Flak Tower (Now Hard Rock Hotel) from WWII in Germany 💣 Still Standing - Teach a Man to Fish 

6:32 For a second I thought it said "Führer Festival".

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It’s quite depressing how much European history was lost because of World War II...

in Wien, Österreich wurde einer in einen aquazoo "Haus des Meeres" umgebaut

Looks like this tower would be outta nazi zombies

Wow and you survived?!

@@panzervalkyrie9299 No, he died!

Thank you for your Gaming Service!

@@homefront3162 Just doing my part.

@@panzervalkyrie9299 Yes Mate, the closest thing to reality this poor delusional fool gets is when his mummy changes his nappy. LOL

Long after we are gone too.

In vienna you will find 3 towers 2 of them still intact. One is a police HQ xD and one a maritime museum ..they say they tried to demo them but it was impossible to break it down.. some parts of the concrete where still wet even 60years after construction.. these things will survive at least another 💯 years..

jak dbasz to masz.

They lasted longer than the Nazis!!!

@@IFist iam sorry to tell you... Nazis still exist... Not the regime though.. but nazis are still among us.. in france, austria,germany.. even israel.. it is so sad that you cant get rid of the idiology...

Agreed, and built to a purpose.

Imagine a "Mad Max style" after then end scenario movie/tv series about a community making use of one of thease as a fortress base.

Ugly monstrosities.

Germany suffered a great deal of needless destruction.... and the purposeful targeting of the civilian population.

@@robertrishel3685 these places would have been well used after the war

Thanks for the input, very interesting.

Poor instinct people 😕

😢

lol no one cares. its germany. I simply have a strong hatred for germans completely unrelated to the war.

The people cruelly murdered in their millions mattered more than bricks and mortar. The bierkellers were recreated, the bone ash in the fields didn’t come back to life.

I’ve been there twice, and I agree.

dont' forget your prayer-rug

Many things changed since then. But, you are always welcome, here!

I was there for 3 years in the mid 90’s in the Army myself in Ansbach. I will go back one day to visit. What part were you in? I was there from 95-98.

@@bigdaddy7119 NO SHIT, LIVED IN ANSBACH WORKED IN KATTERBACH. 67 t 10. sorry caps

Why? The failed to protect the city and it`s people. Waste of tax money. All what is left of the third Reich needs to be destroyed.

@@ikelevermann3376 Thats foolish. Art and Architecture from that time period should be preserved. If you erase history, you have nothing to learn from. If you see it that way, every piece of religion has to be destroyed too, every church and cathedral since the church commited horrible crimes too.

@@ikelevermann3376 destroying them would waste more tax money than to use them as something else.

@@fimbulwinter-outdoor true. agree on that. preserve for educational, historical & a reminder that something has happened & people from past & future should learn lessons from it.

@@ikelevermann3376 imagine wasting more tax money because it Was a waste of tax money Edit: besides they DID protect the people as a bomb/Air raid proof hospital

Two of the three in Berlin were torn down by the victors.

I found that too during the editing.

Are those repurposed as well or preserved and able to be entered?

@@TeachaMantoFish only the one located at Heußweg 114, 20255 Hamburg has been cutopen and repurposed. The other ones are just there rotting away (it will take ages I guess). The one in th Flora Park is now a rock climbing wall. The other ones I remember are in Vienna. One it is now an Aquarium (Haus des Meeres) and the other ones are in Augarten also rotting away.

I’d love to a video tour if them all. Maybe someday....

Great American import...

To be honest with the liberal socialists in charge in Germany now it’s lucky they haven’t demolished it. They will certainly never restore them. Sad really. Great part of history. And before any snowflake cries about my comment my great uncle was a navigator in a RAF Wellington bomber in WW2 that went missing over Holland , in total I had 5 close family relatives fight in Allied combat roles WW2.

idk man defacing shit nazis made sounds based to me

@@joaoribeiro2688 remember not everyone in that time was a nazi most of the people were forced to do things

@@germanmemer1434true, but the people responsible for operating the flak towers were most definitely nazis

Wow!

Those kind of lifts are called "Paternoster" in german. They were wide spread in multi storey houses until the 70th. New Safety regulations from this time reduced them in Hamburg to only two left they are now under monument protection.

I've heard that too, fascinating. I agree that nobody wants to build anything that lasts forever any more, then it doesn't have to be replaced. We could build a motor that lasted 100 years, but that's just once sale in a lifetime. Better to sell you a new car every 10 years.

Glad you liked it.

Germany tries its hardest to delete this part of their history.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

It was built with slave labour, think on that.

😂😂😂

Happy that their building will be used forever and their engineering lasts

@@thearmoredgeorgian2736 It's actually a very interesting thought...buildings that last forever. one would wonder why all structures are not built in this kind of collective resource style. They do cost an arm and a leg...but they last forever....they will stand longer than the pyramids...but they do cost an arm and a leg.

I agree, they shouldn't be wasted.

😂😂😂😂. and withstand it

Thanks! I always wanted to show the inside of one to you all.

The information I read said that these were constructed in close proximity of 3 buildings, one of which was the fire control for the reasons you state above.

at 1:20 you can really see the linked radar tower in the background. I believe that image actually came from Berlin.

In fact, when he made that video, I was still living there. I worked just on the other side of the street of those statues. Man I get all melancholic seeing these places.

That's why I used it LOL

That would fetch a pretty penny.

I agree, totally out of place but an interesting building and history.

Interesting

I cannot Chang it now. You weren’t the only one to say that. I liked it for the ominous sound of it. The thing is ominous to me. I can’t help that’s how it makes me feel.

And he was almost to the building, then in a park, then approaching it far away from a different direction...

Tactical blunder for sure.

Pretty much the last of its kind, as the concept of bomb-proof fortified above-ground buildings is pretty pointless now given things like precision guided bunker busters.

I’d love to see those too.

@@TeachaMantoFish me and my mates went up into one to the topmplatform once

@@welshwarlock8737 too cool!

No need for structural insurance here, cant think of anything short of a nuclear bomb literally landing on it could damage it.I think, I could be wrong it would be still intact at a half mile radius of one.Some future civilizations archeological enigma. Alternately they could be filled with our known history completely sealed up as a time capsule for a future civilization but properly sealed up, not like the half ass job the Egyptians made of the pyramids.

Thank you for your service

Several people have mentioned the video game mission. Did the insides look the same?

@@TeachaMantoFish The top where the guns are was nearly identical. It was the first gen tower, the really big ones before the materials dwindled. I don't remember finding a spiral staircase like that. It looks really out of place to me. In the video the inside appears to have been renovated somewhat compared to what the game showed. (the elevator and shops) But for the most part yes it looked exactly as shown.

😂😂😂

Having fought in a war myself, most of the people doing the killing or dying are just doing what they’re told to do. Gif I wish the war decision makers had to be the first ones in to the battlefields or into the cockpits. I felt bad for my “enemy” during the war, they didn’t stand a chance and they were just doing the bidding of the higher ups.

@@TeachaMantoFish Wow , thankyou for replying Sir yes you do have a point I for one would not like to be on the receiving end of that tower while holding a Lanc / B17 ..are you going back to get up into the turret area ?

@@burningb2439 someday, I want to see more towers too.

@@TeachaMantoFish Hope you do and let us know about it Thanks .

The USA never invaded Japan either........until after the Japanese surrendered.

ja damit hast du recht das sind krasse gebaude es gibt noch einige in Berlin Aber einige zerstört einige als wohnungen umgewandelt

@@lu77xiaojun37 And the Dodgers didn't beat the Rays in Game 7 of the World Series. It's also not true. Okinawa was definitely Japan, considered one of the home islands, conquered 400 years ago, and annexed 150 years ago.

@@lu77xiaojun37 maybe not the main islands, but still the smaller japanese islands like Okinawa.

Every anti air gunner's dream is to face ground targets

Wow I didn’t know that, it’s quite impressive how long these structures can last with the weather conditions in Finland.

@@MrDerya94 indeed, my hometown germans build "officers club" in 1941. Now Its use to weddings and other stuff. City oulu was main harbour in finland when they maintenence troops in lapland.

@@mampe8898 dam that’s really cool it’s still used for better purposes. Feel really sorry and bad for what happened back in the 30-40’s but we had the same “enemy” the red army. The finish people kicked their ass especially the White Death marksman alias Simon Häyhä. He’s a legend in the western world !

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@@MrDerya94 here is the video off officers club. 🙂🙂 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Hietasaari_Railway_Bridge_Oulu_20160214.jpg And here is the bridge what i was telling 🙂🙂

I agree. They’re great pieces of history. Would you tear down the colosseum because Romans made slaves fight to the death in it

@@gabrielmcguoirk6106 - someone will want to now. Don’t give them any more ideas! Some knuckle head in the us has started calling for the removal remove Abe Lincoln statues because he didn’t specifically fight for the freedom of slaves during the American civil war

I was in Duesseldorf. High rise bunkers and flak towers cannot be demolished. The cannot be blown up, it would destroy entire neighborhoods. There is one near the main R.R.Station. Another near a tram line into town. That one has fake windows and window boxes with fake flowers painted on it.

I’ll have whatever pill John Smith has just swallowed 😳

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Lol stupid liberal socialist morons 😂😂

@@panzervalkyrie9299 and what did you smoke today?

We have people in America who think if you blow it up or destroy it, then you've changed history .

Agreed

automatic?

holy smokes they were automatic?!

@@gavins9846 only if the soldiers are fast enough :v

*12.8 cm ;)

Vielen Dank für die Info. Grüßen aus Holland.

@@mardiffv.8775 👍😺🏔🐝🇦🇹🛶🥨🍺👍

The VOEST was the former Hermann-Göring-Werke

@@andreasmann8956 Exactly

Und wo wäre der am Voest Gelände ??? Noch nie gesehen......

Yeah, german civil engineering

The Berlin Zoo tower I believe

Amazing structures for sure

Unfortunately when your castle is surrounded in a siege, you do tend to run out of food before you run out of a defensible position.

The Kommandant of the Humbolthain tower, pulled the pin on a grenade, rather than surrender. When you tour the tower today, they point out the marks on the wall from the grenade.

Well, they have started to built a tiny park on top of it and ramps for visitors around. And no, not all Germans have learned from history. As you can see from the ones voting for AfD. And in the very special case of the bunker-"make-up"-deal you have another great example how top capitalists just bypass democratic structures. There were lots of brilliant ideas from the quarters around the bunker how to use/and to change it. They were ignored and now we get the "gardens of Babylon". Annyoyed regards from hamburg, Germoney

Basically the German government feels it would be too costly and too difficult to demolish them.

@@arnonuhm4022 it's okay, not all Americans have learned from history either, democrats literally were the party of slavery and no one sees how their chains bind with mental slavey now. Many Americans also support neo communist agendas even though we've seen time and time again the failures of it.

I vote for the AfD 😊😊🙌✌️

@@arnonuhm4022 People who vote AfD learning from history, people who vote the other political parties believe the history who is written by the winners. They can not learn from this bullshit history and condemned to repeat it and they deserve it !

indeed.

Surrender was sometimes not as funny, as someone might think...The Flakturm nearby my home village nearby Berlin was overrun and surrendered.....it was one of the small towers of the C-type, with a radar device. About 120 civilian persons and about 20 soldiers and firefighters took shelter from the artilery fire in this tower until the Red Army arrives. As the tower was reached by Soviet self propelled guns, they opened fire at every floor regardless of the white flag at the entrance. After that bombardment, the remains of the "defenders" stumbled out and were executed, for whatever reason, at the spot. There is still a little cementary with the massgrave of that poor souls only a few yards away. On this picture, you can see, what 122mm concrete shells did to the tower. www.teamdochnoch.de/MIXED/news/feb05/050220_IMG_5810.jpg

@Jonathon Coffey No, anti-concrete....:)

@@mikeromney4712 You are correct. My uncle served in the SS. And his uncle served in the Wehrmacht. And my father, their brother-in-law, served in Third Armored. My uncle told me that at wars end he and his squad headed for American lines trying to surrender to the Americans. I didn't understand. He said, ''We were SS. They would shoot us on the spot.'' War is f*cked up as hell. Peace, it's good karma.

@Jonathon Coffey , perhaps a HE round. AP wouldn’t be the right thing to use .

if we could capture, through her eyes, what she saw, what she witnessed. that generation. here in the UK we call them THE GREATEST GENERATION.

For real?? Damn

@@gittevandorst620 yes, many women did the aiming, range finding etc.

Really? Wow!

@@davidmarshall1259 truly? of my grands one manned spotlights and the other fought in Asia. I had another great uncle captured in Italy. I am pretty sure all three would have called the flak gunners nazis.

The brits were responsible for the terrible bombing of Hamburg so they weren't exactly loved in Hamburg. The people of Hamburg hoped for the Americans but would have literally taken anyone over the Russians.

You reap what you sow

@@haydenskilton Thanks for one of the dumbest responders on the net. What are the faults of the children and other civilians who suffered from it. Please think first, then respond.

@@duke6321 Are you talking about the Children and Civilians of London, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool or Coventry?

@@andyt3304 Bombing civilians is a crime. On every side of the north sea. "Bomber-Harris" was a warcriminal too, not only the german military...

Tokyo might have looked worse cuz most of the city was made of wood

I went looking for someone else saying this 😂

Yes, thank you. Most of these amateur WWII historians are really just Nazi Germany historians. 🙄 "OMG Tiger (sploosh)"

I'm sorry, but these towers were generally avoided by both ground and air forces as they were deemed, too great a hassle to attack. These towers never really saw much action and stood as more of a deterrent. Any allied planes that flew over would have been swiftly annihilated, any ground forces did not have the firepower to eliminate these chunks of stone. A 122mm HE Naval shell from an IS-2 was shot at it and the report stated it had "unobservable damage" 12.8cm, 8.8cm flak on the towers could be angled down to hit ground troops. It was just so much hassle, an unnecessary amount of lives lost and would be a very grueling siege to take these buildings, that everyone took every chance they could to avoid these towers.

@@chaoticroderick1805 No they were not. You cant avoid them. WW2 bomber plains were not able to launch precision bombardments that would make that possible. If they would have actually avoided the fire ring range of these towers, neather Hamburg nor Berlin would have ever been bombed in WW2. Bombers had to be directly above the target while the flag towers could shoot the area of the entre city with no problem. Bomber formations had to enter the flag tower range and killing field to even drop their bombs. It was the most critical part of any bombardment. Why do you think these towers were build to survive heaviest bombardment with no problem= Because they were in the center of allied bomardment. If you just wanted an elevated aa position you could build it ouside of the city on a hill or make more makeshift buildings. There was a reason the germans put so many ressources in constructing these towers. They were supposed to be at the best spott to disrupt and shoot down allied planes while beeing able to survive any bombing run with no problem. A bomber formation could evade to a certain degree the flag defenses, but the last mile it has to go streight and hold formation to actually hit its target. That would be the area where the flag towers provided the defenders with the best possible flag barrage. These towers were unavoidable if you wanted to bomb the city they were in. On ground forces, you are partially right. The towers could be isolated and simply be closely surrounded, because the alavation of the guns made it impossible to actuallyshhot anythign close to the bunker. What the soviets werent able to do though was to breach the heavy walls and doors to properly assault it. They were definitly not avoided though, because if you avoid them you cant conquer the city they are placed in. Their fireing range in the battle of berlin coverted a huge amount of the city. It was more along the lines of ignoring the fire from the towers and just moving on and regulary suppres the towers defenders on top with small arms or artillery fire. The people on top were not very well protected after all. Once the towers ran out of ammo they were just bunkers and observation points for the germans.

@@noobster4779 literally not at the center of bombardment at all, their locations were known, and everything was done to avoid them to the best of their ability, they weren't targets or at the center of it all, the rings weren't perfect, there were spaces in the air they could not reach, that's why other anti air positions were set up as well, to cover areas not covered by the flak towers.

@@noobster4779 and again, rarely ever were these towers even attacked or suppressed by ground forces, it was seen at a waste of resources and men to try to take these towers.

@Dianne Flabbot those palm tress up top may be an indicator of something going on....

Drone flight could be restricted there. In germany flying drones is pretty restricted.

Looks like the Night club is on the lower level of the roof. Oder? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oTb5AnhtJeY.html

Good now tell them to leave tge natsoc stuff alone too. Y'all had hitler overthrown and now you 2 generation from Islamic takeover what BS trade

@@ROOSTER333 keep your Islamophobia for yourself.

@@user-ld6jz8rv7i fuck Islam and the donkey it rode in on.

@@ROOSTER333 relax, there will be no takeover. not by any theocracy, nor any other fascist movement.

And we still do like every damn day

i absolutely agree. we have the problem here in the UK at the moment where the snowflakes want to rip away all the past. a very shortsighted argument. whether it was right or wrong, what our ancestors did has shaped our today. NEVER erase history. i personally think we should thoroughly embrace our history, on either side of the pond.

@@davidmarshall1259 It's Not about erasing History. There's a giant difference between remembering and honoring. A Statue of an Warcriminal isn't History, it's honoring. A Public place named after a Slaver is a sign of honoration, not a worthy sign for an advanced Nation where the former enslaved people have become free members. Yes, we have to discuss all of these things. We live in a street called after Karl von Einem. This was later changed because people like this should be remembered, but shouldn't be honored.

@@davidmarshall1259 The intent to to erase your history is not on the snowflakes account. They are just the useful idiots who actually go out and do it. The snowflakes will not be the ones benefitting from anything. When everything is sad and done, their "leadership" will simply dispose them off because they have become either useless or even dangerous to them. It has happened before and it will happen again.

Swastikas and all things nazi are illegal in Germany.

Dresden bombing - between 60 and 100,000 civilians killed in one night and following day

I think you are likely correct.

How about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

@Ken Shearson Same result, however, worse.

@@stigpalm1922 I didn’t consider those but yeah I see they do actually list them as firebombings but I’m still sure that Tokyo was considered the worst firebombing of ww2 .

@Ken Shearson Correct.

Agreed, that would be an interesting topic. Although bunker movies seem kind of trapped to me.

@@TeachaMantoFish you could have a lot of the action on the roof

@@mikhailv67tv in the nightclub? 😂

128 mm

They should have bought the copyright for nazi theme movies

Well people will talk about the nazis in a thousand years, they were THE major player to change europe forever, without any chance of reversal. Actually 1914-1945 will be seen as one time period, a melodramatic name could be "the death of europe" or smt along those lines, and it would be true because the first world war destroyed the old world and killed millions, draining everyones economy dry. The 2nd World war however sealed the fate, millions upon millions dead and the contient is a smoldering ruin, never to recover fully. Post ww2 the americans marshall plan'd the euros into obedient capitalist puppets and the soviets turned the eastern euros into obedient communist puppets. Nowadays the EU is a joke, our culture is dying and people celebrate it

Only was to survive is to destroy Chinese communists

Copypasta because OP can't see links. For the rest of you here's good images and writeups. cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/ww2/projects/firebombing/websitemenu.htm The city of Hamburg already had ‘good’ conditions for the rapid spread of fire. A heat wave from the summer of 1943 heat wave had dried out much of the city and surrounding plant growth. Hamburg was Germany’s most important industrial center, as well as the largest seaport in Europe. The allies used the “Window” to bomb Hamburg without counterattack or anti-aircraft losses. This technique consisted of dropping foil strips out of the window of the planes, which would confuse the Germans’ early radar. On July 24, 9PM the allies bombed Hamburg with high explosive, incendiary, phosphorous and napalm bombs. The resulting firestorm was so powerful that buildings would have flames reaching over 20 feet high. ‘With hurricane force, 150 mile per-hour winds were sucked into the oxygen vacuum created by the fire, ripping trees out by their roots, collapsing buildings, pulling children out of their mothers' arms. Twenty square miles of the city centre burned in an inferno that would rage for nine full days. … The temperature in the firestorm reached 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit. There was no oxygen to breathe; whatever was flammable burst spontaneously into flame.’[1] Effects: The Royal Air Force alone sent 3,000 bombers in 4 raids on Hamburg, dropping 9,000 tons of bombs. Affected 22 sq km, 8.5 sq m Killed estimated 44,600 civilians, 800 servicemen (60k-100k according to the US bomber survey) Half the city ruined (some accounts over 60%), 2/3 remaining population evacuated - almost 1 million homeless Mostly affected civilian population, nonetheless 580 industrial centers damaged/destroyed 1.8 months of the city’s output. Normal output was never fully recovered, at best output recovered to 80% five months later. Fire-fighting (obviously) helpless Hamburg Before the Fire Raids No air defense because of WINDOW Dresden was a much more controversial target for civilian-affecting bombing than Hamburg because, to almost all accounts, it really wasn’t industrial at all-such a cultural epicenter, in fact, that it was called “Elbflorenz,” or Florence of the Elbe. (Wikipedia[1] notes that dedicated factories for gunsights, radar and electronics, anti-aircraft shells’ fuses, gas masks, aircraft engines, cockpit parts were located in Dresden or in suburbs; Germany’s claim of ‘no industry’ is almost entirely accepted though.) There was much war strategy surrounding the bombing of Dresden, implicit and explicit. The Allies were to ‘take advantage of the recently launched Soviet offensive westwards from the Vistula and add to the growing chaos in Germany by disrupting the flow of refugees fleeing in the face of the Soviet attack. At the same time, the western Allies wished to demonstrate to the Soviets at the forthcoming Yalta conference that they were giving them the support of their heavy bombers, and, indeed, at Yalta the Soviets specifically requested help in this form.’[2] The demonstration of strength for the Soviets would also have the benefit of eliminating Germany’s communications center to its Eastern front, noted by Churchill. In Early 1945, Dresden was crammed full of refugees fleeing westward from Red Army moving eastward from Russia. Firebomb attacks would “create confusion in the evacuation from the east” and “hamper the movements of troops from the west,” and the ensuing chaos might impede the German military.[3] On the night of 13th February, the Allies bombed Dresden in two waves, three hours apart. Only six bombers were shot down, as German air defenses were weak. The first round of bombing consisted of high explosives, which would expose wooden frames of buildings. The second, incendiary round would ignite everything around it. 1,478 tons of high explosives and 1,182 tons of incendiary bombs (as much as 3,907 total, according to some sources) were dropped by 796 RAF bombers in the first attack. US sent between 317 and 527 bombers to continue on Feb 14th. Estimates of those killed vary from 35,000-135,000 (unsure partly because of the refugees in Dresden at the time) Created a self-sustaining firestorm, over 1500 degrees. Of 28,410 houses in central Dresden, 24,866 were destroyed. 15 sq km totally demolished-of which there were: 14k homes, 72 schools, 22 hospitals, 19 churches, 5 theaters, 50 banks, 31 dept stores, 31 hotels, 62 administrative buildings. Aftermath: Moral dilemma Off the record, the Allies had fully intended to bomb the German population, and prevent the dispersal relief supplies. Churchill response, who had supported the operation, said “the destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing.” Many Germans did not know the truth about the firebombing of Dresden until decades later. The reason for this is that the Nazi propaganda machine, in its incessant effort to convince the German public of imminent victory, never released accurate facts or pictures of Dresden. The scene in Dresden was immortalized by Kurt Vonnegut, a captured American soldier, in his novel Slaughterhouse Five.

I'm glad you got something out of it. I made this video 2 years ago, crazy how it is taking off just now.

@@TeachaMantoFish I know right? :-) The power of RU-vid's suggestion alghoritms is a mistery that can bring out some treasures like yours... Did you change some tag lines or what? Anyway, great tour, pity you couldn't get on the top.

@@LoftBits nope. The only thing I can think is that it’s almost exactly 2 years to the day.

The Germans were hitting London pretty hard don’t forger.

@@jimsheldonswe7846 And it was called a war crime so why when yhe allies did the exactsame thing, it isn't called the same ? In France our city suffered more from the allies bombing than the german occupation.

@@Comissar_Carolus so you were sad to see the Germans go eh? Well a whole lot of Frenchmen were not. You can tell that by the films of people greeting the soldiers as they were liberating the towns. I guess the French themselves had their own way of taking care of the people who wanted the Germans to stay.

@@jimsheldonswe7846 I won't even respond to you... I just said that our monument and cities suffered more with the allies than with the germans.

@ASCALON Stop listening to anglo-saxon propaganda please and read a bit. WWI had litteraly wiped out an entire generation of people and scared for life the others. They did not want another war but when the time came in 1939. There was plenty of soldiers who gladly volonteered. Both for the British and French, the funny war undermine the moral of the soldiers and do not forget that there was lot of communist in France. Stalin ordered them to sabotage industries and undermine even more the moral of the French soldiers. The soldiers fought valiantly but the generals were figthing with outdated strategy. Plus when the politician asked for an armistice. They asked the soldiers to stop the fighting BUT the germans took their time to respond to gain more territory in France. It's in that period of time than the germans made themost prisoner, because the French were told by their generals to stop any resistance. Near Lyon the French did not listen to that order and stopped the germans from aadvancing in the south of France while they were fighting against the italians in the Alp ! I don't know why I'm trying to expain history to some morons who believe everything they read on internet...

Operation Meetinghouse was the most destructive bombing raid ever conducted. Killed somewhere around 100k Japanese civilians.

@@brysonflettmc According to a Swiss historian, the bombing raid on Dresden took anything between 350k to 500k lives, as the city was packed to the brim with refugees from Silesia. The rais was deliberately directed at civilians, makiking murderers out of those British and US pilots who participated in the raid. Churchill, Harris and Roosvelt are as much war criminals as Hitler and his cronies.

Actually it was Tokyo

Hamburg was fire bombed unlike Dresden which was hit by high explosives.

@@bluebear6570 you do realise those pilots weren't told what they were bombing right there is interviews of British pilots saying when they found out what they had done they regretted it.