The Horrifying End of a Luftwaffe Super Ace

[@wolfganggugelweith8760]

Walter Novotny was Austrian from the north of lower Austria 🇦🇹. He was a real hero. His grave is in Vienna on the Zentralfriedhof and it was devastated a few times by lefties and young Jews. His brother lived not far rom me in Austria 🇦🇹 Linz. He was a real great man. I have been with the Austrian army for exercise near Schwarzenau near the the huge army trainings place of Allentsteig. Greetings from Linz Austria Europe!

[@ErickX22P]

Well being a German soldier after 1943 on most fronts was a last stand.

[@BlackHoleSun420]

Sadly

[@jamesburns2232]

The allies lost more aircraft during WWII than the Germans. The Allies lost 76,000 airplanes to Germany's 64,000. The difference was: The Allies could afford to lose them, the Germans could not. 🤠

[@jeffrogge8597]

Read Willi Heilmann's book "I Fought You from the Skies"; he was involved in the dogfight that brought down Novotny. His squadron JG III/54 was tasked with providing cover over the airfield while the 262s took off and landed, which was when the jets were most vulnerable. American fighters bounced the low flying FW 190-D9s as part of a strafing run, forcing Heilmann to ask the jets for help...Novotny was low on fuel but made a pass before attempting to land when a P-51 popped up low over the trees and nailed Novotny's jets with a deflection shot, causing him to crash on the runway

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Any relation to Seigheilmann?

[@dane0phelps]

Rademacher is a name I hadn’t heard in years. I served in the Paratroops with two Rademaucher brothers and we fought together on my first two combat tours. The eldest we nicknamed ‘Hot Rod’ and subsequently his brother became ‘Hot Rod Bravo.’ Both were awesome troopers. Hot Rod was a Captain and HR Bravo was an NCO when I was reassigned from the 82nd Airborne to the 25th ID’s Long Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Detachment. After the LRRS-D was disbanded in 2005 I ended up serving with Hot Rod again in the 25th ID’s 2nd Battalion 27th Infantry Regiment for my 4th and 5th combat tours. As big as the Army is, it’s a small world.

[@dukecraig2402]

Is the 25th still in Hawaii?

[@philalcoceli6328]

This video should be titled, "Tragedy strikes when the lucky pants of No-boat-ny were left behind at the barracks." He was enemy, but RIP.

[@russbilzing5348]

I do wish you would stop confusing the ME-262 with the ME-163, as they are two very distinctly different (in every way), aircraft.

[@BeWoLeKs]

I also wonder what the footage of a JU87 Stuka and of an open cockpit airplane has to do in this video.🤬

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

The answer is in the description above: Always read the description. "As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images and footage for dramatic effect. I do my best to keep it as visually accurate as possible. All content on Dark Docs is researched, produced, and presented in historical context for educational purposes. We are history enthusiasts and are not always experts in some areas, so please don't hesitate to reach out to us with corrections, additional information, or new ideas. "

[@SaltimusMaximus]

at least they don't include that generic machine gun noise many apply to old silent combat footage

[@DaveInBridport]

They're 99 different.

[@michaeldavid6284]

@@JohnSmith-pl2bk Using "similar historical images for dramatic effect" is an excuse to be lame and lazy. Leave that drama garbage to Hollywood. If you're serious about documenting history, stop jazzing up the video with irrelevant fluff.

[@thehedgeknightnc3681]

I often wonder. If the young Austrian had been accepted to art school, what would the world be like today. Not sure why all the haters on here. I enjoy all your channels. Keep up the good work.

[@larryjohnson7591]

That was about the only way they got out of the Luftwaffe. They flew until they died, or the war was over. He was a good pilot. He was not a Nazi, just a German pilot.

[@str8ballinSA]

He was not a Nazi - he only supported Nazi goals...

[@BlackHoleSun420]

@@str8ballinSAwrong

[@milehighclassics]

He was a Nazi emmmmm how do you get that

[@SamiJuntunen1]

​​@@str8ballinSAWhat goals at that time? He followed orders. He had no hope for German win at that time. Just wanted to do hes duty or prevent some Germans from bombs. As the allies bombed civilians on purpose before that. Whole towns and on purpose.

[@zerstorer7527]

​@@str8ballinSA He was an enlisted soldier and soldiers follow orders. Idiot

[@stevemartin6144]

I have a signed photo of him. Rare stuff. Sad ending.

[@phil4986]

Another side to this, is that as an ace, he was pushing the new technology to its limits. Prop planes had distinct feedback when the engines were being driven too hard and pilots were excellent at riding that ragged edge for just enough time to kill or escape and not destroy the plane. The 262 was new tech with unknown limits developed in a hurry in wartime. The jet would never stop giving you everything it had until it had no more. Nowotny likely found that breaking limit. His last words, "I'm on fire." would account for why he did not jump out of the burning jet. The fierceness and fury of how fast the cockpit filled with flames, probably incapacitated him as soon as he made that final message. The impact with ground ended his suffering.

[@Mangolorian-je3eo]

This had far less men falling from WWI albatrosses than I expected.

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

The Germans actually had parachutes; the British didn't because the stupid command brass thought it encouraged cowardice in the face of the enemy by giving the airmen an obvious "out"......

[@Phil-m6g]

a man who fought for glory and his fatherland not for profit and gain, the last of his breed Im sure at that time.

[@_krimzen_]

Google “Nazi”

[@Dking863]

I'm a military historian. I've studied this for 38 years! Most of these pilots were dead before they hit the ground! Planes have the skin of a beer can, the bullets riddled the cockpits of these planes. And the sad fact is that the German pilots were mostly dead men flying! They flew until they never returned one day! Same with the ground troops, nobody got out of this conflict until it ended, or your death!

[@antonioperez2623]

Wonder if the fire prevented him from bailing out.

[@wilhelm7779]

He did bail out, but the horizontal stabilizer caught his parachute, hooked he couldn't do anything as his plane dove to the ground.

[@kings_chronicle592]

Most likely the canopy malfunctioned and that's a sad way to go indeed

[@1339LARS]

Great vid //Thankyou !!!!! //Lars

[@MichaelCampin]

Why show ME163 if he flew an ME262

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

"As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images and footage for dramatic effect. I do my best to keep it as visually accurate as possible. All content on Dark Docs is researched, produced, and presented in historical context for educational purposes. We are history enthusiasts and are not always experts in some areas, so please don't hesitate to reach out to us with corrections, additional information, or new ideas." Always read the description as provided by the author of this production...

[@jefferyroy2566]

​@@JohnSmith-pl2bkI find this justification for the presence of irrelevant context unconvincing. A reason that does work is the pace of the action required for the audience of this era in video. Depending on which duration an editor chooses to utilize, a lot of this video action is edited for clips of 3 to 4 seconds. In order to adhere to this rule, a video of 15 minutes or could require over separate 200 clips. This means throwing in seemingly incongruous pieces of video simply to maintain the pace. When considering which Nazi wonder weapons might fit in a video of this kind, this editing approach might reach for ones which don't actually fit the context a knowledgeable viewer might find acceptable. This "everything including the kitchen sink" approach is frequently stretched to its limit in these Dark-style videos. The underlying philosophy is not adherence to fact, but to keep the action going. In this regard, this Dark-style seems alright, but can seem absurd after you've seen a couple dozen or so of their works. The producer's bottom line is lots of fast cuts are preferable to longer ones with better historical accuracy. After viewing close to one hundred of these, I've learned to look the other way. At the same time, I appreciate how it may seem absurd to reference weapons systems this pilot may have never flown at any time. Those of us who have maintained our skepticism of such fast and loose editing might be tempted to go, "Hell, not again!" The alternative is to not watch them at all, and possibly miss out on some pretty good stories. The choice is ours to make, and I'm all in for a good story most of the time, including this one. What do you think?

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

@@jefferyroy2566 My thoughts are irrelevant...it's the author's intent that counts. You either believe him or you lose trust and abandon him... Or, maybe, check in occasionally to see if when there is more actual archival footage available and uses in exclusively rather than including irrelevant "padding"?

[@americanpatriot2422]

Great video

[@rwarren58]

Wrong channel but I think some tears were shed for Erich the Ace.😢

[@MichaelCairns-fv2vi]

The wrong trousers...Wally and Crommet

[@auro1986]

see your large quantity of old aircrafts killed their one me262. quality is no match for quantity

[@billm4138]

Could of been mechanical failure as engines would not fire at first. Fuel leak??

[@adlerarmory8382]

At 4:28 is the LW Unteroffizier in center wearing the Luftwaffe Blue HBT Drillich Feldbluse?

[@CH-lc3yf]

The footage of around 10:00 is from post war West German Luftwaffe training planes (T-6 Texan).

[@scottnesbit2807]

Interesting story but why Does the video keep showing pictures of the ME163 Comet?

[@DaveInBridport]

I too own a pair of lucky trousers. I wear them every day and they protect me from alligator attack. Admittedly there are few instances of this in west Dorset

[@beefy8269]

The big cats eat them all?

[@BaldurvonderNord]

Luftwaffe was just WW2 ... WW1 was different.... the cover photo is clearly ww1 But still appreciate your work! 😊

[@jessestout8646]

What is the thumbnail a picture of?

[@danieldieni3188]

Your telling me this dude earned the title ace like 56 times over 😮😮😮

[@michaeldavid6284]

More fake info from this channel, which is getting to be common: at 0:15, the narrator claims that Walter Nowotny was the "Luftwaffe's highest scoring ace" on November 8, 1944, the date of his last mission and death. WRONG. The four highest scoring Luftwaffe aces had all surpassed Nowotny's final total of 258 kills before he died. The top 3 aces, Erich Hartmann, Gerhard Barkhorn, and Gunther Rall had all passed that mark months before, and Otto Kittell, the fourth highest scoring ace, had passed that mark the week before Nowotny's death. This channel should be renamed Dark & Fake Docs.

[@FoxATX]

thanks.. this combined with footage which often didn't match the content discussed...

[@jamesbrown9736]

Hauptman and Captain mean the same thing.

[@flickingbollocks5542]

Why the 163s?

[@MustangChuck]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@63RichS]

Please look into a video about Gallant's fall from grace with Goering.

[@Addad66]

The Luftwaffe using AT6s as trainers ?

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

After WW2 the German Air Force..... while it was being reconstituted..... used USA planes almost exclusively...at first... "As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images and footage for dramatic effect. I do my best to keep it as visually accurate as possible. All content on Dark Docs is researched, produced, and presented in historical context for educational purposes. We are history enthusiasts and are not always experts in some areas, so please don't hesitate to reach out to us with corrections, additional information, or new ideas."

[@mingfanzhang8927]

😮😮😮

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😊😊😊

[@SaltimusMaximus]

probably engine failure, those engines were only good for 8 hours use but were still unreliable due to the lack of proper materials to make them with

[@imdeaded]

Interesting they never put a jet engine on a prop plane to give it a boost.

[@PapaWooody]

I would like to say this was a tragic loss but…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jefferyroy2566]

All hail emoticons ദ്ദി.

[@PapaWooody]

@@jefferyroy2566 ¯\෴(ツ)෴/¯ (´・(Oo)・｀). ෴^ංසං^෴

[@stevemartin6144]

Why do your photos never synch with your narration? An Me 262 in 1943" Even your title page photo is mere "clickbait", having NOTHING to do with Nowotny. You even have post wat Bundes Luftwaffe film sequences, seemingly portraying these as wartime. WTF? Why the "Komet" aircraft? Nowotny never flew it.

[@clamsoup]

Don't leave home without Lucky Pants!

[@billyshane3804]

Or incontinence pants if you have reached that age.

[@at1970]

And never leave home without the lucky condom

[@_krimzen_]

14:57 Adiós bruh

[@mingfanzhang8927]

😊

[@Hadrumas]

Part 1: The war was definitely lost for Germany at the beginning of 1943, but the fact that fighting continued was not only forced by the regime, it was mostly voluntary. Soldiers and civilians remembered the unjust Versailles "peace treaty" and the brutal exploitation of Germany, which was by no means solely to blame for the first world war. Everyone, including Hitler's opponents, assumed that at this time the end result would be the total destruction and division of Germany. A popular saying among the population at the time was: "Friends, enjoy the war, peace will be terrible!" The English bombing war against the civilian population, which by no means led to an uprising against the government, as "Bomber Harris" claimed, achieved exactly the opposite: the population was not angry at Hitler, but at those who dropped the bombs, any English schoolboy could have predicted that! Then there was Roosevelt's fanatical and pompous "unconditional surrender" (Churchill and Stalin were against it) and the vengeful and inhumane "Morgenthau Plan". It was rejected by the American population, politicians and military leadership, but nobody in Germany knew that, and Goebbels' propaganda naturally made full use of it! Among German submarine crews who planned to flee to South America at the end of the war, the phrase circulated: "I'd rather work as a port coolie in Argentina than live in earthen caves in Germany for the rest of my life and serve the victors as a slave!" Part 2: All in all, the above-mentioned factors also took the wind out of the sails of any military resistance from the outset. Most of the older generals felt bound to Prussian virtues, had already served as soldiers under the Kaiser, and they did not like Hitler; Hitler, in turn, did not trust the "monocled freaks", but only the SS and the young pilots of the Luftwaffe who had been educated in the "Hitler Youth". If it had not been for the British "terror bombing" (as it was called in England!), unconditional surrender and Morgethau, there would have been a much larger and probably successful military coup against Hitler in July 1944! Incidentally, after the failed coup led by Major Stauffenberg - which was carried out on a much too small amateurish scale and was neither encouraged nor supported by the Allies (Roosevelt spoke contemptuously of a "score between gangsters!") - at least twice as many people died as before up to July 44! "History is a continuous succession of follies, disasters and crimes!" Edward Gibbon, in: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

[@bret9741]

Some of the German ace high numbers was due to the superiority of the German aircraft early in the war. After couple of years of flying nearly every day these German pilots had far far more experience and outstanding equipment. But… no matter how experienced these pilots were… the Russians and Allied equipment and pilots were gaining in experience and quality. Eventually almost all of these young men died.

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😊

[@mingfanzhang8927]

😊

[@milehighclassics]

A lot of people are saying here that he was not a Nazi I disagree, he was because he was in the German airforce and he also saluted in a 3rd reich way, and probably did nothing to save any Jewish people or spoke up to Herman goring complaining about train loads of people going to poland

[@andreemurray7039]

OK how did he shot down so many on limted bullets ?

[@robertheinkel6225]

When you fight over your own area, you land, reload and go up, over and over.

[@hateca1]

@@robertheinkel6225and make up those totals to make themselves seem better then they were. Many of their claims are mathematically impossible and have been proven to be bogus even from German pilots from the war.

[@melburns4378]

Stop with the random video clips that's has nothing to do with the story, people prefer quality over quantity because there's other KZbin channels to watch.

[@tonsomhorst4598]

But there is more on the memorial plaque, and that should have been mentioned. In short: "This is not about commemorating heroes of an unjust regime. But we should see this as a warning. We therefore commemorate the victims and the people who resisted a dehumanizing National Socialist violence.."

[@brucemace5404]

Was he really that good or was most of the Reds just not trained enough? It's hard to believe he was a 200+ Ace

[@jdavison8551]

The answer is in the video,- he had lucky trousers. First time he forgot to wear them he was killed!

[@hetzlerracing5490]

As a general rule, I think the German equipment and training was so far superior to Russia's, it played a huge role in his totals. Erich Hartmann shot down 352 enemy aircraft during the war, 345 of which were Russian planes.

[@brendonrutherford5118]

The opening shots of this pilot supposedly flying a ME-262 around the end of the war (1945) is totally incorrect as the image depicts a 262 with a tail wheel!! Rest assured the German Airforce was not flying & certainly not in combat that very early mark of 262 by 1945. I guess you need to go back & tidy up your act as this so obviously shows a lack of technical knowledge & therefore this quite blatant mistake gives this whole video a credibility problem which is a due facet I am yet to encounter with Dr. Mark Felton & his war history videos. No good watching the remainder of this video as its history is suspect!!

[@hateca1]

German pilots didn’t need confirmation of their claimed kills only their word. Many times simply hitting the other plane was enough to claim a kill. There have been many reports and stories of downed enemy aircraft not matching German pilots claims. Many of these claims are bogus and some are mathematically impossible, take these claims with a big spoon of salt.

[@CH-lc3yf]

Wrong. They needed witness accounts or gun camera film to prove destruction. Post war the western allies thoroughly scrutinized German claims and found them to be correct or even under reported (for missing witness statements).

[@urMateGG]

Peepeepoopoo

[@johnnietait9161]

This channel sucks …. Click bait thumbnails…….. inaccurate films ……just do more work and otherwise it would be good.

[@johnhutchinson8950]

Random video clips of random planes.

[@lukeygoof7443]

It was the 40s, and war, your aren’t gonna get 1/1 videos. As long as the story is accurate it’s good. Do you also want subway-surfers at the bottom?

[@WillFranceschi-r3r]

Man stop sniveling you won't see accurate videos in every documentary,it's a true story if u don't like don't watch simple .

[@vaughnmojado8637]

Is a German at that time just as bad as Hitler or ok on his way to the pearl gates for being naive? I always think about this stuff. I don’t like the killings of another person because of religion, ethnicity or anything like that. I’m just wondering.

[@FrankSleighter-pm5vx]

The picture you showed to draw people in shows and burning WW1 German aircraft. Wrong war.