Hitler's Last Army - Ninth Army Breakout 1945

The story of the Ninth Army's desperate attempts to escape Soviet captivity during the last days of WWII.

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[greenhillburma]

The real history behind the famous 'Steiner attack' scene.

[Roller_Ghoster]

Mark Felton has his own army 910, 000 strong and growing.

[alpacatwoniner]

mark felton: doing in about ten minutes what takes a major network almost ninety minutes.

[Shregurun]

*”Don’t worry, everything will be fine when Steiner attacks.”*

[korbell]

Chief of Staff: "What if Hitler finds out what we are doing and calls?"

Busse: "Let it go to voicemail."

[ottocarr]

I knew a German veteran that reached the American lines and was captured. He was duly given to the Russians by agreement. He developed a kidney disease that the Russian doctors could not treat. Somehow a Russian female doctor was able to give him back to the Americans. His kidney problem was treated successfully and he became an American citizen and a ranking Shriner. Eventually his ex-daughter in law cared for him in his retirement. Nice man.

[noeldown]

RIP Bruno Ganz. You really made this story come to life with your incredible performance.

[williamr]

This breakout story would make an incredible war film.

[thenotflatearth]

The following people stay:
Jodel, Keitel, Krebs and Borgdolf

[sjoak]

And with that, Hitler's rage became a meme at the expense of Keitel, Jodl, Krebs and Burgdorf.

[gabrieljohannson]

I'm astounded that all these years after WW2, this channel provides such detail & information I have never known about. Mark Felton is a true historian & impressive narrator. An underrated channel & contributor by far. Much respect Mr Felton.

[jameselliott]

My grandfather was in the 29th infantry division and hit the beach in the first wave of landing craft at Omaha Beach Normandy. He fought all the way from the beach to Germany until a landmine took out him and his squad. He lived to 94 years old and hated the French till the day he died. He always spoke highly of the German army and how hard they fought and how disciplined their troops were. My warmest memory is when my family hosted a German exchange student for high school, his family came to visit and brought their grandfather that was a German solider who fought in France. He sat with my grandfather for 3 days straight drinking beers and talking about the battles and where they were. They became best friends and kept in contact until they passed.

[sskuk]

Now we all know the story behind that scene in Downfall!

[curtiscrimmins]

when you lose 30, 000 of your 90, 000 soldiers in a breakout just to get to Allied lines and surrender you Know the Soviets were not the most gracious of enemies...

[Lawman]

Mark, I like the maps as graphics, but would appreciate a extra highlight or arrow pointing out which part of the map you're talking about. I'm playing "where's waldo" trying to make sense of the map before it disappears into the next scene.

[joespeciale]

Imagine yourself in the position of the ninth army. You would fight like hell to go west or die doing so, rather than go into a Russian POW camp, which was a certain slow terrible death.

[phpn]

This quality of documentary leaves nothing to be desired. The only thing the BBC would do to it, would be to lengthen the narrative to 50 minutes and use a high-paid actor to narrate partly on-camera. In essence : cosmetic work.

[lt.dashkov]

Now thats a general who cares for his men.

[Vollification]

It is quite crazy. They fought to be able to surrender to the right side XD

[jonwingfieldhill]

Mark's content is brilliant and covers little known niches of history which means that he appears to do a large proportion of his own research and he has that voice that harkens back to the greats that narrated many world war two documentaries filmed in the 80s and 90s.