Hitler’s Personal Train: The Führersonderzug

It was Hitler’s military headquarters on wheels. His mobile steel reinforced refuge. His moving apartment with his own personal servants, bodyguards, communications centre, with all necessities on board. Watch how this steel behemoth appeared during World War II, learn of its functions in keeping the Führer on track with his strategies and plans, as well as marvel at the train’s defences against any possible assault. It was no wonder the Allies never had a clear opportunity to attack the Führersonderzug, as its movements and designs were always covered and wrapped together in thick layers of secrecy.
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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Narrator:
Bryan 'Lazlo' Beauregard
Sources:
Amiard, Caroline, and Daniel Ablin, Le train d'Hitler - La bête d'acier (Paris, 4th November 2017).
Fandom. “Führer Headquarters”. Accessed 3 June 2022.
Hitler Archive. “The Führersonderzug, Hitler's special train.” Accessed 3 June 2022.
Hoffmann, Peter. Hitler’s Personal Security (London, 1979).
Joachimsthaler, Anton. The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth, translated by Helmut Bögler (London, 1998).
Ramsey, Winston G. “Guide to Hitler's Headquarters.” Indiana University: After the Battle Magazine, Issues 17-20, 1978.
Seaman, Mark. Operation Foxley: The British Plan to Kill Hitler (Walderslade, 1998).
Seidler, Franz W., Zeigert, Dieter. Hitler’s Secret Headquarters: The Führer’s Wartime Bases, from the Invasion of France to the Berlin Bunker, translated by Geoffrey Brooks (London, 2004).

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  • @jaysonredacted844
    @jaysonredacted8442 жыл бұрын

    Dont ask a man his salary A woman her weight Thomas the train what he was doing from 1939-1945

  • @yeoldeseawitch

    @yeoldeseawitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    thomas was an English locomotive built in 1915, meaning he would be fighting AGAINST the nazis

  • @residentelect

    @residentelect

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@yeoldeseawitch For years he had terrible flashbacks about being abandoned at the station in Dunkirk because he was too heavy to ferry back across the Channel 😔

  • @yeoldeseawitch

    @yeoldeseawitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@residentelect ...he would also remain in Britain, never travelling abroad. perhaps he wouldn't exactly be happy during the constant bombing of London....

  • @geoffbeyer1873

    @geoffbeyer1873

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@yeoldeseawitch That's what the English will tell you. Thomas had skeletons in his luggage cart

  • @vikstar123.4

    @vikstar123.4

    2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqymy7dripe4hNo.html OMG IT'S FINALLY HERE YES

  • @o24601o
    @o24601o2 жыл бұрын

    I like how you censored the flags but still have the 'Windmill of Friendship' on the train.

  • @kriscurran7794

    @kriscurran7794

    2 жыл бұрын

    I dont think I've ever seen the swastika be described as the "windmill of friendship" 😂😂

  • @okuyasu1066

    @okuyasu1066

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kriscurran7794 friendship to germans though

  • @juanmanuelpenaloza9264

    @juanmanuelpenaloza9264

    2 жыл бұрын

    HAH!

  • @pocketsand4404

    @pocketsand4404

    2 жыл бұрын

    🤣

  • @cleo4922

    @cleo4922

    2 жыл бұрын

    My friends call it the “Health and Safety Windmill.”

  • @hendrikg3616
    @hendrikg36162 жыл бұрын

    My grandma often tells me the story that when this train passed through her village her teachers let her whole school stand next to the tracks and do the salute.

  • @jamesricker3997

    @jamesricker3997

    2 жыл бұрын

    It might not have been voluntary

  • @hendrikg3616

    @hendrikg3616

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesricker3997 Of course it wasn't.

  • @joshbaksim3943

    @joshbaksim3943

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dude, your grandma viewed this train with her own eyes? What a story to tell! Did she have any other stories of the war?

  • @hendrikg3616

    @hendrikg3616

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joshbaksim3943 Being bombed and cowering in a bunker most nights, attacked by low flying fighter planes, seeing the Americans advance and retreat, seeing the Russians come instead, losing her father in Russian captivity and losing her mother in 1947, hiding from the Russians to avoid rape and being "punished" by the local police man for not doing the "proper" greet and salute when entering a shop. Yeah, not so nice stories.

  • @joshbaksim3943

    @joshbaksim3943

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dang bro, that's rough. Sorry to hear that. She's got my respect for sure.

  • @cannonball666
    @cannonball6662 жыл бұрын

    "Pardon me, boys, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo? "Nein, nein, it's der Führersonderzug, track 29"

  • @starcorpvncj

    @starcorpvncj

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good one. At last.

  • @jackpontiac52

    @jackpontiac52

    2 жыл бұрын

    and you can give me a shine !

  • @Thoroughly_Wet
    @Thoroughly_Wet2 жыл бұрын

    "Thomas has done things in the past he's not proud of, but he enjoys being a very useful engine"

  • @wwb16

    @wwb16

    2 жыл бұрын

    well they are tank engines

  • @wwb16

    @wwb16

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Lucas Gonzalez that would never suit his grace

  • @pangoprime8674

    @pangoprime8674

    2 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @shelbyspeaks3287

    @shelbyspeaks3287

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Tomas had no Jewish conductors anymore, no!, now only his fatherland guided him to immorality..."

  • @Mehtaru

    @Mehtaru

    2 жыл бұрын

    These jokes just don't work for me given Thomas is British.

  • @haxsa4467
    @haxsa44672 жыл бұрын

    As a train fan, it’s quite interesting to learn about trains from history. I just got off a train today

  • @starcorpvncj

    @starcorpvncj

    2 жыл бұрын

    you just got off a train yesterday? Really? What an interesting, exciting, and adventureous life you lead.

  • @BeingFireRetardant

    @BeingFireRetardant

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@starcorpvncj You deduced all that from his two sentences? Seems like an awfully big conclusion to draw from such tiny little clues... Choo-choo's are cool man. You never know what's awesome to someone else. I didn't know flying was cool till I had a buddy take me up in a glider, floating silently in the sky, all graceful and practically weightless, looking at the curve of the earth, and the trees in full autumn down below... Some days are better than others. Some days you fly a plane. Some days you ride a train. This is a video about trains. Relevance matters. Thank you for coming to my TED talk...

  • @teddyfresh9605

    @teddyfresh9605

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like turtles

  • @vikstar123.4

    @vikstar123.4

    2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqymy7dripe4hNo.html OMG IT'S FINALLY HERE YES

  • @Mehtaru

    @Mehtaru

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, pretty much the same. I've barely looked into German locomotives though

  • @patrickt7
    @patrickt72 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: the same type of steam locomotives used on the Fuhrersonderzug, called Kriegsloks, are still in limited service in the Balkans after more than 80 years.

  • @mr.someone6128

    @mr.someone6128

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah as someone who lives in a Balkan nation i swear i saw a train similar to it.

  • @Jeppe-Covid1959

    @Jeppe-Covid1959

    8 ай бұрын

    NO!

  • @DavesWings

    @DavesWings

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Jeppe-Covid1959 YES! There are a few Kriegsloks that are used to deliver coal to a power station near Tuzla in Bosnia.

  • @ryanbahrami

    @ryanbahrami

    7 ай бұрын

    Wow

  • @jamesm3471

    @jamesm3471

    6 ай бұрын

    If they ain’t broke, why replace ‘em?

  • @captain_commenter8796
    @captain_commenter87962 жыл бұрын

    *Thomas the Tank Engine’s German cousin*

  • @gannibootis

    @gannibootis

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was looking for a. Thomas the tank engine comment. I'm glad I wasnt the only person who thought the image looked like it was from a really twisted episode of the show

  • @Swissswoosher

    @Swissswoosher

    2 жыл бұрын

    Adolf the Train

  • @ledgaming6489

    @ledgaming6489

    2 жыл бұрын

    Based cousin

  • @oregonrailfan7046

    @oregonrailfan7046

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s Thomas the tank engine not Thomas the train engine

  • @Unstable316

    @Unstable316

    2 жыл бұрын

    💀

  • @danielbauder8001
    @danielbauder80012 жыл бұрын

    I saw one of the carriages in a Museum in Speyer. And I also have this train complete in H0 Scale. The locomotive they used was even bigger. Mostly a Baureihe (Class) 01.10 Streamlined Express Engine. The second loco was for emergency replacement of the first was broken etc.

  • @paulnash6944

    @paulnash6944

    2 жыл бұрын

    That nice! Where did you get the model?

  • @gluznesad33
    @gluznesad332 жыл бұрын

    My grandpa used to live in a small village in germany during ww2 as a kid (he was 8 years old when the war ended) and this train was once parked in a tunnel nearby, while Hitler was visiting one of his headquarters. My grandpa and his friends tried to have a look at it but were send away by some soldiers. Unfortunately the allies found out about the trains location and started attacking the village because of it.

  • @gluznesad33

    @gluznesad33

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@HM-eb4co You can actually look it up online, while he was visiting the Führerhauptquartier Adlerhorst in december 1944 his train was parked in Weilmünster (the city my grandpa grew up). At the time the population was around 3,500 people and there was (and still is) no industry to destroy, so having the train as the main target is reasonable.

  • @gluznesad33

    @gluznesad33

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@HM-eb4co It's okay, it doesn't seem to be too reasonable if you don't know the context. And you are lacking roaming around the town with my grandpa and his cousins while they tell you stories and show you from which directions the bombers used to come and where they ran to the bunker. Can't read that online :)

  • @gluznesad33

    @gluznesad33

    2 жыл бұрын

    The bombings happend 100%, my grand-grandma almost died because of it. They always thought it was because of the train, otherwise it wouldn't make sense to bomb such a small village. But in the end there probably is noone lefr alive who could tell the real and complete story...

  • @davidandrews1693
    @davidandrews16932 жыл бұрын

    I have a feeling you’ll never see that train on any episodes of Thomas and friends.

  • @TonySpike

    @TonySpike

    2 жыл бұрын

    That would be an M Night Shalamyan level of plot twist

  • @nikobellic4203
    @nikobellic42032 жыл бұрын

    "Thomas was only following orders."

  • @fredgervinm.p.3315

    @fredgervinm.p.3315

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dude, lol...

  • @Redatcarndal
    @Redatcarndal2 жыл бұрын

    Now when you don’t censor the swatzica bands and the train front and replace the swatzica on the flag with the iron cross so it doesn’t get banned in Germany then simple history you have officially made a masterpiece history animation

  • @kevindowling157

    @kevindowling157

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Don't Read My Profile Photo I hate accounts like you

  • @overlordmgcover2262

    @overlordmgcover2262

    2 жыл бұрын

    I am german and I can watch them without issue. I wonder why YT is so merciful with simple history here were they force many others to bastardize history.

  • @panzerivausfg4062

    @panzerivausfg4062

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's not called like that...

  • @speakersound4565

    @speakersound4565

    2 жыл бұрын

    He doesnt need to censor cause the Video will fall in the culture and history section. These are not banned. You can even play wolfenstein uncensored in germany because it is seen as art. :)

  • @panzerivausfg4062

    @panzerivausfg4062

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@speakersound4565 Not everytime. KZread censors various things even though it's a historical video. The Iban Headhunters video was demonetized for being too violent. And about the games, not all of them too The German version of CoD WWII replaces the swastika on the flags with Iron Crosses

  • @remy6978
    @remy69782 жыл бұрын

    i enjoy the shaky and chaotic feel of the train while you showed the differnt cars, when in use it most definetley woulve been completely stacked with guards, press employees, caterers, cooks, family members, and numerous high ranking officers, generals, and military personnel.

  • @Remembrance1776
    @Remembrance17762 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of a story I read about a trip he made to the eastern front. Coincidently, at one of the stops, a train carrying wounded soldiers from the front had stopped as well, heading west. Instead of allowing the soldiers to see their Fuhrer who they had given so much, Hitler closed the windows of his train, as if he refused to see for himself what the war was costing his own countrymen.

  • @nathan3748

    @nathan3748

    2 жыл бұрын

    Where's your evidence for this?

  • @Streetrocker28

    @Streetrocker28

    2 жыл бұрын

    Blah blah propaganda ….

  • @Remembrance1776

    @Remembrance1776

    2 жыл бұрын

    The source has been forgotten so if you choose to not believe it feel free to do so. Hitler’s well documented actions as the war turned against him though do not show a leader who cared for his troops well-being.

  • @nathan3748

    @nathan3748

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Remembrance1776 Hitler was a national socialist and struggled his whole life to restore the german folk to morality and greatness. So, i'm pretty sure he cared for his troops well-being, he was also a soldier in WW1 so he knew exaclty what they went through and the struggles they faced. You're simply regurgitating the same old propoganda about Hitler, oh he was evil, he was psychopath, he wanted to kill everyone bla bla bla

  • @areaxisthegurkha

    @areaxisthegurkha

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Remembrance1776 what.

  • @gerrijayakantono2614
    @gerrijayakantono26142 жыл бұрын

    Imagine two members of a street gang have to follow this train with a dirtbike

  • @unde4dmemesauce

    @unde4dmemesauce

    Жыл бұрын

    All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ! MISSION FAILED! Hitler got away! Next time, keep up with the train!

  • @ZeGreatStick
    @ZeGreatStick2 жыл бұрын

    Using this train is like wiping your search history clean after every time you search something on Google.

  • @Thomas-rl9xd
    @Thomas-rl9xd2 жыл бұрын

    Please do a video on the battle of Delville wood. As a South African it would be truly amazing to see our troops remembered on this channel. Thank you..

  • @daviddavidson2357
    @daviddavidson23572 жыл бұрын

    Good Ol Addy, created the first non-smoking train. Ahead of his time by decades.

  • @maxxor-overworldhero6730

    @maxxor-overworldhero6730

    2 жыл бұрын

    Most likely because of his hypochondria. Rumor has it he hated secondhand smoke as well.

  • @marko7843

    @marko7843

    7 ай бұрын

    Yep, non-smokers & politicians tend to be Nazis...

  • @boozecruiser

    @boozecruiser

    7 ай бұрын

    Hitler's view on smoking just confirms that he was lame and evil

  • @jimmylight4866

    @jimmylight4866

    6 ай бұрын

    Banned traffic in village centers due to all the exhaust.

  • @PassTheSnails
    @PassTheSnails2 жыл бұрын

    The animation for this channel has honestly gotten so good

  • @Redatcarndal
    @Redatcarndal2 жыл бұрын

    My favorite history channel because no matter what stupid trouble they’ve got into with KZread I like the fact their still doing uncensored videos and don’t censor the swatzicas and still keep in the blood and I commend and props to simple history for showing us the uncensored, animated and brutal reality of history and war

  • @thatgermanicguy

    @thatgermanicguy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why do they do it though?

  • @Redatcarndal

    @Redatcarndal

    2 жыл бұрын

    Education purposes and the fact that if they don’t show us the brutal side of history and if we don’t get to that side of history we humans wouldn’t learn from our mistakes like the holocaust for example in history class they show us this brutal and awful part history so us people can learn from their mistakes

  • @vikstar123.4

    @vikstar123.4

    2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqymy7dripe4hNo.html OMG IT'S FINALLY HERE YES

  • @kneegerman2076

    @kneegerman2076

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol why should they be censored? Somehow Soviet hammer and sickle are never censored. It just shows the bias and agenda that is being pushed

  • @kneegerman2076

    @kneegerman2076

    2 жыл бұрын

    not "for example". It's the only event that is being pushed into the throats of kids for the last 70 years. I understand that other events don't matter because they do not involve the chosen people, but still pretty strange how only one event is important and all the other are not...

  • @sankyu3950
    @sankyu39502 жыл бұрын

    So this is the train that the kids went on in the polar express

  • @yeoldeseawitch

    @yeoldeseawitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    the *POLISH express

  • @starcorpvncj

    @starcorpvncj

    2 жыл бұрын

    I asked the kids that question but they told me to tell you to F off. Hmm. Kids.

  • @FearlessP4P1
    @FearlessP4P12 жыл бұрын

    The train must have looked ominous and epic in It’s bright red and black paint

  • @rider4440

    @rider4440

    2 жыл бұрын

    Most german trains before, during, and after the war and even now still use those colors

  • @shelbyspeaks3287

    @shelbyspeaks3287

    2 жыл бұрын

    The hitlermobile

  • @Mehtaru

    @Mehtaru

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is a nice simple paint scheme, even if its a bit overused in central to eastern Europe.

  • @kneegerman2076

    @kneegerman2076

    2 жыл бұрын

    Everything looked epic in National Socialist Germany

  • @experience741
    @experience7412 жыл бұрын

    This train will be boss in the fps game.

  • @villiamanimelover

    @villiamanimelover

    2 жыл бұрын

    or just an unkillable god, for years, we gamers tried to stop the train, rather it was atv offroad fury 2, or gta.

  • @olibob203

    @olibob203

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ff5 new boss

  • @chrispy9913

    @chrispy9913

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s the train from gta SA

  • @olibob203

    @olibob203

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chrispy9913 all you had to do was follow that darn train ....

  • @justinworld9

    @justinworld9

    2 жыл бұрын

    New train for GTA6?

  • @sydachraf3129
    @sydachraf31292 жыл бұрын

    Thomas was just following order, good train always follow order

  • @christopherthegreat3896
    @christopherthegreat38962 жыл бұрын

    having your own personal train is so damn cool

  • @adamscott7354

    @adamscott7354

    Жыл бұрын

    Not when its how Hitler got his...

  • @F40M07

    @F40M07

    6 ай бұрын

    If you have Hundreds of thousands, you can restore an old railroad car and pay Amtrak to pull it where you want. Called “Private Cars”

  • @christopherdempsey3878
    @christopherdempsey38782 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see a video on the Halifax explosion next please.

  • @mrcarrot5697

    @mrcarrot5697

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vouch.

  • @Vincent-396
    @Vincent-3962 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully made video. Great job.

  • @vikstar123.4

    @vikstar123.4

    2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqymy7dripe4hNo.html OMG IT'S FINALLY HERE YES

  • @samlovatt6966
    @samlovatt69662 жыл бұрын

    I love railways , so this is something for me there.

  • @LavaHoleD

    @LavaHoleD

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same here

  • @dannyzero692

    @dannyzero692

    2 жыл бұрын

    trains are cool.

  • @Jason.cbr1000rr

    @Jason.cbr1000rr

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same i always liked locomotives since i was a kid. Always drew the local public trains and stuff.

  • @plaguedoctor2k
    @plaguedoctor2k2 жыл бұрын

    German engineering is crazy. their quality of production never fails to amaze me. Unless you count that unfortunate airport of course LOL.

  • @debicadude

    @debicadude

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I mean they were so good that they went way to far in so many projects!

  • @Demonetization_Symbol

    @Demonetization_Symbol

    2 жыл бұрын

    Airport?

  • @toasty8638

    @toasty8638

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Demonetization_Symbol Airport Berlin Brandenburg (BER) - its construction took 14 years

  • @chadpinas1373

    @chadpinas1373

    2 жыл бұрын

    Graf zeppelin?

  • @bludeuce3855

    @bludeuce3855

    2 жыл бұрын

    before ww1 germany was known for having alot of Industrial factories and winning alot of science awards

  • @glaus7593
    @glaus75932 жыл бұрын

    As a railway lover and a future worker for the romanian railways, this video brings happiness

  • @avrajsagoo5372

    @avrajsagoo5372

    2 жыл бұрын

    Heil

  • @glaus7593

    @glaus7593

    Жыл бұрын

    @@avrajsagoo5372 bruh

  • @debicadude
    @debicadude2 жыл бұрын

    Always props for showing history as it was. Respect

  • @fracturedframe1462
    @fracturedframe14622 жыл бұрын

    They made Thomas do it!! He couldn't tell them no He wanted to be a good engine HE DID WHAT HE HAD TO DO DAMMIT

  • @marko7843

    @marko7843

    7 ай бұрын

    He was only following his engineer's orders!

  • @SpaceMonkeyBoi
    @SpaceMonkeyBoi2 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of that episode of Thomas the Tank Engine when James joined the National Socialist party, and helped Toby eradicate the diesel engines. Thomas had to derail both of them to stop the evil plot.

  • @dinosolder6454

    @dinosolder6454

    2 жыл бұрын

    My favorite episode

  • @lucassdawson8208

    @lucassdawson8208

    2 жыл бұрын

    Best episode of all time

  • @olibob203

    @olibob203

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes with the fureh controller

  • @humanitysenterprise
    @humanitysenterprise2 жыл бұрын

    Yup, adding this to the list of things to build in Scrap Mechanic.

  • @captain_commenter8796
    @captain_commenter87962 жыл бұрын

    Thomas made a new friend! *Führersonderzug the Reich Engine*

  • @yugoslavia_operator128
    @yugoslavia_operator1282 жыл бұрын

    The way this video looks is gorgeous.

  • @Xaiff
    @Xaiff2 жыл бұрын

    Watching this as soon as I can. Those "windmills of friendship" might get the video taken down. Interesting to know bits of info about historical world leaders from both the winning & losing side.

  • @vikstar123.4

    @vikstar123.4

    2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqymy7dripe4hNo.html OMG IT'S FINALLY HERE YES

  • @TonySpike

    @TonySpike

    2 жыл бұрын

    I dont know if i find the fact you call them that funny ......or sad

  • @hansmabini7014
    @hansmabini70142 жыл бұрын

    wow, the first 3d sprite of simple history

  • @tommyvercetti5112
    @tommyvercetti5112 Жыл бұрын

    4:20 When you're hittin' the blunt but literal Hitler is in the next room

  • @thesenate9564
    @thesenate95642 жыл бұрын

    Bro had a furher everything. Furhersonderzug, Furherwagen, Furherbunker, probably ended his reign with a Furhrerpistole.

  • @polygonalfortress

    @polygonalfortress

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some streets were named after him though they obviously changed their names later

  • @dilllpikl
    @dilllpikl2 жыл бұрын

    Thomas was only following orders

  • @PartnershipsForYou

    @PartnershipsForYou

    2 жыл бұрын

    Percy had now become a witness.

  • @starcorpvncj

    @starcorpvncj

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good one. Best of the many stupid Thomas remarks. Don't go to the head of the class though. It's still stupid. It's just the best of the other stupid remarks, ha ha.

  • @Train_Fan_2001
    @Train_Fan_20012 жыл бұрын

    My favorite episode of simple history by far.

  • @greggorytame6672
    @greggorytame66722 жыл бұрын

    as a German train nerd, this episode was infuriating. from the side it's very clearly a DRG class 86. But that front on angle is straight up cursed.

  • @yeoldeseawitch

    @yeoldeseawitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    unfortunately, us railfans aren't really thought about when videos on the subject of trains are made

  • @LavaHoleD

    @LavaHoleD

    2 жыл бұрын

    A DRG Class 86 becoming a Gr. 635 💀

  • @definitelynotakgbagent6612

    @definitelynotakgbagent6612

    2 жыл бұрын

    If those are class 86s then I am going to kill whoever though that it was the thing to be on Hitlers train, like ignore the Kriegsloks and Einhietsloks instead they chose the damn tank engine, I wouldn’t even be mad if they used the class 46 articulated engines because that is at least better than two branch line locomotives and I’m not gonna mention that thing at the front of the other train in this video

  • @definitelynotakgbagent6612

    @definitelynotakgbagent6612

    2 жыл бұрын

    The other engine I’m talking about is a 3:32, it is atrocious

  • @aldoso2

    @aldoso2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@LavaHoleD there is also an italian loco 685.028; I don't think a italian loco could arrive in Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof.

  • @judgedredd2199
    @judgedredd21992 жыл бұрын

    I came on youtube, cause my son wanted to watch “Thomas the train” so he can relive my excitement for trains. Long story short “Hitlers Füher” train popped up instead😩😩😩 so Thomas the engine could wait

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine how lucky you felt when other guys were getting slaughtered on the Eastern Front and you got to man the guns on Hitler's armoured train.

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman24142 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!

  • @lemmonsinmyeyes
    @lemmonsinmyeyes2 жыл бұрын

    its amazing how similar the setup is to airforce one. The vip suite, the communication relay, constant acces to press, even how it operated, sweeps, decoys, limited announcement. Nothing new under the sun eh?

  • @Supperdude9

    @Supperdude9

    2 жыл бұрын

    If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

  • @juanherrera2859

    @juanherrera2859

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup. As I heard the narration, it was easy to assume this was the blueprint to Air Force One.

  • @twistedyogert
    @twistedyogert2 жыл бұрын

    In the Thomas the Tank Engine series, the trains and most other vehicles are sentient. Does that mean that Führersonderzug was executed for war crimes?

  • @nocturnalbreadwinner

    @nocturnalbreadwinner

    2 жыл бұрын

    Maybe it crashed itself?

  • @muhammadizzdanish8113

    @muhammadizzdanish8113

    2 жыл бұрын

    Boi,my childhood has been ruin...

  • @T0T4LG4MER5

    @T0T4LG4MER5

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s was only following orders…

  • @John-Ginger

    @John-Ginger

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was hanged after the war, they had to transport it to America to Hang it into the grand canyon.

  • @vikstar123.4

    @vikstar123.4

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh Yes it's finally here kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqymy7dripe4hNo.html IT'S FINALLY HERE

  • @Goomba_N64
    @Goomba_N642 жыл бұрын

    You should do a "Roof Koren" episode on the riots and looting in Los Angeles in the 90's

  • @bludeuce3855

    @bludeuce3855

    2 жыл бұрын

    or the North Holloywood shooting from 1997

  • @namelessperson3559
    @namelessperson35592 жыл бұрын

    I’m genuinely surprised no resistance fighters were able to blow up the train

  • @TankEngine75
    @TankEngine752 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Train Enthusiast and I did not expect Simple History to make another train video!

  • @FerroequinologistofColorado

    @FerroequinologistofColorado

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your not the only one. I was surprised too.

  • @rt_louisiana3189

    @rt_louisiana3189

    2 жыл бұрын

    How do phones work on moving train?

  • @FerroequinologistofColorado

    @FerroequinologistofColorado

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rt_louisiana3189 while I’m not sure how they worked on this train I have seen systems with antennas on the locomotives and cabooses that would allow for wireless communications. I did also see a old photo of another train with connections from the rail carriages to trackside telegraph wires.

  • @rt_louisiana3189

    @rt_louisiana3189

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@FerroequinologistofColorado makes sense. Was just wondering.

  • @Swissswoosher
    @Swissswoosher2 жыл бұрын

    2:35 the correct pronounciation would be Reich-See-Cher-Heights-Dienst (roughly) Great video as always

  • @DidamDFP

    @DidamDFP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Disagree with the "see" part - it's really just a short "si" in the German word, as in "SImmering"

  • @Swissswoosher

    @Swissswoosher

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DidamDFP true

  • @johndavis8623
    @johndavis86232 жыл бұрын

    I like to think that he also has a personal panzer customized with a mini pool and a margarita machine. He also employed Walter white to be the head chef.

  • @oxcart4172
    @oxcart41722 жыл бұрын

    This animation is so detailed. I love it!

  • @JesusBehindtheWheel
    @JesusBehindtheWheel2 жыл бұрын

    Thomas the tank engine comes to mind. Must be the animation.

  • @Kairu_Kilofski
    @Kairu_Kilofski2 жыл бұрын

    The Sonderzug was known to be pulled by two DRB Class 52 'Kreigslokomotive' as opposed to the Class 86 'Übergangkreigslokomotive' as shown in the video. While most remaining class 52s are in museums or on heretige railways, there are still several in standard railway freight service in Bosnia.

  • @valuedhumanoid6574
    @valuedhumanoid65742 жыл бұрын

    Roosevelt had his own train in the states but it was nothing like this. It was more tailored for his wheelchair than anything else. Not sure if it survived to visit or not

  • @pokefan-ix7sh
    @pokefan-ix7sh2 жыл бұрын

    The Führersonderzug was Adolf Hitler's personal train. It was named Führersonderzug "Amerika" in 1940, and in January 1943, it was renamed the Führersonderzug "Brandenburg". The train served as a headquarters until the Balkans Campaign. Afterwards, the train was not used as Führer Headquarters, however, Hitler continued to travel on it throughout the war between Berlin, Berchtesgaden, the Wolfsschanze and his other military headquarters.

  • @fireengie8488

    @fireengie8488

    2 жыл бұрын

    i too can copy and paste wikipedia articles

  • @WadsOnTheRoad
    @WadsOnTheRoad2 жыл бұрын

    I thought this said "Hitler's Personal Trainer" 🤣🤣

  • @starcorpvncj

    @starcorpvncj

    2 жыл бұрын

    Next time try to think more clearly. Bettter still, let me do all your thinking for you. They all you have to do is Listen and Learn and Follow and Obey.

  • @lucianoosorio5942
    @lucianoosorio59422 жыл бұрын

    This enraged his father who punished him severely

  • @xgcskiman

    @xgcskiman

    2 жыл бұрын

    Another good channel.

  • @figo3554

    @figo3554

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @Black-Sun_Kaiser

    @Black-Sun_Kaiser

    2 жыл бұрын

    Abused/tormented*

  • @twizz0098
    @twizz00982 жыл бұрын

    Sir Topham Hat was expecting a new visitor to the Island from Germany.

  • @prakashghumaliya2002
    @prakashghumaliya20022 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for video sir

  • @lizzapaolia959
    @lizzapaolia9597 ай бұрын

    Great video thank you 🙏

  • @demarcusfaulkner7411
    @demarcusfaulkner74112 жыл бұрын

    I love simple history. It's very informative

  • @harrisonthecarguy3734
    @harrisonthecarguy37342 жыл бұрын

    I know he's like one of the most evil dictators of all time but having your own whole train is awesome

  • @LarryLonson

    @LarryLonson

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's just so fascinating. Right? Amazing

  • @gigachad6885

    @gigachad6885

    2 жыл бұрын

    Watch the documentary Europa The Last Battle

  • @LtGhost-tb3kq

    @LtGhost-tb3kq

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gigachad6885 Based.

  • @zachpaterson2585

    @zachpaterson2585

    Жыл бұрын

    The Royal Family in the UK also have their own train

  • @Discreet443
    @Discreet4432 жыл бұрын

    Ngl the animation gets better and better

  • @damiencrossley7497
    @damiencrossley74972 жыл бұрын

    Your animators just keep getting better.

  • @starcorpvncj

    @starcorpvncj

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's because they started from such a low base.

  • @BuckeyeNationRailroader
    @BuckeyeNationRailroader2 жыл бұрын

    As a train enthusiast, this had to be one of the most interesting components of World War II

  • @yeoldeseawitch

    @yeoldeseawitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    as a train enthusiast, I hate how they used an air horn for the majority of the sounds of a steam train

  • @BuckeyeNationRailroader

    @BuckeyeNationRailroader

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@yeoldeseawitch Yeah lol

  • @vikstar123.4

    @vikstar123.4

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh Yes it's finally here kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqymy7dripe4hNo.html IT'S FINALLY HERE

  • @Black-Sun_Kaiser

    @Black-Sun_Kaiser

    2 жыл бұрын

    You know i like you guys. You claim to be train enthusiasts and you are very obviously what you claim to be. Train names , train profile Pic, train Playlists. Refreshing.

  • @yeoldeseawitch

    @yeoldeseawitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Black-Sun_Kaiser ....that kind of sounds a bit sarcastic to me. as in an "Oh good god, here come the nerds who know too much about a subject that no one really cares about" kind of energy you're giving off with that comment.

  • @arielsergioramos
    @arielsergioramos2 жыл бұрын

    Nice video, Thanks a lot, it would be better if you could make a video about Wolf's Lair

  • @gmanawesome5773
    @gmanawesome57732 жыл бұрын

    THIS VIDEO IS A UPGRADE, NICE

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte71982 жыл бұрын

    Simple History has finally bought the latest DLC for HOI4.

  • @blockmasterscott
    @blockmasterscott2 жыл бұрын

    Dang, I learned a lot. Thank you!

  • @bruh-bn3ni
    @bruh-bn3ni2 жыл бұрын

    SIMPLE HISTORY please do Rooftop Koreans next!!!

  • @falconinflight6235
    @falconinflight62356 ай бұрын

    Excellent insight

  • @huuweee
    @huuweee Жыл бұрын

    I love how the automated CC's trying to tell me about the rice security serices on Hitler train xD

  • @WolfeSaber9933
    @WolfeSaber99332 жыл бұрын

    Can only imagine what the train would have become if the super size train track system was built for his empire. The three meter wide tracks.

  • @CadetLeNJROTC
    @CadetLeNJROTC2 жыл бұрын

    I got a farmers insurance ad when they were talking about burning the evidence that was on the train after each journey so it was like: “…So it could not be used against the nazis” *WE ARE FARMERS*

  • @mangoking8504
    @mangoking85042 жыл бұрын

    I love simple history for the history

  • @Peace37397
    @Peace373972 жыл бұрын

    Best videos dude I love them

  • @starcorpvncj

    @starcorpvncj

    2 жыл бұрын

    How can you? I thought you were dead already Robert E Lee. BTW, do you know that Lee was a closet homosexual?

  • @lucianoosorio5942
    @lucianoosorio59422 жыл бұрын

    “You need a vacation? Here take a trip on my train.” Mustache Man

  • @Mechabang

    @Mechabang

    2 жыл бұрын

    I baked you a cake. Here, pop into my oven.

  • @reinardish

    @reinardish

    2 жыл бұрын

    ERB reference lol

  • @TheZINGularity
    @TheZINGularity2 жыл бұрын

    Showing Finland as a part of the Soviet Union on the map 😣 Well, the first map anyway.

  • @starcorpvncj

    @starcorpvncj

    2 жыл бұрын

    He's just predicting the future. Be happy.

  • @TheZINGularity

    @TheZINGularity

    Жыл бұрын

    @@starcorpvncj Ahhuh, sure man xD. They cant even beat Ukraine it seems.

  • @mrmunchkin2181
    @mrmunchkin21812 жыл бұрын

    Very nice train art

  • @MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD
    @MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD2 жыл бұрын

    How is this the first time I'm ever hearing of Hitler constantly hanging out in a super train?

  • @thomasbarager912
    @thomasbarager9122 жыл бұрын

    Woah, what? I didn't know Hitler had a personal train HQ...

  • @thesenate9564

    @thesenate9564

    2 жыл бұрын

    Almost all records of it were burned, just like himself.

  • @thomasbarager912

    @thomasbarager912

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thesenate9564 Nobody knows how Hitler died.

  • @thesenate9564

    @thesenate9564

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasbarager912 I just used the most likely theory, so we have a pretty good idea on how he went out

  • @thomasbarager912

    @thomasbarager912

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thesenate9564 True, but questionable. All we can really do is theorize what happened to Hitler, to this day nobody knows if he really died. People say in his final moments he took a suicide pill with his lover, and was bombed to smithereens in his final bunker, but nobody ever confirmed his corpse? That's pretty shady if you ask me! Either way, I could care less of the fate of history's most evil man, but then again, him and Josef Mengele go hand and hand on who's more evil.

  • @thesenate9564

    @thesenate9564

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasbarager912 well if he was bombed to smithereens or had his body burned after suicide (which is the prevailing theory) there wouldn't be much corpse to find, although I think there were reports of them finding teeth or smth

  • @jacobramsey7624
    @jacobramsey76242 жыл бұрын

    Mark felting also has a video on Hitler's train that has more information andvdetails on the train. There is also a documentary on the train on Netflix.

  • @williamcampbell6794

    @williamcampbell6794

    2 жыл бұрын

    What's the documentary's name?

  • @user-xu2pi6vx7o

    @user-xu2pi6vx7o

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@williamcampbell6794 Hitler's Steel Beast, but it's not available on the European Netflix.

  • @williamcampbell6794

    @williamcampbell6794

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@user-xu2pi6vx7o Ok, I'm American so it's fine right?

  • @user-xu2pi6vx7o

    @user-xu2pi6vx7o

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@williamcampbell6794 No idea. Don't have access to anything other than the EU Netflix.

  • @darkninjacorporation
    @darkninjacorporation2 жыл бұрын

    I’m schizin’ out, because I googled this train out of sheer, random curiosity literally yesterday after it was mentioned in another video

  • @geoffreystoddart3503
    @geoffreystoddart35032 жыл бұрын

    That was a Great train documentary, Could you by any chance do the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway Please.

  • @DjDeadpig
    @DjDeadpig2 жыл бұрын

    The first gas powered train, Hitler personally rated the train a solid nein out of eleven

  • @Allorrealityisdestroyed

    @Allorrealityisdestroyed

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good one

  • @yeoldeseawitch

    @yeoldeseawitch

    2 жыл бұрын

    ....its a steam locomotive running on coal....

  • @DjDeadpig

    @DjDeadpig

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@yeoldeseawitch r/wooooooooosh

  • @alexyummmy
    @alexyummmy2 жыл бұрын

    Just wondering, what happened to the old narrator? I found his voice pretty great.

  • @MLIW265-FAN
    @MLIW265-FAN Жыл бұрын

    1:45 nice snow piercer reference :)

  • @exposingproxystalkingorgan4164
    @exposingproxystalkingorgan41642 жыл бұрын

    This is a very interesting video and probably many do not even know about the subject matter?

  • @arober9758
    @arober97582 жыл бұрын

    Very good job fellows!! Congratulations. Well done indeed!!!

  • @FIVEBASKET
    @FIVEBASKET2 жыл бұрын

    Let me screen shot before thumbnail chage

  • @stephenb2276
    @stephenb22762 жыл бұрын

    This needs to be a movie

  • @raulkyamko6825
    @raulkyamko68252 жыл бұрын

    People: "I like how you censored the flags but had the Windmill of Friendship on the train." Swastika: *was a religious symbol in Buddhism and Hinduism.*

  • @themightygreenarmy
    @themightygreenarmy2 жыл бұрын

    That’s cool

  • @bobjohnston9154
    @bobjohnston91542 жыл бұрын

    I've studied Third Reich history for years and don’t know how so many people claim to have seen an NSDAP flag with the Balkenkreuz rather than the Hakenkreuz in the center circle. Too many gamers, not enough scholars these days I guess.

  • @myboysd5772
    @myboysd57722 жыл бұрын

    The only train we have in Finland is a thing called "suklaajuna". It can be hard to get on but you cant get off, until you get off.

  • @keaton718
    @keaton7186 ай бұрын

    Someone worked hard on the graphics for this. Simple, but almost 9 minutes of footage with so many scenes every few seconds must have been brutal.