The Führerbunker - Hitler’s Final Command Post - WW2 Documentary special

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  • Опубліковано 17 кві 2024
  • The man who once conquered Europe, Adolf Hitler now cowers underground in the Fuhrerbunker as bombs and artillery rain down on the ruins of the Reich. Today Sparty gives you a tour of the damp and claustrophobic concrete maze that will soon become the dictator’s coffin.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 756

  • @WorldWarTwo
    @WorldWarTwo  Місяць тому +415

    We’ll be covering the death of Hitler in an extra episode on April 30. Join us here for the the demise of history’s most infamous figure.

    • @Chris.in.taiwan
      @Chris.in.taiwan Місяць тому +26

      Rest in pieces

    • @bajonettm2122
      @bajonettm2122 Місяць тому +9

      Do something about the last fights in Austria. That's something interesting and new

    • @dallaswinston8260
      @dallaswinston8260 Місяць тому

      @@bajonettm2122 no it's fake

    • @alexamerling79
      @alexamerling79 Місяць тому +1

      Say what you want about Hitler. He did shoot Hitler...

    • @alexamerling79
      @alexamerling79 Місяць тому

      Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.

  • @Moromom22
    @Moromom22 Місяць тому +660

    It's time to start watching Downfall again.

    • @impostorsyndrome1350
      @impostorsyndrome1350 Місяць тому +65

      it's time to binge watch Hitler Rant parodies again :D

    • @JFox337
      @JFox337 Місяць тому +8

      This! Amazing film!

    • @cgardner85
      @cgardner85 Місяць тому +8

      And after that watch Looks who’s back.

    • @paultapner2769
      @paultapner2769 Місяць тому +7

      @@impostorsyndrome1350 I could watch the one with Hitler hearing Mark Felton on the radio again and again. It's so good.

    • @bakerb485
      @bakerb485 Місяць тому +10

      Unlike most Hollywood films the night battle scenes are very well done the noise and fear felt by Germans as the Russian army hunt them down is far more visceral than many films set during this period

  • @gunman47
    @gunman47 Місяць тому +527

    Ah yes, is it time for Fegelein and his antics in the Füherbunker, while Hitler launches his rant with his Pencil of Doom and awaits Steiner's counterattack...

    • @thanos_6.0
      @thanos_6.0 Місяць тому +92

      *FEGELEIN!!! FEGELEIN!!! FEGELEIN!!!*

    • @saltzkruber732
      @saltzkruber732 Місяць тому +2

      With Jodl the bald ape and the map fish pervert Krebs

    • @goughrmp
      @goughrmp Місяць тому +58

      Mein Failure ……. Steiner

    • @saltzkruber732
      @saltzkruber732 Місяць тому +2

      With Jodl the bald ape and the fishy map pervert Krebs ruining his plans

    • @Dystopia1111
      @Dystopia1111 Місяць тому +47

      Krebs and his fish both support this plan, although Jodl objects to the plan.

  • @IliketheBears
    @IliketheBears Місяць тому +313

    This episode just makes me appreciate how amazing of a film “Downfall” is at portraying all of this

    • @saltzkruber732
      @saltzkruber732 Місяць тому +54

      Bruno Ganz giving one of the best actor perfomances of all time.

    • @_ArsNova
      @_ArsNova Місяць тому +7

      It really didn't though. The iconic rant scene that everyone thinks about when this film is mentioned was completely fabricated, for example.

    • @saisameer8771
      @saisameer8771 Місяць тому +14

      ​@@_ArsNovaThe 3 hour movie only has like 2 rant scenes overall, so it's not that bad.

    • @Smethells2023
      @Smethells2023 Місяць тому +41

      @@_ArsNovaSource? Because survivors of the bunker literally ALL stated that the rant happened. Dude had a rage fit and then a nervous breakdown, because reality set in and was no longer ignorable: the war was lost, there would be no miraculous turnarounds, the loss of Roosevelt was not a “great miracle” as he had claimed (it changed nothing in the end), etc.

    • @_ArsNova
      @_ArsNova Місяць тому +12

      @@Smethells2023 Quote: "Hitler's (supposed) rage at Steiner's failure to mount the attack was made famous by its depiction in a scene from the 2004 movie Downfall. In reality, his secretary testified that instead of rage, on hearing the news, Hitler was 'silent for a long time', until finally saying the women should leave Berlin immediately (though they refused to). This account is far more in line with real psychology, in which a profoundly shocked person does not fly into an angry rage but rather is mentally paralyzed by the shock. But a commercial movie would not find it convenient to have 30 minutes of a man sitting in silence so it had to create a fictional "dramatic scene" instead. The scene has been made into numerous parody videos and internet memes in which new subtitles are added that typically have no correlation to what the characters are actually saying in German and are usually topical, lampooning current issues or trends."

  • @arghsonofcliff
    @arghsonofcliff Місяць тому +246

    Two specials in one week. Gentlemen, I salute you. You have gone above and beyond the call of duty.

  • @Lavthefox
    @Lavthefox Місяць тому +834

    Watch it before youtube says "this violates community guidelines"

    • @dallaswinston8260
      @dallaswinston8260 Місяць тому +23

      UA-cam won't do that now delete ur comment or I'll report it

    • @jonasmejerpedersen4847
      @jonasmejerpedersen4847 Місяць тому +52

      @@dallaswinston8260 ...what

    • @dallaswinston8260
      @dallaswinston8260 Місяць тому

      @@jonasmejerpedersen4847 delete ur comment and mind ur business

    • @1joshjosh1
      @1joshjosh1 Місяць тому +12

      Yeah that's getting to be a bit of a problem.

    • @dallaswinston8260
      @dallaswinston8260 Місяць тому +8

      @@1joshjosh1 no it's not delete ur comment

  • @ternel
    @ternel Місяць тому +276

    It is small comfort to know hitler was miserable sleeping in a humid concrete box 20 meters underground and in consrant fear of drowning.

    • @julianshepherd2038
      @julianshepherd2038 Місяць тому +65

      And he ran out of cocaine and methamphetamine.
      That is a hell of a come down.

    • @_ArsNova
      @_ArsNova Місяць тому +16

      @@julianshepherd2038 His drug use is comically overexaggerated by pop-historians. You seem to have fallen victim to them.

    • @Smethells2023
      @Smethells2023 Місяць тому +23

      Miserable, I question. He was used to living in spartan conditions. His bedroom at the Berghof for example was EXTREMELY simple: a small iron bed/cot that wasn’t much better than what soldiers used, a chamber pot for nightly needs, no direct heating (he’d sleep in a cotton nightshirt or pajamas and would wear a stocking cap if the room became too cold), etc. And this was at the Berghof, never mind all the time he spent at his different HQs (Rastenburg/the Wolf’s Lair, for instance).

    • @_ArsNova
      @_ArsNova Місяць тому +18

      @@Smethells2023 I agree. The man grew up in poverty and lived in the trenches of WWI, and survived a gas attack. The bunker was like a palace to compared to living conditions in his youth.

    • @uncle2593
      @uncle2593 Місяць тому +8

      @@_ArsNovait depends on whether he allowed his life of relative riches as Fuhrer to spoil his memory of his humble upbringing

  • @finnyishere3532
    @finnyishere3532 Місяць тому +70

    Once steiner attacks, Hitler will be able to leave the bunker.

    • @Amradar123
      @Amradar123 Місяць тому +7

      Hitler did in a way in the end, but not as he had imagined....

    • @leonardogomez8812
      @leonardogomez8812 Місяць тому +4

      Well Hitler DID leave his bunker after Steiner attacked, but not without a new hole in his head

    • @hoodoo2001
      @hoodoo2001 Місяць тому

      Fegelein! Fegelein!

  • @BruceMusto
    @BruceMusto Місяць тому +237

    One of the things I enjoy most about these videos, is Spartacus's sheer contempt that he holds Hitler and the Nazi's in. Troglodyte, I love it.

    • @Amradar123
      @Amradar123 Місяць тому +1

      It is a double insult as for Hitler a troglodyte is all what goes against his racial nazi theories.

    • @emmiannon1266
      @emmiannon1266 Місяць тому +2

      High above that bunker they would send children to work guns til they died to delay a cirtain defeat by a few minutes while the high command cowered in their hole.
      Fascism, White superemacism, and Dictatorship all summed up in one horrible showcase.

    • @_ArsNova
      @_ArsNova Місяць тому +29

      Probably one of the worst aspects of his presentation if I'm being honest. It ruins the façade of "objective historian" and teeters on the edge of "subjective ranting". Calm, rational delivery of information would be much preferred, like Jesse Alexander after he took over TGW.

    • @stephenphillips4609
      @stephenphillips4609 Місяць тому +53

      @@_ArsNova Given the stuff Mr Olsen has had to read and watch and see while making these, I'm not surprised he comes across as angry. He should be. If it makes modern supporters of the Chaplin impersonator unhappy, so much the better.

    • @davidjackson2179
      @davidjackson2179 Місяць тому +39

      @arsnova1321 why is it that you keep commenting some form of pro-Nazi copium under every thread? Now you’re sad that Spartacus is not “objective” enough when talking about Hitler? You’re probably gonna have to die mad about that one.

  • @brycedyck8450
    @brycedyck8450 Місяць тому +257

    "Hitler gets a lot of bad press, but he did kill Hitler, so there's that..." Jimmy Carr, comedian 😂

    • @j3lny425
      @j3lny425 Місяць тому

      Yes he ended the war by blowing his brains out. ' Philomena Cunc'... pseudo-reporter

  • @captainnutsack8151
    @captainnutsack8151 Місяць тому +128

    It is absolutely perfect that Spartacus was chosen to narrate this video. After what he has had to cover in War Against Humanity, it is very fitting that he would be the one to do the video about the bleak, damp, super-bunker where Hitler cowered like a dog and then finally rid the world of himself.

    • @PobortzaPl
      @PobortzaPl Місяць тому +30

      Don't insult dogs

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat Місяць тому +8

      100% agree
      He had to cover millions of innocent people dying and he gets to talk about the death trap of the man responsible for the millions of deaths.

    • @jamesgillen2339
      @jamesgillen2339 Місяць тому +2

      I like the way he pronounces "Gotterdammerung."

    • @captainnutsack8151
      @captainnutsack8151 Місяць тому +7

      @@finchborat I can tell Sparty was taking pleasure in it too. Good for him. Love that he called Hitler a "troglodyte" hahahaha

    • @EmielTalen
      @EmielTalen Місяць тому

      I'm curious about the episode where they cover the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
      Or is that okay because 'it ended the war' and 'it was a military installation that was targeted'?

  • @gilwhitmore9682
    @gilwhitmore9682 Місяць тому +148

    The Fuhrerbunker, or how to build the ultimate self catching rat trap

    • @davidsigalow7349
      @davidsigalow7349 Місяць тому +3

      "Big bait catches big rat."

    • @shawnmiller4781
      @shawnmiller4781 Місяць тому +4

      They check in but they don’t check out

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +3

      @@shawnmiller4781 That could be the mark of a really good hotel...

  • @Amradar123
    @Amradar123 Місяць тому +151

    We have come a loooong way since 1939.
    Thank you Spartacus and all involved for covering these tragic events of humanity through all these years.

    • @julianshepherd2038
      @julianshepherd2038 Місяць тому

      Germany has gone from doing genocide to supporting genocide. And arming it.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Місяць тому

      Thank you for the comment, and thanks for watching.

    • @Jarod-vg9wq
      @Jarod-vg9wq Місяць тому +1

      @@WorldWarTwothank you Spartacus for everything.

  • @senwod70
    @senwod70 Місяць тому +47

    “Austrian painter decides to check out the underground scene.”
    I kid, but this is incredibly important you all are doing retelling and preserving this for a new generation.
    I worry as those who fought the last war of this vast a scale pass away, younger people increasingly think of these things as diversions or some grand adventure.

  • @theeternalanglo5629
    @theeternalanglo5629 Місяць тому +38

    Guys, Steiner is cutting his counterattack pretty close 😬

    • @pnutz_2
      @pnutz_2 Місяць тому

      I think he's going to implement the dark side of the moon plan at this rate

    • @redblaze8700
      @redblaze8700 Місяць тому

      Have Wenck support him with the 12th Army.

    • @thebigm7558
      @thebigm7558 Місяць тому +1

      Than we can finally get that meme over with XD

  • @saltzkruber732
    @saltzkruber732 Місяць тому +88

    All the memes that came out of that place

    • @Dystopia1111
      @Dystopia1111 Місяць тому +11

      Fegelmemes! Fegelmemes! Fegelmemes!

    • @yochaiwyss3843
      @yochaiwyss3843 Місяць тому +16

      Maybe the real 1000 yeqr reich were the memes we made along the way?

    • @jamessicker
      @jamessicker Місяць тому +1

      @@yochaiwyss3843I would say the European Union is tbh Germany kinda owns Europe economically

    • @Lonovavir
      @Lonovavir Місяць тому +2

      Speer: My failure, we're going to lose the war. Tiger Tanks turned out to be a disaster, but on the positive front meme production is up 75%.

  • @greg_mca
    @greg_mca Місяць тому +29

    There seems to be an almost poetic contrast in that each half of the bunker has less internal space than hitler's office in the building above, and you could have stacked both the internal bunker space and its walls in the same volume as that room

  • @ricardokowalski1579
    @ricardokowalski1579 Місяць тому +35

    1- solid content
    2- that tie 👔 is fire 🔥. Good choice.
    3- Strong delivery.

    • @Arbiter099
      @Arbiter099 Місяць тому +7

      You've reminded me of the original tie review guy. I hope he's well wherever he is.

  • @colonial6452
    @colonial6452 Місяць тому +20

    When I was posted to the US Embassy Office in Berlin, we often ate at the Indonesian/Chinese restaurant located at the corner of Wilhelmstrasse and Voss Stasse, on the site of the chancellery. Poetic justice, I guess, that the "Bunker Bistro" was located on that site. The bunker was located about 50 meters away.

    • @brenokrug7775
      @brenokrug7775 Місяць тому

      Cool! Were you military or diplomatic personnel?

    • @ramonribascasasayas7877
      @ramonribascasasayas7877 Місяць тому +1

      This still was on 2012. And a hostel for refugees on the top.
      The German guide giving the tour on Nazi Berlin found it really befitting as poetic justice. (Although all of us had preferred the justice-justice...)

  • @finchborat
    @finchborat Місяць тому +5

    Two other points I want to bring up.
    1. For those interested who don't know, there was a guy who snuck into the Fuhrerbunker in the late 80s and got pics and videos of it.
    2. I hope we see references to the main rant scene from Downfall within the next couple of weeks.

  • @Valdagast
    @Valdagast Місяць тому +91

    Has Goering changed name to "Meyer" yet?

    • @cripplehawk
      @cripplehawk Місяць тому +7

      Last time I checked he was known as *"WANKSTAIN!!!"* ........
      Or was that a meme?

    • @BoxStudioExecutive
      @BoxStudioExecutive Місяць тому +12

      Hitler has only got one ball
      Goering has two but very small
      Himmler's got something sim'lar
      but poor old Goebels
      got no balls at all

    • @horusfalcon
      @horusfalcon Місяць тому

      @@BoxStudioExecutive All the children Frau Goebbels had and all of the fraulein in Herr Goebbels office whom he bedded repeatedly would seem to give the lie to that last line. Just sayin'... The man was a monster in all monstrous and evil respects.

  • @TheEvertw
    @TheEvertw Місяць тому +37

    Congratulations, Spartacus! You have almost completed this epic documentation of the most gruesome acts man has ever committed, and I hope it will be with a great sense of relief that you and Indy document the ignominious end of the one who started it all.
    I am sure you will make some special items about the nuclear bombings of Japan, much strength in making those episodes.

  • @frederickthegreatpodcast382
    @frederickthegreatpodcast382 Місяць тому +36

    There’s no Miracle of the House of Brandenburg for this Bohemian corporal

  • @darthreklaw5468
    @darthreklaw5468 Місяць тому +27

    when Spartacus is talking about the map room my mind instantly went to the movie downfall

  • @classicbandgeek
    @classicbandgeek Місяць тому +31

    I loved watching Spartacus relish every syllable of this script. Magnificent! Thank you to the entire Time Ghost team for this amazing journey we have been on together.

  • @VladTevez
    @VladTevez Місяць тому +23

    The Fuhrerbunker - the place Fegelein left

    • @thebigm7558
      @thebigm7558 Місяць тому +3

      FEGELEIN... FEGELEIN... FEGELEIN

  • @tomy.1846
    @tomy.1846 Місяць тому +4

    I can't believe we are near the end of the war in Europe. Years ago, when you began this simply incredible series, I felt like it would feel like a long time to get through the entire war. It made me think of how the people who lived through it would have felt as events unfolded and the tide of war changed. Because of your depth, and obvious passion for telling the whole story, the years have flown by! I can't thank you enough for this project. You deserve the highest Internet Awards, no doubt at all. Pulitzer should award a prize for Internet series such as this! Congratualtions on creating some of the finest material on the entire Internet. Thanks again!

  • @OscarGarcia-yj8xh
    @OscarGarcia-yj8xh Місяць тому +10

    What a great special!!!! Just delightfull! You guys are doing the best job of the series, and that is saying a lot!!!, at the very end! Thank you for souch a wonderfull ride! You are like part of my family now, week by week during more than 5 years!

  • @JFox337
    @JFox337 Місяць тому +25

    Everyone who enjoys this channel should go watch Downfall, it’s a film about the final hours in the Fuherbunker extremely fascinating and historically accurate for the most part.

    • @ngineered4u
      @ngineered4u Місяць тому +2

      LOL, you know this how? Were you there :-)

    • @davidsigalow7349
      @davidsigalow7349 Місяць тому

      Afterwards, they should go to the HRP (Hitler Rants Parodies) channel for fifteen (!) years of hilarious short films mocking Hitler, his stooges, and all of those murderous SOBs.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Місяць тому +5

      A infamous film, thanks for the suggestion.

  • @randylucas2458
    @randylucas2458 Місяць тому +11

    1:30 Spartacus seems to have been waiting a long time to say this...

  • @SPQSpartacus
    @SPQSpartacus Місяць тому +21

    1:20 Is there a More badass word in any language than Götterdämmerung? Place your suggestions below.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +1

      Muspilli. A mysterious word in an Old High German religious poem. It is thought to mean the end of the world.

    • @Kevin-mx1vi
      @Kevin-mx1vi Місяць тому +1

      Indeed. These people appointed themselves as gods, and now they cower in a squalid subterranean hideaway, vainly attempting to avoid their inevitable demise.
      They have been swallowed by the monster they themselves created.

    • @horusfalcon
      @horusfalcon Місяць тому

      Yeah, there is: _Vernichtung._ It means simply "annihilation". It's what they did at Belsen, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and elsewhere on a factory scale. It was so horrifying, so dehumanizing, and so impersonally evil that even Nazis referred to it euphemistically as, "the final solution".

  • @michaelsalmon9832
    @michaelsalmon9832 Місяць тому +14

    I like how the valet described Frederick as glaring down at Hitler. I often think of Hitler looking pathetically at his portrait hoping for some miracle. But one could also see Frederick looking back in disgust at what this man had done to Berlin and Germany

    • @RAAM855
      @RAAM855 Місяць тому

      Odd he idolizes a man he would have sent to a camp cause of his sexuality.

  • @stevehofer3482
    @stevehofer3482 Місяць тому +7

    This is really good. Thank you for making this special. Stuff like this makes me happy to be a TimeGhost Army member.

    • @horusfalcon
      @horusfalcon Місяць тому +3

      As for me, I would say it reinforces the necessity of being a TimeGhost Army member.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Місяць тому

      ❤❤❤

  • @molieros
    @molieros Місяць тому +5

    Dismal Concrete Sarcophagus is an excellent name for a death metal band

  • @pathutchison7688
    @pathutchison7688 Місяць тому +4

    It’s nice to see you doing something other than WAH. That series is amazing but I’m sure also very taxing mentally and emotionally. Keep up the great work.

  • @rasmusalmqvist5960
    @rasmusalmqvist5960 Місяць тому +15

    Hey Sparty, that was one heck of a delivery!! Wow!! 🤜💥🤛

  • @steveford8999
    @steveford8999 Місяць тому +6

    One thing I love about these vids is finally learning the correct pronunciation of all those words I've mispronounced all my life.

    • @finchborat
      @finchborat Місяць тому +1

      Same with Indy's replacement at the Great War channel and David at the Cold War channel.

    • @davidsigalow7349
      @davidsigalow7349 Місяць тому +2

      Luckily for us, Spartacus is a native German speaker, which is why he has been able to correctly pronounce all of those titles the Germans created for themselves, such as "Uberstansterfuhrer," or whatever....

    • @craigoh1969
      @craigoh1969 Місяць тому

      Yes. Very correct German pronunciation. But he sometimes slips up on his English, especially place names. Which is a pity.

  • @rickhobson3211
    @rickhobson3211 Місяць тому +9

    Brilliant, Sparty as always! I wonder if Hitler thought of it that way ever; all those armies, aimed right at him. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...

  • @BraveBob13
    @BraveBob13 Місяць тому +4

    What an awesome week for the channel you guys are TOP NOTCH thank you for all you do!

  • @soulscanner66
    @soulscanner66 Місяць тому +3

    Part II
    The family bunker did not become a gravesite thanks to my father's 7-year old's survival instincts. After the neighbors house was destroyed, it dawned on my Dad that the rail junction behind his house was a target and that the bunker wasn't going to save him. The nearby public shelter was a better bet. This was in a large local factory that had slowly been moved further and further underground during the war. I think I remember him saying that the basement was several stories underground, with 5 thick reinforced concrete slabs protecting it in the stories above.
    In the next air raid, my grandmother wanted to go down to the house bunker because she didn't want to bother going all the way to the public shelter, but my father was terrified of that because of the previous air raid. He begged, cried, and screamed that they go to the public shelter and my grandmother relented. The factory/shelter took several direct hits and survived. The house took an indirect hit and partially collapsed. By the end of the war, the whole area around the house had become a cratered moonscape.
    When they got back to the house, my grandmother gathered up the surviving belongings and they become one of those German women and children you see pulling all their belongings in a wooden cart. She went to a relative who lived nearby. On the way, she and my father passed a gruesome scene. A trainload of troops had got off a train and taken cover under a bridge because of the air raid. The bomb hit just beside them lifted the soldiers and bridge in the air, and the bridge came down, crushing most of them.
    PS: The propaganda machine of Goebbels affected my father for the rest of his life. One day in school (I'm guessing 1944), the nun's at the school he attended organized a field trip. They took his class on hayride out into a farmer's field to where a bomber had crashed. I don't remember the exact words he used to describe what the nun's said, but it something to the effect of "These are the people that want to kill you". He said the hatred he felt was the most intense of his life. I don't think you ever get over something like that.

  • @abhoren13
    @abhoren13 Місяць тому +4

    Sparty telling us to join the army? Instant Lord Kitchener vibes. My man certainly has the mustache for it

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Місяць тому +1

      Funny you should say that...timeghost.tv/product/canvas-2/

  • @1joshjosh1
    @1joshjosh1 Місяць тому +14

    Holy moly this guy's intense !
    I like it !

  • @rosswebster7877
    @rosswebster7877 Місяць тому +2

    Wonderful special Spartacus and Time Ghost Crew! It’s hard not to relish this temporary office becoming Hitler’ personal living Hell.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Місяць тому

      Thank you very much.
      -TimeGhost Ambassador

  • @LightFykki
    @LightFykki Місяць тому +3

    One thing that I find intruiging is how somehow 'safe' and 'isolated' the Führerbunker was. Spartacus mentioned it in the video, and the ambience can clearly be felt also in the movie Downfall. It feels as almost the bunker's inhabitants would not know what really was happening there living in their own false hope that something would change, until the Soviets would arrive right at the doorsteps.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +2

      Then some Red Army women turn up and want to know where Eva Braun's wardrobe is...

  • @chrisedwards4403
    @chrisedwards4403 Місяць тому +5

    On point, Sparty. Those around Hitler through the end game must have been thinking “What the hell?” Why did so many go down with the ship? Maybe you’ll cover these details? I’d love to know.

    • @caryblack5985
      @caryblack5985 Місяць тому +2

      Some were fanatics, some wanted to be near the seat of power like Borman until the end.

    • @hoodoo2001
      @hoodoo2001 Місяць тому +1

      They had nothing else to do, no where to go. Desertion was out of the question, a short route to an execution (Fegelein), you going to to run out and surrender to the Soviets?

  • @elyjane8316
    @elyjane8316 Місяць тому +1

    Fantastic episode, fantastic delivery.

  • @markmierzejewski9534
    @markmierzejewski9534 Місяць тому +39

    At this point. Hitler is thinking. May 15th. Barbarossa, should have kicked off May 15th.

    • @bobtaylor170
      @bobtaylor170 Місяць тому +1

      April 10, I'd say, at the latest. And his primary target should have been Moscow.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +12

      @@bobtaylor170 No. The spring thaw turned the USSR's unmetalled roads into the consistency of soggy porridge. In March-April, German aircraft on the Eastern Front often adopted a camouflage paint scheme combining white areas with green ones - the snow was melting.

    • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218
      @insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Місяць тому +12

      The moment Barbarossa began was the start of the end of the Third Reich

    • @jamessicker
      @jamessicker Місяць тому +3

      @@insideoutsideupsidedown2218I think they could have won if they didn’t go to war on untied states

    • @GaldirEonai
      @GaldirEonai Місяць тому +4

      @@jamessicker No. It wouldn't have made any difference. Maybe the allied invasions of france and italy would have been delayed or prevented but germany was still losing badly against the soviets even without that and the main difference in outcome would have been Europe under full soviet control.

  • @alexamerling79
    @alexamerling79 Місяць тому +7

    I actually visited the site of it when I was in Germany in 2013. Apparently it's a parking lot now.

    • @vguyver2
      @vguyver2 Місяць тому +12

      Yeah, the East Germans and USSR didn't want leave any sort of structure there. It's understandable. If one was around, there would be way more neo-Nazi pilgrimages there.

    • @Irys1997
      @Irys1997 Місяць тому +2

      Joni Mitchell, et al, should at least take comfort in the fact that they also paved hell and put up a parking lot

  • @samsmith2635
    @samsmith2635 Місяць тому +14

    Fredericus Rex unsere Koenig und Herr, poor Alter Fritz, be he wished his portrait was somewhere else.....

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +4

      SPOILER
      Not too long afterwards, the Poles blew up the statue of Frederick in Breslau, which had originally been put up after he took Silesia from the Austrian Empire. The Polish action was part of incorporating Silesia into Poland, and driving out most of the Germans who lived there.

    • @hoodoo2001
      @hoodoo2001 Місяць тому

      Wonder what happened to that portrait.

  • @xeutoniumnyborg1192
    @xeutoniumnyborg1192 Місяць тому +4

    Great video once again. Loved the allusion to Coleridge's Kubla Khan at the opening!

  • @jimmypenrose1401
    @jimmypenrose1401 Місяць тому +2

    Nice Samuel Coleridge reference at the beginning, Sparty!

  • @paulbeesley8283
    @paulbeesley8283 Місяць тому +3

    I don't think "Downfall," quite captured the squalor and claustrophobia of the bunker. By all accounts, people were going crazy down there - drinking and partying, despite (or perhaps because of,) Hitler's increasing mental and emotional deterioration.

  • @evancrum6811
    @evancrum6811 Місяць тому

    Thank you Sparty and team

  • @volodyadykun6490
    @volodyadykun6490 Місяць тому +7

    Now I'm interested in telephones of the war in general

  • @johncunyus
    @johncunyus Місяць тому +1

    Never forget! Thank you, Spartacus, Indy, and all others for this incredible program,

  • @horusfalcon
    @horusfalcon Місяць тому +3

    This was masterful, Spartacus. We will never forget. Never.

  • @BensonCaisip
    @BensonCaisip Місяць тому +2

    What's your favorite Downfall Scene?
    1. Hitler phones Koller
    2. Hitler gets angry at Jodl.
    3. Hitler rant when he finds out Steiner never launched his attack.
    4. Hitler angrily reacting to the Goring telegram.
    5. Hitler informed that Himmler has been secretly negotiating with the Allies..
    6. Hitler pounds his table when he was told Fegelein could not be found
    7. Hitler was told by Speer that his Nero Decree was never carried out.

  • @waltcs1
    @waltcs1 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks. Very informative. Very interesting. A very good presentation.

  • @naveenraj2008eee
    @naveenraj2008eee Місяць тому +5

    Hi Sparty
    Awesome explanation.
    Thanks.

  • @georgewilliams8448
    @georgewilliams8448 Місяць тому +2

    Another excellent and welcome video!

  • @localbod
    @localbod Місяць тому +2

    You can't beat a well researched bit of docutainment about Bunkerman.
    👍

  • @fuferito
    @fuferito Місяць тому +14

    09:53
    I wonder who H¡tler's bodyguard is specifically referring to when he comments on the underwhelming telephone switchboard system of the Fuhrer Bunker.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +5

      Perhaps Kannenberger, the official supposed to be in charge.

    • @GaldirEonai
      @GaldirEonai Місяць тому

      They all hated each other, each convinced he was the only genius in a bunker full of morons. If the red army had been stalled a little longer they probably would have started murdering each other in earnest (Fegelein doesn't count :P).

    • @petergray2712
      @petergray2712 Місяць тому +1

      ​@stevekaczynski3793 Albert Speer. He was responsible for supervising the bunker's design, construction, and outfitting, and it was most likely his oversight (perhaps because it was conceived as a shelter rather than a residence).

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +1

      @@petergray2712 It generally does seem like it was built as a temporary sort of place. Not somewhere that anyone would use to command a war effort. Rastenburg had had far more extensive communications and phone lines, and after the bomb went off on July 20, the conspirators only temporarily managed to cut it off from the outside world. Whereas the bunker had very limited phone lines. I wonder if it had a radio room or facilities for using Enigma or Lorenz.

    • @davidsigalow7349
      @davidsigalow7349 Місяць тому +2

      Fegelein was hogging the phone, making prank calls to the Fuhrer, "Der vaz three peanuts walking down der strasser...und one of zem vaz assaulted...peanut."

  • @elbeto191291
    @elbeto191291 Місяць тому +7

    Everyone needs to watch Downfall. It perfectly describes the general mood in Berlin in the final days of the Reich. And Bruno Ganz... well, may he rest in peace, for his performance as the Fuhrer is simply outstanding in its portrayal.

  • @TheBattleMaster100
    @TheBattleMaster100 Місяць тому +1

    Cheapest he sat it out at his home in the Alps. Listening to this alone is claustrophobic. Excellent work as always Spartacus ❤

  • @Mitchmeow
    @Mitchmeow Місяць тому

    Well done Sparty, as always. Never Forget.

  • @ac4694
    @ac4694 Місяць тому +1

    I love the irony of the contrast of buildings above and below the ground

  • @AbbyNormL
    @AbbyNormL Місяць тому +2

    An excellent and pithy lesson on the Führerbunker.

  • @spectreshadow
    @spectreshadow Місяць тому +2

    I still remember watching the very first episode all those years ago. I'm really going to miss looking forward to WW2 videos on Friday. Looking forward to the Korean War ones though!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Місяць тому

      Glad to hear that! See you there.

  • @ethanbramptom2700
    @ethanbramptom2700 Місяць тому +1

    Holy fuck. After all these years it’s truly almost here. What an incredible experience following this series has been.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Місяць тому +1

      Thanks for watching, hope to see you in our next series: www.youtube.com/@KoreanWarbyIndyNeidell

  • @Roamor1
    @Roamor1 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you.

  • @mikkovaittinen3835
    @mikkovaittinen3835 Місяць тому +1

    Those last lines...wow.

  • @nirajgaikwad838
    @nirajgaikwad838 Місяць тому +3

    Well, video dropping out the day before Fuhrer's Birthday.

  • @philcollinson328
    @philcollinson328 Місяць тому

    Absolutely wonderful. Majestically narrated and highly informative.

  • @09Scherzo
    @09Scherzo Місяць тому +4

    Nice Citizen Kane reference

  • @alexwhite3158
    @alexwhite3158 Місяць тому +2

    No matter how much I hear and read about the last days of the Third Reich and all the events and details surrounding The Fuhrerbunker and Hitlers life during the last few months are just such an interesting topic i never find anything less than fascinating and it never gets old!

  • @eliabidor3526
    @eliabidor3526 Місяць тому +2

    Looks like Vault Nein needs a new overseer

  • @brenokrug7775
    @brenokrug7775 Місяць тому +1

    I'm very happy to hear that

  • @610jrod
    @610jrod Місяць тому +4

    The writing and delivery of this episode is superb

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +1

    Slightly later in the timeline, RAF Bomber Command sent a rare daylight raid to attack Berchtesgaden, apparently in the hope of killing Hitler. It tends to underline the lack of awareness that he was in fact in Berlin. A fair amount of damage was done, particularly to an SS barracks where some bodyguard unit was based. A crew member whose plane was shot down by flak successfully bailed out and was captured by angry SS who refused to believe his plane had flown out of England - they though the raid must have set off from Allied bases in Italy, which was much closer. The crew member managed to avoid being killed by them and
    SPOILER
    survived the war.

  • @frandsenphilip1
    @frandsenphilip1 Місяць тому +1

    Thank you for the map! I've always just had to imagine where this happened.

  • @ryan2580
    @ryan2580 Місяць тому

    Love this channel!!

  • @Lonovavir
    @Lonovavir Місяць тому +3

    Somehow I don't think Wenck and Steiner will be able to turn things around. There's even a rumor Wenck's trying to surrender to the Americans.

  • @BackgroundHistory
    @BackgroundHistory Місяць тому +14

    Oh neat, my favourite parking spot in Berlin!
    While I understand the demolishment of the bunker to prevent it from becoming a martyrium and a pilgrimage shrine to the far-right, my historian heart is dissapointed that I can't enter such a historically significant site. Still think its destruction was probably for the better though.

    • @horusfalcon
      @horusfalcon Місяць тому +3

      Egad. The "far-right"? Your definition of the left-right axis of the chart and mine seem to be at variance. Nazi Germany was one of the most extremely leftist and authoritarian of states in human history. The Nazi regime was up in every aspect of the lives and private business of the citizenry. That is leftism at its farthest left.
      You and I are agreed that the bunker shouldn't become a site for pilgrimage or any sort of martyrium, but we must disagree on other things.

    • @Amradar123
      @Amradar123 Місяць тому +7

      ​@@horusfalcon Are you implying that Nazis are communist? 😂

    • @rwdyeriii
      @rwdyeriii Місяць тому +1

      ​@@Amradar123well in all honesty, there's not all that much different between them.

    • @Amradar123
      @Amradar123 Місяць тому +5

      ​@rwdyeriii Time for you to watch the War against Humanity series then 😊
      Totalitarianism has many faces but different motives.

    • @Ahrlin9
      @Ahrlin9 Місяць тому +1

      @@horusfalcon "Nazi Germany was one of the most extremely leftist..."
      This is lying nonsense and has been debunked so many times that only a deeply malicious and dishonest person would keep repeating it.

  • @williamhalsted4
    @williamhalsted4 Місяць тому +1

    Love the Kublai Kahn reference.

  • @AndyM_323YYY
    @AndyM_323YYY Місяць тому +34

    A British Tallboy bomb could have penetrated that bunker if the allies had known its location.

    • @GRB-tj6uj
      @GRB-tj6uj Місяць тому

      At this point of the war the Allies didn't want to kill Hitler anymore, as his incompetent direction of the war was actually helping them

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +12

      They weren't sure Hitler was there at this time, with extensive rumours that he had taken off for the "Alpine Redoubt". As noted, he had spent relatively little time in Berlin, and seems to have been shocked by the damage caused by bombing.

    • @randomlyentertaining8287
      @randomlyentertaining8287 Місяць тому +9

      Considering how many Tallboys it took to hit Tirpitz, it's definitely theoretical.

    • @tchunter3
      @tchunter3 Місяць тому +1

      It does make one wonder if a raid with 20 or so earthquake bombs might have ended the war a week or two earlier. Every week early is tens of thousands of people who get to live.

    • @towgod7985
      @towgod7985 Місяць тому +3

      A Tallboy could have easily punched its way into the bunker, tough part would be getting the accuracy, remember.......this was 44/45. Cheers.

  • @patcunningham6170
    @patcunningham6170 Місяць тому

    "Dismal concrete sarcophagus". What an apt description!

  • @PedroG78
    @PedroG78 Місяць тому

    Espartacus is the epitome of a History teacher. His knowledge, his passion, even his looks and his accent.
    You feel like he's a time traveller who has just come from the past to tell you today's lesson

  • @bobhank3423
    @bobhank3423 Місяць тому +1

    Great video. Ive enjoyed the series from spies to humanity, and the daily updates really brought home a war that im afraid people are going to forget as the last people who experienced it pass on voices and images on tape is allsome will know of it

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Місяць тому

      Thank you for the comment and thanks for watching.

  • @harlockmbb
    @harlockmbb Місяць тому +4

    Mark Felton did a great series about the Hitler body. The most probably is that it was never recover and the soviets took of other person, because the discrepancies in the bodies,.

    • @rwdyeriii
      @rwdyeriii Місяць тому

      Yup and the Austrian Painter retired to Argentina.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Місяць тому +1

      @@Turnipstalkhis dental records disagree as well.

  • @davidsigalow7349
    @davidsigalow7349 Місяць тому +3

    "I like the clammy atmosphere, and so do my fish...fish...fish.."

  • @janknudsen145
    @janknudsen145 Місяць тому

    Thanks!

  • @serg9427
    @serg9427 Місяць тому

    The intro was extremely well done I must say

  • @z000ey
    @z000ey Місяць тому

    The BEST episode EVER!

  • @HoopTY303
    @HoopTY303 Місяць тому +1

    9:18
    Ms. Manners always says it’s always best to look your best when having guests or enemy bombers pay you a visit!

  • @maciejkamil
    @maciejkamil Місяць тому +4

    I like that Hitler's final lair was so pitiful and pathetic. He wanted to rule the world - and at the end he couldn't even touch the grass.
    Thank you Sparty for conveying this atmosphere well. This reminded me of der Untergang.

    • @WLM-83
      @WLM-83 Місяць тому +1

      F.u.

    • @Amradar123
      @Amradar123 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@WLM-83Fuehrer's Untergang?

  • @markfryer9880
    @markfryer9880 Місяць тому

    There is a hell of a lot of reo concrete surrounding A.H. Two metre thick walls are some serious amounts of concrete, thicker than any structural walls I have yet come across professionally.
    Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

  • @ironsam2381
    @ironsam2381 Місяць тому

    i love the videos! but when you guys list measurements of things like buildings & distances can you give them in both metric and english? it's not that big of a deal but it would be nice to not have to pause the video to convert the measurements into something easier to visualize :) thanks!

  • @markpaul-ym5wg
    @markpaul-ym5wg Місяць тому +3

    Sir,you do great job when pronouncing those sharp and twisted german names.Ferret bunker,where the weasle lives.The hunter is coming for his prize,only to skin and nail up on a wall,to make an allied bomber hat.

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 Місяць тому +13

    From conquering all of Europe, to hiding in a tiny little bunker.
    What a change a world war makes.

    • @Lonovavir
      @Lonovavir Місяць тому +2

      That's what happens when you don't play RISK. You can never conquer Asia from Europe, ever.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 Місяць тому +1

      A late 1940s Soviet painting set in the Reich's last days imagined Hitler looking stressed and histrionic, while his generals and cronies sit at a table and hit the booze.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Місяць тому +1

      Indeed, thank you for watching.

  • @finchborat
    @finchborat Місяць тому +1

    Idk if anyone has said this in the comments, but Rochus Misch would be the last member of the Fuhrerbunker to pass away. The 10th anniversary of his death was back in September.