Dr. Goebbels' Pistols

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In this new series we examine what happened to weapons used in infamous crimes or incidents. In this episode, the twin Walther pistols owned by Dr. Josef Goebbels that were intimately involved in his demise in Berlin on 1 May 1945.
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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@oakie007 Год назад

Mark has the voice of a WW2 narrator.... Oh hang on, he is a WW2 narrator, and a bloody good one at that. The best!

@abrahamlevi3556 Год назад

Mark is the good voice of WW2 as opposed to Harry Giese aka der Grossdeutscher Sprecher ( the great German spokesperson) who narrated die Deutsche Wochenschau newsreels since October of 1939 until the bitter end.

@RoosterMontgomery Год назад

I remember watching Hitler's Bodyguard and hearing the repeated line: "Hitler was furious." I want to hear Dr. Felton say that.

@craigstandridge2240 Год назад

LOL

@beaverTHEprez208 Год назад

I 100,000% agree

@ThreeOaks79 Год назад

The reikgsiggerheidsdiens😊

@CGFIELDS Год назад

Always excited for a new video. Feels like a teacher rolling in a TV during history class 😃

@tachikomakusanagi3744 Год назад

Ha, you've brought back some nice memories of school in the 80s :)

@robertdeen8741 Год назад

Don't know if you're as old as me, but when the teacher rolled in the TV with video tape machine, yes tape. I'm so old, I predate VHS cassettes! One had to thread the tape similar to an audio reel to reel tape recorder. Teaching aids like that almost guaranteed an easy class. Dang, I just remembered something. Grade 5 or 6ish. A Canadian National Film Board creation. At one point it showed 2 frogs fornicating. That brought a few giggles but when I did my impression of Yosemite Sam and add, "Great Horny Toads", I almost brought down the roof. I suspect the teacher'd be mad but how could I let an opportunity like that slip by without using it? Not like it was going to happen again in my lifetime.

@tachikomakusanagi3744 Год назад

@@robertdeen8741 Do you mean something like 16mm film, with no sound? But nice work with the voice over you did, thats what made those lessons worthwhile

@tachikomakusanagi3744 Год назад

@@robertdeen8741 I'm a Brit, but i remember sort of those days - i was very much taught from the VHS era, but we had text books that had pictures in them that were clearly taken from the old 16mm films.

@yepiratesworkshop7997 Год назад

@@robertdeen8741I might be a little older than you. I remember them bringing in 16mm movie films. I was in a Catholic school and we always hoped one of the lay-teachers would "F"-up and accidently put on a porn movie. Never happened, though. One of our classmate's fathers had a sort of tiny garage-sized theater where he'd sometimes hold "stag nights" and show some porn for adults, so we were always after our classmate to bring in a film that we could substitute when the teacher wasn't looking. He never did. Probably because it would have been "confiscated."

@pegcity4eva Год назад

Thank you for your dedication to preserving and presenting history Dr Felton.

@loblollypine8223 Год назад

Wait, he's got a PhD? That's awesome. I admire the dedication

@t850 Год назад

People are long gone, but witness accounts and couple of pistols remained to tell the story. As always, thank you for the effort. :)

@Matt-xc6sp Год назад

What’s wild about that is just how many of them have John Browning’s design fingerprints on them. He’s easily top 20 most influential people of the 20th century.

@t850 Год назад

@@Matt-xc6sp Interesting connection. I wasn't aware of that, but it sure it an interesting observation. Even today 50 cal. Brownings are doing someone's bidding, probably fighting someone with a derivative of the same design.

@Matt-xc6sp Год назад

@@t850 And every single semi auto handgun still uses his tilting barrel action. As far as arming opposing forces goes though, ain’t nobody got anything on Kalashnikov.

@t850 Год назад

@@Matt-xc6sp That's for sure. In the end, economy (of scale) dictates every war...to the point when, often innocent lives, become measurable in mere cents. Not even worth the copper it was minted on.

@dd52161 Год назад

🥱🥱

@torn.blue.sky101 Год назад

Really enjoying these episodes! Keep up the awesome work, always something new and genuinely interesting.

@Bilbie55 Месяц назад

Mark Felton is a total stud for doing all this research and putting together these documentaries. He keeps poor fellas like me entertained while at work. Bravo Mr. Felton.

@jcprov9481 Год назад

Loving this series. This is the kind of history that gets me hooked and wanting more. I love being able to see, hold and visit things and places that were witness to history.

@resonantmelon7915 Год назад

These videos make me want to switch to a history major. Fantastic job as always Dr. Felton

@gregb6469 Год назад

The typical college history class will bore you to tears. Most will be taught by either a grad student who considers teaching undergrads a chore he does for his scholarship, or by a professor whose mind is on his latest research project, not the class, and who hasn't updated his class notes in 20 years. I say this as one who majored in history in college (but who, thankfully, had enough interest in the subject, and enough tearchers who were actually enthused about teaching, to enable him to survive until graduation).

@TimPerfetto Год назад

So do it wtf

@TimPerfetto Год назад

@@gregb6469 The typical college history class, not the class and enough tearchers (but ((who) ..../, thankfully, will bore you to tears

@anthonysoprano7066 Год назад

Dr Felton truly has the best historic content on the platform.

@filipohman7277 Год назад

So true Tony!!! Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

@anthonysoprano7066 Год назад

@@filipohman7277 greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

@rodvoorhies3753 Год назад

I always learn something new! Thanks Mark!

@damiengavin6254 Год назад

Excellent content Dr Felton thanks for all your hard work

@3xit3nt3r Год назад

I eat nails and drink gasoline

@stefanscicluna2799 Год назад

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@raypurchase801 Год назад

Exciting.

@pokerkramer1240 Год назад

It really doesn't

@jamesengland7461 Год назад

RU-vid often skips a second or two. OH NO! Must "rewind" to the beginning, or things just aren't right.

@wadeguidry6675 Год назад

It's my favorite song.

@rudolfabelin383 Год назад

Also the same caliber as early Bond. Although he used a Beretta 418.

@sahilvyas2974 Год назад

Thank you sir for this golden content. For me, Mark Felton Productions is the best channel on RU-vid .

@sahilvyas2974 Год назад

@@michaelpielorz9283 haha true, 10/10 for Mark's humour

@BROKEN-PILOT Год назад

Dr. Felton has done it, again - Bravo! I bought a Walther PP .32 caliber (it has the Nazi eagle and swastika on it) from a small gun shop (a converted room in a man's personal home) north of Ft. Worth, Texas in 1985. I also have the holster. Both are in excellent condition. I often wonder about the Provenance of the pistol. I still have the receipt. I paid $121.00 for it.

@jay71512 Год назад

I would take a wild guess and say if authentic it's got to be worth 10x that now absolute minimum.

@jeratday1934 Год назад

@james Paton I would recommend the legacy collectibles channel on RU-vid for more information about your firearm. The owner of the channel specializes in 1933-1945 German handguns and knows lots of information about them.

@BROKEN-PILOT Год назад

@@jeratday1934 Thank you.

@ravarga4631 Год назад

Provenance not providence

@BROKEN-PILOT Год назад

@@ravarga4631 Predictive text

@terokaakinen7061 Год назад

I didn't know that he had almost no experience with weapons... These are really entertaining history lectures...👍🏼😀

@DK-gy7ll Год назад

Being the coward that he was he preferred that others did his killing for him. I didn't know these pistols still existed, but the question still remains as to where the pistol that Hitler offed himself with is located.

@dflo4165 Год назад

J G was the official propaganda minister!

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Год назад

@@DK-gy7ll Probably at the bottom of a Berlin canal. Or souvenired by a Russian soldier if it was left in the bunker.

@warrenSPQRXxl Год назад

@@DK-gy7ll As the war turned against him, Hitler increasingly retreated into a kind of solitude. Dr. Goebbels, on the other hand, visited bombed cities and the frontline. He was reported to show no fear of bombing. As noted in the video, he tried to join the army in WWI but was turned down owing to the after effects of surgery for a deformed foot. If you you listen to his final broadcasted speech, there is no indication of fear. He was the propaganda minister and, though he greatly desired it, he had no executive or military power other than being gauleiter of Berlin, untill the very end when it was meaningless. A fanatic National Socialist who promoted the war and domestic atrocities yes, but not a coward. He alone of the high ranking Nazis, had a Ph.D. and aspired to be a writer and was extremely effective in public speaking and propaganda and put his talents to an evil end.

@oceanhome2023 Год назад

@@provisionalhypothesis No that goes to General Schoner who shot his own delirious troops himself right up to the time that he put on civilian clothes and then turned himself in to the Americans !

@57WillysCJ Год назад

Neat piece of history. Mark, have you ever done an episode about Albert Goring, Hermann' s brother? I tried for a search but did not find him listed. Quite a difference between the brothers.

@jeffreywj7773 Год назад

Search for the History Guy on RU-vid. He just posted a video on Albert Goring a few days ago. I have not viewed that one yet myself but he does many very good quality videos.

@randomguy1928 Год назад

Apparently he's waved as a resistance hero and Apparently saved Jewish people.

@carlcushmanhybels8159 Год назад

@@randomguy1928 Yes. Albert Goring would save Jews by signing "Goring" to orders to spare them. {The receiving authorities naturally thought the orders came from Herman G.} Herman knew of some of his brother's efforts to save Jews and supported him as a brother.

@davefloyd9443 Год назад

Always enjoy your firearms content. Thanks.

@rayfraser1773 Год назад

You amaze me as to where or how you get your information. It’s brilliant !

@alih6953 Год назад

Almost 2 million Dr Felton amazing work Good sir!

@BlueStone-qt9md Год назад

This series is a very interesting one! It would be cool to see the stories of the weapons that were involved in the Franz Ferdinand or Abraham Lincoln assassinations

@pac1fic055 Год назад

Always putting out tremendous content!

@BHuang92 Год назад

Another infamous gun topic would be the FN 1910 used by Gavrillo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

@ew9989 Год назад

Yes with the .32 7.65mm ammo

@neilfoster814 Год назад

It's always interesting to hear "Whatever happened to" WW2 artifacts like these. Things like Goerrings Feldmarschall baton and sword, Hitler's PPK pistol and such like. Well done on another great video Dr Felton. I wonder if Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels also had personal weapons in their handbags during normal daily life?

@misteraustralian3335 10 месяцев назад

Eva Braun had an Ortgies pistol

@gv4189 Год назад

Thank You Mark for your amazing documentaries that you present for us all. They are very informative and you present them with such intrigue that I almost feel like I am there.

@grooveman222 Год назад

It's interesting that Goebbels, Himmler and Hitler hardly resembled the perfect physical Aryan model they championed.

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Exactly. (And he had a Slavic mistress).

@transkryption Год назад

and what is with the extreme right and just a lil bit of homosexuality?

@grooveman222 Год назад

@@transkryption - Yes, who would have thought the National Socialist would have gays.

@ianthomasdooley859 Год назад

They used to say that to be the perfect Nazi, you had to be as slim as Göring, as tall as Goebbels, and as blond as Hitler.

@michaelgro5474 Год назад

@@ianthomasdooley859 "Blond wie Hitler, schlank wie Göring und flink wie Goebbels" - "Blond as Hitler, slim as Göring and swift like Goebbels". That is the version I know.

@rippedreaper7279 Год назад

It's fascinating how near-real the movie Downfall is.

@abrahamlevi3556 Год назад

Yes it was except for some big cockups and cost-cutting measures. Using a Makarov, a Soviet post war era pistol instead of the readily available Walther PP and PPK has not excuse! In the execution scene of Hermann Fegelein, there was no blood gushing out of the body despite being sprayed by a sub machine gun. The same goes for the suicide scene of the HJ boy and the BDM girl.

@jimc.goodfellas Год назад

It's been awhile since I've been this early for a Dr F video....I never get tired of this kind of content

@kampfgruppepeiper501 Год назад

Very informative and interesting Mark!! Thank you for continuing to put out great historical videos!

@Finchy67 Год назад

Thank you for yet another exellent video. As others have stated, simply the best historical videos and your work is greatly appreciated.

@walterbillings7575 Год назад

Goebbels was loyal to the end. He and his wife had to commit suicide, there was no other way. But what they did to their children that is a far different matter. Frau Goebbels could have easily sent them to the Americans and the Americans would have taken them to America. God in Heaven will never forgive the sin of the murder of children.

@darkoflight4938 Год назад

Thank you Dr Felton for this and of course all the other eye opening and very informative videos you provide us!!!

@nodarkthings Год назад

Absolutely fascinating, Dr. Felton. Thank you.

@williammontana3895 Год назад

Thank you, Dr. Felton. Very informative.

@sheldonrobertson8670 Год назад

Another excellent example of Dr. Feltons extraordinary knowledge of WWll, will never get tired of content from that era. Thanks again for all your hard work!

@brucewillis1236 Год назад

I agree. One of the best. Also the movement intensions are just what so many. Disassembly vids need. What way and how to before it happens.

@TheJoeshExperience Год назад

R u the actor

@davidallen8611 Год назад

“Babe wake up, there is a new Dr Felton video!” -my wife ❤

@highdesertutah Год назад

I give Goebbels credit for one thing. Unlike Himmler and Goring, he didn’t cut and run or try to cut a deal with the allies. I think Heydrich would have down with the ship too.

@danielmoran9902 Год назад

Its the intro, the totally 'serious music' and facial expression to match! Gets me every time.

@larry1824 Год назад

Yet goerring surrendered a Smith and Wesson . I see it in my yearly tours of West Point. It's standard model ten looked like it just came out of the box.

@dabidibup Год назад

I wonder if he did it to charm his American captors.

@larry1824 Год назад

@@dabidibup no. Lots of them knew guns and what to carry. Lugers look great in the movies but rain snow sleet etc that Smith would never fail you

@malakasquad2214 Год назад

I am always impressed by the level of details provided in your documentaries. Thank you, Dr. Felton!

@petermosherthepoet Год назад

As usual Mr Felton, this story about Goebels was well researched and provides real insight into who that man was. I watched the movie “Race” recently and the actor who played Goebels did a superb job in depicting the essence of the man. Your previous video about Goebels sexual nature, and your choice of describing him as a sexual pest came across spot on in the movie, especially in a scene with Goebels and the woman who was making a movie about the 1936 Olympics, when he asked her about wearing men’s shirts and she said they made her more comfortable. Goebels then looked at her and asked her why she had to be more comfortable, was it he who made her uncomfortable? Her reaction was as one would expect, she was completely caught off guard by his query, and you could feel her fright, not wanting to displease this powerful man whose reputation surely preceded him. Later in the movie, it shows that woman defying an order from Goebels to all the cameramen not to film the day that Owens would be vying to win an unprecedented fourth Gold Medal, with her going to each of the cameras and readying them for action. Hitler had given her complete authority to film as she pleased, much to the chagrin of Goebels, and he just sat next to his fuehrer stewing as the cameras rolled. A movie well worth watching, just as all of your videos are.

@ThreeLittleBirds111 Год назад

Excellent historical documentaries, Thank You, Mr. Felton.

@jonclassical5710 Год назад

Loved another "weapon" episode! (There is a gentlemen in Scottsdale, AZ area that has one of the finest collections of German Firearms I have ever seen....I almost bought a WWII era Walter P38 with Nazi markings from him in the middle 1990's, but it was more than my meager budget could afford and why would I want to own cemented my decision.)

@DK-gy7ll Год назад

I have a WW2 P38 and Luger. Owning them is not a celebration of Nazism. Rather they are trophies taken from a vanquished regime.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Год назад

@@DK-gy7ll The Nazi markings on WW2 German firearms are referred to as the "Waffenamt" stamps. All they signify is inspection, proof-testing, and acceptance for use by the Wehrmacht. Nothing political about them.

@MrSapperb3 Год назад

Be useful if you wrote out the full name instead of abbreviations, seeing as this is an international channel hosted by a Brit. Majority of people won’t know where tf you’re talking about

@cynditermath9118 Год назад

What a story is left with those pistols. Thanks for bringing this to us.

@carlbrown9082 Год назад

Thanks for another great video, Doc. This series is interesting. I'm curious to know which infamous weapon is next.

@markbanash921 Год назад

As time passes and WWII becomes ever distant, it is sometimes difficult to believe the stories we learn about how bizarre, grotesque, and savage the Nazis were. It's thorough scholarship like this, scholarship focusing on key pieces of evidence, that remind us of the truth of an old adage, one that says just because it happened so long ago doesn't mean we should not believe it did happen. We just need histories like this one.

@white_heat.truth76 8 месяцев назад

The illustrious history of the British made these lads look like child's play.

@linkieloos Год назад

So glad this is becoming a series.

@specialse Год назад

Had never heard of this part of the last days history and the artifacts that still exist today .amazing .

@jamesbodnarchuk3322 Год назад

Always informative Dr . Felton❤🇨🇦

@mitchmatthews6713 Год назад

Excellent work, Mark! You never disappoint!

@michaelspyker8390 Год назад

I absolutely love this series Dr! Really cool idea

@lablackzed Год назад

Shame about the children a sad ending killed by their twisted parents.

@jerryjeromehawkins1712 Год назад

For those children and Goebbel's wife to have fallen into Stalin's hands... their fate would most certainly have been more grim.

@stc3145 Год назад

@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 Could have evacuated them west weeks before Berlin fell

@jerryjeromehawkins1712 Год назад

@@stc3145 Definitely agree Newuser, absolutely. Just keeping those kids in that environment alone was insane. Guaranteed those kids could have safely been transported out of Berlin to stay with relatives, etc. Or at least surrendered to the Americans or British months earlier. But... these are the Goebbels we're talking about, so...

@lablackzed Год назад

@@stc3145 Speer had a plan to get them out when the Berlin orchestra was being evacuated in buses .

@levanii31 Год назад

Thank you for everything ❤️

@BlueBirdsProductions Год назад

BIG fan of the infamous guns series. Very interesting stuff.

@fernangdecastillap5309 Год назад

Never disappoints. Excellent and original content.

@davidcomtedeherstal Год назад

One of Magda Goebbels children survived, Helmut, because he was in service with the Reichsluftwacht. After the war, Helmut Quandt was the Head of BMW.

@marilyncrowley3303 Год назад

Actually his name was Harald, and his half-brother Herbert was joint with him in their mutual biological father’s myriad, and still VERY lucrative, businesses which had strong Nazi ties…

@davidcomtedeherstal Год назад

@@marilyncrowley3303 Sorry! BMW tody belongs to his kids.

@derekzumbro392 Год назад

If I remember correctly, his name wasn't "Helmut." His name was Herold Quandt.

@masaharumorimoto4761 Год назад

Love this series!! Can't wait for whatever you do next, it's always good!!!

@robertphillips6296 Год назад

Walther PPK, preferred by James Bond and Double O MI-6 spy's.

@knotgood9077 Год назад

As always and as usual TY for all your hard work and content contributions…just appreciating

@oceanhome2023 Год назад

I had never heard of the details of Goebels demise I thought everything was done inside the bunker ! These new details are chilling !

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

See the film ‘Downfall’.

@blackterminal Год назад

Thanks for the video Mark

@duaneho555 Год назад

Appreciate this video series. Eagerly looking forward to the next one.

@GrinderCB Год назад

Lots of movies and TV shows portray the last days of the reich, but the one I think is most plausible with regard to Josef and Magda Goebbels was "Downfall" a few years ago. They walked out into the garden, kissed and said their goodbyes, then Magda calmly stepped back and didn't flinch when Josef shot her. Then he put the gun to his own head.

@scottcharney1091 Год назад

True, although the filmmakers made a few changes. The sedatives were swallowed in the movie, and there's no depiction of the violent thrashing and foaming that accompanies death by cyanide poisoning.

@galshaine2018 Год назад

@scottcharney1091 the movie (editors) made it look like the bunker breakout happened before Geobbles committed suicide, which in reality it happened after.

@sroevukasroevuka Год назад

Love these gun history documentaries.

@fortressgothika Год назад

Imagine being such a despicable person that you kept your children with you in that kind of situation instead of ensuring their safety...

@carlcushmanhybels8159 Год назад

Albrecht Speer, Nazi architect, tried to convince Goebbels and Magda to spare them. Speer suggested/ offered to spirit them out of Berlin. But Magda refused, saying that a Germany and world without Nazi-ism wouldn't be worth living in.

@tredw66 Год назад

Another great presentation, Thank you.

@joanofarc1338 Год назад

Very interesting! Thank you Dr. Felton

@MPGunther1 Год назад

Always fascinating Dr. Felton

@schizoidboy Год назад

The pistols almost look like they're a knockoff of the Browning M1910 automatic pistol, but if I heard correctly the ammo is a different caliber. The M1910 used the .32 ACP round whereas this gun used 6.5 caliber which I believe is around .25 caliber. Many might say that the .25 caliber has no stopping power, but in this instance - shots to the head - it worked well enough.

@MatthewMcGeeEI4HZB Год назад

Thx Mark, always quality.

@christopherwang4392 Год назад

Does anyone remember the depressing scene in the 2004 film _Der Untergang_ or _Downfall_ in which Magda Goebbels poisoned her children?

@ashwilliams3859 Год назад

The Germans were fighting communists/Bolsheviks and you don't want to be taken alive by such people. If you can even consider communists as people.We fought the wrong "enemy"...

@Jreb1865 Год назад

Seeing artifacts like those pistols is just so chilling...

@PersianImmortal0 Год назад

This is the best history channel EVER!

@martiniv8924 Год назад

.25 ACP would have been a bit toy like, but at close range it did the job!. Shocking what they did to their own children

@kennethhoppe2259 Год назад

It's Sickinung

@MrSloika Год назад

The .25 ACP was developed by John M. Browning to replicate the ballistics of .22 lr rim-fire round. The .25 ACP is a proper center-fire round that eliminated the .22 rim-fire round's shortcomings when used in a semi-automatic pistol. Having fired thousands of rounds of .22 lr I can assure you it's no 'toy'. At close range the .25 ACP , like the .22 lr, is lethal.

@dragan2324 Год назад

@@MrSloika I sure wish the .25 caught on like the .22, it'd be great if the cheapo 22 pistols of the years were chambered in a nice reliable centerfire (though I guess the ammo would probably still be a good deal more expensive).

@terrystephens1102 Год назад

Another very interesting story, thanks.

@brandonb9978 Год назад

Please never change the music. 10/10

@ak9989 Год назад

Another great Mark Felton production. Makes all Feltonheads proud. I'm retired law enforcement and military but I'm not into guns either. I do carry concealed 2 guns, because HR218 allows me in all 50 US States. But a 38 special revolver and 9mm auto. Heavy but they fit on each side. Oh I have used them on duty twice. I pray for those two plus the soldiers that died in combat alongside me.

@donovanchilton5817 Год назад

“I’m not into guns but I carry two” Please do fuck off with that lol

@jonthinks6238 Год назад

TY for your service.

@sirandrelefaedelinoge Год назад

Even in life Göbbels could best be described as "cadaverous".

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

Look at the actor who played him in ‘Downfall’. Scary!

@JackSparrow-df4nk Год назад

Loved it mate, have you thought of doing one about General Patton's pistols?

@e-curb Год назад

I believe the Dr. has already done a video on that.

@glennllewellyn7369 Год назад

Interesting stories these chaps could tell if they survived.

@dima.jiharev Год назад

Maybe they did

@roykeller2893 Год назад

Thanks!

@fordfairlane662dr Год назад

Just in time for my mid day break to watch a good Mark Felton video about p!stols!

@akatripclaymore.9679 Год назад

Thank you, "Mark" for yet another excellent video!

@ARIXANDRE Год назад

Every time I look at this sad little man, I think of the six children.

@ryanreedgibson Год назад

As always a great video by Prof. Felton. 1.84 mil subs proves that! GREAT WORK!

@petershen6924 Год назад

It resembles Browning M1910. (I own a related model M1922),

@PeterOkeefe54 Год назад

The very first rule of teaching is to catch the attention of your students...Dr Felton always does

@scottpalmer829 Год назад

Mark, have you thought of doing a video about the engineer who ran the bunker complex? I know he survived the war and think he was imprisoned by the Soviets for a few years.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Год назад

I forget his name, but as he was a civilian employee and not a miltary man I believe he was interrogated by the Russians and released shortly afterward. They didn't hold him long.

@Jreb1865 Год назад

That really would be a good video...

@paulmasterson386 Год назад

The man was called Hentschel, and his story is covered in the book ‘the Berlin Bunker’ by J P O’Donnell. It’s essential reading about this story and a very readable book.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Год назад

@@paulmasterson386 That's the one! Thanks!

@TXMEDRGR Год назад

Very interesting, thanks for posting this.

@Mitch2294 Год назад

I can imagine the feeling him and his wife had of how the heck did it come to this right before there deaths. Not saying they weren’t deserving just the hopeless feeling with no more options is sobering..

@roadie3124 Год назад

I agree with you. Many people don't. Did the children deserve to be killed? I said something once that it wasn't right for the American executioner after the Nuremberg trials to prolong the suffering of the condemned people by using a short drop and, in fact, strangling them slowly. They were condemned to death, not to be tortured before death. That sort of thing went out a few hundred years ago. The British executioner executed his condemned in the most humane manner possible. Of course, I received many responses saying that the people condemned were monsters and they should be made to suffer. My argument was that torturing people to death is not something that civilised countries do and, in fact, makes the perpetrators no better than the monsters they were executing. I thought that being deprived of your life is a major punishment and not a trivial inconvenience.

@VaderPopsVicodin10 Год назад

@@roadie3124Well said ✨👌🏻

@Strength-in-Union Год назад

Thanks for this. Was at the carpark last week!

@drmarkintexas-400 Год назад

Thank you for sharing 🤗🙏🇺🇲

@enzymcs2992 Год назад

firsd

@antho6713 Год назад

I wish we had lessons on historic guns back in high school. thanks

@od1452 Год назад

I'm sure you meant Semi-automatic . The murder of the children is the thing that sticks with me.... I've read the oldest girl was bruised.. making some think she resisted... Another horror to add to the nightmare.

@vagabondroller Год назад

When referring to pistols, gun people refer to semi-automatics as automatics. Also shotguns.

@od1452 Год назад

@@vagabondroller He said single action.. if I heard him right.

@RickJZ1973 Год назад

Always interesting and informative content. Thank you for the presentation.

@monroetoolman Год назад

Goebbels was a small man. Wearing a holstered Luger or P38 would`ve looked comically large on him. This will be a very interesting series, Dr Felton.

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

That’s right, exactly as discussed in the video.

@VaderPopsVicodin10 Год назад

When you have Dr. Felton's (catchy) intro music stuck in your head for days😅

@gunner17470 Год назад

“No future (for the children) in a world without Hitler” - Quite an assertion - Super material as usual thank you

@MrSloika Год назад

What's more likely is that she believed they'd be tortured to death by the Soviets.

@randomobserver8168 Год назад

A friend of mine some years ago was not only astounded by that suggestion, but struck by its absurdity given the relative incoherence of Nazi ideology and Hitler's personality cult, never mind the evil involved, and I can't say I didn't largely see it that way myself. Plus, being a father where I was not, he was naturally appalled by the thought of murdering one's own kids, and fair enough. A healthy take. Still, looking abroad at the world, I think many in the world at some point or another have looked at the prospect of a world in which their particular value system/civilization/religion/nation had no future and decided not to leave any hostages to fortune. It's not that hard an idea to encompass, even if hard to credit Nazism in that way. But say liberal democracy had no future in a world in which enemies or technological trends rendered it subject or obsolete? Or perhaps she just figured the kids would end up tortured to death by the Russians or, no better, converte to served communism instead. They'd never have a chance of getting to the west, presuming Magda would have thought that better, and as Goebbels' kids they'd not have much future there either, though less cruel. Yet maybe she should have given them the chance. Things have to get really bad before nonexistence is preferable.

@quintrankid8045 Год назад

@@randomobserver8168 "Yet maybe she should have given them the chance. " In a society that vastly favored the group over individuals and individuality she may not even seen the children as independent individuals with their own lives.

@quintrankid8045 Год назад

@@MrSloika And yet oddly she didn't try to get them to the west. Or hide them on a farm in the countryside where a sympathetic family might've given them shelter.

@WesW3187 Год назад

@@quintrankid8045 They are guilty so many crimes, but I think they had no choice but to euthanise the children given what the Russians might do to them. The crime is to have children in the bad situation in the first place.