Hermann Göring's Train Still Exists!

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  • čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
  • All the top Nazi leaders had special armoured trains, and Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring's was one of the largest and most palatial. And, incredibly, some of Göring's carriages still exist today! Find out how they survived the war and where they are in 2024.
    Special thanks to the following channels for access to footage. Please visit each for more fantastic footage!
    - Military1945: / @m1945
    - Metrobug: / @trainbugold
    - Harrikolan Railways: / @harrikolanrailways9829
    - Kaspertog: / @kaspertog
    Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fe...
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    Disclaimer: All opinions and comments expressed in the 'Comments' section do not reflect the opinions of Mark Felton Productions. All opinions and comments should contribute to the dialogue. Mark Felton Productions does not condone written attacks, insults, racism, sexism, extremism, violence or otherwise questionable comments or material in the 'Comments' section, and reserves the right to delete any comment violating this rule or to block any poster from the channel.
    Sources:
    - 'Guarding Hitler' by Mark Felton, (Pen & Sword Books: 2014)
    - 'After The Battle', No. 19, 1979
    - Salonwagen der Deutschen Reichsbahn bis 1945, www.drg-salonwagen.eu/db/inde...
    Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress; Metrobug; Kaspertog; Harrikolan Railways; Military45; Reinhard Dietrich; Holger.Ellgaard

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  • @Diogenes1360
    @Diogenes1360 Před 11 dny +1329

    "What did Hermann Goring have for Breakfast ??" . . .
    "Luftwaffles" . . .

  • @HRM.H
    @HRM.H Před 11 dny +1082

    I cant imagine what all is hidden in private collections around the world..

    • @jonesy19691
      @jonesy19691 Před 11 dny +69

      I'm sure some people have some hidden little gems kicking around!

    • @niveleur
      @niveleur Před 11 dny +136

      I can't imagine what gets lost when these knowledge dragons pass away and their kids want nothing to do with the collection and dispose of it.

    • @worldwar_history_narrator7451
      @worldwar_history_narrator7451 Před 11 dny +90

      Alot! Espicially in the east of Europe. My boss once told me he was there when the car of Himmler was sold to a rich Swiss dentist in secret

    • @slesh98
      @slesh98 Před 11 dny

      Most of nazi treasure is brought in america by soldiers

    • @kenskinner6948
      @kenskinner6948 Před 11 dny +53

      Also what’s in Russia?

  • @RADIUMGLASS
    @RADIUMGLASS Před 10 dny +135

    Just imagine what we're going to find within the next 50 years as collectors start dying off.

    • @Wolfovich1
      @Wolfovich1 Před 8 dny +16

      New collectors are going to buy all stuff.

    • @Snoozzzzzze
      @Snoozzzzzze Před 5 dny

      That was a great Father Ted episode. 😄

  • @derekp8082
    @derekp8082 Před 11 dny +242

    "Porter! Goering is stuck in the tub again!"

    • @sc1338
      @sc1338 Před 11 dny +15

      😂😂😂 I imagine he tried it once and they had to get the butter

    • @queeg6473
      @queeg6473 Před 10 dny +12

      "OK, fetch the giant crowbar"

    • @ryecreeks
      @ryecreeks Před 10 dny +1

      😅

    • @llywrch7116
      @llywrch7116 Před 10 dny +22

      @@sc1338"Dummkopf! You do not feed it to Herr Goering, you smear it on the sides of the bathtub!"

    • @robertafierro5592
      @robertafierro5592 Před 10 dny +6

      Grab the Hoist!!

  • @bf-696
    @bf-696 Před 11 dny +611

    "Goring loved his food." No, really? What gave that away?

  • @davidcookmfs6950
    @davidcookmfs6950 Před 11 dny +147

    Dr Felton. I have been a WWII buff all my life. If I hadn't gone into forensic science, I would have gotten my master's degree military history. This video is perhaps the most fascinating you have ever done. I never imagined that so much of these train cars would be in regular use into the 1970s and 80.

    • @tarstarkusz
      @tarstarkusz Před 9 dny

      WHY? Other than being old, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about it. Lots of stuff built by Stalin and the Soviet Union generally is still around. Stalin is either the worst or second worst (behind Mao) guy of the 20 century. Mao is still on China's money. The party he took power with is still the government in China. Kim Il-Sung's subways are still in use and probably with the same cars.
      Germany has much less physical history because it was destroyed during the war.

    • @Lerxstification
      @Lerxstification Před 9 dny +16

      What a revelation this was! I sat on the same toilet seat as once used by Willy Brandt at a hotel in Trier, Germany (so the Innkeeper told me), and Willy no doubt sat on a chair once used by Hermann G. in that dining car! My butt is only once removed from the Reichs Marschall!

    • @xiaoka
      @xiaoka Před 9 dny +13

      And the train, or at least part of it made it all the way to Moscow. Further east then its former owner ever got. 😂

    • @nodarkthings
      @nodarkthings Před 8 dny +2

      Agreed, absolutely fascinating.

    • @bahoonies
      @bahoonies Před dnem +1

      ​@@LerxstificationMy goodness. You may very well be the possessor of a famous bottom. Collectors will pay big money to have it their collection 😂😂😂

  • @johnwelch6490
    @johnwelch6490 Před 11 dny +113

    I sat in his Mercedes Benz the Blue Goose in Marysville, Ohio. A collector in Dayton bought it in the early 90's from a Connecticut museum.

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb Před 10 dny +4

      Is it still there?? Been through Marysville numerous times, never heard of it being there.

    • @jmac46951
      @jmac46951 Před 4 dny +3

      @@ffjsb Its now in Louisville KY in a private collection of pre-war Mercedes and Maybachs. Last I knew it was being restored. Very strange that another of the Big 3 cars was in Louisville for a short time. I worked for a man who owned Himmlers personal car. He bought it when the Palace Hotel and museum in Vegas had their auction in the late 90's. I got to drive it. It fealt "wierd".🤨 It was Green with black fenders.

    • @royale7620
      @royale7620 Před 2 dny

      You can buy stuff from a museum? What

    • @botalm1878
      @botalm1878 Před 2 dny

      @@jmac46951 I'm sure Himmler wasn't behind the wheel himself.

  • @QUADFLY
    @QUADFLY Před 11 dny +158

    Love to learn on a Sunday! Thanks DrFelton

  • @olympicjbrag5913
    @olympicjbrag5913 Před 11 dny +107

    This channel is amazing. Thank you for all your hard work.

  • @kios05
    @kios05 Před 11 dny +98

    Man Göring knew how to get the most out of his position

    • @truthseeker9454
      @truthseeker9454 Před 10 dny +23

      But only for a short while.
      "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his own soul?" - Jesus of Nazareth (Mark 8:36)

    • @AddyHittler
      @AddyHittler Před 9 dny +4

      @@truthseeker9454 he went valhalla soooo

    • @Lerxstification
      @Lerxstification Před 9 dny +15

      I wonder who did more drugs on that train, HG or Eric Clapton?

    • @jone8626
      @jone8626 Před 9 dny +3

      @@Lerxstification Goering was high all the time on drugs.
      The Americans got him off the drugs before the Nuremberg trials and he made a mockery of the trials.
      Sometimes wonder if they lost due to the drugs they where on.

    • @myopiniongoodyouropinionbad
      @myopiniongoodyouropinionbad Před 9 dny +6

      @@jone8626 True, he was shot near the femoral artery and almost died in the Beer Hall Putsch. The doctor who clandestinely patched him up loaded him up with a shitload of morphine and he was never able to kick the habit...among other vices.

  • @jimhoade9265
    @jimhoade9265 Před 11 dny +43

    On the subject of Göring's trains you may be interested to know that there is a 15 inch gauge locomotive, Black Prince, at the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent which previously belonged to the Reichsmarshall.

    • @Loulovesspeed
      @Loulovesspeed Před 3 dny

      @jimhoade9265 - The Germans made some stout locomotives during WWII for sure. However, their best paled by comparison to the mighty Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" locomotive. It had 16, 5 foot 8 inch diameter drive wheels, was over 100 feet long, weighed 1,200,000 pounds and had a top speed of eighty MPH! It had more power than 2 standard locomotives of its time. They were built by ALCO (American Locomotive Company) plant in Schenectady, NY. Check CZcams for some great videos of the only one of 25 built that is still in operation. It has over 1,000,000 miles on it!

  • @willbee6785
    @willbee6785 Před 10 dny +40

    Dr Felton makes WWII history much more interesting.

  • @schienennahverkehrDE
    @schienennahverkehrDE Před 10 dny +14

    As a Locomotive Driver for the DB myself, it is realy interesting to see what happend to these Traincars. Thank you for keeping the history alive to every little part that contributed to it!

  • @ericastier1646
    @ericastier1646 Před 11 dny +42

    The shootage accompanying the narration is incredible, would have thought that even the German state with full secret access to war archives could not have produced as relevant video. I don't know how you access them and that alone would be worth an entire video.

  • @Darwinawardrecipient
    @Darwinawardrecipient Před 11 dny +139

    We found Herman Görings train before GTA 6

  • @Dylans-Depot
    @Dylans-Depot Před 10 dny +7

    I like how you've documented the train carriage by carriage, including its present whereabouts and what happened after the war. In The Netherlands there's a BR 52 'Kriegslok' still wearing the field gray livery, has a bullet hole in the exhaust and is operational! From time to time it hauls tourist trains between Apeldoorn and Dieren. Maybe worth visiting the VSM heritage railway if you get the chance. Cheers!

  • @andyknuckles2903
    @andyknuckles2903 Před 10 dny +21

    Despite a large tub, HG used commendably little water.

  • @360Nomad
    @360Nomad Před 10 dny +122

    *Correction Mark, the Class 52 locomotive could pull the 15 armored carriages just fine. They need the extra one due to Göring's weight.*

    • @dante666jt
      @dante666jt Před 10 dny +3

      *Bruh*

    • @forkthepork
      @forkthepork Před 10 dny +11

      Churchill mostly traveled by boat, because he served as extra ballast for the ship.

    • @dante666jt
      @dante666jt Před 10 dny +3

      @@forkthepork lmfaoo

    • @AddyHittler
      @AddyHittler Před 9 dny

      still less than the average american

    • @dinahwhite3929
      @dinahwhite3929 Před 9 dny +1

      verdamnt REichdonalds!

  • @debartellomartinez7214
    @debartellomartinez7214 Před 11 dny +132

    1:31 I can't get past the Kriegsloks whistles, what a haunting sound from the past, leave it to Doc Felton to keep us up at night.

    • @NVRAMboi
      @NVRAMboi Před 11 dny +4

      Completely understood.

    • @martinjacobsen2992
      @martinjacobsen2992 Před 11 dny +5

      First sound you hear on your "Vacation" East.

    • @fabianpeters7077
      @fabianpeters7077 Před 11 dny +28

      Haunting.... what a load of bollocks. Sounds like any other steam whistle.

    • @theonlymadmac4771
      @theonlymadmac4771 Před 11 dny +4

      The locos in the footage are no Kriegloks. And BR 52 are not especially powerful, just simplified BR 50s optimized for mass production.

    • @corydunaway
      @corydunaway Před 10 dny +4

      Haunting? All old coal trains have whistles like that. We still have several in the U.S.

  • @apurvakmr
    @apurvakmr Před 11 dny +57

    Mark Felton's video shows up on notification and i am happy

    • @aerotube7291
      @aerotube7291 Před 10 dny

      Me too! Until the royal(Buckingham palace) tour lol...no it was very funny

    • @bobhearst7306
      @bobhearst7306 Před 8 dny

      Were these Pullman rail cars of American origin ?

  • @lovebaja
    @lovebaja Před 10 dny +12

    Please never stop producing these videos!

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Před 11 dny +23

    This is truly fascinating and without this channel I wouldn't even have been aware of it because its never been mentioned elsewhere

  • @jimmy8653
    @jimmy8653 Před 11 dny +23

    Lots of work put into these trains

  • @LisaNull
    @LisaNull Před 11 dny +73

    You should do a video on Goring’s bunker built by the wolfs lair.

    • @botalm1878
      @botalm1878 Před 2 dny

      It's all shambles. Blown up by SS, when they retreated. I've been there.

  • @danepatterson8107
    @danepatterson8107 Před 11 dny +52

    Goering's opulence rivals any other figure in history. The dude knew how to make himself comfortable...

    • @NVRAMboi
      @NVRAMboi Před 11 dny +9

      "171 people/staff". Just for his personal train.

    • @jbuckley2546
      @jbuckley2546 Před 11 dny +10

      Oil money makes Goering look like a pauper.

    • @dennissettlemyre917
      @dennissettlemyre917 Před 11 dny +10

      Them Saudi Royals do it pretty big it seems 😂 solid gold cars, toilets, etc....

    • @dmeinhertzhagen8764
      @dmeinhertzhagen8764 Před 10 dny +9

      British Royal Family: Please hold my tea.

    • @csaint6780
      @csaint6780 Před 10 dny +2

      Living like a Rock Star🤘

  • @valmid5069
    @valmid5069 Před 2 dny +3

    The fact that Goring causally surrenders himself with his family to an Allied checkpoint is something to think about. The dude was dangerously charismatic

  • @garygallagher5978
    @garygallagher5978 Před 11 dny +21

    It's amazing that so much effort was put into destroying anything to do with the Nazis era after the war that these carriages managed to survive.

    • @francoislapalme6728
      @francoislapalme6728 Před 10 dny

      Really too bad,the destroy of Nazi stuff,its history,to remember no matter what the side people are.

    • @JeffEbe-te2xs
      @JeffEbe-te2xs Před 10 dny +5

      Used by the allies generals
      Why let luxury go to waste

  • @Sills71
    @Sills71 Před 11 dny +15

    Mark, you do a great job. One of the best channels on YT.

  • @Finestnatural4567
    @Finestnatural4567 Před 11 dny +28

    I love the look of hermann goering train and railway carriage

  • @cudamandan
    @cudamandan Před 11 dny +17

    Very nice informational videos. Enjoy all of them.

  • @MrXdmp
    @MrXdmp Před 11 dny +16

    Thanks Dr. Felton!

  • @longjohnsilver5179
    @longjohnsilver5179 Před 11 dny +13

    I am amazed at how you are able to research these details!. Amazing and Excellent!

  • @shaider1982
    @shaider1982 Před 11 dny +22

    I remember from a Dr. Felton video that Goering also had a large toy train set.

    • @muskokamike127
      @muskokamike127 Před 10 dny +6

      I think you could accurately say "goering also had a _______" and never run out of things.

    • @voiceofraisin3778
      @voiceofraisin3778 Před 10 dny +6

      Yes, it was called Bavaria

    • @alamore5084
      @alamore5084 Před 7 dny +1

      ​@@voiceofraisin3778 LOL good one!😂

    • @alamore5084
      @alamore5084 Před 7 dny +1

      That was his large toy train set😂

  • @Chief-Solarize
    @Chief-Solarize Před 11 dny +20

    Hans Joachim Marseilles
    The Yellow14 / ME109
    Hands down undeniably the best to ever pilot a fighter. He is so extremely good he reminds me of Babe Ruth. He was an anomaly. He would ask his crewchief not to load his wing canons with ammo so to keep his roll rate quick. He always came back with most of his ammo anyway. Hed still get 1-5 kills..... He once flew over a British airfield and dropped hand written directions to a pilot hed just shot down. He was a natural mastet of deflection shooting. Its like he was born with a calculator in his head. Hed just tap his trigger and plsnes would fall. Hed always try to spare the enemy pilot, jusy shoot the plane up so theyll parachute out... this is mostly what happened. Once he shot a pilot and the pilot ended up in pow hospital and Joachim went everyday to check on him.
    This Nazi, this hero of the riech, was best friends with a black guy....in Nazi Germany....at a party with Hitler there Hsns kept playing American Jazz records. "Black music" with Hitler there.
    Dr.Mark i could go on for hours about the crazy anomaly of Hans Joachim Marseilles so i know you could really dive in and document this guy. If there were ever an honorable Nazi it was Joachim..

    • @SpeccyMan
      @SpeccyMan Před 10 dny +1

      Please learn the use of the apostrophe in contractions. They exist for a reason!

    • @suzanneflowers2230
      @suzanneflowers2230 Před 10 dny +4

      Definitely someone we should know more about! Thank you!

    • @chriscarbaugh3936
      @chriscarbaugh3936 Před 10 dny +1

      Almost all of his kills were made in a Bf-109F, which had NO wing guns. He died due to an engine fault / failure of an early G model. He was not shot down and killed.

    • @Chief-Solarize
      @Chief-Solarize Před 10 dny +1

      @@chriscarbaugh3936 thats right he was upset with the G model came out because it rolled slower and he died jumping from his cockpit, his body struck the tail end of his plane and he never used his shoot on thebway down. Atleast thats what ive read from other Luftwaffe pilots.
      Tons of stories about that young man. Freaking legend. He played jazz at Hitlers party lol.... and schmoozing the base commander to use his car on dates. He dated alot of the film actresses for 1 or 2 days...but really his skill in 109s is what stood out to me. He was different.
      The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with oakleaves swords and diamonds.

    • @Chief-Solarize
      @Chief-Solarize Před 10 dny

      @@SpeccyMan i learned that in school, i chose not to use them online because its a waste of space and i trust other literate readers to decipher the mysterious text.

  • @Spearhead-lz1oq
    @Spearhead-lz1oq Před 11 dny +12

    Bravo! I don't know where you keep coming up with great historical material.

  • @WickedMuis
    @WickedMuis Před 11 dny +16

    4:13 This shot of the man walking with Göring is Adolph Galland, a fighter ace. I always recognise his face, because that always reminds me of AngryJoe xD

    • @quintrankid8045
      @quintrankid8045 Před 10 dny +1

      Are they discussing where to get a squadron of Spitfires?

    • @JblackSupportTeam
      @JblackSupportTeam Před 10 dny +1

      ... and the shot of the man walking with Chancellor Willy Brandt is Günter Guillaume. His personal assistant who was arrested in 1974 for being a spy for the East German Stasi. Placing an operative so close to the head of govt. of the enemy (West Germany) was the biggest coup of East German intelligence ...

    • @Wuestenkarsten
      @Wuestenkarsten Před 10 dny +1

      @@quintrankid8045 Well, yeah, after that Göring didn´t like Galland so much anymore, the Reason he treated the "Jagdflieger" later as Traitors and Cowards. Even dgrading Galland so he decided to lead JV 44.......so not to need to talk to "Meier" anymore,or, as less as possible.

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 Před 9 dny

      Oh lord you are right! Hmmm. I believe Angry Joe is from Latin America, quite suspicious; are we sure we know who all his grandparents are?

  • @douglasturner6153
    @douglasturner6153 Před 11 dny +12

    Goering look's pretty fit and trim in that cover portrait you're using. Must be how he saw himself. 🤣😊👍

    • @larryzigler6812
      @larryzigler6812 Před 10 dny

      Even when fat he got around very well as show in this video

    • @douglasturner6153
      @douglasturner6153 Před 10 dny +2

      Yeah. He seemed to have a lot of energy. I wonder if Hitler had died years earlier and he took over if he would have gotten in shape like he had to do after his capture

  • @godsowndrunk1118
    @godsowndrunk1118 Před 11 dny +113

    Many of Herman's wildlife conservation laws are still in place....

    • @edwardscott3262
      @edwardscott3262 Před 11 dny

      Wildlife conservation laws aren't for the wildlife. They've always been about making it impossible for people to live subsistence lifestyles.
      Part of grand plans to drive peasants and people into the cities.
      Various excuses used through the centuries but always with the same goal.

    • @alanfitzgeraldsr2201
      @alanfitzgeraldsr2201 Před 10 dny +20

      Isn't it a terrible shame that he thought more of animals than human beings.

    • @rob213chappel
      @rob213chappel Před 10 dny +9

      Is that bad thing then, just becuause Goering introduced them?

    • @shengyi1701
      @shengyi1701 Před 10 dny +5

      If we put these wildlife into a special zoo, they will be called Herman’s Hermits with one signing, “I’m Henry the VIII I am!”

    • @panderson9561
      @panderson9561 Před 10 dny +1

      @@shengyi1701 That would be the elephant singing, right?

  • @thatoneinasuit6404
    @thatoneinasuit6404 Před 11 dny +13

    The fact that their are still carriages AND Kriegsloc trains still around today blows my mind, very shocked that they have managed to keep them in such a good condition when you consider how much we have lost due to it being either stolen or repurposed over time. Great video as always Mark, please do keep up the great work!!!

    • @MarceloBenoit-trenes
      @MarceloBenoit-trenes Před 10 dny +1

      There are kriegsloks in several European countries in tourist railways and museums.

    • @Dylans-Depot
      @Dylans-Depot Před 10 dny +2

      There's one in field gray livery operational in The Netherlands. From time to time it hauls tourist trains between Apeldoorn and Dieren. It's engine number 52 3879

    • @roberthenning4186
      @roberthenning4186 Před 9 dny +2

      The BR 52 Kriegslok is Germany's most produced locomotive ever.
      There are still quite a few around.
      Greeting from Mannheim, Germany! 😀

  • @alinapopescu872
    @alinapopescu872 Před 11 dny +15

    I can't think of any other channel that can get over 7,000 views in the first half an hour.

  • @glenchapman3899
    @glenchapman3899 Před 11 dny +42

    Honey, I am just popping down to Walmart for milk. Do you have the keys to the train?

  • @kallumlgltd
    @kallumlgltd Před 11 dny +11

    Blows my mind, everytime. Give us more knowledge! it's so good!

  • @jamesgarman4788
    @jamesgarman4788 Před 11 dny +8

    Another great video Makr!! Many many thanks for posting!

  • @Knight1968
    @Knight1968 Před 11 dny +8

    its great to see that some of the history as survived, great video Mark

  • @RRM13
    @RRM13 Před 11 dny +10

    Respect from São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷.

  • @ranchorivera4103
    @ranchorivera4103 Před 11 dny +9

    Eric Clapton doing blow and jamming out in Gorings rail car. What a world we live in lol.

    • @gringopig
      @gringopig Před 11 dny +5

      In terms of drug use, Clapton was a lightweight compared to Goering.

    • @TheeGlocktopus
      @TheeGlocktopus Před 8 dny

      @@gringopig Absolutely not.

  • @HamSandwich277
    @HamSandwich277 Před 11 dny +13

    He needed a special bathtub installed to accommodate his 'girth' 😆😆😆

  • @iCesiumZz
    @iCesiumZz Před 10 dny +19

    3 heaviest german warmachines of ww2:
    3. The Maus tank
    2. The Bismarck battleship
    1. Hermann Göring

  • @mitchmatthews6713
    @mitchmatthews6713 Před 11 dny +15

    Continuing to educate us all weekend! Cheers, Mark!

  • @kevinsoundmixer
    @kevinsoundmixer Před 11 dny +4

    Fascinating. I RAIL-ly liked this video, it was right on TRACK!

  • @jonfoulkes3160
    @jonfoulkes3160 Před 11 dny +6

    This video surprised me. Much appreciated. I geek out biiiig time looking up these trains 😅
    Thanks again Dr 🙏

  • @timmyjones1921
    @timmyjones1921 Před 10 dny +4

    Thank You Dr. Felton.

  • @danielsweeney6742
    @danielsweeney6742 Před 11 dny +73

    I’ve been watching Mark Felton’s videos for a few years now, I seem to come to the same question every time. How badly the German military treated prisoners and the people in concentration camps. That they thought it was just perfect for them to live in luxury Total disregard for human life.
    Added note Mark does a great job at informing us! Keep up the great work!

    • @TenShine1productions
      @TenShine1productions Před 11 dny

      Because the Nazis believed that those in the concentration camps were "sub humans" and that if you weren't German then you didn't deserve the same level of human rights.
      Basically racism and anti semitism at its fullest

    • @ampatriot
      @ampatriot Před 11 dny +27

      No different than any other conquerors throughout history. They ALL did the same things.

    • @reubensandwich9249
      @reubensandwich9249 Před 11 dny +17

      Has there been a government and military throughout history that didn't live in luxury while it's common citizens and soldiers sacrificed, or treated the enemies badly?

    • @keith3761
      @keith3761 Před 11 dny +7

      Lol same as every invader

    • @moss8448
      @moss8448 Před 11 dny +4

      they thought themselves as the 'Master Race'

  • @ChrisSM1679
    @ChrisSM1679 Před 11 dny +13

    Excellent video and information.
    The BR 52s kriegsloks must have been in front of these trains later on. In the first part of the film, the two locomotives in front of the military trains are of the type BR 56 ( possibly identification number for one of them 56 2611)
    It woul be great to see original photos or videos with the type 52 locos in front of these trains.
    Regards

    • @bryanpetersen1334
      @bryanpetersen1334 Před 11 dny +2

      Train nerds…

    • @michaelburggraf2822
      @michaelburggraf2822 Před 10 dny +1

      ... either BR 56 or BR 58. The housing of the cylinder could be a clue to those engines.

    • @indrakrishnamurti
      @indrakrishnamurti Před 9 dny +2

      If it were 56 2611, the loco later went on to the western part of Germany and was scrapped by October 1954. It was clearly not a 58 as the number series of the former Prussian G12 locomotives did not reach the 2600s.

    • @indrakrishnamurti
      @indrakrishnamurti Před 9 dny +2

      It could also be 56 2671, which had a slightly longer lifespan, being scrapped in Rheydt in 1960.

  • @patrickwentz8413
    @patrickwentz8413 Před 11 dny +5

    In the 1950s, the German chancellor visited the Soviets in Herman Goring's train car. Ballsy.

    • @aeromodeller1
      @aeromodeller1 Před 10 dny

      He may have brought home with him one of my dad's German cousins, the only one of six brothers who survived the eastern front. There were few men in Russia, POWs were kept to rebuild and farm. He suffered PTSD, became a popular school teacher and administrator after his return.

    • @quintrankid8045
      @quintrankid8045 Před 10 dny +2

      I wonder where this took place. I'm pretty sure in most of Western Europe there's standard gauge while in Russia/SovUn, the gauge is around five feet. Maybe they changed trucks/boogies on the way?

  • @filipohman7277
    @filipohman7277 Před 10 dny +4

    Awesome Work Dr. Felton. Greetings from Helsinki, Finland🇫🇮🇬🇧🇫🇮🇬🇧

  • @roberthevern6169
    @roberthevern6169 Před 11 dny +7

    Thanks, Dr Felton!

  • @andywells397
    @andywells397 Před 11 dny +16

    Mate, your research is beyound outstanding.

  • @davidbrims5825
    @davidbrims5825 Před 11 dny +28

    He also had a model train set, say what you like, you gotta love a guy who’s into trains.

    • @jamesengland7461
      @jamesengland7461 Před 11 dny

      You can love THAT a guy is into trains.
      You can remember that Nazis loved to use trains to haul multitudes of women and children to their torture and death.

    • @NVRAMboi
      @NVRAMboi Před 11 dny +3

      Rod Stewart, Neil Young and "TCotB" Frank Sinatra among them.

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 Před 11 dny +4

      He was one of German toy train producer Maerklin's best customers. Not one they're particularly proud of today but they are willing to talk about him.

    • @Jeppe-Covid1959
      @Jeppe-Covid1959 Před 11 dny +2

      But what happended to that?

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 Před 10 dny

      @@Jeppe-Covid1959 Do you mean Goering's train set? It's believed that when Carinhall was emptied of Goering's collections the house staff were told they could take anything they wanted that was left behind before the estate was blown up. It's supposed the staff may have taken the Maerklin trains but there's no way to know for certain. Mind you, this means the locomotives and cars, not the whole layouts with tracks, buildings, and so forth, they were too massive to remove. There was no mention of the trains being with the collections found at Berchtesgaden.

  • @bryansammis998
    @bryansammis998 Před 11 dny +13

    Being someone who enjoys trains, those trains would be cool to ride in

    • @NVRAMboi
      @NVRAMboi Před 11 dny +1

      I think I'd pass due to the creepiness/known history factor. Each to his own, however.

    • @bryansammis998
      @bryansammis998 Před 11 dny

      @@NVRAMboi you do have a point🤨

    • @SpeccyMan
      @SpeccyMan Před 10 dny +1

      It would be cool to ride in those trains. (Rearranged so the preposition isn't at the end of the sentence!)

    • @csaint6780
      @csaint6780 Před 10 dny +1

      That would be cool!!!!

    • @chickenpommes19
      @chickenpommes19 Před 3 dny +1

      The Salonwagen at Haus der Geschichte in Bonn cant't be ridden due to the fact that it's located inside the basement with the museum build above it! It's also located at the underground exit that connects to the subway station, so unless you start cutting open the first floor, lift it up and out, it'll never see daylight again.

  • @geraint8989
    @geraint8989 Před 11 dny +43

    Glad it still exists. I dislike the mania with which some seek to erase any remnants of history they don’t like.

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 Před 11 dny

      I'll tell you, if the people who lived through and were most affected by the Nazi era didn't have a problem with re-using trains, buildings, or anything else the top Nazis used I can't see why anyone born long after the era has any reason to eradicate all traces of the same. That's thinking with your glands, not your brains.

    • @CaptainGyro
      @CaptainGyro Před 11 dny +6

      Good to hear that the post war government put these rail cars to good use and then offered them as museum pieces.

    • @MrSloika
      @MrSloika Před 11 dny

      There is nothing wrong with retaining items from a defeated regime for display in the proper historical context. That's very different than the BS that took place in the American South which constructed memorials honoring treasonous confederate war criminals.

    • @quintrankid8045
      @quintrankid8045 Před 10 dny +1

      I know, right. It's like the story of the Compiègne Wagon.

  • @QuietCastle
    @QuietCastle Před 10 dny +2

    Wow 171 people on the train. Like a small village... Another great video!

  • @TankerBricks
    @TankerBricks Před 11 dny +5

    Mark.Thanks for providing my Sunday night entertainment!

  • @randyluginbuhl9085
    @randyluginbuhl9085 Před 11 dny +5

    I have one of Goering’s Marklin toy trains that was purchased quite by accident

  • @ericw3229
    @ericw3229 Před 11 dny +5

    Another well done video. Eric Clapton rode in one of the cars.

  • @BELCAN57
    @BELCAN57 Před 11 dny +4

    An armored Pullman car used by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the "Roald Amundsen" is on display at a museum in Scottsdale, Arizona in the United States. The car has everything required for the passengers to travel in comfort and security.

    • @Wuestenkarsten
      @Wuestenkarsten Před 10 dny +1

      @BELCAN57: If I am not mistaken, Roosevelt did like to be on Ship´s as he was with the Navy. But as a President he couldn´t be so much Time away from Duty, so he decided to go with the Train as much as possible, he described it as the 2nd best Solution of Travel Feeling to a Navy Ship. In the Movies " Wind of War" with Robert Mitchum is a Scene based on that.....

  • @dimmujan9385
    @dimmujan9385 Před 10 dny +2

    Visit the Netherlands sometimes. In the north they have the STAR museum railway which also operates a WWII German locomotive on a 20 km museum track. You can buy tickets and it operates on a schedule.

  • @christyhart8254
    @christyhart8254 Před 10 dny

    Always fun and educational to watch your videos!!! Thanks for another great one!

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 Před 11 dny +6

    Dr. Felton's trains always run on time. Happy Mother's day

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan Před 11 dny

      Mother’s Day is in March.

    • @faithlesshound5621
      @faithlesshound5621 Před 11 dny +1

      @@AtheistOrphan He means the US Mother's Day, as designated by Woodrow Wilson.

  • @NovaFragment
    @NovaFragment Před 11 dny +5

    1:21am..... 10:30 minute new upload , gotta watch that before bed!

  • @bmoboss
    @bmoboss Před 11 dny +3

    I watched the last video on Goring’s train just a few hours ago and this suddenly comes up?? Amazing timing

  • @scootergeorge7089
    @scootergeorge7089 Před 11 dny +23

    Thanks to a double, he escaped the Nuremburg trials and started a band. Hermann's Hermitts

  • @1FokkerAce
    @1FokkerAce Před 11 dny +8

    Goering’s Train. Plush duty if you could get it.

  • @RubyMarkLindMilly
    @RubyMarkLindMilly Před 11 dny +3

    Beautiful craftsmanship on show on these wonderful trains 👍

  • @ivamori9837
    @ivamori9837 Před 10 dny

    This is incredible ! - as usual when it comes from Mark Felton.
    Loving It.

  • @themerchantofengland
    @themerchantofengland Před 11 dny +2

    Again, Dr Felton, you've astonished me with your research, fascinating 👏

  • @gertgilich3508
    @gertgilich3508 Před 11 dny +3

    Viele Dank Mark. Sehr interessant, wie immer. Greetings from SSW, 🇿🇦

  • @oveidasinclair982
    @oveidasinclair982 Před 11 dny +4

    I wonder how the staff and guards assigned to these trains fared in the last months of the war

  • @charleskiel2299
    @charleskiel2299 Před 11 dny +2

    Another interesting video, thanks Dr. Felton

  • @andrewpinner3181
    @andrewpinner3181 Před 10 dny +1

    Thanks Mark, always intriguing & just - excellent !

  • @Willigula
    @Willigula Před 11 dny +13

    I find it amazing that iconic heads-of-state from the Nazi’s enemies got shuttled around on these deeply personal rolling symbols of the senior Nazi leaders. Did anyone ask QEII if Her Majesty would enjoy a a bath in Goering’s bathtub while en route to their destination? Quite the amusing scenario. Thanks, Dr. Felton!

    • @pawelpap9
      @pawelpap9 Před 9 dny

      It is possible they were grownups and they realized the world did not vanish in a puff on May 8th 1945 and started firm a blank slate? They knew that much of the German infrastructure, including airports, train stations, Autobahns and so on was ck stricter during Nazi time. I personally slept in Hitler’s room during one of my business trips to Bonn. And imagine, I am still breathing!

  • @ProfessorM-he9rl
    @ProfessorM-he9rl Před 11 dny +4

    Thanks Mark, great post.

  • @brianhollenbeck8633
    @brianhollenbeck8633 Před 11 dny +8

    Some German choo choo's were definitely 5 star accomodations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐while others were given only one star.✡️

    • @bryanpetersen1334
      @bryanpetersen1334 Před 11 dny

      I always have a Star of David decal on my trucks, probably why I’ve been keyed 4 times.

  • @Jordan-rb28
    @Jordan-rb28 Před 11 dny +3

    Mark, might you be interested in making a video on Erich Hartmann, the Luftwaffe ace with 352 air-to-air victories over 1400 combat missions? I'd love to learn more about him from you. Thanks.

  • @curtbowers7817
    @curtbowers7817 Před 10 dny +4

    I’ve wondered how many works of art are still hidden to eventually be found decades later, or if ever?

    • @lena19191
      @lena19191 Před 7 dny

      Yep same here , but I think it would have all gone now into private collections and probably only to be sold on to private collectors .

  • @tomobedlam297
    @tomobedlam297 Před 10 dny +36

    Eric Clapton hired Goering's carriage to record "Mein Fuhrer, You Look Wunderbar Tonight".

  • @csaint6780
    @csaint6780 Před 10 dny +2

    Nothing like spending a little time on Mothers day learning about Hermann Goring's Train, Thanx Mr Felton.

  • @rmwarnick
    @rmwarnick Před 9 dny +2

    The original video about Nazi trains mentioned that Goering was a huge railway enthusiast, and Carinhall had a 4,000 square foot model train setup that he loved to show to guests.

  • @kevinvilmont6061
    @kevinvilmont6061 Před 11 dny +5

    Goering was a narcissistic monster., but he could put a uniform together!

    • @rossr6616
      @rossr6616 Před 10 dny

      and he also excelled at splitting uniforms

  • @jordanangle9666
    @jordanangle9666 Před 10 dny +2

    3 shortest books in European history:
    1: English cook book
    2:German joke book
    3:Irish book of happiest memories with Father

    • @Wuestenkarsten
      @Wuestenkarsten Před 10 dny

      That is a good one which I need to Remember! ;-)

  • @nodarkthings
    @nodarkthings Před 8 dny

    Absolutely fascinating, Dr. Felton. Thank you.

  • @aaronlambert9297
    @aaronlambert9297 Před 11 dny +7

    When Mark uses an exclamation point you know it's important. He doesn't use them as haphazardly as others do. Top of the Muffin to You!

  • @paulbennett4415
    @paulbennett4415 Před 11 dny +3

    10,236 views in 40 minutes - well done Dr. Fenton!

  • @raytomic2762
    @raytomic2762 Před 10 dny +2

    Another great video, Dr. Felton. It would be great to see a production about Atelier Thorak, one of the lesser-known surviving works of Albert Speer.

  • @TattooedTraveler
    @TattooedTraveler Před 9 dny

    Thanks for another great idea for a video, Dr Felton. Visiting the Kreigsloks in Bosnia was great.

  • @theobessiris9681
    @theobessiris9681 Před 11 dny +5

    I have often wondered what happened to his huge Marklin model train layout he had in his loft at Karinhall. Will there be a video about this in the future?

  • @user-em2pe3rf4h
    @user-em2pe3rf4h Před 11 dny +39

    Only the finest art,residences,uniforms,and morphine for Goering. I understand the need for an armored command train, but the opulence that he insisted upon is something that I find gross. It seems to have been a running theme amongst the Nazis. "We deserve it, so you pay for it." A theme that's alive and well to this day. Thanks for showing these relics Dr. Felton, well done. Cheers from the States.

    • @jonaldous3446
      @jonaldous3446 Před 11 dny +4

      Opiumlence?

    • @user-em2pe3rf4h
      @user-em2pe3rf4h Před 11 dny +2

      @@jonaldous3446 Ha! Clever. I'm certain that that's the funniest thing that I will hear or read today. Thanks...clever always trumps sarcasm.

    • @FaustoTheBoozehound
      @FaustoTheBoozehound Před 11 dny +2

      Yeah the Nazis would've been much more agreeable if not for the profligacy 🙄

    • @user-em2pe3rf4h
      @user-em2pe3rf4h Před 11 dny

      @@FaustoTheBoozehound And here comes the troll to defend a bridge too far. Of course the totality of what and who the Nazis were and did is the lowest point of what humans have done in history. Their leaders insistence on luxury is just one of many layers of a disgusting onion that should make all eyes water. Ha! I made it across the bridge.

  • @peterwilkinson2912
    @peterwilkinson2912 Před 10 dny +2

    Absolutely fascinating Mark, thank you. There is some description of Hitler’s train in the autobiography of his secretary Traudl Junge

  • @kingcrazymani4133
    @kingcrazymani4133 Před 11 dny

    Thanks, Mark. Your videos and you “walk on water.” In my sphere, this means one has leave at any time to show up, announced or not. Cheers.

  • @RReese08
    @RReese08 Před 10 dny +3

    Hermann Goring
    A fancy chap, never boring
    He loved his art, his pretties
    And many cheap thrills
    But in the end he took his pills