I was Hitler's Adjutant and Aide-de-Camp: Interview with Fritz Darges - Documentary
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Interview with Adolf Hitler's adjutant Fritz Darges, recorded in 1997. In this interview, Fritz Darges, one of the most important contemporary witnesses from Hitler's inner leadership staff, gives the first impressive account of his time as Hitler's personal adjutant.
Until 1944, Darges worked alongside Hitler at the Führer's headquarters and on the Obersalzberg, interrupted by training courses and a deployment to the front.
Like probably no other, he got to know Hitler both as a politician and as a private citizen, and in this interview he reveals his knowledge in front of the camera for the first time.
FRITZ DARGES
*8.February 1913 in Dülsenberg Prussia, † 25.October 2009 in Celle
- SS-Sturmbannführer and temporarily personal adjutant of Adolf Hitler
- 1936 to 1939 adjutant of Reichsleiter Martin Bormann
- 1940 to 1942 orderly officer to Hitler
- March 1943 to July 18, 1944 personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler
- Among other things, responsible for Eva Braun's safety
- January 30, 1944 promotion to SS-Obersturmbannführer
- 5 April 1945 awarded the Knight's Cross
CONTENTS:
- School time
- SS- School
- Munich time
- My boss Martin Bormann
- With Adolf Hitler at the party congress
- Wagner Festival
- 1938 State visit to Mussolini
- My time as adjutant to the Führer
- Front deployment
- The assassination 1944
- Fritz Darges memories of Eva Braun
- Who was Walter Frentz
- Memories of Martin Bormann
- Hitler's interior designer Mrs. Prof. Gerdy Troost
- The daily routine at the Berghof
-Linz - Hitler's favorite city
-Drawings and sketches of Hitler
-Roderich Fick - Reich building council of Linz
-Dr. Ing. Fritz Todt - a résumé
-Heß`peace flight and the oath of allegiance
-My successor
-The end of WW2
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"The further a society drifts away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell
You can get banned for repeating that quote. It is only the beginning for Biden/Harris.
Thornton Xavier ; Great point sir , but hasn't the great purge already started ?
Communists China.
Biden and Trump work for the same people. All have the same agenda. It's all scripted.
@Gavin Newsom thank you
Martin Borman must have been a real piece of work. Everyone who came in contact with him describes him in unflattering terms.
A proper creep and that's what we know of him
Agreed. Listen to the Martin Boerhing interview. It’s seems Borman was despised not just beneath him, but those above. Because he controlled all information and speech that would make it too HitLer. So basically he controlled Hitlers decision making. Truly horrible man.
My ex had that same effect on people 🤣
@@jackhowland3737 Lol lol That’s the best comment on this channel! Lol
As one of my favourite Historians & Authors James Wilson said about Martin Bormann: “This man is completely ruthless. Very ambitious and he will do anything that he can think of to please Adolf Hitler… the man is a complete psychopath.”
The fact he knew the inner circle and lived to tell the tale is amazing
*_The West Germans were extremely loyal to people who had been a true Nazi. They would have taken good care of him, seeing that he wanted for nothing._*
10 million didnt
@@patgal2359 10 million didn't what?
You should see the interview of Rochus Misch. He was in the bunker when Hitler, Goebbels, and many others committed suicide.
This interview is of historic value, imagine video interviews of this sort
from the inner circle of Alexander the great, Julius Caesar and so on.
Great view sir
Totally Unathomable!
Without the ladies for Alexander...
Comparing a murderer of children and innocent people to Alexander the great? But I get your point
@Death before Marxism There are no friends when it comes to power. Besides, Brutus was no friend just an adopted son. Ceasar had an entire coalition of 40+ senators ready to shred him to pieces....
The English dubbing is very well done, plus, I'm sure interviews like this are quite rare.
Ummm English ? its American sheesh
Ohne das Übersprechen, könnte man sich das Ganze anhören.
English language, yes@@gowdsake7103
Clearly a very intelligent man who’s only telling about 1% of his experiences
Possibly the reason he was still alive.
Mediocre intelligence. What’s so intelligent here?
I think such servile obedience actually obviates any presumption of intelligence. That’s kind of the blessing but profound problem with Germans. Yes there were subversion attempts but there should’ve been so many more. It’s amazing to me how they all line up and click heels so willingly... nobody jaywalks in Germany to this day. And even all these years later those most intimately involved still don’t have deep outward reflections how maybe all along they had been exactly wrong.
@Carl Allen ok
@@jaycee30865 funny, look at all of the so called intellectuals backing the authoritative, even fascist goings on of the current dfl party and president of the USA, i would say their servile obedience obviates any presumption of intelligence on their part.
Very well done.
Extremely interesting
I Could listen to these interview's for hour's. Endlessly fascinating and we must do everything we can to preserve videos such as this
He has a very nice Prussian accent which has unfortunately died out just like the region has stopped existing after ww2. So these interviews are also linguistically relevant. Thanks for the upload!
Why did it die out
Brian Fitzpatrick because 14 Mio Germans where expelled from former German eastern territories just like east and westprussia and so they assimilated to their new homes in today’s Germany. Look at the map from 1918 and compare it to today’s borders.
Interesting so there’s hundreds of thousands of empty buildings in Prussia?
Brian Fitzpatrick I can’t tell if you are joking or not but it has been occupied and integrated into Poland, the Baltic states and the Russian enclave around Kaliningrad for 75 years so there are either new people living there or they have removed the buildings but for sure none of them speaks German with a Prussian accent.
Hoch Deutsch
12:37. Being a serviceman responsible for driving ladies around has its perks. In my uncle’s case, it saved his life. He was in the USMC and served as his colonel’s driver - which really meant he became Mrs. Colonel’s chauffeur / gopher. He had a great sense of humor and she really took a motherly shine to him. When his unit was shipped off to Vietnam, she insisted my uncle stay at his post in the States “or else”. So the rest of the unit got shipped off , but he stayed. Many of his comrades did not come back. He considered himself “the luckiest Marine in the USMC”!
@@KP-kg2ky Sadly he died a few years ago. But he served honorably for his full term and thus earned his pension. I’m guessing the Marines who served in theater received “combat pay” and so another Marine with his same rank would probably have retired with a bigger pension...but I don’t really know. He is buried in a National cemetery in FL. Sadly, there is a steady flow of veterans being placed there every day.
Did he " Service" his stead like all the women drivers did for the generals in WW2 ?
@@stevephillips3541 I hinted around about that, and he said “no, it wasn’t like that.” And I believe him. He was a single guy when he was in the service so wouldn’t have to hide it from my aunt, and he wasn’t afraid to admit other stuff he’d done as a young man, so I believed him.
The part that's annoying is the generals are all like little princes with their own private jets. All at the taxpayer's expense.
@@LTPottenger Some flag officers have staff cars w/driver. Very few, if any, have private jets. Their quarters are very nice near or on bases here and abroad. The money is much less impressive than most would believe. They’d earn far more in the private sector. Some are actual leaders but many more are politicians.
Fascinating interview, thank you for posting.
I Could listen to these interview's for hour's. Endlessly fascinating and we must do everything we can to preserve videos such as this
Thank you. History has many stories that have never been heard, its ashame that it took 75 years.
The powers that be were too afraid
Yeah. I, too, would have liked to hear some of the stories of those 6,000,000 or so Jews.
Well done BEGAFILM, excellent video, he was a fascinating and interesting man, and personally I appreciated the English dubbing, it was done well. More like this video please.
@@kavorkaa Hopefully it was the first version, where he said the adjutant of the Luftwaffe should take care of the fly. That is too funny! Did he himself say that he said that, or did somebody else report it?
If Hitler found out that he didn’t want to be his brother-in-law, that probably lead to his dismissal.
@@kavorkaa when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.I guess it's apparent that I hate when there are too many versions of a story. take' em all w/ a grain of salt.
@@tonym994:
Alas perhaps? Very much inclined to your reaction and thinking ( with ‘ alas ‘ perhaps [ ! ] ? )...
But - and seriously - yours leaves the ball in their court to back up their otherwise interesting and amusing versions...[ but is it legend and just for « entertainment »? ] …
Some might well counter with a « ...and why not? » Why not indeed...[ but with a heavy « perhaps » ! ]… In the end, even the Good, even the Righteous, resort to counter propaganda...either with some relish or regret». As an old saying has it: « To catch a thief...etc etc »
As the GM said « All is relative...! » Diverse attitudes often fight on the same side against their common enemy, some wishing to remain « purist » others understandably having surrendered any respect this being their sole surrender. What better than the words of the Hymn « Fight the Good Fight, and with all Thy Might... » Rousing words yet simple and straight to the point indeed, few with their hearts in the right place would argue...
All of which calls to my mind a particular and even precious souvenir from many observations on that at times reptilian Beast called human nature the curt reflection of a senior office colleague following upon a somewhat bitter office argument the difficult party having left the scene: « If we all knew the truth we’d all be happy! »
Good continuation!
@@dennisroyhall121 that quote is from John Ford's 'the man who shot Liberty Valance'. Jimmy Stewart ,now an elder statesman and country lawyer, tells a group of newspapermen that not he, but John Wayne's character killed the outlaw (Lee Marvin),a reporter tears up his notes and delivers that quote about 'legend' vs. facts, based upon how many papers they can sell. I'm for truth, no matter how dull it is.
@@dennisroyhall121 this guy was a stone cold Nazi, SS, and a cog in the mass killing machine, that is not propaganda but fact.
Glad I got to see this before TH-cam catches it.
@@kavorkaa Ohhh the bitterness seeps out of you. Night crawler
@@kavorkaa awwh are you mad?
Do Germans live in your head rent free?
@kavorkaa Did you hear he said that he was proud being his servant ?
might be time to visit an ear medic ...
He talked about crystal meth back then called Pervitin and his experience with guys like Hess and his attitude.
Luckily this guy survived just to tell about his experience ... age 84 or 52 years after the war.
@@kavorkaa have 1000 years passed yet?
@@ulflyng4072 . You a night crawling servant for the Big Tech authoritarian moguls..?
History is not about extraordinary men in ordinary circumstances but ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances...
@Juan Perez I see one of you night crawlers are out again. Wonder why you use your precious life here, if it this so stupid
@@kavorkaa Nope, I'm note a nazi. This is a historical video. I'm in this context neutral to politics.
And I ask you to think again, if this is so stupid why are you wasting your time here?
Nope, you don't seem to be interested in history/docu, so I use the word night crawler because they come out where they seemingly are misplaced
Correct, Just ordinary people - a situation not appreciated by the majority.
Its a catch 22 because the extraordinary circumstances transform the ordinary man revealing his greatness.
If you are fascinated by this track down The World At War documentary series from the early 70's. You will see many of the war's decision makers, both Axis and Allied, interviewed. Probably the best WWII documentary for that reason alone.
Thanks. I remember seeing some of this. Would like to see it again. Fascinating to see interviews with individuals with authoritative experience from both sides.
Thank you
Seen the series three times and would watch it again. This is a documentary series where you see something you missed the first time around.
@@cyndialver2130
Unfortunately the series made few years before the secret ban was lifted on Bletchley Park. Many parts of it would have been different.
But very much censored history
Thank you have been searching for this with English subtitles.dub, at last thanks to you l can now watch. Brilliant!
Mark Felton brought me here. His joke on saying that the fly on Hitler's shoulder is a Luftwaffe matter was hilarious.
Awesome interview ... thanks for sharing.
Dr Felton has outdone himself with this account by a relatively unknown member of the inner circle. SUPERB !
A wonderful documentary/interview.....danke!
A significant interview, he was present at the various meetings at the Berghof, had first-hand acquaintance with these govt officials, Goering, Hess, Bormann, and so on. And Hitler, of course. Interesting to hear him speak so highly of those he felt had incorruptible integrity, Hess being one. His interview gives a contemporaneous feeling for those gatherings and fills in some of the history, such as Hess being repudiated as a madman for flying to Scotland, so Japan and Italy would not feel Germany had acted unilaterally. I suppose he was interviewed at the channel host's home, as the channel logo plaque was hanging on the wall behind him.
Coca was a nazzi. Why this theory of Channel? It actually proves that she indeed was a nazzi.
That is just a logo decal of the channel in the corner of the frame, not on the wall.
Really glad this popped up in my suggested channels. Amazing interview. I'm subscribing to see the rest of your work.
@@kavorkaa why are you spamming in every comment GTFO
Seemed a likeable fellow I see he has some breathing problems, which may be his heart.
It's a shame that more interviews with this generation and the people who lived through the 1st and 2nd world wars didn't take place.
You probably know the series the World at War but if you don't - get hold of it. Plenty of interviews there, and the series was made partly in order to capture the memories as the generation who'd fought the war who were already starting to die out when it was made.
If it's a shame theres not more interviews, then tell us:
1) How many interviews are there?
2) How many interviews should there be?
I always wanted to see interviews of German citizens right after the war ended. The time that they were shown what was actually going on during the war. Were they surprised? Did they talk about it? Most citizens had been showing themselves as loyal to the Fuhrer and state. Did some of the people come out and vent anger at what the Nazis did to the country now that they could speak freely? It's just weird that there are countless hours of WW2 footage but I can't find any of normal citizens. Did the entire global media not go talk to them?
@@checkmate79
My Greatuncle was stationed in Germany for a while after the war, as occupiers/peacekeepers etc. I remember him talking about the unusual amount of arrogance that many Germans he encountered had.
He told me that he had gotten into some type of argument with a native and ended up saying something like "but you lost the war.."
The German replied "Yeah? And what EXACTLY did we lose?"
I can't explain the context but he liked to tell that one.
too much of the good stuff is still only in german and russian
Fascinating, thanks for sharing this.
I love listening to him speak because I can understand most of his German. Very well spoken man.
Thanks for your dedication to bringing us such historically important videos--first hand accounts are worth dozens of books by people who never went through the actual experience.
@@seltaeb9691 - you sound like an ignoramus. Trump did more for our country in 4 years than Obummer and Klinton put together. Need I mention the fake Russian hoaxes, and the fact that Obummer weaponized our intelligence services against a sitting President? If that doesn’t scare you, go back to the Soviet Union☠️
@@seltaeb9691 Moron
@@mrdiplomat9018 Hitler lead an uprise in 1923 ... same way as Trump did, but Trump was a president in charge.
Trump is the Grandson of a deserter - his Grandpa had been expelled on june 30th 1905 . His apply for mercy was rejected and therefore he has to leave germany with his german wife (that was homesick and forced him to return to Germany in 1904).
All documents still exist, the original handwritings.
And therefore Trump has his problems with his german roots.
He could not even visit his roots cause now relative would welcome him and the streets would be full of protestants with hands full of old eggs ...
Lost guy ... now in need for fresh money cause the deutsche bank has canceled his loans ... no american bank gave him a loan back in 1995 only the deutsche bank which was not aware of the implications ...
@@typxxilps trump isn't Hitler
@@typxxilps you guys love the trump hilter fantasy. You know it takes away from how evil Hitler actually was when you spread lies like that? How despicable, the MSM loves to tell people what to think
It's what he refuses to say, interests me.
which is 95% of the important stuff
Well said!
Back in those days, a man's word was his honor. If he was told not to speak of anything with anybody, then he took whatever he was told to his grave. I'm sure this man did too.
@@johneubanks5951 didn't want to incriminate himself is more likely.
Yes, exactly!
Fascinating video. Thank you for uploading
Thank you for these. There used to be a plethora of videos on these topics that have been shoa'd.
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@@jerryeinstandig7996 deleted from YT.
@J G
Who makes that choice?
@J G
I would agree with you on that one.
@Al Dillabaugh
Why can't you say what's on your mind, Al?
This guy is awesome. Thanks for posting.
This is fantastic. Well
Made and fascinating. My thanks
just found this awesome channel 👍🏻
The man speaks a very, very high German. Nice to hear.
That's nothing special.
People in northern Germany often speak high german just like myself.
What's high german?
@@zchowdhury6227
Thanks. You saved me some typing, as I was wondering the same thing. Wait, I actually ended up typing more here, so it didn't save me any typing! Lol.
I wonder if "high German" is the equivalent of "high English"(ie. English spoken by Italian guys with super-strong Brooklyn accents).... 😁
And they ruined it with voice overlay.
@@kayvan671 as a non native speaker of German who lived in regions where supposedly high German was spoken, I found people use a lot of ugly crutches.
Saying "du bist schuld" instead of schuldig. Saying "oder" or "nech" instead of "nicht war". saying "...ist repariert" instead of "ist repariert worden". And so on.
This man doesn't do that.
Brilliant job Begafilm!
Please keep using voice overs, if it's subtitles I can't get anything else done while I'm listening
As a dyslexic I hate subtitles. It breaks the flow of the program for me as I have to constantly stop to read them properly. For these long documentaries I much prefer the voice over.
English is not my 1st language so I prefer subtitles(I understand 99,8% of what is said when I heard English but I just prefer subs) , also its interesting to listen to the guys voices and to learn some german.
I’d rather have the whole interview in German!
@@fernandaenos7773 Try here: th-cam.com/video/bWWleosbOz4/w-d-xo.html
@MaxM2000 True. Quite often the voice over is quite distorting/misleading.
Excellent and captivating.
Amazing interview with Herr Darges. I'm Happy his knowledge was not lost. Brilliant man.
Yes I wonder why he didn’t want to discuss those ‘delicate tasks’ he was given?
He was so busy, when did he find time to help murder millions of Human Beings?
Given the time period he is discussing it wouldn’t have been anything to do with killing. As it was Nuremberg Rally I’m guessing maybe something of a ‘personal’ nature - looking after mistresses or something along those lines. Maybe looking after Eva.
@@andyrob3259 Or could it have to do with the night of the long knives?
@@DutchmanAmsterdam potentially. There’s so many things it could Be.
He was clearly a man of disgression.
Great Channel. Keep up the good work 👏
2009 he lived to. What an extraordinary life. I can’t comprehend it.
He lived far too long
@@malvolio01 low iq analysis elsewhere thanks.
@@Mambojambo157 althought Darges said just before he died that if he could serve Hitler again today he'd do the same thing !...humm...
@@Mambojambo157 the low iq belong to those who excuse and appreciate mass murderers and their enablers.
How many 'extraordinary lives' were snuffed out by your hero?
@@malvolio01 du arschlog
This is excellent. Full of unique anecdotes and stories that don’t normally warrant an academic review but are more than valuable.
Thank you very much Begafilm, very grateful for your excellent channel and I also want to thank you for the English dubbing and translations you provide. Much appreciated.
Remarkable resume about remarkable past . A very sharp.person. Thank you for bringing him to recount his life.
even i dont want to mis a single word of his interview, i m watching from Pakistan
Same to same, listening from Delhi
@@Bullpup2 from thailand…. 👍🏼
Man it's crazy how good he looks. So much like his war picture(s)
Sehr Gutes Video und sehr informativ
Fascinating interview. In politics and business, travel and parties and get-togethers is always work, sometimes stressful.
And that is your takeaway from all this? Help.
Having to be around and responsible for all those women and their shopping for the trip to Italy was among the most difficult/dangerous assignments for any soldier, on any front during the war. Before it was over, he probably wished, that he'd been sent to Stalingrad instead. ...He should have been awarded The Iron Cross for completing such a mission!
@Filthy McNasty as an ex service man, massive respect to the balls of this generation. But what he doesn't say interests me the most.
The way he says "I won't go into that now...." sounds like he doesn't want to incriminate himself.
So I'm torn on him.
@Filthy McNasty it was hyperbolic satire genius.
@Filthy McNasty the comment was clearly a joke. Calm down.
Does mein backside look big en dis? 😁
What's the point of having those medals if you can't wear them with pride. ...most of those dudes tossed that shit into the lakes for fear of being ID'ed
No better insight than that of people who knew & worked for the third reich hierarchy , Begafilm is the go to for such interviews ,really enjoyed hearing fritz share his memories & opinions
He was a loyal officer till the last moment.
He sticks to his story's as he pledge to do long ago when he was a young officer, and groomed for the job. He is not deviating from his confessions while in custody.
He stuck to his story and feathered his nest and managed to some how scramble out of Berlin with heaps of $£. Said to be an unpleasant self serving man
He's a scumbag nazi narcissist. If you find anything at all admirable about him, you're an idiot.
@@andrewbarry3375 Absolutely. And he was a member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler, under Him,let....which means he was an ardent Nazi, absolutely loyal to every dictate. NOT a nice man, at all.
Except that there's a selective lack of conscience over Hitler's Nazi atrocities.
Extremely interesting, particularly if one knows the order of events & participants involved.
I don't comprehend why people is criticizing this man for telling his own personal experience as detailed as possible.
This is still piece of history, if he did something wrong, he is most likely aware since he even implied that he rather won't go into detail in certain parts for the interview as is most likely that those are things that he already discussed with the people that was during his denazification process.
He may view these experiences as positive or very juvenile events in his early life but the way he narrates is just exactly how Russian elders remember the USSR, they do always seem to agree that those times were better for their people, their family or their country, even tho, we all know that the USSR was a really dark time too.
Very sensible observations. The problem is the never-ending propaganda demonizing Hitler and anything connected with him. In a normal world, having achieved the most absolute and crushing victory, the winners could perfectly rest in peace and stop the hate, unless they know something we don't...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who understands this...
Absolutely fascinating.
These interviews are interesting. I've watched several. One of the common threads is a conscious neglect of the consequences their actions.. It seems easy for these beings to slander those others around them at that time and expect those of us watching to somehow distinguish the difference in them.
Incredible that he mentions Pervitin!
He was a pervy junky....lol
@@trentdawg2832 like usa pilots, they were all high on it
Interesting interview, subed...
I enjoyed it so much that I subscribed.
Honorable Man. Thank you for your service in trying to destroy what Europe and America became today. 😢
"We defeated the wrong enemy." -- General Patton; killed on the DAY BEFORE he was scheduled to leave Europe and "spill the beans"
Awesome thanks for sharing this
*He thinks of the halcyon days of youth and vigor with fondness, just as all old men like myself do*
( *What he's not delving into is being transferred to a combat unit in the East
which would not have pleased Hitler at all for anyone who was within the 'Inner Circle'...it means somehow Darges made an enemy who was in a position of authority to 'get rid of him for being too popular or perhaps seen or heard too much* )
*That same fate was dealt-out by Himmler to Otto Gunsche who also Hitler's 'SS' aide de camp among other duties...Otto was a drinker and a womanizer who had a habit of choosing other men's wives to 'fool around' with and was prone to engaging in fights on the slightest provocation and Himmler wanted him 'Gone' because of his extra-curricular 'activities'*
( *Otto was around Hitler for some years before the war began...and because of some incidents in the past Hitler 'trusted' him* )
_______________
*Hitler was furious with Himmler for transferring Gunsche to the 'Eastern Front' which meant Otto might be wounded or captured alive somehow and made to tell everything he knew to Russian intelligence...Hitler ordered "Send a plane for him wherever he is and bring him here instantly!"*
( *I can just imagine Hitler telling Himmler "How dare you transfer someone close to me without my knowledge or consent because of petty bickering between you...I trust Gunsche with my life and safety and you put him in jeopardy without MY consent?"* )
Keith's ability as a raconteur is like that of a magician. I am required to stop everything in order to catch all elements of the discourse. Fantastic!
Could you imagine a group conversation between Darges, Doehring and Misch?
Absolutely brilliant!!!
Absolutely fascinating. I love these documentaries. Thank you.
Thank You.
His face when he says “and my successor flew out of the window due to the shockwave” 😂
He doesn’t tell about the time he smarted off to Hitler and was immediately dismissed and sent back to the front.
In August 1944 Darges returned to the SS Wiking to replace Johannes Mühlenkamp as the commander of the 5th SS Panzer Regiment.[2] It was in command of this unit that Darges was awarded the Knight's Cross for his actions on the night of 4 January 1945.[3] The division was advancing towards Bicske when it was stopped by the 41st Guards Rifle Division of the Soviet 4th Guards Army. Darges initially probed the Soviet line with a mixed Panzer and Panzer Grenadier Kampfgruppe and succeeded in breaking through the line at dawn. Subsequently he ambushed and destroyed a Soviet task force, knocking out four 122mm guns, four 76mm anti-tank guns, twelve trucks and a number of supply vehicles. He then attacked Regis Castle, forcing the garrison to retreat. Darges then found himself surrounded by Soviet reinforcements and was forced to repel several attacks. Three days later when they were relieved by another Kampfgruppe from SS Wiking, they left behind more than thirty destroyed Soviet tanks. One bad ass he was.
@@gracewoodard9134 Not for the civilians SSWiking herded into churches and burnt to death. Those are the confessions from the Norse contingent of the division.
Im very happy to have found this channel. I had aways wondered what happened to the servants and people around hitler.
Subscribed! Interesting indeed.
Thank you. I was born in 87’ and im just fascinated by the year’s around WW2
I was born in 86' but completely agree with you. I Could listen to these interview's for hour's. Endlessly fascinating and we must do everything we can to preserve videos such as this
Look up The World at War.
Look up Zundel.
A man named Zundel who did not believe the story of the "death camps"
He went to jail in Canada.
Also
Benjamin Friedman and his Washington speach. 1961iss.
Also
Rabbi Porat and his video...
"Why did Hitler hate the Jews.
If not on youtube check bitchute.com.
96' here
@Jason Sivongsa I guess I started maturing when I was 21. Before that, I was wilfully blind, meaning I was quite happy to do nothing but I was also naive, not realising I have to pursue an ambition or something meaningful.
So I decided to live off-grid. I'm not quite there yet but I've grown up my whole life in rural England and I've found my home in nature. It's hard to find a girl who wants to live off-grid here and I'm a recluse. I don't get lonely so it's a vicious cycle when I don't benefit from social stuff because I don't want to be alone too much yet I don't get lonely lol.
It's hard for everyone our age these days. A lot of people are living with their parents, not knowing what to do with their life, pursuing meaningless crap.
I realise the system we're under isn't good for us and we are so far from our natural habitat now. So I decided to become self-sufficient, live sustainably (hunting, permaculture, etc.) And not compare my life to anyone's and focus getting off the grid into nature. That's how we're meant to live because that's how we evolved to be.
TH-cam is a great place of learning by the way. I hope what I told you helps you in some way.
Very well detailed.
A true Prussian. What a rare sight to see.
What do you mean?
@@pneron2032 exactly what I said.
@@codyweien4513 Well, what characterises "a true Prussian"?
@@pneron2032 If you dont know, I'm not required to explain it to you. Sorry.
@@codyweien4513 I don't know why you're being so rude. I was just asking as I don't know what you mean. Anyway, have a great day.
Very instructive 👍
This is interesting. First hand stories.
Exactly.
Almost half the replies here are from psychos, racists, trolls, etc. They find no real value in anything he says beyond backing up their idiotic beliefs.
The other half are those that feel the opposite, a notion that all German soldiers at the time were shoving babies in ovens and such. Not even human, just robotic murder machines.
Only listening to the first hand accounts do you get the actual truth, a truth that is not as cut and dry as either side wants to admit. This man isn't a devil or saint but a human being that was a young man during an insane time of history.
Now, he died claiming zero remorse. He claimed he loved Hitler and would do it all again. To that I say..."I get it". He lived a rather privileged life at the time and, again, it was during his youth and he's an old man here. Of course he'd look back on it fondly. That's human.
What's paramount is to not listen with any preconceived notions or ideology. Just listen. Listen to those that were there! Those that literally "sat at the table" , those that fought in the trenches, those that worked in the factories, those that went to school and those wearing prisoner uniforms. Listen. Ignore BS propaganda and radicalized wish fulfillment from those with idiotic agendas.
Only then can you really know anything about any period.
@@DannyWilliamH Yep, the Right Wing and Left Wing fanatics are depriving the rest of us from learning about history.
Very interesting especially the part where Hess flew to England.
He landed in Perthshire Scotland.
Bravo--thank you for this video!
I Could listen to these interview's for hour's. Endlessly fascinating and we must do everything we can to preserve videos such as this
@@ahousecatnamedmr.jenkins1052 we heard you the first time, no need spamming every other comment because i assure you no one cares.
@@badmonkey2222 Mmm pretty sure alot of people do care so
this interview was SO INTERESTING
Everyone from both sides at that time were jolly people. Much happier than we are today. He reminds me of an American Navy veteran I knew.
Sorry, I thought this guy was Hitler’s real estate agent, I misunderstood the title.
Did Hitler flip houses?
@@suspicionofdeceit A lot of fixer-uppers after the war.
Hitler's estate agent was Martin Bormann... they have now found him hiding under a bridge in Berlin.
Haha!
Mel, good one. He had the depth of a real estate brochure though Naziville.
The beautiful Irony of Hitler's inner circle is the fact that they all secretly despised each other.
Something that can be said in any government - even democracies. They are always ready to stab each other in the back for some advantage.
I guess that is the likely outcome of having an inner-circle filled with murderous pricks.
All sociopaths
I see the same dynamics in all circles where people can gain something.
Well done very interesting
To watch his eyes light up with earnest hope and devotion is so incongruent with the life and people he's describing.
It seems that, although he was in the orbit of Hitler's inner circle (and felt the full weight of that honor as a young officer), he was not actually a part of the inner circle and it's machinations. This dichotomy seems to have been both a blessing and a curse. He was close enough to become enraptured, and far away enough to remain naive to the true reality. But, then again, that was the rub for many Germans at that time.
Are you kidding ? 😀
HONOR? What the fuck is wrong with you?
@@bellaadamowicz8380 AMEN, lol! My thought, exactly!!
@Cee Bee: It seems this guy isn’t the only naïve person! Do you have any understanding of who Heinrich Himmler was, what disgusting ideology he possessed and disseminated, what a psychopathic murderer he was?? He was in charge of the SS, the concentration camps, the Gestapo....you get the picture? And this guy was a member of the Leibstandarte SS Adolph Hitler, the only soldiers who were fanatic enough Nazis to be fit to guard the Fürher, so his eyes didn’t “light up with earnest hope” (Jesus Lord, did you really write that, without laughing?!?)....they lit up with fanaticism and happy memories of being close to his God, adjutant to Adolph Hitler, with firsthand knowledge of all the atrocities! You’re the one who’s hopelessly naïve....not HIM!
Amazing interview of someone who lived in the time, first hand account. Imagine if we could hear Caesar, Washington, Napoleon etc
I always say that to people think about in hundred’s of yrs listening to famous people & history of the worst war in history I hope it is after we’re all gone . The above lived to 96 yrs old .
Great video. When was this interview may I ask?
It says 1997 in the description
Aloha fellow Hoosier
@@davidbagley1783 Hello Sir..
This must be one of if not thee best WW2 veterans interview I’ve ever watched. He was there in that famous bunker, the day it all went down and the Nazi empire collapsed.
Thank you!
Very Interesting!!
Bravo Begafilm
He is speaking “Hochdeutsch”. Very easy to understand.
Hochdeutsch is the best german.
I noticed that right away, like my great grand aunt...
High German. All northern Germans speak like that. This man was born in Prussia at that time. Old Prussia.
High or low german has nothing to do with social status. It has to do with the plains vs. the mountains. So Prussian is Low German and Bavarian is High German.
High German, the language of the southern highlands of Germany, is the official written language.
@@ManiSRao-bt3xw
High german is mostly spoken in northern Germany and not in Bavaria.
The people of Bavaria and Austria have the same exact dialect.
I speak high german but that's because I'm from north west Germany. (former Prussia)
Germany is filled with many dialects and accents but the most common used german in public life, is high german.
It's spoken in most media outlets but more people in Germany speak with some sort of dialect.
High german is more easy to understand and in my opinion the "most clearest" version of german.
Then you need to remember, that it's not only as simple as north and south but sometimes the difference can be heard among rural communities and city communities.
Some people outside the big cities here in Nordrhein-Westfalen even speak "Plattdeutsch".
Another fantastic personal insight into the Berghof life, a funny fact about Bormann is that the first thing Hitler instructed him about was to keep the Gauleiters off his back just like the man says here.
Goring made everyone line up and take the pledge of loyalty, then in the end tries to seize power. Very interesting interview.
Ghorring...I know spelled wrong was not overly liked by hitler. Hier would often make fun of has giant ass.. he also ate pigs feet and had awful smelly bowel
Movements..This drove Hitler crazy. Hitler would often make fun of him behind his back. He would joke about his chubby air force commander. But it was his hygiene that he made the most fun of
Did you think he was a boy scout? Hippocracy is the least of his crimes.
@Cat Cook
Please quit trying to rewrite history. It was well known and documented that Goering did not attempt seize power at the end. He was the designated successor to Hitler. This status had been in effect for years.
The reich was falling apart at the seams and communications were breaking down all over the place.
The Red Army had Berlin surrounded and they were taking the city neighborhood by neighborhood.
All Goering did was ask if Hitler became isolated or out of control of his own person, if Goring should act under the standing order and understood secession procedure for Goering to take over. He asked for Hitler for guidance., and certainly was not a threat to his boss.
Unfortunately, Borrman got a hold of this communication, found it to be a direct threat to HIS power, and gave it to Hitler, but was able to con the very sic man into believing that Goering was trying to take over the reich.
When Hitler ordered Goering to be arrested and stripped of all titles, Goering did not attempt to flee, or fight off the officers sent to arrest him.
If he were truly trying to take over from Hitler, he would have rallied his forces and at the very least protected himself, etc. He did nothing of the sort.
All of this is documented and can be easily checked. Goering was a war criminal like the rest of them, but he was not a traitor to Hitler as you described.
His name is Goering or Göring
@@charliemunk2947 Charlie, are you saying goring would drop his guts at meetings??😂😂😂😂 What a meanie Hitler was. ,,,as if he never dropped one himself 😂😂😂😜😜😜lol
My grandfather was a POW on German hands
Always said they treated their pows better than the allies did
They don’t tell us that on the history channel
I guess that depends on when they were captured. Prisoners captured by germans at the end of WW2 were not treated well.
kavorkaa better with the Germans than with stalin ( for the rusians)
The Jews would disagree
@@gabrielcalin4238 lmao. NO SHIT SHERLOCK
Great vid
What a great interview
It was a surprise for me that there is no disturbing issue to Fritz Darge comment, like concentration camps and he seems to do not show any regret for those years. In my opinion the producers should ask him on this terrible matters.
Yea, I agree. This guy talks like he was the butler for the Brady Bunch family. This were terrible people that lead their nation into total ruin. Not to mention wiped out a people who were no threat to them. But they were horribly defeated3. So we were the winners and they the losers..
SO I guess let them have interviews like this. Thpugh I must say it was interesting to say the least.
@Patricia Palmer Yes Ms Palmer. Is terrible view as common affairs
@@charliemunk2947 Yes Mr Munk. As the philosopher Hanna Arendt said once on Eichman trial is the 'Banalization of Evil"
Read JFK notes and maybe start thinking more...
The concentration camps..mmmm yah ... these had been invented years before by the English .... not by the Germans.
Very interesting, he actually has a twinkle in his eye and quite a cheerful disposition! I like this video hence You now have a new subscriber! 👍
Cheery old Nazi
@@ivanmuniz-brown1029 Where is your Nazi ironic humor appreciation? Cheery Nazi Man=Dead Ego-Filled Vessel.
He had that same twinkle in his wicked eye when they were shipping people to the camps.
Now that all these guys are dead not much has been documented about the German side of the war. There stories and experiences are important in understanding what happened. I find the Whermact soldiers stories especially the ones that fought on the eastern front fascinating
Very interesting. Thanks.
Great video
A liveing testimony to history itself a man who bore witness to it all and lived to tell his story to this generation .
I will still never understand why Hess got life in prison when he had little to do with the holocaust and was captured early on in the war??
You are woefully misinformed
Oh GEE I don't know? Because he was part of a criminal anti democratic insane regime? Yeah, no problem. I'm fine with his life sentence.
same question here.
@@ral9590 i know right, it's like they are saying "well he only had a little to do with the holocaust he was only a little insane and only was responsible for a few deaths so he wasn't that bad" the creep was one of the top Nazis and perpetrators so he got off easy only getting life that maggot.
@@badmonkey2222 Yes
Interesting how Pervitin played a huge part In the German war effort, not just on the battlefield but behind the war front as well
At first I thought he'd said "Per Diem"
Very interesting, thanks !