Stuka Pilot, Heinz-Georg Wilhelm Migeod, Interviewed. 

It's great hearing the German perspective where he's not walking on eggshells regarding what he recounts and is honest about his feelings. I'd like to see more of these. Even with the Japanese.

Great to hear from a German veteran, about his feelings and perceptions of the war and its aftermath. Cant blame him for feeling bitter about the allies handing over his homeland to the Russians, and then expecting him to join the Bundeswehr, to keep the Russians at bay. Absorbing narrative, brings the momentous events he experienced to life.

A unique interview providing insight into the life of a Stuka pilot. Despite the situation he was in he seems to have served with honour and courage. Thank you Jeff for putting it up.

I enjoyed this tremendously. This man,is one of honor,bravery,and intelligence.His class,and honor,from the great Prussian Tradition. A real, living history,without the tiresome,politically correct hypocrisy.God Bless him. A real gentleman.

i must admit that this story was one of the golden nuggets i found on youtube. when i listen to Heinz-Georg Wilhelm Migeod, his story becomes a kind of real. its like sitting next to him and as he tells his story, it becomes more and more like watching a movie somehow. the story he told was so impressive, he made me realy think a lot. from early on, my favourite thing on was to listen to people like Migeod, but people who are able and willing to tell the german side of the story are rare. someone who wants to know what really happend, should listen very carefully to people like him. Migeod does not behave like these soldiers they showed on german TV over an over again. Migeod seems to be proud, like any other successful soldier. he did what soldiers had to do - to fight and kill. people like him should be treated with respect. it makes me sick to know that german soldiers where treated like criminals, only because they served their country.

A true gentleman, a man of bravery and honour, and an insight into history from someone who was there when this history was being made...

1:00:43 - Wow, that specific story really got me, when he discussed the kamikaze pilot and said "I'm not sure if he asked for the gunners consent". I never thought about it from the gunners perspective, when the pilot turns kamikaze. =\

He is a good story-teller. A pleasure to listen to, thumbs up

What a treasure this video is. Lucky he got to tell his stories to the world so soon before his death

incredible, than you for preserving these historical memories

Thanks for uploading. Better than 99.9% videos here

How a wonderful, interesting and long overdue interwiev and testament. We have all waited for stories like this. Today we really need history to be told by both sides.... Greetings from Deenmark

I'm glad this was finally made to a full length video it is very interesting these old gentleman wont be around much longer and it's good to learn their history regardlesss of what country there from. Good Work.

May he rest in peace

THANKS FOR AN EXCELLENT INSIGHT OF A MAN THAT DONE HIS DUTY .

Thanks for the positive feedback.

A good gentleman with discipline, honour, intelligence, beauty. They don't make men like him anymore.

I used to talk with a few old guys like him at the tavern when I was with the BR-1 at Ulm. I went to dinner at there homes and even went on a few excursions in the country with all the wives. They became close family friends.one was even a colonel and was the most fascinating and technical old guy I have ever met. Worked for Mauser after the war.

Excellent video, RIP brave airman , all my respect.

Nice interview...old soldiers never die, they just fade away.

I m from Romania and my grandparents told me very nice things about the Germans contrary to the history we learn from tv and school.

What a great documentary... Thanks !

Thank you for this video. Keeping the truth alive for present and future generations is a project that should be applauded, and I do. God bless all.

a wonderful man wish they were victors. Stayed true till the end.

a man of the old garde, a living example of unknown heros! His short report are the less live like impressions!

So cool and I think important to see his and others perspective from WW2. Thank you for re-uploading!

Most honest and frank interview given or spoken by Heinz-Georg Wilhelm Migeod, he seems to careless Germany losing the IInd World War but in his view how he served his role successfully. Only he lived to tell the tale cause many German pilots perished and those who survived the War they went quiet, including the best Aces ever produced by Germany. Remarkably he caught up with Mountbatton's pants down.

Great interview Jeff, and yes Adam R.I.P. Heinz

Thank you, Jeff. Very excellent job on linking these 60 separate videos. Well done!

My mentor Hauptmann Dr Heinz-Georg Migeod What an honor for me to have known you very well ! Germanic Greet Anton Hart

Stuka flight training. The instructor starts going over all the bells and whistles. Says the plane is slow, says there is a button to blow the bolts off the landing gear, says there is a lever to engage the “auto pull out” of a dive, in case you black out, there is also siren. So we are looking for short, fat, and old people who really can’t contribute to the war, to fly this. Then the instructor asks if anyone has any questions. My hand goes up. You mean to tell me, this plane is 120 miles per hour slower than all other planes? You mean to tell me, there is a button to remove parts from my plane, while I am flying it? You mean to tell me, I have to pull on a lever before I dive, in case I black out in a plane I am flying? So after all this, your going to sit there and tell me, your looking for short, fat old people because we have no other option to help fight this war, but your going to announce my arrival into battle with a siren in a slow plane that has buttons and levers that allow the plane to take it self apart in flight? Is that correct? My question is, Sir...Where is the button I press that turns me around back to base.

need more videos like this before we loose this generation

Great interview and editing by Tinus le Roux. All you need to do to watch in sequence and give him the views and reward his work deserves is to click "play all" in the interview playlist.

Wonderful man, what history he recounts. Thanks for posting this!

Amazing interview, thank you.

of the THOUSANDS of ww2 documentaries I have seen over the years this is by far one of my favorites. What an absolute gem. Thanks to the uploader. This is the type of personal, down to earth content youtube was designed to share. Fantastic interview with a true gentleman.

Brave men on all sides.🇬🇧Thanks.

I have read many book on this topic. This is the first one read to me by its author. Priceless. Thanks Jeff Wilson from bringing this jewel to us. Be well

What a life this man has lived good or bad but what life ! Fantastic story mr Migeod RIP ❤️

Rest In Peace! Godspeed and good tailwinds!

this is the 4th time i've watched this GREAT interview - and it certainly wont be the last--~o

Thanks so much for this !! Truly an insightful, interview of immense historical worth and one that I have thoroughly enjoyed revisiting over the years. R.I.P. Migoed

No words on how he was shot down and captured.....its strange...was an essential episode of his story....

My grandfather was a BF109 pilot and was shot down at the age of 24 close to the end of the war. All we know is that he was shot down over Hungary. Not sure where. Some day I hope he will be found and returned to Germany. All I have are pictures and nothing else.

The Stuka was one of the best most beautiful plane ever built. I wish there was not a order to search and destroy it. Growing up around 4 to 5 years old my father built 3 war plane models and hung from my bedroom ceiling, one a Zero, one a Spitfire, and one a Stuka in Desert Paint. At that age I did not know anything about planes or what they were, I just loved the look of the Stuka. Later in my teens, growing up in Chicago, one of the 3 Stukas that survived is on display at the Museum of Science and Industry. I went every day for 5 years back in the late 80's to just look at this plane. I would give anything to get a chance to fly in one. Just a beautiful plane that was a battle axe.

Thank you for this. Just priceless.

He is telling the story as he was feeling when this happened, like that not like its common that germans always show regretting their actions under ww2 . This find man do not sugarcoat his story but how he was feeling, he was a pilot do now war crime its refreshing to listen to him. He hade a job too do, no more no less he was a find man I would be proved to serve next to him.

Clearly there were heroes on both sides. An excellent record of wartime service first hand, thank you!

Always interesting to hear the granular details from an individual. My father fought in Europe during the War but he never would talk about it.

A brave man & fascinating hearing his side of the story

Thank you so much for uploading this.I loved it!

outstanding upload

Quality upload, thank you for sharing! Did a great job putting the vids together; VERY FINE job again! RIP Heinz!

thanks for your work man... it was a good video.

Thank you for uploading this precious video.

You folks will enjoy this too. Stuka pilot in North Africa: Hans Deibl 1

Thanks for your work in putting this together. I enjoyed watching it.

amazing...now we get some truth after so many lies fed by holliwood. did you add the music yourelf ?

“My Good Comrade “ A fitting tribute to the Man indeed.

Very interesting interview. I like the guy but the more you listen... He does seem to maintain the viewpoint he had from the beginning. I imagine he is an example of the common attitude of young men in Germany during 30's and early 40's.

His memory is a steel trap! A real class act and a delightful 3 hours

Amazing footage

This recording is gold dust! Beautiful and historical

My grandmother spent the war in France. The Stukas attacked the civilians fleeing to stop the troops on the other side of the road. She survived an attack and fell facing the sky. She told me she’ll never forget the pilots face and his blue eyes, because they got very low. When the attack was over she got pieces of skull and brains of the people who died, all over her.

Drop the Music.

Thank you for recording this very interesting Officers History, Very good speaker also.

Wonderfull! Thanks Jeff.

Would be great to see all the footage as my impression was that alot was cut out during editing.

Excellent recollections from a very interesting man

Great Man...

When i was a boy i had some teachers who had been pilots of the Luftwaffe in the war.

Fantastically done video, thank you for sharing your efforts with us.

you all need to listen from 13:43 - 14:50 ...750 km - and then beginning at 2000 km he had to take out of the dive slowly. The surface of the wings were undulated ( warped) when inspected. Ergo, the flight was never recorded and kept secret. .. You didn't listen.

Unbelievable, that they let this Gentleman tell his life story without interrupting him, this Interview is an exquisite example of true History, much different than the mainstream Hollywood Propaganda Version 💁‍♀️

The background music is a very bad idea.

Believe it or not he fought for the side of the people

A brother in law from my grandmother (or grandfather) was a stuka pilot, I never met him, I saw only one picture of him. Budischowsky (I don't how was written), one of those german names with a not so german sound. He went to Me109 during the war, returned to luftwaffe in the 50's and worked as a starfighter instructor. I am 99,99999% sure that he is already dead. Probably was dead when I first visited Germany, I was born and raised in Brazil. A hundred years later, everybody is dead anyway.

Soon they will all be gone, the great generation.. Danke dass du nicht aufgegeben hast mein Freund, und Ruhe in Frieden!

Thank you for posting.

the Scottish Sargent who was guarding them as POWs on the train said it best about how to end the war. Probably put the men at ease knowing he is thinking 'we are all in this hell together as pawns of the elite?"

My grandpa survived the bombing and invasion of Thessalonika( 46:09 ). That was his home, and his entire family was killed. He joined the guerilla fighters and fought until Greece was liberated. After the war, he moved to America, which is where I am now.

Great interview!

actually I just spliced the short clips together. all the rest of the work had already been done.

Some truthful memories on the history of WW2.

Regarding the controversy of stukas firing on British sailors, I don't think either the sailors or pilots need to be lying in order for conflicting stories to crop up. A panicked drowning man watching his close friends dying around him isn't in a frame of mind to exactly determine what an airplane is shooting at or what the exact origin of various wounds were.

If not for the Holocaust. This was fantastic. War Stinks! Thank You

R.I.P NO1 (HERO)

This was from a dive fall at 8000 meters high.

thank you for that work you've done! it's great to watch in on sequence

Throwing one of these into a 90 degree dive at 500 mph. These guys were not human.

So how was he captured? What were the circumstances?

Thank you for this interview with Heinz, Jeff!

God Bless him and his family

Thank you for doing so!!

I found this series rather interesting, particularly from his recollections as a POW. One hears very little from them as compared to the tales from returning Allied POW's. After all of these years he still retained a measure of the "master race" arrogance that ended up costing his mother country so much. I did not expect him to be "repentant" insofar as he truly did no more than my own father did. They "answered the call", joined up, fought, killed people and , luckily, survived the war to go on and try to put it behind them. In my younger years, I knew two German veterans of WWII (one from the Wehrmacht and the other from the Luftwaffe). They were not apologetic but they were also not arrogant. They were now Canadians.

Walter Sigel (* 12. Januar 1906 in Ulm; † 8. Mai 1944 im Trondheimfjord) R. i. P.

Heldenmänner!

Excellent interview! Very interesting and entertaining.

Thank you.

A fine historian and man of morals. Thank u 4 uploading. Dr T