Jet-Age Slave Labor | Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger

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10 ай бұрын

In 1944, as the Germans faced a deteriorating situation on all fronts, the Luftwaffe found itself struggling to defend crucial German industrial and civilian centers against relentless Allied bombing. Despite resource and manpower limitations, the Germans were not short on ideas for a miraculous turnaround, however, many of these never progressed beyond the drawing board. Among these proposals was the concept of a cost-effective, mass-produced fighter aircraft, which would materialize as the He 162 Volksjäger, commonly referred to as "The People's Fighter." This project not only aimed to develop an affordable jet fighter but also intended to utilize Hitler Youth members as pilots.
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@comentedonakeyboard 10 ай бұрын

And in a surprising twist of events, the "Volksjägers" cousin (creativly named: "Volkswagen") retaliated mercylessly and whiped out the british car industry.

@shaider1982 10 ай бұрын

It's like cars and anime for Japan: it's the soft power that really had larger impact

@comentedonakeyboard 10 ай бұрын

@@shaider1982 as they say Pearl Harbor did not work...

@dougstubbs9637 10 ай бұрын

Es Hitler made three bombs, the V1, the V2…and the Vee dub.

@foff3804 9 ай бұрын

No the British government wiped out the British auto industry.

@comentedonakeyboard 9 ай бұрын

@@foff3804 Well, OK, they helped a bit.

@gitfoad8032 10 ай бұрын

Eric 'Winkle' Brown says in his book, that he liked the control handling of the He 162 more than any other 'plane: the determination is a qualified one of a test pilot - it wasn't his favourite or most highly regarded 'plane, that was the F-86 Sabre.

@douglasfrompa593 10 ай бұрын

I feel this was a great use of the limited materials that Germany had access to, While it had Many flaws, it seems to have been a flyable plane. It even had wheels to land unlike that awful rocket plane that they tried. While it is easy to Monday morning quarterback the end of the war, I think that Germany had by far the best engineers and their equipment would have proven itself had they had either better allies or a lack of strategic bombing by the US and Britain. Imagine the US industry pumping these little planes out in great numbers but with unlimited material. I will bet the engines would get Much better mileage.

@andrefiset3569 10 ай бұрын

It was noted that the destruction of the Tego film factory by allied bombing in 1943 caused a serious drawback in the production of wooden airplanes in Germany and the acidic substitutes caused failures.

@Ronnie_McDoggle 8 ай бұрын

109G-6?

@SuperchargedSupercharged 10 ай бұрын

I had forgotten about this little fighter. Thank you for reminding us of this one.

@Iden_in_the_Rain 10 ай бұрын

Iron Armenian would like a word lol

@SuperchargedSupercharged 10 ай бұрын

:)@@Iden_in_the_Rain

@Beemer917 10 ай бұрын

All the allies got six or seven examples of the little aircraft. It really did become the peoples fighter!

@tonybarnes3658 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for another ripper video. So many film resources that most of us had no idea about. On a note like that, and is truly a minor complaint, why keep showing the same clips repeatedly throughout the episode? You've got a great video here, no need to use fillers as it seems! Love your work

@glennquagmire1747 10 ай бұрын

Besides lack of war material like aluminum for the He162, it was an excellent fighter plane but also again Germany lacked trained pilots to fly these advanced planes

@gregorydahl 10 ай бұрын

It only killed germans . Looks cool . Great specs. 500mph jet power , cheap , etc. But wood fuel tanks for wings , glue falls apart . Fire in tin furnace for thrust . Wood bushel basket wood for cocpit

@gregorydahl 10 ай бұрын

It would make an excellent tv cameranfpv drone . Weeeee

@gregorydahl 10 ай бұрын

Trouble finding pilots to fly it ? No . After they fly it .

@expansionone 10 ай бұрын

The further away from ww2 the bigger the b.s. stories. No one alive to dispute the lies

@drstrangelove4998 10 ай бұрын

⁠@@gregorydahlthe original glue factory was bombed and a replacement had to be found quickly. The issues with that glue would have been sorted very quickly as Eric Brown said we were up against a very advanced enemy, more advanced than we were. The 162 had the worlds first ejection seats too, entirely successful, fitted to night fighters too. Unlike the later Martin-Baker seats powered by cordite and liable to cause spinal injury, the Germans used compressed air which was much safer.

@noahwail2444 10 ай бұрын

The Brittish did acedently make this plane a lot worse than it could have been. By chance they bombed the plant that used to supply Germany with superglue, thus made it nessesary to use glue of a lesser quality. That was what made the wing come of at the testflight.

@teslashark 10 ай бұрын

Allegedly, workers peed in the glue.

@michaelpielorz9283 10 ай бұрын

one of the few acchievements the british bombing campaign made.

@michaelpielorz9283 10 ай бұрын

and you think there`s an easter bunny?@@teslashark

@teslashark 10 ай бұрын

@@michaelpielorz9283ask your rabbi, easter is a pagan holiday!

@drstrangelove4998 10 ай бұрын

@@teslasharkno they didn’t

@richardcarnahan5184 10 ай бұрын

Rather ironic, but I would be willing to bet the mortality rate of the workers (slave labour) was far higher than than that of those flew the He-162. It would be somewhat interesting to hear the actual statistics.

@drstrangelove4998 10 ай бұрын

Yes, slave labour was highly trained to work on jet fighter production, surely they wouldn’t have been deliberately neglected. I agree, I’d like to see the statistics.

@edwardscott3262 10 ай бұрын

@@drstrangelove4998The Nazis just didn't care. Even the V-2 program slave labor had an incredibly high death toll. They put ideology above pragmatism every step of the way. Even when it came to wonder weapons production.

@Rom3_29 5 ай бұрын

I read an excellent P-47 Thunderbird ground attack biography. At the end of the war American fighter pilots were inspecting V-2 tunnel factory under Harz mountains close to Nordhausen. Road leading to the entrance of faculty was covered with nice off white pebble surface. Pilots were commenting how nice road was. Guide told them road is covered crushed slave labor's bones. 1940s Walt Disney Fantasia's scene Night on Bald Mountain. Its German story is based on legends about summoning the devil. Local druids and witches gather by the same mountain. Nazis and SS were deeply into witchcraft and Thule cult. Slaves tried many tricks to hamper or harm fighter production. Just enough that failure looked like accident. When American museum was restoring Arado jet bomber. They found rocks inside the brake chute cubby. They installed 109 fighter landing gears closer together few millimeters so that's it made landings unbalanced.

@Eric-kn4yn 5 ай бұрын

@@Rom3_29 crushed bones for roads thats complete BS commonsence for that keep it real

@fortboy66 4 ай бұрын

In the painting of the British aircraft being shot down it shows a typhoon and a tempest.

@alhemicaribastovani9029 10 ай бұрын

Nice video!

@egmccann 5 ай бұрын

There's always been something about the 162 that I liked. Would I have flown it? With caveats - like better quality materials, workmanship, engine life... yeah. (if I had money to throw away, I'd find a way to build some modern replicas - of these and a few other aircraft.)

@gregorydahl 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes called the salamander

@evanmiller2529 10 ай бұрын

Salamander was the overall name of the program to develop a cost-effective jet aircraft which the He162 was the end product.

@tedsmith6137 Ай бұрын

@@evanmiller2529 Salamander was the name given to the wing construction program. Heinkel named the plane Spatz or Swallow.

@gutojunker2812 4 ай бұрын

Este caça a reação era extremamente avançado para sua época

@Brumbieman 6 ай бұрын

The actual design was excellent and took Heinkel barely 4 months to get in the air. If they had the right types of glue, the airframe was strong and could have been strengthened by using more aluminium where necessary (if they'd had it). It was designed for short intercept fights, not long range, so the flight time is fine. Two MK108 cannons is some pretty devastating firepower, it was faster than anything the allies had and it still had an armoured cockpit AND an ejection seat. Some better glue, the right metals to make the jet engines reliable, proper builders and some actual pilots and this thing would have been devastating as it was so cheap and easy to build. Imagine 1000 of them unleashed with experienced pilots in 1943, yikes. One idea on the engine - why not just use one of the V1 pulse jet engines instead? Roughly the same thrust and size and 100x more service life

@James-nl6fu 10 ай бұрын

In my opinion it's a waste 🗑 of a very valuable jet engine that could be used in a proven design like the ME262 or Arado 234. It's fragile construction spoke for itself. Most casualties were pilot errors or the aircraft disintegrating rather than combat. Slave labour were motivated to produce the lowest possible build quality they could pass off as "finished"

@TheTheotherfoot 10 ай бұрын

The engines had a very short life, due to the lack of poper metals to use in their construction. When the life of the engine is given as about 100 hours, that was under the best of conditions, and the engine was then nothing but scrap metal.

@James-nl6fu 10 ай бұрын

@TheTheotherfoot 100 hours till completely Rebuilt and another 100 hours and another 100 hours rebuilding.....

@drstrangelove4998 10 ай бұрын

You are right, it‘s your ‘opinion’ James.

@Eric-kn4yn 5 ай бұрын

@@drstrangelove4998 he 162 me262 jet engines life was worth the life of the a/c they didnt survive many sorties

@ps5801 9 ай бұрын

I don't know that I'd want to fly a plane on which they had to paint a big arrow indicating which way it's supposed to fly. Seems kind of dodgy to me...

@ThatZenoGuy 9 ай бұрын

3:11 Those aren't MG151 lmao, those are 131.

@MrSpringheel 21 күн бұрын

No, thanks. I'm not so crazy.

@modeljetjuggernaut4864 9 ай бұрын

Hardly any footage of this jet flying, if any at all. Just a prototype from a rolling take-off getting an inch of the ground. No footage when the jets were captured and test flown by different countries. Its baffling..

@Eric-kn4yn 5 ай бұрын

Soviets captured he 162s and documented it see www.

@BloodyCrow__ 10 ай бұрын

Using slave labour to make jet fighters sounds stupid. Why not put them to work in smaller jobs to free up their own people for the more complex tasks?

@henryh8357 10 ай бұрын

Most of the German male labor force had been drafted by then. Conscripted foreign laborers and inmates were used when the factory workers were sent off to war.

@teslashark 10 ай бұрын

@@henryh8357 Ironically the average concentration camp prisoner, no matter what they're in for, probably has a higher literacy rate than the average available German draftee.

@michaelpielorz9283 10 ай бұрын

A entire empire was build on slave labour !

@robertdecker2240 5 ай бұрын

Volksjäger translated as ,,Kinderjäger" , Mrs.Baerbock could'nt fail more !😅

@PlaneEncyclopediaYT 5 ай бұрын

It's a joke...

@TheGhostofCarlSchmitt 5 ай бұрын

ahem, but wouldn't "Kinderjäger" mean "Child Hunter"😂😂😂😂😂

@Wolfe_Blue 10 ай бұрын

@robertdragoff6909 10 ай бұрын

We can be grateful that it all was in scramble brains hands. Who ever was advising him should have suggested to Hitler the while they had the advantage to start producing better planes and guns…. Oh they did, but then Hitler double crossed Stalin and went through Poland and invaded Russia…. That took a lot of resources to do and also the rest of the Allies invading France didn’t help either.

@TinyBearTim 10 ай бұрын

Meow

@brianford8493 4 ай бұрын

Not pretty.....on any level.

@jeffreyperretti4414 10 ай бұрын

Sorry I mean HE 162 not163.

@jeffreyperretti4414 10 ай бұрын

HE 163 was a great idea, good for us that they couldn’t build them in any numbers to effect the Air War.

@jeffreyperretti4414 10 ай бұрын

What are you talking about. At that time anything the Germans made , was made by Forced laborers. My mother at a 16 year old girl was working in a German tank factory, most of the workers were forced laborers.

@robertbublies2004 5 ай бұрын

was she forced? Do you think that there were alternatives?

@Eric-kn4yn 5 ай бұрын

I can imagine allies labour in factories would have been close to forced labour ok