Hitler's "Jewish Daughter"
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2023
- This is the story of Bernhardine Nienau, a young girl from Munich who became close friends with Hitler in the 1930s - she was often referred to as "The Fuhrer's Child". But what was incredible about this friendship was the fact that Bernhardine was of Jewish descent!
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- 'Remarkable Tale of Hitler's Young Jewish Friend', BBC News, 13 November 2018 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro...
- 'The Fuhrer's Child - How Hitler came to embrace a child with Jewish roots' by Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 13 November 2018 www.washingtonpost.com/histor...
knowing about hitler's very real love for art and music, children, and animals is a pretty painful way of seeing just how complex human nature is. how close someone like that could have been to being a good person and close the rest of us are to being monsters
Duality of Humanity
I bet he was a better human being than the British Prime minister at the time.
or possibly we've grown in a walled garden of lies
Are you vegan? If not, here’s the duality again, he’s better than you, and you’re not good at all
I know, its curious...almost like he wasnt a monster?
Hitler was very friendly to children. In fact when Hitler was visiting the Petersberg Grande Hotel. Their was a event for the "bund deutscher mädels". Hitler was sitting at a table after speaking with a lot of "bodyguards" and nobody could come really close to him. Then my grandma as a little girl crawled under the tables and her head popped up right next to hitler. My grandma recalled that every other men looking really angry at her but hitler smiling at her and telling her come on my lap and then saying for everybody to hear : "You cant forbid a german girl to do anything, because they will do it anyway". (My grandma hated hitler her whole adulthood, because her 18 years old brother died on the ardenne offense on christmas)
That is a story, incredible
Incredible story. The twist at the end was very good as well.
Wow a story for the ages right there!
He was very freindly towards his niece . I found your story a little creepy I am afraid
@@hannahdyson7129he wasn’t a child abuser and we must be objective..he had affection towards children,probably because of his own turbulent childhood..i have never seen any evidence bar propaganda that he hurt children
There is not better example of tragic irony than watching several photos of Hitler smiling with what an apparent love and affection towards a Jewish child!
Rest assured you will never see Benjamin Netanyahu smiling with apparent love and affection toward a Palestinian child. Think about that, what is wrong with the picture that has been painted for us for so long?
She looked German though, her quarter Jewish heritage wasn’t very apparent
Or you have been lied to about Hitler all your life like we all were.
@@marylamb1407pelastine attacked isreal first but than when it got attacked , they remembered humanity
Israel created Hama as a counter weight to the PLO. Seems to me Israel been paid in the coin they minted. @@aileenlaurendautriche4103
he even had a jewish doctor who saved his mothers life and he always intervened personally so no one in the ss or gestapo touched him during his entire reign
Hitler was Jewish non off those in SS and other didn't cotton on.. he hated his own religion and murdered those who was Jewish .. this is very wrong
The jewish doctor didn’t save his mothers life, but he did care for her.
The “easy to dismiss a whole swath of people, enact laws and follow rules until it affects me personally” lesson once again shows itself.
"the guy with the stick doesnt hit himself with it"
@@FC01 nope, he strikes you while he cries out in pain.
I'd be willing to bet that he had a sexual affair with his niece who turned up dead of apparent suicide. This after neighbors had heard a terrible fight between them. Psychopaths do what psychopaths have always done. Really sad that the Austrian draft dodger and failed artist fooled a great nation.
Rules for thee, but not for me! - Well, almost everybody powerful is like that, latest example: Trump-Junior from Britain (Boris Johnson) - partying during covid, despite publicly forbidding people to do so and claiming them to be criminals if they disregarded that law (a law no government should ever be able to put forth! I am sorry, but nope not even if Covid had been a mankind ending virus!)
As in, The Speaker of the US House going to a hairdresser while closing all such small businesses for others with a covid excuse!
Also, Hitler’s good friend and personal chauffeur was Emil Maurice, who was of 1/8 Jewish heritage. He also was a founding member of the Schutzstaffel, and it was only when all members had to research the family tree that his Jewish heritage was discovered.
Himmler, jealous of Maurice’s friendship, was ecstatic when he discovered the truth about Maurice’s great-grandfather and promptly relayed the news to Hitler. When Hitler found out, he made Maurice and his brothers “honorary aryans” and full German citizens, much to Himmler’s dismay.
150k J or partJ troops fought on the German side during war....doesnt really fit with the narrative does it
Thanks for commenting this! I never heard of him.
Himmler seems especially slimy, even compared to Adolf and co.
Snakes in de pit on de open plane, r all de same; some r jst more dangerous, not many do u want to play with!!!⚠️⭕🦅
That means old Maurice was 7/8 Christian.
He should have never gone into politics
Like his farther Hitler was a pathetic, angry man who wanted as much power as he could imagine - where other than politics would he have ended up? Even before the reich, during the twenties he was quite honest about his hunger for power.
Imagine how bad things would be if he didn’t
Politics can make people radical.
@@MH-hj2qm England and France you mean
@@MH-hj2qm WHO pushed him? He had a lust for Power and did not stop until he got what he wanted..TOTAL POWER.
It genuinely boggles and amazes me that such horrible people can be so gentle and tender. He was a terrible, terrible person-- but look at this, and you can see how multifaceted evil can be
Humans do what humans do. We all got a soul.
i would personally caution against maintaining such a hold on the idea of a "terrible person", and for that matter a "good person". it's not a useful classification. most people are fundamentally the same, but psychological, spiritual and material circumstances change how that is expressed and certain things can become disordered or consuming. i prefer to say that people like hitler "do evil" rather than are evil. there's something very calvinist about the idea of a fundamentally evil person that i dislike immensely, because it prematurely condemns people to one nature when in fact moral standing is in constant flux. it's not shocking to me that hitler (as well as stalin, and many others) was full of deep apparent humanity, but it is fascinating and extremely worth documenting because it does no one any good to relegate the bad actors of history to the shadow. that places our own capacity for evil in the shadow along with it, making it more likely that we ourselves will do wrong to others. i think it's only by radical empathy with people who we see as reprehensible that we can prevent such evil from arising in the future.
Remember, he had millions of children killed. Nothing about him was good.
Y’all love to give white men passes!
@@Roller324 no one was giving him a pass
Hitler's obviously warm interactions with children, just as with his artistic side, is heart breaking in showing hints of the gentle, sensitive man he could have been if he hadn't chosen the dark path.
it's unnerving to be reminded that there was a miniscule speck of humanity in him amidst the horror and evil he's done
Not as heartbreaking as millions of corpses, Hitler does not deserve empathy.
He does seem to have genuinely taken pleasure in the company of children. Perhaps because he didn't have to play "der Führer" with them, just be himself. I never understood why he didn't have children. All that rot about being married to Germany, no one needed that. Germans were busy breeding obediently. He could easily have married and become a father. It wouldn't in itself have turned people against him.
@@blazingtrs6348 There was lots of humanity, I think the most sensitive people are the people who are most capable of good/evil. The more emotionally sensitive the person the more malleable they are, Hitler was someone who could have been a great husband who painted art to pay for his family, didn't eat meat and was overall outgoing just shows how small things can change the course of a person's character forever.
@@davesprague1542 I'd argue against him being either a sociopath or a psychopath, they tend to have little empathy. Hitler had a lot of empathy for people close to him, he was incapable of seeing the bigger picture and hence couldn't show empathy to the people outside of his circle as evidenced here. I also would argue that Hitler's actions were more rooted in radicalization which is something that still to this day compels people to leave a life of safety and moderate behaviour to beheading people in the Middle East for ISIS.
It's quite sad that she died so young, also I'd say that it's probably not a great mystery why he didn't care about her ancestry, he was likely just personally fond of her and given that she was a child without a father and he a man without a child it is fairly easy to see how they might have become attached to each other.
Adding layers onto such a monster feels completely wrong, but at the end of the day, he was human.
It just goes to show how little the surface level truly shows
@@anthonygreen127 monster? He was the last of the greatest Christian Warriors fighting to rid the world of the synagogue of Satan. If that's a monster to you maybe you're on the wrong side.
He spared the jewish doctor who saved his mothers life too
@@chrisbelvedere6653 There is something wrong with you, as you have said multiple disturbing and disgusting comments on these videos.
She died of polio of the spine I believe
How disturbing it is to see a man show such tenderness to a perfect stranger while destroying all those that he chooses to. Even evil has a gentle side.
Thats because demons used to be angels of course they have their gentle side but still more evil, manipulative and deceitful. They’re like children rebels BUT WORSE they rebelled against their father, “The creator”.
@@alpha_jasperflair1097eh god did way worse in noahs ark than what hitler did…
@@SmokeFactoryahh yes, compare a hateful spiteful historical figure responsible for slaughtering millions of people because of his ambition and hatred to a symbolic story of the Bible that had to do with God, who is by definition perfect, erasing an evil and wicked sect of humanity and giving it a fresh start. Intelligent comparison
@@georgepoly4842 nah god has definitely been described as killing way more people than hitler, also do you realise how ironic your comment is? “erasing an evil and wicked sect of humanity and giving it a fresh start” is literal what hitler tried to do lol (in his view they were evil), and are you trying to tell me every animal, baby, and adult on earth that god drowned in noahs are were evi..?
Or maybe history is written by the winner ?
He had no children of his own. I think he was just smitten with the child and felt a connection since they celebrated their birthday on the same day.
My grandmother Demetria was from Greece but ended up an orphan in Germany in the 1930s due to her father's death. Orphaned she ended up sleeping in a graveyard and that's where the nazis found her. She was taken to a orphanage of the time and recalls one day Hitler doing some kind of press tour where he paraded around Germany shaking hands as this was before he became a paranoid shut-in etc. She ended up coming face to face with Hitler who shook her hand, treated her very kindly (in her own words) and then proceeded to pick her up and ask her about her situation. The story goes the nazis then reunited her with her closest living relatives who then immigrated to California in 1945. She died at 75ish in 2005 but she told my family this story and questioned who the real evil behind the 3rd reich was and wondered if maybe Hitler had his strings being pulled by other much higher ups. This story is in NO WAY in defense of Hitler or the evil of the Nazis (especially since they stole the childhood home of my great grandmother Helena who lived in Poland at the time and took her son for the "master race" who later died) but it shows many sides to the horrors of perceived evil.
sounds like bs
I rather think that these stories show how irrational and dogmatically unlogical the Nazis and their likes were, and are.
These kind of people need someone to look down on, to feel better about themselves - as long as that is in place, details or logic are irrelevant.
"Gebt mir ein Feindbild“
All wars are bankers wars………Hitler was another patsy like Mussolini and Franco……..
That’s very interesting
Your grandmother was very wise. There's no reason for her to lie so I believe she is correct. Even now, someone pulls the strings from behind the curtains.
"There's a little bit of good in the worst of us. There's a little bit of bad in the best of us".
Thank you for another excellent video Dr. Felton.
With Hitler there is no good. This comment is stupid.
The line between good and evil runs through every human heart. No one is completely good or completely evil. I’m paraphrasing Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Nope. I maintain any display of positive traits by this sociopath was an affectation.
Hitler was putrid and evil -- I mean, evil to the bone!
@@questerperipatetic4861 then you're just lying to yourself
There's a mountain of Evidence to suggest hitler was chill kind and with a good side
“When you hate someone, flaws start to appear out of nowhere.
When you love someone, all flaws just disappear in thin air.”
- Me
On point.
nice rhyme
What if you love people who are utterly destroying your economy, country and citizens on purpose?
How would that be a virtuous act to live such people??
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WOW! How interesting. Never heard of this before. It's a shame she didn't survive into adulthood. She would've undoubtedly had such a unique perspective on Hitler.
The kangaroo court would have suppressed her testimony at Nuremberg anyhow.🙄
@@IwasInThe60s kangaroo court, they were murderers of millions, whether they actually did the killing or not, what if it had been your family
@@IwasInThe60s jewish court *
They probably killed her so that she could not share it. The shadows of WW2 and all it's lies will never be dispelled.
@@IwasInThe60sOh pizz off. The Nazis got what they deserved at Nuremberg. Hitler treating children with kindness doesn't absolve him of his monstrous crimes.
The girl could have been interviewed or written a book, had she lived, which would have provided a fascinating perspective. Traudl Junge, his secretary, also thought he was a nice man who was generally kind to her.
What this all shows is that even the most evil humans are not entirely evil to everyone. It doesn't mean Hitler was secretly somehow innocent. He wasn't.
Good heavens, what a terribly sad story. Berhardine was a beautiful child. Just heartbreaking that she passed away so young and that her mom was without her for so long afterwards.
Not an SS injection to exit I hope
Tell me no camp.... idk... If I wnat to finish this I am filled with dread.
@@katbrown1449 No, she died of illness in '43.
that is a sad story....not the millions of jews who hitler slaughtered?
I'm german and I'm sure that her name is Bernhardine not Berhardine. Mark also made that mistake in the video.
The name is the female version of Bernhard, a very common name in germany.
He treated the girl nicely, because deep down he knows she was innocent and it doesn’t matter what amount of Jewish she was.
That can't possibly be true. He slaughtered plenty of Jewish babies, some of whom were half-German. It was just dumb luck.
I spoke too soon when I said the little girl was in luck. Not this particular one. He destroyed her but he had a little savoir faire about it and gave her the runaround. Apparently some other Nazi named Bormann was relentlessly pressuring him to relinquish her. Or so he said.
I didn't even bother to watch the video. I read the comments about Bormann and I know the whole story. Hitler has disciples to this day. One time I briefly attended a prestigious university where a clique of them roped me in. I literally couldn't get away from them. They hunted me down because I'm Otto von Bismarck's direct descendant but I'm black. They showed me the film Dangerous Liaisons, where a male debaucher makes sport of his lover by leaving her with the excuse, "it's beyond my control." I already know Hitler pulled that line on this little girl. P.S. Bismarck and Hitler were the same person because he's a vampire. He, personally, hunted me down. Which is bad because I don't look Caucasian enough to meet his Nefertiti/Meghan Markle standards. I think he decided to ruin my life the day I came out black.
Either he hunted me down maliciously because I'm black or he knew my life was going to be Hell for this reason ANYWAY, for reasons beyond his control, so he decided to provide me with enough useful info to fight back. His insights are actually priceless. He proved to me that the Civil Rights Movement was a con job. And I was a sucker to believe that in a nation of abject racial oppression by the majority, Dr. King could've gotten to square one unless his ulterior motives favored the imperialists.
He afflicted me with emotional disturbances too.
Great video as usual Dr. Felton, I had no idea of this girl up until now. Thanks!
" To deny him , of life 's little pleasures ". She was a charming little girl . It's very sad about her early death . Among , so many of early deaths .
So if he wasn't the father was he a pedophile???🤔
It's been said that survivors of Polio, which appears to be what killed Bernhardine Nienau, puts one at significantly greater risk for Parkinson's later in life, which Adolf Hitler had. But then again in those days Polio was everywhere.
She also had a more comfortable death, relatively speaking, compared to the circumstances of death that most other Jews suffered under in the Third Reich.
@@JonathanMoosey , I cannot imagine the hell of what happened in the concentration camps .
@@indigocheetah4172 I can ! my Grandmother was in some and I'm pretty sure it was a different hell than most of you are taught to believe !
she never talked about the ethnical background of her mom, but their last camps in Bremen were dedicated to j women
both and her older sister as well as her dad survived the camps - no ramps no overkill "delousing" but also often no nourishing food, instead plenty of disease and frequent abuse ( by pedo inmates in mixed camps).....a bit of bombing terror also......overall apparently quite bad and traumatising as she couldn't speak for long about this without breaking into tears...
This sounds like the plot of a disney movie where the little girl tries to convince hitler that bloodshed isn’t necessary and then everyone gets along
Please Hollywood!🙏 (The late Judy Garland would have been perfect for this role.)
@@IwasInThe60sWhy would you ever want a movie about that?
Hitler actually loved Disney movies (Snow White was his favorite... yes, the joke there is obvious, but it's absolutely true). I bet if he'd seen a Disney movie about an innocent little girl covincing a villain to become good, he would have cried from it's beauty.... and then he would have gone straight back to having children tossed into gas chambers by the million. That man was a strange mix of sentimental and absolutely evil.
Another fascinating story, Mark.
Well done.
Martin Bormann really did have a knack at ruining everything.
One of the many small inconsistencies we all have. We tend to forget that Hitler was, and despite all of his evil, still human. That should be simultaneously a humbling reminder, and also a stark warning: we can be evil, and still be normal people in many of our behaviors. We don't need to invent monsters to do evil, since we are very capable of that ourselves.
He was not human but a devil incarnate.
Human? What human puts mass amounts of families and children in a camp where they starved,cought diseases and stripped down naked crammed into a room and gassed then all the dead bodies piled up to rot?
@@kawaii58204 I DIDN'T SAY HE WASN'T EVIL. You're making my point obvious: you forget he wasn't literally a demon spawned from Hell, or an alien from outer space. He had the same genetic makeup as you and I, the same physiology, the same brain structure. The fact is that other living beings on this planet are not capable of doing what he did, except other *humans* like Pol-Pot, Idi Amin, Stalin, etc. We HUMANS can do great and beautiful things, but we can also do terrible and evil things. I'm not defending the evil, I'm cautioning against it. Read what I wrote again, but this time try to understand before getting angry.
@@NRM973 Stalin? yes he was
@@cristhianramirez6939 Yes fallen entities in Human bodies, not necessarily famous ones, I knew a demon, I'm irritated by them.
A friend of mine's mother grew up in Nazi Germany-she was German and she said she met Hitler many times through their school- he was very interested in the Arts and children involved in painting, sculpture artistic venues in their lives in Germany to set Germany as an example of very highly skilled artists. She said he LOVED animals, too. She said that he was very friendly, talkative and eager to listen to their thoughts on arts, animals, creative ideas. She said she had NO idea he was wreaking avoc and evil in doing the concentration camps at ALL. I asked her if they smelled anythinglike flesh burining? She said they lived about 3-4 miles away from those 'buildings' but never smelled anyting odd. I kind of find that hard to believe, but.... she said she and her family realized WHAT had happened after the US troops came in and showed ALL the German young teenagers ( including her) the dead Jewish and Polish bodies and they had to drag them across the ground out of the buildings for the US soldiers to confirm. She said she looked for the skinniest bodies as they were very heavy to pull, sounds callous, but that is what she said. I d on't know if Ibeleive that they had no idea what was going on, but she seemed sincere in her conveying of the incidents. She said she talked to Hitler in school and at events in the parks doing art many times since she was little to a teenager and he was very nice, refined, cordial and eager to listen to their thoughts on art, music, aniamls, pets, and how much they love art.
My black ancestors lived under Nazi Germany and experienced no racism.. but they saw Jews getting armband and losing their businesses, but none saw any genocide of killings ..Nd they said most people were not aware of it. It's a common theme I'm hearing. I think some killings took place but it was hidden from the public. They only found out through posters across the city after the war ended
but what he did was no good, no matter what he made a hell for the world, and if he did not get to achieve it why to do bad just to grow with the hate of that one community...not as a person but the actions done by the person is seen and the actions were never good rather a pure hell for the world not only that community.
@@Alsamadore07it’s not like they’re saying he did no good. they’re just sharing the event with a different POV
He also tried to define what's "good" art, labeling any art he didn't want as "degenerate", kind of like the same policy he had with people.
yeah he liked animals so much he had his own pet dog poisoned & had his ss stormtroopers butcher kids by the millions
That little was girl was so adorable and beautiful.
Thank you mark for another well put together video. They are always interesting and full of information, keep up the good work
My biological grandfather was born to a Jewish parent and German parent. His mother died in childbirth so he was put up for adoption. He was adopted and raised by 2 women here in the United States where he grew up and joined the military married a young girl and had 5 children. He didn’t live long enough to see his children grow up. He was 39 when he died of a massive heart attack. He never knew about his birth family. He never met his grandchildren. We would have loved to have met him.
no one volunteers to have their kids trafficked via adoption!
what caused the attack if you don't mind
@@user-td2jw9ze2c covid?
rest in peace so sorry ops
Why r u saying biological grandfather? isnt he ur main grandfather?💀
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Borman: You can’t see her anymore
Hitler: Dang it! I hate Nazis!
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Once again, Dr. Felton unearths another astonishing 'side story' to the events before and during WWII. Like many I was utterly unaware of this, a quite incredible story.
he was probably abusing the girl
@@OGRE_HATES_NERDS nahh, she probably wouldn't be smiling in the photos in that case.
@@vandelayindustries6128 look up pics of jimmy savile and tell me that again
@@OGRE_HATES_NERDS We will never know for certain, but I doubt that that was the case. Every one has a dark side and a good side. Hitler's good side was being fond of arts, animals, and children. But his dark side was way too dark.
@@OGRE_HATES_NERDShe probably wasn’t
Another great video For us made by Dr. Mark Felton! thanks again for your contribution to remembering and learning historical events!
Nice to see him producing work with less of the communist propaganda version of history
Well presented. Thank you.🎖
I learned that hitler wasn’t treated well by his father as a child (probably explains his fondness for certain children), he would oftentimes be outside by himself as he was homeless for a time being (probably where he got his fondness for animals), and he had always loved art and had even painted and sold postcards as a way to get money when he was homeless. There is a video by oversimplified on Hitler’s life that I suggest watching. It is also what convinced me Hitler might’ve had some kind of mental illness that went untreated or undiagnosed. He shouldn’t have killed all those people, that is just a fact. None of this negates the fact he killed tons of innocent people, simply because of a fucked up childhood.
Hitler was never homeless. He lived in men's Hostels for about 3 years.
@@Peekaboo-Kitty so, he was homeless...
@@Peekaboo-Kittyhe was homeless and destitute for 6 years in Linz and Vienna.
He came from a very rich family
@@PeCo333Not true. He grew up middle class because his father had a good job, but most of his ancestors were poor.
A young girl who could have changed everything....Thank you Dr. Felton for this new and extraordinary story.
she could not have changed anything. Hitler had other close friends who were part Jewish, such as Emil Maurice a founding member of both the Nazi Party and the SS. Not to mention that the girl's mother clearly agreed with Hitler's politics
@@MikayeYakovlevBut she could, notwithstanding her mother's political sympathies. It was Bormann who ruined the whole thing :(
@@user-oh2kt8lf6g
No. If anybody ruined anything it would be the Jews in Germany and Jews around the world. In particular, Jews in powerful positions and in control of a nation’s money. Such as Rothschild in Germany.
And I imagine international Jewry declaring war against “Nazi” Germany didn’t help the Jews in Germany who were now considered an enemy of the state.
@@user-oh2kt8lf6g was she gonna run through troops of SS guards? I think she probably was glad to not be molested or sent to a concentration camp after Bormann ended their contact
@@user-oh2kt8lf6g Bormann's machinations had a lot to answer for. He propagated so much misinformation in the highest echelons of power.
That was an amazing little story. Once again, Dr Felton has shared with us something that I don't think I'd learn about otherwise. Thank you!
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If you study the history of bigotry, you will find that it is completely normal for even the most intense bigots to have warm personal feelings toward individual members of the group whom they loathe. Bernhardine Nienau was not even the most remarkable example in Hitler's case: Eduard Bloch was a Jewish physician in Vienna who treated Hitler's mother for cancer. Hitler had warm personal feelings toward Bloch, and, when Germany annexed Austria, and pogroms occurred against Jews throughout Austria, Hitler ordered the Gestapo to guard Bloch's house to protect him and his family, and, later, Hitler arranged for Bloch and his family to emigrate to America. But Hitler was hardly unique among leading National Socialists in having warm personal feelings toward individual Jews. Nor, for that matter, was this unique to National Socialists. Whatever the criticisms one might make of the novel _The Help,_ the way it captures how white Southerners who held sometimes quite intense racist attitudes toward blacks in general nevertheless had quite warm personal feelings toward individual blacks whom they knew. People frequently make exceptions for the individuals they know personally from the rules they hold generally. Sometimes, this can cause people to reexamine their attitudes toward the group, but then again, sometimes it causes the person to reject the individual whom they had cared for.
Think of the American segregationist leader Strom Thurmond, who had a daughter by an underage black housemaid. He paid for her to go to college, but did not acknowledge her paternity officially.
You should also examine the case of Maurice Emil, who was Jewish and one of Hitler's longest and closest friends. Emil even served in the SS, Hitler had declared that Emil was also an honorary Aryan. Hitler was a very complex and unusual person as he had numerous Jewish friends throughout his life and these people were generally very good to him and Hitler appreciated their efforts, but it still wasn't to persuade him against the Final Solution.
@@normanklein3155 I know of that case, but since Felton has discussed him in an other video, I figured most of his audience would already know about that example. You might also mention that the officer who recommended Hitler for the Iron Cross during WWI was Jewish. But you are exactly right. You can come up with many examples, and from many other people, not just Hitler.
Study of bigotry???
@@RJ_200 Why not? It's an anthropological phenomenon with a long history and therefore can be studied like anything else.
This is a really sad story and also kind of ironic as it shows the human side of Adolf Hitler in his relationship with this young girl. I almost feel sorry for Hitler In regards to Bormann’s interference. It only goes to show you what a cold and heartless individual that Martin Bormann really was. Thank you Dr. Felton for sharing this with us !
I know this is almost a cliché to mention in WW2 era Germany videos, but Hitler was known to his supporters and associates as a compassionate and kindly man, which kind of belies his reputation as a dysfunctional, genocidal tyrant. In my view you could only really see what kind of man you were truly dealing with near the end of the war when it was of course far too late.
I do agree that Bormann should have been labeled as a massive pos just based on this intervention alone, though.
Hitler sent little kids to the gas chambers. He was an evil monster.
Don’t feel sorry for him.
Hitler was a human, all his sides were human. But I agree with the preceeding comment, that you shouldn’t feel sorry
Hitler was the boss If he had really wanted to keep in contact with the girl he could have told Bormann to but out
I would not watch themes like this, in case it were not you, Mr. Felton, conducting it. Thank you.
My friend who was very old told me, when he was a child, in Germany because his Dad was in the war, Hitler was speaking at a rally and all the lil kids lined up to meet Hitler, he patted my friends head a few times looked him square in the eyes with a huge smile, and said ( thank you son, you look like one of us) smiled more patted his head again touched his shoulder as in a fatherly way, and saw the boy off. My friend was in his 70’s when he told me that story.
ugggh
One of those pre WW2 stories that you just couldn't make up even if you tried. Fact truly is stranger than fiction.
Like how jews are the only group that can legally 0ral circumcise babies
Of all the stories you have shared, this one was the most intriguing and compelling.
The line between good and evil runs through the centre of every human heart. Viktor Frankl.
Thank you for this VERY interesting information!
Its rare nowadays to see previously unseen film of this nature. Thank you
And it will be even more rare in the future!!! You know who owns, bankrolls and runs the media, right? Three guesses.
Your German is one of the best I have heard so far from a non mother tongue. Nice videos by the way, the binge is on!
I think this is one of the saddest of all of Mark Felton's excellent productions.
I remember this video. I was literally thinking about this a few days ago
I read an essay about Elizabeth I today by Hilaire Belloc in which he argued that she was to a great extent under the sway of Robert Cecil and his son. To what extent, I wonder, was Hitler under the sway of Bormann and Himmler? Mao Zhedong was greatly influenced by his wife, an absolute fanatic. The idea of monarchs and autocrats wielding absolute power is often greatly exaggerated. The only modern dictator I can think of who was not under anybody's sway was Josef Stalin. His policy of regularly murdering senior officials, even NKVD commanders, made sure of that.
Plus Tito and Enver Hoxha?
Yeah, I know AH didn't hate the jews nearly as bad as some of those in his cabinet such as Himmler. Interesting to see the deeper complexity and nuance of an otherwise completely hated man.
Stalin was under everyones sway. A paranoid leader, Hitler and Stalin both being prolific examples, are primarily driven by power. With absolute power, however, comes the anxiety of someone throwing you off the throne. Hence, they become dependent on people like Bormann and Beria. There always seem to be one of those around, telling you what you want to hear, interpreting everything you say, fulfilling every wish as they see fit. But make no mistake - you attract them - not the other way around.
Another Hitler apologist.
@@EdMcF1 only communists right? lets whitewash hitler, he wasnt guilty enough. must have been himmlers fault
I had already read about this little girl's interesting story, thanks for bringing it up on UA-cam Dr. Felton
Great Interesting video. Thank you.🤗
Thanks!
It’s easy to paint the worst humans in history as heartless monsters however the fact that they can show affection and true kindness is scary in my opinion. You don’t need to be a psychopath to commit horrific acts.
What a heartless monster for saving his country and caring so much about his people. So evil
@@snickerdoodle7134 killing milions, so nice
@@snickerdoodle7134 saving his country? He left Germany in ruins
@@snickerdoodle7134 He is the cause of millions of dead people. It really baffles me that people actually defend such a man. Go to therapy
@@seventeendandelions No one is defending him. Why would you say that? They are just making observations.
What this story indicates to me is that although Hitler was the Reichsfuhrer, he did not have total and absolute power to do anything he wanted to do. I was under the impression that his word was law and he could do anything and everything he wanted to. This proves otherwise.
Actually he practised a much better version of democracy - in every big decision he would call a referendum to see if the people are behind him.
It's shocked me as I was under the same belief. Was Hitler a puppet so to speak?
@@rubyblu21 Hahaha he was defnitely not a good puppet. He imprisoned a Rothchild and seize his wine farms. That took guts to do!
@@beatrixrode1082 I never said good puppet, I meant was Bormann the real one calling the shots. If Hitler was taking orders from Bormann then I guess that answers my question.
Why do you say Bornman? Why not Himmler of Goebbels. What makes you believe that Bornman calling the shots
What an astonishing story. He clearly loved the company of children in the manner of a doting Uncle.
There is what I understand to be a true story. In WWI, Hitler had met a young French girl and had a son by him. This son was in the French underground, and, following WWII, he went forward (for reasons that I can't remember) to admit the relationship, only to return to anonymity thereafter. He was in possession of a portrait of his mother, Hitler's only such painting. I'm not sure just what happened to the portrait.
This was on a television program a while back that I found out about it. I think that it was on the History Channel when it was still a "history channel" and not in its present version. I enjoyed your presentation, but I'm already subscribed to others on YT. Keep up the good work.
I think I recall subbing to your channel on a previous account I had. And your stuff does not disappoint! Thanks for this sad story.
When I saw the title I knew I had to click the video. I was not disappointed. I had never heard this story or seen the pictures. Well done Mark, another great historical video.
She was so young at the time had she survived She would have had such amazing memories. It's almost ironic that anyone close to Hitler did not live to modern day to be questioned or recorded
Part of me wonders if things would have turned out differently if he had been able to maintain contact with her. Maybe she could have brought out something in him if he could have continued to be around her. Maybe the war could have been prevented if he could have still talked with her. His higher ups must have saw that possibility and ended their friendship so that he could play out what they wanted him to do. He was with the wrong type of people and it led to him becoming the monster we know him as.
Wow! This is a Nugget of history that I had never heard of! Thank you Dr. Felton! I had heard that the doctor that cared for Hitler's mother was jewish and that Adolph had always treated this doctor with much respect.
Maybe in the beginning yes, but when she actually died of the toxic medical side-effects of the iodoform (she was given for her Breast Cancer), Hitler began to hate the Jews even more.
It’s interesting to go more in depth into this interesting topic. Thanks Dr. Felton.
Rage can turn even the best-intentioned people into the villain of their own story. A simple practice of self-awareness is very cleansing.
Seeing all the pictures of Hitler and the little girl warms me😢❤
This was very weird !
Bormann had so much power it was almost shocking that a man described as a "secretary" ( we know he was much more than that) could tell Adolf Hitler what he can and can't do in his private time.
Even in this day and age, our secrataries run our lives.
the dictator had a choice but the nazis were always trying to prove to each other who had bigger testicles like teenage boys who never matured mentally
I was a very little child, but I remebering hearing my grandparents speaking out this name/Bormann and all this things, described in the videos. They only could speak inside the house about the STAASI (in former GDR). They both past away...
Maybe Hitler was just a puppet (a face to the public). And Bormann was the enforcement (with other people behind him?!)?
Another interesting point, is that Hitler died in Berlin during the siege of that city, whereas Bormann supposedly lived out the rest of his life in paraguay. This really makes me wonder 🤔
A German friend of the family’s who died a few years ago met Hitler when he was a boy, and shook his hand. His father was a “party” official who had an estate in the eastern part of the country where he was involved in breeding horses for the Nazis, and he took his son (our friend) to meet Hitler at the opening of a new highway nearby. Our friends brother was an SS guard at the Reich palace and died on the western front after the Normandy invasion. Our friend John had letters his older brother had written him from his duty at the chancellery, which he read to me. When the Russians were advancing John’s father committed suicide, and his mother was killed by the Russians and he escaped to the allied lines, with the shirt on his back and a bag of personal affects which included his brother’s letters. After the “wall” came down John got a letter from the German government because he was the sole heir to the estate that had been in East Germany all these years. He and his wife went back to it (after more than fifty years) and still knew a few people in the area...great video Mark. Interesting.
Did the Nazis investigate the bloodline of the horses to see which were thoroughbreds? If so, did they murder those which were not?
the Russians were advancing? the Soviets more like it
It was probably not his estate all of the estates were stolen from Jews. Do you happen to know his name this friend of yours?
Dose he still have the house I mean on one hand it was the house of a party official but on the other hand it was a nice estate
@@strugglingcollegestudenthe wasn’t jewish though? did you read?? their parents were part officials and soldiers, they ESCAPED the estate after the normandy invasion
She was for the most part a human pet to Hitler. She was photegenic and very much a pretty little girl.
Interesting story. And very interesting to consider how much of Hitler's behaviour was a facade. If there's one thing for certain it's that his public appearance painted a different picture than the man in his private life.
Same with 99% of public figures through history of all walks. Public personae and image vs private.
Fascinating story yet again Mark. Thank you for your research again 👍
As usual, a great story from Dr. Felton❤
Dr Felton or not is just a fact
I don't know why but this story really makes me sad say all you want about how bad he was but he walked down a path that led to a horrible fate and life and the fact that this was the only piece of sanity left makes me sad
🌿🧠🌿Thanks for this mini docu on this unusual friendship🌿Very interesting🤔
🌿Will share soon🌿
🌿GOD Bless🌿
Dr. Felton, You continue to put out remarkable videos and it's very much appreciated. Keep Up The Good Work! 👍❤
He might get canceled if he keeps publishing facts.
@@justanotherguy469 No. Historical facts bear themselves out. The only ones that are afraid of such facts are people who don't like the truth and want to erase History. NO ONE has the right to erase History.
I can not believe that I missed this. If it's like every other Felton Historical production it is going to be awesome 👍😎. Time to enjoy the show and see what lesson/s he has for us today.
Thank you for another interesting video Doctor Felton.
Hitler pictured with a child is like sewage pictured with a plate of vanilla ice cream.
VCS já LERAM o livro DELE?
Dr. Felton, My most sincere Thank You for providing us with this most fascinating information! I was astonished! Once again, Thank You.
More videos on Bormann please! I feel like without him in the picture the whole war may have played out differently and I’d love your take on it! Thanks for the fantastic content🔥 “learn the past so as not to let it be repeated in the future”
Ve vill eventually get to da truth. It vas Bormann all along and not mein fuhrer, vait, erase dat, I mean not Herr Hitler.
@@cosimodirondo972 ?
@@Cyra_The_Jedi they're trolling
@@duaisoverhere i see that now 😭😭
@@Cyra_The_Jedi 😭
Growing up, I never understood why people would become history buffs. It makes perfect sense now.
In my History class in high school. We were taught that Hitler's mother was Jewish.
Wow! This is something I never knew! Another great episode!
Excellent work, Mark!
Weird how Hitler wasn’t so ‘extreme’/upset when he found out the girl was part Jewish. Although having an extreme philosophy. Perhaps he’s just a figurehead at this point and he’s not checking everyone for Jewishness
Human minds are complex.
out of all of your story's this is the only one that made my eyes water what a sad ending to a beautiful young lady .
thanks Dr. Felton never heard abour this part of his life.
have a nice day.
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It’s like Hitler was a puppet being used by the party. Kinda shows an inside of what people really don’t know. Very educational! Thanks!
lol
Nah
More like there' a little good even in the most evil people. He was hardly a puppet.
0:25-0:42 is it just me or does that house look very familiar to the one from sniper elite 5 lol
Again good Dr. You bring to the fore a most amazing range of fascinating stories. Thank you
You continue to amaze Dr. Felton!
Yeah. It’s like that time I read about 100K Jews being in his army and some were even top generals. WEIRD…
0:25 I'm actually familiar with that Bavarian word.👁️🗨️
One has the impression that Bormann would walk 100 miles just to do something cruel and unessessary. Story after story...
It seems like he was almost universally hated among the top officials, although they all seemed to detest each other anyway.
history is a set of L eyes agreed upon..napoleon
Ve vill eventually get to da truth. It vas Bormann all along and not mein fuhrer, vait, erase dat, I mean not Herr Hitler vho vas responsible.
Fascinating. I've never heard of this until now. However, I've seen the photos before and it's brought an obvious new depth to them.
It's little things like this that prove there are still things to learn about arguably the most dissected part of recent human history.
Thank you, Dr. Felton.
I wonder what the studies of Western leaders who were buddies with Epstein would say in the future?
And the most propagandized part of recent history.
An interesting material for a movie about how human nature is really complicated. On one part, one of the worst criminals in human history. On the other, a man who loves children, art, music, animals, and cakes.
I am really curious, what would be Hitler's story, if he was actually allowed to study in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Strange… “ She caught his eye” out of all the people who were there he found a blonde child “attractive” and had her visit him.
That's the great if in history what if Hitler was accepted to art School in Vienna then
Probably Fortuna send her to say "It's not genetics building the mind, it is the soul's karma determing the body".