The RAF's Tragic Mistake

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  • Опубліковано 25 січ 2025

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  • @sifridbassoon
    @sifridbassoon 6 місяців тому +1

    In the middle of reading a great book on the Wilhelm Gustloff, and it mentions these other ships several times so this is a particularly good video for me. Thanks. (BTW, "th" at the beginning or at the end of a German word is pronounced as just "t." so "it's pronounced Teel-bek 😁)

  • @giovannirastrelli9821
    @giovannirastrelli9821 Рік тому +9

    In 1942, the laid up Cap Arcona was also used as exterior set for a film about the sinking of the Titanic. The director was murdered by the Gestapo for speaking out against German war effort. History is filled with the cruelest of ironies.

  • @thatssomething1
    @thatssomething1 3 місяці тому +2

    RAF intelligence officer who didn't pass on the latest intel probably lived a long nice life too..bloody hell chaps, sorry I didn't pass on that info..scratches head and has another cuppa 🙄

  • @jfbft5007
    @jfbft5007 Рік тому +2

    my father was on one of those boat, he come from Neungamm camp after a long and deadly march throug north germany,many of the deportees are dying on the road, of exhaustion, typhus or a headshot by an SS guard...

    • @thatssomething1
      @thatssomething1 3 місяці тому

      A true strong and lucky survivor for sure

  • @tobaabramczyk6681
    @tobaabramczyk6681 10 місяців тому +1

    My father was one of the survivors of the Cap Arcona

  • @MelqiadaGarces
    @MelqiadaGarces 6 місяців тому

    They used that ship for a titanic movie in Germany sadly it gone now😢

  • @jarikinnunen1718
    @jarikinnunen1718 Рік тому +4

    In reality, the fighters shot everything. It was not an unusual attack. How many other war crime are untold?

    • @Steven-p4j
      @Steven-p4j Рік тому +1

      Wheels within wheels, unfortunately. At least we are aware of it.

    • @pawelsawicki1750
      @pawelsawicki1750 Рік тому +3

      Basically all of them remain known only to locals..

    • @brucebartup6161
      @brucebartup6161 8 місяців тому

      incorrect: the initial Typhoon responded to AAA from from the Arcona's decks. (not allowed from Red Cross vessels)
      Using 20 mm against swimming SS personnel is within the rules of war.
      The mission was against shipping further to the North .
      The intelligence from the Red Cross was not passed on because it was not selected out
      for validation for treatment (at the the surrendering german generals alone were causing a vast pile of paper - some their intel had direct relevance to the continuing prosecutionl of the war troop deployments and so on) much of if it was bogus - designed to dissocciate military commanders from the camps
      All addressed in a public enquiry 1974 I believe

    • @michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373
      @michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 7 місяців тому

      1750 we have known in uk for many decades

  • @Eric-kn4yn
    @Eric-kn4yn Рік тому

    Prisoners were for negotiation with allies

    • @giovannirastrelli9821
      @giovannirastrelli9821 Рік тому

      Sure they were.

    • @Eric-kn4yn
      @Eric-kn4yn Рік тому

      @@giovannirastrelli9821 americans took nazis they could use post ww2 reguardless of activities under hitler russians same ìm sure

    • @pxtokarev
      @pxtokarev Рік тому

      @@Eric-kn4yn Russians and British alike despised their own soldiers. Cannon fodder as they say.

    • @mycklaflonscamping1398
      @mycklaflonscamping1398 10 місяців тому

      They werent, the oil was mixed with stuff which made it highly explosive. The boats were planned to go out to sea to hide the fact that there were concentration camp survivors

  • @pawelsawicki1750
    @pawelsawicki1750 Рік тому +4

    9:18 This is moment I switched from "like" to "dislike". How idiotic, ridicules, disrespectful and offensive I find replacing victims of described events with an animal or anything else but actual picture of the victims, I cannot describe. This is last video of yours I watched and I hope there are more people like that.

    • @tony9146
      @tony9146 Рік тому +1

      Agreed. If the creator felt they were going to be struck by UA-cam they should have just not shown anything or simply kept showing the images of the ships. Incredibly crass.

    • @JohnnyWednesday
      @JohnnyWednesday Рік тому

      Just upset that your gore fetish wasn't satisfied.

    • @rameshgill1444
      @rameshgill1444 3 місяці тому

      I t is called satire .

    • @pawelsawicki1750
      @pawelsawicki1750 3 місяці тому

      @@rameshgill1444 It is not satire.

  • @dandrakenholt5455
    @dandrakenholt5455 Рік тому

    Amateur!

  • @Wardads1
    @Wardads1 Рік тому +2

    Machine gunning surivors in the water is iffy at best .

    • @Steven-p4j
      @Steven-p4j Рік тому

      At best? What about killing their children, because they will only grow up to the enemy?

    • @Eric-kn4yn
      @Eric-kn4yn Рік тому

      Especially that ww2 was days from surrendering

    • @brucebartup6161
      @brucebartup6161 8 місяців тому

      A military survivor is still a combatant.
      Thus Dowdings ruling :enemy pilots shot down over British territory were to be treated as potential POWS and therefore no action to be taken against them
      whereas
      Red cross marked air sea rescue boats and airplanes were legitimate targets as were
      British pilots in parachutes over South of England BoB 1940.