Hitler's Insane Train
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This is the story of the Breitspurbahn.
Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/19...
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Etienne Russel - Bucket full of Stars
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Guy Copeland - Correlation Coefficient
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Hawea - A Grim Awakening
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It should’ve had a little moustache on the front.
Missed opportunity.
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Thomas' bad brother
that's so real
Pendolino trains in the Czech Republic (operated by České Dráhy) actually have a mustache on the front 🤣
Hell of a train for a failed artist
He got a letter from an acclaimed art critic praising his art. Going after your dreams and not 'making it' at the most elite level is nothing to be ashamed of!
@@handofstrangeri’m dead that you’re standing up for hitler here 💀
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@@handofstrangeri’m dead that you’re standing up for hitler here 💀
😂 Proud to be your 3rd comment!
That floor to ceiling dining room looks beautiful.
Aren't all rooms floor to ceiling?
But the wood paneling wasn’t FSC-certified, unlike today‘s sponsor Holzkern
@@Chomp-Rock If you believe in yourself enough.
@@Halbmond If you believe it, it's real
@@Chomp-Rockthey mean it covers the span of the whole train instead of leading to another floor. From the bottom of the train to the top, not from the bottom of the train to the second floor.
Ah yes. Snowpiercer without the snowpiercing or a perpetual motion engine
i was looking for this comment haha
that name sounds familiar, is that a train or something
@@spungbopscarepans it's a series, it has 3 seasons, worth watching
@@spungbopscarepans A fictional one, but yes
@@user-kl1do4fc2vnah its a mid series based on a masterpiece of a movie
I just want to point out that it is always a fine little bonus when German words and Names are pronounced correctly. It warms my cold and efficient heart.
It isn't surprising, since the author behind this channel is himself german, having started there firstly
@@AlexVasiluta you can hear from the word "Reich" that the voiceover-artist isn't german, but from the netherlands, but it's a very minor thing :)
@@lit_for_20 shoot, you're right, I just noticed this channel is a collab channel with someone else
it’s very noticeable that they are trying to pronounce the german words in an americanized way here, even tho they themselves speak german. It’s a little baity but hey, what can you do
Dein's auch? ^^
These Wolfenstein graphics look dope
Without miss engel even more
Imagine a Wolfenstein game set on this train.
Wolfenstein: the New Order mission on the train comes to my mind
@@abdullahchhab2325 Missed that game, should probably add it to my list.
@@qers How could you. The first one of the reboot is great (the new order), the dlc too. The second one (The New Colossus) is also pretty good, but i like it less then the first one. Every thing after II is not worth playing.
You completely failed to mention Hitler's dislike for flying. Hence, he wanted a train.
Same for Putin and Rocket Man
Didn't know that, but it makes a lot of sense actually. From a dictators point of view, that is. Why wouldn't you want people to build an unrealistic, oversized train, just because you don't like to fly?
And his use of only one pilot except upon one single occasion
@@acrylique2976 trains are safer than planes, look what happened to prigozhin, this has nothing to do with whatever you think it does.
Makes no Sense, He traveled around in Germany a Lot with a Junkers 52
Sure this one was a bit excessive but image a well maintained rail system spanning whole Europe with a fast and cheap rail network. Would make travel so much easier
look up ten t
That’s what they’re planning/designing for Ontario rn
Agreed. We need more high-speed rail covering Europe of the likes in France. There, you make it from Paris to Bordeaux in less than 2 hours! (6 hours by car).
@@vinvenus4581 Hey, it's not too late!
@@vinvenus4581 Yeah especially between larger European cities (from which point you can take local trains to smaller towns.). They should also be part operated by governments, so you don't have to pay more than a flight (also, flying should not be tax-exempt).
Out of all Hitler's insane evil inventions, I think this is the only one I think is good idea, minus slaves part, duplex high speed train is much better than planes.
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The "slave part" is not different from modern trains. It's just worse than the rest of the luxruious train. I would leave it.
Hitler's schizo egocentricism screwed it up. If he hadn't been obsessed with the ridiculous 3 metre gauge, this could have been an early precursor to high speed rail like the Autobahn was to modern highways. Everyone around him thought that making a new railway with incompatible gauge was insane, and it seems the only reason he was so adament on it was because he believed that bigger was better no matter what
Well, ever heard about the autobahn?
@@igors1234You think modern trains are run by slaves or something.
I love this idea! It's not megalomania but highly practical. Trains can carry far more people than planes and in far greater comfort. The only problem is that creating such trains and replacing all rails with the new hugely wider ones would cost hundreds of billions.
With germany's nationalization, it would maybe cost a couple of billion, nothing insane about it
the problem about democracy and capitalism, abitious projects are way too slow and have too many hurdles, especially when their benefit is only long-term
It is work for countless people. Those People spend Money, and so is the Cycle. Not like today where Corporation suck up all the money, and poof.. it's gone, and the workers find themself in an new Company with with a new Name, but the same faces as before..
If governments prioritized their money it wouldn't be an issue
There are many issues with this train - which is why it wasn't built while other engineering advancements from the Nazi era were adopted and further developed. That alone should tell you that it is not "highly practical". Because, in engineering, if something is "highly practical", it gets adopted regardless of the political ideology where it originated.
First thing is, a train system like that would require the entire continent of Europe agreeing to build it. If you know anything about Europe, that's the first thing that is your problem. Which is why Hitler planned for it when the entire Europe was his and all decisions for the continent were to be made in his office. In a world where Europe has even semi-independent states, you won't have an agreement for something like this because some regions would benefit, others won't - so no agreement.
Next, money. I see in the comments that people live in an illusion that Nazi economic system wasn't capitalist, that it was somehow different from modern greedy corporations and how they do things. That is nonsense. Nazi economy was hyper-capitalist and their companies (which were private btw) were no less predatory than the worst ones from USA today. They just further used the political connections to form even greater monopolies. Money for a project like this would come out of the pocket of a German worker and then flow into the private pockets of greedy corporations and, in large part, Nazi party itself.
For example, all slaves that were used... were not a free labor force. Corporations in Germany that were using them had to pay SS directly (there was a complete list of prices for various categories of slave workers) because those slaves were EXCLUSIVELY SS property. And SS in turn filled the party wallet. In Germany during the war, SS was one of the biggest and most profitable corporations because of it.
So in a normal system, you pay a worker, and that worker then spends the money in the economy. In Nazi system, you don't own a slave (so workforce is free) nor do you pay a free worker (who then spends the money in the economy) you are paying another corporation to provide you with the workforce, that is not able to spend that money back in the economy. It was a scheme to enrich the party and its heads fast, it was never supposed to be a long term viable solution. They all knew it was extremely flawed. It was a "get rich fast" model, not "let's build a better Germany" model. Even before the onset of war, Germany was effectively bankrupt (when the president of Reichsbank warned about that, they removed him) and internal debt collection was postponed during the war. When planning expansion, Hitler and his cabinet talked first about "small wars of plunder" before the big confrontation with USSR and Allies - they knew already in 1937-1938 that German economy is going bust and that they need to plunder neighboring countries to keep it all going.
In short, there was never economic system in place that would make decade(s) long project actually possible in the peace time.
And then comes the question of practicality. Let us say that you DID solve previous issues. The entire Europe agrees (either you own it all, or they magically agree) and you have the money ready to build it. Then what?
It was planned to travel only between very few big cities, with little to no stops between them. You could build their tracks next to adjacent ones, no problem - but you'd still need the entire capillary network of regular trains going from those few major hubs. And can you be sure that you will always fill the entire train? If not, then there is a bigger delay between departures - by which point you'd opt for a smaller train anyway.
Simply put, you already had infrastructure in place which was WAAAAY more flexible, working and is economically viable. And you want to add basically 2 or 3 lanes (let's say 2 tracks each) of huge trans-continental railway when there is no need. Instead of that one big train, you can have 4 smaller ones - much better, more flexible, modular, it has existing infrastructure through the entire continent, reaching all the places already...
All in all, if there was ever ANY practical use for a train like this, you'd have seen it developed since at least somewhere in the world, or at least someone would have had something similar on their design board. The fact that no one ever did should drive you to ask the question "Why?". Because, while it looks impressive, and while some of you may have sympathies for a certain Austrian man, he wasn't that smart (at least not when engineering is concerned) and there is almost 100 years of engineering practice since, all over the world, and no one ever saw this and said "Oh, how great and highly practical concept, let's develop it further!". Not a single one. Every engineer and public/mass transport engineer who sees this concept is immediately "Hell no!", regardless of whether you tell them it is a "Nazi train" or not.
Imagine being a tourist on this train, and knowing the carriage behind you contained literal slaves. Damn.
no no no, *”work* slaves”!!! Completely different. Just your regular train company employees… who happen to be slaves
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Why should I care because there my slaves
Not much different than buying cheap shit from China, is it?
Well not so hard to imagine tbh when similar things are happening in countries like the UAE. People will just avert their eyes and let themselves be diverted by the splendour of the rest.
I love this channel every video whenever one comes out I immediately watch it. Keep it Up!
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He would have loved monster trucks
"NEIN NEIN NEIN!! Vee need a trunk for at least 10 work slaves back there! And add a bathroom!"
On a par with a Boris Johnson vanity project😁
They were planning on building a tank called 'Monster' which was basically little different than an oversized Ratte.
He would have liked monster trucks but he would find them underarmored.
And if Knight Rider would have been a thing back then he would have outfitted his monster truck with bombs so that his jumping, armored monster truck could also divebomb.
this train got the vibe of when you're a kid and you're designing an imaginary video game which will have every possible feature because you have no comprehension of the actual processes involved
Almost like it was designed by a guy that thought he could rule the world..
I have a feeling that the plans for this train partly inspired the movie snowpiercer
fantastic! They intended to make this train using 25KV / 50 cycles electricity as main power source via overhead power wire and pantographs (compared to 15 KV 16.7 cylcles on regular electric trains) and when power failed it would have feature a fully automatic coaldust boiler generator wagon to power parsons steam turbines feeding 4 generators for powering the 25KV locomotive.
Your production and editing skills are better than any ive ever seen. Never stop creating videos. You were born for this.
it might be helpful to know, that its not a single person making this video. its a whole team as seen in the credits at the end
💯 ❤
He has a whole editing & animation team probably
Yeah, their videos are great, but it is not a single person creating them. This channel is a corporation between the two big CZcams channels Simplicissimus(a german channel) and the channel hoog(englisch Channel). They both have big teams, that now work together to create these masterpieces
train > airplane
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Yess!
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Nah
Running > Train
Hitler tries to go too big: "greed, madness"
Americans try to go too big: "prowess, inspiring"
Imagine if we made a train like this today.
9:05 i love how he spoke that so seriously
This is officially one of my favorite channels. Thank you for sharing.
Marseille doesn’t rhyme with Versailles. It’s pronounced, “Marsay.”
marsey
marsæ
@@REMPLACEMENT-TV marsey and versey no?
@@fixu-in6pmVersay, with the ending like the pirate greeting, I think
Marcy and Jefferson.
Hair salons “so the undercut wouldn’t suffer during the journey” 😂 took a whole 10 seconds for me to even process that one being dropped
I’m still processing tbh
Wikipedia says it was a popular haircut back then?
@@Halbmond nazi haricut
@@Halbmondyes. And still is. Or is again for the last decade or so
@@annarosa865 why would it suffer during the journey? I still don’t get it
That was supposed to pass for a joke? What even is an undercut?
even though it's AI, hearing Hitler speak fluent English is uncanny
Of course Hitler has a train
Suddenly I imagine Hitler as one of those “train guys” who get home from work, put on their cute lil conductor hat & play with model trains all night
train=
i have been watching fern for quite some time and i am just amazed by the amount of effort and research you guys have been doing . HATS OFF!. i see you guys hitting 10 mil this year.
Imagine this train if were to be built, would have been an engineering marvel today, as it looks spacious and luxurious
2:24 yes, if you use a wrong model of an ICE... No ICE is that short. An ICE 3 (which this model is supposed to be) is 200 Meters long. If two of them run together (which they often do), the train is 400 Meters long. A.k.a just as long as the Breitspurbahn. The same length can be reached by a single ICE 1 or ICE 4.
Freight trains can reach a length of up to 750 meters in most of Europe and well over 1 km in a lot of other places like North America.
The gauge is the only thing that really makes the Breitspurbahn look big. Because every other metric is already met by modern trains.
womp womp
I don't think the point here was to show how long it is... It was most likely supposed to emphasize the massive width and, primarily, height of the Breitspurbahn, which is unmatched by any other standard train today.
@@hoppel9177did you just say "womp womp" about a little train taken from it's mother? How dare you!
@@nemes.tamas.21 they talked about the length literally the sentence before that. The length absolutely was a factor in this comparison
@@felixw19 So did they literally give the measurements for the width and height. Even the sentence immediately before specifically mentions that it's a double decker. An ICE could easily fit INSIDE the Breitspurbahn.
Honestly, if we ignore the work slave car and obviously the people behind this project, these trains would have been awesome.
Yeah that would be awsome
It would be like a cruise but it's a train going all over Europe
The amount of tractive power needed to both accelerate this beast to an acceptable speed and to brake would have been immense, not sure there has really ever been a locomotive that would be powerful enough to haul this.
These videos are so well made the animations are so good and explain whatever the video is about very good and I don’t think there’s another channel that makes these kinds of videos as good as fern
I have to say..
Aside from the Working Slave Wagons, you could argue that this is one of Hitler's lesser *evil* projects as it mostly was just for connection purposes.
Just the thought to have a rail network spanning from the west and east in Europe (and Asia) is pretty smart. On today's basis we could adapt such a system to make an Europe wide connection net, reaching to Russia if you theoretically think about it. (Sadly politically it doesn't seems so great)
Modern technology systems like a maglev (which already existed in the 2000s) could be used to build such a huge intercontinental connection network between Europe and Asia to REALLY solve our CO2 Issue with having to rely less on plane flights. 🧐
In the end, it is a great theoretical idea however practically there are way to many issues (sadly), with both the old "Breitspurbahn" as well as a modern train network version (with for instance: Maglevs) and thus are still unlikely.. so we can just hope for the best. Who knows, maybe in a few decades such a connection between Europe and Asia as well as internally in Russia and Europe could be built. 🤔
(In the end, it's just a simple pipe dream which might or might not will become reality.)
during ww1, emperor Wilhelm had a similar obsession he was building a railway from berlin to constantinople
Another great, well researched, well animated Fern production, keep it up!
Nobody:
Hitler: insane in the membrane, insane in the train
dumb joke ngl
Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Not even one person:
No one:
ngl this is the best application for ai voice i have seen so far
This channel is made by @Simplicissimus and @Hogh. Hogh is the one who speaks.
@@BLXODi think he was referring to the AI generated voice of hitler and the other people in the video that he used , not the narrator
@@BLXOD i guess they mean at 6:22
Also i agree, giving historic figures a voice is really cool
Is it though? I'm not opposed to the use of AI here, but it could've just as well've been done by a paid human voice actor (and maybe they would've done better).
@@DueySRit was noted in the video, its AI
So the work slave cabins are the same as today's cabins regular folks travel in when taking an overnight train..
holy crap man….. i’ve been watching this channel ever since the only vid released on that was about germanwings 9525. Absolutely crazy to see how much this channel has grown in terms of quality
Your videos are always well-made and well-researched. Thank you!
I have "Snowpiercer" feelings
Hitlers ideas were so fucking crazy I love it.
I also heard the Nazis dabbled in dark magic because why not?
Me in the beginning: This actually sound much better than the Deutsche Bahn
Me during the end: Good that we have the Deutsche Bahn instead
Cool train, but trying to change infrastructure that's 200 years old on a continental scale is pretty much impossible.. it would need to be built from scratch, incompatible with old rail so 2 different systems (small villages/ towns don't need a huge train) and in case of derailment it would be very hard to fix. As mass increases logistic problems become exponentially bigger
plus digging gigantic tunnels and building extra wide bridges because the old ones would be too small
U kiddin me? There was a PERFECT possible transition to your sponsor: right when you told "there even is a viewing platform at the end of the train" ... where you can watch all the nice TREES you are passing ;)
fern dropping another banger as usual
Failed artist builds snowpiercer
You are one of the best explainer channels on CZcams, we would appreciate longer videos 😁
In german they have. Even a BIG project called "Putins Bears" in cooperation with a german TV Channel
Oh I just found they did upload the Video about Putins Bears on the german channel "funk". It has subtitles but I have no idea how good they are. czcams.com/video/QSVQR_7fAFQ/video.html
This would be an epic Wolfenstein level, getting dropped off at the back and having to make your way all the way to first class!
why is ferns voice so captivating
I like the diverse topics in this channel nice work guys
NGL this would have been so dope just without the the slave thingy... Giant ass train with full size suites, observation deck, restaurants and cinemma halls. sounds like a cruise on land. And imagine the volume of ppl and goods it could have moved.
That's exactly what I was thinking😂
Easily one of the best channels to learn something new.
I've never had missed your videos since the first one :)
Amazing work on the animations, it would be awesome if those could be turned into an interactive demo.
Great design for a train that would mainly operate on the mega marsh that is the Northern European Plain. Even with modern technology high speed rail here in the Netherlands is an engineering challenge. And that's before the mountains and tunnels comes up. It doesn't look very aerodynamic too.
digging giant tunnels through the alps sounds pretty stupid, even normal sized tunnels cost a lot
This would've been a great Wolfenstein level
You should have said that Breitspurbahn literally translates to wide gauge train
Man I love this channel, interesting topics, well spoken and great visuals
9:05 hitler really acted like a 6 year old 💀
Average dictator. The amount of insane projects and things done just because dictators are greedy and childish is quite big.
Ngl those would still be solid plans for europe-wide train routes nowadays.
yes, it would be great if we developed interrail as one but that won't happen anytime soon
for example austrian railways (öbb) is hating on hungarian railways (máv) because máv is terrible, always late and if they were connected, öbb trains would be late too
I just wish there were fern videos every day
Your graphics are amazing.
Shout out to all my fellow train lovers! 🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋
How long would it take to build this?
0:50 Insane infrastructure projects? We Germans use parts of his Autobahn TO THIS DAY...
I'm a huge fan of the new Wolfenstein games and seeing just how much of the stach's insane projects are brought to life in there is never anything but astounding to me
was this inspiration for Snowpiercer?
He painted himself a bright future, but got denied once again
man there was a sponsor segway opportunity when you mentioned the dining area having natural wood
if the Breitspurbahn is not a setting in Wolfenstein III I"m not gonna play it
One of the best channels ive ever met ngl !!
2:30 AN ICE has 8 Cars, not 4. The comparrison is a bit unfair
Make your videos longer bro i love the style!
But what about the giant silver Hitler holding the train, how would that have worked?
Damn bro great work on the video
How do you make these visuals they are insane?
I love your videos quality especially the graphics ... you are the only one I subscribed on watching first video... superp vidoegraphy... love your editor 😅😊😊
ong the best day when fern uploads
I just gotta say, Hitler was a total goofball.
What do you mean?
He made a career around hating people for made up reasons. He definitely was goofy and not quite sane
Just to clarify, he wasn’t a very fun guy at all from what I’ve heard. Very goofball actions for sure.
@@LordDanielG glad we agree he was a total goofball
If you go watch “11 less evil facts about Hitler” by Mitzi Studio then yeah Hitler was really goofy behind his “strongman” dictator persona I bet even his advisors thought their leader was weird at time.
Thanks for the great videos!
Thank you for the interesting video fern❤
You had to say the ending scentances instead of apprciating the beautiful train idea and amount of thought that went into the whole operation
I like Trains
The concept is honestly something we should build
If this train was a freight train, it would have been the most efficient type of transport for carrying freight
We'd need good leadership to build good things. Not gonna happen.
Love the animating style
Was the wide track also used for the mega cannon Schwerer Gustav?
You know, aside from the, err, Nazism and megalomania behind it all, this train is honestly pretty cool. I'd love to ride on something like this. But then again, trains like this have existed for a while now, minus the guns and soldiers and slaves and such, so I'll just shut up...
Dude would have loved Snowpiercer! Shame he never got to watch it
People scroll on CZcams people sees fern video people happy
What program did you use to animate?
The biggest problem of moving shit for the entirety of Eurasia is the near complete reliance on the back then pretty young Suez Canal, so high capacity rail is not an entirely out of the blue idea, but a logical conclusion.
If you actually look at the third class's plans they aren't THAT much worse than a current year standard european intercity train cabin. His target speed would've been literally double of what the entirety of eastern europe gets 70 fking years later.
Unlike the other megaprojects here the only real technical challenge would've been the increased weight, but the wider track could've been built with a wider base resulting in the same amount of ground pressure. It's a fairly expensive project, but not something that someone this powerful couldn't achieve outside of war times.
There simply is no evil mastermind plan here like the video heavily suggests with it's tone. Mf just wanted better trains.
There is an additional problem: a wider track requires larger curve radii to maintain comfort and prevent the trains from derailing, it's the same logic behind the choice of narrow-gauge railways in areas with difficult terrain where curves must be sharp. A 3m wide track would have required enormous curves; this would have been okayish in the mostly flat lands of Germany and Northeastern Europe, but a nightmare to build elsewhere. Crossing mountain ranges like the Alps, Pyrenees or Carpathians would have been outright impossible with such a track design.
Europe being more united would be sick but this (hitlers plan) was clearly not the way.
You are right. I mean hitlers plan was to eradicate/enslave „lesser“ humans. And force unification. But i dont think that it would be stable for long except if it survives for at least 2-3 Generations so people are not aware of the old order. I would assume there would be a good probability that it would collapse after hitlers death.
Hitler's dream somewhat worked out in the end. Europe is fairly united with the EU. Hopefully it will decouple from America and expand eastwards.
@@user-cz9ss4yq4x "Hitler's dream somewhat worked out in the end."
So unhinged. The EU was not his vision at alllllllll
You should have been raised to know that it's impertinent to neglect to capitalize a man's name.
Europe will never unite in an civil way.
Well, we can thank him for the Autobahn and the fast ass cars that we enjoy now as a result of the Autobahn
These videos and especially the Animations are great and getting better with every video, good job❤
This highly misleading, this project never left the drawing board really.
No sh1t 🤦🏼 it's a video explaining the vision of this train 😂
I noticed that (almost?) all passengers (in the theater, the viewing deck or the restaurant) are presented male, but there the hairdresser was female.
Was this a deliberate decision as this train would have been male-passenger-only?
germans were supposed to spread and populate the world which you can't do without females so probably no
I think he only uses male models
this rendering quality is so good
I was amused by this kinda train in wolfenstein
This all seemed pretty cool until we got to the slave carriage