what we're talking about here is not only disorganized violence, it's not only terrorism. it's politics. founded over 150 years ago. it's repeatedly died out, but always been resurrected. the ku klux klan starts may 11th on d. w. an inconspicuous forest trail south. the frankfurt next to one of germany's famous out of bonds. it was the end of the road for a legendary german racing driver in route and then to crazy

bid to break the land speed record. i hear the good. the events of over 80 years ago remain shrouded in mystery. i've been big. ah, i have been big. oh, what exactly happened on that fateful day? ah my read the bill i had been and what is it that drives people to risk their lives to break speed records? ah,

who was band hosemeier who was killed in january 1938. when he crashed, while racing down the perfectly straight out of on it over 400 kilometers per hour . civic out in eastern germany home to museum. that was once the racing car factory of outgo. when you own germany's 1st state own car maker and a predecessor of today's audi, the 1930 saw an epic dual between 2 genes of the german racing seen as the relatively young out when you own saw to overtake the dominant mercedes benz t. a high profile rivalry that intensified when band hose m, i joined the outer on your own team. the young hot shot was to take on mercedes driver and european champion, rudolph, cut out jolla the out when your bosses had high hopes for

was a maya who was a boon for both motor racing and the nazi regime, eager to capitalize in the rivalry for propaganda purposes the dashing young dare devil fitted the bill perfectly vaguely have become more than my own parents. yolanda restricted my family. i forgot your last mileage. oh, my of them. oh my god, god wonderful. oh them, i would agree with rosa my out of on the guy that got my family, my son the one ivy with i

we're in dresden to meet a man who's written a number of books on the early german motor racing era. including the $930.00 s when the countries big carmakers fought out their rivalry on germany's new ow to bonds, a network of modern highways, a pet project of the nazi regime, paid a cash bag is an automotive historian. the regime he explains, was eager to show that germany could build not only the fastest cars, but also the best roads to maximize publicity, the authorities held race is called record weeks on the new high speed motor ways. it was band o m i as big moment and walked over it's already caught while her nozzles even on ties ish. frozen my broke a series of records that had belonged to car jolla in october 1937. when earning thems also union this style doing time long shot, i'm a failed because of

a design out of sync with the laws of nature on i can causally, and vig lowndes, and not all the destination. as far, when i'm ended by the end of the week of the national rising commission, i promised that i'm not soon be allowed to make for the record attempts. meditation next inside pony i believe was over fallen off as well them for the ongoing also union have to respond because it's a delicate relationship between a dime there in the public, your time law and in the f english tied dealers to god. what if it was a decision, was that if they drive off that, then we need to drive as well as b r k m is no there was an ominous wind blowing when it was o z. m a is turned to start on january 28th. 1938 on his 1st run, he clocked 429 kilometers per hour. a personal best, but still not fast enough to rest the record back from mercedes adjustments were made while the wind grew stronger. despite warnings was,

am i allegedly insisted on a 2nd run? it was $1147.00 and then disaster at the 9.2 kilometer mark. those am i a lost control of his type see car dubbed storm lenient vog in or stream lighter flipping several times over a distance of 900 meters. the wreck came to a stop on an embankment. hosemeier was killed instantly. conspiracy theories quickly spread. auto executives were alleged to have disregarded the strong winds and st. hose. am i to premature death now to noon did not appear interested in a thorough investigation. the wreckage of the car was disposed of before could be properly examined. without evidence, the only viable explanation was that a gust of wind had blown rosy, meyer off the road. but is that the true explanation?

why do people put their lives on the line in high speed jewels over a couple of kilometers in the name of progress on some dubious patriotic quest? or is it personal ambition and ego band hosemeier and his tragic death in 1938. an event that left the moderation world in shock, one of its top drivers was dead. the nazi authority stage, his burial in berlin like a state funeral. it turned into a political rally. family, friends, fans, and rivals he their last respects. while the notorious s. s. held a guard of honor for the fallen hero. but what was the actual cause of the accident? the question that was eclipsed amid the pomp of the funeral procession. nazi etiology could not allow a hero of the germination to have died due to technical deficiencies, let alone a mortal driver's error. the cause was never investigated.

cabinets home to the original outer or noon headquarters and a branch of the official saxony state archives. we want to look at historical documents with this is where the file on band hosemeier death is captain b, a range of original documents, formal testimony. affidavits and i witness accounts including this letter from a certain auto gaia to the head of the out who and known motor racing team. his eye witness report recalls how the out on your own car veered on to the grass bank and turned sideways details similar to those observed by time keeper carlo wiedemann who also referred to an explosion when questioned

one document is of special interest a weather report from the nearby zeppelin airport between $11.12 on the day of the crash it registered strong winds and gusts of up to 11 meters per 2nd. interestingly, only the mercedes team had asked for forecast ahead of the record attempts out who noon didn't. with the car maker later sent a letter to its dealerships, however, insisting it had not recklessly put the driver under unreasonable pressure. and that the wind speed had in no way the pier dangerous an attempt to shun responsibility. there are no photos or film footage of it was a meyers final and fatal run itself. it's rumored, some material was destroyed, but one private recording survived captured by auto insula,

who worked in frankfort photo processing lab. on the day of the race, he was on a foot bridge crossing over the autobahn where he was filming, and air show taking place. at the same time at one point m, sheila happened to briefly train his camera on the road below o m. i can be seen after his 1st run. he just clocked 429 kilometers per hour and was about to set off in the other direction on the 2nd and fatal record attempt . at 1st glance, with all eyes on the road, the film seems inconspicuous. but a closer look reveals other movement on the right of the picture. trees, visibly swaying, and evidently strong. almost storm like winds was the 2nd run a suicide mission. we next meet motor sports

expert martine shrewder. investigating rules am i, as crash, has become a labor of love for the former bookseller. over the years he's collected a wealth of documentation, much of it from private archives. and there's one question that never goes away. who was to blame for the driver's death? # one thing shrewder is convinced of is that a cannot have been the wind alone as robin dish is, i caught us even of them fell off in was windy. you can see in the film footage a hurry of on air 15 kilometers per hour from st. which wind blow the car off the road for me? financial, i think like this can be due to 2 causes and yet why or the combination of to zoom of once white will by analyzing the photos from the infamous day,

schluter came across some curious inconsistencies among them out who nunes motor sports division had made changes between the 1st and 2nd runs the air intake duct at the front of the car, for example, was made smaller. the company, the nozzle is convicted one, the entire noise was replaced. and behind this little inlet, there was one tube supplying the engine with oxygen with torn on them, or tor, i'm exhaust off to off as and, and other shoot connected to the cocked it or iron against, cockpit 3. we're here, lionel's in wren oem, thus cockpit mit lofts was on the tube was necessary to prevent hosemeier from suffocating its speed. and another photo is of interest. a section of the body on the road. the picture was taken by a reporter from italy and shows part of the under body and some odd looking triangular openings. they were evidently air vows.

they could be operated from the cockpit involved to in these and also when did and when there's a loft. he had this outlet for the streaming and at the front where they told him that if it got too intense and at the speed it was like a storm. then he could step on this lever, but tons of off to, you know, dennis or phil or my number or not. i think he did that, which disrupted the lower error dynamic because the air was suddenly being redirected underneath. the von, when did lucian british construct bill than him? the car takes off the off, but yeah, everything after a memo, my understood all li airflow is disrupted at those speeds. at junk is $52.00 plain c stock and took off at just $120.00 with all that weight really kissing.

after the war, it became clear that speeds of over 600 kilometers per hour on land were not possible with combustion engines. records of that kind would require rocket propulsion, and the kind of expanse is available on this lunar like landscape why bonneville in the state of utah in the united states with the remnants of a primeval lake, turned into seemingly infinite salt flats by a combination of wind and water for almost a century now, the ultimate test track and an el dorado for speed freaks. ah, this would be the stage for

a new generation of record seekers. chief among them, art, our fonts and craig breedlove. the 2 americans were obsessed with being the fastest men in history and would stop at nothing to set a new record which have now been held by a succession of british drivers. the dawn of the $960.00. so our funds and breedlove opened a new chapter in the competition for the ultimate automotive glory san holy lives in ontario, canada. he spent years studying the history of the salt flats era of speed records, and the fearless men feigned as junkyard geniuses. wholly his written a number of books on the era. ah, around 96061 that the united states air force was getting rid of a whole bunch of. i'm fighter jets from the korean war. and all this stuff was

going into the junk market. and so anchor in los angeles were craig b, blood lived, lived like literally hundreds of j. 47 jet engines were being sold that scrap. so he was able to buy one for almost nothing, $500.00. he got that his 1st jet engine, if he got like an allison engine, it would have cost several $1000.00. so he was trying to save money by getting a jet packing up to 70000 horsepower. those engines were fitted in 19 fifties air force jones, such as the famous star fighter that reached speeds and over 2200 kilometers per hour. exactly what kind of power that could translate into with when vehicles was difficult to decipher, given the lack of testing in our phones, knew absolutely nothing about jet engines. but somehow he, he found one from a junk dealer and he found a manual about how to,

how these things worked. and he actually took this thing apart with no education, no background whatsoever. just kind of an innate intelligence that he had. and he put it back together and he figured out how it worked. so, i mean, that is a stunning story. then literally these guys were doing it in their back yards. they had a, a steel post that was buried in the ground. and they were just literally chain the car to that post. and they would run that engine. and i mean they, they totally black, the ground dead. i mean, all the grass that everything was, was blasted off of anything on october 19th. steve, for craig re love broke his own record, not once, but twice. the 2nd attempt almost costing him his life. mm hm. mm

hm. just under 850 kilometers per hour, they came up with the brake parachute snapped off. mm. you are step on the brakes at that speed, they would just burn them up. the car, sir, crossed the end of the preset track, taking out to telephone poles before crashing into a salt lake. breedlove could have drowned in the desert lake, but managed to escape through the roof top hatch miracle. mm ah, over the decades. one thing that remains the same was that while the heroes of the road were put on a pedestal, they were at the same time pons of both political and economic imperatives. by the $900.00 sixty's record attempts shifted up another gear, as commercial competition took the front seat, sensing an opportunity to boost their image. the tire and fuel industries pumped up,

the hype and huge sums of sponsorship money into the inventive constructor, teams. for over 3 decades, the museum of technology and in time has been home to a vehicle that is perhaps the ultimate embodiment of this unbridled competition and its excesses. the blue flame, the product of an error. when record setting vehicles no longer really resemble cars, it's more of a rocket on wheels, 3 tons, propelled by 50000 horsepower. the driver was more of a pilot sitting on a mixture of liquid natural gas and hydrogen peroxide. it was rumored to be powerful enough to go to the moon. ah, re gab lake runs her own little museum here in long beach california. dedicated to the legacy of that landmark runner. sitting in the blue flame that day in october, 1970 was her husband gary. the 1st person to crack the 1000 kilometers per hour

mark in a land vehicle. it was a record that would stand for 13 years. ah, before coming to fame, gary gab alec was a little known drag racer who lived life in the fast lane of photogenic hell raiser, who looked good at the wheel of a bullet car and also cut a fine figure for nasa's marketing men. he'd been a test subject for the apollo program space suit and life support systems. in 1969, they gave gary the choice of either staying with the apollo program or continuing on with his adventures in racing. and at that time, he already been signed to drive the blue flame. and so he gave up apollo for racing on the ground. mm.

hey talks about what it was like. and he goes through the count down from, you know, 19. you know all the way down and how it felt when he's pushed back in the seed and experiencing the meaning of the g. horse. craig re loves record student 966 kilometers per hour. on october 23rd, 1970 gary gabbled, prepared to set off across the salt flax of bonneville, utah. to break that 5 year old mock, but also to hit the 1000 kilometers per hour figure. he and his team had invested 6 years in the development of the 11 metre, long cigar shaped vehicle for a spectacle that would last just 22 seconds before the fuel would run out. the man and the had is the killer one of the rocky cars creators, moon,

the former engineer, now over 80 years old lives in daphne, alabama. and in the mid 19 sixty's, he tells us the u. s. natural gas industry was also keen to enter the arena. the big selling point was to get the american public, a sensational showcase of gas as more than just a fuel for old fashion heaters. it was a cleaner and more efficient alternative to gasoline and kerosene. a record for the ages would win over new customers and push up profits. keller and his little engineering company took up the challenge. basically, our job was to try to do so of this city the last record. it was up to them to take advantage of that and try to promote it to the general of the new record attempt

was a massive risk. wind tunnel tests had the blue flame topping 1200 kilometers per hour in the us as breaking the sound barrier. but nobody could say if the running real conditions would go as planned. for the worst case scenario, the organizers had taken out life insurance for goblet worth over $100000.00. 73210 . for your among the rarity of 30354. on 4. 55561650? yeah, we did a. that's exactly how this idea was rather you boss,

blue flame was timed at 622 miles or just over a 1000 kilometers per hour. a speed eventually bettered by a british team in 1983 and again in 9097. the 2nd time with the 1st ever supersonic land vehicle and a mark that stands to this day. but despite having only held the record for 13 years, blue flames moment of fame will for some always be the most memorable. ah gary goblin never got the chance to regain the record. he was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1984. ah. the never ending quest for speed has its euros and its victims among them band

hosemeier. the exact reasons for the fatal outcome of that run will likely remain a matter of speculation. was it just the way that sweat him off the road in january 1938? probably not. there were a range of other potential factors involved. insufficient development work and technical expertise and time pressure all things that were kept quiet for quite a while. dime there might if one the race for the record. but it was the out. oh known driver who grabbed the headlines and would feature in most of the history books. the record set by dimer was ultimately reduced to a footnote as for band whose m idea. was he really the fearless driver and dare devil who threw caution to the wind on that fateful day? impervious to any fear?

many observers have blamed the driver for his own death. at the has the regional archives and dom shot we found photos previously not seen by the public. one is a shot of who's am i a minutes before that final journey with the look of a man who has a sense of foreboding. ah ah, [000:00:00;00]

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