How Insane Escape From Nazi Prison Went Horribly Wrong

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  • čas pƙidĂĄn 6. 09. 2024
  • "The Great Escape", a famous film about allied soldiers putting on one of the most adventurous escapes from a Nazi prison camp, but the real story is much darker and tragic than the movie. Check out today's epic true historic story that reveals the truth about the allies' actual "Great Escape" and why it wasn't so "Great" after all.
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Komentáƙe • 279

  • @AwokenEntertainment
    @AwokenEntertainment Pƙed 2 lety +103

    Living in these time must've been insane... oh wait..

  • @diversejoe617
    @diversejoe617 Pƙed 2 lety +32

    Hollywood: We are gonna make this as family friendly as possible
    What actually happened:

  • @shanemcdowall
    @shanemcdowall Pƙed 2 lety +56

    Three New Zealanders were murdered in the aftermath of the Great escape: Arnold Christensen, John Williams and Porokoru Pohe. Pohe was one of the Whitley pilots in the Bruneval raid. Kia Kaha Ake! Ake! Ake!

    • @IrishMorgenstern
      @IrishMorgenstern Pƙed 2 lety +2

      I never knew this. Thank you for sharing with us!

    • @anz0_king132
      @anz0_king132 Pƙed 2 lety

      Good thing new zealanders don't matter đŸ€·đŸŒâ€â™‚ïž

    • @puyearprod.929
      @puyearprod.929 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@anz0_king132 lol fr tho. Didn't know they were even there

  • @Perplexii
    @Perplexii Pƙed 2 lety +202

    I strongly encourage you to talk about the story of Pino Lella! By far one of the most unique and heroic stories I’ve read by far!! An Italian boy whom at only 17 joined the Nazis as a spy for the Allies!
    Edit: apparently this comment made people either sexualize me or hate on me for my profile pic, welcome to today’s society. 😂😂

    • @looeegee
      @looeegee Pƙed 2 lety +10

      How about no

    • @sarathchandra7607
      @sarathchandra7607 Pƙed 2 lety +10

      Thats amazing

    • @GewoonNee
      @GewoonNee Pƙed 2 lety +16

      I personally encourage you get a grip and change your profile picture... this ain't tinder đŸ€Ą

    • @ocantu1987
      @ocantu1987 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      Well I hope it’s a true story worth being told Lexi

    • @zonk4881
      @zonk4881 Pƙed 2 lety +47

      @@GewoonNee how bout u put a pfp and stop projecting your insecurities 😛

  • @donm5354
    @donm5354 Pƙed 2 lety +18

    Too bad they werent at STALAG 13 instead STALAG 3 ... Colonel Klink was totally clueless.

  • @generalyousif3640
    @generalyousif3640 Pƙed 2 lety +54

    I can think of numerous reasons, but I can’t put them into words

    • @joshuakerger2897
      @joshuakerger2897 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Imagine when we're able to convert thoughts into words using computers...
      We're going to need a new language

    • @Man929-r1c
      @Man929-r1c Pƙed 2 lety

      @@joshuakerger2897 probably

    • @adeonigga8141
      @adeonigga8141 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@joshuakerger2897 bro you ever heard of typing?

    • @puppymanyeah8368
      @puppymanyeah8368 Pƙed 2 lety

      That’s why it’s impossible

  • @NipplesOfDestiny
    @NipplesOfDestiny Pƙed 2 lety +25

    How did they steal 635 mattresses? Did they just tell the guards hey my mattress flew away can I get a new one?

    • @Dylan-fs5kn
      @Dylan-fs5kn Pƙed 2 lety +6

      Yeah and how do full bunk beds go missing!

    • @wmdkitty
      @wmdkitty Pƙed 2 lety +9

      Decent chance that some guards were either sympathetic, or were bribed to look the other way.

    • @jesuschristaboveallcreation
      @jesuschristaboveallcreation Pƙed 2 lety +3

      “[Meditate on These Things] Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy-meditate on these things.” -Philippians 4:8 (NKJV)

    • @sabbathunter
      @sabbathunter Pƙed 2 lety +2

      "I see nothing, nothing!"

  • @TheWingland
    @TheWingland Pƙed 2 lety +50

    I highly recommend reading The Great Escape book. It’s written by one of the men in the camp and it is great. It also has pictures of some of the men in the story and of the stuff they used to help them escape, such as the railway system and air pumps.

  • @jlit3160
    @jlit3160 Pƙed 2 lety +21

    Did you know that Donald pleasance, an actor in the movie about stalag lift three mentioned in this video, was in that exact camp during the war. After the escape, he was a radio operator and shot sent there.

  • @user-py8zm4pp7v
    @user-py8zm4pp7v Pƙed 2 lety +47

    Well i would love if we could hear war stories and the heroic action of axis soldiers. Unfortunatly that part of the history is overshadowed of the eviliness of the regime.

    • @michaelwoods8654
      @michaelwoods8654 Pƙed 2 lety +8

      How exactly were they evil? They were the victims of global zionism.

    • @zonk4881
      @zonk4881 Pƙed 2 lety +16

      @@michaelwoods8654 whoever wins decides who’s right and wrong

    • @kremepye3613
      @kremepye3613 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@michaelwoods8654 ffs

    • @MissSpaz
      @MissSpaz Pƙed 2 lety +13

      @@michaelwoods8654 Global Zionism... you're joking, right?
      Jews are just like any other minority. They were the victims. Even today, the numbers of Jews in the world aren't enough to "take over the world" if we wanted too.
      If you want to talk about MODERN politics in regards to Israel and the apartheid going on there, that's more reasonable. But in the early 1900s and 1940s, they had no power, no allies. Stop being brainwashed by white supremacists.

    • @MissSpaz
      @MissSpaz Pƙed 2 lety +4

      @@zonk4881 In general that's true. There's a lot of nuance on both sides of war, every war. While not every German soldier was evil, and many were unaware of the real atrocities going on, there's no doubt that the axis powers in Europe (not including Japan in here, because in the end I'd argue that what the allies did to them outweighed what they did) perpetrated a great, horrific evil that can never be justified. Just how, in my opinion, the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan can never be justified.

  • @baronvg
    @baronvg Pƙed 2 lety +49

    The Great Escape is one of my favorite movies. Seems it dozens of times. It’s sobering to know a lot of it wasn’t true lol. But it’s still a fun movie to check out if you haven’t yet. Coincidentally enough (or may or not), a 4K version was just released maybe a week ago.

    • @usonly101
      @usonly101 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      If it’s the same movie I’m thinking of, Nazi’s captured one of the escapees and said they were going to execute them. The reason being was because the prisoner was wearing civilian clothes and the Nazi’s could then say the captured individual was a spy and spies would usually be killed. That part of the movie freaked me out.

    • @baronvg
      @baronvg Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@usonly101 That’s quite a scene lol. Unfortunately, there isn’t a scene like that in The Great Escape.

  • @mikeYXiong
    @mikeYXiong Pƙed 2 lety +2

    It brings tears to my eyes that in the midst of war, enemies would risk their lives for eachother.

  • @legendarygrape6049
    @legendarygrape6049 Pƙed 2 lety +27

    They never fail to entertain us

  • @iowa_lot_to_travel9471
    @iowa_lot_to_travel9471 Pƙed 2 lety +5

    Steve Mcqueen had to double as the German officer trying to catch him on the motorcycle. As Steve was a professional racer, the stuntman could not keep up with him

  • @JustAguyFromJersey
    @JustAguyFromJersey Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Wow that's remarkable... that man was 100 and 2014 years old and yet still remembers everything so vividly.. inspiring

  • @ErectkyleDysfunction
    @ErectkyleDysfunction Pƙed 2 lety +5

    Glad there's a part 2 to this

  • @tasha3757
    @tasha3757 Pƙed 2 lety +3

    10:45 isn't it AMAZING what humans can accomplish when they work together? I wish more (politicians, country leaders etc.) could realise the *IMPORTANCE* of this.. stop fighting against each other; fight together to one goal.

  • @TeddyBear-um5ll
    @TeddyBear-um5ll Pƙed 2 lety +4

    I agreed with your suggestion in the first minute.

  • @bobbyp4025
    @bobbyp4025 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    'So grandpa which tunnel did you escape from?'
    Grandpa-'the...richard tunnel'

  • @ayeyaeye
    @ayeyaeye Pƙed 2 lety +4

    The rat lines to black mountain north carolina and the history of the swiss colony in argentina are a few interesting places.

  • @ponceprmitierra9957
    @ponceprmitierra9957 Pƙed 2 lety +8

    I think it's time you guy's make a video on Ukraine vs. Russia, just putting this out there please dont let us down, thanks!

    • @michaelwoods8654
      @michaelwoods8654 Pƙed 2 lety +4

      Ukraine belongs to Russia

    • @ponceprmitierra9957
      @ponceprmitierra9957 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      @@michaelwoods8654 your comment didn’t make any kind of sense of what I commented but you are wrong, Ukraine is an independent sovereign nation.

  • @troglodytetroglodyteto5997
    @troglodytetroglodyteto5997 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    0:10 is the best names for the tunnels

  • @themeanestkitten
    @themeanestkitten Pƙed rokem +1

    10:40 how did they get all that stuff with nobody findding out? That's almost a new camps worth of stuff!

  • @tonydittmaier3889
    @tonydittmaier3889 Pƙed 2 lety +3

    Love the content!!!! I was wondering if maybe you could cover the current Russia/Ukraine/NATO situation and how tensions are rising. Thanks so much!

  • @wheresmyoldname
    @wheresmyoldname Pƙed 2 lety +1

    This is the most interesting video ever!!! I've never heard of any of this!!! đŸ™ŒđŸ»đŸ˜‚ Wow this is so interesting my guy... Good job finding the information that noone else seems to have...👍

  • @kassieyoung4289
    @kassieyoung4289 Pƙed 2 lety

    One of the best movies made! So cool to see Infographics so a skit on the actual story and events!

  • @ajames-fc7tm
    @ajames-fc7tm Pƙed 2 lety +3

    Very infographic

  • @verytinyfacts
    @verytinyfacts Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci

    Just found your content, very good!

  • @h2.t2
    @h2.t2 Pƙed rokem

    This man makes the people in these thumbnails look so badass

  • @ilikedawgs4058
    @ilikedawgs4058 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Bro this is history class at this point.

  • @tommybrown9534
    @tommybrown9534 Pƙed 2 lety +3

    How was all that stuff used in the tunnels? Tha mattresses, electric wire? What were those used for? Just curious

  • @TheCODAddict
    @TheCODAddict Pƙed 2 lety +2

    How many gb is this whole animation?

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Pƙed 2 lety

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff

  • @BLOOD_FOR_THE_BLOOD_GOD69420

    Nice vid

  • @tuelzalt
    @tuelzalt Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Not gonna lie... needed this

  • @CHARMING_PLAYBOY_007
    @CHARMING_PLAYBOY_007 Pƙed 2 lety

    Thank you good video!

  • @sabbathunter
    @sabbathunter Pƙed 2 lety

    There never has been a successful escape from Stalag 13, Hogan. "I see nothing, nothing. I was never here. I never even got out of bed this morning!"

  • @ArrogantSwede
    @ArrogantSwede Pƙed rokem +1

    My grandfather escaped. All the way to England. He survived D day after that.

  • @ryleydyck60
    @ryleydyck60 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    11:12 nice

  • @ExiliaN42
    @ExiliaN42 Pƙed 2 lety +5

    You know it's clickbait when they condense the title to nothing more than shock words. It's like troglodytes are running these channels

    • @maxxdahl6062
      @maxxdahl6062 Pƙed 2 lety

      And a lot of topics they don't even bother doing some basic level research.

  • @johnray854
    @johnray854 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    The invention of the water heater can be traced all the way back to the ancient Romans, who kept large baths filled with hot water. The first patent for a water heater was given to Benjamin Waddy Maughan, a painter from England, in 1868
    The Roman Empire lasted for almost 1,500 years from around between 27 BCE until 1453 CE.
    Finally, in 476, the Germanic leader Odoacer staged a revolt and deposed the Emperor Romulus Augustulus. From then on, no Roman emperor would ever again rule from a post in Italy, leading many to cite 476 as the year the Western Empire suffered its deathblow

  • @TheQuestion4All
    @TheQuestion4All Pƙed 2 lety

    Thanks for listening to my request

  • @chrisi7127
    @chrisi7127 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    I was hoping this would be about the Mauthausen "Hasenjagd" (Rabbit hunt), where over 300 prisoners escaped and got hunted down or sinply died due to starvation. Only 11 survived, I think.

  • @okuyasu_6991
    @okuyasu_6991 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    The guy in the thumbnail looks like an ncr vet soldier

  • @petewhitmore7668
    @petewhitmore7668 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    The great escape has to be one of the greatest movie of all time 😁

  • @MTN1601
    @MTN1601 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    Hi

  • @aidancox5619
    @aidancox5619 Pƙed 2 lety

    Hi from South Africa

  • @lincolnlawellington3285
    @lincolnlawellington3285 Pƙed 2 lety

    Based in Poland stalag luft 3 was a German Air force run pow camp and the great escape top 5 greatest war films of all time.

  • @jokodihaynes419
    @jokodihaynes419 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    I play the video game to the movie

  • @v1ncesdrugdealer
    @v1ncesdrugdealer Pƙed 2 lety +2

    Hello

  • @piepiepie57
    @piepiepie57 Pƙed rokem

    That camp they were in didn't sound bad at all. I definitely would have been on the side to just wait it out.

  • @gymny0000
    @gymny0000 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    No one :
    Me : *Hahaha 69 lamps, nice*

  • @angus1298
    @angus1298 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    U should do sobibor death camp
    The only one with a successful escape

    • @jessicafournerat3804
      @jessicafournerat3804 Pƙed rokem

      That is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately all too often when the holocaust is mentioned many people think that Jewish people just went to their deaths when in reality Jewish people did fight back against the Nazis. Unfortunately all too often they failed and were then caught by the Nazis and then the Nazis not only killed them but also killed their friends and families and other innocent Jewish people. However in some rare cases such as in the Sobibor and Treblinka revolts they succeeded and were able to escape from the Nazis.

  • @IbrahimYounes
    @IbrahimYounes Pƙed 2 lety

    lots of story from Syria also. some of them made books translated to english.
    I would recommend those, scary crazy story no one would believe !

  • @donm5354
    @donm5354 Pƙed 2 lety

    Real story was totally BASED...

  • @Cerise__
    @Cerise__ Pƙed 2 lety +1

    What a nice German soldier. I wonder why he's pointing at the sun.

  • @nexpro6118
    @nexpro6118 Pƙed 2 lety

    Wait, what.....you are telling me that a movie got it wrong? Lol

  • @bladestar8727
    @bladestar8727 Pƙed 2 lety +3

    Wasn't there like 3 or 4 who actually made it? I think that's all there was that got away from the 90 or so that went through the tunnels.

  • @candiceperry5817
    @candiceperry5817 Pƙed 2 lety

    It is awesome to watch infographics show on youtube I like what would happen if you didn't brush you're teeth for 1 week

  • @johnparkes2452
    @johnparkes2452 Pƙed 2 lety

    Amazing tunnel names

  • @cameronmcphee6827
    @cameronmcphee6827 Pƙed 2 lety

    My Grandad's cousin drew the blue prints for the great escape

  • @simple-commentator-not-rea7345

    What's with the beginning? It sounds like it was cutoff at some point

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Maybe you can talk about the escapes from Colditz. Hitlers most escape proof prison. Or at least the nearest he had to one.

  • @ryanprjgamingchannel9437
    @ryanprjgamingchannel9437 Pƙed 2 lety

    I really wondered if this was what something somewhere has been copying all along...

  • @randomstranger8705
    @randomstranger8705 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    hiii

  • @himesilva
    @himesilva Pƙed 2 lety

    5 foot snow? Is that how much snow Germany gets!?

  • @aiyanabernard8086
    @aiyanabernard8086 Pƙed 2 lety +6

    The wisest thing that should be on every wise individual list is to Invest in different streams of income that don't depend on the government to bring money especially now the pandemic is hitting economy pretty hard

    • @jacksmith7816
      @jacksmith7816 Pƙed 2 lety

      I completely agree with you considering the market sentiment and how complicating the market can be. An expert can be essential for a lucrative investment in the market

    • @jinchen4225
      @jinchen4225 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      I am currently based in New Zealand is this something I could do from home?

  • @gohstleviathanyt9859
    @gohstleviathanyt9859 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Bet bro

  • @guthixwar44
    @guthixwar44 Pƙed 2 lety

    Wasn’t this a game for the OG xbox? If I remember right he had this when I was a kid

  • @vmeister72
    @vmeister72 Pƙed 2 lety

    Stalag 17 is a good movie!

  • @tasha3757
    @tasha3757 Pƙed 2 lety

    11:48
    *Travelled**

  • @FitchTV
    @FitchTV Pƙed 2 lety

    I'm still in a dreeAaaam Sneeeter

  • @donhancock332
    @donhancock332 Pƙed 2 lety

    The words " goon" and " jeep" were taken from the Popeye cartoons.

  • @clintparsons3989
    @clintparsons3989 Pƙed 2 lety

    I had no idea.

  • @miraclewhippy5258
    @miraclewhippy5258 Pƙed 2 lety

    P.O.W. has sadly died to rare “ Bullet in brain disease” RIP

  • @rileywatson4422
    @rileywatson4422 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Amen

  • @zhos17
    @zhos17 Pƙed 2 lety +14

    We're no strangers to love
    You know the rules and so do I
    A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
    You wouldn't get this from any other guy
    I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
    Gotta make you understand
    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
    We've known each other for so long
    Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
    Inside we both know what's been going on
    We know the game and we're gonna play it
    And if you ask me how I'm feeling
    Don't tell me you're too blind to see
    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
    Never gonna give, never gonna give
    (Give you up)
    We've known each other for so long
    Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
    Inside we both know what's been going on
    We know the game and we're gonna play it
    I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
    Gotta make you understand
    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye
    Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and desert you
    Never gonna make you cry
    Never gonna say goodbye

  • @garwhittaker3743
    @garwhittaker3743 Pƙed 2 lety

    There's a good video online about how the British hunted the shooters of the men after the war.

  • @donnaclayton8644
    @donnaclayton8644 Pƙed 2 lety

    Why didn't they wait untill the weather was better?

  • @Avnirvana1
    @Avnirvana1 Pƙed 2 lety

    What happened to the fourth guy?

  • @arkasha6649
    @arkasha6649 Pƙed 2 lety

    11:11 *Nice.*

  • @BobbyMan905
    @BobbyMan905 Pƙed 2 lety +2

    Among us

  • @Mario87456
    @Mario87456 Pƙed 2 lety

    What a failure it was, clearly the whole thing should be remembered as a miserable failure that in the end just made things worse.

  • @jamiedriscoll9781
    @jamiedriscoll9781 Pƙed 2 lety

    Lol a modern train engine in 1944 close enough

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 Pƙed 2 lety

    oh well.

  • @draco7522
    @draco7522 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    This way better treatment than schools 😭

  • @billywoollard1621
    @billywoollard1621 Pƙed 2 lety

    why is the guy in the thumbnail holding his gun like that tho?

  • @chompsthecarnivinewithonly312

    Carnivine vine vine

  • @patrickb1303
    @patrickb1303 Pƙed 2 lety

    Lol what is the uniform in that thumbnail? Nazis from the castle Wolfinstein battalion?

  • @Luhblakkmusix
    @Luhblakkmusix Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci

    Hard arcers or hard arces?

  • @alishan8880
    @alishan8880 Pƙed 2 lety

    Please do some alien videos

  • @jay13200
    @jay13200 Pƙed 2 lety

    @infographic could you do a video about Will Russia invade Ukraine? And what will us and nato do

  • @Dodgedeiselforlife
    @Dodgedeiselforlife Pƙed 2 lety

    I love this movie

  • @koaahumada5243
    @koaahumada5243 Pƙed 2 lety

    American History curriculum in public schools < This CZcams channel

  • @jonathandiaz4997
    @jonathandiaz4997 Pƙed rokem

    11 months ago

  • @alternator7893
    @alternator7893 Pƙed 2 lety

    The great escape! Yes!!

  • @OKING_YT
    @OKING_YT Pƙed 2 lety +1

    Hiii

  • @robertheron1063
    @robertheron1063 Pƙed 2 lety

    I’m sorry but if you didn’t know this was a pow camp it would just sound like a summer camp for adults

  • @demonj999x6
    @demonj999x6 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    đŸ”„

  • @havardl4495
    @havardl4495 Pƙed 2 lety

    Go Norway!