Germany's Unstoppable Hidden Secret Weapons
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- On the morning of 8 September 1944, Germany introduced a new secret weapon to its already deadly WW2 arsenal. It came out of nowhere and caused a massive explosion in Paris. There was nothing to compare it to.
The weapon was part of Germany's Wunderwaffe, its miracle weapons program, created in a last-ditch effort to shift the war's balance in the Third Reich's favor.
The V2 rocket, nicknamed the Retribution Weapon 2, was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. No defensive systems of the time could do anything to counter the weapon, and V2s rarely failed to reach their targets. They were extremely fast, powerful, and precise.
The Allied forces, desperate to find an effective way to counter the V2's sheer effectiveness, realized that there was only one way to avoid further destruction. The solution was destroying the secret German military bases where they were assembled.
Operation Crossbow's objective was simple. Find the enemy bases where the V2s were located and blow them to smithereens. But things weren't going to be that easy.
The Allies soon realized that there were not two, or four, or 10 research facilities, but more than 50 scattered all over Europe. A race against time was undertaken to destroy them all before the bombs could disrupt American supply lines in France.
Everything seemed lost to the Allies until an innovative method created by the British Intelligence seemed to offer hope. Cutting-edge 3D photography would reveal where the V2 launch sites were hidden...
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Ahhhhhh the good old days. When you could walk around a fueled rocket about to launch and smoke a cigarette.
Ahh yes, fond memories of the good 'ole days. Haha!
@tvercetti1 Correct! To "light" the rocket all we did was make a little trail of gunpowder, from the wood barrel we kept it in & hide behind any nearby boulder. The ACME brick company was the standard back then. *mbeep, beep. Back then, you wouldn't even fall off a cliff, until you looked down. I miss those days. Haha!!
Could think of worst ways to go in ww2
The rockets were more likely to kill you than the cigarette... (regardless of the cigarette being lit). Half the V-2’s detonated during launch or early flight.
@tvercetti1 The V-2 was more likely to just blow up spontaneously (many did).
The liquid oxygen and 75% ethanol water fuel in tanks built by slave labourers were their own cause for concern.
Ahhhhh, still that cold war mentality,,, and the ol landing on the moon bit....
German Scientist 1943 :
" We ' ll build rockets to blow people to smithreens ! "
German Scientists after WW II :
" Ok , now We' ll build rockets to go to the Moon ! " .
V2s apparently had a signature double blast when they exploded. The first being the explosive warhead and the second being the sonic boom as it fell breaking the sound barrier
We need to thank the British for their feats. We always think that the US won the war but the British were true allies.
Actually the Second World War started in 1937 or earlier, I am not sure, but the Japanese started when they invaded China, the European theater war was in 1939
Why are you talking so fast??? It's HISTORY, slow down.
Had the V2 been nuclear tipped it would have won the war for Germany.
Not really. Average weight of an A-Bomb was 20,000lbs. The MAX weight a V2 could carry was 2000lb. The manhours required to make a Bomb and V2 big enough to carry it, without the Allies finding the launch sites, would not be worth it for Germany.
I thought the V1 was a totally different animal than V2erner V2on Browns? _But our favorite narrator said V2 was predecessor from evolution of the V1?_
For those that don’t know, that early shot of a V2 plunging nose down into the ground was NOT a normal descent. That was a missile that failed very early in its boost phase, tipped over, and fell back near their launch site at merely terminal velocity (i.e. 150-250 mph).
The successful V2s that hit their targets were traveling faster than a rifle bullet, around 3000 mph! You didn’t see or hear them coming, just all of a sudden there was a huge explosion.
The very first V2 that hit London was blamed on a gas main explosion so as not to panic people whilst they tried to figure out what to do about them..
true. I've read that the V1 could be heard on its approach with a distinctive put put sound from its engine. It was said it wasn't the sound that scared you, it was when the put put silenced, and that's when the V1 descended. The V2 just arrived without warning and exploded.
Thanks for the info, I was wondering why it was falling so slowly.
It kind of annoys me, because most documentaries will use that failed launch footage and imply that it is a rocket hitting London, because there is no footage of a V2 hitting London, because it's impossible for there to be!
And it's wrong for another reason, namely that those test failures did not include a live warhead. The explosion you see with them is just impact damage. And not supersonic impact damage..
Can you imagine how terrifying it must have been for civilian populations as a V2 rocket came Silently out of nowhere. This was beginning of urban warfare at most destructive. Now we have even more accurate mobile launch vehicles which can fire series of rockets. The Israeli can testify to those Sent by Hamas in Jerusalem.
@@paulhunter6742 Multiple lauched rockets existed in WW2, the Soviet Katyusha most famously.
The Hummus rockets are virtually identical to the WW2 Katyusha
Imagine how different the world would be in the Germans had perfected the atomic bomb first and put it on a V2
We all would be German citizens.
If they had finished the "Amerika rocet" an wiped out Ney York perhaps he wouldn't have been regarded as "A great American".
I recall they were well on the way to start initial development and were well aware that it was possible.
You wouldn't be here on TH-cam reading about it right now, I'll bet.
Yeah...we wouldnt have zionist bankers ripping us off with their central bank the fraud fed or their extortion agency IRS
The V2 rockets were not precise, they landed in random target areas. But they were powerful.
a 1000 bombers raid could do 10 time more damage each night than all V2 + V1 ever launched
Gotta remember thos was 1940s
For non piloted rockets they may as well have been lazer amd GPS guided
They were way ahead of anything else out there
The only way the allies ever managed to catch up was by winning the war and stealing the tech
To think if they'd stayed friendly with the Russians and not run out of resources
Alot of their inventions might have come to fruition and it could have been a differant situation
It's a little known fact that more people died in its development and manufacture than there were killed in its deployment.
@@cb3609 yeah and then you potentially loose several hundred valuable airmen (that took years to train) and dozen of aircraft
One of the main reason for them not being precise was because they used slave labor to manufacture the V2. The laborers sabotaged them any chance they got.
The V2 was not an evolution of the V1. They were two different weapons developed independently of one another by two separate groups.
I think mistakes like this are intentional to increase “engagement”...
The V1 quickly lost it's effectiveness when the allies learned how to detect them on their way to target. First by sound, they're loud then warn defenses. They were essentially aircraft that flew straight & level but didn't defend itself. They were shot down, like any other aircraft. They had pulse jets. They weren't supersonic or anything crazy.
Perhaps in a more general sense, they were an evolution of unmanned self-guided flying bombs.
@@empireoflizards Neither was a guided weapon. They were gyroscopically stabilized, but not guided. ‘Guided’ means they have the ability to change direction mid-flight, ie computer, laser or GPS guided and actively respond to their surroundings.
-_- this kind of stuff is exaclty why nobody likes history nerds. With you guys everything is probably somewhat wrong. Pay for a subscription to a non fiction streaming site if you expect no mistakes. The B1 is an evolution of the liberator. Just as the V1 is a evolution of the V2. Some data somewhere from the V1 probably went into the development of the V2. Either way the V1 certainly paved the way for rocket design and experience for the germans. And guys does it matter is it's not guided... Use stabilized instead if its bothers you that much...
01:38 Just one note: Research facilities are not the same as production facilities, despite the implication. V2's were not being assembled in 50 locations all over Europe. Those places simply had some kind of contributory role.
Yes, they were assembled underground by concentration camp prisoners. More than 3,000 V-2s were launched but more people were killed building the rocket than those hit by it.
@@travissmith2056 did u really just say that more people were killed building the rocket than those hit by it?? You sir, are a ridiculous jackass.
@@CuttySobz Slave labor bro. Lots of the workers died
@@CuttySobz Estimated 9000 casualties from V2 hits and 12000 deaths in the forced labour producing them
@@CuttySobz eyo delete this unless you love getting made fun of
Saying Belgium declared war when France and the UK did is a bad bad error.
Indeed. Belgium declared war on Germany in 1914 but King Leopold 3 wisely declared neutrality in 1936. He only mobilized it's troops (between 600 and 650 thousand men) as a defensive force and gave up after 18 days of fierce fighting. The cowardice government fled to Paris and later to London. But the King choose to stay with it's citizens. While in captivity, He even managed to save about 500.000 women and and children from forced labor in Germany.
The thing about calling v2 a desperate last ditch wonder weapon project, is that the A4 rocket was designed in 1939 and the large technology blocks complete and working in 1941
They were building this long before they were losing
_deploying_ it was last ditch vengeance
What annoys me is that it's framed like the V2 was doing huge amounts of damage and they had to be stopped but in reality 2750 killed for 50% more expense than the manhatten project
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#:~:text=The%20German%20V%2Dweapons%20(V,that%20produced%20the%20atomic%20bomb.
Well, nobody likes a weapon that they can't stop.
Just be mindfull, it's because of this we got a man on the moon.....
Yeah be mindful thousands of war criminals that worked people to death for a free pass while the via directly lied to the U.S. Public about it while busy overthrowing democracies under ike.
@@joshschneider9766 C.I.A?....A lot of shit went down on both sides, that's what happens in WW''s......
A lot of people know this, but what a lot of people don't know was that there was something like a German SpaceX in the 1970s. One of the reasons they killed the project is because a lot of countries were nervous about Germans playing with rockets again. It's a really fascinating and very little known story though...
@@xcofcd Yeap, I would be a bit shaky knowing that!.....Imagine if they continued it on since the 1940's though...
Wernher Von Braun
Al Murry is probably the last person i would of expected Dark Docs to have mentioned in his videos.
Despite being known as a stand up comedian, he's also well known as a World War 2 historian - and he is serious about that.
@@lucajoey4224 Better question is WHY?
Wernher von Braun ... beautiful British name.
Al Murray...
The stereo photography is quite amazing if you ever get a chance to see it. Altitudes of terrain and heights of building can be accurately measured. I used to see it as a youngster working for a mapping agency decades ago.
I learned how to see 3D as a small child. My grandmother had a stereoscope and a pack of photos. She would only take it out when my cousins visited. Being youngest, I was always last as my cousins wouldn't share. My father showed me how to hold the picture close to my face and then slowly pull it away until I saw 3D. Soon I could to it without holding the picture close.
Cooool.
My Great Granma had one, too, but not many pictures had remained.
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If the military were taking celluloid photographs with the intention of being viewed as 3D, why not take entire filmstrips as well?
Recon photos are not “taken with a stereoscope.” They are taken with the images overlapping each other and then are viewed with a stereoscope in order to produce a stereoscopic 3D effect.
It was semi-explained in the video, I assume that the voice-over was written with brevity in mind. A lot of these little "glitches" appear in the scripts, I think they mostly result from trying to compress a lot of detailed technical stuff into a 10-minute format, rather than poor research or misunderstanding the content. The narrator simply reads what he is given.
"taken for a stereoscope" fine, moving on!
Yeah not 3d photos. The stereoscope is essentially like a pair of glasses that sits on the table on top of two regular photos taken at the offset angle as mentioned. This offset tricks the human eye into "seeing in 3d"
Yes, the 3D effect was perceived as 3D because of the stereoscope device used to view the photos. It wasn't a new film or fancy camera that did this. They became kids toys later on. I had one growing up. I bet almost everyone has. This sould look familiar. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master
@@sixstringedthing if it was one you could forgive it but it happens in so many videos that contain such basic errors
Most important weapon of the future would be ballistic missiles. V2 was the first of it's kind. So Allied powers had to charge in and get those engineers and scientists and data at all costs. At all costs...
Wehrner Von Braun and others like him were nothing but pawns to every side. He actually went through a lot to make sure he surrendered to the US including hiding the research in an abandoned mineshaft. With Operation Paperclip (innocuous name) they brought over scientists and engineers just so the Soviets didn’t get the info . Most surrendered willingly to the US because they knew we would keep them alive and give them a life.. the Soviets wanted the research and after to kill them .
The most important weapon of the future are peoples naive minds and Stockholm syndrome
The V2's were far worse than the V1's more inaccurate, extremely expensive. 1400 fired with an estimated 2750 killed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#:~:text=The%20German%20V%2Dweapons%20(V,that%20produced%20the%20atomic%20bomb.
2750 killed for 50% more expense than the manhatten project
@@steelths1781 Far more were killed during the manufacturing of the A-4 than in its use.
@@allangibson2408 yeah and I get really pissed at people framing late war "advanced" German weapons as potentially war changing when in reality all of them were worse than nothing or not even close to enough to carry the war
Now Google makes it impossible to escape advertizing. 15 seconds before the video, 6 second ad 1/3 in, 15 seconds in the middle, and 6 seconds at the last third. 42 seconds total. I mean, that isn't a whole lot of time, it is just so aggrivating...
Here's a trick which works on my android. Fast forward to the end, hit replay and watch without the ads. The TH-cam thinks you have watched all the ads already and dark docs still gets paid
@@g3heathen209, yeah, I tried that, and at first it wouldn't go to the recresh button. When it finaly did, it still showed the ad ticks in the video. I tried twice to get them to go away, to no avail. Now, when I watched the other 2 videos, Dark docs and Dark skies, it worked. Since Google took over TH-cam, they push paying for TH-cam premium. They have absolutely ruined TH-cam, with demonitization, removal of old videos they deem unfit to their platform, etc.
This is why I use Ublock Origin when I watch youtube now. It's also possible the channel is monetizing their videos that heavily tho but then the ads would at least be in decent places
On Android or browser, in the browser I haven't seen an ad in years. You just need the right addons.
@@georgemcmillan9172 Checkout "TH-cam vanced". It is a 3rd party youtube app, no ads, play music with screen off, etc.
In comparison to the Crossbow Project from the film Real Genius. "There's no defense like a good offense."
Just like shooting ducks in a barrel!
I hate popcorn!
General George Patton's military defense was all offense, and fox holes were only for pissing in.
@@sulufest, I never seen ducks in a barrel. Maybe Daffy Duck hunters came up with that one.
“The best defense is a swift and decisive offense”
The cost of the V programs were massive and did relatively little damage in terms of death. Once the Germans were successful with their border wars, they were bound to bog down and they never developed longer range 4 engine bombers, or aircraft carriers. While the V2s were technical marvels, they were too late in the war and a Germany was running out of resources. Essentially, they consumed dollars that could have been spent on more relevant and effective armaments. They were moved underground and used massive amounts of slave labor to dig them underground. I worked at Bell Aerospace in the early 1980’s and there were old timers there who worked on the space programs with the German engineers. They said that the German scientists were arrogant pricks and that the Americans didn’t hide their feelings about them.
German engineers are brilliant to a fault, and they tend to over-engineer/over-complicate things. They lost the war for many reasons, but one of the biggest underlying reasons was their over-engineering of everything, even something that should have been a simple design.
THEY HAD GOOD REASONS TO BE ARROGANT. THE AMERICANS STOLE THE GERMAN AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY, NOT VISA VERSA
@@joangratzer2101 No. The Americans captured the hardware and the scientists…..instead of shooting or hanging them.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 win/won, loss/lost, captured, conquered & Victori spolia : vae victis....terms and concepts lost on too many nowadays. But I fear, history is cyclical and these concepts are universal. The lesson will be hard learned; because our enemies understand and desire it.
@@joangratzer2101 America didnt steal it, America took it as reperations from germany
The V2 was an evolution of the V1 in the same way that a modern computer is an evolution of a slide rule, that is, not at all.
He also describes them as ‘guided’ and ‘precise’... neither of which is true. They were ‘set and forget’ (so not guided), although they had some ability to compensate directionally via gyroscopic stabilization, but that’s it. Secondly, I don’t really consider it ‘precise’ when you are limited to throwing it at city sized targets en mass and hoping for the best. I do enjoy these videos, but they are riddled with errors and are pretty sensationalist at times.
@@alfrede.neuman9082 all of them. Welcome to TH-cam.
@@alfrede.neuman9082 guided : directed by remote control or internal equipment. Oxford dictionary. His use of the term is correct
@@stevesmith2171 That’s cute. In munitions, specific terms carry very specific meanings. For example, Armour Piercing (AP) is not the same as shaped-charge, or even squash head (HESH) rounds EVEN THOUGH they all do the same thing: defeat armour. I was referring to “guided” in the munitions sense of the word, since a V2 is a exactly that. And in that sense, “guided” has exactly the meaning I described.
Better luck next time.
Imagine if this narrator could speak like a normal person rather than in 3 round bursts.
I had to set speed to 0.75 to help him sound normal.
Better than before.
Aug
I thought he was recording it whilst taking a strained shit....
@@Crashed131963 lol...I just set it to .75 after reading your post - he indeed sounds normal now.
I very highly doubt that “everything seemed lost” and that v2 rockets were able to almost destroy allied supply lines. That is an outrageous claim.
Very true... the videos on this channel make some straight out bullshit claims A LOT.
Well I believe he said. Before they could distupt american supply lines. And yes everything indeed seems to be lost if your enemy has so many bases from which they can launch a weapon against which you cant defend yourself. And I believe "everthing seemd lost" referes to rhe effort to stop the V2 launches. But yea kind of drmatised, pretty common for documentaries....
@@stillsalty947 not with limited production and resources. The v2 was never an existential threat to the allied war effort. Look at the body count in this video from the v2 in London. Compare that to just the fire bombing of Dresden, which was one of many.
It was never a serious threat.
@@alfrede.neuman9082 yeah. It becomes almost comic when he mentions the death count from the v2. But hey, people like drama and extremes, so plenty of folks will like it no matter how heavy the bullshit is piled on.
@@Groovy_Bruce you’re right, it just annoys me because now 99% of people who watched this (and don’t know better) now think that the V1 and V2 were war winning, pin-point accurate destroyers of worlds, when they were in fact a white elephant. A very interesting and technologically advanced one, but not a war winner at all. Probably did far more harm to the German war effort than the allied one, given the resources the V2 used!
I wish I could watch this.
The narrator sounds like his rearend is strapped to a V2 at final count down.
I used to have to put it in .75 play speed but I eventually got used to it
But at .75 speed he sounds kinda drunk 🥴 lol
you may need to eat more veges so your brain can get up to speed.
Watch it w/the volume off and closed captioning on. 🧐🤔
Belgium didn't declare war on Germany, it was invaded while still holding on onto neutrality. Our eastern neighbours had a habit of driving over us to reach the coast...
Now they run over you with EU legislation 😂
@@patjohn775 not really, I'm not one of those "Oh noes, my pillows can't be flamable anymore, the horror!!!!!"-guys... there's peace in Europe's favorite battleground now
@@TheGrrrudy Europe is never at peace and times like these are especially worse than usual.
@@Inception1338 I look outside the window and they are not rounding up up people in trucks...
@@Inception1338 What wars are going on in Europe?
The V2 fuselage shape was taken from the German 7,92mm Mauser round. The Germans concluded after extensive tests that the shape was the most aerodynamic.
Yet it killed more nazis than civilians
Never expected the comedian Al Murray to be in a Dark Docs episode lol
I was going to say the same thing!
Me too
He is a Serious history student, and has done a slew of shows about WW2 and the Cold War
@@ricksheard1093 Al Murray may be a history student, but there is no need to call him "S"erious.
@@RobertSeviour1 anyone that can talk for an hour on the T-34 vs Panzer Debate and not send you to sleep is a Serious fellow
What is mostly forgotten about the V weapons. They have cost more lives in production by forced labour / prisoners than on the targets they reached. For instance the death toll in production for the V2 is around 12.000 to 20.000 prisoners / forces labour workers.
Interesting fact, reminds me about the one that more soldiers of Napoleon's Grande Armée lost their lifes in the Campaign of Russia neither fighting, nor even during the famous retreat, nor because of the cold, but on the way to Moscow, because of the massive summer heat, famine, and diseases.
Hitler clearly didnt take any note about that. One does not simply "invade" Russia.
Why were you talking so slowly, you would say like 5-6 words then have a gap like you were reading a script and then saying, reading a script, then talking
5500 V2s, 5000-9000 deaths, 30000 injured? That seems like a pretty ineffective stuff.
1-2 killed people per rocket..
@Alenas Kvasninas well, it was still an incredible feat of engineering for those days, we can't deny that. It just proved ineffective for the intended war use...
But I guess these super projects were also a moral boost, since the Germans were outnumbered (once all the allies joined in and Germans made a mistake of attacking Russia)... They had to believe they have a chance...
Perhaps it is similar to some of today's projects... like Elon's plan to colonize Mars.. sure, his reusable rockets are an incredible feat of engineering, but Mars will not become Earth 2.0
I'm pretty sure the V-2 and that whole research is the whole reason we were able to go into outer space and make it to the moon
It was definitely the springboard for space research, we hit the ground running because of it. The first US rocket tests were converted V-2 rockets.
Us Brits nearly beat everyone into space. Wit a manned, beefed up V2 called "Megaroc"!
Here you go, the wonderful Mark Felton has a video on it.
th-cam.com/video/wWFFzL65dEQ/w-d-xo.html
We could've been 15 years ahead of where we are now!
Yes. The lead engineer on the V2, wernher von braun, ended up as a lead NASA engineer
They were hardly ahead of the times as all three allied nations had rocketry research in universities/Aviation Bureaus utilising the same basic tech, bipropellant liquid fuel kerolox/methalox engines.
The technological advantage boils down to maybe six months of a dedicated team with adequate funding ironing out the problems of scaling up what is essentially explosive plumbing. It is quite disingenuous how crap documentaries tend to overhype this as "hyper advanced alien supernatural Übertech that could have won the war and wiped out all life on earth". Some of them became prominent members of the moon missions but to claim it to be the "whole reason" is beyond ridiculous. There is a huge difference between breakthrough scientists like Einstein who revolutionised entire scientific fields and people like Von Braun who while arguable being capable engineers did not contribute more than the sum of the teams
Remember everyone Warner von Braun was the main inventor of the v2 and he also LED all six Moon missions after Operation paperclip
ok yes
And then?....
You skipped the part about the work camps.
@@jackengineer4089 that he was a Nazi?
You had to be a Nazi to do any goverment wotk including being a secretary. Not all Nazis were evil people.
slow down bro!!!!!! please!!! i like your videos but please talk slower for the love of god!!!!
Absolutely love how you take the feedback we give you and you’ve slowed your speaking pace
Robot voice
@@shadowopsairman1583 of course it is, but it can be set at a slower pace, can't it?
That's sarcasm right
@@johnnyenglish583 it's not actually a robot lol
With most Americans , you just about gotta poke em with a cattle prod to move em along a bit . With an equivalent robot, maybe a few hours in a microwave could be the go to rev up their speech circuits⚡🤖⚡ 😂
Every single 'SCUD' missile and it's derivatives/clones was in itself a derivative of V2s captured by the Soviets.
They were doing the same task when Saddam launched them at Kuwait and Israel
lol
Built without the aid of computer software. Nazi Germany was way ahead of technology development than any other nation before the start of WW2.
Then their inventor was poached by the USA to help build NASA's most powerful space rocket. This begs the question from the German who invented a flying winged aircraft, what else did the German engineers invent during WW2. Also how much of that knowledge was seized by the US military and still being used to develope future weapons, aircraft etc.
Operation paperclip brought over eleven thousand over. History researchers have proven at least three thousand would have been hanged for their war crimes of not scooped up. All so the USA could Dismantle south America for corporate gain.
A lot
A lot in rocket technology due to the treaty of Versailles which didn't limit rocket weaponry but calling them way ahead is a huge stretch, they were behind in radar, nuke's, semi auto rifles, medicine just to name a few things not to mention their jet development is hugely overstated considering the brits have the first air to air jet kill
They were way ahead its time but one thing they aren't > precise!
No shit. What an assinine statement. "They rarely missed their target!". ME: Yeah, the target was a massive fucking island. It was bloody useless in battle because it's just as likely to hit your guys as it is theirs.
Posted a similar comment myself. You could be reasonably confident that the thing would land somewhere in the vicinity of the city you were aiming at, which was accurate enough for a terror weapon but it certainly wasn't precision guidance.
@@sixstringedthing You're right. For the time it was reasonably accurate. Especially when comparing too high altitude bombing at the time. It took massive formations to possibly destroy a target. Sometimes they missed the target completely or hit the wrong target or city as well. Yeah not exactly accurate but compared the cost of building a few thousands of these to a few thousand bombers, their bombs and aircrew and you can see why governments were terrified of these weapons,
Imagine if the US and the commonwealth had the v2 or even the V1 in 42? With their resources who Germany have even stood a chance?
@@loganholmberg2295 Japan certainly didn't. Tragic that such weapons had to be developed at all. Perhaps, in another timeline where such destructive technology was developed even earlier, the mere threat of it may have prevented WWII from occurring at all. Sadly the pace of human technological development was not that fast.
They also were hardly ahead of the times as all three allied nations had rocketry research in universities/Aviation Bureaus utilising the same basic tech, bipropellant liquid fuel kerolox/methalox engines.
The technological advantage boils down to maybe six months of a dedicated team with adequate funding ironing out the problems of scaling up what is essentially explosive plumbing. It is quite disingenuous how crap documentaries tend to overhype this as "hyper advanced alien supernatural Übertech that could have won the war and wiped out all life on earth"
I love when all the experts chime in and make corrections to the technical stuff. If MIT or JPL ever wanted to improve the quality of their staff they could certainly recruit some of the genius physicists and Thesaurus Captains found here!
'Thesaurus Captain' - finally the recognition I deserve.
We do a little trolling
About 50 years ago an actuarial firm in Australia posted an advertisement for some young person to be paid to train as an actuary. In order to contact the firm you had to solve a mathematical puzzle to get the digits for the phone number in the correct order. For the internet comments why not have a Captcha box that goes: "Calculate the length of the trajectory of a V2 rocket launched from x given the following data. The answer is (a),(b), (c)..."
i cant tell if this is sarcasm or not
i truly appreciate the corrections
this channel is great but is in great need of an editor
“Thesaurus Captain” ?
Lol - I prefer “Synonym Sargent”
I would like to remind that the first whole unexploded V2 rocket was taken over by the Polish army in a village of Sarnaki, dismantled and transported to the UK by the Poles.
Long live Poland! A very underappreciated nation.
@@cocacola4blood365 best greeting my friend
Not to mention that Polish intelligence made significant strides toward decrypting the German Enigma machine. This made possible later breakthoughs in Britain that finally broke the code years later.
The results of crossbow were crazy.
We dropped bombs that caused Earthquakes under the targets.
Which is anime as fuck.
😂😂damn
@@EncrypticMethods
It was called, _"Bomb, Medium Capacity, 22,000 lb_
_(Grand Slam)"_
And it was an _earthquake bomb_
10 tonnes of hardened cromoly steel and explosives, it span like a rifle bullet.
Dropped from 13,000 ft they hit at Mach 0.93, penetrated 40m and detonated by their 11 second fuzes
This caused an earthquake, and destroyed the foundation of anything you wanted gone, such as the hardened V2 silos they built into hills in France.
They were known for succeeding where everything failed because you just didn't need to hit it, in fact your were _supposed_ to miss! That way, with uneven damage to foundations, the buildings slid sideways, making repair impossible.
The designer, Barnes Wallace was an absolute madlad.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)
As a side note I happen to know that Von Braun was not only a brilliant engineer but was a very likeable guy who had a way of getting the very best out of the people under him. Von Braun cared greatly about his people and was a very generous and gracious man with an infectious smile. He was greatly grieved by the bombing raids that killed many of his associates and friends. A man of terrific wit and character, he was a natural leader who in reality was no more a Nazi that Goddard. Von Braun just wanted to embrace his passion and progress the science of rocketry. Had he been an American during the war he would have been doing the same work for American.
thank you
@@petermclelland278 Brilliant comment. You must be a historian. 🙄
except of course all the thousands of slave labourers who died whilst making the weapons he developed...which he knew very well about.
He was also a member of the Nazi party of which only about 15% of Germans were. The US knew this very well but decided to ignore all of that.
@@Xyzabc998 That's because the Nazis are here now as a result of Operation Paperclip. It's called the deep state. That's why the deep state supports the card carrying Nazis in the Ukraine. That's why we now see, openly the Nazification of the alphabet agencies of the US. So yep, you are correct. I also hear that Ted Bundy was a very charismatic person. Human beings are wonderfully and fearfully made. So the Third Reich wasn't destroyed .................. it simply moved to Washington DC 😉
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun
-Tom Lehrer
The Germans put one of these into space, or what we technically consider space in 1942.
Correct, 1st above the "KARMEN LINE" 100 km. surprised , It was mentioned. But who wants to admit- "NAZI'S in SPACE.
@@charletonzimmerman4205 That would be Walt Disney... Iron Skys. (LOL.. movies..)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky
They all went into space( sucessful launches that is)
@Driftwannabe 10 Operation Paperclip.
Many failed, especially in the early months & they all fell on German territory.
Van Braun started launching them in a specific direction, with German scientists below
their planed path, all knowing they would eventually fall somewhere along the path
they were
actually located. They had cameras to get as much info as possible regarding why the were failing.
00:51 is one of these videos. That's why there is such a close recording of it.
If it had been armed, with explosives, the video might not exist. This one wasn't damaged too bad.
Most came down looking like they had been shot down & were in pieces when they fell.
It was realized, the V2's were breaking the "sounder barrier". As this wasn't a known limitation at the time,
they had to redesign the rocket to take the extra stresses involved.
The Germans were so fucking smart and ahead of its time😯
Show what is possible, even DESPITE inferior leadership
When they landed on the moon I was slogging through the mud in Vietnam I remember the landing well how proud I was to be an American
Not so sure we did.
@@basedpatriot4982 I'll bet you think the world is flat.
Von Braun went from nazi warcriminal to hero in one night lol.
A missile is either guided or ballistic, it cannot be both. The V2 was a ballistic missile as it had no actual guidance system.
Thank you! I’ve been saying the same thing in other comments... I’m glad that someone here actually understands the difference, cos clearly dark docs don’t lol
faster then the notifications
Faster THAN the notification, 😒😭
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5500 total built,100 launches a day?=55 days, your maths fucked up, you would be out of rockets before November 1944
First man made object in space!
That depends on your definition of where space starts, but essentially you are correct. ;)
@@sixstringedthing The V2 climbed 393 kilometers (244miles) well beyond the 80 to 200km disputed atmosphere boundary.
@@brunopimenta8204 Thank you for that info. I knew they flew high but I didn't know they got up to ISS sort of altitudes, thought they topped out around 150km. In any case, obviously well above the Kármán line (both the early 80km definition and the current 100km line). Cheers for the correction.
The V2 was not an effective weapon.
It was nothing but a terror weapon. Most of the missiles didn't hit anything valuable. Their targeting and guidance was terrible.
If Hitler wasn't such an egotistical narcissist, & used the V2 more effectively, the V2 could've easily shifted the war in Germany's favor.
If Hitler had listened to his Generals they either would have won the war or it would have been a Stalemate. His invasion into Russia mirrored what Napoleon did which ironically he said he wouldn’t repeat the mistakes of Napoleon and proceeded to do the exact same. Even after Stalingrad the Germans could have been more effective defending the eastern front had he allowed tactical retreats. Also had he prioritised Jet Fighters, more semi auto rifles, etc, he could have dominated. Adolf was insane and a poor battlefield commander and the world is very lucky he was.
nah, the Russians would of still flattened them.
The shit you make scientists build after a Crystal meth binge
@@mckenr07 Yeah, sorry mate. I'm trying to give it up.
@@mckenr07 Adolf was one of the OG Tweakers 😂
You can't use both "Defeating" and "Unstoppable" together, the first is true, so the second must be false as well as CLICKBAIT, aaarrgghhh...
Where do you find these videos? I mean footage
Public domain my friend. Plenty of sources such as Archive.org, National Archives and so on.
@@gamefreakdudes oh thanks
A nice film, but there are s few errors.
Vergeltungswaffen is the plural of Vergeltungswaffe. The V-2 was Vergeltungswaffe-2. Except that, before its first deployment, it was known as the A-4, or Aggregat-4.
The V-2 was most definitely *not* a development of the V-1. Although they had consecutive Vergeltungswaffe numbers, they were otherwise completely different. The V-1 used a pulse jet motor, whereas the V-2 used a liquid-fuelled rocket motor. The V-2 built on pre-war liquid-fuel rocket development, and this continued through 1939 - 42, often at the risk of losing funding altogether. In fact, a strong case can be argued that Germany *should* have directed the resources elsewhere, and that the A-4 thus helped the Western Allied war effort more than that of the Axis. The A-4 killed more people in the slave-labour factories that built it than in the cities that were its targets.
The V-2 was also nearly impossible to intercept, but nearly is not completely. If the radar operators were able to get enough of a track to predict a V-2's trajectory, the tactic of filling the air in its path with anti-aircraft artillery fire would destroy about 1 in 60.
Finally, it's a bit of a stretch to call it "highly accurate". Yes, it could guide itself to a specific city, but you couldn't programme where exactly in that city it would hit.
I always learn more and more about ww2 the more I dive in. Such interesting history to learn about.
There's a lot of history that came from WW2. It's all very interesting, and quite innovating. My Dad was a Aviation Ordinancman in the south Pacific. He also did duty on a SBD dauntless as a rear gunner. He, wouldn't talk much about it till a few years before he passed. He went through hell. I wish he would have opened up more. He carried a lot for along time. War veterans need to open up to they're family's more. It's important for both I think.
It's crazy what desperatation and meth with make some folks do.
You’ll certainly have to learn history and civics on your own... not a public school from sea to shining sea is teaching it.
@Mr. Avuncular Amen brother.
@Mr. Avuncular S.E.KY
Have you never watched the film Operation Crossbow with George Peppard and Anthony Quayle. It may be Hollywood license but it's closer to the truth than your video. No no no stereoscope. The spitfires were called Jim Crowe spitfires
Germany: bombs shit out of the UK
Allies: later bomb the shit out of Germany
Germany: *surprised pikachu*
Germany had already had the shit bombed out of it by this time.
The germans did their fair bit on bombing, but what later happened was pure revenge. Google the bombing of dresden, the leveled the city and killed the population without winning something, there were much better targets around the city, with military significance...
In no way was the V2 an evolution from the V1. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, similar in the way these two weapons work.
The V1 was a ramjet powered pilotless aircraft. Flying at a couple of hundred feet from launch to target. It was catchable by the fastest piston engine aircraft of the time.
The V2 was a pure rocket that left the earth's atmosphere 50 miles up & then re-entered. Falling to it's target with a speed just below 2,000 mph at impact.
So no, the V2 was not "an evolution", as you said, of the V1.
Another brilliant documentary upload thank you cool narrator too cheers love all the dark channels
Whats the background soundtracks please
I stopped watching because the narration was bothering me.
Same here LOL
It’s “reprisal” not retribution. Very different in German. Get past web resources. Talk to people.
And while we're at it, Peenemunde (which 'anglicised' would be 'Painmouth') should be pronounced 'pain - uh - moon - duh', not starting with 'peen -as - in - penis'. Random fact - 'Painmouth' is the departure point for many cruise lines.
Why talk so fast if you're going to have second long pauses every 5-6 words? Not hating, just an honest question
Everybody gansta till rocket start falling
You spelt gangster wrong
Werd.. Tru-dat. Das-fo realz right dair yo. Eyz just keeping it reals. Haha!
@@travissmith2056 Wuckin' Figger
Motor mouth,I had to play it at 0.75x, how can you talk so fast and have those long pauses? Oh you need to breath, maybe eat an edible and see if your speech slows down lol
The narrator speaks so fast, he almost swallows his words.
exactly my thoughts
Your summary of WWII is a bit all over the place, which makes your justification for both the V2 and Crossbow a bit odd too.
Crossbow was not just the campaign to counter the V2. It also covered attacks on V1 production, V1 'Ski Sites' and the V3 sites.
Dresden remained un-bombed until a few weeks before the end of the war in Europe and 2 years after Gomorrah.
Al Murray is a stand-up alleged comic, not an historian. If you had directly quoted Sir Arthur Harris it might have had more weight, particularly if you added the context of his remarks, made at the height of the London blitz.
It's hard to work out what you are saying but the 'V' in A4 V2 stands for 'wergeltungswaffe' (vair-gelt-ungz-vaffa). There's no 'shaffen' in it.
The V2 you show coming down and exploding early in the video was not representative of an attack. This was a failed launch and crash of an unarmed missile. That's just the fuel going bang. The impact speed of a real V2 strike was about 2000 mph and the 2000lb warhead was enough to flatten a city block.
Early Allied attempts to jam the V2 were understandable as they had some information on the prototype missiles, which included radio links. But these were for trials telemetry only.
Work on the A4 V2 actually started before WWII, with prototypes being built in 1938/39 and first flying in 1942. This doesn't sit well with your statement that it was developed to avenge allied bombing campaigns, but you shouldn't believe everything in Wikipedia. In fact the German rocketry programme arose from the 1919 treaty of Versailles which place severe limitations on the amount and calibre of heavy artillery that the Reichswehr could deploy. Rocketry was seen as a way round the treaty.
No RAF mission was ever planned 'to attack at 2400 m', 8000 feet is more likely. Pretty much everyone in the world outside of Russia designates height in feet.
And it wasn't 'the 83rd squadron'; that is a pure Americanism. In the UK it's just '83 Sqn'!
83 Sqn did not have 500 bombers, at the time of Hydra it had around 20 Lancasters. Overall around 25 Squadrons took part, comprised of several different types.
OC 83 Sqn and the 'Master Bomber' for the raid was Group Captain Searby. Group captain is equivalent to a full colonel USAF. There is no rank of captain in the RAF.
Neither the RAF nor the Luftwaffe recorded the loss of any HE111 bombers so I'm not sure why one is shown as part of Hydra?
The Peenemunde raid wasn't totally successful but still caused important damage to facilities and stored rockets as well as killing the chief rocket engine and production engineers. Dispersal of production to other sites was then a significant drain on scarce resources.
Stereoscopy was developed in the 19th century. It's use in aerial recce was pioneered in 1912 by 3 Sqn Royal Flying Corps (predecessor of the RAF) and perfected between the wars. It was not developed for Op Crossbow.
PR Spitfires carried the cameras in the rear fuselage, as you show, so they did not compete for space with the armament. The guns were removed (from the wings) as part of the measures to lighten the aircraft, allowing it to fly higher and faster than intercepting fighters. You confuse space and weight.
Von Braun was a gifted and far-sighted engineer, but to give a more nuanced picture you surely have to mention his use of slave labour and whole-hearted embrace of Nazism, together with the willingness of the US Government to overlook his past. It was an unsavoury decision but one I personally believe was justified. It certainly deserves an airing here.
In summary, there is a good story here but you need to research more than the odd Wiki page and think a bit about what you're saying.
You have large gaps in your narration on commas. I have to play your videos at x 1.25 speed to stop these annoying delays.
Excellent documentaries. You guys always use the appropriate corresponding footage. That must take a lot of work. Good job
Lmao sureeeeeee ive seen him use plenty of non relavent footage for some of his videos
@@Phlyinhigh There are a lot of pure garbage youtube channels out there. This is not one of them
You guys watch? I listen to everything at work haha
@@SubvertTheState Same here man, gets me through
@@SubvertTheState Half of the time I do too
The USA fought on the wrong side
Love your videos
At 11:05 The Photos Were VIEWED With A Stereoscope, Not Taken With One!!
How are you speaking like this? I am honestly asking. Are you recording your voice, speeding it up, and adding spaces in between sentences now? Is this a computer generated voice? For the love of god man your channel is so good, please pay a professional voice actor. Your voice and whatever effects you do make the videos literally unwatchable.
Voicing is great, it's just a little of in this video, to much speed in the sentences sometimes, but it's what makes the documentaries feel imersive as he gives us the narrative, he has the same ability of David Attenborough to catch your attention.
@@brunopimenta8204 you are NUTS.
05:13 V2 has nothing to do woth the V1 from the tech point of view.... pulse engine wich is very simple and easy to make and liquid rocket engine wich needed years of developpement and finetuning. 09:40 you speak of german night fighters but in the video is a He111 bomber, they were never in a night fighter group.I like your video's but try to be more carefull on tech stuff. And speak slower..... Have a good day.
At 5:05 the video asserts that “...the V2 was an evolution of the V1”. This was decidedly not the case. The V1 was a Luftwaffe project, one that focussed on developing a low-cost weapon that could be made from relatively inexpensive materials (e.g. the wings were made from simple mild steel). The V2, by contrast, was an Army (Heer) project, that consumed, relative to the size of the economy of the Third Reich, as much as the Manhatten Project did for the Allies. The V2 cannot be said to have ‘evolved’ from the V1.
I like these videos but I have to do playback at .75, the rapid fire speech is a little too much.
Von Braun always dreamed of interplanetary space travel. After the first successful use of the V2 he said, "The rocket was a success. I just came down on the wrong planet."
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun
- Tom Lehrer
He said they were accurate. Per the Smithsonian: The V-2 was to be an even more decisive terror weapon, but the rocket was neither accurate, reliable, nor cost effective.
brits allways come up with something when there backs are to the wall
Tea and gallows humour works well. And the odd genius, with tea.
More like the brits always cry for help when they have essentially lost the war logistically
@@TrySomeFentanyl Their cries for help were answered. I'd rather deal with the British than the Germans.
Ireland Forever!!!
@@cedricliggins7528 I used to be Irish.
Well done for completely overlooking the destruction wrought on London by the Luftwaffe during "The Blitz" before we returned the favour on Nazi-occupied territory, and strategic German Industrial cities. Some people (like myself) might view your incomplete reporting of history as biased, and pro-Nazi.....
And Coventry, Portsmouth, Southampton, Cardiff, Bristol,........ etc.
The Drunken Landlord was such an offshoot lol
Long enough pauses between each sentence? Gotta pad that runtime... It's just above the threshold of being super annoying, it's like you're trying to make a point with EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE.
Welcome to dark docs / dark footage.
Hey man, great vid as always :D
But if I may, your narration pace lately is somewhat odd, extremely fast talking followed by quite long pauses, which does more harm than good I think. Maybe you are going for a dramatic style, but just please consider talking a bit slower and shortening the pauses a bit.
Cheers Mate :D and keep up the great content!
Precise??? Bah! Humbug!
Your quality is badly slipping!
Shape Up!! Or i shall be shipping out!
Inaccuracies and historical misrepresentations such as this are intolerable!!!
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True dat... I’m considering un-subbing, cos every time I watch one of these vids, they’re riddled with shitty info and totally unrelated footage in the background, trying to prop up utterly over the top claims like that the V2 and V1 were both related technologically, and also ‘accurate’ lol.
The V2 was not an evolution of the V1, it was a wholly different approach. Think cruise missiles and ICBMs.
Dark docs has 666k subscribers 🤘😈😂
Few rockets hit Paris; most hit London, several hit Dutch ports.
They was sent from several locations in Holland. I live here now and have seen many of their launch sites because the Dutch coast was so close to UK, London.
What kind of video is this. The guy is so terrible at speaking
The good news...you get to fly a Spitfire. The bad news...it’s unarmed, only used for surveillance. ☹️
Never clicked so fast.
Could Germany have won WWII? had Hitler let his tacticians handle operations instead of everything have to go through him and getting in the way of commanders in the field.
That's why the allies didn't want a dead Hitler
What's the difference between me and cancer?
My dad didn't beat cancer.
Holy shit xD
Well done! :o)
"I can assure you gentlemen - that we tolerate no scruples"
Honestly though? neither would I and I wouldn't respect the opposing nation if they did.
Edit: I'm referring to any other example than the holocaust. going so out of your way to make the purpose of your war being a genocide as opposed to committing genocide to win a war is absurd and ought invoke a lack of mercy in previously humane combatants.
You need to make a podcast with all these fun history studies. I would totally listen to the podcast daily. Keep up the great work.
they are fun, aren't they
@@Olkv3D I'm a huge history nerd that loves to keep learning about the past. Learning what happened in the past can lead to a better future.
I can't disagree.
You know you can speak slower and make the pauses shorter and the video would be the same length, right?
instead he is recording the audio speaking as fast as always but then making the pause between sentences longer, which is worse.
Love the channel, have for awhile. But the speech cadence is a bugger
All murders both sides. You wanna fight take it to a field, like gentlemen. Leave the civilian people alone.
Civilians send the military to do their bidding. Nothing wrong with the entire population feeling the pain and awfulness war brings. If more of them did we'd have fewer wars.
V-2 Rocket is also a 30 kill nuke in COD: WW2