Did German Commandos Raid England?

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It has been reported that German commandos raided mainland Britain to assault radar stations - are these reports true? Did German soldiers actually land in England?
Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.o...
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@tng2057 3 часа назад

At least two raids led / supported by Donald Sutherland, if what portrayed by movies were true.

@captainjoshuagleiberman2778 3 часа назад

There was precedent for this, there was a German raid in WWI supported by Michael York.😁

@davidbrims5825 3 часа назад

Or ‘’Went the Day Well.’’ made in 1942.

@paulkelk5142 3 часа назад

The Eagle has Landed

@optimusprinceps3526 3 часа назад

and the last time I was this early m Danzig was still part of Germany

@ClarenceCochran-ne7du 3 часа назад

Yes, and Angela Lansbury stopped the second raid with her broom.

@robgatward9511 3 часа назад

A story I heard from a Uboat captain was how he would sneak onto UK shores to replenish his fresh water tanks, down in Falmouth I think? "Nice English spring water" he would describe it at.

@guyfawkesuThe1 2 часа назад

Wasn't this video from a year ago????

@jgood9810 2 часа назад

@@guyfawkesuThe1i was thinking the same thing

@chiron6699 2 часа назад

Documented in WW1

@dougearnest7590 Час назад

@@guyfawkesuThe1 - He did a video about Abwehr agents parachuting into England.

@dogwalker666 3 часа назад

Because Captain Mainwaring and the rest of the platoon kept them at bay. 😅

@monarchist1838 3 часа назад

With help from Captain Square and the Eastgate platoon.

@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 2 часа назад

'Don't tell him Pike'

@barrythatcher9349 2 часа назад

Don't panic, don't panic 😂

@dogwalker666 2 часа назад

@@barrythatcher9349 They don't like it up them!

@ColinRichardson-m8m Час назад

Their real military records are amazing as well, dad's army comedy golden day's

@magicznyignacy380 3 часа назад

It's so strange that Germans never invaded England, given that it's physically impossible to stop a boat from crossing the channel

@RollerCoaster-ok7qw 3 часа назад

Firstly, Hitler was never interested in a war against England. The Wehrmacht was therefore not prepared for such a war, including landing boats. Second, even if German boats with troops had landed in England, they would have quickly been cut off from supplies. Every German soldier on British soil would have been a loss. Third, the Royal Navy was too powerful. It would have protected the coast and prevented supplies in the event of an emergency. Therefore any attempt to invade England would have failed. Just as a reminder, the invasion of Normandy could only succeed when Germany was militarily on the ground. The Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine no longer had anything to counter the invasion fleet.

@jbuckley2546 2 часа назад

@@RollerCoaster-ok7qw Think you missed their point.

@Arltratlo 2 часа назад

@@RollerCoaster-ok7qw lol, and now they cant stop rubber boats, but this time its the French who dont let the RN in their ports!

@Baneful_Regal_Ben 2 часа назад

Hitler loved the uk, the uk used to be german! Norfolk...Barns we're painted red to let the Germans know that their was a friend inside if crashed.

@RollerCoaster-ok7qw 2 часа назад

@@Arltratlo They can, but they do not want to stop them at alll costs. Thats the difference.

@Frank-qs3pe 3 часа назад

If there were raids, I wouldn’t be surprised if Otto Skorzeny was involved. I just read his autobiography and I absolutely recommend it.

@jeanboseau9249 3 часа назад

Skorzeny is a clown.

@grodo3487 3 часа назад

@@jeanboseau9249 Cool scar, though

@jeanboseau9249 3 часа назад

@@grodo3487 yes, for the scar

@Frank-qs3pe 2 часа назад

@@TheSuperDerp I didn’t say he did, but he was in charge of commando units during the war. So maybe he had a hand in it I don’t know.

@kwanchan6745 2 часа назад

they didn't need raids, gathered intelligence via spies why raid a radar site when you have access to the designs ?

@s1dfk4123 3 часа назад

FYI: with 2.19M subscribers Professor Felton's channel is as large as the French army at the start of WW2 (I was an early volunteer - signed up at 50K)

@tonyaustin4472 2 часа назад

I moved up to the fens in East Anglia in 1976 and was told by several people in my village that they’d been aware of at least two firefights with Germans and the British Army during the war. They weren’t the sort of folk you would dismiss as fantasists either. They told me because they knew I worked in the Civil Service and thought they could trust me to keep quiet about, which I have till now :-) Unfortunately I didn’t feel I could push them for more info about just where, why and when….but they were absolutely serious in their belief that the events had happened and they’d been told not to talk about it.

@Alsatiagent-zu1rx 2 часа назад

Was this in a pub? Just asking.

@caahacky Час назад

A lady who was a friend of my Mother's was a widow of a soldier who was stationed in East Anglia some time after being rescued from Dunkirk. I was there when she told my Mother that her husband had been involved/mobilised for some sort of panic response to a German incursion on the coast. They were in a terrible panic because they still had very little equipment after Dunkirk. Could have been BS or rumour mill or just an exercise of course.

@KENKENNIFF 3 часа назад

I think not, no beach towels left behind.

@Soundbrigade 2 часа назад

And knowing how German tourists are, they would have occupied the whole beach ….

@steve08717 3 часа назад

my late father was a runner at the age of 14 with the Dawlish home guard he always told me of being woken at 4am in the period 1st september to the 14th 1940 by his units corporal and taken to the beach there the platoon was collecting bodies 9 of them german had washed up the bodies where loaded onto regular army bedford and they where not told what happened to them later they where told they had washed up from Boulogne france after a bombing raid on the barges the local fisherman laughed at this they knew the bodies where fresh and had only been in the water an hour before washing up in 1944 my father now in france saw those uniforms again german infantry the government can burry things if they want to

@stephenduffy5406 2 часа назад

punctuation ...

@SuperBROKEN81 2 часа назад

Are you 12? Grammer, punctuation, run-on sentences.

@SuperBommer1 3 часа назад

Have you never seen Bedknobs and broomsticks?

@misterscaz6011 2 часа назад

That was the raid that was rebuffed by an amateur witch and some meddling kids.

@ZombiesCometh 2 часа назад

Lmao that’s amazing - grew up loving that movie😊

@13JAMLAND 2 часа назад

LMAO! I was going to say that! LMAO! 👏🏻😂

@mitchmatthews6713 3 часа назад

My Sunday morning is complete! Cheers, Mark!

@ClarenceCochran-ne7du 3 часа назад

One can certainly understand why Churchill and crew would want to keep any actual landings a secret. It would be simply a question of maintaining the Citizenry's Morale that the home island was inviolate.

@jeromewagschal9485 3 часа назад

I was just telling myself that when I saw your reply 🙂

@danam0228 Час назад

Stay tuned for any evidence of landings that the good doctor digs up

@wout123100 Час назад

@@danam0228 zero evidence i am afraid.

@magic1968 3 часа назад

Yeah we've ALWAYS been good with our defence of our shores.... oh wait!

@vincentmueller3717 Час назад

You were when your government was AGAINST being invaded.

@jguth6 3 часа назад

A new mark felton video! This improved my boring Sunday

@greaserbubtheoriginal7923 3 часа назад

mark great work your research is awsome

@sheriffarchon 3 часа назад

Well, here after only 12 seconds!

@paulbrungardt9823 2 часа назад

My father was a German speaking U.S. army officer in WWII. He served in an intelligence unit decoding German codes. He mentioned that , unlike the USA, the average Englishman was unarmed and complete unfamiliar with use of firearms. It was a major concern for American military strategists. Once landed, the Nazis would have had a chance to overtake the British. Meanwhile. Japan was deterred from invading the U.S. mainland by a fear of American citizens with guns in their closets. Japan’s Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said : "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." You can thank the Second Amendment for cancelling Yamamoto's desire to invade our the West Coast.

@highpath4776 Час назад

Rural England - and Scotland - would have had a good number of rifles for shooting, there were also gun clubs - including at public schools - the British were not so unhandy with Guns (and swords) and the Army had well over 100,000 people in it plus those that had served in WW1 as a handy home guard.

@rtyrsson 2 часа назад

I've been an avid student of WWII history since my childhood; and yet I still learn new things from you so very often. Thank you Dr. Felton. Your work is continuously fascinating.

@PaulMcClennon282 3 часа назад

So excited to check this one out Mark, great job

@bosnjakball 3 часа назад

Great video. I do wonder how it would've been seeing larger German ground forces on English soil.

@michaelmazowiecki9195 2 часа назад

Germany had radar technology on a par with the UK. What it lacked was a fully coordinated command and control system. It implemented a defensive radar network called the the Kammhuber Line using the Freya and Wurzburg radar sets

@EdMcF1 3 часа назад

I read reports of German U-boat crews landing in remote Welsh coastal villages in monolingual Welsh-speaking areas in WW1, and sometimes going into pubs and drinking with the locals, who not speaking English couldn't tell Germans from English crews.

@geigertec5921 2 часа назад

That's so ironic because the Welsh are more "British" than anyone east of Wales - who are all more related to the Germans themselves if you look at the genetic makeup of the British Isles.

@rovercoupe7104 2 часа назад

I think they would recognise the uniforms. M

@worldofameiso5491 3 часа назад

I am sure Dad's Army covered such a raid in one of their episodes...

@anthonyk5515 3 часа назад

Excellent again, Mark. I find it easier to believe they did raid UK shores, rather than they didn't. It seems to beggar belief that they wouldn't. East Anglia, for example, has enough coastline. The concept must've been discussed by the German Armed Forces.

@dammad8584 3 часа назад

Amazing yet unverified...the mysteries of history. As always"best of the best" ...ty Mark Felton

@fushigimd 3 часа назад

Heyo all! Long time fan and avid warthunder player!

@MichaelHarla 3 часа назад

I think the radars were known as "Chain Home Low (low frequency)" Also, a wartime Ealing film, "Went the Day Well?", described a fictional German occupation of a remote British village, in the style of Jack Higgins' later novel "The Eagle Has Landed" Mervyn Johns, Glynnis's dad, was an actor in the movie

@Grundag 3 часа назад

Thank you, Dr. Felton for another Informative and thought provoking glimpse into History. The British didn't have all those Troops, Guards and Communication stations set up for nothing. They were on the watch constantly for the very same thing that they were already successfully doing in Norway.

@WielkaStopa-qh1rr 3 часа назад

''successfully''

@Alsatiagent-zu1rx 2 часа назад

I remember reading a book in the early 70s when I was a child. It was a story of Norwegian kids who devised a plan to keep gold from Nazi occupiers. The hid it in their sleds and tobogganed down a hill to a waiting submarine, I think. I don't remeber much but I loved that book.

@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw 3 часа назад

Hasn't this video been uploaded before? I distinctly remember a similar video. Did YT shenanigans force Mark to do a re-upload?

@simontaplin 3 часа назад

That video was if German paratroopers ever landed in Britain

@196cupcake 3 часа назад

I think it might have been on the "War Stories with Mark Felton" channel. From 1 year ago, "Did German Commandos Raid England?"

@SquirrelRIP 3 часа назад

Smashing it as always Mark 😊

@196cupcake 2 часа назад

In terms of serious history I think Mark gets it right, but personally, I think it's most likely that there was literally only one or two raids, which were suppressed. If they were forced to sign a national secrets act NDA then scrubbing German records after the war would be consistent. It's hard to believe the Nazis never tried it not once. Much more plausible to believe they tried one or two, and they failed, and since they needed as much as they could get on the eastern front, Germany gave up on commando raids in England. Why would England want to keep it a secret? To boost moral, and people were already being vigilant. Why keep it secret after the war? To cover up the cover up. Maybe it was aliens dressed up as Germans.

@wout123100 Час назад

i dont believe it happened at all.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 3 часа назад

It's very unlikely the Germans mounted any commando raids on Britain but let's look at it this way. After the British Parachute Regiment raided a German radar station in Bruneval France to gather the components of the Wurzburg radar system ( a successful raid too) the British radar research lab was moved from Swanage (Dorset) which was close to the sea and further inland to Malvern (Dorsetshire) just in case the Germans tried the same. Hey, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!"

@gertgilich3508 2 часа назад

Hi Mark. Thank you for the coverage. Super interesting. Regards from SSW. 🇿🇦☝️👍

@Mashkoormohsin 3 часа назад

Dr Felton. Greeting from Dr Mashkoor

@questionmark05 3 часа назад

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="73">1:13</a> yep, thats my uncle.

@lesliewells-ig5dl 2 часа назад

Cool!!

@rascally_ryan 3 часа назад

‘War Stories with Mark Felton’? More like ‘MOAR Stories with Mark Felton’, amirite? 😄 (keep up the good work Mark!)

@mike5d1 2 часа назад

Personally, I think people have read too much into Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

@EdMcF1 3 часа назад

They came from the sea as the ferry from the mainland was too expensive.

@SlideRulePirate 2 часа назад

My father was in the Royal Navy during WW2. As a kid I asked him just this question. He told me that he had heard a rumour of a raid near Brighton but neither he nor anybody he knew put any stock in it.

@gvozdenrovina3813 2 часа назад

Thank you Dr. Felton!

@MrXdmp 2 часа назад

Thanks Dr. Felton!

@Russojap2 3 часа назад

Very interesting! Greetings from East Tennessee 🤠

@MoongladeDruid 2 часа назад

I am from the IOW and my grandfather was in the LDV/ homeguard. He never mentioned anything about this ever happening,, He was apparently glad as they had 3 men with 5 rounds each on a patrol around the area.

@silent1967 3 часа назад

"It's a mother-beautiful bridge and it's going to be there."

@drmarkintexas-400 3 часа назад

🎖️🏆🙏❤️‍🩹⭐ Thank you for sharing this

@FredScuttle456 3 часа назад

Old movie: "Went the Day Well".

@FredScuttle456 3 часа назад

The Germans sighted in rubber dinghies in the sea might have been downed aircrew, from the bombers which were shot down that night.

@leemichael2154 3 часа назад

Michael Caine raiders trying to kill Churchill lol

@FredScuttle456 3 часа назад

@@leemichael2154 The Eagle Has Landed.

@SwissTheFifer 3 часа назад

I love your videos! They’re informative and short and I love it! Edit: also first

@flybobbie1449 2 часа назад

Brits landing in Europe had friendly locals, Germans would not have the same luxury.

@geigertec5921 2 часа назад

The people on the channel islands: Are we a joke to you?

@jeffposey3762 3 часа назад

Why has no one ever made a video about the allied enigma machines, and the axis efforts to crack them?

@harrywebsters2318 2 часа назад

I fondly remember 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks'. I feel well versed within this subject...

@darrenmaddox6074 2 часа назад

Brilliant as per usual Dr. Felton

@cyberleaderandy1 3 часа назад

Having visited the Isle of Wight a lot of times and spoken to people there many times there's a lot of people who were alive during WW2 who believe the island was raided. There were supposed to be German helmets nailed on posts along a road on the south of the island (called Military Road) for many years post war. I believe theres a book written about this too.

@CanadianCampaholic Час назад

My Grandfather was a Marine during WW2, and was at one point stationed on guard duty at the #2 battery at Stokes Bay Gosport, on the Solent opposite the Isle of Wight. He claimed that late one night a small craft that appeared to be a midget sub came close to the beach. Allegedly the marines put a search light on it and fired warning shorts (with rifles) into the water around it. The vessel slipped away into the mist. He always wondered if it was German and what its intentions were. This would've been around 1941 or so.

@acetop666 2 часа назад

I was born on the Isle of Wight in 1963 and this story was always local Folklore I'm sure I suggested Mark look at this after the "did the Fallschirmjäger land in the UK" video

@richardwillson101 Час назад

I have always strongly believed that reports of "German commando raids" were always actually British forces training/practicing for raids on Europe. Having spent a LOT of time reading about the British special units who carried out maritime landings and small commando style attacks, these reports always fit nicely with locations that they may want to use for training. It was all hidden from ARP wardens and civilians, who not only didn't need to know, but would also inadvertently assist in the training by giving a real threat to discovery/being shot at. As said in the video, no German units were ever given a commendation for such actions, which would have been highly unusual given the fact that no other units managed to do such a thing. The German leaders would certainly have celebrated such an achievement and would have little reason to keep it hidden within military hierarchy.

@purpleldv966 3 часа назад

This is a reupload.

@brucebello2049 2 часа назад

Hello Mark, as always great story and video, the shot of the WAF in the radar operations room, by chance can you let us know when you obtained the photo, one of the operators looks just like my mother in law!

@davidbrims5825 3 часа назад

Well, Germany did occupy a part of England, the Channel Islands ironically the only part of England that now looks English….

@BillyNoMates1974 3 часа назад

Well there is the Falkland islands as well but the way Free Gear Keir is going, he will give that away too

@optimusprinceps3526 3 часа назад

Last time I was this early the Sudetenland was still part of Czechoslovakia

@faithlesshound5621 3 часа назад

Actually, the Channel Islands were never part of England, though they belonged to the King of England (and previously the Duke of Normandy). In that they resemble the Isle of Man, which is not a part of any of the four nations nearby.

@derin111 3 часа назад

We know exactly what you’re implying. Even here, literally no opportunity lost to be racist, huh? What a sad life.

@wallythewondercorncake8657 3 часа назад

They aren't part of England, or the British Isles, or the UK. Your lack of basic geography knowledge makes that last part of your comment hilarious, a nationalist who doesn't even understand their own country.

@Richardincancale 2 часа назад

Given that German radar technology was quite advanced by 1943 compared to Chain Home Low and High, I doubt they were raiding Ventnor for intelligence.

@jackmckinnon8256 2 часа назад

found a German outboard motor from WW2 under the cliff at st Albans head Dorset many years ago. the thought was that Germans tried to get ashore to raid the radar base at the top of the cliff but never made it

@1220b Час назад

Battle of Graveney Marsh 1940. Last land battle on British soil. And during WW1 German U-boat crews landed on at least one Scottish Island.

@AXS512 2 часа назад

Besides the air force attacks. The German navy made a successful attack on the great British naval base at Scapa Flow. At that time it was called by an American author "the single most extraordinary feat of the war so far".

@jakhaughton1800 2 часа назад

I always had my doubts about Pevensey collaborating with the Germans! 😂😂😂

@chiron6699 2 часа назад

We're doomed!!!....Captain felton

@Chevyready 3 часа назад

Mark for president

@doberski6855 Час назад

Given units like the 'Bradendurgers' , 'Fallschirmjäger' and Otto Skorzeny's unit. Isn't the question why not rather then if it actually happened? I know and have enjoyed the works of fiction on the subject, but were all those units to busy elsewhere to be spared for hit and run strikes and raids, on targets in Britain? When you think of the quality of the German U-Boats, and E-Boats in the Channel. Just surprising that it did not appear to have happened, even if just to keep Britain thinking that 'Sea Lion' was finally going to happen. Make England keep more regular forces stationed in the Britain tied down for home defense.

@n.v.1258 2 часа назад

Surprise 🎉 new Felton video 😊😊😊

@krisfrederick5001 3 часа назад

The Germans just stopped in for tea. Ace as always!

@Dave-jd9qn 2 часа назад

I am curious about The Official Secrets Act. We see it used and mentioned in film and video where characters are required to sign. Can a person simply decline to sign?

@oliverrandle756 Час назад

I have heard first-hand testimony from a nun from Cold Ash convent, Sister Mechtilde, who claims that she was surprised by a group of armed Germans in her tractor shed during the war. She was a young German nun who had arrived in England just before the war and was convinced that these men, who were armed, were German nationals. I assume that you are referring to my earlier email, Mr Felton, when referring to unsubstantiated reports, but I have no reason to doubt her story. So I know that I'm telling the truth, and Sister Mechtilde had no reason to fabricate this story. She told me that she'd never told this to anyone else outside of the convent. She was told by these men that she was giving comfort and 'succour' to the enemy, but since she was a nun they would not harm her. They asked her though not to pass this information on, which she obviously adhered to. I'm not surprised at your scepticism but at the time she told me (around thirty years ago) I was not aware that this was a remarkable story.

@jonlanigan3439 Час назад

What could have been considered is a massive airborne assault on airfields by paratroops, followed by transports landing supplies once airfields are captured. This would have caused chaos on a grand scale. This would have to be done during the Battle of Britain, when the RAF was already stretched. The losses would have been high for the Germans, but far less than what was lost in Russia.

@heatherporterfield7343 Час назад

A real life version of "The Eagle has Landed."

@jessicablackburn7422 3 часа назад

Great videos!! Love your voice, Can you read me bedtime stories?! Haha!

@Sam-el6hq 3 часа назад

Can I read you bedtime war stories?

@fishyc150 3 часа назад

I recommend you look in to this one a year or so back... time to find out some answers 🥳

@kittymervine6115 2 часа назад

I mean, some island had a whole lot of Germans attack and hung around until the end of the war. People on these islands had a very tough war.

@yesyesyesyes1600 2 часа назад

There was already a Video by Marc aboug this topic, right?

@lancegoodthrust546 3 часа назад

Wasn't this video already posted a while back?

@shawnr771 2 часа назад

Thank for the lesson. Interesting topic. Would you cover supposed acts of sabotague occuring in US during WW2?

@Oi.... 3 часа назад

Channel Island got invaded, don't know if you'd call them Commandos

@gern7535 Час назад

Well of course witnesses would have shaky memories. Those mysterious men who showed up afterwards, had neuralyzers. Agent J and Agent K would have wiped their memories in a red flash!

@actioncom2748 2 часа назад

I wonder if there were any raids on Boardwalk or Park Place?

@lukmigindnuforhelved 2 часа назад

Why the reupload ? I saw this exact video about a year ago.

@RedwoodBushcraft 2 часа назад

Paul Thompson is the go to guy on this subject

@paulmurphy42 2 часа назад

One raid occurred in 1940 and was portrayed in the 1970 tv series TIMESLIP...

@norbertopineda1167 3 часа назад

Creo q los alemanes fueron muy innovadores en muchos aspectos, pero en otros este titulo en cuanto a innovacion se lo llevan los Britanicos..... Los Branderburgeses actuaban solamente presediendo acciones militares y en mi opinion personal el Cabo Austriaco nunca tuvo intenciones verdaderas de invadir su Isla. En cuanto a espionaje y comandos los Britanicos estan por delante de muchas naciones. Saludos desde Avellaneda Argentina