This takes me back to when the History Channel actually showed history vs the trash they show now. Thank you for this ❤️💪🏿

The main reason none of these superweapons were developed was the fact Germany was being bombed day and night and his army was stretched so thin all he could do was reinforce his Wermacht.

Just imagine how far Germany would have advanced in science had they won the war

Really Germany was the real superpower in science and technology in that era.

Had a close friend who served in the infantry U.S. Army Who told me that the V-1 buzz bomb did not scare him, but when he saw the Me 262 jet fighter it bothered him greatly.

I think that the biggest problem was that their approach to the science was in effect a scattergun effect. Instead of concentrating on one or two war winning weapons, they tried to produce as many different kinds as possible.

That X Ray gun was basically a nuclear blast turned into a laser beam form. That could've been a truly nightmarish weapon had it gone into mass production. But it seems they realized it would've damaged everything nearby far too much. Germany from 1934 to April 1945 kept inventing and researching. Had the scientists had more funding and materials and a better workforce instead of slaves, even if they had lost as they did in history, with such innovations, we might've had colonies on the Moon and Mars by now. War has a tendency to create leaps of technology that can never be matched in peacetime.

This was truly interesting to think they came up with so many genius ideas all the way back then it’s insane

The biggest issue with this is the fact that it begins with the “American nightmare” when the germans were running as fast as they could to surrender to us. People just don’t realize that WW2 in Europe was mostly fought between Russia and Germany over serious and long lasting tension of fundamental core beliefs and fear of each-other. History is confusing always important to take every side into account. The war in the east is still the largest man for man conflict we have had on this planet.

I knew the narrator’s voice as soon as I heard it. I believe he has passed, he did crime stories as well a show called Forensic Files for one. Awesome narrator.

bruh that is the coolest most incredible intro i ve seen to any documentary

Fascinating historical content about WWII and the technology that helped shape it!

Getting to moon also took some Canadian scientist also. When the Government shut down the Arrow aircraft, all the folks who worked on that went to NASA in the late 50s

I love this narrator. He is the best I think

When Von Braun published his book "I Aim for the Moon", reviewers often parenthesized this with "(But Sometimes I Hit London)".

I love this certain melody played in the background at 31:26 (and several previous moments that I can't find it). I wish I could've known what the piece is called and who composed it.

I came upon a gravesite, near Patton's grave, a young American private lay dying and calling for mother, a German Sgt heard his cries and actually crawled near to him, they were both blown up together. Believe it or not they are buried side by side.

First half, very decent historical and accurate information. Second half, 2012 era History channel at midnight.

The V-2 rockets were in production in 1943. But on August 17/18, the RAF launched Operation Hydra, which was a major success. The raid stalled V-2 production, which bought the Allies time during preparations for D-Day.

Just imagine if world governments actually worked together and didn't hide any secrets. Like the bell and more..how much better off we'd be. Humans could do so much more.

The pulse jet engine is one of the most ingenious and simplest engines ever invented… it has barely any parts to it, and basically anyone could make one quite simply in their own garage. There are many examples of people building them on KZfaq.

I can honestly say this video is the first and only place I've heard of Von Braun referred to as an American "Hero" .. I've heard of him referred to as the God father of American rocketry but never as a hero .

Great channel great insight

Great video thanks mate👍

That plan/helicopter with a propeller rotating around its body is amazing! A would have loved to see one of those.

Their science and technology were decades ahead of anything the allied could come up with. The Horton HO229, the Messerschmidt Me 262, V1+ V2, and scientists working not on the atomic bomb, but on the hydrogen bomb! They used the heavy water from Norsk Hydro in Norway for their experiments. Brave men from the resistance sabotaged the factory and sunk the ferry that had a substantial amount of it in barrels waiting to be shipped to Germany. On top of that Zuse made the first mechanical computer and planned to make it electro-mechanical in order to boost the speed. Btw...I think we must all honor those brave souls that fought against this evil regime and liberated Europe from it.

Anything this guy narrates is a quality product

a v1 bomb struck about 100 meters from my house destroying a church, school and multiple houses. Other houses where heavy damaged including the one i'm living in now. My 90 year old neighbour heared it comming and had to hide for the falling debris. The germans thought there where english pilots hiding there. Except they where in the towns other church. This is in Lith, Netherlands

Love it.. Thanks for being of service.. Blessings 🙌 Dr Scott

I was aware of SOME of these things me 262,,me 163 , V1 ,V2 the Horton 229 and a long range cannon but the ray beam gun Is fascinating!!

Amazing Documentary 👍.

Walter Dornberger, who was military leader in Peenemünde, died during a vacation in Germany in th eighties.

i thought propellor aircraft were already "pulled" rather than pushed. the airflow over the wings sucked the wing up and props used the same principle. im probably wrong but if you take a spoon and running water from a tap, hold the spoon by its end and move it into the stream of water so it flows over bowl the convex end gets sucked in and of course the concave repels, like a wing. doesnt mean props work on the the same principle though i guess, just a thought, im bored and the smokes not bad.

I mean, the germans were ahead of their time. Without Oppenheimer, the Americans would never create the atomic bomb, and their research in bio- weapons were incredible, also the way they carried the ww2, with both the Russians and British in their heels.

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I think this guy has a perfect voice for this music in this video I don't know if it me just listening to it or is it really that good

I pay for premium service to NOT have ads, and lately they have been cleverly slipped in. Why can't I get away from ads.

All the technology we use today came from these fine men

Fascinating documentary! One of the best I've ever watched and extremely well narrated. The German wonder weapons depicted were decades ahead of their time, but because Germany was being bombed night and day, their factories could not produce enough of these weapons to turn the tide of the war. In the end it was a case of quantity overcoming quality in favour of the Allies. The only chance the Germans had to win the war was to produce an atomic bomb before the Allies did, but they failed to do that and so the war was lost for them. I often wonder what the world would have looked like today, had Germany won the war.

O my my favorite narrator.. love your voice best out

The guy from Austria who had the idea of a engine the pulled the plane forward instead of the engine pushing the plane forward. His idea has gained some traction the last year or so. Interesting to have a up to date look at how that's doing.

Fantastic History Lesson!!! , Thank you!!!

As bad as they were, you gotta give them props for having the most fly uniforms and the most fearsome inventions

Really enjoy this history stuff it’s pretty awesome it repeats itself but it does it to point out harder software

A lot of the “wonder weapons” look like something straight out of Fallout. Also Wolfenstein nailed the aesthetic of a future dystopian Germania.

You won't fulfill your darkest dreams with hate in your heart. You will fall short. Watch the "Man in the High Castle."

What I always wanted to know what did they do with all the information , After the war ?

Matatan.🔥🐎🔥. Ribirin HS, Excellent documentary well done like always, Be safe fellas,

Crazy how technology is still advancing till this day the ufo would of been crazy if it was made

Quality content 👍🏻

I wish the playlists on this channel were up to date. I want to watch this and other German World War II stuff, but this isn’t in the German history or WWII playlist.

Wow! This was interesting, never had this in my History Class!

I have allways saye the best engineers to German technology Are the you can Get in the world Even today. Is reassuring to have you as allies today. Love and respect from Norway

I would have liked to learn more about that propulsion system that didnt rely on combustion. That could have been the most interesting part of the documentary but they were almost purposefully vague and brief in their presentation. What molecules ran through the system? What transformative processes took place? How did it supposedly work? There's either alot more to the story or the thing is just some type of curiosity that has no practical purpose for aviation.

At one point in time the video of Hitlers secret ufo was online and I personally have watched the video the ufo takes off and hovers close to the ground I wonder where that video went and why it's not on here???🤨

You see, this is one of the reasons Germany was years ahead of us, because before WW2 if some teenage kid came to the US government with an idea, just like braun did, he'd have been laughed out of the building and shown the door, but that is not how the Germans work, they will take seriously any idea, no matter how bizarre it might sound they were smart enough to know that its always better to look at someones idea, than just dismiss it outright without even a second glance. Thats the difference between us and them..

So important that people remember history, and how close we were to having a German New World Order. Young people have no idea these days, of how close we were to LOSING WW2 and speaking German now instead of English.

Timeline love your work please do a series on the Paris commune and the Franco Prussian war !! All we get is world war 2 yes I get it it’s fascinating but surely there’s an audience to learn about wars after the French Revolution and before world war 2

Several film clips show B-29s. That aircraft was never used in the ETO during WW II.

When I was a young man, I drove a V1 powered go-kart; it sounded just like in the film and it was fast. I have a picture of me sitting in the driver's seat.

What an awesome video

Yeah well, Wernher von Braun's desire to see man in space did come to pass, but not in the way he hoped.

19:39 -"finished the 3D render of the typhoon missles, where should we show it, in a field or something?" -".... how about in a cluttered garage"

WWII was a war of attrition. The best weapons were lots of "good enough" weapons that could be created quickly. Neither wonder weapons nor nuclear weapons won the war. It was won with lot's of radial engines, iron bombs, grenades, rifles and flame throwers.

Germans were the inspiration for the b2 stealth bomber the usa uses today if they don't have a super secret new one by now. Also this is my favorite narrator. He worked on the fbi files series too. Love his voice

Most of these new German weapons were all theoretical in nature and required years upon years of development and billions upon billions of investment dollars before they actually become practical. Many required advancements in metallurgy and computers to reach fruition and those were years upon years in the future. The ME262 jet was a break through as the first combat jet but it had serious draw backs that made it impractical. The resources required to keep them flying was simply not realistic. Even when the engines were completed, they had an expected operational lifetime of approximately 50 continuous flight hours; most 004s lasted just 12 hours, even with adequate maintenance. A pilot familiar with the Me 262 and its engines could expect approximately 20-25 hours of life from the 004s. This was due to the limitations in metallurgy of the time. The engine were very complex for the time and took many man hours to produce. The fuel required was in increasingly short supply. In other words , in theory , game changing technologies - in practice , the war was lost when they lost the Battle of Britain. Even the V1 rockets didn't even make a dent in the Allied onslaught after D-Day. And up to today where we have advanced the work of those first German rocket scientists to the point where we can deliver a nuclear bomb half way around the world. Just one problem .... nobody can use these weapons because they are simply to destructive to the planet as a whole so the winner becomes a loser. If we could just break this obsession with war and move on to progress for the human race , we would be much better off. Unfortunately we are stuck in a 25000 year old mind set that the tribe must dominate the other tribes for survival. Look at Putin ... the only thing he has done is confirm he learned nothing from the sacrifice of millions of Russians in WWII .

WW2 killed millions but it was one of the most influential times for new technology and we wouldn't have the same life today.

The German scientists broke threw in Anti gravity.. I've seen what's called (*The Andromadan ship *).. I drew it while it was fresh in my mind..really, after a long research I got to know enough that Admiral Bryd warned about how it travels from pole to pole..

My dad saw a hanger full of me.262s brand new they didn't have fuel for them.so they were never used...

I don't think the Germans were thinking quality over quantity for no reason. They just did not have surplus of resources to go for quantity, therefore they did quality with what they had, while the allied forces went for quantity.

I remember that Nicola Tesla had offered his work to the Russians, they refused ! I wonder if some how the Germans got hold of it . HE was very far ahead of his time, there is some question about of his work disappearing after his death, supposedly taken by the FBI, back then who knows ? He was a very generous, and a great humanitarian !!

whats the name of the song at 23:40?

During the war Northrop got a contract to develop and build bombers that were Flying Wings! The XB-35 and YB-35!

The film fails to mention Robert Goddard in the USA whose work Von Braun built upon.

A huge factor was Hitler's belief in deadlines - programs would be given arbitrary, immutable, and frequently ridiculous deadlines that if not met killed the project - the crew in Los Alamos were given the means and told to go at it until success. Hitler's sheer pig-ignorance did immense damage; he could have had a functioning jet in 1938 but declared that ' we have no need of such a weapon ' , and when shown the prototype automatic rifle refused to mass-produce it as ' my old Mauser Carabiner is good enough for any purpose. '

The design of the UFO looks like the one over Phoenix lights.

This man is a classic voice

A lot of inaccuracies here and especially exaggerations, the breaking of their enigma code was the main reason for Hitler's defeat.

Wonder weapons: Radar, proximity fuse, sonar, code-breaking computers, long range fighters, atomic bomb, etc.

I think that the biggest problem was that their approach to the science was in effect a scattergun effect. A would have loved to see one of those.

Op paperclip ,hence skull and bone s club.

*sees title of video* Stroheim from Jojo's: "Hahaha! You fools! German science is ze best in da WOOOOORRRRLLLLDDDD!!!!!!"

Fantastic history news not seen by me before thanks

Sometimes you keep your enemies even closer loyalty is virtue

History...courtesy of the victors -timeline -and Big Brother

Germans working for the English discovered U235 was far more fissile than 238. American Lawrence identified Plutonium and easier to extract fissile material. Germany didn't know these keys to a viable bomb; hence they couldn't build one small enough for delivery by air; at most they could have made an exploding reactor possibly deliverable by submarine still pretty limited.

A sign or writing on that photo said that the rocket 1,340 m/s that's pretty damn fast!

De echo los mayores avances en tecnología militar de estado unidos nació en Alemania 🇩🇪

Like impulsive kids they dabbled in exotic ideas that didn't practically work out in real life. Their grandiose arrogance led them to disregard practical realities limitations. Hence you see many wild incredible ideas - and a complete defeat.

Im just watching to hear the narrator speak with his golden voice.

Verry!! Good 😊 Time Line And🤔 Interesting

La voz del presentador es alucinante!

Great Documentary as usual. Thanks.

First time I've heard this narrator on anything other than fbi files. He's excellent 👌

The ME 262's engines only lasted about 12 hours. The metallurgy was not up to speed yet.

3:35 como se llama ese avión What is the name of this plane?

Incredible.

Perhaps in another alternate universe the Nazis won the war. In this one, they ran out of resources and were bombed night and day.

X-15 was the fastest plane within earths atmosphere at 4,520 miles per hour. Spacecraft outside of the atmosphere regularly go faster than the X-15 did by a large margin. The record by a manned crew is held by the crew of NASA's Apollo 10 moon mission which reached a top speed of 24,791 mph. For unmanned speed record, the highest speed of 364,660 mph was achieved by the Parker Solar Probe.

Everyone saying technology tuck a leap after Roswell but by watching the planes on here I think these guys helped the leap in science by far. The stealth planes look pretty alien like for their time.