Hermann Göring's Special Train
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The definitive story of Hermann Göring's special armoured train codenamed 'Asien', its make-up, operation and fate.
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Hermann once proposed that locomotives could be made of concrete to save important strategic materials. Albert Speer wrote about this in his memoirs. He also wrote that it was evident that Hermann was high at the time.
😂😂😂
Speer was a butcher as well
Concrete on the brain 🧠
Goring knew his way around a fighter plane... 22 planes downed during ww1.
@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 "Why don't we make the planes bulletproof by making them out of concrete?" -- Hermann Meyer, pilot, politician, opiate enthusiast
"Orient Express of Totalitarian Transport" - I actually laughed out loud, thank you Dr. Felton.
Me too!
That's a good one.
Now Vladimir Putin will be wanting one of these trains LOL!
George Orwell intensify's
I also noted the 'oversized porcelain bathtub'...
5:51 "Goering loved his food". Oh, I'm shocked...
It was actually a mistake to put "Der fatty" (as the locals nicknamed him!) on a diet. This only made his mind clearer and he, several times during trial, embarrassed the prosecutors by pointing out factual errors in their testimony.
cyanide and you make a cute couple
Hermann Göring, Hoarder. We need a TV show for that.
Three of Goering’s carriages were used by Eric Clapton to tour West Germany with his band in the late 70s. They were regularly used by visiting rock bands touring the country until the 80s.
Did you watch all of this video
Polite correction : Goering's Hunting Lodge, the Reichsjaegerhof, was situated in the Rominten Forest in East Prussia, and is now in the russian part of that province. The nearest railhead was/is Tolmingkehmen (after 1938 Tollmingen, when all places with "Nicht deutschklingendenortsnamen" were re-named with "german" names, e.g. Stallupoenen became Ebenrode), which at the time was a Bahnknotenpunkt (Junction), but now has only a single track, mostly disused, line. A good description of life in the Reichsjaegerhof, and in war-time East Prussia, generally, can be found in the novel "The Erl-King" by Michel Tournier.
I heard that most of the people dealing with Goering ended up at Bahnkrupt Junction.
Slight correction: Prussia was not ever a province of Germany
The word 'berg' in Koningsberg is not related to 'mountain' but is coming from 'borg' or 'bork'. Which means that is was a town surrounded by palisades aka a fortified town. In the Dutch language it now a days is called 'burcht' which is a castle like building.
These place are from ancient times and a major center of all kind of trades.
A city with 'borg' in its name is the Swedish city of Goteborg. But there are more.
@@alexwooldridge2993 Could you elaborate? I read somewhere: "East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945."
@@theblackhand6485 Of course, Scandinavian "borg", English "-burg" and German "Burg" all seem to relate (etymologically) to fortifications that were typically on a hill (Germanic/German "Berg"), with a wide variety of pronunciations in the different dialects. Still, the founding of Königsberg seems more related to the Teutonic Knights.
Would love to see an episode about Görings time in Sweden when he was married to Karin Göring, and also hospitalised for his drug addiction!
My father in-laws family have a few items that used to belong to Göring. Love the channel!
What was he addicted to?
@@Tom_Hadler Morphine and later on, some sort of synthetic opiate pills.
@@cassiemontgomery45 The Germans synthesized oxycodone in 1922. I imagine Goring was taking Eukodal.
@@cassiemontgomery45 I've heard it called paracodeine, and it was in pill form. Reportedly by 1945 he was taking 40 pills per day. As a prisoner at Nuremberg the US Army got him off his paracodeine addiction by reducing his pill intake by one pill per day.
Wow, what items do they own?
Supposedly Churchill was given several of Goering’s model railroad items (mostly Marklin) although Sir Winston was much more of a toy soldier enthusiast. I was told this by a former USAF sergeant stationed in Germany where there was an elaborate on-base model railroad layout frequented by Luftwaffe and the occasional RAF rail buff. Goering collected unique specialty and high-end railroad items (unlike the typical U.S. or U.K. modeler) and what was left was quickly looted by people who knew these weren’t toys. Proving the provenance on these looted items is nearly impossible though.
I wonder if he had working miniature steam trains as well as electric
I was just thinking of that with another commenter pondering what came of that. I could imagine many were taken and probably still exist, but with their history forgotten and unknown. As far as anyone knows now they're just old Maerkelin models, which are still probably quite valuable just in themselves, but only a fraction what they'd be worth if their history were known.
@@quillmaurer6563 don't take it to pawn Stars lol. They will "talk to an expert", and then offer you $5 for the entire set. "It's the best I can do"
@@kbanghart Anyone who takes valuables to any Pawn Shop and expects to get a fair deal is deluded; or paid by "Pawn Stars" to sell the item. I live in las Vegas, and this is very common knowledge-in fact a friend of mine was asked to do just this.
The best way is get an appraisal and use that to set a reserve price at a reputable auction house.
@@grumblesa10 agreed. I've never sold anything at one, but I guess the positive about them is you get cash immediately.
"...each having armoured ceilings, sides and floors that caused them to weigh 60 tons..."
(Or, in the German measure in use at the time: 'one Goering'.)
It was such a drastic difference at Nuremberg after he went through withdrawals in prison and dropped all that weight.
@@natelax1367 I saw a few pictures of him at his trial and couldn't believe that was the same man! He had to have lost wwayyyyy over 175 pounds! Damn, that's more than I weigh!
@@natelax1367 yeah...young Goering looked very handsome, he totally ruined himself mentally, morally and physically
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5,000 views in 18 minutes. That's how you know, that the people love your content, Mr. Felton
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Just in case anyone's wondering what happened to his toy train collection (Made by Maerklin, who are still in business today) that's another mystery.
No-one knows what happened to the toy trains. After Goering's Carinhall estate was stripped of the art and other collections the domestic staff were told they could take anything left behind that they wanted before the place was blown up, so it's possible some of the toy trains are still around, their actual original ownership unknown.
I had a Märklin set. It would be difficult to disassemble a track layout that big so I think it got blown up. Maybe they saved the trains somehow.
Do we know all of everything he had? Would be neat to replicate his setup.
I could imagine they might have been looted by locals and others. It's possible some are still in existence but with their history unknown, as far as anyone knows it's just an old Maerklin model. Something that would probably be fairly valuable at this point regardless, but only a small fraction of what it would be worth if it's history were known about.
@@Balthorium I could imagine the tracks were probably not saved, but the rolling stock, especially locomotives - more valuable and more easily carried off - were.
@@quillmaurer6563 don't take it to Pawn Stars lol.
Its just insane the mount of stuff Goring had.
Goring's famous of Mount of Stuff is a hoarder legend.
And he left it all behind.There was room in😈for one more NAZI.
He was a real hoarder and major thief who died with nothing...and rightly so.
It's insane how greedy he was. He KNEW what he was doing. It's just despicable that he acted like an innocent little schoolboy at his trial. I refuse to believe the Allies "couldn't" find the poison capsule he had hidden. Someone provided him with it somehow. Too bad he didn't go to the gallows. He should have been hung the way his buddy Adolf wanted it: with a thin piano wire. It is said that Hitler's home videos of political rivals being executed were so gory that even Goering staggered out of the living room, pale as a sheet, according to one SS adjutant who worked in the Eagle's Nest.
@@largol33t1 Well, I take comfort in knowing that despite committing suicide he still died a painful death as that poison takes about 8 minutes or so, he was suffocating. It would have been nice to see him and Himmler hang. But knowing they still suffered a little before they died, is what they gassed so many Jews with. So, I'd like to think they suffered several minutes before the cyanide they took killed them.
Excellent story once again Professor Felton. Even as an "old guy" of 62, I so look forward to your weekly presentations.
62 is not old maybe 82 😢😂😢
"I so?" How old are you 🙄
“He who dies with the most toys wins”. Goring...I’m sure.
And yet he lost, as his toys had been taken away from him by the time he died.
@@commanderkeen6839 Emperor Qin Shi Huang is the winner though, with his Terracotta Army! 😁
And that guy from the star trek tng episode who collects data(the android) as a show toy.
@@vk2ig To me, it's karmic justice that one of the biggest looters of the 20th century got looted of a significant chunk of his collection at the end of the war.
@@largol33t1 His hoarding and collecting, in all likelihood preserved art that would have been looted by soldiers as war trophies regardless.
The preservation of continental WWI planes was, in my opinion, his one undisputed contribution to the world.
Hard to believe, what with all the train enthusiasts, that no one knows what became of the train. I'm sure there must be more than a few who have been trying to track it down.
oh they most likely know all about it, give them a few days to find this video and info will pour in.
Take in account that after WW2 the European and also German rail and road networks lay in ruins.
Everything was done and used to get the railnetwork running first again to rebuild Europe.
Lots of the left over rolling stock was repaired/converted and put into commercial service.
Only in the late 40's early 50's Foreign rolling stock was given back to their original owner.
Rolling stock that remained in the soviet zone never came back.
Personaly i would not be suprised that most of those special still young streamlined cars were converted to normal passenger cars for the new born German Federal Railways.
Having lived in Germany, I can declare that Germans don't share the same interest that outsiders do in regards to these relics of the Nazi regime. In other words, it something they would just as soon ignore if they were aware of it. There is little enthusiasm for these things in Germany.
Göring: I didn't choose the zug life. The zug life chose me.
I was literally just looking for a WW2 video to watch and bam! I get a Mark Felton notification pop up on my phone. What perfect timing 😁 Thanks Doc.
Yes folks, he's that good.
Honey wake up new Felton just dropped
To the editor,
Dr Felton regularly promises us, "links in the description box below." On the 5 or 6 occasions i have looked, there has never been a link to the video he mentions. Today he mentioned 3 Goering related videos only 2 of which had thumbnails on the end screen. This is not only frustrating, but disrespectful to Dr Felton's fine work. The extra work involved in locating these videos is likely to dissuade the casual viewer thereby depriving Dr Felton of views and the world of better informed citizenry.
Except for this one small thing, i have nothing but praise for the excellent quality and production of these videos !:-) 🙏⚡️
I was about to comment with a similar message. Thank you
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When Goring hinself was not riding the train only one locomotove was required to haul the train.
lol
If they needed extra traction, they asked him to ride in the locomotive.
witty
😂
Mark, thanks much for another documentary with details and great video. Your accent and pronunciation of the German ranks and cities adds to the authenticity. You never disappoint. Appreciate these more than you know
I'm sure he speaks German
Dr Felton, please make videos on WW1 careers of top Nazis like Hess, Gobbels, the same way you did with Hitler, Himmler and Goring. Thanks for the informative videos!
There is no Nazis in WW1 sorry dude
@@mrpool8565 All top Nazis lived during the events of WW1. I'm referring to their lives in that time period.
@@gigachad7153 I assumed so.
@@jamesdellaneve9005 Someone was getting in touch with their inner-bility by not reading the OP's request in full. :)
@@gigachad7153please make a video on WW1 careers *Mention before they were in Nazi.
Imagine how surreal it must have been to watch Goering playing with toy trains while drinking brandy and smoking.
Some of the carriages were used by the German government after the war. The last Chancellor who used Göring‘s train was Willy Brandt. One of the carriages - Salonwagen 10 205 - is today on public display at the „ Haus der Geschichte“ Museum in Bonn.
Hermann Göring had the body of a modern day westerner. He was ahead of his time, ............
..........and ahead of the line at the buffet.
Supposedly after watching Goering eating a dinner of roast pork , Hitler said , I didn't know that pig's ate their own kind as a joke to the other guest's .
The WW1 pictures of him look a normal weight.
Diabetes takes too long to be an effective weapon.
He had his own buffet!
Certainly one could say that parts of him arrived at a destination before the rest of him.
In 70 years I can imagine someone watching a documentary about one of the many super yachts of Putin or those of his inner circle. "Shrouded in secrecy, they once roamed the world from one exotic port to another. Monaco, Saint Tropez, Saint Barths... then after the outbreak of war, on to their final home: The Russian naval port of Vladivostok. Where, much like the Russian navy, they rotted away after falling into disrepair."
Blown up and smashed to bits now, or soon would be better. I'll be long dead before the boats can rot away.
And concluding with "Thanks for watching, and subscribe and share. You can also watch my other channel at ..."
Why Russophobic comments here?
I am Russian and I always vote for Putin. And who are you to deny my democratic choice?
There were always that jokes about "when would Downfall part 2 be released" - no im honestly trying to think who will play the role of Putin.
@@flowablesysadmin8068 WTF people? Who are you to decide? Only russian people can judge russian national policies! If I want to conquer the Ukraine, it's only my decision and my countrymen's.
The first saloon carriage from "Asien" (No. 10205) still exists; it was later used by the West German chancellors and is now a museum exhibit in Haus der Geschichte in Bonn. Göring's personal saloon dining car from "Asien" (No. 10241) is also still in existence, it was used by the West German presidents for official duties. It's now part of the Koblenz branch of the Nuremberg Transport Museum.
Dankeschön
Thank you Professor Felton! You have made my day!
11:51 About using this car, I have to disagree. This car was not used in the "Henschel-Wegmann train", but in its counterpart. Both units then formed the "Blauer Enzian"(Blue Gentian) express train.This was the car of press secretary Otto Dietrich.
Another car of this train was then used as a saloon car for the Federal Chancellors, Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Willy Brandt. The most well-known uses of this car are likely to be from Konrad Adenauer to Moscow and from Willy Brandt to Erfurt. This car is now in the "House of History" in Bonn.
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A car from Heinrich Himmler's train became the saloon carriage of the Federal President. This carriage was also used by Queen Elizabeth II and by the Beatles on their visits.
A car from Adolf Hitler's train was later used by Reich Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Chancellor Adenauer
And a carriage from Joseph Goebbels' train was then used by the transport ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany.
These saloon cars were also preserved and can be viewed in various railway museums.
'... the Orient Express of totalitarian transport...' everyone deserves a history teacher this good
After the war several of the carriages became part of the train used by Chancellor Adenauer. Today one of those is on display in the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn.
This. And it is situated near the entrance connecting the museum to the nearby Stadtbahn station. It really cannot be missed. (And it was placed into the museum during building, so it is nearly impossible to remove.)
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Herman Goering loved that train so much he had it commissioned an honorary Colonel in the Luftwaffe.
private trains then were like private jets today. Roosevelt had a private train. Up until a certain point, battle of Britain perhaps, Goering was an important advisor to Hitler. In the anschluss, on success of the initial steps, Goering advised Hitler to go for it. At some point, Hitler no longer had confidence in Goering. Hitler may have said Goering didn't even know how to a proper review/inspection. After that point, Goering didn't bother to do anything work related, and spent his time acquiring art etc
@@harryricochet8134 Most adherents of strategic bombing neglect to consider 1) the availability of aviation grade petrol, 2) the value of damage done vs. cost of effort - then relative to other methods. WWII was an unusual situation in that the US did not have the avenue to deploy land forces against Germany or Japan in the 42 time frame. Consider if the US + Britain landed in France in late 42 (bad weather a factor) instead of North Africa. German defenses were less, but they could have reinforced faster than US/Brit could, bottling up and perhaps smashing the allied forces. However, this would have pulled resources from the Eastern front, perhaps giving the Soviets a much bigger victory at Stalingrad?
Excellent content, as always!
3:53 small correction, the engines pictured here are of class 56.2, a rebuilt former Prussian locomotive, not a "Kriegslok". "Kriegsloks" were only class 52, 42 and a bunch of other mainly industrial locomotives specifically designed to be mass produced during wartime limitations. Nowadays, usually class 52 is specifically called "Kriegslok" as could be watched recently on this channel. Even laymen can easily recognize class 52s on pictures by its tender shaped like a tub ("Wannentender"), that's why it is also known to railway enthusiasts as "Wanne" ("tub").
Wow! Great correction.
I've been an illustrator for several years and know little to nothing about trains, but I do have excellent observation skills and painted what I saw in the references that were given to me to paint the train. It happens that I saw a puff of smoke coming from the train and there were electric wires nearby. Someone who was very up on trains pointed out that I was in error. Lucky for me, someone was in earshot of the conversation and informed the other guy that I was correct and that he was incorrect. It turned out that his father had been a conductor on the very train that I had painted. It was a diesel train but streamlined so it looked like an electric train. He brought in a history of the train to accompany my painting as it was being exhibited. Boy did I get lucky that time. Thought you might get a laugh at my story - True!
Well, you either really know your trains or you're the greatest fraud this world has ever known. 👍🏻❤
Ah - Mark Felton has finally met his match - the only people more obsessed with history are the train people - as obsessed with history as is Mark Felton, the train history people are ten times more - they can identify a specific train from 1920 just by looking at a picture - I wish I were as obcessed by a subject as much as the train people are :-)
@@dicebed That’s true. That’s an insightful take.
Thank you Dr. Mark Felton! Happy weekend!
How many videos about Hermann Göring do you want to make?
Mark: Yes
Oh, awesome, more trains! I always found Goehring an interesting character, almost like a comic book villain with all his collections. I wish he wasn't so evil.
He was like a Captain America villain except he was not a fictional character. I think there were some WWII-era comic book villains who were pastiches of him.
He was like the diet coke of evil. He would have done just as well in any government.
I could have a beer with him lol
@@LTPottenger that is what I always thought, too
@@Ausf.D.A.K. I think like Mussolini, he was drawn in to serve an evil leader and found that by doing so served his ambitions
If one looks closely at around 3:50 the leading engines "licence plate" is 56 2611. That is a Prussian G8.2, a 1'D h2t (one leading axle 4 powered axel, high pressure, two cylinder, tender) engine. The warprogram stea locomotives with tender are BR 52 and BR 42 (BR86 is a tank engine) and those are 1'E h2t.
The face of the offended Goering being stripped of his revolvers is always nice to see.
*Been waiting for this one since the earlier Göring video. Truly one of the most fascinating figures within the Third Reich.*
Nice treat to pep me up before my brutal Friday shift at work. Thanks as always for your hard work Dr. Felton!
Well done Sir...always a pleasure to watch your uploads.
Thank you Dr. Felton for the amazing videos you make!
No better way to each lunch than watching a Mark Felton video!!!! Been watching you for a long time now love your content!!! Tank you very much!!
Göring is never a boring topic to cover.
Just brilliantly researched and presented … as always !!
Goerings train survived in form of his Salonwagen DR 10205. Stands in the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn. Was used by Himmler and Hitler,too. Later even by Konrad Adenauer. First Chancellor of Germany after the war.
There's another car at the Koblenz railway museum (a restaurant).
I wonder would Adenauer have made a better wartime leader than Hitler? Against the Soviets
@@visionist7 Adanaur was a powerful and at times ruthless man, but a firm democrat, a longtime anti Nazi, and a devout catholic. Had he been chancellor, there would have been no war.
@@earlystrings1 could he maybe have led a western allied coalition against the Soviet Union? I know it's an alternate history what-if but, if there were never national socialists in power maybe because there was no market crash of 29 maybe. As a Catholic he would be against the Soviets by default.
Goring was really living a kings life..
Back during WWI he was a top pilot and pretty famous, unfortunately he had many injuries and was hooked on morphine. Goring was from the aristocracy and did not want war he wanted bathe in the luxurious life.
Fascinating as always Dr Felton. Thank you
Never tired of your superb videos! Thank you for all you do!
Been waiting for this episode, I hope you cover his model train collection next.
Fascinating, one of the most fascinating videos of yours in a while. Love all of your stuff though Doc
Rumor has it it that it had the best dining service in Europe, if not the world!
I like that I got an amtrak ad before this video
And, yet another fascinating subject researched and presented by Dr. Felton! And, thank you once again, TreeTop.
I'm sure he was like a child in a sweet shop when he got his train after playing with his trainsets in Carinhall .
Think he ever ran the engine up front?
@@PanzerBuyer I wouldn't be surprised if he did, at least once or twice. All railfans love a cab ride if they can manage one!
And his sweets was a morphine...
He was the Mr Toad (Herr Krote?) of the Reich.
Even got to pull the whistle.
Toot Toot🚆🚆🚆
Mark thank you! Excellent details I'd never heard or known before your presentation.
Another train video! Please make more, these are very enjoyable.
One of the Mitropa dining cars was at a place called Schöne Weide, in a southern suburb of Berlin when I was there in Feb 2019. There was a claim that Hitler had used it, but I personally cannot verify that.
Hitler MAY have been in it as a dinner guest of Goering on occasion.
Or that it was at one time attached to Hitler's train, even if Hitler himself never stepped aboard.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 I bet Goering hated the idea of having Hitler as a dinner guest
@@visionist7 Competition, huh? It might have gotten rough when the desserts came out, Hitler had a sweet tooth of his own! (But obviously a bit more self-restraint!)
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 true, but Hitler was a huge bore at dinner, prattling for hours about topics his guests inevitably grew bored of and had to fight to stay awake. Plus his smug vegetarianism.
He looks like he drives an ice cream van .
My favorite drug addled fly boy; who knew he was into trains as well!
Small correction: The ruins of Göring's Grand Hunting Lodge are to be found just within what is now Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
@Håkan Bergvall bruh Germany needs to be even smaller
Polabia and Sorbia must be free
Danzig is also German
Brilliant research as always Dr Felton. Thanks for sharing!
All your work is A+, Mark. Thanks for this video. You literally blow the History Channel away at no cost! History hero. I didn't realize this many high ranking offices got their own trains. I really thought only a couple did. As much as I hate the Nazis, I realize the importance of learning everything about them. I'm mildly amazed in hindsight that Goering didn't hate Hitler. Barbarossa did so much damage to the Luftwaffe.
Mark could you possibly cover the other special leader trains of the reich? Nobody seems to ever talk about them
Himmler had a train too I think
@@visionist7 I'm sure he did as he wouldn't trust anyone other than his SS goons to protect his ass. In terms of government, the SS really existed as a sort of principality within the greater Reich. It had its own leader, its own industry through the concentration camps, its own military (the Waffen-SS) and its own budget for both civilian and military use.
@@largol33t1 would be cool if it was all black with SS runes and skulls 😎
Thanks again for an amazing piece of history Sir Felton.
Thanks, Mark for these amazing docs! If you ever run out of WWII, I'd love to see your take on despots, conflicts, and stories into later decades!
Always loved your videos Mark!
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Goering was so flamboyant. I often wondered if he preferred to "have his shopping dropped off around the back"
He was really in love with his first wife who died prematurely
@@visionist7 yeah I know
I was hoping to get my Mark Felton fix today and did not get disappointed lol
Always interesting and educational. Thank you, Mark!
Goering: Nothing to good for him , top of the line of every concievable desire and egomaniacal need. A savage crucible, his sociopathic Hierarchies are legendary. ♾⌛♾
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
Thank You Dr.Felton
Always Enjoy Your Videos !
Postscript of history that was revealed in Nuremberg transcripts: published tariff rates on the Reichsbahn were easily 2-3 times what they should have been. 🚂
Must have been some good duty - being a gunner on the flak gun on Goring's train - bet you got some good food - and good down time.
All those treasures and loot - of course the locals took them and sold them - they were starving - if you can pass the loot off to a collector, get some money to buy bread and cheese - who cares where the loot comes from or where it goes - that is the desperation that war produces -
Absolutely excellent love the content of your videos thanks Dr Felton
Thank you Mark. I share everything you upload. Your work is so important and gets to the REAL truth. It's simply incredible! Watching from the Philippines.
More trains? Thank you Mr. Felton! Courtesy a fellow train fan.
Sehr interessant, sehr gute Arbeit, Mark Felten and your producer team.
Just in time for lunch, thanks Dr. Felton!
Hey at least gotta appreciate the man; or anyone, who owns lavish trains (even train sets). Respect, people. Respect
Interesting that the RSD Bodyguards were armed with Walther PPK's as was James Bond in Dr. No and a few later films.
At one point, Ian Fleming was advised by an arms expert to change the Beretta gun used by James Bond in his novels. The expert mentioned in passing the Walther PPK because of it's reliability. Fleming was persuaded and the rest is history. That real life expert became the character Q in subsequent novels. The PPK also had the advantage of using the 7.65mm (.32 ACP) cartridge which was readily available all over the world which fitted in with Bond's jet set lifestyle.
Goering preferred a Smith & Wesson Model K 38 special. If I recall correctly, it is on display at West Point.
@@abrahamlevi3556 Well, the S&W .38 (Back then it was called the "M&P," or "Military and Police" model, later it became the Model 10) was what he was carrying when he surrendered, but what he packed prior to then is anyone's guess. Goering had a gun collection of the finest products the German arms industry produced.
WHY he was carrying an S&W is anone's guess as well. Maybe because all his super-deluxe stuff had been packed off to Berchtesgaden and he didn't mind losing the plain-Jane S&W if it came to that? You guess is as good as mine.
The "K" refers to that particular frame size. There was a K-38 Masterpiece but that was a target grade revolver.
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 Is this the one as seen in this video at 10:53?
@@JCoryell Yes, that's a standard Smith & Wesson M&P. I saw it years ago at the West Point Museum, the same kind of revolver an American cop of the time would have carried.
Love these looks into the operational side of history.
Well the weekend can begin, cheers all from Speybay Scotland. Cheers Mark, just had a working week at Scapa distillery, right next to Scapa Flow, Orkney.
Trumpeter makes a few different train models, although they're a little expensive but they're beautiful kits, yeah, I thought I'd throw that in there 👍
Their 52 is lousy. They used pictures for the kit design. Ended up with a untypical and rare tender and prototype/one of features.
The Reich Marshal must have suffered in prison after all that luxury. Thanks for another informative episode.
All of the prisoners at Nuremburg were assigned a guard who watched over them so it was interesting reading their personal accounts of each prisoner. I believe the one assigned to watch Goering said he was clean and kept his cell very well organized while the prisoner a few cells down was a total slob who slept all day.
luv all these --great historical footage--great channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for continuing your vedios on WWII and Natzi leaders your knowledge of that era is unbelievable, thanks again for all you do stay safe and well!!
>Imagine being the head of the luftwaffe and *not* using an aircraft at all times.
What better time to watch a Mark Felton documentary..than at lunch time!
Great content as always Mark !
A VPN ad is what Herman Goring would have wanted before this episode about his train.
pulling it with 2 locomotives most likely isn't due to 'great weight'. more because if one gets shot to bits the other can still just pull the train. pretty much standard procedure on anything important that moves.
Like nowadays when steam excursion trains are running, they have an "insurance locomotive" (usually a diesel electric) immediately behind the steam locomotive just in case of break-down.
@@vk2ig Some have, not all. Ie I went to Vivat Viadukt 2019 behind 01 1075 and she operated solo. Same for the lil 78 from Lengerich. 52 6106 from Gerolstein during her stay in Bochum- Dahlhausen in 2018 did as well. Same for 01-150-2 for the three trips I did with her.
Otoh the BoDa 38 always had a diesel at the other end of the train. That"s because she is slow running tender first and operates in regions where turntables are often a problem. Otoh that actually IS her post WW2 operational use (Wendezüge - trains with an engine at both ends) and the diesel engine used is period correct
Considering that Goering was head of the Luftwaffe, there seems to be no mention of him flying as passenger on a plane. For some reason he preferred his train. Also interesting that trains were named after continents, “Amerika” and “Asien”.
Germany lacked a heavy lift plane at the time. (More fat jokes)
Hitler admired the way transplanted Europeans had wiped out the Native American populations in the US, therefore named his train that. Later, after the US entered the war against him he of course changed the train’s name.
There was an "Afrika" train too I believe
If Goering had to be somewhere quickly and for a brief stay he flew, but if time wasn't of the essence and he was going to be in the area for a while he used the train.
Hitler did the same with his train.
@@scockery I'm still wondering if the twin rotor helicopter of his actual had enough power for the pilot to lift his titanic mass off the ground
Awesome Work Mark, Thanks 👍👍 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮
Excellent video, Mark, and a very interesting story, good luck, Mike