@@dannygjk In reality it's neither "Brown" nor "Brawn". Go listen to the pronunciations on Forvo from real German speakers. But "Brawn" is definitely not correct, "Brown" is more accurate. In the German pronounciation there is no "a" sound like in "Brawn", but rather an "aou" sound, which you also find in "Brown". It's more akin to the beginning of "Brown" while omitting the "w" sound.
This channel been cooking lately. I know life beating you down recently dude, but it doesn’t show in your video quality. We appreciate what you do man, keep your head high brother
This is the best video I've seen on Von Braun, without question. Everything is laid onto the table; there is no cushioning, nor is there any demonization, and that is how everyone should discuss this man if there is to be any rational verdict made on his life and legacy.
Von Braun used to eat at the soda fountain in my dad's drugstore, when he would visit friends in Atlanta in the 1960's. Dad was oblivious to his importance, only knowing at the time, that he was a German who worked at the Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Center around Huntsville. Dad had many conversations with him, as Von Braun was friends w/ a married couple who were regular customers. Dad only realized, that he was important years after Von Braun's death, when he saw him in a TV documentary. Dad remembered that Von Braun could converse on any subject at hand, including local news, apparently reading the local newspaper, The Atlanta Constitution, each morning, while he stayed as a guest at his friends' house. Dad said, that he wasn't awkward (nerdy) as many scientists & engineers seemed to be, & he dressed well. In those days, before easily accessible credit ratings & credit cards, store owners noticed people's appearance & how they carried themselves. Although subjective & imprecise, sometimes, that's all they had to go on, so they "sized up" a person entering their store as a habit. Anyway, the only space travel related conversation which Dad remembered having w/ Von Braun, was a discussion on how "space cookies" might be made, one's which wouldn't crumble, leaving crumbs floating around in the spaceship in zero gravity. Dad was a pharmacist, so Von Braun, may have thought, that he might have had some insight from a different angle than a baker, into how a crumbless cookie might be made.
@@SebSN-y3f your long justification is meaningless. wvb was a Nazi and he used slave labor. period. wow. the lengths you went to to accommodate him. doesn't matter what he achieved. he was a Nazi. at least porsche went to prison. he should have gone to prison.
When Von Braun went to UK on his book signing tour. Willie Rushton queued to get Von Braun to sign the book "I aim for the Stars", to which Rushton added "...but I normally hit London". A razor sharp dig at Braun's V2. Not surprising that Von Braun refused to autograph it. But typical Rushton black humour and FAF. RIP Willie.
Everyone was killing everyone in WW2, German with holocaust, USA with atomic bomb, UK with daily carpet bombing, Japan with viscousness killings in China and Korea, and Russian famines, it was different times that made the UN, the EU and all the peace making organizations we have today 🤷🏻♂️
Are you sure you want the whole story? Like Von Braun going to the concentration camps and personally selecting prisoners to work to death making his V-1 and V-2 rockets? Which he then launched at London civilians?
He had to specially request a hole cut into the ceiling for it to fit. When someone pointed out that you can't see the spacecraft at the top, he said "The launch vehicle is the interesting part anyway."
I just remembered something. A few years ago, I was watching prelaunch press conferences for Apollo 4 and a reporter asked Von Braun if he was sure the Saturn V wouldn't hit London.
Being a member of the Civil Air Patrol, one of our missions is Aerospace Education. Teaching about rocketry to our cadets focused on the programs and what was achieved with them. The individual stories are glanced over. I always like your writing and find your presentations something to look forward to. Thank you for bringing Wernher von Braun closer into the aerospace family.
In the currently weird world we live in, I appreciate the effort of someone creating something like this video. I’m of the belief that Von Braun redeemed himself by supporting equal opportunity and encouraging higher education. In 1969 my family came to the US from Cuba and I remember watching the lunar landing on our black and white TV. Thanks for making this video!
"Flopnik" is my favorite. Being an army veteran, I find joy in the fact, that it was the supposed, knuckle dragging, low tech, low brow army which launched the first successful US satellite, after the Navy failed with "Flopnik"! ...All in a good natured, interservice rivalry sort of way, of course!
New Dead Kennedys in Space and Alexander the OK in less than 24hrs! The week is wrapping up quite nice. Thank you for this most excellent video. I really appreciate that right off the bat you mention presenting the story in color and not in black and white as is often done when dealing with polarizing subject matter. From what I know about the man and his life you told his story in a very objective way and didn't interject your own thoughts and feelings into your presentation. You left it up to the viewer as to how they should feel. I cannot stress how much I appreciate this. Too often people are told how to feel in the telling instead of being able to make up their own minds.
Goddamn my dude this video is excellent, I'm amazed by your recent pace and that the quality doesn't falter. A (British) historian recently did a video that could only be described as a "hit piece" on him, and the fact that NASA still has memorials/ plaques honoring his service (implying they should be removed), thank you for actually putting in more effort than a "real" historian did on covering the subject.
Looking forward to this. I wonder what folks are the time thought about Von Braun. Back before everyone and their broker knew about Operation Paperclip.
NASA released videos in 1955 stating explicitly that von Braun was the architect of the V-2. It was only secret for a short time. You can't exactly send 500 Germans into the United States directly following a war with Germany and have nobody question where they came from.
It was very much public knowledge. The Nazis made him a public figure, and he loved the spotlight. he remained a public figure while working at NASA, hence his intense efforts to deny his involvement in the military applications of the A4 rocket (V-2). If you remember the Tom Lehrer number in For All Mankind, that was a very real period piece they re-used.
Your biography has changed my mind about having shaken von Braun's hand in 1970 at Texas Tech as he was promoting the Space Shuttle program. I had come to regret that act after learning of his tour of the V-2 assembly line slavery and joining the Nazi Party, but the details and history you and Bob Ward provide make me glad that I thanked him that day. Thanks, but BTW, I think the concluding cynical song is not apt.
Well things could have been a lot worse for him , both in the confusion and fear at the end of the war & subsequently . I think a ribbing from Tom Lehrer was nothing - and it was very witty ! " Once ze rockets are up, who cares where they come down , that's not my department says ... " .
@@maverick114e9 Goddard influence has been highly exaggerated, mainly as he was used as a propaganda tool during the cold war to steer away the public from "nazi rocket scientists" by making Goddard out as some homegrown origin figure.
Honestly this is the best video about Von Braun I’ve seen on TH-cam. I did a presentation on him back in school and still learned a lot about him from this video.
coming from the apollo iceberg, could i recommend an idea that wouldnt take too much time to propose: a "personal apollo applications" video? exploring what you might have encouraged NASA to look into, or push to develop if you were in a position of influence in the early 60s? a personal one of mine is the Saturn VB, dont recall if it was mentioned in your iceberg video, believe it may have been but i also found out about it around the same time otherwise, but i think it could have been used to send up an apollo CSM (capable of a little better then a saturn IB) and then save its main stage to be refueled in orbit, to then act as a lunar transfer burn stage
You have easily carved your way to my top 5 favorite TH-camrs and top 2 favorite space TH-camrs. I hope you can do TH-cam for a long time. Excited to see what’s in store!
@11:49 Adolf Hitler was not "elected chancellor of Germany in 1933." The Nazis obtained 37% of the seats in the Reichstag in the 1933 election, and Hitler was named Chancellor by Hindenburg. In fact, Hindenburg could have named someone else - and others were viable. The appointment of Hitler was unusual in that Hitler was not running for anything, and not an elected member of the Reichstag.
Hitler was chosen so Hindenburg could control him, or at least damage control. It wasnt until Hindenburg died that hitler siezed power under the emergency act
@@Thedarkportalshow Hitler was chosen so capitalists could increase the rate of profit on the backs of the working class. That's why the trade unions were destroyed 4 months after Hitler took power. Personality over systems is generally a shallow approach which misses everything.
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Could be "lost in translation"? Maybe he didn't literally mean "nylons", but an equivalent piece of clothing made of a different material.
@@fostercathead Or woolen. But that wasn’t the point. The quote specifically said ‘nylon stockings’. I have to assume the quotation is correct. If it was, Sigismund is quite a bit off. Another indication that the “The Von Braun got inspired by the rocket experiments with cars (Opel-Sander-RakWagen 1): The rocket car was dedigned and tested in 1928. How could the Von Brauns be inspired by something that will happen 4 years in the future?
This has to be one of your best videos yet. It's kind of insane, how much care and passion (and certainly work) you put into these :D Discovering your channel actually revitalized my own fascination with astronomy and space-flight, and I bet it does so for others too. So thank you for your great work :)
39:54 what an incredible photo: L to R, James Lovell (Apollo 13 commander), Jack Swigert (Apollo 13 CM pilot), Deke Slayton (chief of the astronaut office), Fred Haise (Apollo 13 LM pilot), and von Braun.
Even in black & white, there are all of those shades of grey in between making a continuous transition between the extremes. Wernher von Braun's life is even more impressive than I thought.
Man, every time I watch one of your videos, I am brought back to just *how* much space meant to not just me, but my dad as well (when I was young). I think I'm gonna link your channel to my dad, as I feel like he'd really enjoy it :) As for the video: this was fantastic. Probably one of the best and most unbiased looks at him. You went into great depth for both his history in rocketry, while also paying great attention to his personal life. 10/10
Fantastic work. I've been an avid consumer of all things "space" since I was a child (30+ years) and your level of research and detail and sheer quallity of work is amazing.
Current Huntsville resident here. Just walked outside and heard a rocket engine hot-fire testing a few miles away on Redstone. Just cool to think we’re still experiencing the legacy of the work Von Braun and his team at Marshall set decades ago.
The best, I ever got about this subject. You don`t judge, you deliver history first, Sir. Basic history. And most of all, I like your way of introducing yourself right in the beginning... Love to Canada ! Five Stars: This is a wonderful work.
Spectacular!! Everything about this was excellent, and I hope to see more videos regarding the history of NASA, its origins, and the people who made it happen. Thanks for making these, and please keep it up!!.
"Flopnik" is my favorite. Being an army veteran, I find joy in the fact, that it was the supposed, knuckle dragging, low tech, low brow army which launched the first successful US satellite, after the Navy failed with "Flopnik"! ...All in a good natured, interservice rivalry sort of way, of course!
You did a very good documentary. 👍🏻🚀 I think your statements regarding the Nazi regime are amongst the most qualified ones. My Grandparents have never been Nazis. But they lived inside the regime. And my grandfather was chased over the trenches at the age of 13. The best friend of my Grandmother, she was Jewish. They told me how fear dominated everyday life. I want to see that person who joins the resistance, risking a confrontation with the Gestapo. It is way too easy to judge when you have not been through this. I did not know that it was a German rocket which firstly entered space. As an engineer, von Braun can be considered a hero. And before you judge me: Nelson Mandelas book, the Long Walk to Freedom which is in my shelf right now in my living room, is one of the three most important books I recommend to anyone, at least for me. Thanks for an incredibly differentiated and thoughtful documentary.
I moved to Huntsville,AL where Von Braun designed and built many rockets including the Saturn V! Huntsville has a beautiful Space and Rocket Museum which includes an actual Saturn V Rocket! It so incredibly massive you don't appreciate it's size until your in the same building it's housed in! When I last visited the Museum they were holding a special presentation with 2 curranty astronauts who both gave awesome speeches. If you have kids don't worry they have many interactive displays for kids to play with. For kids (or adults) for rides they have G-Force Accelerator. Moon Shot (aka Space Shot) HyperShip. Apollo 11 Virtual Reality I brought my son and his friends here for his B'day and they all had a great time!
Great video DKiS!! The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL is a must visit for space enthusiasts... There's a replica of Dr. Von Braun's office and you might even get to meet a retired rocket scientist who worked on the Von Braun team!
You made my dad who isnt really interested in space and doesn't watch English videos, watch the entire thing! Safe to say this was an incredible good video!
Great video, but a couple of points. (Which I'm sure are probably directly from the book used) The initial NASA plan was for the one man Mercury to be a series of "can man live and work in space" (because we had no clue if either of those was possible or not) which would be followed by the three man Apollo spacecraft, (which had three so as to divide a duty day into possible 8 hour shifts) that would be a general "workhorse" spacecraft for orbital and eventually Cislunar work. There had been no initial concept of the two-man "Gemini" but with the shortcomings of the Mercury spacecraft and the very long lead time to getting the Apollo spacecraft designed and built the initial idea of a "Mercury MkII" vehicle with two men was soon put forward both to fill the "gap" but also to prepare NASA and the astronauts for the later Apollo. The sequence was "Saturn" (as noted it, comes after "Jupiter" :) ) and THEN NOVA, and this was because it was not known if the larger Saturn C-5 would be enough to fly a direct flight to the Moon. "Saturn" started off as a means to keep von Braun's team together when the Jupiter missile was initially canceled in favor of the USAF Thor missile. The initial concept was a "mock-stage" of mixed tanks to run enough engines to produce 1 million pounds of thrust and given the the team by ARPA for possible use in a "Super ICBM" type missile
Now I'm going to show this video to people who say "oh yeah you mean the Apollo nazi rocket guy". It goes for him just as much as to anyone on this planet, you cannot simplify a person into one sentence. There is the good the bad, the "neutral", but it's very rare to have people be easely just fit into a box, and his story is an evident example of that. For me he will always be a hero, because of the people that were saved as a direct consequence of the space programs and technological evolutions that he helped promote. But not a classic american style hero without a black spec on his whole career. The guy could have done much worse in war times if he had the intention to, just a space enthousiast at the end of the day !
Not to mention all the valuable research performed on twins by Dr Mengele, who spared animals from dangerous and inhumane testing by using humans instead.
This is excellent Kevin. Not to detract from your documentary making skills, but the story kind of writes itself. I feel like I should watch it a few more times, such was the level of detail. 😊
Thank you for this video! It's so refreshing to see a neutral view of a person, not dramatizising the bad and the good. I think you guys did a great job, and I am interested to hear more stories from you!
Another amazing video as always DKiS! Was waiting for this. I learned so much that I never knew before. Your content is truly unmatched. Thank you for being such a valuable educator to the community.
Thank you for this very thorough video. I think it highlights Wernher von Braun in a very nuanced way. I liked it a lot. What I didn't know beforehand was that Wernher advocated for equal employment with regards to the space industry. Makes it kinda hard to believe he was an ideological Nazi. At least at that stage in life.
Von Braun's vision for space was crazily ahead of his time. There are a few videos you can find that were made back in the 50s to drum up support for space exploration that predicted stuff we are only pulling off today. He also made a couple videos in the 70s for the space shuttle that also only coming to fruition today, as the reusability that was hope for the shuttle didn't pan out, but it is now with SpaceX.
My Uncle Bill lived next door to Gunther Vendt. The leader of the close out crew who strapped astronauts into Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules. He lived in Merrit island, and said he was always a kind man.
A minor suggestion I would like is whenever values/currency is brought up to have a conversion to modern day values. Like the ten million dollars for the Nova rockets around 1959 comes close to having a 1,000% inflation rating making it around a hundred million in modern value. Not entirely important, but it's enough to periodically get me to stop and look up what the approximate values would be to get a better idea of the budgets they'd be working with.
As a polite pronunciation critique, Luftwaffe is pronounced as: Looft-vaff-feh (that’s the best I can write it out phonetically). Basically, the e on the end is pronounced out loud.
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@@dannygjk In reality it's neither "Brown" nor "Brawn". Go listen to the pronunciations on Forvo from real German speakers. But "Brawn" is definitely not correct, "Brown" is more accurate. In the German pronounciation there is no "a" sound like in "Brawn", but rather an "aou" sound, which you also find in "Brown". It's more akin to the beginning of "Brown" while omitting the "w" sound.
"I now realize how little a billion dollars will buy" That's a great quote. lol
This channel been cooking lately. I know life beating you down recently dude, but it doesn’t show in your video quality. We appreciate what you do man, keep your head high brother
Fr they deserve all the success this channel is insanely underrated
I didn't notice.. DKiS must be pretty durable..
This is the best video I've seen on Von Braun, without question.
Everything is laid onto the table; there is no cushioning, nor is there any demonization, and that is how everyone should discuss this man if there is to be any rational verdict made on his life and legacy.
I can't take anyone seriously calling him Brown.
Von Braun used to eat at the soda fountain in my dad's drugstore, when he would visit friends in Atlanta in the 1960's. Dad was oblivious to his importance, only knowing at the time, that he was a German who worked at the Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Center around Huntsville.
Dad had many conversations with him, as Von Braun was friends w/ a married couple who were regular customers. Dad only realized, that he was important years after Von Braun's death, when he saw him in a TV documentary.
Dad remembered that Von Braun could converse on any subject at hand, including local news, apparently reading the local newspaper, The Atlanta Constitution, each morning, while he stayed as a guest at his friends' house. Dad said, that he wasn't awkward (nerdy) as many scientists & engineers seemed to be, & he dressed well. In those days, before easily accessible credit ratings & credit cards, store owners noticed people's appearance & how they carried themselves. Although subjective & imprecise, sometimes, that's all they had to go on, so they "sized up" a person entering their store as a habit.
Anyway, the only space travel related conversation which Dad remembered having w/ Von Braun, was a discussion on how "space cookies" might be made, one's which wouldn't crumble, leaving crumbs floating around in the spaceship in zero gravity. Dad was a pharmacist, so Von Braun, may have thought, that he might have had some insight from a different angle than a baker, into how a crumbless cookie might be made.
“I just wanna build rockets man.” - Von Braun
You know he hung thhe slowest jews in his factory right?
@@SebSN-y3f your long justification is meaningless. wvb was a Nazi and he used slave labor. period.
wow. the lengths you went to to accommodate him.
doesn't matter what he achieved. he was a Nazi.
at least porsche went to prison.
he should have gone to prison.
When Von Braun went to UK on his book signing tour. Willie Rushton queued to get Von Braun to sign the book "I aim for the Stars", to which Rushton added "...but I normally hit London". A razor sharp dig at Braun's V2. Not surprising that Von Braun refused to autograph it. But typical Rushton black humour and FAF. RIP Willie.
Everyone was killing everyone in WW2, German with holocaust, USA with atomic bomb, UK with daily carpet bombing, Japan with viscousness killings in China and Korea, and Russian famines, it was different times that made the UN, the EU and all the peace making organizations we have today 🤷🏻♂️
@@JimmyThree-Balls Slander, zee rocket autist would never do such things.
My grandmother, Vera Smith was his personal secretary.
YO
THATS SO COOL
Is she the one who, in Bob Ward's book, mentioned that von Braun kept falling out of his chair in his Washington office?
My grandmother was absolutely no one of any historic importance.
I guess that probably means the same for my comment 😕
i love it when folks related to the video in some way pop up in the comments
Can we get a movie like Oppenheimer, but with Von Braun?
No kidding that would be dope
Are you sure you want the whole story? Like Von Braun going to the concentration camps and personally selecting prisoners to work to death making his V-1 and V-2 rockets? Which he then launched at London civilians?
@@brianarbenz1329 Yep, and historically accurate
That would be the point, Brian.
Watch “for all mankind”!
1:28 I've always liked in this photo that Saturn 5 is poking into the ceiling area 😂
He had to specially request a hole cut into the ceiling for it to fit. When someone pointed out that you can't see the spacecraft at the top, he said "The launch vehicle is the interesting part anyway."
I think it's pretty funny too lol
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory what a von braun thing to say
That row of models is one incredible CV!
@@zapfanzapfancurriculum vitae?
4:21 we had a good thing Waltah
This channel is criminally underrated, I hope you grow to the size you deserve!
Getting there, slowly but surely!
I did not know about Braun's relationship with Kennedy, it didn't even occur to me how he might have been motivated by his appreciation for Kennedy.
You nailed it! Especially the nuanced illusion of choice under fascism! Thank you so much!
Decent people left Germany before the war and after just a bit of difficulty managed to make their contributions outside and against Fascism.
@@TheDavidlloydjonesAll the decent people left Germany before the war?
I just remembered something. A few years ago, I was watching prelaunch press conferences for Apollo 4 and a reporter asked Von Braun if he was sure the Saturn V wouldn't hit London.
Being a member of the Civil Air Patrol, one of our missions is Aerospace Education. Teaching about rocketry to our cadets focused on the programs and what was achieved with them. The individual stories are glanced over. I always like your writing and find your presentations something to look forward to. Thank you for bringing Wernher von Braun closer into the aerospace family.
In the currently weird world we live in, I appreciate the effort of someone creating something like this video.
I’m of the belief that Von Braun redeemed himself by supporting equal opportunity and encouraging higher education. In 1969 my family came to the US from Cuba and I remember watching the lunar landing on our black and white TV. Thanks for making this video!
Kaputnik is savage as hell 😂
Other nicknames included Flopnik, Oopsnik, and Dudnick.
The media was equally as savage with the failure of the first Ariane 5 in the 90s
That is 100% my favorite space term 😂
"Flopnik" is my favorite.
Being an army veteran, I find joy in the fact, that it was the supposed, knuckle dragging, low tech, low brow army which launched the first successful US satellite, after the Navy failed with "Flopnik"! ...All in a good natured, interservice rivalry sort of way, of course!
What surprised me the most about the Tom Lehrer song is that Tom Lehrer is still alive.
And he has released all his music - recordings, lyrics, and sheet music - to the public domain via his website.
Too bad he sucks.
Thanks! This is an outstanding work.
Thank you so much!
New Dead Kennedys in Space and Alexander the OK in less than 24hrs! The week is wrapping up quite nice.
Thank you for this most excellent video. I really appreciate that right off the bat you mention presenting the story in color and not in black and white as is often done when dealing with polarizing subject matter.
From what I know about the man and his life you told his story in a very objective way and didn't interject your own thoughts and feelings into your presentation. You left it up to the viewer as to how they should feel. I cannot stress how much I appreciate this. Too often people are told how to feel in the telling instead of being able to make up their own minds.
Goddamn my dude this video is excellent, I'm amazed by your recent pace and that the quality doesn't falter. A (British) historian recently did a video that could only be described as a "hit piece" on him, and the fact that NASA still has memorials/ plaques honoring his service (implying they should be removed), thank you for actually putting in more effort than a "real" historian did on covering the subject.
Looking forward to this. I wonder what folks are the time thought about Von Braun. Back before everyone and their broker knew about Operation Paperclip.
NASA released videos in 1955 stating explicitly that von Braun was the architect of the V-2. It was only secret for a short time.
You can't exactly send 500 Germans into the United States directly following a war with Germany and have nobody question where they came from.
It was very much public knowledge. The Nazis made him a public figure, and he loved the spotlight. he remained a public figure while working at NASA, hence his intense efforts to deny his involvement in the military applications of the A4 rocket (V-2). If you remember the Tom Lehrer number in For All Mankind, that was a very real period piece they re-used.
Wow, this is the most comprehensive and very well balanced look at the life of Wehrner von Braun I have ever seen.
Your biography has changed my mind about having shaken von Braun's hand in 1970 at Texas Tech as he was promoting the Space Shuttle program. I had come to regret that act after learning of his tour of the V-2 assembly line slavery and joining the Nazi Party, but the details and history you and Bob Ward provide make me glad that I thanked him that day. Thanks, but BTW, I think the concluding cynical song is not apt.
Well things could have been a lot worse for him , both in the confusion and fear at the end of the war & subsequently . I think a ribbing from Tom Lehrer was nothing - and it was very witty ! " Once ze rockets are up, who cares where they come down , that's not my department says ... " .
Space race in thoughts: USA vs USSR.
Space race in reality: Germany vs Zhytomyr.
Aren’t you forgetting Goddard? He helped inspire Von Braun
@@maverick114e9 Goddard influence has been highly exaggerated, mainly as he was used as a propaganda tool during the cold war to steer away the public from "nazi rocket scientists" by making Goddard out as some homegrown origin figure.
Honestly this is the best video about Von Braun I’ve seen on TH-cam. I did a presentation on him back in school and still learned a lot about him from this video.
One of your best videos yet, amazing work as always!
Great piece on Wernher von Braun. Complicated man but one with a singular vision we can all relate too at times in our lives.
coming from the apollo iceberg, could i recommend an idea that wouldnt take too much time to propose: a "personal apollo applications" video? exploring what you might have encouraged NASA to look into, or push to develop if you were in a position of influence in the early 60s? a personal one of mine is the Saturn VB, dont recall if it was mentioned in your iceberg video, believe it may have been but i also found out about it around the same time otherwise, but i think it could have been used to send up an apollo CSM (capable of a little better then a saturn IB) and then save its main stage to be refueled in orbit, to then act as a lunar transfer burn stage
You have easily carved your way to my top 5 favorite TH-camrs and top 2 favorite space TH-camrs. I hope you can do TH-cam for a long time. Excited to see what’s in store!
@11:49 Adolf Hitler was not "elected chancellor of Germany in 1933." The Nazis obtained 37% of the seats in the Reichstag in the 1933 election, and Hitler was named Chancellor by Hindenburg. In fact, Hindenburg could have named someone else - and others were viable. The appointment of Hitler was unusual in that Hitler was not running for anything, and not an elected member of the Reichstag.
Thank you for the correction.
Hitler was chosen so Hindenburg could control him, or at least damage control. It wasnt until Hindenburg died that hitler siezed power under the emergency act
@@Thedarkportalshow Hitler was chosen so capitalists could increase the rate of profit on the backs of the working class. That's why the trade unions were destroyed 4 months after Hitler took power. Personality over systems is generally a shallow approach which misses everything.
@@LTrotsky21stCentury nonsensical commie revisionism
Wait.. In order to get NASA back in the mood after Apollo 1, he decided to have a party in which they roast an Astronaut? WOW.
While they likely didn't use the word at that time, there is unfortunately no other word for a comedy roast.
German humour
man just wanted to build rockets
once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
'thats not my department' says werner von braun
@@LiviuXSA
You too, may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero!
I am quite convinced no nylons were ruined in 1924’s Berlin, as they were more than a decade away from being invented. Sorry Sigismund…
A very interesting point!
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory Could be "lost in translation"? Maybe he didn't literally mean "nylons", but an equivalent piece of clothing made of a different material.
Silk stockings?
@@fostercathead Or woolen. But that wasn’t the point. The quote specifically said ‘nylon stockings’. I have to assume the quotation is correct. If it was, Sigismund is quite a bit off.
Another indication that the “The Von Braun got inspired by the rocket experiments with cars (Opel-Sander-RakWagen 1): The rocket car was dedigned and tested in 1928. How could the Von Brauns be inspired by something that will happen 4 years in the future?
No matter what you think of Herr Von Braun, good or bad, I think its fair to say his life can be described in one word - "Colourful"
"Herr von Braun" you LARPer
MOM GET THE CAMERA! DKiS just released a new video!
This has to be one of your best videos yet. It's kind of insane, how much care and passion (and certainly work) you put into these :D
Discovering your channel actually revitalized my own fascination with astronomy and space-flight, and I bet it does so for others too. So thank you for your great work :)
39:54 what an incredible photo: L to R, James Lovell (Apollo 13 commander), Jack Swigert (Apollo 13 CM pilot), Deke Slayton (chief of the astronaut office), Fred Haise (Apollo 13 LM pilot), and von Braun.
Even in black & white, there are all of those shades of grey in between making a continuous transition between the extremes.
Wernher von Braun's life is even more impressive than I thought.
You may call his life "colorful".
Man, every time I watch one of your videos, I am brought back to just *how* much space meant to not just me, but my dad as well (when I was young).
I think I'm gonna link your channel to my dad, as I feel like he'd really enjoy it :)
As for the video: this was fantastic. Probably one of the best and most unbiased looks at him. You went into great depth for both his history in rocketry, while also paying great attention to his personal life. 10/10
Heck yes!! For no other channel do I anticipate content drops more excitedly🙏
Thank you again, Mr. Kennedy; you're a gentleman and a scholar!
Much of this of course is focused on the part of his life during the war, but I did find it interesting learning about the earlier parts of his life.
Fantastic work. I've been an avid consumer of all things "space" since I was a child (30+ years) and your level of research and detail and sheer quallity of work is amazing.
Incredible video as always!
Your work has inspired me to take on my own Aerospace history research projects, so thank you!
Current Huntsville resident here. Just walked outside and heard a rocket engine hot-fire testing a few miles away on Redstone. Just cool to think we’re still experiencing the legacy of the work Von Braun and his team at Marshall set decades ago.
Deep, sincere and to anyone in the engineering industry - emotional.
Its beautiful
Super stoked, watching this! Thank you so much for your time and effort, Kev!
The best, I ever got about this subject. You don`t judge, you deliver history first, Sir. Basic history.
And most of all, I like your way of introducing yourself right in the beginning... Love to Canada !
Five Stars: This is a wonderful work.
Spectacular!! Everything about this was excellent, and I hope to see more videos regarding the history of NASA, its origins, and the people who made it happen.
Thanks for making these, and please keep it up!!.
"Flopnik" is my favorite.
Being an army veteran, I find joy in the fact, that it was the supposed, knuckle dragging, low tech, low brow army which launched the first successful US satellite, after the Navy failed with "Flopnik"! ...All in a good natured, interservice rivalry sort of way, of course!
You did a very good documentary. 👍🏻🚀 I think your statements regarding the Nazi regime are amongst the most qualified ones. My Grandparents have never been Nazis. But they lived inside the regime. And my grandfather was chased over the trenches at the age of 13. The best friend of my Grandmother, she was Jewish. They told me how fear dominated everyday life. I want to see that person who joins the resistance, risking a confrontation with the Gestapo. It is way too easy to judge when you have not been through this. I did not know that it was a German rocket which firstly entered space. As an engineer, von Braun can be considered a hero. And before you judge me: Nelson Mandelas book, the Long Walk to Freedom which is in my shelf right now in my living room, is one of the three most important books I recommend to anyone, at least for me. Thanks for an incredibly differentiated and thoughtful documentary.
probably your best video as of yet, it was amazing!
I moved to Huntsville,AL where Von Braun designed and built many rockets including the Saturn V! Huntsville has a beautiful Space and Rocket Museum which includes an actual Saturn V Rocket! It so incredibly massive you don't appreciate it's size until your in the same building it's housed in! When I last visited the Museum they were holding a special presentation with 2 curranty astronauts who both gave awesome speeches. If you have kids don't worry they have many interactive displays for kids to play with. For kids (or adults) for rides they have
G-Force Accelerator.
Moon Shot (aka Space Shot)
HyperShip.
Apollo 11 Virtual Reality
I brought my son and his friends here for his B'day and they all had a great time!
Im feeling quiet cozy settling in to watch another video from one of my new favorite channels.
This was incredibly well done, I learned so much. Thank you for putting this together!
Easily one of the top 10 videos that I have ever watched on YT! And I watch a lot of videos!
I NEVER comment on TH-cam, but I really enjoy your videos and get legitimately excited when one releases! Great work!
I appreciate that!
Great video DKiS!! The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL is a must visit for space enthusiasts... There's a replica of Dr. Von Braun's office and you might even get to meet a retired rocket scientist who worked on the Von Braun team!
Great documentary, thanks. Love that finale photoshopped picture with him and Starship.
Von Braun was extremely lucky to be saved by the US, not the Soviets. The whole world was lucky after all.
You made my dad who isnt really interested in space and doesn't watch English videos, watch the entire thing!
Safe to say this was an incredible good video!
Great video, but a couple of points. (Which I'm sure are probably directly from the book used)
The initial NASA plan was for the one man Mercury to be a series of "can man live and work in space" (because we had no clue if either of those was possible or not) which would be followed by the three man Apollo spacecraft, (which had three so as to divide a duty day into possible 8 hour shifts) that would be a general "workhorse" spacecraft for orbital and eventually Cislunar work. There had been no initial concept of the two-man "Gemini" but with the shortcomings of the Mercury spacecraft and the very long lead time to getting the Apollo spacecraft designed and built the initial idea of a "Mercury MkII" vehicle with two men was soon put forward both to fill the "gap" but also to prepare NASA and the astronauts for the later Apollo.
The sequence was "Saturn" (as noted it, comes after "Jupiter" :) ) and THEN NOVA, and this was because it was not known if the larger Saturn C-5 would be enough to fly a direct flight to the Moon. "Saturn" started off as a means to keep von Braun's team together when the Jupiter missile was initially canceled in favor of the USAF Thor missile. The initial concept was a "mock-stage" of mixed tanks to run enough engines to produce 1 million pounds of thrust and given the the team by ARPA for possible use in a "Super ICBM" type missile
Now I'm going to show this video to people who say "oh yeah you mean the Apollo nazi rocket guy".
It goes for him just as much as to anyone on this planet, you cannot simplify a person into one sentence. There is the good the bad, the "neutral", but it's very rare to have people be easely just fit into a box, and his story is an evident example of that.
For me he will always be a hero, because of the people that were saved as a direct consequence of the space programs and technological evolutions that he helped promote. But not a classic american style hero without a black spec on his whole career. The guy could have done much worse in war times if he had the intention to, just a space enthousiast at the end of the day !
Not to mention all the valuable research performed on twins by Dr Mengele, who spared animals from dangerous and inhumane testing by using humans instead.
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Bedankt
Thank you!
So glad I re found this channel, going into aerospace engineering this fall, videos like this keep me inspired
This is excellent Kevin.
Not to detract from your documentary making skills, but the story kind of writes itself.
I feel like I should watch it a few more times, such was the level of detail. 😊
Thank you for this video! It's so refreshing to see a neutral view of a person, not dramatizising the bad and the good. I think you guys did a great job, and I am interested to hear more stories from you!
Really enjoyed the video. Very educational and informative.
Thanks for your work to bring them to us.
Incredible video as per usual! This turnaround was impressive
Fantastic video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you for taking the time to create it ❤.
Excellent video, as always! I will always appreciate your content!
Best space history channel on youtube. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Thank YOU!
A well-researched and in depth documentary. Thank you.
But is it accurate? Id like to know your sources
...The final shot of Dr. Space pointing to the "Elon Of Mars" vessel...priceless!
Another amazing video as always DKiS!
Was waiting for this. I learned so much that I never knew before. Your content is truly unmatched. Thank you for being such a valuable educator to the community.
Thank you for this very thorough video. I think it highlights Wernher von Braun in a very nuanced way. I liked it a lot.
What I didn't know beforehand was that Wernher advocated for equal employment with regards to the space industry. Makes it kinda hard to believe he was an ideological Nazi. At least at that stage in life.
The best documentary of the man I have ever seen! Thank you!
Awesome, a whole hour?!? I can't wait for this!
Love these videos man! I used to watch them with my dad before I moved out. Keep it up!
Fantastic video, and the song at the end was the cherry on top
Amazing video, watched the whole thing. Thanks for your work
Oh man, this is going to be incredible. I can't wait to watch this later when I get the chance.
Great video! Very informative. Its kinda hard to find an unbiased take on Von Braun but I think you did a really good job here.
Von Braun's vision for space was crazily ahead of his time. There are a few videos you can find that were made back in the 50s to drum up support for space exploration that predicted stuff we are only pulling off today. He also made a couple videos in the 70s for the space shuttle that also only coming to fruition today, as the reusability that was hope for the shuttle didn't pan out, but it is now with SpaceX.
My Uncle Bill lived next door to Gunther Vendt. The leader of the close out crew who strapped astronauts into Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules. He lived in Merrit island, and said he was always a kind man.
Der Führer of der Launch Pad.
A minor suggestion I would like is whenever values/currency is brought up to have a conversion to modern day values. Like the ten million dollars for the Nova rockets around 1959 comes close to having a 1,000% inflation rating making it around a hundred million in modern value.
Not entirely important, but it's enough to periodically get me to stop and look up what the approximate values would be to get a better idea of the budgets they'd be working with.
Just wanted to say this was a fantastic video!
I just learned so much about this man. This documentary is awesome! Thank you!
this entire amazing piece just made me realize how compelling a well directed biography style film about his life would be if it existed.
As a polite pronunciation critique, Luftwaffe is pronounced as:
Looft-vaff-feh (that’s the best I can write it out phonetically).
Basically, the e on the end is pronounced out loud.
This is the story I am delighted to watch made by you.
Awesome video, thank you for this. Been meaning to learn more about him for ages and this was a good opportunity :)
Great job on this one, Kevin!
This video is so good! I think this is one of your best yet
love the content brother, each video is well worth the wait. Here's hoping life starts getting better for you
Another excellent video, DKiS is becoming a must view channel
Glad you think so!
Excellent as always. Entertaining and educational.
Came here for the Tom Lehrer reference. Left satisfied.
Great Tom Lehrer reference in the intro!
Yeah, I’m glad he threw those out there early on just to get ahead of the inevitable references in the comments