Berlin Guards - 80 Years of German Army Tradition
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- One building in Berlin has seen the same ceremonies and military guard duties performed since 1931, from the Weimar Republic, through the war, communist East Germany and after German reunification. The Neue Wache or "New Guardhouse" is where Germany has honoured its war dead since 1931, and it has been guarded by German Army units from four successive political regimes for over 80 years.
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“It has survived Allied bombing, Soviet shelling, and Communist architects.”
@Centralist Australia Communist architects are as destructive for a city as bombing and urban battles.
@@Xfire209 Why?
Xfire209 western fake news media everywhere
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 Because communist architecture is cheap, disgusting, unpractical and repetitive, just like communism.
@Centralist Australia When John Lennon was dating Yoko Ono she was an art student. She taught John about the Bahaus art school and it's communist minimalism. Bahus architecture is severe bland concrete canyons that deliberately avoid places where people might meet by chance or form Socratic agoras (which lead to elitism). It was called the "eutopian" school of architecture and every city that ever adopted it turned into a crime ridden shit hole and place of despair. Eutopia means "nowhere" in Greek....and THAT is where the song "Nowhere man" came from. One of the things that politicised Hitler was the scathing criticism of his water colour streetscapes from Bahaus art critics....and why his own architecture projects with Speer were so bombastic and always included large public squares and stairways where chance encounter with your neighbours and other aquaintences had a high statistical probability.
Good to see a tradition survive no matter what has happened.
@Dalle Smalhals lol france is the one that's TO YOUNG
Just without the goose step
@@fasoooli2751 What do you Mean about France are "TO YOUNG" !??
@@fasoooli2751 WRONG! Germany was divided for about 45 years. 30 years earlier there isnt Germany at all.
It survives alright... "on special occasions"
Who thinks the old German uniforms look better
Prussian and ww1 german uniforms look gorgeous
Compare the current ones with the "uniform" worn by Hitler (Marc Felton made a video on that one too) or the uniform of the Afrikakorps and you will see that the German uniform is actually older then one might think.
Hugo Boss
Yes they do. A pity about the evil connotations though. The Woks these geezers are wearing on their heads looks ridiculous:-(
1914 was my favourite
Interestingly, many countries still use the goose step during military parades. Most notably Chile. Chile marches in Prussian style to the radesky and Preußen Gloria marches. It’s very impressive.
They do it pretty well at that.
ruclips.net/video/_Dvtv7SaosA/видео.html
Chilean drills are exaggerated and their music is quite sloppy or rather not consistent. Germany still uses Prussian drill and music but I'm not sure if they still use the goose step
They have the German tradition, many descendants of Germany
N.Korea too.
I do still dont like the look of the Bundeswehrs dress uniform. The Beret just doesnt fit somehow
A Beret was already part of the uniform of the imperial army and has a even longer tradition in German armies.
The beret is a French school girl hat. It's first military use was by the British Royal Tank Regiment in WW1. Since then it has somehow managed to become the height of military fashion the world over, but a sillier more pointless hat has yet to be invented.
@@minuteman4199 The Scots were wearing similar headgear centuries before that... That kind of headgear has been around a lot longer than you think; it just comes and goes with style changes over the years. At least they aren't wearing shakos...
They should go back to spiked helmets
@@minuteman4199 As you can see in this picture German soldiers have been wearing berets for well over 200 years now.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCtzowsches_Freikorps#/media/File:Kersting_-_Auf_Vorposten_1815.jpg
Shame today's guard is only present on special occasion
They realized that the people they were guarding were not going to escape.
They don't want to be a tourist attraction.
Look who they’re “guarding”...nobody special.
When I saw the guards there in 1988, I noticed their boots had worn linear depressions into the stone pavement blocks - along the route of march - over the decades.
Amazing!
The same depressions on tje ground where the Guards walk can be seen at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery
Their modern drill is not as slick as WW2 era.
Lol yeah theirs a reason for that
It's the same drill and parade style. They are only missing the goosestep which is used to salute the higher ups.
Not sure why they don't let it be used since it gives not much impact anyway with it or without.
Cloгох Вleacн I mean it now kinda has nazi and dictatori implications goes to it.
Also you can notice that the East German troops have more of a arm swing like soviet troops. Both Prussian and Soviet marches use goose steps thus the similarities.
That’s why they don’t use goose steps anymore
Today, its very low energy...past troops looked serious...
The drill the Bundeswehr uses actually is precise Prussian drill. But they now trace back to light infantry and the light infantry of Prussia never used the goose step.
It appears that the current guards do not use the tradition march step.
goose stepping
Actually they do, they simply use the marching step of the light infantry.
It´s a shame, that the so called "Stechschritt" is not performed anymore :/
@@derbroetchen5738 ruclips.net/video/_Dvtv7SaosA/видео.html it is
an OldRustyTruck Prussia stepping
While stationed in then West Germany, I visited East Berlin, courtesy of the US Army during the summer of 1981 and crossed Checkpoint Charley. While there I watched the changing of the guard at The Neue Wache You never forget this and the solemn traditions that was witnessed there. You could see the pride of the people there who survived the war. Thanks for sharing this video with us.
Ww2 helmet is fire
U can still see the shape in just about every military helmet today
Germany ww2 uniforms are the best looking ever today or in history
The last time I visited the German Historical Museum (in the Zeughaus next door to the Neue Wache) they had the original Weimar bronze or copper oak leaf wreath from the Weimar/3rd Reich period Neue Wache memorial on display just inside the museum entrance. What a pity that the original oak leaf wreath was not restored to the Neue Wache as the image is so very clearly non-political and symbolic of German loses in war from the wars of liberation (Napoleonic) to the end of WWII. I understand the Kathe Kollwitz sculpture as the center-piece in the Neue Wache today, but the original oak leaf wreath was certainly solemn and very moving.
They really should bring back the Stahlhelm. Either the 1916 or 1935 pattern -- both are good -- because neither the French berets or Volksarmee helmets cut it. The ghosts of the war dead can't like it much either.
You said what i was thinking.
1916 variant with the Frankenstein knobs that's the best one. I'm wearing it as I'm typing it.
Waffel Reitter
Come to Russian forests and steppes... You still could find hundreds of your precious stalhelms, enough to wear for the entire new German army but mostly with the holes from Russian bullets in them...
Fake News
Volksarmee M56/76 Helmets are the best
What you call Volksarmee helmet was about to be issued by the Wehrmacht close to the end of World War 2.
Nice to see some tradition continues to honor the war dead from all wars.
I happened to see it on a tour of Berlin when a rain storm hit. Everyone was on the inside to avoid the rain looking in at the statue, that was being deluged through the open roof where she is. The design made the visual more striking than it sounds
gzus the east german helmet looks like something from buck rogers or spaceballs
These Helmets are a WW2 further development of the standard helmet.
Have to say, all the countries including and before east Germany had better uniforms than today’s guards.
The reason why the Wachtbatallion uses the Mauser 98K is that the traditional Prussian infantry drills cannot be performed with a service rifle, that's also why the East Germany used the SKS rather than AK-47.
In Russia SKS is used too as ceremonial weapon for honour guards near monuments of great importance.
So sad that all people can talk about on this video is goosestepping. How far we have come...
Saw the Friedrich Engels troops changing guard in 1985. Very impressive.
Yes, I saw them too at the same time, 1985/6, whilst posted to West Berlin. Interesting to watch the ceremony.
There's a video somewhere of the Guard in 1990 or something like that on RUclips. It's really cool.
Too bad they don't have ceremonial uniforms of the different eras to have there. It'd be cool to see one Weimar, one Wehrmacht, and one from each side of the cold war, to today. Give a show of the history that building, and the tradition has.
I saw them in around 1982 when i was stationed in West Germany and got to visit Berlin. Impressive ceremony
booo they removed the goose step
goose step is nice, but the new step.. nah
nope ruclips.net/video/_Dvtv7SaosA/видео.html
Why should goose step theres no Linieninfantrie anymore
We have unknown soldier tomb in Warsaw in part of old palace, only one arcade left from whole building. It has special regiment to guard it constantly. There is a fire which always burns if I recall correctly. In polish it is 'grob nieznanego zolnierza' .
Thanks for making this available. Lots of history in this building and I'm glad to hear that traditions have been preserved.
A pleasure
Third Reich uniform style will always be the best looking. However, redesign is paramount relative to field use function. For example, boots and clothing used in harsh winter storms and snow must keep soldiers warm and dry.
Nah - Britain 1870's or thereabouts - think Zulu!
You literally just described every military uniform in the world.
Nah, Imperial Germany had much better uniforms. Have you seen those red lines on their 1914 uniform?
I went here in1979,while serving in West Berlin with the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards,only there a month,great posting.Had my picture took with one of the Guards on duty,I came up to his chest,he was huge!
It was impressive to see the way the NVA would balance their SKS in the palm of their hands...
We Japanese love Germany and Germans very much. Germany and Germans are great.We Japanese are proud that Germany and Japan were allies. Japan will continue to protect Germany in the future.We always buy German products. That is to help Germany.
We Japanese always wish for the happiness of Germany and Germans.Japan is always the friend of Germany. When making the Japanese constitution in the Meiji era, japanese made it with reference to the German constitution. japanese also made medical science with reference to Germany. Because I admitted that Germany was the best in the world from that time. Even now the doctor has a person who writes the Karte in German. We are always thankful to the great Germany and Germans. For example, a car is. The car that runs the most in Japan is a German car. Japanese Prime Minister told the Japanese Emperor that Germany and Germans absolutely can trust when we form an alliance with Germany in World War II. We Japanese want to completely eliminate the hatred from the country of the world to Germany.Germany and Germans are the most wonderful in the world.
@@desimadcrapom6950 Division "Free India" :D
Watched the East German guards do this in 1986, impressive. Thanks for sharing.
A fine piece of Military Historical Tradition. I love this video.
@3:24 No Stechschritt anymore though.. :( ^^
Never done by light infantry.
I like the goose step and high boots!!! And no stupid berets!!
@@cerberus732 they are wearing berets
Can't have Prussian military tradition. The allies made sure to uproot it.
Sind auch Waschlappen
My commentary on the Bundeswehr drill: No goosestepping - no cake
My father was deployed in Germany during the Cold War and primarily spent his time in Fulda but did go to West Berlin and took a picture of the guards and told me those were the communists. Upon doing a little research and seeing this video it is very interesting to see how much deeper it was then that. Great video thumbs up
I like how you put the ad right at the beginning of the video. Then it doesn’t break up the continuity.
One of the best videos thus far, at least in my opinion.
Another good video Mark, no nonsense and straight to the facts.
'No messing about' is my motto!
Another good story is the Danish Royal Guards who as always been protecting the Royal family in Denmark since 1659, as in 24 hours a day since 1659. There has never been any point, day or night, storm or heatwave, where the Royal family has not been guarded.
didn't the germans come visit denmark in ww2?
For several years!
@@swunt10 they did indeed and the Guards did fight back, because the message about Denmark's surrender, had not reach them in time, so fighting took place with in the palace grounds and in the streets of Copenhagen :)
@@swunt10 The Germans didn't interfere in Danish interior politics. When the king rode on his horse in the streets of Copenhagen he was saluted by German occupation officers.
defended from whom?? from people of denmark ?? few conservatives still find this glorious to guarding monarchs and bashing communism as dictatorship.shame.
I have seen the drill in many different video's recorded during the 3rd Reich and I must say that the drill does look much better then. It is carried out far more enthusiastically and the style gives an appearance of a much more courageous and determined soldier. I do like the modern uniforms shown in the 2018 footage. Thank you for the video.
Is it not ironic that the only place in town to see soldiers is at an anti militarism memorial?
Another historical gem.Very interesting and well researched. 👍
Thanks
"...and communist architects." Hahahaha so true!
Saw it there while attached to the Berlin Brigade in '70's. In a near by museum the Nazis condemned for the goose step. Oddly enough, as I read it, the NVA changing of the guard passed by, goose stepping.
the 1931 goose step looked so good. It's super sad that its nearly completly been removed from the bundeswehr, so much so as there is no stepping but just a half step left.
Once again, a very interesting and well done video!
Many thanks
Hi Mark. Excellent content as always! I started supporting you on Patreon. Please keep up the excellent work!
Many thanks for your kind support!
You should do a video about Chile's Prussian-style uniforms and army traditions some time
Its actually in the works so watch this space
Mark Felton Productions Can’t wait!
Ok, guess I'm subscribing now
Awesome video as usual. Keep up the great videos love watching them
Thanks, will do
Looking at the new German Uniform reminds me of the line "i'm doing my part" and "do you want to know more?"
So it's like the tomb of the unknown soldier
"...it has survived allied bombing, soviet shelling, and communist architects."
ziiiiiiiiiing! lol
People: looks a nice building
Soviets: let's rearchitect it.
These are as well done as any history channel or discovery channel documentary, honestly these are great and I’m 40 years old and I’ve been watching World War II documentaries since I was eight years old, because all of my grandfathers were in the war my dads whole family lived in occupied territory until they fled but not before loosing my grandfather and great uncle who were executed in the living room right in front of the children. I can’t even imagine someone coming into my home and shooting me right in front of my children and my wife
Ich bin glücklich, dass M. Felton unsere deutschen Traditionen am Leben hält.
Just ain't the same without the goosesteppin'
Thomas - 'goose-stepping' is deemed by medical authorities to be bad for feet. I enjoy watching that WWII send up of Hitler's finest, goose-stepping to the tune of 'The Lambeth Walk'. Can be seen on You Tube.
You can never break the Germanic spirit
The stahlhelm is the most beautiful helmet ever created.
Fight me.
Ive been there this summer, quite eerie. Great video post, once again!
Thanks
Thank you.
Imagine the millions of Gemran veterans refuting back and looking at these goofy looking troops.
Un edificio en Berlín ha visto las mismas ceremonias y tareas de guardia militar realizadas desde 1931, desde la República de Weimar, a través de la guerra, el comunismo en la Alemania Oriental y después de la reunificación alemana. El Neue Wache o "New Guardhouse" es donde Alemania honra a sus muertos en la guerra desde 1931, y ha sido custodiado por unidades del Ejército alemán de cuatro regímenes políticos sucesivos durante más de 80 años
Very interesting, I saw this building on brad Pitts “ War Machine “ but didn’t realise where or what the building represented. Love your work.
I absolutely love these videos on different military organizations that arent talked about a lit. Please keep it up!
Will do
The drill of the NVA at the changing of the guard was not taken over from the Nazis, but rather from the Prussian Army. When I lived in Berlin, Capital of the GDR during 1977/78, I often attended the changing of the guard as a former member of the British Army. What struck me more than anything else was how the very jowls of the squaddies vibrated as they carried out the goose-step necessary in the ritual.
MsG
The modern German armed guards has a little less goose stepping that their predecessors.
ruclips.net/video/_Dvtv7SaosA/видео.html searched for that?
The GDR troops are not marching like old german soldiers. They are marching like the guardsmen at the Kremlin in a very Russian way.
Really? What's the difference
Nice to see something new from RUclips recommendations :3
Applaus to your attempt to pronounce the German words! 😃
Always some kind of funny, English speaking people trying to do that. 😉
At least he says it in a way you can actually hear good enough to write it down
What I like about this is the Germans have a memorial to the common soldier rather than any military victory. Even at the latest 11/11 celebrations it was about western allies victory rather than the sacrifice on both sides of there common soldier doing his duty to his country.
I got to see the East German changing of the guard in 1987. Still have the photos somewhere. I had no idea at the time how soon that would be part of yesterday's history.
That's pretty cool, did you live in Eastern Europe?
In the end of the video you say that the military traditions survived the different German States in the last 80 years. This is not correct. The "Bundeswehr" banned the traditionel "Stechschritt" (goose step) from its military ceremonies. So you can say the former Communist "Volksarmee" of East Germany was more a typical German army than the Bundeswehr until today ...
They just took away the goose step
The old uniforms were the most elegant of all. Very pleased to see our US Army will be reverting to the WW2 issue known as “pink-and-greens”. While a vast improvement over the current uniform more suitable for a bus driver, they are not as striking beautiful as the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht one’s.
That is really interesting. There is so much about the Cold War I don't know, and I pretty much lived through it. I remember in 1998, while attending the FBI National Academy (kind of like college courses for police management) watching a Russian student singing "Back in the USSR" with some FBI agents that had a band. I thought about how, twenty years prior, the Marine Corps had instructed me on how to fight the Soviets, and now I was listening to one sing Back in the USSR. It was surreal, and now it's hard to remember how things were during the Cold War.
Thank you for this vid from germany.
Some things just never change much.
there is a factual error at 2:50 they are not identical. the east germans used the goose step for almsot all the way to and from the guard house as can be seen. but just earlier in the video you could see the Wehrmacht used the goose step only for the last 3 or so steps.
Tradition survive without the goose-stepping
The Wachbataillion uses the Kar98K during state visits as well. Or at least they used to do that
Take the Patreon plunge guys if you want this excellent content to keep going. Thanks again Mark always enjoy your work
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Dad: now here son, this is a real man
Kid: Wow! I want to be like him when i grow up
School: *I'm about to end this man's whole career*
the East German produced SKS rifle is quite rare. SKS is still the ceremonial rifle used by Russian guards at military monuments and tombs.
Very interesting when considering the German casualties from the two world wars were presumably extremely high proportions of the male population, great video, cheers!
I’ve always wondered: why do they keep their leg straight and high step, and when & why did this start?
I liked the two stone structures with the lighted flames on the left and right...wonder what happened to them
...So basically over the last 80yrs the building served as some form of memorial to the fallen, the only thing that changed was the name of what it was a memorial of for political reasons.
Its way older than 80 years. Only maybe not in the exact same way. But changing of the guard at German army memorials is a very old tradition in Germany I think.
The current Germans close order drill is sloppy and too American
I think it’s it’s fantastic and quite thrilling that the drill hasn’t changed. Look forward to visiting on my next trip to Berlin.
Beret uniform does not suit them
i dont get how these guys could raise their legs so high while marching and stand still for such a long period of time
I was there in 1987, i serve with the Berlin brigade 6/502 INFANTRY
The Nationale Volksarmee looked really good
Glad to see so many foreign German patriots and nationalists who totally know what they are talking about.
You can still hearing Preussen Gloria in Chile. We adopted it during 1891 after the civil war and still being a tradition today. During the military parade every year the soldiers march using the newest uniforms and guns but also there is a space between where we show soldiers marching with the old German uniforms from the Great War with the M16 Stalhelms and also soldiers marching with the Pickekhaube. In the south of Chile there’s a lot of German cities founded around 1840-60, and also some concentration camps from the dictatorship (one of them is colonia Dignidad or Villa Baviera, under the control of Paul Schaefer)
Sebastian Astudillo, God bless Chile.
Whats really ironic is how East Germany, just like the Soviet Union, tried to combine its obvious admiration of militarism with basic communist philosophy. For instance, they intended to "honor" Friedrich Engels by naming an army regiment AND even a military academy after him. Problem is that Engels, just like Karl Marx, were both outspoken pacifists. Engels would be outraged if he knew of this "honor". To him this was as much as an insult as naming a hedge fonds or investment bank after him. :-D In 1893, he wrote a series of articles warning about the ever increasing likeliness of a war of so far unseen proportions, a so called "world war" by an ever increasing arms race in Europe fueled by nationalistic ideology and revanchism. He propagated that the, at that time, incredibly wide spread and popular idea that arms-build up and increasing military manpower was the best way to ensure peace among nations was a highly dangerous misbelief that would sooner or later lead straight to disaster rather than preventing it.
the Nazis uniform and guard switching was honestly the best the German army should just use the steelhelm
Ich danke,Hehr Felton!
One of the best buildings in Berlin.
The present Bundeswehrs is a paper tiger
Paper Tiger implies they look impressive on the outside but are quite weak on the inside.
The opposite is really true. The modern Bundeswehr is one of the top fighting forces in the world and certainly the best in Europe. They are definitely better than the French and British armed forces. The Germans are better trained, better equipped, more dedicated and better disciplined then any other soldier in the world. Don't confuse the timid knuckleheads in the German civilian government with weakness in the German army. You would not want to pick a fight with the modern German Bundeswehr. It is only the current leadership in the government that makes them look weak but in truth they are tough as they ever were. In every soldier is the heart of an ancient warrior through which the blood of Arminius and Alaric run through their veins.
Based Bavarian not possible
@@Novusod German propaganda working I see
Quite right , perhaps if they bought back the goose step they'd look more Manley.
@That sorta irish guy Ever heard of manuever warfare? Not disagreeing with you but the brits they fight that way cause of their geography, the Germans don't have to they focus on armored spearheads followed by mechanized infantry supported by air and arty (modern blitzkrieg) its the same fighting style used by the USA. On a side note being universally trained as an infantry man is extremely useful, it was very common in the Werhmacht for whole squads to have been trained in usage of MGs Rockets SMGs and basic medical aid usually two back ups per save the medics position.
I went their in 1987, whilst stationed in Berlin.