In May 1945, the U.S. and British forces gave Hermann Goering a press conference. This is the complete rare transcript of this press conference.

[Imi]

I bought the 4-way translation of Mein Kampf, we were lied to so many times

Mein Kampf is actually about Hitler's life and political career up until his imprisonment in 1920.
Hitler understood the social problems very well, who had the problem, although I personally don't think his agreement with Mussolini was a good idea, the Romanians also attacked him in the back in 1944 because Antonescu, as soon as the Russians arrived, immediately jumped out of the Axis alliance and switched to the Russian side, which really surprised the German leadership and this really accelerated the course of the war.
Although Hitler's fanaticism was a bit strong in the nature of the continuous attack and he did not see that the armament of the Axis countries that helped him was far behind the German armament, which also resulted in a total defeat on the Eastern Front (although the German armament was sometimes weaker than the armament of the Allies, the Russian PPSH41 smg, PPS43 smg, SVT40 rifle, T34 tank, IS2 heavy tank, American Bazooka was much better than the German equipment and was not tested in extreme conditions in advance, it was only towards the end of the war, when Germany was already on the verge of collapse, that the weapons appeared with which the Germans could have won the Second World War in the middle of the war), which by the end of 1943 it was already apparent that the Germans were retreating despite the fact that Hitler only gave orders to retreat in extremely rare cases (although this military prohibition order was violated by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS from 1942 onwards and capitulated or retreated despite the continuous attack order)
The Deutsche Wochenschau, on the other hand, is a problem because it has been completely deleted from the internet (amateur Jewish work) because a lot of film material showing the war from the German side has been lost
But now we can watch the Russian military news or the American ones, neither of them will show how many losses there are on the domestic side because that would seriously destroy the morale of the civilian layer and probably a rebellion would break out in the motherland against the current government and military leadership
So every video in every war is slightly cosmeticized for its own domestic side, that everything is in order on the front generally
It is also very rare on this site to see how many losses the Ukrainians are suffering, although they are already very rare, the volunteers have long since run out, they all died and the Western media only shows the constant Russian losses in the vast majority of cases
But this is not the case, Ukraine is in serious trouble without the help of the West, Russia has long since would have occupied Ukraine in a couple of weeks at most
Russia is the second largest military power in the world after the US, it is not a problem for it to settle Ukraine either in Stalin's time or now
But in Stalin's time no one cared about the Ukrainians, but now because of the farmland and the Ukrainian underground gas the USA, Israel and the EU support the Ukrainians with modern weapons that is why everything costs twice as much as it did 3 years ago because even though nobody here wants war and Ukrainians don't, they still raise prices in the shops and force people to pay the price of a war they have nothing to do with, and they even want to admit Ukraine to the EU in an accelerated procedure

 

[Imi]

Teeshine
I forgot to mention the BM13 "Katyusha" (aka Stalin's organ) serial rocket launcher from 1941, which was also a cheap and very successful destructive construction from the Russian side, of which about 10,000 pieces were produced.
The BM-13 could fire 132 mm rockets from 16 tubes, its effective range was over 5,000-6,000 meters, its accuracy was 1.5 km, which meant that even if the enemy was not directly hit, it would still cover the entire area with shrapnel, so it was impossible to escape from it. Since it was mounted on a truck, it was possible to change positions quickly, which was a great advantage.


The answer to this was the German "Nebelwerfer", but it only fired 6 rockets, but they were of a larger caliber and were already They also achieved a range of 7-8000 meters, but since they were towed,and the crew had to hide at least 15 meters away to launch the missiles so they were still inferior to the effectiveness of the soviet BM13

Use of Nebelwerfer during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in August - September 1944

 

[hedgerow]

Mein Kampf is actually about Hitler's life and political career up until his imprisonment in 1920.
Hitler understood the social problems very well, who had the problem, although I personally don't think his agreement with Mussolini was a good idea, the Romanians also attacked him in the back in 1944 because Antonescu, as soon as the Russians arrived, immediately jumped out of the Axis alliance and switched to the Russian side, which really surprised the German leadership and this really accelerated the course of the war.

with the commencement of Operation Uranus, the Russians chose the weak Romanian soldiers to finally close the ring and seal Stalingrad to its fate...why didn't they get out, as Paulus wanted to? I blame that fuckup AH.

Big mistake and a huge shock to the Germans to lose the entire Sixth Army. The beginning of the end for sure.

Hitler was in prison for a relatively short time, sometime in 1923-24.

 

[MrBang]

Goering: In the early years when I had supreme command of the Luftwaffe, I had definite plans, but in 1940 Hitler began to interfere, taking air fleets away from our planned operations. That was the beginning of the breakdown of the Luftwaffe efficiency.

Spaatz: In the Battle of Britain why did you maintain such rigid formations of fighters and bombers?

Goering: It was necessary to cover the bombers because their fi re power was low (not like your bombers). It was also necessary for our fighters to closely cover each other. You see, it was a question of equipment.

Spaatz: Was the Ju 88 designed for the Battle of Britain? Goering: The Ju 88 was primarily a commercial airplane which had to be adapted for the Battle of Britain along with the He 111 because we had nothing else. I was not in favor of engaging in the Battle of Britain at that time. It was too early. The He 177 was late in development. The He 177 was a development from the original Stuka with two propellers on four motors. It was a failure; it wasted two years. That is why we had no large bombers in the Battle of Britain.

Spaatz: When did you know that the Luftwaffe was losing control of the air?

Goering: When the American long-range fighters were able to escort the bombers as far as Hanover, and it was not long until they got to Berlin. We then knew we must develop the jet planes. Our plan for the early development of the jet was unsuccessful only because of your bombing attacks.

Spaatz: Did our attacks affect your training program?

Goering: Yes, for instance the attacks on oil retarded the training because our new pilots could not get sufficient training before they were put in the air where they were no match for your fliers. Patch: Did the Luftwaffe have priority in the distribution of manpower?

Goering: Yes, the Luftwaffe had first priority and thus had the cream of Germany, the U-boats were second, and the panzers third. Even at the end, the best of German youth went into the Luftwaffe. Only the Waffen SS sometimes held back personnel. All other organizations surrendered personnel to the Luftwaffe on application.

Spaatz: Did the jet airplane really have a chance to win against us? Goering: Yes, I am still convinced, if we had only four to five months more time. Our underground installations were practically all ready. The factory at Kahla had a capacity of 1,000 to 1,200 jet airplanes a month. Now with 5,000 to 6,000 jets, the outcome would have been different. Vandenberg: But could you train sufficient jet pilots, considering your shortage of oil?

Goering: Yes, we would have had underground factories for oil, producing a sufficient quantity for the jets. The transition to jets was very easy in training. The jet pilot output was always ahead of the jet aircraft production.

Spaatz: Could Germany have been defeated by airpower alone, using England as a base, without invasion?

Goering: No, because German industry was going underground, and our countermeasures could have kept pace with your bombing. But the point is, that if Germany were attacked in her weakened condition as now, then the air could do it alone. That is, the land invasion meant that so many workers had to be withdrawn from factories’ production and even from the Luftwaffe.

Patch: Was that also true of England? Goering: To me, this is a difficult question. Germany was prepared for war and England wasn’t. I was forced by Hitler to divert air forces to the East, which I always opposed. Only the diversion of the Luftwaffe to the Russian front saved England. She was unable to save herself and unable to bomb Germany

Spaatz: When you conquered France in 1940, why didn’t you go on through to Spain and Gibraltar?

Goering: Germany had saved Spain from the Bolsheviks. Spain was in the German camp. I insisted on going to Spain but to no avail. We could have bottled the British Fleet in the Mediterranean, but no—the Fuehrer wanted to go to Russia. My idea was to close both ends of the Mediterranean, “und dann die sache ist in ordnung” \[“and then things are fi ne”\]. I am positive we could have taken Gibraltar. The Luftwaffe was ready and we had two divisions of parachutists ready and trained, but Mussolini objected. Part of our pain—the Italians. Also there was the complication of the relations between France and Spain.

Spaatz: Did you know anything of our movement to Africa as to time and place? Goering: Well, I presumed it, but if the Germans had only held Morocco and the Canaries as I wanted, the going would have been difficult for you. Spaatz: Your best attack on us was at Poltava, at the airfield. Why was that so successful? \[Poltava was a Russian airfield used briefly by the AAF in long-range shuttle bombing missions.\]

Goering: Those were wonderful times. We had an observation ship flying with you. You did not know it. It was a 177 which fortunately developed motor trouble and indicated it couldn’t land on the fi eld with only one motor. So it was able to return to give the information on your landing at Poltava. As we had an attack planned on a railway nearby we merely diverted it to your airfield. Vandenberg: Will you tell me why you bombed cities in England instead of concentrating on aircraft and engine factories? Goering: My intention at fi rst was to attack only military targets and factories, but after the British attacked Hamburg the people were angry and I was ordered to attack indiscriminately.

Spaatz: Which had the more effect in the defeat of Germany, the area bombing or the precision bombing?

Goering: The precision bombing, because it was decisive. Destroyed cities could be evacuated, but destroyed industry was difficult to replace.

Spaatz: Did the Germans realize that the American air forces by intention did only precision bombing?

Goering: Yes. I planned to do only precision bombing myself at the beginning. I wanted to build a wall of contact mines around Britain and close the ports but again I was forced to do otherwise by political diktat.

Curtis: Was our selection of targets good, particularly oil? Goering: Yes, excellent. As soon as we started to repair an oil installation you always bombed it again before we could produce one ton.

Vandenberg: Why didn’t you attempt to cut us off in Africa and send the Luftwaffe, which was then superior in the air, against our shipping and the concentration of our airplanes at Gibraltar?

Goering: We had too few long-range airplanes and then, later, when you got to Algiers, the airfields in Italy were inadequate. You have no idea what a bad time we had in Italy. If they had only been our enemies instead of our allies we might have won the war.

Spaatz: Why did you use your bombers to haul gas to Rommel instead of bombing the line of communications from Algiers to Constantine to Tunisia?

Goering: Higher HQ orders.

Vandenberg: Why did you attack our airdromes on 1 January 1945? Goering: Because every airdrome was loaded with airplanes.

Vandenberg: Well, why didn’t you come back? Goering: Orders from higher headquarters. Hitler said it was no good to bomb American planes because more of them would come like bees.

Vandenberg: But why did you concentrate on RAF airfields more than on ours? Goering: Because the RAF airfields were closer and otherwise more inviting targets. We used 2,300 planes for that attack; what we did not allow for was the intense concentration of AA guns placed there against the V-1.

Vandenberg: Would you contrast the air forces of the Allies?

Goering: Well, the Russians are no good, except on undefended targets. You need only three or four Luftwaffe airplanes to drive off a 20-plane Russian attack. The Americans are superior technically and in production. As for the personnel, the English, German, and American are equal as fighters in the air.

Spaatz: Have you any knowledge of a proximity fuse? Goering: Yes, in three or four months there would have been production.

Spaatz: Has Japan the designs of this fuse?

Goering: I do not think so because it was not yet in production and we never gave them anything unless it was in production. The Japanese have had the designs of the Me 262 for some time. \[Goering then talked for several minutes, the gist of which emphasized America’s successful use of radar and counterradar measures, to which he attributes much of the success of our air operations.\]

Spaatz: If you had to design the Luftwaffe again, what would be the first airplane you would develop?

Goering: The jet fighter and then the jet bomber. The problem of speed has been solved. It is now a question of fuel. The jet fighter takes too much. The jet bomber, Me 264, designed to go to America and back, awaited only the final solution of the fuel consumption problem. I might add that according to my view the future airplane is one without fuselage (flying wing) equipped with turbine in combination with the jet and propeller.

Seversky: In view of your diminishing manufacturing resources, who made the decision to divert a large portion of your national effort to manufacture of V-1 and V-2 weapons instead of building up the Luftwaffe? Goering: Well, there was great confusion of thought in Germany. Prior to the invasion the V-1 would have been effective. After the invasion our effort should have been concentrated on the Me 262. The decision on the V-2 project was made at higher headquarters.

Vandenberg: In the tactical operations of our Air Force, what attacks on what targets were most damaging to you?

Goering: Before D-Day it was the attacks in Northern France which hurt the most because we were not able to rebuild in France as quickly as in Germany. The attacks on marshaling yards were most effective, next came the low-level attacks on troops, and then the attacks on bridges. The low flying airplanes had a terror effect and caused great damage to our communications. Also demoralizing were the umbrella fighters, which after escorting the bombers, would swoop down and hit everything including the jet planes in process of landing.

Spaatz: Did you have a three-inch gun for the jet?

Goering: The 5.5-centimeter machine gun, only now going into production, would have made a great difference in the jet. While waiting for that we used the 5.5-centimeter rocket. You might find around Germany some jet airplanes equipped with anti-tank guns. Don’t blame me for such monstrosities. This was done on the explicit orders of the Fuehrer. Hitler knew nothing about the air. He may have known something about the Army or Navy, but absolutely nothing about the air. He even considered the Me 262 to be a bomber; and he insisted it should be called a bomber.

Seversky: I know that four-engine Focke-Wulf planes were in production in 1939. When you found out after the Battle of Britain that your planes did not have sufficient fi re power and bombing power, why didn’t you concentrate on these fourengine planes as a heavy bomber?

Goering: Instead of that, we were developing the He 177 and tried to develop the Me 264 which was designed to go to America and return. We did use the Focke-Wulf against shipping from Norway. Because our production capacity was not so great as that of America we could not produce quickly everything we needed. Moreover, our plants were subject to constant bombing so that it was difficult to carry out our plans for heavy bomber production.

Seversky: The reason why I asked the previous question was because I wanted to establish whether you failed to build the big bombers because you did not believe in strategic airpower or because your productive capacity was restricted to the production of tactical aircraft for the Russian campaign.

Goering: No, I always believed in strategic use of airpower. I built the Luftwaffe as the finest bomber fleet, only to see it wasted on Stalingrad. My beautiful bomber fleet was used up in transporting munitions and supplies to the army of 200,000 at Stalingrad. I always was against the Russian campaign.

Thank you, I’ll have a read later on just copied it

 

[bobcatshi]

Fuck I wish I had the attention span to be ablet o read through everything

Me too I'm not even trying to be arrogant r anything either it sucks

 

[bobcatshi]

with the commencement of Operation Uranus, the Russians chose the weak Romanian soldiers to finally close the ring and seal Stalingrad to its fate...why didn't they get out, as Paulus wanted to? I blame that fuckup AH.

Big mistake and a huge shock to the Germans to lose the entire Sixth Army. The beginning of the end for sure.

Hitler was in prison for a relatively short time, sometime in 1923-24.

I bet he lived better than juaquin guzman when he was in jail

 

[dwdays]

Fucking Jews!