SS Commandos - Ardennes 1944 

@Marc Gene :-) I'd prefer the more reliable stopping power of the 75 KwK 42 L/70 cannon, but like you I was more interested in other sorts of main guns at 16!

I had a football coach who would just make us take turns reading the chapter aloud while he dipped skoal. :|

Too much has happened in the world to spend it all on WWII, as fun as it is to learn about.

@@thevillaaston7811 have you looked at the sources for this, a biography on Skorzeny and the journal of military history to see what their sources were?

@@thevillaaston7811 cause monty didnt want to look bad. C'on man history is written by the victors to promote their narrative. Get with the program.

what about the allies fake army before d day

Maybe he did watch bugs bunny

the Brits already done that in preparation of a German landing. battle of Britain

Hyperdead_Goat You figure someone would have gotten wise,when one sign said(Hollywood And Vine)Next Exit.

Good one! 🤣

*an

hell's angels wouldn't face on him

In truth, he looked larger than life

Think. You

He is looks like a traitor to me.

I believe that the allies also utilized hundreds of "Portable Holes" during the battle.....

Don't forget the experimental unit that the Allies formed as an offshoot of their ACME rocket experiments: the RRS (Rocket Roller Skate) troops.

All under the command of General Chuck Jones?

Beep beep

Needs more likes!

Reminds me of the old History Channel documentaries when it was nicknamed the Hitler Channel. Better that than today.

Polish radio broughtcast form the 1st of September 1939 : "Here comes that boi shit what up"

@Québécois Foie Gras Sadly, true.

@@shaider1982 Kids these days need to know this. The current state of affairs proves that they do not. I miss Rodger Mudd narrations on the history channel.

Certainly could do audio books

“there was this time i rescued mussolini”

Skorzenny stories are still arround. I currently found a very disturbing image which supposedly had been made in 1998. Even than the people who are on the picture could not be on it. The source obviously belongs to a Military Industrial Complex organization called Orion. I not state the picture might have been doctored. But one of my late friends who has been one of Skorzennys SS people named Rudolf Langenhorst told me a lot of the stuff he was involved in with Skorzenny - and even weirder things - I not disclose here. People always accuse you of being a liar. Well I protrayed Langenhorsts 90th birthday in Thailand where I live and I am in possession of his decorations. It is unfortunate that you can not post any pictures here in RU-vid - I would have loved to post it here. SKORZENNY is on it in a wheelchair aged 90 and I am aware that his codename big Ed has been correctly stated. Well what ever - Skorzenny was a 1000 percent believer and he came always away. Even of a car accident breaking his back. The guy was into the 1980s seen as one or the best intelligence operatives who ever walked the planet....

If you meet a Nazi in a pub you give him an interesting story, you dont ask him one.

lol he would head butt you and politely tell you to piss off.

He lived in Kildare Ireland 🇮🇪 for a number of years and I believe he was interviewed on the Late Late Show, back when they had good guests

matt west :- Dr. Mark Felton has a doctorate in history, knows how to do research, and presents himself well on RU-vid and TV. We are lucky to have him producing these videos for us.

It becomes apparent that the spin doctors were at work on both sides , the Germans being no worse . A lot of our historical view of ww2 seems to be have been modified or at best hidden from public eyes , that is until now with these informative productions that go a long way to Re addressing the balance , top drawer stuff , I look forward to these unbiased historically correct posts .

@@blueeyeswhitedragon9839 - I agree totally. I learn a lot from Mark Felton's videos about an era that many would rather forget about. Never forget history because those who do forget history or never learn from it... repeat it.

It's got to be said that theres many commenters that also share good information.

...and a perfect narrator voice! But who are the idiots who give a thumb down on these fantastic videos?

True though

In the last weeks of the war he'd go behind the Soviet lines with his commandos, steal their tanks, use them until he ran out of ammo and head back to the german lines

EdMcF1 Cleopatra was smuggled into Julius Caesar’s abode for “diplomatic” purposes rolled up in carpet 😉

@@PeteCourtier Rather she was smuggled in a sack to Caesar.

@@PeteCourtier Coleoptera = biology Family of beetles. Cleopatra = Former ruler of Egypt. ;)

In fairness most americans can be caught out the same way with even less cunning, one just has to not be blind, even the best skinwalkers among their kind rarely pass for a human

Not different world, this the real one.

@@jiggerdaddy2519 Well this "real one" is currently remembered by people in their 70s and 80s...

@@Diabetic_Chicken69 brain spotting

Jigger Daddy And Islam is a religion of peace 👌🏻

Bolero and somehow Christianity is too 👌

A mess of Americans who watch "Reality TV, Making darn sure that American ignorance is mostly manufactured right here in America.

Thank you from Germany to the USA, for destroying the Nazi-Scum in Germany and Europe.

@@user-js4py7qb5j Russia won the war in Europe.

@@Evergreen0021 Jeah sure dude... No doubt it's a fact, Russia won a PART of the war, in the east. Absolutely they contributed to the victory over the nazis. But Russia was only one of the allies, sacrificing their lifes. So better stop believing Russia won the whole war, or most of the war, or something. They "only" did their part. The reason why I don't thank the Russians is, that they didn't free ANYBODY. Worse, after Hitler, they run over all eastern European countries, murdered their governments, installed there a disgusting dictatorship called "communism", turning all Eastern Europe, including East Germany, into poor shitholes.

IKR!

Read Escape from Corrigedor for an unconventional POW escape story.

The story of how they liberated Mussolini could be the script of any action movie.

If he was with the Allies, it would be. Even now, the western world is not comfortable with the "good guys" of the film being Germans. Even computer games like Call of Duty upset a lot of people.

Some polish prisoners did the same, they escaped from Aushwitz wearing german uniforms. When they got stopped on the gate, one of them who spoke german leanguage, ordered that the gate has to be raised faster

The trickery of the mind will get you farther than the sharpness of the blade.

EdMcF1 I thought the same thing, Look how tall that guy is. Talk about an attention grabber. I would be wanting to talk to him just to find out how tall he was.

Probably a dueling scar, nazi's often would fence and give each other scars on purpose to look more intimidating or as a mark of "honor" truly crazy shit.

Definitely someone who stands out in a crowd.

Napoleon Blownapart : During the Hitler era, the ,academic fencing' of german and austrian students was not allowed, so in these days only swiss students fenced in this way. Even today some students do this, but it is no more popular. Outside of the german language countries few students do this in Belgium, Poland and the three baltic countries ( in german Estland, Lettland, Litauen) , when it is true, also some chilenian students. Today this scars are no more wanted and the students prefer modern medicine/ doctor's work. And: from mid 19th to mid 20th century those scars had been a sign of the german language academics, for noblemen this was not common ( for them only scars from battle counted). The 19th century was a time, when the power of the nobility slowly declined, but the importance of non nobles began to rise. Those important non nobles had been rich persons, officals of higher rank and academics. In those days ( and up to the 1950s) only few pupils?/Schüler had been at the Gymnasium, they , and the students at university had been seen as the next members of the ,Elite' of the german countries, and with their scars they proudly showed ,I am a part of the Elite'. Today the situation in Germany is different. Today the Gymnasium is the most popular type of school, there are today more pupils than in Realschule ( middle education) or Hauptschule ( ordinary education). I am a Facharbeiter/ german style trained worker with middle education. I was born in the 60s, and i am rather shocked, what kind of idiots today leave the german schools, even the Gymnasien.

@@brittakriep2938 interesting insight sir.

MY GOD THATS FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY! .....oh....no....our mistake ...sorry

@@totallynotalpharius2283 they say as they continue firing

@@totallynotalpharius2283 GI soldiers : " my god that's field marshal Montgomery !! " Montgomery " : "" gutentag mein junge , wie gehts ? "

They were right to stop Monty. Security is all important in wartime.

@@mesolithicman164 I am pondering the idea that detaining him may have helped the war effort

Dude was in the SS.

@@Mutedmouth yes. And?

@@Mutedmouth So what , He worked for America and Mossad

You could easily make a film about him. After all they made a great film about Rommel about 7 years after the war. The Malmedy scheme was daring but failed and the Nazis lost the war so no great moral problems there.

He survived the war as well

That's right, but i prefer Kurt Panzermeyer Meyer. Greetings from germany

I heard Arnold wanted to play him, but the movie didn't get a green light.

Jojo Rabbit, LOL

Jimmy Jimmy Well, you are right but Skorzeny was Austrian as I understand

So go make a movie and quit whining. Or go put on your Nazi Youth outfit and play with your Hitler action figure.

I bet Patton was ecstatic!

I would be too. Monty was an arrogant SOB, notwithstanding his capability.

They were all arrogant pricks especially Patton.

It is LEGEND that Monty and Ike never got on !!!!

@Feanor Probably doubt and confusion. Tires were a safer bet. If you killed an allied field marshal you'd be guaranteed a court marshal for murder and probably be in prison for a long time.

he did things james bond himself might do.

he was a soldier doing his job

Scars and all

I think falsi and bill g are far more evil.

*apart from the Nazi crap

he stole the glory from the Fallschirmjäger during the Mussolini rescue, and kidnapped Horthys son. Wow, so awesome.

@@BillOdyssey Yeah: Why glorify Nazi thugs? ESPECIALLY NOW?

Ancient astronaut theorists say: YES!

Because they had gotten a new mission: distort history.

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that you’re just an astronomical hater

But they’re ancient aliens!!

Bigfoot! Storage units! Pawn shops! Truck drivers! People who live in swamps!

Read that book myself but he wrote that book himself and lots of guilding the lily and many things have since been found out and simply aren't true or yet to be proven

@@steveholmes5207 This not one of Otto's own books(2 "My Commando Operations" and "Hitler's Commando",this is a 2018 new book by Stuart Smith, completely independent of Otto,uses some material from his books but has many other sources.

@Graham Goldie Yes for the most part.I thought I would get more action/combat out of the book but Skorzeny was a master of self promotion,so he did fight but not like we would have thought-more legend than truth.The ending of the book is somewhat vague about the Mossad connection and his time in Ireland,Egypt.I wanted more on the after war era.I gave it a 3 out of 5.Worth having read it to fine the legend was more in his mind than in real action.

Why the devil ? You think the Allies were the good guys ?

That detention of "Monty" was hysterical… You can just imagine the American MP's trying to devise questions to tease out the real Monty… "Do the NAZI's play cricket ????" " What's crick-ette , is that some kind of stick-ball ?" ; "OK ask him another " ---> " Is Hitler's other ball in the Albert Hall ?... That's a good one !" ----> Monty screaming at the top of his lungs about how they're all going get court marshaled... "That's exactly what a NAZI officer would say !"... "Ok does the King drink tea..??? " (hours of moronic questions.).

If we hadn't grow up around baseball.... The rules and nuances are almost as difficult.

Thomas too funny

Speaking as a Scotsman, most of us north of hadrian's wall would be in trouble with that question!

LMAO!!

History or Discovery channels are only in it for cheaply made to produce reality TV shows that barely have anything to do with the identity and purpose of the channel name. It's just about viewers and ad revenue.

They full well know who Mark is. He did a series with the History channel but I guess they decided they could make more money with crap shows like Storage Wars.

@@cindyhawkins6238 how do storage units fit in with history? I don't see the connection

It's not a brain dead, meaningless reality show. Thats all they care about.

You don’t know much about the history channel then 😂

CAN SEE YOU INTO F FANTASY U SELF LOATHING ONE PARTY SCHIZOPHRENIC SOCIETY ..THEY BOTH CONTROL TO PATHOLOGICAL LIFE GO MAKE SOME FISH N POTATOES

In the end a confuse answer

yeah just the idea of a War-thriller movie about disguised Germans is pretty exciting.

Band of Brothers had an episode that featured some of these shenanigans.

From German perspective.....Das Boot great film

Also factor in that us grunts just killed the bastards when they caught them. It got so bad that a mid-level general officer wrote an order justifying shooting SS prisoners. I think he did it to give his men cover. Eventually, orders went out saying DON'T kill the SS, we need them for intelligence about what units are where, etc. I don't think that helped much...

I would prefer to have been a Mossad or French Socialist spy, hiding behind a wall, bringing them to justice in Israel,

Mr Smith you’re disgusting .

@@mrsmith9031 Skorzeny was a military advisor to the israeli secret service tho

@@mrsmith9031 what a marxist dork 🤣

@@mrsmith9031 There is no justice in Israel

Two words. Joachim Peiper.

Humanforfreedom 95 really a commando tho?

He worked for Israeilis after the war, STRANGEEE

He looks like a meth head

@@humanforfreedom9583 One word...Murderer!

Hahaha, good one:-)

Is this the Market Garden when a US officer gave the Germans a full set of the battle plans? I'm surprised the operation went as well as it did. By the way, Eisenhower said of the operation " if Monty hadn't proposed it, I would have ordered it. An excellent reflection of Ike's willingness to accept responsibility

Nick Jung -No, this would be the Operation Market Garden where a British officer was captured on D-Day with the plans for the ground markers and smoke signals. Also where The Germans also listened in to British radio signals on No.68P sets which captured paratroopers had not destroyed. See: C. Bauer, 232-3; R. Kershaw, It Never Snows in September (London, 1990), p.231; Harzer, p.132. It’s also the one where British Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks halted his advance on the second day to regroup after assisting in the assault on Nijmegen Bridge. It was the halt that would keep British troops at Arnhem and failing. This was the operation that Ike finally told Monty his role, "Steady, Monty! You can't talk to me like that. I'm your boss."

@@alexprotivnak1224yes, I was referring to Market Garden. (D Day 6th June 1944, Market Garden 17 September 1944.) The radios were supplied with the wrong crystals and did not work. They were discarded as useless. Model gained no useful information from radios. There is no doubt about the US officer with the battle plans; his body was found on a crashed glider. The incident was reported in Model's diaries and Ryans book; Model initially thought that they were a hoax but soon realised that events were closely aligned with the documents and realised they were genuine. This information allowed him to optimise his resources with considerable effect. Regarding Horrocks decision, if you have ever walked the route, as I have, you will see that his decision was correct. Sending tanks along an elevated road surrounded with flooded marshland that is under accurate fire from well positioned 88mm guns is suicide. Regarding your comments on the dialogue between Monty and Ike, check your timeline. This took place before Market Garden and resulted from Monty's criticism of Ike's Broad front strategy which lengthened the war considerably. Useful references are Butcher's book about his time with Ike, Ike's book, Crusade In Europe and Monty's memoirs.

The Plan was assinine and IKE and SHAEF wanted the Port of Antwerp opened 1st.Ike finally gave Monty his way because he was yapping jackel.After Market Garden IKE more or less ignored him.Though IKE is just as guilty for allowing it,Even Alan Brooke,Adml Ramsey,Air Marshall Tedder and Bedell-Smith all insisted on opening up the deep water port - tactically that made perfect sense

Thanks for the like sir. I found this channel while watching Joe Rogan. A guest of his was talking about the crocodile massacre of the Japanese soldiers in Burma/Myanmar. Wanted some extra detail and now I've watched so many videos. Thank you for all this information

Ich schaue auch alte Originale Berichte von Kämpfe von unserer Wehrmacht an. Sie waren gut ausgebildet und gut Ausgerüstet. Eben Deutsche genau wie die SS unvergessen.

Vielen Dank🇩🇪

better not. If people write books about themself 90% is bullshit anyway, especially from WW2

@@noobster4779 99% you read about WW2 is biased one way or another. I found it very interesting to read his perspective.

All books are worth reading. One gets to see the other side.

I will follow your advice and see if I can find this book! Of course it was biased but it will be interesting nevertheless! Thanks for telling me...

“German gold” lol

If Ike was delighted hearing about what happened to Monty, I can only imagine how Patton would have felt If and when he heard about it.

"Don't mention the war"

German: "My name is captain Hugh Mungus." American: "Who won the 1937 world series?" German: "Scheiße."

hilarious - what is the capital of “Abastonia?”

I'd get shot too

I always thought he looked like Jaws

Tall, with the facial scar und ze German accent, a perfect Bond opponent.

Actually Ike was just about the only American general that didn't hate the English.

@@alswann2702 *British!

@@TheToonMonkey "Limeys" if you *really* hated the British.

@EnglishXnXproud toothless idiots !

@@TheToonMonkey Non-English Britons hate the English.

Pride before the fall. That was immensely tasteless on Montgomery's part trying to act the part of the fearless leader knowing Eisenhower was under security and couldn't be there. Eisenhower probably promoted the GI's that roughly shoved Monty into a barn.

All may be fair, but some of it gets you shot after a summary court martial.

But then you get nazi sympathizers getting upset that these war criminals were executed for their crimes

@@christosvoskresye funny how they could not get him on charges for what he did ....because the allies did the same. The irony. What you gonna charge him with? Bad dressing?

@@dgray3771 why so Sauer, Kraut?

Americans and British did the same things wearing german uniforms behind German lines.

I would really like to see a ww2 singleplayer game. Where you play as german SS commandos. Like rescuing Mussolini,attacking the Ardenns,etc.

didnt think id see you here, i love old school call of duty vids m8

Hi Afguideshd love your videos

@@avidaviation67

@@AFGuidesHD \:)

RW: The winter of 44-45 was one of the coldest in half a century in France.

Your are right Canadian Viewer ...It seems to me that only Sir Montgomery was properly dressed

And a picnic compared to Chosin in 1950.

@Steve K - Right you are; many American soldiers and Marines lost extremities to frost bite in the fighting around Chosin.

It wouldn't ever be an easy stroll past an American checkpoint. GI's may have been exhausted, cold and nonchalant - but never idiots.

Hi No The Germans were disciplined not rag tag gangsters like the American soldiers

Tom Meakin judging by your comment you didn’t pay any attention to what Mark said

Tom Meakin I give you an F on this assignment pay attention next time.

Most of the German NCOs and officers in this mission had either gone to school in the US or some other life-long experience with the language. They spoke better English than some actual US soldiers in all honesty

It would be very difficult to imitate an American accent. Accents are regional with many sub accents in areas of a region. The NYC area is a prime example with Brooklyn, Queens and Jersey City having huge differences in accent. Then there's the South, the West and the North. All very different.

The Germans who did accents were ones whod lived in the US in those specific regions They had been immeressed in it at a point

He probably wanted to "pin a medal on the bastard".

Given that American overreaction to the these commandos had Eisenhower practically made a prisoner by his own guards it is difficult to laugh too hard at other incidents.....

Anh Trieu Germany's best American general

@Anh Trieu - I would guess delight. Patton disliked Monty intensely, all the way back to at least Sicily and perhaps even North Africa.

The GI was probably promoted lol

They sent him from France/Belgium to a camp so far eastwards that the USSR liberated it?

liar

@@user-fb9ql8bm2e Yes. He hand wrote all his war memories. Was in 3 prison camps. Force-walked to all.

@@waragainstmyself1159 My father hand wrote these memories. He received Silver Star for his service.

@@suzanneporter2936 he definitely had a will to survive

There's a movie called Battle of the Bulge released in 1965 starring Henry Fonda Robert Shaw Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas with a storyline about this. I always thought it was just made up.

Same here but 18 years old from Philippines it's 4:49 AM

Solche Räuberschinken lernt man leider nicht im Geschichtsunterricht. Ist wohl aber auch besser so.

Get good sleep if you can. You'll come to realize how valuable that is as you become a man.

Good for you!

@@deepatlantic2222 Badasses like Skorzeny don't need sleep. ;^)

Skorzeny was a German SS Commando hero.

@@amberlopez7477 If this thumbnail is accurate, you are absolutely beautiful Amber ❤️💋

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@@amberlopez7477 He was a Nazi thug, and you LIKE him?

Fiver, aren't ya?

The Biscari Massacre were two incidents, one in which a Sergeant leading surrendered Italians (and two Germans) to the rear, took it upon himself to execute the 37 men with a Tommy Gun. The other incident was where the same unit captured a group of 36 Italians who had been manning a position where they had been pouring sniper fire on the US troops including targeting medics and the already wounded. When those Italians had surrendered, many were found not to be in uniforms (which under international law would make them spies and subject to execution) None of them admitted to being snipers when asked. When those men were brought before a US Army Captain he asked if any had been snipers and was told that they had been even though the interpreter had already told the capturing troops they had not admitted to anything. The Captain then convened a firing squad and had the men shot. A Chaplin would later report the shot prisoners up the chain of command to Omar Bradley who asked the commander of 7th Army General Patton what should be done. At first, Patton said to let the matter go because the men were likely snipers and besides they were dead and would only upset US citizens back home. But when later reports from the Inspector General of the 180th Regiments 45th Division found no reason for the shootings, Patton said "Try the bastards" The Sergeant who shot the first group of men and the Captain who ordered the firing squad for the second group were both tried for war crimes. The Sergeant was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, but that charge was remitted in November 1944 and the Sergeant went back into the line and served to the end of the war getting an honorable discharge and dying in Oklahoma in 1974. The Captain was also tried for war crimes and used a speech General Patton had given to his division officers that prisoners should only be taken under limited circumstances and if they continued to resist when US soldiers had closed to within 200 yards of their position, surrender need not be taken as part of his defense. Patton claimed his speech had been taken out of context but the captain was cleared of all charges went back into the line and was later killed in action. You have no idea if the Malmedy Massacre was in retaliation for Biscari. The suspected SS troops and their commander Joachim Peiper didn't raise Biscari in their defense at their war crimes trials. Instead, they claimed to have been tortured by US troops into admitting to killing captured Americans when they had done no such thing. They also explained that charges of murdering Belgian civilians during the same operations were actually legit killings due to those people being partisans. Did the German military put the SS troops on trial for alleged war crimes against captured US troops? No. Did the German military put SS troops on trial for murdering civilians? Nope. I find it laughable for anyone to argue that German SS troops (or Japanese ones for that matter) got a raw deal under US military justice while the US did nothing to control the conduct of its own men. The purpose of the Nuremberg trials was to bring suspected Nazis to justice for alleged war crimes. It wasn't to put allied troops and officials on trial. The reason was that in allied armies alleged crimes against humanity were still seen as crimes and subject to military justice. In the German military, crimes against humanity were OFFICIAL POLICY. If the Germans intent was to avenge Biscari (and hopefully dissuade US troops from killing captured Germans) then Malmedy was an utter failure because it resulted in official US Army orders going out to shoot all SS troops on sight and take none as prisoners. Other American units likely expanded that policy to any Germans they captured. If the SS were avenging Biscari, how did that work out for them?

It was the queen giving the Nazy salute! See the photo!

The person you trust......is one of us.

Nazy?

Guy Castonguay Nonetheless, Monty was an egotistical idiot just like Patton. Except Patton was a leader and Monty was a punk. Remember Arnhem....

@Gaming Git Not to be a Grammar Nazy, but you misspelled Nazy. You may want to edit your comment to fix that.

I imagine it was a time of chaos anyway, during the final Blitzkrieg of the war, and units were being hastily moved around without clear instruction. The situation was ripe to sow mass confusion. That said, you'd think one of them would have had a map and a compass.

In the confusion of War - don't be ridiculous !!!!

Wild but true

@@IanP1963 did he have no map

@@thedog4499 Perhaps not able to interpret it correctly. We had a lieutenant of this type once.

TV is for lies. The Internet is where truth is found.

It is not a stretch of the imagination to believe it. I dont know of any specific mission, but Markeet Garden sure coulda used some SS uniformed Brits in it. Wait, there is that one where the lone American and 5 Brits storm this castle is a cable car? Operation Danny Boy or Broadsword or something

Ummm Jeff, I would guess,,, a German.

I thought this type of false flag operation was touched upon in Henry Fonda's 1965 film "Battle of the Bulge"?

I remember they did touch upon this a but in Battle of the bulge.

He also made a point of being on the plane that delivered Mussolini to Hitler. Some say he was a self promoter. I think he had panache, style.

Was the liberation of Mussolini his holy punishment by socialist war heroes, when they strung up , like a leg of lamb

Watch Europa the last battle

That explains why that small European countries opened their legs when the German troops entered their homes, becoming 2nd level nazis... Fkn snowhitties...

@@juanma7117 Thats not it i am really interested in WW2 but i have seen every single WW2 film from thr Allied but not all German Soldiers were nazi’s

@Simon Davies ive seen The Captain and also Stalingrad i believe but maybe not gotta check that one out then

@E Smidt You obviously know nothing about the history of the second world war its to laugh about really you should look it up because the Germans and Japanese weren’t the only bad guys in the war

You can always tell what group of people control things

What is a TV license?