German Secret Weapons in WW2 

Let me know if you’ve visited Kuno II or any other site with the ME262 or even seen one of the post war ME262’s flying!

"Rations were doubled from one slice of bread to two slices . . . “ What an extraordinarily revealing statement that was. WOW! Another excellent video Jon.

I have seen stories of these jets, but never footage of them. Anazing video you did here. Thank you

Very informative and tragic story. Thanks for sharing. Are you going to peenemunde?

I had no idea, very interesting.

Another excellent video. Brings home the people who were forced to build the Me 262. I am about the finish the book "A Higher Call". I am at the part where they are trying to fly the few Me 262s against the far too many bombers and fighters attacking their base in Bavaria and bombing cities nearby. They only had a few operational jets. It does mention that workers were finding ways to sabotage the jets..

I enjoy the huge variety of subjects and the aerial footage.

The poor souls who starved to death building the world’s first jet fighter

My Opa was a Luftwaffe He111 Pilot and was shot down in August 1944 over Russia. He survived along with his one other of his crew. The third crew member did not. My Opa was injured and during his convalescence they had him flying aircraft from their assembly areas to the units that were receiving the aircraft. This included the Me262 which my Opa loved and said it flew as easy as a Cesna. I checked his log book and he doesnt have an entry from Kuno. He flew a few different airplanes like the Bf109, Arado234, Do157, Ju52. He spent 10 years in a Soviet prison camp after the war with Erich Hartmann, the highest Ace Germany had. After he got out of prison he returned to Austria and then brought the family to America in the early 60's. He was shocked to learn of the holocaust and other barbarism that Germany committed during the war and for the rest of his life he never could understand how he and so many of his countrymen were duped by Hitler and how so few Germans knew the full extent of what was happening in their name. Anyway, I just wanted to take an opportunity to tell his story. I appreciate your videos as always!

The prisoners who worked there are to be remembered just like a soldier on the front line. We will remember them.

Walderwrke - KUNO I was untouched until a raid on 18 November 1944 caused slight damage, resulting in the setting up of KUNO II south of the original Kuno Waldwerk. German pages mention it. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Slave labour used in both sites. You used the word chilling. I agree.

The Me 262 was already pressed into service too soon . Galland was mainly responsible for the myth of saying it could have been earlier and adding bombs delayed it . Shortages of materials and skilled labour and pilots prevented it being viable in 1945 . Though of course technically it was 100 mph faster in level flight

thanks for the nice historical video. my dad flew in B26 bombers 323bg of the 9th airforce so aviation is interesting to me. his group was actually attacked by me262 planes on a couple of occasions. thank you Larry

I have had this place marked on Google Maps for quite a while now, and I stopped by there today for a visit on my way home to the Heidelberg area! This evening I found your video, which was a bit of a coincidence. As you indicated, there isn't so much to see apart from some building foundations, however just to visit and stand in these locations is fascinating.

Fascinating but chilling. I appreciate the work, the amount of travelling and the effort you are putting into the production of these videos, which are bringing history to life. You have a like and a new subscriber. Will you be covering British and Canadian actions in NW Europe? I only ask as most if not all of the videos I have watched thus far have focussed on US involvement. Whatever the subject, keep up the good work!

It's crazy how the earth reclaims itself in such a short time

Шикарная мастерская!!👍

Another Outstanding video and presentation.

Brilliant episode. We lived in Munich in the mid eighties and didn’t know this site existed

This is like the King Tiger they were built one of the reasons they broke down so much as they were built by these people who made sure that they broke down. Even against such bad conditions they still did what they could, we owe as much to them just like the soldiers who died there.

great vid

Please add link

My father was in a sister camp of Kuno at Muhldorf. This factory near Dachau was much more extensive and was also building Me-262. My father is now 97 and in good health. Here is part of his story. : Another daybreak, and the Nazis again asked for volunteers. Dad raised his hand and marched off with some others to the trains. That day he was taken to Muldorf and put to work building an underground airport. The Germans hoped to create a landing strip that could be naturally shielded in the thick forest it rested in. He was tasked with lugging giant boulders on his back to assigned locations. Why use Burros or wheel barrels when you have disposable Jews? One afternoon he was hauling another fifty-pound sack of sand onto the top of the bunker. He followed the instructions of a Nazi soldier leading the way, but as he climbed, Gabe noted that the soldier had taken a slight detour to give himself a smoke. As Dad reached the uppermost pinnacle, he saw a great vantage point from the edge of the stone building. It was at that moment he decided to share his good fortune. He approached the rim and spotted a chubby, obviously well-fed Nazi just below. Dad dug deep under his shirt, near his sweaty armpit and collected as many Lice as he could, he took another look around, making sure he wasn’t spotted, then opened his hand and allowed the Lice to fall like tiny itchy flakes of snow. He hoped that they would land on target and infest the S.O.B’s who stood below him. Aspirations for the completion of the airport were scrapped when the American and British fighting planes began constantly appearing in the sky. The Germans quickly decided they needed to eliminate all these possible witnesses. They couldn’t take their Jews back to Dachau as it had since been liberated, so they loaded them back onto the train and tried to head to a still large and dense forest that could accommodate the number of Jews they had to dispose of, but the tracks had been bombed. They didn’t know what to do with them so they just left them in those cars for three days. Some of the Nazi abandoned their posts, and everyone spilled out when the prisoners inside the car cracked the door open wide enough for a body to slide through. He moved to LA, and the rest is history. It is a good thing the Allies pushed the war faster. The Me-262 was a great aircraft and could have reversed the tide if enough had been produced. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pCxCflBOVcc.html

I was first exposed to the horrors of the holocaust when I was a kid at Fort Bragg. After our church mass on post, a documentary was shown showing the unvarnished facts- I was only 7 I had nightmares for a long time. I must thank the chaplains for giving me great empathy.

Has there been any interviews from people that were building these weapons

Maybe sometime you could research possible location of missing American airmen who went MIA

Poignent -desperation last gasp of a noble nation -sad that it came to this -When bad men get the riens-good people follow -sad -

i suppose nothing remains underground to see...

German Invention- Magnetic Tape dont forget that!

The Schwalbe was flawed but deadly in equal measure.

Using slave labor on sophisticated Weapon systems was problematic for the Germans due to sabotage a oily rag stuffed into a aircraft engine could and did cause catastrophic failure on mission. German U Boat construction was also hampered significantly due to slave labor, sabotage with fatal consequences to all on board for a submerged U Boat. The Soviet Union also used millions of slave workers 1.5 Million Poles for example. However the Soviets didn’t have to use slave labourers for Soviet weapons production as this industry was moved East well out of range of German Bombing.