What Happened to Germany's Top Field Marshals After WW2?

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  • @derin111
    @derin111 25 днів тому +72

    You forgot quite a few others who also survived WW2: Kesselring, von Runstedt, von Brauchitsch, Milch, Sperrle, Manstein, Paulus and Schörner……even Dönitz , as a naval Grossadmiral his was equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in the army.

    • @HistoryInsideWW2
      @HistoryInsideWW2  25 днів тому +23

      Maybe a part 2?

    • @kindgottes77-andreas38
      @kindgottes77-andreas38 25 днів тому +3

      @@HistoryInsideWW2 If u want another thump down, do a next vid full of errors.

    • @CW-nt1sd
      @CW-nt1sd 25 днів тому

      Said top fm, not naval equivalent fool

    • @JayTide
      @JayTide 25 днів тому +4

      ​@@kindgottes77-andreas38really? What errors if you don't mind my asking.

    • @michaelphillips1267
      @michaelphillips1267 23 дні тому +6

      Con Brauchitsch is one first name mentioned.

  • @glennday7802
    @glennday7802 15 днів тому +6

    Apparently, Patton was also a German Field Marshall. Quite an impressive accomplishment!

  • @edlane9882
    @edlane9882 25 днів тому +27

    What does Patton have to do with these people. Why show him.

    • @JB-yb4wn
      @JB-yb4wn 25 днів тому +6

      I was going to say the same thing. Well I guess that does it for me with this channel.

    • @BELCAN57
      @BELCAN57 19 днів тому

      The courtroom scene of NAZI judge Roland Freisler shown during the Nuremburg. Trial discussion was puzzling too.

    • @genefinney9319
      @genefinney9319 18 днів тому +1

      @@JB-yb4wn I was thinking the same thing, I am so happy that others have also noticed!

    • @JB-yb4wn
      @JB-yb4wn 18 днів тому +3

      @@genefinney9319
      We UA-camr historians are a ruthless bunch. 😆

    • @peterwhitaker4038
      @peterwhitaker4038 18 днів тому

      yep..definate General Patton at 0:10. can't fool us

  • @unfixablegop
    @unfixablegop 25 днів тому +25

    I don't agree that an individual light sentence shows a lack of accountability. When in doubt, it's more important to avoid victor's justice. That too in an important part of reconciliation.

    • @whiteheatherclub
      @whiteheatherclub 23 дні тому

      Maybe, but there was a considerable amount of inconsistency in the way in which German Field Marshals were treated after the war. Keitel and Jodl were executed. Von Kleist was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. But mostly they seem to have got away with only a few years in prison. But where is the doubt when the evidence has been piled up against these people?

    • @78tag
      @78tag 7 днів тому

      ...spoken like a true liberal - where was the concern for "Victor's Justice" when Hitler and his crew were mercilessly murdering whole populations all over Europe and the countries trying to save the world from his (Germany's) lust ???? You don't 'reconcile' with psychotic murderers or pardon them - you end them. They knew exactly what they were doing and whose orders they were following if not their own convictions, no excuses.

  • @sobelou
    @sobelou 18 днів тому +4

    This narrative sounds particularly one-sided. Some of the described actions, especially the anti-partisan actions, cannot be described as war crimes.

  • @louk5555
    @louk5555 День тому +1

    And what about Wilhelm Keitel and Erwin Rommel ? Perhaps two of the most known German Fiel Marshals of WW II

  • @zivaradlovacki2666
    @zivaradlovacki2666 19 днів тому +7

    They joined CIA and lived happily ever after.

    • @sammy-wi8pi
      @sammy-wi8pi 16 днів тому

      Yes, CIA, FBI, NSA - all post Reich right wing fascist agencies in the U.S.A.

    • @kcw0809
      @kcw0809 15 днів тому

      Ha Ha.

  • @alanmoore2197
    @alanmoore2197 18 днів тому +9

    So it seems Patton was a German Field Marshall...

    • @charliemunk2947
      @charliemunk2947 16 днів тому

      Patton hated the Nazis and wanted to murder evey Nazi member of the SS. He was not this great friend of thr Nazis as, for some reason people think

  • @archer8849
    @archer8849 22 дні тому +16

    Brauchitsch is pronounced like "brow hitch" not "brow shits".

    • @VickersDoorter
      @VickersDoorter 14 днів тому +1

      Imagine what he'd have said if it were Braunchitsch...

  • @LezDentz
    @LezDentz 16 днів тому +1

    Field Marshal Ernst Busch, Commander of the 16th Army in the invasions of France and Russia was captured by the British and died as a PoW in July 1945.He is buried in the German Military Cemetary on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.

  • @michaelharrison8036
    @michaelharrison8036 24 дні тому +11

    Interesting video, but there may be an error on the death -date for Wilhelm Ritter Von Leeb. You give it as 1956. I have a printed work here, in German, that states he died in 1946 at the Hohenschwangau estate. The two printed works in English state 1956. Maybe one was erroneous, and it appeared the second one copied this error, which was then picked up by Wikipedia? I'm more inclined to believe the German version. Research is
    maddening, isnt it....?!?!

    • @RobertJonesWightpaint
      @RobertJonesWightpaint 18 днів тому

      He died in 1956 - every available source other than the one you quote gives this date, and that's the date on his gravestone.

    • @michaelharrison8036
      @michaelharrison8036 12 днів тому

      @@RobertJonesWightpaint Thank you!
      👍👍

  • @jlo6126
    @jlo6126 25 днів тому +25

    War crimes is a modern term no would give two shits over a 100 years ago...

    • @jovanweismiller7114
      @jovanweismiller7114 25 днів тому +2

      Not quite true. At the end of the Great War in 1918, there was a great movement to put Kaiser Wilhelm II on trial for war crimes, but the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to which he'd fled, refused to give him up to stand trial.

    • @JayTide
      @JayTide 25 днів тому +3

      ​@@jovanweismiller7114the leaders of all the warring countries should have been put on trial by their own people. Somehow a dispute between Serbia and Austria became a world war.

    • @andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928
      @andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928 24 дні тому

      That's not true. There have always been attempts to create and enforce rules of engagement. Joan D' Arc was sentenced to death for committing war crimes. (among orhers)

    • @sthrich635
      @sthrich635 24 дні тому +1

      The dispute between Serbia and Austria was just a triggering spark, even if the dispute got handwaved away, all the military build-up and antagonism weren't just go away, the next dispute after a few weeks would just explode the whole Europe anyway. Simplifying major historical events like these to just one or two thing are just bland ignorance.

    • @johnchesh3486
      @johnchesh3486 18 днів тому

      1945 is only 80 yrs ago. NOT the century mark, to make it seem longer ago than it was.

  • @workingshlub8861
    @workingshlub8861 19 днів тому +1

    one of the reasons german officers were so effective was after ww1 when they were only allowed 100k man army .....all the officers were trained one rank above there actual rank...

  • @RIbigDave
    @RIbigDave 18 днів тому +5

    The best of the German field Marshals what is Eric von Manstien. Besides his skill on the Eastern front he was the actual author of The 1940 German attack through the Ardennes.

    • @augustseptember3503
      @augustseptember3503 14 днів тому +2

      NATO used his military strategies in the years after the war.

    • @RIbigDave
      @RIbigDave 14 днів тому

      @augustseptember3503 that is fact

    • @manfredkoepke3630
      @manfredkoepke3630 3 дні тому

      ...von Mannstein...sigh

    • @RIbigDave
      @RIbigDave 2 дні тому

      @@manfredkoepke3630 are you easily bored?

  • @barrygrigg9068
    @barrygrigg9068 16 днів тому +1

    Excellent video. Always wondered what happened to these commanders after the war. Most documentary’s focus on the usual suspects like Himmler or Boreman.

  • @TikTok-nj2kh
    @TikTok-nj2kh 6 днів тому +3

    What about Guderian? What about Rommel? Ridiculous omissions.

    • @lyalldawson7080
      @lyalldawson7080 День тому

      Rommel committed suicide in 1944, so should not be included but Guderian should be,

  • @1960caroline
    @1960caroline 14 днів тому +1

    I have no idea why they wasted their time with the Nuremburg trials. A majority of those on trail got away with their atrocities!

  • @lainefrajberg955
    @lainefrajberg955 День тому

    One German general who didn't suffer very much was Gen.Adolf Heusinger,somtime acting chief of staff (after Zeitzler's dismissal). After the war,far from being punished,he became Inspector General of the new Bundswehr (1955) and,a bit later,head of Nato's Military Committee.

  • @jandixon6457
    @jandixon6457 День тому

    There are no saints in war only humans, in some it brings out the worst and in others it brings out the best in war there are no winners only survivors!

  • @helenaconstantine
    @helenaconstantine 16 днів тому +1

    Any reason you show George Patton in your montage of German officers?

    • @augustseptember3503
      @augustseptember3503 14 днів тому +1

      Mein real name vas Georg Patonz. I vas a German spy in WW2, masquerading as an American general. My masquerade vos so godt, ze Allies still tink I am a Yankee doodle dandy boy!

  • @NeverGoBack2
    @NeverGoBack2 25 днів тому +4

    Reading from a Wikipedia page while butchering the German names doesn’t make a video buddy…

  • @wackadakka3134
    @wackadakka3134 22 дні тому +7

    the oficer at 8:50 is Von Blomberg , not Kleist

  • @michaelmorris4
    @michaelmorris4 24 дні тому +3

    Interesting commentary, but fast flashing videos of often completely irrelevant material, such as film of operation Market Garden when talking about operations in the Balkans, ruined it for me.

  • @Akubra123
    @Akubra123 23 дні тому +13

    war criminals indeed but i wonder did any high ranking officer from the allies was accused and conficted of war crimes, because i can´t believe that the allies were saint´s

    • @Yannickille
      @Yannickille 23 дні тому

      They moved to Alabama , had many kids and were happy in US captivity

    • @wernervanderwalt8541
      @wernervanderwalt8541 20 днів тому +2

      The victors writes history.

    • @Akubra123
      @Akubra123 20 днів тому

      @@wernervanderwalt8541 yep, that is why the americans and their allies don´t have much to write since WWII, except they got busted all the time🤣🤣🤣

    • @user-xh3wr1do7k
      @user-xh3wr1do7k 15 днів тому

      What allied war crimes?

    • @Yannickille
      @Yannickille 15 днів тому

      @@user-xh3wr1do7k do a search

  • @tolik5929
    @tolik5929 21 день тому +6

    The allies were weak . It should have been for ALL captured " You will get a fair trial before your execution " .

    • @dreamdancer8212
      @dreamdancer8212 19 днів тому

      Which would make you not be better than those you executed. But I guess you don´t care about such unimportant details.

    • @tolik5929
      @tolik5929 19 днів тому

      @@dreamdancer8212 Not in their case , no . The Japs got off scott free if it makes you feel any better . I would have gone through Germany , like Genghis Khan .

    • @jacquesgeorges1041
      @jacquesgeorges1041 18 днів тому

      😡

  • @johnmcpherson5068
    @johnmcpherson5068 16 днів тому +2

    The soviets stopped bei g our allies in 1945. They were our enemy until the end of the Soviet Union. Russia is still our eneny. Germany had the soviets as enemy number 1 from the start. Just saying.

    • @charliemunk2947
      @charliemunk2947 16 днів тому

      Your not totaly wrong. But you forgot some real important things. We had no love for the USSR. But it was Germany that invaded our allies then declared war against us. Germany was not treated that bad after the war either. We rebuilt them and gave them a billion bucks to rise up again. Of the worst in the German Army, 99 percent never answered for anything. It was Russia that bore most of thr bad stuff after the war. Germany was forgiven very quickly.

    • @DanW-nk7sn
      @DanW-nk7sn 4 дні тому

      @@charliemunk2947 It did not help that the uSSr allied with Hitler to invade Poland which resulted in IK and France declaration of war on Germany but not uSSr. The uSSr got to keep what they gained in eastern Europe in the deal with Hitler and then some. Much of this split off and became independent after the fall of the uSSr and putin wants it back

  • @loritabarber-iw3fy
    @loritabarber-iw3fy 14 днів тому

    Their officer class were an improvement of most allied officers!😉😉😉😉😉😉

  • @jandixon6457
    @jandixon6457 День тому

    Rommel died because his name was mentioned out of context but to save his wife and son he chose suicide . Hitler lost his best field marshal!

  • @tyrone4ya837
    @tyrone4ya837 17 днів тому +5

    The Catholic Church participation in helping many of these murderers escape justice is despicable

  • @caveman1356
    @caveman1356 24 дні тому +4

    There's Judge Himmler 7:15

    • @bentaronsen7302
      @bentaronsen7302 22 дні тому

      Not to say Freisler - and what did he have to do with the Nuernberg trials?

  • @morlock2086
    @morlock2086 24 дні тому +9

    And you throw in a clip of PATTON?

    • @TheMotz55
      @TheMotz55 24 дні тому +5

      Yeah, it's Patton...and it's pretty stupid considering the topic.

    • @morlock2086
      @morlock2086 23 дні тому

      @@TheMotz55 Yup.

  • @johnearle7776
    @johnearle7776 21 день тому +3

    Herbert Gille of SS Wiking fame, ran a small book shop after the war.

    • @user-xh3wr1do7k
      @user-xh3wr1do7k 15 днів тому

      Gille wasn’t a field marshal.

    • @johnearle7776
      @johnearle7776 15 днів тому

      @ I know. I was just stating that some big players had modest jobs postwar.

  • @laverdisti500
    @laverdisti500 16 днів тому +2

    Is there gonne be a trial for russian warcriminals in the Ukraine war ??? ....

  • @ralebeau
    @ralebeau 24 дні тому +3

    So mostly they got away with murder.

  • @tylerredforge5563
    @tylerredforge5563 25 днів тому +4

    i swear this guy makes the same videos every time

    • @krpanovic
      @krpanovic 25 днів тому

      And he has to do it 100 times more...The world needs to hear that Germany HASN'T BEEN DENACIFIED, but has joined forces of it's sick elites with new American-Israeli Nazi system which has brough not just millions of deaths since 1950, but has brought the entire humanity to the brink of destruction...THANK YOU HISTORY INSIDE TO BE AWARE THAT EVIL HASN'T DIE IN 1945, BUT JUST EVOLVED INTO EVEN MORE INHUMAN FORM !

  • @mindless-pedant
    @mindless-pedant 25 днів тому

    Passing away? Who'd they play for and at which ground? They died!!!

  • @ilkkatahvanainen5521
    @ilkkatahvanainen5521 13 днів тому

    One should further make list of those high rank command officer who were occupied high position in NATO !
    Many of them had had active decision making role as commander and really cruel history on ground toward civilians

  • @stephenhobbs1052
    @stephenhobbs1052 16 днів тому

    One of them started Aldi.

  • @Christopherjames-h2r
    @Christopherjames-h2r 19 днів тому

    sadly , winners justice always beats the law

  • @dazzazulu777
    @dazzazulu777 18 днів тому

    Big military industrial complex advisors to the government ?

  • @kcw0809
    @kcw0809 15 днів тому

    They sat and waited for MAGA.... hoping to be rehabilitated. Hard to believe but MAGA came to late to save this lot.

  • @GravesRWFiA
    @GravesRWFiA 9 днів тому

    a 0:09 you're showing george patton. was all your research so suspect?

  • @BobFowler-gh9lx
    @BobFowler-gh9lx 19 днів тому

    hi, welcome !

  • @jasalexander-hain2601
    @jasalexander-hain2601 11 днів тому

    why is patton here and snippets of other yabnk troops, also, film snippets not relevant to the moment in history being discussed

  • @MartinIbert
    @MartinIbert 5 днів тому

    8:21 can you please someone who actually speaks German help to pronounce "Panzer" for you? How hard can it be? It's "pun-tser".

  • @MajorWolfgangHochstetter
    @MajorWolfgangHochstetter 22 дні тому +1

    It's pronounced, Kiev (Kee ev)!

  • @igorrromanov
    @igorrromanov 13 днів тому

    На фото слева Шöрнер, справа не знаю, кто.

  • @MartinIbert
    @MartinIbert 5 днів тому

    You totally butchered the name of "Georg von Küchler". Find a native speaker of German to tell you how to say it. Native speakers of German are not really hard to find; there are a hundred million of them or so. "Georg" is something like "Gheyorg", "von" is like "fonn", but "Küchler is difficult, but you could try with something half-way between "Kee-ch-ler" and "Koo-ch-ler", with the "ch" being like the "ch" in "Loch". Not perfect but recognizable.

  • @JamMAKEcan007
    @JamMAKEcan007 19 днів тому

    They became american politicians😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @stevenleslie8557
    @stevenleslie8557 19 днів тому

    Paulus?

  • @Alan-zf2tt
    @Alan-zf2tt 22 дні тому

    Setting a new narrative?

  • @richardscanlan3419
    @richardscanlan3419 23 дні тому

    Manstein,Heinrici,Model?

  • @johnchesh3486
    @johnchesh3486 18 днів тому

    What hapened to many 100's of top nazis? Like SS Gestapo Karl Muller? Flew to Geneve, then to Espagna under Marco, then to MOrrocco and shipped himself to Buenos aires. Then Ncrth to No. rgentina, and visited near Stroessner in Paraguay and died near there many yrs. later.
    Too bad that Hx is bein ignord by so many. Muller made sure in Geneve his wife was set up, and then fled far as he could. Recall he was polylingual, a fine pilot with his own plane.
    A monsterGestapo;; but he escaped via Espagna and sud america. Another nazi criminal got away!!
    Very bad.;.........

  • @johnmcpherson5068
    @johnmcpherson5068 16 днів тому

    Most were soldirrs. The sentencrs were fair and just. Correct your stupid algorithyms

  • @abdelrahmanalangari1754
    @abdelrahmanalangari1754 20 днів тому

    They went to america !

  • @janvanveelen
    @janvanveelen 3 дні тому

    Reference to the Soviet Union are incorrect as it did not exist until after the war.

  • @jacquesgeorges1041
    @jacquesgeorges1041 18 днів тому

    Vae victis. All the rest is politics. 😢

  • @wackadakka3134
    @wackadakka3134 22 дні тому +2

    9:24 is Guderian and Halder

  • @affan3095
    @affan3095 25 днів тому +23

    Now make a video about British war crimes and their man made famine in Bengal region as allies were no saints. Millions killed by French in Algeria as well in Bengal by so called churchil by forcefully rationing food supplies from their former colonies.

    • @Fathervinyard
      @Fathervinyard 25 днів тому +10

      your country has more starvation in its country these days far more than when even in ww2 gupta 😂 do you want to debate this fact ?

    • @infobeam1902
      @infobeam1902 25 днів тому +10

      I smell a reparations grifter. No thx.

    • @torehaaland6921
      @torehaaland6921 25 днів тому +10

      How does this, in the slightest, has anything to do with the topic of this video?

    • @sthrich635
      @sthrich635 24 дні тому

      Those were lower-tier colony people, millions of them weren't going to fight Germany and save Europe anyway, it was called resource management.

    • @teddysuhrensghost263
      @teddysuhrensghost263 23 дні тому

      Hardly relevant to this type of video the events you speak of sir. No doubt you’d like some monetary compensation from Britain to be forthcoming like some other people from former colonies? I do have to wonder if descendants of the lower classes like myself can have a claim too, as lower class British people of the colonial era were arguably treated worse than any people from the colonies. Slavery had many forms my friend, and still does. It still goes on today, just in a slightly different way, and some of the worst affected people are the working classes in Britain. At least if you show up in Britain bleating about how your country treats you so terribly you’d be given a brand new house to live in, all the benefits under the sun and a few other treats and goodies that are off limits to British working class people, the very same people i refer to as modern day slaves and who pick up the bill for any and all foreign nationals who come here claiming persecution and brutality in their own countries.

  • @harveycooper7600
    @harveycooper7600 14 днів тому

    Walter Von Brown Shit.

  • @kellypayson4997
    @kellypayson4997 10 днів тому

    Too much of this is narrative has reduced the reality of conditions within the military to juvenile ignorance. This is one of the worst reviews of German military leadership and actions during World War Two I have ever encountered. The suppositions made by the author and lack of detail regarding the actions of military officers on the battlefield and clearly indicates that the author of this video requires much more training and education before releasing any more historical reviews. Moreover, the lack of detail regarding the proceedings of the ridiculous scam that was the Nuremberg Trials conducted to placate the leaders of the Soviet Union and Britain, two of the most barbaric nations in world history, further reduce this video to a level something akin to comedy rather than historical documentation. This video clearly falls into the category of DO NOT WATCH. Lack of truth and detail makes this one garbage.

  • @geofflewis8599
    @geofflewis8599 22 дні тому +1

    If any are still around Trump wants him..

  • @michaelmallal9101
    @michaelmallal9101 25 днів тому +1

    How did the husbands of Prince Philip go?

    • @whiteheatherclub
      @whiteheatherclub 23 дні тому +2

      The husbands? How many husbands did he have? And did Queen Elizabeth know about her husband's husbands?

    • @RobertJonesWightpaint
      @RobertJonesWightpaint 18 днів тому

      Fancy running that one past us in any known human language?