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

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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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[@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.

[@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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BBBHuey]

Hope there will be story about the Philadelphia Experiment one day.

[@andrewmiller218]

BBBHuey oooo yes this is a good one!!!

[@alexmuvua1312]

👍

[@yago23s17]

The Guy that does Legends of History at least acts interested when you make a suggestion for sonething to cover.

[@ZeroEx131]

It was completely debunked.

[@howardg2435]

@@ZeroEx131 Because the Navy demanded it be kept quiet from the experiment time forward. People who would not follow orders, and talk about it, would be put into mental institutions.

[@ThePuschkin1986]

As a german native and being decently familiar with the Mecklenburg area, I am highly suspicious of the first part of the story describing a nuclear test in that very region. Although rather thinly populated compared to other parts of modern-Germany, the area has no similarities to the remote and desolate places the nuclear powers later tested their atomic weapons. A detonation in that area would have caused the destruction of several villages and radioactive fallout over a region where maybe 1 million people were living. Thousands would have been affected by radioation poisening. Radiation could possibly still be measured today. Yet there are no reports of this sort or of people witnessing the blast that I am aware off. Near the mentioned city of Ludwigslust is the former Lübtheen training area, which was in use by the Wehrmacht at the time. The Kriegsmarine had an ammunition depot there. If that pilot indeed witnessed a huge explosion it might have been naval ordnance accidently exloding.

[@prince-solomon]

98% of stories on this channel are pure fiction, often very shoddily (or not at all) researched in their accuracy. They are entertaining, but i wished they would clarify that they are mostly fiction, because reading the comments under the videos, many gullible people seem to easily fall prey to believing these stories are real.

[@Airwave2k2]

@@prince-solomon The Zinsser report is not fiction. You are just to sloppy to actually make your self familiar with the matter. @ThePuschkin1986 It wasn't detonated on Land but of the shore. Also you should read books like the one by Carter Hydrick and not go on about your gullible school education.

[@martinharris5017]

The nukes they are said to have been testing were much smaller in yield than the US bombs. Check out Lost Battlefields with Tino Struckmann, he's done a huge amount of research on this.

[@ax.f-1256]

I disagree. If the nuke was relatively small compared to the manhatten project it wouldn't create that much fallout. And afterall it depends on where it was really tested. If it was over the baltic sea you wouldn't find that much fallout. And differentiating reactivity traces from a very small german nuclear test and the giant soviet tsar bomba which created so much fallout that you could measure the change in radiation in central europe is also very difficult. How would you know if those small traces are from the claimed german nuke or from that gigantic tsar bomba and were only carried there by the atmosphere and the wind ? About the claim of radioactive traces today: Radiation levels in hiroshima and nagasaki are back to the normal backround radiation levels. So finding the radiation in todays germany if you don't know at what exact location you have to look, is close to impossible. So if nobody looks at the right spot, you wouldn't find any proof of it, even if there is still measurable radioactivity. To be honest, i find it believable to asume that the german scientists created one small nuclear device. And i think is also absolutely possible that all involved scientists like Hahn or Heisenberg that were neccessary for the project decided against telling hitler after having witnessed such test. Both Hahn and Heisenberg many years later after the war made comments in that direction, like: "even if we would have managed to create a weapon like this, we would probably not have giving it to someone like Hitler and instead tried to slow the project down. He would have destroyed the whole planet with it if he was giving such power" So i think it's possible that they created a single small nuclear device, Detonated it and then agreed to not let it fall into the hands of Hitler. Nazis were crazy, but even their crazyness had limits. Higher ranking nazi figures were even disgusted about some warcrimes the Japanese did. If the nazis are disgusted about a warcrime, then it's really bad. So staying quite about it beeing a successful test isn't something to far fetched.

[@martinharris5017]

@@ax.f-1256 I agree. have you watched any content on lost Battlefields With Tino Struckmann? he covers all this in stunning detail on his channel and makes a very compelling case.

[@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.

[@RenerDeCastro]

I watched a documentary which covered advanced German aircraft where this topic was partially covered. It's called Secret German aircraft of WWII aka Luftwaffe 1946. The CGI is dated but seeing NYC reduced to rubble was still horrifying.

[@sudonymh]

Rener De Castro 6 days ago (edited) If this video was just posted today 2020.03.15, how did you reply six days ago? Is there some time distortion going on here? :-)

[@sudonymh]

@@WildMorgan I can't see the emoticon you just posted. All I see is a box. :-(

[@WildMorgan]

@@sudonymh He's a patron or channel member. We get episodes 7 days early.

[@sudonymh]

@@WildMorgan Dang. I was hoping for a time anomaly explanation. :-) Thanks WTFMate.

[@Blondie-Actual]

@Alex it could not have lasted any longer than the Pacific war, sorry for crushing your wereaboo power dreams

[@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.

[@michaelcarmona7838]

That shockwave effect was brilliantly done. Keep up the good work!

[@DarthGaiden]

Can't tell you how proud I am to see my name on the patrons list. You guys and gals are the best, hands down. 😎

[@jimrobins1526]

Tosser

[@prestonblair2841]

Dude said tosser😂

[@Sexynut012247]

jim Robins brilliant

[@barbarat5729]

@@jimrobins1526 What's a tosser?

[@Nikp117]

@@jimrobins1526 💀💀💀

[@user-kt8yp5ho2y]

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

[@user-kt8yp5ho2y]

42 They also had same mysteries too.

[@user-kt8yp5ho2y]

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.

[@burntx7]

That part where the shockwave struck. Absolutely beautiful... and horrifying! Great video, btw.

[@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...

[@pinnedthrottle7690]

Spot on job with the shock wave hitting the plane! Gave me a good jolt!

[@makkaroni1032]

My bf was working at Kroger (on break) was listening to this. When the shockwave hit, the noise knocked him out of his chair. Lol

[@DosGaming101]

This Is The Best Episode Of Bedtime Stories I've Seen So Far. I am a German Armchair War Historian and I had no clue these events ever took place. I want to dive on that crash site.

[@stylianoskampouris6608]

Please, read the book 'Atomziel New York' by Friedrich Georg and Thomas Mehner.

[@stylianoskampouris6608]

There are many things we don't know... Do you believe, that Americans would ever allow german civilians to learn the truth?? Read the book Atomziel New York.

[@ArmouredProductions]

Man the ending is really eerie, I just love the presentation style of this channel. It doesn't need to be a ghost to be unnerving.

[@Legionmint7091]

Codename: Amerikabomber. Jolly good codename nazis, no one would have figured its covert purpose. No one I tell you.

[@marhawkman303]

secrecy wasn't the point of these codenames. It was a name the brass could use when discussing projects so that people could easily know which project was being discussed.

[@jwenting]

@@marhawkman303 yeah, and to provide the people working on it with a clear knowledge of what they were doing. Good for morale. Individual sub projects no doubt had more cryptic names and codes. Things like electrical subsystems, engines, and weapons systems.

[@Legionmint7091]

ShadowAngel However, the difference between “Amerikabomber” and “America bomber” is quite insignificant so I very much doubt even Americans could lose the meaning in translation.

[@Legionmint7091]

Mar Hawkman To use a code name that in plain text reveals the operative plan pretty much nullifies the purpose of a code name in the first place, wouldn’t you say? Furthermore, by using such an obvious name, the plan was most likely picked up by someone who shouldn’t know about it. Loose talk can cost lives and so forth (not that I mind regarding nazis though).

[@pressf4896]

Hitler’s personal train was also code named “amerika”, not sure why but interesting

[@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."

[@CfOme]

Bedtime Stories: We must remain thankful it never came to pass The Japanese: - _ -

[@lurkio804]

Yeah, seriously - "it's okay when the 'good guys' do it: the conspiracy theory"

[@machina5]

@@lurkio804 Nobody said it was ok when the US did it.

[@machina5]

The Japan bombings were a different event from what was discussed in the video.

[@halcyonXT]

@@Isometrix116 The Japanese did not surrender because they were nuked

[@kukuri007]

You’d do it today too. War is war. The US didn’t start that one. In addition to what Tyler said, there was almost a mutiny in US forces stationed in Europe. They weren’t none too happy about being sent to the Pacific to keep fighting. Nuking Japan wasn’t a question of ok, or not. That ain’t how war works when one is going for unconditional surrender. Also, we have no right to look at the past through today’s eyes. Many in the “woke” crowd still have the same mentality about things.

[@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.

[@Parnell07]

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.

[@matthewpuzzo8997]

3:23 And I'm awake now.

[@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

[@Werrf1]

The Nazis were never anywhere close to developing a nuclear bomb. They didn't have the resources or the infrastructure to develop an atomic bomb. They had the knowledge of the physics, but that's not enough. It's actually pretty _hard_ to build a nuclear bomb, especially with 1940s technology. If Nazi Germany _had_ managed to develop an atom bomb, they would not have thrown it away in a desperate attack on New York. It would've been used either on London, or more likely on the advancing Red Army. They did have plans to attack New York, and one of them came frighteningly close to fruition - a plan to bombard New York with V2 rockets launched from U-boats. This was a much more practical threat than a bomb the Nazis couldn't build.

[@tlahuican]

And there were no Nazis in Nasa either.....right?? If they could get a man to the moon, they sure as hell had the technology to build atomic bombs

[@jarvy251]

@@tlahuican But they couldn't get a man to the moon, they didn't have the resources or the knowledge yet. The V2 could reach the altitude technically considered to be in "space" but it couldn't go much farther. Von Braun couldn't even get authorization to modify one of his rockets to carry a pilot for a test flight, though he tried. NASA snatched up their scientists, yes, and used their expertise to get to the moon decades later, but that was only possible with American resources. The precious few resources Nazi Germany *could* have used to develop a nuclear weapon were destroyed by the allies with deliberate commando raids. We know now, in hindsight, the Germans couldn't have beaten the allies to the bomb, but the allies weren't taking any chances.

[@mattr272]

There were interesting books about this topic. The allies believed the nazi's were experimenting with exotic explosives. Such as enriching conventional explosives. And horrifyingly using POWs to gage the damage.

[@The_Str4nger]

The Nazis where not interested in nuclear science. Because for them it was just Jewish science

[@anhedonianepiphany5588]

@Michael Ross Uh, the German's discovered nuclear fission, but Nazi scientists believed that a nuclear weapon was completely impossible - yeah, _ever so_ clever! Perhaps they shouldn't have chased away some of their greatest minds.

[@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.

[@Kiloburn]

I gotta say, I am really loving this series. I'm writing a story that heavily involves the protagonists fighting against time-traveling nazis and jumping between alternate worlds, so this is really excellent alt-history to work with. Thanks!

[@seemorecakesta87]

Very interesting mate

[@attackpatterndelta8949]

How’s the novel coming along?

[@pineapplehead789]

when novel

[@ridespirals]

have you read The Laundry Files by Charles Stross? you should check em out, they're more of a lovecraftian horror/comedy thing but time traveling Nazis are also part of it. the books are insane in the best way.

[@Kiloburn]

@@ridespirals I haven't, but I'm going to start now!!

[@cryohellinc]

Stay healthy everyone 👌

[@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.

[@marcotuliohernandez6139]

You guys are really getting out some great stories, I'm not THE history buff...but I am quite mindful of what's happened in our world throughout the past. I want to thank you for another great job, well done.

[@Frankthetank-et7wo]

This incident was recorded in the nuremburg warcrime trials. I remember reading this in the book "Reich of the Black Sun" a number of years ago.

[@Cheese25536]

Today’s my birthday and this is one of the best parts of my day so far

[@cosuinofdeath]

The War Channel happy birthday

[@barbarat5729]

Well HAPPY FRIGGIN BIRTHDAY! 🥳

[@havingafloat]

🎂Happy birthday🍾🥳

[@briandiadem]

🎂🍦🎁🎈

[@TheKulu42]

Once again, I love these videos because they offer stories I have never heard before now. I've heard about the German bomber that night have gotten within 12 miles of NYC, but not over Ohio. I think the military would want to cover up the fact that the Germans could reach America if these flights actually took place. The alleged test could have been a one-shot event. Maybe the Germans just couldn't make another in time to do any good for them.

[@karidennis6154]

Absolutely, the amount of enriched materials needed at that time was huge, even when the americans had the capability they could only make a couple.

[@TheKulu42]

@@karidennis6154 Agreed. A third atomic bomb was readied to drop on Japan, but even that was an effort. The U.S. couldn't roll them out quickly even with all the infrastructure the Manhattan Project created.

[@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.

[@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.

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

well , considering that when shown news of the first 2 nukes being used, German atomic researchers first question was " how the hell did you make that much plutonium , we needed like 2 tons of it to work " , i think its safe to say we where never in real danger .

[@coltonsin64]

An exceptional and frankly chilling episode. Robert Harris' novel Fatherland is one of my favorite books of all time, and I've often wondered about what the world would be like had Nazi Germany won WWII. We can all be very happy that they did not, but stories like these, if true, make you wonder how close they came to doing so. Speaking of books, my copy of your book arrived today in the mail. Quite eager to dive into it; most of its stories I've seen, but there are loads of stories in there that I haven't seen the related episodes to. I'm sure it'll be every bit as good as this channel is. Although, the book won't have your voice. FeelsBadMan.

[@carddamom188]

Isnt an audio version available?

[@hellagato415]

3:23 I usually go to bed listening to these stories. I was dozing off and when that part came I hella jumped up. I was like oh crap it’s happening😭

[@vaughanb1963]

This sounds like it would be perfect for a Clive Cussler book. How I miss him RIP Clive

[@warrendesonia7924]

I will second your comment - It would make a good Dirk Pitt story......

[@joshuapeltier4769]

Awesome! I get a break from the virus scare and enjoy some quality entertainment.

[@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 😂

[@averyvaughnwallace6242]

This sort of reminds me of Wolfenstein. If you know what I'm talking about, you get a gold star!

[@americantttefan4745]

Yeah. The trailer, and that bit of the game

[@SuperSaiyanGuyver]

Guten Tag.

[@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

[@neopagan1976]

Hell Yes! I've just been pining for a brand new episode. You guys are the best storytellers on the planet. 😍😍😍😍

[@GankbotShuk]

Only issue with this is the fact that while they were slowly working on making hard water, Germany was nowhere close to actually completing an actual bomb.

[@marhawkman303]

How can we be sure? Because the govt said so?

[@GankbotShuk]

@@marhawkman303 No. Because if you do your own research to follow up on the info given, by that stage of the war germany didn't have the logistics to actually get it done. There's a ton of info out there about it and it's rather fascinating.

[@marhawkman303]

@@GankbotShuk To be honest I've never tried looking up primary sources for that. But anything that is an official government statement is suspect of being propaganda.

[@anhedonianepiphany5588]

Exactly, but it's _heavy water,_ aka deuterium oxide, they required, not "hard water". Also, they were nowhere near completing their rudimentary test reactor, let alone one capable of producing useful quantities of plutonium. Thoughts of an actual weapon were almost nonexistent. These facts have been confirmed many times by independent researchers.

[@marhawkman303]

@@anhedonianepiphany5588 Well as a wise man once said, "show me your data"

[@bwktlcn]

My great uncle (who was like my grandpa), was in the army during WW2. At one point, just after completing basic training, he was assigned to patrol the beaches around Norfolk/Virginia Beach. He said they had spies coming on shore almost every night, coming off of subs. They’d find a raft, they’d find a drowned man in a regular business suit, they’d find wrecked supplies, occasionally they’d get a guy climbing out of the surf. My point is they could get close enough to put men ashore on Virginia Beach whenever they cared to. If they had put a nuke on a sub, they could have taken out Norfolk, which still has a huge navy base. I don’t know how close they could have gotten to NYC with a sub, or if they could have gotten into the Chesapeake without being seen and turned north toward the Potomac River.

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

More............Thanks..............

[@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.

[@steelemagnolia3773]

Poor NYC...Always the target of catastrophe!

[@scottydo5282]

Seriously, why can't they bomb something else? Why not Florida?

[@marcellus-bn7mb]

@@scottydo5282 because nobody wants to awake the florida man

[@steelemagnolia3773]

@@scottydo5282 Florida Man can't be stopped!

[@MickSaladin]

@@scottydo5282 the continued existence of Florida helps spread discord and fear among the American people, the many lunatics who reside there help demoralize the other states, therefore, it's not in the interests of America's enemies that it should be destroyed

[@trevorwilson6683]

But never beaten and always standing tall

[@SuperSaiyanGuyver]

Thank you to Captain Steven Rogers, who gave his life to stop this mission. All kidding aside, the truly chilling idea of a German nuke on American soil is how it could have turned the postwar US into a superpower as ( justifiably) xenophobic as the postwar USSR. This could of course have led to the Cold War becoming a hot one, with both sides scared they needed to strike first lest they be the one struck first again. If the US government DID recover this aircraft, the coverup makes sense in terms of the postwar climate. Forgive and forget the enemy's actions in the past, but a paranoid populace would have been worsened, especially after Sputnik. JU-390 will always make me chuckle. Of course its karma the Nazis never got it to do what they wanted. It's a JU and was always going to sabotage them. Fate has a dark sense of humor.

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

Joshua Cochran there was no German nuke. German physicists were a fucking joke during WW2 outside of Heisenberg.

[@Bob-je3kx]

BoxStudioExecutive you mean outside of Einstein, who actually fathered the nuke for the Americans because he fled germany because he knew he had to make the bomb for one of the sides and I am gonna place a safe bet on saying that he chose the right side

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

Bobby Eladami Einstein fled Germany because he was a Jew.

[@OutlawPrince45]

Bobby Eladami Einstein was Jewish. That’s why he fled.

[@1951jimmy]

If you want to learn more about Germany's efforts to develop nuclear weapons during WWII, read "Critical Mass" by Carter Hydrick and "Reich of the Black Sun" by Joseph Farrell.

[@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!!

[@williamdennis7652]

Wish that would make this a tv show. Bedtime stories. I would watch bedtime stories anyday

[@vortecmacs]

If a fission weapon were used there would be some evidence, some residual radiation. It would be incredibly easy to prove.

[@crazysilly2914]

not necessarily, depending on how the bomb was designed and how large the explosion was... you can actually hike were the largest nuke was detonated (tsar bomba), whereas they had to build a dome were Ivy Mike was detonated to stop the radiation pollution...

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

@@crazysilly2914 You know these stories aren't real... right?

[@crazysilly2914]

@@ThroneOfBhaal Im talking about actual nukes, buddy. Tsar Bomba H-nuke was designed to have little to no radiation, and you can nowadays go hiking where it was detonated. Ivy Mike was the opposite, they lowered the power, which in the process caused it to release an INSANE amount of radiation, which is why they had to build a dome over the blast site...

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

@@ThroneOfBhaal yes they are wtf are you talking about

[@timothybrull6009]

Your videos are amazing. The sound effects, the tone, and how you put it all together is just too perfect. I have seen all of your videos and the only thing I hate is there is not enough of them.

[@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.

[@KatTheScribe]

Absolutely fabulous video. I don’t remember anyone talking about the test nuke that was witnessed off of the Baltic coast. You guys are doing such a great job with this series! I can’t wait for the next installment.

[@SageWhite-Rose]

Fantastic episode: I can't wait for the next one!

[@sirxavior1583]

The JU-390 never reached operational status, if anything the plane that crashed near Owl Head was most likely the 6 engine Blohm & Voss-222(Viking) seaplane which was in service with the Luftwaffe since 1940 and had enough range for a one way voyage to North America. But they've been known to extend there range by refueling at sea with U-Boats. The witness description of a 6 engine plane with a thin long fuselage matches the characteristics of the BV-222 Viking.

[@emmaboyce2541]

It’s also crazy seeing the owls head light house in a this drawing, I’ve been there many times

[@lordodysseus]

When I first discovered this channel, I thought the videos we were scary, but now I legit get tied and fall a watching them. The music, voice, and black and white slide show are really the perfect cocktail for falling asleep.

[@harry8912]

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

[@noone6812]

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

[@elemperadordemexico]

Hey just a suggestion someday you guys should cover the Mexican witches that are famous here and in Latin America. Loves your channel

[@freezetasticvoyage19]

They got you covered. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYnXZI2hq8emd9E

[@elemperadordemexico]

@@freezetasticvoyage19 Thank you

[@martinv1396]

Thanks bedtime storys, you are the best! I always look forward to your new storys!! Keep up the great work!

[@Lord_Nemesis8]

Again a brilliant piece of work. I'm born and bred New Yorker and I never heard of this. Thank you so much

[@b.griffin317]

The first guy's story is a bit odd in that if he actually witnessed an atomic explosion from such a distance he would have been blinded and not been around to tell the tale.

[@LukeDodge916]

Not of his eyes were below the deck and in his lap, as was mentioned...

[@The_Stumbler]

@Alex yeah, but that's post Hiroshima, this German pilot would have had normal glass, not any kind of tinted or violet ray deflector glass. The people at trinity's explosion had some people who thought a truck windshield would help, I don't remember their outcome, but to be honest the shockwave would have cause the plane it self to tumble, not get swatted

[@marhawkman303]

@@The_Stumbler shock wave power depends on distance. We don't know the range or explosive yield. Thus there are too many unknown variables to calculate how hard his plane should have been hit. It's only the initial flash that's likely to cause blinding, and if he wasn't looking at it, then he could have been fine.

[@The_Stumbler]

@@marhawkman303 I'll give you both, I honestly believe he just fortunately blinked as the flash went off. I ain't trying to say this video is a hoax or anything. I actually love this info. I still find the whole shock wave thing and emp thing. Essentially the shockwave we just don't know the range so it would technically be up in the air. The EMP blast, it would have killed his electronics. The blast it self should no matter the range of it effects, killed the whole system. I am not saying he couldn't fly or anything, but it's not going to be a killer for one thing, and a left in tatters next thing. An nuke is capable of knocking modern electronics. A wired 40s machine would never been set up take on an emp blast when they didn't know what full potential nukes had.

[@marhawkman303]

@@The_Stumbler That era of aircraft often had a manual stick and very little actual electronics. One oddity is that modern electronics inherently are more vulnerable to EMP than 40s era tech. why? 40s tech didn't use microcircuits. the physical size of an electrical circuit determines how much EMP is needed to destroy it. modern computer chips are pretty much the easiest thing there is to EMP to death. BUT, like you pointed out, today we have shielding and they didn't.

[@cryohellinc]

Kudos to authors, thank you so much for this channel and wonderful content.

[@blueshiftrobs]

Awesome episode bedtime! The artwork? Keep as is! Brilliant.

[@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 😂😂

[@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.

[@codycox2465]

Giant pog time stories!

[@saber1827]

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

[@JAMESBOND-jm2lj]

Your graphics are so awesome that I can't listen to the video without also watching. On the edge of my seat (bed) the whole time. Great job 👍

[@TheAKgunner]

If the Jerries had the bomb first, why didn't they use it on us, or the Soviets? Edit: The possibility of the Jerries nearly bombing New York with a nuclear weapon is the easily scariest thing I've heard this year of 2020! And it's only 8 March!

[@ghost-facedhindu4275]

I'd have thought it more than likely they'd choose the UK. They started losing the air war and England is an island and the fallout would be localized to the UK. Remember, they sought to conquer the world. One can't easily inhabit a radioactive wasteland, no matter how much Fallout says otherwise.

[@residentidiot9694]

They didn't have hearts like yours perhaps.......

[@trashman7906]

Ghost-Faced Hindu they weren’t trying to conquer the world, lebansraum stopped at the Ural Mountains.

[@Zinras]

They would 100% have dropped it on the commies before anything else. The war was a complete shitshow in 1944 for the Germans and they'd rather die than get captured by the USSR. A nuke on the eastern front or Moscow itself would have sent a much stronger message than randomly bombing NYC or somewhere else at that time.

[@cosuinofdeath]

Frank Reynolds it was froggy

[@EphemeralProductions]

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

[@WilliamRWarrenJr]

You clearly put a lot of effort and craftsmanship into your videos! Liked and subscribed!

[@joediffy]

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

[@AnthonyWLeone]

My father once told me a story that during World War II, as Americans were bombing buildings in Nazi Germany, one American solider asked his commander if they should bomb a particular-looking building. His commander told him to do it and he did and it was destroyed. Later when American troops were going through the rubble of that building did they realize what the Nazi were doing in there: They were trying to build an atomic bomb.

[@cheng3580]

That's a pretty bad story then. OSS would have informed the Army Air Corps on what buildings they were not to bomb at all. Especially for things like Nazi Scientific research buildings .

[@b.griffin317]

Not to cast aspersions on your father or anything but american airmen were in no position to request to attack specific targets nor able to hit specific buildings.

[@marcotuliohernandez6139]

Woe!

[@AnthonyWLeone]

@@b.griffin317 It was his understanding that they were given orders to bomb a section of an area that had buildings on it and one of those buildings were apparently building the bomb.

[@notorious-g6515]

"neu berlin" starts to play in the background

[@LadyHeathersLair]

I really need to look this up. Great job guys!

[@samhaines8228]

just phenomenal- what a team! this is primo content, thank you.

[@prestonblair2841]

The Germans was on some other shit lmao do another video on Vietnam mysteries

[@prestonblair2841]

Also another video on submarines would be dope to😊 much love

[@radagastbrown9001]

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

[@mariobadia4553]

What are melon heads?

[@crazysilly2914]

wuz dat...?

[@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.

[@CharonXul]

Amazing animation, very interesting stories and great narration. Bedtime stories is one of my favorite shows ever. 😁

[@salamander405]

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

[@DerekNing]

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

[@AmberGabriel1295]

YAY!!!!! NEW VIDEO!!!! I WAS WATCHING A MOVIE BUT NOT NO MORE!!!

[@FallenAngel9979]

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

[@NataliaVRigor]

The Nazis: We developed a new device that will surely put us in a far more greater position than any other country in the war. The universe: *N* *O*

[@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

[@WoodyStickman]

I freaking love your channel! Thank you for what you do!!

[@silphibuka225]

I love the stories with some history lessons attached. Thanks for the videos!

[@michaelmartin9022]

It could have been an attempt at a symbolic conventional raid, like the Doolittle raid.

[@marhawkman303]

simply blowing up one of the piers in New York harbor would have made a huge impact. More an impact on morale, but it'd make an economic impact too.

[@ViperPilot16]

@@marhawkman303 The Doolittle Raid didn't have as much as a effect as people think either though. I cant remember the exact numbers, but only a couple of the Mitchells launched made it to Tokyo nevermind dropping their payload. Plus I know one crew was captured then executed, and I think two made it to China including Doolittle himself. Obviously America would have a much easier time repairing damage the Japan, or Germany, but the amount of damage done is over blown.

[@marhawkman303]

@@ViperPilot16 True. And if it's minor damage all it doe sis make people angry.

[@RealYankee]

@@ViperPilot16 Well the Doolittle raid did accomplish the psychological aspect of its mission. It sent a message to Japan, "we can already reach you, and we're coming with more, just try to stop us." It shook Japan that we had managed to actually strike the imperial capital.

[@crazysilly2914]

what was the Doolittle raid?

[@nickreichert7597]

Anyway we can get a Spotify version of these stories? Would love to listen to new stories or relisted to some on road trips!

[@nickreichert7597]

Big oooffff, just did a search on spotify only to see there already exists a podcast account on spotify

[@madj.7379]

Great episode, as usual!

[@bosgotnojams]

that shockwave tho......

[@bottomgear4028]

Why is this video showing up as restricted? Had to go into incognito to get out of restricted mode

[@GrievousFrom]

Ah yes, the day New York almost became Fallout. Still a better love story than Fallout 76.

[@the__aviator]

More I need more...absolutely hooked on your channel

[@Giantwaspface]

This channel is getting better and better. Keep it up!