The Nazi Gold Train

Find out the true story of the train that carried billions in gold and precious treasures, and its extraordinary fate at the end of the war.
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[@Paul-hy6rp]

Discovery channel would drag this story out for a least an hour. Great video as usual.

[@douglehnert8503]

With 25 minutes of nerve racking commercials always preceding the best parts of the production

[@ludwigiapilosa508]

keith moore hardly matters now though. It's all a bunch of dumbed down crap.

[@madwax4771]

Dr. Felton is KZbin's own Gold Train

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Mad Wax provided he marks his vidos correctly....

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

But he isnt gonna be stolen by thw Gerries

[@rocknral]

KZbin is Dr Felton's own Gold Train. And good for him. History comes to life through his hard work.

[@Darrell1019]

Hear, hear!

[@aspopulvera9130]

more than gold i say

[@sanpedrosilver]

Anytime there’s treasures around, pockets get heavy.. Good guys, Bad guys, doesn’t matter. Greed doesn’t discriminate

[@ciuyr2510]

I love how Mark says "the loot" . proper pirate

[@maxstr]

Ciuy R How else would you call it?

[@ZolaMagic25]

@@maxstr booty

[@Harold_Flite]

Whats a pirates favorite letter? ...and its not R. Tis the Sea....

[@JoeBlow-fp5ng]

I' like to see a video discussing Hungarian military involvement in WW2, as well as separate videos about Bulgaria and Romania.

[@user_____M]

It will be bs, just like this one. I can give you a summary from a basic perspective: generally they were meant to do anti-partisan duty but pressed into frontline due to the war situation. Hungary and Bulgaria were prevented from building up their armies after WW1, the Hungarians did so in secret but then openly due to the Bleda agreement however all the armies weren't really capable of offensive operations apart from small elements. Romania sent the most troops about 600,000 men (the elite were the mountain hunter divisions and the one armoured division (most tanks lost at the siege of Odessa), Hungary sent fewer and poor quality hoping to wage war on Romania and Slovakia and get more land no doubt, Bulgaria didn't send anything not even when Yugoslavia and Greece were invaded but they still got land from them and then when the Soviets arrived the Bulgarians unleashed their armies for the Soviet cause (the stories I heard about them in Hungary aren't nice). All these countries lacked heavy industry to properly conduct a war with a major power: Romania made good planes but if the (newer) engines didn't come from Germany and the heavy machineguns from Belgium then there was nothing it could do; Hungary and Bulgaria weren't good either but it's not like they had a choice due to losing WW1, Romania only had the mountain divisions that were good (better equipped, specially selected and properly trained men, for example they made the decisive breakthrough at Sevastopol).

[@jacksonw453]

Joe Blow same bruh

[@EdMcF1]

Try TIK, or MHV. Mark's niche is different.

[@samstewart4807]

How the train traveled as far as it did for as long as it did is likely a story of it's own.

[@jimc.goodfellas226]

Anybody seen the movie "The Train" with Burt Lancaster? I think the train in that film has stolen artwork, not gold, good movie though

[@ar6985]

Excellent movie. Probably Lancaster's best.

[@matthewdiehl1647]

Oh such a cool old movie!

[@robertphillips6296]

Yes that train never left Paris do to paperwork. It is still a great movie though.

[@pomme4moi]

Yes, superb film.

[@carlguenzel1447]

With this much loot staring you in the face, everyone turns into a crook.

[@abramsatwo2515]

This is a trivial amount compared to what it cost the US to free Europe.

[@jonathanandrew2909]

i'd argue that one of the main reasons men went/go to war IS for the possibility of looting, raping, destroying, and even killing. it's the ugly side of man. it's been the case throughout history. today is the exception. we're in a relatively calm period, or the looting occurs in more covert ways. but when you're face to face with death on a daily basis as were the soldiers in WW2 it triggers a primal instinct to kill the enemy, rescue victims, secure treasure, and live like kings if only for a moment, in their own minds. also remember it was a war of attrition and each side wished to out last the other in terms of resources and they were incredibly scarce back then during that time. it was a sad time and stuffing your pockets full of gold bars would make most men happy around the time of the ally's victory.

[@tomnewham1269]

abrams atwo so what are you saying that the stealing was justified?

[@Dougie-ex1ov]

@@abramsatwo2515 true

[@JamieBainbridge]

As someone who used to fix ATMs and regularly saw $250k to 2M in cash, you really don't. The valuable items aren't yours. They're just a item you're looking after and usually just a pain in the ass because of how important it is to other people.

[@s.marcus3669]

CIC Officer "Morton Himmler"; boy that must be one of WWII's greatest ironies!!

[@hussey4826]

I replayed that thrice just to be sure that I heard it right lmao

[@extremistcontent1337]

I wonder if there was any relation. Himmler making sure his cousin keeps an eye on the loot.

[@neutralobserver3423]

During the American Civil War, there was Union Army officer named Jefferson Davis.

[@at1970]

Gotta love any story that has stolen nazi gold in it AND a king tiger

[@AA-xk7gy]

@kelly’s heroes

[@Marcus51090]

Switzerland 🇨🇭 “we don’t have any gold nope we deffo do not have any nazi gold to give back to Germany”

[@mickd6942]

Marcus W it's does not belong to germany, it should go back to the country they stole it from.

[@DimBeam1]

to give back to Germany? You mad or just a silly little school boy

[@matiasgazzarri4959]

Germany? I think you mean Hungary

[@bobross8786]

Of course you don't

[@Tch5802]

Marcus W this wasn’t Nazi gold to begin with.

[@SaulBadd]

Just wanted to let you know this is one of my fav. YT channels and def. the fav. military themed one. I love the intro theme, always gets me into the mood, esp. knowing there's some great content following. (and that it's not a minute long, padding the video length)

[@unfairfight3625]

Me too I like the intro,,, as I know it's gonna be a great vid with new interesting info and footage

[@silverload3622]

SaulBadd this channel and the history guy channel

[@geoffhalsey2184]

I can only imagine what ordinary GIs would have thought finding sacks of U.S dollars and gold on the train. New car or a fixed roof when he got home perhaps? This story would make a brilliant movie.

[@fuhckme8845]

This shit is insane. I love these types of WW2 mysteries. This, the Amber Room, it’s all so incredible! Keep them coming. Love the work!!!

[@langer4602]

Amber room?

[@fuhckme8845]

Tom Lang yeah the amber room. Russians had a room full of jewelry, gold, and everything like that. Nobody really knows what happened to it, except that the Germans were probably the ones to take it

[@flycatchful]

Who ever wins gets' the spoils. You all remember "Kellys Heros'".

[@davidlafranchise4782]

The German tank crew got an even share.

[@Brok.]

Do you remember it? The Germans made off with half of the gold.

[@mediamattersismycockholste562]

Awesome movie.

[@AA-xk7gy]

Great movie

[@Simonsvids]

@Tuatha DeDanaan War criminals or not, they were definitely mass murderers of millions of innocent Jews and others, so yes the allies were liberators. Just go to Israel and deny that and see what happens. Are you saying they were not criminals? By the way, only those countries armies were defeated. The resistance fight carried on, as well as well as some of their military units carrying on the fighting from Britain.

[@roberthopwood3758]

"another Hungarian city." I suspect there was an attempt at pronunciation :) Good video, as usual.

[@maximiliankolbe_NIN]

I could research events & stories of WWII over my entire life and STILL won’t know every fascinating event. Amazing.

[@diiiaggl4513]

There should be a gold Tiger Tank.

[@Brok.]

They had one of those in Danger 5

[@dario0523]

That would be a heavie ass tank, wouldn't even be able to move.

[@frankryan2505]

I had a Hungarian zio (through marriage) who walked across the country in the 50's to escape the Soviets.(at one point his brother said we go left,he said straight ahead, they parted ways forever at that point) He told me a story about one Jewish family from his village who returned after the war and paid a local laboror to dig up their old outhouse. They had seen what was coming and stashed the family loot in the septic pit before fleeing,warms my heart that the fascist fucks didn't get theirs hands on it..

[@rixplace1374]

In the late 1950s early 1960s American writer Brian Garfield wrote a novel called'"Kolchaks Gold" about a Ranking Russian Army marshal who was given command of a train of Russian gold and to get it as far east from Moscow away fro the german armies. An interesting theme and subject.At the end of his novel the Marchall has gone as far east as he can. and has the gold emptied from the train cars and dumped in to a deep cave to never be discovered. An interesting tale long before this mostly fictional tale

[@garymckee8857]

Spoils of war,it doesn't matter what uniform you wear as long as you're on the winning side.

[@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge]

Even if you lose, you just gotta be good at hiding them. Some guys my grandfather knew were ustashe collaborators and then stole tens of thousands of marks worth of cash, jewelry and other items from jews, serbians and other people who the fascists were targeting and hid it once they knew the war was gonna end. They faced justice by the partisans, but allegedly the loot they hid was never found. Used to be an urban legend around here, probably all made-up, but who knows?

[@calhungus]

fantastic as usual.

[@makara80]

Morton Himmler?! Blimey, that's a truly unfortunate name to be saddled with! 'Morton'. Poor sod. ;)

[@bradlemmond]

i noe rite?

[@rocknral]

Yeah, he would have been crazy not to have changed it to Hubert. Mmm... Much better....

[@SlovakiaGuy]

"CIC officer Morten Himler took charge of the train..." Such an irony.

[@dougtheviking6503]

Good story Mark . Sad for those involved. Amazing amount of wealth just gone

[@CarLos-yi7ne]

Let me guess: Everybody tought about the vanished goldtrain in Poland when they started watching this (excelent btw) video.. 😁

[@1977Yakko]

Not gonna lie. if I were there, I'd have weighed down my pockets a bit.

[@ludo9234]

Who wouldn't .

[@vk2ig]

PFC Jones visiting sick bay: *Doc:* Jones, no wonder you're sick! You've put on 40 pounds since you were here last! *Jones:* It's all the good food they're feeding me, doc ...

[@PelicanIslandLabs]

The Golden Rule: Those with the gold rule!

[@TheMosinCrate]

"German occupied Austria". I get people want to make it out that Germany was the only bad guy during WW2 and everyone else was just an unwilling partner to this evil. But in reality, Austria was lockstep with Germany during WW2.. Anschluss anyone? Hungary only had second thoughts once they started to lose.

[@Luftek46]

I expect to hear that story about "gold train" in Walbrzych but this story is more interesting...

[@JRyan-lu5im]

Top brass collecting priceless furniture? You have to know that they understood the rules they had broken as enlisted couldn’t just walk away with Victorian chairs and paintings. As always, intrigue and interest is the undermining of every military.

[@Hagmire]

Yes I've been waiting for Mark to do a video on this, thank you sir.

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

I'm surprised Hermann Goring didn't at least try to procure the artwork for his private collection, even at this late stage in the war!

[@samuelstevens1129]

One of the best KZbin channels

[@mrisaac8475]

I always learn something new on this channel, Thanks Mark

[@atreidianexecutor5660]

Great video! I watch your videos all the time and they are the best.

[@WildBillCox13]

Wow! What a story! Thanks for doing an in-depth coverage of it, Mark! Liked and shared. Was already subscribed.

[@wotan58]

Was the American commander really named "Himmler"? :-)

[@stuartharper3968]

The amount of information packed into this short video is masterfully done by this world class professional historian, researcher, author and educator.

[@Lerxstification]

Think of all of the Euro trash running around the continent, whose families have been partying for 74 years without every working a day in their lives. Buying BMW's, doing coke all night, attracting the ladies, buying multiple homes, flying private...all thanks to that one train that the Russkie's missed by 10 miles and a messed up US Army oversight. I'm sure that there are plenty of folks over in the US whose source of family wealth is questionable, too.

[@janmayen3483]

Americans see train full of gold *Yoink*

[@FDNY101202]

That was before oil was the hot ticket item.

[@dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189]

The sad facts are once the 'loot' was stolen in the first place...it would be near impossible to get it back to the original owners. Everyone who touched it would 'lose' some. In wartime, valuables could've changed posession multiple times rapidly, for bargaining passage, hiding, or resources. Then, who's the owner? The train itself could have swapped out cars, changed numbers or markings, or off-loaded stashes along the way. Isn't there a undiscovered gold train buried in Poland too ? And Nazi stolen gold in a lake in Norway never found? Let's hear more, Mark!

[@WorldWarMilitaryHistory]

Another awesome video Mark, keep up the great work mate!

[@whisthpo]

Yet another Fantastic bit of research from you Mr Felton! Very well done Sir!

[@johnryder1713]

In other words more went missing possibly here than in the Swiss bank accounts and Vatican bank accounts

[@EMvanLoon]

Just a little thanks for your upload! One of the many forgotten(?) stories!

[@thewyj]

How did any of the loot make it that far? I mean, pressumably if a soldier was to pickup a handful of coins or whatever there would be no way to track that? I imagine it all just dissolving into thin air with so many people having involvement and each taking some.

[@karlnemo8658]

I don't know if it's been mentioned in the comments, but there is a 1978 movie titled *Brass Target* which contains some of the elements about this incident.

[@RetroAdzz]

Nice work as always

[@joconnor3846]

Thank you , this was so informative , you've sparked an interest for me now Will be pursuing this astonishing subject further

[@keepingitreal6793]

Thanks Mark. Another great video and history lesson. Its always disturbing to hear about the Nazi atrocities committed against the Jewish population but to find out the Allied leadership allowed Jewish property to be plundered by Allied personnel is very disappointing. As you know, most of the Allied Forces were young men and women who we considered to be the greatest generation given their courage and sacrifice. Being young is no excuse but going through what they did probably lowered some of their morales. I also believe the almost daily temptation to take personal property (which no one would ever know about) depleted a person’s morals to a point where they believed stealing was an entitlement. I’m sure many of the personnel who stole came to realize years later the disgusting act they committed. Unfortunately, returning the property to the rightful owner is almost impossible, so they are forced to live with their own disappointment on top of the horrors of war.

[@nowhere3252]

You are hands down the best on KZbin

[@Roope00]

Interesting stuff, thanks Mark for the video

[@balintpongracz201]

Genuinely speaking, as a Hungarian I appreciate so much the proper pronunciation of the names. I know it takes a lot of afford, but details like this define the quality of your videos. I would love to see some more videos about my country a video on the Vitézlő rend would be amazing for example.

[@London1064]

Thank you Mark. Great video 👍

[@M1890ebay]

Great episode Mark! There is so much to discover about post WW2 happenings...we should know more! On another note, take a look at Captain Count Von Luckner and his ship The Sea Adler of the Imperial German Navy.... great story there. How about a video? Thanks and cheers!

[@lynnwood7205]

Wow! Filled in a lot of gaps of my knowledge about such. Makes sense of fragments of the whole story that I had encountered in reading since my early school days in the late 1950's. May more of the property be restored.

[@petter5721]

Tank you for an excellent video 👍🏻

[@michaelratliff905]

Very Good Mark, keep it rolling! 👍

[@chrisnelmes7180]

great video as always. Does anyone remember the rumors of a similar train we told exists in a tunnel in Poland ? Notice how we have heard nothing about that, in fact it probably never existed ?!

[@jacksmith3189]

I always enjoy your videos Excellent content

[@alexanderhyder3199]

Pretty much impossible to skip a video entitled "The Nazi Gold Train," and your presentation was just as interesting as the title promised.

[@zibabird]

Fantastic information. Thank you, shared.

[@Hashslinging_25]

I’m a simple man I see mark upload I click

[@battleedition2681]

Jacobthemlg Pro bitch I’m in school and still watching I agree with you brother lmao

[@nriab23]

I concur

[@airtimer2958]

Yesss, Ive waited on such a video for so long! I was always curious what had happened. Thanks for this video!! 😊🍺

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

Hahaha it made me all gitty to see this on my suggestion list. You make excellent vids dude!

[@paulhart8814]

another great video

[@cryptotharg7400]

@ 3:13 - "DEAN MILK CO." Say what, now? Not very Hungarian, if you ask me.

[@frankwhite3406]

Excellent Episode Indeed , All that Beautiful Gold reminds me of the Classic movie Kelly's Heroes !!!

[@Kairos318]

As always, a fascinating piece of the puzzle...thank you.

[@skeksmeks5780]

Hello Mr. Felton Can I ask you for video about warsaw pact invasion of czechoslovakia in 1968 please

[@januszkowalski5345]

Speaking of "stolen gold" and WWII, in September 1939 Poland evacuated 70 tons of her gold reserves to the West. First to France , then to French Africa / Dakar and then to the UK, Canada and the US. Its last traces have been seen in three places - London, Ottawa and New York ...The new small Polish "democracy" has never dared to even whisper a question about its gold while the big old "democracies" don't like being asked such questions. But if the Russians or the Nazis had done something like , then you know ... Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi.

[@DDay-vv9ec]

You know dam well politicians and generals and high up people all had their hands in it..

[@cinjonsmythe6318]

And the enlisted guards, the whole food chain all the way up

[@januszkowalski5345]

It was very risky though. When Roosevelt came to power one of his first executive orders was to confiscate all private gold in the US (EO6102 "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates...) Then he added silver. Heavy penalties and prison sentences awaited those who would try to circumvent the EO and hide gold from the prying eye of the US police state.

[@morswestford]

Another great video Mr.Felton greetings from Hungary!

[@clydecessna737]

The Monuments Men was an appallingly bad film on an interesting subject.

[@otleybull]

Love the music to these videos!

[@diogenesofSinope87]

Right to the point this is the best history channel

[@tonystoakley5816]

Always the best Dr Mark so interesting

[@psammiad]

Admiral Haughty is a great name!

[@derrickpeterson3400]

Like the saying goes. "To the victor goes the spoils"

[@douglehnert8503]

As it has for thousands of years

[@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge]

@@Elementalism Victors don't usually care from where those spoils came from, unfortunately.

[@wirelessone2986]

@@Elementalism but the Soviets wanted it....the Jews would have never gotten it

[@januszkowalski5345]

"To the victor goes the spoils"... Now frankly, who the real victors of this - and the previous - war were unless the big banks, the big arms industry and the 1% who grew superrich in no time thanks to the war boom, war orders and the spoils from the vanquished ?

[@saltymonke3682]

4.5 billion is today's value without the compound interest generated from it, I presume.

[@TomCro2022]

Superb! Very very very good video and sound ! Great!

[@happyplaceforever101]

Admiral Horthy was an interesting character. He never liked Hitler and the Nazis and ordered that no Jews in Hungary would be given to the SS. When Himmler himself went to Hungary to protest the Jews be handed over; Horthy instructed is aides to empty out all their prisons and try to pass the regular convicts as Jews and give them to the Nazis. But Horthy was afraid of the horror stories coming from the Gulags in Russia and the mass starvation that happened in Ukraine, and didn't want that happening in Hungary so he sided with the Germans. When Hungary Army generals told Horthy about mass killing of Russian civilians by Germans soldiers; Horthy decided that Nazy Germany is much more dangerous than Communist Russia was. He was proved correct; when Hitler removed Horthy his successor started immediate deportations to the death camps.

[@wallyplumstead614]

Thank you Mark.

[@paulhiggins6024]

Another superb piece of work. Thank you. Have you done, or could you do a similar piece on Die Glocke, supposedly housed underground somewhere in Poland.? Might make for a good video.

[@SH-gc1dq]

I don't know about suing the country most important in liberating Europe 7 decades later...even if there was mishandling of the train.

[@timber_wulf5775]

“One of the Greatest F’s in history” F

[@bombsawaylemay770]

Well at least the Commies didn't get the gold.

[@PaulvonPaulus]

Uhh I tought it would be about golden train from Wałbrzych Poland ☹️

[@jimtalbott9535]

There was no "golden train" from Waldenburg....Sorry.

[@AppleReviews]

definitely there were no Golden Train in Poland :)

[@bluef1sh926]

Fool, the golden train in Walbrzych never existed, nor the place where it was supposed to be had a capacity to hide a train. Look at the place where it was supposed to be on Google Maps, that place is too small, and there are many post war structures around it, it would have been discovered years ago if it was there...

[@rokadaprliinnysystemyaczno4761]

Thank God it wasn't, there's so much bullshit surrounding the Wałbrzych train that it's a joke

[@IntyMichael]

Strange, these events were not shown in the "Monuments Men" movie.

[@douglehnert8503]

If the treasures would have been returned the Soviets would have plundered it. Well over 95% of the treasures previous owners were murdered in the death camps, at least something was given back, which was better than nothing if the Soviets, or the Communist Hungarian government was given it. Spoils of war has been the norm for thousands of years, is it right, no, but it's just the way it goes

[@bosnyakz]

For sure, it was, but it is a bit controversial considering Allies were fighting in the name of "freedom and justice". At the very end it was all about looting.

[@avivaknoll7405]

Mark Felton - best KZbin channel

[@infinitysearcher8858]

Fasinating. Thank you.

[@EdMcF1]

There seems to be a theme in the US Army of rather more 'petty' dishonesty (ok looting) that seems acceptable in the aftermath of WW2.

[@ideadlift20kg83]

This is amazing!

[@ipanzerschrecku4732]

if anything had been returned to any Soviet occupied area nothing would have been returned to any survivors or groups representing casualties.. I also think it's perfectly reasonable for Army officers to requisite bed linen and crockery.. it was perfectly normal and also reasonable for the Army to use captured German cars, trucks, trains, planes, houses ans supplies when needed.

[@Will_CH1]

Another great documentary

[@rutyreal9585]

Hello, i opened youtube to see this posted a few seconds ago

[@AinSophAur]

The first casualty in war has always been Truth.

[@tomjustis7237]

I'm not saying the U.S. Army did everything right regarding property stolen by the Nazis during the war, but if this train and its contents had been returned to Hungary, which was under Soviet control, does anyone really think those valuables would have been returned to their rightful owners or their heirs? The Soviets would have confiscated it all for their own use and the holocaust survivors would have received nothing. At least when the Americans auctioned off those items the proceeds went to organizations which were helping all of the displaced persons who so desperately needed help at the time. We were not perfect, but at least give us credit for trying.

[@CSM_Gray]

Exactly