Parade of the Vanquished - 57,000 German Prisoners, Moscow 1944

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The German Army reached Moscow in 1944, but under unforeseen circumstances!
Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.o...
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@joernone Год назад

I knew one of those German prisoners in that Moscow march, a fellow named Herr Rauch. Afterward, he spent the next 5 years laboring in a Russian coal mine before finally being released when it was thought he was about to die. Fortunately for him, he lived long enough to make it back to an American military base where doctors ultimately saved him. Herr Rauch always had good things to say about the common Russian people. Each day the prisoners were marched to and from the coal mine. Along the way sympathetic people would discretely hand them a carrot, potato, turnip, slice of bread, etc. He credited them with keeping many prisoners alive.

@divebomb99 Год назад

Therein lies something that is true of most common people- these ugly, hideous wars are largely between governments and not their citizens. The twisted complications of humanity.

@oldi184 Год назад

@@divebomb99 It's always elites. The elites start wars. They profit from wars.

@stefanodadamo6809 Год назад

@@divebomb99 and still, massacres and genocide were very much real and their perpetrators were people who did obey governments.

@ccrider3435 Год назад

I cant stand Russia but, I've never met a Russian I didnt like.

@divebomb99 Год назад

@@ccrider3435 That sums it up right there. Well stated.

@markwebster4996 Год назад

The sheer numbers of soldiers, casualties and equipment involved in these campaigns is mind boggling.

@aceclash Год назад

How can Germany which was defeated already in First World War become strong and start another war again? I think many countries helped them? Also when powerful nations like Britain and then Soviet Union did deal with Germany to prevent conflict, why Poland not seeking peace deal with Germany?

@RandomExlcusiveTM Год назад

@@aceclash actually an interesting question

@lolofblitz6468 Год назад

@@RandomExlcusiveTM it is totally

@lolofblitz6468 Год назад

@@aceclash Mate check German War Factories , they had more than France+UK combined , you just need skilled personell to make ammo , cars , vehicles , tanks and you are good to go Germans had amazing soldiers + experience When you combine all that you get Huge strong army which can smash anyone in 1v1 but in World War 2 , Germans had only Italy ( I don't count small nations which arent developed) Germans fought against UK , USA , and USSR

@adrianbigboss5685 Год назад

@@aceclash Why put blame on Poland, it was Germany who was seeking war, all they had to do was not attack. Imagine if all of their factories would be used to produce goods instead of killing machines. They chose to be the aggressor and they paid for it.

@bushboysnags Год назад

Those water trucks at the end cleaning the streets... Such an eerie symbol of the end

@viraloracle5151 Год назад

well im kinda sure they were used after every parade in moscow. to say they were used to "Symbolic wash the german filth away" is a far fetch

@danieltortellinijr.6594 Год назад

@@viraloracle5151 Dang that would have been freaking cool....

@yaboyed5779 Год назад

@@viraloracle5151 I heard it was because the POWs shat themselves.

@Serb248 6 месяцев назад

They did the same recently with the ukrainian pows few years ago.

@TheWorld-xs8ly 5 месяцев назад

@@yaboyed5779- You are correct. I’ve read from reliable sources that the German soldiers were, unknowingly, given laxatives so they would crap their pants during the parade, hence the street cleaning. Even if that’s not true, the street cleaning was definitely meant to further humiliate the Germans…..it was symbolic

@tomvanmeurs4864 11 месяцев назад

I was a young boy of 14 years old living in occupied Holland. (Haarlem) I remember how the Germans did the same. They paraded a group of some twenty Russians POW through our town. They were dressed in rags and ropes. No proper footwear just rags strapped around their feet. A pitiful sight to watch. They were held in our school and we could see them on the school's sport fields. Although strongly forbidden we brought them cigarettes and food which we passed on to them through the fence.

@seanmatto2258 11 месяцев назад

The Germans had camps there that where ran by collaborators

@MSizov 11 месяцев назад

Спасибо.

@Miragexe 11 месяцев назад

@@ekspatriat For exactly those reasons, propaganda purposes.. probably about 2 weeks by train and most of them died shortly after from malnutrition and the rest were executed by the Nazis eventually , think it only was a total of about a 100 so would have been rare to see that happen. They are buried and have a memorial in the Netherlands still.

@yastyman 11 месяцев назад

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your warmth towards our people

@moow950 11 месяцев назад

There were Soviet POW (not only Russian, but also Ukrainian, Georgian etc) in the Netherlands. Some of them on the Dutch islands (Texel, Ameland, Terschelling)

@amandac.8235 Год назад

All the years of history classes in school and never once heard of this event. Thanks for what you do Dr. Felton and awesome job as always.

@hellshing4866 Год назад

Tbf, this isn't something school has to teach you xD

@jonthinks6238 Год назад

I know about this but always willing to learn more. 10

@clevelandaeromotive Год назад

Ditto.

@nebojisatomic1681 Год назад

At least he returned. Russian prisioners didn't returned from german camps

@jrus690 Год назад

You have to go to university for this kind of stuff, or get you interest peaked by the right teacher in a high school class about the 20th century and then read one of the Library books they happened to have.

@Asator95 Год назад

Dr Felton my best wishes for 2023! Another excellent analysis for that historical moment and subject. ! Great work.!

@markjames6669 Год назад

My German friend, also called Marc , still has his grandfathers medals from ww2 . He was a young man , on his way to Stalingrad, when a officer told him to turn around & not go to the meat grinder . That saved his life and meant his story could be told . Another top video from Mark Felton .

@IrishCarney Год назад

How could a man leave his unit and just head in the opposite direction he was supposed to be going and get away with it? I mean I get this wasn't like during the final collapse in 45 when large numbers of men were being shot and hanged on suspicion of desertion if caught without being able to explain and prove they were supposed to be where they were, but still.

@IrishCarney Год назад

Are those medals the original war-era ones with the swastika etc.? In West Germany, men were still allowed to keep those but forbidden to WEAR them. In 1957, the West German government allowed WW2 veterans to wear their medals BUT only with no Nazi symbols (new versions were made available for recipients that for example removed the swastika or replaced it with an oak leaf or the year 1939 etc) AND only if they didn't specifically honor German takeovers of other territory (like the medal for annexing Austria, etc.)

@ericscottstevens Год назад

There were instances of higher officers going into Stalingrad without their adjutants or flying out of Stalingrad with their adjutants in tow without proper orders. That is about the only case some officer could make a determination on the spot for Stalingrad duty. You have to remember rail stations were about the worst places to stop when on leave, armed military police would board the train and take everyone off making ad hoc units. This was mentioned in Guy Sajers book The Forgotton Soldier, he was Grossdeutchland so they did not want to take him from the train and he was allowed to board and depart back to his unit. Too sticky taking a Grossdeutchland member without someone making a fuss about it.

@organmaster863 Год назад

God bless your friend and your family. Amen.

@mobmob5944 Год назад

@@ericscottstevens can you explain better what you saidc,?

@kakpraat18 Год назад

I have never spoken or written about this until today. My family lost 10 men on the Eastern front. Until this very day we still do not know what happened to them. No bodies, no answers. Live long and prosper. Peace be with you.

@Hn-gz5iw Год назад

They died so Germany could live. Unfortunately they lost so Germany dies.

@Mercmad Год назад

There are lots of Groups in Russia today who explore the old battle sites looking for the remains of both Red army and nazi soldiers .If possible they are identified and the families are sought. A lot of families have received long awaited news of their sons ,Brothers,fathers fates. They hold funerals for the fallen >It's believed that 4 million fell in Russia,and the majority lay where they fell. Crocodile tears is a good site here in YT where excavations exposing remains are shown with great respect.

@rpinter677 Год назад

My family lost 4 young men in their 20s on the eastern front , with no information either.

@Hn-gz5iw Год назад

@@rpinter677 Dont worry, Mohamed, Ibrahim and Mustafa replaced them.

@PeterSodhi 11 месяцев назад

@@Hn-gz5iw You need to read about Operation Barbarossa or maybe watch 'Come and See'. Eve opening on true evil.

@benji.B-side Год назад

As a young boy I was fascinated by WW1 and WW2. I collected military toys and soldiers, had a ceiling full of military Airfix models, I collected the Commando magazines (Which were great for learning about military life, jargon, strategic conflict, etc as well as the fantastic stories). I read war books and always thirsted for more knowledge about WW1 and WW2. I wish Mark Felton Productions and RU-vid were invented earlier, for my childhood thirst for knowledge, haha. Great production, narrative and information, this channel is excellent.

@barryirlandi4217 Год назад

Same here.. Just 30 late

@onerider808 Год назад

Yeah, I’d have loved to have Felton’s clips and reporting. I read everything I could get my hands on as a kid; German, American, British, and Russian. I always wondered how seemingly normal people could get to that state. Now I know.

@pepelemoko01 Год назад

Commando magazine always putting over on Jerry and the Nips.

@benji.B-side Год назад

@@onerider808 Yeah, now as an adult I am just as interested to understand what historical, social and political factors caused the lead up to a war breaking out.

@kevelliott Год назад

Haha, your life sounds exactly like mine!

@marcusjohnson6412 Год назад

Thank you Mark Felton. You are truly a gift to us history lovers!

@jasonmussett2129 Год назад

One onlooker wept and muttered ' Just like our poor boys, also driven to war.' thanks again Dr Felton.

@actonman7291 Год назад

Probably that "muttered" comment come from an report by the NKVD that dealt with that anti patriotic element swiftly with a harsh punishment.

@unofficial_computer Год назад

I'd argue the Wehrmacht and the Red Army were very very separate.

@Alexq79- Год назад

@@unofficial_computer men forced to fight for the gambles of the powerful. Separate but similar

@thedukeofnorton Год назад

@@Alexq79-One was a Nazi who deserved it and the other isn’t.

@unofficial_computer Год назад

@@Alexq79- No, one was a tool to expand the Nazi Genocidal Project in the East.

@JackyLegs 5 месяцев назад

Comments on historical videos where people share thier family and personal stories are some of the interesting things I have ever read

@garyfrancis6193 4 месяца назад

“ their”. There’s a reason for that spelling which is a little complicated but basically because the vocalic digraph makes a “😢long” A sound or more exactly a diphthongized A sound such as in “ neighbor “ or” weigh”. However the vowel sound is not as extenuated in “ their” as in those words as the “ ei” in neighbor and weigh precedes a silent “ gh”. That’s the simple explanation. The real explanation would take about half an hour. It’s the way English pronunciation is encoded in spelling that few people know about.

@barsaf9989 2 дня назад

Yes. Let's hope yt keeps the comments. I fear that they will be removed.

@golfwangsap1824 Год назад

I just purchased 3 of your books as a Christmas gift for my Father! He loves them! Thank you, Mark Felton!!!

@MsFutureguy Год назад

In 1945, my own father ended up in a coal mine concentration camp in Eastern Ukraine. 75% died. He was in there 5 years. A Russian girl helped save his life, by bringing him goat's milk

@Semtex_1992 Год назад

Probably a Loyal little Ukranian that done the evil deed too.

@Ottoman-bb7yf Год назад

It's crazy how fate functions, if that girl didn't didn't bring your father milk, it would have been the end of your generation 🤯🤯

@Nochancet.v Год назад

Ukrainian girl

@stingingmetal9648 Год назад

@@Semtex_1992 Which Ukrainian neo nazi battalion is your favourite?

@simpsbelongtothegulags3702 Год назад

@@Semtex_1992 stfu get off that bolshevik sht

@MrShobar Год назад

Those water trucks following the parade were more than symbolic. Many (if not all) of these troops were afflicted with lice, which were shaken off onto the street. There was a public health rationale for this.

@Krapfelapfen Год назад

I remeber my grandad told me the russians fed the prisoners prior the parade deliberately very fatty food with the outcome the often malnourished Pows got diarrhea . They had to walk their parade with diarrhea. That would explain the trucks too....

@aaaht3810 Год назад

@@Krapfelapfen I've heard that too. Don't know if it's documented or not. Sounds about right though.

@teutonalex Год назад

@@Krapfelapfen it’s probably true but it was more likely that the Russians didn’t want Germans to collapse on camera from weakness as this would’ve reflected badly on Russia.

@mikeg2491 Год назад

@@Krapfelapfen imagine the smell

@victorbarbeau3130 Год назад

It was cabbage soup I read from a pow biography that caused diarrhea

@geneo1976 11 месяцев назад

I married a gal from Munich, Germany. Her Dad was a prisoner somewhere In Siberia. After the war when he finally made it home when he knocked on the door he had lost so much weight his mother didn't recognize him. Barb said he only spoke about the war a couple times. He worked for the US after the war. She said she really never knew what he did but he came home many times with a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist! They went to picnics and met many "uncles" in the summer. I met him several times when I went to Germany and he was a nice man. RIP Antony.

@donmartello1885 9 месяцев назад

29 from my hometown Stamford Connecticut. I was one of the lucky ones I got as far as Fort Lewis where they declared my MOS excess. I was late getting there no fault of my own, orders were late getting to me.

@capoislamort100 9 месяцев назад

What was in the briefcase, do you know?

@williamrees6662 5 месяцев назад

This happened with my great-grandfather, who fought in the Italian army in Russia. When he got home, he was bearded and gaunt and my great-grandmother ran away from him in fright!

@БПК-с6л 5 месяцев назад

After invading the Soviet Union raping, murdering and destroying a country that they had a peace agreement with!!! No wonder why he did not want to talk about his “Lebensraum” holiday of violence in Russia.

@biglebowski5737 5 месяцев назад

@@capoislamort100 It was the briefcase that was later handed over to Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction.

@majksson658 Год назад

One thought i had was that all of the 57.000 german prisoner who walked on the parade was equal to all german soldiers who died in the Battle of Marne in 1914, dead in just one week and counted only from the German side not the Allies.

@captainamerica6525 Год назад

I'd heard and studied this event but didn't know the logistics behind it. My thanks for yet another fine presentation.

@tanerkaplankiran Год назад

I lived close to Dynamo football stadium in Moscow, which is now modernised and regularly holds concerts and football games. Everyday I travelled from Dynamo to near Kremlin through Leningradsky prospekt, main artillery of Moscow which leads to Belaruskaya Station, then straight to heart of Moscow. Never new the exact scale of this walk. Recognising most of the iconic squares, roads and buildings shown on the video, it's so interesting to know where exactly this march took place, as I was passing by everyday without knowing the historical value of the locations. Thank you for the great work Dr. Felton!

@steffanhoffmann8937 Год назад

And what's your opinion, on current day smashing of old people in Ukraine rashist?

@ryanbramblin Год назад

@@steffanhoffmann8937 keep politics out of this bro, its a youtube comments section

@billybonds4449 Год назад

Soviets ended the reign of Hitler but today has an ever bigger war criminal murderer in the Kremlin. Hope Ukraine has a march of the vanquished when they rid the rats from their soil. Mind you, with 110, 000 dead Russians already I doubt there will be any Russians left to march anywhere.

@billybonds4449 Год назад

No chance of that. Happy new year to your 400 conscripts in the sovereign Ukranian territory of Donetsk who never quite saw in the new year. Amazing what HIMARS can do.

@ryanbramblin Год назад

cool story bro

@michaelbassett2056 Год назад

Dr. Felton as always you bring new content with true knowledge. Why do I find myself feeling like a student again in a.p. history. Always learning new facts about my favorite period in history. Thank You again Dr. Felton

@charliep5139 Год назад

If you haven’t seen Soviet storm, do it asap. It’s an amazing documentary and if you like ww2, be warned, you’ll probably end up binge watching it. Being in the US, you never hear much about the eastern front especially the size and scope of operations and casualties…. They have a whole episode devoted to operation bagration that is amazing

@randallaucoin6675 Год назад

Soviet storm is great!

@Tadju50 Год назад

Georgi Zhukov !!! Marched to Berlin and Conquered it into Unconditional Surrender !!!

@princethind799 Год назад

I cannot recommend it enough either. I have watched the series twice at this point and still sometimes feel like rewatching it again. The producers did a great job at being unbiased, they equally criticised and appreciated stalin's war time decisions. Many just portray USSR as evil and others as the true anti-nazi force. This series, however, really talks about all the blunders, the little struggles and the soviet propaganda a lot.

@richarddetlaff-gc3kk Год назад

Yeah it is good a lot of Soviet propaganda though

@woodrowpreacely7521 Год назад

Yes yes damn badass documentary! But what the hell were Brits doing making such a good doc on Reds in WWII? Definitely made pre-Ukrainian War for sure!

@fergalfoley6718 Год назад

Top class Documentry as always, Mark ! Well done 👏

@MuddieRain Год назад

Survived WWI, Spanish flu, the great depression, WW2, and to die in a prisoner camp in Siberia.

@krisfrederick5001 Год назад

Couldn't catch a break

@NiskaMagnusson Год назад

80-100 years later : Survived Covid, the War in Ukraine, WWIII, and the great Musk-Bezos war, just to die in a prison camp in Basel - Switzerland

@akyukon Год назад

Gotta go sometime I guess....

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Год назад

2/3rds of all German POW's still returned home. The same could not be said about Soviet POW's as the Germans deliberately murdered 3 million of them. Do not feel pity for these scum. They got what they deserved.

@muhacnt7988 Год назад

And they were responsible for these 2 major wars

@vladimirl8753 Год назад

My grandmother was among those who was watching this -she was among those people standing on the round balcony at 8:20 of the clip. Thank you for this excellent work, Dr Felton. Cheers from Moscow. Hope soon you will be analyzing the current events in Ukraine!

@virtual07 Год назад

Hope so too. And the new Nuremberg Trial.

@Paciat Год назад

@@virtual07 Nuremberg trial wouldnt happen if Germany wouldnt unconditionally surrender. Doubt it will end this way in Ukraine.

@AverageFornaxEnjoyer Год назад

@@Paciat Highly probably the people responsible for the atrocities are gonna end up like escaped nazis; hunted down, brutally tortured and executed.

@dannolives Год назад

He already has done some. Thing is felton is a warrior for the truth. Accordingly I doubt that he is going to make much further comment until this is over so as to avoid the propaganda that is coming from both sides

@oliveryt7168 Год назад

@@virtual07 I dont think, Zelenskiy will like to hear it... also: Quite the irony... a jew and the Nuremberg Trials..

@rickklumpenhouwer258 Год назад

Mark, there was a similar but much smaller march past of prisoners, this time Allied soldiers captured during the Normandy, through the streets of Paris in 1944. It would appear that, unlike the largely civil Moscow crowd, there were a number of gangs of Parisian civilians who viciously assaulted and harangued the Allied prisoners. Don't know if these were brought in by the Germans for effect, but it would be interesting to know more about this parade, who these tormentors were and perhaps what happened to them when Paris was liberated shortly thereafter.

@ranulf8477 Год назад

It happened in Paris because the allies bombed french cities and towns killing thousands of french citizens during their attack of the Normandy. The people of Paris were not forced to do this with the allied prisoners but maybe some of them lost family members during these attacks.

@Doc-q2f Год назад

You can’t just make stuff up

@oscarwildeghost Год назад

It's the French, they're on the side of who ever is in charge. You can be sure a few months later they were hugging every allied soldier they saw and beating on Germans.

@jaydibernardo4320 Год назад

@@oscarwildeghost Wouldn't that be the Italians?

@Ballinalower Год назад

@@oscarwildeghost They would also be claiming to have been in the Resistence.

@jjhpor Год назад

I was stationed in Germany in the 60's and had a German friend who had been captured at Stalingrad. He spent 10 years in Russia building roads. He said if you asked a Russian guard for food or tobacco ("Kamerad...") the reply was always "Kamerad is in Stalingrad" He returned to Germany only after Stalin died in 1953 on a stretcher with TB. When I met him he was working for the US Army Special Services (not Special Forces") running a photography shop where soldiers like me could develop and print our own photgraphs. He never seemed very healthy.

@БПК-с6л 5 месяцев назад

Funny how all these German Nazi’s ended up working for the American CIA Nazis after the war.

@vadimanreev4585 4 месяца назад

Test nonsense.

@harryshuman9637 4 месяца назад

Are we supposed to feel bad for him or something?

@meppy5585 4 месяца назад

*Rebuilding* roads, I think you mean

@trent617tw 4 месяца назад

@harryshuman9637 Feel however you want. The man just told a story from his life. History doesn't have to be about your feelings.

@dxbdean Год назад

Mark I lived in Moscow for three years a long, long time ago and while I was aware of some of the rumours relating to German POWs (mostly forced labour related) I was not aware of this. Thanks for sharing. Super interesting.

@gravychipplease Год назад

Mark - thanks for another insightful presentation from WW2 - you never fail to provide me with new details from WW2

@cameronmccreary4758 Год назад

I saw U.S. Army soldiers there watching. Thank you Mark for bringing us this; I never knew that this occurred.

@jaxellis3008 Год назад

I saw that too, close to the 9 minute mark and was wondering if I was seeing things. Thanks for the validation that I wasn't hallucinating!

@andjkh Год назад

Also looked like a western ally was on one of the balconies.

@oldtop4682 5 месяцев назад

I noticed the US soldiers as well. Liaison missions were in all the allied countries, and hey a big parade was going on! Likely some Brits in attendance as well. I'm late to this video, but WOW! This was a masterful propaganda move by the Russians. I had no idea that this film existed.

@koceyne2712 10 месяцев назад

Imagine being a german soldier and attacking for months outskirts of moscow, only years prior and now you're finally walking through center of it, but you're unarmed and in parade of shame

@outman1923 5 месяцев назад

NATO is the modern version of the NAZI.

@jackreacher. 4 месяца назад

Nach Moskau, große Kriegskämpfer. Hitler verlangt es.

@dinxsy8069 Год назад

Great narration over your video uploads, I've always recommended "The world at War" VHS series (now DVD) to people wanting to learn about the happenings through out the period during the WW2 conflicts. Your channel is a firm recommendation for lost battles and well known, along with subsequent aspects of the war

@KRN762 Год назад

The World at War is the gold standard.

@Edgel-in6bs Год назад

World at war one of the best series of all time, even if it does allow some nazis to gloss over their own lies (e.g. Speer). Great theme tune too.

@dinxsy8069 Год назад

@@Edgel-in6bs Indeed it is, lies are what they are, lies. Theme tune is amazing and unforgettable, hummed it as soon as i read your comment.

@dinxsy8069 Год назад

@@KRN762 Very much so, put together very well

@pashvonderc381 Год назад

Yep, The World At War is defo a must watch on any history buffs list

@robertcunningham6476 Год назад

Another excellent presentation Mr. Felton! I couldn’t help but think in seeing 57,000 POW German soldiers marching through Moscow of the 58,000 plus, American lives lost in Vietnam. For the first time I visually saw the scale of that many live soldiers together. It made my heart sink.

@teutonalex Год назад

Damn you’re right.

@renatebaumgartner2921 Год назад

And what did they die for? Being of their generation, it makes me want to cry.

@Тутэйшая-б1м Год назад

@@renatebaumgartner2921 мне хочется плакать думая о миллионах убитых славянских женщин и детей, которых сжигали целыми деревнями. 10 тысяч деревень Беларуси сожгли немцы и большая часть с мирными жителями. Я счастлива что мои предки победили эту нечисть. И с радостью смотрю подобное видео!

@renatebaumgartner2921 Год назад

@@Тутэйшая-б1м I'm sorry but I can't understand what you wrote. I don't even know what language that is.

@ccmarcum Год назад

The Americans died to support a corrupt monarchy of a country of farmers. Unknown numbers of Vietnamese died, as well. I heard a figure of 200,000. I visited there in 1993 and saw how Communism worked for them--education, health care, no crime.

@curiousfurious5877 Год назад

I had two grand uncles which were captured in Stalingrad...both returned to Germany. One of them committed suicide later the other one suffered from psychological traum for the rest of his life...they were probably among these 57000...

@michael-gb3rn Год назад

those German troops was not part of Stalingrad as he stated there were with army group center not army group south. there there could not have been them

@michaelkitchens3933 Год назад

These were German's captured in Operation Bargration in June 1944 (this was the eastern offensive to coincide with Operation Overlord in the West), Stalingrad fell in February 1943. Your grand uncles were already long since in a labor camp.

@ОкНЛПп Год назад

packwatch

@empirikal09 Год назад

sounds like BS. Only about 5000 0ut of 90000 prisoners from Stalingrad survived, so the chances that two members of the same family survived are ridiculously low...

@nomeansno2335 Год назад

@@michael-gb3rn Give it a rest, mate. His uncles were probably flewn out otherwise they would not have survived Stalingrad.

@beberbeki1 Год назад

Congratulations on another great video Dr felton. It's interesting the echoes of history, here in Latvia I'm ordering kitchens for a renovation project from a German firm. The common language being Russian, I've found two separate employees there whose ancestors most likely marched in this March and were subsequently shipped off, one to Siberia, one to Kazakhstan, which is why we're able to communicate with eachother today.

@clancywoodard310 Год назад

This is actually interesting I never knew the Red Army did this you always find some of the coolest topics out there

@fritzreimer7933 Год назад

Yeah, surely the parades are reserved for the victor returning home.

@Bigsky1991 Год назад

Then your school system failed you. Miserably. This is common knowledge.

@clancywoodard310 Год назад

@@Bigsky1991 yeah I graduated in 2013 and they only covered bits and pieces of World War II in our history classes

@josephvandyck5469 Год назад

This parade is a typical tactic of communist nations, ie N Vietnam and American fliers.

@clancywoodard310 Год назад

@@josephvandyck5469 oh yeah I've seen footage of those parades a lot of times that's how American families found out that their loved one was a pow because they would film it and send it to news media outlets around the world

@matchrocket1702 Год назад

It amazes me that I was watching shows like Victory at Sea in the mid 50's thinking that the war was over when in actuality it was still active in a fashion because there were German prisoners in Soviet custody.

@barryrammer7906 Год назад

Victory at sea was awesome

@tapeesa2866 Год назад

99% of German POWS in the Soviet Union were sentenced for 5 years with a maximum being 15 with some gaining a longer sentence due to expressed involvement in crimes with many being released early due to good behaviour

@matchrocket1702 Год назад

@@barryrammer7906 Richard Rodgers' music score really set the tone for the series. By the time the opening credits were over your mind was already on the ocean swells and swaying decks of the American war ships ready for action.

@pupsiuspupuliukas2394 Год назад

The second world war ended in the 1990's for half of Europe.

@trashcanman6649 Год назад

Wow. I am a bit mind blown right now. If you saw Victory at Sea in the 50s then doesn't that mean that you were born around the mid 1940s? I didn't know that someone that was born around that time uses RU-vid.

@hereLiesThisTroper 5 месяцев назад

Just recently, Russia did the same thing on April 2024 where they showcased captured NATO vehicles in Moscow.

@wvdb24 Год назад

I had heard they gave the soviet POWs on this march cabbage soup(natural laxative) after withholding food from them. This apparently was the reason for the water trucks. I can't remember which documentary this was from unfortunately.

@richardlandry3063 Год назад

I heart of that too in a french documentary.

@allmightygreat1892 Год назад

Yes seen that other video. Sad that young men suffer for the insane mistakes of their leaders.

@brianhearon1191 Год назад

I guess that you meant the German POW's were fed greasy cabbage soup to ensure that they would defecate upon themselves, adding to the humiliation. The Soviet water trucks were spraying down the excrement, as I have understood it. Mark, what light can you shed on this story?

@pashvonderc381 Год назад

Heard this too, the same footage was used in a documentary that I saw a years ago .

@marclandreville6367 5 месяцев назад

@@pashvonderc381 Ditto for me. Seen this also. Establishing food kitchens to feed them before the march sounds very generous at first glance, until you realise thart it wasn't such a nice gesture after all.

@delavalmilker Год назад

Thank you Dr. Felton, for another excellent video! In a RU-vid full of amateurish, poorly researched, agenda-driven "historical" video posts; your videos truly stand out for their professionalism, no-nonsense information, and superior quality!

@davereynolds6145 Год назад

A friend's father may have been one of these soldiers, he disappeared somewhere in Russia, never to be heard from again!

@elenavorontsova2324 Год назад

God bless you,Mark!! Keep up making history real!!! My mum worked with some German prisoners. There could be everything and anything, they were just humans. Many were not Germans,but from Southern European countries: Spanish(Division Azul) ,Romanians... These ones suffered terribly from cold Russian winters.

@cedricliggins7528 Год назад

Dr Felton this footage is priceless. Thank you so much!!

@zoso73 Год назад

Also, would love to see you cover the American POW March in Rome in March 1944. American Rangers were in this bunch, they were captured in battles in the Cisterna di Latina area (Isola Bella).

@MichaelKingsfordGray Год назад

Yank rangers, captured by Italians? How humiliating in itself!

@dawnmathis2659 Год назад

Ranger training didn’t start till 1950 at Fort Bennington .

@comradekenobi6908 Год назад

@@dawnmathis2659 but Rangers are present in Operation Overlord?

@zoso73 Год назад

@dawnmathis2659 [QUEUE UP MARK FELTON PRODUCTIONS MUSIC] Major General Lucian K. Truscott, U.S. Army, in liaison with the British General Staff, submitted proposals to General George Marshal that "we undertake immediately an American unit along the lines of the British Commandos" in 1942. A cable from the War Department quickly followed to Truscott authorizing the activation of the 1st U.S. Army Ranger Battalion. Following the invasion of the Anzio beachhead, the 1st and 3rd Rangers were destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Cisterna, Italy. The 4th Ranger Battalion suffered massive casualties while attempting to break through enemy lines to rescue their Brothers in the 1st and 3rd Battalions. The 1st, 3rd, and 4th Battalions were known as Darby's Rangers. The 2nd and 5th Ranger Battalions proudly carried on the Ranger reputation as they entered the war on D-day on the beaches of Normandy. The 6th Battalion carried on in the Pacific Theater as they fought in the jungles of the Philippines.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Год назад

@@dawnmathis2659 So, the movie "The Eagle has Landed" was fiction? Larry Hagman played a US Ranger Colonel in the 1940s.

@ColumbiaB Год назад

Interesting few seconds at 9:04, showing close-ups of three soldiers apparently observing the forced march of he POWs. Judging from their uniform caps - especially the eagle cap badge on the peaked cap of the man at right - they may be foreign allied military, stationed as liaisons in Moscow. The eagle insignia looks American; the other men might be Americans, too, or perhaps UK, or Commonwealth nations.

@christophermo13 11 месяцев назад

Americans for sure

@terrencepayne1371 8 месяцев назад

That’s the best thing about Felton’s channel here lies all the details of the war that you might not have heard of other wise. I’ve never heard of this parade before but it is amazing.

@pilotdawn1661 Год назад

More excellent work filling in the details of the glossy sweeps of history.

@verihimthered2418 Год назад

Top historical channel. Always learning something new! Thanks 4 posting

@Dusty338 Год назад

I'm familiar with the march, but this is the most in-depth, informative video I've seen done on the subject. Thank you Dr. Felton for once again providing such fantastic content!

@w.okkerse915 Год назад

'many would perish'. This is an enormous understatement. I think that less than 1 out of 50 returned home....

@jackpavlik563 5 месяцев назад

I think it was around 1 in 20-I recall from World at War.

@anthonymonnier1494 4 месяца назад

I remember the documentary the rise and fall of the third Reich and Richard basehard who narrated it said only 5,000 ever returned that was 5,000 to many in my opinion after what the Germans did

@andrewsema359 Год назад

At least you could say the Germans reached Moscow. Thanks again Dr.Felton.

@danrook5757 Год назад

Usa should have helped, We’d be better off

@woodenseagull1899 Год назад

Even today ; If one meets a German , pinch your nose and hold them at arms length....!

@philinn4788 Год назад

@@danrook5757you love those Nazis don't you friend ? Think again before you attack the Bear😊

@danrook5757 Год назад

@@philinn4788 : the only good bear is a stuffed bear on the fire place. Ruskie

@mirquellasantos2716 Год назад

They sure did but in a humiliating way.

@chuckb9867 Год назад

Mark Felton is the best hope to meet him sometime

@thehistoricalchannelexplai9379 Год назад

He lives in my hometown of Norwich

@Flubbydubbydoodoo Год назад

Nah. Never meet your heroes. It only results in disappointment. Better to just enjoy what you have.

@thehistoricalchannelexplai9379 Год назад

@@Flubbydubbydoodoo I mean he kinda told everyone where he lives

@vetworker Год назад

@@thehistoricalchannelexplai9379 and was born in my hometown of Colchester.

@quiverdog Год назад

@@thehistoricalchannelexplai9379 Norwich is the Best!

@wordofswords5386 Год назад

WW2 will never stop surprising me. I cant believe ive never heard of this before.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Год назад

All of it in only 5 years!

@Gazelichkin Год назад

probably because all the wars in the world were won by the United States, a country of true democracy, there are still many interesting discoveries ahead, my friend.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Год назад

@@Gazelichkin The Civil War? Vietnam? The Cold War? Tell me you are being sarcastic, please!

@novadhd Год назад

Yea pretty well known it is always nice to see something like this.

@roberthockett270 Год назад

Great work as ever by Mr. Felton. The image of that cat walking along a balcony about 7 minutes in is a lovely reminder of how non-human critters must sometimes wonder WTF is the matter with us.

@grantorino2009 Год назад

Thank you so much for this video. Dr. Felton, would you mind doing a video on Operation Bagration? I've studied WW2 history for years but didn't learn of Bagration's significance until just last year!

@alkitzman9179 Год назад

Thank you Dr. Felton . I actually had heard of this before. However I didn't realize it was such a large gathering of POW's as the War was still raging on. Every History Class in the USA should have your videos as learning tools of History as it actually happened.

@Obetv01 Год назад

Great content. Just when I thought knew every WWII event, you come up with even more incredible footage and information.

@Ferko-qy2lx 9 месяцев назад

It's both embarrassing and somewhat absurd to observe how Russians celebrate their victory in World War II considering that it was Soviet Union (with Germany) who started the war by invasion of Poland in 1939 (and I am not mentioning invasion to Finland)

@Aaron-sl2kx 9 месяцев назад

But wasn’t it Poland that occupied those territories of Belarus and Ukraine that the USSR took as a result of the war?

@Ferko-qy2lx 9 месяцев назад

@@Aaron-sl2kx Well, I was discussing who started WWII, not which area should belong where.... Anyway, Russia agreed on borders and signed the Treaty of Riga in 1921. By the way, this reminds me of the "discussions" about Crimea... should it be owned by Greeks, Italy? :)

@Aaron-sl2kx 9 месяцев назад

@@Ferko-qy2lx The RSFSR and Poland had a world-recognized border along the Curzon line. This seemed not enough to the Poles and they captured the eastern territories of Russia. The USSR did the same thing, so what claims could there be?

@15425rfggdfc 9 месяцев назад

Вы быстро проиграли войну и сдались на милость победителя. Вы слабые. Обижаться не на кого. Вы должны вести себя тихо и вежливо, если не хотите, чтобы вашу Польшу разделили снова.

@Ferko-qy2lx 9 месяцев назад

@Aaron-sl2kx, once again, I prefer not to delve into territorial disputes; it's an ongoing narrative for many regions worldwide. My point was straightforward: WWII began with the involvement of the Soviet Union and Germany. In essence, Germany would have hesitated to initiate a war on two fronts simultaneously, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact played a crucial role. I believe everyone comprehends this historical fact.

@tony199120 Год назад

Today, 4th of januari 1920 one of my great grandfathers was born that got me one of my 3 birth names. He got captured in 44, and died somewhere. His brother got told he was captured but only hearsay later on in the war. Maybe he was between these 57,000 lost souls. A lot of family members went to the russian front as foreign SS, my family says forced due to blood lines and politics, and town folk where as nice to call me a nazi kid in the 90s, giving me my fascination for this period. Thank you mark for the enlightening tales of the war, without any political judgement.

@GazB85 Год назад

What country were your family from?

@alejandrobetancourt8123 Год назад

“Forced” waffen SS

@tony199120 Год назад

From the netherlands. from a family in holland who where of noble descent and wealthy at the time. You had to do labour or militairy as healthy young male and they where put in the SS instead of regular or labour force, they where not allowed in the labour force because of ''fit aryan appearance and inspiring heritage'' 2 out of 4 became officers right away with only basic dutch militairy training. only 1 lived after the war. Sadly the dutch where seen as a ''germanic'' people and tens of thousands joined the SS, some out of more wage some because of looks or heritage. almost none because of the ideology they stand for.

@BasementEngineer Год назад

The Waffen SS was all volunteers, from every country in Europe.

@Barneto Год назад

extremely interesting. you never let me down felton

@ricardocantoral7672 Год назад

The water trucks killed me. The Russians really wanted to put on a show!

@prussianangler 5 месяцев назад

My Great Grandpa was Hauptmann (Captain) under Paulus at the Eastern Front, where his division split. He was lucky enough to head to the Black Sea, because the rest went to Stalingrad… After ordering his company to surrender, he became a Russian prisoner of War, but he was also transferred to British and American PoW camps. He said he liked the Americans the most, they used to play Football matches, and the Russians were incredibly tough and they barely had anything to eat, to the point where they tried to soften their leather belts and eat that and also rats. He luckily made it back home to Rastede after 8 Years of imprisonment. It’s crazy to think about what that generation had to go through, especially people like him that even were in WW1, where he fought at Verdun and Flanders.

@debbiestyer453 Год назад

I never knew of this march...thank you for the history lesson.

@rac4687 Год назад

Even more interesting is the scale of the lose for the germans was vast but in this one operation the Russians lost more men the most the allies put together in whole war.

@quikzome6973 Год назад

If you didn't know about this until now then you didn't know much about ww2 hm

@debbiestyer453 Год назад

@@quikzome6973 don't you feel superior now..

@debbiestyer453 Год назад

@@rac4687 yes I knew that..no wonder they matched them.

@johnmeyers8588 Год назад

@@quikzome6973 Not so sure about that. I'd like to think I know as much about WWII as most, but I too, had never heard of this event until now. This channel is brilliant.

@IINC0RRECT Год назад

Dan Carlin (not the comic) had a podcast called recipe for Armageddon and he talked about how Russian high command did these marches to boost the morale of the people in Moscow, but it was a silent parade nobody talked nobody threw shit nobody cursed them they watched as a ghost brigade marched past, and even the communist public felt kinda bad because they reminded them of their own boys, hollow eyed and all but dead, ghost.

@fool117 Год назад

Hes got a 4 part series called "ghosts of the Ostfront" that covers the war in the East and he details this march in one of the episodes. He quotes a daughter talking to her mother in the crowd as asking if these were the men that killed "daddy"... That war in the East was a different kind of brutal.

@berryreading4809 Год назад

I second this! Anyone interested in history presentations should give Dan Carlin a listen! Audio only, but told in a presentation style that is very unique, striking, and all but boring over the long run times (even on eras/topics that aren't exactly my normal area of interest)! "Dan Carlins Hardcore History" on youtube is an easy place to start, but much more audio covering more topics and timelines are available elsewhere 👍 (I'm not being paid or a bot, although I guess I am technically a Dan Carlin promotional bio-bot now 😆)

@KR-mm4el Год назад

i am very skeptical of that statement. sure, the soviet citizens could see some of their boys in the german soldiers, but i don't think they would feel bad about the nazis, considering it was them who perpetrated the senseless loss of soviet life

@KR-mm4el Год назад

@@chrisbutler1668 yeah sorry, not all of them were german nazis, some were hungarian fascists my bad

@glennllewellyn7369 Год назад

They were marching to their death.

@Bigsky1991 Год назад

The vast majority of the paraded troops were sent to the Salt Coal and Radium mines afterwards never to be seen again. My Wife's Grandfather was captured in a Großdeutschland kampfgruppe that had been encircled in the Kurland Kessel. He told me that despite being a Sturmpionier, that had he not been a school trained Metzger (Butcher) before the war, there was no way he could have survived. But survive he did...4 Camps, 5 years in the Gulags and work camps making soups and stews from Belts, shoe leather, mice, and cabbage cores thrown over the fences by sympathetic guards who were themselves 3rd rate troops and were starving themselves. For those here in the comments saying " I never knew about this" your schooling failed you in spectacular fashion. These parades are common knowledge.

@lablackzed Год назад

Yep kid's today just get taught woke crap.😠

@freebornjohn2687 Год назад

I don't think that's fair. There's so much history you could spend the whole of your life studying it and still only have scratched the surface. Having said that, I do think its a great tragedy (and dangerous) that a lot of people know the details of celebs' lives but don't know that the basic details of the two world wars, let alone the Napoleonic, 30 years, 7 years wars....

@kbanghart Год назад

@@lablackzed what woke crap do you think they are studying? And what do you call woke?

@brentmeistergeneral2813 Год назад

The second world war wasnt even covered when I was at school in the eighties. Just the first world war.

@michaelkitchens3933 Год назад

BTW, forced parades of enemy captives is a violation of the Geneva convention, or other forms of humiliation. Not that either side cared about those details.

@BA-gn3qb Год назад

And just when you thought that the Germans didn't make it to Moscow during WWII, Mark shows us another one of his home videos.

@ДраганНонковић 11 месяцев назад

😂😂😂👌👍

@tj3688 11 месяцев назад

Not exactly in the way they had planned though.

@NanaMediacollector Год назад

"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other" Nico Bellic

@RNemy509 Год назад

To this day, hearing these kind of causality counts still boggles my mind. The utter carnage is almost unfathomable

@johnwren3976 Год назад

Russians are still digging up the dead of WWII. Volunteers do it every year.

@01cthompson Год назад

My uncle's (by marriage) father was one of the very few German POWs that returned from the Soviet Union. I wish I had realized how significant this was when I was younger, and he was still alive. He didn't speak much English, but he would talk about his experience if asked.

@andremeyer863 Год назад

Most would not talk. I knew a couple of German officers. War is hell! Russia lost almost 30 million soldiers.

@nagantm441 Год назад

Millions of POWs returned from the USSR. Enough with the few bs

@conzmoleman Год назад

@@nagantm441 Exactly. Thank you for saying so and beating me to it.

@TheT4llu Год назад

@@nagantm441 Even soviet records say that over 300k german pows died and last vere releaded in 1956!! over 10 years after the war! there is some bs for you. Forced labour in siberia for 10 years after the war. What a criminal country Soviet Union was

@nagantm441 Год назад

@@TheT4llu 300k out of millions

@GermanClaus 9 месяцев назад

My grandfather was marching in there. Crazy to see it and imagine, he might be in that video... and he had the same age as I right now...

@paullee-sl9it 5 месяцев назад

Did your grandpa tell you where he was captured?

@wes326 Год назад

A handyman who worked for my father back in the 1970's said he fought for Germany in WW2, was captured by the Russians and then spent 9 years in the Russian army. Thanks for sharing.

@danrook5757 Год назад

My two uncles in 1945 from lithuania were sent to siberia after the russians freed them. Thanks stalin

@nikita4734 11 месяцев назад

@@danrook5757 you welcome I am sure your two uncles were hand picked by stalin just for walking down the street I am sure there were no reports on them to the local authority. If there were reports dont blame stalin,blame your countrymen or your uncles cheering tooo loudly when germans came.

@yendevus1747 11 месяцев назад

@@danrook5757 Is this the great liberation Russians talk about all the time? hahaha

@antonzhuravliov2098 11 месяцев назад

@@yendevus1747 They were released, and the criminals who served Hitler were tried and sent to Siberia, everything is correct. And now the Nazis are being rehabilitated there, and the bot above, as usual, lies that his poor unfortunate and innocent relatives were sent to Siberia.🤣

@pyatig 8 месяцев назад

@@danrook5757and what did your two uncles do during the war?

@samkangal8428 Год назад

Each time i come here i learn something new . Great channel .

@r2gelfand Год назад

I have seen pictures of this in some of my war history books. It is very interesting to see how it was all organized and orchestrated.

@cbm2156 Год назад

Stalin never did any thing that was not organized and orchestrated.

@r2gelfand 12 дней назад

The Russians dont take a dump without a plan, son!@@cbm2156

@at1970 8 месяцев назад

Probably not the parade they were contemplating in 1941.

@TRHARTAmericanArtist Год назад

Looking forward to another year of Dr. Felton's excellent videos. Perhaps we will be calling you "Sir" Mark soon. I'll put a call into my mate Charlie. 😆

@brokenbridge6316 Год назад

Interesting and nice to see the original footage of this parade. I heard that this was so silent that only the march of boots could be heard. Nice video.

@e-curb Год назад

The vast majority of film taken in WWII is without a sound track. Most of the videos you see have a modern fake soundtrack added. For example, The World at War series has mostly post war sound.

@owersun Год назад

Looking at that video and being from Moscow what really gives me shivers is an INSANE walking distance those people had to cover, not being at their best. I know those places, and even being well fed and in a good health, I would not take that march on foot right now, even on a sunny day. It's good 6km one way, only to the red square, and comparable distance after, depending on where did they decided to place those people after. There is no capable train station to handle such crowd anywhere near few kilometers. That's a good 10km march on foot, maybe more, with no pause or short break allowed in such formation... Trust me, seeing one building and knowing where it is, seeing other building and knowing where it is, I was not able to connect the dots at first that this is same march, so far from each other they are. Noone walks that kind of distance in Moscow now, in modern Moscow that would be like 40+ minute trip on a metro.

@shirleybalinski4535 Год назад

Interesting. What are your feelings watching this, knowing what you know now? Please do not go ballistic or po.itical. I am curious & only want an unbiased opinion. Thanks.

@owersun Год назад

@@shirleybalinski4535 Well.. My opinion is that this is part of history. It's a story not far from now, but story of a different generation. Their war, their politics. I don't really have an opinion about that, I look at all that as part of events that shaped the world we live in now, but already fading away, as modern world is way different to what it was. I enjoyed watching this video and hearing part of the history, because that was something I didn't know before. Probably enjoyed additionally, seeing places I can relate to.

@juslitor Год назад

Not like the huns had many choices, you walked or you died.

@teutonalex Год назад

People were much more used to walking then, especially those in the military.

@seanodwyer4322 Год назад

owe- my dad told me he was dropped off by a ship in 1946 at Napier port - slept on the bech then walked going up hill to his parents farm on a dirt road 100 miles away with a army swag on his back. he was a smoker and ahh think ahh would expire iff ahh had to do that walk on a rough road with hardly any cars to take you.

@ThehulkGreen 11 месяцев назад

Mr Felton i admire your work greatly. You are a true treasure. Thank you.

@Bitchslapper316 Год назад

Thank you for sharing this Mark, I have never heard this story.

@ghostcat5303 Год назад

Would like an in depth look at Bagration, one of the most successful military operations in history

@neilpk70 Год назад

Superlative video, as usual! In loose connection with the POW theme, Hans von Luck's strategy for surviving Soviet captivity seems to have been "Make yourself useful. And if you're not useful, pretend to be"

@pashvonderc381 Год назад

A good book that is too.. Check out Siegfried Knappes book

@seanodwyer4322 Год назад

@@pashvonderc381 read it he from Leipzig- after telling a mate about the book met up with next day a tourist from Leipzig who looked like Knapps wife in the book- this was i backblocks off new zealand.

@seanohare5488 Год назад

Mark Felton your a top notch historian could you do a segment on the seigfried battle March 15 to 20 1945 underrated considering the high casualties on both sides won by the Americans especially the US 63 rd division receiving the presidential unit citation

@kevinkingston6488 Год назад

All your documentary's are always so very good , the best....

@76-UVB Год назад

80 years on and nothing has really changed

@GazB85 Год назад

Clearly not been paying attention.

@76-UVB Год назад

@@GazB85 Unlike your fully informed self you mean.

@kbanghart Год назад

Exactly. There will always be soldiers who are willing to go fight, and people like me who will refuse.

@dougtheviking6503 Год назад

I was going to mention something like that ....Now my own country has been the aggressor.... For quite sometime .... The good old U.S.A

@smast16 Год назад

"History is doomed to repeat itself."

@justsaying653 Год назад

"War is a racket" - Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940) " at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history." Small book, easy to read.

@tedlahm5740 Год назад

Police Commissioner in Philadelphia during 1930’s Prohibition.

@Acts-xu7th 10 месяцев назад

War is evil 🤬😈

@meijiturtle3814 Год назад

Thank you, Mark for showing us the most detailed film of this event that I have seen yet. Normally we just get a few seconds of the leading generals followed by the scruffy lower ranks. One thing that Mark did not mention , and which I have read in other sources, is that the Soviets were annoyed that there was some scepticism in the West about the scale of their victory. This was a further reason for the very public display in Moscow.

@marshalleubanks2454 Год назад

The parade route was deliberately sent past (I believe both) the US and UK Embassies just to make that point. I think you can see the US embassy balcony at 6:59.

@ole5539 Год назад

Stalin was flexing his muscles, after all, he already had FDR in the bag and wherever Franklin went, Winston was sure to follow. Patton was right.

@Дмитрий-х9з4г 11 месяцев назад

Суть не в том, что показать маштабыисвоиз побед. А ч том, что хотели пройти парадом фашисты в ноябре 1941 года по Красной площади. Вот и прошли только как военнопленные.

@IlovetheUSA1776 Год назад

This is the best world war 2 historical channel on RU-vid.

@msgfrmdaactionman3000 Год назад

Thanks for the back stage history story Dr, Mark! I would not have thought of this as a staged event but how wrong I was.

@RCAvhstape Год назад

Everything that happens in a communist dictatorship is staged.

@mrhamburger6936 Год назад

The world was in serious trouble back in those days more than one way and still is to this day

@ramilv739 5 месяцев назад

Growing up in USSR and hearing war stories from veterans. You can't imagine the atrocities Germans committed. Being sent to gulag, is a very light punishment in my opinion.

@brentandvuk 2 месяца назад

Stalins crimes were equally horrible too, no justice there.

@radenakbar8666 2 месяца назад

Imagine one of your ancestors was a victim of your Stalin, yet none one knew it until the last offspring

@Rebok01 Месяц назад

Russians were much worse.

@ghupft-wie-ghatscht Месяц назад

what a nonsense - gulag = 75% chance to die while suffering in hell. Boy you better learn from history and understand that the poor never had a real choice to make.

@marceloperez6522 Год назад

Thank you for these incredible images, I don't see hate on the faces of the German soldiers, I only see a lot of sadness and dignity in their walk

@ethiop_frum Год назад

А у кого-то из пленных получается сохранять такое лицо? Сомневаюсь. Любой пленник просит о снисхождении.

@Дмитрий-х9з4г 11 месяцев назад

А неновистиив Русских лицах ты видела немцам? Ведь немцы пришли убивать русских и в толпе этих русских наверняка много погибло родствеников от рук этих убийц.

@kurgisempyrion6125 Год назад

A good book if you are interested, and still available, is Panzer Commander by Hans Von Luck. The last two chapters cover his time in a Soviet gulag and how he survived it. Its a good read.

@harrybrass007 Год назад

Read the Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer!!!! There is no substitute!!!!

@antoninagarkalna1444 Год назад

Read former British soldier Julian Tunstall's book "I Fought in Korea".

@LTCJWE Год назад

I lived & worked in Moscow for 4 yr 2002 - 2006. My flat was just a couple blocks off Tverskaya St & not far from Metro Belorusskaya & train station there. I had heard stories that German soldiers were marched thru Moscow, prisoners from Army Grp Center captured during operation Bagration. I’ve seen parts of this video before as its on youtube - search on German soldiers march etc Interesting to me is the scene at the 5:38 mark of this video, that’s Belorusskaya train station & its clearly Tverskaya st they are marching down. Forgot the name of that bridge at end & name of train station they were marching to. Watching the video, I always feel sorry for those guys esp in knowing what would happen to them, what lay ahead - Siberian gulags, slave labor, starvation, cold, neglect, exposure etc. & most would never return home. Most of them kids, typical soldiers that do as they’re ordered. Can hardly blame Russians - Germans came to kill & did enormous damage/loss of life to Russia, not to mention the horror of what happened to so many Russian prisoners.

@andrewverinchuk1694 Год назад

Many german POW were nit sent to Siberia but were constructing new buildings destroyed by German military in Moscow, Sevastopol, Novorossiyk and other cities in USSR

@derin111 Год назад

My own maternal grandfather was captured on the Eastern Front and didn’t return to Germany from being a POW until the mid-1950s.

@matttodd7801 Год назад

Great post man. This is a super story.

@t-fuelernienotoriousmisfit7449 Год назад

Excellent footage. I am 52 years old and I don't ever remember seeing footage of this kind. Exceptional🧐💪🫨

@lifesahobby Год назад

The comments are almost as much fun as the film 👍

@oliverdickens4641 Год назад

To me this has echos of a Roman Triumph. Parading the spoils of war through the capital.

@galshaine2018 Год назад

Was waiting for this episode to be covered by Dr. Felton! For some 30 years now I wondered how this parade was actually organized... my Gradmother, a Polish refugee, with my father (a baby) watched it and told me one could hear the repearted metal sound of the POWs metal mugs and cutlery hanging on their belts, knocking as they marched. I Wonder if these scenes inspired the cretors of "band of brothers" when they made the POW march in the autobahn at the one chapter before last....

@cammobunker Год назад

Probably not. There's an actual photo taken from an Autobahn overpass and the US Army is advancing up both sides while the center median is a virtual river of German POWs going the other way. I'm certain that's what inspired that scene.

@galshaine2018 Год назад

@@cammobunker Thanks! Makes sense. The Moscow march, though, has pictures taken from street level, some really resemble the ones in BoB, including the looks at the officers faces.

@worldsokayestmedic4568 Год назад

Very interesting! I'd never seen any of the background information or clips about this event. Thanks!

@rolfagten857 Год назад

Siberia POW labour. Cornelius Rost (27 March 1919, Kufstein, Austria - 18 October 1983, Munich, Germany)[1][2][3] was an Austrian drafted into the German army as a soldier in World War II who escaped from a Soviet Gulag camp in Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia. His experiences were the basis for a book, a television series, and a film.

@valerijoukov239 Год назад

Chukchi Peninsula - it is not Siberia)) - it is the North-East of Russia - or just "North" for Russians. The capital of this region is " Magadan" - a lot of buildings in that city were constructed by Japanese POW....and it is very questionable that German POW would be sent over there....very expensive transportation of more than 10,000 km by rails and then 5000 km by sea to the settlement of Uelen

@rolfagten857 Год назад

@@valerijoukov239 So, the German POW's go to Stalingrad and rebuild it?!

@valerijoukov239 Год назад

@@rolfagten857 German POW's mostly worked in the Western part of USSR - rebuilding everything - including Stalingrad...Some of them were sent to Siberia(regions from Ural mountains to lake Baikal) to work in the forest industry...

@rolfagten857 Год назад

@@valerijoukov239 Oke great intel! and what about POW SS / NSDAP party members?!

@valerijoukov239 Год назад

@@rolfagten857 What is the difference? Do you think they were executed? - or specifically sent to the North? The temperature on the cost line of a sea - much lower then in the middle of Siberia))) My relative supervised forest harvest in Irkutsk region after the war - he worked with Japanese - no Germans were presented....