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

[@derin111]

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

[@HistoryInsideWW2]

Maybe a part 2?

[@kindgottes77-andreas38]

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

[@CW-nt1sd]

Said top fm, not naval equivalent fool

[@JayTide]

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

[@michaelphillips1267]

Con Brauchitsch is one first name mentioned.

[@glennday7802]

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

[@augustseptember3503]

Thanks for the laugh, I'm still laughing! Well done!

[@edlane9882]

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

[@JB-yb4wn]

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

[@BELCAN57]

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

[@genefinney9319]

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

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@genefinney9319 We KZbinr historians are a ruthless bunch. 😆

[@peterwhitaker4038]

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

[@alanmoore2197]

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

[@charliemunk2947]

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

[@LezDentz]

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

[@wackadakka3134]

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

[@zivaradlovacki2666]

They joined CIA and lived happily ever after.

[@sammy-wi8pi]

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

[@kcw0809]

Ha Ha.

[@archer8849]

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

[@VickersDoorter]

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

[@samis1219]

it is pronoounced "Braukhich"

[@michaelharrison8036]

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

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

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

[@michaelharrison8036]

@@RobertJonesWightpaint Thank you! 👍👍

[@unfixablegop]

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

[@whiteheatherclub]

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

[@78tag]

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

[@workingshlub8861]

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

[@RIbigDave]

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

[@augustseptember3503]

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

[@RIbigDave]

@augustseptember3503 that is fact

[@manfredkoepke3630]

...von Mannstein...sigh

[@RIbigDave]

@@manfredkoepke3630 are you easily bored?

[@higamato3811]

@@manfredkoepke3630 Jesus Christus, von Manstein! Precisely Fritz Erich von Lewinski genannt von Manstein. He was the 10th child of General Erich von Lewinski and was given right after birth to his aunt Hedwig who was married to Major Georg von Manstein, who had no children of their own.

[@TikTok-nj2kh]

What about Guderian? What about Rommel? Ridiculous omissions.

[@lyalldawson7080]

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

[@samis1219]

Guderian was colonel General and never a Feldmarschall

[@MichiganWildcat]

Show me one example of a war crime committed by Rommel! Being a German soldier doesn't default you to war crimes. Many fought because of loyalty to Germany not Hitler.

[@helenaconstantine]

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

[@augustseptember3503]

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

[@colonelfustercluck486]

George was there during and after ww2. To remove his image would be faking it

[@NeverGoBack2]

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

[@morlock2086]

And you throw in a clip of PATTON?

[@TheMotz55]

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

[@morlock2086]

@@TheMotz55 Yup.

[@lainefrajberg955]

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

[@jlo6126]

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

[@jovanweismiller7114]

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

[@JayTide]

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

[@andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928]

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

[@sthrich635]

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

[@johnchesh3486]

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

[@barrygrigg9068]

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

[@jandixon6457]

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

[@hughiglarsh6974]

... and monsters.

[@1960caroline]

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

[@tolik5929]

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

[@dreamdancer8212]

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

[@tolik5929]

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

[@jacquesgeorges1041]

😡

[@loritabarber-iw3fy]

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

[@johnearle7776]

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

[@user-xh3wr1do7k]

Gille wasn’t a field marshal.

[@johnearle7776]

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

[@ralebeau]

So mostly they got away with murder.

[@tonyfalcon8041]

Yeah you cry😂

[@caveman1356]

There's Judge Himmler 7:15

[@bentaronsen7302]

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

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

The Nuremberg trials were a kangaroo court and what's main purpose was meant to give closure to the war for the masses, not actually dish out justice. Sacrifice those not needed, and quietly let off those who would be useful. Selectively choosing which crimes to look at or ignore, or exaggerating or downplaying where convenient. Some of the tried deserved their fate, some didn't, some let go deserved worse, and some were rightfully let go, in the end it was political pragmatism that decided outcomes, not justice.

[@michaelmorris4]

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

[@colonelfustercluck486]

I found it still quite interesting and scenic

[@guyvankerckhoven2632]

Indeed!

[@Akubra123]

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

[@Yannickille]

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

[@wernervanderwalt8541]

The victors writes history.

[@Akubra123]

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

[@user-xh3wr1do7k]

What allied war crimes?

[@Yannickille]

@@user-xh3wr1do7k do a search

[@sobelou]

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

[@sunce0072]

You mean executing 100 civilians for every soldier killed. OK, whatever.

[@sobelou]

@@sunce0072 No, I'm talking about partisans. In any conflict many innocent civilians end up paying for the actions of irregular combatants, call them guerrillas, partisans, insurgents, whatever.

[@mindless-pedant]

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

[@guyvankerckhoven2632]

Images do not match the subject: why in Gods name is the maker using footage of operation Market Garden in this film?

[@tylerredforge5563]

i swear this guy makes the same videos every time

[@krpanovic]

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

[@tyrone4ya837]

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

[@Christopherjames-h2r]

sadly , winners justice always beats the law

[@johnmcpherson5068]

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

[@charliemunk2947]

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

[@DanW-nk7sn]

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

[@stephenhobbs1052]

One of them started Aldi.

[@jandixon6457]

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

[@colonelfustercluck486]

And that was way before the end of the war. He could have been tried posthumously I guess.

[@ilkkatahvanainen5521]

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

[@laverdisti500]

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

[@louk5555]

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

[@colonelfustercluck486]

Erwin Rommel famously died before the end of the war, thus could not be arrested for anything, if he committed any war crimes. To charge a German Field Marshall (or anyone), a) they had to be in custody and alive; and the Court has to have reasonable evidence that a crime was committed, and the defendant was a party to that crime at least. In Rommel's case, before we begin arguing what he did or did not do.... the main problem, was that he was already dead. I don't know much about Keitel.... so I can't comment on him.

[@clarencegreen3071]

Keitel was executed on October 16, 1946 after being found guilty of war crimes by the famous trial at Nuremberg.

[@wackadakka3134]

9:24 is Guderian and Halder

[@dazzazulu777]

Big military industrial complex advisors to the government ?

[@colonelfustercluck486]

yes

[@igorrromanov]

На фото слева Шöрнер, справа не знаю, кто.

[@BobFowler-gh9lx]

hi, welcome !

[@MartinIbert]

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

[@MartinIbert]

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

[@jasalexander-hain2601]

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

[@stevenleslie8557]

Paulus?

[@MajorWolfgangHochstetter]

It's pronounced, Kiev (Kee ev)!

[@TheBeingReal]

Argentina.

[@GravesRWFiA]

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

[@colonelfustercluck486]

George was in Germany during and immediately after the second ww..... so what is wrong with that photo?

[@kcw0809]

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

[@richardscanlan3419]

Manstein,Heinrici,Model?

[@manfredkoepke3630]

Koch?

[@richardscanlan3419]

@@manfredkoepke3630 Balck

[@janvanveelen]

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

[@johnchesh3486]

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

[@Alan-zf2tt]

Setting a new narrative?

[@jacquesgeorges1041]

Vae victis. All the rest is politics. 😢

[@JamMAKEcan007]

They became american politicians😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kellypayson4997]

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

[@johnmcpherson5068]

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

[@harveycooper7600]

Walter Von Brown Shit.

[@affan3095]

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

[@Fathervinyard]

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

[@infobeam1902]

I smell a reparations grifter. No thx.

[@torehaaland6921]

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

[@sthrich635]

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

[@teddysuhrensghost263]

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

[@abdelrahmanalangari1754]

They went to america !

[@michaelmallal9101]

How did the husbands of Prince Philip go?

[@whiteheatherclub]

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

[@RobertJonesWightpaint]

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

[@geofflewis8599]

If any are still around Trump wants him..