My Grandfather who just turned 100 and was a guard at Nuremberg, he became a D.P. from Lithuania. Your research helps me think of historical questions to ask him. Thank you, I truly appreciate your hard work!
@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton you've inspired me to film him sharing his experiences. I've already gotten good stories from him about Ilse Koch and her mission to get pregnant in prison, and the bizarre things Rudolph Hess would do. Thanks again for your research!
I must say, that this is perhaps one of the only channels on UA-cam where one can learn as much in the comments section as you do watching the videos themselves.
Thank God for Mark Felton for being an authentic, truthful historian without political slant. He would have been admired by my father, who fought in Patton’s army, and my uncles, who fought the Japanese, including Iwo Jima. Like most vets of WWII, they never spoke of it. One uncle’s unit received a presidential citation; after the war, he re-enlisted and served in Korea.
The Gestapo showed up in Paris before the Army. They had a meeting with French Police departments.The Police were given lists of people the Gestapo wanted rounded up. The Olympic stadium became a collection area. Giving your own citizens to your enemy is the worst kind of traitor.
Has anybody wondered why Paris was never bombed? Has anybody have a take on how small, poor or ineffectual the French resistance really where in comparison to other resistance groups, especially the Yugoslav partisans? How come the vast majority of the French population rarely helped the freedom fighters or antagonized the occupiers? Anybody wonders how the majority of the population, politicians, the church and other official establishment openly collaborated with the Germans? Can anybody explain to me how come the French where given a buffer state with practically total power of self government as Vichy France?......Does anybody wonder why the RN destroyed the French Navy in Oran before they capitulated and readily surrendered their ships to Nazi Germany? Me thinks a documentary is in order!
@@eliottsantos2654 i've always wondered why the French never mobilized African Colonial forces. They millions of people living in the colonies. They could have overwhelmed Germans by sheer numbers alone.
@@CoolGobyFish So true. They sent a miniscule number of Senegalese troops to the western front who the German propaganda gladly filmed eating and playing, basically stating their inferiority and subhuman behaviour compared to the Arian Race. I wonder what happened to them!!!!!!!
@@CoolGobyFish In comparison to Britain's African troops, who where few in numbers, the French had a huge cadre of African troops, especially North African and Senegalese Regiments, plus the Legion, with many of them already deployed in Europe. British West Indians and Africans did volunteer to fight in Europe although in restricted numbers. The main resource of British Colonial troops obviously came from the Indian subcontinent, who like in WWI, fought magnificently in all the theatres of War. The pity is that French Colonial troops proved the mettle later on in the war...North African mountain troops with their Polish counterparts where crucial in the flanking movement at Monte Cassino which ended that bloody battle.
minor correction: Hafez al-Assad wasn't president of Syria after it gained independence from France in 1946, he came to power after the Baathist coup of 1963
@@sabrinsawaid5259 that was the year he officially became president but he had de facto control over the country for longer than that, the various coups and power struggles from 1963-1970 aren't worth getting into the weeds on but the decisive coup for Baath party (hence Assad) rule in Syria was the coup of 1963 and it is literally correct to say he came to power *after* that coup
Mark, hands down you make the best historical videos. You are a great narrator. Your accent and voice are amazing. Keep them coming and I will keep on watching. Thanks Mark.
@Barry Baz If you've got an adblocker you'll not see them, hence the channels that do their own ads 1/2 way through. I've tried with adblock off but most channels are unwatchable.
@@IMBlakeley yikes but ads are literally how creators like him are able to get paid and do what they do and idk about you but I certainly don't mind watching those ads when they mean my favorite creators are fed, housed, clothed and able to continue creating the things I love but apparently that's only me??
Wow, I am absolutely astonished to learn that about the French police and the level of cooperation that existed between them and the SS. I had to listen to that part a few times!
I felt the same way until watching this video. PRESIDENT ASSAD IS A GOOD LEADER. THE WOMD MADE BY SADDAM HUSSEIN - - WHICH TRAITOR PRESIDENT BUSH CLAIMED DID NOT EXIST -- WERE IN SYRIA, THE MILITARY PLACED THEM ON A RETIRED NAVY SHIP IN A MULTI TON SEALED CONTAINER AND SUNK THE SHIP IN AN UNDISCLOSED PART OF THE OCEAN IN 2014. OBAMA ONLY ALLOWED COLIN POWELL A 5 MIN NEWS FLASH ON PBS TO REPORT THIS MAJOR EVENT! This only reflects the lies coming out of US Foreign Policy, which is pathetic AND criminal due to deliberate false information. The CFR should be shut down also! See my other comment. My blog is ad-free and unmonitored. Copy what you want. Just be aware that Blogger has damaged the formatting and the Table Of Contents no longer works to link to. Thanks to the corruption of Blogger satisfying the corruption of dirty politicians in Washington, DC PubliusRoots.com
The fact that we are still talking about ww2 almost 80 years after speaks volumes in historical aspects. Thank you Dr.Mark ./ This guy here though earned his ticket to hell .
Thanks Mark for the reminding us of how these guys operated. Worth watching Marcel Ophul’s 1969 Resistance documentary 'The Sorrow and the Pity'. A lot more French collaborated with the Germans than we think...the police, the railways and local governments.
When my father was in the American Army in France his mother sent him the address of the house her protestant ancestors had been driven out of in 1624. My dad drove by in his Jeep to find the Catholics still occupying the house. They made it very clear they preferred the well-mannered, sophisticated Germans to the loutish American yokels. The French have managed to present a positive picture of their role in the war. But they were pretty much on the side of who looked like they were going to win.
Another masterclass in historical narration; you are a consummate professional and in my opinion the world's preeminent World War historian. You've done a good job bridging the gap between "pop history" and an academic understanding of the subject, a la Shelby Foote' with the U.S. Civil War. I've read "Castles of the Eagles", "Ghost Riders", "Zero Night" and "Before Barbed Wire"; you have become had a major impact upon how I read, write and generally approach history. I intend to start a channel within the year (albeit on a different historical topic) and the decision to do so was influenced in no small part by this channel.
I have to agree you, Sir Mark Felton, are the history teacher I should have had back in high school, I would have probably followed all the way to university and eventually a doctorate like you. What I had instead was a teacher telling to me to shut up because that's not what's written in his book and that if he doesn't lecture the book he gets fired. (I believe I was debating the facts behind 1930's germany and bringing up important side-events to the subjects, he called me after class and told me I was right and it was amazing to see kids enjoy history so much but that this wasn't the place). Needless to say if school is not the place to learn and share, I was pretty much done with school.
@PatTheRiot THE ASSAD FAMILY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH LETTING THIS NAZI WAR LORD MURDERER IN SYRIA! The information in this video is DECEPTIVE, seemingly to humor the poor leadership which exists in USA. In my opinion, this video should be taken down. It only feeds the propaganda of horrible Foreign Policy by USA Gov! Syrian Republic (1945-1958) Quwatli was ousted from power on 29 March 1949 by Husni al-Za'im, his Chief of Staff. Za'im was overthrown by a military coup in 1949 led by Adib Shishakli, he was later executed on the orders of the new government.
@@annebradley6086 Rule #1 of any Historian or actually any department of life really, is to understand that truth is relative therefor non-existent in an absolute form. While I don't agree with all British-oriented perceptions, I sure appreciate the AMOUNT of information given. The rest is up to you really, weight in the rights and the wrongs, do your own research and come to your conclusions, then share your knowledge with those who are craving it :)
I have been a fan of this channel since it's conception. Never have I been disappointed. Many thanks to you, for all the time and effort you put in. Cheers from the Colonies (Canada) Mr. Felton.
I really enjoy listening to your war stories. I've always found WW2 interesting to me. I don't know why but please keep the stories coming. Thank you Valerie Rochte
OMG Dr. Felton, the tears are streaming down my face in the cruelty. We as humans can show no moral self control, or spiritual beliefs religious or not. That having no level of barbaric behaviour or torture, is to much makes me sick of our species. How can you freely allow just a few to go free in massacring of or fellow humans. To send children freely knowing what was to become of them is making me I’ll, as a father myself! This episode has hit me hard as my aunt and family fled Nazi German in 1939. After she seen first hard the horrors of their own people! Thank you Dr. Felton making me feel alive again. In wanting every mass murderer of our fellow world citizens brought to justice. Especially those who erase another’s life on how they look, or how they look behave from the so called ‘normal’. My aunt seen it and explained very well about it in my teenage years.
He was born in Rohrbrunn (Nádkút). This village was originally (till 1920) part of Hungary. Yes, he was austrian origin, but maybe some part of his ancestors were Hungarians, etc. Somebody should definitely make a deep research about this major nazi figure and his ancestry.
Excellent account. Thank you Mark Felton. Though we may never know how Brunner's life ended exactly, I note there are reports, deemed credible by Nazi hunter Klarsfeld, that the Syrian regime eventually decided it had no more use for Brunner and so he died a miserable solitary death 'in a basement in 2001', as the Times of Israel put it.
That makes sense. I sort of ‘understand’ giving the Nazis an foreign home after 1945 because they still had money, art & perhaps some political power, but if I were a ruthless leader (like al Assad), I’d off them all after I’d exhausted their coffers, maybe 10 years later. Don’t know why you’d bother keeping a Nazi alive when they had no power & you’ve got their money?
@@jussitikkuri6991 Quite possibly. Blatantly killing the ex-Nazis might raise too many red flags from within some more sympathetic sectors of the government, which could lead to a few 'sparks' in a country already grapping with its own fascistic tendencies (i.e. might help facilitate a coup - or God help us, a _revolution_ - the last thing any budding dictator wants).
For generations the French managed to be considered the most humanistic people. Thanks to historians like you, one can see their true colours. Keep this amazing good work of yours.
@@dante666jt I have not idea why your comment appears as a reply of mine, in any case I have to tell you that although I don't like the French and their arrogant ways, I truly enjoy their baguettes and their singers.
My Father went ashore on June 8th or 9th 1944 in Normandy. He did not talk to me much about his experiences, but he did state that the French Resistance was more myth than fact. He told me of French woman that would hang a lamp in the window of her house next to their location at night to give the German bombers a reference point.
@@1697djh Pure conjecture. He was too recognizable to slip away even using the rat lines. Plus by 1945 his health was bad, he had a very bad tremor in his hands, possibly the onset of Parkinson's disease.
"He remained on the run until recently". Yeah I dont think thats exactly how I would describe what happened to him. He lived a nice comfy life protected by government security forces to avoid the same fate as what had happened to Eichmann.
Art Bell and there’s also Leon Degrelle, a Belgian Nazi sympathizer, who was famous for making it out of Berlin fleeing the Red Army on a small plane and managed to land it all the way to San Sebastián in Spain, where he was given asylum and lived a comfortable quiet life until he died in the 90s.
Syrian governments were, and still are heavily influenced by the methods of the Third Reich. If you hear a co-worker in the West express admiration for them, then you know what you are hearing.
@Art Bell very poor. I had an old Ukrainian living across the road here in UK. He was married to a polish lady. It's only when he died and we were helping to clear his house, we found literature of Ukrainian nationalists - nazi collaborants. Who knows he may have even been a member of SS Galicia. Turned out he was a war prisoner here in UK. Lived a prosperous life in a posh area of our city. This sort of stuff is beyond me.
@@egord9101 what's crazy is the current Ukrainian government made heros of these people. there marches to hnor SS Galicia and other nazi collaborators. very shameful
You can bet on that. It makes me sad that this man was not brought to justice. I think the Allies should have done more to round up all of these people. But with the world so messed up what could they have really done.
@James Brown there are no Coptic christians in syria. Nor enslaved christians. In fact christians were among the least affected by the syrian war, and some rural christian areas have served as artillery installations to bomb predominantly muslim neighbourhoods to rubble. You clearly have zero idea what ur talking abt
@Alawite Muslim Defence League no, one does not read such 'facts' until you make them up. Instant 'facts', you have such 'facts', whatever you care to invent. You only write fascist bs.
Idk who stereotypes all Germans as being blonde with blue eyes. That's just the Aryan race the Nazis desired. And the ones who desired it almost never met the standards
@@AndyJarman yea let's just say screw Dr. Mark when he gives us such awesome stuff to watch on both of his channels, he deserves all the money he can get off of this UA-cam thing for teaching the facts. He's awesome ill gladly watch his ads
Mark, thanks so very much for making these videos, I find them riveting and brilliant historical documentaries. Worth every minute I spend watched them.
beckys2222 Oh ladies you have totally misjudged me, which isn’t unexpected in world of feminists who are busy emasculating beta men. I am not one of those and I am not a white knight. I am one of those people who will inherit this earth shortly. A modern warrior which unlike those before me doesn’t have a moral objection to the things you’re grandparents would not have done. I personally have zero respect for any weak feminine man who would walk to his own execution. I do however have sympathy for women and children because they are weak. YOU ARE WEAK.
If it is the same cache I heard about they were not, the French army used stg 44s after the war and either forgot about the cache when Syria was decolonized or the weapons were sold to the new government when the French sold some of their other confiscated German equipment.
I really love listening to these while doing chores. I wish they were available on Spotify so I could listen to them on mobile without draining my battery.
Wow. Thank you. Lack of interest by Cologne prosecutors in 1987 - sad but not super surprising. There were still loads of officials with dirty pasts around then. All the old guys you met around that time said they fought on the Eastern Front, never anywhere else. We always thought that was odd.
James- a 97 year old Austrian who died here in new zealand in august 2020 was discovered too have been in ''das Reich S.S. division and had won two Iron Cross's in Russia and France- @@@ his name is Williem Huber.
His into song always makes me feel like I’m spawning in on BF lol what a gold mine of a channel!! Best way to wind down my day is to hear epic war stories
@@boxwoodgreen God does not exist! And if God existed, he would be responsible for infinitely more death and suffering than the Nazis ever were ... he would actually be responsible for all death and suffering, including what the Nazis did, he would be responsible for the very existence of the Nazis!
It would be interesting to see a documentary on the Krupp family .henkel . Thyssen and other industrialists that were the money makers of the ww2, and why they were not held to account for there deeds before during and after ww2 . Obviously money talks or in there cases , didn’t talk
I know this is audio only, but you could show a few extra photos. Grab some of your faves related to the topic and throw them on the editing time line! Love everything about your show, topics, narration, editing and sheer amount of research you do. True artist.
I enjoy both your channels very much, this channel gets listened to in the car its great. I am very curious on your methods of gathering your info and making your videos, the effort that must be looked way into the future through boggles my mind.
Wow. Powerful story. Also thank you for telling me about the Treblinka commandant and how he felt he was just a policeman. Sad to see how the human mind justifies depravity
The photo on the description page is absolutely perfect ...you can see the fear and worry on the much older Alois even through his sunglasses ...whoever's taking his picture, he definitely noticed
Well death gets us all in the end. You can't get away from that.. and if there is a heaven or hell (and I believe there is) then he probably wishes now he would have been a different man..
Heaven and Hell exist only here on earth while you are alive forget the fairytales , and the concept of justice is also a myth when a sadistic bastard like this man gets to live in comfort to a ripe old age
What WE are able to do... god knows where this is happening today. West countries are blessed nowdays with no such shit happening. I'm kind of scared this might happen today in the future. It did in the past, not just once... Saying not to worry, this wont happen again is kind of ignorant - history tends to repeat and we are all same creatures we were back then...
Plenty were tried in France. Collaborators from other nations were generally tried in their own countries, to varying degrees. And certainly, some did get away with it.
Nobody really went after rank and file Nazi criminals until there were no more high ranking Nazis to go after. By then even the rank and file were old or dead, most escaping justice. If they had, there would have been hundreds of thousands to execute and there was no stomach for that, only symbolic justice with a few at the top and then the few that were left.
Another well researched production provided for our education by Dr. Felton. It is sobering to think about evil people like Alois Brunner being able to escape justice.
@Sky Commander nah, invading a country for weapons of mass destruction just to distribute the oil fields to his friends, causing the region to get fucked up, the culture and lifes of thousands. It is not a war crime at all...
@Sky Commander Lots of Wehrmacht generals were in prison for 10 y for Operation Barbarossa... Keep your head in the sand. Iraq war was immoral and criminal. Winners write the history after all...
According to one of his former guards in Syria Brunner died in 2001 in miserable poverty, having spent those "twilight years" living in a basement in near starvation conditions. But this video's version makes a better story. The Weisenthal Center had believed that he died in 2010 at the age of 97 or 98 (but is now reconsidering that), but that would have made him nearly 90 in 2001. It's certainly silly to think he might still be alive today, as some do. It seems more likely that he did, indeed, die in 2001 and that he wasn't quite the celebrated "hero" in Syria that we like to think he was. Instead, I believe he was something of a problem for the Syrians, and they didn't quite know what to do with him. At one point Hafez el-Assad was about to deport him to East Germany to face trial but the plan was derailed by the fall of the Berlin Wall. By that point he was obviously in disfavor with the Assad regime. They wouldn't have kept someone like that in luxurious and honored conditions.
No, all patriots will report communist activities that you see, nation-wrecking in your society. This could have prevented some of the 100 million deaths by Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, etc.
My Grandfather who just turned 100 and was a guard at Nuremberg, he became a D.P. from Lithuania. Your research helps me think of historical questions to ask him. Thank you, I truly appreciate your hard work!
You should record his answers for posterity - he is among only a handful of living witnesses.
@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton you've inspired me to film him sharing his experiences. I've already gotten good stories from him about Ilse Koch and her mission to get pregnant in prison, and the bizarre things Rudolph Hess would do. Thanks again for your research!
@@juliagulia6955 please share with Mark so we can all listen and learn!
@@juliagulia6955 could you upload it to youtube on your channel??
Great just make sure to film everything :) it is of historical importance
I must say, that this is perhaps one of the only channels on UA-cam where one can learn as much in the comments section as you do watching the videos themselves.
Scared for your internet literacy skills bro.
The truth really bites. Too scared to actually admit any new ideas into their head.
Thank God for Mark Felton for being an authentic, truthful historian without political slant. He would have been admired by my father, who fought in Patton’s army, and my uncles, who fought the Japanese, including Iwo Jima. Like most vets of WWII, they never spoke of it. One uncle’s unit received a presidential citation; after the war, he re-enlisted and served in Korea.
What a remarkable heritage you have in these men. That's why they were The Greatest Generation. They don't call them that for nothing.
The Gestapo showed up in Paris before the Army. They had a meeting with French Police departments.The Police were given lists of people the Gestapo wanted rounded up. The Olympic stadium became a collection area. Giving your own citizens to your enemy is the worst kind of traitor.
The Vichy government was one enormous traitorous organisation, war criminals in fact.
Has anybody wondered why Paris was never bombed? Has anybody have a take on how small, poor or ineffectual the French resistance really where in comparison to other resistance groups, especially the Yugoslav partisans? How come the vast majority of the French population rarely helped the freedom fighters or antagonized the occupiers? Anybody wonders how the majority of the population, politicians, the church and other official establishment openly collaborated with the Germans? Can anybody explain to me how come the French where given a buffer state with practically total power of self government as Vichy France?......Does anybody wonder why the RN destroyed the French Navy in Oran before they capitulated and readily surrendered their ships to Nazi Germany? Me thinks a documentary is in order!
@@eliottsantos2654 i've always wondered why the French never mobilized African Colonial forces. They millions of people living in the colonies. They could have overwhelmed Germans by sheer numbers alone.
@@CoolGobyFish So true. They sent a miniscule number of Senegalese troops to the western front who the German propaganda gladly filmed eating and playing, basically stating their inferiority and subhuman behaviour compared to the Arian Race. I wonder what happened to them!!!!!!!
@@CoolGobyFish In comparison to Britain's African troops, who where few in numbers, the French had a huge cadre of African troops, especially North African and Senegalese Regiments, plus the Legion, with many of them already deployed in Europe. British West Indians and Africans did volunteer to fight in Europe although in restricted numbers. The main resource of British Colonial troops obviously came from the Indian subcontinent, who like in WWI, fought magnificently in all the theatres of War. The pity is that French Colonial troops proved the mettle later on in the war...North African mountain troops with their Polish counterparts where crucial in the flanking movement at Monte Cassino which ended that bloody battle.
minor correction: Hafez al-Assad wasn't president of Syria after it gained independence from France in 1946, he came to power after the Baathist coup of 1963
It was Quwatli I think
One Assad was a prominent person at the time of independence.
As far as I remember. Could be wrong, ofcourse.
Al Assad got to power in 1970.
@@sabrinsawaid5259 that was the year he officially became president but he had de facto control over the country for longer than that, the various coups and power struggles from 1963-1970 aren't worth getting into the weeds on but the decisive coup for Baath party (hence Assad) rule in Syria was the coup of 1963 and it is literally correct to say he came to power *after* that coup
+@@TunnelSnakes_Rule Dictator. He was never a President. Left his son in power. Assad thinks he is king.
Mark, hands down you make the best historical videos. You are a great narrator. Your accent and voice are amazing. Keep them coming and I will keep on watching. Thanks Mark.
I had not heard of this man. Horrible. Thank you Mark for what you do so these men are never forgotten
The only UA-cam channel that I don't mind watching the adverts.
@Barry Baz If you've got an adblocker you'll not see them, hence the channels that do their own ads 1/2 way through. I've tried with adblock off but most channels are unwatchable.
Interestingly enough before this video I saw an ad for apartments.com featuring Jeff Goldblum.
IMBlakeley
Get UA-cam premium. Worth the money.
Jeffery Epstein Thanks Jeff!
@@IMBlakeley yikes but ads are literally how creators like him are able to get paid and do what they do and idk about you but I certainly don't mind watching those ads when they mean my favorite creators are fed, housed, clothed and able to continue creating the things I love but apparently that's only me??
Wow, I am absolutely astonished to learn that about the French police and the level of cooperation that existed between them and the SS. I had to listen to that part a few times!
To the victors go the spoils.
When Polish people say 'La Resistance', it usually is meant as a joke, rather than real oposition.
Yes the Vichy Government did like bending over for their Nazi Masters.
And the Dutch.
I know, I'm shocked,shows how we never really learn anything about history at School
Mark is so good at what he does .can watch his stuff for hours . !!!
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Dr Felton is truly a genius of history. Well done Sir. Mark. Bruner was pure Evil.
I could sit in his class 24/7
good guy4life Mr Brunners class or Mr Feltons class ? 😉
@@JohnMcMahon. Felton
I felt the same way until watching this video. PRESIDENT ASSAD IS A GOOD LEADER. THE WOMD MADE BY SADDAM HUSSEIN - - WHICH TRAITOR PRESIDENT BUSH CLAIMED DID NOT EXIST -- WERE IN SYRIA, THE MILITARY PLACED THEM ON A RETIRED NAVY SHIP IN A MULTI TON SEALED CONTAINER AND SUNK THE SHIP IN AN UNDISCLOSED PART OF THE OCEAN IN 2014. OBAMA ONLY ALLOWED COLIN POWELL A 5 MIN NEWS FLASH ON PBS TO REPORT THIS MAJOR EVENT!
This only reflects the lies coming out of US Foreign Policy, which is pathetic AND criminal due to deliberate false information. The CFR should be shut down also! See my other comment.
My blog is ad-free and unmonitored. Copy what you want. Just be aware that Blogger has damaged the formatting and the Table Of Contents no longer works to link to. Thanks to the corruption of Blogger satisfying the corruption of dirty politicians in Washington, DC
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@@JohnMcMahon. Both
Absolutely love the longform stuff mark, whether listening actively or passively i know i'm gonna learn something!
The fact that we are still talking about ww2 almost 80 years after speaks volumes in historical aspects. Thank you Dr.Mark ./ This guy here though earned his ticket to hell .
Not talking about it enough, it's starting to repeat or at least rhyme. Concentration camps in Australia, and China, covid fascists everywhere else.
"The tears of war shall provide the bread for future generations"
- Some Guy
80 years is nothing in the grand scale of human history and ww2 was the biggest event to ever happen. Of course we are still talking about it
I was born in ‘54 but feel like I lived through WWII
Thanks Mark for the reminding us of how these guys operated. Worth watching Marcel Ophul’s 1969 Resistance documentary 'The Sorrow and the Pity'. A lot more French collaborated with the Germans than we think...the police, the railways and local governments.
All "proof" anecdotal.
When my father was in the American Army in France his mother sent him the address of the house her protestant ancestors had been driven out of in 1624. My dad drove by in his Jeep to find the Catholics still occupying the house. They made it very clear they preferred the well-mannered, sophisticated Germans to the loutish American yokels. The French have managed to present a positive picture of their role in the war. But they were pretty much on the side of who looked like they were going to win.
@@markiobooker218 Silly troll.
Thank you Mark! Your war stories are real gems!
You stories and facts are great. You back up everything you do. Again thanks Mark
@Heinrich Himmler I think he, and yourself died years ago LOL
@Melanie Jarrett Free Palestine
Another masterclass in historical narration; you are a consummate professional and in my opinion the world's preeminent World War historian. You've done a good job bridging the gap between "pop history" and an academic understanding of the subject, a la Shelby Foote' with the U.S. Civil War. I've read "Castles of the Eagles", "Ghost Riders", "Zero Night" and "Before Barbed Wire"; you have become had a major impact upon how I read, write and generally approach history. I intend to start a channel within the year (albeit on a different historical topic) and the decision to do so was influenced in no small part by this channel.
I have to agree you, Sir Mark Felton, are the history teacher I should have had back in high school, I would have probably followed all the way to university and eventually a doctorate like you. What I had instead was a teacher telling to me to shut up because that's not what's written in his book and that if he doesn't lecture the book he gets fired. (I believe I was debating the facts behind 1930's germany and bringing up important side-events to the subjects, he called me after class and told me I was right and it was amazing to see kids enjoy history so much but that this wasn't the place). Needless to say if school is not the place to learn and share, I was pretty much done with school.
@PatTheRiot
THE ASSAD FAMILY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH LETTING THIS NAZI WAR LORD MURDERER IN SYRIA!
The information in this video is DECEPTIVE, seemingly to humor the poor leadership which exists in USA. In my opinion, this video should be taken down. It only feeds the propaganda of horrible Foreign Policy by USA Gov!
Syrian Republic (1945-1958)
Quwatli was ousted from power on 29 March 1949 by Husni al-Za'im, his Chief of Staff. Za'im was overthrown by a military coup in 1949 led by Adib Shishakli, he was later executed on the orders of the new government.
@@annebradley6086 but the Assad family had everything to do with making sure he was safe, taken care of, and guarded once in Syria.
I don't think Mark is actually a 'Sir'. But he should be! Someone inform the queen.
@@annebradley6086 Rule #1 of any Historian or actually any department of life really, is to understand that truth is relative therefor non-existent in an absolute form. While I don't agree with all British-oriented perceptions, I sure appreciate the AMOUNT of information given. The rest is up to you really, weight in the rights and the wrongs, do your own research and come to your conclusions, then share your knowledge with those who are craving it :)
@@zefft.f4010 Pun intended :)
All the Docs videos are excellant and should be curriculum in All schools, this is sweet stuff for history buffs.
It's like Lindybeige but more depressing.
Absolutely fantastic.
I have been a fan of this channel since it's conception. Never have I been disappointed. Many thanks to you, for all the time and effort you put in. Cheers from the Colonies (Canada) Mr. Felton.
I never fail to be disgusted in the standard at man's capacity for evil and brutality.
Just check out any of your local slaughterhouse and see it for yourself
Human*
@@aaroncousins4750 brutality other animals doesnt count? psychopaths start on family pets.
@@y_ffordd no. Some Humans are evil. Not just some men.
We need more of these stories Mark, they are great before bed listen
I really enjoy listening to your war stories. I've always found WW2 interesting to me. I don't know why but please keep the stories coming. Thank you Valerie Rochte
OMG Dr. Felton, the tears are streaming down my face in the cruelty. We as humans can show no moral self control, or spiritual beliefs religious or not. That having no level of barbaric behaviour or torture, is to much makes me sick of our species. How can you freely allow just a few to go free in massacring of or fellow humans.
To send children freely knowing what was to become of them is making me I’ll, as a father myself! This episode has hit me hard as my aunt and family fled Nazi German in 1939. After she seen first hard the horrors of their own people!
Thank you Dr. Felton making me feel alive again. In wanting every mass murderer of our fellow world citizens brought to justice. Especially those who erase another’s life on how they look, or how they look behave from the so called ‘normal’. My aunt seen it and explained very well about it in my teenage years.
The hate and willingness to hurt the hurters is your answer...ur part of the problem
Possibly the greatest series on youtube.
....Between your great channel and the Hoof GP on You Tube, I am greatly entertained and educated!
3:20 "Bruner didn't look particularly Aryan." You mean he wasn't tall like Goebbels, slim like Goering, and blond like Hitler?
@beckys2222 A race...where is it held...LOL
@@ericknutson8679 the autobahn
@beckys2222 Nah Hitler had famously blue eyes. But the OP's comment still stands
He was born in Rohrbrunn (Nádkút). This village was originally (till 1920) part of Hungary. Yes, he was austrian origin, but maybe some part of his ancestors were Hungarians, etc. Somebody should definitely make a deep research about this major nazi figure and his ancestry.
Read the book "Swastika Night" by Cathrine Burdeken now you have made this comment... trust me lol
Brilliant as always. Also a very sobering assessment on Brunners accomplices.
Excellent research and well presented. Looking forward to the next story.
This man is prolific with the content. I see a thumbnail and think it’s an oldie, Nope! Great work as always Dr. Felton.
Thank you kindly!
This was actually really interesting. All your videos are. But wow. They couldn’t get him. Crazy.
Great right before work. Thank you Mark.
Excellent account. Thank you Mark Felton. Though we may never know how Brunner's life ended exactly, I note there are reports, deemed credible by Nazi hunter Klarsfeld, that the Syrian regime eventually decided it had no more use for Brunner and so he died a miserable solitary death 'in a basement in 2001', as the Times of Israel put it.
That makes sense. I sort of ‘understand’ giving the Nazis an foreign home after 1945 because they still had money, art & perhaps some political power, but if I were a ruthless leader (like al Assad), I’d off them all after I’d exhausted their coffers, maybe 10 years later. Don’t know why you’d bother keeping a Nazi alive when they had no power & you’ve got their money?
@@skullsaintdead
Evil prestige perhaps ?
@@jussitikkuri6991 Quite possibly. Blatantly killing the ex-Nazis might raise too many red flags from within some more sympathetic sectors of the government, which could lead to a few 'sparks' in a country already grapping with its own fascistic tendencies (i.e. might help facilitate a coup - or God help us, a _revolution_ - the last thing any budding dictator wants).
Just Hebrew nonsense.
Nonsense from Israel Times. More likely in an unnotable apartment.
For generations the French managed to be considered the most humanistic people. Thanks to historians like you, one can see their true colours. Keep this amazing good work of yours.
The Nazis weren't the only anti-Semites in Europe at the time, or the world for that matter.
Average baguette enjoyers
@The Word We Knew Exactly
@@dante666jt I have not idea why your comment appears as a reply of mine, in any case I have to tell you that although I don't like the French and their arrogant ways, I truly enjoy their baguettes and their singers.
The french have always been known cowards and terrible fighters, so what exactly surprises any of you people??
Feltons videos should be played in our schools. The you tube videos should have 10 times the number of views it has
I feel like Mark's hiding a time machine from us
Again another very interesting and well-researched history of the Nazi nightmare. Keep up the good work.
My Father went ashore on June 8th or 9th 1944 in Normandy. He did not talk to me much about his experiences, but he did state that the French Resistance was more myth than fact. He told me of French woman that would hang a lamp in the window of her house next to their location at night to give the German bombers a reference point.
my next door neighbor said the same. you could not trust them until they were certain the Germans were not returning,
John McMickle Hitler went to Argentina
@@1697djh Very doubtful that Hitler ever left Berlin his face was too well known.
@@johnmcmickle5685 ua-cam.com/video/M-Ov2SUs2LA/v-deo.html
@@1697djh Pure conjecture. He was too recognizable to slip away even using the rat lines. Plus by 1945 his health was bad, he had a very bad tremor in his hands, possibly the onset of Parkinson's disease.
And there are still so many people of this character out there. When The Third Reich was defeated militarily this ideology lived on.
"He remained on the run until recently". Yeah I dont think thats exactly how I would describe what happened to him. He lived a nice comfy life protected by government security forces to avoid the same fate as what had happened to Eichmann.
Art Bell and there’s also Leon Degrelle, a Belgian Nazi sympathizer, who was famous for making it out of Berlin fleeing the Red Army on a small plane and managed to land it all the way to San Sebastián in Spain, where he was given asylum and lived a comfortable quiet life until he died in the 90s.
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Syrian governments were, and still are heavily influenced by the methods of the Third Reich. If you hear a co-worker in the West express admiration for them, then you know what you are hearing.
@Art Bell very poor. I had an old Ukrainian living across the road here in UK. He was married to a polish lady. It's only when he died and we were helping to clear his house, we found literature of Ukrainian nationalists - nazi collaborants. Who knows he may have even been a member of SS Galicia. Turned out he was a war prisoner here in UK. Lived a prosperous life in a posh area of our city. This sort of stuff is beyond me.
@@egord9101 what's crazy is the current Ukrainian government made heros of these people. there marches to hnor SS Galicia and other nazi collaborators. very shameful
I bet Brunner was looking at his options when Israel was hitting Damascus with artillery on 14 October 1973.
You can bet on that.
It makes me sad that this man was not brought to justice. I think the Allies should have done more to round up all of these people. But with the world so messed up what could they have really done.
@@birddog7492 After the war many of the Allies were drinking vodka with guys from the Soviet side who were just as bad, justice was not on the menu.
@@birddog7492 they did and took the majority to the usa
@@NickSiekierski and you proof of that is?
@James Brown there are no Coptic christians in syria. Nor enslaved christians. In fact christians were among the least affected by the syrian war, and some rural christian areas have served as artillery installations to bomb predominantly muslim neighbourhoods to rubble. You clearly have zero idea what ur talking abt
People stereotype Germans as all being blonde with blue eyes but there are lots of dark haired, dark eyed, olive skinned Germans as well..
Turkos?
@beckys2222 Light brown.
@Alawite Muslim Defence League no, one does not read such 'facts' until you make them up. Instant 'facts', you have such 'facts', whatever you care to invent. You only write fascist bs.
Idk who stereotypes all Germans as being blonde with blue eyes. That's just the Aryan race the Nazis desired. And the ones who desired it almost never met the standards
Honorary ARYANS
0:09 'you are listening to the last ss commandant'
Before it starts, slide the red dot at the bottom of the screen across to the right hand end. Then press replay. Hey presto no ads.
@@AndyJarman yea let's just say screw Dr. Mark when he gives us such awesome stuff to watch on both of his channels, he deserves all the money he can get off of this UA-cam thing for teaching the facts. He's awesome ill gladly watch his ads
Andy Jarman you are a king among men, should have thought of that a lonnnnggg time ago lol
Central Intelligence Agency Always has been.
@@jleeblackmon5340 Better yet become a patron.
Mark, thanks so very much for making these videos, I find them riveting and brilliant historical documentaries. Worth every minute I spend watched them.
It is soul crushing to imagine how a human being can do this to women, children and elderly.
But fair enough if he tortures and kills men?
beckys2222
Oh ladies you have totally misjudged me, which isn’t unexpected in world of feminists who are busy emasculating beta men. I am not one of those and I am not a white knight. I am one of those people who will inherit this earth shortly. A modern warrior which unlike those before me doesn’t have a moral objection to the things you’re grandparents would not have done. I personally have zero respect for any weak feminine man who would walk to his own execution. I do however have sympathy for women and children because they are weak. YOU ARE WEAK.
Society is filled with these people and they are awakened only by power and opportunity.
@@usalives2562 lol you sound just like the stereotypical misogynist
@@usalives2562
#VILLAGEIDIOT
I remember hearing recently that a stockpile of STG44's were found in Syria in very good condition. I wonder if they were part of a bribe
If it is the same cache I heard about they were not, the French army used stg 44s after the war and either forgot about the cache when Syria was decolonized or the weapons were sold to the new government when the French sold some of their other confiscated German equipment.
More likely to have gotten there through trade with the Soviet Union or East Germany.
The stg44s in Syria were given by East Germany as foreign aid..
@Grim Reaper
What happened to it??
@Grim Reaper
Is it chambered in the classic 8mm Kurtz??
I really love listening to these while doing chores. I wish they were available on Spotify so I could listen to them on mobile without draining my battery.
@@PepeLePewPew-qy3en I'll have to give that a try. Thanks!
Wow. Thank you.
Lack of interest by Cologne prosecutors in 1987 - sad but not super surprising. There were still loads of officials with dirty pasts around then. All the old guys you met around that time said they fought on the Eastern Front, never anywhere else. We always thought that was odd.
James- a 97 year old Austrian who died here in new zealand in august 2020 was discovered too have been in ''das Reich S.S. division and had won two Iron Cross's in Russia and France- @@@ his name is Williem Huber.
5:12
The rat that got away.. excellent episode Mark!
At least he got his eye and hand blown off
His into song always makes me feel like I’m spawning in on BF lol what a gold mine of a channel!! Best way to wind down my day is to hear epic war stories
I used to hate history in school now I love due to Mark. Such good work.
“History “ in public school is a long fairytale.
It's lies in School.
Great content as always
Excellent Research 👍
Most Excellent presentation and delivery though.......The devil is quite charismatic as well......NUFF SAID
Keep em comin Mark Felton. Could watch these all day!
Awesome can’t tell u how many times I rewatch old episodes for reference....great work Mark! Brilliant!
WW2 stories are my favorite. This was a good one. Thank you!
I'm no fan of the death penalty, but sometimes...
Indeed!
It would be a mercy killing.
The communists -- Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot -- murdered only 100 million so far. Where is your attention to them?
@@davidb2206 you know you can criticize both of those?
This man`s last appointment should have been meeting Albert Pierrepoint on a scaffold in 1946 at Nuremberg.
Pierrepoint wasn't at Nuremberg, but I get your point..
Excelent description of evil and how easy it moves among us in human form.!
@cragjones1799 he should have been, he was class, unlike the bungler they used.
The title music is wonderful. Creates the mood. Clear voice and simple language adds to the classism
The brutal stories of this time must not be forgotten - as those of kindness and bravery. Such horrific times...
And the stories of the cheka,NKVD, gulags..etc
Same things are going on today just like 1000 years ago
@@jacky9590 God bless the USSR and long live Comrade Joesph Stalin! 🇨🇺❤🚩☭
Class is in session with Professor Mark, time to take notes :-)
Keep digging up these amazing stories mate!
More awesome history that I didn’t know about! Keep up the awesome history!
That moment you cross into the afterlife ... and there is no where to hide.
He is in the hands of the God of the people he murdered. For eternity.
@@boxwoodgreen
God does not exist!
And if God existed, he would be responsible for infinitely more death and suffering than the Nazis ever were ... he would actually be responsible for all death and suffering, including what the Nazis did, he would be responsible for the very existence of the Nazis!
There he will burn, along with every israeli soldier ever existed
@@mike62mcmanus that's what they want you to believe, they wrote that Bible you believe as word of God, when it's only the words of many men.
@@anonymousunknown4925 Why do atheists have to let everyone know they're an atheist at every given chance? I'm not even that religious but come on
"The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones."
One wonders if he accomplished anything of merit?
What good did this monster do?
Seeing that this is available has made my day. Will watch tonight. Thank you!
It would be interesting to see a documentary on the Krupp family .henkel . Thyssen and other industrialists that were the money makers of the ww2, and why they were not held to account for there deeds before during and after ww2 . Obviously money talks or in there cases , didn’t talk
The ones where they actually get away are the most interesting
Mark, I love the dramatic music you play at the beginning of your videos. It adds a certain drama to them.
Still haven't missed one yet Mark!
Love them all.
Just takes time sometimes to listen to the longer ones
I know this is audio only, but you could show a few extra photos. Grab some of your faves related to the topic and throw them on the editing time line! Love everything about your show, topics, narration, editing and sheer amount of research you do. True artist.
Love this format!
I enjoy both your channels very much, this channel gets listened to in the car its great. I am very curious on your methods of gathering your info and making your videos, the effort that must be looked way into the future through boggles my mind.
Mark Felton and Armchair Historian are the historical kings of the internet
Mark, i love your channel. Thank you. I binge watch this virtually everyday
Mark you probably make some of the best and most consistent content on UA-cam. And I don’t say that lightly.
Excellent work.
Wow. Powerful story. Also thank you for telling me about the Treblinka commandant and how he felt he was just a policeman. Sad to see how the human mind justifies depravity
Stangl came to T4 people to organise euthenasia from Linz as a Policeman. He didn't ask for it he was transferred
The photo on the description page is absolutely perfect ...you can see the fear and worry on the much older Alois even through his sunglasses ...whoever's taking his picture, he definitely noticed
Hey doctor
How about an episode about Heinrich “gestapo” muller? Apparently he disappeared at the end of the war as well. Thanks, love your work
He did one on his other channel
Muller is in a mass grave. Unless he switched clothing with a corpse.
@@OOpSjm there were two H Muller's one was SS one was Gestapo the SS Muller is in the mass grave
@@atlvquisdiudohiyo7115 the gestapo one was the bad one wasnt he? Im sure the SS Muller was bad too but i think the gestapo one is the bad one
Well death gets us all in the end. You can't get away from that.. and if there is a heaven or hell (and I believe there is) then he probably wishes now he would have been a different man..
Heaven and Hell exist only here on earth while you are alive forget the fairytales , and the concept of justice is also a myth when a sadistic bastard like this man gets to live in comfort to a ripe old age
@@boomerhgt Evangelical atheism requires more faith to believe in it than most religions.
@@hurdygurdyman1905 what you said makes no sense
@Sky Commander you are neither hot or cold.
@alanrtment porter You might want to look a little, or a lot, closer than that. While you still can...
What WE are able to do... god knows where this is happening today.
West countries are blessed nowdays with no such shit happening.
I'm kind of scared this might happen today in the future. It did in the past, not just once...
Saying not to worry, this wont happen again is kind of ignorant - history tends to repeat and we are all same creatures we were back then...
Good on you Mark for calling France out on some of the things they tend not to talk about. Most of those people who facilitated it went unpunished.
Yeah France did some really screwed up stuff. Definitely a disgrace to their country and history.
Exceptionally well researched. Many thanks Mark.
Mark... Much gratitude fir your work. Bless you for keeping history alive for future generations. Bless you. Joe
Sad to think Mr Felton won't ever run out of stories to tell from WW2
For Humanity's sake we should not ever forget the horrors of wwII
@@Rusty_Gold85most already forgot the precursor to it
The two films Mark mentioned are "the odessa files" and "the boys from Brazil"..
Why weren’t the French police that helped the Germans brought to trials like Nuremberg?
Plenty were tried in France. Collaborators from other nations were generally tried in their own countries, to varying degrees. And certainly, some did get away with it.
Nobody really went after rank and file Nazi criminals until there were no more high ranking Nazis to go after. By then even the rank and file were old or dead, most escaping justice. If they had, there would have been hundreds of thousands to execute and there was no stomach for that, only symbolic justice with a few at the top and then the few that were left.
@@DidivsIvlianvs The Bolsheviks who collaborated with the Nazis from 1939-1941 must be identified and brought to justice.
Because fewer people knew about them at the time. The purpose of the trials was to be publicized for all to see.
Buster Biloxi dude. The war ended 74 years ago. I’d be willing to bet anyone who got away with collaboration are dead.
I'm interested in these stories but then I saw 27and a half minutes I thought no but then I saw Mark Felton and thought yeah .
Another well researched production provided for our education by Dr. Felton. It is sobering to think about evil people like Alois Brunner being able to escape justice.
He was welcomed by an Arabian Middle East Country
where he lived and died around
2010.
Quality as ever Sir! Could you do a program on the SS who joined the French foreign legion and American special FORCES???
You know of course in WW2 there were 20,000 + French in the SS
The fact that so many people got away for decades or forever after so many atrocities is always astounding to me.
Look at Dick Cheney...
@Sky Commander nah, invading a country for weapons of mass destruction just to distribute the oil fields to his friends, causing the region to get fucked up, the culture and lifes of thousands. It is not a war crime at all...
And many war criminals on the winning side never faced judgment.
they were all helped by the Catholic Church and the Red Cross.
@Sky Commander Lots of Wehrmacht generals were in prison for 10 y for Operation Barbarossa... Keep your head in the sand. Iraq war was immoral and criminal. Winners write the history after all...
According to one of his former guards in Syria Brunner died in 2001 in miserable poverty, having spent those "twilight years" living in a basement in near starvation conditions. But this video's version makes a better story. The Weisenthal Center had believed that he died in 2010 at the age of 97 or 98 (but is now reconsidering that), but that would have made him nearly 90 in 2001. It's certainly silly to think he might still be alive today, as some do. It seems more likely that he did, indeed, die in 2001 and that he wasn't quite the celebrated "hero" in Syria that we like to think he was. Instead, I believe he was something of a problem for the Syrians, and they didn't quite know what to do with him.
At one point Hafez el-Assad was about to deport him to East Germany to face trial but the plan was derailed by the fall of the Berlin Wall. By that point he was obviously in disfavor with the Assad regime. They wouldn't have kept someone like that in luxurious and honored conditions.
This is absolutely fascinating Mark 👏🏻 🙇♂️
Thanks Mark, for an excellent program
There really wasn’t that many gestapo officers they relied many on neighbours ratting out neighbours. Horrible
Just like the worshippers of Fausti ratting out non-mask wearing neighbors to the cops today. Nazism, communism, progressivism - all the same.
@@ericelander9936 imagine being so far up your own arse you compare wearing masks to getting deported to Auschwitz and gassed lol
@@scottgieben896 Imagine not understanding nuance. Lol
@@ericelander9936 imagine being so stupid that you get your 'ideas' from MTG
No, all patriots will report communist activities that you see, nation-wrecking in your society. This could have prevented some of the 100 million deaths by Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, etc.
I'd like to find out what kinds of source materials Mark uses for his info. The amount of detail is really amazing.
HITLER NEVER ORDERED THOSE "UNHUMAN ORDERES "
I love Mark's smooth and intelligent voice!!
Great work Mark. Love and respect from 🇨🇦.
Thank you very much for uploading! 👏🏻