Hitler's Secret Space Program. The Third Reich Obscure Programs Of WW2

Hitler's Secret Space Program. The Third Reich Obscure Programs Of WW2
Dive into the dark, enigmatic world of Nazi Germany's secret space ambitions! Discover the covert projects that aimed for the stars while the world was engulfed in war.
From Wernher von Braun, The mastermind behind the V-2 rocket and later a key figure in the American space program, to the less-known Eugen Sänger, the visionary behind the Silbervogel, a revolutionary spaceplane concept that could have changed the course of aviation. Uncover the secrets of this ambitious project and explore the origins of his work under Hitler's regime.
During World War II, Sänger worked with the German air force on rocket and ramjet technology.
Project Silbervogel: Delve into the technical details of this audacious spaceplane design. How close did the Nazis come to realizing their dream of spaceflight?
In this video, we'll uncover declassified documents, rare footage, and expert analysis to reveal the truth behind Hitler's obsession with space and its potential impact on the war and the world.
In 1932, Sänger began testing rocket engines at the University of Technology in Vienna, where he was an assistant researcher, developing different designs of combustion chambers. Sänger’s influential book Raketenflugtechnik (Rocket Flight Engineering) was published in 1933. This was the first treatise on rocketry by an academic professional and the first scientific study of the concept of space planes. In October 1933, Sänger proposed the development of a rocket-powered hypersonic bomber to the Austrian army, and later that year, he began rocket engine tests, exploring various propellants and additives. On February 3, 1934, however, the Austrian Defense Ministry rejected Sänger’s proposed rocket bomber due to their mistaken belief that liquid rocket engines would never be feasible due to the explosive nature of the chemical reactions involved.
Undeterred, he continued his experiments and by 1935, Eugen Sänger perfected a “regeneratively cooled” liquid-fueled rocket engine that used its own fuel, circulating around the combustion chamber, to control engine temperatures. This engine eventually produced an astounding 10,000 feet per second exhaust velocity, as compared to the later V-2 rocket’s thrust of only 6560 feet per second. In June 1935 and February 1936, Sänger’s articles in the Austrian aviation magazine Flug (Flight) on rocket-powered aircraft attracted wide attention.
In 1936, Sänger accepted a position from the German High Command to be head of the development center for jet engines in Trauen, Germany. The Germans set up a secret aerospace research institute for Sänger to develop and build his “Silverbird,” a manned, winged vehicle that could reach orbit and then descend back into the atmosphere. As its proposed range would enable it to reach the United States, it was also known as the “Amerika Bomber.” Sänger had been working on this concept for years and had already begun designing liquid-fuel rocket engines for his proposed space plane.
During World War II, Sänger designed combustion chambers providing a thrust of up to 100 tons as well as working on jet propulsion. He also constructed ramjet engines, which he tested on a Dornier 217 heavy bomber in April 1942. Assisted by physicist Irene Bredt, Sänger continued his research on the Amerika Bomber. The final design of what they called the “Sänger-Bredt Antipodal Bomber” was produced in August 1944, fortunately too late to play a role in World War II.
After the war, with captured designs of the Sänger-Bredt bomber as their starting point, the American government developed the X-15 rocket plane, the X-20 Dynasoar space plane, and the Space Shuttle, while the Soviet Union used Sänger’s data for their Burya and Buran intercontinental cruise missiles. With the exception of the X-15 and the Shuttle, however, all of these projects were eventually canceled.
After the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, Sänger refused to work for the Americans or the British, and in 1946 he and Irene Bredt moved to France. For the next eight years, they worked for the French government as consultants to what would later be Nord Aviation at Chatillon. Sänger studied problems connected with rockets and large ramjet engines. He and Bredt married in 1951 and continued their work on several French missile programs until the mid-1950s.
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[@ScrappyRichard]

We gain access to space with technical german knowhow. However, the landing on the Moon it is a complete american development which had started from scratch. A level a Scratch on top of the german technology rocketry. Besides in Germany, Mr. Brown built rockets as weapons. While in America he built exploration of space newly developed rockets.

[@robtheold617]

As a young boy in the early 60s, I attended a "Space Show" at the New York Coliseum at Columbus Circle. At one point, I realized I was standing 5 feet away from a still youngish Van Braun. The only truly famous person I've met in my 75 years. I was about to be a teenager and was several inches taller. Does Bishop Sheen count? I kissed his ring while kneeling like a peasant.

[@xinniethep00h]

That’s pretty cool. Did you happen to say anything to him?

[@stephenlangsl67]

Sorry,..but I don't know who Bishop Sheen is. Judging from the fact that You kissed His ring, it sounds like He's a member of some type of Royal Family.

[@MothaLuva]

Bishop Charlie Sheen?

[@scottfw7169]

If they had managed to hit New York, it would have probably astonished only the Germans that the American population's reaction would have been something like, "Alright, Now you've _Really_ gone and done it, we're gonna hafta hurt ya fer that."

[@jeffkellyb7712]

They might have earned themselves one of the first two bombs.

[@isarwasser5271]

@@jeffkellyb7712 Haha, the uranium came from Germany/Thuringia!!! Don't believe everything on TV!

[@Ben_Gunner]

A french man called Jules Verne wrote from the earth to the moon in 1865 after writing about balloons travelling around the world and a journey to the centre of the earth so who really is the genesis of space travel? Lucian wrote a book called True Story 2000 years ago about space travel and he wasn't German either so tye German praise is very short sighted and if I praised Great Britain and or America I'd hope if be called out but I wouldn't speak before knowing the facts.

[@scottfw7169]

@@Ben_Gunner What is that a reply to? It has no connection to the content of my post. Anyway, look for books published in recent years by the Smithsonian. Spaceships, both 1st and 2nd edition, and Space Stations. The books start with sampling very early material about spaceflight and space stations.

[@bradatherton9369]

​@@Ben_Gunneranybody can dream about things. Getting it done is often a whole different story. Are you one of those armchair engineers? Surely if you've thought about then designed then built a single thing in your life then you'll know designing it is much harder than thinking of it, and building it can be harder than designing it. So get over who thought of it first. If you want to go there, then what about the people who thought of it but never wrote it down? What about the people who thought of it before languages existed to capture their ideas? You'll quickly see this is a fallacy and a 3rd grade maturity one at that.

[@charlesbird2897]

The fact that it’s 2024 and we still don’t have commercial flights that go across oceans in a couple hours makes me think this wasn’t close to rational in 1940’s

[@TheSnowMan-cy9tu]

They just released a plane that is capable of breaking the sound barrier without causing a sonic boom. This will make super fast commercial travel a reality soon.

[@aperitifs]

​@@TheSnowMan-cy9tudue to global warming, the aviation sector has been forced to use efficient motors, that's the reason Boeing used untested software to correct the effects of the large ramjets. Faster flight is not economic. It is when you reach high speed, getting to that speed uses lots of fuel.

[@matthewlemieux1538]

​@@TheSnowMan-cy9tu they will never get insurance for this with people on board

[@martinharris5017]

Sanger's hypersonic glider bears some resemblance to the CIA's Kingfish spyplane concept that lost out to the Oxcart/SR71.

[@hertzair1186]

The Germans are amazing …and we landed on the moon because of their engineering.

[@thethoughtfulconservative]

Agreed, although there are important moral implications to consider. A lot of that progress was obtained through the cruel and unrelenting forced labor of concentration camp prisoners. Just at Dora-Mittelbau (the place where V2 rockets were being developed) more than 20,000 workers died of being overworked and starved. Speer, the chief Minister in charge of armaments, knew perfectly well about the atrocities taking place at the plane and rocket testing sites. Furthermore, many of the chief scientists and various employees at the facility actively knew about and supported the maltreatment of these victims. They turned a blind eye to or even directly helped evil incarnate, all in the name of scientific advancement. While we should be amazed we have reached these technical milestones, we should never forget that a high price was paid in the blood of countless innocents. Perhaps "amazing" would not be the word I would use, especially in this context.

[@kevinvilmont6061]

Still Nazi’s.

[@Ben_Gunner]

Nutter

[@darrenhenderson6921]

Yeah when asked how they came up with so much so fast he simply nodded we got help from them, meaning Aliens which was the phrase they use when they say it was actually because they had the best and brightest minds, locked up like animals simply because their dictator passed draconian laws, but all the innovation, all the best propagandists and the best fraudsters (against their will fraudsters) all came from those camps

[@mlandis8835]

Germans are great but these are nazis

[@chrismorgan3724]

Fireball XL5! Go Jerry Anderson...! 😊

[@paulwheeler9572]

Sadly, there is no mention of Robert Goddard the American Rocketeer.

[@litestuffllc7249]

The Nazi's cleary did have the materials ability to make a super high altitude rocket plane; the V2 was supersonice and got to the edge of space. While more practical to simply have a 2 stage V2 to hit America; if there was a desire for a manned craft to reach the USA then Sangers designs were plausible; just as the V2 was plausible; one way isn't a problem during a war - see all modern ICBMs. The real problems were navigation and having any sort of accuracy from such high altitute would required guided bombs or attack missiles.

[@gerry-p9x]

B2 bwas a ballistic. Trajectory. Point and shoot crude

[@Wustenfuchs109]

All post-war modeling of the Silbervogel pointed out that it was impossible at the time. There is a huge difference between V2, or any later ICBM, and space planes like that. From physics down to material requirements and computing power to make it work. There is a good reason why we got a rocket that can take crew to the Moon and back 20 years before we got a space plane. And a difference between V2 and Saturn V is about the same as the difference between Ford T1 and Bugatti Tourbillon. Yeah, the principle is the same, internal combustion engine, but I wouldn't be so bold to say that just because Ford could make model T1, he was just a few years away from that Bugatti. That is all before we even mention the usability of it, as you rightly pointed out. But that is the least of your problems. The first thing you need to figure out is staging with those primitive rocket engines to even get that plane high enough. You cannot just stick more engines and solve the problem. Even 30 years later, many engines problem was not solved. Crap, even SpaceX has trouble making those work reliable for almost a decade, let alone some engineers in late 1940's. In short, if they could have made it, they would have made it. They couldn't, so they didn't.

[@gratefulguy4130]

They were stockpiling enriched uranium. That's what Auschwitz was. The world's largest enrichment plant. Used more juice than Berlin. The Germans also tested nukes in France (underground) and Crimea (above ground) before the US. They are also believed to have tested one near Berlin (another underground test?), as they managed to take out the entire electrical grid for three days. Fried everything. (It was buried shallow) The plan was absolutely to carry nukes. For the long range bombers, long range missiles.. they even designed a rail artillery nuke (The one Japan reported seeing them use in Crimea. I'm inclined to believe WWII Japanese knew what a nuclear blast looks like). If you don't believe me, you should also take into account that Britain went into a state of high alert for a nuclear attack in late '44.

[@Yannickille]

They were so crazy that we took their program over😂😂😂😂

[@gerry-p9x]

More like stole adolph listened to gerjimg and put money into planes but with buzz bombband V2. Was. Too late

[@rayjasmantas9609]

Abbot and Castillo's Space flight logic that had trouble leaving the surface of the world, while using up fuel city to city visits? Early 1900s logic!

[@rayjasmantas9609]

Would it seem with the Nazis wanting to met with the aliens as in Antarctic proved, the Abbot and Castillo movie finding women on another planet, be logic of these women inspiring the Nazis as the alien mates from ongoing historical notes of such happen.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

It be like the early 1900s War of World warning of the aliens dying from life support problems that lead by WWII to so many UFO crashes.

[@jeffdewe]

This is when Tubes and Capacitors ruled the air, wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy before the microchip!!! Pretty amazing if you ask me!!!!

[@CRyan-Waltham75]

What would the vehicle use for heat protection? Would it be easy to maintain or expensive with required tile replacements often? I think we’ve got better tech since this video

[@gerry-p9x]

Nutsy Nazi s. Ask Mel Brooks

[@Dragonblaster1]

The Sanger spaceplane would have burnt up on re-entry.

[@WilliamCollins-sh6lm]

How many trys to get the Shuttle tiles right ??? They had some type of coating capable of withstanding great temperatures ... Which they are still trying to Redescover...

[@Dragonblaster1]

@@WilliamCollins-sh6lm And the Silbervogel didn’t have any kind of heatshield.

[@julianshalders6047]

Stratosphere guy's, no heat shield needed.

[@alkohallick2901]

Margret Sanger? 😆

[@michaeljenkins6476]

may have, not would have...bured up.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

The Nazis were always long range warfare, outdistancing with their guns to the ones that existed. The rest of thoughts just started coming natural, but not with time limits.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

Over coming the heat engine logic leading.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

The point of failure logic focusing.

[@mikedearing6352]

I recall Terry Goddard making the first liquid fuel rocket, an American scientist

[@Lewis-kf2pj]

Terry? :) :) You don’t remember things very well.

[@BeenTooTired]

@@Lewis-kf2pjterry, dick, jim, bob… pfft first names don’t matter 😂

[@TheSkyGod6]

Terry Goddard successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926, on a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. His more advanced work and patents allowed American scientists to build, test, and fly more advanced rockets at the dawn of the Space Age.​@@Lewis-kf2pj

[@alkohallick2901]

Do you?

[@derekcoaker6579]

Terry was a Politician. Now, Robert...Patented the first Liquid fueled Rocket. 😊

[@robgray7019]

A good modern juxtaposition is 9/11. Not to belittle what happened, under 3K dead but look at how that changed history all out of proportion. The fallen governments, the numbers of war dead, how many vets with physical and psychological damage. Tens of millions of refugees flooding our countries. Back in '45 Canada was on the brink of collapse and possibly civil war, at the time we were 25% of the allied fighting force. A Nazi attack on North American soil would have pushed us over the edge with unknown certainly disastrous consequences.

[@michaelcomberiate2566]

brilliant mind

[@samlazar1053]

Quiestiom......How did they found out Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Russian PLANS

[@JohnathanWalsh-jq7xk]

U work for communism ? This is Secret service we see u

[@ElijahHull-z6z]

Always wondered why Germany had no massive bombers

[@AchimEngels]

Maybe because the goal was not waht you were tought. Just maybe....

[@gerry-p9x]

Ghering was inept and put his efforts into PLANES

[@ElijahHull-z6z]

@@AchimEngels Ease up mate what’s with your attitude bud? It’s got nothing to do with what I was taught it’s got to do with the FACT Germany had no 4 engine bombers like the B17 ,Lancaster or B29 that I was aware of neither did Japan.

[@ElijahHull-z6z]

@@AchimEngels The goal obviously didn’t work out either did it mate

[@derekcoaker6579]

​@@AchimEngels No, it was clear..the only reason the Germans didn't have Bombers was because of poor planning. They had plenty of ideas, but "the one with a different plan that we've been taught" thought he didn't need them. Plenty of History to learn...it's not exactly hidden.

[@scottsevers6194]

It annoyes me how these scientists weren't tried as War Criminals.

[@leslielutz6140]

These brilliant minds were weapons in their own right. We garnished weapons.

[@johannahidalgo7738]

7:03 what’s the need to take a commercial plane to the stratosphere? Plus it would be jumping up and down so as to actually travel, that would be felt inside the plane and it would be uncomfortable…. That is for commercial travel…….🙀👍

[@estatesales9818]

And the foo fighters and UFO's??? lol fr tho

[@williambock1821]

Oh hey look! The first “Space Force”.

[@markuslaugner4853]

Once The German people have been innovative Today's I can't believe what is happening

[@briankistner4331]

If the Germany could have got the 264 built, tested, and in production along with bases and a in air refueling program, hitting the U.S. would have been a strong possibility. And if Germany had also developed the A-Bomb around the same time as the U.S. and hit the U.S. with nuclear weapons, FDR or Truman might have rethought things and sought some sort of peace with Germany and then fully committed, defeat Japan.

[@leoarc1061]

27:48 "[Hitler] lived up to his agreement with the Japanese. If [Hitler] had never made the alliance with Japan, we might be doing this interview in German." I don't think that is correct. Even if Hitler had not declared war on the U.S., FDR, after Pearl Harbor, was always going to declare war on Germany. As FDR put it; "The defeat of Japan does not mean the defeat of Germany, but the defeat of Germany does mean the defeat of Japan." Before Pearl Harbor, there was already a verbal agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt. Roosevelt would not, without justification, declare war on Germany, as not to break his campaign promises to the American people. However, if an incident were to occur, either with Germany or with Japan, FDR would enter the war in Europe. U.S. "propaganda", prior to Pearl Harbor, had been informing the American public about the necessity to not allow Nazi Germany to continue to expand. The reports of the war in Europe were far from neutral. There was a conscious effort to portray Nazi Germany as a potential future enemy, well before December of 1945. So, Hitler's decision to abide by his alliance with Japan was not what triggered the U.S. to declare war on Germany, very shortly after Germany declared war on it. Germany and Japan had a written agreement stating that should the latter engage in war with the U.S., the former shall do the same, and the Roosevelt's administration was very well are of it.

[@soteriology1012]

Zanger realy had a good idea but I wonder why then instead of bouncing that your rocket would have large thin knife edged glider type wings like the U2. Instead of a bouncing skipping lifting body like Zanger's a U2 thin edged broad surface craft could instead easily and slowly transition from being an air breathing jet to thin atmosphere ramjet to rocket simply burning fuel while scooping oxygen at the near edge of space then transition from a high altitude plane to gaining speed scooping up the thin atmosphere to then powering up as an liquid oxygen fed rocket at the very edge finally pushing into orbit. To me a thin atmosphere U2 type knife edged glider plane transitioning to orbit at the thinnest layers of atmosphere would have the advantage of being to easily slice back into the atmosphere as a glider plane back to a safe landing instead of the dangerous fiery re-entries that ablate all the energy at once It might not be fast but it would be efficient. Why skip when you can reach orbit then glide? However If the UFO's have done non Newtonian field propulsion without rockets nor wings then that ultimately would take the cake and become the gemstone of both terrestrial and celestial travel.. Th neutralization of mass, gravity, friction, and perhaps transtioning space time itself would indeed be the wonder of wonders in transportation.

[@davedee4382]

This could be quite a cool Science Fiction: Hitler in space! But I’ll tell you after you make the sequel and then a third film it’s not that good so that you got three films that can be forever seen on apps and satellite services, etc., you gotta have Hitler get his. He’s got a really pay for all his crimes.

[@frankmccann29]

Dr. Victor Schauberger. Some say WW2 was stalemate. If so the communcas are so underground.

[@crazyjoe1952]

If Hitler did not mess with meth and stuck to the sudation lands and had 5 or better years on building up his wonder weapons you me world not be hear today

[@grahamstaunton8154]

NEW SUB FROM IRELAND/BLESSINGS 2U ALL AND HAVE A GOOD DAY 👍👍🙏🙏🙏,,p.s,, I TIPE IN BIG LETTERS COS AFTER MY SEC STROK I CAN SEE THE LETTERS BETTER

[@Dronescapes]

Thanks for subbing!

[@warmonger8799]

PERFECTO

[@smokeyjayshouse]

Zanger Looks like archie bunker.😂

[@wabofabo7357]

Hi

[@netwrench6570]

Content good, editing a bit confusing. One moment 1943 is being discussed and then without transition or context 1939 seems to be the focus. Maybe it's just me, but appreciate the channel, so comments are for benefit only, ymmv.

[@johnbecker4498]

😊8y 😊6🎉Thanks!

[@Dronescapes]

Thank you so much John!

[@markhorrell9213]

V2 engineering perfected to get to the moon

[@adamlee9461]

Austrian painter was right

[@stephenlangsl67]

This video is much more mundane than I thought it would be. I thought is was about Nazi flying discs and top like spacecrafts.

[@towbar2]

Thanks!

[@Dronescapes]

thank you so much! Have a great weekend.

[@Harrybrown4570]

I always wondered how he got away 😮

[@grahamchivrall30]

Too many ads, all irellevant or irrelevant and juvenile compared with the content...

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[@WilliamCollins-sh6lm]

Odd haven't seen a single comercial ... Oh must be the Free Add Blocking App ... Free Add Blocking Apps are available !!!

[@derekcoaker6579]

He doesn't choose them dude.

[@ponderin]

I don't like how "nationalist" is a bad word. Nothing wrong with wanting your country to be number one and strong. It's only an issue when you run it too far....

[@Dronescapes]

"Run it too far" is a gross misunderstatement. I hope you realize that since you are talking about a psychotic, racist, criminal and sub-human regime that transformed an entire nation, and left an indelible stain in history, one that should never be forgotten, nor downplayed. You can be a patriot without being a psychopath that blindly follows a bunch of madmen (and as a remind, history tends to go through phases that are eerily similar). We should always be vigilant against those kind of "nationalists."

[@KidDynamite6]

Every day i get in my s class i thank the germans..they redefined the the automobile…best engineers

[@QuentinPurcell]

I was cleaning out my grandparents house find stamps it had hhard out Ahitler brand new sheets an sheets

[@alkohallick2901]

Huh?

[@user-cz9gc2zh3p]

your video said this was about the aemerika bombers and your talking v-2's , production and industrial capacity of the us and you leavr what 10 min to talk about the amerikis bombers WTF , try truth in your statements and yes you did mention them for a couple of minutes but your title is misleading

[@georgschenkfilm]

It’s messerschmitt, not meshersmitt

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

0:28 correction: German scientists

[@schubi42]

you assume an apolitical science community where there was none... If by 45 you were alive and in any position of mention, you were either a Nazi, a brilliant actor, or both.

[@elongtusks]

HDNW

[@Kretek35]

The germans make the best products and they sell them to the whole world and in return for this they are getting the best and cheapest food from around the world for their citizens.

[@grahamheath1485]

Too long

[@alkohallick2901]

No.

[@derekcoaker6579]

Don't insult everyone else's attention spans. You could always watch Shorts. Most definitely stay away from those pesky Books. 😂

[@ismayilzeynalov5359]

What these Germans could do, they themselves said that they did everything according to TSIOLKOVSKY.