Charles Lindbergh: American Hero or Nazi Sympathizer?

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[@chronic_hip_and_back_pain]

@Jayden Emmanuel ?

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

Please! It is called the "Medal of Honor". No "Congressional"! Thank you. I had the great honor of saluting TWO heroes wearing the award while I was in uniform.

[@melissadwiggins]

@Jayden Emmanuel Tf?

[@bicyclist2]

FYI: There's two (ii) at the end of Hawaii. You misspelled the 50th state. Just thought you should know.

[@KJ4663]

Do Caravagiggio

[@RickRobinCagnaan]

One fun fact is that Lindbergh went to the Philippines, particularly Southern Mindanao, and specifically Davao. He led conservation efforts to save the Philippine eagle.

[@densealloy]

He also helped the pjlots in the pacific theater extend their range on their F4U Corsairs and later the P-38 Lightings. He was able to actually double the range on the Corsair by adjusting the air fuel mixture all while carrying double the planes capacity. Edit...I made this comment at the beginning of video and Simon "sorta" covered this.....

[@maxheadrom3088]

People recently have found out that great historic figures were also humans and then got really surprised! For some reason I was not surprised by their surprise.

[@frankreynolds9418]

If he spent time in the Philippines then there are probably a few half Filipino half Lindbergh people running around. This guy laid it down everywhere he went.

[@maxheadrom3088]

@@frankreynolds9418 Thank God for condoms! God won't mind the joke, don't worry.

[@ferociousgumby]

@@frankreynolds9418 I was just thinking that. He could repopulate half the island.

[@marinusvonzilio9628]

Just a little correction, that quote at the start, about the "Byzantine layers of deception on the part of our shared father", that was not said by any of the illegitimate children, it is quote from Reeve Lindbergh, Charles' youngest child with his wife Anne.

[@robdon3472]

Albert Einstein wanting Linburgh to fly a message to FDR warning him about nuclear fision is the craziest sentence I've never heard before

[@1158scott]

This is absolute, laughable, garbage. As is most of this worthless, misinformation video.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

My Dad remembers playing outside as a small boy (would have been 7 or 8) and hearing a noise. Looking up, he saw the Spirit of St. Louis flying pretty low overhead. Lindbergh was on one of his barnstorming jaunts around the country and he always flew fairly low over populated areas as part of his publicity. Dad thinks he was heading to the state capital 30 miles away.

[@j1st633]

Interesting to note. The court house that the trial of the accused killer of the Lindbergh baby still exists in Flemington, NJ. Every year in October, up until recently, a production company of volunteers act out the major evidence of the trial. Upon conclusion, the actors leave it up to the audience to decide whether he was guilty. It is a nice piece of history to be able to sit in the very seats that was used during the tiial.

[@vanessathomas7437]

Interesting..

[@PoeticProphetic]

I attended this a while back. It’s silly fun, but interesting

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

Hauptmann was innocent. He knew he was about to be executed anyway and the scumbaggish powers that be told him his wife would receive 50k if he admitted he did it and named his coconspirators and he still maintained his innocence.

[@maryannemelenka9250]

What I can’t figure out, who would go to trouble with a big ladder like that climb I , grab a baby, going to be awkward carrying unless 2. Baby was probably smothered to keep from crying. I think someone from inside. I’m not sure of Lindbergh nazi thing. But there always something odd about this man. But

[@dfuher968]

@@maryannemelenka9250 The ladder couldnt even hold Hauptmann's weight without the child, let alone with the child. He was a carpenter, he had access to tools and could easily make a proper ladder, yet they claimed, he made the rickety ladder, that wouldve broken under the weight of any adult, and used it to carry his own weight, much larger than the ladder could hold, and a 27 pound child down to the ground. And thats just 1 of the lies, they presented as "evidence" at the trial. I dont know, who really killed the Lindbergh baby, if Lindbergh himself had anything to do with it or not, but Hauptmann was innocent. He wasnt even in New Jersey, when the kidnapping happened, he was working in New York with plenty of witnesses, which the police discounted and hid at trial along with all the other exculpatory evidence they hid, while presenting manipulated or outright false "evidence", as has been confirmed by modern experts. Lets not forget, that all their expert witnesses from the handwriting expert to the wood expert had at first been either unable to connect Hauptmann to the crime or ruled him out alltogether, until the police needed a scapegoat, then they all suddenly changed their tune.

[@fiveninecummins7768]

Henry Ford is also fascinating when it comes to this. If I'm not mistaken, Hitler adored him and he even had a portrait of him in his office. I believe he was one of the ONLY Americans that he actually liked, let alone adored.

[@tomflendodo7297]

Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and Walt Disney were ALL NAZI'S !!!!!!!!!

[@notastone4832]

nah.. edward bernays. hitler tried to hire him to do propaganda for germany. he was the guy who basically came up with modern propaganda (during the first world war, hitler found it so impressive he wanted to just hire him lol)

[@bezllama3325]

Henry Ford was a Nazi through and through he ran the Dearborn Independent

[@HairHoFla]

Many Republicans and Industrialists were...the common denominator was anti-communism....read about "The Businessman's Plot" attempted coup against FDR 1934

[@railrodemike]

Yes the 45th Division found a picture of Ford in Adolf Hitlers office.

[@jimklein5491]

The man who lead the NJ State Police investigation was Howard Norman Schwarzkopf. His son would lead the Coalition forces in Operation Desert Shield/Storm.

[@vanessathomas7437]

Talk about 6 Degrees of Separation...

[@cpegg5840]

Gen. Schwarzkopf was one of the finest American generals of all time

[@kimmedavid]

@@cpegg5840 lol schwarzkopf is a Shampoo Brand in germany or an insult for Muslims 😂

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[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:00 - Chapter 1 - Childhood & early aviation 4:45 - Chapter 2 - Spirit of st louis & famous flight 8:30 - Chapter 3 - Using fame for good 10:25 - Mid roll ads 11:55 - Chapter 4 - Kidnapping & murder 13:50 - Chapter 5 - Private life & political controversy 17:10 - Chapter 6 - WWII 18:40 - Chapter 7 - Double life & final years

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Nice of you to do. Thanks man

[@johnnyknight614]

Lol I literally read this and immediately closed the video but had to come back and say thanks wasn’t the video i was looking for

[@cjthegood]

If you're going to make another bio video on World War 2 commanders, can you make it about Erich von Manstein?

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[@Redemptorchapter]

Eject without rockets isn't an ejection..before the seat..it was called "Bailing out"

[@toddlerj102]

Picky. Lol

[@xys7536]

@@toddlerj102 no correct 🤪

[@Redemptorchapter]

And it killed as much as it saved..alot got killed striking the vertical stabilizer

[@fchanMSI]

Correct, there was no such a thing as an ejection seat until WWII & they used compressed air, gun powder or springs push the seat out of the aircraft. The modern ejection seats with rockets came after WWII.

[@xys7536]

@frank hargreaves my statement was addressed to DEAN KING

[@timbarnett6781]

Simon. I came upon your biographics videos a few months ago. I just wanted you to know that I think these mini lectures on famous or infamous people are fantastic. I can't stop watching them....they're so interesting. I hope you keep producing them. Thank you for all of the research and information.

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[@Leviackerman-bj1my]

Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic began on May 20th, 1927, when he left New York aboard his airplane 'The Spirit of St. Louis' and headed for Paris In October, 1923 Charles Lindbergh sold his first airplane to an aviation student. The plane was discovered almost 50 years later in a barn and now sits on display at Garden City, NY's Cradle of Aviation Museum

[@kimjongun6746]

He was a good aviator, but not a good personality. He shouldn't have left his children searching for his identity. I was forced to live under a pseudonym in Switzerland during my childhood.

[@towermoss]

Sure, whatever you say Kim.

[@deedee4531]

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[@cattibingo]

@@deedee4531 either that or Ho Lee Fuk

[@Three_Random_Words]

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[@kimjongun6746]

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[@liamboyle9199]

He may have told P-38 pilots how to extend their combat range but in the book 'Race of Aces' they quoted that some pilots already knew of this tactic. Speaking of his time in the P-38, his eagerness to fly combat missions would end up derailing the career of Colonel MacDonald as he got in trouble for allowing Charles to get tangled in combat. (Hopefully I've remembered the book correctly)

[@shebbs1]

Most pilots did know the best way to extend range already, but there is a tendency to credit CL with creating and implementing the techniques, not just broadening that knowledge.

[@beaconite4249]

Corrections. B-24 was a bomber, not a fighter. I assume that’s why it starts with “B”. Spelled Hawaii wrong too.

[@shebbs1]

The Hawaii mis-spelling and the refeference to the B-24 would have come from the scriptwriters, who are Americans and should know better

[@djzrobzombie2813]

F/A-18 HORNET .... F = FIGHTER A= ATTACKER ( ground attack )

[@castizopilled]

@@shebbs1 You been able to get braces for your teeth yet mate?

[@TrojanJustin]

This video leaves out a lot of facts about the kidnapping which make Lindbergh an even more unsavory character, from running the investigation in such a way to completely stymie police, to playing practical jokes while supposedly searching for his son to his son's medical conditions which likely was the real reason he was "kidnapped."

[@SafetySpooon]

I also read one theory that says his own sister-in-law murdered the child out of an unstable jealousy, which was also explained/bolstered by his behavior.

[@dfuher968]

Not to mention, that Hauptmann had several alibi witnesses to him working in New York at the time of the kidnapping, so couldnt have done it, along with all the expert witnesses suddenly changing their opinions from "not him" to "definitely him", once police needed to close the case, and Lindbergh had decreed, that Hauptmann was guilty. As well as the trial being a kangaroo court with a case based on flimsy circumstancial and in many cases false "evidence".

[@Theanimeisforme]

​@@dfuher968 read somewhere that ultimately it was due to being in possession of the ransom money that undid him.

[@IrishMike22]

​@@Theanimeisforme yeah kinda hard to deny that...and the ladder built from his own supplies...Lindy was effin dirty and in bed with Hitler which is enough for me 👎

[@jaredwilliams112]

Thanks for this one. A lot of people need to see this. It seems to shine a light on how famous people are, versus how they want us to view them.

[@kronosomni2805]

Not all famous people let it go to their heads. To be fair, many do, but not all of them end up leaving scandals behind or getting into petty feuds with their celebrity counterparts.

[@Stonecutter334]

Next up Henry Ford. Another racist bastard. Sent ball bearings for Nazi planes.

[@jasonwrenn8209]

@@Stonecutter334 still a great man

[@beno1129]

@@jasonwrenn8209 Right? Charles Lindbergh's overall impact on human civilisation was positive and exceptional, in spite of his ethical failings. From the advances in aviation and medical technology to his international conservation work.

[@cristineconnell7803]

​@@beno1129 I admire those that do great things for humanity while not trying to kill off half of it! He was a eugenist & supported the nazis!

[@frankmoore993]

The work Lindbergh did allowed P38 Lighting pilots to take out the most important military leader Japan had. Yamamoto - who organised the attack on Pearl Harbor. The island hopping campaign was the chief strategy of war in the pacific. The longer the range of US planes the fewer islands had to be taken by American Ground Forces. Thousands of US soldiers owe their lives to Lindberg. 75% of Airmail Pilots Died. Surviving work as an airmail pilot was a Bid Deal. An Achievement in itself. With a fatality rate higher than ww1 combat. So Lindberg had more relevant experience than the air aces etc who died or were injured prior to Lindbergh's Attempt. He flew via dead reckoning and had the range to make landfall across a wide range of latitudes. Insofar as his anti semitism - there's no defence. There's no defence against racism expressed by anyone at any time. Today's leftists are casually and institutionally racist against Anglo Celtics. (Discuss) But Lindbergh strikes me as a pilot who could have and should have died a hundred times. What drives young males to take so many risks has been written about extensively. I see Lindbergh as a deeply traumatised pioneer pilot. Losing his son to a brutal murder, under the glare of international publicity must have reinforced his trauma. Not wanting his country tied up in a war is someone exercising their political rights. He had surveyed the developments in aviation in Japan and Germany and Britain. He reasoned that no one power could successfully mount a campaign to take US soil. So why should Americans die in another European War? That was his thinking. The activities of the Japanese Fascist Empire brought America into the war - so he made himself immediately available. Did Lindbergh deserve a Medal of Honor? I think so. He went after 6 others died and others were injured. I don't believe Lindbergh had any idea of the fame that awaited him. And fame is a double edged sword.

[@stuart8663]

Great response, Frank.

[@frankmoore993]

Stu Art Thanks Stu!

[@Lanwarder]

I strongly recommend to watch "The Plot Against America". It's a 6 episode miniseries about a fictional alternate timeline in which Lindbergh would have become president instead of FDR and kept America from entering the war. It's in no way a documentary, but there are quite a few important factual elements and it's a good reflexion about what could have happened and what could easily happen.

[@livethefuture2492]

watched it, and i actually really enjoyed it! it reminds of "the Man in the High Castle". though i wish they would actually show what happened in the election and whether America did actually join war. i recall they ended it just as the result was being announced.

[@DahliaRich]

I agree. Great mini series. Well worth it. I purchased it after watching. Even though set in the 40s, there is so much that is relevant to today's politics.

[@tomfrazier1103]

A popular play of the time was "It Can Happen Here", at least it was performed by some Hawaii High Schools in the immediate prewar.

[@allhope_lost6448]

The real plot against America Charles A. Lindbergh SR literally tried to stop. As a prominent congressman during the inception of the Federal Reserve, private central banking scheme, he spoke vigorously about the dangers of what a central bank would bring.

[@Lanwarder]

DahliaRich I couldn't agree more

[@lonegamer6332]

I wish they would have talked about the controversy of the kidnapping before

[@jackmason5278]

It is said that Lindbergh kidnapped his own son to "prove a point", and accidentally killed him in the process. I believe it. He was known to have committed dangerous "practical jokes".

[@lonegamer6332]

Jack Mason it really feels that they glossed over some things in this one.

[@DMS-pq8]

@@jackmason5278 Also theory's that his son may have had developmental problems which a eugenicists like Lindbergh could not accept so he either had the boy purposely killed or arranged his kidnapping and the death was an accident

[@drdre4397]

@@lonegamer6332 Yeah like he didn't immediately want to be an advisor, he was denied the right to serve as a pilot under order of the whitehouse.

[@SafetySpooon]

@@jackmason5278 I have read a believable theory that it was a family member who was jealous of his wife (her sister - I forget exactly who, but the details made sense)

[@E2O10]

Hm. I'll probably never know but i wonder why they would leave out a lot of the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping. I mean there were like 13 different ransom notes; The way he met his wife was through the wife's sister who he was initially visiting but who herself was away when he arrived and Charles fell in love with his future wife. This caused the mental breakdown of the sister who subsequently killed the Lindbergh family dog and once threw out charles jr with the trash - stated by the Lindbergh family nurse; Charles was also supposedly in the study right underneath junior's nursery during the night of the kidnapping. The study window faced the same way as the nursery window which the kidnapper used to enter/exit. There was evidence that the ladder broke during the descent and yet charles heard nothing - some believe that this was the moment that the baby died, accidentally during the fall. There are many more really shady facets of this story. This video made it seem like the person who was tried and executed for the crime was actually guilty of it. That's not at all a fact

[@orcasea59]

Lindberg's son, Charles, had a congenital birth defect that mortified senior, especially since their suitability as parents was a major aspect of his marriage to Ann. There are convincing arguments regarding Linberg's possible involvement in removing this painful embarrassment from his life and how his fame protected him from question. Given his professed values later in late none of the claims would have been surprising...

[@TrojanJustin]

Yep ironically the defect was likely caused by him forcing Anne to take an unpressurized cross-country flight inhaling gas fumes with little oxygen. She begged to land but he pressed on and, upon landing, Anne was hospitalized for 6 days.

[@marcleblanc3602]

@@TrojanJustin dam that was nasty, he was there too right? Man was wreckless and tuffguy, not so gentleman indeed, much is possible but farcry of him being the killer, but the Culprit was no saint either.

[@TransRoofKorean]

great men rarely are good men

[@marcleblanc3602]

@@TransRoofKorean kind of, not Saints thats for sure, but he was not a Conqueror.

[@marcleblanc3602]

@Jay Landau stupid this and nothing more

[@Lucixir]

My mother married "Charles Lindbergh the 3rd" who was my stepdad for about a year. He was a dickhead and the family constantly talked about Charles Lindbergh and tried living off his coattails but never amounted to much. I recall the family get together. Weird times....

[@mikshinee87]

Not surprising. Very rarely do children of famous people amount to much. Why should they if they have more money than they could reasonably spend. Perhaps that's why Mark Zuckerberg makes his children do chores like in a normal family.

[@evaharvey840]

Yeah, people suck.

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

At least Chuck the 3rd had eugenics on his side, didn't he?

[@eshim3961]

I'm assuming that there was no relation between your stepfather and The aviator Charles Lindbergh, because Charles Lindbergh III was murdered at the age of two.

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

@@eshim3961 lol

[@pagangoddess5853]

Did you consider using the book, "The Lindbergh Kidnapping, Suspect #1: the man that got away" in your research? I believe the author posits a credible theory that Lindbergh himself was involved in the baby's Kidnapping and murder.

[@roguespearsf]

Absolutely garbage, anytime someone espouses "wrong opinions", aka supporting the Germans in this case, these virtue signaling people really go out of their way to smear people. Did you ever stop to think that they may have been the good guys?

[@robertn800]

Most recent book & shows Lindbergh’s cruelty, his dislike of his deformed son & was probably the one responsible for the toddler’s death.

[@samtrujillojr]

Dr Mark Felton has a really good piece on Lindbergh. In there he discusses the very real possibility that Lindbergh was indeed behind the murder of his own son. With his views on eugenics and having to be seen as the absolute perfect person, it would have been devastating to his ego if his child was anything but perfect and that became apparent as he grew up. He has done a great deal of research and he's a noted historian.

[@leonieromanes7265]

@@roguespearsf who the Nazi's? No, they weren't the good guys.

[@marcleblanc3602]

@@robertn800 It doesnt show, no visual or footage, yes he was oldfashion hardknox father style, not delighted with a weak child but he was also tuff on the others as he had been. Not a fashionable modern day daddy but far cry to make him a childkiller. Not the only Celebrity to have affairs by FAR nor the last.

[@QuietFury9]

Anyone else rediscover their love for history and then binged watched all videos after finding this channel?

[@RANDALLBRIGGS]

Re "Charles was able to eject" at 4:00, that is not correct. He bailed out, but ejection seats were not perfected until WWII.

[@edwardhaynes6728]

I always watch your videos I even have the other parents letting their kids these videos. Very educational. Thank you.

[@roguespearsf]

You let your kids watch anti white propaganda?

[@dyveira]

"American hero who became a Nazi sympathizer" is probably more accurate.

[@ugrena7419]

@SLCPunked You seem to have skimmed the video, or are just cherry picking points. The dude was a real scumbag, but he did some genuinely important things, multiple of which could have easily ended in his death.

[@American-Orthodox-Christian]

@SLCPunked While I do agree with the USA being in ww2, ww1 was mainly stupid monarchs trying to see who was better and the US had no reason being in it. WHAT IS SO HEROIC ABOUT AN AMERICAN FIGHTING IN AN EUROPEAN CONLFICT.

[@natel9019]

They kidnapped his baby and murdered it ritualistically because he spoke the truth about which side we should have been on in WW2. America had far more German ancestry then English and we had millions of Irish and American Germans had millions of parents and grandparents who lived in Germany.

[@American-Orthodox-Christian]

Nate L If your talking about ww2 Im glad we fought against the Germans. I am of German ancestry too. But ww1like I said the American deaths were pointless. We got rid of the idea of fat kings and queens in America so why fight for them in Europe. GOD DAMN THE QUEEN.

[@American-Orthodox-Christian]

Nate L So you are a Fascist?

[@ghostofluck1811]

Biographics idea: Whitey Bulger?

[@cpegg5840]

Whitey Bulger; the scumbag who was “Epstein’d” before Epstein 😂

[@pamelamays4186]

The Spirit Of St. Louis would make an interesting Megaprojects! I live in San Diego, where it was built. The plane itself is displayed in the Air And Space Museum here in Balboa Park.

[@Louis_Davout]

The San Diego Air and Space museum is pretty cool, especially their static display of WWII naval fighters... Unfortunately, the "Spirit of St. Louis" on display there is a replica... The real aircraft is on display at the Smithsonian Institute...

[@johnstevenson9956]

William Shirer attended a Charles Lindbergh lecture in Berlin before the war, in which he talked about what wonderful things the Nazis were doing. Shirer was disgusted that a man who was led around by the nose for a few days on a guided tour, should be lecturing journalists who had lived there for years and telling them "how it really was".

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Lindberg is a good reminder of how we need to separate the achievements from the person. We can celebrate one without celebrating the other. Just because someone does an incredible or heroic thing does not make them someone to emulate.

[@roguespearsf]

Or maybe some of us aren't blinded by 80+year old Soviet propaganda

[@gomahklawm4446]

@Repent Keep crying about the truth. PATHETIC.

[@easyenetwork2023]

Thank-you! Too many people put men on a pedestal without vetting them.

[@samlbrown6665]

His career as an aviator was stellar ( excuse the pun ). However I will be overly generous when I say that he was a horribly misguided soul when it came to his personal views. Like the rest of us there is a Jeckyll / Hyde element in his make up.

[@jefflewis4]

Lindbergh became something some very intelligent or successful people become. The start to think they are better/superior and thus need to validate it by claiming they came from a superior race or class.

[@kattsforeveryone]

My Grammer called him a nazi murder. She always said he killed his son Lil Charlie

[@nancyvillines4552]

I agree with her. Always have.

[@kendn01]

My entire knowledge of Lindbergh comes from various documentaries I have seen, but I think it's worth mentioning a few juicy details you left out: 1. The kidnapping of Lindbergh's baby was not as clear cut as you describe. There were, and had to have been, others involved, including Lindbergh himself- so the story goes. Lindbergh wanted the baby dead because the baby was born with some congenital flaw, and it would not do for such a stellar example of the master race (namely Lindbergh himself) to have sired an imperfect baby. 2. Roosevelt was so pissed at Lindbergh for his isolationist stance that when Pearl Harbor happened and Lindbergh wanted to rejoin the military to fight the Japanese, FDR wouldn't let him! and 3. Lindbergh made himself baby daddy to those kids in Germany to spread his superior seed throughout the land - thereby perfecting the white race - more eugenics nonsense.

[@roguespearsf]

So Lindberg was based and got smeared for having "wrong opinions"? Sounds like things haven't changed a bit

[@dfuher968]

Whether Lindbergh was involved in the kidnapping and murder of his son or not, Hauptmann provably wasnt. The experts had all been unable to connect him to the crime or ruled him out alltogether, until the police needed a scapegoat, and then suddenly every1 from the handwriting expert to the wood expert changed their tune. Oh, and then theres the little detail of Hauptmann not even being in New Jersey at the time of the kidnapping, but working in New York with several witnesses, who along with the alibi were excluded at the trial.

[@zephyr8072]

@Repent Sinner If you mean he got rightly put down for being a literal Nazi then yes. I’d hate to live in an era where Nazis aren’t treated like the rabid dogs you are.

[@bethryan9077]

@@dfuher968 omg you people are so friggin Gullible. Next book of BS & you'll believe that too. Yawn.

[@ML-ul2zq]

@@roguespearsf Dangerous opinions, not just wrong or different.

[@pgwchaos]

Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) had a large number of political cartoons, denouncing the Axis powers as well as isolationists like Lindbergh. Who is shown as ostriches with their heads in the ground. All of the political cartoons are in the art style of Dr. Seuss so it can be a bit weird, yet kind of awesome.

[@WyattRyeSway]

PGW Chaos .....I have that book

[@krazykkarl]

Dr. Seuss also was cheating on his ailing wife with her best friend which drove her to suicide.

[@Gfgttgfdthhhdd]

@lanner95 oh he was Juish?

[@Gfgttgfdthhhdd]

@LofiGooba it's like rolling snake eyes 100 times in a row 😆

[@dirtcache6128]

But dr suess is racist

[@jjc5475]

that facebook pop up was hilarious. GG lol.

[@forbesy33]

Ha yes clever

[@lauriehepinstall2636]

This is a well done coverage of a complex man. I have appreciated your evenhanded portrayal

[@aristaniara]

May I suggest that you consider going deeper into detail on the Lindbergh Trial? Saying that the handwriting matched is not completely true. That IS the abridged version, however, the handwriting did not actually match as shown in modern handwriting analysis (look at the G in the letter verses the handwriting sample and you'll see that they do not match at ALL). The trial took place in Flemington, NJ and all involved except poor Bruno, made it into a performance, not caring whether they did the trial correctly. The Union Hotel, across the street from the Courthouse in Flemington, was built solely for the purpose of housing the reporters for the trial. There's a lot more that I could potentially go into but I won't as this comment is already going long enough. I have lived in the area of the trial for my whole life and there are re-enactments of the trial today (due to COVID, I believe they have been put on hold.)

[@Justatackit]

I thought something was wrong in this video because I remember way back in the 1970s or 80s hearing about the kidnapping and how suspicion still arises on who was actually responsible for the Lindbergh baby's death!

[@Nym146]

"Time Magazines man of the year" Oh, just like Hitler! 😂

[@fredschnerbert1238]

AND Greta Thunberg ALL with world domination on their minds... You Vil live as we say!

[@ismth]

@@fredschnerbert1238 get a grip

[@pyromania1018]

The magazine actually mocked Hitler, predicting that he could raise hell in about a year if he wasn't stopped soon, while also condemning his persecution of the Jews. This was one year before the war kicked off.

[@Nym146]

@@pyromania1018 irrelevant to my point.

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[@ravenhill_of_yore_1968]

interesting as always, i don't always see your videos due to being very busy, but appreciate them when i catch them.

[@gubbie2u]

He was a traitor, pure and simple.

[@sarasweightlossjourney1432]

This was an incredible video. I got to be honest I don't normally watch things like this all the way through but you kept me engaged the entire time. Bravo definitely a new subscriber

[@michaeltnk1135]

“After graduating high school” He was so close to mentioning my high school’s name

[@rfitz1711]

Fun fact: Hermann Goring is the chief suspect for the allies mole in Hitler's inner circle.

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*goerring

[@shebbs1]

@@jasonanfinson9346 Göring is technicall correct.

[@MetalboxwithKanon]

Lol then why would he be sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials and would commit suicide the night before he was to be hanged?

[@vanessathomas7437]

Wouldn't be surprised..

[@MrBobthebird]

Borman was the suspected Russian spy, as he recorded every word that was said in front of Hitler.

[@sherriexsal]

I've always found Charles Lindbergh fascinating. I did a book report when I was in elementary school on him because even back then I was captivated with stories of people like Alan Turing,Jack Parsons,etc;... So I love your videos!!

[@jrow3101]

In school all they told you to consider is how wonderful Lindbergs flight was and they show you the ticker tape Parade, i had to get to college to really expand on who these ghostly historical figures really where. Thank you for making it easier for my children to digest reality fully.

[@roguespearsf]

You let your children watch anti white/American propaganda?

[@gomahklawm4446]

@repent Keep crying. Truth is truth.

[@michaelsmyth3935]

@@roguespearsf oooo edgy are you not? Go watch Alex Jones.

[@andrewswift2727]

He was BOTH. People are complicated.

[@drdre4397]

exactly.

[@MrDariolett]

It seems to me that this is a man with a huge ego and superiority complex. He might also have been a brave man but that doesn’t excuse his enormous personality weaknesses.

[@ehrldawg]

Another reason it was called *Spirit Of St Louis* ; he invite the citizens of St Louis,his home town at the time,to pitch in money for the effort.

[@sakkra93]

Like Henry Ford, Lindbergh was deeply impressed at how Germany had gone from a broken, despondent, economically ruined nation in the 1920s to a vibrant, proud and economically powerful one in the 1930s. Lindbergh's wife was deeply impressed by the energy and the spirit of the German youth.

[@judochopmaster8233]

I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example; Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed Confederate President Jefferson Davies Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction Etc. I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel

[@hellsing507]

Don’t forget Vincent “claw hammer” Witcher the insane confederate paramilitary who would bash people’s brains out on suspicion of union sympathy’s

[@judochopmaster8233]

@@hellsing507 a fellow Atun Shei Films fan?

[@cland49lsu1]

America: Where we will idolize you as a super hero if you are born rich, given literally everything, suffered absolutely zero consequences for your wrongs, and sympathized with fascist. Yeah, that's totally the only time this has happened.

[@kristoffer-2614]

17:24 Hawai? Never heard of that place? Is it anywhere close to Hawaii?

[@blah88ism]

Omg thank you. I kept wondering if someone else noticed it.

[@12yearssober]

Damn limeys and their queens English

[@shebbs1]

Funny how Americans get pissy about alleged mispronunciations, yet stubbornly mispronounce foreign words and names all the time. Besides, the scriptwriters and owners of this channel are AMERICANS, so it is nothing to do with "limeys" or the "Queen's (sic) English"".

[@chesspiece81]

As always Simon great video full of great information.

[@jenniferspencer587]

Wait! You never said how he died. If you're going to explain his entire life, why not finish with his death?

[@YearsOfLeadPoisoning]

He died a humble labourer working at an Omaha cherry farm in 1911, but will always be remembered for his contributions to mountain folklore and famous desert recipes.

[@archstanton6102]

@Dani Mendoza Your hate and fear is showing

[@snapfinger1]

From hero to zero. He landed in Paris, not Munich.

[@kristoffer-2614]

Simon: talks about Lindbergh *swedish national anthem starts playing*

[@maximilianolimamoreira5002]

eh,nooo

[@Angel_1394]

Learned more about him in the 20 minute video then I did years in school

[@donnyhh313]

You guys gotta do music composers like Mozart, etc

[@beagleissleeping5359]

I don't know if it's truth or Hollywood: I remember a movie about him that had a scene where there was a fly inside his cockpit that kept buzzing around his face. It helped keep him from falling asleep during his long flight.

[@jamesmcguire5312]

I very rarely add a comment to a video. But I have some thoughts that some might find interesting. First of all I do not excuse Lindburg for attitude toward the Jewish people or his moral stance. But something to think about that most people don’t understand is that the starting of World War II was a calculated effort. The British and the Americans and the Russians helped supply materials to the empires of Japan and Germany. You might want to check it out but the first German Messerschmitt Bf-109 flew with the British Rolls Royce Kestrel engine. The treaty that ended world war one prohibited Germany from having powered aircraft. Nevertheless the Americans and British encouraged them to manufacture aircraft in violation of the treaty. The Russians trained German fighter pilots at Fili Russia. Also a violation of the treaty. By the late 1930s the German war machine was cranking up. The military industrial complex in Britain and America started ramping up production for the upcoming war. in spite of being a neutral nation the United States gave war materials to Britain. The US gave them ships called destroyers and called it lend lease. And in the Pacific the United States was giving war materials-petroleum, steel and rubber-to the Japanese up to three months before the attack on Pearl Harbor in spite of their aggressive behavior in attacking China, Manchuria and other lands in the Pacific theater. Furthermore transferring the US Pacific Fleet to Pearl Harbor from the safe harbor at San Diego was a fools maneuver. It would be like leaving a brand new sports car in downtown New York City with the keys in it. The United States was selling war materials to China to protect them from the aggression of the Japanese. Again funding both sides in a war. Probably by now anyone reading this is calling me a conspiracy theorist. But the data is accurate. The British gave their jet engine technology to both Russians and the United States after World War II. Saber Jets and Mig-15’s fought in the skies over Korea due to British technology. Wars do not start themselves. Tanks and war planes and warships do not grow up like weeds in the yard. They have to be funded, designed and equipped with warriors. Even today we are selling war technology to both sides in the Middle East conflict.

[@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff]

This is a website for entertainment only. It isn't for anyone looking for anything academic. Historical accuracy is not a priority.

[@mikmik9034]

Using the term 'ejecting' is a disservice to early pilots. They had to Get Out and Jump. Too many children/adults today think of 'ejecting' as being propelled out of the pilots seat by mechanical means. Jumping involved intricaste daring in the early days. Being hit by the tail section was likely if a mistake was made. "$25,000 in 1924 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $439,824.56 today".

[@natematthews2089]

You’ve taken a very “neutral” “you decide” tone here, which I don’t think is okay when talking about someone who was a Nazi sympathizer and dangerous one at that: He was a eugenicist, a movement leader, and a famous political candidate who had a good chance of gaining power. All communication has perspective and bias, and trying to be in “the middle” of two perspectives is just another way to pick another perspective, and in this case I don’t like how close you sound to saying it’s okay to think Kristellnacht wasn’t that bad if you’re a skilled and charismatic pilot.

[@TrojanJustin]

Yep and the eugenics likely were the cause of his son's "kidnapping," as all evidence suggests he had several birth defects, which Lindbergh could not tolerate.

[@michaelsmyth3935]

Simon is the ultimate establishment hack, did you expect less?

[@dseray9494]

Why is there a Christmas Carol playing in the background around 17:20?

[@markgarin6355]

If his nickname was 'Daredevil Charles' why show a photo that clearly says 'Daredevil Lindbergh'???

[@adamfaul8129]

Hi there biograhpics ! Thank you for great bios . I would love to get a bio on my hero Gene Autry. Started as a blues singer . Singer, cowboy,actor, ww2 vet, saved Ohio town with his pistol, the phantom empire " clearly an early star wars influence, wrote here comes Santa Claus, owner of the Angels MLB team, and the only human with 5 stars on the walk of Fame. Thank you guys! Keep educating !

[@alexanderveritas]

I think that indeed nothing else could’ve better described _Lindberg_ than the very words of _FDR._

[@leisaw3981]

Please do; Paul Wittgenstein ( one handed composer), Red Skelton (comedian), Tom Lehr (mathematician, musician, and comedian), Victor Borga (musician and comedian), Annie Sullivan (Helen Keller's teacher), Robert Wadlow (tallest man in history), Carroll Shelby ( racecar driver and designer), Stevie Wonder, Don Knotts, Andy Griffith, Michael Jordan, Maria Tallchief (ballerina), Vincent Price, Lucille Ball, Charles Schultz, Dimitri Mendeleev, Wolfe Tone, Isabella Bird, John Huntsman Sr., Jim Thorpe, Charles Eastmon (Native American doctor), and Ludwig Van Beethoven

[@jeanieq6153]

I found the music selection weird and distracting and at times too loud in an otherwise excellent video. Many thanks.

[@fulltimerver2355]

No mention of the information and theory that baby Lindbergh was born with a medical condition and Lindbergh may not have been willing to have a less than perfect name sake.

[@michellejade3272]

The “Timeless” episode featuring Lindbergh was great!

[@johnk6123]

Horray nice and early, thanks Simon et al!

[@DougsMessyGarage]

Interesting character. While I have encountered snippets of Lindbergh's legend throughout my aviation hobby, this is the first time I have actually seen a summary of his life.

[@Vercingetorix.Rising]

Bruno was 100% innocent of the kidnapping, potentially the ransom as well.

[@bethryan9077]

Don't be soo Ridiculous.

[@Kethambelle]

I haven't been this early since my mother went into premature labour.

[@judochopmaster8233]

Ok thats a good "Last time I was this early" joke

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

😆

[@daygoncornhole2395]

@@judochopmaster8233 I thought that I have heard everything but this is a new one and a good one

[@diarradunlap9337]

YOU! win the Comments page for today.

[@davidnichols1943]

I liked it better when you didn't have a commercial every five seconds

[@-souls-5989]

Still waiting on: Simon Whistler: The Scourge Of Facts And Knowledge

[@benjaminholcombe9816]

The scourge?? So he causes suffering with facts and knowledge? Or did you mean he gets all his facts wrong so he’s a scourge to anyone who likes knowledge? Lol just because you know a big word doesn’t mean it’s appropriate to use it.

[@-souls-5989]

@@benjaminholcombe9816 Suffering to incorrect information, of course

[@shebbs1]

@@-souls-5989 What do you consider to have been incorrect information? Seriously, what are your thoughts? My view is at least this presentation didn't gloss over his negative side, though it did, at the start, elevate Lindbergh to sone sort of high cultural status that is not really true now, and likely never was true, even at his height of frame.

[@James-co2nb]

@@-souls-5989 What was wrong?

[@Niinsa62]

You mention very briefly that he flew air mail, and you mention it only in passing, about how he found financers for his Atlantic solo flight. But I think there is more to it, this air mail business. He gained experience in long range solo flying and solo navigation, this way. So he definitely knew one or two things about what he was getting into, when he took off from New York City.

[@hellsidefamilia]

Hawaii or Hawai’i, Not spelled “Hawai”. Also, he is buried here on Maui. Out in Kipahulu, near(ish) Hana.

[@nl3064]

The whole time I was watching, I kept comparing this to the Philip Roth novel "The Plot Against America", which imagines a fictional timeline in which Lindbergh runs for President in 1940, beats Roosevelt, and starts Nazifying the country after reaching a pact with Hitler.

[@geocache99]

this place would be alot better off today if that had happened.

[@redmanoutdoors9632]

Just saying it’s spelt “Hawaii” not “hawai”

[@shebbs1]

Poor editing?

[@slcfutbolfan]

Hawai'i

[@redmanoutdoors9632]

slcfutbolfan does it really have an apostrophe? I never knew that

[@slcfutbolfan]

@@redmanoutdoors9632 yes and no .its actually not an apostrophe it's a 'okina. it occurs 99% of the time when you back2back vowels like Hawai'i, O'ahu ,Ho'okipa, Ka'anapali (resort area in Maui near Lahaina), Pu'unen, Pa'ia ,a'ole (no,not). also most words starting with a bowel has an Okinawa (even if you see it on road signs etc) like 'ohana (family), "olelo (language). It's to indicate a "glottal" stop between the two like when you say "uh-oh". the meaning of the word could altered with and without. if you to your significant other"ko'u ipo" you're saying my special/fav/beloved sweetheat. but if you said you ipo you're downgrading to "my sweeheart".

[@nesta8273]

Old days: "American hero or nazi sympathizer?" Today: Same thing.

[@Kuulei265]

Funny how long it took for this part of Lindbergh’s life to be exposed. I cannot imagine what life his wife, and children had and if the children knew.

[@roberts1572]

The amount of ads on youtube these days in astonishing.

[@vinnyfatstacks1644]

He’s got great content but yeah, more ads than ever. You get what you pay for!

[@jandammrasmussen3699]

Meanwhile in hoi4: Charles Lindbergh announced president of the Confederated States of America!

[@Bahns007]

A man of culture I see

[@sagathespeedster7004]

Yes.

[@myrpok]

The Plot Against America is a great alternate history miniseries about Lindbergh's run for presidency.

[@or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS]

@@myrpok and book too

[@nohabloemojislosiento4930]

Being a Nazi sympathizer doesn't necessarily exclude you from hero status in a lot of North and South American and European countries.

[@1158scott]

He wasn't a naxi sympathizer. This video is deceitful, shallow, distortion. thst has. nothing to claim directly he was one. I just wrote detailed comnent dedtroying this video. READ IT & then maybe I'll see if there's some name to call you- maybe racist or bigot.

[@gomahklawm4446]

@Chuck Keep crying about the truth.

[@VaxtorT]

Lindbergh was only lauded by his own generation , it seems to me. He was lauded to my generation by the previous; but my generation never really seemed to understand truly what was so fucking great about him. He flew planes.....Wow. nothing exemplary by my generations standards of a hero.

[@michaelschultz342]

The B-24 Liberator was a Bomber, not a "Fighter Plane". Sorry Simon.....

[@sketchstevens5859]

Definitely, a Nazi sympathizer, and also an American hero. He was right to not want to jump into war, but he was wrong for the reasons

[@robertn800]

Even after the War was over Lindbergh kept the Swastika covered medal given to him by Himmler & he never apologized for his Nazi sympathies.

[@Jiff321]

There is a difference between being a great man and being a good man.

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

Absolutely. A good man upholds the status quo, does not question state nor elites and dies for Israel in some far-off desert. 👍

[@handsomegeorgianbankrobber3779]

American hero or Nazi sympathizer? Why not both? Same thing can kind of be said about Wernher von Braun (although he was probably a bit more than just a sympathizer bc he was an active collaborator).

[@kenyattaclay7666]

Nazi.

[@jamesbaldwin7676]

I hav'nt listened to the whole thing here but Lindbergh was against the war and perhaps a Nazi sympathizer but all that changed after Pearl Harbor. After Pearl, he tried repeatedly to enlist in U.S. armed services but was rejected because of his age and former political activities? Still, Lindbergh persevered and volunteered his technical knowledge to the war efforts. He had an idea how to extend the range of the P38 by leaning the fuel mixture while enroute to Japan. He was so sure this could be safely done that he volunteered to fly the first mission himself. He did, it worked and it became SOP until the end of the war. Lindbergh thereby saved untold American lives and planes. No more dead-stick ditchings in the Pacific. And, Lindbergh managed to shoot-down a Zero on his first and only combat mission! Pretty good for a former Nazi-sympathizer.

[@benjalucian1515]

Notice he asked for action in the Pacific theater, not the European one.

[@jamesbaldwin7676]

@@benjalucian1515 Lindbergh was a technical advisor, involved in B24 (Liberator) Construction. This was one one the principle, combat bombers of the U.S. 8th Air Force, used in bombing Nazi Germany and Western Europe. They were also deployed to England and used by the Brits in the Battle of the Atlantic. Here they spotted and bombed Nazi U-boats. Lindbergh was indeed a Nazi Sympathizer and Anti-War Activist, but he sure gave them hell despite his political statements. His interests only later shifted to P38s and these were only deployed in the Pacific Theater.

[@andysnyder4506]

@@jamesbaldwin7676 There were plenty of P-38s in the European Theater.

[@jamesbaldwin7676]

@@andysnyder4506 I stand corrected. Thanks

[@andysnyder4506]

@@jamesbaldwin7676 No problem. Boy, was Lindy complicated and very secretive?

[@vf24renegade23]

He had over 2000 hours when he flew transatlantic. Hardly a 'relatively inexperienced aviator'. And the spirit of st. Louis was a modified version of the Ryan mailplane.

[@1158scott]

This video is total garbage.

[@TheOfficalLutube]

@ 8:20, the ident says May 21th, 1927. Not that I’m attacking. I know Simon said the 21st. Love this channel and all the channels Simon is on, I stay smashing the like button. ❤️

[@bicyclist2]

Turns out that Lindbergh's wife had a twin sister who was extremely jealous. She is the only one who would have the knowledge and motive to commit the kidnapping. I read books about Charles Lindbergh as a kid. Thanks.

[@davidkugel]

I remember reading that Lindbergh's wife had an affair with her physician to get back at her husband. Sad. She wrote a book called "Gift from the Sea." It is worth reading.

[@natel9019]

That is propaganda. The most famous person on Earth opposed the American war effort. So they kidnapped his killed and killed him.

[@erickjohnson7128]

@@natel9019 you are WAY!! off. the kidnapping was in 1932. Two YEARS before the " Night of the long Knives " SEVEN years before the war started!

[@natel9019]

@@erickjohnson7128 Everyone knew that WW1 was not over war was eminent. The war reparations and the theft of land were not going to stand for long. Linbergh lived in Germany after his kid got killed to escape publicity. He warned Americans ( congress) about German aircraft advancement. He knew of thier superiority before he address Congress and everyone with a room temperature IQ new WW2 was going to pop off and furthermore you dont need to be Nostradamus to know what side he would be on. They killed his kid in advance to shut him up. After all they wanted the most famous guy in the entire world on thier team. America knew the war was going to happen we financed it. Look up Pat Tillman the US government intentionally killed him because he realised the war effort was horseshit and was quite outspoken person with the NFL as a platform.If they will off Pat Tillman imagine what they would do to pre shut up Linbergh. Do you think someone just happened to kidnap the most famous person on earth son on accident and didnt know it? If they knew it then why? There must have been a pretty crazy reason, especially since they killed the poor little guy.

[@erickjohnson7128]

@@natel9019 Ok. first this is long and I will craft a longer response later. But just for your first sentence... The world was in the mist of a great depression two 1/2 years after the Crash. No one was thinking about war.

[@drax5872]

"American Hero or Nazi Sympathiser?" Why not both?