The HIDDEN GRAVE of Hitler's Sister & His Nazi Mentor | History Traveler Episode 277

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Graveyards & cemeteries are places where we can learn more about history. While in Berchtesgaden, we took the opportunity to visit a German war cemetery and a few others that have some interesting figures connected with the Third Reich. Much to learn!
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@apstrad Год назад

Several years ago, my son and I were in a small town called Waldenburg, south of Frankfurt. As we were driving through I spotted a graveyard full of German cross grave markers. We pulled over and walked through, probably 40 markers, all had died on the same day, which I found to be very interesting. As we entered town, we stopped in a small cafe to eat lunch. We were greeted by an 80+ year old woman who was overjoyed to see us, her husband, not so much. We had a great meal, but the entire time we were under the debilitating gaze of her husband, a very large man. When I approached him, and tried to talk to him, he stared right through me, turned and left. When we got back to the midwest, I researched the date so many had died. At first the date coincided with a sinking of a large troop ship evacuating soldiers and civilians in the Baltic...then I came across the history of Waldenburg, and realized that the Americans forcefully took Waldenburg towrds the end of the war, and all the markers were of the German soldiers who lost their lives that day. It also struck me as to why the owners husband looked at me with hatred in his eyes....he was the right age to have been in the German army at that time, and those were probably his comrades who died that day.....To the day I die, I will never forget the look in his eyes...

@stevescoolcollectibles5182 Год назад

You forgot the vest bit… where you spat in his bratwurst when he wasn’t looking lol

@RicardoRMedina Год назад

@@stevescoolcollectibles5182 ???

@j.lietka9406 Год назад

Did you happen to see a statue/memorial dedicated to the fallen German soldiers / sailors? Thank you 🤓

@ryancampbell1252 Год назад

The older gentleman was some of the last from that generation. Up to a certain time Americans were still hated and spat on because of what they had done to their country and their support of bolshevism.

@tbone1574 Год назад

Dam... Whata experience. Just Wow...

@susiebell8904 Год назад

My grandmother's three brothers were drafted from their farms to go and fight in the Wehrmacht. They wound up on the Russian front. Two died and one was a POW who didn't come back from Russia until years after the war (I think I remember it was 1950). He was pretty messed up. They were NOT supporters of the Nazis but could not object. My grandmother almost got arrested for her outspoken rhetoric against the Nazis. She used to always tell me stories of living through that nightmare era. To the day she died, she never forgave others in the village, even the neighbor right across the street, for their support of the Nazi party. She never spoke to them again. I'm amazed she made it through the war without consequences.

@williamrobinson827 Год назад

Suzie, thanks for your info about your grand-aunt and grand-uncles. They serve as a reminder that many Germans during WW2, including many in the service, detested Hitler and the Nazis.

@clovergrass9439 6 месяцев назад

Opposing NS? After having created an amazing healthy culture?

@PeppieP Год назад

All these young German lives lost along with millions of others. For the beliefs of men who did not do the fighting themselves. So sad. Thank you once again for showing us.

@Wanous-hv7zo Год назад

Yea what about all the allies soldiers that got killed to free the world of the nazi pigs????

@brutter602 Год назад

With all wars, they are caused by politicians.

@remymac4677 Год назад

Really? Hitler was a combat veteran. Goring was a combat veteran. Rohm was a combat veteran. I can go on

@joenickell6323 Год назад

What. Goering and Hitler were war veterans. What about the Beer Hall Putsch......

@MikezonaZona Год назад

@@joenickell6323 what about the beer hall push

@susiebell8904 Год назад

My family is German and though I am currently in Arizona, at this time, almost my entire family is in southern Germany, not that far from where you are. When you noted the cemetery florals, etc. on the graves, it is actually done by families of the dead. My family in Germany regularly plant flowers on the graves of my deceased family members. On certain holidays like Christmas & Easter, you'll find extra landscaping at the graves. The families go and replace dying plants, plant new ones, and take care of the weeds, etc. They clean off the headstone or marker, etc. It's just what you do. That part is not maintained by the cemetery. Individual graves are the responsibility of the families.

@davidwillis4839 Год назад

Past history aside, I absolutely appreciate Germans for being so orderly, structured and respectful of the rule of law. Laziness doesn't appear to be part of German culture. I always enjoy my visits there.

@stevejohnston2715 Год назад

As long as you continue to pay rent at the cemetery...

@SandraLily2 Год назад

@@stevejohnston2715 Correct. If not, another body is put over the current occupant.

@ronniecardy Год назад

I understand we the Americans are paying for the upkeep of the Cemeteries over there Just saying

@davidwillis4839 Год назад

@@ronniecardy What cemeteries are you referring to? The official ABMC locations?

@mikemyers3382 Год назад

My aunt was born in Germany and was a young girl during WW2. Her family hated the Nazis. So not all Germans were Nazis. Read the book, "In the Shadow of His Wings" Very good read.

@sundinfamforlife4129 Год назад

Nope, some hated him and if you spoke out against him you would be a political criminal. Also there were people who hid Jews in their houses too.

@mplslawnguy3389 Год назад

I don't think most Germans even knew the full picture. People forget that most Germans were just regular people trying to get by, they weren't card carrying Nazis and members of the SS. Obviously there were enough people onboard to make it happen, but the German army was mostly just regular people, who had no other choice but to fight. History is complicated, but people want to simplify things and just say one thing was bad and one thing was good. Well, the Allies did plenty of bad too. The war wasn't a Hollywood movie.

@thesupportingcast6972 Год назад

My mother in law was from Diepoltz. Her family lived in the country part around that city. Yeah… there were definitely people who hated Hitler. She has REAL pictures from that era, and it is surreal.

@kimberlybates6261 Год назад

At the end when the Germans were getting in panic mode they forced many to serve who did not want too. It's the same in all countries we don't always go along with party lines or politics or those in charge. Some people already know when something is off or wrong about a war.

@kimberlybates6261 Год назад

Many Germans did risk their lives to help others get out of Germany or any country under the control of the Germany under Hitler at that time. Hitler killed everyone. Homosexuals, political opponents, Gypsy, Jews, people with mental or physical ailments. He was psycho and so were the people around him. Seems throughout history a Hitler pops up.

@marleneyager3718 Год назад

Your video is fascinating as usual. My mother, Anneliese was a German war bride, having met my father, Francis, a U.S. Army sergeant in May 1945. She lost three brothers and a nephew during the war. Two of her brothers died in the battle of Stalingrad and one was in the hospital when it was bombed. Her family was not members of the nazi party and her brothers and nephew were drafted into service. Many people believe that all Germans were nazis, which is far from the truth. She was from Duisburg near the rhine river. She and my father were married for 50 years and I am proud to be German. M. Yager (Jager, Hunter in Deutsch).

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Oh wow. Thanks for sharing that.

@WielkaStopa-qh1rr 7 месяцев назад

So they were part of killing nazi machine who enslaved the nations and tried to wipe of all nations. what a innocent poor victims

@mikenixon2401 Год назад

I love the unusual and unexpected lessons of history. Thank you for all your work. Keep traveling.

@DaveSCameron Год назад

Top comment here #OurHistory

@rodc7 Год назад

After a bit of investigating I think that James Barry Kraft is indeed buried with his German born wife Edith. Robert James Kraft on the bottom plaque appears to be his Grandson who died of cancer last year. His Obituary has him buried in Italy where he had been living, so this is probably a memorial plaque. James Kraft's son (Roberts father) seems to still be alive in 2023.

@curtgomes Год назад

In 2004 I traveled to Europe with some of the original Band of Brothers. It was the trip of a lifetime. While in Berchtesgaden, I walked the very cemetery and spot you are walking here. I couldn't help but be fascinated by the German WWII graves that I saw, some of the exact ones you feature here. On many, I saw where sometimes there were three soldiers in one grave. Mostly, all WWII veterans of the Eastern front. These head stones have, in many cases, photos of the young soldiers interred there. This cemetery is well kept and Incredibly fascinating. The people we met along the way were very nice and accommodating. However, on one occasion, while at Eagle's Nest on this same trip, a very old woman walked near the US veterans I was with and spit on the ground. There is still some animosity for sure. Did you notice all the colorful Nazi murals still on display on the buildings in Berchtesgaden?

@realwealthproperties5671 Год назад

Curtis sounds like a great trip! I would love to connect and hear some of your stories from the trip. I was a student of Stephen Ambrose the semester he book came out. He had Winters, Lipton, Walter Gordon and a few others visit our class and they also put on a seminar in New Orleans. All of those men signed my book and it’s a treasure of mine. Drop your email if you don’t mind in the reply to me.- Brad

@curtgomes Год назад

@@realwealthproperties5671 Yes, I did reply but it was taken down?? I live in Napa Calif.

@jensnitsche4994 Год назад

Es wird lange dauern, bis die Wunden heilen, die nur eine einzige Person verursacht hat...

@curtgomes Год назад

@@jensnitsche4994 Yes, we ALL have to be better informed. Believing, carte blanche, government officials is the fault of the people....

@vicarious1717 Год назад

My mind is blown right now. I said to myself as you were looking at the Dorr grave, my family name before they moved to America was Kastner. They shortened it to Kast after they arrived. Then you go right to a grave with Kastner. Yep, Mind Blown...

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

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@Parachutist123 8 месяцев назад

@@TheHistoryUnderground Stephen Ambrose page 277: Major Winters finds body of General Kastner in Göerings Quarters. Gen Kastner full name was Kästner-Kirdorf a Luftwaffe general. In Spielbergs BoB it is a German SS general found in Eagles Nest... a film...

@russellbrown4213 Год назад

These military cemeteries are fascinating.

@LetMeEducateYou-vj6un Год назад

It is about WW2

@joeritchie4554 Год назад

I really appreciate you posting these videos. I am glad that you are not only educating us about the area, but letting us see the beauty of the area. Thank you.

@karenbrown4524 Год назад

Don't think we blinked during the entirety of this video, except when the commercials popped up. (We never skip them, if that helps.) We thank both of you for presenting this critical history in such a way that is incredibly fascinating. Creating historical media has to be incredibly time and monetarily intensive, so again, thank you so much. We can't wait for the year-end presentations you talked about.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

🙏🏼

@delboytrotter2042 Год назад

I get such a good warm feeling inside when I see that.. the never skips. Good job..

@vanessamorgan5780 Год назад

I too think the German cemeteries are beautiful and vastly different from the ones here in Australia. When I was in Germany 2018, I visited many of the cemeteries and loved every one of them.

@benjaminrush4443 Год назад

The American Soldier Col. Kraft is of German descent. He might have connections to the area through his ancestors from Germany. I totally enjoy all your tours involving cemeteries, and the due respect for those who have died and buried 'Underground' during the Wars. Germans have a thing for Vending Machines. Thank you.

@The.Original.Potatocakes Год назад

The Japanese have a thing for vending machines. The most in the world.

@benjaminrush4443 Год назад

@@The.Original.Potatocakes Thanks. Haven't been to Japan. Took two General's Plans to bring Japan & Germany to the Vending Machine forefront. (Joke).

@yanzhao7298 Год назад

I truly enjoy watching your videos! You care and you aren’t just trying to get viewers. You truly have an interest.

@fredv7487 Год назад

Another fantastic video JD. Thanks so much for taking us along. Always sad to see the amount of loss of life of so many for so few. 👍👍👍👍👍🍻

@4everfito497 Год назад

Your channel is gold for someone like me .. I appreciate what you do

@matthewmctaggart7506 Год назад

Another fascinating video. Great job with all of them

@gaylewright8270 Год назад

J D, your films on Germany have been marvelous. So much history in little things. Thanks for all you do.

@Tennessee6447 Год назад

Absolutely love these videos, you're doing a great job buddy! 👍🏻

@yaterspoon57 Год назад

And Dick Winters found the body of Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf at Goering's home in Berchtesgaden.

@jacquelinelc2843 Год назад

Thank you for a very respectful tour of this German place of rest. War creates so much pain and loss for all concerned.

@KaylaHrehorets Год назад

I’m so jealous of you J.D walking history. I’d be speechless in so many of the amazing places you’ve been. ❤

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Much appreciated. Glad to share the experiences.

@tessaleroux7725 Год назад

I’ll be staying in Koniggssee for a week in August and I am definitely going to visit these cemetries and show my respect for the German soldiers who passed. So sad and tragic to lose 4 sons. Bless them all. Thank you for sbaring

@GhostshadowShadowghost Год назад

Will you also show respect for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust over there ?

@janf.vanachtern Год назад

Thank you very much, Tessa.

@cynthiabeckenbaugh5189 Год назад

My grandfather's family was originally from Easebach, Germany. I have visited his family cemetery, it was in a mining area, all the head markers were metal, and recycled for the war effort. I was inside one of the Churches, were he attended, 1740. The church was just restored, the local ladies were having a knitting circle. The local Mayor stopped by and spoke broken English. Everyone was very kind and respectful. I noticed that some of the older ladies felt uncomfortable with our being there. I asked the mayor , to tell them, we had nothing but respect for them, and held no hard feelings. My 12 great grandfathers house still stands and is in beautiful area.

@susanramsey3521 Год назад

Per Col. James Kraft's obit he commanded a recreation area at Berchtesgaden for some time after the war. He retired from the Army in 1954 and lived in Vienna, where he died.

@adammitchell3462 Год назад

I'm always absolutely floored when I see the vastness and beauty of those Bavarian mountains.

@puertoricangringo3144 Год назад

Bavaria and the Garmisch/Berchtesgaden region is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. Highly recommended place to visit.

@Ronaldl2350 Год назад

I could only imagine the sorrow of the families that lost those brothers. All because of a few wicked men. Well said JD, about these graves are of people that were still human and had families that cared for them.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

👍🏻

@JackFisherTrio Год назад

More than a few wicked..why wait ti off yourself and do the deeds of the devil first. If you’re only choice…do it before you murders millions.

@lurking0death Год назад

"Wicked men" were responsible for the Nazi attrocities....not the vast majority of "Good Germans" like your family, 'ay?

@Outlier999 Год назад

More than a few. The Germans have to accept that there were hundreds of thousands of Nazis in the German armed forces, and not just the SS. They may not have wanted the war, but they wanted to win anyway.

@jetsons101 Год назад

If hitler only got into art school and became a famous artist how different things would be today. I always give thanks to the brave Americans, "The Greatest Generation," that fought for our freedoms. But this may sound weird, the German soldiers were also brave but were very much misguided by the higherups in the nazi government. Thank to JD for all his time, research and hard work.....

@WW24343 11 месяцев назад

Great Comments 👍🏽

@paulgerrard9227 Месяц назад

The allies fought the war. Not america. They also joined the war many years later

@jetsons101 Месяц назад

@@paulgerrard9227 Yes it was a team "allies" but the term Greatest Generation is a term given to the American solders, factory workers, farmers, and anyone else involved in the war effort. We had a President at the time that didn't want to get involved in the war, Peral Harbor changed that. But for me all the allies are part of the greatest generation.

@missouraboatride7776 Год назад

Thank you for all you all do!! I’m really enjoying this series. I’m too old now to go there, but you all make me feel like I am there!! I really appreciate it!! Thanks again!!👍🏻👍🏻

@adammitchell3462 Год назад

My goodness,I can't imagine what those poor families went through after such loses

@jennsadventures84 Год назад

I went to the German military cemetery in Normandy. The graves are cared for by the people of Normandy. It was still somber. And we have to remember that not all German citizens were nazi party members. Thank you for sharing these sites. We need to be reminded war is not good.

@edgar6628 Год назад

If hitler never came to power I would not be here along with my brother and sister, born in 1993 my grandad (Polish) joined the royal navy during the 2nd World War and then settled in England afterwards meeting my English nan. If the war never happened my grandad would have never met my nan

@ssoozee Год назад

My father-in-law served as part of Adolph’s Hitler Youth, and, my gosh, did he and my mother-in-law have stories. Hitler was evil, evil, evil.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Yep.

@jamesholbrook7785 Год назад

Wonderful video. I love going through old cemeteries. It helps study them.

@nickpapagiorgio5056 Год назад

Sometimes people tend to forget that not all German soldiers were Nazis like Hitler but many of course did make a conscious decision to partake in the worst of the worst atrocities during the war but there are many that of course did not. Many were human beings just like us that got caught up in the fervor of a new and stronger Germany and the war itself while others were simply forced to join the party or be an outsider in a place and time where that could get you and your family killed. There is a grey area unfortunately of people that did not think like Hitler did that get bundled into the deplorable and disgusting events that took place even if they didnt contribute to that aspect of nazism. Many were just soldiers fighting for their country that died horrible deaths and some of those people (not all) deserve to be remembered for who they were and recognized for their bravery and courage.

@timf2279 Год назад

They all took the Fuhrer oath.

@JasperJokerII Год назад

To hell with them all for all the misery and destruction they cast upon the world that continues to this day

@puertoricangringo3144 Год назад

As a USAF veteran,and the son of a veteran,I totally agree with this. The same can be said of Confederate veterans of the Civil War and even vets of the Iraq/Afghanistan war.

@nickpapagiorgio5056 Год назад

@@puertoricangringo3144 Thank you so much for yours and your dads service!!!!!

@computerbugie Год назад

@nickpapagiorgio5056 I completely agree, I live in the Netherlands, Europe. Where there is still a taboo on honoring German soldiers. I have two German teenage soldiers to thank for saving my grandmother during a bombing, only to die a few meters away. Thanks to two teenage soldiers, I was able to meet my grandmother. And I remain eternally grateful to these soldiers. Sorry, my English writing is not very good, please forgive my mistakes. Greetings from the Netherlands Europe.

@beckybanta126 Год назад

One of your comments reminded me of a friend I had who was 10 years old in 1942-43 living in Germany. She & her family were so AGAINST the Nazi SS & all they stood for. However, her 2 older brothers were forced into the Nazi army or harm would come to their very close net family. They did not come home. They loved their country, but she, her mother & another sibling escaped their home to America even under watchful eyes. I continue to appreciate the work, research, & filming of each episode, reminding us of the humanity to be respected. TU!

@puertoricangringo3144 Год назад

Yes.My German grandfather ,the Burgermeister(Mayor) of a small town was sent to a concentration camp for the duration of the war for not turning in the Jews,which ironically,included my Grandmother.I also had an uncle killed in the Eastern Front and my mom’s cousin was on a UBoat and was a POW in Canada. Then my mom goes and marries an American GI.Complicated family history,to say the least!lol

@alabamatruthseeker454 Год назад

My father in law was born in Latvia and had one younger brother. He was pressed into the German army against his will to save his parents and brother. He was wounded and ended up in a British POW hospital, where he defected. He lived in England for a time and then moved to Canada where he met my mother in law. He had lost both parents by that time. He wrote to his brother, who was still in Latvia under communist rule. His brother wrote back telling him not to write again, because the mail was censored. My Pop never saw his brother or talked to him again. He could only go back to Latvia after the fall of communism in the 1980's. He had a niece there that he got to visit and stay in contact with. At Christmas time, he wanted a photo each year of his family to send to her, but he wouldn't allow the photo to be made close to the Christmas tree and the gifts. Even though he sent money to his niece to help her family, he wouldn't allow photos of the family around the tree and gifts, because he would say...I don't want them to see that we have so much, when they have so little. Pop was an amazing man and I loved hearing him tell me about Latvia and his life there.

@TheBigBoyBrian Год назад

I've heard stories of men in eastern Europe joining the German army to fight the Russians then swapping sides near the end of the war, to fight on the side of the Russians to defeat Nazi Germany!

@jessecarpenter7051 Год назад

Wow God bless that man!!! That was so nice for him to think like that ❤ we Need more people like your father in law

@joshrabatin Год назад

A candle vending machine...that is amazing! ❤ Thank You yet again for the time well spent/learned!

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

👍🏻

@reaperskeeper8259 Год назад

This is really cool stuff every other history channel does not dwell into.

@sarahjones-jf4pr Год назад

Dwell into"....????

@ericscottstevens Год назад

AH kept his sister(s) at a distance. Paula did have limited access to the Berghof but her brother thought she was not too intelligent in normal circumstances. Paula "Heidler" as the names she used during the 1930s did envy a house, eventually had it seized from the owner by force with some NSDAP help, after the war Paula fled that residence and went into seclusion.

@Charles-xe2qh Год назад

Excellent video. I've read a lot about WW2 but had no idea that Hitler had a full sister that lived to adult hood. For some reason I always thought he was an only child. In addition, visiting these graveyards makes one realise again the horrible, heart breaking tragedy of all these young people lost in the war, on all sides. But for one man and a small group of key followers, all this pointless pain, waste and suffering would never have happened.

@puertoricangringo3144 Год назад

Hitler actually had a nephew who was in the US Navy!

@stevejorgensen5274 Год назад

And another nephew that Stalin cought and I believe executed.

@jagdtiger7094 Год назад

Paula defended her brother, maybe its still on RU-vid, she had a point.

@johnstup4479 Год назад

The many things we learn at these cemeteries. Thanks JD for bringing us along!

@countrytxrose Год назад

I find it interesting how diffent country's and even different states do thier cemeterys, both civilian and military . Thank you for showing us.

@ScottBryant-wi7gb Год назад

Hello from beautiful and sunny NC! Thanks for sharing the new video.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@jamesdellaneve9005 Год назад

My buddy’s dad was a US soldier. He married a German girl and took her back to the US. She was in the lineage from the old German aristocracy. Her dad owned newspapers and wrote against H before he rose to power. The brown shirts hung him in the square. She talked a bout the piles of flowers and eventually, she had an interview with H. Back in the US, I met them in the 1980’s and they had some things from the castle. Like Ming dynasty vases and Chinese rugs, and jewelry from the royal family. Don’t recall their names in the old country.

@wolverineeagle Год назад

Hitler’s parents were buried over as well. They removed their headstone a few years ago and replaced it with that of the person they buried on top of them. In Germany you have to pay for a burial spot annually to keep it. If you stop paying someone also can purchase the spot.

@jroar123 Год назад

My Grandfather who served in WW2 in Italy once told me that the only good Nazi was a dead Nazi. As a Mason he detested war or even the thought of killing of anyone. He lied while in Boot Camp about being an Engineer from the University of Texas thinking that if he kept a low profile they might just make him a cook or something. He left gunnery school in Oklahoma and headed to Italy. He spent the entire war there. As he began to see what the Nazis did to the Italian people and his fellow Americans, he learned to hate them with extreme prejudice. When his commanding officer was killed, they made him Sargent and he had to take over his duties. Because of his uncanny ability to place rounds on target time after time, they gave him a field commission even though he didn't want it. His war in Italy was one that he never talked about until a few years before his death. He and I sat outside while the sun started going down on a porch at his Texas farm. I had a video camera out and recording while he talked about what he did during the war. I never knew that such a kind hearten man could be pushed to the point of killing a man with his bare hands. It was kill or be killed and he got to go home. Unlike the names on the walls in this video, his war started after the war was over. He battled PTSD without even knowing what it was but he won that battle as well.

@michaelwhisman Год назад

Your grandfather was no better than any Nazi.

@hannahdickens8256 Год назад

I’m glad I’m not the only one who enjoys visiting cemeteries, so much history. Thanks for sharing

@MrBosseastrom Год назад

Thank you for showing history with grace and respect.

@jamesd9900 3 часа назад

Another great video, thanks as always! We actually stayed real close to the Berchtesgaden's "downtown" cemetery a few months ago and spent quite a bit of time looking over the graves there, especially the Soldiers' graves. All in all, Berchtesgaden is a must see for anyone heading to Germany in my opinion, not just for history, but for how beautiful it is.

@Qigate Год назад

Most of us in the West do not realize how many German soldiers and civilians died in World War 2. The current count for Germany is over 4 million dead. US soldier deaths were a tenth of that number. The devastation to families and towns is difficult to grasp.

@OneSingleBreath Год назад

If you take a look only at the Sailors on the german U-Boats….. there were approximately 31.000 active personnel, and 26.000 of them died.

@geoffthiessen646 Год назад

Yet again Thanks for taking us along , appreciate all you do,,,

@cindisprock7993 Год назад

German cemeteries are some the most beautiful places I've ever had the privilege to visit! I've spent hours in them, so beautiful.

@suzannebaker6096 Год назад

I was lucky enough to get to live in Germany in the 1990's because of military orders. While there I visited as many places as I could Bergesgaden being one of the places. One thing I notices about germany is the beauty. Cemeteries, beautiful, streets, always clean. When you walk the cobblestone streets, look up at the windows. 99.9 percent of windows have beautiful lace curtains. It's something you will never see here. I went to The Eagles Nest, The Salt Mines ( a must do if traveling there) as well as Prague in Czech and bought their Bohemian Lead Crystal and fine China. I have visited several Concentration camps as well. The air was so heavy with death that I found it hard to breathe. I am thoroughly enjoying watching you go to these places and enjoy them the way I did.

@mamma_zoot Год назад

Really enjoy your videos and I have learned so much since I started watching you! I hope someday you go to Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. That place is amazing! It's the 4th largest cemetery in the world and you could probably get several videos out of it. There is so much history there, plus it is so beautiful!

@docshelley1969 Год назад

I love Hamburg

@labeef1953 Год назад

Love what you do! Thank you so much for taking me to places I could never see on my own.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@stephenrrose Год назад

Great Video JD, love the human side of History! I've said it before and I'll say it again, Thank you for keeping History Alive! Appreciate all you and Eric do!

@jamesholbrook7785 Год назад

I spend a lot of time in cemeteries to learn more about my people. I’m studying a general from the town close to me. He was brigadier general George Dibrell of the confederate cavalry. He was against secession like his second cousin Robert E. Lee, but he went with his state of Tennessee just like Lee went with Virginia.

@hennyvanderlinden4455 Год назад

Nooit meer oorlogen

@kendallkidd20 Год назад

Love your history channel brother, I’m a regular watcher. Unknown Soldiers how sad.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

👍🏻

@Peter-v6l Год назад

Well done! I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for putting a human side to the stories of these soldiers. Regardless of side, soldiers are the same but just with different uniforms. Sadly 20+ million perished in WWII. Imagine how differently the world would be today, with the contributions of all these people, had they not perished.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Tragic.

@TheBigBoyBrian Год назад

More people than that perished during WW2 - Russia alone lost 28 million civilians & soldiers

@eddiemcguire6213 Год назад

Recently subscribed binger here and I cannot thank you enough JD. When you looked across the road from that foxhole in the Ardennes forest I um...I welled up and had to leave the room sir. Thank you and God bless

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

🙏🏼

@liamlad1 Год назад

Kraft died at the US Consulate in Vienna. Not sure if that was his post or not.

@karenkennedy6293 Год назад

I thoroughly enjoy your videos thanks for the tremendous effort that goes toward making them and the detail.

@enriquemireles8947 Год назад

Great and informative enjoyed. A quick search showed James married Edith in Arlington in 1950. He did die in Bavaria in 1967. Didn’t show where she was from , but her parents had some very German names.

@mcvet57103 Год назад

It took 18 minutes into the video to hear a phrase that actually sent a shiver down my spine. You said the rallying cry of the Nazi party was "Germany Awake". So similar to the Democrat catch phrase "Woke America".

@luckyguy600 Год назад

Same style of boot!

@franc9111 Год назад

That's not Democrat, and you know it.

@redsocks771 Год назад

_"The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists."_

@puertoricangringo3144 Год назад

No.smdh

@thEannoyingE Год назад

Another thing of note, Eckart’s grave marker was actually built by the Nazi party itself, the fact that it still exists from that era, along with other wartime era graves, is rather surprising.you’d think it would have been destroyed.

@WildBikerBill 9 месяцев назад

What I found interesting was how plain the gravestone was. A massive slab with no ornamentation whatsoever other than the name. Not even the usual birth and death dates.

@bobpowers6239 Год назад

Wow JD another great episode. For some reason that had a different vibe to it and thanks to Eric too

@wendyHew Год назад

One thing I noticed in Germany was that many if the cemeterys are extremely well kept, the one in Nuremberg was one of the cleanest I have ever seen.

@jujulionesselsa1416 Год назад

I love your Channel The History Underground it is so informative. 😊

@Burgert1776 Год назад

I am heading to the Gettysburg Museum of History on either Friday or Saturday.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Awesome! Much to see there.

@islaannisainsworth4443 Год назад

Society has had a lot of monsters over the T's of years. What I find extremely sad are the people who followed the orders of hate to do their deeds. They themselves are monsters in their own right. Not smart enough to say NO WAY is this what human beings should do to other human beings. Thanks for the information on this video.

@danferrell674 7 месяцев назад

I can see how you and Erik got together. You compliment each other so well. Brothers from a different mother. Nice to see how beautiful the German cemeteries are and how different they are. Thanks again for a great educational video!

@michaelchappell902 Год назад

Videos that are all very well done. Thank you. Please keep them coming.

@anchorageprepper9008 Год назад

J.D. I too was shocked at how beautiful the cemeteries are and how well kept most of them are. The rent/lease of most of the plots are very spendy.

@billharshaw4739 Год назад

Super interesting video! I did find it intriguing that the grave markers identified, if you will, the unknown from unknown soldier, to unknown girl. Very interesting. Good stuff as usual!

@Uprightfossil 11 месяцев назад

Very interesting video JD. Those graves were beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like them.

@billyleroy2465 Год назад

Awesome Video ! Just got back from Prague and visited Heydrich's abandoned villa outside of Prague .

@WW24343 11 месяцев назад

How that Abondant Villa look was it well kept.... Who owns it surprised it still there

@Outlier999 Год назад

She told the Allied officers who interrogated her, "Please understand. He was my brother." What was the excuse of the others who served him?

@garysimpson3900 Год назад

I have visited the cemetery shown at 12:56. Those remembrance tablets around the walls really touched me: the number listed as "Gefallen Im Osten" is shocking & illustrates the extent of German losses. Those in 1943-45 probably have no known grave, their bodies left on the battlefield or buried in a trench/shell hole by their kameraden as the German forces retreated towards the homeland.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Год назад

As I understand it the as the Soviets advanced into areas held by the Germans they obliterated all traces of the German military cemeteries but didn't disturb the graves themselves. All markers of any kind were totally removed. So who knows where they are now?

@garygriffiths6998 Год назад

While stationed in Bitburg, Germany in 1982, I had the privilege of attending a German Masonic Lodge meeting. All of the Brothers present were elderly, and of the 24 or 25 who attended, only 4 or 5 had all four limbs and both eyes. Such is war. 😣

@kathleenbrenner6296 Год назад

JD anymore info on the sister as to why she was buried that way? Excellent video as always

@Ganiscol Год назад

She was buried there first and as it is common in many places in Europe due to limited space, a grave site will either get double or more "occupancy" by stacking them on top of one another or by removing the remains after a number of decades (give or take) and put in a more compact final resting place, if nobody is around to pay for the upkeep of the original site.

@bikerz3857 Год назад

Why hide her name?

@lewisdarne5852 Год назад

@@bikerz3857 Because they are afraid of neo nazis coming to honor her. They did that to Rudolf Hess's grave. The W. German government ended up digging them up, cremating Hess and his wife. Then scattering their ashes in a river or the ocean.

@Hudpix16 Год назад

@@bikerz3857 I guess due to the fact that she doesn’t have any living descendants plus I assume the cemetery or the council would not want that to become a shrine for his followers or anything like that.

@SoCal780 Год назад

Amazing content in this video. I learned quite a bit. Thanks JD and Erik.

@DaveSCameron Год назад

Wonderful drone scenes, many thanks 🌟

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Many thanks

@normahird9059 Год назад

JD..... The POWs that died in captivity in Vietnam have a similar date of death on the Vietnam Wall. The husband of a good friend of mine died in captivity in a POW camp in South Vietnam. Since the exact date of death was not known his name was added to the Wall according to the date of his capture. His name is Robert Young. His helicopter was shot down at the time of the Kent State protest. His body was found many years later.

@carlsowell8099 Год назад

Thank You for the information that you present. Always awesome.

@TheHistoryUnderground Год назад

Thanks again!

@isaakasimov2456 Год назад

Das ist wirklich spannend - danke dafür.

@davef.2329 Год назад

All else aside, what a magically beautiful, serene place. Thanks for presenting this.

@adamcorum-wa7cug794 Год назад

Man, your B-roll is on point as always! Love the channel, keep it up! Do you ever dabble in local investigative history? I recently read a book about my local history I would love to see a deeper dive in. I would happily send you the book if so!

@Savannah19 Год назад

We have the same standard of our swedish graves . I was shocked to see graves in the states how empty and sad they actually look.

@ricmurray4596 11 месяцев назад

How empty and evil these Nazis lived, fuck all of them!

@peterthebellhop7961 Год назад

One grave you showed at 19:24, had a Johann Keilhofer who passed on 6/11/44 in Cherbourg may have been someone my father knew.

@rolans.2073 Год назад

Another great video. I wonder though if the bodies were actually buried there or are those just markers. For those who died overseas or even in Munich or Berlin, it would have been very difficult to be transporting bodies to their hometowns at time of war or even right after the war.

@putthefuinfun1947 Год назад

"Did you really believe that this war would end wars? The suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame. The killing, and dying it was all done in vain. Oh willy Mcbride it all happened again, and again ,and again, and again"

@marleneyager3718 Год назад

Keep your wonderful videos coming. They are so interesting and informative. Thank you JD!

@ijazmailbox7082 Год назад

Very well done video. And you are right, there are conflicting emotions but over all it’s depressing!

@greggriffin1 Год назад

Always great content, love your vids. Thank you

@64maxpower Год назад

Those grave sites are kept beautifully

@dragonpullman23 Год назад

Kind of interesting how Paula Hitler's name is obscured while the man behind the monster has his name on full display. Also, does Paula deserve to have her name obscured just because of who her brother was?

@420goat Год назад

the cemetery owners probably didn't want anyone vandalizing the grave site,did you also notice on the man behind the monsters grave it was only his name no birth date or death date

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Год назад

You'd have to be a real student of the Nazi Party to know who Dietrich Eckhart was. He died in 1923 long before Hitler came to power so while he had an early influence on Hitler that influence was removed by his death. Whether Eckhart would have supported what Hitler and the Nazi Party became, especially the excesses, is anyone's guess. Another founder of the Nazi Party was Anton Drexler who was shunted aside by Hitler fairly early and never rose to prominence.

@williamrobinson827 Год назад

It is, or at least was commonplace in Germany for someone to be interred with a previous grave, particularly if it goes back 2 generations. Normally, the old name was simply replaced by the new one. So the fact that Paula Hitler's name was retained at all was quite rare.

@allangibson8494 Год назад

The Indian Legion was recruited by Chandra Bose from British Indian Army POW’s to fight against the British and French for the Germans during WW2. About a third of the Indian POW’s (4500) defected to the Nazi side.