A chill wind sweeps across the Bavarian Alps as Hanna Reitsch, Germany’s most famous test pilot, arrives at Hitler’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. It is February 28, 1944, and the tide of World War 2 is quickly turning against the Third Reich, but now, inside the dimly lit study of the Berghof, Reitsch stands before the Führer, her eyes gleaming with determination.
Reitsch gestures to blueprints spread across Hitler’s desk. The designs seem to depict a strange, tiny flying machine, completely unlike anything the Luftwaffe has deployed until now – more like a missile than an aircraft. But as Reitsch lays out her ideas, it soon becomes clear that the mission she has in mind is just as unprecedented – an extreme, almost unthinkable plan that would ask more of German aviators than ever before.
At first, Hitler is taken aback; this drastic proposal is too gruesome, even for him. As Reitsch describes potential targets – Allied shipping, power plants, even Buckingham Palace – his interest grows, but he’s still not convinced; the price to pay would be too great.
Yet Reitsch refuses to give up, arguing that this might be their last chance to save the Fatherland. For a long moment, silence reigns. Then, slowly, Hitler nods his assent. The Nazis are about to get to work on what will become the Fieseler Fi 103R, codenamed “Reichenberg” – their most desperate gambit yet…
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The Germans should have hired Japanese pilots….
It wasn’t just guided missiles. Piloted bombers also often missed intended targets by miles during WWII.
I am surprised that they didn’t try using the bottom facing ejection seat. It was the end of the war. Given more time, they could’ve made it work.
Love your documentaries. Thank you.
Thanks, Dark Skies.
looks like a v1 with a seat to me
There was a Nazi squadron that would deliberately crash their fighters into Allied bombers. They would bail out just before impact.
I'd like to impress everyone in the comment section wit my detailed knowledge of the subject in the hope of getting thumbs up, but frankly I can't be bothered. Trust me though I'm intellectually superior to those who know little of the subject.
She was hiding out in a hospital after end of war but identified by Eric 'Winkle' Brown RAF Test Pilot who had met her before war,
Wow. That was an excellent video!
Bullshit Video
THE PLANE WAS ALMOST AS CREEPY AS ADOLF HIM SELF.
I think the claim about the suecide plane is BS. This is when people do lazy wiki reserch.
I checked out the wiki references and they are really poor low quality references that for the most part looks like they are fake.
Don´t get me wrong, the maned V1 was for sure built, but for other reason than a suicide plane
When a Doodlebug went over, everybody stopped talking hoping it wouldn't cut out. If it did everyone dived for cover!
I’m certain Hanna Reich only had a V1 fitted with a cockpit to diagnose the problems they had with the bomb veering to the side. In the 1950s she was living in Accra, Ghana and was a keen member of the gliding club. My uncle who was working out there and was a glider pilot himself, said it was discussed many times. Aside from the risk of losing pilots, the cockpit could not have accommodated anyone heavier than 55kilos (121lb). Not many male pilots that small!
This was very interesting! I live in Ottawa and I've probably seen the one at the War Museum without even realizing, I'm going to have to make another visit to go see it.
Totalitarian regimes, sounds like this country. Uncle Adolph knew things, pray for Putin.
The weasely, click baity titles on YouTube are getting extra stupid. Remember to report and downvote trash like this
5:15 that is an iron cross, usually when a woman was wearing an iron cross it was from her deceased husband, but this is her own.
I can't imagine Hitler having ANY reservations about wasting lives. He told millions to fight to the death, especially in The USSR.
The V3 did become operational and was used to bombard Luxembourg from December 1944 to February 1945. Altogether, not terribly successful.
Complete insanity but incredible engendering for the time
"Reich" is pronounced "rike".
Goering should lay off the schnitzel.
V1 was the most devastating weapon worse than the v2. Most overshot because German operators ignored onbord radio equiptment and relied on on compromised agents which were force to say the the v1s were falling short, instead they overflow London. If they had relied on the instrumentation the results would have been devastating for london
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You do realize ejection seats weren't invented back then. Nobody had them.
Hitler: "Not gonna lie, that thing looks pretty sketch to me.."
Another great useless arrow in the thumbnail, like your audience is kids watching Fortnite videos. Grow up.
There's a manned one on display in the little aviation museum in deurne, near Antwerp.
Ah yes, the good 'ol "Buzz Bomb" or "Doodlebug", nicknamed for the sound its pulse jet engines produced.
Fortune favours the brave.
Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life.
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Change your words. Change your world.
Even you photographs have scratches and hair! You need to clean up your studio.
Hitler allowed women in the army’s positions? other than a nurse or cook?
Strange. Nazi Germany never seemed to have any problems sacrificing slaves from USSR, Poland, Yugoslavia or other captured countries. They couldnt even build a toilet without killing at least a hundred ”untermenschen”. But to ask a German to die for the state – the horror?
Japan did it … suicide bomber
Nazi-kaze's