way that is quite unique in world history. During wartime Canadians such as William Stephenson & Lord Beaverbrook made sure you were not alone. It is Stephenson that will do so much to bring the US into the war. Thank God he did have US friends & Churchill and including the top US man FDR. 100 Canadian fighter pilots participated in the Battle of Britain + so many more from the commonwealth. Britain had Polish & Czechoslovakian friends, united by hatred of Hitler. If Britain were alone than what about the lives of so many who who died on route to England? The Convoys that sailed from Halifax & Sydney, from Quebec & Montreal before the US was in? Britain because she was a different kind of imperial power was not alone. This is my contention and it is the gift of parliamentary Democracy to her children that made such a difference in her hour of need. It seems to the British people that they were alone but they had raw strength in what was then called the dominions. Canada had the electronics industry in Montreal & Toronto + car plants ready to be converted to build hawker hurricanes, eventually Mosquito & Lancaster bombers. All available to mother. Does this really sound like a country that was alone. British gold safely stashed at The Royal Canadian Mint. Gold ready to back the purchase of war material. So it took some time coming but from the outset the dominions made sure Britain was in great company, she had what the nations of mainland Europe did not have. The British people had friends and family abroad. Britain earned her right to not be alone. You realize this is from my perspective and I accept you have your own. Peace.
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The Queen Wilhelmina did not go to Canada, she remained in London at the head of the Dutch Government in exile. The words; "Britain stood alone", means alone in Europe, ie it was the only non-neutral, allied, country not under the Nazi occupation. We all know of and indeed learned about in school, the support generously given by the Commonwealth countries, Polish and Czech pilots, even a few USA pilots, who joined the RAF and fought in the Battle of Britain.
Great video. The source book seems like a good one. I should read it myself.
Recommend it!
A most interesting and informative episode indeed, with lots of classic WW2 images . Keep up the good work!
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@William Dryden Good Evening , Give what a break Mr Dryden ?
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The "hustling" of false history as told by the victors.
I read that the Germans were the first to "bomb" British cities. Bombers would routinely ensure that they released all of their payload so there was no risk of a bomb exploding when the aircraft reached its home airfield and landed. Supposedly a German pilot realised he still had bombs on board when he turned for home so released them, "accidentally" onto a British city. In other words, the German pilots at that stage were not authorised to deliberately target cities. However, the UK government saw this as a malicious act and retaliated by bombing German cities which infuriated Hitler who returned the compliment.
Wow, I know a lot about the second world war but its ALL from the british perspective. This video is really really informative and eye opening. Thank you so much for doing this! I am looking forward to watching the rest of this series, and all your videos!
Nice video!
How can someone not like this video?
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Very well presented and informative presentation Stefan! I always look forward to a new History Hustle video. Watching one of your historical educational presentations has become a Saturday tradition!
Great, Rick. Thanks!
I love Saturdays and looking forward to a new video, especially after the lazy afternoon nap😉
At 4.55 'By August 19 the Germans had shot down 624 British planes and had lost 174 themselves.' Er, no. August 13 - August 18 inclusive, RAF Fighter Command lost 116 aircraft and 40 airmen, the Luftwaffe lost 240 aircraft and 387 airmen. August 13 was Adlertag, generally accepted as the start of the Battle of Britain. 10 July - 12 August Kanalkampf, RAF Fighter Command lost 124 aircraft and 109 airmen whilst Luftwaffe lost 246 aircraft and 377 airmen. Source: Classic Warbirds, Battle of Britain Timeline.
@Amplass 333 You have more authoratitive figures perhaps? Source?
@@happyh1751 This was what hitler told his people in WWII No one said it was the truth.
@Amplass 333 You don't perhaps consider that the actual figures, as opposed to the exaggerated claims made by both sides at the time, have been in the public domain since 1945?
For the numbers I present I refer to my source material. You may be right as well.
Thanks for the video, very interesting and I like how you mentioned 303 squadron, the best in the battle of Britain
Thanks for your reply.
I found it funny how angry you suddenly sounded when saying "Kinderlandverschickung". I have similar problem with the German words, especially the long ones. We were probably subconsciously conditioned by all the movies and documentaries about the war.
Haha, I think it was not really angry, but in the way that nazi’s used to speak.
@@UTopia-eg7gm Yeah, that's what I meant.
How does the old saying go?
A language in which your beloved whispering endearments in your ear sounds like she wants to rip out your throat.
I was told once that the German word for streetcar was "Das Railendingdingshparkenmacher." That's probably true.
It's just that the words are joined together. Literally it means "sending off children to the country". So the German word is actually quite short!
I was in the US Army stationed in Germany in the early 80s. Met a German girl and shortly we wed in Denmark. Met her grandfather who was in the Luftwaffe in WW2. He must have been around 40 then so he flew Buckers, Feisler Storchs, transports and (cough) Stukas. (His words) He told me he was shot down by the Russians twice! It was well known Opa visited America after the war. He had a photo portrait of Mt Rushmore on his apartment wall. It turns out Opa was liberated by the US Army from a concentration camp!! Opa was an officer in the Luftwaffe. Officers in the German Forces had to have a Nazi Party card. I'm guessing Opa came home from the Russian Front and started telling everyone the war was lost! Nazis then put him in a death camp! Only speculation! Opa died in 1987....
If he was around 40 in the early 80's how could he have fought in WW2?
@@willyspinney1959 You misunderstood. He was around 40 during the war.
Thanks for sharing this.
Hey mate, Big hello from the U.K. Great work you doing I have learnt more from your videos then i did at school on World War II when at school 15 years back my school only taught us the brief events of the war so cheers mate keep up the good work.
Many thanks!
Great perspective. Thanks!
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Never mess with the British , ever
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Especially if you write a spicy tweet.
Good stuff. one German pilot admitted, "we have seriously underestimated the British. To be in a Heinkel with oncoming British fighters attacking is....how shall i say? Unnerving. " A classic case of KanalKampf -channel sickness.
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@@HistoryHustle You're very welcome. I meant Kanalkreheit( my German's not all that great! Kanalkampf was the channel battle. ) Thanks again!
'Kanalkrankheit' was a typical example of blaming the victim.
Along with 'There are few duties that men from the sonderkommando can perform after a few months...'
Normal behaviour in right-wing governments.
My Grandfather told me that The Germans use to Joke that: "The only good thing to come from the Netherlands is the Train to Germany"... haha Stupid, I know...
Well, better not talk about trains going from the Netherlands to Germany...
By the way, they stole this joke, like so many other things. The original ‘joke’ (in fact it is not a joke, but just true) is:
“The nicest thing of Amsterdam is the last train to Rotterdam”.
@GodBAINS Yt . 6.1M views Trains from the Netherlands to Germany often contained Jews and other people on their way to the concentration camps. For the Amsterdam/Rotterdam joke, there is quite some rivalry between the people in these cities.
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The Germans had to have enough petrol to fly home and limited ammo whereas the British needed less fuel and replenished ammo so the advantage was in the home country
Home team advantage overcame the overconfidence of the stronger away team.
But the British then started fighter sweeps over Europe with the same disadvantage, but you don’t hear them bleating. But I guess that’s because they didn’t loose.
It could be argued that Britain won the war, simply by holding out and not folding ( when every else had). The yanks seem to forget this!
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As I recall, the bombing of London was an error to begin with. Some Luftwaffe planes got off coarse one night and bombed the wrong target... London. And that caused Churchill to order a retaliation on Berlin. That was the start of what would become a no-holds-barred air war and the targeting of whole cities. If I'm wrong someone pleas correct me.
Well Rotterdam was in May 1940, before Berlin.
And that's the reason why the Germans abonded the chance to win the battle of Britain.
Was the Bombing of London a mistake no it was not that more Nazi BS
What you an experience team and you get lost when you never done before and you just happen to drop you bombs on the capital city of the only European power left in the war.... come on pull the other one it got bells on
@@daniellastuart3145 very much like "this new virus has jumped from bats to humans...oooops"
@@daniellastuart3145 It was actually an experimental fighter bomber squadron Me110 & Me109 carrying bombs. The target was Biggin Hill fighter station but they got lost in the fog and bombed Croyden airfield which was a civilian airfield 4 miles away. This led to the reprisal bombing of Berlin. From memory the unit commanders name was Hauptmann Walter Rubensdorffer and he was killed in action a few days later when he stayed with his crippled Bf110 and steere it clear of a village. Unit was called Experimental group 210. Doesn't match the rhetoric but there you go.
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"Britain was the last one standing" Am I wrong that Canada, Australia etc were still standing?
Come on, you know he's referring to Europe.
Of course, the British Empire, and its independent colonies still fought on, as well as refugees from occupied Europe. Poles and Czechs were particularly prominent in the RAF effort.
@@adventussaxonum448 Yeah! But the Brits obligingly tend not to mention that!
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Mention what? The contribution of Aussies, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, or of the Polish and Czech airmen?
The war memorials around the UK don't suggest that. Neither does the portrayal in films like the Dambusters or Battle of Britain. The Poles were given a prominent portrayal in the latter and one of the main characters was Canadian.
There was even a roll of honour showing the countries of the airmen who took part and the casualties, shown at the end of the film.
Let's not forget, though, that the planes, radar system, ground crews, civilians, and overwhelming percentage of aircrew were British.
I referred to the words of Churchill!
@@adventussaxonum448 Was this mentioned here? Clearly :NO! Also:regardless of the RAF;the mere existence of the Royal Navy,was a guaranty that no realistic threat existed for British territory.Britain simply could not loose,as long as they did not capitulate themselves.
It’s so interesting hearing from the German perspective and that soldier’s letter to his wife was so telling...he truly believed that the British were the aggressors...propaganda is a hell of a drug; that, and there’s also more than the simple layers and perspectives that make up such complicated wars. Once you peel the onion back, wars become murkier and murkier. (As if war by itself wasn’t hella murky)
Wild Moutain, we were told that the war with Iraq was justified because of weapons of mass destruction. The MSM pushed the narrative (propaganda) on behalf of the UK Labour government so the country could go to war on false pretences. Continues today with most wars and personally wouldn't trust anything the MSM prints.
@@stumac869 100% agree with you!! Propaganda has only gotten stronger and more dangerous with time. It certainly has NOT disappeared.
Wars indeed become murkier.
@@HistoryHustle Unless you emerge as the winner - suddenly it's so much clearer.
Having worked for two German companies I would say that it's a German tendency to believe what they want to believe irrespective of the facts. It actually helped Britain enormously during the war.
My grandad was actually responsible for bringing down several German planes in WW2. The Luftwaffe said he was the worst mechanic they ever employed.
Thanks for sharing!
Excellent video , however I think you might have made a slight error. In timestamp 4:53 you claim the Luftwaffe had shot dow 624 aircraft and lost 174 to the RAF. I think you might have mixed these up.
In that case I stand corrected. Thanks for replying!
@@HistoryHustle Please do not think I am critical . I really enjoyed your video and found it thought provoking .
In the documentary series World At War Episode 5 Luftwaffe General Adolf Galland himself said Hitler told him the Battle for Britain was a camouflage for the invasion of Russia. Gallands expression of this sad realization is noticeable even 30 years later.
Never forget that the history is always written by the victors..
History is not written by the victors, but written by those with the most consistent and compelling arguments based on the evidence, backed by a healthy dose of rational logic and passion for debate. The key is not to apologize for any side but to take a firm stand for what's right and what's wrong.
So there are no French accounts of the Napoleonic wars ? .
@@HistoryHustle I like your video, but I have an idea, given that in 4 days time it will be the 80th anniversary of the death of the former German Kaiser Wilhelm II in Huis Doorn.....have you ever considered making a video on Wilhelm II's life in the Netherlands following his abdication? That would be a good video! Just a thought
Sure, sounds like a good plan. Although not within 4 days I'm afraid.
@@HistoryHustle No worries! Even during this year! No problem at all!
Shame you did not make the point that when a German plane was shot down the crew were either killed or captured, the RAF had a high percentage of pilots able to bale out and fight again, my Great Grand Father was shot down three times, and lived to fly through the war until 1943 were he was posted to training squadron, in his words he was done as a combat pilot due to constant ear and eye infections caused by stress and oxygen at altitude, he lived until he was 88yrs old.
Did he shoot down at least three German planes to make it even?
He also missed out how much of a numerical advantage the Luftwaffe had which pretty much evened it out.
@Alan: I didn't put much effort into this episode to be honest, since it's not of my greatest interest. Never expected it to be watch that much. It's insane. If I knew this I would to more indepth research on it. Oh well.
I really appreciate your work 😊
Thanks for your reply.
Not seen things from a german viewpoint before. Great video. Were RAF losses really 6:1 at the start?
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I doubt it, both sides overcounted their enemies losses.
You should title this video as a review or an exposition of Stargardt's book. Not saying he's wrong, just that it's only a *single* source. Hardly a "history" video. Real history has to meld the perspectives of many sources to glean as much historical reality as possible.
Fair point. Actually this video was one of these videos I made so people wouldn't complain why there wasn't a video about it. Never expected this video to blow up with over 100K views. The YT algoritm works in mysterious ways...
Good to have a bît of triangulation of perspective on all events, even the critical events.
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Yes Hitler admired the British, They were both Germanic What he wanted was Soviet Union
@@georgeevangel3233 Nope Hitler was a Moron. We are not "Germanic" we are partly Germanic. And we didn't admire him one bit, wannabe Caesar/Alexander. English people have more native Brittonic blood than Germanic, according to DNA tests, which they didn't have in the 1940s.
Germanic people migrated to Britain 1500 years ago. We are not Germanic in a sense that Hitler thought.
@@HistoryHustle Hitler broke the agreement he signed with Neville Chamberlin who resigned making Churchill prime minister......rest is history
@@oktfg Hitler did not actively break an agreement with Chamberlain, if you are referring to the Czech crisis of 1938. Hitler felt he had to act, when the rump state of Czechia behaved more militarily than before, once the former Czechoslovakian state fell apart more and more (not to German meddling, but because the Slovaks, the Ruthenians, the Magyars, the Poles and the Germans wanted out of Czech oppression). Together with the French and Soviet alliance, the Prague ruled Czech army was quite a threat within the flesh of the Austrian-German Reich (just have a look at the map of Central Europe of 1938). Taking this threat out of the equation was on Hitler's mind then. It was not about mocking Chamberlain in some way.
Besides, Hitler had promised (together with Mussolini, then not yet his political partner) to uphold the results of the Munich Conference, only if the Czech government would come up with proper solutions for its minority issues within six months. That did not happen, so the promise to stick to the Munich Conference points had become obsolete.
Excellent as always.BZ
Tthumbnail pic from Schiphol, nice touch.
Really? Didn't know it was Schiphol!
@@HistoryHustle Recognized it from another discussion about the inertia starter handle on the 109.