Ardennes SS Massacre - The Wereth 11
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The tragic story of 11 African-American GIs captured by the 1st SS Panzer Division during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944.
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One thing I have noticed throughout all of Felton’s videos is the overwhelming gratitude and kindness shown in the comments. Learning history such as this makes us more grateful for what we have, and what we are. Thanks everyone
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Well said.
Amen
That's people fishing for likes
Really? The thing that I noticed so far is the amount of Nazi apologists in the comment section
Multiple broken bones, bayoneted in the eyes. That's some Imperial Japanese level of torture right there.
I mean yeah pretty much tho sadly enough its alot more commen then you think world wide so RIP tbf.
It's war, doesn't matter where your bayonets land just make sure they penetrate.
Sounds like IRA, but they used nail guns instead
Is that true? Good Lord...My Father is English, my Mum American. On her side of the fam, she had 4 Uncles fighting in Europe, 2 in the Pacific. In the Battle of the Bulge, my Great Uncle George Berry was captured by the 277th Volkgrenadier Div SS, stripped of his clothes and locked in a barn. He was rescued, but died of Pneumonia shortly after. He's buried in Luxembourg.
Didnt the Japanese throw infants into the air to spear them? Yeahh they did that.
My wife was a home health aid for a 96 year old gentleman who was a forward observer that advanced thru Belgium in WW2. He remarked to me during one of our many visits, "There was a massacre of an artillery unit by the SS, but it was kept a secret because the higher ups were too afraid that it would really hurt morale and frighten everybody. I wish that it was talked about." Mr. Smith passed away two years ago and I have wondered ever since what the story was but gave up on ever finding out. Thank you for this video, I now know the story and Mr. Smith can rest a little easier.
Also the malmedy massacre
They got them in a little known trial.
You armyaboo
Well, they got many in that trial but too many were also set lose. They should have hung them all.
@@sonnyburnett8725 should they have hung the perpetrators of the WW2 Biscari and Chenogne massacre's too?
I have been in the Hürtgen forest. They still find soldiers there every now and again. When I was there they found the body of a US soldier who had just arrived to serve for a couple of days, when he got killed. It is sad that the horrors of Hürtgenwald is most often forgotten because of the battle for the Ardenne directly after it.
It also has sadly given rise to the myth here in America that we and the Brits beat the Germans virtually every time apart from Market Garden. The Italian Campaign was absolutely brutal with a number of setbacks, and Hurtgen was a total disaster for us. We were FAR from invincible, and we paid the price for getting overconfident and cocky. Thank goodness we recovered at the Battle of the Bulge.
@@thunderbird1921 Likewise the Soviets suffered defeats right up until the final months. Many reasons of course. Hitler demanded increasing sacrifice and soldiers became more and more paranoid about disobeying orders. Many saw some dignity in dying to the enemy but none in being executed by their own men. But also the Allies share some of the blame, as they began a race of East vs. West, attempting to seize as much land as possible in the shortest timeframe. This led to many entirely pointless minor disasters that could have been avoided. That said it's important to remember that every day the war continued, more Jews and Roma were being slaughtered. The death numbers actually increased until the very end of the war where the logistics systems of the camps had so totally collapsed that they simply could not keep up the pace. So there is something to be said that while many situations were perceived to be pointless deaths, the sacrifices made by soldiers saved the lives of many thousands who may have otherwise been systematically killed.
Complicated topic, and indeed one that isn't talked about enough, with the perception of the last 2 years of the war being a series of endless allied victories dominating the narrative. Then you have the other extreme, which is those who overblow things like the battle of the bulge, which very much was a last gasp of the German army, and which was pretty objectively a horrible idea stoked by Hitler's ego rather than any actual strategy.
@@thepinkplushie What one has to understand is that the Germans won pretty much every battle where they weren't severely outnumbered (or completely battered by Allied air or artillery superiority) throughout the war, even during its later parts. Their army was simply superior, because it combined the well trained soldiers of the western nations with the brutal discipline of the soviets. German soldiers were, and there's little discussion about that, the best in the world during WW2. They only lost because the allies VASTLY outnumbered them and because the German economy was unable to provide sufficient supplies for the army to keep functioning (and also because Hitler's and the OHL's strategy was stupid). It was a mixture of the American economy and the endless supply of soldiers that the soviets could muster that won the war, certainly not better soldiers/armies.
Guess I can wait 14 minutes and 25 seconds longer to go to bed...
I just woke up and this video was uploaded a minute ago hahaha
@@Screwthis007 smh euros getting treated better in the upload schedule 😪
Thank you Lord for Bomber Harris
I got your pfp as my steam pfp
these are my nightly dose of history right before bed time
There's a small memorial for them in Wereth now, it was put up a few years ago and funded almost entirely by the Langer family
Suprised the Langer family didn't get the same treatment from the Nazis
@@Tele999zzz I think they made up a good story, for example that they were forced by the US soldiers...
Connor O'Keeffe No wonder that Germans were called Huns.
I will visit it someday soon. So sorry for their families.
He says that in the video.
Mark Felton is unmatched in quality. Truly a channel that should be appreciated.
I mean the channel is great but calm the hell down. You're like a simp or one of those guys that play the nude anime girl games.
" Great upload Mark we appreciate it."
See, sometimes less is more.
@@boolationnation9263 i wasn't talking to you im talking to the OP and im not angry lol
Mark Felton and Indy Neidell are my go to people for war history. They just deliver facts not propaganda. They say what happened and leave me to feel what I feel about it.
@JayCee Hey that's pretty accurate, except at a certain point I will get emotional.
As a black man, I thank you for bringing this untaught history to light. As lifelong student of WWII history, I thank you for all your efforts shedding light on many facts not taught in school, TV, books, or films. Awesome work. Liked, sub, and donated.
Way better, than what you usually get from media nowadays with racial caricatures that historically make no sense, with the producer’s celebrating their own ‘tolerance’ and racial ‘representation’.
As a human being, I find your mentioning of your skin tone equal parts baffling and repulsive in this context.
@@charleshowie2074 That is strange. Should he be ashamed of his skincolor then?
In this documentary, it's obvious skincolor fueled the hate, torture and killing of these 11 black men.
@@GTfour01 What is strange? No. Of course the SS's crimes were racially motivated - they were Nazis. It is a bizarre question and follow-up statement ans seems kinda apropos nothing?
@@charleshowie2074 Therefore Bucketlist badass has all the right to refer to his skincolor.
Now stop being a twerp.
Wow, really sad, they were brave enough to do all they could not to endanger the langer family... True men...
That part of the story seemed fictionalized.
@@GQ2593 why would it be fictionalised by their own army who even looked down on them and segregated them?They arrived on the scene and saw the wounds and mutilation the soldiers had sustained.
@@alexanderthegreat1356 Because it camouflages surrender as an act of compassion.
@@GQ2593 so that suddenly excuses the soldiers who led them into a field and tortured them, shot one while he was bandaging his comrade, bayoneted them in their eyes, cut off their fingers and killed them?
@@alexanderthegreat1356 who knows what exactly triggered this turn of events... All the witnesses are either dead or might be wanting to tell their story. And there is very few of them so it's easy to tell anything they want to be told. So those events might have transpired as told here by Mark - or it might have been something different, we will never truly know.
I thought I knew all about WWII until I started watching this Channel.
me too, its brilliant
One point it made clear to me: World War Two was not a "good war." For too long Hollywood has glamorized this war. It was a terrible event of unmatched cruelty.
@@johnratican3824 it was meant to happen, Stalin would of invaded Europe sooner or later and end he got what he wanted regardless
I thought the Nazis won the war until I found this channel.
@@johnratican3824 That is every war ever, but that doesn't mean everyone in it was cruel or murderer.
There is a book out there about this story."The Lost Eleven" by Denise George and Robert Child. It draws on first hand interviews with family members and fellow soldiers. Great video Mr. Felton
THANK YOU.
This is a sad story which deserves to be better known
Would say it's pretty well known by anyone even with a passing interest in WW2. Known about this for years well before the growth of WW2 history videos on RUclips.
They should do a movie on this...like red tails
@@ladorjenkins5915 If they do make a film on this sort of event in current times, it'd be press and news reports up the ass.
There is a book out that covers this incident specifically. Also, numerous WWII magazines have had articles about it as well.
A film would be welcomed that celebrates the bravery of the African American soldiers, and the family who helped them whilst shining a torch on the racist brutality of the SS towards black troops and the (what seems likely) the racism in the US military that led to the cover up of the massacre.
It brings tears to my eyes to think of what these men went through. We should never forget what our service men went through during this horrible war.
we went to war against the German's and they were defending themselves, read about what our people did to them, our enemy was the communist and our govt has been in bed with them, since the beginning that is the new world order anti Christ, now europe, Canada, amurika, and Australia are destroyed .lincoln was friends with Karl Marx and his general's also and forward in history alot of govt officials were commies..
@@georgerandall5686 Karl Marx was a semite
@@georgerandall5686 bloody fanatics
They were soldiers. It was their job to kill and be killed if need be. They died because they surrendered. I'm sure all of those men knew they would die regardless. It's very sad.
@@georgerandall5686 You making excuses for the nazis? They started the war and committed war crimes. They were not innocent victims of the US. You must be a neo nazi.
Poor guys, nobody should be treated like this. RIP the Wereth 11
These black lives mattered.
@@raypurchase801 Of course they were heroes too and fight and in the end, they protected the family so the truth is that they fight to the end. I hate racism and freaking Nazis was all racism for sure. RIP Gis.
@书中自有黄金屋 Yeh? Its obvious you've never studied Nazi propaganda.
@书中自有黄金屋 Mein Kampf
@@raypurchase801 ..Indeed they did , as do all lives black yellow white or a mixture of .
Let's all agree history channel should be stopped and replaced with his master peace channel
Enough about the history channel already. Every single upload its history channel this history channel that. Noone watches that crap, this is not the history channel
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I knew of the Malmady massacre, but had not heard of the Wereth murders. Thanks once again Doctor Felton for shedding some light on this horrible chapter of world history.
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I did know about this massacre, knew of their murder. I knew watching this was going to make me sad because I knew the outcome beforehand, but I watched anyway. There are those times where History is brutal, sadistic, unfair, and just plain murderous. But I still feel that even these moments in History require the vigilance to not look away to better educate ourselves about our past.
Do you also know the German point of view about Malmedy? It is verry interesting when you compare the two versions based on their plausibility......Maybe this might be another topic for Mr. Felton.....
While finding the guilty may never happen, forgetting the incident would be a greater tragedy. Dr. Felton has done his part to cause the rest of us to reflect and, hopefully, learn.
@@mikeromney4712 I'm pretty sure in Malmedy the US soldiers tried to escape so we're shot down but the SS executed the wounded so...
I've done quite a bit of reading around the Ardennes battle and I've never heard of this. Very sad event in this battle
Sounds like a cover up
@@TheMrgoodmanners I think as far as narratives go, there was greater crimes like the Malmedy Massacre in the BoB, and that no one was caught. Other than war crime trivia, it doesn't contribute much to the greater conflict of the area.
In terms of historical representation, I imagine the fact that the U.S. Army was extremely callous about under-representing African American contributions, that validating them by discussing the crimes would go against the status quo and that talking about it now discredits the actions of the past leadership.
Similar to the many thousands of Korean refugees that the Army murdered, and subsequently denied despite literally seeing documentation of such during inquiries about it. The US Army had a huge integrity problem that still persists.
I think 11 men might be seen as a very small fraction of the thousands died, however, I believe such story should be told more and these brave soldiers be honored.
@@JRyan-lu5im - here you go again - all over this thread, a Nazi apologist
Been around for a few years now there was even a film about it.. www.imdb.com/title/tt1641253/
I'm 61 years old and have always loved WWII history. I was this day old when l learned of the Wereth 11. :-(
Rest in peace brave men.
Glad whole country was bombed and divided for decades to come 👊🏽
@@blackinpublic4193 lucky that's all they got.
@Kaiser Must have been fun for those Nazi scientists that the U.S scooped up after the war, though.
@@MorrowMattyI'm sure it was, they didn't have to live in fear of them and their families being killed at anytime by the SS, and they got automatic US citizenship and big fat paychecks, the more seinor ones got fee homes also, so yeah they were probably pretty thrilled.
@@badmonkey2222, you forgot to mention that the African Americans Vets did not get the same GI benefits as White soldiers!
Being black while in the hands of the SS must be the most terrifying thing ever, RIP to these poor souls.
It's coming back again this time it'll be federal black soldiers in the hands of white ethnostate fanatical soldiers
No being a Jew captured by a jahadi islamist group. The hatred runs very deep.
@@no-knickers-emma1112 Been fighting ever since Sarah and Hagar.
Idk fighting japan being any race would be worse
@Kira just like Poles and many others.
'Ordinary man' written by Browning. take a look
My great grandfather served in the 285th Field Artillery Battalion and was in the Ardennes. Thankfully, he was in Company A, and not B. He was awarded 3 Bronze Stars during the war.
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Amen
Thank the Gentleman for me!
How exactly did an artilleryman get medals for heroic actions? I'm a little confused lol
Bullllllshiiiiit
I love the fact that I can rock up on any of these videos and learn about 10X what I knew before. Bravo, Mark, Bravo.
I see you everywhere Bruned man
Ah yes another forgotten piece of forgotten history told by our good RUclips Historian. Always good too know we can count on you for something new everyday.
@cornskid well for the most part. It falls into the category of a footnote. Only a small number of people typically know about it. But i think you get the idea.
One of these men James Aubrey Stewart was from a nearby town here in my home state of WVa. Some his relatives are buried on my family's farm including his cousin Stanley that was also captured by the Germans in WWII.
SS were. Some nasty varmints
I live in WV what town and county?
@@NotThatGuyPal. Grant and Mineral counties. Piedmont where James Aubrey Stewart is from is in Mineral. His relative Stanley had a farm right before the county line in Grant County. Skippy - Henry Louis Gates is from Piedmont.
@@wvmann9320 okay yea I know where that is thank you!
@@NotThatGuyPal. what county are you in.
I can't imagine the agony those men went through that day, it's so disheartening to know that the men that committed these crimes were never caught and are probably already dead. I hope those who participated in this will rot in hell for a long time.
Frfr 💔
@Cam Robertson Good.
@Abu Dabu You idiot you should know that if Japan was invaded it would COST MORE LIVES THAN THE NUKES. Even the FIREBOMBING KILLED MORE THAN THE NUKES.
@Abu Dabu Inaccurate and one-sided claim . The allies weren’t the only ones with bombers.
My grandfather told me he didn’t bomb Dresden .... he leveled it .
If hell exists, im sure it is apolitical and if in war there is no good and evil then hell is an imaginary destiny for veterans of all countries and many other people...
Lest We Forget those who were murdered, always wonder the notification to next of kin, what was said if this was declared Top Secret and buried. Cheers and great presentation of forgotten history.
Now, that was just terrible, poor men, but honourable into the end
@@tomtaylor5623 how weren’t that honorable? They even considered the family, which they didn’t have to. They spared them so they wouldn’t be murdered by the SS as well. They were brave honorable soldiers.
@@tomtaylor5623 Reprisal? What's your logic? My point was that these American soldiers wouldn't risk the safety of that Belgian family, do you think the German soldiers had a good reason for torturing them to death?
@@bennyandersen742 how can you be so sure what these American soldiers were thinking at that time ? We might know what they actually did but nobody could read other's people minds to know what were they thinking...
@@Statek63 Yeah, take the side of the guys who genocided their way through Europe. Something tells me you're German.
@@Statek63 oh look its the same race triggerd dude going from comment to comment stream something told me givin your obsession to defend nazi war crimes against blacks all i had to do was keep searching and i would find you sgain..and look at that HERE YOU ARE
War crimes are horrible and I’m sorry to break the mood but “happy Easter Adolph” on that shell in the thumbnail cracked me up
@Chandy Alexander yes...
@Kamil S the picture on the thumbnail looks like they are happy in that situation
@@tommykirk3403 If you have to ask that then you probably are one lol
@@confusedcapitalist2242 And then they ran into the SS and the situation drastically changed lol
@@D88111 didn’t matter because we all know what happened to the SS of anything the SS were happier to see Americans then Russians
Thanks Dr. Felton, I like many other people would have never heard of this event.
With out your unbiased reporting on any subject many stories like this would have faded into history.
fighting for freedom they didnt even have at home.
Commanded by racists, just to get massacred by racists...
@Paul Hatz Shut up dude.
Don't misuse the deaths of these black soldiers to sell your arbitrary concept of freedom. They fought for America and died for America.
@Paul Hatz Their freedom had been taken in Africa in the first place, so your comment is not only offensive but also stupid as hell.
Have had similar thoughts whenever I have read or seen reports on the Tuskegee Airmen. Bottom line, they served, and they are owed our thanks and our respect.
You truly are a gift to mankind Mark Felton for keeping all this history alive in your videos. Especially the telling the stories that often are forgotten like this one. Your history intelligence on RUclips is unmatched and although I am an unknown on RUclips. I always watch your videos. Keep up the amazing work! 👏👏👍
An absolutely dispicable crime. RIP to those men whose ultimate sacrifice remains mostly forgotten, until now. Great work Dr Felton.
@John P. Denver Oh shut up. No one cares because Germany wanted a total war with the Soviets, whom they committed many war crimes against. You reap what you sow.
@John P. Denver Yes, I know, said group is responsible for every major conflict to ever exist plus they created inflation, but that still doesn't make what the Nazis did okay. The only people to have a record of worse war crimes than them would be the Imperial Japanese Army.
@@lelouchvibritannia4028 Cries about allied soldiers being criminally murdered but supports genocide on germans. Typical
@@samuelskogqvist5565 he has a point
have you not learn what our troops did and especially the dam bolsheviks
Here's a bit of history you might want to explore. My next door neighbor and father to my best friend growing up was one of the first black officers to command a company in combat. Unfortunately, his company was overrun by the Chinese at Chosin Reservoir. They held until they ran out of ammunition. They tried to surrender but the Chinese started bayoneting the soldiers. Mr. Jackson and a handful of survivors managed to escape the massacre. They hid during the day and moved south at night. During the fight Mr. Jackson was hit in the leg by fragments of a mortar round so walking was an unpleasant experience for him. It took them a month but they finally made it out of hostile territory. When he contacted his parents he learned that he had been listed as Missing in Action presumed dead. His injuries where such that he would never be able to serve again. He returned home to Virginia where he founded a construction company that would one day help build the DC metro system. I'm hoping you find this story interesting and make a video about Captain Paul Jackson. He was one of many heroes I had the pressure of meeting when I was young.
Thanks for posting this - TG he made it out. It is unfortunately not too surprising that an Asian enemy would murder prisoners. You seldom hear about the Viet Cong yet they nearly always killed everyone even in hospitals. Of course then there were the Japanese - which wrere the worst of all.
As a kid I had a black teacher who was at chosin who lost most of his right foot and 2 fingers to frostbite, he also had a bullet wound in his shoulder. He said he hid in a pit of slush and freezing water until he and one other was able to sneak out. He was a machine gunner, and he lost several friends in that battle. Unfortunately I don’t remember what unit he served in.
General McAuther should have been burned at the stake for what he did to our MILITARY in Korea.
That is an incredible story. I hope Mark is able to find the details to make a video about it.
@@Kiido11 It should be straight forward to research. There was only one Army Division there and only so many rifle companies. If he decides to do a video on this I can get him the contact info for Captain Jackson's son.
These guys faced racism in both home and away. I wonder what was going through their minds
Amen. I really want to reply, but I just cant find the words. This just sickens me. Racism is so stupid. To face it here, and then go to war to defend this country, and then those who came home just found the same old sh*t. We're better than that. At least I hope we are. We should be.
I'm sure they never called Germans "krauts", too.
@@zachfox5969 doesn’t make it better
@@Bornst3ll3r You're right. It doesn't make racism against Germans any better simply because the US was segregated.
@@dixztube well I don't blame you, but as white person I think WW2 was actually a disaster for the Western world and it certainly wasn't good vs evil, it was just one huge power struggle out of many in world history.
I don't care if I got school in a couple of hours, I shall not get a minute of shut eye until I watch Mark's new video.
Good luck at school. What do you want to do when you leave?
@@nigeh5326 Watch Mark Felton videos, care to join ?
Man I heard all about his massacre but as usual, Mark Felton’s impeccable amount of info, helped me learn, yet again more stuff..
A completely forgotten massacre. These guys were tortured by Waffen cowards. Aubrey Stewart (one of the 11), from Piedmont, WV, was a heck of ballplayer (semi pro pitcher for the Piedmont Colored Giants). Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Aubrey enlisted (even though he was 36 yrs old).
Rest in peace to these brave 11. And hope they are never forgotten
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It was a terrible thing but those guys were far from cowards.... As mark stated many were young kids that lost control.... It happened on both sides,,, many of them American cowards did the very same..... war is hell. ... It was terrible yes but you have to just let it go.... But cowards ???? No they were not
They were SS not Wehrmacht. They are getting off lightly with “cowards”
@@GhostDad1OP mentioned " waffen" You get the gist
The regular German Army also committed horrendous war crimes . They weren't just " fighting for their country"
@@krakrtreacysr907 they were cowards of course they weren't kid either
Thank you Mark shining the light on this small event that was overshadowed. Thank you for being who you are.
Brilliant ! You have no idea how grateful I am to get this video upload Mark .. thank you, I’ve been stuck in USA for 8months now with no knowing when I will be able to travel home, alone and in a hotel ( feels like a prison ) it’s 04:10 I can’t sleep thinking about family christmases gone by and I just needed something to take my mind off things. Thanks mate for this video and I guess I just wanted you to know you help people in a lot of ways with these videos. They are not just informational 👍🏻
Chin up!
@@MarkFeltonProductions dads army has been getting me through. 👍🏻 cheers for reply mark
Mark Felton delivers once again.
They never taught this in our history classes. Thank you for sharing this important piece of forgotten history.
God rest their souls.
Thor, Poseidon, Shiva?
@@PROVOCATEURSK any of them that would. Could you imagine facing the fate that they did? I wouldn't wish it upon anyone.
Amen
@@PROVOCATEURSK very funny...
The bayonets through the eyes??? That’s brutal. Animals.
Damn what a shitty life. being black in america in 1940's and then getting tortured fighting a war in europe.rip
@@quinnjim Don't you mean all lives matter dummy? Black people had no business fighting for imperialist European or Americans. Evil exploitation
@@destroyerarmor2846 You name an African country and I will name an atrocity!
Knew of the murders, but not of the torture .Damn all Nazi wannabes scum. RIP these brave men .
@@solvingpolitics3172 Nothing you mention comes close to the industrial slaughter of human beings that Western civilization has done. Africa is just a bunch of tribal skirmishes, they can't even organize a small navy
@@quinnjim tone deaf lunatic. It's really a shame these soldiers fought for their own nation that hated them and died horribly for nothing
My grandfather was in the 29th infantry and survived Omaha beach and made it all the way to Germany. He said they stopped taking prisoners after word of the massacre got out.
My gramps was in the 29th too, as well as his brother in law, who was captured during the battle of the bulge
That was a horrible war. Mine was fighting in the Pacific, but my other grandfather fought in the trenches in WWI. Those men saw some hellish things.
Malmedy massacre was worse
@@MrHeidiHigh Great story. The issue with the SS is that soldiers who joined were 'signing up' to the notion of racial supremacy. They were all taught it. It is great that he had a conscious and showed compassion when it was required. I hope that after the war he realised that the ideology was wrong.
"they stopped taking prisoners after word of the massacre got out." Were these Germans under Peiper?
>>-----------------> We need to find out who that fräulein "Karen" was that turned in our U.S. soldiers!
Five years ago, i made foto's of the monument at wereth...so much monuments in the Ardennes...
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Mark..
I like how Felton presents history in an apolitical manner.
With Nazism one cannot be impartial or apolitical. Otherwise you are an accomplice to it
@@Lonegan63 Would you feel the same way about Communism?
@@kitcarson1697 unironic horseshoe theory?
@@assortedlunatics4381 perhaps.
@@kitcarson1697 imagine thinking that communism is anywhere equal to nazism
Can one imagine what it was like for a black GI in WWII. Basically giving your life for a country that didn't give a rat's ass about you.
Same now
@@brankog7 was just thinking the same. Might start to improve with fartman gone, but I wont hold my breathe
Same in Vietnam too. Poor bastards
@@markusk1015 not to mention the poor Vietnamese
@@brankog7 thats not true. Quick research will show you that the US military is a major economic ladder for many, many black, hispanic, Asian Americans. Like 2% of jobs in the military are actually combat arms. Theres so many positions, its honestly insanely bloated. But its not the same today by any means. The VA and the modern military ensures a lot of minorities employment, opportunity and benefits.
Mark Felton was once an Imperial officer of the Galactic Empire until he retired at the start of Episode VII. He now dedicate his time as an Internet Historian Professor talking about a minor war from a backwater planet.
Dios bendiga a esos soldados estadounidenses caídos y torturados injustamente.
Thank you to all the these African Americans who fought for me
I love you guys so much and will never forget you. Fly high you have your angel wings now.
Terry is white, guilt tripped white dude
Part of our trouble is hyphenated-Americans.@@Hissing-Syd
My heart is heavy for these 11 men.. I was wanting them to evade capture. To hear the horrible fate they met that day is just sicking..
They died so we could live in endless ever increasing debt to the world banks. Heroes indeed
@@rustyshackleford7265 Lame comment. Plonker.
@@rustyshackleford7265 Underground bunker fully stocked?
@@rustyshackleford7265 that part is the boomers' fault. These guys just made we werent speaking german while we did it
The Krauts should have all been euthanized. Country populace and all for their countless atrocities against the human race. Them and the little keyboard warriors who justify/defend them.
This video was absolutely fascinating. I did not know this about the African American Corps. Wow. Heros all!
Kareem Abdul Jabbar wrote an excellent book on black tankers that you will be interested in: Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes
I would share my copy, but it doesn't leave my house. :-)
@@jerrycallison6125 I didn’t know he was an author as well as his other accomplishments. I will have to try and buy a copy, thanks for the info 👍
@@nigeh5326 Glad to. I appreciated the way he approached the subject without adding racial tension to the subject beyond what was already there. i believe you will find it enlightening. I hope you will let me know your thoughts when you've read the book.
Thank you mark Felton for bringing those young men’s memory alive, it’s people like you who show what real history is leak form the extraordinary stories to the tragic ones.
War sucks.
Long live peace.
Greetings from Slovenia.
@Milos
Hello is that where Luka is from?
@@loveofmangos001 Luka Dončić is from Slovenia, yes.
Small country with 2 million people and almoust all are proud on Luka, including myself.
@@milosmevzelj5205
I love that
Thank You.
I am basketball fan so had to ask
make ArmA not war
Thank you for bringing attention to this event in a history community so full of wehraboos. These 11 men will not be forgotten, and the atrocities of the Nazi forces will certainly never be forgotten.
The first reply you got was also standard wehraboo logic, as to further your point lmao
@@MrFlankSinatra yeah, I made a reply to him but realised it wasn't worth my time
@Abu Dabu here are some "actual historical facts" for you!
The Nazis lost. The Nazis committed worse war crimes than the allies. Many of the Nazi war crimes have still gone unpunished. The allies won.
@@FinFett The soviets rejected the Geneva conventions and Britain burned civilians to death. Just so you know Dresden wasn’t a nazi ideology dominated city, so lots of the people slowly burned to death were socialists, if that makes you feel worse.
@@jikkh2x amazing, every single word you just said was wrong
Your videos are absolutely fantastic, Mark. My father was a WW2 veteran and served in the US Army in Europe as an infantryman, but unfortunately died when I was a young boy in 1949 just some years after the war. I always wondered what his tour of duty was like. Greetings from Northern California.
Mike
Fantastic yet horrific and terribly sad story. Your work is certainly appreciated Mr. Felton.
Last time I was this early, Hitler hadn't even reached the Polish border! Congrats on the million subscribers, love the content!
Congrats on 1 million subs Mark!!
Nice profile picture anyway
Yeah its time for a history lesson. 10/10 presentation.
Mark felton is so underrated. And its even more interesting when you dont see any hate comments in his videos.
I think its because of his factual, unbiased presentation....straightforward, but never dull......I've never seen one negative comment, ever....
@@FMHammyJ some hitler related videos have large numbers of nazi apologists, and racists.
1.25 million subscribers suggests he isn't exactly underrated. I would say "highly regarded" myself. He has also written books and is a respected academic, so he's doing okay.
RIP to these fallen 11. Heart breaking!!
The amount of People in these comments seemingly eager to jump to the defense of the SS is concerning.
@Mad Titan
Alot of Neo Nazis watch this channel
I've ran into those scum on this channel a number of times.
Maybe people are sick of hearing the same things over and over again.
Thanks to the net there is a lot to learn from revisionist history.
@@helmortkuper2626 History is pretty clear on the SS unless you were one of them and slithered away unpunished. There is no doubt they were an evil cult of murdering fanatics.
@@davidlynch9049 Yeah history is too clear on anything related to Germany, most people never heard of the Holodomor, Eisenhowers starving of Germans after the war or any other major war crimes of the Allies.
@@helmortkuper2626
Just like most people haven’t heard about germans starving Holland or executing 60 thousand civilians in three days in Warsaw.
Heartbreaking. Thanks for shining a light on these warriors.
LOL! I missed that part of the intro. "Easter eggs for Hitler." Love it!
It's in the thumbnail lol.
I had read the Malmedy Massacre was a huge mistake by the SS. Word quickly got around to U.S. units about this atrocity and U.S. troops decided that it was better to fight to the death defending themselves than to give up and and be helplessly shot down like dogs. This resolve is what helped us win the battle of the Bulge.
Yeah, and it was waaaaaay more dangerous for the german to surrender themselves after that.
It's the same brutality that was seen on the eastern front. Once you begun the atrocity, it cme quickly full circle.
@james wallis Lol. Yeah sure. BS. XD
The condemnation were commuted but the condemned were not recognised innocent. That's a huge difference, and 6 at least were condemned to lperpetuity sentence anyway.
More than that, the americans judge tired to make friends with the germans because of the cold war, so they were ready put many things uder the rugs.
@james wallis The only bullshit is your twisting of the facts. Because of testimony of U.S. soldiers who survived the massacre, forensic evidence, autopsy reports that showed death caused by machine gun bullet, close range pistol shots to the back of the head with powder burns, and blunt force trauma (rifle butts) (with no shrapnel wounds from artillery) photographic evidence and testimony of some SS soldiers who wanted to save their own necks, 73 SS men were convicted with 43 sentenced to hang. While the regular German army for the most part conducted themselves well the SS, who were not part of the German army did not. They we the ones responsible for running the death camps that slaughtered million of innocent civilians including millions of women and children. The same ones who butchered 642 French civilians at the village of Oradour-Sur-Glan in France in June of 1944, including 452 women and children they herded into a church and burned alive. These were men of no honor, morals or shame and you state Malmady never happened because these men said so? Do you think they would have any hesitancy to lie, especially if they told the truth a noose would immediately be placed around their neck? After the war the cold war changed everything, and now Germany was our friend which resulted in political pressure, there were accusations of trial irregularities, allegation that torture and duress was applied to the defendants, allegations that many US prosecutors, who were Jewish, were to biased for this trial, and because of this the death sentences were not carried out and later on the sentences were commuted. And yes, there was a lot of bravery shown at The Battle of the Bulge. U.S. troops, many of them green, fought bravely and did not surrender despite being surrounded, outnumbered, undersupplied, under constant attack, outgunned and fighting in deplorable conditions with little hope of winning at that time and they still beat the Germans.
@@Howie875 the SS NAZIS were simply terrorists nothing more or less and they need to be always and forever remembered as known terrorists of the time.
Didn't the Langer family actually pay for the memorial?
If I remember well, they themselves put a simple monument where it happened, but later the local council made it an official site and they put a bigger monument and organized the ceremonies. Locals (with German ancestors or not) asked for it.
Did the Americans get their private parts forced fed to their person like the Belgian paratroopers in Rwanda? No monument for whty in Africa.
@@ChristopherHitchens3.14 what’s your point? Something good or bad happens in place doesn’t mean it happens everywhere.
That surely sounds like nonsense.
Eugenics in 1994? Nope.
White guilt forever? Oh yes.
@@eagleeye5943 oy vey
My grandfather was US Army 28th infantry division 112th infantry regiment. He never talked about the war except he was at the bulge and once seen Gen. Patton.
I saw a movie on this subject. RIP to my American brothers.
Thank you, Gunnar.
I was watching this video and thinking that this story would make a great and powerful movie...do you remember what the name of the movie was?
It's called "The Wereth Eleven". It's on Prime right now.
1944...those men died for a country that refused to appreciate them and treated them as 2nd class citizens.
Salute to the men, who fallen on that day
Who were murdered by German racists on that day , to be accurate.
@@jimfiggerty833 to be more accurate, German Facists
@@Brian-qx3ld and racists but facism and racism goes hand and hand
Including the Germans
@@z.weertje7209 the nazis? Nah they can di3.
I guess Santa heard my wish, and got here early!
Glad they lost two world wars and were divided for decades to come 👊🏽
@@blackinpublic4193 huh
@@curtisdenger5990 what do you mean huh
@@blackinpublic4193 Well good Nazi regime has been eradicated but sucks they were divided but it was to ensure they wouldn't start a war again.
Brave men murdered by cowards.
I think you mean cowards murdered by brave men
@@algiz21 brave men don't murder. They had two rifles among them and little ammunition. The nazi scum waited until they were disarmed to torture and mutilate them.
This channel is pure quality
"A crime that is still unpunished." That is war.
You could write countless books over unpunished crimes that occured during WWII. It would be unflattering for the victors.
@@JRyan-lu5im for everyone involved, especially germans
But yes also for allies
The bombing of Dresden was also just war.
Or the firebombing of many German population centers. Bomb shelters that were full of bodies fried in their own fatty oil. Absolutely horrific. War is evil.
@@ihatecorporatedatacollecti6609 They talk about how hard and stoic WWII vets are, but I have to wonder how if it was me, I wouldn't drink myself into a coma after murdering countless women and child in firestorms "to break morale".
Horrible war crime, RIP Wereth 11. Greetings and respects from Brazil.
Not a "horrible war crime". Educate thyself.
I found the Nazi sympathizer ^^^
@@AmRFuKYaH they are still walking among us even today. Sadly.
@@veritas2306 what? dude get some help
@@AmRFuKYaH Huh? 1.5 million German prisoners of war were intentionally starved to death by the United States, France, and Russia. These 1.5 million Germans were murdered. War is war. I don't fault anyone for doing their best to win. Wake yourself up for the education you have received is slanted in one direction and does not tell the entire story.
Idiots out there watching Logan Paul spend money & im watching Mark Felton.
Coming from a man named Rumple Foreskin, that's high praise indeed
Back in the 90s AMC had a movie called the Redball Express about the African Americans who trucked all the fuel needed to support Patton's tanks. It was the first time I'd heard about Black soldiers fighting in WWII. Thank you gentlemen!
My Uncle fought in The Bulge. 101 Airborne. Bastogne. He told how this was never mentioned and they were told not to discuss it.
THEE best channel on RUclips if you want perfection in historical storytelling 100% Thank you for your lovely work Mark Felton
Mr. Felton,
Thank you very much for this video. I have read extensively about the Battle of the Bulge and had never heard of this massacre.
Again , you are bringing to light truly forgotten history.
Very good video Mark!
Greetings from Malaga ( Spain)
Just in time for breaktime!
Perhaps they escaped justice in the 40"s, but they have had to answer to a higher judge.
Once again, you have uncovered a little known sector of the war that needs to be made known. Thank you, sir!
Yeah, especially when declared criminals were rewarded with government posts in post war germany.
The story is simple. This is the non BS version.
1 Americans captured by SS Panzer Battalion. (Don’t surrender to tankers, they have places to go and not many Resources)
2 American POW guarded by the limited soldiers available by machine guns.
3 Small group of Americans try and break away. This was stupid of them and they should have known better.
4 Guards do what they are supposed to do, which is open up on the breakout.
5 Some Americans hold firm, others panic or otherwise join the breakout.
6 The MG42 fires at 1300 rounds per minute was designed not to leave any escape gaps between bullets and to kill masses of running soldiers. It would have shot, killed or injured everyone very quickly.
7 There is no hope of medical aid so the Guards administer the Coup de Grace (mercy blow). Pretty normal on the eastern front.
8 Post war American guards and interrogators extract absurd confessions by crushing testicles, beating up, smashing teeth of the German prisoners,
9 Senator Joe McCarthy, a Marine, lawyer and judge points out the problem with this and many of the charges are dismissed.
SS units, including tank battalions, repeatedly showed themselves willing to take US prisoners and treat them by the Geneva conventions. There are several incidents in Mark Felton’s posts.
The only certain criminals were the US guards that used torture in peace to extract false confessions.
The media being what they are continued to spread the SS Massacre narrative. There is too much bull like Google is curated to provide fake history.
@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs Some pretty spectacular mental gymnastics there son. Nazi apologists will always find a way to excuse atrocities.
@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs
Son or grandson of german war-criminal?
In another comment I listed horrible things you did during WWII to POW and civilians and the second it was posted it disappeared. I guess it goes against your theory.
I’m sure Angela must have payed handsome lump sum to YT for creating algorithms that delete anything showing in detail your crimes.
@@AlwaysAC You just don’t have the integrity to handle the truth or facts and just prefer hype, narrative spin fake news and fake history. Why persist in BS. Anyway, the chickens are comming home to roost and your culture and people are going to get “cancelled” by your own selves.
A great doc. Doc. About time its talked about.
I had three uncles in WWII who proudly served, despite segregation. One spoke of the war, two did not. They are why I enlisted.
RIP. . Gentlemen.
The channel that I watch even in class.
In class... and your teacher probably approves. 😎
@@CFarnwide exactly.
Absolutely good, moral men, who protected the family who helped them. I hope their souls are at peace.
it's abhorrent what these young men endured at their end of life.. tortured, stabbed, beaten, ran over. I'm proud of these brave young American men and pity the SS soldiers who engaged in this crime. It's shameful. disgusting. beating an unarmed man to death is brutish.
Those Soldiers deserved better.
Thank you for keeping history alive Mr Felton!
That was very moving and shocking. We spent last Christmas near Bastogne so this was very poignant for me. Thank you Mark.
Nuts.
That must of been interesting.
@@rebelwalzt it was fascinating. Fantastic museum as well.
A lot of people (especially from US)seams to forget, that things like this was basically day to day life of average African- American from US southern states... actually, more sadly, even long after WW2 ended...
Marky, can you make a video about the pathfinders that were dropped hours before to light the way for the paratroopers during D-Day?
Yes please! I have always wondered about this. Were they shot up and scattered too? Or did they actually find their drop points and succeed?
@@billd.iniowa2263 From what little I have had read they had the same problems as the paratroopers, including losing their radios.
I love this channel. Direct, non biased, no overwhelming music and no personal opinions.
“Bayoneted in the eyes”
Holy hell that is pure evil.
Rip wereth 11 😔🇺🇸❤️
The REAL evil are the sentences giving to the perpetrators of this War Crime. 4 Life Sentences and 1 Death. ALL Reduced. The last SS POS released was in 1955. 10 years for 11 American Heroes. And how America spit on the names of every member of the 33rd. FA that was forced to surrender. In 1978 I was in Artillery School in Ft. Sill, OK and there was a training film on how undisciplined this unit was.
@@rebelwalzt That makes me sick. That entire period of time was horrendous. Letting huge criminals of war go free with barely a slap on the wrist compared to what would happen to you or me in that position. I guess operation paperclip was more important than justice.
Thank you for your service man. 🤛🏼
The wereth 11 is truly a tragic war event never mentioned in British schools unsure about rest of world, come on time these guys were remembered RUclips has bought them back from the grave now they will not be forgotten much love and respect from Nottingham England 🏴
It's sad how carelessly the word "nazi" is used today.
Amen, they have no idea. It’s sickening
I agree, I don’t see any Nazism today but whole lot of communism ideology
Or how quickly they forget. They said "never again" after they discovered the concentration camps. Now we all know China is committing a genocide against the Uighurs on our watch and nothing is done about it. Unbelievable
@@hercg1967 I see fascism around though
@@hercg1967 I see more nazism/fascism than any sort of communism, especially in western countries. Corporatism - corporation control and influence in government and people's personal lives - is one step away from fascism/Nazism.
Remember that fascism was founded to counter communism and socialism, and do so using brutality and intimidation. The elimination of trade unions, major influence of large corporations in government, alienation of all but select races, religions and/or nationalities with a strong sense of nationalism with a central charismatic leader are typical characteristics of fascism. Russia, Hungary, and Syria are three current, solid examples of fascist governments. Many other countries are, or were leaning that way.
China and North Korea, with all aspects of industry, transportation, education, healthcare and even employment being controlled by the government, are solid examples of authoritarian socialism.
America's staunch upholding to the U.S. Constitution and somehow continually adapting it to modern situations, morays and changing technologies, is all that has kept America from becoming a corporatist/fascist nation.
It's only forgotten history because it is no longer taught in schools.
I learned of this and other atrocities on BOTH sides in the early 60's
@@james_chatman yes let's just ignore, Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin.
@@james_chatman I don't think that OP was minimizing the atrocities, just pointing out that crimes occurred within all military forces during the war. Granted, the axis powers were far more likely to engage in this sort of thing. When it happened within the allied ranks it was usually low ranking soldiers doing it with the leadership putting a stop to it as quickly as possible.
@@gobblox38
Yeah, but give the OP a little more time and it'll be, "we fought the wrong enemy." They can't help it.
“... It's only forgotten history because it is no longer taught in schools.”
Which curriculum are you referring to?
When my daughter gave the entire history of WWII they were covering in class... I lost it !!
WWII from oragins to aftermath were a grand total of six page's.
Oh no, that was not going to happen on my watch. She got the
Platinum deluxe package.
I was not letting the sacrifices of her great grandfather's swept under a rug. Nor was I about to allow the sacrifices of so many other nation's be swept away.
I'm Canadian so, there was a bit of extra about the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The two nation's built strong bond's that harden every year.
Anzac troops rarely get any attention...kind of like Canadian's.
All nation's were disscussed at length as each one was important to the overall war effort.
If it weren't for the American industrial capacity it would be a very different story & it's thing's such as this that get overlooked.
All allied forces were covered.
I was very careful about the subject of axis force's. I didn't want to perpetuate hatred & prejudice.
The really horrible stuff had to wait till she was older when I could out it into historical context.
It's past time the shaming of German people is stopped, enough with the guilt trip & hate.
Accept the past but never forget
what can happen to decent people in time's of strife & an
easy answer is offered... There's always the fine print filled with disclaimers.
Be ever vigilant against the evils of fascism & communism.
If your watching Mark Felton content, you understand what I'm talking about. Not many dim folks watch his material... It's too complicated for them & I'm not joking either.
If China can get a free pass on the Wuhan bio-weapon killing people around the world & operating concentration camp's right now, I'm sure we can learn from the horrible actions of the past.