It must been so surreal to live in Germany in 1943 to 1944. The writing is on the wall, but still you have to continue living life as the walls close in.
@MarkHarrison733 wow it only took FDR a day short of 3 weeks in office to beat the Nazis, wow… oh wait the week after that my grandpa and his parents showed up here in the US from Norway… oh no does this mean they were feeling Nazis (!)
Incredible how he can get this footage. What I love about this channel besides learning, is that there is a story or an explanation of what specifically is going on in the Nazi film and the circumstances around it or why it is significant. So many times when watching a documentary on WW2 there is so much "B role" that has nothing to do with the story being told. I appreciate how concise and informative Mark's channel is.
@@thewatcher5271 if you're into WW2, try watching TIK and his Battlestorm series. He elevates everything at some new levels. Quality of presentation and quantity of details are out of this dimension of existence. :)
Damn, you must live in one of those communist states ! Geez, lockdown? Its been like more tha half a year since Texas finished our so called "lockdown" which was hardly noticeable.
there are excellent french channels but on totally different themes and times in history, Dr.Felton's are probably my favourite, not only for the content but the narration is perfect
@@gregvictoire1309 i cant think of any specifically on wwii, but questions d'histoire is not bada lot of it is xviii-xix history or subjects, la folle histoire has a person focus. notabene is well followed but not my favourite.
@@gregvictoire1309 oh and alter his has a few good videos speculating on what if this or that hadnt happened but the channel seems to have taken a different turn
@@jeffking291 “excuse me teacher, but there were in fact 12 Sherman tanks used by the Germans in North Africa... and then destroyed in the Seelow Heights in late April 1945...”
I have been watching Mark’s videos for a few months now, and I can honestly say I have learned more than ever before. The quality and effort put into each and every video is nothing short of spectacular. Cheers, Mark
Without a doubt Mr Felton's delivery and knowledge is a throwback to when historical moments were said as they were, rather than being airbrushed. Not to mention on the so called history channels which are just clickbait and take an hour to explain what Mark can shoehorn into 15 minutes. Keep up the good work Mark.
Living merely 5-10 min by foot from the memorial, it is mind boggling to see these footage. It is almost surreal as to how calm it is nowadays, if not normally busy with tourists, it is almost difficult to believe that it's the same place.
I have the same thought every time I walk through the Brandenburger Tor and onwards down Unter den Linden toward Alexanderplatz. It's just a few hundred meters but the history concentrated on that relatively little area is quite astonishing.
Roy remember that the victors depict history and Germany has nothing to be ashamed about. Honestly every single German I have met is a lefty "progressive" anti white social justice warrior. Is there just like non stop guilt propaganda from birth?
My apartment gives a good view of Kurferstendamm, panning North accross the Siegessaulle to the Bundestag and looking at the constantly rotating illuminated NAZI era symbol on the roof of the Europa Centre its hard to believe anything has changed.
@@starcraftplayer7084 Not my experience. Very many Germans I know harbour sympathies and nostalgia for either the Third Reich or the DDR and whichever it is they are seethingly bitter about being defeated, especially by the British and French. They have zero knowledge or appreciation of how lucky they were to be spared systematic mass annhilation through starvation at the end of WW2, the Morgenthau plan, approved by FDR and rescinded by Truman.
Although I don't understand why, if he was determined to sacrifice himself, von Gersdorff would use timed explosives and trail around after him for a nerve racking 10 minutes instead of stepping up to him and manually triggering a bomb.
@@dlxmarks The bombs had no manual trigger. That were confiscated British bombs meant for partisan attacks on infrastructure. Don’t know how many attempts failed due to that trigger. They were officers not engineers.
Years ago back in the 90s a German woman who lived through it told me that in 1943 everyone in Germany knew the war was over. She said people would secretly listen to the BBC and get the real take on what was going on. Also severely wounded soldiers sent back from the Russian front were informing people that "it's only a matter of time."
Viglione Maria We’ll go back to WW1, the Allies put massive sanctions on them, they felt that was evil in a way to their own beliefs of life. Taking away what was theirs etc etc etc…..they forced Germany to pay billions which would have taken them up to the 1980’s to pay off.
Well, at least you have the gumption to confess that you still have a way to go! That is a great quality, and not everyone possesses it. Of course, a hat-tip to the Professor. As always.
What I really enjoyed about this one was the lack of clickbait title, just a very well researched and presented slice of lesser known history. Your content is always good by the way ! Thank you.
@@travelinben1966 You mean “hear hear”, so I suspect you’re not a Brit, given British Parliament is where that form of agreement originated. And if you’re not a Brit... well.
The germans after the wanted to avoid persecution and the allies had many people who wanted to be famous. I take all of these supposed plots with a grain of salt, only a couple of them before the war are really solid and proveable.
I swear 25-30 assassination attempts throughout his reign...and every single one failed, sometimes makes you think someone was protecting the timeline...
Hi Mark....loved this video as ever. Unrelated but relative to WW2 My father Fred and his two brothers Harry and Mike were among the first British troops to land on the Normandy beaches in 1944...Fred and Harry survived despite massive enemy machine gun fire, but sadly Mike was killed when he stepped on a live, exposed power cable which the Germans had laid out across the beach. Will never forget this...it haunts me till this day. Bob
NO MAN!! They were deadly serious men were going to die there family's kids wife etc and there self be caught alive by the SS OMFG that would be unreal they would keep you alive for days and days just to hurt you as much and as long as they could and they were very very good at it for back in the day but i do hear what you are saying...anything that could go wrong DID GO WRONG!! 🤦♂️...AND THAT WAS NOT WITH THIS ONE THERE WAS 3 BIG ONES WE KNOW OF AND PROB MANY MORE WE WILL NEVER KNOW OF, (sorry cap locks) but killing Hitler was no easy thing to do if you were not in his inner circle.. and once he knew of one failing and the war going bad very bad is was so fuckin hard to get close to him....if you have not seen Valkery its a very good movie and they get it almost 100% right and its Hollywood they did an amazing job if you have not seen it bro 👍
There were many plots,but ,few actually were put to motion. Those that did , were subject to bad luck,or Hitler,always suspicious, especially after the attack on Heydrick,he would change his schedule often. He was truly,hard to kill.
Another quality production Mark. I love these documentarys. I'm a social historian and I find these films interesting as they show the social aspects of WW2 ,not simply battles and battle strategies
Fun Fact: the song played during the rememberance ceremony at 6:50 is called "Ich hatt nen Kameraden" or "I had a comrade". It's a traditional german army song, written before the third reich, and it's about the "best comrade I've ever had" and about how he gets shot by an enemy soldier. The song can be found on RU-vid if you want to hear it.
Your words surprised me. I thought everyone know that. :) I would add it was a common song played during military funerals. And it's still used today, if I'm not mistaken.
This is interesting footage. There is a certain fatigue and war weariness to the participants and spectators. There is no swagger or bluster anymore. It seems like everybody knows they have lost the war.
@Pantsmonster Everyone knew Stalingrad was a disaster, even the civilians, but Dr. Goebbels then held a rally in tihe Sportpalast urging the nation to total war. And it worked (well, it worked up to the point the war ended in total defeat).
@@Primitarian its proven, more people died, surrendering than fighting, sadly.. all the women, children and men raped and killed..They had no reason, to give up as death would come. Look at "Dresden Bombing" out of 'many" and the brits, dropping incendiary bombs ( 10,000 degree fire bombs" on schools, hospitals and all civilian areas...the wind of the fire sucking the air, was so strong it pulled people in like a tornado..it was so hot, people sunk into the asphalt..that was hell..if the Germans, would have kept going after "Dunkirk" and not asked for peace, as a honorable opponent, this deluded world of drugs, culture degrade or (culture cancel) and corruption may have been different..but, who knows..
@@SrtKillz12345 oh look, another revisionist. The Germans had no amphibious capability to take Britain in 1940, especially with the Royal Navy and air forces still fighting... regardless of your fantasies.
@Pantsmonster By 1942 shortages were being felt and the huge loss of life on the Eastern Front was already beginning to register. Only the brainwashed believed in victory and those that didn't were too intent on their own survival to say anything. Defeatist talk could cost you your life.
@@SrtKillz12345 I am not a fan of drugs, cancel culture and corruption; however, the last time I checked, Germany was still on the map, with a population of 80 million-plus . . . after they surrendered unconditionally.
I have never seen a WW1 and WW2 channel that is so interesting, full of facts and information, that is presented so well. Now when I see a new Mark Felton production video I just click on it instantly, hit like and then watch. i am never disappointed.
When Hitler talks to the wounded soldiers, you can clearly see someone holding a microphone. Are these recordings available somewhere? And thank you very much for this interesting contribution.
Dude I think these weren´t microphones but handling parts of their wheelchairs. Also the SS (surrounding/guarding hitler) never allowed civilians or anybody to record Hitler just like that.
Dr. Felton, in the U.S. we have Memorial Day for Armed Services members who died in combat, and Veterans Day for all service members. Thank you sir for excellent work.
FYI, Veteran's Day was originally meant to commemorate the end of WWI. Thus it falls on November 11. So Dr. Felton is historically correct. You are correct that for today, Memorial Day is the holiday for American War Dead and Veterans Day is for all service members. But that wasn't how Veterans Day was originally conceived.
Wonderful peeks behind the scenes that we would never know except fr Doc Felton. I lived in London all through the war as a teenager so it fascinates me. Well done and thank you.
Dr. Felton has amazing researching skills. I wonder where he finds all of these old videos and pops out another interesting, intriguing make almost daily. Kudos, Dr. Felton.
Dont blame your teachers. It's difficult to keep a large group of sulking teenagers focused on something they're not interested in for hours on end. In all likelihood, you were the problem lol.
Love the quarantine comment below. Not only does that apply to me , I have subscribed and am all in, Mr. Felton! Great work, and for a WW2 (Europe) amateur historian like me can’t get enough. Keep it up.
Fascinating yet, disturbing. This is all footage I have not seen. Mark sets the stage with a concise background and narrates the subject matter with seldom matched accuity. This channel is an invaluable resource. Hat's off once again Mark!
@@benadam7753 Indeed. It's mentioned, if only in passing, in almost all standard biographies of Hitler. Or in books about the war. From Shirer to Overy..
@@NuisanceMan Gersdorff didn't succeed because Hitler deliberately cut the tour short! In November 1939 Hitler was giving a speech in Munich. Georg Elser planted a bomb under his podium. For some reason Hitler left early, minutes later the bomb went off killing 8 people and injuring 62 others! Hitler never followed a planned public routine after that!
Mark as ever excellent content. I've always had an interest in military history having served and having many family members having served through the wars . Your detail and delivery are excellent
Thank you again for providing factual, non-melodramatic, non-politicized, non-virtue-signaling material. Very much a rarity nowadays, which is unfortunate because the need for rational study and objective understanding/perspective is as important as ever....indeed, dare I say, perhaps more than ever. Cheers.
@@helluvaboss_tv Okay. Clearly you have a very poor sense of the general topic being referenced when referring to the work as being mostly objective compared to most of the drivel out there.
I've read so many books on world war two history, but can't recall ever reading or hearing about this particular assassination plot. Amazing! Keep the videos coming, Mark! Remarkable work!
Excellent. Excellent content. Thank you for your investigative, writing, production, and editing work, Doctor Mark Felton. I had always liked your canter and tone, ever since hearing a few of the pre RU-vid History Channel-esque documentary productions, of which you had been engaged to narrate.
My Dad would have liked Mr. Felton's Channel he served in WW2 & Korea and before he passed, he had read every book he could find on both Wars. My Dad and the Public Library were good friends.
This was fascinating, thank you. Having read so much about this period, it's incredible seeing the footage like this as its so hard to come by. It's very important it should be available.
Electrical Engineering,Computer Science are my background,but also a history buff,given the chance to talk and discuss history with Mr Felton would be an honor for me.
Or maybe it's because of the poor state of his health by that point in the war. By the spring of 1943, Goering was 50 years old, had been addicted to morphine for 20 years, was extremely stressed because Hitler blamed him for the repeated failures of the Luftwaffe to turn the tide of the war, and was morbidly obese. Back in those days, even with state-of-the-art medical care, a man like that could expect to live for maybe another ten years if he was lucky, and likely in severe chronic pain at that.
At 4:07 Joachim Von Ribbentrop betrays his thoughts on the situation of the Ostheer....head stoops as Hitler lies that the front has been stabilized. Ribbentrop's star had dimmed so much by this point, at one point he scorned Hitler for launching Barbarossa.
@@concept5631 Ribbentrop survived the war but was tracked down by British agents and was arrested. They found him living with a certain maid in Munich I believe. Tried at Nürnberg and hanged in October 1946
Mark, you must be working flat out producing these videos. Thank you so much. I agree with previous comments about lightening up lockdown. You're doing a great job and I'm looking forward to the next one.
When you said Nazi Day of the Dead, I pictured candy skulls and sugar bread and rosary but with a ruthlessly efficient, humorless, high quality yet cold and impersonal Teutonic spin.
On the other hand, I pictured Nazi scientists nervously experimenting, trying to rise an invincible army of (un)dead, so called Nazi zombies, in order to rule the world and convert it into hellish presentation of the book 1984 combined with scenes from Half-Life. :)
Yes, the German is better translated as "Heroes' Commemoration Day" - but the popular interpretation does give it the slant you describe. "Nazi Day of the Dead" has a gothic, sacrificial and dark essence to it.
Looks like everybody had a nice day at the ceremony. On a serious note the footage and content is excellent, I bet huge work and research goes into these videos.
The wounded soldiers that I'm sure he pretended to listen to during the ceremony, didn't seem to be too taken with him. I'd love to know what was going through their heads at the time.
It’s very disturbing watching videos of all the troops now. It’s mesmerizing how many there were and the patterns they would march. And nearly every last one of them would be dead 5 years later
I believe Dr. Felton meant that the WWI dead and veterans were originally both celebrated on November 11 in the United States, and it was later that Memorial Day was dedicated to the dead and Veterans Day to veterans.
A month after this, hitler would claim in a speech that the total casualty count was a little over 500,000. The world press ridiculed him greatly for that. The Germans had lost 300,000 surrounded soldiers in Stalingrad and about a million more in the 6 months of fighting there.. let alone the losses on other fronts in the previous 4 years
Another great story. Thanks, Mark. I visited the German cemetery in Normandy and the contrast with the US one is amazing. The German one, almost hidden. The US lit up in stars! Every nation should be able to remember the people who sacrificed their lives.
I understand your point but on the other hand, should the German cemetery celebrate German defenders who wanted to continue genocide and tyrrany in Europe?
@@Howard2006 I suppose that depends on whether or not you think the German soldier had a choice to fight or not, or set the policy of the Nazi party. Some of the German generals certainly tried to end the war sooner.
To be fair, should we truly honor the U.S.’s imperialism? Vietnam was definitely one of those wars the U.S. has no defense for, and “fighting Communism” is not one of them either. Should we honor the U.S.’s illegal war in Iraq? Don’t get me wrong, Saddam’s fall is nothing short of good riddance, but what we did was unacceptable, especially with what the country has become now. I respect out soldiers, but sometimes I can’t help but wonder if us honoring these wars is really the right thing to do?
US loans, Reich central bank, confiscated Jewish German wealth, raw materials from us industry and British interests...Germany has NO NATURAL RESOURCES...ever hear of a German oil company?...Germany was used, it's people murdered for profit...but they rose again...why...the rest of Europe are lazy bums...all part of the plan...
Somewhat interesting to think how young the NS party members were for being leading politicians of such a large country. H'itler himself was only 56 at his death and was one of the oldest members of the party.
The more affluent and decedent a society becomes the longer we postpone adulthood, look around today at all the 25 to 30 year olds still in college, playing computer games now look at the life of a 25 year old in the 40s or 50s completely different attitudes to life and work in general
@@phillipweissburg1882 ...well then hells the place to be ....find all the most interesting characters there surely! Not??? Of course Moa, Stalin, Beria and Polpot didn't make the cut I hear....not sure why....lol
"Tresckow commissioned intelligence officer Freiherr von Gersdorff to obtain explosives on the eastern front.Gersdorff visited the Abwehr’s depots and asked for a demonstration of plastic explosive “clams,” captured from British commandos. The clams used silent acid fuses no bigger than pocket Bibles. In one test, a clam blew off the turret of a Russian tank and hurled it twenty yards." -Church of Spies Is this fact confirmed as to where he got the British clam mines?
Klaus von Stauffenberg also used captured British "clam" mines in his attempt to kill hitler on July 20th 1944. The silent fuses made them particularly effective for covert tasks.
I discovered your channel a little over a year ago, and listened to video after video while at work just before corona rocked the world, and nearing the 1 year mark I’d watched every video you’ve produced up to that point; now, I anxiously await the notification to learn more!
Mark, this is one of your best presentations I've seen, for pacing, story-telling, and unique b-roll. There's footage here I've never seen...same goes with the story...my gosh: brilliant production, sir. Thank you for sharing!
Almost! That's basically what he did when he eventually committed suicide in 1945. Had the previous assassin attempts been more successful, he would have gone earlier and the war would have ended earlier. So he eventually had to take care of it himself!
Great footage. I like how you let the video breathe a little and just let the footage roll. I’m sure it was a day that would’ve been filmed a lot. I did not know about the bomb plot that day.
It is fascinated to watch these films and the production of these films. The angle of the scenes, where they had cameras place, it boggles my mind how these films were preserved and didn't get thrown away or dump despite the widespread damage and bombed areas.
I spent about an hour standing in front of Die Neue Wache 6:39 in 1987 watching the East German soldiers goose-stepping changing of the guard. I was a US Army Sergeant on a day-pass to the East side. Guess I could write a book about my observations around the city 35 years ago. The Hotel Plattlerhof 9:54 where der Verrückte gave one of his last speeches was turning into US Army recreation hotel for skiing. My unit stayed the for a week - that giant hotel was truly haunted!
I have to add to your story. I was a US Army soldier in Germany in 1968 through 1970. The Platterhof Hotel was not the skiing center for US Recreational use. The Platterhof was renamed the General Walker Hotel, and the ski resort was not far away, just down the hill about a mile or two and was at Borman's old Gusthof. The place where they grew all of Hitler's vegetables. There, we had a ski lodge for us soldiers usage.
So your service to the United States was Stupid, pointless, dumb and Futile. Shame on you. My uncle was a medic and died in Vietnam. He didn't duck no one.
Mark, I plan on visiting the UK once it is safe to travel again, if I could ever buy you a beer or a drink when I visit please do let me know. I love your video’s and your books. So insightful and they cover topics that are very obscure and aren’t covered by other historians.
