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@ajsanjuan5266

Жыл бұрын

Can i get free?

@dritzzdarkwood4727

Жыл бұрын

@@ajsanjuan5266 Lol.

@ajsanjuan5266

Жыл бұрын

@@dritzzdarkwood4727 why?

@SyntheticVoices

Жыл бұрын

Dr Felton why do you have a gaming channel on my handle 🤔🤣

@stevenhershman2660

Жыл бұрын

I had a Older Roommate in College who was going to College after he served in the US Army. (We used to call him " Grandpa" (he was 30 yrs old). When he served in Germany he decided to live "Off Base" so that he could learn about the people. He said that Older German Couples would Rent out a spare bedroom and these older couples would "Open Up" after a while about the WWII War. They would bring out boxes that were hidden in the attack that contained Nazi Party Pins etc. When he first Met his landlords he was WELCOMING HIM ( US Service MAN ) with open arms. My Roommate told me that they would tell him how the Entire world was in Awe of them and that it was the Jews fault the war was fought.

That mark felton intro music always slaps so hard

@mdk9495

Жыл бұрын

I miss Erica . . .

@AlmightyS0sa

Жыл бұрын

esketitttt

@j.fkamaldeen

Жыл бұрын

Even Felton's voice is same on my face 🤠

@userAnonymous90123

Жыл бұрын

Waiting for someone to rap over it

@jackjude

Жыл бұрын

It's my ringtone, as I'm sure many other's do. 🤘😂

Attacks all the way to 1948!? Wow I had no idea about that. Thanks Mark Felton!

@johnathanlewis2049

Жыл бұрын

I had never heard about it either. Fascinating stuff

@MadrasArsenal

Жыл бұрын

@@johnathanlewis2049 I always learn something new from his channel. Have you been following his Martin Boreman series?

@johnathanlewis2049

Жыл бұрын

@@MadrasArsenal - I’m going back and watching those videos

@xXAlmdudlerXx

Жыл бұрын

Im German and didn’t know either

@MadrasArsenal

Жыл бұрын

@@xXAlmdudlerXx I think these are the most important parts of history that are so often forgotten.

My Dad's story of post peace combat with hold-out German forces in WWII. My father (deceased in 1995) was a member of the 90th Infantry Division, part of Patton's Third Army, assigned to some kind of unit that had half tracks armed with 20mm cannon and .50cal machine guns--they may have been quad 50s. The unit was initially assigned to the 90th as a AAA battalion, but without much need for AAA due to the near complete control of the air by the Army Air Corps, the AAA battalions in most of the European theater divisions were broken up and/or used for other combat duties; hence his unit became an armed and partially armored recce unit for the 90th, sometimes attacking enemy airfields ahead of Patton's advance. The plan was to hopefully capture the air field before the retreating Germans would have time to destroy it, so that US tactical air forces could use the air base quickly as Patton's forces moved rapidly through the Germans. Other times his AAA unit was used for ad hoc assignments to augment infantry unit attacks or for recce. It was a last such ad hoc assignment that I am speaking about. Dad rarely spoke about his WWII experiences, because most of his memories were bad-- he had PTSD before we called it that. He was wounded several times, but returned to duty each time after treatment or brief hospital stays. The one battle story he told about, multiple times, was how he was wounded the last and worst time, "four days after the peace was signed", in combat in Czechoslovakia. I found it hard to believe that he and elements of the Third Army were fighting in Czechoslovakia, until I saw references from his Division's history and later histories of the Third Army. He told of how, after they knew the peace was signed, his unit which he commanded was sent to an area in the mountains of Czechoslovakia to eliminate an SS unit reported to be holding out. He dismounted his troops in a small meadow a mile or two from the known position of the SS unit, as per normal procedure, preparing to advance on foot in combat formation to attack, supported by the heavier guns of the half tracks. That kind of unit usually outgunned any enemy units. Unknown to Dad and the intelligence people, the SS unit also had artillery. It was an artillery ambush. He and the unit were shot to pieces all over the open meadow before they could get close. He was medically evacuated from Europe, spending months in hospitals recovering. Part of his bad memories came from being proud of leading his men all of the way through the war with relatively few casualties. The 90th Infantry Division took around 196% casualties, including those caused by illness--the worst of any division in the theater, so it was something to be proud of. But Dad then lost most of his men "four days after the war was over". I could see the little pieces of shrapnel up and down his legs whenever he wore swim suits, some of the pieces working themselves out in later years. I've never been able to find any after action reports of that fight, nor of its casualties. He never got over the fact that they had celebrated making it through the entire European Third Army campaign, then suddenly they were decimated just a few days later. There were probably many instances like that--Mark Felton's video is the first effort I've seen to document how extensive it was, post war. He returned to the military after recovering, serving until he retired from the Air Force in 1957. He was "Old Army", as you can determine by the retirement year--He initially enlisted in the US Army in 1935, eventually transferring to the Army Air Corps (later the Army Air Force) just before the start of WWII. His AAA unit in the 90th was initially an Army Air Corps battalion, which is why he ended up in USAF until retirement in the '50s. I used to always wonder why he was wearing an Army Air Corps uniform in his WWII pictures showing him receiving medals in front of soldiers wearing Third Army uniforms. Two asides: Dad was Polish-American and spoke more fluent Polish than English, although born in the US, where he was raised speaking only Polish and going to parochial schools run by Polish speaking Catholic priests and nuns. I often tried to get him to accompany me to old battle sites around Normandy, where he landed on June 7 (a day after D-Day) and as he said, he was marched about a mile inland through what he described as incredible debris and bodies, and began fighting through May 11, 1945. He refused to go to any Normandy trip with me, saying sadly, "there are too many bad memories; I don't want to relive them." I discovered on my last trip to the battle fields of Normandy in 2019 a fact I never knew before: the 90th Infantry Division was the first to "close the Falais Gap", meeting of all things the Polish 1st Armored Division of Montgomery's forces--I saw the monument in Chambois commemorating the meeting site. I wished my father had been there when I saw the monument, so I could ask him if he met his fellow Poles and provided translation services. Second aside: Dad's service did not end there. He was involved as a private contractor in several conflicts after he retired, eventually completing six and a half years in Vietnam with a private company, Pacific Architects and Engineers, where he was wounded again several more times. I was serving in the Vietnam war about the same time, meeting him once or twice. I called him "bullet bait", not unkindly.

@official_commanderhale965

Жыл бұрын

Out of curiosities sake, given your father's experiences and evident PTSD from it. How did he view you being in Vietnam? My grandfather was a marine over in Nam and when I enlisted in 2018 (yes, I know I'm a young buck) He seemed a bit saddened, but I made sure to go a better route with the Army National Guard being a Technical Engineer.

@Andrew-xq7ni

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing man honestly kept me as entertained as the video

@kfcinafrica2111

Жыл бұрын

My Uncle was also in the 90th

@RedGalaxyFishbone

Жыл бұрын

Man what a story thanks for sharing. And that must be so heartbreaking to lose the group you thought you won with…

@brings2520

Жыл бұрын

This was a very extensive read, thank you for sharing this indepth story of your father, inward reading, I hope all is alright for and that nothing what you have just shared will ever happen again to you or anyone close to you, and ever anyone else. War is a horrifying experience to have, especially when your experience arent even recorded ever, seemingly erased or forgotten by what could had been a command of negligence, much happened already and to have something this occur is something that extensively occured back then, its scary, and I am weary.

In the late 80's, I was a history grad student who was simultaneously serving in a National Guard tank unit. One of the classes I took was an oral history class. My chosen project was to interview war vets who served in tank units. Among the people I interviewed was a retired First Sergeant of my tank unit. During the Korean War, he served in an armored unit equipped with Shermans. When he started talking about his military career, he said he actually joined at the tail end of WWII and served in a unit equipped with armored cars in Germany after the German surrender. Though he did not consider himself a WWII vet, he did mention that his unit was involved in mopping up German soldiers who hadn't surrendered.

@bronoun8884

Жыл бұрын

Spoke to a korea vet i ws too young to remember a lot of what he said but a big battle lifted off he was in the back of a halftrack Fire hit them , he looked around and there was only one or two fellas with heads still attached.

@2hotflavored666

Жыл бұрын

@Nate Higgers 🏳️‍🌈⃠ Yeah, the Russians/Soviets and Germans were.

@joshwaffen88

Жыл бұрын

"Mopping up Germans"? Probably he is mopping up in hell as we speak...

@sugarkane4830

3 ай бұрын

@@joshwaffen88Nah that would be the Germans he was mopping up.

While covering the war in Bosnia in 1993 I encountered a Croat in a WW2 Wehrmacht uniform. He told me "The man who wore this fought the communists until 1963." "And then they caught him?" I asked. "No, he went to Germany to work in the Mercedes factory." This was in a village near Prozor, hard core for sure.

@IINC0RRECT

Жыл бұрын

Based kraut

@skippythescout5446

Жыл бұрын

any more stories regarding balkan conflicts with munations and equipment of ww2 ?

@kixigvak

Жыл бұрын

@@skippythescout5446 Plenty more

@kixigvak

Жыл бұрын

@Vrvodec I realize it's unlikely to be true. But the guy I met near Prozor was wearing a genuine Wehrmacht uniform and that was the tale he told me. Have you ever been to Prozor? During the fighting in Vukovar I was in a bar on the Serbian side and there were half a dozen Chetniks in their own WW2 uniforms.

@kixigvak

Жыл бұрын

@@skippythescout5446 I can go on all night and all day. I actually saw munitions from WW1. And a German aid society sent bandages which had the familiar swastika with eagle logo on the wrapper.

These are the stories I enjoy the most. Obscure stories that are seldom if ever covered in general WW2 videos. We see the Macro view of conflict on pretty much every video, and they're done well, but we know most of these topics already. It's the Micro view where we learn something new and on the more personal level. Thanks for your research and sharing. Much appreciated.

@MadrasArsenal

Жыл бұрын

I agree, these are the parts of history that so easily are forgotten.

@bondgabebond4907

Жыл бұрын

Love to see stories of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers who ran German corporations. In Germany and elsewhere in the world, these people carried on, untouched. The US even brought thousands of Nazis to the US and they were placed into positions of importance. Example is Werner von Braun who headed NASA with his Nazi scientists. Nazis also found their way into major corporations in the US. In reality, the Nazis never surrendered.

@xr6lad

Жыл бұрын

Hardly obscure. Maybe to a millennial with no ability to read books.

@Eshanas

Жыл бұрын

@@xr6lad imagine actually blaming millennials for anything in 2022. 2010 called for its stale jokes. No, this stuff isn’t in any normal textbook or even stuff about werewolf, which itself is oft omitted or a footnote. Not everyone is a ww2 buff.

@Eshanas

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, or stuff like the new China marines from 1945 to 47, ija and French and Brits fighting Vietminh, forest brothers, Spanish civil war partisans till the 50s. Few wars end cleanly.

My nan was a nurse in Germany during the war (she was Lithuanian). She even shook hands with Goebbels when he visited the hospital. She never missed a day of work, until one day her dad said to her 'its too dangerous to go to work. You aren't going'. Anyway that night the allies bombed the city and completely destroyed the hospital she worked at. Apparently over 800 doctors, nurses and patients were killed. Crazy luck

@marks6663

Жыл бұрын

The allies committed lots of war crimes. But the victors are never the bad guys. Bad guys never win.

@Scroooge

Жыл бұрын

@@marks6663 Like how the raping of Berlin is hardly mentioned ever

@admontblanc

Жыл бұрын

@@marks6663 look, these history books right here say that the good guys won, every time. Huh, what a coincidence, isn't that fortunate that the good guys always won?

@ivanbro1208

Жыл бұрын

@@admontblanc holly cow, i believe now i cans see your point!

@paulslevinsky580

Жыл бұрын

@@marks6663 The bad guys are one level up...playing both sides. They always win the "bankers' wars".

I never met my grandad but my father said when he came back from the war he was a changed man. Before the war he was a happy, active young man. He came back broken, never the same, started drinking and later on took his own life. It really makes you wonder what happened. War is terrible.

@Fractal_blip

Жыл бұрын

The stress of an imminent death alone would drive someone to the brink imo. Never mind the trauma and sorrow of being a trained killer forced to do that job.

@entropybentwhistle

Жыл бұрын

One of the most tragic aspects of war in previous eras is the untold numbers of untreated PTSD sufferers. What they called shellshock back then was what got a soldier slapped by Patton in that infamous incident and one was supposed to just pull himself together and get back on the line. My great uncle had nightmares for his entire life, living into his late 80s, because of an incident where he had to bayonet a german in the sternum. He probably never had one minute of counseling and may have benefitted, at least a little, from knowing he could forgive himself.

@skipintroux4098

Жыл бұрын

He may have had the same revelation that General Patton had when he said: “We defeated the wrong enemy”.

@DAVIDJOHNSON-pp3ke

Жыл бұрын

here,s to a member of the greastest generation.

@bogusmogus9551

Жыл бұрын

@@skipintroux4098 Yep, they found that out real quick

There was also an incident in Norway back in 2009, allegedly a group of undead SS troops attacked some hikers.

@trustygamer5935

Жыл бұрын

I also read about an alleged battle between the undead ss and Russians Also in Norway around this time. The locals reported seeing a tiger tank in action

@aldosigmann419

Жыл бұрын

They are always the hardest battles as it is very difficult to kill that which is not alive....lots of explosives and property damage but to no avail...

@FirstLast-di5sr

Жыл бұрын

🤣🖤🖤🖤

@bruhism173

Жыл бұрын

Oh no, Nazi Zombies....

@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004

Жыл бұрын

Better than space Nazis from moon

My father was on policing duties with the coldstream guards after the war and he said their barrack block windows were often smashed by a brick.

@r0ky_M

Жыл бұрын

LoL ..😂

A friend of the family was stationed with the USAF in Berlin from about 1947 to 1950. When he first got there, they were not to go off base alone and never in uniform because it was an invitation to being stabbed. What changed everything was the Berlin airlift.

@erin19030

Жыл бұрын

The same rules applied in 1965. Command warned GI’s about getting romantically involved with the Frauleins. Often our day room office would get threatening calls from a group that called themselves “ Werewolves” , in commenoration of the young Nazi soldiers who refused to accept surrender.

@charlespeterson778

Жыл бұрын

I was stationed in Germany 72-74 we usually went off base with a buddy. If we were to get jumped it was by our fellow American soldiers. Race was involved, mostly

My Grandfather (mother's adopted father) fought in Germany through the end of the war and into post-ww2 Germany for Canada. The worst experiences by far were hunting werewolves/SS and clearing caches spread throughout BASEMENTS all over Berlin and North West of the country AFTER the fall of Berlin to the soviets. I was always confused as to why he stated it was bad fighting, AFTER the surrender of the main forces and into 1946. Now I know about the SS fearing death upon defeat, it all makes sense. Thanks Mark Felton!!

@macnasty7605

Жыл бұрын

Canadians were well known for cold blood killers and taking no prisoners, at least in the Normandy area. They were also very religious, wich makes sense to me.

@damoclessword4629

Жыл бұрын

@@macnasty7605 Canadians had reason for taking no prisoners. Early in the Normandy fighting, Nazi troops executed Canadian prisoners. The facts were discovered shortly after it happened, so many of the Canadian solders chose not to take prisoners.

@wollibar5263

Жыл бұрын

Hunting wehrwolves as a Canadian in Berlin ? Who was he,- Steven Spielberg?

@mikeonly8554

Жыл бұрын

If your country is invaded (lets imagine) by Urss, China and N.Koreea and your army is defeated signing surrender treaty in Washington DC, will you (imagine a Texan-Arizona-Georgia-Alabama etc hardcore american patriots) surrender?

@aaron_craig

Жыл бұрын

@@wollibar5263 after the war, occupation zones were set up in Germany and Berlin. After May 1945, he was reassigned to a newly created battalion that became part of the occupying force. And yeah, that's his story, and from what I could find over the years, very verifiable...

Honestly the content you put out is on another level. You answer questions we didn't even know we wanted to ask and make videos we didn't even know we wanted to see. It's always a pleasure watching your content @markfelton!

@ahelpinghound2009

Жыл бұрын

Im with you...he knows too much!He's either the missing Der Glocke pilot, or he's from the future. 😅

@DarkAlan2

Жыл бұрын

wtf are u a bot?

@xr6lad

Жыл бұрын

Hardly. This is hardly new nor never been covered elsewhere. Maybe start reading books.

@r0ky_M

Жыл бұрын

@@xr6lad Yeah ,Felton is just rehashing old news.

@fredjones7705

Жыл бұрын

Speak for yourself. Felton is good but he's never told me anything I didn't already know.

About 15 years ago I met an officer from L.A.H and he didn't surrender till June because he wanted to get back to Austria and avoid the Soviets, eventually changed into mechanics overalls and was allowed to go back home by the Americans who believed that he was nothing more than a tank mechanic because he did not have the tattoo.

@aidy6000

Жыл бұрын

@@JackGordone you on day rate or price?

@aidymacBrago

Жыл бұрын

@@JackGordone alot of Russia's Wagner shills also wish they didn't have those tattoos

@basillah7650

Жыл бұрын

@@JackGordone Russia is the one that allies with the nazi's any allies with Russia were forced into that due to Russia being in control.

@sus5976

Жыл бұрын

@@aidymacBrago They dont have swasticas, they have slavic symbols

@canadious6933

Жыл бұрын

@@JackGordone A lot of us wish you would shut up and get a life

30 years ago I was in Zell am See playing hockey against an Austrian team. Sometimes it's just hard to believe such beautiful places went through the trauma of that war. Many thanks Mark for your unique insights on history.

My father was an MP with 2NZ div in northern Italy. When walking back to bilots after midnight mass with 2 mates Christmas 1945 a young blackshirt opened up on them from a third story window.He was yelling in Italian but dad could hear Il Duce and fascisti being screamed. The Kiwis returned fire with a Thompson and Webleys. Apparently the submg cut him in half. Dad said his top half fell into the street in front of them (bullets and bodies can do weird things.) On inspection, he was in full uniform and only about 16 or 17 with a very distinct smell of alcohol. Very sad memory for my father.

Would be interesting to look into the SS troups that retreated onto the island of Schiermonnikoog in the Netherlands after the official capitulation of the German authorities in the Netherlands. I believe they resisted quite long.

@oasis1282

Жыл бұрын

We obviously know theres still german troops resisting in antarctica

@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204

Жыл бұрын

Never heard of it .. it will be interesting doing some research on it ..

@big_slurp4603

Жыл бұрын

I believe the UK had to send a few naval ships and ordered their surrender, and they lead pirate raids on ports for supplies and the like. I think the CO used to offer the soldiers and iron cross or a spoonful of strawberry jam for their bravery

@rg20322

Жыл бұрын

It would have been better if the SS were strung ---- up

@mrsteffen4692

Жыл бұрын

Same for those who resisted the Soviets in the Hel peninsula, Poland, after the capitulation

3:06 that little boy raising his hand to do the "Führergruß"... how sweet xD

@ianmurray4081

Жыл бұрын

And his older brother putting his younger brother’s hand down quickly was awesome. No Franz, we don’t do that anymore…..

@a_loyal_kiwi88

Жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking, honestly.

A former acquaintance of mine was on a fishing trip in the Canadian wilderness in the early 1960's, and stumbled on a group of men washing up in a stream. They were speaking German and had their shirts off revealing SS and Nazi tattoos. He hid from view but swore that this was a group of Nazi's that was still hiding out after the war. I've often wondered if this could have been true.

@carlosacta8726

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like the stuff of a great screenplay!!!!!!!!!!

@RomanOf2002

Жыл бұрын

Maybe they were just post war German/Austrian immigrants to Canada? I know plenty moved to North America after the war. Although the former would be very cool in a way if true!

@kurancy

Жыл бұрын

@@RomanOf2002 That's probably a more likely explanation. I always wondered how they got there.

@faustopacheco120

Жыл бұрын

They were just LARPers

@brandongardner9829

Жыл бұрын

Wow that is a great story, just imagine coming across those dudes.?

My Father was in Germany as part of the Occupation Forces from 1951-1953. He once said that a shell was fired into their camp, I had always thought it was a training accident, but this may be the real cause. Dad was a Corporal in the 2nd Armored Division.

@mikeromney4712

Жыл бұрын

In view of the fact, that after May 9. 1945, was no significant resistance actions on the part of the Germans, a hostile action seems not verry possible (Apart from that, all the newspapers would have been full with this incident). Since 1950 the rearmament of the Germans, as partners of the Allies, was started and German generals were advisers on technical security issues for the Allied military leadership.The training accident seems more likely.....;) edit: Contrary to what is shown here, these alleged "werewolf" actions served more as a justification for the separate treatment of former SS members, or as on the Soviet side, through arbitrary arrests under the most absurd allegations, to fill in the gaps of the millions of prisoners of war who had died. Stalin said: It wouldn't look good for a communist state, if so many prisoners died. So 15-year-olds were arrested straight from the classroom as alleged werewolves and simply disappeared into the GPU basements - so that the figures for the prisoner-of-war releases wouldn't look too bad. My father's 2 older twin brothers were able to experience this. Despite being sentenced to 25 years in a labor camp, both came back after 6 years as "prisoners of war".

The surrender of any armed force is never a "done and dusted" deal. Thanks for shedding light on the real aftereffects of VE day.

I've learnt more in one of your 10 minute video than I've learnt in 10 years of watching various history channels.

@Matt-xc6sp

Жыл бұрын

Felton is another level but there’s plenty of good channels. Wendigoon can talk at a camera for an hour and it’s the most engaging thing ever.

@mlbowen6476

Жыл бұрын

100% agree. The History Channel is anything but history these days. I compare the History Channel of today with todays MTV. There's no Music on MTV and no History on the History Channel. But, it wasn't always like that.....

@tsarbomba01

Жыл бұрын

Why did it take you 10 years?

@treystephens6166

Жыл бұрын

@@tsarbomba01 I’m pooping 🫡

@Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist

Жыл бұрын

That's because the 'history' channels have turned into NATO/US propaganda channels.

Another excellent video, Mark. My Dad was in the US Army in Germany during the Korean War. He delivered mail. He told me that in one Bavarian town he had to have AAA quad .50s accompany him. The residents would immediately shutter their windows.

Our recently retired mayor here in Hodgkins (about 10 kilometers west of Chicago's Midway Airport), Noel Cummings, was one of the US soldiers who was charged with rounding up these renegade SS men. His Honor had just graduated from high school in Mississippi and had enlisted in the US Army as the European war was ending. On the very day you released this video, Mayor Cummings celebrated his 95th birthday. Last month, after more than 43 years in office, he stepped down as our mayor.

@michaelp9707

Жыл бұрын

So a WW2 Veteran was serving as a Mayor through 2022 at the age of 95.Amazing story.

Another smash hit history lesson from Dr. Felton . Thanks again and all the best.

Very true in those times. My German Grandfather who was trying to re-establish a business in Bavaria in the immediate post-war time of the Autumn of 1945, was issued by the US military governor of Bamberg a permit to own a pistol for self-defence,something unheard of for German civilians in that time period, as where he was living and re-constructing a sawmill was literally miles from any sort of US military aid or response.

My late grandfather joined the army but only made it to germany after the surrender. He was a replacement for post-war occupation of previously front line vets. He would tell stories of ditches in backyards of homes filled with nazi uniforms, pictures, weapons. He said "The ones that weren't still fighting were hiding" He went on to serve in Korea and lived to 89 years old, still smoking the same cigarette brand as when he served, all the way to his death bed.

@Earthbound369

Жыл бұрын

God bless the Greatest generation. They're sadly a dying breed.

@weltvonalex

Жыл бұрын

yup we still have some of those criminals running around in austria

I have ready MANY books about WWII and I am continually amazed how much new information I learn from Dr. Felton's videos.

My father received the German Occupation medal for his service there during the Korean war. He despised military discipline and lunacy; but his service at that time qualified him to be a member of VFW and American Legion. He loved being a veteran, but hated being a soldier.

@scotmandel6699

Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing he would have hated it even more if he had been sent to Korea. He should have been grateful for the easy assignment.

@basillah7650

Жыл бұрын

In other words loved the free tax payer funded perks but hated actually getting off his ass and doing what he was told to do.

@cakecwkecake7479

Жыл бұрын

@@basillah7650 "getting off your ass and doing something" oh so what you've never done in your entire life?

@jerrylyons9279

Жыл бұрын

@@scotmandel6699 i was sent to england while my brother was fighting in korea. was in anti arecraft aretillery. loved the english didn't like soldiering but was greatful.

@benjamintherogue2421

Жыл бұрын

@@basillah7650 He sounded like an E4 mafia paragon. I bet his shamming powers were next level.

Imagine you go hiking in the alps and suddenly a 90 year old man in uniform attacks you

@themudthedirtandthesand9079

Жыл бұрын

Thousands of German Tourists were coming to Western Canada every summer pre-pandemic. For many of them, especially older men and even women in their 50s, 60s, and 70s, born in the post-war decades to Nazi-era parents, it wouldn't take much for them to get into a Werhmacht uniform or in extreme cases even an SS uniform. That was obvious to me on many occasions in resort towns in Canada where I worked: one could see, hear and feel in the older Germans attitudes of patriotism, extreme arrogance and flagrant aggression while anywhere near many of them, even the majority of them, they are totally self-centered and most do not have the ability to believe they might be wrong in their beliefs and actions, the "Everything for Germany" state of mind is alive and well in most of them, they will pick a fight in an instant and their victim is the aggressor and they are the victim, in their minds.

@michaelp9707

Жыл бұрын

@@themudthedirtandthesand9079 Any examples of anything particular they said or did?

@peaceformula5830

Жыл бұрын

​@@themudthedirtandthesand9079 Did many of your family die in WW2?

Thank you for everything, Mr. Felton!

WOW!!! This episode was very enthralling to say the least. Thank you Dr. Felton. Regards, Bert

When I was stationed in schweinfurt one of the Germans that we worked with at the pmo told us a story that after the war one of his uncles said he wasn’t going to surrender and went off to the mountains and that was the last time that he was heard from again and they assumed that he was killed some point after he left

@llywrch7116

10 ай бұрын

Or died from exposure/starvation. Mountains have been known to be an inhospitable environment.

Mark Felton your videos are absolutely superb honestly I think I have watched all of them. I love how they cover bespoke parts of history especially surrounding WW2 so fascinating. So much WW2 documentaries only cover major incidents like pearl harbour battle of the bulge etc but there is so much more to tell I don’t know why anyone else covers it in the same way.

Both my uncles were stationed in Germany after the war .They said they went out for a drink in groups as it was dangerous to be alone as their was a lot of resentment as a lot of people had lost close relatives .They made some friends as time went by by "borrowing" coffee and other essentials to help their German friends

"For hate dies, suffocated to death by its own stupidity and mediocrity. But grandeur is eternal. And we lived in grandeur." - Leon Degrelle, "The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945"

Fascinating! I’d heard of the “Werwolf” program and that some Waffen-SS diehards held out, but not for as long as 3 years. Great video, lets people know that historical events often don’t end when the books say they did.

@wolfmantiptip6218

Жыл бұрын

You would be surprised at what the " books " Don't tell you ............

@tonyjones1560

Жыл бұрын

@@wolfmantiptip6218 Not anymore…

@tonybarnes3858

Жыл бұрын

There are books on this subject. The problem is people don't read much, or they get funky info from the internet.

Another marvellous and enlightening MFP doco... Top effort again, Dr. Felton.

What did Churchill say: "we will fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we will never surrender. "

In 1952 a friend of my dad's was shot at in the Swiss alp's. He was with an army group just hiking around the area. The bullet actually grazed his helmet.

@ 3:06 A youngster giving the 'German Greeting' to the passing occupation troops is quickly stopped by an older boy.

I had no idea SS holdouts were still causing deaths and injuries as late as 1948. It's sobering to think of when the general perception is that most Germans accepted defeat and went on with their lives under allied occupation. Apparently, most did, but not all.

@karlheinzvonkroemann2217

Жыл бұрын

There were incidents in the German territories that were given to Poland and Russia after the war ended that went on for years. The same in the Baltic States and there were Finnish partisans too that fought the Russians into the 1950's.

@christoph3187

Жыл бұрын

SS members were shot on sight by Soviets and often enough by Allied troops too. If you were in their shoes, would you surrender?

@hb9145

Жыл бұрын

@@christoph3187 Indeed. Vindictive attitudes towards enemy combatants is payed in (your own) blood.

@cyrosubod2317

Жыл бұрын

@@christoph3187 true tho they’re not really on their shoe thats why most of these people just talk some nonsense

@davidcollins2648

Жыл бұрын

This happens in every country under occupation especially after long and costly wars.

Another great video Mark! Had no idea that this kind of 'fighting' took place after hostilities officially ended.

My father worked with a former SS soldier in Australia. A lot of the fanatics died early on and the later recruitment was of people who were previously considered substandard, they did still retain a good deal of true believers though. As a previous video showed some SS acting as guards at the war crimes trials as they were foreign conscripts not volunteers. I read a biography of a former SS officer of field rank who was engaged in anti-partisan actions in the Balkans and he and his men fought their way back to Germany before disappearing into the foreign legion in Indochina. In his book he gives eyewitness accounts of SS soldiers being shot after surrendering to Russian troops so they fought on. The western allies handed SS prisoners over to the soviets and the soviets executed them regularly. Any member of any branch of the SS was considered a war criminal even if they were non-combatants.

@matthewriley7826

Жыл бұрын

Well when the public image is the Malmedy massacre, atrocities by the Einsatzgruppen, human experimentation, and administering/guarding concentration camps, that’ll tend to give your organization a bad rep. Wearing skulls on caps and lightning bolts probably didn’t help either.

@angelikaskoroszyn8495

Жыл бұрын

Soviets weren't big on truth and justice. You could've fought against nazis but if you were not pro USSR you would still be considered an enemy. You could've been a communist! Who cares. The didn't

@CognizantCheddar

Жыл бұрын

Every branch of the SS was involved in either organizing or executing atrocities, whether via administration, 'police' work, or actual combat. Waffen-SS (i.e. the combat branch of the SS) were commonly rotated into administrative and police duties as a form of leave. Subsequent of this, no one serving in any branch of the SS could plausibly claim ignorance of atrocities committed by other SS. All of the branches aided each other, and preferred to keep activities 'in-house' as much as possible.

@1lighthorse

Жыл бұрын

@CognizantCheddar I am not excusing them, I assure you. My Uncle was a pole fighting with the free forces in the U.K. so I have heard the stories.

@CognizantCheddar

Жыл бұрын

@@1lighthorse I know you're not. Not everyone knows that bit of trivia regarding SS branch rotation, so I just thought I'd mention it. The SS was a cult, and until desperation forced conscription of foreigners late in the war to act as front-line fodder and camp/factory guards, everyone in the cult was privy to what other branches were doing, and the branches aided each other accordingly, because the cult only fully trusted itself. As cults tend to do.

I'd heard about holdouts after the fall of Japan, but never thought about Germany! Thanks for this awesome insight mark!

Not necessarily SS related, but one of our ex mil instructors in trade training was in Hamburg shortly after the war, he said if you didn't obey the imposed curfew the chances are you would get your throat slit with no hesitation.

Last German Holdouts: Kept fighting until 1948. Last Japanese Holdouts: Kept fighting until 1974.

As always Mark, great story. Thank you, Sir.

Great video, Mark! This reminds me of a great novel Harry Turtledove wrote about the Werewolves and what would have happened if their insurgency had succeeded. AWESOME fiction based on a gem of terrifying truth.

@caboose261

Жыл бұрын

The Man With The Iron Heart. Great book, great author

@civilwarwildwest

Жыл бұрын

@@caboose261 lol For knowing this book, Heidrich will let you live.

@wayneantoniazzi2706

Жыл бұрын

Harry's alternate histories are pretty darn clever! I read a great short story of his where the first US Army officer who comes under Confederate fire in 1861 isn't Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter, it's Colonel Robert E. Lee in San Antonio Texas! I won't tell you how it turns out and spoil it for you, but it's pretty damn wild!

3:57 I do wonder what exactly you mean with "reprisals" Mark. Are we talking about war crimes here? Reprisals is a very broad term and that can entail anything from apprehending collaborators to randomly shooting civilians . . . I know that, although fairly few and far between, U.S. troops did commit several massacres of POWs and civilians towards the end of the war, one of them occurring on April 19th 1945 in Saxony-Anhalt as well. However I fail to find either information on the events you describe or the township close to which the American soldiers' bodies were found.

@barryirlandi4217

Жыл бұрын

Fine question

@BasementEngineer

Жыл бұрын

The reprisals were often bombing or strafing runs.

@Hn-gz5iw

Жыл бұрын

Its okay if the allies do it. Its when the germans do it its called genocide.

@SgtPepper271294

Жыл бұрын

@@Hn-gz5iw Individual war crimes and genocide are not the same. Although I believe that war crimes committed by western allies are generally less known than they ought to be, the conduct of German forces and that of the British and Americans cannot be equated. That should almost go without saying.

@Hn-gz5iw

Жыл бұрын

@@SgtPepper271294 So you are saying the deaths of half a million civilians thru firebombing and the death of up to 2 million germans after the war in racial expulsions from the east and central europe cant be compared to a genocide?

My grandfather on my dad's side joined the US Army too late to participate in official hostilities, but he ended up being stationed very close to where the American, British, and Soviet zones came together during the occupation. I've heard two of his stories from his time there; they're unfortunately second-hand through my dad and uncles, since he passed away in 2002 when I was very young. 1) He was tasked with driving a green Lieutenant to an area in a village that was apparently known for hostility towards the occupiers. A veteran soldier gave Grandpa a Thompson and said "here, you might want this", and he placed it under the seat of his jeep. When they arrived in the area, they were shot at from somewhere in the village. The LT immediately stood up and started admonishing the shooter, but Grandpa pulled the Thompson from the jeep and started shooting back, telling the idiot LT to get down. They promptly left that area and returned behind the wire. 2) Grandpa was walking down the street with a couple of buddies one evening. They were just casually yakking back and forth when someone jumps out of an alley, shoves a pistol into Grandpa's stomach, pulls the trigger... and nothing happens. Grandpa's buddies immediately pull the attacker off of him and promptly put bullets into the attacker. This, understandably, left Grandpa a bit shaken afterwards. Dad also said that despite the language barrier, Grandpa got along much better with the Russians than he did with the Brits. I only wish he could've lived a bit longer so I could have asked him questions myself.

@herb2078

Жыл бұрын

A lot of British soldiers were very bitter towards the yanks as we had been fighting for years before they arrived taking the brunt of much of the German war machine. Our cities had been destroyed. When the Americans then did join the war many were stationed in England before moving into main land Europe, of course they then saw examples of British women hooking up with yank soldiers which again just added to their dislike. It is only a surface rivalry of course but there were many British soldiers that felt that way rightly or wrongly but it probably explains why your grandad said that.

@richdetlaff-5983

8 ай бұрын

British started the war....USA finished it British should be thankful cause if commonwealth probably would of lost

@hammerr

7 ай бұрын

​@@herb2078I'm so sorry millions of Americans crossed the ocean and died for European liberation.

@herb2078

7 ай бұрын

@@hammerr the U.K. had more deaths than America firstly so let’s be clear on that one. But yes of course Europe and as a Englishman we are grateful for American help during the war, I didn’t imply that we were not. Strange comment

Highly educational as always. Ty Dr Mark

In April or May 1945, my father was living in Micheldorf, Austria. My father was 10 years old and had been evacuated with his mother from Neiße, Germany (modern day Nysa, Poland) a few mother earlier. My father told me Micheldorf, Austria after guarded by SS soldiers. One morning in April or May 1945, the SS soldiers disappeared and a few hours later American soldiers appeared. The first soldiers were a reconnaissance team of a couple armored jeeps. My father remembered the soldiers were African-American, one was wearing sunglasses and chewing gum. A few hours later, a large number of American trucks and armored vehicles arrived. People in the town flew bedsheets out their windows as surrender flags. My father, his mother, and many towns people did not have enough food to eat. He remembers scavenging for food in the American Army camp's garbage cans. My father also remembers finding chaff on the ground and blowing around in the air. This was from American bombing missions against nearby Germany radar stations. My father is still alive.

@dhowe5180

Жыл бұрын

I wish he had taken a photo of that cool GI with the shades

There were also renegade Japanese soldiers and units that continued to fight after the Japanese surrender too if I'm not mistaken.

@user-saraswatidevi

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and they where still around till like the 70s and maybe 80s

@j.peters1222

Жыл бұрын

@@user-saraswatidevi One Japanese soldier held out in the Philippines jungles until 1974. They had to get his old commanding officer to coax him out of hiding and convinced him to finally surrender. His name was 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda.

@Kaffemosterful

Жыл бұрын

Last Japanese soldier was Teruo Nakamura. He was arrested by Indonesian soldiers on 18 December 1974. Nakamura's hut was located on a remote island that was overrun by the Americans in September 1944.

@user-saraswatidevi

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaffemosterful i alwasy think that there was probably more that have died by now that where never ground

@Kaffemosterful

Жыл бұрын

@@user-saraswatidevi Maybe. That is a fascinating thought.

Well researched, Mark. Thank you. Like many of the others, I never knew these facts because they were not told in the history books I studied.

Another great video Mr Felton. Always enjoy your work.

I'd imagine that there was quite a lot of the Wehrmacht on German soil that, once realizing they were cutoff and watching the allies roll on past them without discovering them, made a break for safer areas that they could hold out in for awhile rather than surrender. Especially if it was on the Eastern front. Most knew their fate if caught by the Russian army.

@BenWeeks

Жыл бұрын

One book on this theme is "The Ghelen Organization" which is how an intelligence chief on the eastern front kept his unit safe from ss assasins and surrendered to the Americans in order to negotiate that he continue his duties offering expertise to keep the soviets in check. He became democratic Germany's intelligence chief later. He buried his filing cabinets in fields as insurance and did not appear to be an ideological nazi as he was Whermacht since earlier times.

Renegade SS Attack would be a cool name for a band.

East Prussian resistance after 9th of May 1945: Some german refugees from the eastern parts of the German "Reich" told, that the german resistance within the russian occupied areas lasted much longer than May 1945. German soldiers feared much the brutality of Red Army, so they fighted even after May - simply for survival. In a report of refugees werewoolf activities in East Prussia were mentioned. e.g. once a young german boy in Koenigsberg started firing at soviet soldiers with a machine gun, till he was killed. The activities stopped when all East Prussians were expelled from their country 1948-1952. Does anybody know more?

Another very interesting video Mark, thank you. My dad was stationed at Colle Isarco for a while in the post war years and I recall his stories that although the war was over they were still in an active war zone, particularly as Austria didn't sign the armistice at the same time as Germany did.

You always find these nuggets. Sad that the war was over and a handful of diehards wanted to continue. I can hardly imagine picking wildflowers off duty months after the end of the war and being killed by some SS hold out just because.

@DanDan-du9mo

Жыл бұрын

The US had no qualms about firebombing civilians, even wiped dresden off the map. I believe holding out "just because" against an enemy that stopped at nothing short of open genocide is admirable.

I've been an ardent amateur historian, and have studied WWII for years. I thought I knew everything about it. But Dr. Felton never ceases to amaze. Coming up with new information and facts about WWII, that I have NEVER seen any other place!

@Fractal_blip

Жыл бұрын

I honestly feel like we could never know little more than the broad strokes if you weren't there (as a high ranking officer no less). Every detail giving way to a greater number of questions.

@ralphshelley9586

Жыл бұрын

Any info.on Russian showdown at Japanese embassy in Berlin 1945?

@skippythescout5446

Жыл бұрын

what are your favorite topics to look up on ww2 ?

An allied soldier picking wild flowers?? What unit did he belong to - the 1st Canadian Lumberjack Division??

Its cool to see that Mark gets sponsors that are acctualy what his audience might whant, instead of some vpn or mobile game

Very interesting! Something that is seldom, if ever, mentioned. Thanks for enlightening us!

I honestly love this channel, as someone born in the year ''all war ended'' of 1991 in europe and now beeing surrounded by a society who fears or wants to justify war i feel that to anyone who listens, your channel is a great view of what aspects people forget about war. when i was a teen we got it shown on history channel, and talk shows talking about how terrible everything is when there is war, now i felt like it was missing, but i'm glad to say i got you a few new subscriptions by people who need to see that history can be not boring and very helpfull to understand some stuff we are confronted to now, especially for generations after now crucial i believe to see history from a biased non political but human view in historic context. Thank you mark.

Hello, this documentary brings back a lot of memories. At the beginning of the 90s, I had the honor of participating in a reunion of former WAFFEN SS, Das reich, Horst Wessel and Charlemagne divisions in Bavaria. Henri Fenet, commander of the last defenders of Hitler's bunker (took the floor) and one cannot, and whether one likes these men or not, imagine the conviction, the still total ideal which animated these men. I really realized that a page of history was turning in front of me. My great regret, not having been able to meet Léon Degrelle in the 80s...Sorry for my english ...

@outwestkennels

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting anecdote. Thanks for sharing. I lived in Regensburg for a year in 1984-85 and had some interesting experiences there...

@fabrice3543

Жыл бұрын

@@outwestkennelsGlad it interested you. Fabrice.

My father served with the British Pacific Fleet and was present at the Japanese surrender. He and some friends were set to guard an ammunition dump after the surrender. One night they saw a group of guys climbing the fence to get into the ammunition dump and shot them. They had grenades on them and presumably intended to blow it up. The only time during the wholee war that my father actually saw someone and killed them personally. Mostly they were miles away or underwater.

Mark Felton there was more attack in the Soviet occupied Zones in Austria and East German, the Russian was brutal to the German and Austria population post war the Werewolf and the Nazi remains.

I remember reading about how after the French lost the Franco-Prussian War, quite a few French civilians were so enraged by their own army's incompetence that they seized weapons from military armories and went in search for occupying Prussian forces. That might be a good idea for a future episode by Mr. Felton.

@wayneantoniazzi2706

Жыл бұрын

Right, the Prussians called them "Franc-Tireurs," I don't know what that translates to. They caused the Prussians quite a bit of trouble which the German Army remembered in 1914. It's the main reason they were so rough with Belgian civilians who resisted and the towns they lived in. Where they met no resistance German troops would chalk "Gute leute," or "Good people" on walls of buildings so those civilians wouldn't be molested. As one German officer said to American journalist Irvin S. Cobb (who was following the German Army at the time) "If we invade your country and you want to fight us we have no problem with that, but you'd better be in your country's uniform when you do it!" And in fact the Hague Convention (on the laws of war) in 1908 spelled it out, civilians are NOT to do any fighting, only a country's armed forces are to do so. An exception would be organized uniformed militias.

@HighIQRetard

Жыл бұрын

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 franc-tireur can have multiple meanings. Tireur means shooter, Franc either means truthful/Honest/straightforward, or it can be a reference to Franks Who conquered/founded France way back, giving their name to the country, hard to really describe, but refering to franks in a modern context is more of an alternative way to refera to direct/truthfull people. Or, could be refering to french. To my froggy ears it means "Straight Shooter", with an undertone of straightforward, Straight to the point.

@wayneantoniazzi2706

Жыл бұрын

@@HighIQRetard Thanks so much for the insight!

@clarenzlarka

Жыл бұрын

Members of the French underground during WW2 also used that name.

@krle7970

6 ай бұрын

@@wayneantoniazzi2706exactly why U.S lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan. The enemy was not in uniform and could not be killed when hiding amongst a crowd. If they did it would be considered “war crimes”

Last year a stockpile of katanas and firearms were found buried on school grounds somewhere in Japan. The weapons had severely degraded when found.

@richardjames1812

Жыл бұрын

Link to that story? Cannot find it in Japan Times or similar.

Thank you mr.Felton,, engaging as always.

I wish my Dad was still alive to show him this video. He was a bazookaman with the US 318th Infantry, and since he got in the war late, he was an occupation troop. His unit was in charge of guarding a railhead in Austria, and said day after day they watched German machine tools being shipped to the Soviet Union.

I had no idea about those attacks all the way to 1948 . Thank you for another excellent video, Dr. Felton. 👍👏🌹

Excellent documentary! Thanks again, Mark...

Thank You Dr.Felton Always Enjoy Your Videos

First time I'm hearing of such incidents. Thanks for this informative video.

I really enjoy your work, Mark. I signed up for Curiosity Stream just now, I appreciate the discount and I hope they continue to support you. Maybe one day your work will be part of their programming!?

I didn’t know this. Great. Thanks!

Another excellent video, Mark!

You do come up with some amazing stories worth of being made into movies

My father was assigned to the US Army HQ through 1946, and saw the files. There were many violent incidents, but the Army didn't want them publicized. My father was shot at once, after the war.

@robertm2663

Жыл бұрын

@WassApp People: This is a scammer.

Thanks D.Felton

Would love to see a video covering the Forest Brothers in the Baltic states fighting against Soviet occupation. This as usual is a great video.

@AleksPTA

Жыл бұрын

Are they the same Forrest brothers that ran the death camps? Thats right there were no death camps for Slavs, they were just shot or burnt alive on the spot There is still a lot of trauma caused by nazi collaborators in eastern Europe that was hushed up by the commies, trauma that was inconvenient to their "brotherhood and unity" bs Too many stories of people fleeing to western countries because those Nazi murderers just changed sides close to end of war and became extreme commies to cover up their murderous past

My father served with the Army Air Corps in occupied Germany. He told stories of Germans doing armed raids against convoys to steal food.

Lunch with Dr Felton. A pleasure as always sir.

@hansgruber650

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

Love the uploads. The detail is very precise and this channel has integrity and the World War 2 channel is like that too. The one that does the videos in real time.

Thanks Mark. Yet another great video. My Dad was in the Maritime Regiment, a guards regiment with the Royal Artillery. At the end of the European War his regiment had to guard stores and transport of food supplies. They were often attacked by gangs of mixed-nationality deserters, including allied forces, and had big gunfights protecting trains. In Berlin, he also drove around in a german armoured car, with a german policeman, dealing with allied rapists and murderers. (There were funny stories too)

The lil boy @ 3:05 😆. We don't do that anymore lil bro.

Thanks for another great video!

Always interesting, thank you.

Their honour was loyalty.

@tonyves

Жыл бұрын

Loyalty to an insane megalomaniac mass murderer.

@Sperminski

Жыл бұрын

@@tonyves H man was not insane.

Thanks Mark, absolutely fascinating, I Knew nothing of the allied deaths after the war by the werewolves, brilliant content as usual.

So educational and something different everytime you watch this channel brilliant

Another terrific production about a little known aspect of the war.

Your videos are genuinely the only one I get excited when I see a new upload, Thanks for all the info and hard work Mark.

Brilliant mini-documentary about a rare WWII topic, supplemented with some rare period photographs of the actual SS groups. Only Dr Felton could have pulled this one off with such detailed information.

Interesting Mark. Thank you again

Outstanding video and presentation.