Mysteries of the Third Reich - Part Three | The New York Nuke

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From solar cannons to time travelling armies, there are few areas of science fiction which were not inspired in some way by Hitler’s Wonder Weapons programme. In the majority of cases, these outlandish proposals rarely made it off the drawing board. But there is concerning evidence that the Third Reich may have come uncomfortably close to deploying nuclear weapons on American soil.
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[@joshb8302]

As a Mainer I vaguely remember stories as a child of washed up Germans and a sunken submarine. I never heard of the crashed plane and bodies of German airmen. Very cool to hear a bedtime story from my home state.

[@melodrama9098]

Haha same

[@patsfreak]

Our state has enough creepy going on I hope it's not the last one.

[@evelynzlon9492]

Speaking of washed up, I notice this channel is fond of mentioning that the German military was underfunded. Statistically, Americans of German descent are slightly underrepresented amongst American millionaires. In stark contrast to Hungarian-Americans who are vastly overrepresented, despite the geographic proximity between these 2 nations. Maybe Hitler and his overt lack of gentility were sent to punish Germany for being poor by Western European standards.

[@grapeshot]

I like that animation and effect of the shockwave hitting the front of the plane.👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@TheFilipinoukulele]

I nearly shit my pants wearing headphones.

[@MrBark1969]

@@TheFilipinoukulele I didnt

[@jamesharris4695]

Wasn't expecting that, I thought I was hit lol

[@More_Row]

MrBark45 wow you’re so cool

[@PatrickC139]

That seriously caught me off guard.

[@leavoda3791]

3:25- RIP my and anyones ears who are using headphones.

[@Blondie-Actual]

Actually, it wasnt that bad bro

[@shadowdesmond]

Try a surround sound system with the sub cranked up. Was not that bad but it caught me off guard lol

[@chinitonamoreno]

Ahaha good thing I had it on low vlume.

[@MattQrillz]

Thanks for the heads up lol

[@leavoda3791]

@@MattQrillz no worries man, it's just that my kids cranked their game up, so I cranked my headphones up and allmost jumped ontop my kids trying to protect them from the explosion 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Gruntvc]

So, Wolfenstein The New Order was based on this real potential what-if scenario. That's scary.

[@SamGarcia]

All Wolfensteins were based on real Nazi secret tech

[@patriot17764th]

scary indeed!

[@HungNguyen-fy8hf]

@@SamGarcia Um, Da'at Yichud?

[@TacDyne]

What's more scary is the Nazis did succeed in making and testing a nuke. It is highly ignored, but at Peenemunde there was an underground explosion which knocked out electricity in the surrounding area for a minute. That's from an EMP.

[@rickitysplitz7035]

@@SamGarcia Aspects of it were based on real Nazi Tech, yet most of it was patented by lost technology of a Jewish society.

[@thedoruk6324]

The Thumbnail art is truly Unique! It absolutely gives off an existing Alternate Universe/Reality establishment where USA has fallen terribly; and the Ruins of New York stands as a testimony of a once magnificent state that is now nothing. Either destroyed at kinetic bombardement by the German or Decimated by the Japanese Empire with a hydrogen bomb like superweapon

[@freezetasticvoyage19]

That in and of itself is a scary thought.

[@thedoruk6324]

@@freezetasticvoyage19 Precisely!

[@NiumeLTU]

There is series called man in the high castle which depicts if nazis won the war

[@thedoruk6324]

@@NiumeLTU absolutely good series; I especially love the depiction of japanese east american states

[@newhendrix7576]

I wouldn't go as far to say the thumbnail is "truly unique", I feel that a lot of post war/apocolyptic artworks includes a damaged statue of liberty and a wrecked New York in the background. Eg The day after tomorrow movie poster

[@이동연-c6d]

Another Third Reich mysteries huh? My There are many mysteries of the Third Reich that we never know about!

[@이동연-c6d]

42 They also had same mysteries too.

[@이동연-c6d]

42 While North Korea building empty glass hotel, South Korea building the taller and stronger glass mall.

[@b.griffin317]

is that anything like "unknown unknowns?"

[@nottsork]

partly because even though most countries including USA France Italy and partial of spain have now opened their sealed world war 2 documetns that were secret ECEPT for Germany , they will not open their secret files , if they keep their secrets are they comitting a war crime by tampering with evidence and if war crimes tribunal was to now state that no more prosecutions or repurcussions to the release is to take place , i dare sat germany wiull still keep quiet if the hunting hitler material is to be believed both the CIA and the French secret inteligence managed to trace Hitler to Argentina , and Gormans , grand daughter , confirmed they flew with hitler to argentina

[@thequietonesometimes6415]

That's the whole idea. Still goes on Today with many countries.

[@GhostTrueCapitalist]

"We must be thankful that it never came to pass." Meanwhile... durin' the Cold War, America and the Soviet Union lose their nuclear weapons scattered around the world and the worst part? Not all of 'em have been found yet...

[@angbandsbane]

*Ol' Dolph: "What is the name of this project?" *Hermann Goering: "Codename: Amerikabomber, mein fuehrer! ... The uh...the guy who came up with the clever codenames got sent to the Russian front."

[@ThomasTrue]

The original plan of the Manhattan Project was not to bomb Japan but rather Germany. It was in response to several physicists, including Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, and Albert Einstein, forwarding a letter to President Roosevelt, warning that Germany was developing an atomic bomb. However, the heavy water plant at Telemark was destroyed by Allied action, and the war in Europe ended before the first bomb was tested at Alamogordo in July 1945. After that Japan became the target. I'm afraid I have reservations about this story. If the Nazis test-fired an atomic bomb, there would have been eyewitnesses right around the Baltic, and indeed, casualties. Anyone looking in the direction of the blast from up to 100 miles distant would have been temporarily or even permanently blinded. The mushroom cloud would have been seen for miles around and would have deposited fallout as ash and even "black rain", which would have caused radiation poisoning. As there are no records of anyone suffering the telltale symptoms of hair and nails falling out, nausea and diarrhoea, subcutaneous bleeding, and delirium, ending in death, then just how much credence can we put in this story? As to the aircraft, it would have been enormously expensive and almost impossible to build a bomber capable of a transatlantic run carrying an atomic bomb - they are not light. The Nazis realised this and that's why Werner Von Braun had already designed the A-10 rocket. Von Braun realised there was no point building a missile capable of travelling 6000 miles when space is only 3 miles up. Had the A-10, known to the Allies as the Vengeance 10 or V-10, ever got off the drawing board and actually been built, it would have been launched into space in a near earth orbit. The frictionless vacuum of space would have allowed it to travel at vastly higher speeds, and then it would re-enter earth atmosphere, say over NYC or Washington DC, and delivered its deadly payload. The Nazis lacked the resources to build even one A-10, which would have been massive, but if they had succeeded, then it would have been the first ICBM - and such a weapon would have been perfect for carrying an atomic bomb.

[@MCR-M8]

The Heavy Water War was a pretty good miniseries and well worth a watch if you’re interested in WW2.

[@dracarysblackfyre6030]

Some addendums: Space is defined by NASA as being an average of 100km (70 miles) above sea level, although LEO is usually marked at 300km. Another thing to consider, is that at it's peak, the manhatten project used about 1% of domestic power usage in the US. that's 270 Billion kWh. I haven't been able to find sources for Germany's war time production of power, but I'd imagine given they were running out of coal, oil, and fuels in general, and lacked the large hydroplants that are found throughout the US, energy usage alone would have prevented the production of a German nuclear weapon. As for the V-10, I haven't heard of it before, and am excited to do some research, but I figure I aught to be a bit of a killjoy here. Building an ICBM is not simply a matter of building a rocket that can go to space. That's actually "relatively" easy, and a V-2 Rocket could reach space (although not orbit, or even a parabolic curve). Really, there are three parts that are difficult: Making a rocket that can carry the immense weight of a nuclear weapon, and guide it accurately to it's target. Making a nuclear weapon light enough to be carried by a rocket. And creating a warhead that can survive the rigours of reentry, and detonate precisely. The North Koreans have built rockets capable of hitting far away territories, and they have manufactured functional nuclear weapons. But mating the two has proven extremely difficult. And as for your statement that there is no evidence to prove this theory right. Well, yeah. If the Germans had such a weapon, they would not have wasted resources testing it, they would have simply used it on the Russian hordes. I feel this story comes from the revisionist movement that feels a need to justify how Germany could have won the war if only... I'm glad they lost, and there is no one tactical reason they lost, just as there is no one reason they could have won. They overstretched their military, their economy, and their industry, picked some very poor allies. As the AI says in the movie wargames, "The only winning move is not to play"

[@lordwoods3111]

To be fair, you have to remember that the Germans started with basically nothing as it was, remember, after WW1 Germany was prosecuted unfairly, and left so poor and desperate that they were burning their money for heat. While Adolf was power hungry, he did start his campaign with the original intent of restoring Germany, which, he did, for the first while of the war, Germany was waaaaay better off than it was post WW1, their economy recovered, they were no longer starving etc etc. Of course, he got greedy, had he stopped early, pushed for a peace treaty, well, who knows, the world may be a better place, third riech science and ingenuity was considered to be far beyond its time, only limited by the severe lack of resources the Germans faced, had Hitler sought peace after Germany had reclaimed the land that it had previously controlled pre WW1, Germany could have been a front runner for scientific advancement even to this day. Also the V-10 was designed but never made, and, in fact would have been significantly harder to make than a bomber that could cross the ocean, the bomber would have to be rather large, but, it would be possible.

[@jebes909090]

theres a theory floating around that the two weapons used on japan were actually german bombs that had been siezed after the facilities were captured.

[@leeharamis1935]

Lich Lord I think you’re being a bit revisionist with your description of Germany in the interwar years and the situation during Nazi rule. May I suggest watching the Between Two Wars series on KZbin, or watching a lecture by Victor Hansen on the lead up to wwii. Or read on of his books or the work of Konrad Heiden. I think these will give you a much better understanding of what went on in that period than you seem to have at present.

[@loganagle746]

I really like how this video partially branches into the territory of Alternate History. It's a fascinating topic that isn't covered much on KZbin, and it works extremely well for the topics and presentation characteristic of this channel. Please consider returning to it for future videos, as it was just as compelling and effective as your Paranormal-focused and True Crime-focused videos.

[@MandyMan24]

May I recommend videos on the Order of the Nine Angles and the Toronto Tunnel Monster?

[@StylinandRaciallyProfilin]

Never heard of the Toronto thing but a comprehensive video on O9A would be appreciated. Satanic bastards.

[@jomboi2059]

First I want to say that I really love your videos, I often find my self wanting to hear about something strange or paranormal but most KZbin channels dont really deliver on realism or actually eerie but your videos are exactly what I want and I really enjoy them. Now I've really been wanting to find some stuff about my own neck of the woods, Alaska, but I cant find many quality paranormal cases or stories. Alaska have the highest amount of missing persons cases in America I'm sure there's some that have a little more to show then we're lead to believe.

[@EphemeralProductions]

And I guess we have to feel very lucky that if that thing DID have a bomb, that the plane somehow crashed and the bomb not only didn't get to its intended target, but that it never went off, just like the narrator said. That really could have changed a LOT of how the rest of the war went, possibly even extending it.

[@azzythehero]

I'd like to see you all cover Himmler's "Dark Camelot" of Castle Wewelsburg and the occult rituals done there.

[@erinbibb]

I was thrilled to see a new video. Everything is so crazy in the world right now. I'll take anything positive. So thank you for the pick me up.

[@gartenschnecci9896]

I live near Ludwigslust in Germany were the alleged bomb should've been tested. Such a big explosion must've cause severe damage. No such damage has been ever found.

[@lodnisroub]

Colonel Radec I hope you do not identify Germans with Nazis.

[@Theaielman]

@Colonel Radec Gee, I cant imagine why Americans and 99% of the rest of the world (especially Germany itself) are so anti-wwII era Germany.

[@deltaflash7889]

@@Theaielman ikr its definitley not because the nazis enslaved and executed a large amount of jews

[@scallopohare9431]

Nope, more recently a nuclear bomb was supposedly developed that would kill people but leave buildings largely intact, easier to reuse.

[@gartenschnecci9896]

@@scallopohare9431 Well, as I live there I would've heard about the killing of people by such a nuclear test.

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Wow I've been a WW2 and military aviation buff for years, I knew about the Ju390 and another Amerikabomber the Me264 but I never knew about this instance. I read a few years ago that a Ju390 reached within a few miles of the coast of America but that was all that was mentioned. I love your channel it's so well put together.

[@drewbear1969]

9:23 been watching this channel so long that at first I thought that was a cryptid, but then I realized it's just the scuba diver 😂

[@YankeePendragon]

I was seriously expecting another nuclear flash, followed by a mushroom cloud, at 18:14. Well done.

[@markduranjr32]

Finally!! This just made my whole weekend!!

[@Kumo5980]

Great video!, now try the black Dahlia killer or try Goatman’s bridge and it’s history!XD

[@saber1827]

The details of the cockpit is amazing! Nice graphic as always :D

[@noone6812]

Oooow, first time I've actually been around when one gets uploaded, sweet.

[@harry8912]

That’s crazy dude, as a New Yorker I can’t imagine seeing NYC getting nuked.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Thanks so much for this, guys! A perfect distraction for all of us holed up at home! Keeps our mind off the bug. :)

[@syahran1518]

"codename: amerikabomber" *mark felton theme song plays*

[@jerrylanary4889]

Trumpet sound: wou uwu wuo wu wu

[@gubukreyot1678]

Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun 🎶🎼

[@starsareangels]

Germans are creative with names that way lol

[@IanP1963]

But useless at winning wars lol !!!!

[@IanP1963]

WW 2 ended in 1945

[@MrImastinker]

We really need more movies based on the super weapons the Reich were developing, like “what if” stories showing people trying to fight high-tech Nazis. Movies like Overlord, but with ray guns or Die Glocke or something.

[@Theaielman]

True, that actually is something explored in alot of video games rather than movies. Wolfenstein is the most obvious, but theres also other ones that explore alternate history scenarios like Hearts of Iron or Turning Point: Fall of Liberty

[@generalhorse493]

How many people looking at the Owl's Head mystery have considered the possibility that it might have just been captured German pilots testing a captured German prototype on Behalf of their American captors?

[@mongorians22]

Hey Bedtime Stories, I just wanted to say that I really miss the audio cue that used to play in the title slide of each episode after the introduction in earlier episodes. It really added to the immersion and creepiness. On a side note, while a few prototypes were produced of the Ju-390 and Me-264, which could have made a one-way-trip to NYC, they probably could not have done so with a nuclear weapon weighing around 10,000 lbs. The B-29 Superfortress, the first aircraft to carry nuclear weapons, was one of the most advanced aircraft of its time (in fact, it was the most costly defense project undertaken by the US during the war-- even more than the Manhattan project itself). For all of the incredible advancements Nazi Germany made in jet aircraft and rocketry, they were severely lacking in piston-engine technology and heavy bomber development (the only dedicated heavy bomber they made in numbers, the He-177, had a nasty habit of spontaneous combustion). Arguably the biggest challenge of nuclear development at the time was finding a suitable aircraft to carry it. So great was this obstacle that when the Soviet nuclear program needed an aircraft to carry their first nukes, they used the Tu-4: a perfect, reverse-engineered copy of the B-29.

[@EzioAuditore]

This was playing in my EarPods while i was sleeping on autoplay and it went here, and that shockwave explosion scared the shit out of me, thought my house was collapsing or something 😂😂

[@KaijuBiologist]

I had already heard about some of the things mentioned in this video, but the stuff I didnt just proves that the more "untold stories" I hear about WW2, the scarier it gets.

[@akkadiansprayart]

I remember reading a book called area one and the beginning of the book starts off with an Indiana Jones tight character who is scuba diving to find a lost German aircraft that potential had the first nuclear device created by the Nazis

[@bosgotnojams]

that shockwave tho......

[@DerekNing]

Great effects and presentation! The story scenarios is getting better and better!

[@salamander405]

WWII stories, especially nazi ones always interest me. You guys did great on this one, keep up the good work

[@codycox2465]

Giant pog time stories!

[@bradleyfortier9682]

Very interesting video. Love the animation, narration and the story.

[@vanessadotson8067]

What so cool about this channel is, it's done excellent it keeps you well informed and it's a little bit creepy with that mix you can't go wrong...

[@ms.scream2248]

You'd surely really like my horror story narrations too!

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

But most of the stories aren't true... This one is definitely fiction haha

[@sidebite2533]

New Sub here. I must say I am really impressed with the videos and especially the artwork of the drawlings/sketches. 👍

[@RadagastBrown420]

You should study up on the Melon Heads of North Eastern Ohio .

[@mariobadia4553]

What are melon heads?

[@crazysilly2914]

wuz dat...?

[@johnberry5275]

"... _twilight was the only_ safe window _of flight for the_ Luftwaffe. _Too late for the enemy's daytime patrols, and too early for their night-fighter equivalents._ " That's funny. I regularly notice the exact same thing about Rabbits. In areas with heavy Human Population, Rabbits only seem to come out (preferring 'mowed grass' areas; over in the Park) at twilight. Too late for the daytime predators (hawks, falcons, eagles). And too early for the nighttime predators (owls). Of course, I only notice this "rabbit behavior" over in the local Park, where there are no house cats "patrolling". House cats hunt all day, and all night.

[@tyrannosaurusimperator]

There's a term for animals only active in dawn/dusk: crepuscular.

[@fieldadmiralspartanryseb-8293]

Yes!! New episode! By the way, you stay safe bedtime stories staff. Stock up on supplies

[@eliot.s_2672]

I can’t not think of WAW zombies when someone mentions something about German wonderweapons

[@gunnargunnarsson5963]

this reminds me more of Wolfenstein tbh

[@notorious-g6515]

Both

[@FallenAngel9979]

Wow. What a fascinating story. One I’d not heard of till now. Brilliant narration as always, exquisite drawings...fantastic.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@thhseeking]

A Manufacturer's plate labelled "Fligeroberstkommando". No, it would have more likely said something like "Junkers". And the plate wouldn't have had a rank on it. And "Fliegeroberstkommando" doesn't make sense as the rank of Colonel. "Kommando" translates as "Command". "Fliegeroberkommando" would make more sense - "Pilot High Command". But not on a manufacturer's plate.

[@joediffy]

I love this channel, I hope more stories are coming soon. Thanks!

[@lorentzcoffin4957]

WW2 was arguably fully underway in 1938. The US wasn’t involved in European theater or officially involved in the pacific theater until 1940 but there was action taking place in the years prior to the 1940 US declaration.

[@StephenRojek]

The best Chanel, second time watching this episode great 😊more please

[@balaam_7087]

This is reminiscent of the revolt in Zanzibar Land, Africa. A mobile weapons platform developed during the Cold War was seized by terrorists. It was a unique project funded primarily by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and used previously unheard of technology. Supposedly it was capable of launching a nuclear device through unconventional means, and that the payload would not be able to be intercepted.

[@markcoverdale7282]

Absolutely bloody brilliant (as always) cheers guys, just bought the book, looking forward to creeping myself out on the night shift!

[@delmystro13]

You gentlemen are not of this world! Amazing storytelling! Thank you!

[@robinraphael]

This was a freaky one good video thanks

[@develyntwocentshenderson5739]

I have heard about this... there were some missions by 'special ops' type forces to deprive hitler of heavy water. Including the sinking of a ferry .. sadly, some of the force members could not warn people they knew to stay off that ferry...

[@amgr9704]

I remember watching a documentary about how some black firefighters commissioned by the war department were preventing forest fires started by the Japanese using weather gallons floating across the Pacific to somehow precisely. explode when they were over the west coast. One of these for set fires they stopped almost destroyed the installation that housed the bomb that was to be dropped on Japan. The only thing, and I mean the only thing that prevented America from being another notch on Germany's bedpost, so to speak, was being so far from them. We were lucky.

[@mikeevans7381]

The Nazis just did not have the means to make a nuclear bomb the hard water plant in Norway that they needed was taken apart and shipped to Germany and never put back together. They may have had one or two bombers that could fly that far one of the biggest Achilles heel for the Nazis was they didn't have a long-range bomber so I can't buy this one.🤔

[@marhawkman303]

Well, the idea here is that the JU-390 was an experimental prototype for a long range strategic bomber. It was an aircraft developed late in the war because the Germans saw a need for such a thing. seemingly the only use it got was in recon though.

[@mikeevans7381]

Mar Hawkman they also had a jet bomber that could fly further higher and faster than anything we had the Allies found several of them covered up in the woods they just didn't have the fuel to fly them. If Hitler wouldn't have put a stop to the development of jet engins in the early part of the war things could be quiet different today. Scary to think about.

[@stevenlancin3062]

Im so waitong for this bedtime stories. Im your fan here from the Philippines.

[@cosakita6120]

I grew up near Owls Head Maine and I've literally never heard this story.

[@elfrad1714]

So the Nazis tested a nuke in the Baltic late in World War 2 but nobody noticed except for one German pilot? If a pilot approaching the German city of Luebeck on the Baltic coast noticed a "gigantic cloud" in the sky others would have seen it too. That's around the corner from Nazi-occupied Denmark and across from neutral Sweden. But only one lonely German pilot noticed the flash of light, the mushroom cloud or the blast wave. The noise of the explosion would have been tremendous but it went undetected. The pilot would have been exposed to radiation. I understand tests were done in the area to find background radiation and the results came back negative. It has also been determined that Nazi Germany did not have a nuclear reactor to produce the plutonium necessary for a bomb.

[@stopasking8139]

Excellent as always. Much appreciated.

[@MrBark1969]

Same

[@paulraymond1032]

nice work . well put together !!

[@michaelbruce7639]

It's kinda of scary if you get thinking about all that

[@panzerman22]

I love this channel great work guys.

[@its_A_me_Njobe]

3:23 THAT. WAS. AWSONE.

[@alexlogsdon9519]

Gave me chills

[@Rebel9668]

Wasn't a nuclear explosion Zinnser saw. If it had been he would have been blinded after the explosion since he didn't shade his eyes from the white light blast.

[@trishpipkins]

Rebel9668 that's what I thought.

[@18vix87]

Couldn't hear anything after 3:27 onwards....is therr any problem with the audio??

[@rewrew897]

Six engines you say? This Immediately made me think of the BV238

[@anthonyhardy167]

Well... My Sundays just got a lot more interesting

[@sirAlextheflatulent]

Holy crap! I am an army brat who lived in Germany a long time and then moved to Rockland!

[@Lemurai]

Operation burning glass is another little known military experiment into temporal/trans universal displacement. It is beloved the planes involved disappeared through a worm hole created by a divide carried activated by the lead pilots plane. The small group of planes were seen entering a nearby cloud bank, however no one ever observed them leaving the other side, falling out of the sky and they completely disappeared off of radar. Spooky stuff.

[@STRAKAZulu]

Heard about this one, and firmly believe that this was almost a successful attack on New York.

[@Theaielman]

Eh, it's highly unlikely. The allies had complete air superiority at this point and had reliable radar covering virtually the entire distance between Europe and north America between the stations in england, Iceland and the eastern seaboard, not to mention the numerous ships at sea. Plus the nazis completely lacked the means to make any sort of testable weapon, let alone a for sure one that could be used.

[@theshape3988]

That explosion made me jump lol

[@beanlord4347]

Happy German noises*

[@jakeb.6487]

Great as always!

[@winjinsinjon]

one huge hole in this story is the fact supposedly the germans did test a nuke yet no one has ever mentioned a test area, wouldnt there be a flattened forest or something somewhere in europe? it would be easy to find.

[@haywoodyoudome]

Just as believable as the other story about millions

[@haywoodyoudome]

a couple of showers

[@nekipeh7373]

Now im hyped for cryptid episode to be next!

[@damoOM3N]

That explosion was terrifingly awesome!!! Felt like I sat thru a missile test in Korea with Kimbo

[@alexhorn6077]

watching this as a german this just doesnt make sense. IF germany had nukes in 44 they would have been used on soviet cities to force stalin to peace. these targets wouldve been much easier to reach and the soviet front was more dangerous at that time compared to the western front.

[@tiaanswart9611]

RIP Headphone users 3:20

[@src6339]

Last time I deployed nuclear weapons on American soil they just deployed some straight back. So I followed up with mechanised infantry with close air support seizing most of the continent. Turns out they had the same idea. When all was said and done I ended up with a bunch of devistated formerly American cities in a state of civil unrest surrounded by hostile guerilla fighters and nuclear fallout and a few untouched Island cities that miraculously escaped the war at the cost of my own continent now occupied by United States forces in a similar condition to those cities that I had just captured. My economy, bolstered by those cities left untouched by the war, bounced back faster than theirs allowing me to clean up the fallout and the rouge military elements pillaging the countryside in the captured territories, end civil unrest then recapture the lands lost during the war.

[@TommygunNG]

Too many leaps here, a big one being that the supposed A-bomb tests would have been spotted by many people. This was Europe and the Mediterranean, not the New Mexico desert.

[@jackdare]

Do Battle Los Angeles sometime? Regarding why this was covered up.. if I've learned anything from my family in military intelligence, I'd say we didn't want anything potentially derailing our agenda to "justifiably" test our own nukes. Reacting to potential German threat would have changed narrative & drastically altered timeline. Some of the less patient commanders would have been fine with that, but the most influential tacticians probably preferred the actual timeline & global reaction. Just my opinion ;) It's pretty sad we still have war at all, but humans refuse to learn from history and are so damn reactionary.

[@eezergoode8588]

There's a novel called "A thousand suns" that's very similar to this.

[@duckgo8755]

Thank you.

[@DigitalDNA]

Holy shit! That shockwave animation made me piss my pants.

[@michaelbruce7639]

Don't forget about the ww2 that did happen when all that German war was going on at the time 1941-& 1942

[@kyleshiflet9952]

One of the scariest what ifs of WW2 and they were on their way to developing one

[@tieger1313]

One of your weaker episodes, I must say. Philadelphia Experiment when?

[@tieger1313]

@@BS-jg7dy Eh, you have your opinion, I have mine.

[@12345678927164]

You know, it’s never too late to make your dreams reality.

[@michellecarter9876]

I'm amazed at the things we're never told about. The amount is probably unfathomable.

[@amateurhistorian9782]

Weird seeing my state, Maine, on the channel, but cool!

[@WoodsPrecisionArms]

So the Germans didn’t have the technical know how it resources to make a long range bomber but did have the knowledge and resources to create the atomic bomb? One of these things doesn’t look like the other, one of these things just aren’t the same. Also most German scientists has the beliefs that setting off a nuclear bomb would create a chain reaction that would unravel the fabric of existence - they even taught this in their schools. So even though they were working on developing heavy water it’s not something a lot of scientists wanted to do. Besides that, believe it or not, Germany was much closer in developing a long range ballistics missal than a long range bomber and that would have more than likely been their delivery method.

[@steverambo4692]

Just cause the plane was denied and silently recovered doesn't necessarily mean the Germans had a nuke (at least on that plane), during WW2 the public was told that America was the most badass fighting force in history, to find out that the Germans could easily fly right up to the east coast would have caused a mass panic as for recovering the parts well its a coastal town a fisherman or diver would have stumbled upon it at some point which would again lead to mass panic once they told everyone

[@sunnycat69]

I grew up two hours south of Rockland Maine and I've never heard of that story hmm

[@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820]

Of course it was a cover up not good for morale especially with the Cold War on the rise

[@Pembroke.]

Not surprisingly Germany at the time came up with many covert technologies for which certain groups don't believe we should know other than you. 😊

[@scotthewitt258]

If those "witnesses" were that close to a nuclear explosion, the initial burst of light would have blinded them.

[@haywoodyoudome]

Or they were given eye protection and it just wasn't mentioned in the story.

[@timetravelkitty425]

I’m from Long Island New York and there are still legends about how German u boats would pop up in the bay out at montauk, near camp hero actually to fuse together two legends😂 there’s also a town out there called Germantown and I think they have changed a lot of the offensive names but there used to be like an Adolf Hitler Rd. now all the names are changed but it was all German people living in that town at one point and this was around the time of the third Reich. I’ve heard from older people who live on Long Island that they were trying to start a movement, complete with goose-stepping parades. thank God it didn’t take lol and I say this as a German American😂

[@Confucios1118]

If it was a cover up, it could’ve just been because it managed to get so close, and nothing else. If the populace learned enemy planes, specifically, could get that close without being challenged, it could’ve led to panic during the war every time any other plane flew overhead, and non military personnel, unable to distinguish between friendly and hostile planes, cried “AIR RAID!”

[@beyondreception6681]

Lived just outside owlshead. Nice town

[@lorentzcoffin4957]

Truth be told the bomb exploded in the Baltic was probably a micro nuke by comparison and contained most of if not all of the Nazis supply of materials to make such a bomb. Provided it even happened. The amerika bomber actually making it to US shores is almost certain to have happened but not carrying a bomb load of any kind.

[@aaronator4d633]

The nuclear weapon could have been not a standard fission bomb but a dirty bomb where it’s a mix of dynamite and radioactive material which probably could have had an affect similar to a nuclear weapon but nothing near little boy levels of carnage. Though I highly doubt it having that effect on the he 111 that the visual depicted. I honestly think the JU 390 was possibly just used for reconnaissance purposes nothing like bombing as to reach the US it would have to be a light as possible and maybe it couldn’t carry bombs if it were to reach the east coast and the government covered it up as an embarrassment that AA didn’t shoot it down ( and that’s stretching it). But who knows maybe like another commenter posted it reached close to but didn’t actually make it to the east coast and the guy photos were fake?