Ardennes SS Massacre - The Wereth 11
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The tragic story of 11 African-American GIs captured by the 1st SS Panzer Division during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944.
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My great grandfather served in the 285th Field Artillery Battalion and was in the Ardennes. Thankfully, he was in Company A, and not B. He was awarded 3 Bronze Stars during the war.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Amen
Thank the Gentleman for me!
How exactly did an artilleryman get medals for heroic actions? I'm a little confused lol
Bullllllshiiiiit
One thing I have noticed throughout all of Felton’s videos is the overwhelming gratitude and kindness shown in the comments. Learning history such as this makes us more grateful for what we have, and what we are. Thanks everyone
Same
Well said.
Amen
That's people fishing for likes
Really? The thing that I noticed so far is the amount of Nazi apologists in the comment section
Here's a bit of history you might want to explore. My next door neighbor and father to my best friend growing up was one of the first black officers to command a company in combat. Unfortunately, his company was overrun by the Chinese at Chosin Reservoir. They held until they ran out of ammunition. They tried to surrender but the Chinese started bayoneting the soldiers. Mr. Jackson and a handful of survivors managed to escape the massacre. They hid during the day and moved south at night. During the fight Mr. Jackson was hit in the leg by fragments of a mortar round so walking was an unpleasant experience for him. It took them a month but they finally made it out of hostile territory. When he contacted his parents he learned that he had been listed as Missing in Action presumed dead. His injuries where such that he would never be able to serve again. He returned home to Virginia where he founded a construction company that would one day help build the DC metro system. I'm hoping you find this story interesting and make a video about Captain Paul Jackson. He was one of many heroes I had the pressure of meeting when I was young.
Thanks for posting this - TG he made it out. It is unfortunately not too surprising that an Asian enemy would murder prisoners. You seldom hear about the Viet Cong yet they nearly always killed everyone even in hospitals. Of course then there were the Japanese - which wrere the worst of all.
As a kid I had a black teacher who was at chosin who lost most of his right foot and 2 fingers to frostbite, he also had a bullet wound in his shoulder. He said he hid in a pit of slush and freezing water until he and one other was able to sneak out. He was a machine gunner, and he lost several friends in that battle. Unfortunately I don’t remember what unit he served in.
General McAuther should have been burned at the stake for what he did to our MILITARY in Korea.
That is an incredible story. I hope Mark is able to find the details to make a video about it.
@@Kiido11 It should be straight forward to research. There was only one Army Division there and only so many rifle companies. If he decides to do a video on this I can get him the contact info for Captain Jackson's son.
I'm 61 years old and have always loved WWII history. I was this day old when l learned of the Wereth 11. :-(
Rest in peace brave men.
Glad whole country was bombed and divided for decades to come 👊🏽
@@blackinpublic4193 lucky that's all they got.
@Kaiser Must have been fun for those Nazi scientists that the U.S scooped up after the war, though.
@@MorrowMattyI'm sure it was, they didn't have to live in fear of them and their families being killed at anytime by the SS, and they got automatic US citizenship and big fat paychecks, the more seinor ones got fee homes also, so yeah they were probably pretty thrilled.
@@badmonkey2222, you forgot to mention that the African Americans Vets did not get the same GI benefits as White soldiers!
My grandfather was in the 29th infantry and survived Omaha beach and made it all the way to Germany. He said they stopped taking prisoners after word of the massacre got out.
My gramps was in the 29th too, as well as his brother in law, who was captured during the battle of the bulge
That was a horrible war. Mine was fighting in the Pacific, but my other grandfather fought in the trenches in WWI. Those men saw some hellish things.
Malmedy massacre was worse
@@MrHeidiHigh Great story. The issue with the SS is that soldiers who joined were 'signing up' to the notion of racial supremacy. They were all taught it. It is great that he had a conscious and showed compassion when it was required. I hope that after the war he realised that the ideology was wrong.
"they stopped taking prisoners after word of the massacre got out." Were these Germans under Peiper?
I've done quite a bit of reading around the Ardennes battle and I've never heard of this. Very sad event in this battle
Sounds like a cover up
@@TheMrgoodmanners I think as far as narratives go, there was greater crimes like the Malmedy Massacre in the BoB, and that no one was caught. Other than war crime trivia, it doesn't contribute much to the greater conflict of the area.
In terms of historical representation, I imagine the fact that the U.S. Army was extremely callous about under-representing African American contributions, that validating them by discussing the crimes would go against the status quo and that talking about it now discredits the actions of the past leadership.
Similar to the many thousands of Korean refugees that the Army murdered, and subsequently denied despite literally seeing documentation of such during inquiries about it. The US Army had a huge integrity problem that still persists.
I think 11 men might be seen as a very small fraction of the thousands died, however, I believe such story should be told more and these brave soldiers be honored.
@@JRyan-lu5im - here you go again - all over this thread, a Nazi apologist
Been around for a few years now there was even a film about it.. www.imdb.com/title/tt1641253/
I love this channel. Direct, non biased, no overwhelming music and no personal opinions.
Mark Felton delivers once again.
Mark felton is so underrated. And its even more interesting when you dont see any hate comments in his videos.
I think its because of his factual, unbiased presentation....straightforward, but never dull......I've never seen one negative comment, ever....
@@FMHammyJ some hitler related videos have large numbers of nazi apologists, and racists.
1.25 million subscribers suggests he isn't exactly underrated. I would say "highly regarded" myself. He has also written books and is a respected academic, so he's doing okay.
Brilliant ! You have no idea how grateful I am to get this video upload Mark .. thank you, I’ve been stuck in USA for 8months now with no knowing when I will be able to travel home, alone and in a hotel ( feels like a prison ) it’s 04:10 I can’t sleep thinking about family christmases gone by and I just needed something to take my mind off things. Thanks mate for this video and I guess I just wanted you to know you help people in a lot of ways with these videos. They are not just informational 👍🏻
Chin up!
@@MarkFeltonProductions dads army has been getting me through. 👍🏻 cheers for reply mark
Now, that was just terrible, poor men, but honourable into the end
@@tomtaylor5623 how weren’t that honorable? They even considered the family, which they didn’t have to. They spared them so they wouldn’t be murdered by the SS as well. They were brave honorable soldiers.
@@tomtaylor5623 Reprisal? What's your logic? My point was that these American soldiers wouldn't risk the safety of that Belgian family, do you think the German soldiers had a good reason for torturing them to death?
@@bennyandersen742 how can you be so sure what these American soldiers were thinking at that time ? We might know what they actually did but nobody could read other's people minds to know what were they thinking...
@@Statek63 Yeah, take the side of the guys who genocided their way through Europe. Something tells me you're German.
@@Statek63 oh look its the same race triggerd dude going from comment to comment stream something told me givin your obsession to defend nazi war crimes against blacks all i had to do was keep searching and i would find you sgain..and look at that HERE YOU ARE
Channels like this one are very important in today's society. Parents that want their children to learn about world history without bias or revisionist views, can come to sites like this one and be confident that the material has been well researched and as close to accurate as can be possible. Thank You Mark!
War crimes are horrible and I’m sorry to break the mood but “happy Easter Adolph” on that shell in the thumbnail cracked me up
@Chandy Alexander yes...
@Kamil S the picture on the thumbnail looks like they are happy in that situation
@@tommykirk3403 If you have to ask that then you probably are one lol
@@confusedcapitalist2242 And then they ran into the SS and the situation drastically changed lol
@@D88111 didn’t matter because we all know what happened to the SS of anything the SS were happier to see Americans then Russians
I knew nothing about this until now. Thank you for creating greater awareness of this appalling tragedy. Rest Easy, Boys.
A lot of people (especially from US)seams to forget, that things like this was basically day to day life of average African- American from US southern states... actually, more sadly, even long after WW2 ended...
Salute to the men, who fallen on that day
Who were murdered by German racists on that day , to be accurate.
@@jimfiggerty833 to be more accurate, German Facists
@@Brian-qx3ld and racists but facism and racism goes hand and hand
Including the Germans
@@z.weertje7209 the nazis? Nah they can di3.
This video was absolutely fascinating. I did not know this about the African American Corps. Wow. Heros all!
Kareem Abdul Jabbar wrote an excellent book on black tankers that you will be interested in: Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes
I would share my copy, but it doesn't leave my house. :-)
@@jerrycallison6125 I didn’t know he was an author as well as his other accomplishments. I will have to try and buy a copy, thanks for the info 👍
@@nigeh5326 Glad to. I appreciated the way he approached the subject without adding racial tension to the subject beyond what was already there. i believe you will find it enlightening. I hope you will let me know your thoughts when you've read the book.
"A crime that is still unpunished." That is war.
You could write countless books over unpunished crimes that occured during WWII. It would be unflattering for the victors.
@@JRyan-lu5im for everyone involved, especially germans
But yes also for allies
The bombing of Dresden was also just war.
Or the firebombing of many German population centers. Bomb shelters that were full of bodies fried in their own fatty oil. Absolutely horrific. War is evil.
@@ihatecorporatedatacollecti6609 They talk about how hard and stoic WWII vets are, but I have to wonder how if it was me, I wouldn't drink myself into a coma after murdering countless women and child in firestorms "to break morale".
Damn what a shitty life. being black in america in 1940's and then getting tortured fighting a war in europe.rip
@@quinnjim Don't you mean all lives matter dummy? Black people had no business fighting for imperialist European or Americans. Evil exploitation
@@destroyerarmor2846 You name an African country and I will name an atrocity!
Knew of the murders, but not of the torture .Damn all Nazi wannabes scum. RIP these brave men .
@@solvingpolitics3172 Nothing you mention comes close to the industrial slaughter of human beings that Western civilization has done. Africa is just a bunch of tribal skirmishes, they can't even organize a small navy
@@quinnjim tone deaf lunatic. It's really a shame these soldiers fought for their own nation that hated them and died horribly for nothing
Absolutely good, moral men, who protected the family who helped them. I hope their souls are at peace.
It's only forgotten history because it is no longer taught in schools.
I learned of this and other atrocities on BOTH sides in the early 60's
@@james_chatman yes let's just ignore, Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin.
@@james_chatman I don't think that OP was minimizing the atrocities, just pointing out that crimes occurred within all military forces during the war. Granted, the axis powers were far more likely to engage in this sort of thing. When it happened within the allied ranks it was usually low ranking soldiers doing it with the leadership putting a stop to it as quickly as possible.
@@gobblox38
Yeah, but give the OP a little more time and it'll be, "we fought the wrong enemy." They can't help it.
“... It's only forgotten history because it is no longer taught in schools.”
Which curriculum are you referring to?
When my daughter gave the entire history of WWII they were covering in class... I lost it !!
WWII from oragins to aftermath were a grand total of six page's.
Oh no, that was not going to happen on my watch. She got the
Platinum deluxe package.
I was not letting the sacrifices of her great grandfather's swept under a rug. Nor was I about to allow the sacrifices of so many other nation's be swept away.
I'm Canadian so, there was a bit of extra about the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The two nation's built strong bond's that harden every year.
Anzac troops rarely get any attention...kind of like Canadian's.
All nation's were disscussed at length as each one was important to the overall war effort.
If it weren't for the American industrial capacity it would be a very different story & it's thing's such as this that get overlooked.
All allied forces were covered.
I was very careful about the subject of axis force's. I didn't want to perpetuate hatred & prejudice.
The really horrible stuff had to wait till she was older when I could out it into historical context.
It's past time the shaming of German people is stopped, enough with the guilt trip & hate.
Accept the past but never forget
what can happen to decent people in time's of strife & an
easy answer is offered... There's always the fine print filled with disclaimers.
Be ever vigilant against the evils of fascism & communism.
If your watching Mark Felton content, you understand what I'm talking about. Not many dim folks watch his material... It's too complicated for them & I'm not joking either.
If China can get a free pass on the Wuhan bio-weapon killing people around the world & operating concentration camp's right now, I'm sure we can learn from the horrible actions of the past.
Mr Felton ( along with the incredible presentation) , has an incredible narrators delivery. Dare I say perfect?
as always mark felton deliver "ghost event" that we never heard on any major battle world war II.
Great as usual
One of the best channels
Idiots out there watching Logan Paul spend money & im watching Mark Felton.
Coming from a man named Rumple Foreskin, that's high praise indeed
“Bayoneted in the eyes”
Holy hell that is pure evil.
Rip wereth 11 😔🇺🇸❤️
The REAL evil are the sentences giving to the perpetrators of this War Crime. 4 Life Sentences and 1 Death. ALL Reduced. The last SS POS released was in 1955. 10 years for 11 American Heroes. And how America spit on the names of every member of the 33rd. FA that was forced to surrender. In 1978 I was in Artillery School in Ft. Sill, OK and there was a training film on how undisciplined this unit was.
@@rebelwalzt That makes me sick. That entire period of time was horrendous. Letting huge criminals of war go free with barely a slap on the wrist compared to what would happen to you or me in that position. I guess operation paperclip was more important than justice.
Thank you for your service man. 🤛🏼
Yet another fascinating story come to light due to your investigative ability. Thank you Dr. Felton.
Mark felton blows history channel out of the water!
This story made me cry. Everyone should read the book. Very brave men. The memorial in Europe is very touching.
During my time as a long distance walker in Belgium, I many times passed and once stopped at the memorial and the American flag, which is daily hoisted with help from a nearby hotel.
I had watched your content for so long, I was honestly surprised when I wasn't subscribed.
I guess Santa heard my wish, and got here early!
Glad they lost two world wars and were divided for decades to come 👊🏽
@@blackinpublic4193 huh
@@curtisdenger5990 what do you mean huh
@@blackinpublic4193 Well good Nazi regime has been eradicated but sucks they were divided but it was to ensure they wouldn't start a war again.
What make me angry is the fact the perpetrators were never found and held accountable. Surely with access to German records after the war it should have not too difficult to find what SS units were in that area.
Boy there is good stuff on this channel. Today I learned something new!
I have cycle raced around these areas for many years. Taking part in the LBL - I often train within the Ardennes and stay at Houffalize. A few years I was training through one of the forest roads when I came across the band of brothers memorial just outside Bastogne.
Bayonetted in the eyes. Mother of God. This is such a sad story thank you for telling it Mark.
Very detailed and well done, as usual. I'm glad to learn about this atrocity. Blessings to the Langer family.
Marky, can you make a video about the pathfinders that were dropped hours before to light the way for the paratroopers during D-Day?
Yes please! I have always wondered about this. Were they shot up and scattered too? Or did they actually find their drop points and succeed?
@@billd.iniowa2263 From what little I have had read they had the same problems as the paratroopers, including losing their radios.
An American Intelligence officer once complained that the shooting of German prisoners left him no one to interrogate.
I live on the corner of Ardennes St. and Wainwright Av. It's good to know why the city planners wanted to remember these events.
War brings out the very worst of mankind ...RIP ...lest we forget...
One of the best channels on UA-cam. Thanks Mark.
Damn, I never knew this, well I do now, thanks again for the great history
Mark does not need a spot on the history channel because they will censor half his content. He is doing just fine on this format
My father served in the US Army 106 Infantry Division 423rd Regiment and was forced to retreat from the battle after running out of ammunition and food. He recalled crossing a bridge and marching to a wooded area, where they took up positions, while remaining elements of the 333rd artillery covered their retreat. He was later captured the 20th and sat out the war as a POW. The 106th was the last division created in the states, but before they arrived in Europe, 60% of their personnel had been removed from their ranks and sent as replacements to units already there. When they arrived in England, their replacement were cooks, clerks, Military Police, truck drivers. When they went up to the line, their weapons were still on the boats waiting to be unloaded. The 106th's equipment and personnel were cannibalized, and if hadn't been for the 155 MM howitzers which cover ed their retreat I might not be here. Thanks 333rd
I stumbled across the Curiousity channel by mistake and I loved it even before I saw this!!!
reading the title I was like 'is this going to pull a whammy on me and have the ss be victims?'. no, it wasn't that
How can people dislike videos like this nothing better then learning about our history
A heartbreaking storey of which I was not aware. RIP
Does the Langer family have a memorial site as well? Or is it just on the families land?
There will never be war without its horrors. RIP Wereth 11 and never again such a war!
To think the people who did this crime lived on happily and even probably still have family to this day
The people who committed that crime were part of an SS unit that the United States refused to accept the surrender of
They were forced to surrender to the Russians. Odds are pretty good they did not survive that
Love and respect to all of you from 🇨🇦
The sad thing is, many of these black soldiers faced the same and worse when they returned to the U.S. after the war.
Worse than torture and murder?
@@LosBerkos Google the story of the returning black G.I. who had his eyes gouged out because he refused to comply with a Jim Crow sign. Personally, I'd rather had been killed outright and quickly.
PFC Jimmie Leatherwood is buried about 15 miles from me in Pontotoc County, Miss. A very nice grave marker is in place. R.I.P.
Desperate cruelty by a losing side. I'm surprised that the SS allowed the Langer family to live. They usually slaughtered anyone providing aid to the enemy. Peiper's group, especially, was notorious for killing POW and other 'hostages' everywhere they fought.
I'd wager that those soldiers told the SS that the family had nothing to do with it to save the families lives.
Honestly I think it's pure luck. Pretty Sure the SS wouldn't believe the americans anyway and would kill the family but maybe they had to retreat or were needed elsewhere. Maybe they just didn't want to walk back. Idk but history sometimes is just like that
Yes Thank You Mr Felton...I had an Uncle...who started out as a cook...once his commanders found out he could repair and drive tanks he found himself in Gen Patton's command...hd did not like to talk about his service...now i know why....
For the Allies in the west and especially the American Army this is what led to the rest of the war being a no quarter asked and a No quarter given War.I spoke with several veterans who were there during the Battle of the bulge all the way through to the end of the war and they said that unless specifically ordered they took no prisoners especially SS and Hitler youth.
Peiper eventually received justice in 1976.
Such an horrific and sad story. Thank you Mark for telling us about this. May these fallen soldiers never be forgotten!!
Wow, one has heard so many sad stories from that time but still there are such atrocities as this that I have never heard of.
I feel very sorry for the men who were mistreated so badly.
God bless the family that sheltered them.
At Baugnez there is a small visitor centre near the crossroads, and a memorial on the site itself (now a roundabout). Very powerful stuff.
Rest easy lads, thank you for your ultimate sacrifice.
The proximity she'll had been released about that time. Instead of impacting the ground and exploding, the new shells exploded in the air over the target. That increased the blast radius. A massacre to trips who had not yet learned to increase dispersion. They could not longer lie on the ground to decrease blast radius but were brutally murdered from above. So the new weapon caused surprise and a change in tactics. No surprise that the artillery units paid the price. A response to the proximity shell.
Hi, Mark. Great Video on a previously forgotten horrible incident. Please do a video in the future on the SS Ambush of Task Force Mayes. I just learned about it, and some of the footage I saw here is from it.
I just got curiosity stream with your link and it is great!
9:40 "this devolved into a war crime" - the Waffen SS is an embodiment of the "war crime" concept per se, ROFL.
I’m not gonna lie. This brought a tear to my eye. 😞
people like you would be nazis if your government told you
@@vincentr5850 people with emotions??!
The Wereth 11 is an amazing tragedy, the Langer family's kindness gave them a very short reprieve from the horrors of war, unfortunately they experienced eventually the worst any soldier could in war.
Multiple broken bones, bayoneted in the eyes. That's some Imperial Japanese level of torture right there.
I mean yeah pretty much tho sadly enough its alot more commen then you think world wide so RIP tbf.
It's war, doesn't matter where your bayonets land just make sure they penetrate.
Sounds like IRA, but they used nail guns instead
Is that true? Good Lord...My Father is English, my Mum American. On her side of the fam, she had 4 Uncles fighting in Europe, 2 in the Pacific. In the Battle of the Bulge, my Great Uncle George Berry was captured by the 277th Volkgrenadier Div SS, stripped of his clothes and locked in a barn. He was rescued, but died of Pneumonia shortly after. He's buried in Luxembourg.
Didnt the Japanese throw infants into the air to spear them? Yeahh they did that.
My wife was a home health aid for a 96 year old gentleman who was a forward observer that advanced thru Belgium in WW2. He remarked to me during one of our many visits, "There was a massacre of an artillery unit by the SS, but it was kept a secret because the higher ups were too afraid that it would really hurt morale and frighten everybody. I wish that it was talked about." Mr. Smith passed away two years ago and I have wondered ever since what the story was but gave up on ever finding out. Thank you for this video, I now know the story and Mr. Smith can rest a little easier.
Also the malmedy massacre
They got them in a little known trial.
You armyaboo
Well, they got many in that trial but too many were also set lose. They should have hung them all.
@@sonnyburnett8725 should they have hung the perpetrators of the WW2 Biscari and Chenogne massacre's too?
Guess I can wait 14 minutes and 25 seconds longer to go to bed...
I just woke up and this video was uploaded a minute ago hahaha
@@Screwthis007 smh euros getting treated better in the upload schedule 😪
Thank you Lord for Bomber Harris
I got your pfp as my steam pfp
these are my nightly dose of history right before bed time
There's a small memorial for them in Wereth now, it was put up a few years ago and funded almost entirely by the Langer family
Suprised the Langer family didn't get the same treatment from the Nazis
@@Tele999zzz I think they made up a good story, for example that they were forced by the US soldiers...
Connor O'Keeffe No wonder that Germans were called Huns.
I will visit it someday soon. So sorry for their families.
He says that in the video.
Mark Felton is unmatched in quality. Truly a channel that should be appreciated.
I mean the channel is great but calm the hell down. You're like a simp or one of those guys that play the nude anime girl games.
" Great upload Mark we appreciate it."
See, sometimes less is more.
@@boolationnation9263 i wasn't talking to you im talking to the OP and im not angry lol
Mark Felton and Indy Neidell are my go to people for war history. They just deliver facts not propaganda. They say what happened and leave me to feel what I feel about it.
@JayCee Hey that's pretty accurate, except at a certain point I will get emotional.
I thought I knew all about WWII until I started watching this Channel.
me too, its brilliant
One point it made clear to me: World War Two was not a "good war." For too long Hollywood has glamorized this war. It was a terrible event of unmatched cruelty.
@@johnratican3824 it was meant to happen, Stalin would of invaded Europe sooner or later and end he got what he wanted regardless
I thought the Nazis won the war until I found this channel.
@@johnratican3824 That is every war ever, but that doesn't mean everyone in it was cruel or murderer.
Wow, really sad, they were brave enough to do all they could not to endanger the langer family... True men...
That part of the story seemed fictionalized.
@@GQ2593 why would it be fictionalised by their own army who even looked down on them and segregated them?They arrived on the scene and saw the wounds and mutilation the soldiers had sustained.
@@alexanderthegreat1356 Because it camouflages surrender as an act of compassion.
@@GQ2593 so that suddenly excuses the soldiers who led them into a field and tortured them, shot one while he was bandaging his comrade, bayoneted them in their eyes, cut off their fingers and killed them?
@@alexanderthegreat1356 who knows what exactly triggered this turn of events... All the witnesses are either dead or might be wanting to tell their story. And there is very few of them so it's easy to tell anything they want to be told. So those events might have transpired as told here by Mark - or it might have been something different, we will never truly know.
Poor guys, nobody should be treated like this. RIP the Wereth 11
These black lives mattered.
@@raypurchase801 Of course they were heroes too and fight and in the end, they protected the family so the truth is that they fight to the end. I hate racism and freaking Nazis was all racism for sure. RIP Gis.
@书中自有黄金屋 Yeh? Its obvious you've never studied Nazi propaganda.
@书中自有黄金屋 Mein Kampf
@@raypurchase801 ..Indeed they did , as do all lives black yellow white or a mixture of .
This is a sad story which deserves to be better known
Would say it's pretty well known by anyone even with a passing interest in WW2. Known about this for years well before the growth of WW2 history videos on UA-cam.
They should do a movie on this...like red tails
@@ladorjenkins5915 If they do make a film on this sort of event in current times, it'd be press and news reports up the ass.
There is a book out that covers this incident specifically. Also, numerous WWII magazines have had articles about it as well.
A film would be welcomed that celebrates the bravery of the African American soldiers, and the family who helped them whilst shining a torch on the racist brutality of the SS towards black troops and the (what seems likely) the racism in the US military that led to the cover up of the massacre.
As a black man, I thank you for bringing this untaught history to light. As lifelong student of WWII history, I thank you for all your efforts shedding light on many facts not taught in school, TV, books, or films. Awesome work. Liked, sub, and donated.
Way better, than what you usually get from media nowadays with racial caricatures that historically make no sense, with the producer’s celebrating their own ‘tolerance’ and racial ‘representation’.
As a human being, I find your mentioning of your skin tone equal parts baffling and repulsive in this context.
@@charleshowie2074 That is strange. Should he be ashamed of his skincolor then?
In this documentary, it's obvious skincolor fueled the hate, torture and killing of these 11 black men.
@@GTfour01 What is strange? No. Of course the SS's crimes were racially motivated - they were Nazis. It is a bizarre question and follow-up statement ans seems kinda apropos nothing?
@@charleshowie2074 Therefore Bucketlist badass has all the right to refer to his skincolor.
Now stop being a twerp.
I knew of the Malmady massacre, but had not heard of the Wereth murders. Thanks once again Doctor Felton for shedding some light on this horrible chapter of world history.
Same
I did know about this massacre, knew of their murder. I knew watching this was going to make me sad because I knew the outcome beforehand, but I watched anyway. There are those times where History is brutal, sadistic, unfair, and just plain murderous. But I still feel that even these moments in History require the vigilance to not look away to better educate ourselves about our past.
Do you also know the German point of view about Malmedy? It is verry interesting when you compare the two versions based on their plausibility......Maybe this might be another topic for Mr. Felton.....
While finding the guilty may never happen, forgetting the incident would be a greater tragedy. Dr. Felton has done his part to cause the rest of us to reflect and, hopefully, learn.
@@mikeromney4712 I'm pretty sure in Malmedy the US soldiers tried to escape so we're shot down but the SS executed the wounded so...
I love the fact that I can rock up on any of these videos and learn about 10X what I knew before. Bravo, Mark, Bravo.
I see you everywhere Bruned man
I have been in the Hürtgen forest. They still find soldiers there every now and again. When I was there they found the body of a US soldier who had just arrived to serve for a couple of days, when he got killed. It is sad that the horrors of Hürtgenwald is most often forgotten because of the battle for the Ardenne directly after it.
It also has sadly given rise to the myth here in America that we and the Brits beat the Germans virtually every time apart from Market Garden. The Italian Campaign was absolutely brutal with a number of setbacks, and Hurtgen was a total disaster for us. We were FAR from invincible, and we paid the price for getting overconfident and cocky. Thank goodness we recovered at the Battle of the Bulge.
@@thunderbird1921 Likewise the Soviets suffered defeats right up until the final months. Many reasons of course. Hitler demanded increasing sacrifice and soldiers became more and more paranoid about disobeying orders. Many saw some dignity in dying to the enemy but none in being executed by their own men. But also the Allies share some of the blame, as they began a race of East vs. West, attempting to seize as much land as possible in the shortest timeframe. This led to many entirely pointless minor disasters that could have been avoided. That said it's important to remember that every day the war continued, more Jews and Roma were being slaughtered. The death numbers actually increased until the very end of the war where the logistics systems of the camps had so totally collapsed that they simply could not keep up the pace. So there is something to be said that while many situations were perceived to be pointless deaths, the sacrifices made by soldiers saved the lives of many thousands who may have otherwise been systematically killed.
Complicated topic, and indeed one that isn't talked about enough, with the perception of the last 2 years of the war being a series of endless allied victories dominating the narrative. Then you have the other extreme, which is those who overblow things like the battle of the bulge, which very much was a last gasp of the German army, and which was pretty objectively a horrible idea stoked by Hitler's ego rather than any actual strategy.
@@thepinkplushie What one has to understand is that the Germans won pretty much every battle where they weren't severely outnumbered (or completely battered by Allied air or artillery superiority) throughout the war, even during its later parts. Their army was simply superior, because it combined the well trained soldiers of the western nations with the brutal discipline of the soviets. German soldiers were, and there's little discussion about that, the best in the world during WW2. They only lost because the allies VASTLY outnumbered them and because the German economy was unable to provide sufficient supplies for the army to keep functioning (and also because Hitler's and the OHL's strategy was stupid). It was a mixture of the American economy and the endless supply of soldiers that the soviets could muster that won the war, certainly not better soldiers/armies.
Let's all agree history channel should be stopped and replaced with his master peace channel
Enough about the history channel already. Every single upload its history channel this history channel that. Noone watches that crap, this is not the history channel
*piece
Being black while in the hands of the SS must be the most terrifying thing ever, RIP to these poor souls.
It's coming back again this time it'll be federal black soldiers in the hands of white ethnostate fanatical soldiers
No being a Jew captured by a jahadi islamist group. The hatred runs very deep.
@@no-knickers-emma1112 Been fighting ever since Sarah and Hagar.
Idk fighting japan being any race would be worse
@Kira just like Poles and many others.
'Ordinary man' written by Browning. take a look
There is a book out there about this story."The Lost Eleven" by Denise George and Robert Child. It draws on first hand interviews with family members and fellow soldiers. Great video Mr. Felton
THANK YOU.
Ah yes another forgotten piece of forgotten history told by our good UA-cam Historian. Always good too know we can count on you for something new everyday.
@cornskid well for the most part. It falls into the category of a footnote. Only a small number of people typically know about it. But i think you get the idea.
One of these men James Aubrey Stewart was from a nearby town here in my home state of WVa. Some his relatives are buried on my family's farm including his cousin Stanley that was also captured by the Germans in WWII.
SS were. Some nasty varmints
I live in WV what town and county?
@@NotThatGuyPal. Grant and Mineral counties. Piedmont where James Aubrey Stewart is from is in Mineral. His relative Stanley had a farm right before the county line in Grant County. Skippy - Henry Louis Gates is from Piedmont.
@@wvmann9320 okay yea I know where that is thank you!
@@NotThatGuyPal. what county are you in.
You truly are a gift to mankind Mark Felton for keeping all this history alive in your videos. Especially the telling the stories that often are forgotten like this one. Your history intelligence on UA-cam is unmatched and although I am an unknown on UA-cam. I always watch your videos. Keep up the amazing work! 👏👏👍
Lest We Forget those who were murdered, always wonder the notification to next of kin, what was said if this was declared Top Secret and buried. Cheers and great presentation of forgotten history.
Thanks Dr. Felton, I like many other people would have never heard of this event.
With out your unbiased reporting on any subject many stories like this would have faded into history.
Man I heard all about his massacre but as usual, Mark Felton’s impeccable amount of info, helped me learn, yet again more stuff..
An absolutely dispicable crime. RIP to those men whose ultimate sacrifice remains mostly forgotten, until now. Great work Dr Felton.
@John P. Denver Oh shut up. No one cares because Germany wanted a total war with the Soviets, whom they committed many war crimes against. You reap what you sow.
@John P. Denver Yes, I know, said group is responsible for every major conflict to ever exist plus they created inflation, but that still doesn't make what the Nazis did okay. The only people to have a record of worse war crimes than them would be the Imperial Japanese Army.
@@lelouchvibritannia4028 Cries about allied soldiers being criminally murdered but supports genocide on germans. Typical
@@samuelskogqvist5565 he has a point
have you not learn what our troops did and especially the dam bolsheviks
Thank you Mark shining the light on this small event that was overshadowed. Thank you for being who you are.
fighting for freedom they didnt even have at home.
Commanded by racists, just to get massacred by racists...
@Paul Hatz Shut up dude.
Don't misuse the deaths of these black soldiers to sell your arbitrary concept of freedom. They fought for America and died for America.
@Paul Hatz Their freedom had been taken in Africa in the first place, so your comment is not only offensive but also stupid as hell.
Have had similar thoughts whenever I have read or seen reports on the Tuskegee Airmen. Bottom line, they served, and they are owed our thanks and our respect.
These guys faced racism in both home and away. I wonder what was going through their minds
Amen. I really want to reply, but I just cant find the words. This just sickens me. Racism is so stupid. To face it here, and then go to war to defend this country, and then those who came home just found the same old sh*t. We're better than that. At least I hope we are. We should be.
I'm sure they never called Germans "krauts", too.
@@zachfox5969 doesn’t make it better
@@Bornst3ll3r You're right. It doesn't make racism against Germans any better simply because the US was segregated.
@@dixztube well I don't blame you, but as white person I think WW2 was actually a disaster for the Western world and it certainly wasn't good vs evil, it was just one huge power struggle out of many in world history.
It brings tears to my eyes to think of what these men went through. We should never forget what our service men went through during this horrible war.
we went to war against the German's and they were defending themselves, read about what our people did to them, our enemy was the communist and our govt has been in bed with them, since the beginning that is the new world order anti Christ, now europe, Canada, amurika, and Australia are destroyed .lincoln was friends with Karl Marx and his general's also and forward in history alot of govt officials were commies..
@@georgerandall5686 Karl Marx was a semite
@@georgerandall5686 bloody fanatics
They were soldiers. It was their job to kill and be killed if need be. They died because they surrendered. I'm sure all of those men knew they would die regardless. It's very sad.
@@georgerandall5686 You making excuses for the nazis? They started the war and committed war crimes. They were not innocent victims of the US. You must be a neo nazi.
Thank you to all the these African Americans who fought for me
I love you guys so much and will never forget you. Fly high you have your angel wings now.
Terry is white, guilt tripped white dude
Part of our trouble is hyphenated-Americans.@@Hissing-Syd
Your videos are absolutely fantastic, Mark. My father was a WW2 veteran and served in the US Army in Europe as an infantryman, but unfortunately died when I was a young boy in 1949 just some years after the war. I always wondered what his tour of duty was like. Greetings from Northern California.
Mike
Thank you for bringing attention to this event in a history community so full of wehraboos. These 11 men will not be forgotten, and the atrocities of the Nazi forces will certainly never be forgotten.
The first reply you got was also standard wehraboo logic, as to further your point lmao
@@MrFlankSinatra yeah, I made a reply to him but realised it wasn't worth my time
@Abu Dabu here are some "actual historical facts" for you!
The Nazis lost. The Nazis committed worse war crimes than the allies. Many of the Nazi war crimes have still gone unpunished. The allies won.
@@FinFett The soviets rejected the Geneva conventions and Britain burned civilians to death. Just so you know Dresden wasn’t a nazi ideology dominated city, so lots of the people slowly burned to death were socialists, if that makes you feel worse.
@@jikkh2x amazing, every single word you just said was wrong
>>-----------------> We need to find out who that fräulein "Karen" was that turned in our U.S. soldiers!