Hermann Göring's Train Still Exists!

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  • 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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  • @HRM.H
    @HRM.H 25 днів тому +1185

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

    • @jonesy19691
      @jonesy19691 25 днів тому +73

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

    • @niveleur
      @niveleur 25 днів тому +145

      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 25 днів тому +98

      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 25 днів тому

      Most of nazi treasure is brought in america by soldiers

    • @kenskinner6948
      @kenskinner6948 25 днів тому +54

      Also what’s in Russia?

  • @Diogenes1360
    @Diogenes1360 25 днів тому +1479

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

    • @doberski6855
      @doberski6855 25 днів тому +87

      As I understand it Erwin Rommel enjoyed a breakfast including Panzer Cakes.😁

    • @garyryan2366
      @garyryan2366 25 днів тому +30

      All you can eat buffet

    • @scootergeorge7089
      @scootergeorge7089 25 днів тому +43

      Soviet airforce got the borscht of him.

    • @georgflausch
      @georgflausch 25 днів тому +58

      That pun even works in German: "Luftwaffeln" 😄

    • @hastalavista4879
      @hastalavista4879 25 днів тому +1

      Icebombs!

  • @RADIUMGLASS
    @RADIUMGLASS 25 днів тому +177

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

    • @Wolfovich1
      @Wolfovich1 22 дні тому +21

      New collectors are going to buy all stuff.

    • @Snoozzzzzze
      @Snoozzzzzze 20 днів тому

      That was a great Father Ted episode. 😄

    • @lolopololoca
      @lolopololoca 8 днів тому

      I saw some unreal stuff at a private collection in Pennsylvania near Gettysburg. So cool

  • @davidcookmfs6950
    @davidcookmfs6950 25 днів тому +153

    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 24 дні тому

      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 24 дні тому +18

      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 23 дні тому +14

      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 22 дні тому +1

      Agreed, absolutely fascinating.

    • @bahoonies
      @bahoonies 15 днів тому +3

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

  • @kios05
    @kios05 25 днів тому +113

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

    • @truthseeker9454
      @truthseeker9454 24 дні тому +24

      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 24 дні тому +6

      @@truthseeker9454 he went valhalla soooo

    • @Lerxstification
      @Lerxstification 24 дні тому +18

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

    • @myopiniongoodyouropinionbad
      @myopiniongoodyouropinionbad 23 дні тому +7

      @@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.

    • @AddyHittler
      @AddyHittler 23 дні тому +6

      @@myopiniongoodyouropinionbad youre forgetting about the plane crash in the great war. trust me, you make it through ww1 youre gonna need some good drugs afterward

  • @johnwelch6490
    @johnwelch6490 25 днів тому +126

    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 24 дні тому +4

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

    • @jmac46951
      @jmac46951 18 днів тому +5

      @@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 16 днів тому

      You can buy stuff from a museum? What

    • @botalm1878
      @botalm1878 16 днів тому

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

  • @derekp8082
    @derekp8082 25 днів тому +262

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

    • @sc1338
      @sc1338 25 днів тому +16

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

    • @queeg6473
      @queeg6473 25 днів тому +13

      "OK, fetch the giant crowbar"

    • @ryecreeks
      @ryecreeks 24 дні тому +1

      😅

    • @llywrch7116
      @llywrch7116 24 дні тому +24

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

    • @robertafierro5592
      @robertafierro5592 24 дні тому +6

      Grab the Hoist!!

  • @QUADFLY
    @QUADFLY 25 днів тому +160

    Love to learn on a Sunday! Thanks DrFelton

  • @jimhoade9265
    @jimhoade9265 25 днів тому +48

    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 17 днів тому +1

      @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 UA-cam 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!

  • @bf-696
    @bf-696 25 днів тому +647

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

    • @ThomasWBaldwin
      @ThomasWBaldwin 25 днів тому +6

      at least I'm not fat

    • @samsmith2635
      @samsmith2635 25 днів тому

      To be fair being an addict to god know what prescribed by NAZI doctors, he was quite fit in WWI and the 1920's

    • @normanhacker3588
      @normanhacker3588 25 днів тому +10

      His corpulence perhaps lol

    • @sedzialaguna
      @sedzialaguna 25 днів тому +9

      Food and drugs.

    • @tadsomato1940
      @tadsomato1940 25 днів тому +7

      His food, and your food.

  • @willbee6785
    @willbee6785 25 днів тому +42

    Dr Felton makes WWII history much more interesting.

  • @olympicjbrag5913
    @olympicjbrag5913 25 днів тому +108

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

  • @andyknuckles2903
    @andyknuckles2903 25 днів тому +25

    Despite a large tub, HG used commendably little water.

  • @ericastier1646
    @ericastier1646 25 днів тому +45

    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.

    • @captainpoppleton
      @captainpoppleton 24 дні тому

      He could tell us, but then he'd have to shoot us.

  • @debartellomartinez7214
    @debartellomartinez7214 25 днів тому +138

    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 25 днів тому +4

      Completely understood.

    • @martinjacobsen2992
      @martinjacobsen2992 25 днів тому +5

      First sound you hear on your "Vacation" East.

    • @fabianpeters7077
      @fabianpeters7077 25 днів тому +28

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

    • @theonlymadmac4771
      @theonlymadmac4771 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому +4

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

  • @risinbison1106
    @risinbison1106 23 дні тому +8

    Goring had an unbelievable WW1 airplane collection, many were the last one in existence. Love to see a Felton video about those which still survive.

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 22 дні тому +4

      He's done one! Check his video list from about a year, maybe two years ago. Goering's WW1 airplane collection is in Poland now.

    • @risinbison1106
      @risinbison1106 22 дні тому +2

      @@wayneantoniazzi2706 cool! Thanks man!

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 22 дні тому +1

      @@risinbison1106 You're welcome!

  • @apurvakmr
    @apurvakmr 25 днів тому +59

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

    • @aerotube7291
      @aerotube7291 24 дні тому

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

    • @bobhearst7306
      @bobhearst7306 22 дні тому

      Were these Pullman rail cars of American origin ?

  • @schienennahverkehrDE
    @schienennahverkehrDE 25 днів тому +15

    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!

  • @jimmy8653
    @jimmy8653 25 днів тому +26

    Lots of work put into these trains

  • @LisaNull
    @LisaNull 25 днів тому +74

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

    • @botalm1878
      @botalm1878 16 днів тому

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

  • @Finestnatural4567
    @Finestnatural4567 25 днів тому +29

    I love the look of hermann goering train and railway carriage

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 25 днів тому +24

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

  • @garygallagher5978
    @garygallagher5978 25 днів тому +22

    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 24 дні тому

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

    • @JeffEbe-te2xs
      @JeffEbe-te2xs 24 дні тому +5

      Used by the allies generals
      Why let luxury go to waste

  • @ranchorivera4103
    @ranchorivera4103 25 днів тому +12

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

    • @gringopig
      @gringopig 25 днів тому +7

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

    • @TheeGlocktopus
      @TheeGlocktopus 23 дні тому

      @@gringopig Absolutely not.

  • @Chief-Solarize
    @Chief-Solarize 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому +1

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

    • @suzanneflowers2230
      @suzanneflowers2230 25 днів тому +4

      Definitely someone we should know more about! Thank you!

    • @chriscarbaugh3936
      @chriscarbaugh3936 24 дні тому +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 24 дні тому +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 24 дні тому

      @@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.

  • @lovebaja
    @lovebaja 25 днів тому +15

    Please never stop producing these videos!

  • @godsowndrunk1118
    @godsowndrunk1118 25 днів тому +116

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

    • @edwardscott3262
      @edwardscott3262 25 днів тому

      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 25 днів тому +21

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

    • @rob213chappel
      @rob213chappel 25 днів тому +11

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

    • @shengyi1701
      @shengyi1701 25 днів тому +6

      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 25 днів тому +1

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

  • @danepatterson8107
    @danepatterson8107 25 днів тому +54

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

    • @NVRAMboi
      @NVRAMboi 25 днів тому +9

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

    • @jbuckley2546
      @jbuckley2546 25 днів тому +10

      Oil money makes Goering look like a pauper.

    • @dennissettlemyre917
      @dennissettlemyre917 25 днів тому +10

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

    • @dmeinhertzhagen8764
      @dmeinhertzhagen8764 25 днів тому +9

      British Royal Family: Please hold my tea.

    • @csaint6780
      @csaint6780 25 днів тому +2

      Living like a Rock Star🤘

  • @thatoneinasuit6404
    @thatoneinasuit6404 25 днів тому +14

    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 24 дні тому +1

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

    • @Dylans-Depot
      @Dylans-Depot 24 дні тому +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 23 дні тому +2

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

  • @360Nomad
    @360Nomad 25 днів тому +129

    *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 24 дні тому +4

      *Bruh*

    • @forkthepork
      @forkthepork 24 дні тому +14

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

    • @dante666jt
      @dante666jt 24 дні тому +4

      @@forkthepork lmfaoo

    • @AddyHittler
      @AddyHittler 24 дні тому +1

      still less than the average american

    • @dinahwhite3929
      @dinahwhite3929 23 дні тому +2

      verdamnt REichdonalds!

  • @WickedMuis
    @WickedMuis 25 днів тому +18

    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 25 днів тому +1

      Are they discussing where to get a squadron of Spitfires?

    • @JblackSupportTeam
      @JblackSupportTeam 25 днів тому +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 24 дні тому +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 23 дні тому

      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?

  • @shaider1982
    @shaider1982 25 днів тому +22

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

    • @muskokamike127
      @muskokamike127 24 дні тому +6

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

    • @voiceofraisin3778
      @voiceofraisin3778 24 дні тому +6

      Yes, it was called Bavaria

    • @alamore5084
      @alamore5084 22 дні тому +1

      ​@@voiceofraisin3778 LOL good one!😂

    • @alamore5084
      @alamore5084 22 дні тому +1

      That was his large toy train set😂

  • @Darwinawardrecipient
    @Darwinawardrecipient 25 днів тому +146

    We found Herman Görings train before GTA 6

  • @geraint8989
    @geraint8989 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому

      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 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому

      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 25 днів тому +1

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

  • @Dylans-Depot
    @Dylans-Depot 24 дні тому +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!

  • @Sills71
    @Sills71 25 днів тому +15

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

  • @RRM13
    @RRM13 25 днів тому +10

    Respect from São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷.

    • @ettajfan5882
      @ettajfan5882 25 днів тому +2

      And from Seattle Washington!

  • @longjohnsilver5179
    @longjohnsilver5179 25 днів тому +14

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

  • @douglasturner6153
    @douglasturner6153 25 днів тому +13

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

    • @larryzigler6812
      @larryzigler6812 25 днів тому

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

    • @douglasturner6153
      @douglasturner6153 24 дні тому +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

  • @jamesgarman4788
    @jamesgarman4788 25 днів тому +8

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

  • @Spearhead-lz1oq
    @Spearhead-lz1oq 25 днів тому +12

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

  • @danielsweeney6742
    @danielsweeney6742 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому

      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 25 днів тому +27

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

    • @reubensandwich9249
      @reubensandwich9249 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому +7

      Lol same as every invader

    • @moss8448
      @moss8448 25 днів тому +4

      they thought themselves as the 'Master Race'

  • @MrXdmp
    @MrXdmp 25 днів тому +16

    Thanks Dr. Felton!

  • @jonfoulkes3160
    @jonfoulkes3160 25 днів тому +6

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

  • @cudamandan
    @cudamandan 25 днів тому +17

    Very nice informational videos. Enjoy all of them.

  • @Knight1968
    @Knight1968 25 днів тому +8

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

  • @D3ViLTh3OrY
    @D3ViLTh3OrY 25 днів тому +11

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

  • @andywells397
    @andywells397 25 днів тому +16

    Mate, your research is beyound outstanding.

  • @filipohman7277
    @filipohman7277 25 днів тому +4

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

  • @davidbrims5825
    @davidbrims5825 25 днів тому +28

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

    • @jamesengland7461
      @jamesengland7461 25 днів тому

      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 25 днів тому +3

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

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому +2

      But what happended to that?

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 24 дні тому

      @@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.

  • @HamSandwich277
    @HamSandwich277 25 днів тому +13

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

  • @bryansammis998
    @bryansammis998 25 днів тому +13

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

    • @NVRAMboi
      @NVRAMboi 25 днів тому +1

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

    • @bryansammis998
      @bryansammis998 25 днів тому

      @@NVRAMboi you do have a point🤨

    • @SpeccyMan
      @SpeccyMan 25 днів тому +1

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

    • @csaint6780
      @csaint6780 25 днів тому +1

      That would be cool!!!!

    • @chickenpommes19
      @chickenpommes19 17 днів тому +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.

  • @mitchmatthews6713
    @mitchmatthews6713 25 днів тому +15

    Continuing to educate us all weekend! Cheers, Mark!

  • @glenchapman3899
    @glenchapman3899 25 днів тому +43

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

  • @ivamori9837
    @ivamori9837 24 дні тому

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

  • @NovaFragment
    @NovaFragment 25 днів тому +5

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

  • @TankerBricks
    @TankerBricks 25 днів тому +5

    Mark.Thanks for providing my Sunday night entertainment!

  • @curtbowers7817
    @curtbowers7817 25 днів тому +4

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

    • @lena19191
      @lena19191 21 день тому

      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 .

  • @christyhart8254
    @christyhart8254 25 днів тому

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

  • @themerchantofengland
    @themerchantofengland 25 днів тому +2

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

  • @ChrisSM1679
    @ChrisSM1679 25 днів тому +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 25 днів тому +2

      Train nerds…

    • @michaelburggraf2822
      @michaelburggraf2822 24 дні тому +1

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

    • @indrakrishnamurti
      @indrakrishnamurti 23 дні тому +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 23 дні тому +2

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

  • @kevinsoundmixer
    @kevinsoundmixer 25 днів тому +4

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

  • @Willigula
    @Willigula 25 днів тому +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 24 дні тому

      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!

  • @andrewpinner3181
    @andrewpinner3181 25 днів тому +1

    Thanks Mark, always intriguing & just - excellent !

  • @timmyjones1921
    @timmyjones1921 24 дні тому +4

    Thank You Dr. Felton.

  • @QuietCastle
    @QuietCastle 25 днів тому +2

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

  • @charleskiel2299
    @charleskiel2299 25 днів тому +2

    Another interesting video, thanks Dr. Felton

  • @BELCAN57
    @BELCAN57 25 днів тому +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 24 дні тому +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.....

  • @patrickwentz8413
    @patrickwentz8413 25 днів тому +5

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

    • @aeromodeller1
      @aeromodeller1 25 днів тому

      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 25 днів тому +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?

    • @jamespage586
      @jamespage586 2 дні тому

      The one thing that you have to remember is that, once all Nazi emblems and features were removed by denazification. The train cars had to be put into service to rebuild Germany and the whole of Europe.

  • @roberthevern6169
    @roberthevern6169 25 днів тому +7

    Thanks, Dr Felton!

  • @kayneahnung3661
    @kayneahnung3661 24 дні тому +2

    Just a little addon info:
    The engines shown at 1:26 are not the wartime engines mentioned and shown a bit later - they are old prussian P8 passenger engines (a type of 4-6-0 engine that was really successful in Germany and a few eastern europe countries).
    The two engines shown still running today are not in Germany but in Bulgaria (or Romania, i am a bit unsure) - they indeed are Class 52 wartime engines. Originally designed to run at max 7-10 years they were quite successful and were in service at many railway companies right up to the end of steam traction. E.g. the GDR did rebuild 250 of these engines to class 52.80 and used them up until the end of the GDR. Poland had them as Ty2 (I think) and various other eastern european countries did use them as well - even the soviet union rebuild some of them to fit their wider gauge and used them - one of these is in Speyer on display today.

    • @michaelburggraf2822
      @michaelburggraf2822 24 дні тому

      The engines at 1:26 are quite certainly not former Prussian P8s (Baureihe 38). They're looking like Kriegsloks to me, possibly 52 guessing by the sand containers on the boiler tube.
      Similar ones are shown at 1:47 which have the characteristic semi-cylindric bath tub tenders which were designed for simplified, faster production. Those tenders were combined with P8 locomotives sometimes - particularly after the war.

    • @kayneahnung3661
      @kayneahnung3661 24 дні тому

      @@michaelburggraf2822 look closely the dome configuration is prussian the smoke box is typical for prussian configurations and they are way to short for class 52, also the boiler is to short. I think I can at least spot a leading axle which would make them P8/class 38, the other engines with that boiler config do not have leading axles (G8, G10, T16). Also the cab is open and not the norwegian style the class 52 features which is enclosed. The engines at 01:31 are of course class 52.
      To be clear: I am talking about the engines in the bw footage in front of the train.
      Edit: I reviewed the section again - and also the tender absolutely does not fit a class 52, not even a class 50ük which I thought could be possible, but especially look at the first engine - you can even see the typical design of the prussian tender, also looking at the first engine the sand containers would be much less prominent on a 52 - it is the boxy design of the prussian engines. I am however irritated by the fact that the tender seems to have a wall like DRG designs.
      On the other hand the air pressure tank does neither fit a class 50, 50ük or 52. It also does not fit the typical setup of the P8. The G12 would have a arrangement like that, but the tender typically did not have a front wall (although there were so many versions of that engine that it is quite possible that there were engines with a tender wall). the class 50/52 family had them across the wheelbase and not alongside the walkway (I think a few had one on the driver side as far as I know). I am by no way sure that they are P8, but I am pretty sure they are not class 52 - and especially the tender and the dome arrangement of the first one do look very prussian to me.

    • @michaelburggraf2822
      @michaelburggraf2822 24 дні тому

      @@kayneahnung3661 I'm beginning to think that it's one of the several variants of the BR 56, 57 or 58. The form of the housing of the cylinders is quite suspect and pointing in that direction.
      To be honest the sequence around 1:26 is really difficult to analyse.
      The P8 was a great design but certainly too weak for that task. For that load some proper pulling force is needed especially on inclined sections.

    • @kayneahnung3661
      @kayneahnung3661 24 дні тому +1

      @@michaelburggraf2822 yes I agree on the 38/P8 being to weak. The engine itself fits the 58/G12 very well - only the wall at the tender is strange - but there were so many G12 Variants - its quite possible there were some with a Wall. Also the G12/58 would be the fastest of the ones you mentioned. So I agree on your guess

  • @iCesiumZz
    @iCesiumZz 25 днів тому +19

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

  • @oveidasinclair982
    @oveidasinclair982 25 днів тому +4

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

  • @gertgilich3508
    @gertgilich3508 25 днів тому +3

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

  • @user-mg6ml6uf9w
    @user-mg6ml6uf9w 25 днів тому +1

    This channel is top notch. ❤. Such a incredible opportunity to learn about history from a great source. Thank you for all the amazing information and thank you for your talent at presenting all this in such a rich and beautiful way. Hello from British Columbia Canada

  • @brianhollenbeck8633
    @brianhollenbeck8633 25 днів тому +9

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

    • @bryanpetersen1334
      @bryanpetersen1334 25 днів тому +1

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

  • @randyluginbuhl9085
    @randyluginbuhl9085 25 днів тому +6

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

  • @kingcrazymani4133
    @kingcrazymani4133 25 днів тому

    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.

  • @DavidStickney
    @DavidStickney 13 днів тому

    Thanks for sharing Dr. Felton!

  • @bmoboss
    @bmoboss 25 днів тому +3

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

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 25 днів тому +6

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

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan 25 днів тому

      Mother’s Day is in March.

    • @faithlesshound5621
      @faithlesshound5621 25 днів тому +1

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

  • @nodarkthings
    @nodarkthings 22 дні тому

    Absolutely fascinating, Dr. Felton. Thank you.

  • @johnstout64
    @johnstout64 23 дні тому +1

    My mother accompanied her father, the commanding general of the 2nd Armored Division, USAREUR, to Germany in 1953. She has stories of traveling in Goering's train. We have a picture of the family seated in what looks like the conference room.

  • @ericw3229
    @ericw3229 25 днів тому +5

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

  • @kevinvilmont6061
    @kevinvilmont6061 25 днів тому +5

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

    • @rossr6616
      @rossr6616 24 дні тому

      and he also excelled at splitting uniforms

  • @TattooedTraveler
    @TattooedTraveler 23 дні тому

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

  • @pauljefferies9087
    @pauljefferies9087 13 днів тому

    Great stories as usual, Mr Felton.
    Fascinating as always!

  • @1FokkerAce
    @1FokkerAce 25 днів тому +8

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

  • @valmid5069
    @valmid5069 16 днів тому +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

  • @csaint6780
    @csaint6780 25 днів тому +2

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

  • @ProfessorM-he9rl
    @ProfessorM-he9rl 25 днів тому +4

    Thanks Mark, great post.

  • @rmwarnick
    @rmwarnick 24 дні тому +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.

  • @Jordan-rb28
    @Jordan-rb28 25 днів тому +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.

  • @robertf3479
    @robertf3479 25 днів тому

    Always interesting Dr. Felton, you seem to pick a number of the subjects I have interests in. Today it was Göring and railroading.

  • @aaronlambert9297
    @aaronlambert9297 25 днів тому +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!

  • @RubyMarkLindMilly
    @RubyMarkLindMilly 25 днів тому +3

    Beautiful craftsmanship on show on these wonderful trains 👍

  • @paulbennett4415
    @paulbennett4415 25 днів тому +3

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

  • @douglasfur3808
    @douglasfur3808 23 дні тому +1

    It was a surprise to see my family's radio in the salon car.
    In the 60's my family had a Blaupunkt radio similar to the one seen in 20105.
    The Adenauer era updates explain a post war design in Goring's train.

  • @blacksabbath2559
    @blacksabbath2559 24 дні тому +1

    hello Mr Felton if you want a good story, look for Siegfried Freytag.
    He was a fighter ace, rank major of lutwaffe with 102 kills and awarded with knight cross.
    After the war he enlisted as private in the french foreign legion. He fought in french colonials wars and retired after 18 years of active duty.
    He never spoke about his career as pilot with his fellows soldiers.
    He died in 2002 and was buried at the House of old legionnaires with full honors, including german ones. What a life!
    greeting from France, thank for your vids

  • @theobessiris9681
    @theobessiris9681 25 днів тому +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?