I’ve always wondered how it’d feel as an elderly person witnessing all these modern technology advancements where we have smartphones and had ppl landed on the moon, I wonder what kind of unimaginable tech I’ll see when and if I manage to live that old lol
As a German who also has a PHD in History and focusing on German, especially Contemporary German History & works with the IFZ in München, i really gotta say that Mark Felton's Videos on these Topics are the best you can get in English on UA-cam, i never noticed any Exaggerations nor Downplaying of any Detail of a certain Topic, which is very neutral and what a proper Historian is meant to do. Same goes for the Fact that Mark doesn't cherry pick nor leave some Details out in order to "present" it in a certain Way. This is one of the most important Qualities a Historian has to have. And yes, there are those who do all of these Things i just mentioned and the Viewer/Reader will never notice it because they're not knowledgable about the Topic. So if you're someone who is just interested in these Topics, but didn't study them, you're at the Right Place. I put a ton of Importance into Accuracy and Neutral Presentation, and i have yet to watch a Video of Mark i wasn't completely satisfied with. Prost and Cheers from Berchtesgaden here in the Bavarian Alps
@@nichan7674 wissen2go Geschichte, ZDF History, Arte, der erste Weltkrieg Sind halt alle ganz anders als hier aber wäre mir jetzt spontan eingefallen im Deutschen Raum
On the one hand, the kids can't help who their parents were or being indoctrinated and it's tempting to feel sorry for them because they were too young to fully understand what was happening, but then seeing Edda and Gudrun grow up to become rampant apologists as adults even after learning the full truth of their parents' barbarity is wild.
Just as in today's Military, a Soldier OBEY'S orders or is Executed or is Imprisoned. Did many of the Socialist Party take the extermination too far? probably, most likely, as who knew the outcome of the war it was to be a 1000 year reign of power.
Seeing them with their own children it's so hard to understand how they could be so evil and how they could have killed and treated so many other children so terribly, their children weren't to blame but the husbands and wives deserved way more karma than they got
I think they had a love for their own but hated their enemies. At least that's how it would make sense to me. And sadly, human nature can be very ugly, especially in the right circumstances. It's easy to care for others when things are going well but if the zombie apocalypse or war happened then we would turn against each other for survival.
I think that even if they had hate for their enemies, it would still take an extremely evil person to shoot pregnant women in the back of their heads, kill up to 1.5 million jewish children because of their race or not measuring up to what was expected, thousands more from other races were also targeted, pregnant women, children and the elderly where the first to be gassed, others in concentration camps were left to starve or die from hypothermia or disease simply because they were of no use, children were experimented on, raped and so many other atrocities. How could anyone walk past a starving, cold child and turn a blind eye without being evil? How could you kill babies just born, or line 2 yr olds up and shoot them in their heads without having any sympathy? These people were the embodiment of humanities worst traits and I hope their after life is hell
@@wilderchannel6879 just that proves that you might not know that much about it all. Jews were not even overrepresented in the camps. It was jews, romanis, disabled, criminals, slavs, refugees. There were far more people dying in the slavic camps. Gulag etc
I cared for a woman at a nursing home in the U.S. who had been a mistress to a high level Nazi officer. After the war, she wandered around Europe with a shaved head and two young daughters, depending on the kindness of strangers to feed her and her children. Ended up in Lichtenstein, then the U.S. Became a U.S. citizen shortly before dying in her early 90's. She was mean as a snake, biting, cussing and spitting on anyone who came near her.
Now that is interesting. I used to take care of a woman who grew up in Berlin during the war. She was six when the Nazis took over. She said her mother was anti nazi and she would tell her "Mom watch what you say or you will get arrested." She is still alive and is the kindest sweetest woman that ever lived!!!! The woman you are talking about MAY have had dementia. I have talked to relatives of people who have dementia and they said there relatives were never like that until they got the disease. The war or perhaps guilt may have even made her crazy. You have a good day and thank you for taking care of those less fortunate. It takes a special person to care.
A German here. My grandmother was a nurse. She survived the war with her 6 children, in the post-war period 2 children died as a result of starvation and polio. She did her best, but she was alone. She developed heart disease and died of a heart attack at the age of 64. I remember an incident when she visited her again in the hospital because of her illness. Well, I was still very young and visiting sick people is often very boring for children. So I go out of the room and walked down the hall. In another room two nurses were talking to each other. "who brings "The Dragon" their tea?" Nobody wanted to be the one. And I thought, "Oh, you have a dragon here too?" (I was still in my "Prince saves princess from dragons"- phase). I was very surprised when it became clear that my dear grandma was "the dragon". I knew her as a gentle, lovable and warm-heart person, she always worked a lot and was otherwise full of strength ... but she hated being sick and helpless. She was a good nurse, but she was a terrible patient. None of the nurses could do it well enough for her. She was like a drill sergant ... hence the nickname "The Dragon". ;) You`re not the same Person when you are sick .
@@andreamuller9009 I learned a lot working in a nursing home with those with dementia and Alzheimer's disease. My motto was It's not the person, it's the disease.
How refreshing (& a relief) not to have to put up with annoying background music, thank you! And a narrator with a pleasant voice and good pronunciation, pleasantly neutral without being boringly monotone - well done, very professional.
@@chrisbatson3402 Ypur missing the point mate. If he demonised the Nazis of course they deserve it. What are you trying to say that they were good people or what. These were the most dispic humans to have existed. Murdering millions of Jews, gypsy and anyone that they consider sub human. Choose your words carefully.
@@glenradford5988 they are 2sides to every story especially the side of the countries that won the war. Choose what Hollywood propaganda we believe to be true carefully my friend.
What would you do if you lived in Nazi Germany as a full blooded German? Do you honestly believe that you would stop the war or something or save several people?
@@notrealy180217 I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t have been brainwashed into believing eugenic theories and been exterminating people. If that’s what you mean. It’s true though, that many ordinary citizens didn’t realize the extent of the atrocities occurring inside the camps until after the war, who would imagine?
We had a German woman who lived down my street, she always kept to her self, I went over one day when her dog got out, an we sit around an talked for a while an she was a really nice woman, she came to the us when she was 18 her father was a SS officer an she had all his ribbons an medals, gun, every thing. Before she died she gave me all of it. I still have it. She did not approve of what he did,she made sure I knew that.out of respect to her I’ll never get rid of what she gave me
He pronounces most of the words far better than any English-speaking video on UA-cam that I've seen. However, he pronounces Carin/Karin, my own name, wrong. Considering how well he does overall, I was a bit disappointed 😛. (It's a long Aaaaah. Like in Do re mi FA so LA ti do)
I went to German language classes and quickly realized I just didn't want to devote my time to such uncomfortable teachings. The guttural actions necessary to pronounce the words were just too much. If I had learned the language then I would have been a candidate to travel to Germany which was my goal. I just couldn't handle the guttural language.
@@redmondmacdonagh7557 Well I got that from the teacher. Maybe I had the wrong teacher. I meant no disrespect. Maybe that's why I dropped the class, not feeling something was right. I don't know. Thank you for your clarification.
It's amazing to hear how many of them weren't disgusted by their parents actions once they became adult and how the publicly defended them. I would think as an adult they would seen how wrong their fathers (parents) were. It shows just how deep hate can go
You forget they were brought up in an environment of Nazi ideology. You can't even call it "Brainwashed" because that was the only "truth" these children were thought. Something you experienced/learned from a VERY young age will always remain in your system. No matter how hard they tried to Denazify them after the war. Think of yourself, as a person: the values you learned, all the stuff at school: it formed and created who you are today; character differences aside. Same goes for the Nazi's kids. As far as they were concerned their parents were just normal employees of The Reich; doing their thing...
But they grew up loving mom and dad and being loved by them in return. Finding out they were very different people in a time of upheaval two or more decades before would shake them up but not change the fact that they know, love, trust and revere the people who have been GOOD and loving parents to them. Who they were wouldn't matter so much to their children. Who they became and still are is what matters to them. You cannot fault a child (of any age) from looking at it that way. That war criminal is NOT the person they've known and respected their whole lives. The war criminal is someone they don't know. Of course they will publically defend them! Wouldn't you? They're your mom and dad.
@@cliffpinchon2832 If I'm reading your original comment correctly, I think what you were really trying to say was that in Germany, the only education children received from within was in fact propaganda. They knew nothing else other than what lies Goebbels wanted the children to believe, including the children of all German leadership.
@@thegunslinger1363 Magda Goebbels too. Killing her 6 children is pretty crazy and tragic. She couldn't bear to live in a world without National Socialism or AH.
@@Ropetor except that they could have been brought to the west of germany, to be captured by the americans. some of the people that fled to the west offered to take the children with them, but the Goebbels refused, the reason being what Roller Ghoster said. That is pretty sick.
None of us want to believe we are capable of evil, exploiting the fruits of evil, or turning a blind eye to evil... but this sobering documentary should remind us that evil can grow in anyone, for the sake of family, fame, and power. It is convenient to pretend that Nazis came from nowhere, but the truth is that many were normal humans pursuing what they wanted, albeit at high cost. We have to be vigilant about the state of our hearts so that we don't turn a blind eye to suffering and injustice in our individual quests for peace and prosperity.
The clothes we wear are produced with child labor. Many devices in our homes come from China, a country that treats certain minorities in horrific ways. Yet, despite knowing this, we look away and keep buying those products. Thus silently approving, or at least supporting, their practices...
Yes, they basically just disconnected themselves from the reality they had created. This was never more apparent than when Hitler was asleep late into the morning on D-Day, unable to authorize anything, because he was in the habit of staying up late watching movies.
still happening today all over the world. the leaders we have cause wars all over and live like kings while the rest of us suffer. nothings changed. its just hidden by the media still as it was then.
Well I don't want to be the boring guy but... Every politician is disconnected from reality. Just look at how Obama behaved, launching bombs everywhere while getting a Peace Nobel Prize.
@Quaker 2019 ow I love local politicians, my critic is only against central politicians. I don't hate Obama more than any other American president, or central politician, after all.
I am still a little amazed how much Mark has mapped out about WWII the other historians think about tanks and tactics and where and when major things happened But Mark is looking deeper then that
"Histrionics and hyperbole"? About one of the gravest crimes against humanity in modern hsitory? Can you just not confront the unimaginable pain and horror of it? Your attitude comes across cold and dismissive, frankly disrespectful to all those that went through it.
@@Love81384 Jean-Luc Picard is French... or was... or rather, will be. But yes, he was the most unFrench French character in TV history. Edit: Especially considering how English he was. Was there another Anglo-French War in the future?
@K.D.P. Ross how the heck am I supposed to know French people also drink tea? I live in Australia. We know nothing about culture. Most of us think French people eat baguettes & cheese with champagne for breakfast, while being entertained by a stripe-shirted beret wearer miming to someone playing accordion.
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns And being American we think your ancestors were prisoners, you love throwing shrimp on the barbie, Crocodile Dundee is running around the outback with his big knife and Mad Max is out wandering around the wasteland looking for gasoline. Just messing with you buddy. We love 🇦🇺 Australians.
It's no surprise that these wives and daughters clung to the legacies of their husbands and fathers. In the Nazi regime, they had status and material comfort, even as their countrymen suffered privation and death. After the war, they were reduced to being "normal" people, who might have to actually work to support themselves. How could they not have nostalgia for the "good old days"? I'm sure that Gudrun Himmler figured out that by allowing herself to be a "princess" for the neo-Nazi movement, she could once again have status and attention.
I cared for a lady who came from Germany on the kinder transport. She was so grateful for everything. Grateful for bring allowed into the UK, the love and support of the Foster family and the friends she made, her husband and his family for welcoming her. Grateful for the NHS, she was so kind so sweet.
I was going to say Kindertransport were German Jewish children whose parents sent them to safety in England and in many cases the parents wete murdered in Concentration Camps.
@@justtracie8636 The Jewish were persecuted for killing Jesus. Man forgets, God doesn't. Please remember the entire story. God sent Jesus to send the Jews the amorites a message. If you don't stop sacrificing children to Moloch (roe v wade) God will destroy you. So Jesus said fine sacrifice me as well. When I return everyone and everything you know will be destroyed as you have destroyed so many lives. Then God assigned Satan with dominion over every realm timeline and dimension God told the devil to make everyone sign a soul contract with the devil and God. Witches are always punished. Sacrificing Jesus was signing their own sacrifice. Enslaved by every god and God that exists. Jesus said if you do it again it's your funeral, they did it anyways. On the surface they're extremely sweet but behind closed doors they're using adrenochrome taking an innocent live to prolong their appearance. Without it they shrivel up into the dust we were created from.
@@Arkantos117 He was definitely a hedonist (which is not negative nor a mental illness). Regarding painkillers, he had legitimate need for them, having been shot in the leg as an infantry officer, and acquiring Rheumatoid Arthritis in the cold wet trenches of [WWI]. Then, being shot in the hip during the Beer Hall Peutsch. He spent time in a sanitarium (hospital) after the war, reducing his addiction and returning to an functional life. Today musicians and hollywood stars are praised for announcing their drug addictions and going into rehab. Goering succeeded treatment without modern meds, or psychology understanding. His use of painkillers never seems to have affected his life or work again. shrug. [promoting fair and unemotional history understanding].
Always TIP TOP Mr. Felton. I never miss the opportunity to view any and all of your programmes. The topics are refreshingly arcane and thoroughly documented. Nothing compares to your insight and scholarship. Bravo
I heard all these names growing up. My great grand mother who passed away 2 years ago at the age of 90 had a husband in Germany that died before she fled to the US. I always suspected they were Nazis, we’ve since found Nazi clothing she brought with her. She never told anyone who he was and she changed her last name back to her maiden name. The mystery will always bother me.
@Isaac Navarro The comment isn't about whether she lived during WWII, it's about the man's claim that his 15-year-old or younger grandmother was married to Nazi.
@@LynxSouth the current republicans recently made child marriage legal in the south. Supposedly this occurred during the civil war time before ww2 so not impossible.
According to NS Law in 1938 .........Men had to be 21 Women 16 , in some Cases Men were allowed to marry at a younger Age but they had to be at least 18 then! So 15 , Girl wouldn’t have been Legal then. But we don’t know how accurate all Data is here. The Clothes that were found could Help to find out the Rank and Function!
Andrew P. Research it, find it out! Did she tell where in Germany she was from? There are Registers Of who was married, when and where! I don’t think he was a famous Criminal ....who married a 16 Year Old Girl in 1945. And Reasons to get Back to her Maidens Name, can be different....especially being that Young! They probably were „Nazis“ in the Sense of being involved in the Wehrmacht, believing into it until it all went down. Uniforms were often kept in the Families, even while not being a Fanatic or Criminal, just as Reminder Of a Loved One. Cause this was their Life back then.
A friend of mine, Thomas Lewis (Lou) Maxwell was a ball turret gunner on B17 “Paradise Lost”, shot down and then he became a POW. Near the end of his capitivity, he was becoming unacceptably hostile to his SS guards. Mr. Maxwell told me that an SS guard took him into a room and explained forcefully and tactfully to a young Lou Maxwell that he needed to behave, and that his friends would be there soon to release him. Mr. Maxwell credits his survival to that SS guard, God bless that SS guard that kept my friend alive. Mr. Maxwell went on to be a USAF retiree, and a mentor of mine.
@@gopro369 True unfortunately. But it shouldn't overshadow the fact that there some good men who in the SS. They were just in an evil organization. I remember watching a documentary about men who were in the SS. There was a man who regretted being in the SS and he spent the last years of his life (I believe he's dead now and I'm sorry but I don't remember his name) speaking to German school children about his time in the SS and the evils of that group. He also spoke out against racial prejudice and intolerance.
UA-cam brings us a lot of good stuff. Finding the best of the good stuff is always such a treat for those of us with hungry minds. I come a bit late to this channel but from the comments I can tell how well respected Dr. Felton is.
Mom and Dad got married at a USO hall before he shipped out. His commanding officer had to get the jeweler to open his store for the ring because it was Sunday. No pictures, no dress, I don't think she even had flowers. They're side by side, still, at Willamette National Cemetery.
Mark’s the History Professor I wish iI had in school. Presentation, historical accounts and accuracy, the stories and events that the history books would never touch. Such depth and rich history you could study for a lifetime.
These documentaries are absolutely OUTSTANDING! I grew up in Berlin before the wall came down, as a USArmy brat, and lived in one of the old estates owned by an SSmember..or so I was told. We lived very close to one of Hitlers main bunkers. It was HUGE.
Your documentaries are amazing. You go into aspects of WWII that most don't. Learning about the families is fascinating. It's not something you think about. Great work
Emmy Goering ended up with the beautiful necklace belonging to Adele Bloch Bauer that was featured in the Klimt painting of her, Woman in Gold. The necklace was never recovered. It is deeply saddening that such a beautiful artifact disappeared for all time, however, it galls me to my core that such a vile creature as Goering ever touched the treasured gift (from her husband) that belonged to the beautiful, vibrant, Adele. There is some comfort in the fact that after so many years the painting of Adele was finally returned to her family. So many belongings of Jewish families were confiscated by the Nazis and never returned to the few who survived. The movie “Woman in Gold” is the story of Adele’s portrait and how it was finally recovered by her niece. It is a story worth watching and knowing!
@@33moneyball He was a sex addict, and he was starting therapy at the time of his murder. If you’re a fan of Hogan’s Heroes, Carol Ford wrote a great biography of Bob.
Mark Felton again delivers top notch quality videos without dragging on. He maintains pace yet never ceases to grab my attention. It's the perfect balance!
Just found your brilliant channel... Thank you deeply for these uploads. I feel it my duty & honor as a human being to study and educate myself all that I can on the subject of my ancestors. Their murders and stories of survival have always been a guiding force in my life. Thank you again for this magnificent channel. I will be sharing it in my social media groups 👍👍⭐⭐
Yes ,Quite sickening taking a child to his concentration camps .Worse was that even after that she ended up a great supporter of her father and Nazis though out her life .Obviously evil can get passed down the family.
He came across well in that movie. As the one of them with any sense. But if he had any sense he wouldn't have been in the bunker in the first place. By that I mean that the war had been obviously lost for a long time.
@@Jordan-Ramses You really shouldn't depend upon movies for historical knowledge. Fegelein was anything but having "any sense." When they court martialed him, he was so drunk and nonsensical that Mohnke actually pitied him.
@@panderson9561 - i certainly was not relying on the movie for history, if anything i was doing the opposite. Also running off and getting drunk was the first sensible thing he did. He should have done it much much sooner.
This is fantastic. I've never seen these photos before, not had I thought much about the "Princesses" that anyone could guess must have existed. Thanks for bringing this before the public, lest we ever forget.
@@MrBannystar especially with the truth . That Hilter never died until 1984. With the release of these FBI documents, it certainly seems that the most notorious leader in history escaped Germany and lived a peaceful life in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in South America. And as if that news wasn’t bizarre enough, a photo has emerged recently which purports to show an elderly 95-year-old Hitler posing with his girlfriend in Brazil in 1984. FBI: Hitler Fled In Submarine Red Flag News reports: Related Articles Newly declassified FBI documents prove that the government knew Hitler was alive and well, and living in the Andes Mountains long after World War II.
Actually it went just the way she planned. She was well aware that she and Hitler were to die in the bunker together. She came to Berlin to die with him. By all accounts Hitler, who was a notorious poor judge of character, (at least judging by his entourage) and/or perhaps because he was so personally flawed himself, was overwhelmed that she had decided to die with him and as a reward married her.
@@dee8501 I think it's safe to say the Hitlers spent their honeymoon in the hottest destination around. But all the excitement went straight to Adolf's head
Amen to that. Though even choosing friends is kind of random, it depends on who you happen to meet at school, at uni, at work.. You don't really choose that either.
When you think of how long these men, their wives and children lived, in contrast to the millions of Jewish men, their wives and children who were murdered, you can't help but think: How unfair...
Thanks for treating this with dignity. In regards to children ut is important to not drag them into unwanted publicity for their parent's decision. You provided details only for children who either passed away or spoke out in public themselves. Well done.
It's ok to bring the kids into it, especially when they uphold their fathers beliefs, & carry on with Natzism as Himmlers daughter did. Did you not hear that in the video ?!
Exactly. It always grates with me a bit when people just automatically discredit them, when in fact they're still human at the end of the day. If Himmler or Goering treated their daughters well and were loving fathers, who are we to criticise their views of their own fathers?
This was extremely interesting, thank you. I always wondered what had happened to all the wives and kids. Except on Eva, there are no documentaries about this I could find.
If you dig deep in the internet, some info is available, such as the fact there was a third Braun sister, named Ilse, who was the oldest of the 3, quite pretty, she worked for a Jewish photographer in the 1930's, met Hitler only once and although he was gracious to her on that occasion she said she was terrified during the encounter even though she prepared for it, she had little to do with naziism and she lived to an old age in Germany and died fairly recently and she was close to her (and Eva's and Gretal's) mother, who also survived the war. I got the opinion in my research that they both thought negatively of Eva and Gretal, but little info is available.
At the end of the war Reinhard Heydrich's widow and children surrendered to the British. When she asked what would happen to them, she was answered, "the British do not make war on widows and orphans", and they were set free, although I don't know what subsequently became of them.
Pieter-Gerhardt Roos what happens in the far reaches of the empire stays in the far reaches of the empire Seriously tho projecting those values all the way to South Africa when you have to sail there is no easy task
Pieter-Gerhardt Roos that’s lovely and hindsight’s a wonderful wonderful thing there’s always bad apples That’s also a very 21st century opinion up until 1946 the horrors committed world wide are horrendous on every front Wtf can we do about it You don’t laugh you’ll cry
I agree. We often forget about the evil that they spread throughout their lineage as well. It's disheartening to know how many "former" Nazi's, Nazi's families, and sympathizers moved to South America (and all over Europe and the US) and started their own communities and ignored the fact they needed to pay for their support of racist genocide. Evil will always slip through the cracks if it's allowed.
@Quaker 2019 it’s so hard to fathom their defiance. I would love to know what they really thought about the atrocities being committed. Were they power hungry, complicit or brain washed die hard nazis?
@@crankyoldperson6871 it’s more of a Brain washed die hard nazi. They were influenced by their parents from young. Though, it largely depends on their age and how much of a ‘brainwashing’ happened to them. You can watch the movie, the boy in striped pyjamas to get a slight knowledge about this. The movie doesn’t say everything, but it’s enough to get what the children was happening
She really loved it. While Goebbels' poor children have been complete innocent (my mother knew the eldest one, and we have been a social democratic family. These children wasn't even in HJ/BDM, and both Grandmothers of them were leftwinged. They searched desperate for the fate of the little ones in 1945, never heard anything, which must have been real hell) Gudrun, called "Püppi" (Dolly) was a Hardcore Nazi until her death, and helped Nazis in a huge secret network.
You often hear of things like this. Perhaps because they are so powerful and view war as a game. Many top world leaders and business CEOs are securely allies yet appear competitors, makes you wonder!
@@mickmeadows That's a bit of a stretch there regarding power. We're talking the sons of generals. Once wars end those generals tend to fade... I'm also sure you realize Rommel was executed by order of Hitler. In short, their sons meeting and forming a friendship likely has far more to do with the post war legacy of who their fathers were than some global cabal.
@@lustrazor44 fair enough that’s your opinion. I don’t believe all conspiracies but certainly some. There are genuine psychopaths at the top and you know it.
Around 19:34 you get to see the look on Göring’s face when he’s detained. Just for a moment, but it looks like bewilderment and disbelief that the game is over. It’s really satisfying to see.
So true. "The laughing man" suddenly found reality to be not so funny - though he did keep up his antics during the Nuremberg trials....mocking various witnesses and court officials. Unsurprising that he chose the cyanide exit.
@@ChairmanMo You probebly do not want to draw attention to yourself, as ex-wife to one of the bigest villan in modern time, what did you know about your then husbands villainous action?
Where on the face of earth does Dr Felton get his movie archives? Its one thing to come up with historical fact but to back it up with pictorial and and moving picture is nothing short of extraordinary.
One of Herman’s homes had a wine cellar with over 80,000 bottles of the best champagne and liquor known to man. That home was also filled with incredible stolen art from all over the world. Another great video
You left out Joseph Göbbels his wife had seven children and Göbbels had a mistress who was an Actress. Magdalena Göbbels first marriage was in the very rich Quandt family.
Goebbels had many mistesses. The Czech actress was the only one who threatend his marriage because Goebbels loved her (Hitler intervend though and this relationship broke). And while Magda killed all her children her first son survived (and I think this son was also a war veteran)
It isn't that the history is so well presented here, it is that the videos are so relevant to the story. Color pictures of Hitler with his godchildren? I have never seen these anywhere else. Thank you, Mark, for your excellent work. This was one of your best yet. Best of show for "Where are they now?".
I had the pleasure of spending many afternoons with the daughter of a top ss officer. She never spoke about her nazi father what happened to him but I do know She had an incredibly tough life after the war. She was abused by her remaining relatives and generally treated like a “bad seed”. Later she made a new life with a canadian. She was a sweet, kind and generous person. I never saw one hint of anything sinister in her.
@@Hannah-tg8hwof course I empathize with the Jewish people! Just because I empathize with one person or group doesn’t make everyone who isn’t in that group a monster or wrong. What about sympathizing with people who come from horrible parents? Do we just label them as complicit with the sins of the fathers and make them outcasts? Or do we see the HARD work they do to be nothing like the monster they saw and experienced?
I’m a huge history buff. I mean so much so that for years I had to be given a time to be someplace when driving there. If not it may take me 12 hours to get from point A to point B a mere 40 miles away- why… I CANNOT pass a historical marker. And being from Texas there are historical markers all over the place. I’ve done this in every state I’ve ever lived in, and through the years have come to find these docs from Felton Productions, and the history of the U.S. you find via historical markers, as well as what you find in old cemeteries are quite different than what we’re taught in school. This is probably irrelevant, but I have to say I’m surprised all states don’t teach their history like Texas does. I mean in 5th and 6th grade we were being taught Texas history, the Alamo, San Jacinto, etc, by 8th we were into in depth civics.Not civics like in high school - but about law and lawmakers in Texas, Steven F Austin, Gen. Sam Houston etc. my granddaughter even sad to me recently, she wished they taught history in the state we live in like they do in Texas. Anyway, sorry for rambling
Can you please do a 2nd video on this subject? One to feature Ilse Hess, Henriette Von Schirach, Margret Speer, Elisabeth Kaltenbrunner, Lina Heydrich, and others and their children?
You shouldn't be so impressed with him. Felton has consistently labeled the Nazi party as being RIGHT wing - which is not true. The National Socialists were Left wing in both Political practice, and their very actions. There is nothing right wing about the Nazis whatsoever.
@@306motovlogs5 mark is right, they were right wing fascists even though they called themselves national socialists. They oppressed millions, didn’t distribute wealth, and......all the the rest. North Korea calls themselves the Democratic People's Republic of Korea but would you consider theirs a democracy? Nope. The argument that Nazis aren’t (extreme) right wing is used by the ignorant or people who are trying to push an agenda or an ideology. Hence why I had a chuckle and commented, you see it so often.
@@quarters-eye8922 nationalism, low time preference, traditional values are ALL right wing values. Stop being an NPC. NatSocs are a centre-right party.
Its gotten to the point where I just scroll down until I see a Mark Felton Productions and click. A lot of people who give a thumbs down don't realize how much there was to ww2. Every story regardless of how minute, is a part of the bigger picture. If you want the whole story, you don't get to pick and choose which parts are entertaining. We owe it to those who fought and perished to understand history..........all of it.
Hitler executing his brother-in-law is the one that shocked me... and should have been a warning to Ava... but she was prolly a sicko bimbo, herself...
@@Rosibrosibuns if I'm not mistaken,they meant that it could be a double entendre - he didn't see his wife AND he didn't see much of his wife (in a carnal manner).
Wow this video was exceedingly well done, Mark! At the beginning, the little girl sitting in her mother's lap and 'glowering' at the camera - for just long enough to unnerve anyone - sent a chill down my spine. It was a look reminiscent of unutterable death... foreboding of mindless suffering and tragic, futile death.
I thought she looked terrified and given the fact that the German propaganda had taught everyone that the American soldiers, by whom they were being guarded, would rape and torture them, i'm sure she was terrified and thus stone faced. You can see her mother's face is fearful as well.
@@mellie4174 Yes, I agree. Fear...dread - is the most totally unnerving thing in life. Love and faith and hope are the remedies, and these commodities lie readily within us all, quick and free to share!
@@paulboegel8009 probably wrong video to chat on such things but yes obama definately a near cult like following and simply because of the colour of his skin and the fact he was super slick.
I know a guy who, in the 70's when he was a teenager, sometimes would shoot the bull with an old German man who ran an antique shop. Once in conversation he mentioned that he suspects his grandmother was Jewish. The man got a stern look and went turn the sign to closed and locked the door. He then turned and said solemnly, I must apologize for what my people did to yours. He went on to claim that he had been a low level general in WW1 and the first part of WW2. He said that he did not really agree with what was happening but followed orders at first. He then said that over the course of the war he became a Christian. Now he then said that while the rank and file solders were encouraged to have religion, the officers had to either be a fake Catholic like some of them, an Atheist or in Hitler's weird occult club (Hitler was *extremely* superstitious and believed in magic and such), actually being a Christian, predictably makes a person not condone Nazi behavior. He said that he had to flee Germany in secret and there was a pretty substantial manhunt for him. He said that the reason he didn't defect was because he wasn't important enough to know anything the Allies didn't already and was just important enough to warrant being traded back. He didn't think the Allies would buy his surrender anyway, assuming he was some kind of spy or something, so he hid from both sides. The man confessed that while he had not done anything like the monsters over there were famous for, his hands were by no means clean. He apologized on behalf of his people and his nation. My friend doesn't know what happened to the man later on, but hopes he lived out his life in peace.
Except it were Protestant Christians who embraced Nazism (hence “Positive Christianity”) whereas most Catholic regions were among the lowest supporting regions in Nazi Germany. The Nazis hated Catholics.
Mike Bane thats right. My bavarian, catholic Grandma continues with greeting by the words „Grüß Gott“ which means Salute God - instead of Hail Hitler, during the war. Sometimes people warn her, that she will end in Dachau if she doesn‘t stop… but she continues with saying it.. also her father and other people of her village meet each other after the Election of Hitler… all said they didnˋt vote Hitler, he had officially 100% of the votes.
@mike bane hence the coverup of acting Catholic. Same as white supremacists officers ruling America and taking a kind picture with a brown person to maintain calm slavery by tricking the nimwits
You said it. If this were a TV production, it'd be two hours long, and half of it would be people repeatedly expounding upon the cognitive dissonance of horrible people having at least outwardly idyllic family lives.
I remember reading about how everyone hated Bormann. Even Goering and Himmler, who disliked one another, joined together along with Goebbels and Speer to take power from Bormann.
@@CorHellekin They viewed him as especially obsequious. He was also Hitler's private secretary so he controlled their access to Hitler and would use this in his power plays.
@@CorHellekin Because he kept most of the other Nazi-Big-Shots away from Hitler (because he was his and the Nazi-Partys powerful Secretary) and gained more and more power and influence himself.
@@653j521 I was responding to the guy before me who was taking what the first fella said too literally. Surely he meant scrolling. Strolling/scrolling? Yes I am pretty sure he got one letter wrong, that's all. Metaphor, the language of Art, nah, never heard of it.
Why is UA-cam recommending me Real Housewives of the Third Reich
4 Real.🥴
But ya still watch it anyway.
Hahaha 😂
RHTR? where from? Germany or Argentina?
I'd watch that
I’m 83 years old. I always look forward to a new Mark Felton upload.
God bless my elder. Stay healthy :)
You don't look 83
I’ve always wondered how it’d feel as an elderly person witnessing all these modern technology advancements where we have smartphones and had ppl landed on the moon, I wonder what kind of unimaginable tech I’ll see when and if I manage to live that old lol
god bless sam stay safe
That's awesome, Sal! I'm glad that unlike most people your age, youre able to use youtube to access all this great content! Best wishes, Sir!
As a German who also has a PHD in History and focusing on German, especially Contemporary German History & works with the IFZ in München, i really gotta say that
Mark Felton's Videos on these Topics are the best you can get in English on UA-cam, i never noticed any Exaggerations nor Downplaying of any Detail of a certain Topic, which is very neutral and what a proper Historian is meant to do. Same goes for the Fact that Mark doesn't cherry pick nor leave some Details out in order to "present" it in a certain Way.
This is one of the most important Qualities a Historian has to have. And yes, there are those who do all of these Things i just mentioned and the Viewer/Reader will never notice it because they're not knowledgable about the Topic. So if you're someone who is just interested in these Topics, but didn't study them, you're at the Right Place.
I put a ton of Importance into Accuracy and Neutral Presentation, and i have yet to watch a Video of Mark i wasn't completely satisfied with.
Prost and Cheers from Berchtesgaden here in the Bavarian Alps
Empfehlungen für neutrale deutsche Geschichtskanäle?
You can tell a German by the way they spell nouns with a capital letter :-)
Prost!!!! Herr Dr
@@nichan7674 wissen2go Geschichte, ZDF History, Arte, der erste Weltkrieg
Sind halt alle ganz anders als hier aber wäre mir jetzt spontan eingefallen im Deutschen Raum
@@boqork Maybe Chartreux was taught 18th century English.
On the one hand, the kids can't help who their parents were or being indoctrinated and it's tempting to feel sorry for them because they were too young to fully understand what was happening, but then seeing Edda and Gudrun grow up to become rampant apologists as adults even after learning the full truth of their parents' barbarity is wild.
Just as in today's Military, a Soldier OBEY'S orders or is Executed or is Imprisoned. Did many of the Socialist Party take the extermination too far? probably, most likely, as who knew the outcome of the war it was to be a 1000 year reign of power.
Save your sympathy for all the people that Hitler murdered I have no sympathy for Hitler or his children or his wife or mistresses.
Seeing them with their own children it's so hard to understand how they could be so evil and how they could have killed and treated so many other children so terribly, their children weren't to blame but the husbands and wives deserved way more karma than they got
I think they had a love for their own but hated their enemies. At least that's how it would make sense to me. And sadly, human nature can be very ugly, especially in the right circumstances. It's easy to care for others when things are going well but if the zombie apocalypse or war happened then we would turn against each other for survival.
I think that even if they had hate for their enemies, it would still take an extremely evil person to shoot pregnant women in the back of their heads, kill up to 1.5 million jewish children because of their race or not measuring up to what was expected, thousands more from other races were also targeted, pregnant women, children and the elderly where the first to be gassed, others in concentration camps were left to starve or die from hypothermia or disease simply because they were of no use, children were experimented on, raped and so many other atrocities. How could anyone walk past a starving, cold child and turn a blind eye without being evil? How could you kill babies just born, or line 2 yr olds up and shoot them in their heads without having any sympathy? These people were the embodiment of humanities worst traits and I hope their after life is hell
Thata because they were not so evil.
@@wilderchannel6879 just that proves that you might not know that much about it all. Jews were not even overrepresented in the camps. It was jews, romanis, disabled, criminals, slavs, refugees. There were far more people dying in the slavic camps. Gulag etc
Not hard to understand. Human nature is ugly. Just look today how ppl are easily taken in by political race wars/ hate.
That Himmler's adopted son survived the war isn't a big thing. That he survived Soviet captivity is. Especially with that name.
No doubt
Indeed yes as is the fate of too many of these bright, beautiful and innocent ladies *
Probably figured it would be too obvious if he died in their hands
You could just tell people it's a coincidence.
@@DaveSCameron go to horny jail
I cared for a woman at a nursing home in the U.S. who had been a mistress to a high level Nazi officer. After the war, she wandered around Europe with a shaved head and two young daughters, depending on the kindness of strangers to feed her and her children. Ended up in Lichtenstein, then the U.S. Became a U.S. citizen shortly before dying in her early 90's. She was mean as a snake, biting, cussing and spitting on anyone who came near her.
Wow i didn’t see that ending coming 😂😒
Now that is interesting. I used to take care of a woman who grew up in Berlin during the war. She was six when the Nazis took over. She said her mother was anti nazi and she would tell her "Mom watch what you say or you will get arrested." She is still alive and is the kindest sweetest woman that ever lived!!!! The woman you are talking about MAY have had dementia. I have talked to relatives of people who have dementia and they said there relatives were never like that until they got the disease. The war or perhaps guilt may have even made her crazy. You have a good day and thank you for taking care of those less fortunate. It takes a special person to care.
A German here. My grandmother was a nurse. She survived the war with her 6 children, in the post-war period 2 children died as a result of starvation and polio.
She did her best, but she was alone.
She developed heart disease and died of a heart attack at the age of 64.
I remember an incident when she visited her again in the hospital because of her illness.
Well, I was still very young and visiting sick people is often very boring for children.
So I go out of the room and walked down the hall. In another room two nurses were talking to each other. "who brings "The Dragon" their tea?" Nobody wanted to be the one.
And I thought, "Oh, you have a dragon here too?" (I was still in my "Prince saves princess from dragons"- phase).
I was very surprised when it became clear that my dear grandma was "the dragon".
I knew her as a gentle, lovable and warm-heart person, she always worked a lot and was otherwise full of strength ... but she hated being sick and helpless.
She was a good nurse, but she was a terrible patient. None of the nurses could do it well enough for her. She was like a drill sergant ... hence the nickname "The Dragon". ;)
You`re not the same Person when you are sick .
I have cared for priests and nuns who were dying and they were either very demanding or very restless and fretful.
@@andreamuller9009 I learned a lot working in a nursing home with those with dementia and Alzheimer's disease. My motto was It's not the person, it's the disease.
How refreshing (& a relief) not to have to put up with annoying background music, thank you! And a narrator with a pleasant voice and good pronunciation, pleasantly neutral without being boringly monotone - well done, very professional.
How nice to see a normal video without hate and demonizing the nazis. Refreshing 😊
@@chrisbatson3402 exactly
You nailed his voice.
@@chrisbatson3402 Ypur missing the point mate. If he demonised the Nazis of course they deserve it. What are you trying to say that they were good people or what. These were the most dispic humans to have existed. Murdering millions of Jews, gypsy and anyone that they consider sub human. Choose your words carefully.
@@glenradford5988 they are 2sides to every story especially the side of the countries that won the war. Choose what Hollywood propaganda we believe to be true carefully my friend.
It’s expressly challenging to have empathy or compassion for them as human beings, being that they had absolutely none for so many others. Harrowing.
True.
The children too?
@@tolkienjr9609 that’s just sad. 😢
What would you do if you lived in Nazi Germany as a full blooded German? Do you honestly believe that you would stop the war or something or save several people?
@@notrealy180217 I’m pretty certain I wouldn’t have been brainwashed into believing eugenic theories and been exterminating people. If that’s what you mean. It’s true though, that many ordinary citizens didn’t realize the extent of the atrocities occurring inside the camps until after the war, who would imagine?
We had a German woman who lived down my street, she always kept to her self, I went over one day when her dog got out, an we sit around an talked for a while an she was a really nice woman, she came to the us when she was 18 her father was a SS officer an she had all his ribbons an medals, gun, every thing. Before she died she gave me all of it. I still have it. She did not approve of what he did,she made sure I knew that.out of respect to her I’ll never get rid of what she gave me
Cool story.
Out of respect? Nothing having anything to do with the SS deserves respect.
@@lazyriver53 I disagree, they fought for what they believed in, though it was not a good decision, he still fought for his country
Out of respect for the lady...thank you for keeping the history she bequeathed to you.
That’s really cool.
Even the way Mark pronounces the German names shows the attention to detail he puts in as compared to other channels that just butcher it
He pronounces most of the words far better than any English-speaking video on UA-cam that I've seen. However, he pronounces Carin/Karin, my own name, wrong. Considering how well he does overall, I was a bit disappointed 😛.
(It's a long Aaaaah. Like in Do re mi FA so LA ti do)
I went to German language classes and quickly realized I just didn't want to devote my time to such uncomfortable teachings. The guttural actions necessary to pronounce the words were just too much. If I had learned the language then I would have been a candidate to travel to Germany which was my goal. I just couldn't handle the guttural language.
@@redmondmacdonagh7557 Well I got that from the teacher. Maybe I had the wrong teacher. I meant no disrespect. Maybe that's why I dropped the class, not feeling something was right. I don't know. Thank you for your clarification.
Well, in English the word secretary is pronounced sec-re-tary NOT sec-e-tary. Terribly easy to say, but many can't get it right, like Mark here.
He only hearts comments that are about him 😆
It's amazing to hear how many of them weren't disgusted by their parents actions once they became adult and how the publicly defended them. I would think as an adult they would seen how wrong their fathers (parents) were. It shows just how deep hate can go
Go back to your beloved homeland
You forget they were brought up in an environment of Nazi ideology. You can't even call it "Brainwashed" because that was the only "truth" these children were thought. Something you experienced/learned from a VERY young age will always remain in your system. No matter how hard they tried to Denazify them after the war. Think of yourself, as a person: the values you learned, all the stuff at school: it formed and created who you are today; character differences aside. Same goes for the Nazi's kids. As far as they were concerned their parents were just normal employees of The Reich; doing their thing...
But they grew up loving mom and dad and being loved by them in return. Finding out they were very different people in a time of upheaval two or more decades before would shake them up but not change the fact that they know, love, trust and revere the people who have been GOOD and loving parents to them. Who they were wouldn't matter so much to their children. Who they became and still are is what matters to them. You cannot fault a child (of any age) from looking at it that way. That war criminal is NOT the person they've known and respected their whole lives. The war criminal is someone they don't know. Of course they will publically defend them! Wouldn't you? They're your mom and dad.
@@cliffpinchon2832 Please enlighten me with your wisdom then because standing from here your comment smells a bit like bs to me....
@@cliffpinchon2832 If I'm reading your original comment correctly, I think what you were really trying to say was that in Germany, the only education children received from within was in fact propaganda. They knew nothing else other than what lies Goebbels wanted the children to believe, including the children of all German leadership.
Some of the Nazi wives were more diehard than their husbands. Great content Dr Felton.
Ilse Koch comes to mind. A demented sadist personified.
@@thegunslinger1363 Magda Goebbels too. Killing her 6 children is pretty crazy and tragic. She couldn't bear to live in a world without National Socialism or AH.
@@Roller_Ghoster Wtf fucking bitch killed her own kids .
@@Roller_Ghoster True, but being captured by the soviets when you are Goebbels child you don't know what could happen
@@Ropetor except that they could have been brought to the west of germany, to be captured by the americans. some of the people that fled to the west offered to take the children with them, but the Goebbels refused, the reason being what Roller Ghoster said. That is pretty sick.
The Real Housewives of Berchtesgaden
Thank u, I needed a giggle today
Real Housewives of NJ are worse
😆
🤣😂🤣😂
I'd watch the hell out of that!
None of us want to believe we are capable of evil, exploiting the fruits of evil, or turning a blind eye to evil... but this sobering documentary should remind us that evil can grow in anyone, for the sake of family, fame, and power. It is convenient to pretend that Nazis came from nowhere, but the truth is that many were normal humans pursuing what they wanted, albeit at high cost. We have to be vigilant about the state of our hearts so that we don't turn a blind eye to suffering and injustice in our individual quests for peace and prosperity.
Best comment on here
The clothes we wear are produced with child labor.
Many devices in our homes come from China, a country that treats certain minorities in horrific ways. Yet, despite knowing this, we look away and keep buying those products. Thus silently approving, or at least supporting, their practices...
@@DolleHengst We are taught to dissociate, the giant propaganda machine never stopped.
@@DolleHengst You're absolutely right
Self preservation and selective focus. Two human traits that permit and justify pretty much any conceivable behaviour.
You are a stud for taking the time to dig up all this information. I loved it. Kick ass job.
Its interesting to see color footage of them all at the Berghof. What' s so scary is how relaxed they all are, while the rest of Europe was at war.
Yes, they basically just disconnected themselves from the reality they had created. This was never more apparent than when Hitler was asleep late into the morning on D-Day, unable to authorize anything, because he was in the habit of staying up late watching movies.
Their twisted ideology ensured that they were absolved of all guilt - or so they thought.
still happening today all over the world. the leaders we have cause wars all over and live like kings while the rest of us suffer. nothings changed. its just hidden by the media still as it was then.
Well I don't want to be the boring guy but... Every politician is disconnected from reality. Just look at how Obama behaved, launching bombs everywhere while getting a Peace Nobel Prize.
@Quaker 2019 ow I love local politicians, my critic is only against central politicians. I don't hate Obama more than any other American president, or central politician, after all.
Nazi princess? Looks like I bought the wrong Disney movie... 😳
I don't know. Walt might have approved.
Very amusing.
Well, the way Disney is acting, it seems like a genuine Disney material.
@Eva Braun no. It makes me fhürious.
From Communist Princess to Nazi... Disney has change sides. 🤣🤣🤣
I am still a little amazed how much Mark has mapped out about WWII
the other historians think about tanks and tactics and where and when major things happened
But Mark is looking deeper then that
Finally an adult reportage without hyperbole and histrionics. What a well done documentary. More Dr Felton, more!
The moment I read this, for some reason I thought of that South Park episode where they made fun of overly dramatized investigations.
Okay, okay, he'll get his bachelor's degree *. . .*
@@songohan3321 that Thanksgiving one Blackpilled me so much lmao
@@letoubib21 take note
"Histrionics and hyperbole"? About one of the gravest crimes against humanity in modern hsitory? Can you just not confront the unimaginable pain and horror of it? Your attitude comes across cold and dismissive, frankly disrespectful to all those that went through it.
Learning history from Dr Felton is like having the finest English Earl Grey tea
His videos remind me of back when the History Channel was informative.
With Jean Luke Picard! Thank you Dr Felton! Always interested in "new" WWII material
@@Love81384 Jean-Luc Picard is French... or was... or rather, will be. But yes, he was the most unFrench French character in TV history. Edit: Especially considering how English he was. Was there another Anglo-French War in the future?
@K.D.P. Ross how the heck am I supposed to know French people also drink tea? I live in Australia. We know nothing about culture. Most of us think French people eat baguettes & cheese with champagne for breakfast, while being entertained by a stripe-shirted beret wearer miming to someone playing accordion.
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns And being American we think your ancestors were prisoners, you love throwing shrimp on the barbie, Crocodile Dundee is running around the outback with his big knife and Mad Max is out wandering around the wasteland looking for gasoline. Just messing with you buddy. We love 🇦🇺 Australians.
It's no surprise that these wives and daughters clung to the legacies of their husbands and fathers. In the Nazi regime, they had status and material comfort, even as their countrymen suffered privation and death. After the war, they were reduced to being "normal" people, who might have to actually work to support themselves. How could they not have nostalgia for the "good old days"? I'm sure that Gudrun Himmler figured out that by allowing herself to be a "princess" for the neo-Nazi movement, she could once again have status and attention.
Maybe she genuinely felt like her dads reputation was treated unfairly.
You know women can also have their own ideologies and principles too right?
@@suk.489 nobody said otherwise. Trying to find something to be outraged about constantly gets exhausting, don't you think?
@@aw2589 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@suk.489 wait, did you just apply the word “principles” to someone who supported the cause of the Nazis? That’s quite a stretch.
I cared for a lady who came from Germany on the kinder transport. She was so grateful for everything. Grateful for bring allowed into the UK, the love and support of the Foster family and the friends she made, her husband and his family for welcoming her. Grateful for the NHS, she was so kind so sweet.
The children of the Kinder Transport were, however, Jewish.
I was going to say Kindertransport were German Jewish children whose parents sent them to safety in England and in many cases the parents wete murdered in Concentration Camps.
@@ShelliMansfeld not just German but Jewish children and other persecuted children from many European countries
@@justtracie8636 The Jewish were persecuted for killing Jesus. Man forgets, God doesn't. Please remember the entire story. God sent Jesus to send the Jews the amorites a message. If you don't stop sacrificing children to Moloch (roe v wade) God will destroy you. So Jesus said fine sacrifice me as well. When I return everyone and everything you know will be destroyed as you have destroyed so many lives. Then God assigned Satan with dominion over every realm timeline and dimension God told the devil to make everyone sign a soul contract with the devil and God. Witches are always punished. Sacrificing Jesus was signing their own sacrifice. Enslaved by every god and God that exists. Jesus said if you do it again it's your funeral, they did it anyways. On the surface they're extremely sweet but behind closed doors they're using adrenochrome taking an innocent live to prolong their appearance. Without it they shrivel up into the dust we were created from.
I'm surprised that goering of all people was the faithful husband
wtf i just watched ur video
I don't think he was naturally a hedonist he just had addiction problems.
Food was more important than b#*ches.
@@Arkantos117 He was definitely a hedonist (which is not negative nor a mental illness). Regarding painkillers, he had legitimate need for them, having been shot in the leg as an infantry officer, and acquiring Rheumatoid Arthritis in the cold wet trenches of [WWI]. Then, being shot in the hip during the Beer Hall Peutsch. He spent time in a sanitarium (hospital) after the war, reducing his addiction and returning to an functional life. Today musicians and hollywood stars are praised for announcing their drug addictions and going into rehab. Goering succeeded treatment without modern meds, or psychology understanding. His use of painkillers never seems to have affected his life or work again. shrug. [promoting fair and unemotional history understanding].
@@KB4QAA 👍
‘He was a priest, left priesthood and married a former nun’
That was the most hilarious thing I’ve heard 😂😂
All in all it's more a tad bit unsettling,depressing...but altogether unsurprising to me.
Mostly
There's nothing wrong with changing your mind and wanting to start a family.
Lmaoo
Not as funny as my Ex's parents... His dad was an atheist and his mother was a nun. They both became Christians 😂 good for them
The descent into evil rarely happens in a single leap, but in many steps, initially probably small, subtle steps.
I’m always amazed that not only Mark Felton is able to get this film footage, but the fact the footage wasn’t destroyed!
Always TIP TOP Mr. Felton. I never miss the opportunity to view any and all of your programmes. The topics are refreshingly arcane and thoroughly documented. Nothing compares to your insight and scholarship. Bravo
Ironic because Draco Malfoy is basically a Wizarding nazi.
I heard all these names growing up. My great grand mother who passed away 2 years ago at the age of 90 had a husband in Germany that died before she fled to the US. I always suspected they were Nazis, we’ve since found Nazi clothing she brought with her. She never told anyone who he was and she changed her last name back to her maiden name. The mystery will always bother me.
If she was 90 when she died in 2020, she was born in 1930 and too young to have been married during WWII.
@Isaac Navarro The comment isn't about whether she lived during WWII, it's about the man's claim that his 15-year-old or younger grandmother was married to Nazi.
@@LynxSouth the current republicans recently made child marriage legal in the south. Supposedly this occurred during the civil war time before ww2 so not impossible.
According to NS Law in 1938
.........Men had to be 21 Women 16 , in some Cases Men were allowed to marry at a younger Age but they had to be at least 18 then!
So 15 , Girl wouldn’t have been Legal then.
But we don’t know how accurate all Data is here. The Clothes that were found could Help to find out the Rank and Function!
Andrew P. Research it, find it out! Did she tell where in Germany she was from? There are Registers Of who was married, when and where!
I don’t think he was a famous Criminal ....who married a 16 Year Old Girl in 1945.
And Reasons to get Back to her Maidens Name, can be different....especially being that Young!
They probably were „Nazis“ in the Sense of being involved in the Wehrmacht, believing into it until it all went down.
Uniforms were often kept in the Families, even while not being a Fanatic or Criminal, just as Reminder Of a Loved One.
Cause this was their Life back then.
A friend of mine, Thomas Lewis (Lou) Maxwell was a ball turret gunner on B17 “Paradise Lost”, shot down and then he became a POW. Near the end of his capitivity, he was becoming unacceptably hostile to his SS guards. Mr. Maxwell told me that an SS guard took him into a room and explained forcefully and tactfully to a young Lou Maxwell that he needed to behave, and that his friends would be there soon to release him. Mr. Maxwell credits his survival to that SS guard, God bless that SS guard that kept my friend alive. Mr. Maxwell went on to be a USAF retiree, and a mentor of mine.
Thank you for sharing that story. Just goes to show that not all men in the SS were evil.
@@georgetunstill2341 not all, but most:(
@@gopro369 True unfortunately. But it shouldn't overshadow the fact that there some good men who in the SS. They were just in an evil organization. I remember watching a documentary about men who were in the SS. There was a man who regretted being in the SS and he spent the last years of his life (I believe he's dead now and I'm sorry but I don't remember his name) speaking to German school children about his time in the SS and the evils of that group. He also spoke out against racial prejudice and intolerance.
@@gopro369 and how do you know?
@@gopro369 You cant claim that. You can claim many, but not most.
The fact that we get free documentaries on UA-cam by Dr Felton is truly a gift 👍
ABSOLUTELY !!!! Best site to learn what really transpired in those momentous years.
UA-cam brings us a lot of good stuff. Finding the best of the good stuff is always such a treat for those of us with hungry minds. I come a bit late to this channel but from the comments I can tell how well respected Dr. Felton is.
Mom and Dad got married at a USO hall before he shipped out. His commanding officer had to get the jeweler to open his store for the ring because it was Sunday. No pictures, no dress, I don't think she even had flowers. They're side by side, still, at Willamette National Cemetery.
Well made documentary. I'm astounded that they were allowed to keep castles and have any kind of help quite frankly.
Mark’s the History Professor I wish iI had in school. Presentation, historical accounts and accuracy, the stories and events that the history books would never touch. Such depth and rich history you could study for a lifetime.
And scary nazi music!
These documentaries are absolutely OUTSTANDING! I grew up in Berlin before the wall came down, as a USArmy brat, and lived in one of the old estates owned by an SSmember..or so I was told. We lived very close to one of Hitlers main bunkers. It was HUGE.
Did you get off on it
Karl Von Eberfeld-Dunquartzhausen ...Karen must have been there...ha...
If
Hitler wouldn't commit killing others
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Couldn't participate in WWll
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There was no US
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Would /will be super in the world
This movie is extremely poor and filled with errors.
@@onepluslatest Japan got the US in the war, not Germany.
Your documentaries are amazing. You go into aspects of WWII that most don't. Learning about the families is fascinating. It's not something you think about.
Great work
Much more arresting than sitting in a lecture hall
I agree.amazing!
Can only image, after they look the other side without a tiny space for empathy.
TE MIT CSINÁLTÁL VOLNA ANNYI SZENVEDÉS UTÁN??,,
Mark always does a great job. He is thorough, totally objective and coherent
Emmy Goering ended up with the beautiful necklace belonging to Adele Bloch Bauer that was featured in the Klimt painting of her, Woman in Gold. The necklace was never recovered. It is deeply saddening that such a beautiful artifact disappeared for all time, however, it galls me to my core that such a vile creature as Goering ever touched the treasured gift (from her husband) that belonged to the beautiful, vibrant, Adele. There is some comfort in the fact that after so many years the painting of Adele was finally returned to her family. So many belongings of Jewish families were confiscated by the Nazis and never returned to the few who survived. The movie “Woman in Gold” is the story of Adele’s portrait and how it was finally recovered by her niece. It is a story worth watching and knowing!
Omg!
Yes, I have the movie and love it. Such resolve in recovering the painting.
as Col. Hogan and Col. Klink toasted: "To our wives and mistresses, may they never meet!"
As did Cap'n Aubrey in Master and Commander (wives and sweethearts).
Hogan’s Heroes was the best tv series of the 60s.
Especially amusing considering Bob Crane’s inclinations.
@@33moneyball He was a sex addict, and he was starting therapy at the time of his murder. If you’re a fan of Hogan’s Heroes, Carol Ford wrote a great biography of Bob.
It is a traditional Royal Navy toast for Saturday.
Mark Felton again delivers top notch quality videos without dragging on. He maintains pace yet never ceases to grab my attention. It's the perfect balance!
Just found your brilliant channel... Thank you deeply for these uploads. I feel it my duty & honor as a human being to study and educate myself all that I can on the subject of my ancestors. Their murders and stories of survival have always been a guiding force in my life. Thank you again for this magnificent channel. I will be sharing it in my social media groups 👍👍⭐⭐
Himmler really stretching the take your child to work day..yeesh
Yes ,Quite sickening taking a child to his concentration camps .Worse was that even after that she ended up a great supporter of her father and Nazis though out her life .Obviously evil can get passed down the family.
@@KA-vs7nl true
@@KA-vs7nl 🤨
@@handoveryourkielbasaandnob2476 you got nothing better to do huh
@Matthew Neddeau yup, big fat nazi, im nazier than the nazis tbh
That would be awkward at a family get togethers - Hitler "Sorry sister-in-law about having your husband shot."
“He threw me into too many antics..”
SS guard: uhhh mein Führer could you repeat that? *later that day the guard got executed by firing squad*
How about, " Sorry inbred villager relatives about the congenital idiot cousin I iced." Fuerher factoid.
It made for awkwardness at the Corleone family gatherings, too.
Mussolini had his daughters husband shot also, he was the Italian Secretary of state Cianno.
I'm stuck on that scene from Der Untergang-- "FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!"
He came across well in that movie. As the one of them with any sense. But if he had any sense he wouldn't have been in the bunker in the first place. By that I mean that the war had been obviously lost for a long time.
I've seen so many of those parody videos that for a while I only recognized some of the historical figures by whatever recurring gag they had.
@@Jordan-Ramses You really shouldn't depend upon movies for historical knowledge. Fegelein was anything but having "any sense." When they court martialed him, he was so drunk and nonsensical that Mohnke actually pitied him.
@@panderson9561 - i certainly was not relying on the movie for history, if anything i was doing the opposite. Also running off and getting drunk was the first sensible thing he did. He should have done it much much sooner.
He really wormed his way into that inner circle. Just look at him then look at Eva's sister!! Peeewww!! He got what was comin' to him!
This is fantastic. I've never seen these photos before, not had I thought much about the "Princesses" that anyone could guess must have existed. Thanks for bringing this before the public, lest we ever forget.
Just when you think Mark can’t POSSIBLY find more footage or produce new stories...BOOM!
He's the infamous 'cameraman'.
I've yet to watch this channel or his audio only channel and not be blown away
He will even start new wars in order to lavish us with historical tales!
@@MrBannystar 🤣🤣🤣
@@MrBannystar especially with the truth . That Hilter never died until 1984. With the release of these FBI documents, it certainly seems that the most notorious leader in history escaped Germany and lived a peaceful life in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in South America.
And as if that news wasn’t bizarre enough, a photo has emerged recently which purports to show an elderly 95-year-old Hitler posing with his girlfriend in Brazil in 1984. FBI: Hitler Fled In Submarine Red Flag News reports: Related Articles Newly declassified FBI documents prove that the government knew Hitler was alive and well, and living in the Andes Mountains long after World War II.
Imagine a wedding where the witnesses are Himmler and Martin Bormann and the reception's back at Adolf Hitler's gaff.
Mind you, I've been to worse.
Such an underrated comment lol
Couldn' t stop laughing at that one! And I, too, have been to weddings like that!
Pauly Flyer Imagine Hitler and his staff doing the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.
provide the context of the "worse" you speak of...
You wrote that months ago, but you made me choke on my tea this morning. Thank you for the laugh!
You know you will learn some interesting history lessons today, when Mr Felton uploads a new video. 🤙🏼
Dr.Felton is an amazing historian researcher
Excellent video and work
Narration excellent
eva's reward for all those years with adolf..unfortunately, the honeymoon didn't go as planned for her
Actually it went just the way she planned. She was well aware that she and Hitler were to die in the bunker together. She came to Berlin to die with him. By all accounts Hitler, who was a notorious poor judge of character, (at least judging by his entourage) and/or perhaps because he was so personally flawed himself, was overwhelmed that she had decided to die with him and as a reward married her.
Always a shame when your honeymoon plans go up in smoke
@@Meadras oh did it?
@@dee8501 I think it's safe to say the Hitlers spent their honeymoon in the hottest destination around. But all the excitement went straight to Adolf's head
@@Meadras it's hard to know these days what is true and what is false.
When the notification popped up I clicked without hesitation as I know the video will be high quality. 🙂👍🏻
Me to haha
True saying you can choose your friends but not your family.
boy howdy
I strongly echoe this sentiment.
@Dan Cooper he was talking about the children
Amen to that. Though even choosing friends is kind of random, it depends on who you happen to meet at school, at uni, at work.. You don't really choose that either.
Another true saying, "you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, I guess you can pick your friend's nose, if that is what your into..."🤔
When you think of how long these men, their wives and children lived, in contrast to the millions of Jewish men, their wives and children who were murdered, you can't help but think: How unfair...
That's what I was thinking too
So sad
Life be like that
Aaaah! But there is still eternity........
Thanks for treating this with dignity. In regards to children ut is important to not drag them into unwanted publicity for their parent's decision. You provided details only for children who either passed away or spoke out in public themselves. Well done.
It's ok to bring the kids into it, especially when they uphold their fathers beliefs, & carry on with Natzism as Himmlers daughter did. Did you not hear that in the video ?!
Exactly. It always grates with me a bit when people just automatically discredit them, when in fact they're still human at the end of the day. If Himmler or Goering treated their daughters well and were loving fathers, who are we to criticise their views of their own fathers?
@@susieq2806 No he did not.
Well none of these kids seemed to have been ashamed of their fathers actions so it would be fine to drag them into it
@@royalhero4608 you think you can treat your kids fair and have millions other murdered?
This was extremely interesting, thank you. I always wondered what had happened to all the wives and kids. Except on Eva, there are no documentaries about this I could find.
@@cincoy3679 What have you been smoking?
The IDF got to them
They have killed the most people every year
Eva ? How do you not know ? and your question got 432 likes? Wow
If you dig deep in the internet, some info is available, such as the fact there was a third Braun sister, named Ilse, who was the oldest of the 3, quite pretty, she worked for a Jewish photographer in the 1930's, met Hitler only once and although he was gracious to her on that occasion she said she was terrified during the encounter even though she prepared for it, she had little to do with naziism and she lived to an old age in Germany and died fairly recently and she was close to her (and Eva's and Gretal's) mother, who also survived the war. I got the opinion in my research that they both thought negatively of Eva and Gretal, but little info is available.
At the end of the war Reinhard Heydrich's widow and children surrendered to the British. When she asked what would happen to them, she was answered, "the British do not make war on widows and orphans", and they were set free, although I don't know what subsequently became of them.
Pieter-Gerhardt Roos what happens in the far reaches of the empire stays in the far reaches of the empire
Seriously tho projecting those values all the way to South Africa when you have to sail there is no easy task
Pieter-Gerhardt Roos that’s lovely and hindsight’s a wonderful wonderful thing there’s always bad apples
That’s also a very 21st century opinion up until 1946 the horrors committed world wide are horrendous on every front Wtf can we do about it
You don’t laugh you’ll cry
Neither did the Germans. And you forget Dresden
Pieter Gerhardt Roos your words are true too of of what Afrikaaners did to all the other races in South Africa!
@@jeniharris6493 This!!
It's so sad to think that these images of people enjoying themselves were taken while others were dying in concentration camps.
My whole life, I never thought about the family's of these Nazi leaders. Thank you for the video
I agree. We often forget about the evil that they spread throughout their lineage as well.
It's disheartening to know how many "former" Nazi's, Nazi's families, and sympathizers moved to South America (and all over Europe and the US) and started their own communities and ignored the fact they needed to pay for their support of racist genocide.
Evil will always slip through the cracks if it's allowed.
@Quaker 2019 it’s so hard to fathom their defiance. I would love to know what they really thought about the atrocities being committed. Were they power hungry, complicit or brain washed die hard nazis?
Same here. Thank you. Women unrepentant and children defending their evil fathers.
@@crankyoldperson6871 it’s more of a Brain washed die hard nazi. They were influenced by their parents from young. Though, it largely depends on their age and how much of a ‘brainwashing’ happened to them. You can watch the movie, the boy in striped pyjamas to get a slight knowledge about this. The movie doesn’t say everything, but it’s enough to get what the children was happening
You see that's the scariest part about the Nazis... they were Everyday People, incapable of egregious evil
Nothing beats a father and daughter sharing a special day out together at the closest concentration camp lol!
When I heard that I said "Whaaaaaat?"
The scary part about that is there is a fair chance the child DID believe that anyone inside the camps deserve to be there...
Germans... ACHTUNG GERMANS!
Explain why some camps had recreational activities, and all the *death* camps were found by the soviets.
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 Even new arriving solidiers at those camps thought they were labour camps.. cool down
"Where do we go today Papa?" "Day trip to Buchenwald, Schatz. You'll love it."
worst Take Your Daughter to Work Day ever
Almost as if the camps weren't what we are told they were.
She really loved it. While Goebbels' poor children have been complete innocent (my mother knew the eldest one, and we have been a social democratic family. These children wasn't even in HJ/BDM, and both Grandmothers of them were leftwinged. They searched desperate for the fate of the little ones in 1945, never heard anything, which must have been real hell) Gudrun, called "Püppi" (Dolly) was a Hardcore Nazi until her death, and helped Nazis in a huge secret network.
@@nealm6764 whatever helps a nazi sympathizer sleep at night
Q
Rommel’s son Manfred had an interesting future. He became a good friend of both Patton’s and Montgomery’s own sons.
Rommel's son Manfred was mayor of Stuttgart 1974-1996. Died 2013 aged 84.
You often hear of things like this. Perhaps because they are so powerful and view war as a game. Many top world leaders and business CEOs are securely allies yet appear competitors, makes you wonder!
@@mickmeadows That's a bit of a stretch there regarding power. We're talking the sons of generals. Once wars end those generals tend to fade... I'm also sure you realize Rommel was executed by order of Hitler. In short, their sons meeting and forming a friendship likely has far more to do with the post war legacy of who their fathers were than some global cabal.
Watch "Europa the last battle" on bitchute for the truth.
As well as General Pattons diarie
@@lustrazor44 fair enough that’s your opinion. I don’t believe all conspiracies but certainly some. There are genuine psychopaths at the top and you know it.
Around 19:34 you get to see the look on Göring’s face when he’s detained. Just for a moment, but it looks like bewilderment and disbelief that the game is over. It’s really satisfying to see.
So true. "The laughing man" suddenly found reality to be not so funny - though he did keep up his antics during the Nuremberg trials....mocking various witnesses and court officials. Unsurprising that he chose the cyanide exit.
What's surprising is that many of the wives and offspring lived very long lives. Very interesting and informative video.
I'm surprised no one ever tried to clip any of them in revenge.
Female privalidge right there
@@ChairmanMo You probebly do not want to draw attention to yourself, as ex-wife to one of the bigest villan in modern time, what did you know about your then husbands villainous action?
@@ChairmanMo almost as if its not worth it....
My ration theory re: fasting and a LACK of modern processed food.
You get more history in a Mark Felton video than you get in a full day of the so called History Channel on television.
Or school
Where on the face of earth does Dr Felton get his movie archives? Its one thing to come up with historical fact but to back it up with pictorial and and moving picture is nothing short of extraordinary.
Brilliant research, equitable expositions. I just cant stop feeling uneasy at your fascination with this terrible period, no less than with my own.
One of Herman’s homes had a wine cellar with over 80,000 bottles of the best champagne and liquor known to man. That home was also filled with incredible stolen art from all over the world. Another great video
He was a very greedy fker!
You left out Joseph Göbbels his wife had seven children and Göbbels had a mistress who was an Actress. Magdalena Göbbels first marriage was in the very rich Quandt family.
Weren’t they all carried out of the bunker?
If you saw Downfall, then everyone knows what happened to her and the children
DJ Mech Yes that is correct.Her name was Lida Baarova,a beautiful woman.And Magdalena's first husband was indeed Günther Quandt.Of BMW.
Sure loved their children didn't they?
Goebbels had many mistesses. The Czech actress was the only one who threatend his marriage because Goebbels loved her (Hitler intervend though and this relationship broke). And while Magda killed all her children her first son survived (and I think this son was also a war veteran)
I’d love more info on the wives and children too. How their lives were changed right after the war and now.
Seeing that some of the children are still alive, there is moral and legal limit of how far we can go, without violating their privacy
i doubt we get to know more since they would be harassed by the annoying journalists and probably attacked by antifascists.
as they should be
"Coming on the back of Heinrich Himmler." Is probably the funniest line I've ever heard in a Mark Felton video.
It isn't that the history is so well presented here, it is that the videos are so relevant to the story. Color pictures of Hitler with his godchildren? I have never seen these anywhere else. Thank you, Mark, for your excellent work. This was one of your best yet. Best of show for "Where are they now?".
I had the pleasure of spending many afternoons with the daughter of a top ss officer. She never spoke about her nazi father what happened to him but I do know She had an incredibly tough life after the war. She was abused by her remaining relatives and generally treated like a “bad seed”. Later she made a new life with a canadian. She was a sweet, kind and generous person. I never saw one hint of anything sinister in her.
Oof, i hate it when people treat it like your genes automatically make you evil.
Yeah yeah sympathiser. Go sympathise for the dead Jews. *eyeroll*
@@Hannah-tg8hwof course I empathize with the Jewish people! Just because I empathize with one person or group doesn’t make everyone who isn’t in that group a monster or wrong.
What about sympathizing with people who come from horrible parents? Do we just label them as complicit with the sins of the fathers and make them outcasts? Or do we see the HARD work they do to be nothing like the monster they saw and experienced?
Well evil isn't inherited,it's bestowed by indoctrinating said evil at an early age.
@@Off-with-a-bang Germany is and always has been a propaganda country. So the indoctrination goes on.
I always enjoy these Felton Productions. Better than a history class.
INDEED!
I’m a huge history buff. I mean so much so that for years I had to be given a time to be someplace when driving there. If not it may take me 12 hours to get from point A to point B a mere 40 miles away- why… I CANNOT pass a historical marker. And being from Texas there are historical markers all over the place. I’ve done this in every state I’ve ever lived in, and through the years have come to find these docs from Felton Productions, and the history of the U.S. you find via historical markers, as well as what you find in old cemeteries are quite different than what we’re taught in school. This is probably irrelevant, but I have to say I’m surprised all states don’t teach their history like Texas does. I mean in 5th and 6th grade we were being taught Texas history, the Alamo, San Jacinto, etc, by 8th we were into in depth civics.Not civics like in high school - but about law and lawmakers in Texas, Steven F Austin, Gen. Sam Houston etc. my granddaughter even sad to me recently, she wished they taught history in the state we live in like they do in Texas. Anyway, sorry for rambling
@@mightyobserver9899 what is?
History class is whitewashed
@@Salty-cracker68 depends
Can you please do a 2nd video on this subject? One to feature Ilse Hess, Henriette Von Schirach, Margret Speer, Elisabeth Kaltenbrunner, Lina Heydrich, and others and their children?
My brain releases dopamine every time I hear Marks intro
You shouldn't be so impressed with him.
Felton has consistently labeled the Nazi party as being RIGHT wing - which is not true.
The National Socialists were Left wing in both Political practice, and their very actions.
There is nothing right wing about the Nazis whatsoever.
@@quarters-eye8922 Spotted a Qanon.
@@quarters-eye8922 I enjoy the stories and sure sometimes not everything is correct but i still get new information i didn’t know previously
@@306motovlogs5 mark is right, they were right wing fascists even though they called themselves national socialists. They oppressed millions, didn’t distribute wealth, and......all the the rest. North Korea calls themselves the Democratic People's Republic of Korea but would you consider theirs a democracy? Nope. The argument that Nazis aren’t (extreme) right wing is used by the ignorant or people who are trying to push an agenda or an ideology. Hence why I had a chuckle and commented, you see it so often.
@@quarters-eye8922 nationalism, low time preference, traditional values are ALL right wing values. Stop being an NPC. NatSocs are a centre-right party.
Heinrich Himmler should never have participated in Take Your Daughter To Work Day...
🙄 Now that is Dark, dark humor.
It is only humor of everyone gets it
F4: That is "Take Your Daughter to Work-Camp Day!"
Its gotten to the point where I just scroll down until I see a Mark Felton Productions and click. A lot of people who give a thumbs down don't realize how much there was to ww2. Every story regardless of how minute, is a part of the bigger picture. If you want the whole story, you don't get to pick and choose which parts are entertaining. We owe it to those who fought and perished to understand history..........all of it.
This is my favorite history channel on UA-cam, tbh.
'The happy couple then visited Hitler' is a sentence I never thought I'd hear anybody say, just can't get my head around that juxtaposition
So many couples including Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford Guinness flocked to Aryan Adolph, a regular cupid for psychopaths.
Hitler executing his brother-in-law is the one that shocked me... and should have been a warning to Ava... but she was prolly a sicko bimbo, herself...
dantyson851, yes, and like him being photographed with all those children, like he's some saintly figure.
@@keepitsimple4629 - Photo Ops work... even for Jomentia Bribery... unless he can't resist sniffing...
@@BuzzLOLOL What an appropriate name for Joe Biden!
i didnt expect to learn about this today, huurrayy !!
beat a rooster senseless and toss it merrily
Mark is even better than all history teachers. Even to non English speakers like me. Greetings from Germany to y'all🖐
The resemblance between Himmler's mistress and his daughter creeps me out.
I thought that may just be my eyes seeing a connection! I'm glad I'm not the only one weirded out by that!!
Yeah, I get what you said about the resemblance. Disgusting
Why? His mistress is 17 years older than his daughter! She could be her mom too!
Clearly a lot of people liked blondes back then! Harhar
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Thank you for this program.
"Himmler was a very busy man who saw little of his wife" dry humour 😂
He was spineless alright.
@Wilhelm Strasse He was an incel
Yeah you can post this but I can't post one of my opinion is
I'm sorry I'm trying to learn more about history, so I'm confused and not getting the joke. Would someone be kind enough to elaborate?
@@Rosibrosibuns if I'm not mistaken,they meant that it could be a double entendre - he didn't see his wife AND he didn't see much of his wife (in a carnal manner).
One of the most interesting video series on UA-cam. Keep up the excellent work Mr. Felton!
Next title on Dr. Felton: "the descendants of blondie, hitler's best friend"
I wont be surprised. Outstanding work, Mark. As always
“Parallel Marriages. “. That’s a good one.
‘My wife doesn’t mind if I sleep with other women and nor do I’.
1+1=3, 2+2=5 and so on
The mutual battles between Hitler's close associates, Ribbentrop vs Goering, Bormann vs them all, etc. may make a good video too. Thanks for this one.
A dozen videos! The NAZIs were drama queens.
Wow this video was exceedingly well done, Mark! At the beginning, the little girl sitting in her mother's lap and 'glowering' at the camera - for just long enough to unnerve anyone - sent a chill down my spine. It was a look reminiscent of unutterable death... foreboding of mindless suffering and tragic, futile death.
I thought she looked terrified and given the fact that the German propaganda had taught everyone that the American soldiers, by whom they were being guarded, would rape and torture them, i'm sure she was terrified and thus stone faced. You can see her mother's face is fearful as well.
@@mellie4174 Yes, I agree. Fear...dread - is the most totally unnerving thing in life. Love and faith and hope are the remedies, and these commodities lie readily within us all, quick and free to share!
How can mankind be so evil. Killing millions of innocent people Then they want mercy.
The scene was taken in 1945 after their capture, that is a US Army guard in the background. It is Goring's wife and daughter.
I was so curious about this subject. Thank you
This is the type of WW2 niche stories videos that I crave
If history teaches us anything, it is stop idolizing political figures.
yeh especially hair sniffing paedo's who sell their country out for Chinas benefit.
@@dannythomson5239 political figures covers all.
Obama comes to mind.
@@paulboegel8009 probably wrong video to chat on such things but yes obama definately a near cult like following and simply because of the colour of his skin and the fact he was super slick.
I don't know why everyone has to bring there contemporary political bitterness to every comment section on the internet.
I could listen to you talk about WW2 all day. My grandfather was a soldier & he never talked about it.
Probably to traumatized to talk about it or by contract was not allowed to talk about it so their secrets can’t be spread
No surprise. Most soldiers tried their best to put it behind them. They didn’t like to talk about what they had gone through.
It's strange to talk about killing people.
@@blackmantis3130 not really it’s depends on how comfortable and how far you go with conversations
Most soldiers that have been involved in combat
Don’t want to remember anything they may have witnessed or taken part in
I can assure you
This is a highly informative and very well produced, narrated and presented documentary. Well done Mark Felton, and keep to the good work.
How is it that Mark is not on TV 📺 ? No matter what he narrates, I find myself engrossed in the stories ..
Sort of like David Attenborough. Can listen to his voice all day, captivated.
We need Mark on TV..........
I know a guy who, in the 70's when he was a teenager, sometimes would shoot the bull with an old German man who ran an antique shop. Once in conversation he mentioned that he suspects his grandmother was Jewish. The man got a stern look and went turn the sign to closed and locked the door. He then turned and said solemnly, I must apologize for what my people did to yours. He went on to claim that he had been a low level general in WW1 and the first part of WW2. He said that he did not really agree with what was happening but followed orders at first. He then said that over the course of the war he became a Christian. Now he then said that while the rank and file solders were encouraged to have religion, the officers had to either be a fake Catholic like some of them, an Atheist or in Hitler's weird occult club (Hitler was *extremely* superstitious and believed in magic and such), actually being a Christian, predictably makes a person not condone Nazi behavior. He said that he had to flee Germany in secret and there was a pretty substantial manhunt for him.
He said that the reason he didn't defect was because he wasn't important enough to know anything the Allies didn't already and was just important enough to warrant being traded back. He didn't think the Allies would buy his surrender anyway, assuming he was some kind of spy or something, so he hid from both sides. The man confessed that while he had not done anything like the monsters over there were famous for, his hands were by no means clean. He apologized on behalf of his people and his nation. My friend doesn't know what happened to the man later on, but hopes he lived out his life in peace.
What a weird thing to have your life caught up in
Grimms ??
Except it were Protestant Christians who embraced Nazism (hence “Positive Christianity”) whereas most Catholic regions were among the lowest supporting regions in Nazi Germany. The Nazis hated Catholics.
Mike Bane thats right. My bavarian, catholic Grandma continues with greeting by the words „Grüß Gott“ which means Salute God - instead of Hail Hitler, during the war. Sometimes people warn her, that she will end in Dachau if she doesn‘t stop… but she continues with saying it.. also her father and other people of her village meet each other after the Election of Hitler… all said they didnˋt vote Hitler, he had officially 100% of the votes.
@mike bane hence the coverup of acting Catholic. Same as white supremacists officers ruling America and taking a kind picture with a brown person to maintain calm slavery by tricking the nimwits
Well done! Better content than a history class in school.
As a retiired history teacher, I take exception to this comment.
I Luv these Mark Felton videos!! Thanx Mark!👌
Well done. It's so refreshing to watch something that has no useless filler talk.
You said it. If this were a TV production, it'd be two hours long, and half of it would be people repeatedly expounding upon the cognitive dissonance of horrible people having at least outwardly idyllic family lives.
I remember reading about how everyone hated Bormann. Even Goering and Himmler, who disliked one another, joined together along with Goebbels and Speer to take power from Bormann.
He pretty much retained his position though up until the end right?
Why did they dislike him?
@@CorHellekin They viewed him as especially obsequious. He was also Hitler's private secretary so he controlled their access to Hitler and would use this in his power plays.
@@dhanya2096 i see. thank you for the info!
@@CorHellekin Because he kept most of the other Nazi-Big-Shots away from Hitler (because he was his and the Nazi-Partys powerful Secretary) and gained more and more power and influence himself.
I'm glad to see the success of this channel, although I miss the good old days of making a comment and getting a response from the man himself!
The BEST history channel ever. Thank you.
Finding this channel after 20 years of strolling through UA-cam is like finding boxes and boxes of old baseball cards from the 1920s 30s and 40s.
UA-cam was founded in 2005... but I get the idea ;)
You want a real treat, watch Robert Sepehr channel.
@@douwewelling4429 You can't stroll through UA-cam but does that matter?
@@sophiafake-virus2456 Of course you can. What you can't do is literally stroll through. See how a metaphor works? It's a figure of speech.
@@653j521 I was responding to the guy before me who was taking what the first fella said too literally.
Surely he meant scrolling.
Strolling/scrolling? Yes I am pretty sure he got one letter wrong, that's all.
Metaphor, the language of Art, nah, never heard of it.