recently discovered disturbing German Volkswaffe war footage: fake or fiction?

[@pixiniarts]

This is footage either from Herbie-Fully Loaded or Herbie goes Bananas... Or may be that lost classic Herbie Hero of the Reich...

[@jwilly3767]

thats funny as fuck

[@49Freds]

Still laughing

[@NickTasy]

lmao "Herbie: Hero of the Reich"

[@AngryApeTV]

Come on guys this is hilarious, some people just don't get a joke

[@garsm2290]

One of my neighbours has a VW. She seems a little strange too. Could she be a spy?

[@micksquizzy]

Is it not clear to anyone that this is a joke?

[@rucsok15]

this is hilarious, why so many dislikes?

[@ArcDevErik]

Because douchebags.

[@werewolffamguy8597]

Rouvenor Conspiracy theorists are butthurt lol

[@saucersource]

some Nikola Tesla free energy suppression agents dislike my making the VW into Foo Fighters by placing a Tesla cone coil inside for levitation in case it might catch on to even Tesla expert Lyne

[@ablethreefourbravo]

I would watch the hell out of this documentary.

[@happysawfish]

I still laugh out loud everytime I watch this ! The german accent . . the 70's look ... the pictures lol

[@beetlejuic150]

Thank you., happysawfish. It's amazing how many people fail to see the humor of it.

[@ioccatonyz1]

Who ever you are that made this little film, you have way to much time on your hands... The German navy also used them, they float better than they fly.

[@dxguy]

Yes. If Ted Kennedy had driven a VW he would have been president...

[@ioccatonyz1]

dxguy The back seat of the VW was not comfortable enough for Ted. Who knows he might of flown it off a cliff with MaryJo passed out in it...

[@punkrockefeller]

I remember having one of those old "beetles" back in the 1970's. There were several "mystery" knobs on the dash and I couldn't figure out what they did. Maybe one of them was a control to make the car fly. Have all owners of these older beetles check their cars for unknown features & this puzzle may be solved!

[@taofledermaus]

classic!!

[@vanpenguin22]

DUDE! It's REAL!!!!!! That's how the Obama admin. got the idea for all their squadrons of flying Prius'!

[@mister-v-3086]

I can now die a Happy Man...for I have seen EVERYTHING!

[@Pittmail88]

Fake or fiction???? Real or true????

[@Treetop64]

Hilarious "archive footage" of the VWs scything past the B-17s! Loved it! XD

[@600market]

At about 2:14 they are clearly '68 or '69 models. Early Beetles didn't have top-mounted signals, they were low on the fenders just above the bumpers.

[@ArcheNova1resistance]

What a load of crap!

[@mikovee2291]

I agree its obviously fake in the last clip they flipped like there was no gravity, none of this makes sense and yes it funny, but its just early CG

[@arincee1640]

Exactly my reaction. The only thing flying in this video is crap! the sequel to this will report on undetonated Scotsmen falling from the sky!

[@AIJohnsen]

This was one of the last super weapons used by the third reich in the last months of the war. Due to a surplus of Volkswagons and a severe fuel shortage there were thousands of surplus autos in the fatherland. The autos ( primarily Volkswagons ) were loaded with bratwurst and strudel. They were then air dropped from JU-52s behind American and Russian lines. As the Americans and Russians feasted on these delicacies the Germans would attack. With this tactic the tide of war started to turn to the German's favor until they ran out of Volkswagons in early March 1945. This ingenious tactic proves once again that an army is controlled through it's stomach more than any other factor. .

[@davesuiter]

My uncle was co-pilot of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 that completed 25 missions during the war; it's 26th mission was to fly home. But that flight home might have never occurred had they been the lead aircraft the day 4 Beetles hit and destroyed the B-17, Liverpool John, flown by the heroic Sgt, Pepper. It was hardy just another day in the life.

[@DHarri9977]

GTown Dave You left out one objective as the Bratwurst strudel laden volks wagons were successful in reaching their main target Strawberry Fields a splendid time was guaranteed for all..........

[@happysawfish]

GTown Dave Well my uncle was George S. Patton. The S stood for "Sawfish" some of you might not know. I used to call him old General Three Star. He was a crotchety sort. I vividly remember him telling stories around the dinner table about a squadron of Volkswagens that kicked his regiment in the ass but good one time before he figured out where their weak spot was.

[@brbhave2p00p4]

AIJohnsen didn’t know about nazis flying cars till now and I read your comment. You serious? Where did you find this information?

[@marktwain622]

Almost funny...

[@williamseible4345]

like anchorman.

[@GeddyBre]

How long has it been since someone pointed out that fake and fiction, in the context of the question posed in the video title at least, essentially mean the same thing?

[@haberlandtoskar530]

The VW Beetle shown here is NOT from the 40ies. It's a 60ies model!

[@zippyde]

oh shit,im in the weird part of youtube again

[@xX_Skraith_Xx]

Volkswaffle 'Nuff said.

[@sanjaygupta6149]

Volkswagen

[@xX_Skraith_Xx]

Semour Skinner Volkswaffle: German pronunciation It's a waffle, mate.

[@xX_Skraith_Xx]

Kyle Lorrin Luftwagen: Germany's deadly car-air force.

[@danbeard8319]

Skraith No. Waffe, weapon. Not waffle.

[@eyecam286]

Skraith Luft waffer ...danke ...... luft boxer

[@cherokid]

Hahahaha!!! That is great. Whoever did this video did a great job.

[@Puckoon2002]

The last part is Reculver in Kent, England and is one of the films of a test drop of a Vickers type 464, or, Upkeep Mine. The VW has been superimposed over the Upkeep mine.

[@thomaspotocki5803]

2:30 you can tell when the car hits the ground, it goes way too fast

[@BadIntensionsTV]

omg lol Volkswaffe

[@FSXNOOB]

WWII Fake humor :)

[@lekkki1]

Now this is damn funny!

[@straker454]

That is bloody hilarious! That footage at the end is very well done XD You know, this totally makes sense with Herbie now...he was an escaped Volkswaffe XD

[@lieninger]

You're talking about the road-only versions of course. They were banned from making the fighter version after the war, and only in '68 dared to bring out a facsimile-

[@luizengrazia5169]

heheheheheh Wolkswafe

[@sanjaygupta6149]

Its called Volkswagen... It means something like "a car for everyone"

[@freedomseeding]

the peoples car bitsches volkswaffe volkssturm ...vril 1 en haunebu thule 1919 the bell die glocke

[@luizengrazia5169]

ano anon Sorry dude I didn't understand a thing

[@Maxyshadow]

Funny vid thanks!

[@dpwsworldoffunstuff6901]

lol this made my day!

[@mufflejoy]

Funny - the original picture of Porsche with Hitler at 2:09 - the car does not have a military cross emblem on it. Pre-war beetles had a blinker wing on the b-pillar, not a blinker on the front above the wheel 2:16 - obviously photo shopped in.

[@MrOnionterror]

The footage at the end is originally of the bouncing bomb tests in 1943. They took place in Reculver, about a mile from where I grew up. We had picnics there many times, so I recognise it.

[@BeulahLips]

This is the best, most rael video on KZbin. I like the chrome trim around the windshield and blinkers on top of the fenders at 2:15, but the view at 2:18 is totally awesome, I really like the wide tires all the beetles came with back then for more aerodynamic stability. I think I even see Rael of the Raelians inside one of them. Too bad he must have survived.

[@almishti]

"If you could call it a tail…if you could call it a plane!" Golden! Nice work. :)

[@jhorne18]

There also was another project along with it in which scientists were trying to put feathers on these things so that instead of dropping directly from the bombers they could be guided by flying. The feathers would be controlled by radio control. The problem was that the feathers required a special type of glue, and because of the war shortages, the Luftwaffe could not get enough of it to make the project successful.

[@BornAgainCynic0086]

They had millions of the bloody things, lot's even got blown off course and landed in Australia. We were so hard up that we repaired them and drove them around.

[@MsGus57]

The 1974 SUPER BEETLE was marketed as a flying car, but government regulations outlawed it as a plain.

[@liarliarliar6495]

That last clip is famous test footage of the Barnes Wallis bouncing bomb, with a convincingly spinning VW substituted for the bomb. It's very well done.

[@fordpintorules]

I see that they pictured numerous type 1's here, but could I use a type 82 to the same effect?

[@Prone2Thrill]

I bet Amazon uses them instead of drones next!

[@mandymoore8055]

The lifespan of a Volkswaffe test pilot was 10 minutes.

[@Dangersheep2]

In britain the spitfire fighter was transformed into the "triumph spitfire sports car" using many of it's components after it was discontinued .

[@kerrygivens]

And to think when they did the first sketches for the Bug, the people in Marketing said "This will never fly."

[@TheUsolider]

This was so nicely completed, that if you had no idea this was fake you would almost believe it.

[@mattouli]

Very well done - i like the dambusters-style bouncing beetle at the end! lol

[@adyrainbow]

Time travel too...how two members of the Wehrmacht get to look over a 'curved' screen 70's Beetle, with the indicators on top of the wings is just awesome!

[@JBofBrisbane]

No, the first VWs were in development before the outbreak of war in September 1939. A stamp system was instituted for people to pay off the purchase price in regular installments, and some people were only 3 or 4 stamps away from picking up their new car when war was declared and the factory turned to building Kübelwagens. Thus no VW Type 1s were sold prewar.

[@daval4489]

funny thing is that after the bug went off you could still drive it to dullseldorff!

[@musodata]

This is great. The tumbling car in one of the last edits in this piece, is spliced in place of the 'bouncing bomb' of Dambusters fame.

[@jedgarsquink]

This is satire, of course. However, there is considerable reason to believe that the beetle platform was intended from the start to have military application. At the time of the beetle's conception, Germany had not yet repudiated the Versailles Treaty, and all manner of projects, especially in aviation, were being conducted as civilian but actually were intended for war. Fighters were developed as racers and mail planes. Bombers were developed as airliners. The beetle's architecture makes more sense for the battlefield than for the autobahn. I think it's no accident that so many Kubelwagens were produced, and so few sedans, until after the war.

[@TheCarin12]

It is lucky for the Allies that the Germans never managed to perfect the VW wonder weapon.

[@Rich6Brew]

That's correct; and supported by the absence of the shadow of the car. The bomb shadow is visible, however.

[@SnowElf_96]

My Grandfather was one of the head engineers of the Volkwaffe during its production.... He had written a small journal with some diagrams of the plans and the operator instructions at the time this would have been a criminal offence to record any plans of the construction of any vehicles or weapons being manufactured for the NSDAP. Basically he didn't survive the war because the allies during the bombings had destroyed manning of the manufacturing plants in which my grandfather would have been working in. But he managed to pass on this book to his wife or my grandmother whom had stored it away for some time before my family began to question my grandmother on the activites of which my grandfather took part in and so she brought out this journal of my grandfather's and there is extensive outlines on the Volkwaffe and how it worked. It was incredible stuff it is not fiction and many people see this as impossible and some kind of joke or trick. The Volkwaffe was a real weapon used by Hitler and the NSDAP. I was told not to tell anyone this for it may reveal possible evedience of the NSDAP's true strength many believed Hitler's death was the end but there is more too come... many will die except the few who understand when the day comes people wont be laughing they will be screaming for the Americans and the UN to save them no help will come for the strength of the Volkwaffe is coming many doughted that Germany will rise again as a superpower but with the Volkwaffe... Germany will conquer the earth and the only chicks on the earth will be hot babes blondes with blue eyes.... lol jokes dude i should go peace DEUTSCHLAND ubER ALLES ( all being all the nazi's like i mean Germany is better than the nazi's and Hitler, Germany should be proud of its inventions such as the Volkwaffe like come on ww2 doesn't automatically make u worthless pick up your feet and carry on man and women and german people lets get the party started up in here GHETTOFAUST all my bros :) .... )

[@observerlink4124]

This is just so well done and SO hilarious! This is worthy of Monty Python!

[@tarabottogino]

I love this video!! ... where is part #2 ???

[@shoknifeman2mikado135]

I wish they had made a full mockumentary, the a old man playing the WW2 vet is perfect, seems like he was really there! :D

[@terrenceritchie8453]

It was all a misunderstanding. Authorizing the militarization of "the bug", Hitler thought he was okaying germ warfare. The next year Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland. "Remember what your esteemed mutter told you," were his last words to Hitler before he literally skipped out. He was great at navigation but very poor on geography and thought he was landing near one of the two great steel-producing centers of North America. "But aren't you Hamilton?" he said to his Scottish host. "I am indeed," the duke replied. "Then where are your smokestacks?" Hess said, clearly confused - or maybe that should be "unclearly." "Oh, we don't do that sort of thing up here," the Duke of Hamilton said. "The man's mad!" Hess's parting shot eventually led Adolf Hitler to put a bullet through his own head. And the rest, as they say, isn't history. And that's the reason I don't drive a Volkswagen - or anything else, for that matter - but my predecessor does, a black one, rag top. Auf wiedershen! BURGERMEISTER.

[@Zarkovision]

It was called "Herrmans Bombe im Einsatz", or short "Herbie". Herrman was of course Herrman Göring.

[@andykra5134]

LOL The VW at 2:14 is from the 1970's if memory serves

[@0ddba1l]

I have fun memories of hollidays in the 70,s driving at over 80mph in a Beatle and seeing Fords overheating on the road sides in the summer.

[@Sohave]

Trabant is an elegant looking car not ugly just modest. It was concidered modern at the time the design came into production.

[@sureeasy]

Looks like the #3 piston is blown just like every Volkswagen bug I ever owned

[@jdb47games]

The last bit is adapted from test footage of Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb. This video was quite amusing.

[@Duracellman]

Its weird the way a quite well made and funny parody like this attracts so much hostility from some people.

[@goozpee]

they built a time machine... out of a Volkswagen?

[@pef286]

By the time the war effort started, the VW plant was retooled and they stopped making them. It was after the war when production realy started.

[@djphilthis1]

they didnt have bugs with blinkers that big during the war that bug is from the 70's

[@sjbobkins7514]

if only they could discover film or even still images of the mug chuckerich. This weapon launched 1.5 liter all glass beer mugs up to 25,000 ft, using flack guns, one can only imagine how destructive a half kilo of solid glass might be to a B'17 tail or the nose of a flying porcupine {B-24}. This weapon was used from Nov 44 to April 45 when the fighters Hitler could send up was very small as a result of fuel shortage.The allied air crews used to kid "the least they could do would be to fill them

[@gpiano88]

"One day we will be buying cars from our former enemies"... Preston Tucker (paraphrase)

[@husky500cr]

I sure in the hell wouldn't want to be in bug flying high in the sky.

[@solerso68]

dropped from planes at 12,000 and they still run like a top ...wish I had one of mine back again...

[@slophouse1346]

so THAT must be what they mean by "FAHRVERGNUGEN"

[@Trashfished]

Had me there for a minute.

[@michaelholmes5687]

Rippa Rita... I hear the Allies tried to repeat this program with a failed experiment using catapults...

[@jrocco36]

I've had a few volkswagens and I've got a one airborne but never seen one fly.

[@rejedef]

It's 2014, and this year, an NDP politician Udo Voigt as a Minister of European Parliament. He is openly praising Hitler as a statesman and denying holocaust. He was chosen to represent Germany. It's so sad that it's true :(

[@rushfari]

At the 2:15 mark a VW is shown. That bug is from the mid-to-late 1960's. Originally there were no signal lights on the Volkswagen, then they were put below the lights and used clear, white plastic covers. It wasn't until US federal law mandated orange signal lights in 1963 that the company began to put the signal lights on the top of the fender. It's obvious that the cover is dark colored, or orange. I'm not smart, just old. I was there.

[@mickigoe]

So glad that Yossarian didn't have to number flying beetles among his night terrors ....

[@fuffoon]

That's the best idea for the Beetle I have seen yet. I never did understand the popularity, its just small, uncomfortable, ugly and sounds like a lawn mower.

[@ThePyrogenica]

In my country we call this a load of old bollocks.

[@billycoffey4266]

the sleek flying cars were called scirrocco lol

[@johngray9098]

"Fact or fiction" and definitely fiction.

[@cmcquaigue]

I have one of these cars parked in my garage and I had no idea what it REALLY was. Indeed I even learned to drive in one and wondered why I had such a hard time learning the controls. I am really disturbed at the real truth and I am not sure that I can drive (or fly?) it with a smile on my face again, gutted!

[@SenorSpode]

This is a well-constructed parody. And that's it.

[@markcharlan]

Well Done, Great Stuff. I had tears running down my face from laughing. “Could be tractors or Model T’s….. The darn things are falling out of the sky”. I especially liked the footage showing a glimpse of the elusive VOLKSWAFFE flying over the high rise building tops and plummeting past bomber cockpits. How many takes were there of the interviews? Had to be hard to keep straight faced. I think the dislikes are from the ones who believed it and rushed off to show someone this “Documentary”. You should see the takeoff runway. Driving off the peak of an Alpine Mountain Top. The Top Secret NAZI Air Base “Lemming Field”.

[@djgillster7696]

Hilarious/// where did this come from??

[@scottcameron3270]

This is one of the best fakes I have seen. The bit at the end using footage of the bouncing bomb is fantastic.

[@oscargetz1858]

Has anyone considered the Nazis might have been dropping VW bugs out of planes as a testimony of their durability?

[@09jagreen]

I like how it says "fake or fiction?" pretty sure that's the same thing

[@SuperFree06]

I will never see Herbie in quite the same way again...

[@bigsecretweaponwmd8890]

The VW is an abomination, if they had launched them all we would not be suffering from their ugliness today

[@shananagans5]

Go to any desert race & you will see,there are people still trying to fly VWs,even 60 yrs later.

[@JohnS1704]

I mean, if they had tried to use anything else like a BMW people would have just laughed.

[@Bogibar]

There are perhaps no limits to the flights of fancy.

[@kainnosgoth7336]

I KNOW, man..Batman was crushed about that. I'm not sure if the series of movies has a future after THIS news...

[@kwokwing]

The last footage is a replacement of the British Bouncing Bomb by a vw car. The Dam Buster footage for sure.

[@DwayneHicks426]

The History Channel is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[@ricovali9245]

+DwayneHicks426 you mean the Nazi Network? I swear it's Hitler 24/7 on that Channel.