Battle of Britain - You can call me "Meier" 

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.

Stupid thing to say, what was his point.

😂

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

Classic comeback

Avenida libertados, San Sebastián Spain

Really quite interesting

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...

@@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.

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

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

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

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

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

@@StephenKershaw1 snowflake

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

He preferred a relaxed fit.

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.

@@nirmallyochakraborty1983 Power and Wealth always attract women.

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

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

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.

And blow up the hangar at Duxford

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

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

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

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

The actual quote said "Reich territory".

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

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

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.

@Robo Redneck and the v-1s

Ich lass euch alle über den Kanal schwimmen

But you're deaf

@@comradeskeever1336 shut up fuck face.

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.

That myth was debunked decades ago.

Rasputin thought it meant he was a dick lol.

He actually used to be a fighter pilot in WW1.

​@@thevoid5503and then he let himself go

Hardly.

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

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

Lucky one 😭😭😭😭

*If an allied plane flies over the Ruhr

@@rick7424 *if an enemy bomber

Hermann Meier*

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.

@@garyseeseverything8615 100 % wrong

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

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

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

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?

@@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.

Ron Goodwin actually

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!

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.

its a common english proverb as well

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

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

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

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".

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

genau,und ich spreche Deutsch.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

@@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."

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

@@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.

@@MarsFKA After 20 years.

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

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

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

They used the audio of the actual speech.

@@rick7424 Link?

Aces High March

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

No one does…

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."

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

jermster17 🤨

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

@@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.

Talk about too little too late.

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

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.

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

+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 .

Railway stations.

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

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

@@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.

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...

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.

shes SS.....

Oh ok well I don't think the ss had any women did it?

some people would find SS women a sexual fantasy probably, gawd

Tom Cloke what? she is still a women regardless of the uniform.

Pretty actress...I'd say "extra" but she did speak ;)

The Germans could never win no matter what.

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

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

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

We might have 40 ish Spitfires by then flying

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

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

@@wishbonedressing thanks!

@@flavio136 Sure thing

Another creation of the British Genius, Sir Barnes Wallis.

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

😁

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.

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.

Great orators have moved large groups of people throughout history. Hitler was no different from a Demosthenes, a Caesar, a Napoleon, or a Trump. All they needed was an audience angry, vengeful, and stupid enough to take what they have to say at first blush. Sorry, I thought you knew. But thanks for posting.