Action sequences from "Kampfgeschwader Lützow" depicting Heinkel He 111s attacking British shipping

[@hw97karbine]

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[@michaelkoep704]

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[@sagritarius01]

Typischer Nazi Propaganda Film, die Realität sah anders aus😅😅

[@richardtanguay1613]

Nice propaganda movie, from the other side.

[@alanjones6359]

I visited Hendon air museum with my dad who served in RAF bomber command in a Halifax he was looking at the Heiknel when he stepped over the rope climbed into the Heiknel came back out and said i've always wanted a look in one of those !

[@TheStandpat]

Alan, I too was at at Hendon Air Museum with my father, who flew with the 98th Squadron RAF, Bomber Command. I can say it was a emotional visit for my dad. I was 15 years old at the time.

[@alanjones6359]

@@TheStandpat hi , my dad was in 428 ghost squadron so called because of the high mortality rate , he and his crew had some scary moments one was they returned from a raid after being attacked by a night fighter the Halifax was riddled with bullet holes not one of the crew was injured, but luck ran out on their 29th op shot down over France and captured , our fathers were 2 of the lucky ones Dad had a full life and passed away aged 96 in 2019 we owe them for what they did , I attended the funeral with him of one of his POW comrades a military historian spoke in the church and said he spoke to a group of young Germans who said if it wasn't for the actions of RAF bomber command Germany would not have the freedom and democracy they have today. No grievance there

[@TheStandpat]

Hi Alan. Wow! What a stunning story you have of your dad’s service in the war. My dad flew 50 sorties over France and Belgium. He was an mid-upper gunner in the Mitchell and Bostons. His squadron lead the charge on D-Day. I only found out this fact after he passed away. He never mentioned it or the war for the most part. He became friends with a German Luftwaffe pilot during the ‘70s. We visited the family, who lived close to us in Nova Scotia. His son was my age and his bedroom was a shrine to his father, all German planes and tanks. It was the complete opposite of my bedroom if you can imagine. Too funny! Cheers.

[@alanjones6359]

@@TheStandpat hi , I gather you're Canadian, Dads squadron was mostly Canadian his crew were Canadian apart from him and the rear gunner he said they were very good to them sharing their rations which were better than the British, when they bailed out one of the crew was French Canadian who being French speaking managed to contact the French resistance who put him to work on a farm blending in nicely till the end of the war about a year . Dad ended up in a Stalag luft camp the only way to fight the war behind the wire was to wind the germans up as much as poss IE a gaurd left his bicycle unattended when he returned it was in bits ! Dad would have shook your Dads hand his birthday was the 6th June- D day , said it was the best birthday present ever when they heard the 2nd front had happened on a radio someone had made in the camp from bits and bobs the germans said we will push you tommies back into the sea no you won't was the loud reply ! So your Dads involvement in Dday was much appreciated. There are so many stories these Vets have to tell luckily Dad was recorded by the imperial War museum about 20 years ago telling his memoirs glad I can hear him anytime I want all downloaded, the museum recorded many other vets as well from all the services they call it living history, anyway all the best in Canada

[@jamesalexander3530]

In Mexico City at a museum I also stepped over a security cord and briefly sat on Pancho Villa's presidential chair pictured in dozens of historical photographs. The picture my companion took of me was double exposed. Dou'h!!

[@notwocdivad]

Strange to watch this from the German perspective! Only the language is different the experiences are all the same! Respect to airmen of ALL sides!

[@TheZX11]

Read JG26 Top Guns of the Luftwaffe by Caldwell. Logs, pilot reports, and diary notes from those pilots as the unit rose to dominance in 1939 through 1943. Day to day activities. Then the struggles as they lost experienced pilots and faced increasing numbers of allied. Putting up 18 aircraft to attack 800 b-17's escorted by 650 allied fighters. Addi Glunz (enlisted pilot) for example flying from 42 to 45 with JG26 on 475 combat missions, never being shot down or lost a plane, and having 74 kills. He was most proud of never losing a plane.

[@scottprendergast5262]

Especially German airmen They fought the combined world, and almost pulled it off..just look at crime in america and europe..the inner city filth and goblins...and sometimes its a natural thought to think that MAYBE, THAT perhaps the WRONG SIDE HAD WON...

[@mikaelbiilmann6826]

Watch Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen. Wonderful series/movie.

[@james-pierre7634]

Agree, and thus not “propaganda.”

[@stuartgarfatth1448]

@@mikaelbiilmann6826 Das Boot has nothing to do with this subject matter.

[@josefhorndl3469]

Best footage of original He 111 I've seen so far. And for all who are interested: At 5:30 the crewmember said to his pilot: "Achtung, drei Curtiss von hinten" (Attention, three Curtiss from behind) In May/June 1940 - during the campaign against France - the Curtiss Hawk 75 A-1/2 fighters were widely used against the German Luftwaffe. For this movie three of the captured Hawks were repainted and used as British fighters. The RAF used most of their Mohawks for training, because they had enough Hurricanes and Spitfires. Same the Germans, the Luftwaffe used most of their Hawks in Flightschools for advanced fighter training - because of their Bf 109s.

[@TheLucanicLord]

I thought they looked like P40s but with a radial engine. Guess I wasn't far wrong.

[@Holland41]

The RAF used their P36 Mohawks for other duties because they were far inferior to the Spitfire and Hurricane, not because they had enough of the latter types.

[@jayglithero524]

With radial engines, they were probably Seversky P-35s, from the defeated French Air Force.

[@wbwilhite]

@@jayglithero524 They look like the Curtis Hawk to me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-36_Hawk#/media/File:Curtiss_P-36C_Hawk_%E2%80%98PA-50%E2%80%99_(G-CIXJ)_(35522160474).jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seversky_P-35#/media/File:Seversky_EP-1-106_(J-9)_2134_53_(7738574512).jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-36_Hawk#/media/File:P-36_3_GC_II_5.jpg

[@MrRugbylane]

thanks mate for that info. very interesting

[@tommegan6500]

Sure it’s propaganda, but very well made. I’m impressed with the production values, as good as anything Hollywood was doing.

[@Dilley_G45]

American ww2 movies are usually way more propaganda, in the German movies the others aren't all imbeciles that never hit and blindly run into their death as American movies always depict the German Army. I always wonder why it took 11 months after D day. The way American movies make it look like it would have lasted 4 weeks to Berlin

[@baron8103]

ELLOS FUERON LOS PADRES DE HOLLYWOOD...DESDE LAS OLIMPIADAS EN BERLIN...

[@sonnenschein1758]

Agree, and which Hollywood war movie from that time on wasn't propaganda?

[@baron8103]

@@sonnenschein1758 TODAS...

[@stuartgarfatth1448]

Well said!. @@sonnenschein1758

[@annischmidt1638]

Thank you! Could you please upload the complete movie in this quality? Thanks, Annie

[@flitsertheo]

Back then when they didn't need licence built Spanish CASA 2.111 to depict German HE-111's.

[@BradBrassman]

But still shot down by Spitfires and Hurricanes in ever growing numbers until they gave up!

[@patrickjennings7362]

1940, sure…by ‘45 they were all bullet-filled scrap metal so you needed Spanish birds.

[@rattussapiens2854]

@flitsertheo As far as asinine comments go, that one went.

[@strgil]

Its a German movie made during the war solo yes the real ones

[@ואדיםקליידמן]

Все кто стремится к мировому господству должны быть готовы заплатить за это своими жизнями. Немцы были готовы.

[@curtislowe4577]

Actual flying on one engine. No CGI. One engine turned off and feathered. Including the landing.

[@curtislowe4577]

@@BernardoDesmo Interesting story and one that I would like more information about. My expectation is that manual overrides to allow jettisoning the bombs are a requirement of all crew-served bombers of all nations of WW2. I wish your teacher had explained the battle damage to the plane that prevented manually jettisoning the bomb and whether or not the engine output was reduced due to other battle damage. Was this a wing mounted bomb? A wing mounted bomb (vs a bomb bay bomb) couldn't be directly accessed by crew members which could mean something as unlikely as every release mechanism operator including the manual override mechanism was too damaged to operate.

[@arbeitszeitbetrug]

My great grandpa was the radio operator in a he 111. Amazing to see how that plane and its crew work

[@duggiebader1798]

Did he survive the war? And which theatres did he fight?

[@pzdmc4d]

my grandmom served at 311 Bomber/coastal RAF as WAAF, but someone with my surname died at JG 54 in November 1944 (Gunter Zoch)

[@RaySpruance]

@@pzdmc4d 311. was czechoslovak squadron.

[@ruadhagainagaidheal9398]

@@duggiebader1798I hope not

[@ahmedakhan1]

@@ruadhagainagaidheal9398 Thats a pretty vicious thing to say! Good illustration of your character.

[@GilbertdeClare0704]

Thank you so much for posting this clip. It is so very rare to see footage of actual HE-111s on operations and especially with internal footage. It reminded me so much of the tales a friend of mine used to tell me of when he was a young boy, seeing mainly HE-111s and sometimes DO-17s limping back from raids on London, flying along the River Crouch getting lower and lower, and actually seeing desperate crew throwing anything out that could be detached in order to save weight to hopefully get home. Lower and lower with MGs and ammunition being thrown out, and getting so low, my friend knew they'd never make it home. Have always remembered what he told me and this gives me the images. Many thanks

[@williamtraynor-kean7214]

Its propaganda, the British destroyer is a German Mowe class and the AA gun on the merchant ship is a German weapon. The fighters are captured French aircraft, none of which served in the RAF.

[@richardjames1812]

Well obviously, this is a German made wartime movie. Why would they have the Royal Navy and RAF cooperating with them to make it? @@williamtraynor-kean7214

[@渡邊純-f8r]

@@williamtraynor-kean7214 様、きっと戦時中に作られた映画ですよ。わざわざ戦争しているドイツにイギリスが製作協力するとでも思ったのですか？

[@Dhouston1125]

Where can I find the entire movie with subtitles ?

[@ФиолетовыйВнукФиолетовыйВнук]

Всегда приятно смотреть подобные фильмы. Есть, что вспомнить из прошлой жизни.

[@Namata42]

Wie alt sind Sie?😅

[@hoodoo2001]

Nice to see the internals of the He-111 as used in 1940. And it's the description in the intro points out the interesting stuff.

[@jerrymail]

At the time, my grandmother was still living on her parents' farm, in the south of France. They lived near an airfield (and in the middle of the dispersal) and twin-engine torpedo bombers were parked right in front of their house. According to her, the crews didn't seem so happy to leave. She remembers these young people who came to ask her father for alcohol before leaving on a mission and who cried because they said they were not going to come back. It really moved my grandmother to see that. They flew torpedo bombers over the Mediterranean Sea, I think mostly He 111s from the KG. 26 and even Ju-88s from the KG. 77 for a short time.

[@trevortesluk6537]

You aren't supposed to humanize the opponents...totally ruins the tripe we have been fed all these years !

[@渡邊純-f8r]

貴重なお話ありがとうございました。

[@jopitomnik1396]

Merci pour ce témoignage qui rejoint celui que ma grand mère faisait au sujet des jeunes soldats allemands fuyant vers l'est en juillet 44.

[@jerrymail]

@@jopitomnik1396 Elle s'en est souvenue de la fuite des Allemands ! Ils sont partis quasiment en "catastrophe" en août 1944 et ma grand-mère, qui était en ville, s'est fait piqué son vélo. Elle a du rentré à pieds et son père lui a collé une tarte parce qu'il a eu peur que, dans le chaos de la retraite, il ne lui soit arrivé malheur !

[@whisthpo]

Thanks for sharing! No More Brother Wars

[@АлексейФоменко-ф4ф]

Фильм снят в1940 году и смотрится на "ура", без всяких компьютерных примочек.

[@8poundquark]

Excellent movie 🍿. Long forgotten and well made. ❤

[@actonman7291]

Amazing content

[@davidcritchley3509]

Never seen this one before.

[@raymondyee2008]

Saw this long time back good to see it again.

[@dennismoro-p2k]

absolutely unreal footage. glad i stumbled onto this vidio. thx

[@stuartgarfatth1448]

'Unreal', No, totally State deluded propaganda.

[@FritzKraut]

Propaganda from our grandpas. I apologise. ;-)

[@kymvalleygardensdesign5350]

Never seen this before I was about to mention the Curtiss Hawks not being flown in defence of the British Isles but you have put together a fascinating amount of information

[@AbelMcTalisker]

Ex-French Hawks painted up by the German film company to pose as British fighters? The "Mohawk" did see some service with the RAF mainly in remote places like Africa though there were probably some used for training in the UK. It was generally considered as obsolete by the RAF but the French had large numbers in service during 1940 and a lot of them fell into German hands.

[@andrewallen9993]

Kitty hawk, warhawk, tomahawk and other variants flew in defence of Great Britain whe she and the commonwealth stood alone against the Nazis.

[@jamesbugbee9026]

Nice music ❤

[@patrickgriffitt6551]

​@@AbelMcTaliskerThey flew with the Vichy government as Hawk 75s

[@Holland41]

They didn't fly in defence of Great Britain's territory as they were considered inferior to British types (quite rightly) but they did fly for British and Commonwealth forces in other places. P36s and early P40s were outclassed by contemporary British, German and Japanese types, but later P40s could just about cope, given the right tactics and experienced pilots. Nevertheless those Curtiss fighters were always at a disadvantage, essentially inferior to Spitfires, Me 109s, FW190s and Jap types.@@andrewallen9993

[@Dilley_G45]

The letter at the end. It says returned to Sender, fallen

[@thomasrankl8011]

not entirely true - on the field post letter to the family it says fallen for greater Germany

[@clevlandblock]

Awesome production quality. Are there other wartime German films like this?

[@christx3326]

"Triumph of the Will" & "The Eternal Jew" come to mind. Also, Front Schau was an ongoing documentary filming of German armed forces in action (on all fronts)

[@historybuff66]

There is the B&W film “Der Stern Von Afrika” (1957) [“The Star of Africa”], chronicling the life of Hans-Joachim Marseille, the super ace who shot down 158 British aircraft over Britain and Libya. The film can be seen in its entirety here.

[@Emdee5632]

​@@christx3326Triumph des Willens is a pre-ww2 propaganda movie, but still considered one of the best.

[@Snobiker13]

"Die Stukas" should be similar to this. I haven't seen it though.

[@pavelprokes1098]

😂😂😂😂😂​@@christx3326

[@h.a.9880]

I have to say, that scene where the nosegunner yanks the machinegun from its mount and sticks it out a broken window on the side is pretty dope. The rest is pretty much what you'd expect from a propaganda movie, though.

[@andreweremin3283]

There was a story from Pacific war. Rear gunner in Dauntless grabbed MG, that got off the mounting during a dive, and manage to scare of a Zero firing while holding it. Didn't managed to even move it when they returned to the base. Adrenaline does weird things to your body.

[@james-pierre7634]

@@andreweremin3283 just another propaganda piece. The bad guys aren’t the only ones that make these propaganda films.

[@andrea-tn1vw]

Propaganda? Hollywood! Science fiction? Hollywood!

[@reynardthefox]

wow...all in the mind of the beholder...one man's villain... another's hero

[@alanfisher3848]

Liking how they maintained the stereotype of the British having bad teeth.

[@Captain-Nostromo]

Lol just like in Family Guy

[@dennisyoung4631]

Recovered skeletons from late ww2 German soldiers show severe cavities…

[@bugwar5545]

@@dennisyoung4631 Fairly certain that you can check any group of late WWII skeletons and find some with severe cavities.

[@rcdogmanduh4440]

Actually Google artificial sweetener developed by the Germans during ww2.

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

They have...

[@michaelbihr7814]

Top Film!!!

[@stuartgarfatth1448]

At 9:26, the RDF (Radio Direction Finder), is inoperative, the navigator must find other means.

[@stevo196two9]

That pilot brought his crew home with his last breath

[@Holland41]

It's Nazi propaganda.

[@hoodoo2001]

Some of the Hawk 75's captured by the Germans went to Finland where they saw successful use against the Russians. Finland has acquired Brewster F2A-1 (Buffalos in English service) fighters from the US previously that were extremely successful against the Russian fighters over Finland.

[@johnkevinwilshaw2490]

I hope that International Historic Films release the full film eventually.

[@TillyOrifice]

It's the quality of the details that impresses me. The pinpoint accuracy of the Red Ensign, the spot-on British fighters (Hurricanes by the look of them) and so on. Marvellous quality of research and verisimilitude.

[@patrickgriffitt6551]

Hurricanrs never had radial engines. They were Curtiss Hawk 75s and P-36s.

[@JohnKoenig-db8lk]

They were American fighters, actually. Curtiss Hawk 75s captured from the French.

[@Holland41]

Can't agree. German destroyers screening the convoy flying the RN white ensign, captured French P36 fighters posing as British aircraft, weird helmets worn by the British crews of the ships, German twin 20mm anti-aircraft mountings on "British" ships etc.etc. It's a German propaganda movie and accordingly the details are not accurate and certainly don't demonstrate quality research and verisimilitude. No offence but just sayin'.

[@TillyOrifice]

@@Holland41 Good grief.

[@jimbop4499]

@@TillyOrifice you got told! hahaha

[@A.G.798]

Wow fantastischer Spielfilm Ausschnitt über die deutschen Kampfflieger, noch nie gesehen. Bitte mehr davon.

[@haraldreinlander5545]

Unsere Asse, Sie bleiben unvergessen.

[@A.G.798]

@@haraldreinlander5545 ja,da haste aber schön Recht! Meißtens hört man nur etwas über die Jagtflieger und Oberst Hans Ulrich Rudel in seiner Kanonen Stuka, aber über die sehr Tapfere und Mutige deutsche Bomberwaffe kaum etwas ! Was sehr Schade ist, da würde ich mir auch so ein Spielfilm wie den amerikanischen "Memphis Bell" nur eben mit den Kampfflieger unserer Großväter Wünschen.

[@guidochristopherschofisch]

Unsere Asse, während Kinder im KZ verstümmelt wurden

[@Dormidont882]

Вообще-то о бомбардировщиках .

[@A.G.798]

@@Dormidont882?

[@philipchretienkarlsson8157]

Interresting and strange to watch this kind of movie from the German side;

[@СергейМацюк-п1ч]

Xe 111 красивые машины, в то время одни из лучших....

[@momotheelder7124]

Interesting. Iwonder why those Curtis P-36s are bare metal. Did they capture them looking like that?

[@Vonstab]

Yes, both Norwegian and French P36 aircraft were captured still in crates or only partially assembled.

[@jimmiller5600]

Imagine the German troops on the Eastern Front considering how they would have used the 2,000 aircraft and 4,000 flight crew that were lost over Britain?

[@Grandizer8989]

And Africa and Malta and Crete

[@waynemiller7382]

One of Hitler's BIGGEST mistakes was not persevering with the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe were knocking out RAF planes and airfields/resources at an unsustainable rate that with perseverance (and indeed more losses), they would have finally exhausted the RAF (probably within weeks rather than months) , allowing for future invasion. Changing the priority target from RAF airfields to the cities was a BIG mistake, and the tactical use of Luftwaffe fighters flying in formation with the bombers all contributed to failure. However, perseverance (with losses) would have stopped the the US from stablishing airfields used for the bombing campaigns. The rest is as we know in history.

[@Grandizer8989]

@@waynemiller7382 The BoB is WW2s most overrated victory. Even if Germany won, there is no way that they could’ve invaded without staggering losses. Besides, Hitler didn’t want to invade England, otherwise he would’ve taken Dunkirk

[@redtobertshateshandles]

​@Grandizer8989 they would have crushed England. Hitler was crazy.

[@jimmiller5600]

@@waynemiller7382 That is contrary to Hitler's plan. His priority was the USSR. Continuing the BoB would have made his Eastern Front less successful than it was.

[@jnalhn1188]

How they managed to bank to the side of the dead engine is a mystery, usually you are strongly adviced not to do so. Risk of stalling.

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

That was a cracking piece of film; you could really share the emotions of the crew as they struggled to get their bird back home. If you hadn't pointed out the issue with the ack ack gun, I'd thought they'd 'borrowed' some footage from a genuine British film, so well was it done.

[@ВатнаяфабрикаимениКрасныхпарти]

Where can I download or buy this film?

[@gibbonsdp]

Level bombing as depicted here is notoriously inaccurate against moving targets, as the Luftwaffe proved in their largely unsuccessful attacks on Channel shipping in 1940.

[@williamzk9083]

Level bombing against shipping became VERY accurate when the Luftwaffe received its Lotfe 7B computing bomb sights. When 3 Fw 200C Condors attacked Convoy Faith they sank 3 moving merchant ships from 12,000-15,000ft while under anti aircraft fire from a corvette, sloop and destroyer. They managed 3 hits in 5 attack runs. Some of the misses were against warships that used their speed to dodge the bombs as they fell. -If it weren't for aircraft carriers the Fw 200C would have devastated convoys again in 1943 as it did in 1940. The height they used was the same Lancaster's used to sink Tirpitz and in fact the German bombing was very impressive considering it was an unplanned operation. (Most of the Fw 200 were returning from missions or on patrol) -With the Lotfe 7 the bomb aimer tracked the target by adjusting the the speed of electrical motors that drove the sight. Trigonometric cams linearised for altitude and angle. This gave the speed of the target relative TO THE BOMBER and allowed an offset to be calculated.

[@jaman878]

Attacking coastal shipping was a deliberate strategy. If Britain was ever vulnerable to invasion it was right after the fall of France, at the opening of the Battle of Britain. The RAF needed to be neutralized before an invasion could begin. The strategy was meant to do two things: 1. Probe British air defense's 2. Draw the RAF fighters into battle. It was effective in that it put the British on the horns of a dilemma. Be drawn into battle with the Luftwaffe or lose the ships. The anti shipping campaign using Ju 87 Stukas and level bombers was very successful. Dowding was very reluctant to risk scarce pilots and airplanes when the Navy could just ship supplies by rail. The Admiralty wanted a display of British Pluck. Silliness.

[@TheZX11]

I thought the British had to stop Channel shipping during early BoB days because the bombing (Stuka?) was effective. Matter of pride they tried to keep shipping going in waters close to German air bases.

[@gibbonsdp]

@@TheZX11 Dive bombers and torpedoes are effective at sea, level bombing much less so. That's why carriers deployed the aircraft they did.

[@williamzk9083]

@@jaman878 Britain was in no danger in 1940 because the German Military had almost no amphibious assault capability. They had no marines and apart from river crossing capability nothing in the German Army. Being German they improvised a plan using Rhine River Barges and others commandeered from Holland and France. The Free board and see worthiness of such boats is limited. -My favorite improvisation was the "Tauchpanzer" or "Diving Panzer" which was a Panzer III with inflatable pneumatic rings to seal the turret, a 120ft long air hose to feed the engine and vent the exhaust, a gyroscopic navigation system and re-breathers for crew escape. --The other very effective improvisation were the ""Siebel Ferries" which used river crossing pontoons lashed into a catamaran powered by truck engines. These were ready by August 1940. They were sea worthy, had a shallow draft, a loading ramp and were heavily armed and could deliver 100 tons of tank or truck etc. Used in the Caspian and Black Sea. --More advanced landing craft including tracked vehicles were developed but were only ready for production by 1941 which was too late.

[@AhmedAhmed-wi5ls]

تحية لجيش المانيا في الحرب العالمية الثانية فقد كان أقوى وأشجع جيش في العالم ... وكل ما قالوه عن الجيش الألماني كذب وتشويه لصورة جنوده الأبطال

[@Guntamund24]

Thank you for the truth. شكراً لك على الحقيقة.

[@TheSpritz0]

HE-111 is a GREAT example of a plane which was CONSIDERED very advanced at the first year of the war, and was quickly made obsolete in comparison to most allied types... No tail gunner was a big mistake, and the REPLACEMENT was horrible (HE-177) plagued by so many engineering issues!

[@渡邊純-f8r]

今田からなんとでも言えるのでしょうけど、当時の国力国情の中での飛行機ですからね。我が国でも同様の事情で作られた兵器に、自国民でも何も考えずに「あれが悪い。これが悪い」と言う専門家もいるくらいです。総合的に見る事が出来ず単焦点でしか見れない連中が大手を振っているのが我が日本国でもあります。しかし、大戦中に命を国に捧げた人たちを尊敬し弔う人たちが多く居る事はご理解下さい。

[@monza1002000]

Tail was covered by the upper gunner and belly gun positions

[@Thorr-kl6jl]

The dorsal gunner, and the ventral gunner covered the rear. Some aircraft were also fitted with a 7.9 mm machine gun in the tail cone, which was fired by remote control. In later HE-111 versions, the dorsal gunner typically had a single 12.7 mm machine gun, while the ventral gunner had a twin barrel 7.9 mm gun.

[@josecarlosmonjegarcia7350]

The ones in this movie are He 111, the CASA 2111 had the air intake that looked like a smile, the He 111 has it straight

[@malcomwalters9439]

Very interesting! there is another German flim like this about the Ju 87 Stuka, that's good as well..

[@historybuff66]

About the exploits of Hans Ulrich Ruedel?

[@vonzipper7854]

That would have to be a mini series.​@@historybuff66

[@historybuff66]

@@vonzipper7854 I could imagine Hans saying “I am my ideal” just like Erich, ha!

[@jiyushugi1085]

Ein bewegter Film.....

[@FlorinSutu]

One problem with He-111 was the inability to carry bombs outside of its body, and also that rack system that was in interior, limited the size of bombs. A Ju-88 could carry a 2 ton bomb, the He-111 couldn't.

[@patrickgriffitt6551]

In Greens " Warplanes of the Third Reich" there are pictures of He111 carrying torpedos externally and maybe bombs.

[@williamzk9083]

-There are photos of He 111 carrying 2000kg and even 2500kg bombs as well as two torpedoes. The internal bomb bay however could handle only 250kg vertically stacked bombs suspended by the nose. -The He 111 was supposed to be replaced by the He 177 and Me 210 but both were so delayed leading to low production they were failures forcing the He 111 to remain in production and likely depleting the Luftwaffe of an excellent transport.

[@FlorinSutu]

@@williamzk9083 - - After I wrote my comment, which I will not delete, I remembered that He-111 was able to carry beneath its body, the V-1 cruise missile.

[@paoloviti6156]

​@@williamzk9083correct but unfortunately could carry only vertical bombs hooked inside very similar to the Sm 79 but it it was initially powered by the awful license production Gnome Rhône but was rejected by authority and replaced with the Piaggio Stella P.IX R.C a derivative of the much better license-produced model of the British Bristol Jupiter

[@johnmunro4952]

And there was me slagging Nolan off for the ridiculously low altitude attacks depicted in Dunkirk!

[@soldatwitt6400]

"Dunkerque" est un mauvais film de Nolan... on s'y ennuis gravement ! Le film français de 1964 "week end à zuydcoote" avec Jean Paul Belmondo relatant la bataille de Dunkerque est bien meilleur.

[@StanislasP]

@@soldatwitt6400 Gosh I remember it, but it was only one movie with JPB that I can't found in good quality.

[@studiogrizi]

Wow, if you remember or look the end of the “Memphis Belle“ movie (1990) you’ll find a lot of scenes pretty similar!

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

For the real thing, see "Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress" 1944, directed by William Wyler. One of the cinematographers,0 First Lieutenant Harold J. Tannenbaum, died when the bomber he was in was shot down over France on April 16, 1943. The 1990 movie was fiction. The 1944 had footage of people actually dying.

[@bavariancarenthusiast2722]

Millions of young men had to die - because of some dictators wanting to conquer something. It's a shame. I hope we learned from it.

[@BasementEngineer]

NO! The primary blame must fall on Churchill and Roosevelt. Those 2 war mongers had been conspiring for war against Germany since 1935.

[@mitelyod]

Do you have the full film in this quality? It is excellent compared to the one on Internet Archive'...also any English subs available...either way thanks for upload

[@Trevor_Austin]

I think you can probably guess what was being said.

[@mitelyod]

The quality here is superb...and yea I get the gist

[@galgener2]

Does anyone know the name of the song that starts at 00:30? Never heard that one before?

[@yaonoossan]

Wir fliegen gegen Engeland　　Music by Norbert Schultze Lyrics by Hans Steinkopf

[@garymarkham4167]

Excellent production by the Germans.I saw a restored Heinkel and Stuka on youtube yesterday...Incredible

[@borisfabian1621]

I met in Austria in 2012 He111 pilot,he flew over 90 combat mission in Russia during the war!

[@НурланМасутов]

а сколько их погибло на восточном фронте, большая часть потерь Люфтваффе приходиться на восточный фронт

[@kasab6096]

Очень жаль, что уцелел, повезло фашисту!

[@stuartgarfatth1448]

So what?.

[@Кот-ы6ф]

Немцы как всегда на высоте ! И технику отличную делали , и фильмы снимали отличные.🎉

[@romanbrough]

I wonder how many model makers will try and recreate some of these interior views? P36 fighters from those captured in Norway or France?

[@stevetheduck1425]

Curtiss Hawks, probably the delivery for the French Air Force, several of which were captured unused. It's variously known as the Mohawk in RAF service, the Hawk 75 as sold by Curtiss, or the P-36 in USAAC service. A few survive today, one at Duxford aircraft museum in Britain.

[@adventtrooper]

Seems likely as the Germans captured about a dozen from Norway and more from France. They used some as trainers and sold 44 to Finland who upgraded the guns & used them effectively against the Russian Air Force, where they remained in service until 1948. MisterCraft released a 1/72 model (D-214) with Finnish, Luftwaffe, French and US Army markings in 2015.

[@paulkirkland3263]

Never seen, or heard, of this propaganda film before. Very interesting indeed.

[@williamzk9083]

No more jingoistic than any American or British film possibly less so.

[@paulkirkland3263]

@@williamzk9083 Sorry, I don't understand that in relation to what I posted.

[@williamzk9083]

@@paulkirkland3263 I’m just pointing out that if it’s a propaganda film, so all of the British and American films about this era. For instance, I thought it treated the British pilots with a certain amount of respect.

[@paulkirkland3263]

@@williamzk9083 You seem to be commenting on something I didn't say. I just said it was interesting. I never mentioned jingoism.

[@denbraun2732]

German military movies are more moderate and realistic than Hollywood movies!

[@Snobiker13]

You haven't seen the part of this movie where a Polish policeman kills an old woman. Or the part where Polish cavalry attacks German tanks with lances.

[@Galland_]

Well that's one freakin low bar..

[@christianwentzien1106]

Hollywood is pure Bullshit 💩

[@notyou6950]

Last flying example crashed and burned after engine failure in New Mexico some time ago. It was Franco's personal plane equiped with Merlin motors. I am sure it was used in movies before. It made specific sound while flying. I heard it as it passed overhead in Spartanburg SC. I crawled through it couple days later at the airfield. Got pictures and fine memories. That was over 20 years ago.

[@richardjames1812]

What's going on at 3:45? HE111 didn't have any rotating turrets, right? What is that guy spinning around?

[@spitfiredude5832]

It’s a swivel system first used by some rear observers/gunners during WW1 in which they could rotate partially to starboard or port to broaden their arc of fire.

[@richardjames1812]

Got it, thanks. So, not a rotating turret but a rotating seat and gun mount behind that fixed bubble.@@spitfiredude5832

[@redtobertshateshandles]

One of my distant relatives was an " observer" in a Dornier shot down in Cornwall. Does anyone know what a German observer does in a plane??

[@rayswann7618]

MAKES THE TEA

[@Jendrass1939]

Is it possible to watch KGL in HD now?

[@peterregan8691]

Fantastic! What a terrible lot those British fighter pilots were, smiling as they attacked the brave Heinkel crew… the only thing missing was them twiddling comedy villain moustaches a la Dick Dastardly. The Germans were good at propaganda that’s for sure.

[@HughShower]

Fun fact: The term “mass media”, used to discredit trusted non-biased newspapers and radio reports, was created by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s Propaganda Minister. Remember that next time someone tries convince you that the mass media are bad.

[@tominva4121]

You might want to take a look a look at what Hollywood and England were putting out then too. Not much difference.

[@BadWolf762]

The Germans can't hold a candle to Hollywood, they're still cranking out anti-German propaganda films 80 years later.

[@peterregan8691]

@@tominva4121 It was just a tongue in cheek comment about this particular clip, I’m well aware that propaganda was prevalent on both sides.

[@stanleybest8833]

It has a very Hollywood feel, instead of the usual rigid German.

[@baron8103]

..ELLOS SON LOS PADRES DE HOLLYWOOD...!!!

[@carloselgueta454]

Por décadas esperando este magnífico film, desde Chile gracias

[@mlovmo]

Some scenes remind me of Memphis Belle (1990). The Soup exploding, the wounded comrade, the dramatic cliffhanger landing. Hmm....

[@richardjames1812]

That's most bomber movies (well, maybe not the soup part). It missed the flak explosions which are standard in US bomber movies (always preceding the fighter attack).

[@bradpotter6401]

I've seen many allied propaganda war movies, it was very interesting to see one from the other side. At least they didn't portray their English enemies as demonic blood thirsty criminals. I wish it was sub-titled in English so I knew what was being said.

[@Snobiker13]

You should see how they depicted the Polish in this movie. That part has been omitted here.

[@bradpotter6401]

@@Snobiker13 Communist poles were brutal to German civilians who lived in lands annexed from Germany after WW1. So yeah, they weren't too respectful of the Poles during WW2.

[@Snobiker13]

@@bradpotter6401 Communist Poles, WTF? Poland fought a war AGAINST the communists.

[@bradpotter6401]

@@Snobiker13 After Czarist Russia's fall to the Bolsheviks, most Eastern European countries had strong Communist factions. Even post WW1 Germany did until Hitler crushed them. The Communists Poles retaliated by committing atrocities on ethnic Germans living in Poland.

[@taskforce58]

Wow I think this is the first time I see a Hawk 75 used on screen.

[@stevetheduck1425]

One is visible among the allied fighters in a wartime Japanese film about a Nakajima Ki43 'Oscar' squadron in China, which was mostly made in Japan, around Atsugi air base. A Brewster Buffalo and a Curtiss P-40 also appear. 'Sentai Kato' something, I believe.

[@cinematicsunproductions7748]

Kato Hayabusa Sento-Tai

[@cinematicsunproductions7748]

Also, it was Malaya, Dutch East Indies, and Burma. Not China.

[@christopherbentley7289]

I have a photo of Heinz Welzel out of this film as a Flickr 'Fave', he reprising his role as Fritz Paulsen from the earlier film, 'D III 88', this time promoted from Obergefreiter to Unteroffizier.

[@fload46d]

Sehr interessant. Danke.

[@SwordofDivision]

High quality film.

[@nicksellens272]

I like a Heinkel as much as the next bloke, but the star of that show was the little dog...awwwww.

[@henryluebberstedt7819]

A bloody newbie at the controls, 30 meters above ground, flaps set, power set, plane is descending for a belly landing - and all of a sudden the hand of a man believed to be dead taped you from behind "let me do it"... Oh boy, best chances to crash. :)

[@Ms230662]

😂

[@alexalexov6019]

Какие радостные полетели бомбить мирных людей. Ужас

[@albertwolanski7688]

Why there are no subtitles?

[@derp8748]

Excellent footage. White propped/nosed Battle of Britain era Anything German were always the most badassed looking. Not yellow

[@jourwalis-8875]

Why such weak sound in the beginning?

[@Paladin1873]

Damned decent of the French to loan those Hawk 75s to the Luftwaffe so they could make a more convincing propaganda film. C'est la guerre!

[@giuseppenativo9033]

At a certain point they called "bogey" the incoming enemy? Did I hear correctly?

[@jamesalexander3530]

On British films, it shows Nazi fighter pilots as ghouls with mean scowls straffing Brit bombers. In German films, British fighter pilots are shown evil sweaty faces staffing German bombers. Evil is in the eye of the film directors 😅

[@moss8448]

Pretty darn good production values for 1940.

[@kaiguleikoff7742]

Großartig inszeniert, weil das GEFÜHL des Zuschauers wirksam angesprochen wird! Eine Kameradschaft auf Tod und Leben, die durch den Krieg aufgezwungen wurde, sich aber in der Praxis glänzend bewährte.

[@ReRiderChi]

I'm a little surprised we are allowed to see this

[@victorboucher675]

Change is coming.

[@seymourskinner2533]

Why?

[@ReRiderChi]

@@seymourskinner2533actual live German-produced war movie footage? Our minds will be contaminated forever and ever!

[@jamesalexander3530]

Allowed? Censorship has it's limits in an alleged free society.

[@lenircotia]

The air combat sequence resebles a lot with Nolan's Dunkirk! Nolan certainly watched that film.

[@mattpeckham667]

Interesting fact about the He-111 is that the bombs were stored vertically in the bomb bay, nose up. It served until the end of the war but was an easy mark for allied fighters, being defended by only hand-operated rifle-caliber machine guns.

[@homarwernerschlutter9566]

Que lastima que hayamos perdido la guerra!! 😢😢 Mirad en que mundo vivimos desde la derrota mundial de mayo de 1945.

[@ВалерийГорюнов-у7с]

огромное счастье что вы ее проиграли ! Мир прекрасен !

[@AntunesDalsgaard]

I wonder what the dog was called.

[@ALEJANDROARANDARICKERT]

VERY GOOD PLOT. GREAT SENSE OF DRAMA

[@ralfbernburg3925]

Great movie 😊

[@DrJohn493]

Curious about why the He-111's took off with the wind on their tails...

[@AgronBatiatus]

Sie flogen gegen England .... auf diesen Teil der Geschichte hätte Deutschland gut und gerne verzichten können. Ich fliege nicht gegen England, sondern nach England um Land, Leute und Geschichte kennen zu lernen. So und NIE WIEDER anders sollte es sein! Grüße aus Berlin 🇩🇪 nach ENGLAND🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

[@HumanBeanbag]

Hey wait a second.... isn't this the same plot as that horrible Ben Affleck Pearl Harbor movie?

[@stevenbaer5999]

These are actually the best and number 1 war movie nothing like so called modern day version of nothingness that uses computers

[@dimitrisgiannatos9782]

These people were actors in a studio or real pilots making the scenes during flight?

[@vercingoterix]

Lützows wilde, verwegene Jagd!

[@A14b19]

More like this nowdays it’s history not propaganda

[@Snobiker13]

If you see the entire movie you'll know it's propaganda alright. :)

[@tomhaskett5161]

At the very start, the pilot says the equivalent of "break a leg"

[@markjackson5665]

Correct. The full phrase is „Hals- und Beinbruch“, which literally means „neck and leg break“. If you watch the „Timeline“ interview of Eric „Winkle“ Brown on KZbin, he mentions this phrase a couple of times

[@esajuhanirintamaki965]

​@@markjackson5665Eine alte Glückwunsch-parole im deutschen Luftwaffe. Horridoh!

[@edfrhes]

Surprised the dog didn't salute at the beginning

[@vvvvvv4790]

Британия сражалась с Германией на всех фронтах и помогала СССР. Конвои шли по морю в Мурманск. Люди героически сражались с нацизмом!

[@НурланМасутов]

Именно Британия стравила СССР и Германию чтобы отвлечь внимание от себя

[@渡邊純-f8r]

レンドリースの船団はムルマンスクに犠牲を伴いながら米英の膨大な支援物資をソ連に施してやった。しかし、ムルマンスクでは船員を疑いの目で睨み、上陸は許さず、もらうだけ貰って何の返礼品も無く空船で帰した。なおの事戦後今に至るまでソ連・ロシアは米英に対する感謝の言葉を一つも表明していない。知ってはいるが図々しいにもほどがある。

[@渡邊純-f8r]

日本でも、坂井三郎さんの「大空のサムライ」にも同じような記述がありました。被弾して操縦者が瀕死の重傷となった九六陸攻を他の乗員が見よう見まねで帰還したものの、着陸時にその重症の操縦者が最後の力を振り絞って着陸の手順を指示して無事帰還したものの、重症の操縦者は戦死してまった。という話。ドイツでも同じ話があったのですね。 ところで英軍の戦闘機はアメリカ製のP-36かな？

[@kurtkesslinger7917]

Uniforms ‘nagel” neu, fresh off the shelf.