Germany's Most Evil General You Never Heard Of - the Death March of 1945

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany set up over 44,000 concentration camps for a wide range of purposes, including forced labor and detention of people thought to be enemies of the Third Reich.
Near the end of the war, as Germany's military force collapsed before the eyes of the Führer, the Allied troops began to close in on the camps, with the Soviets approaching from the East and the British, French, and Americans from the West.
Consequently, Hitler and his second in command gave SS Generalleutnant Berger Gottlob, one of their most trusted allies, the power to decide what to do with the prisoners.
In what became known as the Long March of 1945, thousands of prisoners of war walked hundreds of miles in harsh weather conditions across European countries to reach Germany before the Allies could free them.
As images and footage of actual events are not always available, Dark Docs sometimes utilizes similar historical images and footage for dramatic effect. I do my best to keep it as visually accurate as possible. All content on Dark Docs is researched, produced, and presented in historical context for educational purposes. We are history enthusiasts and are not always experts in some areas, so please don't hesitate to reach out to us with corrections, additional information, or new ideas. -

[@Paranormal.ex24]

My grandad was captured at Dunkirk and was on this march. He was helping another soldier before he was stopped by a German soldier and forced to carry on and stop helping. He assumed the man had died. Later in life my grandad developed dementia, before it was fully set in the man he helped along the march actually found my grandad turns out they didn't execute him like my grandad thought and they got to meet before he passed a year later.

[@r.m.5548]

Your Gramps should have done his duty and fought to the last man. Shame on your family line.

[@Rendell001]

@@r.m.5548 It takes someone with real class to come out with a statement as disgusting as that...

[@tylorchaffey9990]

@@r.m.5548 *psst* the annex, over here... you just got a mob after you lol

[@Stigsens1]

@@every.single.time.2668 now, take your pills again, the woman in white will be so happy, and stop using the libary computer, it is bad for you.

[@r.m.5548]

@@tylorchaffey9990 I fear no man. :D I could pull an AOC and take a private underground subway to another building then just lie and say I was there :D

[@rockbutcher]

My Grandfather was one of those marching west. He was RAF and held in Stalag Luft 3 (yes, he did help spread the dirt in the gardens.) He told me that the guards on his particular march had pretty much lost faith and weren't very strict on those who tried to leave the lines. As his column went around a bend in the road, he and three mates ran off into the bush. They worked their way west and met up with an Allied unit who bundled them back to England.

[@cookiecraze1310]

I get that this is a dark topic, but every time I hear someone say 'Bundled' I can't help but imagine a soldier wrapping 3 men in wrapping paper and yeeting them from wherever they are over to wherever they're going.

[@raymond115]

@@cookiecraze1310 I agree

[@KoriEmerson]

@@cookiecraze1310 I imagined then wrapped up in blankets and cared for. It’s the Paramedic in me (and the Mom).

[@gunny1234]

thank you for covering this..my great uncle was captured at Dieppe in 1942 with the Canadian Army and had to endure this march.

[@ccarr6574]

Never Ever FORGET Never Ever FORGIVE

[@CrucifixionxX]

@@ccarr6574 Chill out Karen it’s been decades…

[@kerrimuir1]

Thank you to your Uncle for his service.

[@David-fc2xr]

L

[@kennethstacy9298]

@@CrucifixionxX lmao

[@icegiant1000]

I have a friend spending 6 years in federal prison because he took some drugs across state lines. First-time offense. This guy forces tens of thousands of people into a death march, with thousands dying, and he gets out of prison in 5 years. Yeah, that sure as hell makes sense to me.

[@rherman9085]

You confuse the rules of war with the rules of law. I am not condoning that POS for his actions. He should have been sentence to death. However, that POS you call a friend broke the rules of law and who knows the countless damage he inflicted on those who were the result of his drug enterprise. He should suffer the same fate. Shame on you for comparing the two situations.

[@jjayyoung7335]

Hahahaha

[@lemr88]

@@rherman9085 but the pos Gottlieb broke the Geneva convention or rules of engagement so his sentence should have been much higher

[@voornaam3191]

Yeah, drugs are killing thousands of people. Maybe harsh punishments will warn people: do not get involved. And I suppose today there are no brutal SS officers running your prisons? Maybe you survive?

[@graham2631]

@@voornaam3191 that's exactly what is wrong with the american penal system. It's a system trying to punish people. In the civilized world it's called a correctional system which try's to correct the behavior. Drug addiction is also treated as a disease something which can be cured and is. As 25% of the world's prison population is in American jails obviously something isn't working.

[@millerlight2592]

The fact that human waste like this were able to just escape any consequences of their inhuman acts and just live their life like nothing happened with a slap on the wrist is one of the greatest injustices of the last few generations

[@tomperkins5657]

Not wishing to debate religion, my belief system holds that there will be a day like no other where swine like this as well as the two men who murdered my sister-in-law, at 15, and never caught, will stand in judgment. They will be fully exposed for their atrocities and will suffer an eternity of torment and darkness and pain.

[@hazeldmello5800]

Be sure they will never escape God's judgement.

[@jamielacourse7578]

Fate has a way of evening up the books. And light will always triumph over dark. Unfortunately evil never gives up. In a way the inmates were victorious in that they lived to tell others.

[@Nyarlatha]

The USA committed genocide in the rape of Iraq... 3 million Iraqi civilians butchered at the hands of US military personnel, the architects? Chilling and counting cash.

[@Cwmbran1984]

My Grandpa landed at Caen on 6th June 1944 with his Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. Total then was 68 men. Upon being captured as a POW near the Belgian-Dutch border, only 3 were still alive & Grandpa was lucky to avoid being shot up against a wall. He wrote a POW diary detailing exactly where he was in January 1945. One entry states that he left Sagen in western Poland & was marched to Stalag IXb near Frankfurt in winter totalling almost 510km, being forced to sleep in open air, on football pitches, without blankets in sub zero temperatures. He was finally freed after Stalag IX b was liberated on 1st April 1945 by the US Army.

[@dbcooper206]

Was his diary published? Would love to read it!

[@Cwmbran1984]

@@dbcooper206 it wasn’t that type of diary, but more like a one or 2 line diary entry. However when you read them, you can literally imagine the scenes he experienced. The one thing that I still am amazed at is how in God’s name could my Grandpa get any sleep on such a March, especially nearly losing his blanket to cover him from the snow. It’s no wonder he never spoke much about the war to me, other than being in Northern Africa (which he actually saw his friend get killed. But apart from that, he preferred Northern Africa to that of the European front). Before WW2 Grandpa was almost 14 Stone (say almost 90kg). He had lost half his body weight when the war ended & was about 50kg. The man went through hell, but I’m here to tell his story.

[@howtocollectpokemon]

@Cwmbran1984 My father also landed on 6th June 1944 with the Durham Light Infantry and was captured at Tilly-sur-Seulles and was a POW near Leipzig.

[@rg20322]

@@Cwmbran1984 Really - you should post the diary.

[@tomkellycartoons]

Suchbghastly stories from that time. I’m glad your grandpa survived. ❤️🌷

[@LK-bz9sk]

My great uncle who has since passed away, was on one of these death marches as the SS were trying to get them from Auschwitz in Poland back into Germany. A young German regular soldier, when they were rounding a turn in the country side, told him and two friends to run and not look back. They did. They survived. That kid saved them. A German Catholic nurse, nursed my great uncle back to health not long after that. He ended up marrying her and they raised a family in South Africa where I grew up. She was my favourite aunt. The kindest woman. There were plenty caring Germans living under Hitlers oppression.

[@hazeldmello5800]

Yes. There were many kind Germans. Not all were so evil.

[@almacmathain6195]

An elderly gentleman I know who recently celebrated his 100th birthday was a PoW who was forced to march from Poland into Germany. Any PoW who could no keep up with the column was shot and his body left ny the roadside, they were forced to spend a number of nights out in the open, food was very scarce, they were often give raw turnips half frozen and unwashed to eat. His column eventually entered Leipzig as the Nazi regime crumbled and the guards disappeared, he and the more fit PoWs searched for one particular German Sargent who had been especially bestial to the PoWs, they found him brought him back to the PoWs who hung him on a lamppost. Some of these Nazi war criminals got what the so richly deserved, but many more were let off lightly as the US got more interested in the Cold War than justice for the victims of WWII. They put pressure on the British and French to ease off investigating and arresting war criminals and re-employed many in their intelligence agencies where they gave the US false info on the Russians desire and ability to wage war post 1945.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Like the Bataan Death March.

[@ExRhodesian]

That is a true cock and bull story.

[@jjayyoung7335]

@@ExRhodesian why where are the errors

[@ExRhodesian]

@@jjayyoung7335 They didn't shoot those who couldn't keep up, the German captors were in the same boat they were fleeing the Soviets. The Soviets didn't have a problem with shooting Allied prisoners if they were a nuisance and even kept some after the war in their gulags. Yeltsin even admitted this but downplayed the figures or maybe he was just drunk at the time who knows who cares.

[@tomkellycartoons]

@@ExRhodesian What is wrong with you?

[@Sickofsociety1]

Wow.....that's truly amazing! Thank you for once again providing us with great content!

[@guysolis5843]

Captivating narration and footage of this unknown crime..evil always seems to get away with their deeds and your description of what actually happened left me feeling very cold.

[@lore9446]

Himmler saying someone else was "unscrupulous"??? Best joke ever!

[@davidvonbrawn4904]

My grandfather was born in 1899 he was a medic in the German army. He was the kindest person you would ever want want to know.

[@hazeldmello5800]

Many Germans were kind human beings. God bless them.

[@awc6007]

1:09 Wut? In 1896 Germany was the German Empire not yet the Weimar Republic.

[@FloodExterminator]

Indeed. Weimar Republic only started in 1919.

[@DavidMuresan1993]

I thought I heard that right. C’mon dark you’re better than that!

[@senorpepper3405]

mein gott! Du bist richtig

[@juliaeastbourne6310]

Yeah that is pretty basic modern history. The Second Riech 1871-1918. It was rather more than a footnote to history. Kaiser `Bill was very much an Emperor.

[@malgremor85]

And also the SS was not a part of the German army.

[@CaptWindShear]

My Father (XV Sqdn, Flight Engineer.) was on the Death March, Stalag VIII-B to Frankfurt. Never really forgot it, or got over it completely. Rest In Peace, since 1994.

[@albertohidalgo7284]

R.I.P

[@teabagzukkini]

I'll have to double check, but I believe my Grandfather was also in Stalag VIII.

[@hazeldmello5800]

May God grant him Eternal Rest

[@doraldeddy1836]

Never ceases to amaze me that, a) those sentenced to lengthy terms in prison had them shortened, even for heinous war crimes, as in this case,; b) that so much convenient politics was enacted by old men ,who’d never put on a uniform, therefore enabling so many war criminals to not be held properly accountable for their crimes?

[@nickmitsialis]

Whatever you thin, be sure a LOT of the 'old men' had worn uniforms when they were young men in other wars before WW2. 'Winnie' fought the Dervishes in Sudan, and was taken prisoner by the Boers. Truman was a reservist "cannon cocker" on the Western Front in WW1 and as such, had very little regard for the 'Professional Army' and it's opinion.

[@BasementEngineer]

Because the charges were bogus. You have heard of "victors justice"?

[@bradleybriscoe2608]

Berger also had a major influence on keeping SS-Oberführer Oskar Dirlewanger out of trouble, getting him reinstated in the NSDAP and SS, and helping him retain his doctorate's degree.

[@zew1414]

Very nice comment! Much appreciated

[@samuelferrer7365]

@@zew1414 o mo. O9

[@leprosysucks]

Dirlewanger was an utterly despicable human and though some were disgusted by the atrocities committed by his division of rapists and murderers others were supportive.

[@MadMarky]

Didn't help him much in the end. Dirlewanger was beaten to death in a French POW camp in June 1945 by Polish guards who recognized him. At least he ultimately got what he deserved.

[@monroetruss4737]

One of the last surviving WWII vets is a member of the gym where I go. He was on this march and I have listened to his story attentively. He never shared his story until recent years. I think he is 96 years old. His story has been in the local paper and it is a good read.

[@iiBaconx]

Hello is there somewhere I can find his story?

[@troystaunton254]

It’s truly amazing hearing their stories. I was lucky I grew up on bribie island in Australia. Which we joke is a retirement village. But it was packed with veterans. Ww1, ww2, korea and vietnam. I’ve had the privilege of talking to guys who landed at ANZaC cove on the 25th of April 1915, later fought at the Somme and paeschendale. I’ve spoken to guys who fought at El Alamein and the Kokoda track, and were captured by the Japanese, I’ve met guys who fought at kapyong and another who was at long tan. Very lucky to have met them.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

That statue of the march is unsettling

[@gerdrseltsam671]

Not only the statue. I live in the north-east part of germany. Sometimes you stumble in a lonly places that dosnt look suspicious over signs that they where a point on a death march. Only 3 Kilometers from my home, there ist a lovely pond with a normal road going by. And hidden on the side of the road a sign, that here also a death march came along. Those marches must be really massiv and everywhere.

[@Wolfen443]

WOW, he survived the war and got away with a light sentence?. What a lucky monster, just like they say evil survives too often.

[@gerdrseltsam671]

Well like said in the video. "Very manipulativ". Gues he simply talked his way out of prison, gave some hints on other Nazi-Leader (where they hide and what they did) and so he avoided a long prison time or even death.

[@aaron6178]

Pretty common. Check out the Treblinka trials. Many got off with about 4-10 years sentences predominantly. Lot of post war politics interfered with war time criminal acts.

[@MrTaxiRob]

12 Germans were sentenced to death at Nuremburg, while close to 1000 Japanese were sentenced to death at various trials around the world. Strange how they weren't all tried in the same place by the same court, and experienced wildly different outcomes. Almost like white people experience a different system of justice...

[@Wolfen443]

@@MrTaxiRob , yeah it seems that anti Japanese Bias was strong even in the aftermath of the war. At least the Italians handled Mussolini nd his associates in proper people's justice fashion.

[@kirkshairpiece6741]

He will on day stand before his Maker in a fearful, permanent judgement. (Holy Bible, Revelation 20:11-15)

[@SuperKinganthony]

Darkdocs. I served with moh recipient Kyle Carpenter. Please tell his story. He is the most humble man I've ever met. He once told me anyone would jump on a grenade for his friends. This man is an amazing example of modern heroism.

[@Stubysz]

His story has been told a thousand times. Why would you want it done here in a "dark" themed video?

[@davidlafranchise4782]

I haven't heard about him.

[@NoPulseForRussians]

You can find his story on just about every KZbinrs channel today.

[@gregdavis8284]

I haven't heard of him either..." So why put a man down for bringing up someone who is so humble and honorable"?? ."he is just making a simple suggestion" Since when were you made " The Keeper of all the Suggestions???

[@stevo3883]

@@Stubysz maybe because you can count the number of people who have dove on a hand grenade and survived on one hand.

[@jamesbaker7112]

1:10 "Born in 1896 in the Weimar Republic." 1918 to 1933 was the Weimar period.

[@reelgangstazskip]

kek

[@grizzlyblackpowder1960]

Yeah, I think the narrator just meant he was born in the area and township or city known as Weimar, but was ignorant of the historical time frame and added the republic part.

[@stevefranklin9920]

I sincerely thank you for revealing the truth of exactly what happened to so many hundreds of thousands of people during this abhorrent era in human history. Gottlob’s 25 year sentence ending in his freedom after serving a shorter sentence and then being able to live a prosperous life just goes to show the justice system didn’t work for the families of his victims! I certainly hope that his, and the rest of his “apostles” families know and accept the truth of what they did and the part that those like him served that resulted in an untold number of lives so tragically taken ! Keep up the great work! Love your channel!

[@pickle4422]

I mean, I guess from a strategic standpoint, moving POWs away from the enemy so they don’t get freed then sent back into combat is an ok idea….but this was just a straight up war crime.

[@richardglen9761]

Its only a war crime to the victors

[@BasementEngineer]

@M K It's the allies that bombed civilians and everything that moved in Germany. Take it up with them.

[@brucechamberlin9666]

I knew a man who lived though WWII Berlin as a child. He told me rats were actually pretty good, but cats were nasty. Knew another man who was part of Chinese army who told me of resorting to cannibalism. One thing I learned from these men is when your starving, you will eat anything.

[@grizzlyblackpowder1960]

Lol eating rats is better than being tortured and subsequently shot by soviets.

[@Coldbreezed]

John C. Hamill, an old friend of mine, told the story of being captured in migrated through eastern europe in WWII and how he was forced to eat the corpse of a child. John was unhinged and plagued by mental illnesses by the time I made his acquaintance; experiencing that, I can see why.

[@augustopinochet1670]

The chinese didn't resort to cannibalism, they did it as a terror tactic. Filthy communists, but alas there are too few helicopters for all of them.

[@loona_mew]

@@augustopinochet1670 you're friend deng xiaoping wouldn't like that

[@graemedalgleish8944]

My father spent 15 months in stalag luft 3 and we spent years hunting and fishing together and this trek was one of the many things he wouldn't talk about.

[@stever8776]

True, my Stepfather went from D-Day plus 4 from Normandy to Berlin. He would not talk about it. When I asked him about it he gave me a pile of books to read. Starting with 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'

[@starguy2718]

Did he ever meet Col Hogan? 😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@graemedalgleish8944]

@@starguy2718 I don't know if Hogan was in the airforce. But back in the sixties when the show was just coming out, I asked him if prison camp was really like that, he just laughed and said ...no.

[@jeffinknoxville]

If he was born in 1896; he was not born in the Weimar Republic. That would have been Imperial Germany. Weimar Replublic came about after WWI

[@misterf2785]

I think that they made a error

[@michaelpellas9183]

Born in the Weimar Republic in 1896? The Weimar Republic wasn't established until 9 November 1918.

[@user-mp3eq6ir5b]

details, details...

[@grizzlyblackpowder1960]

Yeah I caught that too. Weimar is an area in Germany, perhaps it was a simple slip of the tongue.

[@brandonoakesfishing]

Plz do an episode on the Japanese comfort women. It’s so often forgotten about and a very important story that needs to be told.

[@sssleon3320]

I vaguely remember the event your referencing, I believe they called it the rape of nanjing? Where god knows how many Japanese imperialists matched into nanjing and near enough culled half the population of the city (murdered, target practice, tortured, raped, and many many horrendous crimes against the Chinese CIVILIAN people). It is an important story as I still don’t think Japan has admitted it’s guilt in it all, despite the international courts ruling that they needed to essentially acknowledge and compensate the families of the fallen victims… like they have full blown scrubbed it out their history books lol.. though for anyone curious as to what a “comfort women” is, they were basically women and children (girls) that was forced into prostitution for the Japanese army… lord may their souls rest in peace…. And absolute abhorrent act .

[@chazmania1743]

It’s been told over and over. Korea and China are going to be bringing it up for the next 2,000 years. I am not Japanese or anything but it’s no secret.

[@celticfox]

@@sssleon3320 The Japanese have not and never will admit to any of that. They will continue churning out anime to hide the fact they committed some of the most atrocious war crimes, and were utterly brutal to anyone they encountered. Nanking will always be remembered. There is also the case of a US bomber crew shot down over Japan, and they were dissected while ALIVE in horrific WW2 experiments. Japanese university acknowledges full details of atrocity 70 years later.... They even have a museum exhibit talking about the Japanese doctors who committed themselves to such torture. It's not completely well known but if you would like to check it out, Dr. Felton has an amazing video on his channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnO7c2CNbaZpgZY

[@crazyirish__2171]

Also Unit 731. They make the SS look like kindergarten teachers.

[@gavriloprincip9634]

@@crazyirish__2171 they made the SS look like babies but the red army made everyone look like literal fetuses no one compares to the red Army Im talking about the whole fighting force from General to the lowest conscripts

[@dgh25]

Thanks for slowing down your speech. This was perfect!

[@iamnolegend483]

You can adjust the playback speed -- enjoy

[@georgehays4900]

Good stuff. Thank you again for bringing it to us.

[@robertbusso6859]

Of course the columns of prisoners had to endure strafing and bombing by allied planes. The allies destroyed anything that moved. It also contributed to supplies not reaching concentration camps. Today we are experiencing a distribution problem on an extremely minute scale compared to what they experienced.

[@carlevans5760]

There were two Gottlob Bergers who were generals. The one above, and the one who was an Army General and known as Hitler's expert on defense. The army-Burger never committed war crimes. I'd love to see a future Dark Doc on him as his story is VERY interesting.

[@HariSeldon.]

My father, who was shot down over Nazi Germany in 1943, marched in 1945 from Stalag XVII-B until they were liberated by US Third Army in Brannau, Austria. At 6 feet tall, he weighed 96 lb. Many of the POWs who were in his group did not survive.

[@Azphreal]

My Grandfather was in Stalag 20A camp B Thorn in Poland.

[@danielmota1095]

OMG humans are so cruel beyond believe

[@DGill48]

and my Dad, Joe Gill, navigator 445 his plane lost Dec22 ....he began the march, mid Jan from Stalugluf III. April 29 in Barvaria American troops found his group

[@victoriatrist3455]

People were prepared to sacrifice so much back then. So many brave and gutsy men and women fought for the freedoms we have today. Can't even imagine some of the horrors they experienced. Thank God for their service.

[@achord9204]

My father and grandfather were in auwshwitz, birkenau, mauthausen, melk and ebensee. I’m lucky to be alive

[@theowlfromduolingo7982]

1:09 The Weimar Republic didn’t exist in the 1890s... Greetings from Germany

[@donnyboon2896]

That was the first thing I thought.

[@nicolaasoosthuizen8756]

Cool video but how do you get to 44 thousand camps? The were 1000ish camps including the smaller "sub" camps? Just a question.

[@pal6636]

Totally. A "camp" is a faciltiy with a specifically designated structure and purpose run by the SS. It wouldn't include family dwellings. And there were approximately one thousand. That's still incredible . (Yes, that includes the many subcamps that make up most of that number.) They might have set up 44,000 Dankeschön Donuts locations ?

[@Trish156]

Thanks for sharing

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Excellent, The more young people see these, to educate them on the past, is so important.

[@reelgangstazskip]

Sure, talk nonstop about what the Germans allegedly did, but NEVER about the countless atrocities and mass murders committed by the Soviet communists, and even atrocities committed by the British and Americans.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

@@reelgangstazskip yep, socialist killed 100 x what the Nazis did.

[@craigstarling4704]

@@reelgangstazskip Yea, "they" do like to leave out and twist shit around. Just like they do with the American Civil War and countless other War's. Bend the truth to fit "their" agenda.

[@stardust9504]

Also aducate people about Palestine

[@hectorviramontes7836]

Yes educate them about what happened to Tsar Nicholas II and his family... and the overthrow of the Russian Gov...

[@shadowjack8]

Prior to this video I had no knowledge of this part of the history of WWII. Thank you for increasing my understanding of the war.

[@johnbrockenbrough4520]

there are training films from the 1940 s from the US Army...you can learn from the content, look how government and hollwood thought about the time period

[@BMR3]

Thank you for sharing this, I had never heard of it before.

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed the video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@torbenpagaard]

He was a friend of Oskar Dirlewanger and protected him.

[@roguespearsf]

Wish we had a Dirlewanger to send to DC and we all know who really runs our government

[@mcnally211]

@@roguespearsf D.C. is owned by corporations. D.c. is just the puppets. They are on the list too. BOTH parties! Think bigger my friend. Remember, both parties have the same bosses. Bribery is legal...who does the bribery?

[@Fugazinome]

@@mcnally211 Yes,that’s the truth,unfortunately.

[@plewis1239]

Kudos to you for enlightening us. History explained warts and all. No filter .

[@frostygoatt]

You should make a video about the Dresden bombings.

[@ste2442]

Or the blitz on Liverpool, Coventry etc etc

[@Zakiriel]

I agree it would be interesting to discuss the difference between the bombings of Dresden and what would have happened if the Soviet Army had to stop and lay siege to Dresden. Which is why the Soviets asked their allies to bomb the city instead.

[@firingallcylinders2949]

"The Germans were under the foolish assumption that they could bomb everyone and no-one would bomb them back" -Sir Arthur Harris.

[@vidyasingh4162]

@Stephen Gallen Then who bombed Warsaw and Rotterdam civilian plazas?

[@deskgamesix]

The German people of the WWII era got exactly what they had coming to them. Too bad we didn't nuke them.

[@scaredofghosts6813]

This guy gets out early but the other guy who flew to England n tried to make a truce stays in prison by himself in that castle his whole life?

[@dylangallagher143]

Hess died by 'suicide' in spandau prison in Germany in 1987. Unapologetic nazi who viewed himself as a victim, I would have zero sympathy for that guy. He remained very anti semitic for his life.

[@FloodExterminator]

@@dylangallagher143 Not to mention that Hess literally stood by Hitler from the beginning of his thirst for power.

[@hojoj.1974]

The only reason Hess was in prison for the remainder of his life was that he could testify to a member of the English Royal Family being willing to make that truce.

[@scaredofghosts6813]

Uh okay who cares about hess why didnt they lock this guy forever like that..like whyd he get off scott free so early

[@petersouthernboy6327]

The German Government released him

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@janbadinski7126]

I love your vids. There is a small error though. The Weimar Republic was the product of WWI, it came to be in 1918 after the war. The monarchs of the era were no longer governing the country so the Weimar Republic was formed as a means to govern Germany. Unfortunately it was disastrous to the German economy. There were other problems but I won't go into it here. My point is that it was formed in 1918, not in the 1800s.

[@XenoTravis]

I would think wwii football would have more bloody and gruesome footage of combat but it all seems oddly PG13. Such a weird time for life...

[@trope5105]

it must have been so surreal to be living as a civilian in europe during the second war. can u imagine all them planes flying over head, all the time, amongst everything else. man, it doesnt seem real.

[@merkcityboy834]

Ohh it was real the sad thing is it's gonna happen again real soon

[@fpsautism8826]

Surreal......go back to the commune you hippy

[@joeh4295]

Surreal wouldn't be the term. Terrorizing would be a more accurate description. Forces coming in all around, you have no means to adequately defend yourself. You have no idea if the enemy will be better or worse to you than your own country's army.

[@trope5105]

@@joeh4295 Man i dont what the fuck you guys' deal is. im talkin about hearing some planes, goin outside n seeing a whole fleet of like 30 bombers flying by, day in n day out. im not talking about the war in general, im just talking bout how crazy it would be to see that way back then. havin a normal n peaceful day, just to see a shit load of planes flying by at low altitude, headin god knows where to do who knows what. i swear 90% of you guy's on the internet need to learn how and what reading comprehension is

[@soccergoalie865]

@@trope5105 My mom lived in Germany during WWII and she told me a couple of stories of what they had to go through. When we last went to visit family in the 90's my grandparents home was still there and everytime they heard the air raid sirens, the whole family went down to the basement where they a bomb shelter. The door was metal and about 6 inches thick and the gas masks were still hanging up. And don't worry about some of these commenters as they never heard of the saying "reading is fundamental" and comprehension is priceless! 😉😂

[@markpaul8178]

Thank you DARK DOCS for another superb video from WW2.There is no doubt that DD is my favorite channel.

[@fromulus]

I had actually heard about these marches, in the book by elie wiesel, entitled "Night". Read that in 7th grade I believe.

[@jmaaybraak]

Same

[@janvisser4132]

1:51 Was the SS part of the german army? I thought that they were separated from the army, and fell under the Nazi party, en though they fought alongside the army.

[@TexasNationalist1836]

You are correct the waffen SS was under the control of the Nazi party

[@husted5488]

Minor detail, don’t be so pedantic, meaningless to be so

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

Btw, there was no love between the SS and the Wehrmacht. I'm not sure why but according to many German soldiers, they didn't like each other.

[@exn207]

@@StalinTheMan0fSteel Interesting fact: In the early 1950 the politicians in (West)Germany had some problems with the question "How to deal with WaffenSS soldiers". A former WaffenSS General said that the Socialdemocratic Party should support the former WaffenSS members, because the WaffenSS was a real socialdemocratic organisation. Every SS member had the chance of reaching higher ranks because of his performance, while the Wehrmacht had it´s prussian tradition. This WaffenSS general had no higher education, he startet as a craftsman in his early years and finished as the commander of a Waffen-SS divison. I´m from a small town. A lot of older men always made jokes about those who were involved into the nazi organisitions and made a career. In the real life they were simple guys then they choose the brown nazi uniform.

[@blackbelttroll4008]

You try to make excuses ? fuck it , they were one army , period !

[@magnusdunning6113]

Thank you for this. Could you do a piece about the Italian withdrawal from the Eastern Front? Little known but hugely fascinating .

[@amandahugginkiss55]

Sounds interesting. I'd watch that.

[@andywells397]

Was there ever a italian advance ?

[@godwhymenowman]

''the Italian withdrawal from the Eastern Front' - Laughable that You used the word 'withdrawal' - They were utterly pounded, Starved & near completely wiped out apart form 45000 zombie looking who were lucky to be allowed Home just to be tried to be hidden from Their own Public, 'Withdrawal' would mean they had a choice, They had no choice, Just like the French They met Their match and Their arse collapsed and They had no choice but to slider back forth from where They crawled from.

[@jasonjason8783]

There is an audiobook that talks about this and the Italian role in different areas. It's a pretty good listen. Red Baron audiobook or something similar is the channel

[@pattawoo5149]

Thanks for the big red circle and arrow!

[@sharonwhiteley6510]

It still frustrating today at the number of war criminals that escaped true justice. It always irritated me that the smug Albert Speer escaped justice. He was just as much a criminal as any of the other defendants at Nuremberg.

[@Desertduleler_88]

There were more criminals on the Soviet and Allied side. Let’s not forget about the wholesale murder, starvation and rape of Germany after the war. The western world has gone backwards ever since.

[@terrancenorris9992]

No one can ever credibly compare the crimes of Germany to ANY of the "crimes" of the allies. Unless of course one happens to be a nazi apologist...

[@terrancenorris9992]

And, one would not know of the horrific crimes committed beyond comprehension against the civilian population of the Soviet Union. (Don't gag on gnats and swallow flies.).

[@Desertduleler_88]

@@terrancenorris9992 Such a twisted mindset, l suppose Stalin is an angel in your eyes. Let’s not forget the brutality against those nations in Eastern Europe at the end of 1945 that fell under the USSR. A regime the western allies supported. Insane.

[@stirlingramsay]

@@Desertduleler_88 you're not very well read, are you?

[@Al_Ares]

Hey Dark Docs, a historical topic I would like you to cover is the Partition of India in August 1947, the reasons behind it and what happened later on. Thanks!

[@DimBeam1]

yawn

[@amandahugginkiss55]

@@DimBeam1 lol. Why say something negative in leau of being silent? People enjoy what they enjoy. Your opinion means nothing to this guy. Next time just keep scrolling.

[@michaelangelos5117]

Damn, those docs were dark.

[@stevemartin6144]

In terms of "The Long March" you have reported many errors. Most pows began the long march in Jan. 1945 (not the month of March) and you speak of pows eating cats and dogs which is completely untrue.

[@Uknowjusticemill]

Yea because you know absolutely every detail about an event your parents were not even alive for, if this information is false can you provide non bias facts?

[@freejulianassange3143]

Why on earth would you imagine starving people wouldn't eat cats and dogs? They've eaten much less palatable things to stay alive.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@Uknowjusticemill Why not read "Night" by Eli Wiesel? He wrote that the prisoners were given the choice of marching out with the Germans, or staying for the Soviet "liberators". Find out for yourself what choice Eli and his daddy chose. Eli and his pappy marched with the Germans! Imagine that! There must be a moral here.

[@IC3DZOMBIE]

How I report the video?

[@robotslug]

Damn, you left out the Canadians, they were heroes in WW2.

[@iandermott6558]

Yes many cdn my father as well was in ww2 also had a uncle who was in a Japanese camp and from what little I heard from him they were brutal as well

[@iandermott6558]

Anything on Stalin now he was ruthless as well

[@PeterSodhi]

The Russians won WWII - everyone else was a bystander

[@viviangurung1404]

@@PeterSodhi Ah yes the Russians were at western front ,the African front and the pacific.

[@binaway]

@@keca.4324 Vivian Gurung is being sarcastic. Not just the Americans.

[@bobharper2609]

My father was in the Black Watch captured at St Valery near Dunkirk he survived the march but some of his comrades were killed on the march.

[@davidgrieve7854]

As indeed was my Dad with the Black Watch captured at St Valery -he did write about his experiences but like many POWs suffered from Survivor Guilt -but he lived to 97 and died in 2009

[@typograf62]

Unit 731 might be a topic. As an addendum to the death march, kz-prisoners from Poland were put into ships in the Baltic. The idea was to sink them and "dispose" of the evidence. Some prisoners tried to help others - and some got typhoid fever. And then the RAF entered the scene and in a horrible mistake bombed some of the ships. And then there is the Kriegsmarine in Slesvig (?) continueing the evacuation of Germans from former German areas after the capitulation. When some of the sailors complained and refused, they were sentenced and executed.

[@andyhughes5766]

Is this hands down the BEST history channel on KZbin?!?! This guy is absolutely terrific!!

[@valerytaubin8728]

You show Germans retreating from Moscow in1941 not death March. Factual mistake

[@simonkevnorris]

Quite often the wrong image are used in these videos. But the narrative is the story not the images.

[@danielb3573]

It gets the point across. I want you to imagine being an editor for a simple KZbin channel and having to spend hours of your life looking for factual clips and not being paid for it.

[@fromulus]

There probably isn't a whole lot of footage available, they have to make due.

[@HarosOfStyx]

it wasn't a mistake, it was a blatant lie, as usual.

[@laresial]

He ido lying Andrés lying .. as alwayw jews antiCrist

[@RONN1ERonRON]

The guy barely served a sentence and it was such a short sentence to begin with for being found guilty of genocide.

[@SK22000]

My German is not perfect but I think Gottlob translates to “thank God”. What a misnomer

[@RealCurrencies]

It means 'praise God'.

[@r000ty]

I think praise god fits better. "Lobet Gott/Den Herrn" = Praise the lord. Greetings from Germany.

[@magnetmannenbannanen]

only guy i ever heard of was Gotterdamerung

[@fangslaughter1198]

Gottleib

[@Fantozzi]

He was not called as „Generalleutnant „ . In the SS he was a „SS-Gruppenführer“. The Wehrmacht used „ General „ but not the SS.

[@TheOrderlyHobbit]

I think it would be pertinent to include in the description charities for supporting POW's, survivors of torture, charities supporting human rights, eg. Amnesty International. Just a thought, considering the topic

[@TheOrderlyHobbit]

While I cannot think of examples off the top of my head, I still think this would be a good idea. Please consider it

[@bbrfast]

You should make an episode on the CH-47 Chinook crash at Mannheim Germany. 41 people died including crew and a load of civilian parachutists. Happened lat summer 1982.

[@reneecarter6702]

Excellent narration Sir. It’s rare to hear someone with appropriate vocal intonation and pauses on here (usually people are robotic and it drives me nuts.

[@melgross]

I think he’s terrible. He could slow down a bit. It’s choppy because of the speed. Very annoying.

[@laurikotivuori1585]

@Lance Weyrich Nope

[@laurikotivuori1585]

@@melgross Hell nah

[@nickmitsialis]

A long time ago, a writer referred to The 'Blizzard Marches'. He said POWs were shuttled around to avoid their being 'liberated'==he wasn't sure why? To use as bargaining chips perhaps? Anyway, He said they don't know how many were forced to participate, they don't know how many died or were murdered along the way (some of the marches were led thru cities that had been heavily bombed by the Allies and the guards 'watching' the POWs were sometimes eager to point out to the populace that 'here were the 'terrorfliegers' responsible for their collective mysery'..."....I, for one, never heard of this event, I sort of assumed Germany treated 'Western' allied POWs relatively well.

[@jasonjason8783]

" after his release he became the owner of a curtain rod factory and the head of a large family." I often wonder.. All the missing art, gold, and other valuables.. I mean upper echelon members of the govt and army knew what was coming I mean the writing was on the fall ya know. Book idea, the story of what members stashed what, and where and how etc. That's one of those things with 0 paper trail I would say though, be real hard to substantiate evidence. Just my random thoughts for the day. Thanks. Great vid

[@christopherconard2831]

A fair amount "disappeared" into foreign, mostly Swiss, banks. Bits have been found buried or in various lakes. I'd guess those that ran the rat lines (methods of escape for war criminals) charged as much as they could. While no individual soldier could grab much, the cumulative effect of millions of potentially sticky fingers with access to "lost" treasures would cause a lot of stuff to evaporate. The various victors are likely responsible for the greatest losses. Even the most accurate tracking is still a estimate. It's easy to imagine France or the UK deciding to quietly grab a little extra off the books as a "fine" against Germany on top of whatever they would officially receive after the war. The Soviet Union was notorious for not finding anything of value in large areas they overran at the end of the war. Part of this might be true because most of the time Germany was fighting an organized retreat and could have sent stuff back to Germany (Or Switzerland) to keep it out of the hands of the Soviets. But it was also clear that they intended to keep everything they found on the way to Germany, so had little incentive to be open about what they had.

[@kevinverduci7600]

@@christopherconard2831 I worked for credit suisse for a few years building a server warehouse and a gold purification center. I became friends with a scientist and asked how hard is purification of gold he said our gold has a extremely high Mercury content . He said dentists used Mercury in dental work . I believe a huge part of gold was teeth...

[@obamabin-laden2420]

What? The Weimar Republic was formed in 1918 when the guy was 22... How did you fuck up this hard in your research? This is super basic 20th century history

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

He's lucky the Russians didn't get him first! They, on principal shot "fascist dogs" (SS) after capturing them.

[@ИванИванов-ц9э7ы]

На опыты взяли

[@henkvermeer8652]

pot and kettle.

[@TPQ1980]

The NAZIs were authoritarian socialists, the Bolsheviks were authoritarian socialists. They were both murderous, usurpatious ideologies rooted in the same thinking of the same Afroasiatic people-group. Both were fascistic.

[@ИванИванов-ц9э7ы]

@@TPQ1980 verneigen Sie sich vor den undankbaren Mitgliedern des russischen Soldaten

[@motorrebell]

The HOLODOMOR - Ukrainian Holocaust ,( Committed by Communism ) Russians killing their own Citizens was far worse .

[@lovetherockies6080]

An excellent video

[@mezzanoon]

Please cover the '99 Russian apartment bombings, and all the signs that pointed to the FSB (KGB) as perpetrators.

[@ИванИванов-ц9э7ы]

Опишите как афганцы на самолёт запрыгивали как на верблюда летающего

[@johnscanlon2598]

And Israel bombing the king David hotel

[@ИванИванов-ц9э7ы]

how the americans are bombing with hanoi

[@user-bo8nb2mi]

@@johnscanlon2598 warnings in advance went unheeded and before there was as an Israel

[@motorrebell]

@@ИванИванов-ц9э7ы And how the Soviets Invaded & Ruined Afghanistan 😃!

[@jlondon1441]

My Grandfather London made the March from Italy to Stallag 2b. Didn’t really get talked about till the Alzheimer’s really took hold and he would try to identify planes flying overhead. Told my mom Hitler was coming to camp for inspection.

[@cjryan88]

when are you going to talk about the 100 million people murder by communism

[@nachteinfallt8915]

you are on a propaganda channel.

[@johnangier506]

When even Himmler doesn't like you you must be a bad dude. I had a neighbor when I lived in Northern Texas who was a US Infantry prisoner and was involved in those marches. I never learned much detail as he didn't like to talk about it.

[@fromulus]

Himmler was a petty, egotistical coward with delusions of grandeur. Based on all accounts I've ever seen or heard, Himmler didn't like many people, just the ones that selflessly made him look good.

[@bbarber6845]

Hard to say I ‘like’ the video here but I liked it because it’s important to not forget. Thank you for this

[@volvo09]

Yeah, this is history not to forget.

[@Milo_1368]

Weimar Republic was not until 1918 Timelord confirmed

[@coops1964]

00:27 “British French and Americans from the west” So what about the Canadians Australians New Zealander’s etc etc etc? Poor.

[@krakatoainc2809]

Didn't they serve under British command?

[@binaway]

As they all served as Empire forces using the term British in this instance refers to all these military forces. Even the free armies of the occupied nations operating under Empire commanders.

[@johnwright291]

You guys should do a video on john jay mccloy. He was the one most responsible for the release of monsters such as Gottlieb. I dont think mccloy has any surviving relatives because I have left many comments critical of him with no response.

[@helios7034]

John, what do you expect? It is easier to point fingers on others. I say this, knowing that millions of children, women and men died by the massacres of Nazis. Ofcourse there are a lot of massacres around the world, by English, American, Japanese and what have you. As a German citizen I condemn what Germany did. I don't know that Mccloy did, but whatever he is responsible of his relatives are not guilty.

[@johnwright291]

@@helios7034 I wasn't suggesting that mccloys relatives were guilty of anything. I just said that there are none living so they shouldn't be afraid to make a video about him. He turned lose the einsatzgruppen convicts.

[@helios7034]

@@johnwright291 I misunderstood. I'm studying the process of torture, murder caused by us Germans, so I hate to see excuses, that other nations are guilty of in that relation. It is, at least for me, not easy to live with the nazi cruels.

[@johnwright291]

@@helios7034 no one in Germany should feel guilty about what the nazis did. That was ages ago.

[@johnwright291]

@@paulus-kz5vq the only reason I mentioned mccloys relatives is to say that they could do a video on him without having to worry repercussions from them.

[@dylanjohnson9869]

had video come up i recommend while back i should do a video about the people in private sector in america that helped win ww2 and built things for our military since cold war

[@murphy13295]

I was aware of the failure rate of USN torpedo's in the Pacific .The failures were attributed to the testing of the torpedo's in the Atlantic Ocean which has different salinity and density compared to Pacific Ocean . ( wait for it ) Sub Crews in the Pacific tweaked the screws ( factory settings ) that made adjustments to override and improve accuracy and detonation rate . I was already aware of this when my Uncle told me how after some time the Navy brass learned of this and cracked down on this practice The brass ordered that factory settings must be maintained and ordered that special color coded paints be dabbed on screw heads so any " tweaking " would be revealed , Uncle and crews soon enough found contacts in the chain that would provide the paints so crews could continue to fight and score good hits on the enemy . It was great listening to the story first hand . Now the kicker , It was the late 1980's and I take a toolmaker position in a small shop in Union NJ rt. 22 NEI Doall . After the head engineer figures out I know my craft we would compare notes of " who ,what ,when ". One day he tells me all the particulars of the torpedo issues ,tweaking , paint , and the end run around the issue . Turns out he was an engineer on the project .........And was one of those who provided special paints to the sub crews . Small world .

[@BarryE48]

Would you consider covering the atrocities committed against the South Africans by the British during the Boer war, including the concentration camps where women and children were treated very badly?

[@markusk1015]

Lizzie van zyl

[@chrismasi8967]

Can you do a video on the civilian perspective during the siege of Malta?

[@lbatlas2]

You should do a dark doc for 2021......

[@damienreyna5879]

Scary stuff.

[@mabehir4938]

My grandfather from the german polish border , was also captured while the Blitzkrieg He was Lucky to be a Good cook and the soldiers knew. My dad once Told me a Story about grandpa, who cooked up a meal for german soldiers in poland. The soldiers really liked the meal he cooked. Good the soldiers didnt Know it was Cats and Rats meat… the soldiers Never found out… he survived, told his stories and lived on to his 72. Birthday

[@senorpepper3405]

i heard of younger people not wanting to learn about ww2 because of all of the suffering. this stuff must never be forgotten.

[@danielb3573]

Here is the thing, MOST of we learn in History class (History Classes in the US) is WW2 we glance over 10,000+ years of History to get to the quote unquote good part. Fun fact humans have been suffering at the hands of Tyrants for far longer than just 200years.

[@r.m.5548]

they don't want to learn because they're lazy

[@fromulus]

Sounds more like the adults made that choice, kids wouldn't really know what to expect.

[@steventhompson399]

Damn, when I was a teenager the suffering and atrocities made me want to learn about it. That, and I got intensely interested in military history around age 14 or 15 and wanted to learn about the battles and weapons. But the horrible stuff is also fascinating to me, not pleasant or fun obviously but interesting, like how did people do that to each other and what does it say about human nature and ideology

[@r.m.5548]

@@steventhompson399 stuff just as bad still goes on today. Except it's so subtle they get away with it or just don't report on it because they own the media too. There's a little Hitler and Goebbels in everyone. Good luck out there.

[@Falconetti696]

Dont never ever claim that the soviets liberated anyone ever in history

[@stirlingramsay]

You wrote a double negative. Your first word Don't cancels out the negative. Unless you wanted to say Never say the soviets didn't liberate anyone?

[@jtb3797]

It's crazy what people will do when you combine hateful ideology and methamphetamine

[@alexnutcasio936]

crystal meth and a BIG ego = trouble......

[@geometer6121]

1:11 The Weimar Republic was constituted in 1918, after WWI ended. In 1896 the official government was the German Empire, also know as the Second Reich, or Kaiserreich. Excellent video nonetheless.

[@markrossow6303]

not prisoners, but refugees: I have met 3 Ethnic Germans from The Ukraine who, as children, walked to Austria or American Zone in occupied Germany

[@douglashall2141]

For this man to still have been released and to have a normal life was totally disgusting. After the atrocities and cruelty he implemented on so many lives of others. Unprovoked.

[@Haywood_JaBlo_Me]

Do a video on WW II POW camps for Germans and Italians in the continental U.S.

[@robertlock5501]

But that would go against the official narrative that we are still having crammed down our throats by the likes of "Dark Docs"

[@vivians9392]

I consider any POWs being held in the USA in WWII to be very lucky!

[@davidhorowitz33]

No need. Ask them. Good food. Clean accommodations. No torture. No murder. Many working in the towns near their incarceration. Don’t get out much do you?

[@davidhorowitz33]

@@robertlock5501 You’re kidding right? Anyway SS jokes are not funny.

[@robertlock5501]

@@davidhorowitz33 Funny i never mentioned the SS.

[@xevierred6330]

Maybe you could do a documentary on the native American death march.

[@salahesmael7688]

Allies said... 75 years ago...Is there is a 5% chance that they were lying about everything... Because that's what opponents do

[@hadaya60]

Didn't go any further than 1:10 : The Weimar republic did not exist until the demise of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918, so Berger could not have been born in 1896 in the Weimar Republic. He was actually born in Gerstetten, about 400 km from the city of Weimar. If you can't get your facts straight for a simple thing as the birth place of the person's life you're covering, what else you might say is just discredited.

[@chazmania1743]

Wow, when the SS says you are unscrupulous my god.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

Not even close to the thugs in uniform known as the Gestapo my dad told me he was in WW2

[@starguy2718]

SS General Hans Kammler: Am I a joke to you?