A very well written and informative documentary.

What a great man😮

Used this for an airfix model, thanks.

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. Rough air combat missions. Steinhoff was a natural fighter pilot.

Amazing what human beings can endure.

Shame they have “Butt-kiss-inger” interviewed on here

Steinhoff resembled Michael Jackson's Luftwaffe style.

Good video but the sound is not right.

Puppets and their Masters

At the beginning of the war Germany had no heavy bombers, they never imagined that the Brits and the Yanks would use such beasts to rain fire on the heads of sleeping children and reduce 61 cities and their artistic and architectural masterpieces to dust, and claim it was all perfectly moral and justified... even to this day! Of course the Germans committed horrific war crimes but never as much as was done to them through the Morgenthau Plan, JCS 1067, JCS 1799 and of course, the Red Menace from the East... and hardly anyone knows about it.

Komisch dass man keine deutschen Dokus über ihn und andere findet!

Have you ever seen a gas chamber ??

Forgiveness for having lost!!. Goring was a traitor. The allies had concentration camps too.

History has forgotten that the Allied treatment of Germany under the brutal Treaty of Versailles created the attitude of revenge for that treatment and in result the led to the Nazi party. Not an excuse for the Germans but a pragmatic explanation that the Allies were equally responsible for WW2, in my opinion.

A branch of General Steinhof's family ended up in Adelaide, South Australis. Good German winemaking skills in the nearby Barossa Valley.

A trivia factoid about Steinhoff - he began his career as a naval aviator, then transferred to the Luftwaffe. His book "The Final Hours" is a great read.

Well… America didn’t learn the lessons..

General Steinhof flog nicht nur den weltweit ersten Düsenjäger Me 262 sondern er war auch mit der Me 109 ein sehr erfolgreicher Pilot - mit seinem unstrittig großen Wissen, war er auch noch in Bundeswehr ( als diese noch aus Soldaten bestand ) aktiv tätig !

Talk about inner courage on the world's stage! !! I wonder if after his horrific injury he drew some of that encouragement from the apparently many "random acts of kindness from strangers", as,for example, the many plastic surgeons, and especially the anonymous English surgeon who " . . . was able to give him eyelids so the general was able to close his eyes for the first time in fourteen years." RIP, all you famous and anonymous kind heroes and heroines!

Very interesting documentary about an extraordinary man.

I read his book “Voices from the Third Reich.” Very impressive! He was undoubtedly a highly respected leader among his men!

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To General Steinhof, Hals und bein bruch! He wrote this on my Air Force academy cadet hat as a cadet in 1985 and said, Your Air Force will carry on the good fighting spirit of the old Luftwaffe! Prost! He was right. As American Air Force cadets and future pilots we were inspired by his words tremendously. Prost to a great man!

Hans Joachim Marseille gave him heart burn,

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Amazing history. I didn't know about this man. A salute from Brazil!

Sein Buch "Die Straße von Messina" ist sehr empfehlenswert.

I was friends with Walter Schuck, Gunther Rall, Johannes Steinhoff, and many other Luftwaffe aces, and interviewed them. Some of those are in my books, fill interviews, and other biographies. I interviewed Johnnie Johnson also, and Ray Toliver was the man who started me on this career of interviewing the Germans way back in 1977. RIP to all of them. Good show. I have done a few history shows for TV as well.

His post war rehabilitation is one thing, and quite admirable. The hagiographic treatment of his wartime career is another entirely. Couple of key points. Steinhoff noted in his book that the Germans were treated to revelations about the concentration camps 'as if we didn't know'. Clearly, they did. Secondly, he and his fellow conspirators in late 1944 weren't driven by the criminality of the regime, or the atrocities, or any of that. They were driven by Goering's incompetence and his treatment of them. They didn't object to the Nazis until THEIR sacred cow was gored.

You really have to wonder about these statists... what's their game. You know their end game of course, the total enslavement of humanity. But what drives them in this mad, mad greed and selfishness to dominate, rule, coerce, and force others to conform to their laws using the threat of violence. To the rest of us who would never tell a stranger what to do, it seems to be absolute madness. What right do you have to push others around and threaten them?

'The fighters kept coming, they were doing their job like I was doing mine' heck of a quote

I have his signature on my Robert Taylor print hanging up at home right next Rall's photo and signature and JE Johnson's. Respect.

9:21 Walter Schuck! Another great Me262 pilot I adore and respect. I read his memoirs "Luftwaffe eagle: from Bf109 to Me262".

6:10 It was rather a fight against numerical superiority. How can 16 German fighter pilots survive against 1300 allied escort fighters. The cowboys did not even need to aim. They created a spray of bullets. Evidence is that they had shared kill scores because they did not even know who shot down the enemy.

Luftwaffe - the chief was a drug-addict and dangerous to be with , so the pilots were fighting on two fronts all the war so in that context they were really heroes

Where has that sound been recorded? In a cupboard?

Steinhoff was saved by an italian fighter ace. Sergeant Maj. Luigi Gorrini. The german pilot with his Me 109 in flame was under close attack by two P 47 Thunderolt. The italian pilot on Macchi MC 205 Veltro shot down with 20 mm and 12,7 mm guns the first P 47 and the second one gave up.

Gee Vlad the lad looks a lot like Johannes (pre crash)

Un pilota tedesco valeva 100 piloti americani .

time 20:44 Göring had Finnish Marshall Mannerheim..? ?

Euhhmmm I don't get the scandal at the bitburg cemetery.... The graves show clearly the date of death being in september 44. So how in the hell could these SS men have been involved in atrocities at the battle of the Bulge when this only took place in december 44?

Well, the Luftwaffe pilots may have had their code of honour and gallantry, but that was their mistake. The allied pilots had none of that. Naivety has its price and they certainly paid for it.

The code of German fighter pilots did not apply to Poland, Russia, Greece, Yugoslavia, France, and England, where they shot at pilots who were rescuing parachutes, and massacred civilians on the roads together with bombers and Stukas. It is enough to get acquainted with the conversations of the shot down German pilots, which the English recorded secretly in prisoner-of-war camps. book: "Soldaten: Protokollevom kampfen, Toten und Sterben" by Sonke Neitzel / Harald Welzer. Der Code der deutschen Jagdflieger galt nicht für Polen, Russland, Griechenland, Jugoslawien, Frankreich und England, wo sie auf Piloten schossen, die Fallschirme retteten, und Zivilisten auf den Straßen zusammen mit Bombern und Stukas massakrierten. Es genügt, sich mit den Gesprächen der abgeschossenen deutschen Piloten vertraut zu machen, die die Engländer heimlich in Kriegsgefangenenlagern aufgenommen haben. Buch: "Soldaten: Protokollevom kampfen, Toten und Sterben" von Sonke Neitzel / Harald Welzer.

German fighter pilots didn´t shoot chutes. Of course there´s a chance for isolated cases, on both sides.

Yes, Hitler and his crew were murderous swine and they did unforgivable crimes so the German people understand that forgiveness will be hard to come by, even now in 2021. It is, however, too simple to put all the blame on Germany. The root cause of WW 2 lies in the Treaty of Versailles which was the first time France and England tried to blame and punish Germany for everything even though there was enough blame to go around in 1914. Clemenceau especially has a lot of blood on his hands. For anybody wondering, no, I am not German nor do I have any special love for that country. I just read history books.

If Me 262 where commed in massproduction, they would have ruled the skyes, Luftwaffe would could send many squadrons to intercept the B17’s and they would make it better(the Germans) through time..

Galland, Steinhoff, Rall etc etc jagdgescwader RESPECT!

Strong documentary. Almost sympathize with Galland, Rall, Steinhoff and everyone, in that Me-262 Jagdgesward..

I was a pilot in 2. JaBog 32 from 1964 - 1967. I met the general on our base in early 1967. General Steinhoff was a leader to look up to. Horrido!!!

Steinhoff had a reputation as the biggest babe magnet in the Luftwaffe.