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Sources:
Dunning, Brian (January 17, 2012). "Skeptoid #293: Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons". Skeptoid.
Neufeld, Michael (13 April 2020). "The Myth of the German "Wonder-Weapons"". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
"The German Space Mirror". Life Magazine: 78. July 23, 1945.
Tooze, Adam (2007). The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. London: Penguin.
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@TheArmchairHistorian Год назад

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@pharthasa Год назад

Probably wont

@Knockee Год назад

How does your comment say 20 hours ago if the video came out three seconds ago??? Edit: Is there something you’re not telling us?

@LavaCreeperPeople Год назад

What were German "Wonder Weapons?" | Animated History

@Pacific12 Год назад

I am playing right now. And now Poland is defending against Yugoslavia, France and Germany

@PotatoSalad614 Год назад

Germany: We have a rocket fighter plane that can shoot down an allied bomber in seconds Allies: We have 3000 more bombers

@19ate4 Год назад

It’s crazy to me that the Democrats allied with the USSR after they overthrew and started a insurrection, in Russia and murdered its royal family Democrats have never been on the right side of history from slavery to joining overthrown interactions and abortion

@christineshotton824 Год назад

That's it in a nutshell. Also, while having small numbers of advanced types, Germany badly neglected general force modernization. At the end of WWII most German infantry had to walk wherever they went, never having been fully motorized. They were still using bolt action rifles. They were still using horse drawn artillery. The list goes on and on. Outfitting every German soldier with a STG-44 would have done more for the German war effort than every V-2 IRBM combined. Building enough trucks to transport German troops and logistical supplies would have helped the war effort more than every King Tiger tank combined. Etc, etc.

@dolantho Год назад

@@PotatoSalad614 nah poland was coo, russia wasn’t.

@bluebubbadog2080 Год назад

@dylanbillingsmrclean Russia would have just invaded Germany then, Germany still loses

@estradadavilafernandojavie8684 Год назад

@@christineshotton824 ok let's say that instead of building tanks like the tiger they began to motorize their logistics and army now tell me what fuel would they move with? That is why the Wehrmacht used horses or moved on foot since all the fuel went to planes, ships and tanks.

@alexfilma16 Год назад

Steiner’s wonder weapons will solve everything.

@yurikovRUKR762 Год назад

Mein Fuhrer, Steiner...

@RoyalThaiArmyCadet Год назад

This comment gon blow up

@RoyalThaiArmyCadet Год назад

Mark my words

@balabanasireti Год назад

Lazy reference

@bman6065 Год назад

A hammer isn't cutting edge technology.

@alex_spartan1805 Год назад

The V2 rocket, the STG-44, and ME 262 jet fighter were probably the best weapon platforms created by the "wonder" weapon program.

@shadiafifi54 Год назад

StG-44 and Me262, yes. The latter could have used a bit more development time and focus as an aerial superiority fighter rather than a fighter-bomber. The V-2? Great idea, horribly poor execution.

@GoranXII Год назад

@@shadiafifi54 Well the V2 was a fine piece of equipment, but even the best weapon in the world isn't going to do much if you're relying on the enemy to tell you if it actually works!

@OscarOSullivan Год назад

Jet fighters, missiles and assault rifles didn’t make an impact then but were the future

@me-262gamingluftwaffememin2 Год назад

Amen fellow packer fan

@joshuaevans6295 Год назад

The ME 262 didn't handle well; the materials for the jet engine had a tendency to burn up (the British Meteor, built at about the same time, was designed to avoid this problem). It was obviously the future but not practical given the technology. The V2 did absolutely nothing for the war. It killed a bunch of British civilians but had no military impact and ate up resources that could have been used for actually important hardware. Symptomatic of the Nazi approach to warfare, which prioritized ideological goals over actually fighting the war. The STG-44 seems pretty effective though.

@nbewarwe Год назад

Lies people tell themselves: "Just one more year, and I'll get that promotion" "Just one more lane, and we'll fix traffic" "Just one more wonder weapon, and we'll win the war"

@semiramisubw4864 Год назад

there were actually decent chances that it couldve been happening. Hortler wasnt a huge fan of the atomic program and reopened later. It could have been the tipping point if it wouldve suceed

@murkywateradminssions5219 Год назад

@@semiramisubw4864 nah, from what I've remembered, when the US went to look the Nazi Germany's nuclear program, they estimated that it would take them around 10 years to make a similar weapon to the small boy and fat man if every went as plan

@zivs2454 Год назад

@@semiramisubw4864 the possibility of a Nazi nuclear bomb in our world is none

@nbewarwe Год назад

@@semiramisubw4864 Proof of what I stated

@19ate4 Год назад

Just one more government to overthrow and we can have communism utopia “It’s ok to be white” is labeled as hate Just one more lie and we can convince the world that abortion saves lives and tranSEXual children is are future

@larrywong5793 Год назад

As a Der Reise veteran, the Wunderwaffe DG-2 really helped me. It was really a unique weapon

@SETTHENIGHTONFIYAHH Год назад

As a call of the dead player i agree

@spdfatomicstructure Год назад

I haven't got the chance to use it effectively because I haven't been lucky enough to pull it from the box and also because Der Riese doesn't have areas for me personally to easily train the zombies. But I've used the Thundergun in my last few games on Kino and Ascension, and it's immensely satisfying to see entire hordes being pulverised with one shot from a sonic weapon

@nethanlock5008 Год назад

@@spdfatomicstructuredude just get on the catwalk on Der Rise

@Andrew54123 Год назад

@@nethanlock5008 This is the only way

@genericwhitemale9566 Год назад

Well it has one major downside. If you hit yourself with it your juggernaut doesn't work anymore and you can't get it again until you go down and either quick revive yourself (which I'm pretty sure wasn't a thing in WAW) Or you get picked up by your team.

@attemptedunkindness3632 Год назад

"Sir, the Germans are finally after generations firing their Death Ray at us." **Is mildly inconvenienced by slightly brighter sunlight.** "Put my garden Petunias towards the north end of the garden, they need more light." "Yes, sir."

@cespu_iv4519 Год назад

They paved the way for some amazing stuff and they contributed to the Nazi's demise. 10/10

@chewyukechun350 Год назад

Only the Me 262 is good, the rest are useless.

@niminiminen2114 Год назад

@@chewyukechun350 The stg-44 wasn't the best, but it wasn't useless.

@spyj1900 Год назад

@@chewyukechun350 V1 rocket is also practical in a sense, however indiscreminate bombing against civilians in general is not as effective as it was percieved at that time thanks to all the effort that was done by all the government to mitigate the impact on moral.

@chewyukechun350 Год назад

@@spyj1900 A more pratical weapon would be a surface to air or air to air missles.

@dev6923-yd1tg Год назад

@@chewyukechun350 panzerfaust was the most effective and stg-44 also

@imsomewhatcertain1024 Год назад

History Channel depicts Nazi Germany’s “wonder weapons” as powerful tools that could’ve turned the tide of WW2. In reality, these “wonder weapons” would’ve been expensive and hard to repair; which is the main reason why most of these weapons never passed the prototype stage. The Tiger tanks were powerful, but the Nazis struggled with producing and supplying spare parts for the tank.

@Spongebrain97 Год назад

Yeah I remember it was sad seeing the history channel losing credibility with it's airing of stuff like that along with other dumb stuff

@imsomewhatcertain1024 Год назад

@@Spongebrain97 Ancient Aliens did the most damage to History Channel’s credibility.

@Ozz2021 Год назад

Also, oil. Can’t imagine tiger tanks were very fuel efficient

@GeneralLiuofBoston1911 Год назад

Growing up with the misconceptions from the History Channel was damaging to my understanding of history

@Wolf-wc1js Год назад

@@Ozz2021 yup, during the ending of the battle of the Bulge, the Germans had to abandon a lot of their tanks because of fuel shortages

@imbelgian8293 Год назад

He forgot to mention Dr Maxis and Edward Richthofen, both of them members of Group 935, working on teleportation, the wunderwaffe DG-2, and zombies.

@cjclark1208 Год назад

Cue badass rock music and zombie slaughter.

@guavamax420 Год назад

and Die Maschine

@Scotty_Hawkin 11 месяцев назад

Or haunebu

@maximilianj.gatsby5330 11 месяцев назад

Fun Fact: the Teleporter IS the Bell (die Glocke)

@flakitohdz30 11 месяцев назад

Don't forget the Ray Gun by Ludwig Maxis, a weapon based on the devices found in a Japanese Research Center.

@SionBarzhado 11 месяцев назад

I was personally a big fan of the Thundergun. Those Germans really pulled through for us Call Of Duty fans.

@flumpman5888 8 месяцев назад

☝️🤓 actually the thunder gun was made by the Russians

@logger22 7 месяцев назад

That was made by the Soviets

@_Sterdam Год назад

Tbh, Armchair Historian is one of the best channels on RU-vid. This feels like an actual TV show. Something i would see on the Documentary channels. Thanks for such great content!

@occam7382 Год назад

"Something i would see on the Documentary channels." But actually realistic this time around.

@_Sterdam Год назад

@@occam7382 indeed

@anasevi9456 Год назад

amen, more so his videos are actually pertinent to current events, rather than trash regurgitation based off of pure bagdad bob tier propaganda like most military focused speculative channels.

@ChairmanMeow1 Год назад

better than TV

@cjclark1208 Год назад

MidWesternMarx thinks otherwise, he just pushes the liberal narratives as usual but Stockholm syndrome runs strong with many.

@lisaruhm6681 Год назад

The Type XXI submarines could be interesting.

@noelblack8159 Год назад

yesss

@OscarOSullivan Год назад

The V 2 rockets were expensive, inaccurate, unreliable but were ahead of their time as missiles were the future of bombardment.

@nitinshaji7692 Год назад

Bangladesh war

@k1tsun386 Год назад

After WW2, the Stg 44 is still used especially in the hands of the Syrian rebels

@jack439 Год назад

so are other ww1 and ww2 weapons

@centurionoomae1543 Год назад

You mean ISIS.

@normaluser333 Год назад

WW1 Lebel rifles are still being used in Yemen

@samuelvimes5770 Год назад

and in Ukraine

@wetwillyis_1881 Год назад

If you ask RU-vid and Reddit, no the Wunder Waffen were not good. However, if you ask the History channel, they’re the greatest pieces of ET tech ever developed.

@TheTeremaster Год назад

In reality it's both. The luger is a perfect example, the thing is perfectly engineered and designed to the point where the original models could probably be tossed in an attic and then still functional today and was by far the best handgun of the era, but the immense amount of engineering and machining meant it was really useless in the terms of an actual war

@aslamnurfikri7640 Год назад

It's unfair to call V-1 and V-2 a failure while they had to develop the technology from scratch

@benl2140 Год назад

@@TheTeremaster If a piece of equipment isn't useful for the thing you need it for, then it really isn't "perfectly engineered".

@spiffygonzales5160 Год назад

@@benl2140 ...uh... Yea... it is. You can use a tractor for farming but still have a hundred year old axe in perfect quality. That'd be a perfectly engineered axe.

@benl2140 Год назад

@@spiffygonzales5160 Tools are made for a purpose. If a tool isn't suited for the purpose it was designed for, it isn't "perfectly engineered". It might be useful for some other purpose, but that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't meet the need it was designed to meet. If I ask you to make me a tool I can use to plow a field, and you end up making an axe, then that axe wasn't perfectly designed, no matter how good of an axe it is. Similarly, if a country is trying to make wepons to help it win a war, but those weapons require large amounts of resources that the country doesn't have access to, then those weapons aren't perfectly designed.

@chubbyninja89 Год назад

I can't get over how funny the the ridiculous thumbnail for this video is. I just love how Hitler is pulling back the curtain with a stupid grin on his face.

@jnlarge7244 Год назад

Call of Duty taught me the zombies ended their wonder weapon projects

@RobinNicoagain Год назад

I would add another interesting weapons study which was the mosquito experiments. They tried to get mosquitos to spread deadly diseases in the enemy lines but naturally they couldn't control them well enough to do anything so the whole project was dropped.

@The_whales Год назад

I feel like the chance of friendly fire is also there similar to poison gas in ww1

@themenacingpenguin.7152 Год назад

@@The_whales except instead of them following the wind they go wherever they please injecting the itchy juice along with deadly diseases.

@lovinglife5643 13 дней назад

Oh... like the US are doing now. Hmmmmm

@angusmacdonald7187 Год назад

As far as I have been able to tell, the Wunderwaffen programs were of great help to the Allies simply because they sucked up so much time and resources from a nation already starved for resources...

@superspies32 2 месяца назад

And those inventions finally boosted allied after the war. V1 contribute to the birth of cruise missiles (Tommahawk, Iskander...), V2 become prototype of all ICBM and space rocket booster, Me-262 contributed a lot to jet fighter program during Cold War, and Maus contributed to the founding of the tank museum in Russia.

@spencerlenz5050 Год назад

It'd be cool if you cover the weapons and vehicles developed for the 1919 spring offensive!

@Nerdinem Год назад

The Schwerer Gustav (Rail Super Gun) was built in the 1930's by Krupp in Rügenwalde as a siege artillery to explicitly destroy the main fortifications of the French Maginot Line. The weight was an incredible 1,350 tons, and could fire 7 ton shells at 47 kilometers or 29 miles. (I also presume this is also a wonder weapon)

@barrybookmaker7433 Год назад

did they use it anywhere ?

@kylerocco7467 Год назад

Yes it was used once, and it's effect was minimal, considering it was a battle they were already probably going to win. The issue with the things was jt was to big to move effectively required a large crew to set up and shoot and was an easy target for bombers.

@lorenzorojasv 11 месяцев назад

@@kylerocco7467 it got through 15-30m of ground and hit a shell room from a coastal artillery complex, and yeah it was used a few more times, still not enough to have a effect on the war ofc, but it did its job which was destroying statics

@channelsofash Год назад

It's fun to see how Germany got fixated on some ideas like bigger battleships but missed some of the real game changers like the aircraft carrier.

@Draxynnic Год назад

There were a couple of aircraft carriers planned, and they were working on carrier aircraft for them before the war, but the naval buildup schedule was interrupted by the war starting and deprioritised as a result of the war. Carriers might well have been more useful than the battleships, but on the other hand, against the Royal Navy's dominance at sea, they might not have lasted long. Battleships aren't as decisive, but they were still harder to sink.

@channelsofash Год назад

@@Draxynnic I've always heard that big hold up was the Navy and Airforce leaders didn't get along so that caused issues with developing the aircraft needed for a carrier. The ship can be impressive but as the US learned the hard way you have to have the right aircraft.

@OnionChoppingNinja Год назад

@@Draxynnic " Battleships aren't as decisive, but they were still harder to sink." Not for a gaggle of planes launched from an aircraft carrier they aren't. Just ask Yamato, Musashi, Arizona, Tirpitz and (to a lesser extend) Bismarck.

@laisy961 Год назад

@@OnionChoppingNinja It still took hours for Yamato and Musashi to finally sink, so they are still definitely harder to sink compared to carriers. Also, I won't use Arizona as an example since it was a surprise attack. I will use HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse instead where they got swarmed by the Army's bombers.

@janbaer3241 Год назад

@@OnionChoppingNinja The Japanese battleships had no way to aim their anti-aircraft guns. They were sitting ducks.

@CG-yq2xy Год назад

It's a shame that the Armchair Historian did not cover the works of Rudol von Stroheim and his contribution to the German effort. He really did lay the foundations for German science to be at the cutting edge of research that it is today.

@dragonfell5078 Год назад

German science is the best in the world!

@MyDadJustLeftMeXD Год назад

I mean he could have also covered Group 935 and their successes but alas, he didn't ☹️

@cleeiii357 4 месяца назад

"BAKA MONOGA! DOITSU NO KAGAKU WA SEKAI ICHI!"

@marcusayala6933 Год назад

I find it funny how everyone that covers the wunderwaffe always say "what you haven't heard" before covering it. Like if you look anywhere for about a minute you'll find loads of videos covering them

@MrPro897 Год назад

German real wonder weapons were the Flak 88, MG-42, Gewehr 43, Panther, Tiger, StG-44, Type XXI, Me 262

@PotatoSalad614 Год назад

The Tiger tank could get penned though the front plate by a Sherman Firefly at long range.

@megaaids2653 Год назад

@@PotatoSalad614 yeah the tiger wasn't fantastic

@TheUSgoverment Год назад

You didn't mention the MG-42 enough

@MrPro897 3 месяца назад

@@PotatoSalad614 that's why king Tiger was developed

@PotatoSalad614 3 месяца назад

@@MrPro897 all 10 of them that could make it to the frontline without running out of fuel 😂

@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 Год назад

One "Wunderwaffe" design that often gets overlooked is the "Midgard-Schlange" (midgard snake). Source: book Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933-1945 by Fritz Hahn (Weapons and secret weapons of the German army) The Midgard-Schlange was planned by the engineer group "Ritter". It was envisioned as a vehicle that was supposed to be capable of moving on land like a tank, moving underground like a mole and moving underwater in depths of up to 100 metres. The idea was to dig tunnels towards enemy harbours, cities and fortifications, mine them and blow them up. It was a huge "snake" consisting of 77 cells, giving the vehicle a length of 399 metres when contracted and 524 metres when stretched. The envisioned weight was 60,000 tons!

@keuwlcat1319 Год назад

thats sounds badass like something from gears of war

@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 Год назад

@@keuwlcat1319 Yeah. It's something you'd expect from video games like Wolfenstein, but someone in reality actually was like "yes, that's a good idea, i'll go with that"

@keuwlcat1319 Год назад

@@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 fr

@aaroncabatingan5238 Год назад

I'd like to have what the guys in Ritter are smoking.

@kylerocco7467 Год назад

There is a vehicle like that in 40k called a termite drill.

@joegordon5117 Год назад

Another fascinating piece, thank you! As for other wonder weapons, would be good to look at the Allied side for a change, from bizarre ones that went nowhere like the Panjandrum (meant to break the defences on the French coast) to ones that sounded mad but worked, like the bouncing bomb used by the Dambusters, or the unbelievable for the time giant Tallboy "earthquake" bomb (also designed by Barnes Wallis, who created the bouncing bomb)

@laytonrobinson-gr5qp 10 месяцев назад

i find it funny on how the space disc thing i cant remember the name on keeps flying around the video

@paleoph6168 Год назад

1:54 I didn't know Germany made their own Glock.

@sheacorduroy5565 Год назад

Would have loved to see the fliegerfaust or the x-7 missle discussed in this video.

@pablobarbuto2603 Год назад

Loved watching this video Griffith! Your channel is incredible, thank you!! Greatings from Argentina!

@Wuerstchenmann Год назад

The Horten Ho 229 and the Horten Ho 18 are very interesting. I once bought a very good book about wonderweapons, because they were so fascinating to me. Other suggestions would be: -Bachem Ba 349 -Flettner Fi 282 V21 -so called Fritz X guided bomb -Raketenpanzerbüchse 54 and of course my absolute favourite the -rc goliath anti tank vehicle. The books name is "Die Deutschen Geheimwaffen des zweiten Weltkriegs" by the Roger Ford and the Dörfler Verlag. As always nice video.

@AnonymousGamer244 Год назад

Bro the flying UFO In the background is killing me🤣🤣😂😂. Whenever You talk about absurd nazi stuff you guys should make it flying in the background in other videos too lol (of course only in outdoor shots)

@nukingjapanwasok6265 Год назад

My friends grandma was experimented on as a child by German "scientists" in a concentration camp

@stevecooper7883 Год назад

There were "scientists" and then there were scientists. SS units were just screwing around, but tons of scientists from Germany were brought into our space and aeronautical divisions after the war.

@thronezwei4412 Год назад

I loved seeing the Bell just happily flying around in the background.

@Trolligi Год назад

You know, Jimmy Neutron actually built Die Glocke

@yeetpacker9996 Год назад

It's always a good day when TAH uploads

@cripplinghappiness2836 Год назад

It looks like the animators had fun with this video 😂

@ab-vz3zc Год назад

The little bell flying around in the Backgrounds 😃

@DeadEye456 11 месяцев назад

Fun fact: The Ratte is a superweapon the is shown in Sniper Elite 3. The final mission consists of sneaking into the factory and destroying it before production is complete, as well as killing the guy in charge.

@thearisen7301 Год назад

Missed talking about the V-3 cannon which was a multi-charge gun with extreme range. Basically it had charges at points along the barrel to continuously propel a projectile.

@nitinshaji7692 Год назад

Bangladesh war

@shadiafifi54 Год назад

It was also a fixed spot, so it's not like it could have moved from its spot, or even changed targets. It was destroyed pretty early too, so it didn't get a chance to fire.

@nitinshaji7692 Год назад

@@shadiafifi54 Bangladesh war

@feosty5526 Год назад

@@nitinshaji7692 no one asked

@nitinshaji7692 Год назад

@@feosty5526 BANGLADESH WAR

@ronnielane163 Год назад

For someone who loves historical facts I appreciate all the hard work all of you put into this. Thank you.

@cthomaspeasant3059 Год назад

German wonder weapons almost feel like satirical...until you find out that they were real or at least on concept

@recoil53 Год назад

And so optimistic. They couldn't build Tiger tanks to be reliable and it was actually far more powerful than needed, eating up resources. Solution? A tank 2.5X heavier, slower, and even more overpowered. Yes, let's double down on our worst flaws.

@Rabavilas Год назад

If only their wonder weapons didn't have such low drop rates from the mystery box, they could have armed every soldier with a wunderwaffe DG2

@mechano6505 Год назад

You should definitely cover the Atomic era nuclear weapons arms race where all sorts of cannons and such like the Davy Crockette were designed to launch tactical nuclear warheads

@lord_kuech8563 Год назад

Would be incredibly interesting to deal about the Horten HO 229, a flying-wing type plane that was intended to answer the "3x1000 issue" (1000km per hour, carrying a 1000kg bomb, within a range action of 1000km) I also heard of the Focke-Wulf "Triebflugël": a plane with jet-propelled three-wing rotating plane intended to take off vertically There were other plane projects like those that might be interesting to study for their "unusual design" Dealing with other "less-known Wunderwaffen" would certainly attract much more people Very nice video :)

@sop1918 11 месяцев назад

I believe Obert thought of the sun gun as a farming tool to give crops more sunlight but this was later changed into a weapon

@leviathansrcul246 Год назад

It would be wonderful if you made a video on the E or entwicklung vehicle series. They are a pretty interesting set of tanks and it would be cool to see them explained on a big channel like yours.

@RJKilroy Год назад

The Sonnengewehr would make for a pretty cool Call of Duty Zombies map gimmick

@kanapotetakerngkeat3506 Год назад

Me and my friend is always confused about the wunderwaffen, so, thank you so much for making this video!

@EllielPerez_131. Год назад

Hello, armchair historian. I am a huge fan! I was wondering if you could make a video on the battle of Midway! I think it would make a great video as it was definitely an important battle!

@davidtimchenko4478 Год назад

It's always nice to see new armchair historian upload.

@tetraxis3011 Год назад

I love how in some of the shots Die glocke was just flying around in the background.

@k1tsun386 Год назад

Also could you talk about the H-Class battleships which were supposed to be larger than the Yamato

@Muhammed_ikbal Год назад

I know its not exactly same with new stealth aircrafts but its worth to consider that Horten Ho 229,. I think it has futuristic design.

@Therealgeneralshepherd7 11 месяцев назад

Germany: we will make one of the best tech in the world Also Germany: BELL

@dansmith4077 Год назад

Excellent video thank you love the content .

@williamkarbala5718 Год назад

A good rule of thumb for if a German weapon is good is if people kept using it after the war, rockets, assault rifles and jets good, everything else not so much.

@alaric_3015 Год назад

German wonder weapon: -Rocket that barely hit city-sized target -cruise missile that got defeated by being tipped by spitfires -huge cannons that require hours to reload -a flying wing that is so bad at flying Northrop put one to fly years before American wonder weapon: a portable sun

@The_Iron_Storyteller 11 месяцев назад

The STG 44 was the only good wonder weapon that was practical for the infantry of the wermarct

@brycetaylor979 Год назад

Oh I've been waiting for an episode like this 😊

@luki188 Год назад

2 Weapons were actually useful after the War. The V2 Heavily contributed to the ressearch of the Space Age and the STG44 was used by (Mercinaries, Rebels, Inserguents, Criminals, East Germany and West Germany and were sold and supplied to some African Countries)

@maximilianj.gatsby5330 11 месяцев назад

More than that. The ME262 introduced the jet engine era. The V2 invented the ICBM. Stg44 introduced the Assault rifle. The nazis where years ahead. Thank god they lost

@paleoph6168 Год назад

8:27 Thank you for mentioning this.

@Alatzas1 11 месяцев назад

I like how Wolfenstein developers took all this stuff, cranked it up to 11 and actually implemented it in their games to be terrifying, even the ridiculous "Bell".

@FeyTheBin Год назад

3:55 I spat my drink when I noticed Die Glocke hovering in the background.

@johnkittoiv2572 Год назад

U could've at least mentioned the Gustav...

@blackenedsymphony1234 Год назад

The Wunderwaffe DG-2 was one of the best wonder weapons Germany has ever created

@spdfatomicstructure Год назад

What about the ray gun?

@blackenedsymphony1234 Год назад

@@spdfatomicstructure mk2

@spdfatomicstructure Год назад

@@blackenedsymphony1234 mk2 is good. Sadly I don’t have BO2 or BO3 - only WaW and BO1 - so I’m basically stuck with the mk1

@blackenedsymphony1234 Год назад

@@spdfatomicstructure why? don't have bo2 and 3 or can't run it?

@spdfatomicstructure Год назад

@@blackenedsymphony1234 I literally don’t have those two games yet. I’m planning to get BO2 in the future - I’m not inclined to get BO3 at the moment because the campaign is a flop while the new N@zi Zombies maps, according to a friend of mine, don’t particularly stand out

@falkok15 Год назад

Another example that would've been good for this video were the tank night vision scopes, which were more practical compared to the Vampir (since Vampir requires a heavy, external battery with a set of wires running to it)

@sop1918 11 месяцев назад

4:09 die Glocke in the background lol, couldn’t have just been me who noticed

@aggelosrappas2472 Год назад

Nice video as always

@davlucas86 Год назад

Nafo Fella brother! 🇺🇦

@Niklas.K95 Год назад

About the sponsor Call of War It is one of the best games to play with friends, but gold spam in the realm of thousands of dollars and updates to limit the length of the game ruined it for me There will never be another 6 month campaign for world domination

@Numba003 Год назад

I remember seeing something on the History Channel years ago about the bell lol. This was a fun episode. Thank you! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

@axas24 Год назад

Love the videos so far. I hope someday you cover the baltic independence wars.

@michaelgreaves2375 Год назад

Say what you want about Nazi wonder weapons, Their time machine was incredibly successful. Or rather, it would have been. They were completely successful in traveling back in time to change crucial events that resulted in their victory, even though it created a separate timeline and thus a parallel reality. The problem is that they didn't build a time machine in that reality to make the changes that they had already made, and caused a temporal paradox. I bet they were really pissed when they vanished in a poof of nothing!

@sillypuppy5940 5 месяцев назад

No, they went forward in time. Just to confuse everyone.

@simpsbelongtothegulags3702 Год назад

I wish armchair historian would make a video about the Oder-Vistula offensive

@GeneralLiuofBoston1911 Год назад

Such a meme video. But I love it! Script writer and artists definitely had a few good laughs with this one!

@Colorfullll 7 месяцев назад

I love how Die Glocke is just spinning around in the video:)

@nickvinsable3798 Год назад

🤔 . . . The Ausführung T Super Tiger. I’ve heard it performed fairly well, deterring & one-shot killing any ground forces & air forces, but unfortunately couldn’t do both ground & air at the exact same time. It could repel any & all ground forces, but when they pulled back to let the air forces deal with ‘em, the air forces were repelled, thus forcing the ground forces to strike to no avail. Yes, they were taken down, but they pretty much had the same flaw that grounded anti-air defenses have, especially since they only made two & they could protect one hemisphere (half a circle; half a sphere) at any given time.

@Operator--du4ek Год назад

Answer:NO

@Weird_Interest Год назад

Wow! You really nailed the intro❤

@jarrodkopf6813 Год назад

Can you do a video on the Horton 229 flying wing if you have not done one yet? I remember being a big fan of the plane back in the early 2010s after watching a documentary on the History Channel.

@shadowplayz2432 Год назад

They are so beautifully expressive but ngl I would love to see them made with modern day technology

@GVisionnn Год назад

You sure about that 💀

@wfr1108 Год назад

@@GVisionnn yeah

@shadowplayz2432 Год назад

@@GVisionnn I mean a tank the length of a basketball court and the width of 50 meters. Wouldn’t that be awesome to see?

@Jake-rs9nq Год назад

@@shadowplayz2432 Sure, but it would immediately be hit with a dozen 2,000lb bombs.

@shadowplayz2432 Год назад

@@Jake-rs9nq yea true but it would interesting to see.

@davidarturocolungapuentes138 Год назад

Ah sweet man made horrors beyond our comprehension

@T-90UNO 8 месяцев назад

Meh not really most of these wonderweapons were expensive and a failure

@dead8514 Год назад

And also I would like to hear about the planned and or proposed V3 as it was just a giant cannon built into the ground

@karenmindock1898 11 месяцев назад

I like how their is always the Die glocke bell UFO in the background

@EpicJoshua314 Год назад

6:47 Wernher von Braun should have been tried for using slave labour to make the V-2 rockets (as well as the destruction and deaths from their use) but his knowledge on how to develop ballistic missiles was crucial for America and the West during the Cold War so they let that slide.

@thegoon33 Год назад

Can you do one about allied wonder weapons? Germany for some reason gets a lot of attention but lets not forget allied weapons that actually had a real effect , e.g. Radars, the Atomic Bomb, Super Fortress, electronic computers , penicillin etc...

@unofficial_computer Год назад

The difference is that the Allied weapons won us the war and worked perfectly.

@winstonchurchill5892 Год назад

Nah, to practical, not enough big guns or shock numbers. No allied weapons said "100 TON BEHEMOTH" or "20 POUND CANNON." The Phershing or Churchill tank is not flashy enough to write a 40-minute documentary on about how big and scary it was compared to everything it was facing.

@hoosierfarmkid Год назад

The funny thing is that many Allied programs actually matched or exceeded the German wonder weapons. For example, Sherman and Pershing’s had pretty similar paper specs to German Cats (Sherman’s had armor that was pretty similar to Tigers IIRC and Jumbos and Pershings outmatched them, and similar guns once 17lbers and 76mm guns came into service) but don’t have the Wunderwaffe reputation (and actually worked well most all the time!)

@recoil53 Год назад

@@hoosierfarmkid Well their practicality actually keeps them out of the "Wonder Weapon" category - the term itself is kind of derisive. Germany's tanks already had powerful enough guns. They didn't exist in large enough numbers and had too many issues. How does fewer, less reliable, but more powerful help?

@GoranXII Год назад

@@winstonchurchill5892 The Pershing was _anything_ but practical (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bNjp_4jY8pY.html, start around 13:30), as was the Churchill in the early part of its life. The Pershing only got sent to Europe once the situation was already certain.

@mattBLACKpunk Год назад

I really enjoyed the bgm, especially on the latter half!

@anakarenlorenzo5983 Год назад

always with the best content

@anton-mq9ru Год назад

britain had a superweapon too, bomber harris, which removed dresde, lübeck and frankfurt from the map with one piece of paper! could you imagine?

@PotatoSalad614 Год назад

You forgot about Hamburg, Stuttgart, Colonge, Essen, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Munich, Bonn, Wuppertal, Leipzig, Bremen, Heidelberg, Hanover, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Würzburg, Kassel, Mainz, Chemnitz, Berlin, Wilhelmshaven, Munster, Aachen, Augsburg, Wurnburg, Magdeberg, Kiel, Darmstadt, Osnabrück, Wiesbaden, Emden, Freiburg. All these cities were fire bombed by the Royal Air Force. Bomber Harris REALLY meant it when he said "they sowed the wind and now they shall reap the whirlwind"

@Haris-qb2ec Год назад

Hey bomber Harris's last name is mine!

@harveymelcher5839 Год назад

Harris is a war criminal

@oppje6188 Год назад

Yes commiting many war crimes that did not contribute to victory! Well done!

@YataTheFifteenth Год назад

It takes the Germans a week to replace a factory, it takes them twenty years to replace the common worker. Just sayin.

@gwalon2089 Год назад

Would be nicer for the historical and linguistic accuracy if you actually used the german letters ä, ü and ö (Zielgerät not gerat). But these videos are very informative nontheless.

@JerryP7a Год назад

beautiful, keep up the good work!

@Triumphator616 4 месяца назад

What about Big Bertha? I know it may not seem like a wonder weapon, but it deserves a mention.

@deltalord6969 Год назад

Whenever i hear about german wonder weapons i always picture the wonder waffle from zombies

@MikeYm98875 Год назад

😂 true dat man haha

@pharthasa Год назад

Its crazy how the germans made (some) of these “wonder weapons” and either used them or ran out of time, no matter if they used them or not, they are amazing designs for the time, and even for todays world

@Hortifox_the_gardener Год назад

A *reliable* and *accurate* semi automatic rifle in mass production in 1941 would have been the ultimate wonder weapon.

@Hortifox_the_gardener Год назад

@@nimdaqa - the US was the only economy in the world able to actually equip their forces with semi automatic weapons. And it gave them a punch. The SVT-40 was like a unicorn. It exists more in shooter games and literature than it did on the frontlines.

@Hortifox_the_gardener Год назад

@@nimdaqa - and now compare that with the Mosin Nagant stocks and production numbers.