History Channel - Weird Weapons of World War II (2005) Part 2 The Axis


History Channel - Weird Weapons of World War II (2005) Part 2 The Axis

This Documentary opens a Pandora's box of weird, wonderful, and scary World War 2 weapons. Some of them were so unreal that they never made it past the design stage. Others had their prototypes built and tested. Others were used in combat to terrifying effect. Whether it was death rays and huge wire nets in the sky to catch bombers, flying saucers, warships carved out of ice or rocket-powered tanks - the imagination and ingenuity of both Allied and Nazi weapons experts and their mad efforts to outwit the enemy and win the war knew no bounds. The documentary Weird Weapons of World War 2 reveals the secrets of these bizarre weapons.

forums.mvgroup.org_release.images_docfreak08_1.xyoul.jpg Part 2 The Axis

Between 1939 and '45, the world was locked in a nightmare struggle of unprecedented ferocity. When the smoke from WWII cleared, bizarre stories emerged of extraordinary armaments dreamt up by both sides' most inventive minds–weird weapons unlike anything before. New ways of bringing destruction to the enemy were born of desperation and wild imagination. And in a world gone mad, nothing seemed too strange to try. Axis powers tested a strange range of weapons a vortex cannon designed to tear wings off aircraft, an assault rifle that could shoot round corners, a death ray that could boil people alive, and most bizarre of all, an army in space. Much like The Allies, the Nazis also had a large inventory of new weapons that they planned to utilise during World War II. In this documentary take a look at some of the weirdest weapons invented by the Nazis including the Krummlauf (an assault rifle with a curved barrel), the elefant tank and a sound gun.

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The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan. The Axis were united in their far-right positions and general opposition to the Allies, but otherwise lacked comparable coordination and ideological cohesion.

The Axis grew out of successive diplomatic efforts by Germany, Italy, and Japan to secure their own specific expansionist interests in the mid-1930s. The first step was the protocol signed by Germany and Italy in October 1936, after which Italian leader Benito Mussolini declared that all other European countries would thereafter rotate on the Rome–Berlin axis, thus creating the term "Axis". The following November saw the ratification of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty between Germany and Japan; Italy joined the Pact in 1937, followed by Hungary and Spain in 1939. The "Rome–Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called "Pact of Steel", with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 formally integrating the military aims of Germany, Italy, Japan, and later followed by other nations. The three pacts formed the foundation of the Axis alliance.

At its zenith in 1942, the Axis presided over large parts of Europe, North Africa, and East Asia, either through occupation, annexation, or puppet states. In contrast to the Allies, there were no three-way summit meetings, and cooperation and coordination were minimal; on occasion, the interests of the major Axis powers were even at variance with each other.


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