Douglas Bader was inspiring me in 2017 when I lost my leg! He had been my hero since I First saw the film and read the book, and with that inspirstion, there was no way that I could have just sat in my wheelchair and given up. So a million thanks to him!
@Gary Higgins *The intractable pain from my R-foot is driving me to the point of suicide* *I can barely function after 5-months of constant pain from my foot which NEVER ceases, despite the intervention of blood-clot removals and the placements of 'stents'...I will be 69 in April and I doubt I will last that long* _____________ *Glad to hear you have overcome your disability...and i will overcome mine by my own hand* *I have no intention of being a 'Cripple' on a permanent basis for myself*
Gary hope you are doing well mate. Great story, I just had spinal surgery here in Australia. Men like these are literally the stuff of legends, makes anyone gain strength.
I enjoyed this documentary on Adolph Galland. Certainly one of the more interesting men of world war 2. The friendship between Bader and Galland is quite remarkable. I am glad that men can put aside the war and realize that friendship and peace is possible.
Bader and Galland actually became close friends after the war. They both collaborated on the movie "Battle of Britain." One story, not included in this documentary was that Bader was Galland's guest at a Luftwaffe pilots reunion, where Upon Bader remarked "I didn't realize that we left so many of you bastards alive."
Whilst serving at RAF leuchars in the late seventies I had apart time job as a caddie in St. Andrews The caddie master Davie Christie was a member of the St.Andrews Golf Club as I was at the time. Over a pint one afternoon he asked me if I would caddy for for Sir Douglas. When I asked him why me ? he told me, well he can be a little difficult to deal with, but I think you could handle him ! We had a great day together on the Old Course.He told me lots of stories and we had a few laughs as I pushedand pulled him around 18 holes ! he shot 89 as I remember with a lost ball on the front nine. It was a great priviledge to be in the company of such a man.
@@davidrussell8689Not to mention that he began his "career" as a ground attack pilot during the Spanish Civil War. Only God knows in how many criminal attacks against the civilian population he participated, in a war as atrocious as that one, where cruelties such as carpet bombing of villages were tried for the first time, or where machine-gunning from the air civilians who were fleeing in terror from the bombing was common practice. I really question his status as "knight of the air". A murderer is simply a murderer, even if he wears a fancy uniform, a chest full of medals, or has impeccable ways of conducting himself in public.
@@franciscojaviernarbaiza9517 the condor legion was responsible for various war crimes ( attacks on unarmed civilians ) The systematic strafing of civilians as they escaped from Guernica is but one example of the Germanic cruelty during the Spanish Civil War . I’m not sure that Galland participated in this action in particular but it gives you an idea of the disregard for human life when the country below is not your own .
@@davidrussell8689 Werner Molders did participate in the bombing of Guernica, flying a Bf-109 that gave escort to the bombers. I'm not sure about Galland's participation in that specific bombing, but anyway there were multiple "Guernicas" that did not receive as much international media attention, and on which a wall of silence imposed by the dictatorship fell after the war. But not only the infamous Condor Legion dedicated itself with impunity to bombing the civilian population. My own hometown, Durango, suffered several bombardments by Italian fascist aircraft in March and April 1937, the deadliest of all being March 31. A sister of my grandmother lost both legs, when a fascist plane dedicated itself to machine-gunning a group of women who were washing clothes in the river, what kind of murderer does that, attacking defenseless civilians with impunity?.
This is why i love youtube … Once In a while, a true gem like this 3 parter pops up.. I love ww2 docs, especially if they have interviews with the German vets..
Was fortunate to meet Bader as a young schoolboy in Bulawayo when he visited there (I am disabled). Have a copy of Paul Brickhills book. This was certainly not a novel but a Biography of Baders life. Nevertheless a very good documentary
What a lovely man who has so many stories of the war years. And like he said that our people who were being bombarded day and night from 41 to 1945 every day and night for four years. Always the poor people. Adolf Galant said that by 1943 he said that they knew that the war was lost. But the population of the Country was taking a pounding and almost every day the German air force was up in the sky and still fighting for their country and people and these guys are human and I could talk with him for days. Very nice guy who did a job that is not a lot of room for mistakes because you can get shot down or die. Love listening and watching his face and smiling,, very hard not to like him. 🇩🇪💪.
YES…Galland led his men according to honorable “laws” of warfare. If you are interested in reading about this man, there’s a book (sorry, I don’t remember the name!!); but,it’s a non-fiction book dealing with the story of the Luftwaffe…. 👍🏼👣👠
My father was to meet Bader when he came to Australia in 1969 to promote the movie battle of Britain they met at an arranged airshow at Schofield's aerodrome near Riverstone NSW where they became quite good friends drinking buddies lol and Bader gave dad one of his pipes as a momento to thank him for his company at the airshow I got the pipe last year at my now deceased father's wake it's even got his initials inscribed into it and dad's mate verified it after the funeral it's a great talking piece which I treasure regards Glen Johnston Warwick qld
I would have liked to hear more about any conversation Bader had with Rudel, although a dive bomber pilot the gift of a wooden leg would have inspired good conversation !
@oceanhome2010 While I was watching episode 1 & 2 I was expecting Adolf Galland would have a story to tell about Hans Ulrich Rudel, unfortunately not a single word. Pretty strange.
@@christophemacker5338 Would it be strange if the interviewer didn't have those questions to give to him because the show was about his own history? Perhaps, since this was the same production team and extremely likely this video was recorded at the same time, these are those questions. The magic of television!
Unfortunately we rarely meet such extraordinary men these days full of courage and honor, the media seems to honor people like Caitlyn Jenner formerly Bruce Jenner just for having a sex change operation.
I am uncertain why "the media" (as people that have problems with mostly accurate and sometimes sensationalised information say) chose to highlight that person's decisions but I doubt it was only for what you describe. For one the procedure you describe did not take place as, from what I understand, (I only know the information I am giving) she has kept her penis but most importantly her testicles. In case you don't know, testicles, you may utilise slang terminology instead but they are the glands that produce not only the reproductive cells but also the chemical testosterone. Testosterone is required to have masculine attributes. Females also produce this hormone but in not as great a quantity. Males also produce a female hormone estrogen, again but not in the quantities required to have more feminine attributes but with the addition by prescription and removal of the testicles a more complete alteration can be achieved. She may have altered her appearance to be that more feminine outwardly with cosmetic surgery alteration but an actual or best transformation into the other sex is an inaccurate description. They probably highlighted this person's alteration because decades prior to their alteration they were a prominent sports figure, an Olympic athlete representing our country and a participant is televised sporting shows that had admitted to long struggles with the attempt at understanding and expressing themselves since these things were at odds with what was displayed in their physical form. I know some biology but know nothing of the person you described at least not well enough to know their new name and I surely don't know as much as you do since you seem to have such a strong opinion about them. I only know they kept their male genitalia, which in just knowing that, I know your statement was made in ignorance about science. I hope you know more about how your body works but you and Jenner are going to have to work out your differences you have together. I do hope it improves.
@@minirock000 Read your statement again, then give your head a wobble. You and people like you are the problem. If you can't understand the utter, cretinous, moronic stupidity of the phrase "Her penis" then you are as mentally ill as Bruce Jenner. The statement was about two men who conducted themselves with bravery, courage, chivalry and honour, and all you can do is harp on about a mentally confused man who dresses as a woman. You really do need to take you head for a 5h1t...
@@somebloke13 Hey johnny webb, how many accounts do you have? So what you are saying is that people that can, by no action, accept what others want to think of themselves as are the demise of civilisation. On the other hand, people that are willing to take action, by legislation and violence, to repress free thought are the saviours of said civilisation. Seems one of us is on the side of freedom and the other is on the side of repression. I am sure that is an opaque belief system you have since you won't see it that way. In America, not sure where you are from, we have an unwritten motto that as long as people are not hurting anyone else and are obeying the laws to let them live as they wish. Perhaps your country could do the same so we could all get along better.
Great li'l series, though I would've appreciated had Part Three just stuck with the [later] exploits of Galland, showcasing a more in-depth conclusive timeline into not only amongst _his_ comrades during his brief tenure with JV 44, but as well, how his fame after the war gathered momentum thereafter, towards becoming one of the most acclaimed living legends in the recent world of aviation.
The overclaiming of Bader's Squadron is only partly due to lack of experience, but rather a given when fighting in large numbers against large numbers of enemies at high altitude - anyone interested can check that out himself in the better simulators around, like the IL2 series for example (only making a mental note after the mission, not pausing it) - attacking a large Bomber force where it's extremly difficult to create a 3D-image of it makes it extremly difficult to assess the result of an attack, especially when using small caliber machineguns, as the british used at that time (because effects tend to be delayed) - any bomber smoking in the vicinity or region of the imagined attack might be counted several times. So the smaller the skirmishes, the lower and in better weather and experience in the type of mssion - the more precise the accounting.will be.
I really enjoyed these interviews and the stories behind them. Sort of in the same vein as Albert Speer, I find Galland a compelling individual. However, this 'good man' also was part of the raid on Guernica and served an very influential role for one of the most tyrannical governments in modern times. Just because in this video he is elderly and 'nice' should not roll back what he did and the role he played in the aggressive waging of the war. He joined the gliders in the mid 1930's when Hitler and his minions were fully in control. He knew whom he would be serving and volunteered. I have a theory that a person is 'who they really are' in their 30's and 40's. They are no longer a child, yet still have some of their youth's energy. So ... I don't know where I am here. He was clearly a helluva a pilot and his 104 victories would have increased as the US arrived. However, his chances of dying would have been very high as many, many highly experienced German pilots were killed. This was another mistake (among many) effected by Goering as he allowed his best people to be pissed away instead of cycling them for training and bringing up the next echelon. By mid 1944 the old guard was effectively dead. On a personal note, my father was born in Holland and was taken to work in the German industries (Bremen) in August of 1943. First he was put in a labour camp for 90 days (lost 50 lbs there ...) and then to a shell casing factory. However, even at the tender age of 21, Dad was already a master butcher and so the ever efficient Germans found more suitable work for him. One night he was in a pub after work having a drink as is the European custom, and there was a group of about 10 pilots there as well. They got around to how many kills each had. It was "10", 5", "18" and so on until there was "102". It was Galland having a beer with his pilots. He had also been addressed by name. Here was my future father, a DP butcher from Holland, metres away from one of the significant personages of the War ... He also saw Herman Goering go by in his powder blue suit in an open staff car. Now Dad was no bullshitter so I am sure all of this happened. Remarkable.
My country fell victim to the soviet influence in the east,and let me tell you,it was no joke. My country's direct victims after the war were in the hundreds of thousands,in Rusia for example,it was millions. Yeah,that's right. Tens of millions of our own citizens perished,during time of peace,in soviet states. Want to talk about totalitarian,talk about communism. No religion,no culture but one of being a proletariat,and only that,your country's history being denigrated and ridiculed,and the list goes on. On the less severe side,if you can call it that,they would take entire villages and move them to other areas,sometimes even to far away countries. Knew a girl from Kazakhstan,whose grandmother was forcibly taken from Moldova,and moved to Kazakhstan. Why,do you ask? Simple,to sever the peoples ties to their own land,and nation-to be more easily controlled. So yeah,i think in particular,spanish people were lucky not to have communism instilled in them,and their societies. When i was in Spain,i was astounded at the beauty of its buildings. Spent only one day in Barcelona,but my good,what a beautiful city. Every inch has to be pure art,every corner,every street lamp. You know what we got in the East? Ugly,sterile concrete blocks,hunger,terror of being truthful,ban of religion, corruption(if we are all equal,then a drunkard has thesame value as an educated man,no?),stifling of most developments. You sir,i'm afraid, talk from an incomplete point of view. You only saw,or heard what the Fascists did(from communist sympathizers),yet not one peep about what the Communist did. I know you heart may be in the right place,and you mean good-but to take a decision,you have to put into balance both sides. We only heard the side of the communists,and allied victors-about the others there is a strict censorship. Gee,i wonder why this information was muted,and by who? The sole purpose of communism was to destabilize countries to take them over,like they did in Russia,like they tried in germany in 1919,and the rest of Europe. That's why you had uprising of nationalist movements everywhere.Simple as that.
@@alakhazom I don't know how to answer this other than: 1. I'm not surprised 2. At the time, the Allies saw the Nazis and Japanese in a worse light than the USSR. I believe at least in general the West had heard of Stalin's purges, but and this is no excuse, my guess is that his crimes were internal, whereas the Axis was aggressively invading countries to extend their own empires. This is of course no solace to you your countrymen who suffered so much at the hands of the USSR and by extension even today. All of you deserve much better. If one considers Churchill who had said plenty at the expense of the USSR had then to work with them due to the threat perceived by the Nazis. I expect it was a very hard pill to swallow.
@@henrivanbemmel What other countries did "Axis"(Germany,i assume) invade it's allies? Was Spain invaded? Or Portugal? Oooh,but you will claim Poland. Agreed. How many of you know that Germany was trying to recuperate her territories from the Poles? How many of us know how the germans were treated after Ww1 in new polish territories? I repeat myself,the soviets from Moscow were trying to create a russian revolution in all of Europe. Drenched in blood,with all the intelligent strata of society purged. Then tell me how in what world,what universe is going against that called starting a war. Germany,and Hungary 1919 attempt to overthrow the governments,and subjugate the people. Have you heard of the Katyn massacre? 28000 polish officers were executed by the russians. Churchill always mentioned that he wished war with Germany,especially. His creditors demanded it. He dragged them in a disastrous war,while the germans detested that idea. "The moustache man" always said that he viewed them as brothers,and that they took the european culture to all the world. Even wondered why they let 300.000 soldiers at Dunkirk go? It was his own will,he demanded it-against his generals advisal . One of his mistakes,in my opinion. I could go on,but you have to understand a thingh. Very few people in the East hate the germans from ww2,and view them as extremely honest. When germans passed by,they brought all sorts of goodies with them,even bought animals from peasants. When the russians came,they came raping,stealing everything,and executing nilly willy. My great grandfather hid from them cause he had a tractor. You see,private property for them was tantamount to being a huge capitalist,so there was reason for for strife,with that. You in the west know only half the story,and so,a form of communism knocks on your door. If you are lucky,you will fight against it. If we are all lucky,to be honest. No more brother wars,especially for a bloated globalist monstrosity,which created suffering al over the globe. We need each other.
@@alakhazom could it be the case that Hitler Stalin , Churchill, Roosevelt, musoleni were all puppets of higher forces like the Jesuits or other powers no one is ever going to know about? And once again the true losers were the public brainwashed and indoctrinated on all sides? War has always been profitable!! I'm certain that forces who are hidden always start to brainwash the vast majority of people in the world to start conflict, it will never stop happening
As to the question of war crimes, All sides of the conflict are responsible for so called War crimes .From Spain, The Low lands, The Blitz, Stalingrad, Dresden and so many others in between until the end of WW 2 Berlin. Civilians ,mostly bore the brunt of the pain and suffering inflicted by the so called leadership elites and Thugs that issue the orders that are passed down ,Not in the most part by the warriors that have to fight the battles.War is a madness That humanity uses to make us less Human it seems.And is still happening today.....Right ,Mr Putin.
Galland was a great pilot and a good man in a bad situation. He was not a cruel nazi in fact most luftwaffe pilots were not part of the Nazi party and were to busy fighting in the air to have known about the death camps. I’m sure there were some lowlifes in the Luftwaffe they were the exception most were decent men. I’ve read a lot of there books and there actions are a testament to that as well. Like the star of Africa Hans who made sure a black friend was not mistreated if something happened to him which it did and the men honored his wishes and protected Mathias the mans name. There’s just a lot of good they did in a bad situation.
Those are questions typically not asked because rarely they would have wanted to talk about those things. I think, for most pilots , they are not into "politics", they are in love with flying and its just unfortunate that to fly they had to fight, and for some it was for the wrong kind of governement Read up on any Vietnam Era US Pilot, and if he fought over Vietnam because he believed in the war... or just fought for his buddies in the air and on the ground.
Some forget it was Bader & Lee Malory who led the charge to oust Park and Dowding after they had won the Battle of Britain. Bader/Malory wanted their jobs commanding 11 Group defending London along with most of the RAF's fighters. Bader was no tactician shown by the"big wing" & later the fighter sweeps over France that had EXACTLY the same deficiencies the Luftwaffe had encountered fighting over England in the Battle of Britain.
Bader's boss was Leigh-Mallory who lost the main show to Park. It was really odious of Churchill to give in to their pressure in being so ungrateful to Park and Dowding. Bader's ego was so overbloated that he destroyed most of the sympathy the public had for him. Bader's showiness over France in 1942 cost his freedom for 3 long years. Perhaps that was a good thing for the RAF.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy odious is a good word for it. Although 11 Groups loss (& subsequent inept use in fighter sweeps over France) was Malta's & 8th Armies gain when Park was posted there. Malta's plight directly influenced/reflected the 8th Armies plight in North Africa.
@@prof_kaos9341 Air Marshal Keith Park TWICE saved The Empire. But perhaps his Neo-Zealander origin was what the aristocratick Leigh-Mallory resented. Unfortunately, Bader was also furious that his boss was commanding the Force in the North that had at best a supporting role instead of the limelight of glory in the South. That was not the only infamous Churchillian act in his treatment of British heroes : _ General Auchinleck was the real savior of Suez by his incredible strategic decisions in the face of impending defeat, despite his burdening responsibilities East of Suez too. Yet because Churchill needed a victory before the coming of the Americans, he urged Auchinleck into attacking Rommel immediately. Sir Claude Auchinleck seeing the need for reorganizing the Eighth Army refused. So Churchill callously replaced him with Monty. The latter was far from a bad commander & was one of the best Allied generals. But the odds nevertheless took him 10 nights to achieve the Alamein victory. (Corelli Barnett's "The Desert Generals") _ 1st Lord Of The Sea Dudley Pound was the one to whom Churchill owed his return as Minister Of The Navy in 1940 before becoming PM. & his decision to disperse the PQ-17 for 19 out of 31 freighters & their crew to perish in the Arctic was never officially acknowledged because Churchill owed him too much. Pound apparently was scared stiff of the avowedly Anglophobe King, who had his own fair share of British & American merchant sailors slaughtered by his early utter incompetence. But in the PQ-17 episode he was loyal to his allies, providing all the help possible, heavy carrier USS Wasp & battleship USS Washington included. But Pound, fearing American losses political implications preferred to retire the escort, making once more British & American merchant sailors pay with their lives. The only thing he contributed, apart from helping Hitler, was to provide the dubious ally Stalin with another occasion to obscenely insult the sacrifices made by the West ; & to help the boasting of a dubious her0 of the s0viet union of having torpedoed the Tirpitz. The guy had the good sense to not survive his victims by more than 18 months.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy Kia Ora, i am currently sweating in a Kiwi summer. You raise valid points, i find it most ironic that it was Churchill's plan to invade Norway, changing to support Norway when the Nazis got there 1st, that caused Chamberlain's resignation & Churchill's promotion to PM, tho' appeasement had failed. [Churchill the brains behind the failed invasions of Gallipoli, Norway (mentioned) and later Greece]. I am not a fan of Auchinleck, his strategic command was good but tactically the Army failed to fight together as one team, persisting with the 18th/19th Century tactics of uncoordinated disparate groups. Pre radio tactics. The change of mind-set to combined arms had to be implemented from the top down, the armour needed to be told to work with the infantry & vice versa. I think it a crime that a far smaller, poorly supplied force ran rings around 8th Army for 2yrs. Time after time Rommel gave them a bloody lessons in the new combined arms tactics but nobody of significant rank took notice. Changing this mindset can only be done from the top & was not. Op Crusader(Nov 1941), was a plan to let the armour charge off alone, but it led to 8th Army lossing 75% of it's armour at Sidi Rezegh (charging AT guns, a job for infantry). The next stage of Crusader was the infantry getting mauled for lack of tank support. Sadly this was not a unique outcome. IMO only Auchinleck was in a position to change this. During Alamein Montgomery threatened to remove his armoured Divisional and Brigade commanders replacing them with those who would follow his orders. A desperate act in the middle of a battle.
@@prof_kaos9341 Entirely with you sir, on General Auchinleck's woes in the tactical field : viz the cascade of replaced British 8th Army commanders from Cunningham to Ritchie, after whom Auchinleck had to take direct command. The British Army glued-to-tradition led to some absurd results like the absolute refusal to use the excellent 94mm AA gun as antitank, although it's better than the German 88. Re. Corelli Barnett's "The Desert Generals" I cannot recommend this book too much for its accuracy & humour. By the way, Medinine 1943 was the British 8th Army's revenge for Sidi Rezegh 1941. Yet the bizarre thing is precisely that were General O'Connor be allowed to take Tripoli in early 41, the British would've been entirely victorious in North Africa. & there would be no Rommel to bask in vainglory (NO port of Tripoli oblige) & who would be sent to Russia to try his so-called "War without Hate"(puke!). Obersturmbannfuehrer Paul Carell shamelessly stated that the Afrika Korps was representative of the "Good Germany with no gestapo, no ss, no concentration camp."(Re. his ''The Desert Foxes'') Yet in the 1971 novel "Rommel's Gold" by Maggie Davis, there's mention of an ss officer in Rommel's staff. Which turned out to be true - so much for saint-Erwin, who early in the war wasn't loath to rub shoulders with the likes of Himmler. (& that's also the only thing of value worth mentioning in this book more concerned with bedding than fighting) In one of the chilling what-ifs of WW2, were Churchill NOT to take on-the-verge-of-total-victory-general O'Connor's 2 best motorized units & send them to Greece to be destroyed there, Hitler, free of the need to save his pal Benito's colony, would have to reconsider his planned invasion of Russia & adopt the strike from the South that would at least have secured him the Iraqi & Iranian oil for his war machine. Mr. Prof_Kaos, my post is a little too long as it is. Allow me to just temporarily close it with this most interesting quotation from Historian Alan Clark's masterful 1965 "Barbarossa" : `` The Devil's hand had protected Hitler. `` To persons not of the Roman Catholic faith, ``especially to those such as scientists, ``technicians (and even military historians), ``who are concerned with fact and reality, ``the purported existence of cosmic forces ``can seem an irritating abstraction. ``Yet there are occasions when the ``eternal struggle between good and evil ``seems more than a convenient adjunct ``to a code of behaviour evolved by ``the priesthood for disciplining the ``lower classes and assumes ``a disquieting magnitude, ``which towers over the puny `` "self-determination" of mortal man.``
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. The interviewed guests immensely Added information to the documentary.
The phenomenon of pilots being able to escape and walk away from crash landing was directly attributable to having to learn to fly with a Glider as you are looking for a place to land from the time you leave the ground and every time you leave the ground !
I'm a private pilot but don't fly gliders, only Cessnas. As a pilot, every time I take off I'm constantly scanning the land around and even behind me to look for a flat place to do a forced landing. All pilots flying small planes are like that, AFAIK. It's ingrained into my mind since my early days as a student pilot. If I forget to scan the land around me every 2 minutes or so, my flight instructor would look me sternly in the eye and ask if I forgot something?. LOL!
With the title being "Luftwaffe General: Adolf Galland Documentary part 3" it will be about a General in the German military, the department that operates aircraft, Adolf Galland and it is a factually based film part number three. If you are having problems understanding why so much time was spent on Badar that was information provided for the people ignorant of who the man was. It wouldn't make any sense just to say he treated this one prisoner nicely, good-bye, so in order to add to the story information was provided about the other subject. The other subject is admittedly very complex and has a story worth telling of his own but a summary placed here adds to the story of the original subject. In this instance it adds complexity of personality to the subject.
The way Bader’s last flight ended up is intriguing. If a German aircraft had collided with him and torn off the tail unit, that aircraft’s propeller would have been badly bent and damaged the engine or caused it to be turned off. The pilot would have either baled out or would have glided down to a crash landing ( as Galland had had to do once) That aircraft would have shown up in German losses that day. Since there was no report of this, this must have been “friendly fire” both by process of elimination or as evidence shows in the interview. Galland behaved with typical generosity to Bader as he did a bit later to Bob Stanford Tuck. These bombing raids on France were of questionable value as any pilots who bailed out, ended up in POW camps. In the Battle of Britain , they had the chance to fight another day.
This is a man I would loved to of had a few beers and a sit down with. Also Whitman, Patton , Kurt knispal. Definitely not Monty ( Market Garden) His name should even be near Pattons . Star Of Africa how could I forget.
``On 13th February 1946, ... ; that night, throughout ``Eastern and Central Germany, at 10.10 p.m. the church bells ``began to peal ; for twenty minutes the bells rang out across ``the territories now occupied by a force as ruthless as any ``that the Bomber offensive had been launched to destroy ; ``it was the first anniversary of the biggest single massacre ``in European history, ``a massacre carried out in the cause of bringing to their knees ``a people who, ``corrupted by Nazism, had committed the greatest crimes ``against humanity in recorded time.`` David Irving - "The Destruction Of Dresden" - 1963
Some more thing about chivalry: Flying with 1000 bombers at night with the designated goal to set an entire city ablaze to terrorize the population into submission is truly the most chivalrous thing you can expect from the Anglo's
Warriors know when to be chivalrous. In the heat of combat of course not, however in the circumstances when you have POWs who are respected conterparts, yes you can expect it. In today's world, probably not.
I wonder if he is the one who was shooting at an American plane that used a new tactic to get away. I don't remember who it was but he stood his plane on it's nose and used the engine torque to spin his plane around. The German plane had a solid yellow nose.
Last week - week 27 2023, my wife and I holidayed in Unkel/Remagen and wanted to visit Galland's grave to pay our respects, but to our great surprise, his grave in Oberwinter cemetery is empty/empty. Either way, it is a lack of respect from family and fatherland.
The aircraft in video showing at the time Douglas Bader was being assessed for return to active duty wasn't an American Harvard but a British Chipmunk, the thing they have in common is that both were used for training. I wish the visual would relate to the narrative, it destroys all credibility otherwise.
I had read that Galland did not go along with Hitler and Gehring. It is interesting to hear his sense of humor and the stories from him. I had heard he was a good guy.
My Blessing on General Adolf Galland, on different sides there are always special people, and both Galland and Bader belonged to a Generation that we shall not see the Like of Again With Deepest Respect, /Salute to Brave Men
At 8.14 the aircraft shown is not a Harvard it is a later De Havilland Chipmunk. Since this all about pilots and their aircraft this lets your video down a bit.
Great story, I believe Galland's story, legs and tobacco. propaganda, both great men. Bader did the right thing with Rudel. Dilip Sakar and Hugh Halliday ? Interesting historians, not famous, I want to know more about them !
Galland undoubtedly knew of the open air American POW camps along the Rhine after the War that killed 1.5 million Germans who had surrendered, mostly 17-19 year olds
Letzte Woche - Woche 27 2023 - machten meine Frau und ich Urlaub in Unkel/Remagen und wollten Gallands Grab besuchen, um unsere Aufwartung zu machen, aber zu unserer großen Überraschung ist sein Grab auf dem Oberwinterer Friedhof leer/leer. In jedem Fall ist es ein Mangel an Respekt seitens der Familie und des Vaterlandes.
The opinion of Mr Halliday is utter nonsense and very poor thoughts. I don't think he's ever realized what fighter pilots feel. What smallness of thought. Don lizarus shot a Sabre down and both pilots comunicated to each other. Perhaps Mr Halliday would better read ww-1 air history.
@@DannyBoy777777 Yes. A good idea that didn't work. They took too long to form up as a group owing to the disparity in speed between Hurricanes and Spitfires. Big Wings did not work and were quietly abandoned some time later. It proved to be like herding cats.
As a matter of fact, in the Battle of Britain, Fighter Command instructed their pilots NOT to shoot at German pilots who bailed out over Britain and were parachuting down, as they would land in Britain and so should be treated as prisoners of war. However, RAF pilots who bailed out over Britain could expect to be shot by the German pilots at as they would be viewed as combatants.
@@kawarthaohio5507 cos they needed intel. Later, when terror bombing started over Europe and US Air Force wanted air superiority they briefed their pilots to kill the axis fighter pilots on parachutes cos they could get another bf109 for the next sortie right away. The allied airmen losses were high until the end of war (2 sorties / fighter pilot and he was over) You can check this out, there is a docu here about a thunderbolt wing and their last 2 months of ww2. Göring tried convincing Garland to shoot bailed out pilots but Galland refused and Göring did not bring up it again.
@@hakapeszimaki8369 "coz they needed intel" - I don't think this was the primary reason in the Battle of Britain (when a nuanced legal point was still considered important) - unless you can provide a credible source for your assertion. Later in the war, yes, when most concepts of "fair play and chivalry" were long gone and, for example, firebombing of civilians was considered ok. But also - axis airmen shot down over their own territory were still viewed as combatants, so fair game. But as you point out, certain individuals on both sides maintained their sense of decency and would not kill a defenseless enemy.
With respect, I don't agree. His various sceptical opinions may or may not be true, but they offer food for thought. He provides a necessary foil, which, in my opinion, only improves the documentary.
Who's the guy with the white beard? Hasn't he ever heard of a hairbrush? He's being videotaped for public presentation for God's sake! Show some respect!
