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My World history teacher had an answer to this question and brought facts to the table: The problem of the Third Reich was its government and the overlap of power from which only the Fuhrer could settle the problems. He said the Germans had over 60 different missile programs that were all independent and did not share information. And I’m sure this was all standard throughout the type of government regime. Russia had a mirror government but without Lend/Lease would have capitulated to the Germans before 1943. Also even though Germany in late 1940 controlled 2/3 s of production when they invaded a country they seized technology and sent it back disrupting the production. In the end they were their own worst enemy. My 02c
In my opinion the downfall of the luftwaffe began with the Battle of Britain. just not needed, as Britain was not strong enough to be an offenive threat, just enough to be a credible defence, it wasted its increasing power, wasted resources, money on fantastic and advanced designs too far ahead of their time, their 'wunderwaffe' was fantasy at the time, when basically, only a proven, standardized design produced in high numbers were what was needed. They came so close to capturing Moscow, what difference an un-depleted luftwaffe could have made in Barbarossa?
I feel like you aren't accepting the fact they made 30k plus bf109. Fw190s in droves. The downfall was material and doctrine. Blitzkrieg was awesome for small or unprepared and close targets. Strategic bombing proved sadly decisive. Doctrine of crack pilots staying on the front and not becoming trainers. Material resource shortages decreasing training times. The only air force better than the luftwaffe was the US, because they took experienced pilots half way across the world and used em to train other pilots and material advantages to win. End of story.
Same with the attack on France Russia and Poland. Hitler should have stayed home in 1938 his government was a success and he went and ruined everything.
What about the RAF? Throughout the war they were basically a defensive interceptor force and night bombing force. They took their toll for sure in daylight hours and slaughtered countless people by night. But the luftwaffe had plenty of aircraft and lost due to numbers games with the combined allies and doctrine. Plain and simple.
Why was never Knighted? Listen to him on Desert Island Disca on BBC Sounds App, especially his Looping the Loop under the Forth Rail Bridge , very, very funny
59:40…..the German designer of the F-82 Twin Mustang, who was also the designer of the P-51 Mustang, was Edgar Schmued, of North American Aviation. This was seemingly kept hush-hush during and after the war…for obvious reasons.
They had limited access to all types of fuel towards the end. They could make syn oil, but NOT syn fuel. Also, deep Russian Mud, and the harsh winters teamed up with Russians, to kick their arses
yes, they produced syn petrol, but it wasnt light enough to fuel plane engines, trucks etc. yes......but also the allied bombed every railway junction, so it was in the end not possible to get enough fuel to the frontlines to fuel tanks etc
Few things…lack of quality fuels, materials and they kept their aces in the field instead of sending them home to Germany to train new recruits…all axis powers suffered from this
There is no real debate as to why the Germans were defeated. They were overwhelmed with sheer numbers. They simply didn't have the industrial capacity to keep up with the allies, irregardless of any advanced aircraft that they may have been able to build.
They never had the ability to to hit the foes deep in their rear , They had a shot range Air forece .Most of the Luftwaffe air kills were agaist weak Air forrces .
Can it carry bombs?, for the 262,the heinkel 280 could have been the other jet, both could have been ready for the bomber offensive, glad things worked out the way they did, but the misuse of the jet tech was critical
Uh, the Germans conquered all of Europe without a heavy bomber. The heavy bomber worked for allies only because of massive numbers (and casualties) which Germany could never match. How would heavy bombers have won Stalingrad? Heavy bombers could have leveled England, but so what? The factories were in America. England was a landing strip.
@Cameron-d2n Constant flying day in day out (fatigue PTSD etc) that when the stats worked out (chances of dying during any one engagement multiplied by the number of engagements = 100% so always resulted in their death... they flew until they died or if injured... when healed they flew again......
Some rather debatable comments at the start of this.. The Luftwaffe was large but not all necessarily great.The Spitfire was an even match to the 109. The JU87 was really obsolete, the HE 111 was underpowered and couldnt carry much of a load, ok the JU 88 was good. But no heavy bombers. The Germans werer over confident and didnt fully understand how much force was needed to defeat a defensive and motivated force (just like Russia has in Ukraine).
Such a silly comment, and all because of a mistake in a TH-cam video. If we had BBC/HBO level budgets, I am quite certain we would not make mistakes, and consider that despite their millions of dollars budgets, they still make mistakes, and so does the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Never forget you are on YT, an amazing platform where creators can make mistakes, just as you do, I am sure
@@Dronescapes Yes, of course, and there were no 'NAZI aircraft', the machines were not in the Nazi party, but as a designer you unfortunately had to be, in order to have any chance of getting a job.
They were all plastered in Nazi insignia. Given the obsession of Nazi Germany for Nazi symbolism, it seems pretty normal to call them Nazi aircraft. Rather than arguing on TH-cam, you should start arguing with the endless reputable institutions that use the same terminology, and have been doing so for decades. Yours is going to be an uphill battle. What do you call a flag with Nazi symbols? I hope you are not calling it a German flag. Nazi germany probably plastered their symbols even on underwear. It was a regime, not a democracy, and their psychotic credo and insignias were ubiquitous and pervasive, defining that regime, their creations, and people.
@ for your information I’ve been arguing against right wing politics my entire life. We’ve just got rid of the Conservinazis here only to have the idiot Americans vote Donald Stalin Hitler Putin Trump in to office.
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My World history teacher had an answer to this question and brought facts to the table:
The problem of the Third Reich was its government and the overlap of power from which only the Fuhrer could settle the problems.
He said the Germans had over 60 different missile programs that were all independent and did not share information.
And I’m sure this was all standard throughout the type of government
regime.
Russia had a mirror government but without Lend/Lease would have capitulated to the Germans before 1943.
Also even though Germany in late 1940 controlled 2/3 s of production when they invaded a country they seized technology and sent it back disrupting the production.
In the end they were their own worst enemy.
My 02c
In the year 2024, the caption generator auto-censors "Focke". Come on TH-cam, your platform seems more broken every week that passes.
In my opinion the downfall of the luftwaffe began with the Battle of Britain. just not needed, as Britain was not strong enough to be an offenive threat, just enough to be a credible defence, it wasted its increasing power, wasted resources, money on fantastic and advanced designs too far ahead of their time, their 'wunderwaffe' was fantasy at the time, when basically, only a proven, standardized design produced in high numbers were what was needed. They came so close to capturing Moscow, what difference an un-depleted luftwaffe could have made in Barbarossa?
I feel like you aren't accepting the fact they made 30k plus bf109. Fw190s in droves. The downfall was material and doctrine. Blitzkrieg was awesome for small or unprepared and close targets. Strategic bombing proved sadly decisive. Doctrine of crack pilots staying on the front and not becoming trainers. Material resource shortages decreasing training times. The only air force better than the luftwaffe was the US, because they took experienced pilots half way across the world and used em to train other pilots and material advantages to win. End of story.
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Same with the attack on France Russia and Poland. Hitler should have stayed home in 1938 his government was a success and he went and ruined everything.
@@jeffscherer2136 What about the RAF?
What about the RAF? Throughout the war they were basically a defensive interceptor force and night bombing force. They took their toll for sure in daylight hours and slaughtered countless people by night. But the luftwaffe had plenty of aircraft and lost due to numbers games with the combined allies and doctrine. Plain and simple.
Why was Eric "Winkle "Brown never promoted to Major or Colonel?
Why was never Knighted? Listen to him on Desert Island Disca on BBC Sounds App, especially his Looping the Loop under the Forth Rail Bridge , very, very funny
Because he was in the Royal Navy. He retired as a Captain. The next grade up was Admiral.
@@ThomasCrouse-x6z not Commodore?
He would have been on hell of an astronaut.
59:40…..the German designer of the F-82 Twin Mustang, who was also the designer of the P-51 Mustang, was Edgar Schmued, of North American Aviation. This was seemingly kept hush-hush during and after the war…for obvious reasons.
They had limited access to all types of fuel towards the end. They could make syn oil, but NOT syn fuel. Also, deep Russian Mud, and the harsh winters teamed up with Russians, to kick their arses
yes, they produced syn petrol, but it wasnt light enough to fuel plane engines, trucks etc. yes......but also the allied bombed every railway junction, so it was in the end not possible to get enough fuel to the frontlines to fuel tanks etc
Few things…lack of quality fuels, materials and they kept their aces in the field instead of sending them home to Germany to train new recruits…all axis powers suffered from this
There is no real debate as to why the Germans were defeated. They were overwhelmed with sheer numbers. They simply didn't have the industrial capacity to keep up with the allies, irregardless of any advanced aircraft that they may have been able to build.
But this is still good shit though
@@jamiewithers5451
And "Scheiße" is the operative word here. ...😅
They never had the ability to to hit the foes deep in their rear , They had a shot range Air forece .Most of the Luftwaffe air kills were agaist weak Air forrces .
when was this documentary made?
Do you mean when Captain Brown was interviewed?
Presumably before he died in 2016.
This documentary itself?
Presumably 2024.....
Some of the German aircraft of WW2 were cool-looking and very advanced for the time.
Can it carry bombs?, for the 262,the heinkel 280 could have been the other jet, both could have been ready for the bomber offensive, glad things worked out the way they did, but the misuse of the jet tech was critical
Effects followed by causes
Sounds like what Russian is using as a play book
They needed a 4 engine bomber and started to use the me262 by 43
Uh, the Germans conquered all of Europe without a heavy bomber. The heavy bomber worked for allies only because of massive numbers (and casualties) which Germany could never match.
How would heavy bombers have won Stalingrad?
Heavy bombers could have leveled England, but so what? The factories were in America. England was a landing strip.
Simple, the loss of experienced pilots
@Cameron-d2n
Constant flying day in day out (fatigue PTSD etc)
that when the stats worked out
(chances of dying during any one engagement multiplied by the number of engagements = 100%
so always resulted in their death...
they flew until they died
or if injured...
when healed they flew again......
Man they had some wierd old ideas, towing mini fighters with prone pilots behind 109's ?...parachutists in pods on a planes wings?!😂
Way to many commercials.
You can always get TH-cam Premium and never see a commercial again, among other perks.
I agree way too -" HEY BUY THIS SOAP AND INSURANCE " ahem, many commercials
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Some rather debatable comments at the start of this.. The Luftwaffe was large but not all necessarily great.The Spitfire was an even match to the 109. The JU87 was really obsolete, the HE 111 was underpowered and couldnt carry much of a load, ok the JU 88 was good. But no heavy bombers. The Germans werer over confident and didnt fully understand how much force was needed to defeat a defensive and motivated force (just like Russia has in Ukraine).
WHEN THE GEAR IS DOWN ON A 109 THEY LOOK LIKE A WASP.
I think you are confusing your World Wars: the First started in August, the Second in September. I rather lost faith in the narrative after that.
Such a silly comment, and all because of a mistake in a TH-cam video.
If we had BBC/HBO level budgets, I am quite certain we would not make mistakes, and consider that despite their millions of dollars budgets, they still make mistakes, and so does the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.
Never forget you are on YT, an amazing platform where creators can make mistakes, just as you do, I am sure
@@Dronescapes Yes, of course, and there were no 'NAZI aircraft', the machines were not in the Nazi party, but as a designer you unfortunately had to be, in order to have any chance of getting a job.
Sorry but this is poorly researched and, although it makes some pertinent points, much is overly naive
too long
I think they’re German aircraft as opposed to ‘Nazi’. Do aircraft hold political views?
They were all plastered in Nazi insignia.
Given the obsession of Nazi Germany for Nazi symbolism, it seems pretty normal to call them Nazi aircraft.
Rather than arguing on TH-cam, you should start arguing with the endless reputable institutions that use the same terminology, and have been doing so for decades.
Yours is going to be an uphill battle.
What do you call a flag with Nazi symbols? I hope you are not calling it a German flag.
Nazi germany probably plastered their symbols even on underwear.
It was a regime, not a democracy, and their psychotic credo and insignias were ubiquitous and pervasive, defining that regime, their creations, and people.
@ for your information I’ve been arguing against right wing politics my entire life. We’ve just got rid of the Conservinazis here only to have the idiot Americans vote Donald Stalin Hitler Putin Trump in to office.