Barbara Rütting does a fine job of portraying Hanna Reitsch, the only woman to pilot a rocket plane in history, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. While the movie fictionalizes it a bit, she had a hard landing in one of the prototypes and spent five months hospitalized. She was one tough cookie... a movie about her alone would be worth watching.
She remained an avowed National Socialist to the end of her days and even , prominently wore the iron cross with oak leaves and diamonds presented to her by Hitler on many occasions.
Later after the war, Hanna kept flying as a great glider pilot, she crossed the alps landing in Italy with her glider. She also wrote a book. Most glider pilots remember her, despite her role in the war, she was essentially a born pilot, willing to fly with anything, with or without an engine. The female equivalent of Chuck Yeager, nothing less.
There were so many great aviators, sailors , warriors , designers , scientists on all sides , that very sadly ,due to war, were able to come to the fore with their immense talents. This lady was one of them. Amazing pilot.
I am an Aussie and hate the Nazi’s as much as anyone in the West. However, during that disgusting war in Europe just as many innocent people were bombed and killed by Allied bombs as by the Germans. It is always the innocents that die when politicians start wars
The V1 may have been more terrifying than V2 because one could hear it approach - and then the silence as the pulse jet stopped when it began its dive.
@@typograf62 maybe,but at least there was some defence against the v1 and the fact you could hear it gave you a chance,with the v2 it was boom your done,the only saving grace was you never knew it
Greetings from Russia. Yesterday I turned 60 years old. Sometimes we had craters from aerial bombs as a place for children to play. The Nazis dropped them on passing trains. They did not distinguish between passenger trains and military trains
@@typograf62I saw recently that they were put into the dive by a mechanism on board, and the dive had the effect of stopping the pulse jet, so it wasn’t the pulse jet stopping that stopping that then made it dive - surprised me.
That movie was so detail-rich that even the type of trees depicted there are very similar to those found in the area where testing actually took place. Amazing.
As I recall, all of the manned craft were dropped from a mother aircraft. The V-1 had insufficient power to takeoff (even with the catapult) from the ground. Also, it was primarily Heinz Kensche who found the faults with the V-1.
@@chrisst8922 Yeah. The funny thing is that u find such trees and coastal "forests" all along the Northeast German Baltic coast. As i live close to there i found this detail kinda interesting. Maybe coincidence?
@@OS-fq6nd Not coincidence. IMDb says it's at Holkham Beach in Norfolk whose geography, climate and geology matches your coasts so the trees would match too. Do you live anywhere near Travemunde?
A great bit of symbolism as Hanna flies past the graveyard of the dead pilots who came before her. You don't find much in movies that can compose a scene that informs the audience with no dialog, the only other one I can think of is THEM! (1954) In that opening scene a little girl (Sandy Descher) who is a mute survivor, is laying in an ambulance while the attendant (William Schallert, Patty Dukes "father") and cop (James Whitmore) talk. Out of sight comes the chirping noise of a mutant, and while both men look away for the source the little girl sits bolt upright, a tight closeup of her face silently telegraphing to the audience the horrors to come- and then she slowly reposes as the sound fades; the two men having entirely missed that telling moment, but not you, the viewer. A simple yet effective scene that conveys so much with no dialog is definitely a lost art nowadays.
@Paul Reeves I wondered that for a second myself but then I remembered there had been four pilots already killed. I think it was just a reminder how dangerous the job was. I personally think the scene was a bit heavy handed.
I watched this movie with family 2 years ago for the first time and absolutely loved it. So much was on the line for the mission to succeed. It had me enthralled. Great star studded cast! George Pepard was total bad ass!! Thanks for uploading. You have a new subscriber. 😊
@@StrigoiVampire because after 60s start be loud in western coutries about germans "achievements", before everyone was sailent about it because: a) they need army and frontline "country" in case of war with red side of the curtain... (veterans to mobilization), b) one country start money buisnes on this and start make the matter of achievement loud and better konwn with details among western societies, and thus the truth was known from the veil of silence ppl change their point of view from "soldiers" to evil demons... based on revealed truth XD its only prove how easy manipulate societies and ppl opinion depending on what governments needs...
When you go up in a acrobatic glider they strap one on you too. They say the reason for one is in case a wing shears off during flight. So if the wing shears off at 3,000 feet, glider is in a spin or dive, you are expected to release the canopy, undo your four point restraint, climb out of cockpit, and jump. Right.
@@robertbowman448 Not to mention that canopy opens the wrong way so she'd have to actively brace just to hold it open against wind pressure. Though the real thing may have been just as flimsy as this film prop.
Grandpa was digging for victory in the back garden in Tooting, London, when a V1 hit and killed a neighbour a few doors down. When the engine cut out, he instinctively flung himself to the ground, and the following explosion blew all the buttons off his big overcoat.
Germany: *develops manned-rockets* Japan: Can we make our own? Germany: Sure! Japan: *develops Ohka manned-rockets* Germany: Oh btw that was just a test flight. Our pilots all made it back alive and well. Japan: They what?
@@flybobbie1449 still many movies shot in 35 mm today because its beautiful specially the high budget movies.digital looks like tv series in my opinion
I saw this movie when I was in high school. Great movie. Shows OSS style operation. Dedication of The Allied agents to remain loyal up to the end and their end. Thank you for your dedicated service.🇺🇸🇺🇸
According to the Wikidpaedia the event depicted in this clip never happened. Hanna Reitsch was recruited as a test pilot for the Fi-103R after the project was cancelled and then revived and they then wanted to fast track it. The problem with the Fi-103R was that the stall speed was extremely high and apparently not properly predicted by the engineers so the first pilots didn't know what to expect. A male test pilot was killed because he jettisoned the canopy prematurely while attempting a landing. Another was nearly killed because the cockpit was so cramped it was difficult to bail out. Hanna Reitsch was never launched from a ground catapult in the Fi-103R. Always air dropped, probably from an He-111. She crashed landed three times in the Fi-103R before her first "successful" landing but was not seriously injured. The landing depicted in the clip was apparently one of those. I thought they did a poor job recreating the Fi-103R in flight. The sound of the pulsejet is not a good representation of the real thing. In the shots from the front the intake valves are not shown operating and the combustion in the engine looks like a living room gas fireplace. The exhaust plume visibly bends depending on the attitude of the model in the shot. An old fashioned plumber's blowtorch looks more like the real thing. Anyway, if I remember this movie it was about the Germans attempting to build the first ICBM and a bogus depiction of the OSS attempting to thwart the effort. So this sequence about Hanna Reitsch was a diversion.
It was probably just as well that Hanna did not marry and so she had no grandchildren. Otherwise, they might have been unfairly referred to as The Third Reitsch.
Yes she was the real deal, a highly skilled glider pilot which is purported to be the reason she survived the V-1 flights by landing them safely(ish). She was a staunch patriot and did what she did for the benefit of her homeland - who can fault her for that? Just appreciate what a shining talent she was in aviation. She flew helicopters, cruise missiles, sailplanes.. you name it.
Still. Doesn't matter how "great a pilot!Supported Hitler, and his killing war machine. Tell 6 million Dead Jews, plus others, which were massacred by the Nazi Regime. Their voices are silent, but their Graves mock your comments about "Great Nazis."
The daring test pilot Hanna Reitsch had the distinction of flying the last plane out of Berlin, which was on 28 April 1945. Her passenger was a Luftwaffe Field Marshal. Berlin was surrounded by Soviet forces fighting inwards to the center of the city. Four days later, on 2 May, the city was captured.
@@russianbotfarm3036 Operation Crossbow isn't a German war movie. It starred George Peppard and Jeremy Kemp, and was about allied spies infiltrating the V-weapons programme. This was just a section about the development of the V1. www.imdb.com/title/tt0059549/
Understandable as many Jewish people were in entertainment stage, stand up and actors in films. Many of these actors in Hollywood were born, grew up or lived in Germany or Austria. So spoke German.
Some people i.e. writers, comedians and others even returned to Germany (mainly GDR) and Austria... because their income in English language surroundings were low. Kreisler, Anna Seghers, Farkasz,...the most famous literature critic in Germany after the war was a polish born Jew.
I know many will hate what I’m about to say, regardless of what you think of the Germans, during WW2 they were a capable and fearsome enemy. Almost (only for their ability) respectable.
My Father unwittingly met Hanna Reitsch at an air show in the early 60's, he was admiring a Fieseler Storch and they got into conversation about aircraft of all sorts whilst both walking arround the aircraft on display , on parting company the colleagues he was with said 'how on earth do you know Hanna Reitsch?' He had absolutely no Idea who she was and maybe if he had and started asking about her life maybe it would have been a far briefer conversation?
@38listerjag. My uncle Claude met a girl who knew a boy who "unwittingly met Hanna Reitsch at an air show in the early 60's". And he said to me that she said to him "all sorts whilst both walking arround the aircraft on display."
Lots of former Nazis sort of re-invented themselves after the war. I'll never forget one incident. I had a good friend who was the most pro-Black/African guy you'd ever want to meet. Wore dashikis and those little African hats all the time, and generally promoted a sort of Black people first philosophy. This was back in the early 1990s I believe. One afternoon I was over to his house, and looking through some of his African-themed coffee table photo books. One of them struck me, with beautiful pictures of African landscapes, animals and people. When I flipped to the back to see the author, imagine my surprise: Leni Riefenstahl. I'm like, "Kwaiku, " (he even changed his name to an African name), "Do you know who this woman is?" I'll never forget the irony of that moment. But, the world was still a lot bigger place back then than it is now.
They actually built a decent replica and seem to have had an original launch ramp too. The guy that did the green screen type shots of the flying went and spoilt the lot though.
The film was made in 1965. Some of the ramps might have survived the twenty years from the war to the filming. It’s also very likely that very good models were constructed just for the film.
The shots from the film "Ice Station Zebra" when the Soviet Air Force is speeding over the Arctic had me on the edge of my seat fifty years ago, so did the low level flying footage of Major Kong piloting his B52 at treetop level on his way to Armageddon in Dr Strangelove. Sadly these effects have not weathered the progress of cinematic technology well.
Randomly stumbled upon this movie looking for some fun WW2 movies to watch, was pleasantly surprised with this film, it took a more gritty approach compared to some other contemporary films of that time, and had a real espionage quality to it and nuanced themes.
@@dapre it reminds me a bit of Play Dirty, that same cynicism and the hopelessness of carrying out your mission, either way, it deserves be much higher on the lists of best ww2 films.
Never could Hanna Reitsch bail out successfully in case of stall, because of the engine behind the cockpit. This manned V1 was intended as kamikaze flyer like the japanese Ohka bomb.
Just some minor corrections: The forces during a catapult start of a V1, would have been to much to for humans. Hanna Reitsch made some flights with a V1 converted for suicide attacks, but they where towed behind a plane. The biggest problems that led to a delay in the usage of the V1 where related to forces generated by the catapult. Especially during the trial period, they used missiles that had less fuel and where lighter, as a result they got higher accelerations damaging the structure of the wings. Everything was calculated and for the V1 with a full load, therefore they ran into troubles when testing lighter V1.
@@mrzorg It was IMR more than 10G. The missiles leaving the ramp nearly had the full speed of a flying V1. Edith: Found a source saying the missile was constructed for a maximum of 22G. Http://daedalus-Berlin.de/Fi103_daten.htm I have done some calculations. The ramp had a length of 45m, the minimal speed was 350km/h (97.2 m/s) you will need an acceleration of more than 10.7G under ideal circumstances for a start.
watch it, its great, I think its definitely underrated at least considering it never gets talked about, its not brilliant but i think it does interesting things with the ww2 movie genre compared to some of its contemporaries, also Sophia Loren is in it for a bit and is stunning af
This part of the movie based on historical fact: Hannah Reitsch was the first person to successful pilot a rocket plane (jet). I imagine she was just as brave as portrayed in the movie considering all those before her who died trying.
Uh no. First jet flight was August 27, 1940 (Italy's Caproni Campini N1). First rocket plane flight? 1928. By Fritz Stamer. In a Lippisch Ente. The Nazi Reitsch didn't fly the pulse jet until late 1944. She didn't fly the Me-163 until 1942. So no she wasn't the first person to successfully pilot a rocket plane at all. Not even close. Dunno where you get your facts. But they are simply wrong.
@@EvilMerlin You do not need to be rude.... especially since you yourself are also wrong, the first jet flight took place on 27/8/1939, in a Heinkel 178, the pilot was Erich Warsitz. So I do not know where YOU get your information from, but the Caproni did not fly until a year to the day, exactly, AFTER Warsitz flew the Heinkel 178.
@@Apis4 You seem to forget the He 178 was not publicly released information and not recognized by the FAI, and the FAI still officially recognizes the N1 as the first jet flight because of the Nazi secrecy behind its jet programme. So OFFICIALLY the N1 was the first jet flight. My post still stands, and it damn well is correct that Hannah didn't set any "first person" flights unless they were "first woman" flights...
@@EvilMerlin FAI recognition matters for records like altitude, payload, flight time. But it's meaningless for firsts if they're documented and uncontested. Heinkel documented the 178 first flights, and so did the Nazi Government. There's multiple witnesses, pictures, reports, and it was filmed. So your argument is pretty weak, as no serious aviation historian doubts the first test flight of 178 took place, nor when, nor who flew it. For whatever reason the FAI has not rectified their recognition, yet, nevertheless, the 178 flight in 39 happened. That's just an historical fact, and FAI recognition, or lack thereof, doesn't change this.
Remember to bail out in an emergency, right into that enormous air intake. You definitely won’t be sucked into it and this has nothing to do with how many pilots we have lost.
You will shut the engine off at first. This pulsating engine (depicted horribly in this movie) immediately shuts when you close the intake damper. Other problem is to simply be hit by that engine protruding right behind cockpit. Which means to slow and turn the plane upside down to use gravity. Injury expected anyway.
@@aliray1165 Nope. It's mainly just a tube that lets in the air from the front by the vehicle's velocity. There is no additional suction like in a turbine.
Darn! I need to correct myself. The Argus Tube indeed generates a slight suction, just enough to suck in air from the front to fill the combustion chamber, thus making it possible to operate even with zero velocitiy. My bad.
I read that the landing speed was about 210 mph ! Hanna Reitsch was the real pilot .Who test flow it , There were about seventy volunteers who enrolled in the Suicide Group to fly this aircraft .It was intended to fly it to London and other targets, and then bail out . The V1 was to be called the Fieseler Fi 103R. It was not a difficult plane to fly . But landing at such high speed with a very high staling speed was extremely difficult . She and Heinz Kensche made several test flights . But the plan to use humans to fly it , to target was never put into practise.
Maybe 20 years ago I was taking a aircraft builders weekend classes in Finland. The location was famous for a century of aviation history. On the walls there was old photos of days past. Some of them had Hanna Reitsch, who used to teach youths to fly gliders (sailplanes) over there. A truly great aviation person!
Ballsy Lady Hannah Reich! Many other brave women flew Aircraft during WW2 and some lost their lives doing that. But I RESPECT these Lady's for doing It!!
Its a pulse jet, it doesn´t have a compressor and hence no "suction". of course the physical presence of the engine is a danger, but so is the empennage on any other model. You need to get out sideways on almost any airplane
In the 1980's, I worked with a fellow who was an extra in the scene on the beach where are the Germans are running toward the V1. He was serving in the British army at the time. The MOD in the UK would loan out troops and resources to film makers if the movie portrayed the military in a positive light. The scene in the bunker has actual actors and those same actors surround the German test pilot from about 3:47 onward. The "runners" you see starting at 3:20 are not actors but British soldiers in German period appropriate uniforms. The "running" scene on the beach was reshot several times and the soldiers were getting pissed. To let off steam, they were yelling like kids "get her, get her" in a goofy kind of school yard way as if they were kids playing a game. About 3:40 you she her smile and sort of laugh. My pal said this was because he and his mates were acting like foolish kids and her reaction wasn't precisely the what the director wanted from her. She was supposed to play it with more a look of relief. Seeing the result, the director thought it worked out OK and kept the scene as you see it now.
If my information is correct, Hannah was an accomplished pilot. After the war she worked for the Allies on aircraft issues in case the Allies and Russians had a 'run-in',
The replica isn't a bad job, but yes; the canopy is hinged in the front (not easy to open in a slipstream), a seat belt is possible, but I don't see shoulder straps, her goggles are not down, nor is her chinstrap secure. Hanna Reitsch did manage to successfully fly the Fiesler-103a (Reichenberg) as she was smart enough to be dropped from a mothership at altitude where she did a series of stalls to determine the a/c's best approach and stall speeds. Bailing out was considered problematic owing to the pulse jet engine immediately behind the cockpit. The original had a side-hinged canopy and a single grip control column, not the two-handed one you see in the movie. They were never used as a manned, flying bomb.
even the small cramped cockpit window/frame reminds of that if they could add 2 more pulse jets, one below left, one below right.. and things would really look colonial and be getting up to the speed of heat. how fast is that you say? Can't tell exactly how fast.. classified.. but it's really cooking.
This film was was on BBC2 in the UK today (27 Dec 2020), and should be on the iPlayer for a few weeks. AND, I was pleased to see that unlike the normal case with war films, pretty much ALL of the German is subtitled.
If anyone could fly one of those things it was Hanna Reitsch, perhaps the greatest pilot next to Chuck Yeager. Reviled after the War as an unapologetic Nazi Hannah had never been a Nazi party member, she simply had nothing to apologise for. She was won multiple German awards, was a fierce young woman who could fly anything - anything!
Hanna Reitsch was actually a guest at the White House some years later, and President Kennedy is pictured with her. I guess she was a nice lady after all.
@@beej86 Yup, it was sick all the way around. Guess she and the original spin Doktor were fearful of what the Russians MIGHT do to their kids. That and Dr. & Frau Grobbels were both zealously fascists sociopaths.
1:05 The point of the launch ramp was to get enough airflow into the pulse jet engine for combustion; one couldn't simply light it and stand around admiring the results.
Not quite - the engine was already running when the plane was catapulted along the ramp. The point of the ramp was to accelerated the plane to flying speed. If you launched the plane before the engine was up to speed then you would run the risk of the whole thing just pancaking out past the end of the ramp....
@@panther105 Thanks indeed for that - turns out I was 100% wrong! (again...) I thought it needed +ve airflow to get enough supply for the combustion but the design was quite clever enough that the departing exhaust from a detonation sucked air in. Here it is starting & running merrily parked on a test stand: th-cam.com/video/Rdwbp6R2qM8/w-d-xo.html
@@lappansommer546 We had miniature versions of the exact same engine/technology when I was a kid and making flying models. But we never had fancy compressors to help get ours started - we had to use bicycle pumps. Model pulse jet engines are still being used and are extremely fast when put in a radio controlled model. Check this if you like.....
@@panther105 I remember as a kid the "big kids" had the pulse jet engines that they would use on "U-control" models and they were incredibly fast. Later as a pilot I saw the concrete circles at the Owensboro KY airport where they would hold the speed competition with those control line models. There was a stake set in the concrete and the guy flying the model had to keep his hand on that stake as the jet flew around and he really had to scramble to stay with it while the speed trap measured how fast it went. They had to keep their hand stationary to prevent them from whipping the model for a faster speed.
@@floatingchimney She did when quite young with Dr. Werner Von Braun. Hanna bore their daughter, Alicia, in 1932, who likewise consorted with Prince Bernhard, husband ot the Dutch Queen Juliana.
Don't admire this Fascist bitch. She was a Nazi to the end of her days. Great woman test pilot, clueless about the Holocaust and the millions of people dead by Hitler's megalomania. She was only sorry the Nazis lost. Reitsch was interviewed and photographed several times in the 1970s, towards the end of her life, by Jewish-American photo-journalist Ron Laytner. In her closing remarks, she is quoted as saying: "And what have we now in Germany? A country of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today, in all of Germany, you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power ... Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - that we lost." In the same interview, she is quoted as saying, I asked Herman Goering one day, "What is this I am hearing that Germany is killing Jews?" Goering responded angrily, 'A totally outrageous lie made up by the British and American press. It will be used as a rope to hang us someday if we lose the war.'" Like the coward he was, he committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he was to be hanged. Former British test pilot and Royal Navy officer Eric Brown said he received a letter from Reitsch in early August 1979 in which she said, "It began in the bunker, there it shall end." Within weeks she was dead. Brown speculated that Reitsch had taken the cyanide capsule Hitler had given her in the bunker and that she had taken it as part of a suicide pact with her lover, Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim.
The movie was filmed in 1965. I'm sure those Brits who remembered seeing a one-ton bomb with stubby wings falling out of the sky on their heads really appreciated this movie. Go watch, "Doodlebug Summer".
My late father was a radar operator stationed on a Royal Artillery AA gun site around London when the V1s first started coming over - they went across the screen at a speed not seen previously - so they knew right away it was a new type of aircraft. One malfunctioned, failed to explode, and landed in Romney marshes where Royal Engineers were able to retrieve it relatively undamaged in order to study in detail. In a big logistical road transportation exercise the gun sites were quickly moved south from London, to provide staggered zones, right down to the Channel coastline, thereby providing layers of continuous Bofors gun and 3.7 inch anti aircraft barrages as the Doodlebugs entered UK airspace. This was achieved in a 24 hour operation and proved a relatively effective counter measure. Equally important - Counter Intelligence used "turned" German agents to feedback false observed bomb impact co-ordinates, and this resulted in the enemy recalculating and firing many V1s on to open rural farm land areas well away from the city and population centres. The RAF and USAAF were able to adapt faster moving fighters to interdict many.
Hanna Reich was interviewed for 'The World at War ' TV series in the 1970s, along with many other famous names from WW2. She still had that air of fanaticism about her - quite unsettling.
Nice touch. "If something goes wrong, bail out". In reality there was no way any pilot was going to get out of that aircraft in an emergency. Great movie.
They were giving hope when there was little of it. Same with every country at the time. The pilots knew what their chances were which is why most went with the "At least if I crash in the cockpit I have a better chance than if I jumped" attitude.
yes - i suppose the translations are aimed at the (english speaking) audience) rather than being literal - e.g. when snatching the microphone i think the ss man says "gesprechen Sie weitung" (literally `you speak onward') but a better english translation would be "(you), carry on speaking" - however there is no translation given for that bit - maybe because it was obvious what he was saying.
One of the great heroes of WWII, unfortunately she couldn’t convince Hitler to let her fly him out of Berlin He gave her a cynide capsule that she may have used to kill herself years later
1:14 Defies the laws of physics by lurching forward when the catapult is activated. Other than that the effects reminded me of the good ol' Thunderbirds.
yep - i sent that goof to imdb but i don't think they added it - i think this scene (and others) are similar to thunderbirds because some of the same people worked on both.
Hanna Reitzsch ftw! Read her book. Great, little person with so much courage and a heart for aviation. She said, she didn´t regret anything. I let this stand without comment.
She was nevertheless an unrepentant nazi. She complained after the war, when Germany had become prosperous again, that it was a country of 'bankers and car makers'. I guess she liked it better when Germany was sending it's young men to die in Russia.
...Until the RAF learned to tip these out of the sky. Soon all the Allied forces were learning the art. Hence why the Germans focused on the V-2 far more in the end. Much better weapon and nearly impossible to stop.
The tall German General is Paul Henreid who starred in the famous movie Casablanca as the anti Nazi freedom fighter Viktor Laszlo. Here he plays the part of a German General as he spoke fluent German and had made Austrian films before the war.
If you want to visit the filming locations it's Holkham beach near Wells next the Sea ,Norfolk UK. It's unchanged but don't expect to see any V1 ramps or anything!
Round of applause for the jump cut to the fresh grave!! 👏👏👏👏👏 So often you just get the overused silence, followed by the hero not-really-being-dead and everybody knows that will survive, there's no tension. But overlaying that overused trope over somebody else's fresh grave with the swastika showing us it's recent and Nazi? Genius.
strangely enough, if you can believe it, thats nearly how close the restrictive canopy on the ME-109 conformed around the pilots head and shoulders...how they obtained enough visibilty for combat, has to be one of the wars biggest mysteries.
The answer is simple, the canopy of Bf109 (not this in the film) is small but the cockpit have a trapezoidal section, not much but enough space for the pilot. Also the canopy when open, it rotates completely in the right, was quite easy bail out from the fighter. In this scene, this woman was a real german pilot, but this fly was made in the latest versions of v1 (Reichnberg) for the kamikaze formations that never flied.
DarkHellEmpire yes the German kamikaze pilots never flied. Hanna Reitsch suggested the idea of German pilots including herself flying these V-1 suicide missions against big targets such as troop carrying ships. Her suggestion was even too much for Hitler to accept. Hitler said at this stage of the war the suicide pilots were not needed. Germany needed live experienced pilots in planes. The auto pilot V-1 cruise missiles could be mass produced in large numbers. These were terror weapons aimed mostly at civilians with limited success in stopping armies. The V-2 missiles were the most deadly and could not be shot down and gave no warning of approach unlike the V-1 buzz bombs. All Hitler needed were nuclear warheads for the V-2. A two staged V-2 rocket was in the planning for New York City. British intelligence intercepted Nazi plans to have U-Boats on the surface launching V-1 rockets on New York City and so warned the US Navy to hunt down the U-Boats especially when the U-Boats surfaced. Hitler was intent on vengeance for the bombing of German Cities.
When she’s yelling in German and has the goggles on, she reminds me of Frau Farbissina in the Austin Powers movies. “Send in the Fem-Bots!!!” This is a great movie though, really good miniature/model work. Thanks for posting, haven’t seen it in a while
Barbara Rütting does a fine job of portraying Hanna Reitsch, the only woman to pilot a rocket plane in history, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. While the movie fictionalizes it a bit, she had a hard landing in one of the prototypes and spent five months hospitalized. She was one tough cookie... a movie about her alone would be worth watching.
She remained an avowed National Socialist to the end of her days and even , prominently wore the iron cross with oak leaves and diamonds presented to her by Hitler on many occasions.
Read her Book, “I flew for the Fatherland”
Yep. She was a real tough cookie with a long history
This is'nt a Me 163 Komet. It's a Fiesler F104 Reichenberg Geraet. A Manned V1 Cruise Missile.
I wish they would make a movie about her - I always loved this part of operation crossbow
Later after the war, Hanna kept flying as a great glider pilot, she crossed the alps landing in Italy with her glider. She also wrote a book. Most glider pilots remember her, despite her role in the war, she was essentially a born pilot, willing to fly with anything, with or without an engine. The female equivalent of Chuck Yeager, nothing less.
RIP, Chuck.
Heaven is VFR ,above the clouds , that is.
@@jameshafner1442 VFR?
Visual Flight Rules
And she never walked back her Nazi beliefs.
There were so many great aviators, sailors , warriors , designers , scientists on all sides , that very sadly ,due to war, were able to come to the fore with their immense talents. This lady was one of them. Amazing pilot.
yes
She committed no war crimes but she was loyal to Hitler to the end.
Ah yes, many fine people on both sides! Ah yes indeed!
My Dad is 90. He lived in Watford during the war, just north of London. He remembers V-1 and the damage they did and people they killed.
I am an Aussie and hate the Nazi’s as much as anyone in the West. However, during that disgusting war in Europe just as many innocent people were bombed and killed by Allied bombs as by the Germans. It is always the innocents that die when politicians start wars
The V1 may have been more terrifying than V2 because one could hear it approach - and then the silence as the pulse jet stopped when it began its dive.
@@typograf62 maybe,but at least there was some defence against the v1 and the fact you could hear it gave you a chance,with the v2 it was boom your done,the only saving grace was you never knew it
Greetings from Russia. Yesterday I turned 60 years old. Sometimes we had craters from aerial bombs as a place for children to play. The Nazis dropped them on passing trains. They did not distinguish between passenger trains and military trains
@@typograf62I saw recently that they were put into the dive by a mechanism on board, and the dive had the effect of stopping the pulse jet, so it wasn’t the pulse jet stopping that stopping that then made it dive - surprised me.
That movie was so detail-rich that even the type of trees depicted there are very similar to those found in the area where testing actually took place. Amazing.
As I recall, all of the manned craft were dropped from a mother aircraft. The V-1 had insufficient power to takeoff (even with the catapult) from the ground. Also, it was primarily Heinz Kensche who found the faults with the V-1.
I suspect it might have been Black Park which adjoins Pinewood.
@@chrisst8922 Yeah. The funny thing is that u find such trees and coastal "forests" all along the Northeast German Baltic coast. As i live close to there i found this detail kinda interesting. Maybe coincidence?
@@ScrapperSam Yeah, like the Heinkel 111.
@@OS-fq6nd Not coincidence. IMDb says it's at Holkham Beach in Norfolk whose geography, climate and geology matches your coasts so the trees would match too. Do you live anywhere near Travemunde?
I remember that movie. Played @ my air base, Bitburg , germany mid 60's. Really enjoyed it.
A great bit of symbolism as Hanna flies past the graveyard of the dead pilots who came before her. You don't find much in movies that can compose a scene that informs the audience with no dialog, the only other one I can think of is THEM! (1954) In that opening scene a little girl (Sandy Descher) who is a mute survivor, is laying in an ambulance while the attendant (William Schallert, Patty Dukes "father") and cop (James Whitmore) talk. Out of sight comes the chirping noise of a mutant, and while both men look away for the source the little girl sits bolt upright, a tight closeup of her face silently telegraphing to the audience the horrors to come- and then she slowly reposes as the sound fades; the two men having entirely missed that telling moment, but not you, the viewer. A simple yet effective scene that conveys so much with no dialog is definitely a lost art nowadays.
Pity she didn't join them!
@@gazza2933 Booooo!!!
Nearly every movie has this...
@Paul Reeves I wondered that for a second myself but then I remembered there had been four pilots already killed. I think it was just a reminder how dangerous the job was. I personally think the scene was a bit heavy handed.
Almost identical scene in opening sequence of “The Right Stuff”, but with a P80 flyover.
I watched this movie with family 2 years ago for the first time and absolutely loved it. So much was on the line for the mission to succeed. It had me enthralled. Great star studded cast! George Pepard was total bad ass!! Thanks for uploading. You have a new subscriber. 😊
Wonders of cinema: Sitting and hoping the Nazi test-pilot survives the test flight and finds the glitch in the flying bomb..
That's a basic feature of suspence and character identification. Even if it's the villain on screen, you share his or her fears.
In fact the Germans turned from villains to demons only after the 60s, before they were just considered soldiers fighting for their country.
Science benefit humanity no matter what(!)
@@StrigoiVampire because after 60s start be loud in western coutries about germans "achievements", before everyone was sailent about it because:
a) they need army and frontline "country" in case of war with red side of the curtain... (veterans to mobilization),
b) one country start money buisnes on this and start make the matter of achievement loud and better konwn with details among western societies, and thus the truth was known from the veil of silence ppl change their point of view from "soldiers" to evil demons... based on revealed truth XD
its only prove how easy manipulate societies and ppl opinion depending on what governments needs...
Right?! This was a very well crafted sequence.
The shot with a cemetery is just pure gold.
Yes and i imediatly looked if the video was over
It really cements the scene?
Those were the graves of the guys who didn't find out what the problem was.
Cemetery ? Or cement factory / cementery?
@@ScienceFan1859 Cemetery, my bad.
If anything goes wrong, bail out. In spite of not actually wearing a functional parachute. Just bail out. We’ll catch you. Bail. Good luck.
It wouldn't matter if she did have a chute, she never went high enough to safely bail out.
Not to mention that she'd have to go right in front of the pulsejet's intake.
With her goggles off and her flight cap not even fastened.
When you go up in a acrobatic glider they strap one on you too. They say the reason for one is in case a wing shears off during flight. So if the wing shears off at 3,000 feet, glider is in a spin or dive, you are expected to release the canopy, undo your four point restraint, climb out of cockpit, and jump. Right.
@@robertbowman448 Not to mention that canopy opens the wrong way so she'd have to actively brace just to hold it open against wind pressure. Though the real thing may have been just as flimsy as this film prop.
"It definitely was the trim!" is a phrase that proved to be the downfall of many men.
" that proved to be the downfall of many men"
Literally
I’m so proud of you. I was starting to type those words when I read your comment. Brings a tear to my eye seeing a comedic genius at work.
Needed quim to fix the trim
I see what you did there. LOL.
@@dozer1642 Thanks for making me laugh out loud.
The actress playing Hannah Reich is Barbara Rutting who died in 2020.
очень жаль... красивая была женщина..
Grandpa was digging for victory in the back garden in Tooting, London, when a V1 hit and killed a neighbour a few doors down. When the engine cut out, he instinctively flung himself to the ground, and the following explosion blew all the buttons off his big overcoat.
Her French boyfriend was upset with her for being a Nazi test pilot: Operation Cross Beau
groan.
I see what you did there.
I read that in Neebs voice.
Nigga,
Please.
5..
Saw this as a kid back then, it was a great birthday party movie with my friends.
Me too, it was a "shock" when she said "damn".
@@BELCAN57 ū 6mki
“Let’s run out there and see if she’s okay,”
“Couldn’t we just drive?”
“We need to save fuel fir the war effort.”
“Gotcha!”
A Rogue One approach to traversing distances. :)
Drive out on soggy intertidal muck? They may not have had cars well-suited for that.
“And we don’t have to clean our own boots, anyway. We are senior officers, after all.”
🤔😂
@@ColumbiaB Indeed, the well-known VW Kübelwagen was only a military version of the VW Beetle, not a 4x4.
Germany: *develops manned-rockets*
Japan: Can we make our own?
Germany: Sure!
Japan: *develops Ohka manned-rockets*
Germany: Oh btw that was just a test flight. Our pilots all made it back alive and well.
Japan: They what?
Rumor has it that they hot these techs from Aliens in Antarctica
I always found it interesting how different their approach was, with the German Mistel and the Japanese Ohka
@@ismu34 Don't forget radio control Fortress - crew start and go out (or not).
The US Navy referred to them as Baka Bombs (literally "Idiot Bombs").
@@thunderbird1921 Which they were!
That was thrilling. And I've never felt so conflicted in my life.
yes.
Люблю немецкие фильмы о ВОВ. Веселюсь больше, чем от старых добрых Советских комедий.
Это британское кино
@@Bocha12 Румын-Болгарин, какая разница🎃
The camera use in this movie are far superior than netflix movies
Yeah - my speech
Modern is digital, back then probably 35mm film.
@@flybobbie1449 still many movies shot in 35 mm today because its beautiful specially the high budget movies.digital looks like tv series in my opinion
@@flybobbie1449 correct its definitely 35mm thats why Tarantino likes to shoot on film, and he likes to show his movies on film but its expensive.
@@flybobbie1449 try 65mm or 85mm movie camera always used much larger film than standard 35mm that everyday jo bloggs used.
I saw this movie when I was in high school. Great movie. Shows OSS style operation. Dedication of The Allied agents to remain loyal up to the end and their end. Thank you for your dedicated service.🇺🇸🇺🇸
“Axis”, not “Allied”. But yeah.
I saw this movie in the theater on base as a kid when my dad was stationed in Germany, great movie.
It has a quite few similarities to 13 Rue Madeleine.
My wife parks like that.
like
hhhhhh
👍😃😂🤣 My wife too...
My wife dresses like that.
lol
According to the Wikidpaedia the event depicted in this clip never happened. Hanna Reitsch was recruited as a test pilot for the Fi-103R after the project was cancelled and then revived and they then wanted to fast track it. The problem with the Fi-103R was that the stall speed was extremely high and apparently not properly predicted by the engineers so the first pilots didn't know what to expect. A male test pilot was killed because he jettisoned the canopy prematurely while attempting a landing. Another was nearly killed because the cockpit was so cramped it was difficult to bail out. Hanna Reitsch was never launched from a ground catapult in the Fi-103R. Always air dropped, probably from an He-111. She crashed landed three times in the Fi-103R before her first "successful" landing but was not seriously injured. The landing depicted in the clip was apparently one of those.
I thought they did a poor job recreating the Fi-103R in flight. The sound of the pulsejet is not a good representation of the real thing. In the shots from the front the intake valves are not shown operating and the combustion in the engine looks like a living room gas fireplace. The exhaust plume visibly bends depending on the attitude of the model in the shot. An old fashioned plumber's blowtorch looks more like the real thing.
Anyway, if I remember this movie it was about the Germans attempting to build the first ICBM and a bogus depiction of the OSS attempting to thwart the effort. So this sequence about Hanna Reitsch was a diversion.
Mpmm
leaving all the horrors of war aside for a moment, test pilots are a breed apart.
Developmental or operational test pilots?
It was probably just as well that Hanna did not marry and so she had no grandchildren. Otherwise, they might have been unfairly referred to as The Third Reitsch.
That is quite funny. I had ALMOST thought of it myself.
Dumbfuck!!!
I did nazi that coming.
nein she got hitched to carlo barbera,, Awww HAWHAWHAWHAH und hadt kinder ,freiderich und barnie
😆
Irrespective of her political allegiances, she was a very brave woman as well as a superb pilot.
Yes she was the real deal, a highly skilled glider pilot which is purported to be the reason she survived the V-1 flights by landing them safely(ish). She was a staunch patriot and did what she did for the benefit of her homeland - who can fault her for that? Just appreciate what a shining talent she was in aviation. She flew helicopters, cruise missiles, sailplanes.. you name it.
@@mjd4174 She was a die hard NAZI!!!
That tarnishes her greatly, Damn Good Pilot, but -- -- --
Still. Doesn't matter how "great a pilot!Supported Hitler, and his killing war machine.
Tell 6 million Dead Jews, plus others, which were massacred by the Nazi Regime.
Their voices are silent,
but their Graves mock your comments about
"Great Nazis."
@@mjd4174I’d say any thinking, compassionate human could fault her for that. She didn’t serve Germany; she served the Nazis. 👎
Right or wrong she did her best, we must always be... better!
I hate when the old generals get there before the crash crew .
As Always the pompous bigwigs
steal the glory from hardworking
people.
nobody dares run past the commanding officer.
@@Dave-sw2dm crash crews are nuts , they should run over brass to get to a crash . that's their job .
big bob 169 , and in the real world the brass doesn’t leave the safety of the bunker until the situation is secure.
Its Obest Kammler
The daring test pilot Hanna Reitsch had the distinction of flying the last plane out of Berlin, which was on 28 April 1945. Her passenger was a Luftwaffe Field Marshal. Berlin was surrounded by Soviet forces fighting inwards to the center of the city. Four days later, on 2 May, the city was captured.
that was a pretty well done scene.
built the tension well
add the German actress Lily Palmer as a British agent
Terrific war movie, masterfully mixing fiction with history and action.
It's either a pulse jet *_or_* a rocket.
OK.....I’m a war movie nut and this is the first time I’m seeing this.
We don’t get to see a lot of German war movies. I can recommend ‘Die Brucke’ 1956 or so, if you haven’t seen it.
@@russianbotfarm3036 That one is great, with the kid soldiers. Very well made anti-war....war movie.
She was one of many German female test pilots but by far the most incredible. She much Ju 87 dive bomber testing.
@@russianbotfarm3036 Operation Crossbow isn't a German war movie. It starred George Peppard and Jeremy Kemp, and was about allied spies infiltrating the V-weapons programme. This was just a section about the development of the V1.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0059549/
@@No1sonuk Cool! I will watch this ASAP.
Hanna Reitsch was one of the greatest aviators of all time.
But also an unrepentfull fanatical Nazi! 🤮
You know what?? I keep looking for Colonel Hogan and Colonel Klink and Sargeant Schultz to have arrived before the others.
I could see them doing that. It would be funny :)
But they would have seen nothing, NOTHING!
Funnily enough some German generals were played by Jewish actors, formerly refugees from Germany.
Understandable as many Jewish people were in entertainment stage, stand up and actors in films. Many of these actors in Hollywood were born, grew up or lived in Germany or Austria. So spoke German.
Similar to the German officers played in "Hogan's Heroes"
Or the need to eat and feed their families, but who are we to judge?
Of course. Real life is far less opinionated than what you find online
Some people i.e. writers, comedians and others even returned to Germany (mainly GDR) and Austria... because their income in English language surroundings were low. Kreisler, Anna Seghers, Farkasz,...the most famous literature critic in Germany after the war was a polish born Jew.
I know many will hate what I’m about to say, regardless of what you think of the Germans, during WW2 they were a capable and fearsome enemy. Almost (only for their ability) respectable.
Little dog with a BIG bite.
Little dog with a BIG byte.
@@pickfairguy 👍🏼
@@pickfairguy 👍🏼
Just had a shitty leader and the SS.
My Father unwittingly met Hanna Reitsch at an air show in the early 60's, he was admiring a Fieseler Storch and they got into conversation about aircraft of all sorts whilst both walking arround the aircraft on display , on parting company the colleagues he was with said 'how on earth do you know Hanna Reitsch?'
He had absolutely no Idea who she was and maybe if he had and started asking about her life maybe it would have been a far briefer conversation?
@38listerjag. My uncle Claude met a girl who knew a boy who "unwittingly met Hanna Reitsch at an air show in the early 60's". And he said to me that she said to him "all sorts whilst both walking arround the aircraft on display."
I would have her a medal.
@Graf von Losinj You're so right: nice sense of humour: well done.
Lots of former Nazis sort of re-invented themselves after the war. I'll never forget one incident. I had a good friend who was the most pro-Black/African guy you'd ever want to meet. Wore dashikis and those little African hats all the time, and generally promoted a sort of Black people first philosophy. This was back in the early 1990s I believe. One afternoon I was over to his house, and looking through some of his African-themed coffee table photo books. One of them struck me, with beautiful pictures of African landscapes, animals and people. When I flipped to the back to see the author, imagine my surprise: Leni Riefenstahl. I'm like, "Kwaiku, " (he even changed his name to an African name), "Do you know who this woman is?" I'll never forget the irony of that moment. But, the world was still a lot bigger place back then than it is now.
They actually built a decent replica and seem to have had an original launch ramp too. The guy that did the green screen type shots of the flying went and spoilt the lot though.
The film was made in 1965. Some of the ramps might have survived the twenty years from the war to the filming. It’s also very likely that very good models were constructed just for the film.
The movie was made in 1965. Green screen back then was just beginning mostly these would be miniature models
Green screen in 1965?
Common now?
According to the director it was rear screen projection. this was the norm of that era , hence the out of focus look .
The shots from the film "Ice Station Zebra" when the Soviet Air Force is speeding over the Arctic had me on the edge of my seat fifty years ago, so did the low level flying footage of Major Kong piloting his B52 at treetop level on his way to Armageddon in Dr Strangelove. Sadly these effects have not weathered the progress of cinematic technology well.
Randomly stumbled upon this movie looking for some fun WW2 movies to watch, was pleasantly surprised with this film, it took a more gritty approach compared to some other contemporary films of that time, and had a real espionage quality to it and nuanced themes.
Its a hidden gem for any ww2 movie fan.
@@dapre it reminds me a bit of Play Dirty, that same cynicism and the hopelessness of carrying out your mission, either way, it deserves be much higher on the lists of best ww2 films.
Never could Hanna Reitsch bail out successfully in case of stall, because of the engine behind the cockpit. This manned V1 was intended as kamikaze flyer like the japanese Ohka bomb.
Just some minor corrections:
The forces during a catapult start of a V1, would have been to much to for humans. Hanna Reitsch made some flights with a V1 converted for suicide attacks, but they where towed behind a plane.
The biggest problems that led to a delay in the usage of the V1 where related to forces generated by the catapult. Especially during the trial period, they used missiles that had less fuel and where lighter, as a result they got higher accelerations damaging the structure of the wings. Everything was calculated and for the V1 with a full load, therefore they ran into troubles when testing lighter V1.
What do you suppose the G-forces were? 2? 3? I doubt 4.
@@mrzorg IMR it was above 10G, the missile leaving the ramp
@@mrzorg It was IMR more than 10G. The missiles leaving the ramp nearly had the full speed of a flying V1.
Edith:
Found a source saying the missile was constructed for a maximum of 22G.
Http://daedalus-Berlin.de/Fi103_daten.htm
I have done some calculations.
The ramp had a length of 45m, the minimal speed was 350km/h (97.2 m/s) you will need an acceleration of more than 10.7G under ideal circumstances for a start.
Great acting and it looks like it was produced very well. I want to see the whole movie.
It is a pretty good film. Hope you see it soon.
Yeah. If you haven't seen it already you really need to watch it. You can probably get it on ebay for a few pounds or dollars now. Well worth it.
watch it, its great, I think its definitely underrated at least considering it never gets talked about, its not brilliant but i think it does interesting things with the ww2 movie genre compared to some of its contemporaries, also Sophia Loren is in it for a bit and is stunning af
The producer was Carlo Ponti, who was married to Sophia Loren at the time. Naturally they had a part for her !!
This part of the movie based on historical fact: Hannah Reitsch was the first person to successful pilot a rocket plane (jet). I imagine she was just as brave as portrayed in the movie considering all those before her who died trying.
Uh no. First jet flight was August 27, 1940 (Italy's Caproni Campini N1). First rocket plane flight? 1928. By Fritz Stamer. In a Lippisch Ente. The Nazi Reitsch didn't fly the pulse jet until late 1944. She didn't fly the Me-163 until 1942. So no she wasn't the first person to successfully pilot a rocket plane at all. Not even close. Dunno where you get your facts. But they are simply wrong.
@@EvilMerlin You do not need to be rude.... especially since you yourself are also wrong, the first jet flight took place on 27/8/1939, in a Heinkel 178, the pilot was Erich Warsitz. So I do not know where YOU get your information from, but the Caproni did not fly until a year to the day, exactly, AFTER Warsitz flew the Heinkel 178.
@@Apis4 You seem to forget the He 178 was not publicly released information and not recognized by the FAI, and the FAI still officially recognizes the N1 as the first jet flight because of the Nazi secrecy behind its jet programme. So OFFICIALLY the N1 was the first jet flight. My post still stands, and it damn well is correct that Hannah didn't set any "first person" flights unless they were "first woman" flights...
@@EvilMerlin FAI recognition matters for records like altitude, payload, flight time.
But it's meaningless for firsts if they're documented and uncontested.
Heinkel documented the 178 first flights, and so did the Nazi Government. There's multiple witnesses, pictures, reports, and it was filmed.
So your argument is pretty weak, as no serious aviation historian doubts the first test flight of 178 took place, nor when, nor who flew it.
For whatever reason the FAI has not rectified their recognition, yet, nevertheless, the 178 flight in 39 happened.
That's just an historical fact, and FAI recognition, or lack thereof, doesn't change this.
@@Apis4 It also doesn't change the fact that Hannah had nothing to do with anything being discussed....
Remember to bail out in an emergency, right into that enormous air intake. You definitely won’t be sucked into it and this has nothing to do with how many pilots we have lost.
You will shut the engine off at first. This pulsating engine (depicted horribly in this movie) immediately shuts when you close the intake damper. Other problem is to simply be hit by that engine protruding right behind cockpit. Which means to slow and turn the plane upside down to use gravity. Injury expected anyway.
The intake has no suction at all. Still, banging your head on this chunk of steel might end your career plans immediately.
@@Kleinalrik of course it does
@@aliray1165 Nope. It's mainly just a tube that lets in the air from the front by the vehicle's velocity. There is no additional suction like in a turbine.
Darn! I need to correct myself. The Argus Tube indeed generates a slight suction, just enough to suck in air from the front to fill the combustion chamber, thus making it possible to operate even with zero velocitiy. My bad.
I read that the landing speed was about 210 mph ! Hanna Reitsch was the real pilot .Who test flow it , There were about seventy volunteers who enrolled in the Suicide Group to fly this aircraft .It was intended to fly it to London and other targets, and then bail out . The V1 was to be called the Fieseler Fi 103R. It was not a difficult plane to fly . But landing at such high speed with a very high staling speed was extremely difficult . She and Heinz Kensche made several test flights . But the plan to use humans to fly it , to target was never put into practise.
She was indeed a truly GREAT test pilot. RIP Hanna Reitsch.
As always the Poles never had recognition for the V1 and V2 and the code breaking machine Enigma . The invention of mine detector as well.
The most intelligent person I ever met, in a long career rubbing shoulders with some very intelligent people, was a Pole.
@Roman Chomenko, I became aware of the efforts of the Poles when I read the book "The Secret War" by Brian Johnson published in 1978.
The Poles also were in a big way responsible for the winning of "the battle of Britain." Much owed to the 308 squadron.
Informed people know all about Polish (& other Eastern European) contributions to science, technology & military force on the allied side in WW2!
The three Poles of note that started the code breaking of the Enigma were Henryk Zygalski, Jerzy Rozicki, and the remarkable Marian Rejewski.
At least she had time to put her makeup on
It was either that or strap her helmet on, she chose the makeup.
@@CaptHollister she is well prepared
She was a gal?! I thought a transgender 😂
@@vincentlim348 No, but we know you're an asshole.
@@taliaperkins1389 Ooh, bitchy!
Trying to pilot a V-1 must have been terrifying.
Maybe 20 years ago I was taking a aircraft builders weekend classes in Finland. The location was famous for a century of aviation history. On the walls there was old photos of days past. Some of them had Hanna Reitsch, who used to teach youths to fly gliders (sailplanes) over there. A truly great aviation person!
"A truly great aviation person!"
Only if you ignore her helping the Nazis kill innocent people...
Who has not helped to kill innocent people!
1:47 was a beautiful actress with such beautiful eyes - brown-green 3:01
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_R%C3%BCtting
@@emillyyelen5169 thank you !! 3:07 and 1:52 too - and at 1:56 "no, no, don't put goddam googles on such eyes... it's a shame !" LMAO
Ballsy Lady Hannah Reich! Many other brave women flew Aircraft during WW2 and some lost their lives doing that. But I RESPECT these Lady's for doing It!!
Plural of "lady" is "ladies." "Ballsy" as in spherical ovaries?
All that flying and she manages to crash land 100 yards from the crowd. that's some skillful navigation!
More like 200 yards.
@@dondragmer2412 More like 200 metres. Metric is used in Europe.
@@markcastelletti483 in which case, more like 180 of those new fangled metres
@@markcastelletti483 Yes, they can only count on their fingers and
toes ! It has to be in tens!!!!
"Bail out" right in front of a jet engine. Their escape route could have been designed better.
You could switch the engine off, before bailing out.
@@christophkohler2015 in case of an emergency you don’t have all the time nor the calm to remain logic
Its a pulse jet, it doesn´t have a compressor and hence no "suction".
of course the physical presence of the engine is a danger, but so is the empennage on any other model.
You need to get out sideways on almost any airplane
It's a bomb, wasn't designed to have a pilot.
@@BelTricky you train what to do in an emergency, so its like second nature. You cut the engines, roll the aircraft onto its side and out you go.
In the 1980's, I worked with a fellow who was an extra in the scene on the beach where are the Germans are running toward the V1. He was serving in the British army at the time. The MOD in the UK would loan out troops and resources to film makers if the movie portrayed the military in a positive light. The scene in the bunker has actual actors and those same actors surround the German test pilot from about 3:47 onward. The "runners" you see starting at 3:20 are not actors but British soldiers in German period appropriate uniforms.
The "running" scene on the beach was reshot several times and the soldiers were getting pissed. To let off steam, they were yelling like kids "get her, get her" in a goofy kind of school yard way as if they were kids playing a game. About 3:40 you she her smile and sort of laugh. My pal said this was because he and his mates were acting like foolish kids and her reaction wasn't precisely the what the director wanted from her. She was supposed to play it with more a look of relief. Seeing the result, the director thought it worked out OK and kept the scene as you see it now.
The guy at the back looked like his boots didn't fit, hope that wasn't you :-)
A great moment of human progress perfectly portrayed. Nice video.
A successful belly landing in a Doodlebug? I did Nazi that coming.
Um Himmlers Willen!
You get the Iron Cross for that comment....🤣
Neather that one also.
That shouldn’t have been funny, but it was! 😆
Read this and Messerschmidted my beer all over my shirt....
Filmed at Wells Next the Sea, Norfolk
If my information is correct, Hannah was an accomplished pilot. After the war she worked for the Allies on aircraft issues in case the Allies and Russians had a 'run-in',
My Dad worked at Fauld arms depot (in the UK) after the war and he remembers both V1 and V2 bombs being in the depot. They were brought in by the RAF.
Going to be honest, I flinched when the engine cut out. With a V-1, that's _never_ a good sign.
Isn't that the last thing it does before it dives straight down and explodes?
@@davidgoldberg8238 This on had flight controls and pilot , makes it work.
"Have I got a job for you!" "How's test pilot for the Luftwaffe sound?"
"Be an early adopter".
I just found out that the whole movie was filmed in England including the rocket and factory scenes.
I thought this scene looked very like Holkham beach in North Norfolk.
That movie was totally underrated!
A great Spy movie.
I love how when the rocket accelerates, she moves forward instead of being pushed into the seat xD
because the whole rocket moves forward. Jesus man
@@17MrLeon apparently she moves forward inside the cockpit. And there's no physical reason for it.
@@17MrLeon I've flown in a jet fighter. When the afterburner lights the acceleration pushed you back into the seat.
AFTER 35 years i watched this film again, thanks.
Correct me if I'm wrong:
Canopy not latched & secured
Not strapped into seat
Chin strap not used
Yep, in most movies nobody locks their car and no biker does up the strap on their helmet. And of course nobody goes to lavatory.
It's a movie mate. A stupid movie too. Back in the day, this is awesome. Now, this is RUBBISHHHHHH.
things were generally safer back then, "stuff" has got way more dangerous these days. haha
The replica isn't a bad job, but yes; the canopy is hinged in the front (not easy to open in a slipstream), a seat belt is possible, but I don't see shoulder straps, her goggles are not down, nor is her chinstrap secure. Hanna Reitsch did manage to successfully fly the Fiesler-103a (Reichenberg) as she was smart enough to be dropped from a mothership at altitude where she did a series of stalls to determine the a/c's best approach and stall speeds. Bailing out was considered problematic owing to the pulse jet engine immediately behind the cockpit. The original had a side-hinged canopy and a single grip control column, not the two-handed one you see in the movie. They were never used as a manned, flying bomb.
Who rides a bomb anyway? This is one crazy movie. Never thought the Germans were doing coke too back then.
Always had a thing for German girls.
What is that 'thing' made of? Plastic or Rubber?
@@Bostonite1985 That's what she said!
@@Bostonite1985 Rock
@@ianmangham4570 ...I am jealous.
Especially riding and flying a V1.
"It was definitely the trim"
I've used that excuse a few times myself.
the water was cold!
A "get out of jail free card" on any IRT!
Put that on my tombstone, will ya, fellas?
JEEEEZ... I just asked you to wash the car
Needs a trim job
Somehow this made me think that is this where original Battlestar Galactica get their Viper canopy and launch sequence.
even the small cramped cockpit window/frame reminds of that
if they could add 2 more pulse jets, one below left, one below right.. and things would really look colonial and be getting up to the speed of heat.
how fast is that you say?
Can't tell exactly how fast.. classified.. but it's really cooking.
both my parents have vivid memories of these flying bombs coming over London and banbury
How old are you ? Over 75 ?????
Banbury?
Maybe he meant Danbury. Seems like I remember coming across a reference to a place in England named that.
@@larryray3178 Danbury is much more likely. It's in Essex, about 35 miles north-east of London.
FYI: The actress' name is Barbara Rütting !
I'd love to do some rutting with Rütting.
Sorry - Low hangin' fruit there.
Barbara Rutting....I bet she did to get the part.
Babe.
@@moistmike4150 She’s 92 years old.
@@CharmsDad Don't judge me!
Interesting how the Wehrmacht officer is telling her to bail out, but the SS officer tells her to be cool, and solve the problem.
German 1: "Sir? Over there. Is that a man?"
German 2: "Yeah, you're damn right it is!"
Not when she did a Nazi sized gangbang, she was all Fraulein
@@RasMajnouni I don't think that she had interest in bombing Palestinian children, so no :P.
Comedy wasn't the intention, but that graveyard scene was pure space-balls esque comedy 😂
This film was was on BBC2 in the UK today (27 Dec 2020), and should be on the iPlayer for a few weeks.
AND, I was pleased to see that unlike the normal case with war films, pretty much ALL of the German is subtitled.
If anyone could fly one of those things it was Hanna Reitsch, perhaps the greatest pilot next to Chuck Yeager. Reviled after the War as an unapologetic Nazi Hannah had never been a Nazi party member, she simply had nothing to apologise for. She was won multiple German awards, was a fierce young woman who could fly anything - anything!
She was most definitely a Nazi
@@paulhicks6667 you limey's are funny
Apparently you forgot "Winkle" Brown.
He meant she could fly ANYTHING WITH WINGS. Not cars or bicycles. This is absolutely obvious.
@@paulhicks6667is he the one who worked out the method for landing the Corsair onto an aircraft carrier?
Hanna Reitsch was actually a guest at the White House some years later, and President Kennedy is pictured with her. I guess she was a nice lady after all.
No. Kennedy just didn't mind being photographed with war criminals and ex- nazis as long as they were anti-communist war criminals and ex-nazis.
Everyone loves old nazi ladies, they are good with kids, too
@@8BitDane Oh, definitely! Frau Goebbels set the example for all to follow.
@@beej86 Yup, it was sick all the way around. Guess she and the original spin Doktor were fearful of what the Russians MIGHT do to their kids. That and Dr. & Frau Grobbels were both zealously fascists sociopaths.
@@leechgully Yeah. Democrats and Nazis. Like ham and cheese.
1:05 The point of the launch ramp was to get enough airflow into the pulse jet engine for combustion; one couldn't simply light it and stand around admiring the results.
Not quite - the engine was already running when the plane was catapulted along the ramp. The point of the ramp was to accelerated the plane to flying speed. If you launched the plane before the engine was up to speed then you would run the risk of the whole thing just pancaking out past the end of the ramp....
@@panther105 Thanks indeed for that - turns out I was 100% wrong! (again...) I thought it needed +ve airflow to get enough supply for the combustion but the design was quite clever enough that the departing exhaust from a detonation sucked air in. Here it is starting & running merrily parked on a test stand: th-cam.com/video/Rdwbp6R2qM8/w-d-xo.html
@@lappansommer546 We had miniature versions of the exact same engine/technology when I was a kid and making flying models. But we never had fancy compressors to help get ours started - we had to use bicycle pumps. Model pulse jet engines are still being used and are extremely fast when put in a radio controlled model. Check this if you like.....
th-cam.com/video/_h6D47Lkfcw/w-d-xo.html
@@panther105 I remember as a kid the "big kids" had the pulse jet engines that they would use on "U-control" models and they were incredibly fast. Later as a pilot I saw the concrete circles at the Owensboro KY airport where they would hold the speed competition with those control line models. There was a stake set in the concrete and the guy flying the model had to keep his hand on that stake as the jet flew around and he really had to scramble to stay with it while the speed trap measured how fast it went. They had to keep their hand stationary to prevent them from whipping the model for a faster speed.
Hanna Reich... Hollywood movies...1965..67..70...72..77...81..82...90.96..98..2000.2002..2009..2015.
Win oscar...the same
Hanna Reitsch was a real life test pilot of the highest calibre.
Полное фашистское говно!!
Забыли?
Пора напоминать!
@@vladimirka8078ты напоминать пойдешь, диванный вояка?
She can pilot my flight stick anytime.
@@floatingchimney She did when quite young with Dr. Werner Von Braun. Hanna bore their daughter, Alicia, in 1932, who likewise consorted with Prince Bernhard, husband ot the Dutch Queen Juliana.
Don't admire this Fascist bitch.
She was a Nazi to the end of her days. Great woman test pilot, clueless about the Holocaust and the millions of people dead by Hitler's megalomania. She was only sorry the Nazis lost.
Reitsch was interviewed and photographed several times in the 1970s, towards the end of her life, by Jewish-American photo-journalist Ron Laytner. In her closing remarks, she is quoted as saying:
"And what have we now in Germany? A country of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today, in all of Germany, you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power ... Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share - that we lost."
In the same interview, she is quoted as saying,
I asked Herman Goering one day,
"What is this I am hearing that Germany is killing Jews?" Goering responded angrily, 'A totally outrageous lie made up by the British and American press. It will be used as a rope to hang us someday if we lose the war.'" Like the coward he was, he committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he was to be hanged.
Former British test pilot and Royal Navy officer Eric Brown said he received a letter from Reitsch in early August 1979 in which she said, "It began in the bunker, there it shall end." Within weeks she was dead. Brown speculated that Reitsch had taken the cyanide capsule Hitler had given her in the bunker and that she had taken it as part of a suicide pact with her lover, Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim.
The movie was filmed in 1965. I'm sure those Brits who remembered seeing a one-ton bomb with stubby wings falling out of the sky on their heads really appreciated this movie. Go watch, "Doodlebug Summer".
My late father was a radar operator stationed on a Royal Artillery AA gun site around London when the V1s first started coming over - they went across the screen at a speed not seen previously - so they knew right away it was a new type of aircraft. One malfunctioned, failed to explode, and landed in Romney marshes where Royal Engineers were able to retrieve it relatively undamaged in order to study in detail.
In a big logistical road transportation exercise the gun sites were quickly moved south from London, to provide staggered zones, right down to the Channel coastline, thereby providing layers of continuous Bofors gun and 3.7 inch anti aircraft barrages as the Doodlebugs entered UK airspace. This was achieved in a 24 hour operation and proved a relatively effective counter measure.
Equally important - Counter Intelligence used "turned" German agents to feedback false observed bomb impact co-ordinates, and this resulted in the enemy recalculating and firing many V1s on to open rural farm land areas well away from the city and population centres.
The RAF and USAAF were able to adapt faster moving fighters to interdict many.
it is a british film i believe.
No visible Rudder, Elevators, Flaps and Aileron surface controls. Yet she maneuvers it like a pro!
Sheer force of will! Wait, no, did Ze Germans have deformable flight surfaces before everyone else? Yes! That must be it!
Hanna Reich was interviewed for 'The World at War ' TV series in the 1970s, along with many other famous names from WW2. She still had that air of fanaticism about her - quite unsettling.
And in The Secret War about flying the ME323 Gigant
Nice touch. "If something goes wrong, bail out". In reality there was no way any pilot was going to get out of that aircraft in an emergency. Great movie.
They were giving hope when there was little of it. Same with every country at the time. The pilots knew what their chances were which is why most went with the "At least if I crash in the cockpit I have a better chance than if I jumped" attitude.
Any landing you walk away from is a good landing. 🇨🇦
Not 'switching to manual control', but rather: "taking control myself".
yes - i suppose the translations are aimed at the (english speaking) audience) rather than being literal - e.g. when snatching the microphone i think the ss man says "gesprechen Sie weitung" (literally `you speak onward') but a better english translation would be "(you), carry on speaking" - however there is no translation given for that bit - maybe because it was obvious what he was saying.
@elrjames7799 (update) - actually i think he says "gesprechen so weiter" (speak onward)
Hanna Reitsch was an excellent test pilot for the Luftwaffe. 💋💕
I Will Remember her Beautiful name.. RIP❤️🙏
She would have been an excellent test pilot for anyone. Nazi bitch she was, she had skill and courage.
@Paul Reeves Why because she was German. Not all Germans need to be bad or evil.
@@norberthofer5830 No she was a full blown Nazi. You can look it up. Her autobiography was an eye opener.
One of the great heroes of WWII, unfortunately she couldn’t convince Hitler to let her fly him out of Berlin
He gave her a cynide capsule that she may have used to kill herself years later
Anybody else expect to hear her say "Red 5 Standing By" ?
No - what does it mean.
@@tomasmieger6826 If i am not mistaken this is line from Star Wars
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Yeah that cockpit canopy looked suspiciously X Wing like. 😁
No. Because she's clearly more an Empire type - what with fighting for evil and all.
Fantastic video!
I saw this movie first-run and always thought it was great.
1:14 Defies the laws of physics by lurching forward when the catapult is activated. Other than that the effects reminded me of the good ol' Thunderbirds.
Especially the splashdown
Reverse recoil, V1's were famous for it!
I noticed that forward lurch as well.
yep - i sent that goof to imdb but i don't think they added it - i think this scene (and others) are similar to thunderbirds because some of the same people worked on both.
Hanna Reitzsch ftw! Read her book. Great, little person with so much courage and a heart for aviation. She said, she didn´t regret anything. I let this stand without comment.
She was nevertheless an unrepentant nazi. She complained after the war, when Germany had become prosperous again, that it was a country of 'bankers and car makers'. I guess she liked it better when Germany was sending it's young men to die in Russia.
@@H-Zazoo understandable.They had something bigger in mind than that.
"And there was much joy."
.....as the British start unknowingly preparing for death....
And they ate Bats, eagles, orangutans........
...Until the RAF learned to tip these out of the sky. Soon all the Allied forces were learning the art. Hence why the Germans focused on the V-2 far more in the end. Much better weapon and nearly impossible to stop.
The tall German General is Paul Henreid who starred in the famous movie Casablanca as the anti Nazi freedom fighter Viktor Laszlo.
Here he plays the part of a German General as he spoke fluent German and had made Austrian films before the war.
If you want to visit the filming locations it's Holkham beach near Wells next the Sea ,Norfolk UK. It's unchanged but don't expect to see any V1 ramps or anything!
Round of applause for the jump cut to the fresh grave!! 👏👏👏👏👏
So often you just get the overused silence, followed by the hero not-really-being-dead and everybody knows that will survive, there's no tension.
But overlaying that overused trope over somebody else's fresh grave with the swastika showing us it's recent and Nazi?
Genius.
They mention before the flight four pilots having been killed.
strangely enough, if you can believe it, thats nearly how close the restrictive canopy on the ME-109 conformed around the pilots head and shoulders...how they obtained enough visibilty for combat, has to be one of the wars biggest mysteries.
The answer is simple, the canopy of Bf109 (not this in the film) is small but the cockpit have a trapezoidal section, not much but enough space for the pilot. Also the canopy when open, it rotates completely in the right, was quite easy bail out from the fighter. In this scene, this woman was a real german pilot, but this fly was made in the latest versions of v1 (Reichnberg) for the kamikaze formations that never flied.
DarkHellEmpire yes the German kamikaze pilots never flied. Hanna Reitsch suggested the idea of German pilots including herself flying these V-1 suicide missions against big targets such as troop carrying ships. Her suggestion was even too much for Hitler to accept. Hitler said at this stage of the war the suicide pilots were not needed. Germany needed live experienced pilots in planes. The auto pilot V-1 cruise missiles could be mass produced in large numbers. These were terror weapons aimed mostly at civilians with limited success in stopping armies. The V-2 missiles were the most deadly and could not be shot down and gave no warning of approach unlike the V-1 buzz bombs. All Hitler needed were nuclear warheads for the V-2. A two staged V-2 rocket was in the planning for New York City. British intelligence intercepted Nazi plans to have U-Boats on the surface launching V-1 rockets on New York City and so warned the US Navy to hunt down the U-Boats especially when the U-Boats surfaced. Hitler was intent on vengeance for the bombing of German Cities.
@@1956paterson
@@conveyor2 . Oh God, another thickie criticising someone more knowledgeable than themselves.
and that was the start of low budget airlines
When she’s yelling in German and has the goggles on, she reminds me of Frau Farbissina in the Austin Powers movies.
“Send in the Fem-Bots!!!”
This is a great movie though, really good miniature/model work. Thanks for posting, haven’t seen it in a while
This is the most wonderful scene of the film. Dies ist die schönste Szene des Films. この映画の一番素晴らしい場面です。