German pilots surrender to USAAF - May 1945

May 1945, German pilots and personals surrender to USAAF. FW190 and Stuka in this short silent color movie..

[@The_Honcho]

0:01 that face you make when you get to surrender to the US instead of the Soviets

[@Freedom34176]

Seems like no gulag for you

[@rrt4511]

Obviously, after what they did to the Soviet Union. Smile of a coward who got away with it

[@WotbBeast]

*surrenders to soviets *made to drink 10 gallons of vodka Gets sent to gulag and dies from not listening from hangover WELCOME TO RUSSIA!

[@bruhbruh13968]

@@rrt4511 yeessh

[@treeshotgun681]

Angelo DiMeo smile of a young boy who doesn’t get murdered by Russian thugs

[@okrajoe]

Rare views of late war German aircraft in color.

[@user-do5zk6jh1k]

This time, it's not a meme

[@Daliaxez]

空軍パイロット how do u spell ur name

[@user-do5zk6jh1k]

Kuugun Pairotto Air Force Pilot

[@lemmy6782]

Suprised there was a stuka left

[@mh53j]

steven Cooper me too, that was something to see in color

[@supratiksaha2001]

They escaped "Suka Blyat" and surrendered to "Hell yeah".

[@lordmashie]

More like "MUURICAAAA FUCK YEEAH"

[@smiley7493]

Cyka blyat

[@karatlack4464]

@@smiley7493 it's suka not cyka in english letters

[@EJ205T]

@@karatlack4464 thats just a meme

[@karatlack4464]

@@EJ205T ik it's a meme but instead of "cyka" it'd be suka or сука

[@frumious2946]

Having to surrender because your side lost: sucks. Having enough fuel left to fly to an American controlled airfield: priceless!

[@norfangl3480]

Then they send you back to the Soviets

[@blabla-jr8zw]

Lol they lost twice now🤦‍♂️😂😂

[@L1V2P9]

@@blabla-jr8zw No they won. They were among the very few German pilots that survived the war.

[@blabla-jr8zw]

@@L1V2P9 I’m talking about Germany as a whole not the pilots

[@daeshfaster8883]

Being handed over to the Soviets and spending ten years in a gulag for being a pilot who shot down lots of their planes. What would that be?

[@fredricksmith-something.2125]

I wonder how many smiled when they surrendered to the Reds?

[@walterkurtz4360]

Fredrick Holman not very I bet a good number of germans that had to surrender to the Russians either fought to the death or shot themselves in the head before the Russians could take them prisoner. The US had actually stopped fighting the Germans once we were outside of Berlin so that they could surrender to us instead of the Russians

[@fredricksmith-something.2125]

walter kurtz Very true.

[@Pfsif]

There were plenty of German Communist who thought they'd be going to workers paradise and were then shot.

[@fredricksmith-something.2125]

Pfsif Yikes..

[@georgemcdonough5039]

Fredrick Holman only if they were expecting death.

[@lebaillidessavoies3889]

Fw190 D, long nose, Pretty rare at this time .

[@mrloominati3097]

Considering it was 1945 and most likely bomber hunting, not really.

[@mrloominati3097]

@Lucy Heartfilia exactly!?!?!?! At this time! It was NOT a rare aircraft in 1945, especially in American occupied territory, "nitwit"

[@lebaillidessavoies3889]

@@mrloominati3097 I dont think so , this aircraft arrived very late in the war , even at the end of the war , i dont think they produced that many of it ( will check on google).the bulk of it was the A/F with radial engine .

[@mrloominati3097]

@@lebaillidessavoies3889 yes, exactly and if any of you had been paying attention to the video, which stated '1945' which newsflash was the last year of WW2. Now, the D9 became the primary and most common high altitude interceptor, of course the plane itself is rare in contrast to the bulk 109's and Anton 190's, but this plane in 1945 was almost always used as a bomber interceptor. As the video states, this is American occupied territory. thus all D series 190's being based in Germany, not so far away form where this guy was probably captured, would be always in close proximity and relentlessly hunting the swarms of bombers carpet bombing Germany. The 190 D was not so uncommon toward the end of the war, so it doesn't really surprise me that this craft showed up on an American airfield presumably to surrender or become the pilots aircraft had sustained damage. For example, Britain used the Mk-1 spitfire for the battle of Britain. Throughout the 5 years various renditions of the spitfire became really available and toward the end of the war seeing a mk 1 spitfire would have been the rarest sight ever. Akin to this example, the Anton 190's were rolled out in early 41' and also went to various renditions, i.e. the A4, the A5, A5 U2, A8, A7/3, and the list goes on. Eventually we get to the Dora's. So much like in Britain, the Mk-9 and 16 spitfires were among the most common, while all the earlier models were all but obsolete, the Dora was also not an uncommon bomber interceptor toward the end of the war as the Anton's had become far more dated and obviously the D9 was the focus model of aircraft for the Luftwaffe. D9's were rolled out late 43' / early 44 and saw service quite consistently. So to answer your question, no this aircraft wasn't really that uncommon. Yes, in comparison to the humongous number of 109's built, maybe, but this was a dedicated bomber interceptor / fighter and considering that the primary objective of the US forces was to bomb all supply and demand in Germany, bomber interceptors would be very common in this area. Sure you'd not only have this plane intercepting, but it's not anywhere as near as rare as you make it out to be. If you want rare, go look up the Ta-154 or the Ta-152 C, or perhaps even the Me-163.

[@nova_8028]

I thought it was a Fw190 A4 •-•

[@owenedwards6648]

My late father-in-law was a Stuka squadron leader on the Eastern Front. When Hitler commanded all pilots and crews "to die by their airplanes," he told me he thought that was a really bad idea. So he loaded up gunners and mechanics in their Stukas and headed for the American/English lines. He lived until his late eighties, but told me that it was not easy to surrender when flying a dive bomber.

[@pindakaas1212]

How did he do it??

[@johnmiller8043]

I wonder how that felt, the last time you'll ever fly your aircraft. Outside everything else I'd imagine these pilots had a strong connection to their airframe and to land it for the last time must have been bittersweet

[@Bbergley]

Probably happy that for for him, the war was over.

[@pedalingthru2719]

Many former German pilots flew with the German airforce after the war.

[@farleywright4646]

Given the way the Nazis burned through their pilots without a proper replacement program, there's a decent chance the pilots had comparatively little flight time with his aircraft. German pilots racked up 'impressive' kill numbers because they flew until they were killed, whereas other air forces rotated experienced back to training squadrons to help improve the skills of student pilots.

[@recklesflam1ngo968]

@@Bbergley And happy that he wasn't immediately shot by the Russians, had he surrendered to them instead.

[@jeffshultz3883]

Naa! They all went on to fly commercial for TWA.

[@lycian123]

My father-in-law, who had manned an anti-aircraft gun in East Prussia the previous year, tried to surrender to the Americans but was ignored. Only when they had time on their hands did they consider taking him into custody. He then starved because he was considered less worthy of receiving food than the allied troops in-theatre. They then sent him to Belgium where his health declined even further. An officer was also amongst his group and he taught him how to survive the incarceration before he himself was separated from the group. Because he was born in what is now Poland, the Americans tried to give him to the Russians. They declined as they had an enormous refugee problem of their own at that time. Eventually he was released back to Germany to look for his father who went missing on the Russian front and his mother and aunt who were transported to Siberia. In May 1945 he was sixteen. Somehow he made it to Bavaria and met my mother-in-law. He then started work at a quarry loading trucks by hand, driving to the Customer and unloading by hand, this with literally the shirt on his back as his only asset. To this day he regards anything that has packaging as extravagance and is a nightmare to buy a present for. He's 90 and only now does he tell us these things from his past. Different times.

[@visionist7]

Stephen Saunders thank you to your father-in-law for his service

[@columnal8067]

Wth.... Why didn't the Soviets capture him... this makes no sense lmao

[@StoneCoolds]

Will-JB Burden well probably because they had captured the entire german army and where full of nazis to “feed” lol

[@suds5866]

So he’s 89 not 90?

[@gpdude22]

Because the story is BS.

[@dudemonkfish4641]

Some of these pilot went on to be pilots for NATO.

[@Nimori]

Yep. Can’t let skilled pilots go unused, eh? Of course, many background checks were needed to make sure that they would not sabotage or murder anyone within their ranks. At the time, flying was still sort of brand new. So there were not many skilled or trained pilots. This is why America/NATO has an amazing air force.

[@jxmint4458]

@@Nimori yup

[@t1e6x12]

@James Passmore I'm not sure if they got to work on jet fighters there, as Franz Stigler, one of the Me262 pilots from Jv 44, was turned down due to his past in the German Luftwaffe. However, he did find other employment in Canada.

[@alittlebitintellectual7361]

Same player, different coach.

[@tomrisar5492]

They were aviators first, but secondly very arrogant. maybe not so much in '45.

[@Nerezza1]

The Germans made some beautiful aircraft.

[@roscoefoofoo]

Botulism is pretty, too.

[@simono.w.2995]

@@roscoefoofoo botulism?

[@shadowtrooper1]

@@roscoefoofoo ummm is your sanity ok?

[@captain_noo]

@@roscoefoofoo what is that?

[@yibithehispanic]

@@roscoefoofoo calm down red boy

[@fgrau7376]

My Grandfather was a Sgt in the US Army in WW2 but also spoke fluent German. He said as they(US) were talking to the Luftwaffe crews they were so happy to be surrendering to the US and we’re extremely proud of all their aircraft and technology. They were proud and happy to show the Americans how everything worked.

[@ethanhall7314]

interesting!

[@FiveCentsPlease]

@@ethanhall7314 German POWs had a good working relationship with their Allied captors, identifying and sorting equipment and weapons. A few POW pilots flew mock combat exercises in captured aircraft, and I know that Luftwaffe pilots were asked to ferry the captured prototype helicopters because they knew how to operate them. Luftwaffe Me-262 instructor pilots helped to train Allied pilots to fly it. And POW Luftwaffe mechanics helped to service the captured aircraft.

[@ethanhall7314]

very cool thanks for sharing! @@FiveCentsPlease

[@rescue270]

The Americans were probably marvelling at their technology. This would have been a welcome reprieve from demanding Nazi overseers.

[@AA-xk7gy]

1:37 he’s like hell yeah I get to live

[@jussaniggawitarocketlaunch8878]

@Provocateur what?

[@Guilhermecorinthias]

2 words: Eisenhower camps

[@AA-xk7gy]

Provocateur you like your own comment very sad.

[@sorryrooster2120]

*NUREMBURG TIME*

[@sorryrooster2120]

*NUREMBURG TIME*

[@craigalbrechtson5364]

My dad's uncle was a B-26 bomber pilot with the 320th bomb group. He told me a story exactly like that. As the war ended, a German major flying his Fw-190 flew in from the eastern front, landed ans surrendered. He said, afterwards all the pilots from his squadron, took turns flying the FW-190 around.

[@flemmingvandersteen1574]

Craig Albrechtson I totally believe the first part and it’s awesome! But I highly doubt the next part since 1. Bomber pilots probably could merely fly in a one engine fighter and 2. They would get shot down for flying in a fw190

[@hazmasterocks]

Pilots where trained on single engine aircraft then given an advanced class for multi engine aircraft, simply flying the 190 wouldn't be a problem for them

[@flemmingvandersteen1574]

Interesting, thx for the info

[@oveidasinclair982]

Flemming what do you think the first airplanes pilots used in training were, they sure as hell wasn't multi engine aircraft. Flying a single engine tail dragger was what all aviation trainees flew back then, it was like riding a bike, once you learn you never forget.

[@major_kukri2430]

I'd do the same

[@KRW628]

Years ago, I met an elderly man who had been an Me-109 pilot during the war. He moved to the U.S. after the war; eventually becoming a citizen. In the early 50's, he enlisted in the USAF, and become a gunner in B-29s; flying missions in the Korean War.

[@davidhenderson3400]

Years ago I heard a story from a very old man about such a thing that he seen. A German pilot landed at an air field he was stationed at. When they got to the plane the pilot was throwing out stuff onto the ground. He throw out a couple of knives, two pistols and a short barreled rifle and some other stuff as well. When he climbed out he said in English "I quit!". The old man said this was near the end of the war an over the course of a week a total of 3 German pilots landed at his air field.

[@kanepyrovifo784]

these pilot's were lucky to be able to fly to the American side to surrender and get away from the beast from the east

[@ernestov1777]

Kane Pyrovifo Today i am a pro-Russian. But at that times whit Stalin....i agree.

[@omen828]

Kane Pyrovifo Ha ha. The Germans killed far more millions of Soviets and millions of civilians. The Soviets killed a fraction but your sympathy lies with the Germans. You're a pervert.

[@brycewalker3726]

Nemo Actually, in the long run the Soviets killed far more people than Hitler and the Nazis ever did.

[@omen828]

Bryce Walker Blah blah. This upload is about the fucking Nazis. If you want to talk about the Soviets or skateboarding or cute kittens go find uploads on them.

[@brycewalker3726]

Nemo You are the one who brought up the Soviets in the first place.....

[@irgski]

“I surrender. I like American cigarettes!”

[@sce2aux464]

"Hey Speirsy, get this man a zigaretten!"

[@patrickrobinson317]

The German Pilot eventually died of Ass Cancer. Surprisingly, it was NOT lung cancer.

[@sooaltissimotempodersobrem5142]

Você também vai gostar dos hospitais americanos quando descobrir um câncer nos pulmões .

[@bvvvvb2610]

irgski They should fly to surrender to Russians. Straight to Siberia. They would be warmly welcome.

[@gtc1961]

first rule when you're in the military...never surrender to an eastern power....ever.

[@garylape1939]

I started USAF pilot training in Sep 1962. There were 7 Germans in my class. Like me, they were little kids during WW 2. It was interesting talking to them about growing up in post war Germany.

[@Pavia1525]

“Is he armed?” “Yes. He’s got a 30mm cannon”

[@GamePlayWithNolan]

1:07 For some reason that is so amazing to me, an enemy landing at an Allied field being told where to go. That is so cool for some reason!

[@mariacornwallis1602]

They were probably landing at their own fields which at been over run by American forces

[@mouloudo]

Must have been emotional for them, probably the last time they flew their planes

[@taotoo2]

I think more likely it was deliberately heading west rather than the field being overrun.

[@lylestavast7652]

orders of surrender told them where safe landing was set up so they didn't get mistaken and blown from the sky... told to me by a ground control guy in the 1970's...

[@joe-nf8go]

Ikr

[@tonyv8925]

I worked with a retired Luftwaffe pilot...was shot down 3 times...the last time as he was taking off from his airfield by a P-51...broke his leg and was later captured by British forces. He was NOT a Nazi, just a German soldier/airman doing his duty...

[@ciaranbrowne3353]

Tony V too many people confuse the Wehrmacht/ Luftwaffe with the SS. It's like calling the US Army, marines

[@TheBalls55]

Wehrmact and SS had the same goals. Carry out the orders of Adolph Hitler...

[@lortea]

WW II started when Germany invaded Poland 1 September 1939. Early morning that day german pilots bombed to pieces visibly white-crossed maternity hospital in Wieluń killinh hundreds mothers, babies and staff. Luftwaffe is no better then SS or Gestapo - bunch of german murderers.

[@karlydoc]

Cause his duty was wrong,His duty was wrong

[@ciaranbrowne3353]

lortea funny how air strikes and bombing runs are at top precision in modern times yet Americans, Russian and Israelis among a few to name rain hell on civilians.

[@Eyyoh755]

Reason for the smile..."I made it alive and in one piece!"

[@ColonelPeppers]

The guy just delivered a Folke Wulf 190 and they push him a bit.

[@828enigma6]

I noticed that too. Probably a REMF, never in combat. Should have treated the pilot a bit more professionally. After all, the man did surrender and acted professionally.

[@sammyreyes2604]

They still don't know if he's faking a surrender besides no one is goin to be nice to a surrender enemy who perhaps has killed your fellow allies

[@pimpompoom93726]

He was frisked, I hardly call that being 'pushed'. This was probably hours after the end of that terrible war. Had he surrendered to the Russians they probably would have put him in 10 years at a Gulag, if they didn't just shoot him outright.

[@thomaszhang3101]

@Samuel Sweetmann no... Russians needed pilots for the East German AF as well. Erick Hartmann recounted that he was not mistreated much by the Soviets after surrendering to the Americans - the Americans transferred his entire group to the Russians. The real torture came when he was interrogated by the Russians away from front line. Soldiers who fought on the frontline respected each other.

[@billparker244]

Imagine your enemy surrendering to you and acting happy about it. It was probably really annoying lol

[@robtankbuster5215]

Wow ....that's the FW190D, it was called the Dora long nose . It was an incredible fighter, nicknamed the "Downstairs maid", because it could sweep the skies clean at low level.

[@mrloominati3097]

Funnily enough the D9 and any D series 190 were the answer to high altitude fighter role / bomber interceptors. The Anton's were the low altitude short nose radials and the Dora's were the higher altitude performing long nose beasts. After that they refined the D series to the Ta 152 series for even better high altitude performance. However, the war ended before they could enter mass production

[@hongbochi2470]

252

[@messerschmittbolkow5606]

Also at high alt, thats what the Dora was made for

[@Tamburello_1994]

Too bad (for Germany) they appeared too late in the war to make a real difference.

[@georgemorley1029]

Didn’t have enough to make a dent though.

[@yank-tc8bz]

The US Officer is wearing a German pistol. Souvenir ?

[@toasterbathboi6298]

yank1776 very likely. It was common for Americans to take German pistols as souvenirs when they found them.

[@sce2aux464]

"War Trophy" is the official term.

[@kjellannn]

Think they did the same with STG 44, was a good rifle

[@mjoelnir58]

@@toasterbathboi6298 Found them,good one.They "found" everything you carried with you in no way different from the bolsheviks plunderers

[@toasterbathboi6298]

mjoelnir58 ever heard of the “spoils of war”? Get over mate. You don’t think the Germans did the exact same thing when they conquered France, Poland, part of Russia, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, etc?

[@petergibson2318]

They drove him away in a Volkswagen. He must have felt at home in the German car. (A bit like American prisoners being driven away by the Taliban in American Humvees.)

[@mjoelnir58]

The only Volkswagen you could drive in germany before the fifties was the Kübelwagen or some rare Original used by the Wehrmacht.Production of the civil version started after the war.

[@belleriffraff]

a VW?? More likely a MercedesBenz or a BMW......

[@damkayaker]

Just now I noticed that the German Stuka dive-bomber has gull type wings. The Americans must have copied them for their Vought F4U Corsair. The Corsair was said to need gull wings because the propeller was huge. Is that the reason the Germans used them on the Stuka or something else?

[@JD-po3yl]

Some people will refer to him as a Nazi. Most ‘nazis’ were just Germans fighting for their country, not for a political party.

[@blackmormon3555]

Now disagreeing with liberals is enough to get that label. Lol

[@bongothaplant4730]

Yeah the SS and those groups were the ones that deserved to be shot

[@tobiasr.6903]

JD So true!!!

[@zenodotusofathens2122]

Most bought Hitler's bullshit.

[@pablosipala4101]

@@zenodotusofathens2122 not most. Just some. Nearly half of the country was against. But then you had no choice but to stay silent, if not, people , neighbours or spies would hear if you talked shit about Hitler or the Nazi party, and you would end up in big trouble. History books....reading.

[@binaway]

My late dad was liberated by the yanks at the side of an airfield near Moosburg. Luftwaffe transport and bomber aircraft kept arriving from the east. Overloaded with people and white sheets hanging from windows or doors. The German passengers very happy to be surrendering to Western forces.

[@galeonespanol7596]

Of course!! After all what Germany had done in Russia.

[@1yoan3]

Galeon Español after what Soviets done to Russia. Stalin killed more people than all of the soldiers dead on all fronts and all countries.

[@jimmyharris1481]

ManOnTheMoon2 I lived in Freising for some years in the 60's but never heard about this ! Was that ERDING Airfield ?

[@davidmarshall1259]

you need to read a little more history.@@SMGJohn

[@artmoss6889]

My father was a sergeant with the 14th Armored Division that liberated Moosburg.

[@scatpack2]

The last guy appeared to be able to be (and to be) speaking English to the USAAF personnel. Notice how much more friendly they were being to he and his crewmate at the same time. And how about that gorgeous, mint FW-190/D9?

[@steve0englewoodFL]

Imagine how much combat those Stuka’s must have seen!

[@Hatuey-vw2gb]

That first plane was so beautiful. FW 190 D-9

[@VikariyReyn]

@Provocateur I don't think you understand? He's saying the plane is beautiful, not that he likes the nazis. So quit jumping to silly conclusions

[@BLACKHOLE-SUN]

@@VikariyReyn Don't take this dude in consideration! He is a brainwashed commie from Russia... He can't understend his own life!

[@VikariyReyn]

@@BLACKHOLE-SUN haha, it sure sounds like it

[@johngibson2884]

Look how happy they are to be in US hands not Russian ....everyone of them. First guy got a wakeup call the US officer didnt like him smileing so he jerked and frisked him....surprising the guy as he was led away .

[@DataWaveTaGo]

LOL! Actually it simply shows how Americans will act to the camera to show how tough they can be.

[@pedrolistacarey4880]

Gibson - you forgot to point out how happy and in a hurry the Yanks were to get their hands on that beautiful FW-190, and how quickly and carefully they towed it away so they could ship it back to the States asap and learn something from its outstanding features !

[@kospencer1]

The 2nd guy got off easy because he surrendered his cigar, hehe.

[@Internetbutthurt]

i reckon....did he think he was in for a hug and a sloppy kiss?

[@highfive2935]

Pedro Lista Carey Not really, by that point American aircraft were superior to Germany’s with the obvious exception of Germany’s jets. Even then America had the p-80 in development and only a few months shy of deploying. If the war had lasted long enough the p-80 would have been the superior fighter in the skies over the 262. It had better specs on everything except maybe for armament. Germany’s “technological superiority” is very much over exaggerated.

[@BloodOfYeshuaMessiah]

*All they cared about at that point in the war was landing anywhere where there wasn’t a hammer and sickle.*

[@4WDToyotaOwnerMagazine]

Amazing that a Stuka survived the war!

[@davidcox3076]

I wonder if that Ju-87 wasn't sitting forgotten on an airfield somewhere. And the pilot "borrowed" it as the Soviets approached.

[@PLAZMOHD]

@@davidcox3076 sadly i believe only two in tact stukas remain worldwide

[@stevetheduck1425]

Close to the end of the war, the Berlin Templehof airport had planes being re-conditioned and re-assembled there. They were Ju87 Stukas, even right at the end.

[@xDudeHimSelfx]

They got some really good airplanes right there

[@sandspar]

Nice avatar!

[@makeamericagreatagain7314]

What are they. M 182

[@robtankbuster5215]

That was a dora long nose fw190, maybe the best fighter of the war.

[@mjh5437]

Checkout the brass knuckleduster on the hip of the US soldier at 1:38 minutes in.

[@belfastsoul8863]

MJ H well spotted

[@walterwood3229]

That is a WWI era trench knife with the closed finger guards. You can’t see the blade in it’s sheath in the video.

[@ferrallderrall6588]

MJ H , good eye bro think it might be one with the kbar knife attached? Either way that should get the attention of anyone who wants to resist lol

[@jimmy5391]

Maybe a relatives knife from ww1. Very interesting.

[@dougwilson6778]

Fkn awesome

[@taurus2016]

I've seen photos of these scenes. The film was made after April 19, 1945 and shows the Fürth-Atzenhof airfield. The aircraft are two Fw 190 D-9 from II.JG6 and a Ju87 D-5N of 1./NSGr. 10. The technical officer's D-9 had the factory number 211934. The "blue 12" had the Factory number 500570. The II.JG 6 was locked in the Görlitz area at that time. Görlitz was not taken by the Soviet Army until the end of the war as they headed towards Thorgau to welcome the American Army there.

[@mrvk39]

They all look extremely young - very early 20s. Looks like a fresh batch of cadets after all experienced pilots have been shut down by superior Allied airpower.

[@ImBrockatron]

the average age of a dead soldier in all branches was 23.

[@jkN1337]

“Superior allied airpower” .... lul good one

[@BJBFOREST]

I knew an Austrian man who lived in Australia . During the war he had been working on his fathers farm when a Fieseler Fi 156 landed there , His half brother , who was an officer in the army stepped out and asked where his father was. They then went into the house for cofffee. The officer in formed them all that he just been to a meeting with the Fuhrer who was ranting and raving...He felt that the war was lost. It was '43. Makes sense as the axis powers started to decline from '43 .

[@BJBFOREST]

@BartelDoo Indeed, AH made many mistakes. The Japanese too were on the nose in the SWP by '43 , after steam rolling through the Pacific..their first major defeat occuring at Milne Bay in late '42....I think the West's military machine had caught up and were surpassing the axis powers at that time.

[@c.h.1839]

Well many soldiers know they gonna lose after stalingrad

[@jonathangoldrick8279]

The Russians fought harder for Stalingrad than anticipated, if the Germans would have secured the Volga, Oil could be brought up from the Caspian sea and distributed to the war machine, that was Hitler's only hope of winning after he lost Africa

[@jguenther3049]

Hitler knew he would lose on December 7, 1941. That was the day that he went to Plan B: kill all the Jews. He had regarded them as hostages since August, 1933 [See Hanfstaengl's book.] The Wannsee "Final Solution" Conference was held on 20 January 1942, but the murder machine had already been set in motion in mid-December, per Hitler's Reichschancellery speech of December 12.

[@jguenther3049]

@@jonathangoldrick8279 Russia had another army of over 1,000,000 soldiers ready to commit to the battle for Stalingrad. General Halder tried to warn Hitler of this, but Der Failure refused to believe it.

[@ex59neo53]

FW 190 = the most beautiful piston engined fighter plane :)

[@georgesteele2157]

Spitfire or Mosquito.

[@gordonmccoy4537]

My favorite American fighter is the P-47 Thunderbolt, THEREFORE my favorite German fighter is the FW-190....!!!!

[@edwardjj4224]

Much better was Fw-190 long nose Ta-152 more powerful better wings can claim up to 47 tousen feets B-17or B-25 only to 35 tousen feets

[@alecfoster6653]

Gordon McCoy- Me too! Radial engines rule! :)

[@jackboyer1280]

ex59neo53 P51 by a mile. It's just a beautiful airplane

[@belltopcone]

best war story I've seen in years , hope all went well for the guys who surrendered

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Big show for the camera, meanwhile the German was totally chill

[@MrRockydee07]

My be Better this than what a Russian prisoner of war camp !

[@markonekic1917]

Canadian kid They attack Russia, kill our people and than go to their political bros from USA - how low, they are bunch of pussies!

[@MrRockydee07]

Marko Nekić Agree comrade, YES thay did and YES thay were.

[@sorincaladera936]

@@markonekic1917 I'm pretty sure Russia had a higher civilian "killcount". They were both shitty meat grinders

[@Nimori]

Marko Nekić They were doing their job. And doing what they could to survive.

[@mikek4610]

Canadian kid you mean slave/murder camps

[@williamjenkins3067]

Brave men. Stuka pilots had low life expectancy and trying to fly with Russian, American and British fighters would be akin to suicide. Late model Spitfires, Typhoons, Mustangs and Thunderbolts would chew these planes to pieces no or little German fighter cover. Some of these pilots were Hitler Youth or teenagers with minimal or non existent training. I’m not pro German but can appreciate the horrendous life expectancy these kids had

[@ImBrockatron]

pro german isnt the same as pro nazi.

[@volvoxl.6443]

Brock Augusto pro german for the times of ww2 actually means pro nazi 🙃 and there is nothing wrong with that. Because one can/should respect a person without agreeing to his entire ideology. 😏

[@bluebear6570]

@@volvoxl.6443 I am sorry but you are a complete idiot withnthat statement!

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@@volvoxl.6443 So you think that the anti Nazi German resistance were actually pro Nazi? WTF are you smoking lol.

[@michaelbrownlee9497]

Pilots had low life expectancy on all sides in all wars. The best of them made it.

[@stlrockn]

This had to be mind blowing for those US troops to see everything from D model long nosed FW 190 to a Stuka taxi in.

[@9traktor]

You see six years of deprivation in the exhausted faces of these brave and decent German airmen. They should have had won the war!

[@kkpenney444]

Uh huh, and gone on to exterminate how many millions more?

[@Don_Camillo]

They use Stukas still in 45....? Mission impossible.

[@Nimori]

SMS Seydlitz Probably they were escaping another airfield that was being attacked by the soviets; and took whatever plane that could fly them out of there.

[@Don_Camillo]

@@Nimori : That's an option

[@jfloresmac]

If they could have, they would have flapped thier arms and flown away from the rusianssssss......

[@littlejimmy8744]

Well Stuka aces Hans Ulrich Rudel few a Stuka from the start of the war to the very last days of the war always strafing Russians.

[@peterlustig6888]

Dont mess with the german pilots, haha. Just look at the aces of WW2. Nearly only germans and i think they wanted to stay with the planes they started with.

[@rivco5008]

They lived. They survived. Maybe those pilots remembered it as the best day of their lives...

[@maddyg3208]

The Stuka looks cool when going along on the ground with its spiral propeller cone

[@thomasdastillung4097]

Crazy to see a Ju-87 and FW-190 in color. Thanks

[@doctordirk6316]

If only they'd been towed away to museums.

[@ImBrockatron]

EXACTLY!!

[@Fastline1000]

In these times, these airplanes were just booty for the allies. Some pieces went to the allied engineers, most of them had been disarmed and went to the metal crushers. And only few are sleeping since the WW II in bogs and swamps in Russia, Ukraine and Poland or in the dark deep seas of the Eastern Sea, North Atlantic or Mediterranean Sea. Sometimes they found one in the cold heart of the Arctic or in unknown valleys in the high mountains of Europe. These planes were like living beings to their pilots. Some of the pilots went down to kill themselves with the planes. Sometimes I think, I can understand them. When I was forced to give my truck away, which I had driven for more than one million kilometers, it felt like losing a very good friend.

[@cosminogloocosy1154]

@@Fastline1000 Yes ... 😔😔😔

[@sectorz8171]

Wow, that's not any FW... Thats a freakin DORA! Wow, great clip

[@millicentsquirrelhole582]

Yes, a freakin' Dora 9 (Dora being the phonetic 'D' of Luftwaffe radio traffic) and known in german as 'Langnasen-Dora' ....the long nose Dora surrendered in combat grime and warpaint....also the flight jacket, the cap and the jumpsuit the pilot wore fit the whole Dora 9 tableaux....what a snapshot!

[@sectorz8171]

It's seriously a special clip. Not a common sight for sure.

[@TheWillyNilly]

Pretty epic

[@kureki147]

If I am right, this is the only D-13 to have survived the war.

[@stevetheduck1425]

If these Focke-Wulf Fw-190Ds are the ones captured in good condition and sent to the USA, they are Dora-13s. The differences would not be visible on this film, but if the original serials were recorded somewhere, we might be able to make a match.

[@krpinckney]

Amazing. I've never seen this footage before.

[@gurpreetsinghbala5663]

Great video. Thanks

[@spreadeagled5654]

That Focke-Wulf FW-190D “Dora” is a cool plane! 👍🇩🇪

[@eabnamoliben1598]

Wromg flag

[@jimfowler5930]

Stunning video! Thanks for posting this.

[@chadhaire1711]

it was staged

[@God-kt3ec]

One of the surrenders are Hans-ulrich rudel and he helped make the a10 warthog after the war He also was a ju87 ace

[@keithnoneya]

Question. Were those U.S. Army Air Corps uniforms or U.S. Army Air Forces Uniforms. I only ask because they both existed simultaneously from 20 June 1941 to 18 September 1947 when the U.S. Army Air Corps & U.S. Army Air Forces became the U.S.Air Force? Thanks for the video. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

[@harmankevin43]

Love the video. I’m a WWII German Military Collector Of uniforms and etc. love seeing these old vids!!!!! Thank you!!!

[@EscapeEFT]

The smile for surrendering to the US.

[@christopherkroussoratsky2014]

The Stuka in this film is one that was equipped for nocturnal operation, look at the flame dampers on the exhausts.

[@andrewbevan4662]

Hi guys, what's this "operation paperclip?" , any chance of me getting some of that action?

[@Gallagherfreak100]

Amazing. The JU-87 Stuka was in action on the first day of the war, September 1, 1939, and still in use on the last day of the world. In between, the Germans produced and deployed the finest fighter plane of WW2, the ME-262.

[@Gallagherfreak100]

Yes, it had something to do with German industry not having the right alloy for the turbine blades. I read somewhere the engines had to be re-built after about 20 hours of service.

[@peterlustig6888]

@@officialaleksiz They were still very effective during that short time.

[@andrewleonard475]

@@peterlustig6888 Not really, most of the 262s were destroyed in bombing raids before they could even get off the ground. Those that did see service shot down very few enemy planes.

[@andrewleonard475]

@BartelDoo The thing is, the me262 hardly worked, as pretty much all of Germany's experienced pilots were dead or Out of action by mid-1944

[@mikek4610]

Rory Gallagherfan me 262 was a peice of shit....great target practice....if it didnt blow up on its own

[@stevenkatz3627]

Im a 53 old american and love my country but i have always enjoyed looking at german aircraft from the time i was a child , the Stuka to me is just the coolest airplane ever , it is so badass , theA10 warthog of its time , my second favorite aircraft by the way .

[@neuzdost1939]

0:45 Johny catching the steering wheel for safe backing up

[@u.s.militia7682]

Does the V identification marker come from Germany as well? It’s what US military vehicles use to this very day/

[@christopherthrawn1415]

Thank you.Incredible footage.Awesome pilots.

[@20thcenturyman21]

My Uncle a POW of the Germans . Young,he was put behind barbed wire with only a foxhole to sleep in [: no barracks ] in winter . He was "fed " only potato peel soup and " bread " made from sawdust . If a German guard was caught doing a kindness for an American POW , they both would be punished ! Some prisoners went mad, others betrayed their own comrades, fortunately the traitors were few and far between. I remember him as always joking and laughing ,happy ! God bless him and all the veterans. And remember as you look out the window of your home how it would be to be in a foxhole this time of year , without proper clothing , slowly starving , not even able to build a fire and give thanks to God my friends for how much we take for granted !

[@lylestavast7652]

a boyhood friend (Roger) in Idaho the 60's - his mother was a young woman in Germany near Hanover during the war and had it really rough. they were forced to go to fields in the surrounding country and plant very minimal potato pieces as seed, and at night they'd sneak back into the same fields to nick some out to have anything to eat. She married a US guy post war - McMasters was the name. She and my (canadian) mother became good friends there in Idaho... she was such a nice lady and thankful to have made it to the US...

[@RemoteCamper]

Some German POWs were shipped to Maine. It was so nice that after war many stayed.

[@drdonwhill]

Was that first plane a 190-D or a Ta 152? They looked so similar...

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+don hill It was a Fw-190D. The plane has been identified but to my knowledge the pilot has not been identified.

[@thephilpott2194]

I like the difference in opinion of the best way to ground tow a Fw 190! It puts me in mind of one of the WAAF's who managed to damage the undercarts of several Tempests/Typhoons by not taking up the slack carefully enough. One leg would get pulled first, causing distortion. All was well in the next flight until the time came for chassis down- then only one leg would lock properly. It took them a while to find out what was causing it. Not as unfortunate as the WAAF whose aerodrome received Lancasters to replace their older (and taller) Stirlings; driving her truck underneath the wing was no longer an option, and she got decapitated by one of the props, poor girl.

[@desktopturtle5785]

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Fw 190 USAAF

[@andrewward9601]

Fantastic.... I wonder what happened to those planes? Especially that first one, it was a FW190D Dora, very very rare now, I only think there is one complete one in existence, none airworthy....

[@Trainz927]

разбиты, и разукомплектованы

[@andrewward9601]

@@Trainz927 yeah right, sorry I don't speak Russian

[@bruh-jv8qd]

@@andrewward9601 damm 2 year later u still replying

[@nicolaszavaley6560]

beautiful fw 190 D, with what little gallantry the first pilot surrendered

[@chrissofpv3017]

LOVE the FW190D...beautiful.👍🍺

[@1teamski]

I couldn't imagine how many times a day this sort of thing happened with the Germans trying to get to the West.

[@p.f.886]

Beautiful footage! Also, it's amazing to see this video: those German pilots, by surrendering, saved many lives. They saved their own lives, and they saved their enemies lives (in this video, they saved those American soldiers by surrendering). I am happy for them also because by surrendering they managed to escape nazism, while other German soldiers weren't so lucky. In the end, we are all human beings. Brothers and sisters. There weren't the goods and the bads during ww2, as well as in all other wars. There were only young boys. Human beings. The true evil is war itself, not the young boys sent to the front and forced massacre each other. Lest we forget, we should never fight each other. We should live in peace.

[@allanrichardson9081]

I believe this was after the official surrender had been signed, and the soldiers had been ordered how to surrender, so the Americans were not expecting an attack, just being cautious.

[@FranciscoHenriques]

Only if the whole Luftwaffe did the same right in the beginning of the war. lol

[@Jin-Ro]

Escaped Naziism? Fuck right off with your apologetics.

[@p.f.886]

@@Jin-Ro lmao "aLL gERMaNs wERe NAzEes!!!1!1"

[@svorecruit9239]

did he just land and was like "finally, someone gonna pat me down."?

[@julianbelkan2384]

I mean if you compared what it would be like surrender to the soviets It became pretty obvious why he would be so happy to surrender to the allies lol

[@timonsolus]

Amazing. A Ju 87 Stuka survived until May 1945.

[@MackMateCom]

Good video eye opener

[@chadhaire1711]

this is staged.....BS

[@markbowles2382]

that ju87 was mint...in rudels book when they surrendered, there was a way to land and ruin or scuttle the aircraft which they all did save for one because it had a refugee still clinging on....the first cat wasnt even wearing a uniform...you have to remember the red army was on their heels and the stukas and luftwaffe in general were extremely hated by the red army because of their incredible effectiveness and hard fighting spirit, incredible photography, thanks for the upload and thanks for letting us see these great moments happening in history for ourselves, thumbs up for sure.

[@tavo2422]

A Stuka coming in for a landing to surrender. Wow. I hope it's sitting in a museum somewhere.

[@taustin1977]

Only 2 complete Stukas exist now so that one ended up in the scrap yard.

[@sirilluminarthevaliant2895]

USA: hold on to this 190. We are going to need it as a premium when soneone makes a game about this

[@davix994]

Lmao

[@nickt407]

my grandfather, a B-29 pilot, told me that when he landed after his last mission everyone was cheering because the war was already over. unbelievable

[@gordonshumway9784]

1:43 lol, is that a roll of Pervitin (Methamphetamine)? ^^ In combination with chocolate they called it *"Goerings Fliegermarzipan"*. ;)

[@mjh5437]

They also carried Cyanide caps so they could commit suicide rather than face interrogation.

[@Sturminfantrist]

@Gordon Shumway , looks like Pervitin Tabs, many German Soldiers take Pervitin incl. Navy and Army Personal but after 2 Days nights awake you have a good Breakdown. In the 70s, 80´s we had a similar Stuff for all working long shifts over days and night ect. it was named Captagon a Methamphetamine after taking this shit i were able to consume larger amounts of Beer then without this in the late 80s it was hard to become because of the german Law but before many Medicine personal incl. Doc`s with long shifts overnight and day take it The LRRP`s in Vietnam used such "Stuff" too on recon patrols but every time you take it you pay for later with paranoia or a breakdown

[@johnsmith-gt3po]

Nice to see it in COLOR since most WWII films are in black and white. 👍

[@ofaoilleachain]

The one Focke Wulf 190 I remember them capturing, was a A-8 variant I believe

[@billhunt2605]

Long nose dora....what a beautiful friggin plane!!!!!

[@joungwolf8908]

This is dramatic and hard to see ... Tears almost come to my eyes. These were the best and bravest warriors of all!

[@LMM667]

Yes indeed, it was very sad, and all those magnificent airplanes that survived the war, what a waste, they all ended up into the hands of idiots ... It was like giving pearls to pigs!

[@roscoefoofoo]

Stop feeding your thorazine to your dog, Joung. Wolf it down yourself. You need it. Then give your dog away to someone with a soul, and sanity.....

[@thomaswayneward]

Absolutely

[@davidlopez6703]

@@antonyd6649 The Wehrmacht did war crimes as the allied, soviets, japanese, etc... did. But most of them didn't commited any crime against Humanity and if an small percentage did it was cause they were "forced" since they were soldiers of a totalitarism nation. The same happens with the soviets.

[@DavidLangeYU91]

@@antonyd6649 Bombing an inner city that cointains mostly neigbourhoods isn't legit. Dresden and some other german cities were fully bombed for moral reasons. A soldier will most likely give up, if they hear, that there home and family is completly destroyed. Bombing industrial area is totally fine, but bombing inner cities with around houndredthousand of souls living there is totally NOT okay.

[@the10thleper]

The first one looks like a FW 190 high altitude version, "extended nose." Is the second a Stuka?

[@joemellon5444]

My guidance counselor in high school was a German fighter who surrendered he didn't want to fight any more so he took his plane and landed somewhere safe. His name was Dr. Michael Bressler. This was back in 1980 so I am guessing he's long gone as he seemed old then. He rode a bicycle to work every day.

[@jakesully3604]

when he surrendered in USSR USSR : take him GULAG

[@viktorpetukhov727]

You think gulag is just for luls? Labor camps had a task. Germans burned and razed to the ground half of Soviet European territory with it's inhabitants, so they were the ones to rebuild it.

[@zigzag3720]

That's whay you get for killing 27 million Soviets out of which only 7 million were soldiers and rest civiliians, US didn't get their 1 civiliian killed and 500k US soldiers were killed in ww2, mostly in the Japanese front

[@door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978]

Props to the cameraman who went back in time to film this.

[@jameshoran8]

:17 I remember both Blake and Schofield not frisking the pilot (like the one in this video) that they pulled out of the flaming plane from the movie, 1917. Blake paid for the mistake with his life.

[@dusanbolek8004]

To survive the war while being a Stuka crew member was no small achievement considering how vastly obsolete and therefore vulnerable these planes were in the end. Also the guy surrendering with his Dora Neun in the beginning of the clip was Gruppen technical officer according to marking on his plane.

[@buninparadise9476]

luckily, the Yanks never sent any of these pilots to the Russians later, like Erich Hartmann

[@SOregonRob]

This is pretty incredible and I'm glad they didn't get shot down and give their lives up for nothing in the end

[@timomladenov3090]

The first guys was searched a little roughly. The guy came out of a geschwader staff airplane. Some rank respect could be considered.

[@FiveCentsPlease]

+Tihomir Mladenov Having the camera positioned there to film it looks like they staged the surrender to make some news reels to send back home. The German is just going along with it. Captured German aircraft that were to be tested were serviced by POW German mechanics and a few German pilots were asked to help fly or ferry captured aircraft to other locations.

[@Rayhid1956]

That's FW-190 was the latest variant called Dora and one of the fastest too at high altitude.