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  • The stories of some of the most notorious SS female guards in the concentration camp system and their fates.
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  • @ryanmalone2681
    @ryanmalone2681 2 роки тому +440

    Too old to stand trial but the child wasn’t too old to be stomped to death. It’s amazing how relaxed the Justice system was of the crimes these women committed.

    • @taliabraver
      @taliabraver Рік тому

      The germans were lucky that we were fighting the cold war with Russia,because they wouldnt of gotten off so easy.Even the german women are wicked.What nasty monsters

    • @JohnSmith-jz4pk
      @JohnSmith-jz4pk Рік тому +43

      All the nazis got off easy. Only 11 ppl hung. So nuts

    • @ok-kk3ic
      @ok-kk3ic Рік тому

      @@JohnSmith-jz4pkagree. Why were there even trials?! Shit was obvious. Any who had anything to do with the genocide needed to be purged like a disease.

    • @RodrigoRamirez-eq6gj
      @RodrigoRamirez-eq6gj Рік тому +12

      It was a travesty of justice.

    • @DavidEason-ui5ty
      @DavidEason-ui5ty Рік тому

      What you expect it was woman women never get punished how they deserve

  • @IvorMektin1701
    @IvorMektin1701 3 роки тому +3786

    My ex was born fifty years too late to find the perfect job for her personality 👀

    • @AdventureUnknown
      @AdventureUnknown 3 роки тому +193

      Beat me to it

    • @vincenth6912
      @vincenth6912 3 роки тому +64

      are you the victim or the persecuteur (lol)

    • @johnburrows1179
      @johnburrows1179 3 роки тому +117

      Mine too. She would have been perfect 😝

    • @redwelder5296
      @redwelder5296 3 роки тому +172

      Damn you too ? My ex was a large woman of German descent and a real brutal sadist type ! Perfect concentration camp guard!

    • @solvingpolitics3172
      @solvingpolitics3172 3 роки тому +205

      Oh my God. You all have my sympathy & condolences. It’s a shame but 10% of society falls into what I call: “the wackjob 10%.” Sociopaths, Psychopaths, criminals, “high conflict people.” Always angry, never take personal responsibility.
      It took me decades of dating to find the right woman. If I may give two pieces of advice.
      1. Only get involved with women who have/had good relationships with their fathers. The ones with bad relationships with their dads will be a nightmare. Don’t even think about wasting your time playing therapist and fixing them.
      2. Here is my own rule I wish I followed more often when I was single: take a woman out for an inexpensive, casual first date, coffee/Starbucks is good for this..something similar. Go out of your way to pay for their drink. I found 60% of the women would not even say “thank you” when I paid. Never call them again, when they are this poorly mannered. You will thank me later.

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 3 роки тому +287

    As an history teacher I never pulled my punches. When teaching about the camps I would show my classes some truly horrific photographs, and tell the students the full stories behind them. Before the end of the lesson many in the room would be sobbing, and as they left I used to get many thank me, and later parents would also do the same, for having told them what they all felt was something they needed to know. When I taught there was limited information about the role of women in the camps, and it was necessary for me to gloss over the topic. I have to say that it was even worse than I thought, and despite my years of dealing with this period in history, I found it very disturbing.
    Thank you Dr Felton for your efforts in researching and presenting this information. How I wish I'd known then more of the facts that you present in your videos.

    • @loiscarteaux9389
      @loiscarteaux9389 3 роки тому +13

      Thank you for teaching the truth about the concentration camps and showing the photographs.

    • @op-sz7cx
      @op-sz7cx 3 роки тому +4

      Blíži sa doba, keď bude v móde znova plač. Tentokrát náš.

    • @coiledsteel8344
      @coiledsteel8344 3 роки тому +5

      @U WinTV W-R-O-N-G ABOUT THAT DUMMY 🤡

    • @kebman
      @kebman 3 роки тому +6

      ​@U WinTV You're the one who decided to bring American politics into this. If you really nave to go that route, the Democrat party isn't exactly spotless either. Meanwhile you miss the point about democracy. It's actually not only a blame game. It's also about trying to find ways of making the world better. Do you not wonder how easily the USA has run down the shitter, while the two parties were busy playing the blame game? I think you can do better.

    • @MikeBrown-go1pc
      @MikeBrown-go1pc 2 роки тому +3

      Did you think to go over how and why they were driven to a level to do something like this or did you just play it off like they did it for no reson what so ever?

  • @dustins.97
    @dustins.97 3 роки тому +21

    Why would anyone dislike Marks videos/documentaries? He’s literally just telling the truth. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

    • @neillp3827
      @neillp3827 2 роки тому

      Idiots dislike videos based on the topics even if they enjoy the video

  • @RT-mm8rq
    @RT-mm8rq 3 роки тому +184

    While in the service I worked with a guy that worked at different US prisons. He said that he would rather work at a male prison than a female prison. He said the woman were far more conniving, and in some ways more cruel than male inmates.

    • @snugswashere6504
      @snugswashere6504 3 роки тому +40

      Men tend to be more direct in their thinking and actions while women tend to be more abstract.

    • @petersouthernboy6327
      @petersouthernboy6327 3 роки тому +34

      @@snugswashere6504 - that means conniving

    • @piotrd.4850
      @piotrd.4850 3 роки тому +12

      I've read a book to effect that it was one of the reasons why after one of wars israel withdrew women from frontline service. Also, there was a study about american gangs confirming pretty much the same.

    • @aldenunion
      @aldenunion 3 роки тому +8

      They become "Butchie" in proving they are as tough and formidable as any male... Cruel they become

    • @Pier-wy6dd
      @Pier-wy6dd 3 роки тому +4

      I cannot blame him (..."a guy who used to work...").

  • @TRHARTAmericanArtist
    @TRHARTAmericanArtist 3 роки тому +129

    I put a "like" even before I listen. I am never disappointed with the content of Mark's uploads.

    • @patmitskey839
      @patmitskey839 3 роки тому +5

      Same here PARTNER 👍👌

    • @alanstrawn732
      @alanstrawn732 3 роки тому +3

      You should wait at least 2 minutes into the video so as to "feed" the algorithm.

    • @N3therWolf
      @N3therWolf 3 роки тому +2

      @@alanstrawn732 care to explain?

    • @justanotherafol9723
      @justanotherafol9723 3 роки тому

      Same

  • @av8tor261
    @av8tor261 3 роки тому +587

    It"s horrifying how humans can treat other humans.

    • @scottessery100
      @scottessery100 3 роки тому +11

      especially when people are seen as objects threats or others... not people

    • @keithwallace1665
      @keithwallace1665 3 роки тому +6

      Yeh there still out there I can imagine( carrie lam )lamb Currie )as an ss guard !sadistic power mad and bowing down to her leader in Beijing !

    • @jduff59
      @jduff59 3 роки тому +9

      and we're still doing it today - in Africa there are dozens of wars going on - tribe vs. tribe or religious and they're equally brutal.

    • @wespaul9345
      @wespaul9345 3 роки тому

      Wow. FCK! Powerful. The thought of a woman stomping a child to death. Too fking much. At the same time I wonder if they were victims too. Without choice. You couldn't choose to do that. Could you?

    • @oaples8790
      @oaples8790 3 роки тому +4

      its more horrifying when you realize that some of these people are actually just 'normal'

  • @stormywindmill
    @stormywindmill 3 роки тому +235

    Many years ago one of my work colleagues was "Smithy" a carpenter, He was one of the very first of British troops to enter Bergen Belsen camp. he and another 18-year soldier stood guard over Joseph Krammer the camp commandant, Krammer was a tall burly swine, and Smithy said he got on their nerves as Krammer paced up and down the wooden hut all night. Smithy also acted as escort to the war correspondent Richard Dimbleby. They came to a mass grave in which children had been placed for burial, Richard Dimbleby asked Smithy to step down into the grave and be a size reference as he wanted to take a photograph, , Dimbleby quietly assured Smithy that this would be for his own record and not for public publication, Smithy had photographs to back up his story. R.I.P Smithy.

    • @mombaassa
      @mombaassa 3 роки тому +7

      I wonder what Smithy thought of holocaust deniers?

    • @Aenntw
      @Aenntw 3 роки тому +6

      Funny how many nazis actually had Jewish names, such as Joseph, Peter, David, John, Anders, Filip, Paul, Thomas, Johann etc. etc.

    • @cuhurun
      @cuhurun 3 роки тому +3

      @@AdamHiley-pj2zn : yep.

    • @daveglynn748
      @daveglynn748 3 роки тому +6

      What a great true story.
      Thanks for posting it and RIP Smithy.

    • @Iazzaboyce
      @Iazzaboyce 3 роки тому +2

      @@AdamHiley-pj2zn Who would have chaired Question Time all those years?

  • @christopherthrawn1333
    @christopherthrawn1333 3 роки тому +85

    It's sad we see college campuses trying to say it never happened.

    • @royroy1282
      @royroy1282 3 роки тому +5

      That is absolutely appalling, I can't even find words for some people.

    • @JK360noscope
      @JK360noscope 3 роки тому +7

      Why are you surprised when people are saying the world is flat?

    • @BillClinton228
      @BillClinton228 3 роки тому +15

      College campuses also say Stalin and Mao combined didn't k|ll 60 million people, but facts are facts.

    • @markhonerbaum5789
      @markhonerbaum5789 3 роки тому +9

      College campus of today's University's are doing their best to repeat the past and the worst of it.

    • @hugbug4408
      @hugbug4408 3 роки тому +10

      @@markhonerbaum5789 Alot of professors are leftists!

  • @drewby613
    @drewby613 3 роки тому +29

    Excellent job, as always, sir. I appreciate your ability to stick to the facts without missing the moral dimension in the process. A+!

  • @steveherrmann456
    @steveherrmann456 3 роки тому +389

    Many of these woman received light sentences compared to the male guards. Germany did a very poor job in dealing with these female guards. Nuremberg trials did no better!

    • @dantewiggins5119
      @dantewiggins5119 3 роки тому +56

      Female privilege duh

    • @tonianosoprano117
      @tonianosoprano117 3 роки тому +14

      The Nuremberg trial was all scam those judges who were giving out punishment where we'll known Nazis,

    • @Chris-ce7ve
      @Chris-ce7ve 3 роки тому +49

      The majority of male and female Nazi criminals only had light sentences due to the reason, that the US Government needed them to quickly establish a western German vassel state to block the Soviet's sphere of influence.

    • @tonianosoprano117
      @tonianosoprano117 3 роки тому +3

      @@Chris-ce7ve preach knowledge to this lame generation

    • @i-vlog1994
      @i-vlog1994 3 роки тому +19

      @Wehrmacht Bear they should have hung all the guards no deals.

  • @CB-ee9cr
    @CB-ee9cr 3 роки тому +29

    Mark your informative videos are helping me get through these rough times. I can’t recommend your channel enough the quality of your videos is unmatched!

  • @seonewport363
    @seonewport363 3 роки тому +31

    incredible how Dr Felton researches all of this and puts it together in a marvelous and informative video

  • @paulboegel8009
    @paulboegel8009 3 роки тому +171

    Human cruelty is nothing new, nor exclusive to anywhere on the globe.
    These dregs of society are lurking in every country. Weather or not they will be empowered is up to you.

    • @charlessmith6412
      @charlessmith6412 3 роки тому +23

      Proof of the validity of your statement can be found in recent news. This is proof that the US is no exception. Least someone jump in with their own twist on my words, I am speaking specifically of ANTIFA and BLM.

    • @paulboegel8009
      @paulboegel8009 3 роки тому +9

      Or separating children from their parents. That is very cruel.

    • @thegunslinger1363
      @thegunslinger1363 3 роки тому +2

      Agreed, all you need to do is force an idea into people's heads. And what we have seen in this video. Is the end result.

    • @arcanondrum6543
      @arcanondrum6543 3 роки тому +5

      Fascism, a word first used by Bennito Mussolini to describe the merger of corporate power with government power. More well known, is the racism used by Hitler to divide a nation against itself and quickly rise to and gain more power.

    • @danluzurriaga6035
      @danluzurriaga6035 3 роки тому +8

      @@paulboegel8009 Yes, B. Hussein Obama built those cages for the kids and that was how it went until Trump found out and stopped it. Grown-ups taking advantage of liberal immigration for human trafficking; disgusting I am sure you will agree.

  • @LtNomad120mm
    @LtNomad120mm 3 роки тому +291

    Thanks for clearing up my conscience on shooting the "elite female guards" in Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

    • @lordgarion514
      @lordgarion514 3 роки тому +29

      Seems you should be beating their heads into the floor for half an hour instead.

    • @ivansusanj2706
      @ivansusanj2706 3 роки тому +25

      @@maeton-gaming It's because both men and women value a woman's life over a man's. Man's lives are far more expandable.

    • @Shrapnel82
      @Shrapnel82 3 роки тому +13

      @@ivansusanj2706 Hence the widespread punishment of male Nazis, and widespread clemency for female Nazis.

    • @hackerman7835
      @hackerman7835 3 роки тому +1

      @@ivansusanj2706 It's a sad state of things, but I believe it will change in time.

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 3 роки тому +2

      @@maeton-gaming are you a gamer by chance ? Often people feel emotion about their decisions especially in role play games

  • @latu8923
    @latu8923 3 роки тому +10

    Excellent work Dr. Mark Felton-this part of history needs to be shared no matter how cruel and gory it was. Thank you for sharing.

  • @hanzup4117
    @hanzup4117 3 роки тому +31

    I love these longer videos. I enjoy listening to them whilst I go about my day. Most people listen to music whilst doing their chores - I listen to Mark Felton.

  • @piperalpha5514
    @piperalpha5514 3 роки тому +57

    Isn’t it fantastic when no matter how heinous, gut wrenching and despicable the crime(s), your old age is your best defence. It was used back then and parasitic lawyers still use it today.

    • @rileyswack5402
      @rileyswack5402 3 роки тому +14

      How is that a valid argument? Yea your old now but you weren't when you committed the crime. O

    • @49metal
      @49metal 3 роки тому +2

      Lawyers do sometimes use and are sometimes obliged to use the old age and infirmity of the their elderly as a sort of defense. It hardly makes them "parasitic." Labeling human beings parasites is an old game both you and the Nazis seem to play with relish.

    • @hannahdyson7129
      @hannahdyson7129 2 роки тому

      Not fair to the lawyers . They are paid to defend these people doesn't mean they like the person they are defending .

  • @ForelliBoy
    @ForelliBoy 3 роки тому +119

    This puts "Frau Engel" from the Wolfenstein series into a whole lot of historical context

    • @harryhoffer9804
      @harryhoffer9804 3 роки тому +7

      Also her affair with the young officer 😂😂😂 boobee

    • @Frank074
      @Frank074 3 роки тому +4

      Helga von Schabbs from Wolfenstein: The Old Blood also

    • @Chris-ce7ve
      @Chris-ce7ve 3 роки тому +3

      Also the female elite soldiers of the 2001 "Return to Castle Wolfenstein"

    • @Ninkyo893
      @Ninkyo893 3 роки тому +5

      The "exploitation" genre of movies from the 1970's had a whole string of films based on these women, most infamously, 'Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS'.

  • @hondasaurusrex6998
    @hondasaurusrex6998 3 роки тому +7

    I very rarely comment on videos. This is one of the most powerful videos from you. A reminder to us all. I served in the army during Desert Storm... seen things that Iraqis did in Kuwait. Mindbogling what people do to each other... please keep your videos coming and have a great Christmas.

  • @tedolphbundler724
    @tedolphbundler724 3 роки тому +14

    The women were crueler than the men?
    What a surprise.

    • @jonathansimmons3731
      @jonathansimmons3731 3 роки тому +1

      Of course they had to prove that they was more cruel then the male to be excepted they too was abuse and brain washed

    • @brianjohnson6053
      @brianjohnson6053 3 роки тому +1

      Musta met my exwife

    • @tedolphbundler724
      @tedolphbundler724 3 роки тому

      @@jonathansimmons3731 You don't have much experience with women, do you?

    • @tubulartimothy6601
      @tubulartimothy6601 2 роки тому

      Narrator: Adds a line emphasizing how the camp guards broke a stereotype significant in the wider social context to build a narrative.
      This guy: *WOMEN*

  • @johnhaywood4181
    @johnhaywood4181 3 роки тому +39

    Belsen also held an uncle of mine. He was a British soldier who had escaped too many times from his POW camp, on the last occasion been captured by the SS and ordered by the Gestapo to be put into Belsen. He managed to survive the ordeal.

    • @kaiserin7814
      @kaiserin7814 2 роки тому +1

      Could he speak anything besides English? Otherwise I see no way he could have survived

    • @marilyn6556
      @marilyn6556 2 роки тому +3

      @@kaiserin7814 There we’re many languages spoken in the camps, because unfortunately, the Nazis hated everyone. People picked up phrases and some very blessed souls were able to live. Most were not so blessed.

  • @richardmiller8028
    @richardmiller8028 3 роки тому +8

    Yet again Dr Felton I’m truly astounded at the level of detail in your programs, they stand alone in there quality and content, you sir are eminent in your roll as a historian.

  • @annettehadley9718
    @annettehadley9718 3 роки тому +927

    Hello,.... My Husband is telling this story.. I'm only typing it for him, When I was a international Truck Driver, I had loaded gunnery Equipment for the British Army of the Rhine, but All I had on my Delivery note was " Honer " west Germany, and driving all night from Ostend, I arrived at Honer about 5 am, I thought to myself, the army camp must be easy to find, but I was wrong, so I drove around Honer without success, until I spotted a German , so I stopped and asked where the British Army camp was, and he replied.. 80 km's away and he showed me on my map. Dam I thought... so started driving to my new destination, as I approached Honer, I picked up the signs for the army camp... all I had to do was follow the Red arrow, However the town name changed from Honer to... "Belson-Honer" and I soon reached the camp, While the soldiers were unloading my truck, the officer in charge asked me if I had my breakfast yet, to which I replied.. I hadnt, The officer send.. come with me and took me to the officers mess, and he stayed with me while I was having breakfast, while I was eating I asked him... is this the Belson concentration camp ? to whichy he repied.. no... this building use to be the SS Barracks, but the concentration camp is about 1 km down the road but, do yourself a favor... dont go there,... So what did I do... yes, I went there, and to this Day, I wish I hadnt...

    • @marinazagrai1623
      @marinazagrai1623 3 роки тому +60

      Annette...gives meaning to the phrase "you cannot unsee".

    • @mergru6371
      @mergru6371 3 роки тому +8

      @@marinazagrai1623 Brilliant 😂 Interesting story though

    • @Slaktrax
      @Slaktrax 3 роки тому +43

      Some of your facts are wrong :) It was called Bergen-Hohne (not Honer or Belson-Honer) and the old Belsen concentration camp site is about 3km from the main Bergen-Hohne camp. I don't know which Officers mess you are referring to as there were several around the camp as British, German and Dutch military were stationed there. It's a big camp, which I was stationed at for four years in the 1970's.

    • @mergru6371
      @mergru6371 3 роки тому +81

      @@Slaktrax That's quite a name you have in a comment section of a history channel covering, among others, the second world war. Are you serious?

    • @chrisbuxton1958
      @chrisbuxton1958 3 роки тому +7

      Great anecdote, thanks.

  • @theironflea3802
    @theironflea3802 3 роки тому +51

    That first hand account with the dead baby...just wow.

  • @krzosu
    @krzosu 3 роки тому +364

    Sigh well narrated but higly horryfing stories man...

    • @MrKillswitch88
      @MrKillswitch88 3 роки тому +2

      That is how reality often is and some are good while others are what they are.

    • @liesvanwoerkom7298
      @liesvanwoerkom7298 3 роки тому

      The

    • @Ronnie-Jones
      @Ronnie-Jones 3 роки тому

      The most forbidden documentary in history:
      “Europa The Last Battle” at archive dot org
      archive.org/details/EUROPATheLastBattle

    • @gammon1183
      @gammon1183 3 роки тому +8

      @Danny Kramer if they were true ? Oxygen theft is nothing to be proud of.

    • @MajorT0m
      @MajorT0m 3 роки тому +1

      @Danny Kramer yes the real story of human history is a halcyon one of uninterrupted peace.

  • @andreagarrison2109
    @andreagarrison2109 3 роки тому +5

    It horrifies me to know that people, both men and women, could be so hateful, cruel, brutal and inhumane to other human beings. Such a heartbreaking, unfathomable, dark time for the human race.

  • @doreenevans5945
    @doreenevans5945 3 роки тому +11

    I worked in the prison system for many years and can honestly say I would choose working with men 100% over women.

    •  2 роки тому

      What would you say is the main reason for that?

  • @johnstevenson9956
    @johnstevenson9956 3 роки тому +79

    The very nearly complete lack of justice for what these mindless monsters did, is appalling, and makes those people who decided to let it go unpunished, every bit as guilty.

    • @mikewazowskisas1489
      @mikewazowskisas1489 3 роки тому +5

      Considering what the Russians and Americans did during the war, I think its complete overkill. But then again they lost so I guess that's who takes 100% of the blame.

    • @rhysnichols8608
      @rhysnichols8608 3 роки тому +7

      What could they do? Germany was bombed back to the Stone Age, everywhere was starving, typhus spread like wild fire. The conditions created in these camps were partly due to allied unrestricted bombing campaign. And yes, Soviets were just as bad. I’m not condoning these terrible scenes but the emotional boo boo stories seem to overtake objectivity

    • @themudthedirtandthesand9079
      @themudthedirtandthesand9079 3 роки тому +2

      @@mikewazowskisas1489 --- Just identify yourself as a natural-born Nazi with the psychotic, lying, scheming, split personality mind capable of twisting, manipulating reality into something completely different that is the trademark of the true Nazi and be done with it.

    • @richochett404
      @richochett404 3 роки тому

      0

    • @richochett404
      @richochett404 3 роки тому

      @@rhysnichols8608 il

  • @joeyv.114
    @joeyv.114 3 роки тому +15

    The fact that some of these people would go on to live until 2018 is absolutely mind blowing! Thanks for the fascinating information

    • @clintonearlwalker
      @clintonearlwalker 3 роки тому +1

      2018? I just seen a story where they just arrested a "secretary" from Stuthoff a few hours ago. She's in her 90's, they won't identify her and say she will face a juvenile court because she was a minor when she was "assistant" to the camp kommandt. (almost certainly Paul-Werner Hoppe). I think Herta Bothe is still alive, possibly Luise Danz also. Here is a great deal of info about female nazi guards--www.fold3.com/page/286092756/female-guards-in-nazi-concentration-camps/stories

  • @9879SigmundS
    @9879SigmundS 3 роки тому +55

    “Poetic justice” to force the S.S. guards to bury prisoners and not letting them use masks or gloves? Felton, you are a high thinker.

    • @onii747
      @onii747 3 роки тому +16

      The poetic justice was that they died of typhus like the prisoners' did

    • @MasterAdam100
      @MasterAdam100 3 роки тому +6

      Murderous Fascists deserve no mercy.

    • @mcnultyssobercompanion6372
      @mcnultyssobercompanion6372 3 роки тому +1

      @@MasterAdam100 I have to agree.

    • @9879SigmundS
      @9879SigmundS 3 роки тому +7

      @@MasterAdam100 the thing about Due Process is that the law though process makes the determination as to who is a Murderous Fascist, not the cop on the scene. If you don’t defer to Due Process, then you can hang the label of Murderous Fascist on anyone just because they are at the scene of a crime or they are part of a disfavored, ethnic minority that has strange or even dangerous ideas. Murderous Fascists are murderous fascists not because the kill people (the best people in the best countries are okay with killing people), but because they do not afford all their people certain rights like Due Process.

    • @dronessential
      @dronessential 3 роки тому +3

      @@9879SigmundS Yes. Any SS person at the 'scene of the crime', i.e. Nazi extermination camp, is a murderous fascist and deserves everything they get.

  • @edwardandrews2618
    @edwardandrews2618 3 роки тому +75

    "she...enjoyed selecting CHILDREN to put them to death... The scale of this monster's evilness is just beyond my comprehension...

    • @thulegezelschap5884
      @thulegezelschap5884 3 роки тому +10

      It is not like they don’t do that today.. but even worse, now it is their own children

    • @edwardandrews2618
      @edwardandrews2618 3 роки тому +2

      @ Where did you see a misogynism in my comment? I think you should get your head examined!)

    • @BoleDaPole
      @BoleDaPole 3 роки тому +1

      A fetus isnt a human being, so its not murder to kill a fetus, that's why u can abort them up to like 8 months im pretty sure.
      A woman has the right to chose and not all want to be burdened with children.

    • @mikenyc1501
      @mikenyc1501 3 роки тому +2

      I agree with you Edward. A monster among monsters.

    • @noone3272
      @noone3272 3 роки тому +2

      @@edwardandrews2618 I think he's sarcastic

  • @asheland_numismatics
    @asheland_numismatics 3 роки тому +10

    This channel is growing fast and rightfully so! 👍

  • @rancidschannel3206
    @rancidschannel3206 3 роки тому +15

    As much as it's very horrific, I am glad it's not forgotten these terrible deaths and the persons responsible. I was surprised the Gestapo actually tried their own. Good video

  • @MercyShot83
    @MercyShot83 3 роки тому +58

    Growing up in the 80s and 90s in germany, the sentences „This is the past“, „This is forbidden“ or „Dont ask too many questions“ were the most common sentences i heard.

    • @anthonymisell8845
      @anthonymisell8845 3 роки тому +10

      And these generations of Germans born after WW11 are not responsible for the father or garndfathers, and should left in peace

    • @clemenskeuer7131
      @clemenskeuer7131 3 роки тому +10

      In which area of Germany did you grow up? I am German, born in 1959. 2hat you described was for sure true in the fifties and sixties, but changed during the seventieth.
      In the 80s and 90s questions were asked a lot, fortunately.

    • @MercyShot83
      @MercyShot83 3 роки тому +6

      @@clemenskeuer7131 i grew up by the baltic sea in the north of germany.

    • @clemenskeuer7131
      @clemenskeuer7131 3 роки тому +5

      @@MercyShot83 The question is now: east or west. In the west it was a taboo until the students revolts in 1968, to ask those questions. While in East Germany - as my relatives in Mecklenburg told me - the official party line was, that all nazis had fled to the west after 1945. Which was nonsense of course. So, better not to ask questions...

    • @MercyShot83
      @MercyShot83 3 роки тому +5

      @@clemenskeuer7131 in my case it was western germany. It was not taboo to talk about it but the people where very reluctant to talk about certain things. Especially the older folks. Most people which i met where not too open all around. Never the less i had a good childhood there.

  • @kingfillins4117
    @kingfillins4117 3 роки тому +13

    As experiments such as Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority have shown anyone given a uniform and a position of authority is likley to abuse that power and those under them.
    So whilst we obviously rightfully condemn these women, dont be so sure you wouldn't do something similar if you found yourself in such a situation. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn states... "The line between good and evil is drawn down the middle of every mans heart".

    • @signoguns8501
      @signoguns8501 3 роки тому +3

      Exactly, we are all capable of great cruelty. Every single one of us. All it takes is the belief that you are superior to another group of humans. We see this attitude everywhere in modern politics, across the political spectrum. Extremism is growing.

  • @kystars
    @kystars 3 роки тому +70

    This was an EXCELLENT video with the pictures. I did know of some of these women, but not as many as he told about here . and especially all the details I have never heard before. I was shocked also to know some are still living today, although rather old. I am good friends with a German woman who was a child during the war. She was bombed on in her German city night and day. She had some interesting stories. Sh is living in Canada and I met her and her husband about 7 years ago when they came down to meet me here in Kentucky. I took them to the Dayton Air Force Museum, where they had a real B17G that actually had bombed Germany. She wanted to see it. When we got to it, she just stood there , looking and started sobbing. I told her to come up to it and touch it.. and she did. touching the chin turret. she seemed to get great relief from it. They also have statues of German children being given Chocolate bars by American soldiers.. she saw that and just shook her head yes and said, that is correct. That is exactly how it was. She said the Americans were always nice to them, the British were not mean but weren't as friendly as the Americans, but still they were fine, but the RUSSIANS, they all feared and stayed away from them. her name is Gudrun.

    • @jeffreymcfadden9403
      @jeffreymcfadden9403 3 роки тому +2

      That B17 is "Shoo Shoo Baby." I remember about 1990 when Baby flew into Dayton.
      She was moved out of the museum when "Memphis Belle" was put in. (Don't worry, the Belle also bombed Germany.)
      The DC museum owns Baby so she should be flying back east some time.
      Soon, "The Swoose" a B17D(she bombed Japanese) will be ready for display at the Dayton museum.

    • @trapperofthecentury5438
      @trapperofthecentury5438 3 роки тому +4

      The russian soldiers were very angry and less discplined than British and American.

    • @mrz80
      @mrz80 3 роки тому

      @@jeffreymcfadden9403 The Swoose! Maj Gen George Brett's personal transport

    • @fightback397
      @fightback397 3 роки тому +2

      @@trapperofthecentury5438
      They were longer in the war than GB or USA. Besides they had severe losses already by the time they reached Berlin.
      Not excusing in any way the atrocities commited by the Red Army .
      Just saying again , NAZI Germany should had never invaded Austria , Tchekia, Poland etc . They started the war . They wanted total dominion of Europe and the rest of the world without any respect for any countries culture .
      I'm glad they lost . But at cost ?

    • @coiledsteel8344
      @coiledsteel8344 3 роки тому +3

      @@trapperofthecentury5438 'ANGRY?' 🤔. The Commie Monsters Raped and Killed Many in Rape of Berlin - So Bad That one Good Russian Soldier was Shocked and Disgusted in His Description of What He Observed! 😥😵

  • @DrGull1888
    @DrGull1888 3 роки тому +45

    Actually pretty obscene how well fed those guards look and are, compared to their vicitims.

    • @waltermodel6647
      @waltermodel6647 3 роки тому +9

      Yeah massive food shortages, you think prisoners are gonna be fed before soldiers, guards, and civilians? Lol

    • @DrGull1888
      @DrGull1888 3 роки тому +7

      @@waltermodel6647 Well, in WWI Germany didn't just let their prisoners starve in spite of shortages and the Allied blockade.

    • @noway57
      @noway57 3 роки тому +1

      That's from a movie

    • @waltermodel6647
      @waltermodel6647 3 роки тому +7

      @@DrGull1888 they didnt have all of their factories and civilian centers bombed in ww1 either

    • @rockandlockgunsmithing8373
      @rockandlockgunsmithing8373 3 роки тому +1

      You don’t want them hangery

  • @b.j.n.g.354
    @b.j.n.g.354 3 роки тому +28

    THIS WAS YET ANOTHER VERY GREAT PODCAST BY
    DOCTOR MARK FELTON.
    BE WELL.
    --EMERITUS
    PROFESSOR BJNG.

  • @tharealmikezee3165
    @tharealmikezee3165 3 роки тому +35

    Okay. The Kochs were too crazy even for the Nazis. Wow. That takes talent.

    • @annalisette5897
      @annalisette5897 3 роки тому +3

      As I recall from other sources, Mr, Koch was executed for theft or some other crime against the party.

    • @mikepatrick5909
      @mikepatrick5909 3 роки тому +1

      I saw Ilse at the drive-in when it came out.

  • @MMOchAForPrez
    @MMOchAForPrez 3 роки тому +11

    Holy cow, Mark! I've only just realized how many people Love your videos! Merry Christmas!

  • @aleksanderkorecki7887
    @aleksanderkorecki7887 3 роки тому +12

    The thumbnail is a still from Polish movie "Passenger" (1963). Actress Aleksandra Śląska is on the left, Wanda Swaryczewska is on the right. The movie was filmed on location in Auschwitz.

  • @MSRLR
    @MSRLR 3 роки тому +10

    Notice when a man commits murder, the guards beat him, and he is hung. But if a woman commits murder..... she gets told its not okay, and they make her promise not to do it again. Yes women are treated differently.

  • @henryschmitt7577
    @henryschmitt7577 3 роки тому +18

    Early here in Las Vegas! Getting my daily dose of WW2 history! It’s going to be an awesome day for awesome history!

    • @LinovichAkhotmy
      @LinovichAkhotmy 3 роки тому

      It’s almost 4am, go to bed #VegasGang

    • @Deadassbruhfrfr
      @Deadassbruhfrfr 3 роки тому

      @@LinovichAkhotmy its 6:43am where I live

    • @sheslikeheroin93
      @sheslikeheroin93 3 роки тому +4

      @@LinovichAkhotmy leave him to his cocaine and hookers, he'll go to bed later

  • @PianoMeSasha
    @PianoMeSasha 3 роки тому +150

    how many of these sadistic female guards were ever prosecuted after the war by the US or Germany? a fraction....

    • @tomaszser470
      @tomaszser470 3 роки тому +16

      and now sons and doughters of this germans rule whole Europe....

    • @rictusmetallicus
      @rictusmetallicus 3 роки тому +74

      @@tomaszser470 this is the most stupid comment i read for a long time

    • @skunkjobb
      @skunkjobb 3 роки тому +10

      What percentage of the male guards were prosecuted?

    • @l337pwnage
      @l337pwnage 3 роки тому +9

      Look it up, I'm pretty sure they hung hundreds of people, men, women, they didn't care, just like when they were bombing civilians.

    • @selfdiscipline296
      @selfdiscipline296 3 роки тому +6

      @@tomaszser470 Most likely, the bastards ruling the west...

  • @buckduane1991
    @buckduane1991 2 роки тому +2

    Another first hand account of these SS women is by Corrie ten Boom in her autobiography “The Hiding Place”… the things she witnessed in the camp in general that these women did, and specifically to her sister, Betsy, who died as a result, just… I just can’t fathom how anyone could do such things… and here today, in 2022: China does such things to its own people and thinks it’s not only “no big deal” but do things that make the NAZIs and even Stalin look like teddy bears… everyone should know what happened, so they can not let it happen again.

    • @paulminh3525
      @paulminh3525 2 роки тому

      Okay, are you brainwashed by the western media about Uighur genocide? You are suffering the same brainwash that have been applied by Goebbels toward German population. As far as I remember, the West is killing more Asian and African than these Chinese ever does, although I don’t like China at all. Your west civilization is new fascist under the name of democracy. So, shut up about moral high ground already.

  • @zamtec5496
    @zamtec5496 2 роки тому +2

    With the "Maria Mandel" picture, you can just feel the evillness oozing out the picture. It's almost fascinating!

  • @Cookefan59
    @Cookefan59 2 роки тому +1

    DAMN! Dr. Felton really did a helluva job here. Wow.

  • @americansailor7967
    @americansailor7967 3 роки тому +69

    PBS should do a documentary celebrating Nazi feminist equality.

    • @scottadler
      @scottadler 3 роки тому +20

      Fat chance. PBS follows the feminist line: Not one woman in the history of the world has ever committed a crime.

    • @amber4351
      @amber4351 3 роки тому +2

      Oh my fucking god lol
      Houston we have an asshole problem with misogynist assholes on a comment section

    • @teekotrain6845
      @teekotrain6845 3 роки тому +3

      Jesus.

    • @TheNoisylover
      @TheNoisylover 3 роки тому +5

      Yeah this could be their next season begathon

    • @patwaters3486
      @patwaters3486 3 роки тому +3

      Ian........... Hosted by a 300 lb blue-haired nose ring wearing man-hating holocaust denier.

  • @catchbay
    @catchbay 3 роки тому +77

    equality between men and women - in every field

    • @hondaxl250k0
      @hondaxl250k0 3 роки тому +6

      Men and women are different. Period. Men are bigger and stronger and faster.. what’s why the military had to lower standards for females to pass.

    • @jacenkun2931
      @jacenkun2931 3 роки тому +1

      @@hondaxl250k0 yep men and women are different and is propaganda pushing to say they are equally the same.. I have to wonder the IQ levels of thiae adults who think there are 100% equal... that's an insult to both men and women to say we are..

    • @fabiana7157
      @fabiana7157 3 роки тому +1

      The misogynists in this thread, keep crying lol. It's about women being able to choose whatever they want to do in life instead of being restricted. There are men who aren't fit for the military too, and they also have to deal with it and find something else. Similarly, women who are in no way fit for military service will have to give up. That goes for other fields as well, but the main point of EQUALITY is women having the right to try to become whatever they want to. You people don't seem to understand this very simple fact

    • @hondaxl250k0
      @hondaxl250k0 3 роки тому +3

      @@fabiana7157 ha I have 6 daughters. 7 woman in my house.. 😂. Sure you have the right to be what ever you want. If you can pass the same test that men have too. Problem is women couldn’t . Not one woman passed! That’s why they lowered it? How can you argue? It’s not hate.. it’s facts. And seems you hate facts

    • @fabiana7157
      @fabiana7157 3 роки тому +1

      @@hondaxl250k0
      First off you were the one who brought up the military. Most people don't think about the military when saying that. And I have female relatives in the military (also male ones) and I was asked by male officers if I want to join because I'm a good fighter and shooter. The military is complex, physical strength and endurance are not the ONLY things that matter. A female soldier who is good with weapons is valuable, so is one with good strategic thinking who can become a senior officer in time. Narrowing everything down to physical strength only is just being simple.
      That being said, all the female soldiers I know are tall and in top physical shape, with good pain tolerance, which can't be said about the average person, man or woman.

  • @jaredevildog6343
    @jaredevildog6343 2 роки тому +1

    Very well made and informative! Thank you again Dr. Felton.

  • @Madmen604
    @Madmen604 3 роки тому +2

    Bothe had a form of gigantism. Years later she was interviewed in jail and said she had no remorse, no regrets.

  • @CrocodileTooth
    @CrocodileTooth 3 роки тому +17

    An important and horrifying topic, organized and presented in a factual easy to understand manner.

  • @catfive23rd
    @catfive23rd Рік тому +2

    'sentenced to life imprisonment' is a travesty. These women all deserved the justice of a firing squad.

  • @roddyteague6246
    @roddyteague6246 3 роки тому +50

    Some things have not changed. Women literally got away with murder due to sentance discrimination.

    • @roddyteague6246
      @roddyteague6246 3 роки тому

      @Panda Pup Which is a hell of a lot of women! Regardless of your claim these women were completely beyond the pale & should have been issued with a pair of plastic drawers before an appointment with Mr. Pierrepoint.

  • @interestpart260
    @interestpart260 3 роки тому +26

    Somehow this seems relevant now, in some sort of visceral way. Feels like we are heading down this long, steep road, On the way now

    • @metacomet2066
      @metacomet2066 3 роки тому +6

      Yep. We used to look at people in Nazi era Germany and ask how and why they ended up as Nazis or Nazi sympathizers. Now after the age of Trump we've discovered how insidious and easy the process can be.

    • @thulegezelschap5884
      @thulegezelschap5884 3 роки тому +10

      @@metacomet2066 the way the left acts now is exactly what the Nazi’s did tbh
      Dehumanize opponents, put institutional racism in place (anti asian/white) , book burning (digital this time) and adhere to a totalitarian government (commu/wokeism)

    • @BoleDaPole
      @BoleDaPole 3 роки тому +1

      Both parties are parasites and have never really cared about the American people. All they're interested in is money and power.

    • @WestCoastOnePride
      @WestCoastOnePride 3 роки тому +1

      @@metacomet2066 ur a smart man, now with the uncle touchy Joe biden democrats in party, it's like Stalin and the gulags 😁

    • @urfrndjenn
      @urfrndjenn 3 роки тому

      @@thulegezelschap5884 you sound exactly like the national socialists of Weimar. Constantly pretending to be a victim when you are the instigator. I’ve heard your fascist trumpet before many times. Nazis were against “the left” not the other way around.

  • @maushuur
    @maushuur Рік тому +1

    When someone comes with the idiotic saying of "If women controlled the world, literally everything would be perfect and world peace would be achieved" show them this and how Magda Goebbles was so desperate thinking about a world without Hitler and Nazism, instead of trying to save her own children's lives 🤢

  • @wilhelmhesse1348
    @wilhelmhesse1348 3 роки тому +22

    Anti Nazi Christians, these were the ones who took a stand when others went with the flow. Unsung heros.

    • @stefanlaskowski6660
      @stefanlaskowski6660 3 роки тому

      It's only a historical curiosity, I'm sure, but every single assassination attempt on Hitler before and during the war was carried out by Catholics.

  • @elvinkrigsman6956
    @elvinkrigsman6956 2 роки тому +2

    They should make a movie on Irma grese, Charlize Theron can play her

  • @ernstwiltmann6
    @ernstwiltmann6 3 роки тому +10

    People are prone to repeat the mistakes of the past, that's why your work is so important Mark.

    • @pagesegovia2026
      @pagesegovia2026 3 роки тому +3

      Important comment, UP!

    • @ernstwiltmann6
      @ernstwiltmann6 3 роки тому

      @Flare
      Yeah, run by the CIA, Jeff Bezos, Google Microsoft, Zuckerberg and what/who not. They probably supplied Jeffry's little Island with plenty of jailbait material.

    • @martin3203
      @martin3203 3 роки тому

      @@ernstwiltmann6 Sources?

    • @ernstwiltmann6
      @ernstwiltmann6 3 роки тому

      @@martin3203 Ghislaine Maxwell ?

    • @martin3203
      @martin3203 3 роки тому

      @@ernstwiltmann6 What about that horrible woman?

  • @Musrusticus-
    @Musrusticus- 3 роки тому +23

    Having worked closely with lots of women I am always surprised as to why they so often enjoy a perceived almost saintly virtue. Possibly it is because males are taught to think that way?

    • @fenderOCG
      @fenderOCG 3 роки тому +16

      Who's going to call out their shitty behaviour? they can destroy your life with a single allegation, no proof required.

    • @thomasdemay9805
      @thomasdemay9805 3 роки тому +4

      it's human nature. "instinctual" behavior conditioned over thousands of years before the industrial revolution. Sexual, interpersonal, societal gender roles, myth, religion etc. It's obviously a fallacy but it's instinctual behavior at this point and not something that will be changed irregardless of what SJW types believe.

    • @redtobertshateshandles
      @redtobertshateshandles 3 роки тому

      My grandmother died when my dad was 8 years old. There's your saint analogy. I agree.

    • @David-ni5hj
      @David-ni5hj 3 роки тому

      It is because it's what males want to believe and what women enjoy to be seen at as it gives them power over them

    • @williamegler8771
      @williamegler8771 3 роки тому +3

      I work with a lot of women to.
      A majority of them are two faced and even though several are married or in long term relationships they will drop their panties to the Easter bunny.
      Few angels ....

  • @Tito_Viera
    @Tito_Viera 3 роки тому +9

    Hey Mark, imagine that you have talent for acting, and a movie producer offers you interpreting a WW2 character, the one you want, no conditions. What would be your choice? Greetings from Chile, love your videos!!

    • @Sqwaush
      @Sqwaush 3 роки тому +1

      This is a good question

  • @kedeglow2743
    @kedeglow2743 2 роки тому +1

    I'm a very earthy, nurturing woman. It boggles my mind to even try to understand how these "women" could become such monsters.

  • @boris1387
    @boris1387 3 роки тому +23

    And people STILL deny these atrocities happened 😔😢

    • @gammon1183
      @gammon1183 3 роки тому +4

      Reading the comments there are few of those appalling creatures here with the vile agenda of denial.

    • @toserveman9317
      @toserveman9317 3 роки тому

      Nonsense.

  • @peterbellini6102
    @peterbellini6102 3 роки тому +17

    There is absolutely nothing, NOTHING that one human being has not done to another. God help us!

  • @tractorpoodle
    @tractorpoodle 2 роки тому +1

    A cheerful group. I wonder what percentage of people like this are among us but never have the opportunity to engage in that level of cruelty, but rather inflict less recognizable but nevertheless significant harm on others on a daily basis?

  • @MrStephen182
    @MrStephen182 3 роки тому +7

    Because of sexism women in those days were only really seen as being used and not seen to doing it because they enjoyed it. People were a lot more sexist back then. If this happened in the 21st century we would never be so lenient on these women.

  • @jeffmutrie227
    @jeffmutrie227 2 роки тому +1

    I've always wondered if the destruction of Germany's supply chain in the last 6 months of the war contributed to the emancipation of concentration camp prisoners?

  • @AgentSmith911
    @AgentSmith911 3 роки тому +2

    Another interesting part of female sadism during WW2 is the horrors of Croatian killings of Serbians. In some monasteries and churches nuns used to kill kids and babies while priests killed men and women.

  • @LlywelynapGruffydd
    @LlywelynapGruffydd 2 роки тому +1

    SECOND BEST CHANNEL ON UA-cam.

  • @roadrunner_meepmeep
    @roadrunner_meepmeep 5 місяців тому +1

    When I was held imprisoned on a false conviction in a US prison, there were female guards.
    They actually were quite nice and just there to earn a paycheck. One of them saved my bwtt.
    The warden though was female, and she was more of a Darth Vader type and dressed like it.
    The real criminals were not the guards, but the fraudulent justice system and the jury that put me there. Those fine upstanding citizens. I won' my appeal and walked out the front door 3 years later, and received no apology for the great expense to my family and my life. The real cost was not the 3 years, but the 25 years afterwards of being bitter and unforgiving about it. The US government destroyed my life. I haaattteee them so much. They are true evil.

  • @Shay-bp7yt
    @Shay-bp7yt 3 роки тому +9

    The people in these camps I feel so sorry for.

  • @grantlilly4224
    @grantlilly4224 3 роки тому +3

    Ilan Omar would have fit in perfectly

  • @crimony3054
    @crimony3054 3 роки тому +8

    He forgot to say many found work in America as elementary school teachers.

  • @durbanbudz
    @durbanbudz 3 роки тому +19

    They may have escaped Earthly justice, but they will have to face their Maker at the end of their lives.

    • @rogersheddy6414
      @rogersheddy6414 3 роки тому +1

      @@Handle1309
      You'd be surprised at how long forever can be...

  • @mn2009
    @mn2009 2 роки тому +1

    What blows my mind is that this was almost like yesterday. Also the scale of destruction and murder is still too much to even comprehend unless you lived it. I remember seeing a documentary with bodies piled about high going for as long as the camera could see. Truly disturbing.

  • @JohnKobaRuddy
    @JohnKobaRuddy 3 роки тому +7

    Three times I’ve typed something about women and they’ve been deleted three times within 16 seconds

  • @LK-bz9sk
    @LK-bz9sk 3 роки тому +15

    Why I don't go out on blind dates.

  • @janedeane3656
    @janedeane3656 3 роки тому +30

    Can u imagine one of these lady’s husbands leave his socks on the floor? 😅 EDIT: I did not realize this would actually be in the documentary, I was just kidding but it’s sort of sad she was not :(

    • @johnbradley5236
      @johnbradley5236 3 роки тому +6

      Even an asshole like myself wouldn't crack a joke on here. At least I know I'm not the biggest asshole online.

  • @Rob22511
    @Rob22511 2 роки тому

    I always find Mark Felton documentaries are the best.

  • @juleswins3
    @juleswins3 3 роки тому +518

    My first job out of high school was washing dishes in a restaurant owned by a Czech concentration camp survivor. The commandant of the camp was a woman. He told me some of the things he saw her do and it would chill your blood. He escaped the camp as a dead man, then worked with the Underground helping other escapees and hiding civilians. The female commandant was hanged by the British when they liberated the camp.

    • @RabenmundK
      @RabenmundK 2 роки тому +75

      German here: No concentration camp had a female commandant. There where women in high-ranking positions, sure. Some like Ilse Koch or Irma Greese perpetuated and orchestrated atrocities, sure. But in the end they where below the "Lagerkommandant" ( commander of the camp) in the hierarchy.
      I dont doubt that your Czech buddie endured horrible things, but he seems to have misremembered or confused that detail.

    • @radityapoerwanto7018
      @radityapoerwanto7018 2 роки тому +105

      @@RabenmundK To be fair to the Czech Guy, he probably doesnt know how the Hieararchy work. He probably see that this Woman is in a posisition of power and assume she is the head of the camp.

    • @marcconnelly5652
      @marcconnelly5652 2 роки тому +11

      Which camp was it and what was the female guards name? They said that the female guards were hanged

    • @MyMatK
      @MyMatK 2 роки тому +23

      A female concetration camp was located in Protectorate Bohmen und Mahren, in Zwodau ( Svatava) close to Falkenau ( Sokolov) around 10.000 women during a war. They was forced to work in worst condition. Often they was used for medical examination on womens and childrens.

    • @505time3
      @505time3 2 роки тому +1

      @@RabenmundK I know he was caping

  • @WeldonHenson
    @WeldonHenson 3 роки тому +3018

    As a student of history for 25 years and especially in WWII, I've always shied away from saying anything political in regards to these type of videos etc.. But in recent years I have noticed that whenever I strike up a conversation or vice versa about these type of events, it seems I now get instantly ridiculed for knowing actual history by the same folks who refuse to study history or that refuse to acknowledge it because it doesn't go along with what they perceive as factual. I do believe we are in for dark days ahead and as the old cliche goes, which I hate saying, "history repeats itself."

    • @kevinbautsch
      @kevinbautsch 3 роки тому +223

      I think you're right man. We're headed for dark days indeed. When it comes to people, anything goes it seems.

    • @aliray1165
      @aliray1165 3 роки тому +234

      People who cannot think for themselves are a danger to themselves and others, and for the rest who have to deal with the upshot of their ignorance, total frustration.

    • @kevinbautsch
      @kevinbautsch 3 роки тому +20

      @Nekkepen Ecke Us Germans sure had a lot of rain though.

    • @kevinbautsch
      @kevinbautsch 3 роки тому +17

      @Nekkepen Ecke Ich hoffe auf bessere Tage für Deutschland.

    • @jonathanbaron-crangle5093
      @jonathanbaron-crangle5093 3 роки тому +15

      Should check out Tuberville's inane comment about why WW2 was fought..

  • @drvee1983
    @drvee1983 3 роки тому +1774

    Evil and horrible acts are not limited to gender. This should be shown in all high schools. No one should forget. Thank you for posting.

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron 3 роки тому +21

      Along with further balanced fare and open debates I would go for after that horror of War yet we've reached a far similar state of societal order now than you clearly ignore..

    • @Baskerville22
      @Baskerville22 3 роки тому +11

      No, it should not be shown in high schools. For what purpose would you show it ? Haven't you ever heard of history books ?

    • @drvee1983
      @drvee1983 3 роки тому +75

      Because of the power of video, and the spoken word. It needs to horrify and awaken young adults of the capacity of uncontrolled hate and tyranny, and recognize it. To help prevent it from ever happening again.

    • @Baskerville22
      @Baskerville22 3 роки тому +8

      @Captain Obvious No doubt you restrict your 'learning' to UA-cam and possibly the more violent products of Hollywood. That's hardly a basis for understanding our world and its past. History, real history, should be taught whether or not its "interesting". Rather curious that you consider the Nazi crimes of WW2 as merely "mistakes". I suspect that your "interest" in the subject here is rather superficial. Perhaps a name change to "Captain Oblivious"?

    • @DaveSCameron
      @DaveSCameron 3 роки тому +2

      @@Baskerville22 I must concur and hardly see grammar as a top 10 when our very history is concerned.

  • @garthfaragher8683
    @garthfaragher8683 3 роки тому +62

    I'm nearly fifty years old and honestly thought I knew a lot about the second world war..... HOW WRONG WAS I!!
    Mark is an absolute star.

    • @robd1329
      @robd1329 3 роки тому +2

      I didnt know they had female ss guards. Thought it was all run by men unless they needed a secretary

    • @nothanks9503
      @nothanks9503 7 місяців тому

      Did you know about the human breeding farms I just learned about that recently

  • @ryrify
    @ryrify 3 роки тому +624

    You are an incredible writer, narrator, and producer. I am a huge supporter of all your work. The care, compassion, and detail you clearly put into the research and crafting of these videos is amazing. I can’t believe you’re a one man team. Just awesome.

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 3 роки тому +15

      I read a book about the concentration camps that actually discussed these women, the female prisoners described how the "blitz maidens" would actually jump on tables and crack their whips at any prisoner they could reach for intimidation purposes. They were maniacs and would inflict brutal beatings if angered. Absolutely horrific.

    • @hugbug4408
      @hugbug4408 3 роки тому +11

      @@thunderbird1921 What goes around comes around. The Japanese regulars were just, or evan, more brutal and finatical than ss!

    • @taichihead42
      @taichihead42 3 роки тому

      Hes a lying bastard who suited himself on what way he wants to spin history. Do your research on Churchill, Rosvelt and Stalin and you will see they all started the war in Europe not Hilter.

    • @W123W116
      @W123W116 2 роки тому +2

      @@taichihead42 look it up it is true

    • @W123W116
      @W123W116 2 роки тому +1

      @@hugbug4408 japan, a proud nation, never defeated before, now bomebd to death... compare to native americans

  • @artisaprimus6306
    @artisaprimus6306 Рік тому +104

    Each passing generation becomes less aware of these horrible events. It's important to constantly remind people of the cruelty and hatred unleashed when the wrong people gain political power. Some say this could never happen again, but it has in various forms. Perhaps not exactly the same conditions,but torture and murder hidden from view still takes place.

    • @tirushone6446
      @tirushone6446 Рік тому +4

      based and true

    • @dawitmenelik
      @dawitmenelik Рік тому

      Agreed. Thats why black lives matter is crucial: just as a consistent reminder of the inhumane atrocities comited by those evils for 400 years.

    • @TheGuiltsOfUs
      @TheGuiltsOfUs Рік тому

      It is happening again in china

    • @hinaynihorvath3926
      @hinaynihorvath3926 Рік тому

      by choice

  • @joearkle1327
    @joearkle1327 3 роки тому +677

    My great uncle William arkle was one of the British soldiers who librated belson he often said you could smell the camp three miles away it was heart breaking and was totally disgusted at what they found on arriving

    • @sky-ti9fy
      @sky-ti9fy 3 роки тому +45

      @JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE These women were German women employed in the camp, they got a salary for their "work". I am Polish and I know a lot from eyewitnesses. It is a pity that so many books and stories of former prisoners are not translated into English.

    • @robsmith1359
      @robsmith1359 3 роки тому +29

      My paternal grandfather was also one of the first in there. He never forgot til the day he died. He never forgave the Germans for what he saw there. He wouldn't even visit my parents in Germany when my father was stationed there in the early eighties.

    • @immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918
      @immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918 3 роки тому +42

      What confounds me is with that OVERWHELMING stink of putrification, and incineration, how in the HELL did locals not have any idea what was going on? They HAD to know!

    • @joearkle1327
      @joearkle1327 3 роки тому +32

      They villagers could smell it but were in denial the British troops dragged them all in to the camp to show what had been going on half of them puked up and some fled back to there village

    • @joearkle1327
      @joearkle1327 3 роки тому +37

      @@billyjoel6352 REALLY. well thanks for the history lesson BILL, however i do not believe the british killed any inmates and as for the bombing tough luck thats what happens when a nation follows a mad dictator who would have dominated europe and gassed anyone he thought of as inferior

  • @nosignal88
    @nosignal88 3 роки тому +355

    As a student of history, thank you ever so much Dr Felton for all of your contributions to the field.

  • @yardslammer009kennedy2
    @yardslammer009kennedy2 2 роки тому +19

    In case anybody's wondering the image in the thumbnail is from a Polish war film from 1948 called The Last Stage.👍

  • @Springbok295
    @Springbok295 3 роки тому +835

    Take an average person and give them a uniform and a license to do anything they want. Watch the results. The Stanford Experiment comes to mind.

    • @abrahkadabra9501
      @abrahkadabra9501 3 роки тому +78

      I think of Abu Grhaib prison, Iraq in 2004 during the US occupation. Similar dynamic there as well.

    • @demonprinces17
      @demonprinces17 3 роки тому +48

      @@abrahkadabra9501 the people's enclaves in Portland

    • @chainoad
      @chainoad 3 роки тому +32

      @@demonprinces17
      Get lost troll. The left in the US may have done a lot of stupid things, but nobody was tortured or killed.

    • @chainoad
      @chainoad 3 роки тому +38

      I agree with the general idea of your post, but the "Stanford experiment" has been discredited long time ago.

    • @demonprinces17
      @demonprinces17 3 роки тому +37

      @@chainoad how many did the BLM police murder in the Portland free zones, and let's mentioned any Democratics city that had a riot.
      It's you that's the troll for supporting state sponsored murder

  • @eriksixx1226
    @eriksixx1226 3 роки тому +428

    How easily the human becomes evil when there is no thought of repercussions.

    • @aboveitall1653
      @aboveitall1653 3 роки тому +22

      SOME HUMANS BECOME EVIL when there is no thought of repercussions. MANY HUMANS WOULD NEVER DO SUCH THINGS, but there are some who are just "itching" for the chance to "come out" and show their true evil and crazy side, or even their true evil and crazy personality, which they can sometimes keep hidden, sometimes for decades, sometimes even from family and friends.

    • @ih302
      @ih302 3 роки тому +8

      @Antivaxxer Ccp hater You are in a cult, seek help.

    • @deanpd3402
      @deanpd3402 3 роки тому +11

      @@ih302 and you are as blind to modern day fascism as blind can be. You will no doubt cry, 'we we're only following orders', when they bring you to trial.

    • @ih302
      @ih302 3 роки тому +2

      @@deanpd3402 LOL, you know nothing about me.

    • @ih302
      @ih302 3 роки тому +1

      @Jim Kalpa Yep, none of the nonsense that's been going on in the US that's for sure...

  • @user-lx5ue4wm5k
    @user-lx5ue4wm5k 2 роки тому +4

    Women even today get it easier when it comes to jail time .it a woman's world my friends

  • @markordonez9220
    @markordonez9220 3 роки тому +62

    This is something I don’t ever want to forget. It’s horrible and disgusting. But it has to be remembered and studied. Thank you mark for your doing this.

  • @nosirx
    @nosirx 3 роки тому +642

    This should have been presented for Women's History Month.

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 3 роки тому +166

      Would be an interesting subject for a university women's studies course. But they would most likely be protrayed as victims.

    • @oldranger649
      @oldranger649 3 роки тому +31

      well said

    • @kwestionariusz1
      @kwestionariusz1 3 роки тому +33

      @@amber4351 Said feminazi we are talking about you idols😏

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 3 роки тому +34

      @@amber4351 Nice descriptive prose. Even got the sewer language and a threat in also. Your English comp teacher would be so proud.

    • @nosirx
      @nosirx 3 роки тому +21

      @@amber4351 lol What, the NAZIesque list that you are creating? How ironic.

  • @r2gelfand
    @r2gelfand 3 роки тому +187

    Corrie Ten Boom, a fairly well known Christian, lived at Ravensbruck for a time. She survived it because of an 'administrative glitch' causing her to be released. She tells of a time in postwar Germany that she met up with one of her former guards in a church service she was speaking at. Corrie's sister was incarcerated there as well, but she perished at the camp prior to Corries release.

    • @jsunit5354
      @jsunit5354 3 роки тому +18

      I met her in the late 1950's and visited with her before a church event later that evening.

    • @FranciscanGypsy
      @FranciscanGypsy 2 роки тому +10

      I found her books so powerful as a kid. I think that they really brought the brutality of the camps home to me.

    • @juliepowers1246
      @juliepowers1246 2 роки тому +15

      Powerful story told by an amazing woman. I remember seeing The Hiding Place when I was a teen and it impacted me forever. Her unwavering faith in God is humbling.

    • @tabsabs3390
      @tabsabs3390 2 роки тому +9

      The Hiding Place (by Corrie Ten Boom) is an unforgettable book. I think of it a lot in these trying times.

    • @sassycat6487
      @sassycat6487 7 місяців тому +1

      @@jsunit5354 wow, how old are you?

  • @chunjiang3514
    @chunjiang3514 3 роки тому +537

    It's incredibly unsatisfying so many of these sadistic guards managed to walk away with barely any punishment

    • @jacenkun2931
      @jacenkun2931 3 роки тому +10

      Punishment for what?

    • @dansgsds
      @dansgsds 3 роки тому +56

      @@jacenkun2931 this jerkoff is probably 12 years old 👆

    • @noambelder5850
      @noambelder5850 3 роки тому +90

      @@jacenkun2931 Murdering and torturing innocent people?

    • @jacenkun2931
      @jacenkun2931 3 роки тому +22

      @@noambelder5850 yes the Bolsheviks the Soviets murdered tortured starved and killed a lot of people in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet States estimates are over 200 million. But why is that not talked about? The hell is wrong with you if you're going to ignore it

    • @OLzSStolz
      @OLzSStolz 3 роки тому +86

      @John Macmillan, don't change the subject dude. This video is not about the NKVD and its atrocities. I guess you distract peoples attention on purpose trying to persuade people that the crimes of these women were "ordinary".

  • @cassiecraft8856
    @cassiecraft8856 3 роки тому +104

    I really do appreciate the light that you shed on the darkness that was WWII. I believe that we should know about the cruel acts of sadism perpetrated by men and women against their fellow men and women. It should move us to be more loving and kind to each other, and especially appreciate what we do have, and the freedom that we share. Thank You Mark.

  • @GertrudePerkins
    @GertrudePerkins 3 роки тому +852

    My late grandfather was one of the allied servicemen who helped with the liberation and relief effort at Bergen Belsen. What pictures can never describe is the SMELL of the place. My grandfather used to say you can smell the place before you could even see it. And upon entering, things only got worse. My grandfather was about 25 when he helped with the liberation and relief effort.

    • @mombaassa
      @mombaassa 3 роки тому +28

      Did your late grandfather, ever tell you what he thought of these holocaust deniers?

    • @creightonjason
      @creightonjason 3 роки тому +62

      Same with my Grandfather, he said the worst part was stopping starving people from getting food.

    • @reneegiese6315
      @reneegiese6315 3 роки тому +26

      @@creightonjason Those crimes, never again!!!

    • @10ampsloblo21
      @10ampsloblo21 3 роки тому +40

      My uncle Raymond was a medic in ww2 he told me people were laying in boxes to frail to walk he would give them his orange marmalade He never really talked much about doing his duty in Normandy.

    • @bojanrian6622
      @bojanrian6622 3 роки тому +66

      @@danluzurriaga6035 Too much food too soon can be fatal, especially for the seriously malnourished like these poor souls.
      www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322120

  • @ianclark1122
    @ianclark1122 3 роки тому +62

    Dear Mr Felton, yet another brilliant piece of work by you and your team. Sadly, for all the wrong reasons. Horrifying.

  • @brunosp86
    @brunosp86 3 роки тому +77

    OMG this is absolutely staggering... so many guards were released without standing trial and lived quiet lives after commiting war crimes.

    • @edoedo8686
      @edoedo8686 3 роки тому +12

      Yes, extremely disturbing.

    • @charleshowie2074
      @charleshowie2074 2 роки тому +3

      What do you expect to happen?

    • @martinezdjm
      @martinezdjm 2 роки тому +6

      Monsters living among us.

    • @animaltvi9515
      @animaltvi9515 2 роки тому +6

      That's probably because some of the guards had no choice but to do as they were told. Or be shot.

    • @DrJones20
      @DrJones20 2 роки тому +5

      @@animaltvi9515 Wrong. Watch the video again