Documentaries of this high quality are going to become fewer and further between, as the tidal wave of AI-compiled, composited, and TTS voice-'narrated' rubbish continues its miasmatic flood across youTube.
@@operation1968 It was mainly about the planes, where they would launch like Portugals Azores islands. Junkers 390, 490 and this space rocket that would take off on long rail and use yellow radiation rain when attacking. Silverbird was its name. I was only 12/13 so don't remember everything
There's a book called Windswept Lies of War, and it talks from censored history and hidden secrets to lost files and classified documents about World War II, it's the real deal.
I was a WW2 baby born in Scotland so I was lucky to be away from the "blitzkrieg". Later, I many times asked my parents about the war but they would never tell me, saying that it's in the past and we must concentrate upon the UK's recovery and future. I therefore rely upon authentic documentaries to "fill me in" and hope that they shall continue to be available on the internet for at least another ten years 🙏
@@operation1968 I also have much admiration for your generation and past generations. Those difficult times from 1947, and continuing. Yesterday, I listened to your country's National Anthem
In 1936, three years before the invasion of Poland, the plans for the B-36 were being drawn just in case England lost the war with Germany and we had to fight from America. The B-36 was known as the plane that was so effective that they never had to go to war.
The US wasn't a superpower militarily before WW2. Economically, yes, and it had the money and man power to do so if it wanted to, but it didn't. Before WW2 the US never kept a large standing army during peace time because all the way back to George Washington, they thought if you spend that much money on it, you're going to use it regardless if you need to or not. You don't use all that time, effort, and money on something and let it go to waste. There were several major powers before WW2. All with their different strengths, but no superpowers.
@@Sr_iRL looking at things in different perspectives are what got me into history at a young age, my great grandfather was born in 1890 and died in 1980, when he was growing up everyone rode on horses, and before he died jets were flying over his head and we had someone on the moon
Exactly. I don't know about infantry personnel and aircraft, but I know the US army had like juat a few tanks in service by 1939, well below 100 units. Crazy to think by 1945 they had over +50.000 tanks in service.
We were an untapped industrial superpower. We were able to replace that which was lost on the battlefield and that which was lost at sea more quickly than the Germans and Japanese.
Kurk Tunk was a genius after Argentina he came to India. Here he designed many aircrafts, for eg HAF-34 MARUT, and give HAL knowledge of whatever is needed to build a fighter aircraft. Today India has designed Tejas aircraft and Kurk Tunk has played a significant role in it.
There was also a German detainment camp in Pennsylvania. It is now Ft Indiantown Gap. Was a detainment camp than later a POW camp. There is a massive (6' x 6') swastika dug in the group on their property, was planned to be filled with gas and lit on fire if the Germans ever bombed America so they wouldn't kill their own people.
In a courtroom David Irving said, “if the soldiers that stormed the Normandy beaches in June 1944 could see England as it is today they wouldn’t have gone 40 yards up that beach”.
@@xGodWearsGucci so you’re stating that everything is perfect and that it was worth fighting and dying for have you not seen the current state of our world? what parallel universe do you live in because I can guarantee you my grandfather wouldn’t have fought in the war. Had he seen what happened to us
A 6 engine version of an enlarged Condor was designed but not built. It was supposed to be towed by an identical plane just short of the east coast of the US, fly into NY, drop the bombs, and return to Norway.
@@TheLucanicLordthat's not how planes work, just because you're towing an equal sized airplane doesn't mean you use twice the fuel. Just whatever amount of fuel needed to overcome parasitic drag which is significantly less than running two planes worth of engines..
This is probably why the SOO locks in Michigan's upper peninsula were the number one most protected place in the US at that time according to my college Michigan History Professor. Interesting and thought provoking documentary.
Should I point out that German plans to occupy Iceland weren't scuppered because the U.S got there first? British and Canadian troops occupied Iceland in May 1940 to prevent Germany doing so following their invasion of Denmark.
The British initially occupied Iceland during the war to prevent a German invasion, but after an agreement with the Icelandic government, the U.S. took over, allowing British soldiers to be redeployed to more critical areas.
@@javiercortes5232 The decision for the U.S. to take over the occupation of Iceland wasn’t because British forces were a ‘liability.’ At the time, the U.S. was still officially neutral, but they agreed to step in to help protect Iceland’s strategic location and ensure the British could focus on other critical fronts. The handover was a mutual agreement between Iceland, the U.S., and the British, not a reflection of any shortcomings.
A few clarifications: 1. The UK was first to occupy Iceland and deny it to Germany. 2. The bombing of Peenemunde was undertaken by the RAF. It would be nice if this documentary acknowledged that the UK played a modest role in defeating Nazism. :)
There were no "super-powers" @ that time. the term came into use after detonation of atomic then thermo-nuclear weapons. the USA was not a military of exceptional strength nor size until the US declared war in 1941 and, US "War effort" began. Hence, the likely apocryphal quote attributed to Yamamoto about having awoken a sleeping giant after the attack on USN Pearl Harbor base. Super powers was a coined term for/during cold war for propaganda as nuclear war seemed increasingly possible,
21:00 hey old head, THATS A CONCENTRATION CAMP. if you must go, can’t leave, and put all the folks of the same group in one area, they’re in a concentration camp. And it was illegal when the US did it
They weren’t murdered that’s why they called it an internment camp, they did the same to Japanese.. calling them concentration camps is an affront to the Jewish that died in actual concentration camps
Pearl Harbor was the first time America had ever been attacked in its own territory? The War of 1812 never happened? The British never burned down the White House? 🤣
In the War of 1812 it was America who attacked Canada. The British counter attacked the US aggressor. Claiming otherwise is like the Russians claiming Ukraine started the war by invading Russia.
@@chriskelly4299 Nor militarily, I believe in 39, Bulgaria, yes f**king Bulgaria had a larger army than the US which was at the time predominantly naval focused. I thought that was an interesting factoid, turns out that the Civil War was enough of national scar that mothers and young wives stopped their men, sons and husbands from joining the army. Not only that, but the powers in Washington were hoping to model themselves on their counterparts, wherein Britannia ruled the world by mastering the sea (at least the relative modern understanding of it) so the push was on for a Naval force not specifically Army. WWII changed all that.
@38:18 you know exactly what that older man with that sledge hammer was thinking... if there was ever a facial expression that showed ones thoughts it was that man at that second and there shouldn't be a single person who could ever blame him for wanting to use that hammer for what he was thinking about doing with it either!!
At one point, the Nazis even began to formulate a plan to launch V2 rockets from submarines in the Atlantic, to hit the US. Needless to say, this was far easier said than done.... Even if the Luftwaffe had developed the aircraft to reach and hit the US, the US would have probably brought them all down before they got out of range on their way home..... These great lumbering bombers would have been easy prey for US fighter pilots...
The Me264 was not cancelled because it was destroyed . There were actually 3 . 2 were destroyed in bombing one in 43 and the other 2 in 44. It was cancelled because the luftwaffe preferred the Focke wulf Ta400 and the He277 designs . . That aren't even mentioned.
Countries have intentions and capabilities, even if Germany intended to take Iceland it didn’t have the capability to do so. Or if they did manage to seize Iceland they surely didn’t have the capability to supply an Air Force that would be attacking the US.
Just to play devils advocate America began supplying Russia and England with war supplies through lend lease on March 8th 1941. So why wouldn't Germany declare them offically enemies after the pearl harbor attack of December 7th 1941 and then be able to have legal unrestricted submarine warfare on the American supply ships and possibly have their ally Japan help them to open a second front with the Soviet Union leading to their downfall. Allowing them to then both focus on America. People seem so confused on why these countries did what they did but from their perspective these all seem like logical conclusions
11:40 - "He is a professional spy", also he does his spy things in front of a hidden camera held by some random stranger who is in the room with them :D
My biggest problem with this is the fact when talking about Britain they say England or English. It feels like the Scottish and Welsh people are forgetting about. Britain was a nation long before England, Scotland and Wales was a thought. The Romans invaded Britain. Britain was at war, all of the home nations fought as one and no one nation was more important. They were the United Kingdom of Great Britain. That’s who was a war. Not just “England”. Never forget the effort and sacrifices all the home nations gave in that time.
7th in what? In December of that year the Japanese got the US into the war, and in 4 years the insertion of the U.S. into the war, in Northern Africa, in the Pacific, and in Europe, resulted in the defeat of Germany and Japan.
7th in the WORLD is still crazy. Theres like 300 countries as is right now. Theres a reason the US was called "the sleeping giant." It wasnt about what we had, but what we could have and do.
One thing is certain: technically and militarily, Germany was more advanced than any other country at that time. Germany already had a stealth fighter jet from Horton. And also the first Figheter Jet, the Messerschmit ME 262. And without Wernher von Braun, the US would never get to the moon so quickly. The Germans already had the Rockets technology. Albert Einsein also came from Germany, but he had studied and worked in Switzerland, where he also received citizenship before he went to America and then received US citizenship
Rockets started in Russia. Nukes were created in the USA. Radar in the UK. Germany lost the war. German superiority was a myth. They were defeated by numbers and factories, not technology.
1. The British invented the jet engine before the Germans. Frank Whittle. 2. The Horton was not a fighter and neither was it stealth. Not a single one was ever operational either. What "already" ? 3. The American Robert H. Goddard built the first liquid-powered rockets in 1925. 4. The Russian Sergei Korolev designed and build liquid-powered rockets right after. On August 18, 1933, GIRD launched the first hybrid propellant rocket, the GIRD-09, and on November 25, 1933, the Soviet's first liquid-fueled rocket GIRD-X. Korolev was the man behind the the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R7-Semyorka in 1957. He later headed the Soviet space program. 5. The Atomic Bomb was by far the most advanced weapon of the war. American, British and Canadian scientists worked on it. 6. Robert Oppenheimer was an American. The man most responsible for the atomic bomb. 7. Enrico Fermi was an Italian (later naturalized American) who built the first nuclear reactor Pile-1. 8. Alan Turing was British. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science. 9. Niels Bohr was Danish and who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. 10. Einstein was also a Jew and therefore not German at all according to the Third Reich. Einstein is the only theoretical physicist you know of. "One thing is certain: " Bertrand Russell (mathematician, logician, philosopher, writer and Nobel Prize winner) once said: "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are certain while the intelligent are full of doubt." Id say he had the likes of you in mind. Always very certain of things but actually knowing very little.
@@McLarenMercedes You should understand that rockets don't scale up easily. It was a massive engineering feat to scale liquid fueled rockets up. The liquid fueled rockets built and launched by Goddard as well as the Soviets with the GIRD-09 were tiny rockets, essentially large model rockets. This is the reason project overcast was so important for the post-war American rocket program, and even still they encountered huge problems with scaling up liquid fueled engines to be as large as the F-1. The Soviets had problems with this too, and as a matter of fact they never did develop large engines for heavy lift rockets like the Americans did under Werner von Braun.
"Luftwaffe" is the German word for "Airforce". The German Airforce today is still called the "Luftwaffe" in German. The German people today still speak German.
@10_rds_Fire_For_Effect That wasn't the question I was asking. The compound words translate to "air" and "weapon" or "arms/armaments". Put together it means air force. Most people know this, including Americans.
@@operation1968 Germany attacking America is like a chihuahua picking a fight with a pitbull. It’s asking to lose. Like how Icarus failed by flying too close to the sun.
Just one question here…5:00 -5:30 I noticed that when German Dornier and Heinkel bombers dropped their payload, their bombs fell in a wobbly fashion: Sort of doing a semi half twist and then righting themselves up. Is this because the bombs had all the explosive in the nose unlike modern bombs like the MK 82 and MK 84 or what? And if so, why did so many German bombs fail to explode when dropped over England? The Japanese didn’t seem to have the same problem of dud ordinance.
Good doc overall. Have some issues with the arbitrary internment of random people with dubious connections to their homeland. Cant really define this as an issue of internal security. Especially given the hundreds of thousands of Japanese.
Probably all European nations in the 1920s nd 30s knew who posed the ultimate threat to their civilization, and Germany was one of them. The Germans were well aware that the enemy found their 'promised land' in the US, particularly in NY. This knowledge is now erased from all coursebooks and courses, but sources providing this now well guarded and censored insight still exist.
An interesting documentary, albeit the narrative seems to have left out any mention of the RAF and British Intelligence. They did play a role in all the actions attributed here only to US forces. Odd.
@@waveygravey9347 the fact that the estimated deaths are far beneath that. The fact that it caused a firestorm which led to an unusually high kill rate.
Yeah.... ..... ..... "USA managed to pre-position troops in Iceland".... I think one was meant to say "UK *invaded* Iceland, before Germany could and then Americans helped to Brits to occupy Iceland". Like sure brits and americans were nicer occupiers, than Germans would have been. Still doesn't remove the fact it was invasion and occupation.
@@aritakalo8011 The American Marines relived the British Garrision that had been there before WW2 even started. It was not invasion. Research before you comment. You sound extremely ignorant
I specifically studied European history and this documentary is not only good but is actually more informative then most. I’m assuming you studied yapology
They should have taken Iceland and Greenland and then move into Newfoundland to set up air bases when they had the chance, when U boats dominated the Atlantic. Nobody could have stopped them at that time.
In 1940 America had the largest industrial capacity of any nation in the world, as well as the world's largest Navy. Our Army and Air Service needed updating and enlargement, but we were not "far from being a super power".
@@oldgysgt Britain still had the largest navy at that time and we had the 17th largest army. We were a latent super power. By 1945 we were the most powerful nation on earth.
@@pigmanobvious; the RN had more operational ships than the USN in 1940, but the USN had large numbers of "mothballed" ships, especially Destroyers. In fact, we sold 50 of these Destroyers to Great Briton to help out the RN. As I said, our Army needed enlarging, but in 1940 the Draft had just been restarted. We were NOT "FAR from being a world power". The fact that the international Naval limitation conference and treaty was held in Washington, and not London, proves that. In 1940, in spite of isolationism sentiment among the US population, the US was a major figure in World Power politics.
The bomber in the thumbnail is not the Me 264 because of both the tail of the plane in the thumbnail and also it’s fuselage most predominantly the nose
A dead or missing Coast Guard man would attracted a lot of unwanted attention. The German agents apparently really believed the German propaganda that Americans were only interested in money.
Like most people these days you lack insight n not seeing the big picture, higher-ups in Germany was a plan to use a dirty bomb on New York, do a bit of some research before making foolish comments on something you clearly have no understanding
It don't make sense to you because you clearly don't understand what German high command was planning with this idea of bombing America so in a nutshell this plane had one purpose and that is to drop a dirty bomb on New York, so your comment is laughable because you clearly lack insight n understanding of history and making unfounded remarks. This this MAKE SENSE TO YOU !!!!
First Rule of Amphibious Warfare:- If you want to invade an island defended by the largest navy in the world, and your own navy will fit into the fuhrer's bathtub and still leave room for his rubber duck, Erich, perhaps it is wiser not to try.
The Nasties developed a nuclear weapon, radioactive dust spread by conventional explosives at about 3,000 feet above target. Nasty but unreliable, but it would have worked. Form following function, the Amerika bomber looked a lot like the B-29. Not copying, but the same mission. Good thing they couldn't build many.
It was only a theory. Never came anything close to a real plan. Nazis didn't have the tools nor the reasources to build plane that big nor it would be possible to make a flight that long and safely get back. Also, Portugal went on the Allies side...
Documentaries of this high quality are going to become fewer and further between, as the tidal wave of AI-compiled, composited, and TTS voice-'narrated' rubbish continues its miasmatic flood across youTube.
How long did you have to sit in one of them useless guvment schools to come up with that ?
You must be intelligent
Nah… newly released tech is usually always rubbish…. The documentaries will get better and better.
This isn't high quality. It's not even accurate. The US became a superpower at war conclusion, not prior to.
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I remember this was on the history channel in 2005 but it was different and all they talked about was how the plane was never built
So doesn't that mean it was a different documentary?
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It was mainly about the planes, where they would launch like Portugals Azores islands.
Junkers 390, 490 and this space rocket that would take off on long rail and use yellow radiation rain when attacking. Silverbird was its name.
I was only 12/13 so don't remember everything
@@MangoTroubles-007 Right. I was around the same age at the time as well. I had my bar mitzvah that summer
@@operation1968bro what 😂😂
@@SomTangReawWong What do you mean what? What exactly are you referring to? 🤷🏻♂️
There's a book called Windswept Lies of War, and it talks from censored history and hidden secrets to lost files and classified documents about World War II, it's the real deal.
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I was a WW2 baby born in Scotland so I was lucky to be away from the "blitzkrieg". Later, I many times asked my parents about the war but they would never tell me, saying that it's in the past and we must concentrate upon the UK's recovery and future. I therefore rely upon authentic documentaries to "fill me in" and hope that they shall continue to be available on the internet for at least another ten years 🙏
I agree. To tell you the truth I have much respect for people of your generation. Shalom from Israel 🇮🇱🫡
@@operation1968
I also have much admiration for your generation and past generations. Those difficult times from 1947, and continuing. Yesterday, I listened to your country's National Anthem
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@@michaelmacaulay8074 Thanks, appreciate it. Shalom to you 😊🙂
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In 1936, three years before the invasion of Poland, the plans for the B-36 were being drawn just in case England lost the war with Germany and we had to fight from America. The B-36 was known as the plane that was so effective that they never had to go to war.
The US wasn't a superpower militarily before WW2. Economically, yes, and it had the money and man power to do so if it wanted to, but it didn't. Before WW2 the US never kept a large standing army during peace time because all the way back to George Washington, they thought if you spend that much money on it, you're going to use it regardless if you need to or not. You don't use all that time, effort, and money on something and let it go to waste. There were several major powers before WW2. All with their different strengths, but no superpowers.
How very interesting! When I was in school I used to think I hated history, now I think it was more so the way it was taught that made it seem boring
@@Sr_iRL looking at things in different perspectives are what got me into history at a young age, my great grandfather was born in 1890 and died in 1980, when he was growing up everyone rode on horses, and before he died jets were flying over his head and we had someone on the moon
Exactly. I don't know about infantry personnel and aircraft, but I know the US army had like juat a few tanks in service by 1939, well below 100 units. Crazy to think by 1945 they had over +50.000 tanks in service.
@@generacionmarttinAt the end of 1939 the U.S. had 18 M-2 Medium Tanks. The M-1 was the WW1 Mk8 Liberty Tank.
We were an untapped industrial superpower. We were able to replace that which was lost on the battlefield and that which was lost at sea more quickly than the Germans and Japanese.
Kurk Tunk was a genius after Argentina he came to India. Here he designed many aircrafts, for eg HAF-34 MARUT, and give HAL knowledge of whatever is needed to build a fighter aircraft. Today India has designed Tejas aircraft and Kurk Tunk has played a significant role in it.
There was also a German detainment camp in Pennsylvania. It is now Ft Indiantown Gap. Was a detainment camp than later a POW camp. There is a massive (6' x 6') swastika dug in the group on their property, was planned to be filled with gas and lit on fire if the Germans ever bombed America so they wouldn't kill their own people.
This is a lie. You can Google to see it is a lie.
The USA was not a superpower at the time. Economically, yes, militarily, no.
Sleeping Giant
It didn't takes too long for an industrial superpower into a military Superpower
@5:02 - thought it was my cat wailing at a stray outside
In a courtroom David Irving said, “if the soldiers that stormed the Normandy beaches in June 1944 could see England as it is today they wouldn’t have gone 40 yards up that beach”.
David Irving is the last person you want to take intellectual advice from 😂
@@xGodWearsGuccioi vey!
@@xGodWearsGucci so you’re stating that everything is perfect and that it was worth fighting and dying for have you not seen the current state of our world?
what parallel universe do you live in because I can guarantee you my grandfather wouldn’t have fought in the war. Had he seen what happened to us
A 6 engine version of an enlarged Condor was designed but not built. It was supposed to be towed by an identical plane just short of the east coast of the US, fly into NY, drop the bombs, and return to Norway.
That makes no sense. The tug would use twice as much fuel as just flying there by itself.
@@TheLucanicLordthat's not how planes work, just because you're towing an equal sized airplane doesn't mean you use twice the fuel. Just whatever amount of fuel needed to overcome parasitic drag which is significantly less than running two planes worth of engines..
So the crew of the tow plane would be the suicide squad.
Its amazing to process like These documentaries that we can't get somewhere else
Your Right on point very true
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This quality is already reminding me of my sick days from school as a kid watching history and nat geo documentaries!
This is probably why the SOO locks in Michigan's upper peninsula were the number one most protected place in the US at that time according to my college Michigan History Professor. Interesting and thought provoking documentary.
This is really interesting fact FUNCLB. I looked it up and 90% of America iron ore was shipped through the area, so super important.
""This film revels for the first time"" LOL.
Should I point out that German plans to occupy Iceland weren't scuppered because the U.S got there first?
British and Canadian troops occupied Iceland in May 1940 to prevent Germany doing so following their invasion of Denmark.
Fascinating.
this is better than watching movies lol
Thank you, American military for ensuring that i was able to be born in a civilized country and not a dictatorship
very good
The British initially occupied Iceland during the war to prevent a German invasion, but after an agreement with the Icelandic government, the U.S. took over, allowing British soldiers to be redeployed to more critical areas.
It sounds as if British soldiers were considered a liability, as confirmed during Normandy's invasion where the British army only caused delays
@@javiercortes5232 The decision for the U.S. to take over the occupation of Iceland wasn’t because British forces were a ‘liability.’ At the time, the U.S. was still officially neutral, but they agreed to step in to help protect Iceland’s strategic location and ensure the British could focus on other critical fronts. The handover was a mutual agreement between Iceland, the U.S., and the British, not a reflection of any shortcomings.
Its crazy to see the size of the plane compared to others made at the time💀
Good documentary and it is too bad they don't make them like this anymore. Interesting how they failed to mention anything about the Horten H.XVIII
Perhaps because none were ever built?
It'll be interesting to by date file hitters plans to get a measure of when his meth use reached peak😂
Little knowledge is a dangerous thang!!!
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A few clarifications:
1. The UK was first to occupy Iceland and deny it to Germany.
2. The bombing of Peenemunde was undertaken by the RAF.
It would be nice if this documentary acknowledged that the UK played a modest role in defeating Nazism. :)
Since Portugal was neutral they could have used one of islands to refuel. I’m talking about the Azores🤔
Portugal leased Azores to the Allies. Somewhat strange, since their goverment was right-wing dictatorship.
There were no "super-powers" @ that time. the term came into use after detonation of atomic then thermo-nuclear weapons. the USA was not a military of exceptional strength nor size until the US declared war in 1941 and, US "War effort" began. Hence, the likely apocryphal quote attributed to Yamamoto about having awoken a sleeping giant after the attack on USN Pearl Harbor base. Super powers was a coined term for/during cold war for propaganda as nuclear war seemed increasingly possible,
@25:20 The Cooostguard. Best branch of the forces.
21:00 hey old head, THATS A CONCENTRATION CAMP. if you must go, can’t leave, and put all the folks of the same group in one area, they’re in a concentration camp. And it was illegal when the US did it
They weren’t murdered that’s why they called it an internment camp, they did the same to Japanese.. calling them concentration camps is an affront to the Jewish that died in actual concentration camps
Pearl Harbor was the first time America had ever been attacked in its own territory? The War of 1812 never happened? The British never burned down the White House? 🤣
America as a Super Power. Not the USA as burgeoning Country in 1812.
In the War of 1812 it was America who attacked Canada. The British counter attacked the US aggressor.
Claiming otherwise is like the Russians claiming Ukraine started the war by invading Russia.
@lisaroberts8556 America wasn't really considered a super power before wwii either.
@@chriskelly4299 Nor militarily, I believe in 39, Bulgaria, yes f**king Bulgaria had a larger army than the US which was at the time predominantly naval focused. I thought that was an interesting factoid, turns out that the Civil War was enough of national scar that mothers and young wives stopped their men, sons and husbands from joining the army. Not only that, but the powers in Washington were hoping to model themselves on their counterparts, wherein Britannia ruled the world by mastering the sea (at least the relative modern understanding of it) so the push was on for a Naval force not specifically Army. WWII changed all that.
English.... British and the British Empire please. C'mon US commentator there's a huge difference.
Iceland would have served as a base for U boats too. If taken by Germany.
The name of the president is pronounced "Roseavelt". Campaign posters were printed with a red rose on them.
Also a symbol of labor movements to this day. FDR and Truman were big union guys.
Yes, in Dutch, oo is a long o.
Star Trek Enterprise covered it in an episode, but witg the lizard aliens
You are wrong about American being attacked within its own territory. There is the war of 1812.
And Japanese invaded Alaska on the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kisha in June 1942
@@glennquagmire1747 escaped khamakazes in hawaii also took over an island with like 5k people
@@mathislane178 wasn't a state at the time.
The war of 1812 was an extension of the revolutionary war......
@@thefreese1 well if it wasn't part of the US Roosevelt would have had no reason to retaliate against Japan, for Alaska or Hawaii.
@38:18 you know exactly what that older man with that sledge hammer was thinking... if there was ever a facial expression that showed ones thoughts it was that man at that second and there shouldn't be a single person who could ever blame him for wanting to use that hammer for what he was thinking about doing with it either!!
At one point, the Nazis even began to formulate a plan to launch V2 rockets from submarines in the Atlantic, to hit the US. Needless to say, this was far easier said than done.... Even if the Luftwaffe had developed the aircraft to reach and hit the US, the US would have probably brought them all down before they got out of range on their way home..... These great lumbering bombers would have been easy prey for US fighter pilots...
The Me264 was not cancelled because it was destroyed . There were actually 3 . 2 were destroyed in bombing one in 43 and the other 2 in 44. It was cancelled because the luftwaffe preferred the Focke wulf Ta400 and the He277 designs . . That aren't even mentioned.
Where did the money come from?
Sir!, Ze Engine's Falled Off!.........Ve Will Glide!
There must have been interesting words when the Doolittle raid was reported in Germany.
None of the planes they had were capable of carrying out sustained bombing of American soil.
Countries have intentions and capabilities, even if Germany intended to take Iceland it didn’t have the capability to do so. Or if they did manage to seize Iceland they surely didn’t have the capability to supply an Air Force that would be attacking the US.
Just to play devils advocate America began supplying Russia and England with war supplies through lend lease on March 8th 1941. So why wouldn't Germany declare them offically enemies after the pearl harbor attack of December 7th 1941 and then be able to have legal unrestricted submarine warfare on the American supply ships and possibly have their ally Japan help them to open a second front with the Soviet Union leading to their downfall. Allowing them to then both focus on America. People seem so confused on why these countries did what they did but from their perspective these all seem like logical conclusions
What is it with planes, New York and September 11th
Hitlers dream
History does repeat 🔂
11:40 - "He is a professional spy", also he does his spy things in front of a hidden camera held by some random stranger who is in the room with them :D
Something like 90% of the American public was opposed to becoming involved in WW2 - but Roosvelt and his advisors didn't think that was important.
was that before or after pearl harbor
The tiny hats had other plans
My biggest problem with this is the fact when talking about Britain they say England or English. It feels like the Scottish and Welsh people are forgetting about. Britain was a nation long before England, Scotland and Wales was a thought. The Romans invaded Britain. Britain was at war, all of the home nations fought as one and no one nation was more important. They were the United Kingdom of Great Britain. That’s who was a war. Not just “England”. Never forget the effort and sacrifices all the home nations gave in that time.
"it could've happened on September 11th" I almost turned off the documentary, that wasn't even necessary...who added that to the script?
The terrorists who were financed by your own country
In 1941 the United States was not a super power we were 7th in the world
7th in what? In December of that year the Japanese got the US into the war, and in 4 years the insertion of the U.S. into the war, in Northern Africa, in the Pacific, and in Europe, resulted in the defeat of Germany and Japan.
Usa was more an superpower in 1941 than in 2024. The world is starting to laugh at america
7th in the WORLD is still crazy. Theres like 300 countries as is right now. Theres a reason the US was called "the sleeping giant." It wasnt about what we had, but what we could have and do.
One thing is certain: technically and militarily, Germany was more advanced than any other country at that time. Germany already had a stealth fighter jet from Horton. And also the first Figheter Jet, the Messerschmit ME 262. And without Wernher von Braun, the US would never get to the moon so quickly. The Germans already had the Rockets technology. Albert Einsein also came from Germany, but he had studied and worked in Switzerland, where he also received citizenship before he went to America and then received US citizenship
Rockets started in Russia. Nukes were created in the USA. Radar in the UK. Germany lost the war.
German superiority was a myth. They were defeated by numbers and factories, not technology.
1. The British invented the jet engine before the Germans. Frank Whittle.
2. The Horton was not a fighter and neither was it stealth. Not a single one was ever operational either. What "already" ?
3. The American Robert H. Goddard built the first liquid-powered rockets in 1925.
4. The Russian Sergei Korolev designed and build liquid-powered rockets right after. On August 18, 1933, GIRD launched the first hybrid propellant rocket, the GIRD-09, and on November 25, 1933, the Soviet's first liquid-fueled rocket GIRD-X.
Korolev was the man behind the the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R7-Semyorka in 1957. He later headed the Soviet space program.
5. The Atomic Bomb was by far the most advanced weapon of the war. American, British and Canadian scientists worked on it.
6. Robert Oppenheimer was an American. The man most responsible for the atomic bomb.
7. Enrico Fermi was an Italian (later naturalized American) who built the first nuclear reactor Pile-1.
8. Alan Turing was British. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science.
9. Niels Bohr was Danish and who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
10. Einstein was also a Jew and therefore not German at all according to the Third Reich.
Einstein is the only theoretical physicist you know of.
"One thing is certain: "
Bertrand Russell (mathematician, logician, philosopher, writer and Nobel Prize winner) once said: "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are certain while the intelligent are full of doubt."
Id say he had the likes of you in mind. Always very certain of things but actually knowing very little.
@@McLarenMercedes You should understand that rockets don't scale up easily. It was a massive engineering feat to scale liquid fueled rockets up. The liquid fueled rockets built and launched by Goddard as well as the Soviets with the GIRD-09 were tiny rockets, essentially large model rockets. This is the reason project overcast was so important for the post-war American rocket program, and even still they encountered huge problems with scaling up liquid fueled engines to be as large as the F-1. The Soviets had problems with this too, and as a matter of fact they never did develop large engines for heavy lift rockets like the Americans did under Werner von Braun.
@@FinalFront Tell that to OP.
It was the Luftwaffe not the German air force. Does everything have to be dumbed down so much for the USA? Apparently so.
What?
"Luftwaffe" is the German word for "Airforce". The German Airforce today is still called the "Luftwaffe" in German. The German people today still speak German.
@10_rds_Fire_For_Effect That wasn't the question I was asking. The compound words translate to "air" and "weapon" or "arms/armaments". Put together it means air force. Most people know this, including Americans.
Please everyone, let's not forget that the word Luftwaffe translates to Airweapon.
They lost the war they'll abide by our language Goddamit
Code name Icarus? Really? That’s not much of a code.
Why?
@@operation1968 Germany attacking America is like a chihuahua picking a fight with a pitbull. It’s asking to lose. Like how Icarus failed by flying too close to the sun.
@@GrantDWilliams82 I guess. But looking at it that way is a bit of a stretch don't you think? 🤔
@@operation1968 No.
Next video will be that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are real. Stay tuned.
Just one question here…5:00 -5:30 I noticed that when German Dornier and Heinkel bombers dropped their payload, their bombs fell in a wobbly fashion: Sort of doing a semi half twist and then righting themselves up. Is this because the bombs had all the explosive in the nose unlike modern bombs like the MK 82 and MK 84 or what? And if so, why did so many German bombs fail to explode when dropped over England? The Japanese didn’t seem to have the same problem of dud ordinance.
The bombs were loaded vertically and dropped tail first.
Oh okay. I guess the German bombers didn't have large bomb bays like the Lancaster or Halifax.
Good doc overall. Have some issues with the arbitrary internment of random people with dubious connections to their homeland. Cant really define this as an issue of internal security. Especially given the hundreds of thousands of Japanese.
A better idea than taking Iceland would have been to take the Azores (Islands 1/3 away over the Atlantic Ocean).
Now would Germany, with a tiny navy, hold the Azores in the unlikely event that they were even taken?
Many German Engineers brought to United States after the War
41:00 in speech sounds syllable related to Boris Johnson entirely
References for the claim the OKW ever planned to invade Newfoundland?
" Concrete jungle , wet dream tomato " unquote
I don’t get it
@@skipmagil it's off that song " New York".
@@skipmagil the Hawk Tuah girl quotes it also in one of her interviews after she went to New York
Loser
Coast to coast in Amontillado.
Probably all European nations in the 1920s nd 30s knew who posed the ultimate threat to their civilization, and Germany was one of them. The Germans were well aware that the enemy found their 'promised land' in the US, particularly in NY. This knowledge is now erased from all coursebooks and courses, but sources providing this now well guarded and censored insight still exist.
I'm not sure I know what your getting at. So who was the ultimate threat? Just Americans?
@@chriskelly4299 I'm not sure if I"ll ever be able to enlighten you. Sorry...
@@chriskelly4299he’s talking about ✡️’s
An interesting documentary, albeit the narrative seems to have left out any mention of the RAF and British Intelligence. They did play a role in all the actions attributed here only to US forces. Odd.
Amen❤
19:00 it wasn’t “counter propaganda” Roosevelt released PROPAGANDA
Does Dresden ring a bell?
Always makes me think of Kurt Vonnegut 📖
No it doesn't
@@boris2997 it's a place in Germany that got fire bombed in World War II resulting in an unbelievable amount of death 💀
@@cahlendavidson2921 18,000 to 25,000. What's so "unbelievable" about that death toll?
@@waveygravey9347 the fact that the estimated deaths are far beneath that. The fact that it caused a firestorm which led to an unusually high kill rate.
Roosevelt knew Japan would attack Hawaii. And allowed it.
There are valid documentaries online. This is not one.
What about this one? "Hitler's Secret Space Program. The Third Reich Obscure"
Yeah.... ..... ..... "USA managed to pre-position troops in Iceland".... I think one was meant to say "UK *invaded* Iceland, before Germany could and then Americans helped to Brits to occupy Iceland".
Like sure brits and americans were nicer occupiers, than Germans would have been. Still doesn't remove the fact it was invasion and occupation.
@@aritakalo8011
The American Marines relived the British Garrision that had been there before WW2 even started. It was not invasion. Research before you comment. You sound extremely ignorant
@@MangoTroubles-007 this is s lie, America invaded Iceland
I specifically studied European history and this documentary is not only good but is actually more informative then most. I’m assuming you studied yapology
They should have taken Iceland and Greenland and then move into Newfoundland to set up air bases when they had the chance, when U boats dominated the Atlantic. Nobody could have stopped them at that time.
Possibility
It would never make it to New York
I would point out that in 1940 , America was far from being a super power.
In 1940 America had the largest industrial capacity of any nation in the world, as well as the world's largest Navy. Our Army and Air Service needed updating and enlargement, but we were not "far from being a super power".
@@oldgysgt Britain still had the largest navy at that time and we had the 17th largest army.
We were a latent super power.
By 1945 we were the most powerful nation on earth.
@@pigmanobvious; the RN had more operational ships than the USN in 1940, but the USN had large numbers of "mothballed" ships, especially Destroyers. In fact, we sold 50 of these Destroyers to Great Briton to help out the RN. As I said, our Army needed enlarging, but in 1940 the Draft had just been restarted. We were NOT "FAR from being a world power". The fact that the international Naval limitation conference and treaty was held in Washington, and not London, proves that. In 1940, in spite of isolationism sentiment among the US population, the US was a major figure in World Power politics.
1940 america had only such number of fleet carriers available, essex series was still in design stage then
The bomber in the thumbnail is not the Me 264 because of both the tail of the plane in the thumbnail and also it’s fuselage most predominantly the nose
Captain America aka Steve Rogers stopped the bombing of NYC when he crashed this bomber into the ice and remained trapped for 70 years
So the agents did not kill the coast guard man, but chose to pay him money to keep his mouth shut. Just saying.
A dead or missing Coast Guard man would attracted a lot of unwanted attention. The German agents apparently really believed the German propaganda that Americans were only interested in money.
Esbern?
Weapons
The blurred out pictures are ridiculous!
The bots that always say "we fought the wrong enemy" wont like this video.
Of course since it’s pure Allies propaganda
Way to go Sherlock!
He didn’t invade England when they were all but beaten but he was gonna fly across the Atlantic to bomb the states , makes sense
Well, he wasn’t the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Just the largest and most oddly-shaped.
Like most people these days you lack insight n not seeing the big picture, higher-ups in Germany was a plan to use a dirty bomb on New York, do a bit of some research before making foolish comments on something you clearly have no understanding
It don't make sense to you because you clearly don't understand what German high command was planning with this idea of bombing America so in a nutshell this plane had one purpose and that is to drop a dirty bomb on New York, so your comment is laughable because you clearly lack insight n understanding of history and making unfounded remarks. This this MAKE SENSE TO YOU !!!!
First Rule of Amphibious Warfare:-
If you want to invade an island defended by the largest navy in the world, and your own navy will fit into the fuhrer's bathtub and still leave room for his rubber duck, Erich, perhaps it is wiser not to try.
@@dovetonsturdee7033 - everyone is an expert 🤣🤣
Amen❤ 43:38
The Nasties developed a nuclear weapon, radioactive dust spread by conventional explosives at about 3,000 feet above target. Nasty but unreliable, but it would have worked. Form following function, the Amerika bomber looked a lot like the B-29. Not copying, but the same mission. Good thing they couldn't build many.
Total number of ME264s? Three. Their development was abandoned in 1943.
Well oddly I just heard you say "It would have happened on September 11th" whilst I just started this video on, 9/11.
But in the end who used horrible weapons of mass destruction ?
The first one to get it
So what was the alternative…..?
The Germans where trying to develop a nuclear bomb, had try not stifled scientific research with ideology.
The ones trying to end the war.
FAFO😂😂
I miss back when the US jailed those who suspected enemies.
Woah
No. It is very silly. The American SOE was in its infancy and certainly could not compare with MI6. They were amateurs.
yeah well who the real ones now?
@@chrisvibz4753 I think you might find that nothing much has really changed in the world of humint. MI6 has a very sound reputation.
sounds like Putin today!
I couldn't imagine what the US would be like if they developed nuclear weapons
It did happen just many years later.
And so the americans won the war totally on teir own with no help from anyone else....Ha bleedin ha.
A German air force plane? Do you mean a German Luftwaffe bomber?
It was only a theory. Never came anything close to a real plan. Nazis didn't have the tools nor the reasources to build plane that big nor it would be possible to make a flight that long and safely get back. Also, Portugal went on the Allies side...
Makes ya wonder 🤔
why was my comment removed????
They were and still are.