My grandpa and his siblings had a friend who went to the school, due to my swiss great grandmothers involvement with internationals in Denmark. They always talked about this tragedy so its weird seing it as an edit now.
I remember my great grandmother told me a story once about it. She said her father had been working in the area when it happened and came over to help get people to safety while people evacuated.
I can't imagine how the bomber crew felt after that Imagine thinking you are essentially liberating innocents from the enemy only to learn you've just erased countless innocent futures let alone knowing your mistake will be immortalized in history
@@easternbrickfilms239this was an accident and based off a true story in the actual event they were low flying to bomb a gestapo HQ in the fog one of the planes hit a tower and crashed into a school and started a fire and the other planes thought it was the HQ and went in for a bombing running
@@fruta6279Yeah thats actually just wrong. They weren't spotless, any greek partisan could you tell you about Churchills betrayal. But all history speaks against what you've just said. Even German soliders sometimes felt remorse. Why would unindoctrinated British pilots not after accidentally bombing a school of a friendly nation.
Mark 8:35-37 KJV For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? You can't just say you'll be a better kinder person, stronger person, without doing a single thing about it! The only way to truly be a righteous man is by dying self, what does that mean? It means rejecting the world's ideology! Where this world thinks you're successful because you have supercars, money, power, women, military power.. the only way to be righteous man is by trusting in in the Lord Jesus.. and rejecting this world's ideology. Romans 3:10-12 KJV as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not one. Repent and turn back to the true Lord Jesus Christ! God bless.
@@AugustMeidalLings-bg1om Yes and for the Middle East you can't do anything to stop that or else you'll get called a terrorist, and get bombed by Obama 26,000 times spreaded out in 5 different countries. For your African leader whos rebuilding the country and makes it the most richest since 1400 years ago, gets assinated by the U.S and everyone forgets, so much for being a proud American.
@@AugustMeidalLings-bg1omIt was literally a mistake though, while they were attempting to fight ths occupiers of Denmark. Friendly fire happens, even though it's awful.
@@AugustMeidalLings-bg1om how do you know for certain these men didnt feel guilty? i understand why you feel that they deserve punishment, but it was a mistake and i assume all of them lived with that pain of what they done for the rest of their lives
This is one of the most tragic moments in danish history. About 250 people died in the accident, and 104 people died inside of the school. 86 children died some only 13 and less. 18 adults died. All were civilians and died in the tragic event rest in peace for the children that tragically died and for the adults that also tragically died. 8
@@Cancelthecancelcolture 250 died in total, and 104 of the people that died in the accident, were from the french school, 86 of them were children of the french school, and 18 of them were adults.
No shit, why the fuck would anybody make up a story of a bunch of danish children getting accidentally bombes by the airforce? Did you really need this Kyle guy to tell you it’s based off reality ? It’s like you neeed your hand held even to understand something simple and obvious
the worst things you can hear from someone carrying bombs are either "oops" or "what are the others doing?" the latter, cuz it's like no one's following the plan or smth and they don't know what the others are doing.
Indeed the planes didn’t know what the other planes was doing because they were on different radio frequency’s meaning the following two planes had no idea they were targeting the school because the radio differences prevented them from telling eachother
@@ThatoneComrade-444They weren't using radios at all, because it was a secretive precision strike, and they had to conceal themselves. Nothing to do with frequencies.
Ah but none of the soldiers deserve it, it is their leaders who make that decision to go to war. The soldiers are either forcefully drafted or just wants to protect the civilians and families. 😭
@@Crispy_Bread462that's every war, we can look back to the millions of conflicts and not one war was fought by leaders but by young men. In essence this is truly what war us about and in reality, we can't change anything about it
no it wasn’t, in the movie earlier the first plane was supposed to mark the target with smoke but it hit a electrical tower and crashed into the school church creating smoke. The rest of the planes proceeded to drop bombs on the wrong target.
@Sneppydeppy wdym, the first plane was supposed to mark the target but crashed into the school, making the other planes think that the school was the target. Think before you say something.
I grew up just a few kilometres away from this school and we will never forget this event and I wish all the innocent people that lost their lives in this bombing peace
Operation Carthage, aka the Shell House Raid. RAF Mosquitoes carried out a low level raid to bomb the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen. Low-level precision raids are very common to ensure accuracy (most famous being the Amiens prison raid). They succeeded in destroying Gestapo files on the Danish resistance and freeing resistance fighters being held in thhe buildings basement. Unfortunately, during the initial wave of attacks, a plane flew into the school depicted here. The fire and smoke caused other pilots to mistook it for the target, thereby causing them to mistakenly bomb the school.
@Egg_-..- doesn't mean you shouldn't take the time out to research if what he said was true or not, if you wanna get in a debate best to know about some things especially when it comes to history.
This happened in 21st march 1945. The Danish resistance provided some info the the British about the shell house (gestapo hq) with some waves of mosquito bombers. A mosquito bomber collided with some antenna and crashes near a French school in Copenhagen. Which is but the shell house (the intended target) which causes a huge smoke signal . There are some bombers that hit the intended target but the majority misses and bombs the school. Because the smoke signal. It was also really foggy so they could t see that much that’s why 1 bomber collided with the antenna. The movie is called Bombardment and you should really watch it it’s a good movie.
I am italian, the same exact thing heppened during ww2 during Milan' s bombardaments a whole school was destroied and roughly 500 kids died, including my grandpa's brother and sister 😔
The amount of innocents killed in WW2 is truly unthinkable. From the holocaust to the blitz to the allied bombings of the Axis cities to the atomic bombs. Senseless
@thedrunkendutchman2291The Soviet Union was on the winning side, but at what cost? We have lost 27 million people and almost the entire infrastructure industry and the agricultural sector in the western part of the country. The scar from the Second World War has not yet healed on the demography of the former USSR countries.
Italy chose the wrong side in two wars. Yall don’t get sympathy. Both time chose the genociidal side. And bombed civilians day in and day out. Sadly. Mistake happen when the war flips.
The RAF also strafed unarmed German prison ships which were carrying POWs. After destroying the ships, they strafed the water of its survivors. The records were initially classified until 2045 by the Ministry of Defense but were declassified in the 70s
@@SirBinding ***PLEASE NOTE THE OP HAS EDITED HIS ORIGINAL POST TO RELECT WHAT I WROTE BELOW ABOUT THE DOCUMENTS NO LONGER BEING CLASSIFIED SINCE 1972*** Not classified at all. The documents which were originally classified till 2045 were made available in 1972 (as part of the reclassification of documents by the Public Records Act 1967. So we have know what happened for over 50 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cap_Arcona#Sinking However we still continue to see comments like the one above with some vague claim about a cover up which is still classified - when it isn't.
@@texastankDo you actually think that bombing an actual school with probably over a hundred children is perfectly fine? Just say you hate children, lmao.
Funnily enough they seem to revel in the fact they indiscriminately bombed civilian targets time and time again, remembrance day every year, constant slating of German nationalism. The Germans weren’t even the most savage and ruthless army in ww2. Don’t forget Dresden, and Churchill ordering the bombing or civilian targets in Germany before Germany had even sent a single bomb to Britain.
@@kyle1751They may be commonplace, but this whole thing is just tragic. Civilians die in war usually due to crossfire or they were the target itself, not by being mistaken for the target bc of a failed strike.
Ah I love that quote from Niko bellic in gta 4. I forgot the rest of it but it went along the lines of “I was very young, and very angry. We all were…… roman? Roman you fat fuck!”
My great grandma who is 100 right now as I speak went through this hard time and I am Danish she is Danish and my great grandfather who was Danish helped clean this up! But all this that happened were horrible times and what happened to those innocent people there is very sad! 😢
Also who are you trying to come up on my family history and say what's right and wrong!? Your not in the family are you!? So how could you know if it's fake or not? Hmmm
@@yassinbelhajbrahim2635dude this is not about palestine, plus u only literally know about palestine and you probably don’t even care about palestine, he/she is just saying how many people died in the incident for all of the people wondering, and you over here talks about palestine when it’s not even palestine related, there’s ALOT more worse incidents than palestine’s, go read war history 🥱
@@Aichangggdude 89 kids die here and you cry but 4000kids were recently killed in gaza by israel. Your a narcissistic if you think ohh it normal so let's ignore it. When someone kills your family should the police ignore it and say it wasn't thier family. hypocrites .
The Danish civilian population was not an enemy of the British, many had no sentiment for the Germans and were forced by overwhelming forces to surrender in 6 hours and had remained under Germany the entire war.
You can’t even really blame the pilots either since it was low altitude, thick fog, they wanted to get home as soon as possible and a completely unforeseen circumstance of that bomber making it look like the target
@@Thanan548if we wanna go that way we should blame French and British for what they done after ww1 to push Germany in hand of nazis and this loop go on and on its this is shifting blame RAF is to blame and only RAF
@@rezh1999if y'all wanna go that way, we should blame humanity for inventing things, and blame our existence in its entirety, the root of all evil in this fucking world
My dad was in this school when it happened he was only 8 he ran and escaped but his brother died till this day my dad always talks about my uncle dying there
@@thewaterdrop123one of the planes from the previous attack had crashed into the tower so when the next wave came in the saw the burning tower and believed it to be the target they had no intention to bomb any civilians
My grandfather's folks apartment in the city center of Nevers, France was completely destroyed during the war . The RAF was targetting the nearby train station but a navigation error led them to bomb the city center instead. The whole historical city center was turned to ruins. Eight decades later the cathedral which sustained heavy damage during the raid is still underwork for repairs.
My grandmother friend went to that school she survived because she was on one of the Platforms in between the stairs playing with her friend and if she would have been on the stairs they would have collapsed and she would have most likely died. Btw it’s a great movie and this movie is based on shellhuset in kopenhagen
heres some like context of what happened: so the RAF (basically just the british air force) in ww2 was allied with denmark. Denmark had asked britian to bomb/raid this place where the germans were doing something bad idk what, and the british had refused a lot because it was very close to a school, but finally they agreed. That's not why they bombed the school tho- a plane had crashed near-almost next to-the school and they mistaked it as the target and they noticed but it was too late (as you can see in the video of them saying "abort, abort") and sadly that school was bombed
They were targeting the Gestapo HQ. The raid was actually successful. The Gestapo HQ building was destroyed, along with several documents about their jntelligence in the activities of the Danish resistance. A bunch of Danish resistance held in the building also managed to escape because of the bombardment. Overall, not the worst bombing raid of the war.
So this is what we know happened: It's about a precision bombing raid of a gestapo HQ in Copenhagen, a building called the Shell house. It was a bombing raid Danish resistance had called for, for a while. A year prior the RAF had sucessfully bombed the Gestapo HQ in Aarhus university campus, the second largest city in Denmark, with very little collateral damage, only a few Danes died as a result. (I live just around the block from the Campus) The Copenhagen raid was a bit different. A total of 18 bombers armed with 36 bombs took part in the raid. One of the planes in the first wave is shot down by German anti aircraft and crashes into a garage building next to a French speaking school in the resident district of Frederiksberg. The second wave coming in from the west saw the smoke and flames from the downed plane first, as a result they believe that the French school is the target and drop their bombs, one or two withholding their bombs. The RAF manage to target the right building for the third wave and successfully bomb the Shell house. Total casualties were 250 and leaving 900 people without a home. 86 of the casualties were childeren and 18 teachers were killed as well. It was the single biggest loss of life during the occupation of Denmark. What is tragic is that, it was less than 50 days before the Nazi occupation ended, and less that half of the casualties were German soldiers or Danish gestapo collaborators.
My grandfather was just a boy (7 I believe) when he fled from eastern prussia. He lost his mum, and was injured by shrapnel. His little sister was separated from the rest of the family. She was found sitting on a pile of bodies, and brought to southern germany. My grandfather made his way to Copenhagen, where he was brought to a hospital. He was reunited with his aunt and brought to the Oksbøl refugee camp. Later on he and his Aunt were braught to the Schäferhaus refugee camp in northern germany. The red cross eventually found his sister and reunited them. Its always easy for foreigners to blame amd condemn all germans for WWII, when in reality, the war was just pure horror for all involved. In war, no one wins...
This actually happened an unfortunate amount of times throughout the war especially in France in preparation and in continuance of D-day. From high in the sky its hard to pick out targets to crews who have never been to these cities especially in an area with a lot of features like a town. Before anyone calls Warcrimes, id argue against since this was unintentional. Fortunately all sacrifices were not in vain in the destruction of the third Reich
Well that just life. Everyday when you gaining somebody else is losing something, goes both ways... Sadly enough there always be winner or loser there can't be all winner.. And that's why life can be fun but also be really depressing there is no way around it. It sucks, for you to gain you need to take, when you take somebody else can't take or lost it. Circle of live....
Allied planes bombed Switzerland about seventy times during World War II, killing 84 people. Although these bombings were attributed to error, some historians have suspected that the Allies wanted to send a warning to Switzerland for having collaborated with Germany. - Wikipedia
Disclaimer! What I’m about to say does not defend the actions of the day The raid was on a gestapo hq which was requested by the danish resistance, however the school had a similar look to the gestapo hq leading the bom era to misidentify the targets. Their were more factors on the day. None of the pilots or crew were informed of the mistake until the end of the war Edit: ok so I failed to mention a mosquito crashed into a lamp post near the school and the second wave thought that it was the target
Apparently during the first wave of attack a plane crashed into the school causing the rest of the battalion to mistake the fire and smoke at the school as the previously bombed gestapo target...
I mean, at a time when radar was new & IFF tags wouldn’t be invented for decades, mistaken targets must’ve been very common. Heck, even in the past couple decades, when we DO have such advanced technology, friendly fire incidents are all too common. (Most famously in Iraq.)
@@deaghostyt2217 the lead aircraft crashed into a light pole near the school leading to the aircraft thinking that was the target. Also, bit of a fallacy there. You think that if I’m mistaken then I’m lying? Bro what if I just made a mistake or something.
@@thesnazzycomet one of the few times you brits actually hit a specific building you belived was the target. sadly you didn´t had your average aim there or all the bombs would hitting buildings all around that school
@SirBinding oh...right. no. I meant the gestapo building the Raf were supposed to bomb...or was it the SS? Yeah... I thought it would have been obvious...but no not the RAF...
This was not “sloppy” at all nearly every mission the RAF did was thoroughly planned out to an extreme extent, this was just a mistake the target was very close to the school and was mistaken for being the actual target, everyone makes mistakes and this is just another prime example of one. Don’t tell me that you haven’t made a horrific mistake before, planned events that have been planned to every single detail can still go wrong
You try to eyeball one buildings right next to each other from others at over 1000 meters up and say that again, you’ll make the same mistake, they look identical from high up at 300+ miles an hour
War is war bro, I hate it too, but do me a favor, look at your countries flag, when you see it’s bright colors or pretty shapes, u should feel enlightened and powerful, a nations flag is its diamond disrespect the flag you disrespect everyone, war is created to be a fine line between right and wrong, so tell me, is fighting so wrong if it’s to protect what one believes in? Just things you gotta think about boss.
@@warcryme4176 yeah war is wrong if you're fighting over difference in beliefs. We have borders for a reason. Keep your beliefs within them if others disagree. Violence is never the answer and never excusable. :)
@@JNGham guess what, those “borders” don’t do shit, if someone in a different country burns another countries flag, guess what, it’s almost immediately a war, without question, can’t keep your “beliefs” in one country that’s just silly to say, don’t get me mistaken either I full well understand the urgency of ending wars, but buddy, going around saying “omg stop war, slay queen” I assure you all your doing is making yourself seem cringe, it maybe your opinion or what not, but when you get down in the nitty gritty of things, you’ve gotta get your hands dirty so others don’t it’s how it’s always been for centuries, just because our society is turning more sissy and queer does not mean war will turn that way with it, the way I see it, in maybe 5 years tops buddy this conversation will be lost in time, because we’re all definitely dying before then, china is @ing the us, North Korea stays a pain, Russia will never stop because throughout history they always keep going they lose a million troops before even considering surrender, guess what, we ain’t even dented a million yet, so buddy all I can say is I’ll see you wherever our paths will collide in the next life, cause I assure you nuclear warfare is really really soon, please do research 🧐! I’ve made myself well established, have a good night/day!
@@warcryme4176 yeah you're bring ridiculous. If you're upset over a flag being burned then you need to sort your priorities. Also we arent all dying to china etc we'll just be under new management.
WARCRIMES which they do not like to tell you about. More french people died during the French liberation than during the French occupation. All due to allied bombing.
Everyone ignores that though. US troops raped French women on a regular basis statistically US raped more than Germany did and they all got off free. You can find many French statements saying they were glad they were liberated. But during the liberation the germans had more respect to civilians than the allies. Yeah germans would execute civilians if they believed partisan activity but they didn't loot and pillage like allied troops. Its actually sad that allies killed more french civilians...
@@Lehr-km5be Use your initiative, its very well documented with diary accounts and documentaries. Same as french women who had consensual relations with germans after the war were paraded naked in the streets drawn on and their heads shaved. The parts of history people don't like learning. No one was 'good guys' just different shades of fuked up.
40.000-60.000 dead in the entire battle of Normandy compared to over 1 million deported to Germany for forced labour and concentration camp (Esp. french Jews), what the fuck are you smoking? Wehraboos always comment on videos like this to justify Germany's horrendous war crimes.
There’s absolutely no animosity between the British and the Danish . I can’t speak for the Danes but only for us. Mistakes happen in the fog of war, the Danish were out of the war and we weren’t going to stop until we won or collapsed. We were bombed night after night by the Germans by someone who “ didn’t actually want to invade Britain and even saw us as a potential ally “ . These are not my words.
You know what’s even more terrifying? This is happening right at this exact moment to innocent families in their own households, in Gaza. Guess humanity never really learns from its mistakes.
@@pspspspssspspps my friend, the gazans do not have any money to support hamas. Most of them do not like hamas, but they do not disagree with hamas fighting back. They are tired of the oppression and death they faced for over 70 years. They are suffering, they do not have anywhere to live, eat, drink or excrement. The pets in our household are treated better. I don’t support hamas, i dont know enough about them to justify their actions or goals, but i know that i could never justify the deaths of 40,000 innocent woman, children and men. Indiscriminate to the elderly, sick, injured, or even infants. You cant hide the truth. Its not possible for every one of those deaths to be combatants. Let alone the fact that the people were pushed from gaza down to rafah, and then attacked in rafah too. Have you seen the burned bodies of the children? Why does the thousand year old claim of the zionist jews stand over whoever is living there right now? All three abrahamic faiths have equal right to jerusalem. Dont get fooled by israel’s propaganda; its clear that it has nothing to do with retaliation, and is just about extermination and ethnic cleansing of a people. These Zionists are hypocrites; they do what the nazis did to their ancestors. They do not even have lineage in palestine; the all go back to the jews of europe. That’s why genetic and ancestry tests are banned in israel. Please be human and just be against the killing of innocents. No innocents should die, for any side. Whether israeli, or Palestinian.
@@SirBinding 😆🤣 yeah, that may just be a me thing. I heard grammar Nazi a long time ago, then as my love for history grew I thought "if we're gonna be a Nazi might as well go all in and upgrade"
Because Ukrainian soldiers like to hide in schools and churches. Any civilian buildings, waiting to ambush opponents. They intentionally used "It is war crime you can't bomb this" tactic against Russians. No way that's gonna work.
Except Japan and the Nazis did their war crimes deliberately and en masse. No doubt some allied individuals and even some units committed horrific acts but it was not the official policy of the government.
I remember watching this movie it really made me cry but i remember some part of the movie, 1.two girls couldn't get out in time so they got stuck under neath a rock,some people there were trying to drain the water because there was a water at the bottom,at the end the first girl drowed then the second girl drowed because of the water kept raising. 2.there was a muted boy and some of the parents were looking for there children,so the muted boy took a journal and wrote the names of the children and then he got an adult to speak in the microphone (i think) to tell the parents who were trying to find their child. 3.In the morning there was this girl who didn't eat her food,when she came out of the school she went back home and ate her food in peace,meanwhile her mother was looking for her at the church school (i think its a church school not sure😅) but someone told the mom she came out of the school and went somewhere,the mom realized where she went and the mom came back home and found her sitting eating her food looking right straight at her. Hope this help if you wanted to know some parts.😊
My great grand mother was telling me that during a bombardment, the most scary moment was not the explosion or to die, it was the moment of silence when the bombs were launched...and after hearing the screams and cry of innocents peoples
There is no point in arguing with someone like you. It’s like talking to a brick wall. One was an accident and the other was deliberate, it’s as simple as that. You can’t accept that the Nazis were evil.
@@yeettheheat navigation error of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Navigation error of Tokyo Navigation error on Berlin and Dresden Man allies needed to fix their Glasses
@@bardiagh6960 let me get this straight you understand that both the Allies and Axis committed war crimes and atrocities. How then would one be better than the other, they are both BAD. I never once said I think the Allies aren’t bad, I think they are war criminals. How would you saying “the allies did bad things” change the fact that the Axis also did bad things. Both are bad neither are the “good guys” Why bother arguing about which side is worse when both sides are bad, it’s pointless.
