Might I suggest a related topic for Dr. Felton, specifically the German auxiliary cruiser/merchant raider Penguin, one of the few such warships to operate in the Pacific Ocean?
You mentioned that both countries maintained significant embassy staffs, including soldiers, in each other’s countries. It would an interesting video to explain what became of those folks at the end of the war, especially the Japanese contingent in Berlin.
Imagine being a Russian soldier as you siege Berlin some random SS officer comes out walking menacingly with his hand on his Katana ready to unsheath and he slices up your entire platoon as some big tiddy anime soldiers cheer him on as he Fedora flips his cap and bids you farewell and your komrades start dissecting themselves in a single flash and he says "M'fraulein" like some edgy teen in 2007
I imagine the Hitler katana and samurai armour are being kept in lead-lined vaults on opposite sides of the earth lest his spirit manifest again if they’re brought within sufficient proximity.
Mark, have you considered doing an episode on the actor Christopher Lee’s military service (Finland for the winter war/ Second World War/ post war Nazi hunting)? I’ve seen a few videos on the topic but I feel you could maybe do it service compared to the copy paste videos out there! Perhaps dispel fact and fiction as well. Thank you for the amazing content.
Christopher Lee was the main character in life if we’re being honest. Saw the last public execution in france, was a trained opera singer, RAF intelligence, hunted Nazi war criminals, climbed mt Etna days before it erupted, met Tolkien, war ends and he becomes one of the greatest actors of all time WITH the most sword fights in movies. And made a goddamn heavy metal album in his late 80’s. About Charlemagne. Who was his ancestor. Absolute Legend.
@@sr7129 there’s so many stories about him, he was related to Iain Fleming who loosely based James Bond on him! He had a few set backs in like failing to become a pilot and never becoming a precessional opera signer. But for those minor set backs, or dreams not fulfilled, he still lived an incredible life. A life people will continue to tell stories about. It would be good to hear the facts of his service because I think that’s still a story worth telling 👍
There is a story that in one of his war movies his character was supposed to sneak up behind a sentry and kill him with a knife. The director told him to do a scene in a particular way (and for the sentry to make a certain sound). Lee chastised the director and explained that wasn`t the correct sound. What a beast.
@@tommcallister7647 In the army we were told, when sneaking up and killing a sentry with a knife, that you should pull his head back to arch his back and get him off balance, stick your knife in the kidney and hold the weight of the sentry with the knife, so that it would continue up and puncture the lung. This would make him unable to scream supposedly, but you should still put your other hand over the sentry's mouth, to muffle any sound. I've never tried this for real though, so can't personally vouch for it's efficacy.
I inherited a pair of swords that were my grandfather's after my grandmother passed away. One is a ceremonial Luftwaffe sword, but the other is a Japanese Type 19 Kyo Gunto, an army officer sword. My grandfather never served in the Pacific, and while I assume that the Luftwaffe sword was something he brought back from Europe, I do not know where he got the Kyo Gunto from. It's possible that he just bought it or that he had gotten it from a family member who had served in the Pacific, but this video makes me wonder if there's a possibility he found it Europe somehow. Sadly it's not one of the swords in this video, as it isn't a katana but a more western style saber.
@@grafvonwalbeck8261 No, he means that he bought it, with money. Anyway, if Germans still have a problem with the stuff Americans/Allied soldiers looted from Germany, may I remind you of the pile of looted belongings still sitting in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Do you think those people had a problem with being looted?
@dwight butler No they're definitely the real deal. Plus he wasn't the type who really collected this sort of stuff, apart from what he brought back from the war.
My grandfather was given a Japanese sword after saving a young Japanese boy from drowning in Sasebo harbor during the occupation. I have the sword today.
That’s a heartwarming story. Do hold onto the sword if you can. My mother sold my grandfather’s sword collection when he passed, none of which were particularly historical, but as I later became a fencer just like my grandfather, I’m really saddened that I cannot look upon the sword collection that got me interested in fencing in the first place.
@@charleshowell7855 TRANSLATION: During the occupation my yankee grandfather and his fellow americans ransacked a random Japanese family home, and stole a lot of personal belongings and heirlooms from that family including an ancient Katana.
TRANSLATION: Astra Kruger has a positive view of WW2 japanese atrocities and doesn't care about the mistreatment of Korean/Filipino/Chinese civilians during occupation This Filipinos grandmother told stories of how the japanese soldiers would throw babies in the air and "catch" them with swords. Being ransacked isn't even close.
@@astrakruger282 Why are you acting as an apologist for the eastern Nazis? It's perfectly believable that the GI got the sword as a gift. The Americans didn't occupy Japan the same way Japan occupied China.
Quote by Mr. Felton from another thread: "I heard that the photo was actually faked up by the Japanese in WWII for propaganda reasons." So I don't know what to believe now.
There is also the daisho, belonging to retired major general Karl Ernst Haushoffer, who received his swords when he was a major, and special liaison to Japan, prior to World War I. Haushoffer was Rudolph Hess' professor at the University of Munich, the editor of _Mein Kampf,_ as well as a spymaster, and the employer of Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn, who gave U.S. ship movements to Japanese, from his home overlooking Pearl Harbor. Karl Haushoffer was also the architect of Germany's pan-Eurasian alliance, and "Operation: Orient." His son, Albrecht, was Germany's Deputy Foreign Minister, under Ribbentrop, and author of the nonaggression pact with the Soviets. He has often been dubbed "Hitler's Merlin" for his shadowy advisory role, as well as (unlike Himmler) being a _genuine_ occult scholar. In other words, he was basically single-handedly responsible for the Second World War. After the war, he committed seppuku, using the wakizashi, in his WW1 general's uniform. He left instructions to be burried in an unmarked grave, where, presumably, his swords were buried with him.
@@baraka629 - If you mean a waste giving them to him, the Mikado of Japan thought differently. If you mean a waste to bury them with him, those swords are basically cursed!
I’ve bought, sold and collected military items for years. I got into many WWII vets houses and picked up more then a few swords that they brought back. Remember one old guy telling me they had piles of swords, rifles and pistols and they could pick one to bring home
It wasn't just swords. Jewelry, cameras, silverware, artwork, scientific equipment/papers, tools, machines, patents etc, etc. The allies grabbed mountains of loot after the war, including stuff the Germans had stolen from the Jews and Nazi occupied lands.
@Doom Of course it's to avoid the smuggling of large-scale arms from one volatile region to another. A few weapons is no big deal but on mass it could lead to problems. And there is the complication of looting that is still frowned on today. Though that doesn't stop US Marines stealing millions of dollars of artifacts from Iraqi museums, or Russian troops completely ransacking entire Ukrainian towns for example.
I just hope one of these doesn’t get turned in for a $50 gift card at a police “buyback” program. Lots of WW2 souvenir bring backs are “taken off the streets” and subsequently destroyed here in the US.
The same in the UK, our police regularly have amnesties that very rarely get any modern weaponry turned in (no doubt kept firmly tight by local drug dealers). Instead aside from rusty breadknives you have hordes of old biddies rummaging through their lofts and uncovering some beautiful antique weapons that their husbands or forefathers brought back from foreign climes and wars. The police don't hand most of them to museums but instead destroy them. An ironically criminal act.
Himmler Weebing out over the katakana I can picture Goering pulling him aside, and then saying to the others, "Hold on! lets make sure we didn't bring back Hirohito by mistake"
Actually as a german I collect japanese militaria which is very hard to come by. Sometimes I can aquire stuff in the Netherlands where I also have seen many japanese guntōs.
Hands down, as far as I’m concerned, this is simply the best content on this RUclips, I have no television so I do watch RUclips quite a bit. Excellent work dr.Felton.
🤣 you must be in some really backwards country where you still rely on television schedules for your entertainment. Maybe you still need to pay for a "tv licence"
Doctor Felton, thank you for the beautiful work you do. I've been having a rough few days with my mother in the hospital, but your videos always brighten my day, and they become something I can share with my father. Thank you for your work and dedication!
Back in the 1970's it was reported swords missing from the Imperial Palace had been found in the estate of a former U.S. Air Force officer. In Texas I think? Also at the Great Western Gun and Military Show in Pomona, Ca. I talked with a man who had sold a sword to a Japanese man. He said after looking closely at the sword the Japanese man's hands started shaking. He held out a wad of cash and asked how much of this would it cost. The seller replied "all of it." The Japanese man handed over the cash and made a hasty exit.
Oh man this is interesting as all get up. I hope you can continue with this lost history. Unbelievable how much info is out there and no one has released it before the internet and men like you. Thank you for keeping these chunks of facts flowing.
@@christopherwang4392 Ze German U-boat crew that made it to Japan with all sorts of blueprints and technologies for the Japanese front settled into a countryside mansion and stayed there for the duration of the war as their blueprints for jet engines and other things was poured over by Japanese engineers while the Germans embraced Japanese culture and attended a dojo.
Probably 25 years ago I attended a collector show where one of the dealers had a katana with a runic inscription that purportedly had been presented to Keitel, or someone like that.
Rogge's sword is specifically a 'Sho Onshi Yasakuni-to,' the 'Kinsaku' grade of Imperial Gift Yasukini Shrine sword awarded to senior Japanese Army officers for meritorious action. The blade (Ko-Bizen style) is the same as those given to the top graduates of the Army War College, but with a different habaki collar and presentation certificate. I find it interesting that he was not given a naval equivalent, such as a Minatogawa-to. Though to my knowledge, the Navy did not have a standard grade of award sword on quite the same level of prestige.
When a Daisho was struck for a Samurai, the middle finger of the sword hand was measured and the blades length set as 10 fingers of steel for the Katana, 6 fingers of steel for the Wakisashi, and 2 fingers of steel for the Tanto
You should do a video about the most decorated Japanese soldier of ww2 I have never heard anything about a highly decorated Japanese soldier other than the ones who kept fighting the war long after it was gone…. Maybe the Japanese equivalent of the Medal of Honor?
🤣 every single gyokusai participant is eligible for a "medal of honor" Citation would read: low on ammo or without weapons, he did rush enemy lines without regard to his own safety and killed x amount before succumbed.
You dont hear anything because no Japanese soldier survived to fight on another island. W.e.b griffin mentions that in his research, no single American soldier fought on or most of the islands and survived.
Great video as always. I have a question that's related to this: what happened to the German embassy in Japan between the German surrender and the Japanese surrender?
What's astounding about German-Japanese wartime relations is how the Germans and Japanese managed to rationalize it. The Japanese had a long held cultural belief that their society was superior to all others. The Nazis, on the other hand, posited the theory of Aryan racial superiority. The Japanese, like the Mongolians, are part of the East Asian racial group. The Nazis...and the English...derisively refereed to the Russians as mongoloids...proof of their racial inferiority! More than a few of the Japanese embassy staff in German had German girlfriends and a number of these German women became pregnant by their Japanese lovers. Politics truly makes for strange bedfellows.
They did have some significant things in common: 1. Both were authoritarian regimes. 2. Bothe were militaristic. 3. Both believed in their racial superiority 4. Both believed their racial strength came from their racial purity. 5. Both believed that their nations had be betrayed by the previous, civilian democratic governments. 6. Neither believed it was necessary to declare war before invading. ...plus a few other things that I can't remember at the moment.
My Grandfather fought in both theaters. The Aleutian islands, Rhineland and Central Europe. His 355th infantry 89th division liberated Ohrdruff in April 45. He brought home a German Dress Dagger that he gave to my father and then he gave it to me. My sister is in active addiction and stole the Dagger and ive yet to find it. Hopefully one day. His initials JAB are carved into the back of the pomel
I'd love to see a video about what happened at the Japanese embassy/embassy staff during the battle of Berlin. Had any of them been successfully evacuated before the Soviet's attacked the city? Or were they taken prisoner or killed during the battle.
The Japanese embassy was evacuated to Bavaria before the Soviets reached Berlin. The empty embassy building in Berlin was heavily damaged during the fighting that followed.
Fun fact: The same Japanese embassy in Berlin 1945 is still active to this very day. While also offering excellent speedy service which is rare in any embassy, if you've ever been to one.
Interesting stuff, Felton! Our U.S.A.'s History Channel can basically REMEMBER its roots IF they check out and study how you make these amazing gems of information surrounding war history! 😮💨👍🏻
This was fascinating, thank you for sharing! It’s really going to help me with an analysis project that I’m working on (I will link over to your video of course when I come to theorise upon that particular topic)
What happened to the Japanese diplomats on the fall of Germany? And the German diplomats in Japan on Germany' s surrender? Omg, I see another intriguing story, Mark.
"Better start checking those attics." Indeed! As I'm sure most people know, it was common for US WWll veterans to return home with souvenirs. My uncle once showed my family his collection that he kept in a bag in a closet. 😲 And if memory serves, included a Nazi flag, a dagger, some military decorations, etc. but no katata. 😕 I have not idea what became of his collection, but I assume it passed on to his son. Maybe I should ask. 🤔
About 8 years ago, my father and I befriended for a time the man who ran the storage center in the town we lived. He told us that one day, this guy came in with a big box to put in his unit. Inside it was a HUGE folded up Nazi flag, which startled him as you could imagine. Upon asking the guy why on earth he would have such a banner, he was told that it was in fact a Nazi German banner that had flown over the Reichstag during the capture of Berlin. It is unclear who originally plundered it (a GI or more likely a Soviet soldier), but somehow it had been brought back to America as a war trophy and come into this fellow's possession. While it was an interesting piece of history, the storage man told us that he personally would have found it too creepy and awkward to keep if it had been his.
I subscribed because I thought this was a channel about Royal Cats, now I'm confused to be seeing nothing but military subject matter. Great content though, keep it up!
My grandfather left me a Knight's Cross with oak leaves, katanas and diamonds. Got it from Göring, when he visited my granddad's Konditorei near the Reichsluftfahrtsministerium and was particularly pleased with the eight Kirschtorten (with extra lard) he gobbled down right there and then. My granddad didn't recognise Göring, since he was walking (or rather, was wheelbarrowed by two aides) around Berlin incognito, wearing XXXXL samurai armour. True story.
I'm working on Episode 1 at the moment, to release in a few days time. The series is taking a lot of research and time to prepare around my regular content, so please bear with me.
After seeing that photograph of Hitler in kimono, I hoped to watch him pouring hot water during a Japanese tea ceremony, then throwing salt on the tatami and undressing to wrest with a sumo fighter. I think my expectations were too high for Adi, but well played, Dr. Felton.
Excellent historical evaluation about Japanese-Nazism allies relationships during WW2... Dr. Mark Felton is always labeled to important political issues through introducing special ceremonies & and military events
Towards the end of the war, how did the Germans and Japanese evacuate their embassies from Tokyo and Berlin respectively? I hope you'll cover this one day. Thank you for the content.
Actually Marc should do a video on Japan's wartime ambassador Hiroshi Ōshima, as he had a fascinating story. He had a very close relationship with Adolf Hitler, and may have been the main author behind the Anti-Comintern Pact. He was one of only fifteen people to receive the Grand Order of the German Cross in Gold, awarded to him after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But he was also in the habit of sending highly detailed cables back to Japan describing Hitler's war objectives and general conditions of the war in Germany, unaware that the United States had broken Japanese diplomatic encryption and thus inadvertently giving the Americans highly detailed intelligence that was otherwise unobtainable. As for the Japanese Embassy in Berlin at the war's end: the German Foreign Ministry informed all foreign diplomats of Hitler's personal order to evacuate Berlin on April 13, 1945. Ōshima, his wife and most of the embassy staff subsequently relocated to a resort in Bad Gastein, Austria, and it was there they surrendered to American troops in May 1945. The German Embassy in Japan had a rather more rocky denouement. Heinrich Georg Stahmer was the German Ambassador since 1943 (having replaced Eugen Ott, who was sacked after he unwittingly permitted Richard Sorge- an Abwehr agent secretly working for the Soviets- unrestricted access to confidential diplomatic cables). On May 5 1945, Stahmer received a strongly worded protest from the Japanese Foreign Ministry, accusing Nazi Germany of betraying its Japanese ally. On May 15 Japan officially broke relations with Nazi Germany, and Stahmer and the Embassy staff were interned in the Fujiya Hotel in the hot spring town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, until September 10, 1945.
Fascinating that despite this period of history being one of the most closely studied of all time, there is still so much that we don't know. One can only speculate that private collectors are in possession of some of the most compelling pieces from modern history.
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Might I suggest a related topic for Dr. Felton, specifically the German auxiliary cruiser/merchant raider Penguin, one of the few such warships to operate in the Pacific Ocean?
Although most people think history is boring it's never a dull moment with Mark Feltons new content
I have to disagree there, if the swords are ever found they most probably are gonna be...
dull...
Whoever thinks history is boring are doomed to repeat it ;)
History isn't boring. It's the way teachers or people present history in a boring way.
@@Outerparadox well lucky for us we have someone better than a history teacher...we Mark Felton
@@AlexGreat87 haha nice one
Truly wonderful! I cannot get enough of the little known backstories to history that Mark Felton specializes in!
I love uncle Mark Felton ❤
Now this is a historical quirk I had never heard of. Great video, Mark!
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Recovering from surgery and nothing better than a walk through a historical curiosity with Dr Felton! Just what I needed to watch!
@chrislebon5927 wish you a speedy recovery.
Get well soon . 👍
Mend well and quickly, sir.
@@kennethhoppe2259 Thank you! I appreciate the thoughts. Feeling better each day.
@@occidentadvocate.9759 Thank you!
You mentioned that both countries maintained significant embassy staffs, including soldiers, in each other’s countries. It would an interesting video to explain what became of those folks at the end of the war, especially the Japanese contingent in Berlin.
I also second this! I asked the same question when you mention it.
Yes would love a video on this!
Hiroshi Ōshima was the Japanese ambassador to Germany at the time. Interesting story to research.
New anime material
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Imagine being a Russian soldier as you siege Berlin some random SS officer comes out walking menacingly with his hand on his Katana ready to unsheath and he slices up your entire platoon as some big tiddy anime soldiers cheer him on as he Fedora flips his cap and bids you farewell and your komrades start dissecting themselves in a single flash and he says "M'fraulein" like some edgy teen in 2007
More like...oh well I don't want to make derogatory remarks but it involves a subdivision of anime and my opinion of national socialists.
I imagine the Hitler katana and samurai armour are being kept in lead-lined vaults on opposite sides of the earth lest his spirit manifest again if they’re brought within sufficient proximity.
I think Mark is too old to understand what that word means.
Mark, have you considered doing an episode on the actor Christopher Lee’s military service (Finland for the winter war/ Second World War/ post war Nazi hunting)? I’ve seen a few videos on the topic but I feel you could maybe do it service compared to the copy paste videos out there! Perhaps dispel fact and fiction as well.
Thank you for the amazing content.
Christopher Lee was the main character in life if we’re being honest. Saw the last public execution in france, was a trained opera singer, RAF intelligence, hunted Nazi war criminals, climbed mt Etna days before it erupted, met Tolkien, war ends and he becomes one of the greatest actors of all time WITH the most sword fights in movies. And made a goddamn heavy metal album in his late 80’s. About Charlemagne. Who was his ancestor. Absolute Legend.
@@sr7129 there’s so many stories about him, he was related to Iain Fleming who loosely based James Bond on him!
He had a few set backs in like failing to become a pilot and never becoming a precessional opera signer. But for those minor set backs, or dreams not fulfilled, he still lived an incredible life. A life people will continue to tell stories about.
It would be good to hear the facts of his service because I think that’s still a story worth telling 👍
Now that would be great video to watch !
There is a story that in one of his war movies his character was supposed to sneak up behind a sentry and kill him with a knife. The director told him to do a scene in a particular way (and for the sentry to make a certain sound). Lee chastised the director and explained that wasn`t the correct sound.
What a beast.
@@tommcallister7647 In the army we were told, when sneaking up and killing a sentry with a knife, that you should pull his head back to arch his back and get him off balance, stick your knife in the kidney and hold the weight of the sentry with the knife, so that it would continue up and puncture the lung. This would make him unable to scream supposedly, but you should still put your other hand over the sentry's mouth, to muffle any sound. I've never tried this for real though, so can't personally vouch for it's efficacy.
It wouldn't be a great day without a Mark Felton documentary..as always a great story line..German Samurai..the exchange of materials!
Another fascinating nugget of WW2 history. Great job Dr. Felton.
I inherited a pair of swords that were my grandfather's after my grandmother passed away. One is a ceremonial Luftwaffe sword, but the other is a Japanese Type 19 Kyo Gunto, an army officer sword. My grandfather never served in the Pacific, and while I assume that the Luftwaffe sword was something he brought back from Europe, I do not know where he got the Kyo Gunto from. It's possible that he just bought it or that he had gotten it from a family member who had served in the Pacific, but this video makes me wonder if there's a possibility he found it Europe somehow. Sadly it's not one of the swords in this video, as it isn't a katana but a more western style saber.
Could be reproductions?
by 'bought it' you mean he looted it?
@@grafvonwalbeck8261 No, he means that he bought it, with money. Anyway, if Germans still have a problem with the stuff Americans/Allied soldiers looted from Germany, may I remind you of the pile of looted belongings still sitting in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Do you think those people had a problem with being looted?
@Graf von Walbeck As in he may have bought it at an antique store or something. There is other stuff he brought back as loot from Europe though.
@dwight butler No they're definitely the real deal. Plus he wasn't the type who really collected this sort of stuff, apart from what he brought back from the war.
This is one if my favorite channels. Mark’s voice is easy to listen to to binge watch. Stories are ALWAYS interesting
That Hitler in a kimono is comedy gold 😂
I want to see trump in one😂
@@KarlMarxFanClub The Trump Buddha is real!!!!
Even as a pro Axis (mainly for my fondness of German, Italian & Jap. cultures), that is 😆
*unsheathes katana* "nothing personal, semite"
@@baraka629
The Jew fears the Samurai.
My grandfather was given a Japanese sword after saving a young Japanese boy from drowning in Sasebo harbor during the occupation. I have the sword today.
That’s a heartwarming story. Do hold onto the sword if you can. My mother sold my grandfather’s sword collection when he passed, none of which were particularly historical, but as I later became a fencer just like my grandfather, I’m really saddened that I cannot look upon the sword collection that got me interested in fencing in the first place.
@@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659 I like to think my grandfather got the sword for saving a life as opposed to taking a life.
@@charleshowell7855 TRANSLATION: During the occupation my yankee grandfather and his fellow americans ransacked a random Japanese family home, and stole a lot of personal belongings and heirlooms from that family including an ancient Katana.
TRANSLATION: Astra Kruger has a positive view of WW2 japanese atrocities and doesn't care about the mistreatment of Korean/Filipino/Chinese civilians during occupation
This Filipinos grandmother told stories of how the japanese soldiers would throw babies in the air and "catch" them with swords. Being ransacked isn't even close.
@@astrakruger282 Why are you acting as an apologist for the eastern Nazis? It's perfectly believable that the GI got the sword as a gift. The Americans didn't occupy Japan the same way Japan occupied China.
Thumbnail is pure gold!
It’s a real photo btw. I think he received it from the Emperor in 1936, and sent some photographs of himself wearing it back in thanks.
Now I need to find that photo ☝🏻
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@@TheTrueChuckNorris Thanks very much mate, hope you enjoy!
Quote by Mr. Felton from another thread: "I heard that the photo was actually faked up by the Japanese in WWII for propaganda reasons."
So I don't know what to believe now.
There is also the daisho, belonging to retired major general Karl Ernst Haushoffer, who received his swords when he was a major, and special liaison to Japan, prior to World War I. Haushoffer was Rudolph Hess' professor at the University of Munich, the editor of _Mein Kampf,_ as well as a spymaster, and the employer of Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn, who gave U.S. ship movements to Japanese, from his home overlooking Pearl Harbor. Karl Haushoffer was also the architect of Germany's pan-Eurasian alliance, and "Operation: Orient." His son, Albrecht, was Germany's Deputy Foreign Minister, under Ribbentrop, and author of the nonaggression pact with the Soviets. He has often been dubbed "Hitler's Merlin" for his shadowy advisory role, as well as (unlike Himmler) being a _genuine_ occult scholar.
In other words, he was basically single-handedly responsible for the Second World War.
After the war, he committed seppuku, using the wakizashi, in his WW1 general's uniform. He left instructions to be burried in an unmarked grave, where, presumably, his swords were buried with him.
waste of perfectly good swords
@@baraka629 - If you mean a waste giving them to him, the Mikado of Japan thought differently. If you mean a waste to bury them with him, those swords are basically cursed!
I’ve bought, sold and collected military items for years.
I got into many WWII vets houses and picked up more then a few swords that they brought back.
Remember one old guy telling me they had piles of swords, rifles and pistols and they could pick one to bring home
It wasn't just swords. Jewelry, cameras, silverware, artwork, scientific equipment/papers, tools, machines, patents etc, etc. The allies grabbed mountains of loot after the war, including stuff the Germans had stolen from the Jews and Nazi occupied lands.
military doesn't allow this anymore a shame
@Doom exactly. My cousin served in afghanistan and they wouldn't even let him bring back a single bomb vest.
It helps preserve history to allow collection of such war trophies by soldiers.
@Doom Of course it's to avoid the smuggling of large-scale arms from one volatile region to another. A few weapons is no big deal but on mass it could lead to problems. And there is the complication of looting that is still frowned on today. Though that doesn't stop US Marines stealing millions of dollars of artifacts from Iraqi museums, or Russian troops completely ransacking entire Ukrainian towns for example.
Mark you truly are 2nd to none.
Its really amazing how you find and keep us well informed on such rare historical moments in time.
I just hope one of these doesn’t get turned in for a $50 gift card at a police “buyback” program. Lots of WW2 souvenir bring backs are “taken off the streets” and subsequently destroyed here in the US.
The same in the UK, our police regularly have amnesties that very rarely get any modern weaponry turned in (no doubt kept firmly tight by local drug dealers). Instead aside from rusty breadknives you have hordes of old biddies rummaging through their lofts and uncovering some beautiful antique weapons that their husbands or forefathers brought back from foreign climes and wars. The police don't hand most of them to museums but instead destroy them. An ironically criminal act.
🤣 your hope will be in vain, the police stories of buyback antiques are legion
Himmler Weebing out over the katakana
I can picture Goering pulling him aside, and then saying to the others, "Hold on! lets make sure we didn't bring back Hirohito by mistake"
Himmler kinda reminds me of nerds and nazis portrayal on anime culture.
One random weeb could look exactly like him
Actually as a german I collect japanese militaria which is very hard to come by. Sometimes I can aquire stuff in the Netherlands where I also have seen many japanese guntōs.
Hands down, as far as I’m concerned, this is simply the best content on this RUclips, I have no television so I do watch RUclips quite a bit. Excellent work dr.Felton.
What is a television, Is it like a jukebox or a floppy disk??
🤣 you must be in some really backwards country where you still rely on television schedules for your entertainment. Maybe you still need to pay for a "tv licence"
Doctor Felton, thank you for the beautiful work you do. I've been having a rough few days with my mother in the hospital, but your videos always brighten my day, and they become something I can share with my father. Thank you for your work and dedication!
We are getting dangerously close to Mark Felton meme territory with this thumbnail
There's always something new to learn about WW2.
an interesting sidenote: The 1937 trip to Germany by well-known Japanese actress Setsuko Hara to star in the German film "The Daughter of the Samurai"
This topic will be in the next video.
"You hocked a Hattori Hanzo Sword?"
"Yep."
"It was priceless. Budd."
"Well, not in Argentina, it ain't."
"In Córdoba I got me 250 pesos for it."
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Back in the 1970's it was reported swords missing from the Imperial Palace had been found in the estate of a former U.S. Air Force officer. In Texas I think? Also at the Great Western Gun and Military Show in Pomona, Ca. I talked with a man who had sold a sword to a Japanese man. He said after looking closely at the sword the Japanese man's hands started shaking. He held out a wad of cash and asked how much of this would it cost. The seller replied "all of it." The Japanese man handed over the cash and made a hasty exit.
I believe Japan has people looking for certain swords and by treaty (?) can seize them as stolen property
Sure buddy, come to texas and take them anytime.
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@@jessicaregina1956 Are you recommending calling ahead?lol
That's a gold star for the thumbnail to this video, Dr. Felton.
Yes!!
Greatest thumbnail ever! Great video mark, your the G.O.A.T of history RUclips.
Oh man this is interesting as all get up. I hope you can continue with this lost history. Unbelievable how much info is out there and no one has released it before the internet and men like you.
Thank you for keeping these chunks of facts flowing.
Only a truly unfiltered creative mind can come up with something like a "Nazi Samurai..." amazing!
Nazi ninja pirates from space are probably the only more creative thing
Somewhere in an alternate timeline or universe, we would have had a film called _The Nazi Samurai_ instead of _The Last Samurai_ (2003).
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@@christopherwang4392 Ze German U-boat crew that made it to Japan with all sorts of blueprints and technologies for the Japanese front settled into a countryside mansion and stayed there for the duration of the war as their blueprints for jet engines and other things was poured over by Japanese engineers while the Germans embraced Japanese culture and attended a dojo.
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Just wanted to say the thumbnail is legendary
The relations between the Nazis and Japan is such an interesting subject to research about.
Probably 25 years ago I attended a collector show where one of the dealers had a katana with a runic inscription that purportedly had been presented to Keitel, or someone like that.
Rogge's sword is specifically a 'Sho Onshi Yasakuni-to,' the 'Kinsaku' grade of Imperial Gift Yasukini Shrine sword awarded to senior Japanese Army officers for meritorious action. The blade (Ko-Bizen style) is the same as those given to the top graduates of the Army War College, but with a different habaki collar and presentation certificate. I find it interesting that he was not given a naval equivalent, such as a Minatogawa-to. Though to my knowledge, the Navy did not have a standard grade of award sword on quite the same level of prestige.
SUPER THE BLOOODYCOOLEST OF THE VIDEOS !
KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS, DR FELTON !!!
As always, well done!
Always the best material!
After seeing that thumbnail I’m thinking about Inspector Clouseau being ambushed by Kato while wearing a yukata…
‘Now is not the time Kato!’
Excellent episode as always!!!
Anytime the samurai are mentioned I remember Jon Belushi playing the samurai in the old Saturday Night Live skits. 😅
Thanks for another informative video!
Now if we could only find out what happened to Goering's interim batons. Both are missing, as far as I am aware.
When a Daisho was struck for a Samurai, the middle finger of the sword hand was measured and the blades length set as 10 fingers of steel for the Katana, 6 fingers of steel for the Wakisashi, and 2 fingers of steel for the Tanto
You should do a video about the most decorated Japanese soldier of ww2 I have never heard anything about a highly decorated Japanese soldier other than the ones who kept fighting the war long after it was gone…. Maybe the Japanese equivalent of the Medal of Honor?
@markfelton: There’s also a pilot i heard about - Saburo Sakai I think. Supposedly he flew back a thousand km after being hit and blinded in one eye…
Sakura 🌺
🤣 every single gyokusai participant is eligible for a "medal of honor"
Citation would read: low on ammo or without weapons, he did rush enemy lines without regard to his own safety and killed x amount before succumbed.
You dont hear anything because no Japanese soldier survived to fight on another island.
W.e.b griffin mentions that in his research, no single American soldier fought on or most of the islands and survived.
"Himmler, who was a noted crank." I love it!😂
Great video as always. I have a question that's related to this: what happened to the German embassy in Japan between the German surrender and the Japanese surrender?
Keep 'em coming Mark!
Love these videos!
Greetings. I enjoyed the texture to this piece - thank you Mark. How textured WWII history is, still amazes and disgusts me.
What's astounding about German-Japanese wartime relations is how the Germans and Japanese managed to rationalize it. The Japanese had a long held cultural belief that their society was superior to all others. The Nazis, on the other hand, posited the theory of Aryan racial superiority. The Japanese, like the Mongolians, are part of the East Asian racial group. The Nazis...and the English...derisively refereed to the Russians as mongoloids...proof of their racial inferiority! More than a few of the Japanese embassy staff in German had German girlfriends and a number of these German women became pregnant by their Japanese lovers. Politics truly makes for strange bedfellows.
They did have some significant things in common:
1. Both were authoritarian regimes.
2. Bothe were militaristic.
3. Both believed in their racial superiority
4. Both believed their racial strength came from their racial purity.
5. Both believed that their nations had be betrayed by the previous, civilian democratic governments.
6. Neither believed it was necessary to declare war before invading.
...plus a few other things that I can't remember at the moment.
The same way the Windsors managed to rationalize being allied with communists who had brutally murdered their close relatives.
Amazing Dr Feldon. How you find these obscure history stories.
*Felton.
My Grandfather fought in both theaters. The Aleutian islands, Rhineland and Central Europe. His 355th infantry 89th division liberated Ohrdruff in April 45. He brought home a German Dress Dagger that he gave to my father and then he gave it to me. My sister is in active addiction and stole the Dagger and ive yet to find it. Hopefully one day. His initials JAB are carved into the back of the pomel
why would she steal it lol? couldnt she just ask?
Ummm.
The two theaters were the pacific and European theaters. Im pretty sure none of the areas you mentioned are anywhere in the pacific.
@@CannibaLouiST she stole it and sold it. Still looking for it.
@@RedEyedPatriot Man thats sick. Such a important item selling for a quick addiction relief.
@@Big_Abomination yeah it breaks my heart foreal.
Very interesting subject. Thank you Mr. Felton.
Interesting content Dr. Felton. Always something new here. Many thanks.
Thank You Dr.Felton
Always Enjoy Your Videos ..
I'd love to see a video about what happened at the Japanese embassy/embassy staff during the battle of Berlin. Had any of them been successfully evacuated before the Soviet's attacked the city? Or were they taken prisoner or killed during the battle.
The Japanese embassy was evacuated to Bavaria before the Soviets reached Berlin. The empty embassy building in Berlin was heavily damaged during the fighting that followed.
@@MarkFeltonProductions Thanks for the info Mark! Love your content.
Fun fact: The same Japanese embassy in Berlin 1945 is still active to this very day. While also offering excellent speedy service which is rare in any embassy, if you've ever been to one.
Wow. What a great topic. I think I even mentioned this idea a couple weeks ago. Very interesting topic!!
“The Jew fears the Samurai.”
Interesting stuff, Felton! Our U.S.A.'s History Channel can basically REMEMBER its roots IF they check out and study how you make these amazing gems of information surrounding war history! 😮💨👍🏻
Mark,i am truly amazed by your documetaries you make. Keep up with the astonishing work!
Another goodie.
Thanks Mark!
Katana sword is incredibly redundant. Katana already means sword.
An incredible story!
Hitler refused all foreign awards but accepted a samurai sword because the Japanese believe it's the soul of the samurai. Hitler a real one fr 💯
So cool!
This was fascinating, thank you for sharing!
It’s really going to help me with an analysis project that I’m working on (I will link over to your video of course when I come to theorise upon that particular topic)
What happened to the Japanese diplomats on the fall of Germany? And the German diplomats in Japan on Germany' s surrender? Omg, I see another intriguing story, Mark.
A great interesting video story as always Mr.Mark.Have a good one.
"Better start checking those attics." Indeed! As I'm sure most people know, it was common for US WWll veterans to return home with souvenirs. My uncle once showed my family his collection that he kept in a bag in a closet. 😲 And if memory serves, included a Nazi flag, a dagger, some military decorations, etc. but no katata. 😕 I have not idea what became of his collection, but I assume it passed on to his son. Maybe I should ask. 🤔
About 8 years ago, my father and I befriended for a time the man who ran the storage center in the town we lived. He told us that one day, this guy came in with a big box to put in his unit. Inside it was a HUGE folded up Nazi flag, which startled him as you could imagine. Upon asking the guy why on earth he would have such a banner, he was told that it was in fact a Nazi German banner that had flown over the Reichstag during the capture of Berlin. It is unclear who originally plundered it (a GI or more likely a Soviet soldier), but somehow it had been brought back to America as a war trophy and come into this fellow's possession. While it was an interesting piece of history, the storage man told us that he personally would have found it too creepy and awkward to keep if it had been his.
Truly a wonderful little piece of history Mr. Felton. You're a cut above the rest!
I'm not gonna lie, NAZI SAMURAI sounds pretty badass
The J fears the Samurai
It wasn't rare for some Samurai to have a Manji aka reverse Swastika on their helmet back then as it is a religious symbol
Himmler when he sees something he likes: "We should check if that's a part of our culture."
Great work, Mark! Always love the content!
Excellent video.
(I was just checking my atic when my neighbour reminded me that I live in a ground floor flat)
I subscribed because I thought this was a channel about Royal Cats, now I'm confused to be seeing nothing but military subject matter. Great content though, keep it up!
My grandfather left me a Knight's Cross with oak leaves, katanas and diamonds. Got it from Göring, when he visited my granddad's Konditorei near the Reichsluftfahrtsministerium and was particularly pleased with the eight Kirschtorten (with extra lard) he gobbled down right there and then. My granddad didn't recognise Göring, since he was walking (or rather, was wheelbarrowed by two aides) around Berlin incognito, wearing XXXXL samurai armour. True story.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Dr Felton…what happened to the Hess series?
I'm working on Episode 1 at the moment, to release in a few days time. The series is taking a lot of research and time to prepare around my regular content, so please bear with me.
Appreciate your hard work sir ❤
Fascinating history. Thank you very much.
Amazing video and yet another small part of ww2 history I haven't heard about. Thank you Mark for keeping the knowledgeable content flowing.
Another awesome and informative vids fro. Dr Feltyon.
After seeing that photograph of Hitler in kimono, I hoped to watch him pouring hot water during a Japanese tea ceremony, then throwing salt on the tatami and undressing to wrest with a sumo fighter.
I think my expectations were too high for Adi, but well played, Dr. Felton.
lmao
I wanted to see him cut through bamboo bundles with the sword while making throaty sounds "huy , huy , hhuy . . . "
Brilliant as always Dr Felton.
Wow didn't expect a new video now! So happy to see this Mark! Have a great rest of the weekend!
Excellent historical evaluation about Japanese-Nazism allies relationships during WW2... Dr. Mark Felton is always labeled to important political issues through introducing special ceremonies & and military events
Towards the end of the war, how did the Germans and Japanese evacuate their embassies from Tokyo and Berlin respectively? I hope you'll cover this one day. Thank you for the content.
well that is an interesting thing to ponder isnt it
Actually Marc should do a video on Japan's wartime ambassador Hiroshi Ōshima, as he had a fascinating story. He had a very close relationship with Adolf Hitler, and may have been the main author behind the Anti-Comintern Pact. He was one of only fifteen people to receive the Grand Order of the German Cross in Gold, awarded to him after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But he was also in the habit of sending highly detailed cables back to Japan describing Hitler's war objectives and general conditions of the war in Germany, unaware that the United States had broken Japanese diplomatic encryption and thus inadvertently giving the Americans highly detailed intelligence that was otherwise unobtainable.
As for the Japanese Embassy in Berlin at the war's end: the German Foreign Ministry informed all foreign diplomats of Hitler's personal order to evacuate Berlin on April 13, 1945. Ōshima, his wife and most of the embassy staff subsequently relocated to a resort in Bad Gastein, Austria, and it was there they surrendered to American troops in May 1945.
The German Embassy in Japan had a rather more rocky denouement. Heinrich Georg Stahmer was the German Ambassador since 1943 (having replaced Eugen Ott, who was sacked after he unwittingly permitted Richard Sorge- an Abwehr agent secretly working for the Soviets- unrestricted access to confidential diplomatic cables). On May 5 1945, Stahmer received a strongly worded protest from the Japanese Foreign Ministry, accusing Nazi Germany of betraying its Japanese ally. On May 15 Japan officially broke relations with Nazi Germany, and Stahmer and the Embassy staff were interned in the Fujiya Hotel in the hot spring town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, until September 10, 1945.
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Fascinating that despite this period of history being one of the most closely studied of all time, there is still so much that we don't know. One can only speculate that private collectors are in possession of some of the most compelling pieces from modern history.
So as the saying goes:
*The Jews fear the Samurai.*
No joke I’ve had that image of samurai Hitler saved for so long because it’s honestly the funniest thing ever.
So the Anime Hetalia was historically accurate... Huh neat!
I love the description of Himmler as a "crank."
Himmler being a weaboo doesn't surprise me.
I've missed the spooky music.... :) Thanks for the upload!
The thumbnail for this story looked like a Saturday Night Live skit, "Samurai Fuhrer".
Evening Mark hope your having a good Sunday
Imagine the collectors value of something like that
Early Squad where you at?
Sounds like something you'd expect to see on _Best of the Worst_
Excellent channel 👍 Thanks Mark, always so interesting 💯💯💯
Himmler actually became a weeb when he got a katana. Yeah the Japanese are honorary Aryans fr fr