The Death of Hans Krebs - Hitler's Last Chief of Staff

The Death of Hans Krebs - Hitler's Last Chief of Staff

Berlin, the 1st of May 1945, as Soviet artillery shattered the city, one man walked straight into enemy territory. General Hans Krebs, Hitler’s Chief of Staff, emerged from the ruins on a desperate mission. With Hitler dead and the Nazi regime collapsing, he carried the dictator’s final testament and a plea for surrender. This moment wasn’t just the end of a war. It was the end of an empire. But who was Hans Krebs? And how did he become one of the last men standing in Hitler’s bunker?

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[Videosbyme]

" I want to help you and so does my fish"😂😂😂😂

[sailordude]

Thanks for the bunker history! Commemorating 80 years since the downfall in the Berlin Bunker.

[plmock]

Hitler did not permit smoking in the bunker. Did you actually research any of this?

[seanbumstead]

12th army never tried to attack Berlin, they were ordered to but refused and went towards 9th army to help them break out west

[LeonLKC]

Could History Inside also do a movie about General Wilhelm Burgdorf ? As it did one with General Hans Krebs.

[colder]

Very accurate narrative but just a couple of remarks. First, "in violation of the treaty of Versailles". The narrative leaves the impression that Soviet Russia violated it. Soviet Russia couldn't violate it for a very simple reason: it never signed it. In fact, Soviet Russia was at the time under the tight international blockade due to its refusal to repay Czar's debts. Being totally ravaged by the brutal Civil War and foreign intervention. The small fact that the bulk of these credits went for developing Poland (or rather, the then Russian part of Poland) which now became fully independent and categorically denied any responsibility for these debts was absolutely irrelevant to France. As well as the second small fact, that France along with Britain organized direct intervention into Soviet Russia and fully supported the so called White movement. The Bolsheviks said - Ok, we'll pay the debts. As soon as you fully compensate all the damage inflicted by foreign intervention. And presented their own bill. As Greta Tunberg would say: How dared they?! The result: total international blockade. Only the Great Depression forced to lift it.
Second, as for Crebs "the truce envoy". He really had bad luck meeting General Chuikov. He couldn't find the more unresponsive figure. General Chuikov commanded the 62 Guards Army fighting within the city of Stalingrad and literally saw hell on earth. So he refused any shenanigans with Crebs not consulting not only with Moscow but even with his immediate superior Marshal Zhukov, Commander of the 1st Byelorussian Front storming Berlin. One small detail: Crebs went to Russians and left them without any obstacles and threats. During the storming of Budapest the Soviets sent two truce envoys to Budapest (both parts of the city Buda and Pest) with an offer of surrender and both Soviet officers were killed. One Soviet envoy was killed outright. The second one was killed returning to the Soviets - one German version was, it happened accidentally. But with Soviet troops such accidents weren't happening.

[shadowdredbear]

Is it just me or Krebs looks so goofy in the Thumbnail 😂

[kevinh]

I've wished in my reading of WWII history that Krebs and Burgdorf had chosen to live. If they had had the chance to write memoirs (that is, had they survived Soviet captivity), it would have made for very good reading of the very end of the Third Reich.

[petervonstamer]

1:23 that is the smallest ribbon bar i have ever seen on a general

[donramon]

they used to smoke outside. It was only after AHs demise that they began openly smoking inside the bunker

[SpeedDemon_Editzzz]

Pls do cover Medieval to Ancient History of Germany as well from the Germanic Tribes who sacked and ended Roman Empire to the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne to the Prussian Empire of Frederick the Great and the German Empire of WW1🇩🇪🔥💯

[RickDeckard]

Kredbs was clearly no miliatry genius and an incompetent military attache in Moscow - he didn't know that the Soviet Union had 7x more tanks than Germany at the start of the invasion in 1941. That was a huge strategic failure.

[ThomasJanik-nfvi]

"Maynard G. Krebs, " Grandfather.

[JayTide]

I'd say he served his country, not a particular regime. He was in the Army long before any one ever heard of AH. For example, when I was in the Navy Bill Clinton was president. I couldn't stand him or his wife but I still joined to serve my country.

[charlescole]

He would have been better off working for Gustave Heigler -- Hitler's Russian interpreter. That one survived the war.

[edselwagon]

I recently found out from a ancestry site Hans Krebs was my dad's father brother and he resembled my Uncle John

[heavyrightfoot]

And the world lived happily ever after...😊

[jourwalis-]

A bit too fast narration. No pauses, he just keeps talking all the time, continuously. Tiresome. But otherwise interesting!

[taligurl]

Fish fish fish fish fish hahahahaha fish.

[MinhThu-xnbt]

A video on Julius Schaub, Hitler's last
aide-de-camp, would be most interesting.