Heinrich Himmler's Pistols 

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I love it when non native german speaking people, give the language a good go. Dr. Felton does give it a really good tilt. I can hear that he is not a native speaker but he has achieved a very high degree of proficiency in pronouncing words. I am fluent in german. But i speak the snooty Hoch Deutsch. The english equivalent would be the queens english. In germany the northern people tend to not speak with an accent and speak "clean" german. Nothing is clipped off. No syllable is missed. I really smile when i hear him speak german and it really does bring joy to my heart. It is not an easy language to master.

Dr Feltons channel is the only channel you need for anything ww2 related. Never ceases to amaze and astound and off course teach me something new

Me… Incredibly bored Dr Felton… “Want to hear about Himler‘s pistols?” Me… “Yes… Yes, I do!“

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HImmler invented the Battle Pass concept decades before video games.

Only Mark can make a video on this subject and make it as interesting as a Hemingway novel!

Just as a taco is not the same without taco sauce, a video about WW2 Germany is not the same without an appearance of Hermann Fegelein.

The japanese also used to give a lot of gifts to their military. In particular Seiko pocketwatches with swiss movements! I personally own one that is dated 1943 and was gifted to that years top graduate students of the imperial naval acadamy

Workplace entropy: Himmler gives out nice pistols, while I get a piece of paper saying 'a donation has been made in your name'. Progress, eh?"

No. 7 has a typo. "Dem besten Schützen des SS" - should be "der SS". I have a hard time imagining such a mistake would have been acceptable on such an expensive presentation gun. Make of it what you will.... Greetings from Germany!!

One of my favorite episodes. As both a World War II and firearms enthusiast, the subject matter was fascinating.

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The soldier who lost this pistol in a poker game watching this video,,so goes life pal!

11:11 When Mark said Fegelein, my mind immediately went to Hitler slamming his fist on his desk yelling: "Bring Fegelein over here, Fegelein!!! Fegelein! Fegelein!"

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Beyond me as to how this was researched. Amazing beyond belief.

Upcoming specials by Dr. Felton: -Hitler's Swear Jar -Goering's Stamp Collection -Heydrich's Cufflinks -Mengela's French Press ....on a serious note, I would watch all of these.

Karl Wolff was imprisoned from late 1945, and released in June 1949. 30/9-1964 he was imprisoned with a 15 year sentence, but released in August 1969. In the early and mid seventees, he traveled around in South America and met up with Klaus Barbie and Walter Rauff. He is seen with Barbie in the 1988 film Hotel Terminus as well.

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This is might be the most Felton topic of all time. You didn't know you needed it, but you do!

I'm curious about the last pistol. I think it odd that Himmler's own sidearm would have that version of Sonnenrad, if it can be considered one,seeing as its the symbol of SS Division Wiking, unless perhaps the pistol was made prior to 1941. It is tilted, as used by the old Thule Society, so probably makes sense, in esoteric context. Although it doesn't appear on any other bit of SS commemorative gear, honour rings, swords etc. As for the monogram, was it usual to begin with a lower case letter, appearing such as here: h H? His monogram doesn't appear like that anywhere else, always H.H. Just some intriguing thoughts, very entertaining episode!

I was really expecting one in my price range but they were all over $100 USD !

All those high prices for Germany ww2 guns make's me wish my grandfather would have kept his luger pistol he had from ww2. But at least I have some of the German army uniform Insignias that he had. Thank you, Dr. Felton, I try and watch all your content.

Walther still makes some of the world's best pistols to this very day.

The German's do make very nice customized & engraved firearms, particularly the older ones.

I remember an old boy who served in the British Army in North Africa & Italy had a cute little engraved gold plated .25 Beretta on his F.A.C and used to shoot it occasionally at Bisley in the 1970's, he said it belonged to an Italian general and he got it during the fighting in Sicily, he died in the early 80's I wonder where it is now?

Thank you Dr. Felton! you made a sick day from work more tolerable. Excellent as always.

Oh man those pistols are stupendous! Thank you Mark!

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Voigtlander also made 35 mm SLR cameras, my grandfather had one post WWII.

This is like the Price is Right for Himmler memorabilia ;)

Makes one wonder if the drifter in Decatur Illinois was a veteran.

I can’t believe there exists a 20 minute long video about himmler’s pistols

Theres something off with the second pistol presented. There''s a spell error in the engraving. Instead of "Dem besten Schützen des SS.." it should be "Dem besten Schützen der SS". SS standing for Schutzstaffel, so "der" would be the correct article. The K in PPK is for Kriminal, meaning it was meant for police detectives that don't wear uniforms and required a compact pistol easy to conceil.

Not knowing much about guns I assume the safety lever on these gun, all moved off the red dot,means they were set not to fire? Heinrich Himmler did have a legible signature. Fascinating.

I love these magnificent artifacts. Nice presentation. Thanks.

My Grandfather was a Major with some special Army(US)unit in Italy/Sicily that tracked down stolen art. For some reason he interviewed Kesselring soon after the Field Marshal was captured and the Field Marshal gave* him a P38 with Kesselring name engraved on one side and if memory serves, Hitter's (youtube policy. cant actually write the word) on the other. My Grandfather turned the "Hitters" side to the wall so it couldnt be seen/never displayed. That pistol along with a luger hung over the bed in the Spare room(where I stayed on weekends as a kid). The firearms had been decommissioned by my Grandfather and he said they would never fire again. In 1981 my grandparents house(Fresno, CA) got broken into and both pistol stolen. *I dont know if Kesselring actually gave my Grandfather the pistol or he just took it. I never got the impression my Grandfather would have just taken something like that, He was very "gentlemanly". But who knows.

Another well narrated and informative video. Thank you.

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Every minute of this 20min video was interesting! Thanks for the effort Dr. Felton!

I wonder about Himmler and his ilk taking kickbacks directly from defense contractors

Mark, your videos are always fascinating to me. I watch every video you make as I have a keen interest in all these subjects. Thanks so much for your uploads. I dearly appreciate your research and narration.

Basically, the police Chicago police officer who "confiscated" the postol from the drifter basically STOLE that from the drifter who found it as war booty! Thats Chicago!

Thank you Dr Felton, these 20 minute videos ( + or - ) contain more information than many of the college lectures I have attended.

I have a Walther PP that my uncle brought back from WW 2. Engraved on the slide is a signature on "Julius Streicher." For years I thought that I had Julius Streicher's personal pistol. Then I found out that was a presentation piece probably given out as an award, and there are probably hundreds just like it out there. I still love it, and have no desire to sell it at any price.

6:13 my understanding is the "K" in PPK stands for "Kriminal", referring to a detective's pistol.

I bet those snipers got rid of the pistols and binoculars if they were captured. 😂

Breathtaking Amazing craftsmanship

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There were no tears shed for Himmlers gold plated pistols 💀

Interesting that plastic grips where spec'd for these award sidearms. My Mauser HSC had handsome checkered wallnut grips. Wish I'd kept that gun.

Love the video Mark Felton, Keep up the good work as always

"Dem Scharfschützen" is likely meant as "The Sharpshooter", as in the person, not the act of Sharpshooting.

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Thank you Mark love your historical information on WW2, my dads war.? My dad brought back a brand new German Luger and a box of ammo.

What an interesting topic Dr. Felton! Could you do a video on the sidearms carried by top Nazi Women if any?

Must have been one heck of a poker game......... Thank you Dr. Mark. You're the gold on my history gun.😊

Wait! Are you telling me that Heinrich Himmler and Hirohito AREN’T actually the same person?!!

As usual, you had me hooked! Thankyou Dr Felton!

I bet that pissed you off that Wullf lived longer and didn't die in jail.

Thanks Mark, keep up the good content, i enjoy it very much, especially the historic weapons episodes

Confiscated off a drifter? So he stole it from someone haha. The proceeds should go to the city of Decatur.

So Himmler is like Oprah? “YOU GET A GUN! AND YOU GET A GUN!”

To me, that Walther PPK (The First one), seems incredibly inexpensive at UNDER $6K! Here in the UK you'd probably have to pay close to that for a black market Star 9mm!

Thank you for this very enjoyable and informative video. Have always wanted to own a PP just because of its stylish look. Thank you, Dr. Felton for the time to research, organize, film, edit and finally present this video. The best to you and yours, sir.

Are you sure that PPK stands for Pistole Polizei Klein, and not Pistole Polizei Kripo (Kriminal as in a pistole for Detectives ie. not openly visible)?

It's almost like a World War II version of skeet ball tickets. You score enough, you win the teddy bear. 🧸

Wow, that Fegelein PPK is a work of art. Stunning!

Excellent‼️ Most fascinating series, of which this is one of the best.

Why would Himmler give an ornate pistol as a gift instead of an ornate dagger as a gift? Love this video.

For me Walther PPK = James Bond. Been watching the whole series of Bond movies from the beginning and this video reminded me of when Bond was handed his new Walther PPK. These pistols were beautifully crafted and personally I preferred no 10 and no 8. I'm not usually into weapons but Mr Felton could make reading a phone book sound very interesting so of course I had to watch it. Thank you, Sir! 😇🩷🙏🙌

Fascists are not “right wing”. They are the original Intersectional Marxists, combining Proletariat Collectivism with Ethnic Collectivism (racial solidarity and racist political philosophy as promoted in Germany, and to a much lesser extent in Italy). National Socialism as an ideology was pioneered by an Italian COMMUNIST named Giovanni Gentile, and his work was the inspiration for the hard-core Socialist Benito Mussolini to create the Fascist movement, the first National Socialist party. Once Mussolini seized power, he appointed Gentile as his Secretary of Education. The Nazis were also hard-core Socialists. In a 1925 speech, Goebbels said: “Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler” and that “the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.” The violent street battles between the Nazis and the Communists all through the mid-1920’s and early 1930's were battles between SOCIALIST factions fighting for the same demographic - German workers. In 1920, when Mussolini’s Black Shirts marched on Rome and seized control of the government, Lenin sent him a congratulatory telegram. That's because Mussolini was a hard-core SOCIALIST. The two main ideological differences between Lenin and Mussolini were: 1) Mussolini believed it was more powerful to focus Socialist revolutionary work at the national level rather than the international level (hence the term "National Socialist") 2) Mussolini decided that rather than nationalizing private industry it was far more effective to co-opt the large industrial concerns. He did this by giving them monopoly control of the marketplace in return for their support of his monopoly control over political power. Hitler followed a similar path, although he threw in a pathological racial component (an early form of identity politics) and a strong eugenics program modelled after the work done by Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood). Hitler was the one responsible for changing the name of what became the NAZI party from its original name, the "German Workers Party", to the "National SOCIALIST German Workers Party" (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). For powerful political and propaganda reasons, after the breakdown of the German/Russian non-aggression pact in 1941 it became expedient for everyone involved (Communists, Western democracies, and the Nazis themselves) to intentionally bury the left-wing Socialist origins of the "Fascists" and instead designate them as “right wing”. But the truth is that the Fascists were only "right wing" in the sense that they were the right wing of the Socialist movement. They were still Socialists. In contrast, the Japanese truly were “right wing”, in that they were militarist and monarchist. Ironically, they were stridently anti-socialist and regularly executed any Japanese socialists they found, but they did share with Germany a deeply racist view of the world. Of course, the Japanese saw themselves as the obvious master race rather than the Aryans (or anyone else for that matter). The main reason the Japanese allied with Germany and Italy was because they had common enemies in Russia and the United States, and because their planned empires didn’t overlap. It was not because of any ideological affinity. “It is well known that Sorellian syndicalism, out of which the thought and the political method of Fascism emerged-conceived itself the genuine interpretation of Marxist communism. The dynamic conception of history, in which force as violence functions as an essential, is of unquestioned Marxist origin.” - (Giovanni Gentile, the “father” of Fascism) "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." - (Benito Mussolini) “The individual is nothing. The state is everything.” - (Adolf Hitler) “A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people’s time to look after them.” - (From the speech “SOCIALIST HOPES” given by George Bernard Shaw, March 4, 1910)

Dr Felton, Your research and presentations are truly wonderful. You subject matter covers areas that are obscure and explore areas of interest untouched by many. Thanks for sharing your work. I'm sure a conversation with you would answer and spark many questions from wonderful untouched areas of interest. Of particular interest to me is patches. My Grandmother was a sergeant in the WAAC and collected them and made a robe from them. There are so many and from both sides. Oddities and coverage of so much the world forces from all sides. However, there are no Russian items at all. As you have covered, there are so many mysteries that will never be solved.

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Tremendously interesting topic, Mark. Thank you for posting it.

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Real nice of the police officer who took the pistol from a drifter and kept it for himself. Completely destroying his second amendment rights by taking his gun and then selling it for $30,000 at auction what a complete corrupt police officer.

This is the kind of video I wait for. Thank you sir.

YES! My favorite area of Militaria collecting!! But I just stick to the common Axis Pistols since I’m not rich. But I keep telling myself one day I’m going to be on that level! 😂

Lucky americans, sending home war trophies, including guns, via mail like nothing is something so awesome, it's a real shame they can't do that anymore. Only thing funny is the classic "my grandpa on first line combat smoked a german officer and took this gun and banner from him", when in reality almost all bringbacks were taken from some giant pile of captured weapons and traded. Lots of nice war trophies ended in the homes of military personnel who never saw combat or even an enemy soldier not already dead or POW.

As always, superb and meticulous research carried out by Dr Mark Felton.

Now wait a minute those can’t be Himmler’s pistols because those are my grandpa’s, he also has a helmet with 2 lightning strikes I think he was an electrician

The Sauer 38H 7.65 was an award gun for snipers if I recall right. You just said that answered whenI saw the.pistol.

Awesome video. These old firearms are extremely interest, especially when you consider their history. They are also, mostly, beautifully made works of art.

Incredibly interesting. Would like to see other famous weapons too, Luger, VIS Radom, P-38...........

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Another example of "I only wished the gun could talk to me!" I have a couple of WWII guns that I wished could tell me their story. Not collectors' weapons, but cool weapons just the same.

#9 is fake, because there's a grammatical error

Dr. Felton, could you do an episode on German binoculars? Types and sizes and how they were issued to officers and enlisted. Thank You for such a wonderful and educational channel. Liked and subscribed.

Russians fought for Mother Russia, British for King and Country, Americans fought for souvenirs.

Mr. felton, I would like to see a video about who likely shot Fegelein.

As an American it burns me to know there's some 20yr old out there that is handing in his grandpappys mp40 take back for a $200 gas station gift card...😢😢😢

Would be interested in having the prices paid for all 10 pistols updated to 2024 figures. I'm sure No 1 would still remain in place, but would like to see how some of the 2013/15 prices change. Thank you Dr. F for another fascinating video.

Incredible sophistication of German ingenuity. Look at that aesthetics and industrial design. Not a fan of guns but my God, that pistol looks as it was made yesterday.