Great German Battleships Of WW2 - Full Documentary
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Great German Battleships Of WW2 - Full Documentary
Bismarck and Tirpitz were the last and largest battleships completed by the German navy, as well as the heaviest ever built in Europe. They were built according to the terms of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement signed in 1935, and ostensibly displaced no more than the 35,000 long tons (36,000 t) specified in the agreement. The ships were, in actuality, some 15,000 long tons (15,000 t) heavier at full load. The ships were built to counter new French battleships then under construction.
The Bismarck was deployed in May 1941 to raid British shipping in the Atlantic Ocean along with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. During the operation, Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood and heavily damaged the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales and forced her to retreat. All of the available British naval assets were mobilized in a massive hunt to track and destroy Bismarck. Several days later, Bismarck was disabled by a torpedo hit from a Fairey Swordfish launched from HMS Ark Royal and subsequently destroyed by the battleships HMS Rodney and HMS King George V on 27 May.
Tirpitz's career was less active; she spent the majority of the war as a fleet in being in occupied Norway. The Royal Navy attempted to sink her with midget submarines, but these efforts were unsuccessful. In November 1944, RAF Lancaster bombers hit the ship three times with 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) bombs, which caused her to capsize and sink. The wreck was eventually broken up in 1948-1957.
The two Scharnhorst-class battleships were the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The ships were armed with nine 28 cm (11 in) SK C/34 guns in three triple turrets, though there were plans to replace these weapons with six 38 cm (15 in) SK C/34 guns in twin turrets.
The two ships were laid down in 1935, launched in late 1936, and commissioned into the German fleet by early 1939. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau operated together for much of the early portion of World War II, including sorties into the Atlantic to raid British merchant shipping. The two ships participated in Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway. During operations off Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious- in the engagement with Glorious, Scharnhorst achieved one of the longest-range naval gunfire hits in history. In early 1942, the two ships made a daylight dash up the English Channel from occupied France to Germany.
In late 1942, Gneisenau was heavily damaged in an Allied air raid against Kiel. In early 1943, Scharnhorst joined the Bismarck-class battleship Tirpitz in Norway to interdict Allied convoys to the Soviet Union. Scharnhorst and several destroyers sortied from Norway to attack a convoy; the Germans were instead intercepted by British naval patrols. During the Battle of North Cape, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Duke of York sank Scharnhorst. In the meantime, repair work on Gneisenau had begun, and the ship was in the process of being rearmed. However, when Scharnhorst was sunk, work on her sister was abandoned. Instead, she was sunk as a blockship in Gdynia in 1945; the wreck was broken up for scrap in the 1950s.
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One correction. The British destroyer referred to as being rammed by the heavy cruiser, Hipper, was HMS Glowworm and in fact it was SHE who rammed the Hipper. Deployed originally as part of the escort for HMS Renown, Glowworm had become separated from the rest of that force in very heavy weather when she encountered two German destroyers. Still in extremely rough seas, Glowworm engaged these ships which it transpired were part of an escort group screening the Hipper. Which shortly afterwards, also arrived at the scene and opened fire on the British ship. Heavily outgunned, Glowworm returned fire and manoeuvred to fire 5 torpedoes, all of which missed due to equally skilful ship handling by Captain Heye of KMS Hipper. Soon heavily hit and with escape now impossible, Glowworm's captain, Lt.Cdr G Roope, ordered a turn hard to starboard to attempt to ram the cruiser. This was successful and Hipper lost a large section of armour belt and sustained significant flooding. Glowworm fell away sinking and Roope ordered 'abandon ship'.
Although Heye ordered Hipper stopped to pick up survivors, due to the battle and sea state just 40 of Glowworm's crew could be saved, and Roope was not among them. The German captain did, however, send to the British authorities via the Red Cross, an account of his opponent's gallant action in face of far superior forces. Roope was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
The fact that the German Captain still commended the British Captain despite in war was beyond humanity.
Was that the same engagement where the larger vessel couldn't depress the guns enough due to the close range, but the muzzle blast blew off parts of the smaller ship's superstructure and caused a short circuit that set off the siren that nobody could shut off?
@@MajorT0m Afaik, yes.
Hood was NOT a Battle ship she was a battle cruiser & over 20 years old at this time. Commissioned in 1920. She should never have been sent against a modern battleship. she was basically just an over gunned heavy cruiser.
Certainly makes you wonder no engagement was ordered it was the German command who couldn't agree
The Hood was sent into battle because at the time she was the most modern ship the Royal Navy had and she was the pride of the nation
@@GuyFreeman5041 No, the main issue was speed. The Home Fleet only had four capital ships capable of catching Bismarck. Two went to the Iceland-Faroes Gap, and the other two to the Denmark Strait.
@@GuyFreeman5041 Rubbish the battle ship Prince of Wales 1941. was with Hood & was so new some of her turrets didn't work properly.
@@badpossum440 I dont count her because of that reason lol. The quad turrets couldn't fire half the time and so she barely fired any volleys at the Bismarck.
At 5:07 you can see that while the battleship is sinking, the crews were peacefully walking around like nothing seriously is happening. They looked like people strolling along in the park. Some of them were even sitting down. Not a single one of them panicked. What a great courage those people had. They were like samurai warriors who were ready to face death anytime.
They came up on deck and jumped overboard. What did you expect them to do?
@@rogerpattube Yes they did but in such an orderly manner that you will not see today. Today the people would have fought for life jackets and lifeboats in panic mode, very much like the scene in the movie Titanic but much, much worse.
Are you implying that this footage may not be legit?
This is a battleship sinking ua-cam.com/video/YdrISbwy_zI/v-deo.html
@@NormAppleton Why would I even think about that?? Of course it is legit! What I am saying is that the crews of the sinking battleship are so brave that they are not panicking. And that is impressive.
Thanks for the upload, shame about the audio
It's due to the rigours of the battlefield, it takes a heavy toll on the recording equipment:)
For your reference & reasoning why the audio sucks...
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Can't hear the narration over the "background" music. I am out.
More care needs to be taken with the sound mixing. The narration is often drowned by music and sound effects!
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cc lacking also...
it is a really GREAT documentary film about a very interesting subject !!!! Unfortunately, the background music level and sound effects very often they are higher then voice of narration !!!! So many times, I could NOT hear properly the voice of narrator, and I could not recognize of what he was saying. Moreover, video is NOT supported with any subtitles or even is NOT supported with Close Captioning at all.
Its a common problem. Much of this type of content was originally released on DVD . The problem arises when they are converted to a suitable digital format prior to upload to UA-cam. Some of the converter software is less than optimal and they flatten out the audio mix.
Agreed so many clips are the same poor sound quality
Operation Cerberus was heading north not south and Scharnhorst was sunk by the King George the Fifth class battleship Duke of York, not the county class cruisers.
Great documentary well informative I like it you had no commercial interruptions that’s impressive thank you very much it was entertaining
14:30 oh it was a ‘trade war’! Here’s us thinking it was an actual war where Germany sunk hundreds of ships with their crews and passengers.
I continue to be amazed at the technophilia and adolescent big gun envy that leads watchers to ignore the causes and effects of the events they're watching. Watching this in ignorance of the war and Nazism leaves it as no more than war porn.
Yes .... Too bad about the audio
I think the microphone and the volume took a broadside from one of the Battleships .
Just like the Bismarck .
Had this on dvd, the audio was same on disc unfortunately
It truly amazes me how well the Lancaster crews were trained their accuracy was amazing! I've never seen any film of B17s taking out huge battle ships which must look tiny from that height! Or taking out dams, two in one night which destroyed the ruère valley military industrial complex in one fell swoop!!!
The USAAF never tried to do the tactical bombing of specific high value military assets like battleships. They concentrated on strategic bombing to blow the crap out of Nazi industry hence no film footage of them doing it. As for the British, they only did that in a very limited way also and only had a few squadrons (3 maybe?) of specially modified bombers to deliver specially designed weapons to destroy super hardened targets like U-Boat pens or battleships. As for accuracy of those special weapons and crews delivering them? An entire squadron of Lancasters loaded with Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs "might" get a hit on the target ship and frequently multiple raids were required to hit the target (i.e. Tirpitz). Bridges and such were easier since the Grand Slams could destroy them with a near enough miss since the bombs were so big they caused a localised earthquake to shake the target to pieces.
@jujitsuman68 Yanks: "Over There! Over There! Send the Word! Send the Word Over There! That the Yanks are Coming, the Yanks are Coming!"
Brits: "But they won't be over till it's over over there..."
@jujitsuman68 Britain was getting their arse kicked until the American military joined the battle. The one major victory at El Alamein was in a big part because of the reinforcements of the German force was ill equipped Italians. That was not a Reserve unit to be reliable.
It was American industry that made it possible for Britain to stay alive.
So try again.
@@samueladams1775 and the Red Army won it for all of us!
Those Lanc pilots were the cream of the crop. Also, it's easier to find a big fat battleship in a Fjord than it is to find a factory in a city.
Much is made of the superb German stereoscopic rangefinders. It is well known that German optics were world class. However it is a total red herring that these rangefinders gave them a massive advantage over the British Coincidence rangefinders. The truth is in Naval gunnery you did not need to know the EXACT range of a target, only a good estimate. You would then fire perhaps a 5 or six gun salvo- each gun firing a slightly different range than the others and the idea is you "shower" the target with shells in the hope that 1 will actually hit. After the war the Americans tested the admiralty Barr and Stroud coincidence rangefinders against their own Stereoscopic rangefinders and found the Barr and Stroud AT LEAST as good as their own and in some cases better. Stereoscopic rangefinders are a devil to use by the operator who suffer fatigue as the battle commences.
I loved the bismarck and großer kurfùrst
We never ever learned about the German battleships in history class even tho we only learned about the tanks and air craft
@emskirchner Oger well they did need warships to raid convoys heading to Britain, and needed ships that could protect those ships as well. That’s why there was such an effort made into building a powerful navy in ww1 and 2. Britain relied almost entirely on sea transport. Cripple that, and you cripple Britain
21:44
Sharnhorst to Gneisenau upon spotting HMS Renown:
"Retreat! There's a whole lot of her, while the two of us are alone!"
I would guess that’s because she wasn’t worth the effort to sink her. Scharnhorst and gneisenau were some of Germany’s most important ships behind Bismarck and tirpitz. They no doubt could have sunk renown, she was a lightly armored ship, but it’s likely one or both of the German warships would have been damaged and in need of repairs, mission killed, or worst case near immobilized which would allow some more heavy guns of the British fleet to come and finish them off. It wasn’t a good exchange given how few battleships Germany had in comparison to Britain at that time, and Germany wanted them for shore bombardment in case sea lion ever came to play, as well as commerce raiding
OK, you lost me immediately when you stated that early German dreadnoughts were vast improvements over the British ones and then went on to say say that the Germans had higher calibre guns. Completely false.
True, nobody was on par with the Royal Navy right up through WW1.
The crews of the QE battleships might indeed take exception in anyone saying they were not the best.
Also had the fuses on British shells worked properly, might have been very different.
Anyone know the music at 18:07? Really would love to find the original.
Did I nod off? I don't recall any mention of the Graf Spee.
That's because it wasn't a battleship in any sense. The term "pocket battleship" was coined for it, but it was nothing more than a cruiser with oversized guns.
Badly researched, quite inaccurate in too many ways. Pity really, as it could've been worthwhile.
Awsome to hear what happened from someone who actually lived it
Pity as sound quality very low, ruins this doc..
" one round every six seconds- pretty good for our heavy artillary "......The Bismark in action only achieved less than 1 round PER MINUTE during the engagement in the Denmark strait.
I mean if you believe what they tell you were you there?
@@joshlower1 No and I wasn't at the battle of Hastings either but I know it was in 1066. It might surprise you to know but there are documents kept called " records " . You might care to look at some one day !
He also stated that that was while learning to use the guns "with blanks"! Guessing they'd be a lot lighter than proper battle shells?
@@danosverige No heavy artillary in the world was capable of 1 round every 6 seconds. The man is simply mistaken. He probably means the secondary armament .
I think he means over all 8 main guns, obviously each gun is incapable of 1 round every 6 seconds. But 1 every 6 seconds between eight guns, all being loaded at varying times could be possible. I'm by no means an expert, but I think that's what the sailor intended to say.
At the 49:23 mark is the only real footage of the Bismark firing at the HMS Hood. Taken from the KMS PRINZ EUGEN.
were the battleships of black Africa oh yaaaa i know
You said RAF bombers and fighters were all shot down by German Naval anti aircraft guns in the English Channel during the dash were completely false.
What the he heck is this the British had the first 15 inch gunned BB's and also the first oil burning BB in the Queen Elizabeth class not the Germans they also had alot more 15 inch gun ships then the germans
Yes your comments are quite true. I wish these filmakers would do some serious research before commiting to film.
...Correct. Germans only had 2 -15 inch gun ships, none saw action.
@@eltsennestle998 what are you talking about? The Bismarck had 15inch guns and if you dont think it saw action ask the Hood.
@@erichvonmanstein6876 We are talking about the first world war as in the film !!!
also, poor Blucher was failed counter to british battlecruisers, simply put an big armoured cruiser, if you want a real info on naval history go and check Drachinifel
What they only had 2 and one was bombed, of Norway never done nothing, other one lasted one operation.i think there pre dreadnoughts, were great for lasting from Jutland to end ww2.
Well yes, except they were used either as icebreakers in the Baltic, or as accommodation ships. HMS Victory did much better, surviving from the mid 1760s to the present day!!
At Jutland, Germans attempting draw the Royal Navy from its bases in England? No
The Germans’ plan was to draw out a portion of the Grand Fleet (the battlecruisers and 5th battle squadron...about 11 ships) and lure them into engaging the whole German High Seas Fleet. If they could destroy those ships, then they would have been closer to numerical parity with the Royal Navy and would stand a chance in a full fleet engagement. Of course, they didn’t know that the British were reading their communications and had dispatched the entire fleet to meet them. The Germans got the best of the battlecruiser engagement, but then got their T crossed by the Grand Fleet. If the British shells hadn’t been defective, they would have lost many more ships than they did. If you’re interested, check out Drachinifel’s channel. He has a very detailed 3 part video on it.
I fear those people who build this sea monsters
Why is the audio so bad?
Probably just to piss off the people who keep bitching about it. That's my best guess, anyway
Narration difficult to hear. @37:47 ''a salvo (firing) rate of one round every six seconds''. Absolute nonsense and the worst part of the video.
thats what i thought...i'm thinking more like 25 - 30 at least and thats running in trim in a good sea
Regarding the channel dash 'both ships were undamaged'. Thats bs both BB's hit mines, Shcarnhorst took over a year to repair, time to switch off.
And Gneisenau never recovered
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Glowworm rammed hipper, not the other way round
And then they were sent out with barely any escorts and were swarmed to death.
The Germans only had two!!!! They also had two smaller battle cruisers.
Nope, Scharnhorst & Gneisenau are also considered (light/fast) battleships.
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@ukkowalski Nope, Schlesien, Schleswig-Holstein and their sisters were still called ships of the line.
@@RayyMusik Battleships maybe, still debated. With only 11" guns, she met the old British Battlecruiser HMS Renown with her 15" guns, knew she was outmatched and ran away. Again when attacking merchantman, she met two more British Battleships with 15" guns and again, ran away.
Toe to toe, she was no match for a full pedigree British Battleship or many British Battlecruisers.
Schafnhorst and Gneisenau were more like lightly-armed fast battleships, as they actually had thicker armor than Bismarck and Tirpitz (14” vs 12.6”). Battlecruisers have battleship caliber guns but thinner armor. HMS Renown, with 15” guns and 32 knot speed, but only a 9” armor belt, is a textbook battlecruiser. Hood was right on the borderline between battlecruiser and fast battleship.
I love this video beutiful german engineering our navy was beutiful some of the heavyist ships off that time u can tell i love the german navy
I think they do strange things with the audio just to make people comment about how bad it is. There’s no way you can convince me that someone had a “that’s perfect” moments with this audio. More like “that ought to do it! Everyone will hate it.
WoWs german BBs will have almost 30s reload although the real ship had 6sec. Well it's a Russian game...
Terrible audio!
Skip the music in the background !
would have been so much better with no or much discrete music
What's happening with audio!!!!
What is the name of the music starting at 34.30 min? Where I could find it?
For the first one.....there should be no war in europe during that period.....that is the most priority
Germans did not use there heavy ships wisely!
I would have split up my fleet.2-3 ships and send them out in groups everywhere so as to make the larger british fleet chase me all over the world!
But,that's what the Brits did instead,3 or four ships on one.
Remember what happened to the Emden; that captain did I right...
Except Emden lasted less than two months.
It is a copy of janson media's WW2 documentary on battleships
The facts are slightly off in parts.
The grand scuttle …that was indeed a blessing for the RN …it didn’t want the ships and more importantly it didn’t want other Navies to get them….so far from a loss!
WWII I think the doctrine you might have mixed up from WWI ie Tirpitz risk theory …the Kreigsmarine never could ever take on the RN …they were indeed ordered not to engage any RN capital ships ….in fact the twins did run more than once!
What actual major surface action took place in the North Sea or North Atlantic in WWII ? The Kreigsmarine never put out any major surface battle fleet! More than likely cause they didn’t have one in reality and in again reality Raeder knew that, much like Sheer didn’t in WWI.
Facts are skimmed and slightly twisted somewhat
Low level audio.
Shame about the audio
the reason why no info was leaked to the german crews was cause it was a sudden change in orders to counter the British invasion of Norway.
Churchill demanded Norway allowed British Ships to use Norwegian ports and the RAF to use Norwegian air bases. When Norway refused and said they r neutral and wanted to stay neutral Churchill gave orders for the british army to invade and capture the ports and air bases. Norwegian govt asked hitler for help to defend against the british invasion as they didnt even declare war. They just landed and the Norwegian army was unable to defend on their own so Germany sent in troops to aid them.
Prob was some of the Norwegian army decided to fight on the British side while some fought on the German side. The ones who fought for Germany became the waffen SS.
All the SS units were made up of volunteers from other countries which included Brits, French, polish and americans. No Germans were in the SS units.
Churchill didn't have the power to make demands to Norway for the obvious reason that he wasn't even Prime Minister until Chamberlain failed at Norway, so are you pulling that story of yours out of your arse without sufficient citations?
@@KatyushaLauncher 'Pulling that story of yours out of your arse?' Personally, I think you are being rather more polite about the comment posted by that idiot than it really deserves.
cannot hear it
All two of them
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..all sunk
Consider most powerful...if only she a a refit maybe she would have (HMS Hood).
The hood was out of date by many yrs first commissioned in 1920
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Take off the music.
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The great German battleships spelled the end of battleships.
And ww1 wooden planes spelled the end for German Battleships.
@@MrPancake777 Exactly. And aircraft carriers became the masters of the sea. Battleships were obsolete.
No they didn't
@@bobcornford3637 Them and Pearl Harbor. Aircraft carriers have been the ships of war ever since.
@@kevinsysyn4487 Not in western waters they weren't.
RE:
"Great German Battleships of WWII "
What the heck kind of category is that? There were only 2 German battleships total in that war; how do you pick out the "great" ones? Bismark sank a single ship and then was sunk itself. Tirpitz was sunk without even getting a kill of its own first. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were capital ships, but not proper battleships. They could be called undergunned and overarmored battlecruisers. And again, they achieved no victories to earn the accolade of "great". The "pocket battleships" were nothing but cruisers with guns too big to be practical. The predreadnought Pommern obviously doesn't count.
A more fitting title might be "German Capital Ships of WWII: great at tying up a lot of British resources by just existing and doing next to nothing."
Kamchatka could of wiped out the German surface fleet in an afternoon. 😂
"Sucked down by the ship..." Such a fucking stupid urba legend! :D You dont get sucked down by sinnkig ship!!
Yes you do. Dependent on the attitude of the ship as it sinks beneath the surface. Go do some research on fluid dynamics.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 No, you absolutely do NOT.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 You should check you facts before you mouth off about fluid mechanics, my man! 😂😂😂
@@Cactusjugglertm Don't think because you watched an episode of "mythbusters" you're Albert Einstein. My Facts are checked. Your generalised OP is complete BS. You CAN be sucked down by a sinking body. That is not the same as you WILL always be sucked down. If anyone needs to read before making blanket statements, its YOU.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 We are talking about ships here, man. A sinking body is another thing. If a comet struck in the middle of the ocean, where you just so happened to be swimming, then yeah.
There has been NO boat sinking on this planet where people have been sucked down into the deep.
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This is so badly done its becoming painful to listen to. Outa here.
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They werent that great, all got sunk or damaged beyond use. In battle brave yes.
What is this supposed to be?
@Qjgucrk Virmvoc
It's called a documentary.
"Documentaries" are films telling about events in history.
"Films" are sort of like photographs that move.
"History" is the word we use to describe things that happened in the past
Hope this helps.
Looks like a documentary about 1930s 40s battleships
This documentary is erroneous. In World War I, "The German dreadnoughts had much larger guns. All 15" guns." Nonsense! The German dreadnought emphasized protection over speed and firepower. Their classes almost always had smaller caliber guns than contemporary British guns. When the British has 12" guns the Germans had 11", then the Germans went to 12" guns the British had 13.5" and 15" guns. Who does the research for these alleged documentaries? The German ships were superior in many aspects, but not in gun size.
Let me make it quicker to u:
1. Bismarck
2. Tirpitz
The end. U dont have to watch now.
Pure cringe
Germany is Great not Britain
@ukkowalski Imagine Britain had no help by USA, France and Russia. Then it would have been 0 - 1
@@justinvonderlinn5793 help from France didn't the British declare war because nazis invaded Belgium France etc
@@markmitchell450 - Nup! Britain and France declared "war" because of the invasion of Poland. Germany had to fight it's way through British and French troops to take Belgium and France, it's why the Dunkirk evacuation happened.
I had come from a German and Italian family that served in both world wars on BOTH sides ( in WW2) , my german great grand father and his 3 brothers served in WW1 , my great grand father served on a Mowe raider , his brothers served in the Army on the Western Front , one was killed in 1915 , ( Hans) , the other 2 survived the trenches and wounded. In WW2 my German grand father served in the Afrika Korps with his brother Franz ( Albert my grand father was a loader on a anti aircraft gun and wounded and captured in 1942) Franz was a NCO in a transportation company ( and captured in 1943). On my American Italian side my dad's uncles ( Benny , Micheal , Samuel and Jerry ) served. Benny fought as a radioman in the Marines in the South Pacific and was wounded 4 times and survived , Micheal and Samuel served as Army Rangers in Europe , Samuel was on D-Day and was wounded badly after going over the top to clear trenches ( his whole war was over in a hour and a half , after training since 42. He was state side and medical out shortly before the war ended with 40 percent disabled ) Micheal survived D-Day and made it to the end unwounded. He later served in Korea and left service. My mother met my dad in 1957 and they told me stories on how both sides would exchange war stories and argue ( in fun i was told ). These crazy old men died off , the last Franz died in 2017.
What a great story! Thank you for sharing
@Ghosts,UFOs,Meditation-Music & Crap it is cool , im the last surviving male in both families and i served in Iraq with the Army. But my family name and military traditions will die with my passing.
@Ghosts,UFOs,Meditation-Music & Crap it's matter of children , i can't have any.
Good story about the people that did their bit.
Difficult to hear the narration over the sound effects sometimes.
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The film completely ignores both Norway's neutrality and the sinking of the invasion's flagship, the heavy cruiser Blücher by Norwegian shore batteries at Drøbak Sound. A combination of shellfire and shore based torpedoes sent the Bluchner to the bottom, disrupting invasion plans and allowing members of the government and Norwegian royal family time to escape Oslo. They eventually were able to establish a government in exile that led and encouraged Norwegian resistance to the Nazi invaders.
A good video without it dripping of English propaganda..
Once I saw that super imposed text in the title I knew I was in for a good time
Is it me or the sound (earplugs) is really low, I barely can hear the commentator talk
Sound quality is very poor low and barely audible
It’s you.
he is a little quit
Sorry guys if you are to post this at least check your facts no German ships at Jutland had 15 inch guns most were 11inch some 14 so please amend very disappointing.
To hell with going to sea! I always enjoyed mining; warm/hot all the time, dangerous at all times, but no U Boats or Battleships trying to spoil my day.
Danzig has always been a German city, the French and British tried stealing it for Poland but international law said that's wrong.
Let me tell you all about battleships.
* turns up the music to 11
35:39.....Not true....It was launched on February 14th 1939, and it sunk on the 27th of May 1941...
germany always through times took thing up 40 percent better in every thing cars rockets planes boats and even houses there way of thinking way better to bad they had couple bad apples
Yes the nazis tank & aircraft development programs did the allies GREAT service. Wasting all their efforts & resources on a myriad of useless, pipedream weapon systems.
What an awful lot of mistakes in this ‘documentary’!
Better watch Drachinifel’s channel; he does know what he’s talking about (and has a great sense of humour):
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"GOOD," PERHAPS. "GREAT"? NONE.
Funny how they forgot to say that the swordfish planes first torped a british ship...
Attacked but did not torpedo it
@@benwilson6145 yes that did, they dropped torps but they didn't go off
What's a torp
@@markmitchell450 torpedo
@@xdevonx24playsgames63 Nor did any of them hit.
There were no great German Battleships of ww2
Why drown out the voice with music?
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I can't hear it
This should be a very short video.