Me-262 Ace WALTER NOWOTNY German newsreel EUROPA WOCHE 11.1944 + Private Footage

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EUROPA WOCHE Nr. 91
November 23, 1944
1:19 - Vienna: Funeral service on November 23rd, 1944 for the fallen Major Walter Nowotny
2:39 - Zagreb (Croatia): All Saints Day 1944
3:46 - Germany: Training of young people in an Adolf Hitler school
5:05 - Prague (Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia): Chess tournament
6:03 - Spain: grape harvest
7:15 - Germany: Production of horse feed
8:33 - Germany: Cossack stud farm
9:57 - Germany: Train station helpers making winter clothing
11:12 - Lorient (France): German soldiers in the enclosed Atlantic base
12:33 - BONUS: Me 262 raw footage
Messerschmidt Me 262
The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, is a fighter aircraft and fighter-bomber that was designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft.
The design of what would become the Me 262 started in April 1939, before World War II. It made its maiden flight on 18 April 1941 with a piston engine, and its first jet-powered flight on 18 July 1942. Progress was delayed by problems with engines, metallurgy, and interference from Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler. The German leader demanded that the Me 262, conceived as a defensive interceptor, be redesigned as ground-attack/bomber aircraft. The aircraft became operational with the Luftwaffe in mid-1944. The Me 262 was faster and more heavily armed than any Allied fighter, including the British jet-powered Gloster Meteor. The Allies countered by attacking the aircraft on the ground and during takeoff and landing.
One of the most advanced WWII combat aircraft, the Me 262 operated as a light bomber, reconnaissance, and experimental night fighter. The Me 262 proved an effective dogfighter against Allied fighters; German pilots claimed 542 Allied aircraft were shot down, although higher claims have sometimes been made. The aircraft had reliability problems because of strategic materials shortages and design compromises with its Junkers Jumo 004 axial-flow turbojet engines. Late-war Allied attacks on fuel supplies also reduced the aircraft's readiness for combat and training sorties. Armament production within Germany was focused on more easily manufactured aircraft. Ultimately, the Me 262 had little effect on the war because of its late introduction and the small numbers that entered service.
On 19 April 1944, Erprobungskommando 262 was formed at Lechfeld just south of Augsburg, as a test unit (Jäger Erprobungskommando Thierfelder, commanded by Hauptmann Werner Thierfelder) to introduce the Me 262 into service and train a corps of pilots to fly it. On 26 July 1944, Leutnant Alfred Schreiber, while flying over Munich, with the 262 A-1a W.Nr. 130 017, encountered a Mosquito PR Mark XVI reconnaissance aircraft, of No. 540 Squadron RAF, piloted by Fl. Lt. A.E. Wall.[58] Schreiber attempted to shoot down the unarmed Mosquito, though Wall evaded Schreiber's three attack runs, to land safely at Fermo, Italy, after the first air-to-air use of a jet fighter. Sources state the Mosquito had a hatch fall out, during the evasive manoeuvres, though the aircraft returned to RAF Benson on 27 July 1944, and remained in service till it was lost in a landing in October 1950. On the 8 August 1944, Lt. Joachim Weber of EKdo 262 claimed the first kill by a 262, of a reconnaissance Mosquito, PR.IX LR433, of 540 squadron, over Munich, killing the pilot, Fl. Lt. Desmond Laurence Mattewman and navigator Flight Sergeant William Stopford.
Major Walter Nowotny was assigned as commander in July 1944, and the unit redesignated Kommando Nowotny. Essentially a trials and development unit, it mounted the world's first jet fighter operations. Trials progressed at a slow pace; it was not until August 1944 that initial operational missions were flown against the Allies; the unit made claims for 19 Allied aircraft in exchange for six Me 262s lost. Despite orders to stay grounded, Nowotny chose to fly a mission against an enemy bomber formation flying some 9,100 m (30,000 ft) above, on 8 November 1944. He claimed two P-51Ds destroyed before suffering engine failure at high altitude.[66] Then, while diving and trying to restart his engines, he was attacked by other Mustangs, forced to bail out, and died. The Kommando was then withdrawn for further flight training and a revision of combat tactics to optimize the Me 262's strengths.

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[@mauroorso1963]

Jawohl!

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

there is a much better video of the me262 jet fighter than this, its an official German ww2 Luftwaffe pilot training film made for training new jet pilots with combat veteran aces or as the Germans would say experten training them, much better quarterly than this and up close views of controls in the cockpit on how to fly and control both engines, its on UTUBE and free, have a look , you wont regret it

[@jimstrict-998]

I would call this Me 262 video to be Alpine Redoubt footage.​@@volksdeutschewaffenss9670

[@johnjuarez8005]

The Aircraft still looks incredible today.

[@Cazador60140]

German engineering at its best not Nazi engineering, The West did not know what hit them so they copied it

[@JGCR59]

Nowotny wasn't an ace in the 262. He scored his over 200 kills in 109s and Fw 190s with JG 54 ofter the baltic/Leningrad area. I think he claimed 3 victories with the 262 before his death. Also, Nowotny had a superstition. As he was shot down in his first air combat over the baltic sea in 1941 and escaped by parachute and dingy before being picked up, he insisted on wearing the trousers he had worn during this for every single mission afterwards. I suppose he's wearing the "Abschusshosen" in the footage here. For some reason he was not wearing them on the fatal day. Btw Nowotny's appointment to lead the combat trial unit for the Me 262 was seen as a bad decision by many. While being a highly successful fighter pilot on the east front, he had neither experience of two engine aircraft nor of the high altitude air combat against US bombers and had no special expertise as a test pilot or technical officer.

[@M1945]

That is correct

[@nomeansno2335]

BS. He shot down one B17 that day before he died.

[@daj473]

It seems obvious that, for the most part, at this stage of the war these newsreels focused primarily on non-combat related topics and sought to keep the narration and imagery lighthearted. It must have been increasingly difficult for the creators of these newsreels to accomplish this feat.

[@JGCR59]

Europa Woche was not shown in Germany, but was mainly used for Wehrmacht screenings in occupied countries. So these soldiers deployed on the front probably liked being shown non combat footage. Hence also more freedom regarding music choice with a lot of jazz style music used for background

[@daj473]

@@JGCR59 Interesting point.

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

Increasingly difficult indeed. Just look at the regime in power in DC. They are having a hard time telling the populace that everything is just "Jim dandy".

[@ChevySS1968]

Our own media is doing the same thing to us today. Mostly lies and deceptions, to promote the hidden agenda of the Deep State.

[@keithad6485]

The Australian War Memorial has a complete and original Me 262 gifted from the Brit govt after they had done all their testing of this particular 262. When the Aussies received it, it still had is P in a circle prototype mark added for RAF testing pilots after the war. It is in superb condition. During a refurb some years back, the conservation staff found pine needles in the rear fuselage, suggesting it was assembled in German forests to avoid being destroyed by allied bombers.

[@M1945]

Very interesting

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

Yes, cool.

[@bethhentges]

Wonderful footage. Thanks for making it available.

[@craigbetts1586]

thanks for sharing, cool seeing the 262 up close

[@M1945]

You bet

[@jeffreycrawley1216]

In 1969 I worked with Nowotny's niece in London. Helga had been offered a job with PanAm as a stewardess and had to go to the American Embassy for her green card interview. This was just after the 1968 Prague Spring and Czechoslovakia was ruled by a hard line communist called Antonín Novotný (who during WW2 had fought with Czech partisans against the Nazis). Was he, by any chance, a relative? Yes, Antonín Novotný WAS a distant relation - despite the difference in spelling both versions seem to be used - but another relative, her uncle Walter, had been a Luftwaffe ace . . . she got her green card!

[@pepelopez8372]

Thanks for sharing. Interesting as always.

[@M1945]

Thanks for watching!

[@pepelopez8372]

@@M1945 On the contrary. It's always a pleasure to see the videos you post.

[@tonybarnes3658]

For mine, the Me262 is probably the most stunningly beautiful jet powered aircraft ever built. It seems to me that a pilot had to become one with the machine (as many have inferred re the Spitfire. Except the gut feeling I have,and may of course be stupidly wrong, is that it happened intuitively with the spit!). Particularly understanding the weaknesses and strengths of the power plants and flying accordingly to maximise the life of these relatively fragile engines. As well as understanding the plusses of this machine and maximising it's effectiveness. I'm in no way a supporter of Nazism, but it is sad that after all the combat he faced, Nowotny died before the end of that stupid wasteful war. So many millions of people dying for no gain or any positive effects whatsoever. War is crap, only good for maximising profits of armament manufacturers. And still going on now! When will us stupid primates get real and move forward positively on a whole world basis? The gains would be literally astronomical.

[@TheWilferch]

Wonderful footage not easily found anywhere else that covers this topic..... !!!!

[@BCarli1395]

Thank you for your work presenting history.

[@daveanderson3805]

The item about horse feed is quite telling. Contrary to german propaganda, about 70% of german transport was horse drawn. Not only supply trains, but also artillery.

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

Rommel’s Afrika Korps was proportionally much better motorized in transportation than the Wehrmacht/ss divisions on the other fronts. Horses 🐴 wouldn’t be of much use in the desert 🏜 🌵 & Rommel didn’t like 🐪 🐫 After 10 nights at Alamein his empty trucks drove like mad «as if by monkeys» according to Goering, along the coast, thanks to the Italian infantry who didn’t climb in, left behind to be powed.

[@Jonhistorymodel]

I’d say 85%! Only about 15% was motorised. Same with the Soviets untill America gave them unlimited 1.5 tone trucks.

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

@@Jonhistorymodel Never expect the fact to be red/rus-acknowledged, like the fact of the red tanks powered by 🇺🇸 engines or of the 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 tanks in red service.

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

@@Jonhistorymodel The Goering barb came when Erwin & Hermann who hated each other were called into dear fuehrer’s presence when Alamein was lost & Stalingrad was surrounded by 🧊& 🔥& poor Hermann was having his boasting exposed. & narcissistic Erwin who had the gall to complain ‘bout the ⛽️ want as the reason for his defeat at Alam Halfa. ‘Oh yeah ? Yet your empty trucks drove like mad along the coast as if by monkeys !’ 🙈🙉 🙊 Not a word about the Italian infantry who covered the nazi retreat & left behind to their fate. Besides, dear fuehrer’s wonder boy didn’t have anutting to reply to Hermann’s pith.

[@TheEwanMC]

​@@minhthunguyendang9900that's 100% false. In the first place, unlike the WW2 Western allies, Soviet tanks ran on Diesel. Secondly their V12 tank engine was cast in aluminium, a fact the Germans found impossible to replicate in production. A fun fact: the leader of the design team, Konstantin Chelpan, was arrested in 1938.

[@keithad6485]

With those mountains in the background with the first images this looks like the Me 262s based at the Airfield outside Innsbruck in 1945. From memory Galland was the staffel or geshwader leader.

[@brentandvuk]

Thank you enjoyed the video

[@robertpella2389]

the existence of a pull start for the starter motor just blows my mind

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

just like the modern day weed wacker 2 stroke engine, the panzer IV tanks also used a small engine to run power its electric drive motor to traverse the turret, would be running all the time in combat

[@user-ls7ui9el8w]

Vielen Dank.

[@user-js4zx1lr2u]

My mother was one of those Helferinen. They sent her to the far side of Poland.

[@M1945]

That's interesting. Does she have photos or a diary documenting her experiences?

[@user-js4zx1lr2u]

@@M1945 She passed on back in 1978, but I still have some of her photo albums. I'll have a look when I get a chance.

[@Desertduleler_88]

Great footage, far more civilised compared to what we have in the western world today.

[@joshfromwellington9225]

So let's see, propaganda footage from 80 years ago (during the death throws of a fascist regime) stills works its charm on you. That's value for money.

[@Desertduleler_88]

@@joshfromwellington9225 Since 1945, the incremental American empire of globo homo poison called liberalism, has worked it’s charms on you. Mission completed.

[@christopherneufelt8971]

@@joshfromwellington9225 Propaganda of today is much more severe than what the Germans did. Its because propaganda today is not questioned as well as it is indistinguishable from the reality. You are lucky because every 20 years a narrative falls. Together with a part of you that believe it.

[@Jonhistorymodel]

It’s always odd seeing German reels late 44. The whole Reich was falling apart but everyone seems so calm!

[@Madness66]

Great Video and the Music.

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

He happened to be the homonym of the Czech secretary general of the Czechoslovakian red party in the 60s.

[@MS-th4bb]

Horses can be eaten, vehicles not. This isn't stupid in wartimes

[@scottnyc6572]

German propaganda is much better than America’s lol.All kidding aside these are fascinating moments in history that are worth watching.

[@Proteus007]

In the scene at 1:58, am sure Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach must have realized that the war was lost and this young man’s life was wasted in futility.

[@SunKing968]

After leaving the Eastern Front and finally encountering his first non-Soviet pilots, within 5 minutes Nowotny was blown out of the sky by P-51 Mustangs despite flying a technically superior aircraft : )

[@teller1290]

His plane had a technical problem taking off earlier in the day. Due to other issues, he took off and engaged alone, while generals were visiting his squadron to pressure them to attack more, despite the newness and teething problems with the jets. On top of that, it sounds like 50-50 that plane went down with engine failure after killing at least one U.S. plane. Nice narrative, though.

[@robertcombs55]

This little country almost took over the world....twice...

[@seltaeb9691]

Best looking jet fighter ever. Even tho its abandoned & weathered, it still looks ready to go & woosh. When the B29s crew first saw it fly past their jaws would have dropped before they parachuted.

[@waltie1able]

Such noble youth fighting for a suicidal and evil cause. Makes me, an old man now, cry. Mother and her side of the family all German during that period.

[@yuppy1967]

I think you are looking at this from years of allied propaganda. Remember, the people had no such luxury during that time. In my opinion, the Soviets were the worse enemy. My grandparents spoke of it often, they were both under the Germans and the Soviets.

[@joshfromwellington9225]

@@yuppy1967 So Nazi Germany was not an evil cause? That's just propaganda. Sheesh.

[@samuelglover7685]

@@yuppy1967 Maybe you should ask your grandparents if they knew anybody who was sent to a Nazi death camp. I'll bet that'll shut them up right quick -- assuming they don't fall back on the standard "we didn't know" lie. But something tells me that such discussions are conspicuously absent from your family....

[@yuppy1967]

@@samuelglover7685 you want to sound smart, but that was a mistake. Actually, my aunt was married to my uncle was Jewish and he went to a “death camp”. He survived and so did she. The Soviets raped her after she had been “ liberated”.

[@yuppy1967]

@@samuelglover7685 you are trying to sound smart, but that was a mistake. My aunt was married to my uncle, who was Jewish. They both went to the “death camp” and survived. My aunt was raped by the Soviets, as were countless civilians Bothell German and not, after she was liberated!

[@HeadPack]

Looks like the footage was taken in Ennstal in Austria.

[@iiRockUrSocksOff]

That camouflage on the Me262 near the end was cool!

[@wimweender1306]

🤩

[@keithad6485]

Nowotny's death - read this in the book The Big Show by WW2 RAF Pilot Pierre Clostermann - Nowotny was shot down whilst attempting to land. Most Brit pilots never went near a fighter base cos the excellently trained ground based flak abteillung (battalion) were capable of throwing up 250 projectiles every second. 20mm and 37mm. This Brit pilot flew through this hail of flak, shot down Nowotny, and lived to tell about it! Clostermann's book is well worth reading, he even describes seeing a Do 335 Pfiel flying in his AO.

[@johnelliott7375]

Hard to get anywhere yit! Hard to get to see real life footage, except for the archives of the countries of the European theater and getting permission to get to see them let alone copy them is slim to none.

[@joesmith-tg3co]

is that a cat pelt at 10:30

[@johnrestucci8269]

Poor animals…

[@marceletiennou5182]

Sur c’était 1 grand pilote les autres tombait comme des mouches normal aussi

[@johnkirkby4959]

History was written by the Victor's

[@browngreen933]

At 1:43 it sure looks like they kissed on the lips. Not that there's anything wrong with that. 😅

[@johnjuarez8005]

You outta know sweetie!

[@josefhorndl3469]

Maybe his father?

[@geraldwiese7889]

He kissed his father!!

[@markaxworthy2508]

Pretty depressing for Germans - Two lots of funeral and memorial services for deaths, a Czech winning a chess tournament, military-age Italian men making wine, Germany producing high quality fodder and horses in the age of mechanization, Red Cross nurses having to do double shifts producing winter clothing, isolated German garrisons.

[@javiergilvidal1558]

Spanish men making wine

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@javiergilvidal1558 You are right. (06:03).

[@cristobalperez9548]

06:29 subs: Should be San Sadurni, not San Celoni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Sadurn%C3%AD_d%27Anoia

[@M1945]

Thank you! I couldn't make out what the commentator was saying