The Hike That Killed Five Schoolboys

In April 1936, the bodies of five English schoolboys were found half-buried in the snow in the German Black Forest. The truth about what happened would remain buried for 80 years. But the truth has a funny way of getting out eventually.

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✦ With special thanks ✦

Bernd Hainmüller

This video is based on research by Bernd, and this documentary has been created with his kind permission and support. He has personally gathered and verified all primary and secondary sources, which you can find in his excellent book about this tragedy, ‘Tod Am Schauinsland’: https://amzn.to/3T2Wh4y. (It’s in German, obviously.)

Also, a huge thank you to Lost Footage Found (bit.ly/3QFMhMO) who granted copyright permission.

✦ Corrections ✦

20:34 This should say ‘Nationalist Socialist’ publication, not socialist publication.
32:12 'Englanderunglück' is more accurately translated as the 'the English disaster'. I was going to make a broader point here about the irony of 'unglück' (which does literally mean 'un-luck' in German) being used, given what we now know, but it got cut, as so now it just reads as bad translation.

✦ Track list ✦

Dark Documentary – Rafael Krux
Post-apocalyptic – CO AG
A Person That They Will All Fear – CO AG
Drifting Through Time – CO AG
Time – CO AG
There is Something You Should Know – CO AG
Gently Dawning – Jay Varton
Bionic – Ethan Sloane
Dark Melancholic – Rafael Krux

✦ Chapters ✦

00:00 Intro
02:03 'Just a Springtime Hike'
04:36 The First Warning
07:45 The Second Warning
11:08 The Final Ascent
14:47 A Sound in the Darkness
17:48 A Media Storm
21:33 Germany, 1936
23:21 Wait, is this... a cover up?
27:22 This is definitely a cover up
30:30 A Tragedy Forgotten