Evolution of German Aircraft | Animated History

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my grandfather actually was a ww2 hero : in one day he singlehandedly destroyed 4 fighters, 2 bombers and a stuka. easily the worst mecanic the luftwaffe ever had.

Fun fact, the body of the ME262 jet fighter was manufactured in my primary school. That's not a joke, the building has since been replaced, but when i was in school we were still in that old half run down building that was the exact place the planes were built. It was a concentration camp which was partially destroyed, and when the war ended the refugees needed a place to stay, so they never demolished the still standing buildings. Eventually it was turned into a school, and in the 2000s it was still standing.

1:54 This is exactly why I love the German language

1:54 "...Enter the fucker..."

4:23 Actually incendiary bullets did not do anything either, because fires can not start in a 100 fuel environment. It was explosive rounds that could shred large areas of the zeppelin, which allowed oxygen to get in, and in turn allow fires.

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly" - Friedrich Nietzsche

10:09 oh hey it's me :D

19:33 if u didn’t know the thing that’s spinning on top is NOT a radar it is the optics for the gunner the tiger does in fact not have a radar

After the evolution of uniforms and tanks videos, one about aircraft is what I wanted to see next. So glad my wish came true! I hope to see the evolution of British, American, French, Japanese, Italian, Russian/Soviet aircraft in the future.

Fun Fact: The BF 109 is one of the most produced fighter aircraft of all time, with the last variant used by the Spanish all the way up to the 1950s!

19:18 I bet it would be terrifying to see a flying panzer 6 tiger

I miss the Messerschmitt Me 323(Gigant-biggest cargo plane in WWII) and the Bo 105 which was a long time the multirole Helicopter of the Bundeswehr(attack, scout and cargo-is currently in usage by aerobatics).

5:07 Germany was prohibited by the treaty of Versailles to even comission any military planes. The Weimar Republic had a tech cooperation treaty with the equally shunned Soviet Union to at least somewhat keep up with developments and when the Nazis took power they started a covert rearmament programme right off the bat, commissioning the Heinkel He-51 biplane in 1934 (like many planes of the early 30s pretty much still a WW1 design with 1930s Tech Level) which was quickly replaced by the much more advanced Messerschmitt Bf-109. So it's not true to say Germany modernized its WW1 air forces to the BF-109. Its WW1 Air forces were entirely demobilized, decommissioned and mostly destroyed in 1919.

The plane the Germans were required to turn over at the end of World War I was the Fokker D-7 not the D-4. I really enjoy your work, thanks.

It may have already been mentioned, but the Fokker aircraft that stood out at the end of the was was not the D.IV (4) but the Fokker D.VII (7). It was, as you mentioned, an outstanding aircraft, and even saw combat after WWI during the Polish-Soviet war in 1919.

Allies: why do I hear boss music Fredrich Von Richtofen: hahaha 80 allies go boom

The He 111 was a great bomber when it had fighter cover. It also had a very sturdy airframe and could take a beating. They where still used on the Eastern front up until 1944. Im suprised you mention the Do 217 in stead of the Ju 88 as they Ju 88 was the most common bomber the Germans had.

These episodes are my favorite, I love them, can’t wait for the next, maybe another country’s evolution of aircraft

I wish you included more on helicopters here. Ww2 gave rise to some interesting experimental helicopters that even saw very limited use.