How Insane Escape From Nazi Prison Went Horribly Wrong

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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • "The Great Escape", a famous film about allied soldiers putting on one of the most adventurous escapes from a Nazi prison camp, but the real story is much darker and tragic than the movie. Check out today's epic true historic story that reveals the truth about the allies' actual "Great Escape" and why it wasn't so "Great" after all.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 279

  • @AwokenEntertainment
    @AwokenEntertainment 2 роки тому +103

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

  • @donm5354
    @donm5354 2 роки тому +18

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

  • @shanemcdowall
    @shanemcdowall 2 роки тому +56

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

    • @IrishMorgenstern
      @IrishMorgenstern 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @anz0_king132
      @anz0_king132 2 роки тому

      Good thing new zealanders don't matter 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @puyearprod.929
      @puyearprod.929 2 роки тому

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

  • @NipplesOfDestiny
    @NipplesOfDestiny 2 роки тому +25

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

    • @Dylan-fs5kn
      @Dylan-fs5kn 2 роки тому +6

      Yeah and how do full bunk beds go missing!

    • @wmdkitty
      @wmdkitty 2 роки тому +9

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

    • @jesuschristaboveallcreation
      @jesuschristaboveallcreation 2 роки тому +3

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

    • @sabbathunter
      @sabbathunter 2 роки тому +2

      "I see nothing, nothing!"

  • @baronvg
    @baronvg 2 роки тому +49

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

    • @usonly101
      @usonly101 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @baronvg
      @baronvg 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @ayeyaeye
    @ayeyaeye 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @bobbyp4025
    @bobbyp4025 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @verytinyfacts
    @verytinyfacts 6 місяців тому

    Just found your content, very good!

  • @kassieyoung4289
    @kassieyoung4289 2 роки тому

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

  • @troglodytetroglodyteto5997
    @troglodytetroglodyteto5997 2 роки тому +1

    0:10 is the best names for the tunnels

  • @wheresmyoldname
    @wheresmyoldname 2 роки тому +1

    This is the most interesting video ever!!! I've never heard of any of this!!! 🙌🏻😂 Wow this is so interesting my guy... Good job finding the information that noone else seems to have...👍

  • @ArrogantSwede
    @ArrogantSwede Рік тому +1

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

  • @chrisi7127
    @chrisi7127 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @ExiliaN42
    @ExiliaN42 2 роки тому +5

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

    • @maxxdahl6062
      @maxxdahl6062 2 роки тому

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

  • @sabbathunter
    @sabbathunter 2 роки тому

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

  • @CHARMING_PLAYBOY_007
    @CHARMING_PLAYBOY_007 2 роки тому

    Thank you good video!

  • @piepiepie57
    @piepiepie57 Рік тому

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

  • @petewhitmore7668
    @petewhitmore7668 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @ryanprjgamingchannel9437
    @ryanprjgamingchannel9437 2 роки тому

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

  • @MTN1601
    @MTN1601 2 роки тому +2

    Hi

  • @clintparsons3989
    @clintparsons3989 2 роки тому

    I had no idea.

  • @FitchTV
    @FitchTV 2 роки тому

    I'm still in a dreeAaaam Sneeeter

  • @candiceperry5817
    @candiceperry5817 2 роки тому

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

  • @garwhittaker3743
    @garwhittaker3743 2 роки тому

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

  • @gohstleviathanyt9859
    @gohstleviathanyt9859 2 роки тому +1

    Bet bro

  • @robertheron1063
    @robertheron1063 2 роки тому

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

  • @BobbyMan905
    @BobbyMan905 2 роки тому +2

    Among us

  • @Luhblakkmusix
    @Luhblakkmusix 5 місяців тому

    Hard arcers or hard arces?

  • @havardl4495
    @havardl4495 2 роки тому

    Go Norway!

  • @koaahumada5243
    @koaahumada5243 2 роки тому

    American History curriculum in public schools < This UA-cam channel

  • @alternator7893
    @alternator7893 2 роки тому

    The great escape! Yes!!

  • @cianmannion1752
    @cianmannion1752 2 роки тому

    112th early for the best content

  • @robertevans1343
    @robertevans1343 2 роки тому

    👍🏾

  • @Руслан-м2в
    @Руслан-м2в 2 роки тому

    They should’ve had some Mexicans in there to dig the tunnels

  • @Average_IS-7lover
    @Average_IS-7lover 2 роки тому

    R u sire

  • @Ayodhya9439wijayaratne
    @Ayodhya9439wijayaratne 2 роки тому

    😔👍

  • @izukumidoriya8978
    @izukumidoriya8978 2 роки тому

    Lol

  • @-Daily.Bible.Verse1
    @-Daily.Bible.Verse1 2 роки тому +2

    Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.”
    ‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:1‬ ‭

  • @amarixn.
    @amarixn. 2 роки тому +1

    Second

    • @galaxian8622
      @galaxian8622 2 роки тому

      ur the 9th comment

    • @amarixn.
      @amarixn. 2 роки тому

      @@galaxian8622 ur timing might be wrong but ight.

  • @stephenbranigan3303
    @stephenbranigan3303 2 роки тому

    First

  • @mginfocus
    @mginfocus 2 роки тому

    You guys are really into holocaust episodes!?

  • @Perplexii
    @Perplexii 2 роки тому +202

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

    • @looeegee
      @looeegee 2 роки тому +10

      How about no

    • @sarathchandra7607
      @sarathchandra7607 2 роки тому +10

      Thats amazing

    • @GewoonNee
      @GewoonNee 2 роки тому +16

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

    • @ocantu1987
      @ocantu1987 2 роки тому +6

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

    • @zonk4881
      @zonk4881 2 роки тому +47

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

  • @newman2119
    @newman2119 2 роки тому

    Lol

  • @diversejoe617
    @diversejoe617 2 роки тому +32

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

  • @generalyousif3640
    @generalyousif3640 2 роки тому +54

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

    • @joshuakerger2897
      @joshuakerger2897 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @Man929-r1c
      @Man929-r1c 2 роки тому

      @@joshuakerger2897 probably

    • @adeonigga8141
      @adeonigga8141 2 роки тому +3

      @@joshuakerger2897 bro you ever heard of typing?

    • @puppymanyeah8368
      @puppymanyeah8368 2 роки тому

      That’s why it’s impossible

  • @Ραφαήλ-ΝικόλαςΤσαλισκάνης

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

    • @michaelwoods8654
      @michaelwoods8654 2 роки тому +8

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

    • @zonk4881
      @zonk4881 2 роки тому +16

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

    • @kremepye3613
      @kremepye3613 2 роки тому +3

      @@michaelwoods8654 ffs

    • @MissSpaz
      @MissSpaz 2 роки тому +13

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

    • @MissSpaz
      @MissSpaz 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @jlit3160
    @jlit3160 2 роки тому +21

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

  • @TheWingland
    @TheWingland 2 роки тому +50

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

  • @legendarygrape6049
    @legendarygrape6049 2 роки тому +27

    They never fail to entertain us

  • @ponceprmitierra9957
    @ponceprmitierra9957 2 роки тому +8

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

    • @michaelwoods8654
      @michaelwoods8654 2 роки тому +4

      Ukraine belongs to Russia

    • @ponceprmitierra9957
      @ponceprmitierra9957 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @iowa_lot_to_travel9471
    @iowa_lot_to_travel9471 2 роки тому +5

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

  • @aiyanabernard8086
    @aiyanabernard8086 2 роки тому +6

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

    • @jacksmith7816
      @jacksmith7816 2 роки тому

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

    • @jinchen4225
      @jinchen4225 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @tasha3757
    @tasha3757 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @TeddyBear-um5ll
    @TeddyBear-um5ll 2 роки тому +4

    I agreed with your suggestion in the first minute.

  • @randomstranger8705
    @randomstranger8705 2 роки тому +2

    hiii

  • @edibleeater6547
    @edibleeater6547 2 роки тому +12

    First

    • @MTN1601
      @MTN1601 2 роки тому

      Ok

    • @Jaydenxx-vp2ln
      @Jaydenxx-vp2ln 2 роки тому

      Dang

    • @idofivethings6222
      @idofivethings6222 2 роки тому

      Quick af

    • @Average_IS-7lover
      @Average_IS-7lover 2 роки тому

      Of course a Fortnite pfp needs to brag about being first

    • @MrRamble
      @MrRamble 2 роки тому

      wow, i bet you think your special, and yet your comment is one of the last ones on the ladder

  • @ajames-fc7tm
    @ajames-fc7tm 2 роки тому +3

    Very infographic

  • @ErectkyleDysfunction
    @ErectkyleDysfunction 2 роки тому +5

    Glad there's a part 2 to this

  • @themeanestkitten
    @themeanestkitten Рік тому +1

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

  • @tonydittmaier3889
    @tonydittmaier3889 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @gymny0000
    @gymny0000 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @bladestar8727
    @bladestar8727 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @mikeYXiong
    @mikeYXiong 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @tommybrown9534
    @tommybrown9534 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @TheCODAddict
    @TheCODAddict 2 роки тому +2

    How many gb is this whole animation?

  • @jokodihaynes419
    @jokodihaynes419 2 роки тому +2

    I play the video game to the movie

  • @winniethepoohandeeyore2
    @winniethepoohandeeyore2 2 роки тому +3

    Great movie but inaccurate

    • @SuperColonel91
      @SuperColonel91 2 роки тому

      The Bridge On The River Kwai Is WORSE!!!

    • @Rzo139
      @Rzo139 2 роки тому

      Well, duh, that's what he said in beginning.

  • @BLOOD_FOR_THE_BLOOD_GOD69420
    @BLOOD_FOR_THE_BLOOD_GOD69420 2 роки тому +2

    Nice vid

  • @davidtsw
    @davidtsw 2 роки тому +8

    You mean a German prison camp right ? I can't figure out where Nazis were from (mainly). Where was their Naziland? Oh wait, they were Germans...

    • @brandonwilde8988
      @brandonwilde8988 2 роки тому

      But the Nazis controlled the camps at the time

  • @OKING_YT
    @OKING_YT 2 роки тому +1

    Hiii

  • @ryleydyck60
    @ryleydyck60 2 роки тому +1

    11:12 nice

  • @MeaHeaR
    @MeaHeaR 2 роки тому +1

    The yanks aoso bastardised the capture of the enigma machine claiming théy capturéd itt of off a U Boot

    • @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204
      @factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 2 роки тому

      Americans won the war on their own , don’t ya know .

    • @MeaHeaR
      @MeaHeaR 2 роки тому

      @@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 lol 😆 😂 🤣 👍🏿🙏🏿🖖🏿

  • @sandwich7791
    @sandwich7791 2 роки тому +1

    Hello

  • @Cerise__
    @Cerise__ 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @okuyasu_6991
    @okuyasu_6991 2 роки тому +1

    The guy in the thumbnail looks like an ncr vet soldier

  • @tuelzalt
    @tuelzalt 2 роки тому +1

    Not gonna lie... needed this

  • @johnray854
    @johnray854 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @24kzay76
    @24kzay76 2 роки тому +1

    LOLOL.

  • @angus1298
    @angus1298 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @jessicafournerat3804
      @jessicafournerat3804 Рік тому

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

  • @jasjrock6424
    @jasjrock6424 2 роки тому

    so the germans treated the prisoners fairly well compared to russians etc

  • @michaellepore105
    @michaellepore105 2 роки тому

    Ain't it funny how the Americans eventually became just like the Nazis?

  • @ilikedawgs4058
    @ilikedawgs4058 2 роки тому +1

    Bro this is history class at this point.

  • @JustAguyFromJersey
    @JustAguyFromJersey 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @patrickb1303
    @patrickb1303 2 роки тому

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

  • @donhancock332
    @donhancock332 2 роки тому

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

  • @BrobaFett
    @BrobaFett 2 роки тому

    Please check your facts better. The US Air Force did not exist until 1947 and was until then known as the Army Air Corps

  • @iampatmac
    @iampatmac 6 місяців тому

    First I get why they escaped and all but sounded like a very humane camp as far as other camps were at the time.

  • @TheQuestion4All
    @TheQuestion4All 2 роки тому

    Thanks for listening to my request

  • @nexpro6118
    @nexpro6118 2 роки тому

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

  • @jamiedriscoll9781
    @jamiedriscoll9781 2 роки тому

    Lol a modern train engine in 1944 close enough

  • @miraclewhippy5258
    @miraclewhippy5258 2 роки тому

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

  • @donm5354
    @donm5354 2 роки тому

    Real story was totally BASED...

  • @akira3871
    @akira3871 2 роки тому

    Dislike and skip due to movie spoilers

  • @h2.t2
    @h2.t2 2 роки тому

    This man makes the people in these thumbnails look so badass

  • @imback4410
    @imback4410 2 роки тому

    Oh we can use that N word on UA-cam again?

  • @uncledibby
    @uncledibby 2 роки тому

    now try to escape from tarkov

  • @aidan77765
    @aidan77765 2 роки тому

    Hi from South Africa

  • @Cheezey54
    @Cheezey54 2 роки тому

    "Tom, Dick , Harry"

  • @rileywatson4422
    @rileywatson4422 2 роки тому +1

    Amen