The Day The Soviets Nearly Captured Hitler

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  • @tufe3434
    @tufe3434 3 года назад +3912

    Not gonna lie this is probably the best history channel on RUclips

    • @hugolafhugolaf
      @hugolafhugolaf 3 года назад +119

      «probably»? Dude, this isn't even debatable.

    • @thesecondmexicanempire5742
      @thesecondmexicanempire5742 3 года назад +23

      I feel like this channel the most informative out of all history channels, but not the best

    • @richardm3023
      @richardm3023 3 года назад +8

      "probably"? You can't figure this out for a certainty?

    • @IvorMektin1701
      @IvorMektin1701 3 года назад +21

      Better than Ancient Aliens?!?

    • @gruffyddgozali
      @gruffyddgozali 3 года назад +10

      ruclips.net/video/bydv157P_dw/видео.html
      This channel is pretty incredible. They also did a four year long(!) series on WW1

  • @Kilaminjaro13
    @Kilaminjaro13 3 года назад +4354

    Unlike Hitler’s assassins, Mark always delivers.

    • @johnnieireland2057
      @johnnieireland2057 3 года назад +36

      hahahah

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад +16

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

    • @Spade_1917
      @Spade_1917 3 года назад +57

      You could say he... always hits his Mark?

    • @15.kevindarunugroho30
      @15.kevindarunugroho30 3 года назад +41

      Hitler be like: aight ill do it myself

    • @midimusicforever
      @midimusicforever 3 года назад +16

      If you need a job to get done, do it yourself.
      ;)

  • @ValueNetwork
    @ValueNetwork 3 года назад +6437

    Felton has mastered the art of a catchy title that isn’t clickbait.

    • @gravyboat2370
      @gravyboat2370 3 года назад +46

      Well said 👍

    • @chrisamon4551
      @chrisamon4551 3 года назад +57

      I had no idea this happened and I can’t not watch it.

    • @svijj_
      @svijj_ 3 года назад +21

      And It's something that no ordinary mortals can master

    • @TheProtagonistDies
      @TheProtagonistDies 3 года назад +34

      It's sorcery.

    • @dustinwolfe9591
      @dustinwolfe9591 3 года назад +58

      I don't even care about the titles anymore. I just trust whenever Mark Felton uploads a video, it's something I'll probably want to see.

  • @wesleymiller6674
    @wesleymiller6674 3 года назад +3035

    Meanwhile the "actual" History channel: "How did Hitler escape? ALIENS!"

    • @WASRGP
      @WASRGP 3 года назад +31

      Legit! 🤣🖤👊🏼

    • @nathanrybner4221
      @nathanrybner4221 3 года назад +6

      Chuck Grassley get off RUclips

    • @SDZ675
      @SDZ675 3 года назад +135

      Also History Channel: "Did Hitler really die or did he get transported to Antarctica and entered the secret entrance into the Hollow Earth?"

    • @lordi5554
      @lordi5554 3 года назад +3

      What a meaning. The main thing that is hell

    • @airtrafficcontrol779
      @airtrafficcontrol779 3 года назад +3

      This comment is pure art buddy haha

  • @TheBengtsonFamily3
    @TheBengtsonFamily3 3 года назад +255

    Mark Felton: one of the very few reliable, and unbiased historians on the internet. Thank you for fantastic content!

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад +1

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

    • @joeshmoedoeshoe
      @joeshmoedoeshoe 3 года назад +3

      Mark has the best channel. Unlike others, he does shitload of research.
      But Mark have tendency to believe Nazi Goebbels bullshiteria (like Tiger's kill ratio which isn't mathematically possible, or Wittmann destroying 77 tanks with 40 rounds of ammo, only like 15 of which got tunsten warhead ....... while his death was perfect example of being a pathetic tank commander, leading whole platoon to obvious trap).
      And this video is literally proof of that .... no way there was not a single tank or AT gun protecting Hitler's planned arrival. And they still had to run away with shitted pants from situation (22 T-34's) which would (according to Goebbels propaganda) be solved by any SS troop with slingshot.
      So, yeah. Mark Felton has the best history channel .... but sometimes you need to ignore mind-boggling Nazi propaganda Mark fails to recognize.

    • @Luke_05
      @Luke_05 Год назад +1

      @@eciekoc Well I’d hope so

  • @thebingaman
    @thebingaman 3 года назад +3726

    Imagine Hitler in an arm chair with a giant parachute floating through the sky.

  • @EmperorEric
    @EmperorEric 3 года назад +4017

    It’s ok, “Steiner’s attack will bring everything under control”

  • @andrewwallace1146
    @andrewwallace1146 3 года назад +162

    So interesting, I had no idea Hitler had visited the eastern front so often. Great work Mark Felton uncovering aspects of WWII most people had never known.

    • @ВааВап
      @ВааВап 2 года назад +7

      Да, у него была ставка в Виннице. В России это в школьной программе истории ВОВ преподают. Чему вас там учат, что лишь спустя 75лет познание что то новое.

    • @jimmylieb5225
      @jimmylieb5225 Год назад

      Guess you haven't watched the Tom Cruise movie Valkerie.

    • @EtherealSki
      @EtherealSki Год назад +20

      @@ВааВапdo they teach in russia about what bad things the Soviets did?

    • @Gavincampbellman
      @Gavincampbellman Год назад +4

      @@EtherealSkiall sides did awful things in the world wars. No one is innocent

    • @cadcad-jm3pf
      @cadcad-jm3pf 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@EtherealSki They actually do. But at least teaching history there is not limited to "what bad things the Soviets did", like it is in much of Eastern and some parts of Western Europe.

  • @larsdejong7396
    @larsdejong7396 3 года назад +1721

    It never stops to amaze me how much I still don't know about the war.

    • @Larsen3306
      @Larsen3306 3 года назад +46

      Me too and I feel like I’m obsessed, watching and learning every day. WAR IS AWFUL, let’s pray we, in the world will never have to go to war ever again 🙏🙏

    • @pamelabryant7390
      @pamelabryant7390 3 года назад +8

      Me too! It is amazing. I have read books I’ve seen documentaries I watch the history to it’s just amazing how much I don’t know and it’s not because I haven’t tried. Mask up stay safe and God bless you and yours

    • @allanfuentes9694
      @allanfuentes9694 3 года назад +11

      Me too who are these guys Hitler and Stalin?

    • @mikepastor.k6233
      @mikepastor.k6233 3 года назад +13

      This was the last great statement in the evolution of human existence and what a human is really capable of and the power struggle of said humans that came to play at the point Hitler took his philosophy, Stalin his and the Allies theirs and all together came to a head with pre nuclear war machines(until the very end) and all the strageties that ensued. Nothing will ever match all those variables in history again.

    • @pamelabryant7390
      @pamelabryant7390 3 года назад +10

      @@mikepastor.k6233 Oh Lord I have been praying for 5 years now. I do not want to see history repeat itself. There are too many similarities of the 1930s Germany that I see. I do hope you are right sir

  • @jakehay3074
    @jakehay3074 3 года назад +892

    I respect Mark Felton so much. I googled him the other day and found out he was a very successful author in his own right. I didn't know this. Bloke has a massive following on RUclips and doesn't use it to flog his books, but to educate and entertain. Very cool.

  • @user-user-user-user.
    @user-user-user-user. 3 года назад +580

    How is it that every single one of these episodes manages to be entertaining, factual and fascinating?

    • @lsmart
      @lsmart 3 года назад +19

      I guess it's because their producer is a very entertaining, factual and fascinating man.

    • @DmPmRr1959
      @DmPmRr1959 3 года назад +21

      The host sticks to facts and doesn't make it an ego trip. I admire his professionalism.

    • @clairfayne
      @clairfayne 3 года назад +7

      Allah-Hu-Akbar

    • @ThatGuy68580
      @ThatGuy68580 3 года назад +3

      teaching is a skill few have mastered

    • @unclejj13er75
      @unclejj13er75 2 года назад +7

      Because truth, well told, is better than fiction.

  • @vladshcherbakov3112
    @vladshcherbakov3112 3 года назад +485

    The enemy would die laughing if they saw a granddaddy comfy chair fall out of a plane with a parachute on it.

    • @ruhri0411
      @ruhri0411 3 года назад +20

      It was only the parachute stowed in the comfy chair, he certainly wouldn't have jumped out of the plane with the chair LOL

    • @Megadextrious
      @Megadextrious 3 года назад +82

      mein kampfy chair 😂

    • @Jimiluv450
      @Jimiluv450 3 года назад +4

      @@Megadextrious hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

    • @negotiummeum9643
      @negotiummeum9643 3 года назад +1

      @@Megadextrious heavily underrated!

    • @lisaba7206
      @lisaba7206 3 года назад +1

      @@Megadextrious oh stop!! 😂😅😂😅

  • @jasonharryphotog
    @jasonharryphotog 3 года назад +822

    Manstein writes about this incident in his book, he was quite concerned as they only had a company strength to protect their HQ and big H

    • @potyi79
      @potyi79 3 года назад +59

      "Big H" I like that!

    • @raygiordano1045
      @raygiordano1045 3 года назад +67

      If the Russians had captured Big H, I bet the their commander wouldn't have believed them until they unit returned with him.

    • @frankpoperowitzmusic
      @frankpoperowitzmusic 3 года назад +48

      @@raygiordano1045 Big H would not have allowed that. He would have shot himself or had one of his SS aides pull a Bunker burn.

    • @kirgan1000
      @kirgan1000 3 года назад +28

      @@raygiordano1045 No the order will be return him immediately, it will be a disaster if the German generals will not be handicapped by Hitlers "tactical genius"

    • @raygiordano1045
      @raygiordano1045 3 года назад +14

      @@frankpoperowitzmusic yeah, not going to a Soviet POW camp is a pretty understandable reason for self-deletion, and a really good move if you're Big H.

  • @Trek001
    @Trek001 3 года назад +1430

    If you look at the clip used when Hitler is visiting Finland, you can see his aircraft's brakes are on fire quite badly

    • @sasropakis
      @sasropakis 3 года назад +79

      Mark Felton has actually made a video about this incident: ruclips.net/video/TqtdElVxNWI/видео.html

    • @theadvocate4698
      @theadvocate4698 3 года назад +96

      M. Felton did a video about this incident!

    • @Trek001
      @Trek001 3 года назад +11

      @@theadvocate4698 Indeed he did - ruclips.net/video/TqtdElVxNWI/видео.html

    • @finntastique3891
      @finntastique3891 3 года назад +33

      Yep. I believe Mark made a video on this topic as well.

    • @yohannbiimu
      @yohannbiimu 3 года назад +39

      Which was against Hitler's strict orders regarding smoking!!!

  • @icysaracen3054
    @icysaracen3054 3 года назад +3048

    This would have been a mad mission to play in COD or Battlefield. Playing the Soviets and rushing to the airfield only to see Hitler plane fly away.

    • @mikagarbe2946
      @mikagarbe2946 3 года назад +196

      please apply to infinity ward or activison

    • @cristianmicu
      @cristianmicu 3 года назад +146

      that scenario would be so characteristic of how these game producers troll people inside game missions

    • @daktarioskarvannederhosen2568
      @daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 3 года назад +18

      ffs are you goofs talking about video games in the comments section of a hitler documentary

    • @artistoblivion
      @artistoblivion 3 года назад +71

      @@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 Because the games are history-centric? The last COD game was literally about the Cold War.

    • @daktarioskarvannederhosen2568
      @daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 3 года назад +1

      @jack sandel we are the Daktari People.

  • @Nobody-to5fu
    @Nobody-to5fu 3 года назад +18

    you have the perfect voice for this type of content

  • @superjonboy873
    @superjonboy873 3 года назад +83

    Excellent as always! Mark Felton NEVER runs out of fuel and always has a new story to tell!

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

    • @alifinosaktiramadhan5727
      @alifinosaktiramadhan5727 3 года назад +1

      @Super Jonboy
      Yes

  • @hereLiesThisTroper
    @hereLiesThisTroper 3 года назад +1059

    Darth Felton to History Channel: When I watched you, I was but a learner. Now I am the master.

    • @yesyesyesyes1600
      @yesyesyesyes1600 3 года назад +8

      Only a master of excellence, Darth

    • @yesyesyesyes1600
      @yesyesyesyes1600 3 года назад +5

      @@cbbees1468 You were the chosen one!
      Annakin Felton: Actually ... I am!

    • @syzygysyzygy8332
      @syzygysyzygy8332 3 года назад +4

      Felton (Yoda accent):
      "History repeats itself, it does. To know not history is to repeat history it is"

    • @Otokichi786
      @Otokichi786 3 года назад

      Dr. Felton was also on the former Military Channel. ("American Heroes Channel!?")

    • @MusMasi
      @MusMasi 3 года назад +2

      HIstory Channel does not deserve the name, it should be alien and wild conspiracy channel.

  • @avtomat6471
    @avtomat6471 3 года назад +229

    1:44 - The wheel is catching on fire.

    • @JJ-su7re
      @JJ-su7re 3 года назад +5

      When Hitler had stepped out of the plane a finnish ground crewman sergeant Bruno Nyberg extinguished the fire, ruclips.net/video/TqtdElVxNWI/видео.html Felton has made a video about it

    • @andyvalenzuela9763
      @andyvalenzuela9763 3 года назад +8

      Oh dang! Good eye!

    • @ianwalton284
      @ianwalton284 3 года назад +10

      someone else did a whole video on that wheel being on fire and how it could have killed Hitler.

    • @andyvalenzuela9763
      @andyvalenzuela9763 3 года назад +2

      @@ianwalton284 link?

    • @the-csquare
      @the-csquare 3 года назад +2

      Mark has a video on it here: ruclips.net/video/TqtdElVxNWI/видео.html

  • @stevephlyer
    @stevephlyer 2 года назад +16

    Fascinating story Mark. Thanks for your continuous dedication to world history.

  • @froot6086
    @froot6086 3 года назад +272

    always blows me away with mark felton content, such a brilliant well executed man. Love your content, keep it up!

    • @gazza2933
      @gazza2933 3 года назад

      @Ranger Of The North
      Are you American?

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

    • @chrisholland1504
      @chrisholland1504 3 года назад

      Very true, but it's a shame that Adolf wasn't 'well executed'. By the Komitet in the dungeons of Lubyanka after years of brutal but careful torture.

    • @gazza2933
      @gazza2933 3 года назад +1

      @@chrisholland1504
      I think Chris, that everyone would have wanted a piece of that.
      Even some Germans.

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад

      @@chrisholland1504 A shame? Yes, because then communism would have overun europe...but what do you expect from a bunch of armchair keyboard warriors? The former communard Georges Clemenceau was the only one to enter Russia post ww1 in an attempt to quell Bolshevism, whislt the western allies watched. Only France and Germany adequately stemmed communism.

  • @WillmobilePlus
    @WillmobilePlus 3 года назад +107

    20+ years of reading WW2 books, including this morning, and not one time have I've EVER remotely heard of this story. This is just master tier history storytelling!

    • @Da_poopoo
      @Da_poopoo 7 месяцев назад

      First comment on your comment😱

  • @kensmith8152
    @kensmith8152 3 года назад +851

    Can you imagine the Russians finding Hitler in a lounge chair somewhere out on the steppes- hilarious! Monty Python couldn’t have made this up lol 😂

    • @marks6663
      @marks6663 3 года назад +14

      the chair hid a parachute. The chair was not part of the parachute.

    • @kensmith8152
      @kensmith8152 3 года назад +35

      @@marks6663: Hey it was a funny thought!

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад +3

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

    • @Must_Student
      @Must_Student 3 года назад +11

      Not funny.27 millions russians are dead.

    • @pennise
      @pennise 3 года назад +23

      @@Must_Student That's peanuts compared to what Stalin did.

  • @powerboatguy2308
    @powerboatguy2308 Год назад +13

    Imagine the stress on his security team when he got that close to the front.

    • @Iason29
      @Iason29 6 месяцев назад +1

      I never even heard of German planes Me 323 Gigant before, definitely ahead of their time. It's pretty rare for Germany to reinforce the front by air. No doubt this happened only because Hitler was at that particular airport.

  • @nd493
    @nd493 3 года назад +363

    This is how to teach history. The topic is interesting and effectively presented.

    • @EoCx1
      @EoCx1 10 месяцев назад

      This was the History Channel style mid to late 90s to very early 00s.
      Dr. Felton embodies every good aspect of it.

  • @paullewis2413
    @paullewis2413 3 года назад +151

    Before the days of RUclips I always suspected that there was literally hours of film from WW2 never shown on t.v. programmes. Mark Felton has confirmed this. The most amazing series of WW2 documentaries ever produced there's literally no need to search out any others.

    • @apersonontheinternet8006
      @apersonontheinternet8006 3 года назад +3

      Not true. Drachinifel does a great job on naval history

    • @jonnysegway7866
      @jonnysegway7866 Год назад +2

      Also there was 'The World at War' a seminal series narrated by Laurence Olivier

    • @Gavincampbellman
      @Gavincampbellman Год назад +1

      @@jonnysegway7866I love the world at war. The beginning music is amazing also

  • @V8_screw_electric_cars
    @V8_screw_electric_cars 3 года назад +1200

    Imagine having Hitler landing on his armchair in your backyard

    • @1Barsamian
      @1Barsamian 3 года назад +28

      Must I? No thank you

    • @Trillock-hy1cf
      @Trillock-hy1cf 3 года назад +131

      But if it were in German territory, it would be ''Welcome Mein Fuhrer, please make your self comfortable, as I see you have brought your chair with you!"

    • @BioShock5177
      @BioShock5177 3 года назад +9

      @@1Barsamian 🤡

    • @koen8185
      @koen8185 3 года назад +9

      Right , stop that ! That's just silly....

    • @gertvanderhorst2890
      @gertvanderhorst2890 3 года назад +51

      and having to prepare a vegetarian meal for him, 'and maybe chicken?' 'Nein Nein Nein !'

  • @spiffygonzales5899
    @spiffygonzales5899 3 года назад +89

    This dude answers questions I didn't even realize I should ask.

  • @brianmcleod1683
    @brianmcleod1683 3 года назад +13

    This is why I fell in love with the WW2 era. So much actual footage. So many crazy things captured by film and documents. Thanks Mr Felton.

  • @LostSpaceGuy
    @LostSpaceGuy 3 года назад +1055

    History channel: “Ancient Astronauts Theorists Say”
    Felton: During the war in 1943 Hitler almost got captured by the red army. (Provided footage, facts, and documents)
    Update: Thank you guys for the likes, it’s insane and you guys and gals are the best, walk with Christ and God bless you all😇!

    • @scockery
      @scockery 3 года назад +74

      "Did Aliens step in and save Hitler? There were too many close calls for Hitler to NOT have had paranormal intervention of some sort."

    • @crocodile1313
      @crocodile1313 3 года назад +16

      @@scockery Not aliens...it was Satan that saved Hitler.

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 3 года назад +15

      @@scockery at 1:40 is the port side landing gear brake fire an omen? hmmm?

    • @dougbennett8592
      @dougbennett8592 3 года назад +8

      @@scockery I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

    • @commiecrusher
      @commiecrusher 3 года назад +19

      Felton provides more facts and proof in his videos than the media in North America do on the nightly news.

  • @rorigiles1323
    @rorigiles1323 3 года назад +12

    Great vid Mark. I didn't realise you had written some books until recently and I'm reading them now. Some great stories and well written.

  • @Bumtrickle
    @Bumtrickle 3 года назад +75

    Just when you think you've learned all there is to know about WW2, a new Mark Felton video comes out.

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

  • @Zleec
    @Zleec 3 года назад +586

    Imagine Hitler floating down from the sky in a parachute-strapped armchair.

    • @brianpeck4035
      @brianpeck4035 3 года назад +38

      sounds like a Warhol painting

    • @hugejohnson5011
      @hugejohnson5011 3 года назад +15

      Cracked me up to see the brochure type picture of that seat!

    • @fnln544
      @fnln544 3 года назад +10

      Or, imagine Mr. Bean floating down in the sky in his parachute ladened armchair (no, I'm not equating Mr. Bean to a dictator)...

    • @atomicenergycommission9820
      @atomicenergycommission9820 3 года назад +37

      "You must be wandering how i found myself in this situation"

    • @Live.Laugh.Lobotomy
      @Live.Laugh.Lobotomy 3 года назад +4

      @@fnln544 what’s funny about that is there’s rumours that mr beans actor will play hitler in pesky blinders

  • @pahaihminen1
    @pahaihminen1 3 года назад +18

    Mark never ceases to amaze with his detailed knowledge of WW2

  • @xKingSeraphx
    @xKingSeraphx 3 года назад +5

    Mark, thank for this channel mate. Really interesting and one of the best history channel on youtube

  • @Adiscretefirm
    @Adiscretefirm 3 года назад +78

    1:46 no one seems particularly concerned there are flames coming out of the landing gear.

    • @offdeadeye88
      @offdeadeye88 3 года назад +9

      Heavy braking causes enough heat, actually still common to this day

    • @zxbzxbzxb1
      @zxbzxbzxb1 3 года назад +14

      Even wheels had the hots for hitler in Germany back then

    • @ArmouredCommander
      @ArmouredCommander 3 года назад +3

      Good eye.

    • @markbuxton2368
      @markbuxton2368 3 года назад

      heres the story ruclips.net/video/TqtdElVxNWI/видео.html

    • @filipkopec525
      @filipkopec525 3 года назад +5

      There is a Felton's video about that

  • @trackydog4375
    @trackydog4375 3 года назад +93

    Mark, I'm a big fan of World War Two history, but did not know of this story, well done.

  • @jimc.goodfellas
    @jimc.goodfellas 3 года назад +240

    Adolf parachuting out of a plane in a la-z-boy is a hilarious thought

    • @Dorsolateral1
      @Dorsolateral1 3 года назад +3

      Yes lyrics..."Long last treatment of the telling that relates to all the words...SUNG.....DREAMER EASY IN THE CHAIR THAT REALLY FITS YOU..."

    • @dennisdobin8640
      @dennisdobin8640 3 года назад +4

      In the reclining position?

    • @ericpode6095
      @ericpode6095 3 года назад +3

      If only the Monty Python writers knew about it !

    • @fazole
      @fazole 3 года назад +4

      @@ericpode6095
      Not much fun at Stalingrad Mr. Hilter? Nein. Not much fun at Stalingrad!

  • @pjcmerritt
    @pjcmerritt 3 года назад +3

    Watching a short documentary by Mark is like getting a healthy takeaway. Tastes good, genuine ingredients and no rubbish!

  • @somnamnaa
    @somnamnaa 3 года назад +787

    The brakes on Hitler's Condor plane were on fire after landing, when he arrived in Finland. Also shown in this video how the tires are on flames.

    • @PeteCourtier
      @PeteCourtier 3 года назад +13

      I noticed that😂

    • @KaylaSchierbecker
      @KaylaSchierbecker 3 года назад +6

      I SAW THAT!

    • @jayprice4543
      @jayprice4543 3 года назад

      What city in Finland did he land?

    • @tommasotietto7516
      @tommasotietto7516 3 года назад +31

      Brakes on fire and no one gives a damn s*it at it..

    • @briandoyle6188
      @briandoyle6188 3 года назад +8

      1.45 I didn't spot it this time but had seen it on another of mark's videos ..but well spotted..all the aviation fuel and no panic,haha...

  • @sebastian9147
    @sebastian9147 3 года назад +1266

    1:43 that tire of the plane is literally on fire but noone cares 😂

    • @peterzebot9863
      @peterzebot9863 3 года назад +168

      brakes over heated. Someone probably went over with a bucket of water.

    • @peaceandLove220
      @peaceandLove220 3 года назад +125

      @@peterzebot9863 the real footage you see men using fire extinguishers, Hitler carried on like nothing happened for propaganda purposes

    • @danbam465
      @danbam465 3 года назад +14

      Google a WW2 documentary called Hellstorm.....and enjoy the sleepless night

    • @shan6021
      @shan6021 3 года назад +10

      I noticed that too.

    • @peterzebot9863
      @peterzebot9863 3 года назад +20

      @@peaceandLove220 So you know what went on in Hitler's mind? hmm You are gifted. Could it be, he simply didn't care?

  • @silvanski
    @silvanski 3 года назад +8

    A new Dr Felton documentary always makes my day. And this is another gem.

  • @johnhammond9962
    @johnhammond9962 2 года назад +2

    Thank you Dr Felton for not just calling them planes. You are spot on with their makes and models.

  • @laserluver1
    @laserluver1 3 года назад +104

    Almost everyone is gone from that war now. When I was a kid, WWII vets were just in their 40's.

    • @kaysjkvist954
      @kaysjkvist954 3 года назад +4

      still plenty of nazi zombies

    • @nicholasthuya7683
      @nicholasthuya7683 3 года назад +26

      I know a ww2 vet sorta he was just 8 when the Japanese invaded Burma
      He was the last member of his family while the Japanese tortured and killed his entire village he hid in a very small cave
      When the British artillery regiments arrived to recapture mandalay he brought them pails of water
      For them to drink , later when the British found out he was an orphan a corporal decided to adopt him
      He lived in England until the Cold War and worked in the Deutschland democratic republic for 2 years
      Until finally returning to Burma and starting a shrimping company in the lower Irrawaddy delta
      He still lives next to my house

    • @sharkquisha3407
      @sharkquisha3407 2 года назад

      Its sad really, to see an entire generation go like that, especially with the world they lived in and the stuff they had seen.

    • @Asiansxsymbol
      @Asiansxsymbol Год назад

      Soon you will pass as well, old friend. 😁

  • @28ebdh3udnav
    @28ebdh3udnav 3 года назад +183

    Last time I was this early, the PM guaranteed "Peace in our lifetime" when he arrived from Munich.

    • @zxbzxbzxb1
      @zxbzxbzxb1 3 года назад +1

      After having sadly failed to assassinate Hitler with an infected moustache comb, this was the first attempt on Hitlers life that has been totally lost to history :)

    • @TheMrjohannes1995
      @TheMrjohannes1995 3 года назад +2

      @@zxbzxbzxb1 Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttt!?!?!?!? can you link any info on this because that is awesome.

    • @MusMasi
      @MusMasi 3 года назад +1

      lol

    • @hakureishrine
      @hakureishrine 3 года назад +1

      @Right Hand if u want to preach it's more effective if it isn't copy and paste

    • @clairfayne
      @clairfayne 3 года назад +1

      Normie

  • @Hachi501st
    @Hachi501st 3 года назад +596

    Assassins: fail to kill hitler multiple times
    hitler: *kills himself*
    assassins: aw come on, are you serious?

    • @flyingsword135
      @flyingsword135 3 года назад +34

      Nope, lived out his days in South America.....so it is said.

    • @Ryan-xo6tj
      @Ryan-xo6tj 3 года назад +17

      Only a god can kill a god..

    • @gustavoa.3815
      @gustavoa.3815 3 года назад +12

      Assassins to Hitler: hey! That's was my job! 😁

    • @w13rdguy
      @w13rdguy 3 года назад +26

      Hitler died in Argentina. After 1950.

    • @carlwheezerofsouls3273
      @carlwheezerofsouls3273 3 года назад +5

      @@flyingsword135 said by...... apparently someone not worth mentioning, since you didnt even bother naming them.

  • @alcyonemusica
    @alcyonemusica 3 года назад

    Thanks!

  • @tinkerwithstuff
    @tinkerwithstuff 3 года назад +126

    Or maybe the Soviets said: "Ah, comrade, why go to the effort, it's probably another one of those fake Adolfs"

    • @Parfen_Rogojin
      @Parfen_Rogojin 3 года назад +1

      The thing is Hitler was even useful for Soviets as the talentless warlord, especially after the Stalingrad catastrophe. I'm afraid to imagine there was someone else instead of Hitler with his risky games. It's said Comintern agents prepared assassination attempt with a lot of grenades during another Hitler's performance but were stopped from Moscow.

    • @Top5Paranormal
      @Top5Paranormal 3 года назад +1

      Yea comrades want some vodka

    • @big_slurp4603
      @big_slurp4603 3 года назад +3

      @@Parfen_Rogojin It wasn't just because Hitler was incompetent. The reprisals that would be met would have been so far reaching one shudders to think. Just imagine how the SS would have reacted to such a thing. Just look what happened in Czechoslovakia after Heydrich died

    • @shivmalik9405
      @shivmalik9405 3 года назад +3

      @@big_slurp4603 By that point the Red army was smashing the Germans everywhere. The SS couldn’t have done anything which they hadn’t already, and even if they did, it would be inflicted a hundred fold on the people of Germany by angry soviet soldiers

    • @tinkerwithstuff
      @tinkerwithstuff 3 года назад +1

      @@Parfen_Rogojin Right. "Don't interrupt the enemy while making mistakes" or something along those lines was it ;)

  • @cj.tj.8201
    @cj.tj.8201 3 года назад +32

    I was having my tires rotated when Dr Felton up loaded.. He gave everyone in the waiting area some WWll education......

  • @aqzae
    @aqzae 3 года назад +246

    This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow

    • @ApexClanDS
      @ApexClanDS 3 года назад +3

      lol

    • @jacobduncan6175
      @jacobduncan6175 3 года назад +16

      *hitler screaming out place window*
      “let this be known as the day you almost caught....Captain Adolf Hitler”
      *the reich anthem plays*

    • @quillmaurer6563
      @quillmaurer6563 3 года назад +1

      Somehow I just visualize him giving the Soviets on the ground "the bird" out the window.

    • @aclaynation2914
      @aclaynation2914 3 года назад

      Underrated comment lol

    • @quillmaurer6563
      @quillmaurer6563 3 года назад +2

      @thelegend27 2.0 There's a sort of running gag in the Pirates of the Caribbean series of Captain Jack Sparrow saying "You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow" during his over-the-top escapes. It has thus come to be referenced in any scenario where someone (usually someone the enemy really wants to get, like Hitler) makes a narrow escape.

  • @willamestrada1121
    @willamestrada1121 3 года назад +14

    Even sick with covid in almost my dying bed... I would listen to you and relax me.

    • @horacesawyer2487
      @horacesawyer2487 3 года назад +4

      Estrada take zinc and some aspirin everyday. Covid makes blood clots. Zinc helps fight it. Boil a pot of water and breathe the steam as you to open your lung airways. You can salt the boiling water also. Drink your fluids. Report back when you are feeling better !

    • @KrshnVisualizer
      @KrshnVisualizer 3 года назад

      @@horacesawyer2487 how can people know you are telling the right information?

    • @horacesawyer2487
      @horacesawyer2487 3 года назад +2

      @@KrshnVisualizer : Good point. Do your own research. Horace just trying to help based on what I have been told in my local medical community. However, as the old saying goes, 'for my good deeds I shall be punished by nightfall.' Hopefully our friend Estrada is not sick, just making an example. Do you want me to delete my post?

    • @johncarter8842
      @johncarter8842 3 года назад

      Stay strong

    • @willamestrada1121
      @willamestrada1121 3 года назад

      @@horacesawyer2487 Thanks bud. Back to normal. Home remedies are the best in my opinion.

  • @Beesting01
    @Beesting01 3 года назад +25

    Damm its insane how much your channel has grown Felton, i remember subscribing when you only had 24,300 Subs, still just as good as i remember keep it up champ

  • @chrisward7085
    @chrisward7085 3 года назад +10

    Mark; congratulations on a superb and accurate piece. I also applaud the clips you use to support the narrative, being highly relevant and not subject to the irritating visual errors which beset so many other historical pieces.

  • @joshman35
    @joshman35 3 года назад +223

    Wait so youre telling me Hitler started the whole seat drops out of airplane to escape thing? Thats pretty dope

    • @nunopereira6092
      @nunopereira6092 3 года назад +18

      @Trump wonbig You're right. He did it outside the bunker.

    • @InglésconRobert2025
      @InglésconRobert2025 3 года назад +6

      Oh, yeah. They were dope before dope was even dope, you dope. You dope?

    • @jw451
      @jw451 3 года назад

      kewl

    • @macdaniel6029
      @macdaniel6029 3 года назад +22

      @Trump wonbig No? He went to argentinia and still lives there today with Elvis, right?

    • @THE-HammerMan
      @THE-HammerMan 3 года назад +9

      @@macdaniel6029 Right! There you go! All the brain-dead morons believe that. These same Einsteins believe the Earth is flat and we've never been to the Moon!

  • @joeyw7325
    @joeyw7325 3 года назад

    Mr. Felton I have been binging your videos for 3 days now. Your unbiased stories are absolutely amazing. Thank you much

  • @SpaceMonkeyBoi
    @SpaceMonkeyBoi 3 года назад +126

    I imagine that if they DID capture Hitler, he'd be fhürious!

    • @crusader1576
      @crusader1576 3 года назад +30

      I did nazi that pun coming

    • @stocklee
      @stocklee 3 года назад +13

      have my upvote, now get out!

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад +1

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

    • @JBGARINGAN
      @JBGARINGAN 3 года назад +8

      He'd have been Stalin during interrogations!

    • @sleazyfellow
      @sleazyfellow 3 года назад +6

      Stalin had a spot for him in the Moscow zoo, seriously.

  • @thekevindeucey
    @thekevindeucey 3 года назад +7

    I thought I already knew a lot about history. You have added so much to my grasp of important events.
    Thank you, Mr. Felton.

  • @spencernelson1560
    @spencernelson1560 3 года назад +95

    Ok now we need a video about that ginourmous plane.

    • @1pjodan
      @1pjodan 3 года назад

      Did it ever get out of there?

    • @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music
      @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 3 года назад +5

      There is one. It's a really interesting aircraft.

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад +3

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

    • @chopperman8042
      @chopperman8042 3 года назад +1

      Agreed

    • @samiam619
      @samiam619 3 года назад +3

      @@RenneDanjoule Do you feel better now that you got that off your chest? BTW, what does that have to do with that rather large transport plane?

  • @Benjamin-oq2xz
    @Benjamin-oq2xz 3 года назад +2

    This is classic Felton. Top rate mate!

  • @CommissarTommy22
    @CommissarTommy22 3 года назад +73

    "Man, I was really looking forward to taking that airfield"
    "It's alright Yuri, I mean it's not like there was anyone important on that plane"

    • @erikswanson5753
      @erikswanson5753 3 года назад +2

      I wonder who had to make the phone call to the commander.

    • @TheyRiseBand
      @TheyRiseBand 3 года назад +3

      @@erikswanson5753 We'll probably never know. He went to gulag.

    • @erikswanson5753
      @erikswanson5753 3 года назад +3

      @@TheyRiseBand Making Stalin unhappy tended not to be a wise career move.

  • @robbmorris
    @robbmorris 3 года назад +4

    Fascinating story, and even better storytelling! Many thanks, Dr. Felton!

  • @Erri_17
    @Erri_17 3 года назад +9

    This is by far my favorite history channel. Efficent and even my dad enjoys theese.

  • @nicomasanori5205
    @nicomasanori5205 3 года назад +7

    Cette chaîne youtube mérite 100 fois plus d'abonnés!

  • @generalesdeath8932
    @generalesdeath8932 3 года назад +242

    The last time i was this early, the German army was still on the offensive.

  • @harveywallbanger3123
    @harveywallbanger3123 3 года назад +38

    1:43 - "Mein Herr, is the landing gear supposed to be on fire?"

    • @Rutherford_Inchworm_III
      @Rutherford_Inchworm_III 3 года назад +8

      "Are you suggesting the Luftwaffe is incompetent? Maybe you'd like a one-way ticket to the Ostfront?"

    • @61Slughi
      @61Slughi 3 года назад +7

      Slamming on the brakes. Must have been a short runway.

  • @PTQ4Q4Q4Q4
    @PTQ4Q4Q4Q4 3 года назад +6

    This channel has grown into something special.

  • @8850Deere
    @8850Deere 3 года назад

    Thank you for posting history videos. Because the History Channel clearly doesnt do that anymore. I love history and feel robbed anytime i turn on a TV. Thank you Mark Felton

  • @PSYK0MANT1S
    @PSYK0MANT1S 3 года назад +59

    0:02 how can I not LIKE that face and that epic music! Mark, your channel is one of the real treats on RUclips. I'm a huge fan of your digestible history bites. Thank you for helping me get through the pandemic.

  • @nikolabathory
    @nikolabathory 3 года назад +33

    I know a lot about WWII. My Master's thesis (well, one of them) is about the theatre of operations in North Africa. Still, from this channel I keep on learning new, small and very interesting facts about WWII! Thank you, Mark Felton!
    And one small remark from me - the parachute in Hitler's armchair was usually never armed. That's what I read somewhere, can't give the exact source now, sorry. But I think it was his pilot, Baur, who said that.

  • @tirpitzyt3088
    @tirpitzyt3088 3 года назад +33

    The intros about Mark just smiling there never gets old..

  • @DAMotorsports
    @DAMotorsports 11 месяцев назад +2

    1:44 I love how they ignoring tire on fire 🔥

  • @Tony26971
    @Tony26971 3 года назад +7

    Love this channel, straight to the point, accurate, no annoying music. Could watch this channel all day long easily

  • @oncall21
    @oncall21 3 года назад +8

    Another gem of military history! As always thanks for sharing Dr Felton!

  • @jobvanhetkaar8848
    @jobvanhetkaar8848 3 года назад +4

    I actually think that Mark Felton is my favorite content creator on RUclips

  • @Eric-hd3mv
    @Eric-hd3mv 3 года назад +1

    I love this guy, vids aren’t too long and he has enough detail to make it interesting

  • @horrortackleharry
    @horrortackleharry 3 года назад +79

    When you travel to a meeting at your regional 'Headquarters' and nearly get captured by a standard enemy offensive- you've lost the war.

    • @stuart2202
      @stuart2202 3 года назад +1

      @G E T R E K T 905 tell me, who won world war 2?

    • @CaptainGhost1331
      @CaptainGhost1331 3 года назад +2

      @@stuart2202 Switzerland

    • @averyrandomllama6516
      @averyrandomllama6516 3 года назад

      @@stuart2202 Sweden

    • @stuart2202
      @stuart2202 3 года назад +1

      have you noticed how none of these countries are nazi germany?

  • @ColKlinkerhofen
    @ColKlinkerhofen 3 года назад +6

    Thanks again Mark, it seems you're a never ending source of rare information. Incredibly well made videos and incredible story telling. Had you of been my history teacher at school I would of scored a lot higher in my exam.

  • @wolfmauler
    @wolfmauler 3 года назад +11

    Mark Felton Productions: The Machine that never breaks.

  • @SamuelCroin
    @SamuelCroin 3 года назад +5

    Just discovered the channel. A lot of great contents !

  • @arnesaknussemm2427
    @arnesaknussemm2427 3 года назад +8

    Amazing how Mark still finds these little known gems despite the war being a well researched and covered topic.

  • @KubeOne1
    @KubeOne1 3 года назад +7

    It'll be a sad day when I've watched all of Mark Felton's videos. ✌🏻

  • @bryannelson6139
    @bryannelson6139 3 года назад +8

    Once again I learn new things from Mark Felton that I never heard of from the many history books and movies I have seen. Thanks Mark for furthering my history education!

  • @kevintoboz4929
    @kevintoboz4929 2 года назад +1

    I’ve been watching your videos for years. Keep up the great work

  • @flying0possum
    @flying0possum 3 года назад +6

    That thumbnail felt so emotional.. and real..

  • @neuromancerwintermute3681
    @neuromancerwintermute3681 3 года назад +5

    I’m a simple man. I see a Mark Felton video, I stop working and watch it.

  • @Balthorium
    @Balthorium 3 года назад +29

    The escape pod in “Escape from NY” was probably based on the parachute chair.

    • @miklosernoehazy8678
      @miklosernoehazy8678 3 года назад +1

      ...more likely inspired by the escape capsules from the XB-70 Valkyrie...

    • @crispinjulius5032
      @crispinjulius5032 3 года назад +6

      Hitler was Duke of New York. A, #1

    • @Torgo1001
      @Torgo1001 3 года назад +3

      @@crispinjulius5032 "Escape from Zaporozhye"

  • @davidluck1678
    @davidluck1678 3 года назад +24

    the Reds also came close to bagging Heydrich around about September 1941. The death-dealing, death-seeking SD head, a competent pilot, had joined a fighter unit on the Eastern front c. July and flown some 70 combat missions....and was eventually shot down behind Russian lines. Over the course of several days, he managed to walk back - with several narrow escapes on the way - to German-held territory. When Hitler found out about Heydrich's combat aerial escapades, he grounded him.

  • @raypietrzik7158
    @raypietrzik7158 3 года назад +65

    If Steiner had attacked, the Germans would have colonized Mars by now

    • @V-oe9cu
      @V-oe9cu 3 года назад +11

      There are really intelligent and smart except for their racial obsession

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад +2

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

    • @halowraith1
      @halowraith1 3 года назад +1

      naah they'd be too busy building farmland in the conquered territories

    • @hanhdhsj
      @hanhdhsj 3 года назад

      @@V-oe9cu Dumbass, German doesn't mean Nazi. Americans had racial segregation decades after the war...

    • @V-oe9cu
      @V-oe9cu 3 года назад +1

      @@hanhdhsj sir I actually was referring to the nazis and you reffer to me using inappropriate words without knowing my educational background...I am smart enough to know that germans are not nazis but majority were during the third Reich. In general whites have always been intelligent for example all the inventions were made mostly by whites said by me a brown

  • @18mitndi
    @18mitndi 3 года назад +13

    We can only wonder what would have happened if that tank brigade actually knew what they'd stumbled upon.

  • @prestonpatrick9296
    @prestonpatrick9296 3 года назад +8

    I love how he simply explains everything

  • @caractacuspott4581
    @caractacuspott4581 3 года назад +2

    This is top tier content. Thank you Dr. Felton!

  • @matthewwicks1809
    @matthewwicks1809 3 года назад +10

    Felton's vids make me happy to be a history student living in Norwich.

    • @susannamarker2582
      @susannamarker2582 3 года назад +2

      So if you were not in Norwich, you wouldn't be happy ?

    • @signoguns8501
      @signoguns8501 3 года назад +2

      How do you feel about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city center?

    • @Farrowart
      @Farrowart 3 года назад +1

      I’m from Norwich also.

    • @Farrowart
      @Farrowart 3 года назад

      @@signoguns8501 I think its pretty smart to be honest. Much less traffic in the centre and prevents traffic jams

  • @77konky
    @77konky 3 года назад +10

    Mark, thanks so much for you channel. I love history, especially WWII history and I always tell people that you could learn something new about WWII history every single day. At 5:52 you bring up the largest transport plane of the war, the Messerschmitt Me 323. On 22 April 1943, a formation of 27 fully loaded Me 323s was being escorted across the Sicilian Straits by Messerschmitt Bf 109s of Jagdgeschwader 27 when it was intercepted by seven squadrons-Supermarine Spitfires (No. 1 Squadron SAAF) and Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks (No. 7 South African Wing). Of the 27 transports, only six reached their destination; the remaining 21 of the Me 323s were lost while three of the P-40s were shot down by the escorts. I would really love for you to do a video about this. I have searched hard and there is not much information regarding these events. I'd love to see a video about your research about this little known event. Thanks so much for all the videos that you do! You have the most entertaining and informative channel on youtube!!!

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 3 года назад +2

      I've heard about that Me-323 turkey shoot myself. I believe the intercept mission was made possible by an "Ultra" intercept of a German radio communication. Sorry, I don't remember where I read it.

  • @joshinbama83
    @joshinbama83 3 года назад +14

    When he says the 19th of February and that's today. History rocks 💪

  • @timmydirtyrat6015
    @timmydirtyrat6015 Год назад +3

    1:43 is the plane's tire on fire?

  • @SomervilleBob
    @SomervilleBob 3 года назад +10

    1:48 the plane's tire is on fire as officers calmly walk by.

  • @foxmoth5477
    @foxmoth5477 3 года назад +38

    LOOKS LIKE THE BRAKES HAVE LOCKED on the condor landing gear wheel/tire - in that one seen - they are on fire...

    • @RKS723
      @RKS723 3 года назад +2

      1:46 in, the plane's brakes are clearly on fire...(I was about to post it when I checked to see if anyone else saw it, so I post as a reply to you :) )

    • @RenneDanjoule
      @RenneDanjoule 3 года назад

      "The term anarchist struck special fear in the hearts of those who were building the new industrial states of the late nineteenth century, for anarchists identified the centralized state itself as the enemy. For the same reason anarchism provided a banner of new hope to a generation in France that had become disillusioned with politics : first by a decade of republican repression after the Commune and then by the decision of the rival Blanquists to support the right-wing challenge to the Third Republic of General Boulanger "in the hope that it was the prelude to a great revolutionary crisis." Thus began the fateful tendency of putschist revolutionaries on the Left to see in a right wing challenge to liberal republican authority a tactically useful stage in preparing for their own social revolution. This thinking proved successful for Lenin, who was to view Kornilov's rising against Kerensky's government in September 1917 as a "gun rest" for his own revolutionary rifle. The same thinking by German Communists in 1933 was to have disastrous consequences, when Hitler was seen as a transitory Kornilov tactically useful for destroying the Weimar Republic."-James H Billington

  • @KaMil-gw2qr
    @KaMil-gw2qr 3 года назад +5

    There is indeed a reason over 1 million people subscribe to Mr Feltons channel.

  • @sanpedrosilver
    @sanpedrosilver 3 года назад +3

    Very happy to have stumbled upon this channel yrs ago. Learning so much from your work. Thx Mark Felton !!

  • @Mrgunsngear
    @Mrgunsngear 3 года назад +9

    Thanks