Battle of Britain - You can call me "Meier"

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  • Опубліковано 13 січ 2007
  • By popular demand (believe it or not) here is the sequence of the film where Berlin is bombed, Hitler changes course in the war, and Goerring takes over command of the campaign.
    One of my subscribers has informed me that they filmed the Berlin sequence in Spain, and that one of his old houses can actually be seen in the background.
    From the movie "The Battle of Britain"
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  • @spacestevie2
    @spacestevie2 14 років тому +118

    I remember this story about a German Air Traffic controller who was trying to direct a British Airways pilot who was coming into Frankfurt for the first time. The controller kept berating the pilot for going to the wrong runway or some such. The pilot replied that it was easy to get lost because the last time he was here he was dropping bombs.

    • @bassinbillRC5300
      @bassinbillRC5300 Рік тому +27

      I would love to see the look on that air controllers faced when the pilot said the last time he was there he was dropping bombs. Brilliant absolutely brilliant.

    • @benvair1370
      @benvair1370 Рік тому +5

      Stupid thing to say, what was his point.

    • @mjona1754
      @mjona1754 Рік тому +2

      😂

    • @TheBewdleyboy
      @TheBewdleyboy Рік тому +10

      @Jekeiifnrhehej maybe!....maybe not!.....not as tasteless as what the Nazis did tho!....you agree?

    • @SajjadKhan-cl3yf
      @SajjadKhan-cl3yf 10 місяців тому +8

      Classic comeback

  • @torbayguy1
    @torbayguy1 13 років тому +171

    The city scene was indeed shot in Spain, the 1st time the crowd were smiling too much and it had to be re-shot with the threat that the extras wouldn't get paid if they didn't look scared. It worked. Most of the German aircraft in the film were actually old Spanish Airforce planes.

    • @Erik-ue9bi
      @Erik-ue9bi 5 років тому +9

      Avenida libertados, San Sebastián Spain

    • @jamesfracasse8178
      @jamesfracasse8178 4 роки тому +10

      Really quite interesting

    • @kiloechocharlie1342
      @kiloechocharlie1342 3 роки тому +5

      I too was a background performer (extra) on a number of films. A lot of these dummies really thought they would see themselves in the movie. They just didn't get it. You're there to fill the scene, not star in it...

    • @perceblue3976
      @perceblue3976 3 роки тому +5

      @@kiloechocharlie1342 Those German planes were used during the Spanish civil war. I helped strip the paint off those planes and paint them in preparation for the film. The job was conducted at the Southend, Essex, Airport museum.
      To strip the paint, the were no safety measures back then. We used a chemical called, ardrox. One drop on the skin and it burned a hole. No face protection provided, had to make sure we did not get any in our eyes.

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 3 роки тому +3

      I was going to say it looks quite mountainous for Northern France...

  • @alainarchambault2331
    @alainarchambault2331 5 років тому +290

    During the Nuremberg trials, they should've addressed Goring as Meier.

    • @pwgearedturbofan2348
      @pwgearedturbofan2348 5 років тому +20

      @@StephenKershaw1 lol, tbh, both of your comments are funny as fuck, 😂

    • @Airrage88
      @Airrage88 4 роки тому +55

      @@StephenKershaw1 You sound like you're fun at parties.

    • @BigBazz-Clips
      @BigBazz-Clips 4 роки тому +17

      @@StephenKershaw1 *psst* i think he was joking...

    • @sharky8577
      @sharky8577 4 роки тому +8

      He probably had Meier running down his legs as he swallowed the cyanide pill

    • @muffinsavior3004
      @muffinsavior3004 3 роки тому +6

      @@StephenKershaw1 snowflake

  • @paulfri1569
    @paulfri1569 2 місяці тому +9

    The Goering character was perfect in this movie and what brilliant casting.

    • @ronniecoleman2342
      @ronniecoleman2342 3 дні тому

      Ja ja, Der Reichsmarschall ist kaput, gesundheit, und verboten, lol 😆 😅

  • @save_the_night
    @save_the_night 10 місяців тому +13

    This Hitler actor is outstanding. It took me years to discover that it`s not the original voice.

    • @davidahlstrom7533
      @davidahlstrom7533 Місяць тому +6

      It does sound like Hitler. Also the silhouette and distant shots. A well-done film (much shot in and around RAF Duxford airfield and museum -- near Cambridge. Well worth a visit.

  • @GDumbrell
    @GDumbrell 15 років тому +58

    I love the fact that for it's time (1969) they managed to find and restore all those wonderful aeroplanes. I know the spanish airforce were operating the Heinkels and merlin messerschmitts but to restore all those spits and hurricanes just for a film. I think the historic aviation movement today owes a lot to that film. Also, the music that is played associated with the germans (aces high, etc) deserves to be played very loud - fantastic!

    • @frostyfrost4094
      @frostyfrost4094 2 роки тому +4

      And blow up the hangar at Duxford

    • @ordotectonicus8585
      @ordotectonicus8585 2 роки тому +4

      @@frostyfrost4094 I've been Duxford and I'm pretty sure the hangar they boew up is now a picnic table area

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 Рік тому +1

      The film came out a year before I was born. I have watched it many times during my life!

    • @ledichang9708
      @ledichang9708 9 місяців тому +1

      Buchon first flown in 1954 and these planes retired in 1965. They are seriously not that old.

  • @sflowers539
    @sflowers539 12 років тому +83

    I love the Meier quote, but in WWII Georring said that about Ruhr, not Berlin. He took the quote in stride though once in Berlin, as Berlin was getting bombed at the end of the war he was rushed into a shelter, where he met many associates and new people........and he introduced himself as Meier to them.

    • @Frserthegreenengine
      @Frserthegreenengine 2 роки тому +5

      And German air raid sirens were nicknamed "Meyer Trumpets."

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 Рік тому

      The actual quote said "Reich territory".

    • @TheAngmarwitch
      @TheAngmarwitch 10 місяців тому +2

      Mosquitos bombed a Berlin radio station on the evening he was to give a radio address

  • @wcatholic1
    @wcatholic1 8 років тому +177

    This what happens when the Herr Reichsmarschall is allowed to design his own uniforms.

    • @s.sestric9929
      @s.sestric9929 7 років тому +20

      He preferred a relaxed fit.

    • @nirmallyochakraborty1983
      @nirmallyochakraborty1983 5 років тому +8

      You might call him whatever you want to but the frau and the frauline used to regard him as a sex icon..Adolf Galland hated him..I saw his personal interview.

    • @gazza2933
      @gazza2933 4 роки тому +5

      @@nirmallyochakraborty1983
      Power and Wealth always attract women.

    • @jdee8407
      @jdee8407 4 роки тому +1

      @@nirmallyochakraborty1983 So would it be appropriate to call him Herr Schlong Meier.

    • @dhanyavenugopalnair6155
      @dhanyavenugopalnair6155 3 роки тому +2

      In reality all SS could wore the best and most iconic u uniform ever

  • @Tannhsr
    @Tannhsr 4 місяці тому +7

    The way Hitler says, “why doesn’t he come?”, mocking the fear of the English. Disturbing.

  • @oilersridersbluejays
    @oilersridersbluejays 8 років тому +107

    That German sergeant yelling sounded exactly like my grandpa when he was mad lol. I suppose he was one so that could be why.

  • @fullstrutn
    @fullstrutn 7 років тому +107

    as Goerring announced NO RAF will fly over Germany a Mosquito was doing just that

    • @nirmallyochakraborty1983
      @nirmallyochakraborty1983 5 років тому +4

      During the battle of Britain the prototype of mosquito which was nearly completed. Was hidden by canvas

    • @tommiatkins3443
      @tommiatkins3443 4 роки тому +7

      the original quotation was given by Resichsmarschall Hermann Göring in a speech to his Luftwaffe in September 1939. Mosquitos entered squadron service on15 November 1941.

    • @jander9236
      @jander9236 3 роки тому

      @Robo Redneck and the v-1s

  • @tjoonatv2848
    @tjoonatv2848 7 років тому +56

    No plane can lift Meier off the ground!

    • @maxfrankow1238
      @maxfrankow1238 7 років тому +1

      Rasputin thought it meant he was a dick lol.

    • @thevoid5503
      @thevoid5503 2 роки тому

      He actually used to be a fighter pilot in WW1.

    • @reginabillotti
      @reginabillotti 8 місяців тому +2

      ​@@thevoid5503and then he let himself go

  • @brettfavreify
    @brettfavreify 4 роки тому +18

    This movie was so well done.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 7 місяців тому

      Hardly.

    • @brettfavreify
      @brettfavreify 7 місяців тому

      @@MarkHarrison733 ....so you rooted for the Germans. Meh.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 7 місяців тому

      @@brettfavreify If the anti-Communist side had won Europe would not be Islamic.

  • @vikingjim666
    @vikingjim666 16 років тому +38

    It also helped tremendously when Fritz changed his bombing tactics, switching from targeting airfields to bombing cities exclusively -- gave the RAF a chance to catch their breath.

    • @christopherhogg8364
      @christopherhogg8364 Рік тому +2

      The RAF were playing an attrition strategy. They could easily have moved the planes north but they needed the Luftwaffe to keep attacking so they could be shot down. Britain could make good it's losses in aircraft and most shot down pilots bailed out and were recovered unharmed - to the RAF that meant they'd make roll call the following morning. To the Luftwaffe they became POWs and we're thus lost.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 7 місяців тому

      That myth was debunked decades ago.

  • @thanhcongnguyen2085
    @thanhcongnguyen2085 6 років тому +50

    "if a bomb falls over berlin, call me Meyer"
    -Meyer Göring

    • @rick7424
      @rick7424 3 роки тому +2

      *If an allied plane flies over the Ruhr

    • @milkywaythecommenter3369
      @milkywaythecommenter3369 3 роки тому

      @@rick7424 *if an enemy bomber

    • @phill234
      @phill234 3 роки тому +4

      Hermann Meier*

    • @garyseeseverything8615
      @garyseeseverything8615 2 роки тому

      Britain had no chance of saving itself from Germany without Americas help before formally entering ww2 in 1941. America supplied the RAF with 100 octanes because the best plane the spitfire with a high drag bomber wing was to darn slow over France.

    • @schlookie
      @schlookie 2 роки тому +1

      @@garyseeseverything8615 100 % wrong

  • @dvalle1320
    @dvalle1320 Рік тому +6

    That speech though.

    • @neilhayz1555
      @neilhayz1555 25 днів тому

      It’s described by the American correspondent William Shirer. Shirer’s book on the Third Reich is pretty awful, but his witness testimony to Hitler’s speeches are actually very good.
      To an English person Hitler sounds as if he’s ranting. He’s certainly no phrase maker like Churchill. But there is an energy in his speeches that this clip portrays very well.

  • @MadMax75th
    @MadMax75th 8 років тому +22

    Such a great movie...I remember seeing it in the theaters as a kid (way b4 DVDs) ;)

  • @sirstiffpilchard
    @sirstiffpilchard 9 місяців тому +4

    I like the Goering character played very well, quite comical really

  • @peterobbo7512
    @peterobbo7512 3 роки тому +11

    The best German military music ever written... by Ron Granger.

  • @Celt-starseed
    @Celt-starseed 9 років тому +14

    I remember my brother taking me to see it in 1970 in Wales not long after it was made.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 Рік тому +1

      I was born that year (1970). The film came out the previous year, so I didn't see the film until a few years later!

  • @lawrencedockery9032
    @lawrencedockery9032 6 років тому +159

    It almost sounds like a clip of an actual Hitler speech, instead of it being done for the movie.

    • @orgami100
      @orgami100 6 років тому +24

      Excellent quality film from the people who went on to make the James Bond movies..

    • @sisutrucks
      @sisutrucks 5 років тому +4

      did not know that, but you recognize the handywork hehe.

    • @sisutrucks
      @sisutrucks 5 років тому +3

      well, he did better himself, laud bugger hitler was lol

    • @MegaWolfgang
      @MegaWolfgang 5 років тому +8

      who was the actor who played Hitler in this movie? I read somewhere he had the voice but really didn't look enough like him, thus he was in shadow?

    • @MarkFoster321789
      @MarkFoster321789 5 років тому +3

      @@orgami100 Actually those responsible for this film were well and truly established in the Bond series by the time BoB was released in September 1969 (four months before the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service): being producer Harry Saltzman who also made the Harry Palmer trilogy: director Guy Hamilton, title designer Maurice Binder, cinematographer Freddie Young who had worked on You Only Live Twice, and others. I always thought the actor who played Goering reminded me of Gert Frobe (Goldfinger) and the sets of Hitler's headquarters and that of the Luftwaffe had a strong Ken Adam look of them, although he did not work on BoB.

  • @beidlgsicht
    @beidlgsicht 11 років тому +22

    "you can call me -name-" is a common german proverb

    • @owl2944
      @owl2944 4 роки тому +1

      its a common english proverb as well

  • @JCMC57
    @JCMC57 17 років тому +1

    Thanks also for posting.

  • @afrofinka
    @afrofinka 8 років тому +94

    Wrong translation from 2:09
    Hitler says :
    "Zwei, oder drei, oder vier tausend... " which means "Two, or three, or four thousand", and not "200, 300..." (two hundred, three hundred...) as described in the subtitles...
    and even more, he says "Ein hundert fünfzig, ein hundert achtzig, zwo hundert dreißig, drei hundert fünfzehn und dann vier hundert tausend..." which means "150.000, 180.000, 230.000, 315.000 and then 400.000..." and not "2.000, 3.000, 4.000" as described in the subtitles.
    Then, later, "Er kommt" means "He is coming", and not "We are coming"...

    • @paladin56
      @paladin56 7 років тому +14

      I always thought it odd that this particular scene was translated so badly. Even with my rather basic German I could tell.

    • @erikkopp7309
      @erikkopp7309 7 років тому +5

      genau,und ich spreche Deutsch.

    • @JoseGarciaHudd
      @JoseGarciaHudd 7 років тому +10

      and he is talking about kilograms, not individual bombs. The English have a funny thing with their movies and other languages. In the movie Love actually they have someone saying a few words in italian and then say that it is spanish

    • @philevans3257
      @philevans3257 6 років тому +2

      We don't give a fuck. And you can vote. No need to thank me.

    • @arthuraguilar4802
      @arthuraguilar4802 6 років тому

      I can't understood abou the word "Meier". What means in german? Please. Thanks for answer.

  • @MarsFKA
    @MarsFKA 5 років тому +21

    I always thought that those two Luftwaffe pilots looked pretty cheerful for two guys who were about to get their heads handed to them on a plate. Against specific orders, they had bombed London. Certainly, it was by accident and they were off course, but Hitler's orders had been clear.
    The British should have given them a medal each, because they changed the course of the Battle Of Britain.

    • @garyseeseverything8615
      @garyseeseverything8615 2 роки тому

      No it America entering WW2 that saved Europe. Britain and Russia were doomed.

    • @MarsFKA
      @MarsFKA 2 роки тому

      @@garyseeseverything8615 You are not paying attention to what I wrote, garywhoseesonlywhathewantstosee.
      I said "...they changed the course of the Battle of Britain." I was talking only about the BATTLE OF BRITAIN, garywhocan'treadforshit, not the course of World War 2.

    • @garyseeseverything8615
      @garyseeseverything8615 2 роки тому

      @@MarsFKA Battle of Britain was England and 20 countries fixing, fueling, tuning, arming and manufacturing RAF planes with USA resources called lend lease. British lost before it even declared war on Germany not a chance they could save Europe. America saved Britain and Russia go to a library and read.

    • @MarsFKA
      @MarsFKA 2 роки тому +5

      @@garyseeseverything8615 And you go back to school and learn how to put a coherent comment together.
      What "20 countries", by the way? Let's have the list.

    • @garyseeseverything8615
      @garyseeseverything8615 2 роки тому

      @@MarsFKA get your lazy but up and go to a library or be lame and use Wikipedia your choice.

  • @bugutwo
    @bugutwo 15 років тому +13

    I helped paint those planes.
    It was one of my first jobs after I left school.
    To strip the original paint, we used a paint stripper called ardrox. It was deadly stuff and many of us received some nasty burns. One guy was almost blinded.
    The job was done at the Southend On Sea aircraft museum.
    These planes were used during the Spanish civil war and never saw active service in Germany.

    • @johnhardman3
      @johnhardman3 5 років тому

      The Spanish planes were all built in Spain after WW2: by an odd coincidence, the plans for the "He111" bomber were handed-over to the Spanish on June 5th,1944 ("D-Day" was next day). Even then ), the "He111" was considered slow and obsolete by the Germans, who wouldn't give Spain the plans for the fast, versatile "Junkers 88", the aircraft that Franco's people were really after.

  • @Elfig2011
    @Elfig2011 5 років тому +1

    Very special effects with the planes, gives a very nice sense of the power of the German Luftwaffe at that time, must take a lot of effort to film this at that time!

  • @itsconnorstime
    @itsconnorstime 12 років тому +46

    I can't remember who it was, but theres a quote from a high ranking RAF official at the start of the war who after being proposed with plans to firebomb the black forest replied - "Are you aware that is private property? You'll be asking me to bomb Essen next."

    • @williambradley9419
      @williambradley9419 3 роки тому +2

      It was said by Sir Howard Kingsley Wood who was British secretary of state for air (head of the air ministry) he was of that opinion at the start of the war, and the remark was made about German factories. For the first 11 months of WW2 RAF bomber command efforts were almost completely directed at dropping leaflets on cities asking the German popultion to rise up and overthrow the nazis to avoid any further "unpleasantness".... following on from 8 years of pre-war British and French appeasement while nazi Germany was running at 150% to rearm ready for the coming "rumble". So much for the ridiculous meme of "British war mongers".

  • @kencf0618
    @kencf0618 4 роки тому +13

    It's been decades since I've seen this film in full, but man... They don't make 'em like that anymore.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 7 місяців тому

      This film was a huge flop, losing $10 million worldwide.

    • @MarsFKA
      @MarsFKA 7 місяців тому

      @@MarkHarrison733 If you are going to quote Wikipedia, don't just cherry-pick the bit that you think makes whatever point you are trying to make. The rest of the line in that article said, "... but the film eventually became profitable thanks to home media sales."

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 7 місяців тому

      @@MarsFKA Decades later. And it was from Halliwell's Film Guide, actually.

    • @MarsFKA
      @MarsFKA 7 місяців тому

      @@MarkHarrison733 I don't care if you read it in an article next to a Playboy centrefold, the film still turned a profit, which you carefully omitted to mention in your first wet-blanket comment.

    • @MarkHarrison733
      @MarkHarrison733 7 місяців тому

      @@MarsFKA After 20 years.

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate 4 роки тому +2

    I really would like to see these type of movies one day.

  • @EngPheniks
    @EngPheniks 3 роки тому +7

    WW2 was a dark period. But at the same time, it must've been an exciting one for some curious village kid to gaze at a lot of flying planes. we hardly see plane armadas today. the kids of those days were so fortunate.

  • @Professor6871
    @Professor6871 14 років тому +17

    @Manfred58 Your right the Hurricane was the work horse of the Battle of Britain. Statistically speaking there were more Hurricanes than Spitefires during the war. Its interesting that in the popular history of WW2, or the mythology as I call it, that the Spitefire instead has been accorded with winning the Battle of Britain than the Hurricane. Without the Hurricane the Spitefire on its own would of been greatly outnumbered by the Lufftwaffa.

    • @waistgunner3930
      @waistgunner3930 Рік тому

      Quite correct; the Spitfire was generally better than the Hurricane, but the RAF had more Hurricanes than Spitfires- a 4 to 1 ratio... Spitfires were all metal; only the nose & wings of the Hurricane was metal, while the tail section from cockpit to rudder was wood & fabric. As a result the RAF could build more of them than the Spitfires.

    • @cpj93070
      @cpj93070 2 місяці тому

      Throughout the Battle of Britain yes there was more Hurricanes than Spitfires, but not during the whole war, after the Battle of Britain, the Hurricane was slowly phased out and used more as an early war fighter-bomber, and The Spitfire became THE British fighter of the Second World War.

  • @HenryvKeiper
    @HenryvKeiper  17 років тому +1

    Glad you like it, and thanks for the historical input. I remember hearing a different version of this speech said by Goebbels in "The Plot to Kill Hitler," it's very possible they just transferred the line to another moment.

  • @ibrekke
    @ibrekke 14 років тому +1

    The Score in the beginning is named "Threat" - it is also in the tune "Work and Play" - You will find both on the original Soundtrack - BoB - by Goodwin/ Walton

  • @thekcra
    @thekcra 7 років тому +3

    The band playing when Goering arrives is actually the Luftwaffe marching tune used in the film!!

    • @Frankie-O
      @Frankie-O Рік тому

      Aces High March

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 Рік тому

      @@Frankie-O Written by Ron Goodwin. He proposed calling it "The Luftwaffe March", but was persuaded to call it "Aces High" instead.

  • @lomax343
    @lomax343 15 років тому +4

    "Get a move on or I'll make you swim the Channel." Ah, NCOs.

  • @HenryvKeiper
    @HenryvKeiper  16 років тому +1

    It's a softer version of the Luftwaffe March from the beginning of the film. I'd look for the soundtrack, which is available on Amazon, IIRC

  • @olacm1
    @olacm1 7 років тому

    Thank you.

  • @FedorFox
    @FedorFox 5 років тому +10

    5:53 It's all fun and games 'til they begin dropping bombs...

  • @islamicschoolofmemestudies
    @islamicschoolofmemestudies 4 роки тому +3

    I love this movie. It shows you the battle from 2 sides in an absurd way

  • @trekaddict
    @trekaddict 3 роки тому

    Every time I see this sequence, when the lights go out and the Sirens go on, I cannot help but think: "This is naught but the beginning." My hometown was bombed only twice, but still lost more than half of all buildings.

  • @johnprice7303
    @johnprice7303 6 років тому +1

    Great Music!

  • @mikeymikeFType
    @mikeymikeFType День тому

    5.34. Goering : I can see a man on the beach eating an ice cream

  • @CoriolanusAtrox
    @CoriolanusAtrox 13 років тому +2

    @Beppo85 Listening to that, I have to say it may well be an actual recording of that speech. Adolf's voice is fairly distinctive, and his speeches were generally recorded as well as broadcast throughout the Reich.

  • @HenryvKeiper
    @HenryvKeiper  16 років тому +1

    It's the Aces High march. They play it throughout the movie for the Luftwaffe.

  • @s6u6r6f6
    @s6u6r6f6 15 років тому +1

    one of the best scenes in the movie

  • @Jermster_91
    @Jermster_91 10 років тому +25

    "Meier" from Meierei is German for dairy is a common German surname and was used by Hermann Göring as a term of derision.

    • @s.sestric9929
      @s.sestric9929 7 років тому +9

      From Wikipedia:
      "Meir is a Jewish masculine given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines" It is often Germanized or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer."

    • @Philrc
      @Philrc 6 років тому +4

      it's a Jewish surname and, obviously, that's why it was used. Who could fail to miss that fact?

    • @BigAussieJoe
      @BigAussieJoe 5 років тому

      jermster17 🤨

    • @sebastianmaier1378
      @sebastianmaier1378 3 роки тому

      Thats like my name: Maier!! But the sound is almost like "Maier!!"

    • @Etherdave
      @Etherdave 9 місяців тому

      @@Philrc Nobody. Everyone gets that this is an antisemitic reference. Even hillbillies in the Ozarks recognise this is an antisemitic reference. People that have never met a single jew in their entire worthless lives know this is an antisemitic reference. Six millions dead, almost an entire people displaced, Europe in ruins, and some who have never suffered even a melted fudgsicle think this is a joking matter. Think on it. Don't think hard (God forbid!). But think on it.

  • @JustSomeCanadianGuy
    @JustSomeCanadianGuy Рік тому +1

    That guy at the podium seems like a real jerk.

  • @NAllen828
    @NAllen828 15 років тому +3

    Don't forget the Canadians and other commenwealth pilots as well as the American eagle squadrons

  • @andrewdurand339
    @andrewdurand339 5 місяців тому +1

    Goering was so fat he should have been called Oscar Meyer after the bacon company.

  • @shadwick8
    @shadwick8 4 роки тому

    How one man can change the world...... Amazing

  • @davidgray3321
    @davidgray3321 Рік тому +1

    My father was amused that Goring designed his uniforms in jolly colours and had a train, Brits of his background found that very strange. He always respected German engineering. We should really have been good friends in 1940 but it was not to be.

  • @lanpingpug
    @lanpingpug 5 років тому +53

    Who played Hitler and read that
    speech? It was really just like his voice.

    • @rutabagasteu
      @rutabagasteu 5 років тому +6

      They could have had an actor standing in for him and play the same speech.

    • @boringpolitician
      @boringpolitician 5 років тому +6

      Yes, it is as if it was a recording of his voice.

    • @Bullski123
      @Bullski123 4 роки тому +15

      Rolf Stiefel was the actor who played hitler,and it was maybe a reason they didnt do close ups of him...his charismatic voice acting was all they needed

    • @rick7424
      @rick7424 3 роки тому +1

      They used the audio of the actual speech.

    • @lanpingpug
      @lanpingpug 3 роки тому

      @@rick7424 Link?

  • @Shogo5000
    @Shogo5000 2 роки тому +3

    Actually, a long-range recon-bomber seaplane of the French Navy was the first allied aircraft in WW2 to raid Berlin on 7 june 1940

  • @Normandie17
    @Normandie17 Місяць тому +1

    "You Sir, had your arses kicked".

  • @pyromania1018
    @pyromania1018 4 роки тому +1

    I like that little detail showing that most of the audience consists of women. This is historically accurate.
    Regarding Goering, though, he didn't just say he'd change his name; he also said he'd eat his hat. This led to people snarking at him, "Good day, Heir Meier! How's your hat?"

  • @BigAussieJoe
    @BigAussieJoe 5 років тому +4

    next, all you experts will be saying "Meier" as in "My store, Meiers"...🤣

  • @BossRoss999
    @BossRoss999 14 років тому +1

    that's right eventhou we were under soo much presure we won the battle my grandad's mum helped 2 build the spitfires in woolston here in southampton

  • @HSMiyamoto
    @HSMiyamoto 8 років тому +15

    If they digitally remastered this movie, they could move the Calais train station to the plains of France and not deep in the mountains. *sigh*

    • @samgreen644
      @samgreen644 8 років тому +15

      +Hannah Miyamoto Most of it was filmed in Spain. the " Luftwaffe " Heinkel 111s bombers are actually bombers of the Spanish air force re engineered with Rolls Royce Merlin engines after WW2 . In some scenes if you look closely under the applied Luftwaffe paint work you can actually see outlines of the roundels of the of the Spanish airforce on the wings .

    • @joylunn3445
      @joylunn3445 6 років тому +1

      Railway stations.

    • @wurlitzer895
      @wurlitzer895 6 років тому

      Bless you for pointing that out. Absolutely right!! :)

  • @unapersonanormal7880
    @unapersonanormal7880 3 роки тому +1

    i love the music is beatiful

  • @victorbrunswick
    @victorbrunswick 6 років тому +5

    26 people named Meier disliked this video.

  • @hibob418
    @hibob418 15 років тому +1

    I know this film was big money loser, but you can see that all the bucks went on the screen. It's just shot so impeccably well. Look at the detail and lighting as they land in Berlin. Thanks for the clip!

  • @flavio136
    @flavio136 10 років тому +5

    I love this movie. And the waltz at the beggining of the segment is so beautiful. Can anyone tell me if is available somewhere?

    • @juanluishdez.laraprevision8107
      @juanluishdez.laraprevision8107 10 років тому

      Licenciado Diaz, me permito comentarle que la película la puede hallar en Mixup. Le dejo el enlace correspondiente. Que tenga un excelente día. Saludos. www.mixup.com.mx/mixup/Product.aspx?sku=027616077004

    • @s.sestric9929
      @s.sestric9929 7 років тому +1

      Listen closely. It's a slow-tempo version of the main theme music.

    • @wishbonedressing
      @wishbonedressing Рік тому +1

      In the soundtrack for the film, that beautiful piece in the beginning with the Luftwaffe pilots landing in Berlin is called "Threat"

    • @flavio136
      @flavio136 Рік тому +1

      @@wishbonedressing thanks!

    • @wishbonedressing
      @wishbonedressing Рік тому

      @@flavio136 Sure thing

  • @hoatattis7283
    @hoatattis7283 4 роки тому

    Goering was at the pinnacle of his powers here a few months later that all changed

    • @Etherdave
      @Etherdave 9 місяців тому

      Goering backed Hitler, a losing proposition. A few years later Hitler fellated the wrong end of a handgun, in a bunker in Berlin, with the Allies closing in on one side, and the Soviets on the other.

  • @eltfell
    @eltfell 16 років тому

    The railway carriage seems to be an UIC type X carriage. It's clearly a post war type.

  • @HenryvKeiper
    @HenryvKeiper  12 років тому +1

    @DrownedBeliefs A lot of people have offered explanations in the comment section. The most common responses are that it's a common Jewish name, and it's a German phrase that just shows the surety of your statement. Kind of like how English speakers say, "Either this guy's crazy, or my name's Bob." So Goering was basically saying, "You have my word of honor, Berlin will never be bombed."

  • @killjoy2k2
    @killjoy2k2 16 років тому +1

    Correct, the RAF was in two sections, bomber command, and fighter command.

  • @TK42100
    @TK42100 15 років тому

    There was also the unfortunate and often deadly risk of ditching or bailing out over the channel, but the Germans had the advantage there since the Luftwaffe had better air/sea rescue capabilities (In the form of Heinkel or Dornier seaplanes waiting on standbay at French coastal bases).

  • @Cwmbran1984
    @Cwmbran1984 10 років тому +12

    There were a few mistakes in the translation of the speech. When Hitler said "Er kommt, ER KOMMT!", the translation said "we are coming", which is wrong. It should have said "He is coming".

    • @shriramvenu
      @shriramvenu 10 років тому +3

      the "Er" refers to "Germany" the nation in response to the english question "Why aren't the Germans coming" :)

    • @johnhardman3
      @johnhardman3 5 років тому

      Since the "French" locations were in Spain, maybe the prop 'anti-aircraft battery' on Göring's train was something borrowed from the Spanish armed forces, whose home-made (post-war) "Messerschmitts" and "Heinkels" [ not fully retired until the early '70s] were so vital to the production.

    • @neilritson7445
      @neilritson7445 2 місяці тому

      er = it [as well as 'he' , it being 'the future' as in English

  • @Jpdt19
    @Jpdt19 14 років тому +2

    What is so damn impressive about this film is that non of it is CGI. These are actual planes. Of course, they had to scrounge all over the world to find a lot of them. I think most of the ME109's and Heinkels are actually spanish produced varients, but i'm not sure about that :D

  • @behahve1
    @behahve1 15 років тому +6

    actually during the critical period 1940 British production surpassed German. A foresight error on behalf of German planners.
    Great clip btw! Ha Ha "If we lose we deserve to get our asses kicked!"- More like "If we lose you should hang me and replace me with someone competent!"

    • @jdee8407
      @jdee8407 4 роки тому

      The Germans could never win no matter what.

    • @TheAngmarwitch
      @TheAngmarwitch 10 місяців тому

      A later scene shows a lone HE 111 limping back over the French coast shot to pieces with both engines ablaze, the Germans in the harbour looking visibly shaken after the show of strength flying over to Britain

    • @AndrewNutley-lf9uy
      @AndrewNutley-lf9uy Місяць тому

      Imagine if the RAF had Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs at the start of the war. Hitler would have been Katzchen scheissen (shitting kittens)

  • @of1454
    @of1454 5 років тому

    Super Film....!👍

  • @Beppo85
    @Beppo85 13 років тому

    Some of the subtitles are off. They're more correct on the DVD that I have, so I'm not sure why they're different here. Hitler doesn't really say 3,000 bombs, he says 300,000, "drei hundert tausend".
    Hitler's speech was taken word for word from a portion of a speech he gave in the Sportspalast on September 7, 1940. Journalist William L. Shirer, who went on to write The History of the Third Reich, was in attendance and said it was one of Hitler's most sarcastic speeches.

  • @XXLSSBBW
    @XXLSSBBW 4 роки тому +3

    5:46 start playing Ride Of The Valkyries

  • @dovidell
    @dovidell 2 роки тому

    ironic that there are now more airworthy Spitfires and Hurricanes , than there were when the film " battle of Britain' was made !!

  • @ibnfahlan
    @ibnfahlan 15 років тому +2

    I loved this part..Diese spiel, konne auch zweie spiel :)

  • @medstudz
    @medstudz 11 років тому +10

    Hitler's speeches were very mesmerizing (hypnotizing), especially for the willing & the faint-hearted!

    • @Etherdave
      @Etherdave 9 місяців тому

      Mesmerism requires, above all, a willing audience. People were impressed by Hitler because they wanted to be.

    • @MarsFKA
      @MarsFKA 7 місяців тому

      @@Etherdave Same for that awful American politician: the one who made it to the Oval Office in 2016 and who is now facing an eye-watering number of criminal charges.

  • @stevenbaer1207
    @stevenbaer1207 4 роки тому +1

    Goering said that he will be called Meier which means his name is mud. Just because a single German bomber at night accidentally dropped their bombs on London. Absolutely against Hitler's strict rules not to bomb London. Germans thought they were unmercifully bombed by the murderous regime of England. Those 2 guys were punished and eventually sent to the Eastern front later on against the Russian army in 1942 as soldiers.

  • @Electricfox
    @Electricfox Рік тому

    This is something that so many combat sims get wrong about the BOB and that's the sheer number of aircraft involved in formations, the only one to have done it right was Rowansofts Battle of Britain.

    • @animelovers000
      @animelovers000 Рік тому

      That was such a great game but really hard to control flying a plane.

  • @mikeandhev
    @mikeandhev 6 років тому +1

    Why is Reichmarshall Goering's train equipped with an American Maxson turret shown in shot at 3:54 on one of the flat cars???

  • @BenAliGtor
    @BenAliGtor 11 років тому +4

    A story I read was that, when making the movie, they wanted the actor playing Goring to "ham it up a bit" to make it more interesting. The director was told in no uncertain terms that if he attempted to turn Goring into a character of fun that every German actor and advisor on the set would quit.
    Goring was viewed different from other Nazi officials: a man who could have chosen a better route than Hitler, but sold out his ideals. In many ways, more tragic and contemptable.

    • @johnhardman3
      @johnhardman3 5 років тому +3

      But the Göring in this picture is something of a cartoon caricature, whereas the real man was assessed as being quite intelligent, not at all the boastful windbag with uniformitis.

    • @johnhardman3
      @johnhardman3 5 років тому +1

      Some of the S.A. people actually thought that Hitler's coming to power would curb the power of the German financiers and vested interests, but they soon realised that it was going to be "more of the same", with those interests calling the shots and with the S.A. kicked into touch as a paramilitary force.

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 5 років тому

      Goering was calculating and ambitious and a real Nazi to the end when he stood trial at Nuremberg. While he was quite corpulent and the very image of a clown he was rather effective as an air commander until the BoB and later American entry into the air war.

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 5 років тому

      @@johnhardman3 ironically the Nazis had the backing of a lot of financiers and old Prussian nobility which feared the communists would take everything from them. So it's really a double sharpened pencil

  • @nathandudenbostel926
    @nathandudenbostel926 4 роки тому +3

    It would be awesome to witness a flyover the channel in 2040. A 100 year salute to all airmen

    • @frostyfrost4094
      @frostyfrost4094 2 роки тому

      We might have 40 ish Spitfires by then flying

  • @brianellinger6622
    @brianellinger6622 5 років тому

    I heard something about a guy named Rick Meyer?
    .
    Because I don't know where The Cabin in the Woods is or who is even there or if I'm allowed to go there or if I won't be shocked as soon as I get there

  • @perceblue3976
    @perceblue3976 3 роки тому +10

    The difference between that time and now, speaking as an Englishman, we were the same people in it together up against a common enemy. We were fighting for king and country as proud British people.
    There is no way I would fight for Britain today, a country that no longer represents me and my people.

    • @perceblue3976
      @perceblue3976 3 роки тому +2

      @Sakkra101 I don`t think their sacrifices were worthless back in those times when there was something worth fighting for, King and country, but today considering the way it`s all gone, yes, defending the country would be a waste of time.

    • @robbillington1982
      @robbillington1982 2 роки тому

      I should fight for the prospect of returning us back to the old ways. The Anglo Saxons always win

  • @bakewell7284
    @bakewell7284 7 років тому +5

    I call you Meier! hee hee.......

  • @lapplandsjagare
    @lapplandsjagare Рік тому

    Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪

  • @Adam7510
    @Adam7510 14 років тому

    I heard that in 1943 Goering, when he saw allies fighters ( mustangs probably) over the sky of berlin says: "The war is over, we have been lost". And in BoB decided two thinks - british air industry production-power and german aircraft little range.

    • @johnhardman3
      @johnhardman3 5 років тому

      Some former Messershmitt design-people are said to have worked on the "Mustang", which the British ordered first (with an Allison engine) early in the war.

  • @Phoenix258
    @Phoenix258 4 роки тому +8

    One of the great scenes from a great film. Shame about the quality.

    • @kirkp7470
      @kirkp7470 Рік тому

      50 years ago, this was a very high quality, pre-computers film. I, for once, was ashamed that when they listed the credits, they did not bother to mention Adolf Galland, Douglas Bader and other surviving Battle of Britain aces that provided the technical help on the film. Just blows me away that they received no mention at all. Today (2020's), Galland, Molders, Bader, Malan and so many other pilots are the ones who are remembered, not a producer or a director...

  • @HenryvKeiper
    @HenryvKeiper  13 років тому

    @ElGnacko I've been there. I've watched video of English crowds chanting/screaming and WISHED I had subtitles :P

  • @pioneermega-ld3236
    @pioneermega-ld3236 6 років тому

    3:49
    Hold on, is that a Red Star... on the train carrying Goering?

  • @charlesmiddleton9952
    @charlesmiddleton9952 5 років тому

    Later in the war,they had fuel drop tanks,they also needed a heavy bomber,with four Daimler Benz 605 messersmidt engines powering a heavy bomber.

    • @johnhardman3
      @johnhardman3 5 років тому

      They were developing the big 4-motor Heinkel 177 bomber from about 1938, but the Luftwaffe top-brass wanted to use it as a dive-bomber, instead of for the conventional level-bombing done by the He 111. The four engines were arranged in two pairs, each driving a big prop: the complex engine-installations caused in-flight fires and there were many fatal accidents. The plane only got limited service use.

  • @FrancoPetrucciOficial
    @FrancoPetrucciOficial Місяць тому

    hola!!!
    tengo una pregunta ¿como se llama la pelicula ?
    saludos.

  • @EngPheniks
    @EngPheniks 3 роки тому

    The tune Aces march often sounded when the Germans appeared. So at first I thought this was a German march. It's more of a British march today adopted by the RAF.

  • @PC-lu3zf
    @PC-lu3zf 3 роки тому +1

    Great movie

  • @Myles0Harcourt
    @Myles0Harcourt 16 років тому

    Actually in four sections. Bomber command, fighter command, coastal command and training command.

  • @behahve1
    @behahve1 15 років тому +2

    Germany only ran at half production till suprisingly late into the war. Night shifts were nonexistent in German aircraft factories for example in 1940. The German's should have anticipated the massive tempo of operations. More aircraft and more pilots would have greatly helped their cause.

  • @Wykletypl
    @Wykletypl 5 років тому

    02:36 a small blooper here. While they made sure the actor playing Hitler had a southern accent (You know, sounded like an Austrian), they forgot one thing. After 1930 Hitler never used his left hand during speeches. The result of Parkinson's disease.

  • @TheYeti308
    @TheYeti308 Рік тому

    Herm seemed excited .

  • @CadmusVFX
    @CadmusVFX 7 років тому +10

    And then they all died...the end.

    • @octaviocuesta1155
      @octaviocuesta1155 5 років тому

      @Hugh Mongus Those national socialist rations sure are tough, aren't they?

  • @redDL89
    @redDL89 5 років тому +1

    Isn't that an American Quad .50 cal AAA on that German train?
    It's a little too bad the film studio wasn't able to contruct a convincing German Flakvierling prop for the film.