I was watching the news this morning, and they had a WW2 veteran on the program, but not just any vet. He is the last surviving person to witness the surrender of Germany, and in fact was the soldier that escorted the Germans into Ike's chambers after they signed the surrender documents. His name is Louis Graziano, 100 years old.

@lyndonwatson757

Жыл бұрын

A hero!!!

@user-by7ug6js4f

Жыл бұрын

I saw the same show gb graziano

@debrakleid5752

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. That’s really neat. Not many WW2 vets left and my dad served for 26 years in the military and served in the Vietnam War and retired as a major in the USAF. He died on 02/23/21 from leukemia. A few headstones down is a vet who served in WW2 and since then several more are in his section. Sometimes I lay flowers in front of my dads headstone as well as some others especially if they died the same day (not necessarily the same year) as many don’t get visitors. That WW2 vet that died I like to lay a flower or a penny at his headstone. In the next few years like the WW1 vets all of the WW2 vets will be gone and god willing we won’t have a repeat of WW2.

@64maxpower

Жыл бұрын

I like that you do that with the flowers

@tessat338

Жыл бұрын

I love hearing how people who survived a very dangerous time then go on to live very long lives in spite of all the effort others took to try to kill them!

I have the original photograph of the second angle taken with Field Marshall Montgomery and the surrender of North West Germany and Denmark as my Great Uncle was friends with the photographer and as a gift he gave it to him after the war. So cool to have such a special artefact in my family's possession.

@wishwishwish_

Жыл бұрын

Post it on r/ww2. I'm sure everyone would find that cool like me

@moistbuttmonkey

Жыл бұрын

AMAZING!!!

@LadyFairChildVideo

Жыл бұрын

submit it to the national archive, german national government or smithsonian. either way don't keep it any more. since current generations are about interested in world war 2 as , zero.

@davidschaadt3460

Жыл бұрын

🏆

@ytsux9259

Жыл бұрын

I'll buy it for 5 bucks!

Eight years ago today we buried my father on VE Day. I took the time today, May 8th, 2023 to watch this excellent video and remember him. His father and uncle both fought in WW2 in Germany and France. Thank you for helping keep these events and memories alive.

@painterboy454

Жыл бұрын

My father-in-law just past in March just before his 93rd birthday. He lived in occupied Holland and was liberated by Canadian troops. He remembers when the war ended...when he woke up and there was nothing but silence. No planes, no vehicle or troop movements, just silence. The day was May 7.

@mobilant1

Жыл бұрын

@@painterboy454 You mean the poor occupied dutch which went after the war directly back to their colonies? Some people see really one side of a coin...

@painterboy454

Жыл бұрын

@@mobilant1, he was a child and went and settled in Canada the home of his liberators. Don't be a fool of things you have no knowledge.

@TimPerfetto

Жыл бұрын

Eight years ago today we buried my father in Germany and France.

@mobilant1

Жыл бұрын

@@painterboy454 You started with occupied Holland and not your father -in-law. BTW doesn't matter because the Dutch were busy to grab the colonies back from the Japanese and not your father-in-law, right?

The interpreter (in the main pic between Monty and the German was Captain Derek Knee. He was an intelligence officer. He lived till about 2012. I was fortunate enough to be part of the nursing team that looked after him in his last few years. Dementia had robbed him of his ability to recollect anything. He had French relatives that visited him regularly and his French was wonderful.

On the 9th May my father, serving as a radio mechanic with 139 Wing 2nd Tactical Airforce, was at Achmer aerodrome, near Osnabruck. All the techicians were formed up in front of B25 Mitchell bomber for a photograph. I still have that photograph. Shortly after, in early June, my father was given leave to return to England to marry my mother.

Thanks for remembering, Mark. The generation who celebrated VE Day without fail every year has long left us.

@henryrollins9177

Жыл бұрын

Not in Russia, you should move there to be safe...

@wessexdruid7598

Жыл бұрын

@@henryrollins9177 Given the average life expectancy in Russia, you don't have many left...

@henryrollins9177

Жыл бұрын

@@wessexdruid7598 Really? Who told you that? The BBC?

@wessexdruid7598

Жыл бұрын

@@henryrollins9177 13.2M hits on Google - the World Health Organisation, World Bank, NIH and very many, many more. Covid knocked nearly 2% off your average of ~68 years for males and ~78 for women. "The biggest factor contributing to this relatively low life expectancy for males is a high mortality rate among working-age males from preventable causes (e.g., alcohol poisoning, stress, smoking, traffic accidents, violent crimes)."

I never realized how so many Germans owe their lives to Admiral Dönitz

@maciejniedzielski7496

Жыл бұрын

Actually he (Doenitz) overated himself after the war. He ordered evacuation of military material and personal and... Civilians if it doesn't disturb military evacuation. Local commandants often disobeyed that and evacuated civilians at same time

@maciejniedzielski7496

Жыл бұрын

After war Doenitz autocrated himself as Savor of East Prussia

@MrPlankinton

Жыл бұрын

@@maciejniedzielski7496 good point, however, soldiers did ultimately become civilians instead of slaves in Russia where they would have been kept until the mid 1950s to die by the scores of thousands. Civilians at the time, were not transported off the Russia, and while suffering in Germany, they were still safer than men under arms. It was a 'tight-rope' act for certain, but, again, saved millions of men.

@aleksazunjic9672

Жыл бұрын

Well, actually thousands of Germans lost their lives in that evacuation, and later starving to death in western parts of Germany. They actually would have better chance with Soviets, especially civilians.

@MrPlankinton

Жыл бұрын

@@aleksazunjic9672 and yet Germans believed, unequivocally, they would be better off with the Western powers. Hmmm. The Berlin airlift tends to dampen your theory somewhat.

The French to Germany at the end of WW1: "surrender in this rail car" The Germans to France in 1940: "Surrender in this rail car and become our puppet" The Allies to Germany in 1945: "Surrender to us three different times, just so you know we're serious".

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623

Жыл бұрын

More like it shows how fragmented the German high command and forces had become. And that the Germans tried to play the Western Allies against the Soviets, with success initially as seen with the 1st surrender. There was no plan to make them surrender 3 times. Just the chaos of the moment.

@davidschaadt3460

Жыл бұрын

Hitler had the Railcar destroyed,",Just in Case".

@BlackFlag1719

Жыл бұрын

Maybe everyone was thinking of how WWI ended. General Pershing expressed concerns that the Germans didn't believe they were beaten, and the Allies would have to to do it all again someday. So in 1945 they rammed the point home not once, but three times.

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelpielorz9283 An economic miracle only made possible by American money and the US, UK and France teaming their occupation zones together and letting the Germans have another go at it. If each of those countries had said nice, but we ain't letting you play there would have been 4 Germany's and no economic miracle.

@miguelservetus9534

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelpielorz9283 The economic revival of the Western part of Germany was in no small part due to the beneficence of the Western Allies. No shade on the German effort but there is a perfect control group in the East.

Growing up, VE Day was the start of American Legion starting poppy sales pre Memorial Day at the end of the month. Thank you for keeping history alive with your teaching and excellent presentations.

@johndododoe1411

Жыл бұрын

Interestingly, British poppy sales are focused on Armistice Day: The 1918 armistice that ended the western front slaughter on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

@HootOwl513

Жыл бұрын

@@johndododoe1411 That occasion [11/11] has become Veteran's Day in the US.

@bungee7503

Жыл бұрын

Whereas, in New Zealand and Australia, the equivalent commemoration (including poppy sales) is for ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) day on 25th April.

@amecocoa3829

Жыл бұрын

@@bungee7503 I had no idea. Thank you for the education.

@bungee7503

Жыл бұрын

@@amecocoa3829 New Zealand and Australia have sent soldiers etc to every war the Western powers have fought since the Boer War (not necessarily a good thing). I think New Zealand’s casualty rate per population in WWI was the highest of all countries. I’m the first of three generations in my family to not go to war and I am so grateful for that.

You know it's UNCONDITIONAL when some of the signers on the document are later executed.

@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh

Жыл бұрын

True! They didnt knowed what they were doing. Life mistakes!

@tjanderson5892

2 ай бұрын

@@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mhthink they clearly knew what they were doing. Maybe hoped they’d be spared but knew full well the likelihood that they may not be

@franc9111

10 күн бұрын

The German Naval officer who was there later committed suicide.

@matthewmorgan7106

3 күн бұрын

True. Only Goring knew none of them would get out alive. The others thought they could blame Hitler and lie their way out of a meeting with the hangman.

As others have mentioned, there are a bunch of other surrenders next to these three. One of these is the German surrender of the north-west european forces (by general Blaskowitz to Montgomery), which happened in Wageningen, Netherlands, the 6th of May. This video is quite the coincidence for me, as just last night I stayed in the very hotel ('de wereld') where this surrender took place. In fact, this very morning I ate my breakfast in the very same room where they signed the documents.

The sheer enormity of WWII amazes me, just taking Monty as an example, his war took him from Belgium, to the defence of the South Coast of Britain, to Alamein, to Tunisia, Sicilly, Italy, back to the UK, back to France, Belgium, Holland and finally, to destiny at Lunebergh Heath; and the same goes for all the other Allied leaders and soldiers, airmen and sailors.

@AndyJarman

Жыл бұрын

Quite how the Nazis ever thought they could prosecute a frontline over such a huge are has always seemed to typify the breath takingly naive arrogance of those people.

@Ghreinos

Жыл бұрын

​@@AndyJarman Well they did edvance, until the americans arrived.

@benisahengaming.

9 ай бұрын

Nazism, much like the plague, spreads very quickly.

Actually there were FOUR surrenders during that period. The one that's been missed out is Kesselring's command in Italy. Army Group G surrendered on 6 May to Field Marshall Alexander. Kesselring himself surrendered on 9 May but his command had been gone for 3 days by that point.

@funfact8660

Жыл бұрын

😂 Italy, that's because nobody cared

@stevestruthers6180

Жыл бұрын

Five surrenders if you consider the fact that in the Netherlands, the German forces surrendered to General Henry Crerar of the Canadian Army on the 8th of May as well.

@militaryhatsguide8725

Жыл бұрын

Germany surrendered to 6 countries then (Italy, Netherlands, France, Soviets, US, and UK)

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623

Жыл бұрын

That's a local surrender in a local theater. Those happened all across Europe, and in the Pacific too. Or are we going to count Fieldmarshall Paulus surrender at Stalingrad as full surrender too?

@bobsyeruncle5557

Жыл бұрын

@@funfact8660a lot of allied servicemen were killed in the Italian campaign. Their families probably cared.

Dr Felton never disappoints when he releases a video. It would help greatly to donate to help keep the content coming.

I find it telling that Montgomery arranged a press event for the partial surrender while Eisenhower stayed out of the way and merely asked if the Germans if they understood and were prepared to carry out the terms. His communique was also very matter of fact. “The Mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945, Eisenhower.”

@Ihateironyanddumbusernames

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's why Eisenhower is so fascinating to me. They called him the "balancer in chief". It seems like he was born to wield power effectively. I wish we cloned him so we could have him serve as president today.

@uptoolate2793

Жыл бұрын

​@@Ihateironyanddumbusernames God, no.

@raymondtonns2521

Жыл бұрын

Monty seemed more the ham but i liked when he asked of the Nazi generals who are these people what do they want as if they were annoying salesmen

@Johnnycdrums

Жыл бұрын

@@raymondtonns2521; That made me laugh too.

@grumpyoldman8661

Жыл бұрын

I admire Ike greatly, but this was also (uncharacteristically) a bit of play-acting. As Supreme Allied Commander his place was at the table, not pretending he was standing majestically apart. Monty (like Patton) was a 'prima donna' but a great battlefield commander nonetheless. (UK)

Thank you Dr. Felton for all of your wonderful content !

@John_Hemingway

Жыл бұрын

Hear! hear!

@TimPerfetto

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

@matpk

Жыл бұрын

@@John_HemingwayCompare Nazi Germany Vs Nazi Chi Na in your next video

My grandfather was stationed on the eastern front. He spent multiple days on a raft that he constructed in order to be captured by an English ship rather than The Red army. His younger brother died in a prison camp in Siberia.

@waynefernandes9455

Жыл бұрын

What a nightmare. I hope he found peace in his life after the war.

@mirquellasantos2716

Жыл бұрын

Your grandfather and other Germans were true cowards. They committed all kinds of atrocities and when it was their time to face their victims they waived white flags and hid under the feet of Americans.

@28pbtkh23

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad he made it to the British lines. I pity his younger brother.

@shanemcdowall

Жыл бұрын

Your grandfather knew about, and possibly participated in, the atrocities committed by the German Army on the Eastern Front.

@CryoCoffinVampire

Жыл бұрын

@@shanemcdowall It is true that he knew about what was done. Nobody told me this, but of the three brothers that fought in the war the middle one was a true believer. My grandfather however was a socialist. Of the battalion he was in that got sent to attack Moscow he was one of only two or three that made it back. He almost got shot on one occasion for repeatedly “losing” his cigarettes around some prisoners he was guarding. His suffering in no way measures up to the suffering caused by the nazis, but his suffering also happened.

Happy VE Day Everyone!!! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇨🇦

@PrimeX-rt3qn

Жыл бұрын

Cringe

@pjotrtje0NL

Жыл бұрын

And 🇳🇱+🇩🇰, ​@@vdotme

@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701

Жыл бұрын

lol VE Day? Tell that to the *Ukainians!* Stop living in the Past

@trance_trousers

Жыл бұрын

@@quan-uo5ws and lbgtqia++cdehijkxyz lol.

@hanhdhsj

Жыл бұрын

Gott mit uns

Bless those young men and women who made V.E. Day possible.

@jackthorton10

Жыл бұрын

Happy VE day

@Ah01

Жыл бұрын

Some victory: half europe fell into a worst kind of slavery under soviets and their stooges.. your god did not bless the east european people much between 1945 and 1990.

@gurglejug627

Жыл бұрын

does that include Mr. Hitler then?

To think if Steiner actually attacked we’d all be speaking German today.

@brandonmoses1698

Жыл бұрын

Cross of Iron Steiner?

@iffipifi1

Жыл бұрын

He did attack eventually. There's great video of Mark Felton on that too

@brandonmoses1698

Жыл бұрын

James Coburn did not though

@ManannanmacLir69

Жыл бұрын

You would better for it.

@ruberxwibebadhi

Жыл бұрын

i am sorry is this a troll comment? what is this talking about? how exactly could germany win the war in 1945 even if "steiner attacked" and how would it go?

Would’ve loved to have been a fly on the wall for that Jodl/Keitel conversation at the end, there.

I like the picture right at the end of the two senior German officers, Jodl and Keitel, in captivity eating out of mess tins as they count down the days or hours until their appointments with the hangman.

Did anyone else notice the significance of the schools in this episode? The German Naval Academy, the French Technical College, and the German Engineering School?

It's interesting that Eisenhower chose not to sign any of the documents. As the Supreme Commander in the West. his signature was the only one that actually mattered. Certainly, Mcarthur wouldn't have missed that chance.

@aleksazunjic9672

Жыл бұрын

Ike simply wanted to wrap things up without allowing Germans to deepen divisions among Allies (as they were planning to do) . Surprisingly humble fellow.

@louise_rose

9 ай бұрын

Eisenhower understood that Reims was not the final step, the full and final German surrender - though it has often been presented as such by Anglo-Saxon historians after the war. Some of the conditions were typical of an armistice rather than a full surrender - for example, there was no clear demand that the German troops would have to give up their arms and hand themselves over as POWs, only that they end the fighting. Also, it didn't stop the fighting on the remnants of the Eastern front. When Zhukov got word through and pointed out that there needed to be a full and definite surrender, which should take place in Berlin, Ike immediately agreed.

@franc9111

10 күн бұрын

He said that he didn't want to risk shaking hands with a Nazi.

Once again, a GREAT history lesson! Thank you, Dr. Felton!

Thanks Mark! Great and interesting content as always! The highlight of the day!

_”… and leave them to the tender mercies of the Soviets!”_ If I were a German soldier, the last thing I would want to do would be to surrender to the Soviets.

@aleksazunjic9672

Жыл бұрын

Yep, considering what they did to Soviet POWs early in the war, they got of easily .

@ABC1701A

Жыл бұрын

Civilians weren't keen either. I have a friend who's grandparents fled what became East Germany and surrendered to UK/Commonwealth forces, anything but the Soviets.

@RishabhChoudharry

Жыл бұрын

​@@aleksazunjic9672 600,00 Soviet soldiers surrendered to Germany in the Battle of Kiev 1941 out of those 600,000 more than 200,000 volunteered to serve in Wehrmacht AGAINST the Soviets and the others remaining survived till the end, only to be killed by the Soviets later on when they "liberated" those POW camps because to Soviets surrendering or getting captured meant you are a traitor to the motherland. So in the end, Soviets ultimately killed their own captured men. Your point? Read history and the true history, not the carefully crafted crap fed to us by the Allies.

@aleksazunjic9672

Жыл бұрын

@@RishabhChoudharry Yeah right 😁Makes you wonder how did Germany lost that war 😁 In reality, out of 600 thousand captured soldiers, 500 thousand were DELIBERATLY starved to death by Germans. When this became known Soviet soldiers were less and less willing to surrender. It became clear that German plan was complete annihilation of Slavs.

@HungryLoki

Жыл бұрын

@@aleksazunjic9672 There's actually no comparison between the soviets and the germans, the soviets were such deplorable examples of human beings, they didn't only mistreat POWs, they even mistreated every single red army soldier who had had any kind of contact with the other allies.

What a show Monty put on - i used to pass his house & Blue Plaque around the corner from Oval Tube station - near the Oval Cricket Ground, when i lived in London.

Thanks dr felton, you make my love for history insufferable to my friends

@sid2112

Жыл бұрын

LOL that's the best compliment I ever heard.

@scrappydoo7887

Жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful thing

@historyarmyproductions

Жыл бұрын

That is just wonderful lol

Thank you. Of course everything you do is uncompromising, and I always think it is the best video you've made. But this one is just so thorough and outstanding.

All your work is informative and immensely enjoyable. Much appreciated.

Dr. Felton another fabulous history lesson given as only you can! One of the things I love about your videos is the fact that I can use them anytime I hear somebody say this is what happened. Then I can say "well, maybe you're not entirely correct". Please watch this video from someone who is an expert on this. Well done sir!

I read in "After the battle magazine" that the house where the peace was signed in Northern Germany was demolished 2 years ago. I regretted that.

My Uncles who were over there, only brought home German rifles and pistols. One of them was released a few days before today 78 years ago. I knew that they saw real action as they only talked about being in England never the War and changed the channel when a war show came on TV

@petershen6924

Жыл бұрын

One famous Chinese communist general, Liu bocheng, who was later promoted to Marshal and lived to the 1980s, refused to watch war movies. He said that they reminded him of his subordinates who died in battle.

@kirkmorrison6131

Жыл бұрын

@@petershen6924 Yes, I always figured they didn't want to be reminded of the war. Too many lost friends and too many bad memories they idk idk their minds.

@mikeohagan2206

Жыл бұрын

war isnt pretty, and to be reminded of it isnt something you want to be reminded of. god bless your uncles.

@kirkmorrison6131

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeohagan2206 Very true the little I have heard it had to be a nightmare you could not wake up from. It had to be the worst for those in the PTO.

@roddydykes7053

Жыл бұрын

It must’ve felt patronizing to see the war sensationalized on TV, by reporters and other personalities who hadn’t gone through it themselves

No other channel i look forward to posting! Thanks Dr.Felton

My lunchtime history lesson. Thank you, Mark!

Another great, complex, comprehensive Mark Felton Production accomplished!

Thanks Dr. Felton!

I particularly liked this one Mr. Felton. I watch almost all your vids and I probably would put this one in my top 10% for some reason. Thank you immensely.

Yes Dr Feltzie dose it again. Easily the best channel on KZread about war history. Spot on Dr Felton.

If only we could have a tenth of the knowledge Mark has of history.

I have an old newspaper saved by my great grandfather dated May 8th 1945 (Australian time) which has the photo of Friedeburg signing the surrender with Montgomery. Makes me think if it had been printed before the Soviet surrender ceremony.

Happy VE-Day! Endless respect to every hero fighting for country

Excellent video Mark!! You always present something new to learn!

Thank you for yet another great video! I listen to your War Stories while i work. 8 hours a day, every day :)

I’ve been to all three sites (or at least within a few hundred yards of the first, which is as close as it’s possible to get with the site being fenced off).

My father was on duty that night at Eisenhower's headquarters. They retyped those papers numerous times.

Dr Felton is the finest military history presenter, researcher, and video maker on you tube today. I've learned more from his short videos than from any longer productions.

Thank you Mark Felton for this great history RIP to all soldiers that have there lives for freedom

Another fascinating video mark. By far the best historical channel on KZread. Keep them coming

@TrippinCreatives

Жыл бұрын

It's sad what The History Channel has become. This has done a far better job

Yet another SUPERB contribution to a litany of superb contributions to history

Absolutely fascinating, Dr. Felton. Thank you.

Another great educational and superbly narrated episode. Nobody does it like Dr Felton. Loved it. Ty.

As ever, an excellent and informative video! Thanks 👍

I live in Jersey and today is our liberation day 9/05/45 . 77 years ago Jersey was freed from German occupation , today it is a public holiday with parades and selebration

@raymondtonns2521

Жыл бұрын

have a pint for me! a yank

Hail Felton....without him, history lessons are tasteless!!

Top Quality as usual from Dr. Felton, succinct and to the point, as usual.

Thank you once again Dr. Felton.

I live in Wageningen with my family. Over here stands the Hotel where the liberation is signed. Its still in use and beautiful.greetings drom The Netherlands.

There were actually 4 German surrenders ending the war in Europe. In addition to the 3 mentioned here, there was an unapproved surrender in Italy on May 2nd, 1945.

I was hoping for this, very excited.

Thank you Dr. Felton.

Dr. Felton is the finest historian on and off youtube!

My dad was there, on Lüneburg Heath, when the surrender happened. When he told me his story it was only 30 years after the war, dam, now its nearly 80 years ago.

The way newsreel producers loved using the most dramatic, orchestral music for their reports shows how they tried to get us riveted to the screen

america deserves credit here, instead of being petty towards germany like we seen in the aftermath of WW1, they decided the same mistakes should not be repeated and instead helped to rebuild germany

@MrGouldilocks

Жыл бұрын

The emergence of The Soviet Union as a rival superpower seems to be the primary impetus for the Marshall Plan to help rebuild Europe. The US wanted strong European allies to form a bulwark against Soviet expansion. It's impossible to know what kind of American financial aid would have materialized for Europe if the Soviet Union wasn't perceived as an existential threat. But rebuilding Europe after WW2 undoubtedly bolstered America's long-term strategic position in Europe. The financial aid wasn't charity, it was an investment.

@Codex70

Жыл бұрын

It was only because of the USSR and that they wanted to become the world's superpower. They didn't care much about Germany, they cared about stopping communism

@JamesThomas-gg6il

Жыл бұрын

Also Ike informed the soviets about the surrender knowing full well what they would be in for after the fact. Since it was agreed by the allies before hand that Unconditional Surrender was the plan, he told the soviets. He shouldn't have but it ended the war, and kept our part of the agreement.

@TheBenchPressMan

Жыл бұрын

The US had successfully crippled its biggest rival (The UK), so was pretty happy to continue its dismantling. Nothing the US ever did in the last 100 years was for anything but it’s own interest.

@thunderbird1921

Жыл бұрын

@@MrGouldilocks My honest guess is that had Russia not been a Communist power (say a republic or a constitutional monarchy set up by the Whites after the Russian Civil War), Germany and Japan would have been punished 3x harder. This is because there would be less motive to pardon or ignore any war criminals and a bigger desire to more aggressively transform these two nations for the future. Plus, a democratic Russia would have likely gotten much more public sympathy from the West for the attrocities that had occurred to its people at the hands of the Nazis, it would not have been forgotten due to a Cold War or have been questioned as propaganda.

You learn something new every day. I knew about the first two surrenders, but not the third. Great stuff Doctor Felton!

Superb Dr Felton and Happy VE-Day!

"Concerned that it might damage our relationship with the USSR." How naive we were. Patton and Churchill were the only ones who truly understood the Communist menace.

@rajkobjelica4905

8 ай бұрын

Both wrong.

@rickrudd

8 ай бұрын

@rajkobjelica4905 Oh? You think the Soviet Union was an ally? They were not. Commies have no moral code. They want power and nothing else. We should've shown them zero deference, accepted German surrender unilaterally, and ensured Germany remained united and free.

It's still incredible to me that we have so much footage of that war, and those events. They will not be forgotten for a long time.

@lynx-alpha2073

Жыл бұрын

They will never be forgotten, The problem would be in oversimplification and taking the wrong lessons from it. Thats why this channel is so important. Good detail and objectivism in understandable short chunks

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

But will anyone ever learn anything?

@Eric-kn4yn

Жыл бұрын

I think by 1940s cameras had reached a high tech standard. Ànd were mass produced and elec media etc was a mature institution

@1pcfred

Жыл бұрын

@@Eric-kn4yn certainly the cameras that used Zeiss optics were the highest standard. Even in WW1 the British had a deal with Germany to keep supplying them with Zeiss. I'm not sure if they had the same relationship in WW2 though. I've never heard of it. But maybe.

Thank you for such a timely report!

Please keep making videos like this format. The big docus only want buzwords and highlights. The short detailed format combats over simplification without losing people in the weeds

Been waiting for this! Thank you Dr. Felton!

What a short sighted guy was Eisenhower, and other Americans.

I enjoyed the longer than usual vid. Keep ‘em coming!

11:44, my grandfather (my mom's dad) looks exactly like Donitz in every detail. That's how I remember him!

Happy VE Day Dr Felton and everyone!! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇷🇺

At time 1:58 The Germans gave permission that Allied bombers ( end of April / start of May 1945 ) could drop food on western part of Netherlands This was a Big mission with about 242 Lancasters and about 400 B -17 bombers. Also the Swedish Red Cross shiped food to the Netherlands ( January March 1945 )

Thanks for a great presentation

Thanks Mark. Another excellent video.

Definitely love your videos keep up the great work.

It’s funny how the field Marshall’s and commanders don’t remove their hats when in a tent but most definitely do when indoors ! Monty’s tent is like a house too !

Subscribed! And Shared! Thanks Dr. Felton!

Wow - good stuff & exceptionally well-detailed. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.

Dr. Felton, can you make a video on Alfred Jodl .. i’ve been reading stuff that says he did not get the proper sentencing

A wonderful introduction by ( Dr Mark Felton) channel...thanks for sharing

The details! Excellent subject

Also, there were some changes in the final agreement signed in Berlin, mainly the clarification of the demand that soldiers would have to surrender in the relative fronts rather than allowing German forces on the Eastern Front to surrender on the Western Front. Thus, the ceremony on the 9th was a bit more than just a symbolic act.

Thanks, Mark Felton, for this concise, while also extensive, summary of the end of WW2, 8/9 May1945.The shooting stopped. Would that the same were true for us here in the USA, where this historical event has gotten lost in the media by the war in out own streets.

Thank You!

Very Well Done Dr. Felton!!

I believe there is a story that, in one of the surrender ceremonies, the German generals entered giving their HH salute. The Allied officer taking the surrender told the interpreter to send them out of the room, and instructed them to enter again, this time giving standard military salutes. Is there any truth to this?

@TrueBrit1

Жыл бұрын

Quite possibly. I've seen videos where German officers give a traditional salute, as opposed to the AH raised arm. In fact, if you look at 5:04, the German officers give a traditional salute, and I'm pretty sure allied demands were that the AH salute would NOT be tolerated, or acceptable, during negotiations or any other situation, so what you have suggested could well be correct.

@leviturner3265

10 ай бұрын

Interestingly the salute used in the pledge of allegiance in the United States before 1941-2 was the same / very similar to the salute used by the Germans, and the Italians before and during WWII. This was also the salute used by the Spanish under Francisco Franco. As this was the salute believed to be used by the Romans. In the United States it was known as the bellamy salute. Today the most common universal term for it would be the Roman salute. Although most people associate it with The Third Reich more than they do with The United States, Ancient Rome, Fascist Italy, or Spain under Franco.

Very interesting and enlightening. I especially enjoyed the details about operation Hannibal and the timing of the final surrender. The reason that the Soviets and now Russians commemorate 9th May as the end of World War 2 appears to be a result of events on the ground rather than the last signatures of German surrender which actually took place before midnight on 8th May. In Konigsberg (renamed Kaliningrad) for example German troops only laid down their arms on 9thay when they knew it was all over. It appears to also have been this way in other places on the Eastern Front. I was once told a first hand account by a half German half Irish man who was drafted in the last week's of the war as a 16 year old of when his unit surrendered in a forest east of Berlin. Although they knew the surrender had taken place they did not go looking for the Soviet troops so a few weeks passed before they were taken into captivity and until that happened they still functioned as a military unit with a chain of command. My friend survived captivity which turned out to be very short because he was considered to small for physical labour when he was medically examined by a medical board. He also seems to have been lucky enough to have been captured by a Soviet Unit who (by his own account) treated their captives humanely . As he was not sent to a labour camp his captivity ended without any bad experiences. On his release he travelled to the US sector and managed to get a job as an interpreter for the US army.

@gurglejug627

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding that. The reality of Soviet Russia was inhuman incarceration for many people yet humane treatment for many others. Who can tell why - to satisfy Stalin and his henchmen? Many German prisoners were used as forced labour to 'rebuild what they had destroyed' and were otherwise and/or afterwards treated well and whilst forbidden to return home often married Russian women and led normal lives in the SU.

great accumulation of historic newsreels. Merci Beaucoup

Very good! Always an informative, factual and interesting presentation 👍

The Möllering-Villa where the British 2nd Army headquarters was located near where I lived and was destroyed about 5 years ago. It was where the conditions of of the surrender were worked out. The field surrender was just a show that Montgomery wanted for a more dramatic mark in history. The villa was let go for land development.

@jonnyc429

Жыл бұрын

That's a shame, maybe it was in a dilapidated state

@gutsbiker

Жыл бұрын

@@jonnyc429The villa sat empty for about 10 years unsecured and unmaintained. Some people said the plan was to let it get into such bad condition that the owner would say he had no choice but to tear it down. That's exactly how it went.

@jonnyc429

Жыл бұрын

@gutsbiker that's a sad story, shame it wasn't owned by someone who was keen to preserve it given its history.

@jacktattis

9 ай бұрын

No incorrect the Germans had first approached Dempsey who said he could not take their surrender they were taken to Montgomery who said he would not take it unless it was unconditional AND he said he could not accept any other surrender from troops outside his Area of Operations And my friend that caravan and Tent went everywhere with Montgomery[ he had a desk a stretcher and Trunk] and had them since El Alamein He never had Villas like Patton Bedell- Smith Clark etc etc etc

Yodl signed the surrender papers and then the "allies" quickly hung him.

unbelievably early to this one. And another outstanding end of war piece..

FELTON: VERY TIMELY AND EXCELLENT!

I am keen to know about the radio communications involved between the combatants and between the German negotiators and the Doenitz government. How did the sides first make contact? Are there sources?