Wunderwaffe: Hitler's Secret Weapons Pt 1 - The Vengeance Projects

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

They came up with some concepts we still use today. Cruise missiles and flying wing bombers being a couple examples.

[@BMW7series251]

Loved your comment that the V2 hit the City of Suffolk in the county of Ipswich!!

[@hollieBlu303]

I'm from Norwich. Also hit! The only things we have in common apart from being in E.Anglia and hating each other's football teams 😂❤❤

[@hollieBlu303]

Don't quote me but I believe a V2 hit St. Mary's shoe factory in Norwich City centre. They also dug up an unexploded doodlebug a few years ago on the same road as my brother in law's house near Kerr's Hill

[@roseanne74]

Love it. That right there proves our Descent Master is still not quite on top of whatever lurgy latched onto him.

[@roseanne74]

@@hollieBlu303yes but did you notice the actual WORDING? CITY of Suffolk, COUNTY of Ipswich??

[@hollieBlu303]

@@roseanne74 🤣..... totally missed that. Thanks for the heads up. Amazing. A whole new county on my doorstep I didn't even know existed 🤣🤣🤣

[@AROBASPARK]

Yes! We need Vodka power rockets ... and Tequilas powered ones too - the latter instead going "whoosh", it will fly at the sound of a Mariachi Band.

[@DiD86]

😂😂😂😂

[@ClydeH777]

average ww2 lore divers brain

[@Temerald51]

Great video mate! Love your historical content. Listening to this and your HMS Victoria vid on base while i prep my kit

[@DiD86]

🫡 I appreciate your support.

[@laurenjeangreenbean6301]

Admittedly tiny little quiver to hear that deeply researched and beautifully executed explanation of the ordnance, powerful tool for deep appreciation of firearms and physics. Quietly crushing.

[@Ian.G256]

Thanks!

[@DiD86]

Thank you. I really appreciate it.

[@SaintNarcissa]

Your voice is so easy on my ears. Even with the darkness and bomb talk. Happy New Year! May it bring you more treasure than blood. 🎉❤

[@roseanne74]

DiD is LIFE!!! The playlists have had a hammering from me since you’ve been unwell. Thank you for the informative upload today. WWII is one of my specific historic era interests. Learning from you has been enlightening and interesting. Your posts should be required watching for modern history students.

[@briancclevenger]

I really enjoyed your research. Thank you for your hard work.

[@grapeshot]

My grandfather served in a anti-aircraft unit in the US Army during World War II and he told me about the V1 the buzz bomb and how they were assigned to shoot them down.

[@skullcowboy9609]

Glad to hear you again good Sir! Great vid, as always.

[@PaulRudd1941]

Also, "thousands of dollars of improvements" poor Ipswich 😂

[@bendewet1057]

Great, Interesting Video! And, I particularly like and enjoy your Style of Commentary. Looking forward to your Next one!

[@kimmykimak3737]

Thank you again for all your hard work and wonderful videos that you share with us. No matter what subject is I enjoy every single one of them. Cheers mate

[@deanbuss1678]

Thanks!

[@TJ-el5tm]

I would raise one quibble with this. By ‘44 Speer wasn’t concerned with wonder weapons, he thought they were a waste versus other more reliable and useful weapons and desperately tried to convince hitler to not wast time on striking back at the UK

[@hollieBlu303]

Another truly brilliant video...at the moment, the world can feel like a terrible and dark place....this server as a reminder of our resilience as a species at the darkest of times...as do many of your videos. I commen you, sir. Many, many thanks x

[@enokinnokenti5649]

Another great video. What I find most puzzling about the V1 and V2, is why they were not used on a massive scale against military targets. In the summer of 1944 you have a whole series of supply dumps and hubs behind allied lines, across Northern France. You also have the advanced allied airfields that were set up - and allied close air support was killing the German army. All these would have been closer to the launch sites. Looking forward to the Rillington Place video!

[@DiD86]

Yes, I agree entirely! There’s plenty of proper targets to have had a go at that could really have hampered efforts. The beachheads at Normandy being a PRIME target! But thank god they didn’t think of that, eh?

[@enokinnokenti5649]

There's a book called 'Disaster At D-Day' written by the US military historian Peter G. Tsouras (he mainly writes 'what if' historical books). In that, he has the Germans using around 10-15% of the V1s at the ammo and fuel dumps on the beaches. Predictably, they would eventually hit one of these and cause carnage and mayhem. But yeah, thank the saints they never thought of it.@@DiD86

[@alinapopescu872]

I think these weapons were part of, as you said, a long and sinister tradition of finding new ways of killing more and faster. Sultan Mohammed used a super-gun (so it is said) to fire at Constantinople's mighty walls. The man who designed it was a Transylvanian called Orban, if memory serves. I knew you must be down with something. Get well soon! For your sake as much as ours. May this year be kind to us all.

[@talpark8796]

well....the roosskies did have vodka powered military jets 😏 tyvm for another upload 🍻🇨🇦😁

[@laurenjeangreenbean6301]

My second time to watch, and ze jetz is a new revelation, and history still shows that it can surprise. The pulse element is a bit of an improvement in shuttle landing and control of iss docking etc. my step dad was on the flight after the challenger and the flight before, he insisted that the tile works were in safety levels, gotta love the space project and its blond origins. We used to joke about Apollo mission control tapes as half the conversations had an ESL element? German expats in JSC initiated the flyers into mysterious medical treatments, regular required injections and testing on the crew was the first element focused on in the return to flight era. There was a paperclip mentioned as an ironic nod to govt evil plans

[@1man_crowd]

The so-called wunderwaffen were actually already completely developed. Problem was, the Germans ran into serious material shortage due to the ongoing bombardment. Gyroscopes and ball-bearings were particularly difficult to produce and thus scarce. Otherwise it wouldn't have taken long to construct, mass-produce, and equip missiles with nuclear warheads. Germany was almost there, as could be seen after the war when the US drew upon the progress of German scientists. Interesting sideline: Germany was also very far in medical research concerning the relation between smoking and cancer; a pet project of Hitler's, being a dedicated non-smoker. After the war, results of this investigation were seized and locked up in a drawer at the Phillip-Morris company for a further 30 years.

[@suzannewilliam-james9744]

Glad you're feeling better 😊 happy New Year

[@islandblind]

Tellingly, Sir Arthur Harris, the Air-Officer-Commanding-in-Chief of Bomber Command referred to the V-2s as "those silly rockets." Part of the issue concerned the fact that the missile would bury itself in the ground on landing and the earth would absorb much of the shockwave. Also, the payload was a relatively small 1 ton. When you consider that the normal bombload for the Lancaster varied from 7 tons to 10 tons, in the case of the Grand Slam earthquake bomb, this gives you some perspective.

[@hollieBlu303]

It's crazy when you think how quickly the V1/V2 progressed to Trinity, the Tzar Bomba....and now today. I'm terrified. My parents didn't have me until 1987 because they were scared of total annihilation...and now I'm not having a baby for the same reason. Idk where we're going as a world (maybe that's to a fault) but I'm so unsure I'm not about to risk bringing a new life into being. By the time I'm ok with it...I'm pretty sure it'll be too late and I'm gutted 😢

[@islandblind]

@@hollieBlu303 You're right. The technology moved very quickly.

[@islandblind]

@@awkwardautistic I would question a couple of your points here. First of all, the V-2, like the V-1, wasn't a precision weapon, like a modern missile. It was an area weapon. Secondly, Hitler was concerned that the allies had developed the same nerve agents that the Germans had (they hadn't) and would retaliate in kind with their much more efficient bomber fleets. Alternatively, some suggest that Hitler had an aversion to chemical weapons, since he had been exposed to mustard gas himself during WWI. Finally, I read in one source that loading a V-2 with liquid nerve agent would have upset the stability of the rocket.

[@whoarewe7515]

Love your choice of words . Your brilliant. All the best

[@LloydEWatson1983]

Another cracking video, thank you 👍

[@nickmoore9643]

I am @ 0:33 and it's a pic of von Braun with I think some of his team. In the Nuremberg trails America said "we would never use Nazi science". America because of Nazi scientists we can extract oil from coal. So much for not using Nazi science. Werner von Braun was the head of NASA and the oil from coal (it wasn't von Braun as far as I know) these are 2 things America got from the Nazis.

[@desmondrobinson169]

Tea 1 Vengeance weapons 0

[@newbeginnings8566]

Brilliant... Thanks for this

[@DiD86]

My pleasure!

[@JBowman-ps2ri]

Great Vid Brit👍Keep calm & carry on...making more vids 😁

[@bookwormaddict3933]

Nothing like a good cup of tea 🍵.

[@DiD86]

🫖👍🏻

[@Dave-id6sj]

Herr Schicklegruber was the best asset the allies had for the war in Europe had there been anyone half competent in charge using their resources to their max efficiency the war would have gone on for longer than it actually did. WW2 ended up being a war of the factories and the allies combined were always going to prevail in the production race. Schicklegruber shortened the war with his stupid interference and messed up priorities.

[@Notsure14]

You have a great channel.

[@DiD86]

Thank you very much. 😁

[@deanbuss1678]

Thought I heard everything about these "wonder weapons". Guess I was wrong. Thanks Decent ino Darkness 👍

[@randomuser7395]

Love the content 🔥

[@DiD86]

Thank you 😇

[@rupertjames5467]

DiD,love your channel brother. I've looked through your vids,I couldn't see any vids about the runway the Germans built on the mountain. So the Me 262 jets could take off direct from the factory. If my memory serves me right,there was a kind of lift that pulled the jet fighters up the mountain. Be a cool vid

[@DiD86]

I will be doing an episode on planes and tanks, so I shall mention this. Thanks for the tip!

[@rupertjames5467]

@DiD86 - Thanks for replying,no need to thank me! 🫶

[@falsouth762]

Brilliant as always,sir.

[@warhawk4494]

Great video

[@DiD86]

Thanks!

[@isilian2005]

Some time ago I've spotted sign about 'Belfast Blitz' (I can take a photo of it next Friday). And I wonder how far it's true (like sign about Guy Hawkes hotel)? All the best ^^

[@DiD86]

Can’t say I’m familiar but I can look into it. It would certainly make sense for Belfast to be a target due to their shipbuilding facilities but they would have to fly over a hell of a lot of airfields and other air defences to reach it.

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice video.

[@iandawe948]

Yet another good video. Not sure the people of ipswich will agree with your comment. Yet it amused us 👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣

[@DiD86]

😁😂

[@jamallabarge2665]

The US made copies of the V1. Later we made copies of the V2. Gerald Bull wanted cheap space flight, this was his primary motivation.

[@CissyBrazil]

Ladles and Jelly spoons? Bwaaaahaaaaa 😂

[@nickmoore9643]

I heard that 9,000 Brits died because of the V-1 and V-2 attacks how many Brits were maimed (not sure if I spelled that word correctly) because of the attacks but I would say 9,000 died and based on that number I say the maimed numbered around 10,000.

[@ztjcarolina]

Crazy times!

[@nickmoore9643]

A side note: When America spirted away Werner von Braun and his team (Werner von Braun and his team were responsible for Germany's rocket program) Winnie and Stalin were very upset at America for spiriting away Werner von Braun and his team.

[@DiD86]

Of course they were. The US got the top guys.

[@rsautos]

so good

[@JParkes43]

However you think about it. It’s absolutely crazy that they could even make a rocket / missile in the 40’s that worked as it did.

[@DiD86]

Yeah, the 40s really were the cutting edge of what was possible. But then war has always proven a rich ground for invention.

[@PaulRudd1941]

I shudder to think what would have happened if the Nazies had managed to get nuclear warheads onto their V2's.

[@TJ-el5tm]

They never would have gotten nukes, they considered it “Jewish science”

[@hollieBlu303]

I know this probably has a lot to be attributed to 'doom scrolling ' but ....does anyone else feel a horrible Wolfenstein-esque touch with the 1930s-40s in todays climate? ....chills 😢🥶

[@TJ-el5tm]

Nope, todays climate definitely has some Spanish Civil War/Anschluss/Appeasement feel to it

[@m.streicher8286]

The thumbnail looks like a classic fallout cutscene

[@DiD86]

😂😂😂 aye, it does a wee bit. Never noticed that before.

[@LMB222]

SI. You country uses it. Germans didn't use "feet" to describe the height of V2.

[@DiD86]

But I do….

[@jeffwhite9392]

Bugger , V1 too early to the party to remove ( multiple suburban names deleted ) in sunny downtown " insert city here " . Was that chickenshit enough ; I live in Australia so ... umm

[@derkjandehaan6306]

Regarding the German word for vengeance, you probably misread it, taking the l for an i. So it’s actually ‘vergeLtung’.

[@discoverneweyes]

$

[@deeayenn]

You know the mistake you made...but that aside, yes, improvements would've been made. Ha! Excellent work, as to be expected from a creator of you abilities.

[@DiD86]

😂😇

[@deeayenn]

Looking forward to part two..

[@DiD86]

I’ve already prepared the script layout for part 2, which will be infantry weapons.