The Bunker Boys - Hitler's Child Soldiers, Berlin 1945
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The story of the child and teenage soldiers that were famously filmed being awarded Iron Crosses outside the Führerbunker in Berlin, March 1945.
Special thanks to Frederick at www.filmhauer.net for access to footage. Also visit / filmhauer
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"I wish my generals were as brave as you."
I wished these boys were as forseeing as some of the Generals... The war was already lost at the end of 1942 and everything that followed was a prolonging of the worldwide suffering. And the pictures don't show all the brave boys that didn't make it and died pointless in the last days and weeks of WW2.
I suggest the German movie "The Bridge" from 1959. It shows how this turned out for many of these "bunker boys".
Fegelein! Bringen Sie mir Fegelein!
@@oliverhaake7552 hi. you commented 55 seconds ago and i agree
Pedro Kantor I’ve been reading Guderian’s Panzer Leader book. Seems like a brilliant General.
Also been reading The Unnecessary War by Nixon’s speechwriter. His thesis is that Hitler didn’t want a two-front war.
@@oliverhaake7552 well stated.
My dad was a combat medic that was 20 years old crossing Europe from Normandy through the Ardennes and Belgium. He once told me it was alarming to have to treat 15 year old wounded German soldiers. Medics on both sides treated enemy soldiers when they could
That can't have been easy dealing with that on a regular basis, I'm sure it never leaves you. I can only imagine the horrors these medics came upon. And your Dad was such a young man himself. I thank him for his service from across the pond in Ireland. 🇮🇪
White Boy not even worthy of a serious reply...
@White Boy just like in estonia
@@VegasNit I mean the red army really did rape their way through
You realize that ww2 was like 70 years ago??
"I'll be in Argentina if you need me."
Lol because they all fled there
Did they really?
Beannn Nibbs yea most nazis fled there, so many that certain areas speak German
"With my friend: Juan Domingo Perón"
@@wolfstudios4297 Yes
Consider this: if you were born in 1923, you were 10 when the NSDAP came to power; you had a rough childhood before The Leader ascended, and now you could look forward to things being better. You were 16 when the war started.
"How could these kids be so fanatical?" It was their whole life experience.
Another fascinating episode of history Dr. Felton!
My grandfather was born in 1922 and he fought in a war from 1940 to 1945 .
I'm glad you came up with this.
People who never ever in their life experienced any threat and violence are always so quick to judge from their sofa.
those kids were no not more or less fanatical than those who burned down hiroshima, nagasaki, dresden and raped german women in berlin 1945
@@andrejatodorovic5916 na kojoj strani😝😝😝😂
FANATICAL??😂😂😂 They just knew that j.o.0.s demons were destroying His country and degenrating the world. It's just the power of truth, mor0n
I'd just like to say thank you Mark
That's it
Welkum heir pisda bukket.
Pozdrav Bosko
Well done again. Had no idea who the boys were or what happened to them.
Michael excuse me what? I’m German but mostly American but enough to get offended by you
Thanks bro, I appreciate
In March of 1945 Hitler could have visited the Eastern and Western fronts in the same day. Then have time to be home for dinner
Yes lol
😂😂
O
every one keeps talking about how oil was the reason germany lost .....no!!!....hitler wanted to have dinner after visiting both fronts
@Stuart Ahrens yo your english sucks....u lost yourself in the end
Breakfast with uncle Adi: Milk, cookies and an Iron cross.
What else a young Aryan could dream off? ;)
Use Bitchute or on
Then a hole in your gut. Thanks adi
Idioto
Would die for an Iron Cross 🤣
“The Führer demands all to share their last drops of blood in Berlin’s defence; the old, the young, the weak”
- Victor Resnov
@Capitalist it’s a quote from a video game, but quite a true one.
@Capitalist nope, World at War. You were close.
"They stand for Germany, they die for Germany. "
@@Sovietghostdivision building by building, room by room, one rat at a time.
“The mudak in the car is General Amsel, the architect of Stalingrad’s misery”
That one kid Czech saving wounded soldiers with a horse and cart is pretty nuts. I just imagine mortars and artillery raining down on him, his horse and cart and the wounded men. Gotta give credit, those kids had guts.
Could be a movie...
@@edoedo8686 Not made by Hollywood or any German studio for sure.
They fought extremely well on the western front though...fanaticism was high in their ranks as well!
And somewhere there's a teenage girl crying because she's cold
Reminds me of the ANZAC legend during the Gallipoli campaign of WW1, the soldier known as Simpson and his donkey, retrieving Aussie wounded under fire.
Immortalized by the film Downfall (Der Untergang).
Der Untergang really is one of the best WW2 films ever made and certainly one of the best out of Germany, except for, arguably, Das Boot.
Peter was his name. Think the SS hangs his dad at the end for hiding and not fighting so he leaves with Trodel.
@@iamfishhead Generation War was also very good imo
@@iamfishhead Also Stalingrad (1993)
@@iamfishhead Das Boot is a truly great film. Well said sir.
Some 12 year old kids ride bikes in the neighborhood, wondering what it’s like to kiss a girl, fishing by the lake, going to school to learn, having sleep overs with friends watching movies and eating popcorn all night. Other 12 year old kids are in a damp trench, firing a rifle to kill people, watching other kids getting blown into bits and dodging heavy artillery 24/7... 🤔
Pretty scary to think about huh
Imagine the PTSD from all that...
I mean trenches are barely even being used so no not other kids are doing that
D0nye WTH? Trenches were used in a extremely common method in the 1940’s World War II so... yeah many German kids were very much so in trenches all along enemy lines across many countries.
(?) 🤔
@@thefutureofyesterday8136 well kids in the 1940s didn't watch movies all night and eat popcorn all night
I had a girlfriend whose father was German and who had been conscripted into the Hitler Youth at the very end of the war in Berlin when he was 15. He spent years recovering from the PTSD.
That’s really unfortunately. I don’t want to sound rude but do you have any more details?
He have not been conscripted at 15 he was in HJ since 8 years old as all germans young women and men
Same thing with my grandpa. He grew up in Hamburg. As a member of the Hitler Youth he had to retrieve and clean up bodies from the massacre of the bombings
@@badbotchdown9845 No, there were German children that were able to avoid joining until Germany started loosing.
@@kanegarvey3188 What details do you want weirdo
i was wondering how to find out if these children survived the war and Dr Felton included details in the video - thanks very much.
Yeah, I had no idea I had already seen an interview with Hübner in World at War.
What I found really disgusting in that regard, was how many boys from the HJ they were able to recruit for these combat operations, voluntarily or otherwise. They, and the Volkssturm, were nothing but cannon fodder in a futile attempt to win a long lost war.
Mark knows a lot that he doesnt let on.
One of my favorite vignettes from Cornelius Ryan's _The Last Battle_ about the Soviet taking of Berlin is a Hitler Youth boy soldier sent out with a _panzerfaust_ to stop Russian tanks. Exhausted, he falls asleep in bombed-out building, and when he awakens the battle has swept past him in the night. All of his young companions are dead in the streets, but he lives to tell the tale.
@@bundesautobahn7 One of Hitler's two last blunders. By conscripting both the under-aged and the elderly, he helped much to devastate Germany's post-war human resource pool. The second would be his 'scorched earth' order which was aimed at obliterating Germany's infrastructure down to the very last piece. The latter however was skillfully deflected by Speer, if even only partially successful.
The longer the war, the younger the soldiers...
The longer the war, the shorter the lives
Also sometimes the older the soldier..
@@Salem-TC true
@HATEMAN you don't say.
Se dice, cuanto más sea tu estupidez de decir psuedo palabras de sabiduría en los comentarios, más tendrás a ridículos igual que tú siguiéndote.
"Bunker Boys" ,that's sound like a cool and interesting movie
It sounds more like a gay porn film. LOL
Yo Defitnetly im down on that!
MT2SS That title belongs to the previous “Rump Reich” video.
MT2SS HahA! Knew I would see this comment.
I think they made it and called it JoJo Rabbit
When I was a kid (studying WWII as a hobby) I used to wish there existed every soldiers story in some massive set of texts. I wanted to know them all. I love that now I have access to so much information.
i did that too
Well, just the allie soilders right?
Read Citizen Soldier, many first person accounts from Americans and Germans.
I'm studying WWII as a hobby at the moment
@@Meeskait1992 Same here! I had no interest in this conflicts but after playing battlefield 1 I got interested in WW1, did a ton of research, got fascinated and started studying ww2
“It's Definitely Not A Good Time To Be A Nazi” - Yorkie
agreed
Malcolm Hoth ?
It never was never be
Omar Mokrane the quote is a reference to a character in the comedy film, jojo rabbit, it’s brilliant and you should definitely check it out.
@@lordwaffle4614 i have sen the trailers it seems funny.
thanks for the suggestion
What a complete and total waste of young life. These children had no chance of fighting off the Soviet armies.
You miss the point
@Nah mate what are you saying? makes no sense.
@Nah mate still a soviet victory
Nah mate not to mention the lend lease and the allied fronts
@Nah mate I think it was a bit more complex than you are capable of understanding.
Despite the serious losses inflicted on the Red Army and extensive territorial gains, the mission to completely destroy Soviet fighting power and force a capitulation was not achieved.
One of the most important reasons for this was poor strategic planning. The Germans had no satisfactory long-term plan for the invasion. They mistakenly assumed that the campaign would be a short one, and that the Soviets would give in after suffering the shock of massive initial defeats. Hitler had assured the High Command that 'We have only to kick in the front door and the whole rotten edifice will come tumbling down'. But Russia was not France. The shock value of the initial Blitzkrieg was dissipated by the vast distances, logistical difficulties and Soviet troop numbers, all of which caused attritional losses of German forces which could not be sustained.
“Adi & The Bunker Boys” sounds like a hardcore punk band
FYI There is a Dutch punk band called JOHNNY COHEN AND THE NEW AGE NAZIS who have an amusing song called "Hitler was a speed freak"
Tony Slug AnalCunt has a song called “Hitler was a sensitive man”. It’s on the same album as the track “I sent pictures of your son to NAMBLA”.
F.u. jew
Stuart Ahrens TF are you on about?
Actually bunker boys are the type that some people of America would elect, because their thinking always stay young
My first history prof in college was in the Hitler youth. It was expected of all male youths to join. Then he held out his hands and said, "With these, a pair of pliers, and a crescent wrench I diffused German mine fields".
Oh hooray...🙄
@@Ujuani68 why are you so rude. Defusing mines is very dangerous
I can’t get a kid to work out here in the 1% Hamptons. Never mind Fire a gun to kill for the furor 🤣
@@get-memed I think he meant “oh hooray” as in that’s a very terrible task to do.
@@kanegarvey3188 i'm not so sure about that, they did include a little bit of eye rolling
He knew at this time that it was a lost cause, but he still sent these young boys to die.
@Wesley Winston You speak as if the Allies totally obliterated Germany. But they didn't despite being capable of it. They even allowed Germany to grow back. Were they unfair when they no longer allowed Nazism and sympathy to Hitler to prosper?
@@nandy1256 The Allies handled the post war situation very well (minus the destruction of numerous historically significant sights) but the Germans had no way of knowing that they wouldn't simply grind their love of nation, personal pride and self worth into the dust. They did it to a degree last time, and the second war was oh so much more painful and worse. Whats to stop them from erasing the very nation they love? Your looking back from a foreign perspective, the key is to look at it from their view. For many patriots and nationalist alike, one would tear the countryside apart and die if necessary to prevent such fears from manifesting.
And its only common sense that the soviets would only bring bad things.
@@lukewarmfacts5107 Do you mean you are certain there would be less consequences if they acted earlier and that their inability to do this is a failure on their part?
Here's the way I see it, America is not perfect just like any other country, but I'm from America and I love my country, and I certainly don't agree with everything going on in this country right now, but if you were born and raised in America and now you've decided to hate this country, THEN GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE AND GO TO CHINA, THEY'D BE GLAD TO HAVE YOU!!!!!!
War is not a solution. When nazi germans (i repeat Nazi Germans) attack poland it's there fault. When Japan attack on pearl Harbor it's there fault. When USA bombed on japan by nuclear attack, it's also there fault. Every country that participated in the war has something to blame.
Nazis: "You get one wish"
Bunker Boy: "I wish we will win the war"
Nazis: "Uhhh"
@Stuart Ahrens stop
@Stuart Ahrens Germany, Benelux and France. Germany is the sugar daddy of the EU
@Stuart Ahrens I'm German and even I have more humor than you. That war was decades ago.
@Stuart Ahrens damn bro who hurt you? Must have pstd...
Defeatist!! Court Martial!
Honestly one of the saddest aspects of the entire war, those boys should have never seen combat and every one of them that died is a great tragedy.
If it was Donald the Great in Hitler's shoes, would he be capable of allowing this?
They paid for the sins of their fathers.
The sheer desperation and unrelenting Soviets brought the worst out of the times. But at the end of the day, anything to save Germany no?
Cheerio Fujisaki lots of them did see combat and die.
Some saw combat. Most did not, thank God.
Most underrated channel on UA-cam
@General Calvi deserves to get a lot more
Certainly not by those who accessed it.
"Older men declare war, but it's the youth that must fight and die." (Herbert Hoover)
It's ALWAYS been that way, and always will be. There would be a lot more wars if 19 and 20 year olds ran the world. A lot of old men have already been through wars, and know it's horrors, so most of them don't decide to go to war easily.
He was spot on about that
That quote is for cowards. Only a materialist would believe in that garbage.
@@algerianprophet9654 lol, "cowards".
Yes, lets all get stuck in and kill!
@@ffjsb utter rot, you really think age makes people reticent to send others to kill?
Willi Hübner looks like he's 10 years old, instead of 16.
Germany was going through a serious food crisis in the latter half of the war: most everything was rationed, and bread was being increasingly watered-down with sawdust. Teenagers normally experience a dramatic growth spurt, but on those kind of rations, I imagine many would have remained short for their age.
Yes but he was 16y then.
Today we eat 10-15× more meat.A 11-12 year old look like a 16 year old 1945 .
he probably lied about his age
The Japanese experienced this. The desired height for a Japanese Army conscript during WWII was 5'4"-5'6", IIRC. By 1990, having grown up with many more calories available in their daily diet (including fast food), the average Japanese male of the same age had attained the same height as his US counterpart. The cohort had added 4"-5" -- half a head in height -- in just two generations. In addition, bone-shortening childhood diseases and nutrition-based maladies such as rickets and chronic scurvy -- which had affected some parts of the Japanese population in the '30s and during the War -- had virtually disappeared.
Stop everything! Another fascinating vignette to give top priority now!
Yes I still see TV documentaries with ex Hitler youth in them as I did in the 80s. I am struck at time how they still seem memorised and captivated by Hitler ad they gaze past the TV camera into the distance. It's something that we cannot really understand as remote keyboard warriors and couch potatoes...
Could you be so kind telling me what a vignette is?
@@bassmits183 a brief evocative description, account, or episode. Pronounced vi'njet Oxford Dictionary
Amazing. Thank you for these documentaries.
Childsoldiers: naah
Bunker Boys: yeah!
Bünkerboiz
@@Chezzers. You know that the ü that you wrote instead of an u change the sound and make this word nonsens? -.-
Keller Kinder
jorik rouwenhorst I read the comment with the same tone lol
@@stadtbekanntertunichtgut Of course! Makes it even sillier
And then there is me,
Who gets scared by a flying cockroach
😹 😹 👌🏿
@Jimbo my mom doesnt
At least i think so....
@Rita L america of course
dinosaurus exists here
same here man
@@alexparakan i mean drugs makes me go ye- nah i am just kiddin
This is re-enacted in Downfall..
"I wish my generals were as brave as you."
A compelling movie
@Projekt:Kobra Yes.
Yes, I believe every history enthusiast remembers the scene.
Fegelein!! Fegelein!!!!
“The old
The weak
The young
They stand for Germany they die for Germany”
@@Vladimir-fp5vw dont understand
As my granfather says "War is ugly, it doesn't doesn't care about no one, women, children or the elderly."
@Christian Soehring must have included "even" then 😂😂. I think her grandpa wanted to imply that even those who cant protect themselves, or ppl who're meant to be mercily excluded from wars. Maybe that is more appropriate than enumarating cuz some men cant protect themselves either.
But those days I kinda thought men are forced to train in military, hence they are more dedicated to protect than be protected making eldery, children, and women's lives more important than them.😔
@Space Monkey
If you start a war, do you expect to pay the same amount you took on your enemy if you lost?
As long as you have a soldier with a gun and ammunation, dont you dare give up. every bullet means one red aemrmy soldier less
~ my great grandfather who fought in winter war
Christian Soehring : bruh stfu thyre the ones killing the others
@@nandy1256 Is this supposed to be English?
My wonderful ex boss, Peter Nickels was a HJ boy in Berlin - captured by the Russians he spent 2 years as DP in a camp and emigrated to Canada where his first job was washing dishes. All his family had been killed in Berlin. Utterly fearless and always jovial, having survived the worst that can happen, he was an inspiration to all of us who worked for him - God bless Peter wherever you are - here or in Valhalla
I wish I could hear more post war stories like this one. Greetings from Paraguay.
Stuart Ernst Ahrens ?
@@EdAstor hai nde ndajahechai heta ko'ape la paraguayo
@@EdAstor My grandma was 20+ in 1945. Her husband was executed from the soviets for nothing.
Hello fellow Paterson
“They fight like soldiers, they die like children”
There is a fairly well-known story of a child-soldier who witnessed another child-soldier hanging dead by the neck from a utility pole in Berlin city center, apparently executed by the SS for cowardice, insubordination, or defeatism (believing the war was lost). That is what happens when a "pure blooded German" resists, challenges or ignores the PSYCHOTIC NAZIS, when the PSYCHIATRIC NAZIS have absolute political, social, and cultural POWER.
@Zannekin your fastest replied comment ever come
@İSKELET APTİ If America was invaded and losing, we'd have our kids out there, too....
@@freefall9832 Any nation desperate enough, will send those with too few winters behind to war, this has happened throughout history and is happening currently in the endless conflicts raging here and there.
In the US Civil war, South used child soldiers towards the end of the war, when casualties had severly depleted the available manpower
When Napoleon lost his army in Russia, he had to raise a new one, of anyone capable of carrying a musket
In the great war, too young fellows served in pretty much all armies, often having lied about their ages. The recruiters could sometimes tell that this was definitely not an adult, often they just didnt care. More meat to the grinder
Im not saying that what Nazis did was fair or justified, no child belongs to a war. Unfortunately, the world isnt fair or just either.
Ok boomer
I just came from a video of the Downfall scene, depicting this exact situation.
That 16 year old boy Wilhelm Hübner, winning the iron cross dosent look very teenage like, more like 12 or 13
I thought the same thing.
back in them days that was normal, these days everyone grows up too quick and 16 year olds look 21
@MARKO bearly..
@MARKO He looks about 10 at most.
@@oliviarichardson9325 its just genetics. If anything 16 year olds look younger now. Compared to the 80s/90s. They look like 12 year olds
im glad some of those kids got to live till old age
If they don't, who will tell us amazing stories?
Is some of the boys still alive in 2020?
@@firemangan2731 Yes, they are pretty old, but some of them are alive.
No..it's a pity..
I knew one, he died some time ago at the age of 87 he tolde me it wasent war anymore at the end. Drunk russians in the evening yelling hurra and storming to there positions and at daytime the allied bomber came. It was nuts how brainwashed he stil was, qnd how proud he was that he signed up for 12 years to become a leutenant in the wehrmacht. He fleed west and got captured and was a pow for a year.
Time tells me it's 2 in the morning. Mark Felton says it's time to learn!
T E A C H E D
Poor boys. Born the wrong time and the wrong place on the planet. I always felt sorry for the young boys on whatever side of a conflict, but children break my heart.
Still catching up to old Mark Felton (Leonidas squadron) and this gift drops.
German kamikazi :)))))) am i right?
One of the only channel that reports storys about ww2 unbiased
1:40am... Going to bed after a long day and getting readyto do it all again... oh Mark released a new video huh? Guess bed can wait
You have your priorities right!
4:00 am where I am :)
I was thinking about the same thing. It's 1:20am here in Northern California.
Haha
German 12-year-old in 1945: "I destroyed a soviet tank today with a panzerfaust and earned an Iron Cross"
Western 12-year-old today: "I'm gender non-binary and need a safe space away from triggering micro-aggressions"
So you'd rather have modern kids throw their lives away for a mad old dictator in the name of a nonsensical ideology?
@@oscarhampson9181 He never said that he's just making an observation of then and now.
@NichtDerZocka Yes I do, he's "implying" that the OP would "rather have modern kids throw their lives away for a mad old dictator in the name of a nonsensical ideology".
12 year olds then: riding a horse cars through enemy fire 2 times to rescue wounded soldiers from the battlefield while putting his own life on a risk
12 year olds now: FORTNITE!!!
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Fxze | Edits Your comment makes no sense
Sad but true
Ben Schreyer didnt say it was bad
@@lugenlord6721 its sad for you that kids dont have to experience the horrors of war?
A good book about the boy soldiers on the other side, "The Boys' Crusade," by Paul Fussell, is well worth reading. (It's a thin book, less than 200 pages.)
great recommendation!
Will look for it!
This is just a guess but I bet you, that kid remembered the smell of Adolf Hitler for the rest of his life
Patrick Gragg probably smelled like cigs
@@jim5735you clearly know nothing about hitler
@@jim5735 he actually didn't like smoking ,what are talking about?
wung fei hung sorry I’m dumb
Probably smelt like vegetables
Thank you, Mr. Felton, for clearing up the date of the footage. "Downfall" has Hitler greeting the Hitler Youth in late April, 1945, and has one of the youths fighting in the Battle of Berlin, and coming from Berlin itself. It's good you've cleared up this misconception.
I was fortunate enough to have been friends with Alfons Heck.
Heck was a decorated member of the Hitler Youth though I believe
his last one on one with Hitler was in the Summer of 1944 when he told
me how shocked he was to see Hitler so very old and tired looking compared to
when he had seen him just two years earlier. It was very hard for Heck to talk about
his younger self as he said the whole time was so surreal that he wasen't sure his younger
self survived the war and he evolved a post war personality and became somebody else.
It is like looking at a portrait of ones self and not believing that person was actually you and was capable of doing the things one did or having actually lived in such a time.
Heck of a story
Thats because hitler was a broken man by 44
I smell cap
@@Philip54622 Should’ve played more golf.
What the heck! Thats so cool!
Such bravery shown by these kids, almost unimaginable.
Unimaginable in an adult let alone a child.
@@deanpd3402 what?
@@cerealeater803 he was saying the bravery the adults had was already very brave but the kids were even braver
@@Digitaaliklosetti they’ve not been brainwashed in the same way ...
@@megaduck7965 No, they've been brainwashed in a different way.
When the bravery of children is a factor, all is lost. A recruiting party came to my family's farm demanding my ancestor who was 14 at the time. His mother hid him in the cellar. The following campaign season, they came again. She wanted to hide him again but his pride wouldn't allow it. Thankfully he survived.
@Stuart Ahrens Big difference in a young man's mental development from 14 to 16 but he did his duty and repelled the northern invaders. Was your father on a Flak crew?
@Stuart Ahrens Interesting. Mine fought in Virginia. 1864-65.
@Stuart Ahrens Agreed. Next to the KJV, Mien Kamph is the highest selling book to date.
Fourteen year boys were taught to man the 88mm anti aircraft gun in the latter stages of the war.but, they were deemed too young to watch a war movie at the cinema.
Of course everyone in Germany wanted to fight think of the Volkssturm for example
To the family and relatives
of these Very Brave Boys,
These Soldiers were
Extremely Heroic to bring back
Wounded Soldiers from
areas of heavy fighting.
Boy Soldiers,
at the time and All brought
Great Honour to you.
Mark, your videos are spellbinding. My parents both served in WWII, and we of a certain age grew up immersed in the stories. Like others have said, your rounding out of the various engagements is captivating. Your knowledge and attention to detail is second to none. Please keep up the good work!
Mind-blowingly amazing! One has seen these images over decades wondering who these boys were and what ever happened to them; never having nor expecting an answer. Yet Mark Felton pulls it off again! It somehow feels like closure. Just astounding work, Mr.Felton.
when Hitler asked the boys what they wished from him at the end, what if one of them answered "a flight to Zurich"?
nwo foe - After Goring had finished tearing a group of Luftwaffe officers off a strip, during the B of B period, he then asked some of them to give him a wish list - one really annoyed him by saying he would like to have a squadron of Spitfires.
@@truthseeker7242 I'm aware of it. Polish pilots flying Spitfires were the Luftwaffe's greatest enemy over the skies of Britain. Goering was a morphine addict since he was shot through the testicles at Hitler's first grab for power with Ludendorff .
Maybe he got the flight but then ordered another fighter plane to shoot it down and use this for propaganda
@@truthseeker7242 That fighter pilot was Adolph Galland, 705 combat missions, 104 planes shot down. The guy was fearless.
Annex Switzerland and send him to Zürich, lol
The quality of your content and the educational substance is unmatched by anyone else in the UA-cam historical space. Great job and thank you!
At the end of each War it's always the old and the young who suffer the most
Heart Breaking, huh?
How am I this early? LOL
@ LOL - and Rusty you only beat me by 7 minutes, damnit ;)
8:32 If you look real close, in the background you see three officers planning and discussing their escape from the inferno that Berlin would become.
Sharp
I think they were planning were the defenses and ammunition should be. Don’t think their planning an escape in front of soldiers who are to fight in Berlin. (Just a theory - I have no idea)
@@Popasger Well, many did, so why not these two?
@@garypulliam3740 I just think it would be weird to have an escape plan being planned out in front of hitler and many soldiers who needs “support” if they hear leaders planning to escape in front of them they might lose hope or be scared to face the Russians. You have to remember that these children were filled with propaganda for almost 8 years straight. An escape plan would probably be made in a more closed room with more highly commanding officers... (Again I have no idea, I just use my imagination)
@@Popasger Sharp detecting skills. No way in world they would plan escape out in the open, not to mention only 5m away from Der Fuhrer & Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler troops and officers.
Not only did you get their names but you knew who's who. You are the best researcher ever. And we get to watch for free. Thank you.
Tragedy and senseless misery without end ... Every living person owes it to himself to learn about the two world wars
Leftist ideology is to blame plus stupid voters who choose such rascals like socialists.
g. d. Blame Churchill
@Zannekin So true.
@Zannekin What really happened? Explain? What did Nazis want really? Because all I'm seeing in this comment is your stupidity and consumption of too much Nazi and right wing propaganda. If you say "do your own research" then you have no argument.
@Wesley Winston Congratulations, you fell for Neo-Nazi propaganda.
Who would win;
A Soviet tank with the supreme glorious soviet engineering
A bunker boi with a panzerfaust
“Glorious soviet engineering” uhhh... I’m not sure you understand how the Soviet Mechanized forced worked 😂.
Who would win the nordic/germanic ubermanchen with the most advanced tehnological weapons, or bunch of peasants with 1 rifle for 2 soliders.
A Sovjet tank. I guess in 99% this was the case. Yet we see only the few succesful and surviving ones on the Wochenschau...
@@elfenbeinturm-media About 800 Soviet tanks were lost in street combat in Berlin. So it's far, far less than 99%
Depending upon the skill,experence and courage of the operator. Example,hammelburg Germany ,1945 the bridge into town.two Sherman's knocked in front of my father's column. Nick.I've got their hj pins and arm bands Nick p.
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He seems much younger than 16
@Joseph I'm not sure, I haven't heard of malnutrition being a huge problem in the German army. Sure, in the end, food was rare, but that wouldn't have hindered his growth this much.
But maybe he has just a baby face :)
@@CK-yv6nw it was actually somewhat about lack of food and lack of meat eating because some people in the army had to survive with as low as 1000 calories while fighting, the stituation was pretty much like in stalingrad, and hübner was anyways a young looking person (thats what he told in a interwiew)
There are also boys of 14 or 65 years old
Well back then food didn’t have grow boost hormones,so they were growing normally unlike now.
mocashi lol u bigmad boomer
I am amazed at the documentary evidence Felton was able to find on the young boys who were in this film. They are not just images on celluloid, they are real people, I was glad to hear that the three young soldiers featured here survived the war.
0:02 music name ??
@@secularindian9311 So far as I know, it's simply Mark Felton's theme music.
@@chrisschultz8598 Thanks bro 🙏I will value your far patience 💯 tq once again finally I got it 👍
These films should be colorized and shown in 4000 HD.
Watch world war 2 colourized on Netflix
They do such a good job at making it HD and Coloured
Feels like your actually there
@@markybarky8661 I think I’ll have to look at that thanks.
I remember hearing British historian and war correspondent Max Hastings said the scariest moment he ever had when he was confronted by child soldiers. Contrary to what people might think kids can be dangerous soldiers.
What the hell are you going on about Stuart? Are you drunk?
@Stuart Ahrens stfu
"youths" can indeed be quite dangerous -- no self-restraint
@@reallyhappenings5597 absolutely. Just like venomous baby snakes are more dangerous then adults. They inject every last bit of venom.
@@reallyhappenings5597 Not to mention will seem unassuming and all that, they'll make you hesitate
The Volkssturm was just a mess. A total waste of life. Thank god my Grand Grandfather deserted
@@SeamHead33 So you would rather die for facism then live under Communist rule? Of course living in communist country sucked but a - its better than being dead and b-its not like the Volkssturm would have achieved the Endsieg. Also we were attacked by the French, but its not likr they were way better than the Russians. This might sound hard but we started this nonsense, so we cant bother when it comes to our home. Also dont come with your Nationalist bullcrap about dying for your country. Even my Grand Grandfather realised that dying for neither the Kaiser or Facism was worth it.
I'm not a big fan of fascism, but communism is worse. I'd take dying for fascism over life under communism any day of the week.
After this day , A.Hitler, has arrived to Kiel Harbour, An U - Bout brought to Canarian Islands then he transfered to ordinary ship , finally has arrived South America ( presuambly Brasilia coats) his staff.
General Franco has helped hım.
Basically I just click on one of Mark's videos, and instantly hit the thumbs up button, saves me a few seconds as I look for the next one after watching. :)
"A last wish"
That seems pretty dark.Says alot about what they knew was coming.
"That seems pretty dark." so is asking for an accordion
I’d seen that film of the bunker boys for over 40 years and thought like others they fought in the battle of Berlin.
It’s fantastic to know the truth about these boys and what happened to a couple of them after the war. This is yet another example of why this is the best you tube channel and Mark’s skill as a researcher are unsurpassed.
Thanks Mark
I can’t express in words how bad I feel for those poor children. They had no chance at surviving against the Soviet, and died for nothing.
They weren't forced tho, they signed up for it.
@@henryviii2091 that doesn’t change how I think about it. They had no chance regardless. I’m sure Nazi propaganda gave them a better chance at the time too.
@@giraffeman326 Well, many European countries were forcing 16 year olds (ik, they are a bit older than the ones in the video but still kids) to go to the war and defend either against the Germans or the Soviets, and the Soviets also had children in their armies.
@@henryviii2091 I know. It was a terrible time to be growing up when your country is demanding more people to take action.
@@henryviii2091 the kids who diden wanne go where hangt as a exemple for the the rest if u say no u die anyway's so what u gonne do
This is like the footage of Pablo Escobar when he's giving guns to kids.
Yeah apart from the fact that here kids VOLUNTERILY joined the army. Its called Volkssturm if you want to search it up
@@Philip54622 lol this isn't Volkssturm, that consisted of mostly old men. This was Hitler Youth.
@@Philip54622 the volkstrum wasnt voluntary. It was a civilian draft and many "deserters" were hanged.
Except Pablo was a criminal.
@@jacob7300 okay and hitler is a war criminal, Honestly Pablo probably had better overall morals than Hitler
"Sein Name ist Peter Kranz"
"So...Peter heißt du... Ich wollte meine Generale hätten deinen Mut'
@JZ's Best Friend Passt doch!!
Kuch kuch.
I don’t speak german
@@salekopter5152 congratulations
@JZ's Best FriendAre you interested in the turbulent German history?
Very Good german pronunciation, because i am German
this was when Hitler could literally hear the allies bearing down on them after 5 years of war and finally getting close to him in the distance, and was greeting these kids not long before his death.
This was one of the more interesting episodes. Brief and grainy footage of soldiers flashing by in battle, small wheels in the tragic, all-encompassing, and hungry machine of war are very rarely associated with their actual names. Many's the time where I wondered if a compelling character in the midst of an act of combat survived and who they were. In this small example you demonstrated that all of these unknown actors were people with lives and histories. Thank you, Mark.
another great vid mark interesting to hear about the boy's lives afterward
16 then would be 91 now.
@@garyg7647 yeh amazing huh
"I knew this Dictator thing was a bad idea"
- Hitler April 1945
One of these boys was a relative of mine and he died an old man in Florida. He was a great man and a kind man. He was only 15 when he was forced to fight the last battles in Berlin. He was born in Rastenburg, East Prussia.
My two older uncles were in their late teens and served in the Hitler Youth. My father was the youngest (born in '31) and did not.
Respect to them.
@@wingtip76 for what exactly
Nothing to be proud of
Sooooo...your family were nazis?
Lucas Kucza you'd be too in those times, don't say otherwise
It was a sad time for the world. But what ever side you were on bravery is bravery. Those boys deserved more.
For the White world
The footage with the boys is the closest I have seen Hitler. He actually had a good smile...
I think he actually has quite a kind face, political rantings aside.
Yeah
He likes children.
@@rome316ae3 He was crazy. And evil.
@@bibleguy1207 Surely you are talking about stalin right?
My Father was in the Hitler youth and in 1944 he was put in the army and fought against the Red army and in Stetien in the east. And surrounded but got out by sea and surrendered to the American army in Denmark he was very lucky to get west. And I know he was in combat quite a few times. But he would have been scared. But if you can survive the Russian front at the end, you can survive any thing. After the war he went back to Hamburg and finished his apprenticeship as a black Smit. To me as a child Dad told me as I grew up and you can't help but compare your self with your Father and I will never be half the man my Father was,,We are pussys compared to the generation's from the war years.🇩🇪💪
One of my relatives lived in Germany as a Turk, he married a German woman during Hitler's time and had a child, then this child was expelled from the Hitler youth because he was Half-German who had joined Hitler's youth. Returned to Turkey and died here his name is Johannes Ruppert. Greeting from Turkey
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Dear Mr. Felton...
I've been searching for this piece of music for over 20 years, but didn't have any reverences, accept a close combat game that doesn't run on my PC anymore!
Thought it was Beethoven, but listen to all his symphonies but couldn't find it
5 seconds on the shazam app was enough. YESSSSSS!!!!! :
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.9 in D minor - 2. Scherzo (Bewegt lebhaft) - Trio (Schnell) - Scherzo da capo
Going to listen to this until my ears bleed
Thank you so much
Love your video's BTW
I’m thinking it’s a standard UA-cam option for creators. I’ve seen a few other channels use this same music.
Ask on Reddit!
Its just sad, war was utterly lost. hurling young lads into a war like that.
What's sad is we allowed Moscow to take Berlin. They encouraged the rape of civilian women while we executed men caught committing rape. Should have listened to General Patton.
It was better to die than to suffer what the soviets would have done to them.
They were fighting for their lives at that point. The soviets raped everyone including little boys like the ones shown here
Kaempfen bis zur letzten Patrone, bis zum letzten Mann. Klingt barbarisch, aber es ist ehrenvoll. Sie kaempften fuer Freiheit. Ich habe nur Respekt fuer jeden Mann, Frau und Kind dieser Zeit.
@@Starlesslemon And what did the Nazi soldiers do in the Sowjet Union? Guess what. And nobody cares for this whataboutism anymore. The war is over and we are completely different people who are able to look back at our grandfathers and say: you morons!
@@elfenbeinturm-media maybe you do, but I don't lmao.
This channel is everything TV history channels SHOULD be but are not - subscribed.
They sure don't make kids like this anymore.
Everyone needs a Safe place and don't know if they are man or woman .
Wish u could be in that time so u can take ur words back
:)
Who else is still waiting for the “Japanese invasion” of America part 3
My guess it will be China. Be ready
I'm wanting a story about Yeo Thomas the white rabbit,it's an awesome story about strength of character that is unmatched in any other WW2 story I know about!!
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That happened 50 years ago. It’s was actually a sale though, by Nixon.
I think I saw a Zero last night 😬
@@slotuck it must be your test response sheet.
It's 3:30AM here, and this notification is a gift from God.
@Adriana's Dog South America
Another excellent content like always before lunch..
All the guys here sitting in their comfortable couches and giving arrogant comments. I am wondering what they would do in the past.
2:52 German Lenin...
I just woke up and saw this, "exellent" ps: thanks for the like Mark! I really like your videos, keep it going!
Literally same
Me too!
@Mr Lion What?
I can't believe it.. Just a week ago i thought about these boys, and what happend to them. And there you go Mark Felton reads my mind!
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Class A research project. Special thanks to the bunker boys for making this documentary possible!!!
I remember a quote in the film 'The Cross of Iron,' where a German officer said, 'We need our youth to re-build our country, when this madness is over.'. To see these boys being used in such a manner as here, is devastating. Shows the power of personality and propaganda.
How is it devastating? Boys are often used as couriers and minor support roles during domestic wars.
@Renzo Alarcón Of course you are right. Except children are very impressionable. Saying that, Germany fought to the bitter end as they were petrified of the Russians.
another "The Cross of Iron" quote that I remember was "what will we do when we lose the war?" ... answered with "prepare for the next one?"
Each time I see footage involving such young men, boys, I find myself wondering what their lives became and the psychological impact of being part of the Hitler Youth, especially during those last undoubtedly terrifying weeks before the end.
Most of them were probably killed. Horrible.
In college I heard a speaker who had been in the Hitler Youth as a kid. I don't think he was ever sent into battle. His advice to the audience was not to trust militarists at all. He was fiercely anti-Nazi.
@@ginajoseph8776 indeed and hearing some of the Hitler youth thats still alive today and talk about it really just ugh Hitler was a terrible evil Man but still not as evil as joseph Stalin
@@childeaterieatkidz4208 июю
The brainwashing techniques of the Third Reich on young impressionable minds is legendary.
Imagine being young boy being sent to die for a sorry old man's delusions of grandeur.
That's pretty much every war even to this day.. Old rich men make the problems, young innocent men do the dying.
Ja, alte schweinhunden
"sorry old man" -- That sorry old man irreversibly changed the face of the world. Please have some sense of historical proportions, if only out of respect for the victims of that war.
@@mountainhobo shall we goose step down our hallways and end it with one arm in the air ?
@书中自有黄金屋 Lebensraum, the New Order, Greater Germany. It went by many names.
Bravery comes in all ages. Am impressed at the loyalty of such youth! In many ways, even more than some grown men.
Brainwashing is a powerful weapon
@@Borimudi Brainwash maybe, but my point is bravery. Jehovah's witnesses are brainwashed into not defending their country!