I'm a simple man. I work, I cook, I sleep, rinse and repeat. The only real excitement to my day is when Mark Felton releases another fantastic video. Thank you Dr!
Sometimes after I get the notification, I purposely wait, till after dinner, or when I won’t be disturbed, .......I it’s always exciting building the anticipation.
I'm sitting here a bit dumbfounded. I met and had my picture taken with Beate Uhse at 1 of her shops in Frankfurt on the late 80's. I still have the photo. I had no idea of her wartime exploits until i watched this.
@@Redmanticore Not back then. CEOs weren't ivory tower ponces issuing statements apologising and promising to 'do better'. They were visible, frequently inspecting every operation of their businesses.
Flying to rescue her 2 year old baby… that’s just shattered my heart. I can’t even imagine how she must’ve felt. Thanks Professor, these videos are pure gold for history enthusiasts.
Remarkable and admirable. However, this achievement is not so special for Europe. There were other women worth mentioning in Europe's history. There are reasons why Europeans have discovered the world, that Europeans have ruled the world for a long time. Beachtens und bewundernswert. Jedoch, so besonders ist diese Leistung für Europa nicht. Da gab es noch ganz andere Frauen in Europas Geschichte. Es hat schon seine Gründe, dass die Europäer die Welt entdeckt haben, dass die Europäer die Welt für eine lange Zeit regiert haben.
@@MrPegge On the contrary the operations of the SS and other unconventional units - even the Wehrmacht units absorbed into such actions were largely kept as secret as possible, if their operations were spoken about to the extent that it was common talk within the armed forces it would've been picked up far sooner by allied intelligence instead of being uncovered several years later.
I talked with my maternal grandmother before she passed away, about her life during the war. The subject was not one she had revealed previously, having married a British army officer in 1952 and discouraged from talking about her past. At the age of 20, in the late summer of 1944, she was called to work for the Luftwaffe in Berlin. She recalled working in a unit under the command of a Major Howart of the Wehrmacht, in a mapping room near/in Kustrine Platz. As far as I could understand, her role was to plot the movements of Luftwaffe and Allied aircraft in the Berlin area, as news came in via her female colleagues, who manned the radios. In March/April 1945, she told me that an air raid siren had forced the women down into the air raid shelter, along with women from the munitions factory that was situated close by. A direct hit by an allied bomb decimated the shelter and killed everyone inside, except for my grandmother and a couple of her colleagues. She said that there was no blood, just bodies that looked like they were sleeping. A German officer appeared and released them from their duties, suggesting that they leave Berlin as quickly as possible. Discarding her uniform, she and a couple of others embarked on a 200 mile journey back to Paderborn, her home town. She recalled navigating her way through Berlin's streets, guessing the correct way out of the city (West), by the types of helmets lying on the ground, pushing a pram to collect and carry food and water for the small party of women. She made it home eventually and went on to marry an officer in British Intelligence, while stationed at army barracks in Paderborn. While my grandmother did her duty for her country during 1944/45, at the same time, my paternal grandfather was erecting and maintaining radar stations in Kent, England. War has its fair share of stories and ironies.
Where love falls! I hope the two of them had a happy life together. And yes, the best thing about the Germans is actually their wives. When you have found the right one. See Krimhild. Wo die Liebe hinfällt! Ich hoffe, die beiden hatten ein glückliches gemeinsames Leben. Und ja, das beste an den Deutschen sind tatsächlich ihre Frauen. Wenn man die richtige gefunden hat. Siehe Krimhild.
@@acchaladka That was her obedient soldier side, but saving her son and the other people I think paints her real picture as an individual. A lot of soldiers were merciful to "enemies" for not fully buying into the whole propaganda. They were still soldiers on duty, liable of the worst kinds of punishment, so they also feared that. It's not me defending them, of course, but that's how they rolled, human being vs war machine dilemma within.
Female Luftwaffe pilots having such adventures no one would believe, You really are the best historian, who always amazes his audience. A Great Thanks!
@@sudfac Obviously, cuz she was in the Soviet Air Force, they had better combat training than their nazi counterparts who used women as ground staff or escort pilots.
@@Fearless_on_my_Breath German female pilots were chicks against Russian female pilots. There were also women in Romania who fought in sky on eastern front.
@@sudfac the main difference is that they were not creating sex shops being busy to fight the Soviets /communists in their national anti-communist resistance /guerrillas.
Mark Felton has excelled himself and raised the bar yet again with this video. A captivating story about female German pilots during WWII, carefully cut with live action footage of various warbirds as they are mentioned in the narrative..
That actually showed some real determination come in on a single engine and then familiarize herself with a twin engine while it's being fueled then actually making it to her destination my wife will barely drive a few miles from our home without a co-driver
Her family's life was on the line and her day job description was basically "fly any kind of military aircraft". I'd say she definitely had the skills, not just the motivation. Really an incredible story, especially the twist at the end.
Twin engine propellor planes are more stable because the two engines counter rotate, so the plane won't try to swerve to the left or right all the time. Single engine propellor have that tendency so the pilot needs to counteract this with the foodpedals controlling the rudder. One American WWII ace, near the end of the war, noticed a German Bf-109 flying in strange manner. It was 'crabbing' meaning it didn't fly in the direction the nose was pointed. This American ace must have shaken his head, thinking 'they're really putting kids into fighter planes nowadays' before he shot it down I guess. * Most flying aces excelled at killing enemy green pilots and thus were able to rack up their kill count. Shooting down enemies wasn't the main problem for them. Staying alive was.
I agree; he didn't start her post-war entrepreneurship with "sex for everyone" in mind. But that is what most people memorize when they hear these biographical shortcuts.
All history should be depicted accurately, despite political biases based on even the most horrible atrocities , I sympathize with all my heart , but I , and everyone for future generations deserve truth in history over emotional fears based on future repetition of history , BECAUSE those who DO know can use it again on those who don’t , better to let everyone know ...and rely on mankind to avoid it in peace , the perpetrators AND those who wish to hide it are BOTH evil , do not support either over TRUTH in history
I'm from the town where she settled, Flensburg, where eventually she became a real hometown hero (although it did take some time admittedly, at first the rotary club set wanted nothing to do with her). Even my grandmother who was otherwise very conservative always spoke admiringly of her. I love Mark Felton and I'm so glad Beate Uhse got her due in one of his videos! Her life story is just so incredible, the sheer audacity and bravery.
Beate Uhse's story took such a sharp turn that I feel like I got whiplash. Little histories and unexpected turns like that are what keep me coming back to Mark's channel.
You will never get one. You’ll struggle to make one of these ladies a heroine on screen, especially in the ultra politically correct world we currently live in.
@@Giveme1goodreason Its more because it's a weird in between of woman empowerment story and story of a former Luftwaffe pilot you don't see the Luftwaffe depicted sympathetically in movies
Probably would be her WW2 stuff shown in flashbacks when someone in the sex industry says she doesn't have the risk taking attitude for business. Cue flashback to flying in over Berlin. Though the ark of fighting for a far right revolutionary conservative government to free love sex store has a nice ring. It could be made, the hard part is finding an overall plot. Something like the netflix series of 1/2 hr episodes about medal of honor winners would be a good equivilant for war stories. Longer is harder. Films need a narrative structure, to keep them realistic. Plus, many audiences don't like complex characters, unless their negative factors get sorted as part of their character ark. "Hollywood" stuff falsifying true stories in't really Hollywood, it's that successful films almost always have those factors like good and bad guys.
Beate Uhse's story proves that truth is stranger than fiction. Dr Felton's work is truly remarkable. It satisfies my hunger for history. Thank you sir.
These are incredible short videos. I can only imagine the research that goes into them is not quit as short. Lol . Thank you for your hard work to entertain us for a few minutes
You show you are intelligent, so please do not say "lol". May I suggest "haha" instead. Also the video may only last a few minutes but the knowledge may last for eternity. I completely understand how moronic I may sound and I understand if you have any negative thoughts you may have towards my comments, but understand I am OK with that.
I just admire that Ushe received 'The Fedral Cross of Merit' for them in 1985. Good, healthy attitude toward sex the German's have. Good, healthy attitude toward Ferry Pilots too - Arming the aircraft seems so obvious to us now yet the British refused to do so. Why?
I clicked on this just seeing the title "Female Luftwaffe Pilots in Combat"..... a few seconds later I see its by Mark Felton. I instantly hit like and watch the video..... and you never fail to enlighten and entertain me.
I believe Beate Uhse started her business selling a pamphlet/booklet that taught women to calculate their cyclus, meaning how to determine when it was safe to have unprotected sex, without the risk of pregnancy. Ingenuity in a post-war period of austerity.
@@peterstadlmaier3107 Yes, Knaus Ogino we learned about that in school but it is like russian Roulette , believe me (Nach 3 monaten Knaus Ogino plus Versuche von coitus interuptus war der Braten trotzdem in der Röhre).
I felt actual anxiety following the stories of these brave women-I was so glad to hear Beate Uhse managed to escape with her son and nanny out of Berlin! Amazing story
So I did some reading on Frau Uhse and discovered that she was raised in a pretty progressive household and she was given a proper sex education which came in handy postwar when Luftwaffe pilots were banned from flying. In the oddjobs she did to make ends meet she heard from the other women the problem they had with their husbands coming home from war and were basically incredibly randy after years on the front and the wives were worried about falling pregnant since, you know, their country was a smouldering wreck. So Uhse started a small business that put together "marriage guides" which gave married couples all the info they needed regarding sex and contraception and even came with condoms. The guides proved popular and she was soon met with letters asking about sexuality and she turned this popularity into her first shop for what she called "marital hygiene", arguably the world's first sex shop. This woman was amazing
My God, what incredibly courageous women! I'm sad that the Grafin von Stauffenburg did not survive. I, also, would have loved to see the general's reaction when he learned that his plane had been "commandeered". However, I will admit to a case of whiplash upon learning of Beate Uhshe's source of wealth after the war! So glad that she not only survived, but thrived. Wonderful presentation Dr. Felton!
Colonel Stauffenburg will go down as a hero for all time, even if his plan tragically didn't work. It's good to see there were some honorable families in the midst of all the evil and wickedness that was the Third Reich.
I can't even imagine how awesome Mark Felton's videos would be, if he had 1/1000th of the budget and the resources that the TV channels have. They are already much higher quality than so called History Channel etc. Well done, Sir!
@@bogusmogus9551 exactly but remember, the Victor tells the stories and the lies. Hollywood doesn't want anybody to know that there were and still are capable and extraordinary people in other countries.
Germans can make their own movies. The premises is depressing and the people who you want to route for are mass murders so probably not. There are plenty of movies made about desperate parents trying to save their kids.
Hanna Reitsch was a very famous german female test pilot, an ace of the air! She flew rocket planes, jet planes, V1 missiles, helicopters, fighter prototypes...not shure she did kills in combat too.
She also invented the Vibrater which was one of the best sellers in her chain of shops , must have got idea from being a test pilot ,I wonder. Such a great woman.
Another youtube video (no comments allowed) implies Reitsch was an ardent NAZI supporter. This begs the question were the Anglo Bankers on the board of BIS who financed the NAZI war effort ardent NAZI supporters. All wars are ANGLO bankers' wars.
...Bringing obscure..but just as important..snippets of history to us all...another round of applause for you sir...you keep history alive, interesting and above all with a flair that is sadly missing in other more mainstream “events”
There was an important reason for that: She could not work as a pilot anymore after the war, because most flying was banned and thus worked the black market to survive.. but she needed a high profit/ low risk product. As child of one of the rarer female medical doctors she had gotten good sex education and knowledge on not getting pregnant was in high demand in these insecure times, so she capitalized on that and things went from there.
My father, a WWII TBM pilot in the Pacific would have loved this…he had such admiration for women pilots and avidly studied history. He also taught me I could do anything a man could do!
Boy, I bet that General was PO's when he found his airplane was "Borrowed" by Ushe. But I will cut her slack, becasue she saved not only her son and nanny, but three others. I'd lay odds the general was going to just save himself and maybe his mistress and cognac collection.
2 interesting things about Beate and Hannah. Beate felt especially after her wartime career that women where being repressed into their prewartime roles and duties. Even in the late 1960's German wives were required to have permission from their husbands in writing for the permission to work and get a driver's license. The sex shops she opened were also for women who could not alter their post war housewife roles but could have a personal sexual freedom since toys by the 1000's were mailed in unmarked boxes. Hannah was the 1st woman helicopter pilot, stuka test pilot and the 1st person to fly faster than the speed of sound in the rocket plane ME-163. The plane went faster than the measurement devices could register. The plane was badly damaged breaking the sound barrier. Since it was wartime she couldn't be awarded the title of faster than sound and later was given the Chuck Yeager. She won the respect of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy and was invited to the White House many times.
It's also interesting to note that when the German constitution was written in 1949 the authors had an exhausting debate if women should have voting rights (in the end they got it). Really makes you think that the flawed Weimar Republic was more "progressive" then the more stable Federal Republic
We - my parents and I - came to "West Germany" in 1971. My mother went to the bank (as is customary in the cultivated world) and wanted to open a bank account (at the Hypo-Vereinsbank in Munich). The bank clerk told her that she couldn't do that without her husband's permission. My mother tried to explain to him that it was her money. Nobody cares about that here, was all she got as an answer. My mother did not forget this until her death. It was not until 1974 that women in West Germany were allowed to open their own account without the permission of their husband or father. Wir - Meine Eltern und ich - kamen 1971 nach "Westdeutschland". Meine Mutter ging (wie das in der kultivierten Welt üblich ist) zur Bank und wollte ein Bankkonto (bei der Hypo-Vereinsbank in München) eröffnen. Der Bankangestellte erklärte ihr, dass sie das ohne die Erlaubnis ihres Mannes nicht tun kann. Meine Mutter versuchte ihm zu erklären, dass es ihr Geld ist. Das interessiert hier keinen, war alles was sie als Antwort bekam. Bis zu ihrem Tod hat das meine Mutter nicht vergessen. Erst ab 1974 durften Frauen in Westdeutschland ein eigenes Konto eröffnen ohne Erlaubnis des Ehemannes oder Vaters.
@@CrvenkapicaIVZNG I wonder who gave the written permission to work to all those Victorian cotton mills women workers and children in Manchester. And how could Irene Molloy in "Hello, Dolly!" even exist. It says a lot about the migration of skilled young women and their capital to the States already beginning with the end of the 19th century.
Doing a movie celebrating female nazi's? In this woke age where ANYTHING to the right of Stalin gets attacked as extreme right wing Hitler stuff? In what parallel unwoke universe would you have to be before Hollywood would greenlight that? Please tell me what you're smoking so I could get some.
@@thejudgmentalcat They'd have to do the utmost mental gymnastics to paint these women as poor misguided creatures, victims of the uber male patriarchy. So your basic Hollywoke movie, which is boring as fuck. And considering Amazon's recent equity rules 30% of them would have to be women of color, trans and lgbtq somethings. 50% if it were made in 2024.
Mister Felton, you surprised me again. Beate ushe, the name rang a bell but, then you showed the adult shop, I had a true "oh my god" moment. Thank you for that!!!
1.33 million subscribers! Im genuinely so happy for you, and the 1.33 million other people who will learn and be entertained so much. Thank you for all of your videos and books
From being one of the few female Luftwaffe pilots to a successful sex shop millionaire. Now that is an unexpected turn of events. Edit: Thanks a lot for the likes!
Interesting fact: Mark's most memorable works will often feature German woman in Nazi uniform but this is the first that discusses sex shops. That being said, I really like how Mark says 'sniiippurs'.
Тhere is a wonderful, little-studied topic for next Mark study - Heiligenbeil Kessel (März 1945), where 4th Wehrmacht Army was destroyed on steep Frisches Haff coast near Order Castle Balga. Many terrible events took place in Heiligenbeil Kessel , which history hides. But would Mark want to try to lift curtain on that terrible tragedy?
@kickingmustang: SNIIIPPUR!!! .....so that means you.....now you get greeted everytime like that! ;-) How about Airsoft right now? Here many Field´s went bancrupt because of Covid...
@@Wuestenkarsten Mr. Felton makes so many videos about the Third Reich, but he is so awful in pronouncing German names. Like Beate Uhse her first name are two syllables Be-ate and her last names U is spoken like the u in usual.
@@jan-peterbrodersen3302 I can forgive him for his non-native pronunciation due to the sheer quality of the content he produces. He clearly works incredibly hard on the provenance of the subjects he covers and explains the narrative in such a way it pleases both laypersons' and those with qualifications in History alike. Unfortunately this platform is full of lazy "historians" (whom are nothing more than clickbait "RUclipsrs" with a degree, or have watched a lot of History Channel television) Dr Felton, alongside Toby from Epic History TV, are standouts thanks to the superior quality of their content.
@@residentelect Honestly, his pronunciation of Be-ate Uhse was beyond recognition for a German native speaker. I do understand that most foreigners have a problem with ä ö ü pronunciation, but in this case he pronounced Uhse like Ühse.
Mark Felton never ceases to amaze me with his stories even if I am on a deep dive of ancient Rome at the moment and possibly making it my career specialty it is good to know that the WW2 field continues to be in the best of hands.
Very cool. My GF and I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Neither of us, for all our education, knew that any German women, let alone women at all, flew for any reason during WWII. Thanks for producing this work!
Mark Felton never ceases to amaze me. I've heard of Hanna Reitsch and her many heroic exploits were legendary stuff. But I've never heard of Beate Uhse till now. Great job Dr Felton!!
mark felton, thank you for posting these videos for free. It is always interesting to learn about history and especially unknown history like in this video !
All I have to say Mark, is that your channel just gets better every day. You are the best historian on WW2 I have come across. The stuff you find is amazing and teaches me stuff I never knew, and I thought I had a reasonable grasp, yet you keep astounding me. Another great story. Cheers from Australia.
"She discovered to her horror, the Arado was destroyed. Searching around for a way to get out of Berlin she ran into a Luftwaffe Air mechanic she know who told her about a Seibel EH-104..." Anybody else think there's a movie in here somewhere? Lesson: Don't underestimate what a Mom will do for her child!
Me: Uhse sounds like a badass, I bet she had an extraordinary career in the new Luftwaffe Mark: She opened a successful chain of sex shops, becoming a millionaire Me: 👁️👄👁️
@@mkoschier All businesses go bankrupt or close down one day or another. The profit it made when it was still alive and kicking decides whether it was successful or not.
Thank you Mark Felton for your awesome videos. Your efforts to report and record true history are appreciated. I plan to watch more and order your books. You a pioneer in the preservation of WWII history. As a former educator of history, your videos are superb and avoid politicizing history and presenting events as they happened. Bless you for your efforts.
@@donmoore7785 (they say she drove around, like crazy.....just never bothered to get a license, she took the test to avoid legal action in an attempt to keep her off the road)
Wonderful. She's very attractive. My late Aunt was a Fluko-Luftwaffe office secretary in Essen, Germany. My late Uncle was also in the same department as a truck driver; that is how they met and, later married. My Cousin, their first Son, was born in Salzburgerland, Austria. My Dear Mother worked in a cafeteria in Hallein, Austria, in the mountain-based factory area where my Mom told me that the V3 missed were built. You probably know the famous German, the late Dr. Wernher von Braun, inventor and manufacturer of the V3 and other missile products; he past away in 1977, in Huntsville, AL, United States; he was also a loyal engineer of the US in NASA's space programs, and Editor of POPULAR SCIENCE periodical. My Ancestor is Dr. Willy Messerschmitt, who later became fighter aircraft designer in 1955, in Washington, DC, USA; he passed away in 1978 after a heart ailment surgery in a heart hospital in Munich in 1978. All of the above people are good natured people; my Mother and I paid respects to all the Luftwaffe pilots whom my Mother knew as school classmates, and loyal friends, were all lost while during their air duty. We are saddened that these fine young men were fond, loyal, liked and respected by my Dear Mother -
My second time thru, I’ve learned that, at least I, need 2 or 3 views to get everything out of your presentations. Newly diagnosed with cancer I need to keep my mind occupied with other things and your videos are just what the doc ordered (pun intended). I’m glad you stay true to history and don’t blur images you include. I think content reporters who use blurry images are too lazy to look for appropriate images, use what you must to tell the story truthfully and accurately. Kudos sir.
I have met Beate Uhse and her son. She gave a lecture on her business at HSG, my University in Switzerland in 1989 or 1990. Impressive women, driven, focused and business savvy. One thing that stroke me, how she read the needs of society and had her business evolving in a successful way over time.
@Wayne Smith It's called history pal. You wanna pretend it just didn't happen? Not saying you have to like it, but it is what it is. People wanna see war movies now where Nazis aren't mentioned because they were the worst of the worst. Except they actually existed. It is what it is man.
@Wayne Smith You are right. I spent 3 hours checking out the shop's website and it's awful and terrible. I went back for another hour just to confirm and you are definitely correct.
I imagine the information and products she made available to German women about sexual health and pregnancy prevention was more valuable to the country than any wartime efforts.
I met a women in the Luftwaffe. Her name was Betty Hass. She was captured by the 'Ivans' and walked home from Russian in 1948 to discover her home town Dresden destroyed.
Beate Uhse was an extreme cool and brace woman I must say. What surprises me is how relatively easy it still was to get in and out of Berlin, even when the soviets had reached the eastern part of Mitte and had begun circling Berlin.
I can't believe it: Switzerland has a bunch of these shops and since they sell sex gear, I figured the name "Beate Uhse" was a wordplay on "Beat Us", a reference to sadomasochism.
Well there is another word play because the german word for breasts is Buse or Busen and the name would be spoken as Be-a-te Uh-se. If my way of writing how to say that failed im sorry but it aint easy, but it should get clear on google translate.
Congratulations on the video Mark, I am a Brazilian who appreciates the history of WWII and I really appreciate your work. I recently finished reading the book The Pilot of Hitler, biography of Hans Baur. I was very interested in the trip Hans made to South Africa in 1938 to deliver a Junkers Ju 52/3m to that country. It is said that Baur filmed the trip with a 16 mm camcorder that was filming in color. But I couldn't find more details of this epic journey, nor this movie anywhere on the internet. Do you have any knowledge about this trip and if this movie still exists? In time, forgive me for the bad English
So strange that I go all of high school hating learning about this stuff but as soon as I found this guy right after I graduate I’m obsessed with ww2 lol
astonishing: I love the personal details: you Mark, make history come alive with this fine attention to detail and human stories: once again: well done: great yarn!
I'm glad that she survived the carnage to save her child not all Germans were fiends and it is good that all turned out ok for her , to only learn to drive at 81 well believe it or not I have heard this before with other pilots but what a incredible lady , a part of a generation who new what the job was and got on with it wow she even flew the Sitka I believe they were a slow difficult plane to fly , but excellent dive bombers cheers we watch all you videos mark ,
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I'm a simple man. I work, I cook, I sleep, rinse and repeat. The only real excitement to my day is when Mark Felton releases another fantastic video. Thank you Dr!
Nice descript :)
Yeah , Same here .. but I do a few other things 😉
Sometimes after I get the notification, I purposely wait, till after dinner, or when I won’t be disturbed, .......I it’s always exciting building the anticipation.
You are right MATE
That's the spirit.
I'm sitting here a bit dumbfounded. I met and had my picture taken with Beate Uhse at 1 of her shops in Frankfurt on the late 80's. I still have the photo. I had no idea of her wartime exploits until i watched this.
So...what did you purchase?
@Ankles - same here. I spent most of the video pretty sure I’d heard the name before. By the end I realised, “Oh, _that_ Beate Uhse!”
mustve been quite the customer if got a picture with the ceo
@@Redmanticore Not back then. CEOs weren't ivory tower ponces issuing statements apologising and promising to 'do better'. They were visible, frequently inspecting every operation of their businesses.
@@KingZealotTactics LOL. You beat me to it!
Flying to rescue her 2 year old baby… that’s just shattered my heart. I can’t even imagine how she must’ve felt. Thanks Professor, these videos are pure gold for history enthusiasts.
Still is is strange, to use aircraft for personal use!
My heart was in my mouth as her story unfolded. I'm so glad she and her passengers made it to safety
Remarkable and admirable. However, this achievement is not so special for Europe. There were other women worth mentioning in Europe's history. There are reasons why Europeans have discovered the world, that Europeans have ruled the world for a long time.
Beachtens und bewundernswert. Jedoch, so besonders ist diese Leistung für Europa nicht. Da gab es noch ganz andere Frauen in Europas Geschichte. Es hat schon seine Gründe, dass die Europäer die Welt entdeckt haben, dass die Europäer die Welt für eine lange Zeit regiert haben.
They knew what Einsatzgruppen had done in USSR and afraid of revenge were fighting their way to surrender to americans.
@@MrPegge On the contrary the operations of the SS and other unconventional units - even the Wehrmacht units absorbed into such actions were largely kept as secret as possible, if their operations were spoken about to the extent that it was common talk within the armed forces it would've been picked up far sooner by allied intelligence instead of being uncovered several years later.
I talked with my maternal grandmother before she passed away, about her life during the war. The subject was not one she had revealed previously, having married a British army officer in 1952 and discouraged from talking about her past. At the age of 20, in the late summer of 1944, she was called to work for the Luftwaffe in Berlin. She recalled working in a unit under the command of a Major Howart of the Wehrmacht, in a mapping room near/in Kustrine Platz. As far as I could understand, her role was to plot the movements of Luftwaffe and Allied aircraft in the Berlin area, as news came in via her female colleagues, who manned the radios. In March/April 1945, she told me that an air raid siren had forced the women down into the air raid shelter, along with women from the munitions factory that was situated close by. A direct hit by an allied bomb decimated the shelter and killed everyone inside, except for my grandmother and a couple of her colleagues. She said that there was no blood, just bodies that looked like they were sleeping. A German officer appeared and released them from their duties, suggesting that they leave Berlin as quickly as possible. Discarding her uniform, she and a couple of others embarked on a 200 mile journey back to Paderborn, her home town. She recalled navigating her way through Berlin's streets, guessing the correct way out of the city (West), by the types of helmets lying on the ground, pushing a pram to collect and carry food and water for the small party of women. She made it home eventually and went on to marry an officer in British Intelligence, while stationed at army barracks in Paderborn. While my grandmother did her duty for her country during 1944/45, at the same time, my paternal grandfather was erecting and maintaining radar stations in Kent, England. War has its fair share of stories and ironies.
Where love falls! I hope the two of them had a happy life together. And yes, the best thing about the Germans is actually their wives. When you have found the right one. See Krimhild.
Wo die Liebe hinfällt! Ich hoffe, die beiden hatten ein glückliches gemeinsames Leben. Und ja, das beste an den Deutschen sind tatsächlich ihre Frauen. Wenn man die richtige gefunden hat. Siehe Krimhild.
She probably neglected to tell you that she was raped by the Russian soldiers who were everywhere in Berlin in those first days. No woman got away.
@@slidenapps not true
@@slidenapps From reading the story it sounds like she got out of Berlin just before the final collapse, so she was spared meeting with the Russians.
@@slidenapps What a pointless and rather nasty thing to write. Shame on you.
Mark Felton is by far the best producer of these documentaries, So much appreciated.
Mark Felton - a light that shines on the shadows of history.
@@jamesh.6208 You described yourself well done!
Mark Felton single handily produces infinitely better content than the History Channel and their counterparts.
@@jamesh.6208 lol you deleted your offending comment. Coward
@@DogRedful yacuz he's cool and history Channel is lame
The best on youtube.
What truly stands out in Uhse' story is the genuine display of mother love.
Agreed!
All in service of and trying to murder “degenerates” and others who were in any way not corporatist-fascist and “pure.”
👍👍
Her actions are more remarcable, as she did not saved just her son. But the mechanic and the wounded soldiers.
Others wouldn't had cared
@@acchaladka That was her obedient soldier side, but saving her son and the other people I think paints her real picture as an individual. A lot of soldiers were merciful to "enemies" for not fully buying into the whole propaganda. They were still soldiers on duty, liable of the worst kinds of punishment, so they also feared that.
It's not me defending them, of course, but that's how they rolled, human being vs war machine dilemma within.
Female Luftwaffe pilots having such adventures no one would believe,
You really are the best historian,
who always amazes his audience.
A Great Thanks!
I'd love to hear about some of her post-Luftwaffe "adventures"
Female Luftwaffe pilots had no chance against Lydia Litvyak
@@sudfac Obviously, cuz she was in the Soviet Air Force, they had better combat training than their nazi counterparts who used women as ground staff or escort pilots.
@@Fearless_on_my_Breath German female pilots were chicks against Russian female pilots. There were also women in Romania who fought in sky on eastern front.
@@sudfac the main difference is that they were not creating sex shops being busy to fight the Soviets /communists in their national anti-communist resistance /guerrillas.
Being a trained pilot but never having learned to drive a car is like the most aristocratic thing ever.
Aldo happened with a lot of pilots on our side.
This comment is in itself autocratic.
A person a flier in the defence of her country need not necessarily drive , in those days.
bad enough they cannot drive worth a flick now this 🤨🧐🤔😬🙄
That is a missunderstanding: she learned to DIVE not to drive, at the age of 75.
Unlike the US you can go anywhere with public transportation in Germany including HIgh Speed Rail.
Mark Felton has excelled himself and raised the bar yet again with this video. A captivating story about female German pilots during WWII, carefully cut with live action footage of various warbirds as they are mentioned in the narrative..
That actually showed some real determination come in on a single engine and then familiarize herself with a twin engine while it's being fueled then actually making it to her destination my wife will barely drive a few miles from our home without a co-driver
Her family's life was on the line and her day job description was basically "fly any kind of military aircraft". I'd say she definitely had the skills, not just the motivation. Really an incredible story, especially the twist at the end.
Get a divorce
They're easy to fly as long as nothing goes wrong. Like an engine failure. The alternative wasn't so good. The things you'll do in war time.
Your wife isn’t a fascist. M.
Twin engine propellor planes are more stable because the two engines counter rotate, so the plane won't try to swerve to the left or right all the time. Single engine propellor have that tendency so the pilot needs to counteract this with the foodpedals controlling the rudder.
One American WWII ace, near the end of the war, noticed a German Bf-109 flying in strange manner. It was 'crabbing' meaning it didn't fly in the direction the nose was pointed. This American ace must have shaken his head, thinking 'they're really putting kids into fighter planes nowadays'
before he shot it down I guess.
* Most flying aces excelled at killing enemy green pilots and thus were able to rack up their kill count.
Shooting down enemies wasn't the main problem for them.
Staying alive was.
Beate Uhse's story deserves a biopic.
It's quite...unique.
Yeah she was a fucking chad.
I agree; he didn't start her post-war entrepreneurship with "sex for everyone" in mind.
But that is what most people memorize when they hear these biographical shortcuts.
All history should be depicted accurately, despite political biases based on even the most horrible atrocities , I sympathize with all my heart , but I , and everyone for future generations deserve truth in history over emotional fears based on future repetition of history , BECAUSE those who DO know can use it again on those who don’t , better to let everyone know ...and rely on mankind to avoid it in peace , the perpetrators AND those who wish to hide it are BOTH evil , do not support either over TRUTH in history
so, ... how does a young female pilot get a colonel to give her a general's plane and aviation fuel in late April 1945?
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Imagine asking your grandmother what life was like during ww2 and she shows you photos of her in uniform standing next to her fighter.
And then she shows you her "other" uniform...
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@@EmmanuelGoldsteinINGSOC The same one but instead of cotton, in Latex
...and imagine if that conversation was happening when you were helping her with her new shop's inventory 👍😂
And then she starts talking about her husband and how much fun he had in Concen- I mean summer camps
I'm from the town where she settled, Flensburg, where eventually she became a real hometown hero (although it did take some time admittedly, at first the rotary club set wanted nothing to do with her). Even my grandmother who was otherwise very conservative always spoke admiringly of her. I love Mark Felton and I'm so glad Beate Uhse got her due in one of his videos! Her life story is just so incredible, the sheer audacity and bravery.
Sadly, I think Mark mispronounced her first name.
Wow! She's a legend from what I gather in the video and your comment.
I went to Auguste Viktoria Gymnasium in Flensburg. Beautiful city. I miss it and it Museumschiffe.
Beate Uhse's story took such a sharp turn that I feel like I got whiplash.
Little histories and unexpected turns like that are what keep me coming back to Mark's channel.
A story worthy of a movie. The world is a crazy place
You will never get one. You’ll struggle to make one of these ladies a heroine on screen, especially in the ultra politically correct world we currently live in.
@@Giveme1goodreason sad but true
@@Giveme1goodreason Its more because it's a weird in between of woman empowerment story and story of a former Luftwaffe pilot you don't see the Luftwaffe depicted sympathetically in movies
Probably would be her WW2 stuff shown in flashbacks when someone in the sex industry says she doesn't have the risk taking attitude for business. Cue flashback to flying in over Berlin. Though the ark of fighting for a far right revolutionary conservative government to free love sex store has a nice ring.
It could be made, the hard part is finding an overall plot. Something like the netflix series of 1/2 hr episodes about medal of honor winners would be a good equivilant for war stories. Longer is harder.
Films need a narrative structure, to keep them realistic. Plus, many audiences don't like complex characters, unless their negative factors get sorted as part of their character ark. "Hollywood" stuff falsifying true stories in't really Hollywood, it's that successful films almost always have those factors like good and bad guys.
@@letsburn00 I concur.
Beate Uhse's story proves that truth is stranger than fiction. Dr Felton's work is truly remarkable. It satisfies my hunger for history. Thank you sir.
A rather extreme version of 'Excuse me. Gotta run. I have to pick up my kid from daycare.'
These are incredible short videos. I can only imagine the research that goes into them is not quit as short. Lol . Thank you for your hard work to entertain us for a few minutes
You show you are intelligent, so please do not say "lol". May I suggest "haha" instead. Also the video may only last a few minutes but the knowledge may last for eternity. I completely understand how moronic I may sound and I understand if you have any negative thoughts you may have towards my comments, but understand I am OK with that.
Natural career transition honestly, moving from one cockpit to another
My word sir 😂 😂 😂
Nice one
I just admire that Ushe received 'The Fedral Cross of Merit' for them in 1985.
Good, healthy attitude toward sex the German's have.
Good, healthy attitude toward Ferry Pilots too - Arming the aircraft seems so obvious to us now yet the British refused to do so. Why?
Hahaha!!!!!
I clicked on this just seeing the title "Female Luftwaffe Pilots in Combat"..... a few seconds later I see its by Mark Felton. I instantly hit like and watch the video..... and you never fail to enlighten and entertain me.
I believe Beate Uhse started her business selling a pamphlet/booklet that taught women to calculate their cyclus, meaning how to determine when it was safe to have unprotected sex, without the risk of pregnancy. Ingenuity in a post-war period of austerity.
What a savage.
Yes, the Knaus-Ogino method. It's not very reliable, but better then nothing in these times.
Rythum method? Our teacher called them parents
@@demonprinces17 True, but when you're desperately poor and a refugee, getting pregnant is not an option...
@@peterstadlmaier3107 Yes, Knaus Ogino we learned about that in school but it is like russian Roulette , believe me (Nach 3 monaten Knaus Ogino plus Versuche von coitus interuptus war der Braten trotzdem in der Röhre).
I felt actual anxiety following the stories of these brave women-I was so glad to hear Beate Uhse managed to escape with her son and nanny out of Berlin! Amazing story
So I did some reading on Frau Uhse and discovered that she was raised in a pretty progressive household and she was given a proper sex education which came in handy postwar when Luftwaffe pilots were banned from flying. In the oddjobs she did to make ends meet she heard from the other women the problem they had with their husbands coming home from war and were basically incredibly randy after years on the front and the wives were worried about falling pregnant since, you know, their country was a smouldering wreck. So Uhse started a small business that put together "marriage guides" which gave married couples all the info they needed regarding sex and contraception and even came with condoms. The guides proved popular and she was soon met with letters asking about sexuality and she turned this popularity into her first shop for what she called "marital hygiene", arguably the world's first sex shop. This woman was amazing
My God, what incredibly courageous women!
I'm sad that the Grafin von Stauffenburg did not survive. I, also, would have loved to see the general's reaction when he learned that his plane had been "commandeered".
However, I will admit to a case of whiplash upon learning of Beate Uhshe's source of wealth after the war!
So glad that she not only survived, but thrived.
Wonderful presentation Dr. Felton!
Colonel Stauffenburg will go down as a hero for all time, even if his plan tragically didn't work. It's good to see there were some honorable families in the midst of all the evil and wickedness that was the Third Reich.
She is in Hell, no place to thrive.
I love the history that you cover it’s so informative and educational
This "story "A bit outlandish if I may. Seems like more propaganda from the Germans. They were masters of propaganda.
@@philup6274 many times things in history can be outlandish and sound crazy but such is war
Dr. Felton should be recognized more in our society, the content on this channel is just amazing.
I would do anything to study under him.
He could never EVER get tenure as a history professor, He doesn't teach history as viewed through intersectionalism and critical race theory.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 You can provide some substantiation for that claim, presumably?
I think he should be let loose on the yanks so we can find out who killed kennedy. Most likely an internal job is my guess.
I can't even imagine how awesome Mark Felton's videos would be, if he had 1/1000th of the budget and the resources that the TV channels have. They are already much higher quality than so called History Channel etc. Well done, Sir!
History Channel? You mean the Unreality Fake Show Channel. Absolute waste of time.
I think you overestimate History Channel shows' budgets and underestimate the cost of making these videos.
This reminds me of my beloved godmother. She owned two light aircraft in the 1970s, had a private pilot’s license and never drove cars or tried to.
Hannah Reitsch's insane flight in and out of Berlin is the stuff of legend. Even the Soviets were gobsmacked.
Reitsch is the stuff of legend.
Why no films made about her though?
@@bogusmogus9551 exactly but remember, the Victor tells the stories and the lies. Hollywood doesn't want anybody to know that there were and still are capable and extraordinary people in other countries.
@spud Eleven, you're right, but there will NEVER be a Hollywood movie made "Hannah's last stand" etc.
@@MrSpiker26 Why not? Movies about other German combatants have been made.
Germans can make their own movies. The premises is depressing and the people who you want to route for are mass murders so probably not.
There are plenty of movies made about desperate parents trying to save their kids.
I guess you could call them the "valkyries"
Sadly they deployed them in 1945
Would be great to see them in action earlier
Lol, sc brood war
you could also call them nazis
@@nickb3164 they were loyal to Germany, not the National Socialist Party.Get thw Earwig out of your head noodle head
Well, have you heard about the 588th regiment/ Night Witches? 😏
Hanna Reitsch was a very famous german female test pilot, an ace of the air! She flew rocket planes, jet planes, V1 missiles, helicopters, fighter prototypes...not shure she did kills in combat too.
No, she didn't, so far only soviet women achieve air to air kills, Litvak and Budanova becoming aces.
She also invented the Vibrater which was one of the best sellers in her chain of shops , must have got idea from being a test pilot ,I wonder. Such a great woman.
@@barrykevin7658 Hanna Reitch? Or the woman who put a sex shop after that.
Another youtube video (no comments allowed) implies Reitsch was an ardent NAZI supporter. This begs the question were the Anglo Bankers on the board of BIS who financed the NAZI war effort ardent NAZI supporters. All wars are ANGLO bankers' wars.
7:30 Well that was a twist I wasn't expecting
Dr. Felton never disappoints. Excellent and very informative video.
...Bringing obscure..but just as important..snippets of history to us all...another round of applause for you sir...you keep history alive, interesting and above all with a flair that is sadly missing in other more mainstream “events”
So she went from being a pilot to starting and operaring stores that cater to "Adult" themes???
Hell of a carer change, but what ever pays the bills.
That had more to do with feminism, not the kind we know today, than with paying bills. Those shops bought her a lot of trouble in the early 60's
That's how I knew the name, it sounded familiar and googled it before he got to that part🤣 🤣 🤣
Whatever penetrates.
Don’t forget that the Hippie movement basically started in Germany.
There was an important reason for that: She could not work as a pilot anymore after the war, because most flying was banned and thus worked the black market to survive.. but she needed a high profit/ low risk product. As child of one of the rarer female medical doctors she had gotten good sex education and knowledge on not getting pregnant was in high demand in these insecure times, so she capitalized on that and things went from there.
Me: Expecting something about Operation Barbarossa
Dr. Felton: Female Nazi Pilot Sex Shops
Touché
Unbelievable!!
nazi pilot sex shops ... velkome to ze kastel wolfenstein. clik clak clik clak clik clak.
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I'm a massive fan of all your videos Dr Felton. Keep up the good work!
naw you got second
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Thanks. This is one of the best channels and you’re one of the best narrators on RUclips.
My father, a WWII TBM pilot in the Pacific would have loved this…he had such admiration for women pilots and avidly studied history. He also taught me I could do anything a man could do!
Boy, I bet that General was PO's when he found his airplane was "Borrowed" by Ushe. But I will cut her slack, becasue she saved not only her son and nanny, but three others. I'd lay odds the general was going to just save himself and maybe his mistress and cognac collection.
If the General hadn't already left, then he was likely responsible for some portion of Battle of Berlin defense.
It says a lot about the airbase colonel that he sent wounded soldiers instead of himself.
Yes, I was expecting to hear that the Colnel was on the plane.
PO??
@@elmago8268 Pissed Off
2 interesting things about Beate and Hannah.
Beate felt especially after her wartime career that women where being repressed into their prewartime roles and duties. Even in the late 1960's German wives were required to have permission from their husbands in writing for the permission to work and get a driver's license. The sex shops she opened were also for women who could not alter their post war housewife roles but could have a personal sexual freedom since toys by the 1000's were mailed in unmarked boxes.
Hannah was the 1st woman helicopter pilot, stuka test pilot and the 1st person to fly faster than the speed of sound in the rocket plane ME-163. The plane went faster than the measurement devices could register. The plane was badly damaged breaking the sound barrier. Since it was wartime she couldn't be awarded the title of faster than sound and later was given the Chuck Yeager. She won the respect of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy and was invited to the White House many times.
It's also interesting to note that when the German constitution was written in 1949 the authors had an exhausting debate if women should have voting rights (in the end they got it). Really makes you think that the flawed Weimar Republic was more "progressive" then the more stable Federal Republic
@@Athrun82 Spot On!
We - my parents and I - came to "West Germany" in 1971. My mother went to the bank (as is customary in the cultivated world) and wanted to open a bank account (at the Hypo-Vereinsbank in Munich). The bank clerk told her that she couldn't do that without her husband's permission. My mother tried to explain to him that it was her money. Nobody cares about that here, was all she got as an answer. My mother did not forget this until her death. It was not until 1974 that women in West Germany were allowed to open their own account without the permission of their husband or father.
Wir - Meine Eltern und ich - kamen 1971 nach "Westdeutschland". Meine Mutter ging (wie das in der kultivierten Welt üblich ist) zur Bank und wollte ein Bankkonto (bei der Hypo-Vereinsbank in München) eröffnen. Der Bankangestellte erklärte ihr, dass sie das ohne die Erlaubnis ihres Mannes nicht tun kann. Meine Mutter versuchte ihm zu erklären, dass es ihr Geld ist. Das interessiert hier keinen, war alles was sie als Antwort bekam. Bis zu ihrem Tod hat das meine Mutter nicht vergessen. Erst ab 1974 durften Frauen in Westdeutschland ein eigenes Konto eröffnen ohne Erlaubnis des Ehemannes oder Vaters.
@@CrvenkapicaIVZNG well it will be interesting to see what was Wallys Simpson 's economic and financial situation.
@@CrvenkapicaIVZNG I wonder who gave the written permission to work to all those Victorian cotton mills women workers and children in Manchester. And how could Irene Molloy in "Hello, Dolly!" even exist. It says a lot about the migration of skilled young women and their capital to the States already beginning with the end of the 19th century.
Those female Pilots stories should be made into a movie. This is a incredible story.
Yeah, but...they were the enemy. A good writer might be able to make it work
Doing a movie celebrating female nazi's? In this woke age where ANYTHING to the right of Stalin gets attacked as extreme right wing Hitler stuff? In what parallel unwoke universe would you have to be before Hollywood would greenlight that? Please tell me what you're smoking so I could get some.
@@thejudgmentalcat They'd have to do the utmost mental gymnastics to paint these women as poor misguided creatures, victims of the uber male patriarchy. So your basic Hollywoke movie, which is boring as fuck. And considering Amazon's recent equity rules 30% of them would have to be women of color, trans and lgbtq somethings. 50% if it were made in 2024.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Did you see "Jojo Rabbit"?
@@thejudgmentalcat No, I tend to steer away from modern day cinema. It's been my policy for a while now to not give money to people that hate me.
Mister Felton, you surprised me again. Beate ushe, the name rang a bell but, then you showed the adult shop, I had a true "oh my god" moment. Thank you for that!!!
Dr Felton to you sir ;)
1.33 million subscribers! Im genuinely so happy for you, and the 1.33 million other people who will learn and be entertained so much. Thank you for all of your videos and books
From being one of the few female Luftwaffe pilots to a successful sex shop millionaire. Now that is an unexpected turn of events.
Edit: Thanks a lot for the likes!
I was more surprised to learn that she knew how to fly a plane decades before learning to drive.
She's all about the adrenaline.....
It has always been about breaking the "laws" of society
Der Fuhrer would not have been happy with that.
@@raedwulf61 Der Fuhrer had issues...
Interesting fact: Mark's most memorable works will often feature German woman in Nazi uniform but this is the first that discusses sex shops.
That being said, I really like how Mark says 'sniiippurs'.
Тhere is a wonderful, little-studied topic for next Mark study - Heiligenbeil Kessel (März 1945), where 4th Wehrmacht Army was destroyed on steep Frisches Haff coast near Order Castle Balga. Many terrible events took place in Heiligenbeil Kessel , which history hides. But would Mark want to try to lift curtain on that terrible tragedy?
@kickingmustang: SNIIIPPUR!!! .....so that means you.....now you get greeted everytime like that! ;-) How about Airsoft right now? Here many Field´s went bancrupt because of Covid...
@@Wuestenkarsten
Mr. Felton makes so many videos about the Third Reich, but he is so awful in pronouncing German names. Like Beate Uhse her first name are two syllables Be-ate and her last names U is spoken like the u in usual.
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I can forgive him for his non-native pronunciation due to the sheer quality of the content he produces.
He clearly works incredibly hard on the provenance of the subjects he covers and explains the narrative in such a way it pleases both laypersons' and those with qualifications in History alike.
Unfortunately this platform is full of lazy "historians" (whom are nothing more than clickbait "RUclipsrs" with a degree, or have watched a lot of History Channel television) Dr Felton, alongside Toby from Epic History TV, are standouts thanks to the superior quality of their content.
@@residentelect Honestly, his pronunciation of Be-ate Uhse was beyond recognition for a German native speaker. I do understand that most foreigners have a problem with ä ö ü pronunciation, but in this case he pronounced Uhse like Ühse.
Mark Felton never ceases to amaze me with his stories even if I am on a deep dive of ancient Rome at the moment and possibly making it my career specialty it is good to know that the WW2 field continues to be in the best of hands.
Very cool. My GF and I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Neither of us, for all our education, knew that any German women, let alone women at all, flew for any reason during WWII. Thanks for producing this work!
Mark Felton never ceases to amaze me. I've heard of Hanna Reitsch and her many heroic exploits were legendary stuff. But I've never heard of Beate Uhse till now. Great job Dr Felton!!
Wow Mark. I was reading about this earlier what a day
bro he was looking over your shoulder
Funny, yesterday I watched a video interview of Hanna Reitsch. She was the first helicopter test pilot before the end of WW2.
mark felton, thank you for posting these videos for free. It is always interesting to learn about history and especially unknown history like in this video !
NIce, a minute ago, Please make more of these videos mark felton Please make more! It is so acurate and fun :)
All I have to say Mark, is that your channel just gets better every day. You are the best historian on WW2 I have come across. The stuff you find is amazing and teaches me stuff I never knew, and I thought I had a reasonable grasp, yet you keep astounding me. Another great story. Cheers from Australia.
Another fine Mark Felton Production.
"She discovered to her horror, the Arado was destroyed. Searching around for a way to get out of Berlin she ran into a Luftwaffe Air mechanic she know who told her about a Seibel EH-104..."
Anybody else think there's a movie in here somewhere? Lesson: Don't underestimate what a Mom will do for her child!
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Me: Uhse sounds like a badass, I bet she had an extraordinary career in the new Luftwaffe
Mark: She opened a successful chain of sex shops, becoming a millionaire
Me: 👁️👄👁️
the business is already bankrupt no sucess here
Make Love, Not War!
@@mkoschier All businesses go bankrupt or close down one day or another. The profit it made when it was still alive and kicking decides whether it was successful or not.
@@mkoschier 16 years after she died...
@@mkoschier it seems Uhse passed away before internet changed the business. It was a success for as long as she lived
Amazing, another excellent video- thankyou Mark!
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MARK Felton is my best source of WW2 info since the Time Life Ww2 cards I used to get as a kid in the 70s.
Thank you Mark Felton for your awesome videos. Your efforts to report and record true history are appreciated. I plan to watch more and order your books. You a pioneer in the preservation of WWII history. As a former educator of history, your videos are superb and avoid politicizing history and presenting events as they happened. Bless you for your efforts.
Well, the end of Beate Uhse's story was totally unexpected
As a german, as soon as I heard her name, I nearly choked on my coffee ...
For me the start was surprising, didn’t understand that he was talking about Beate Uhse lol.
That 20 seconds at 7:33.....changed the whole story......she was like a loose Eva Gabor, daredevil, a German female Hugh Hefner....for twenty years.
You mean learning to drive at 70+? Ha ha.
@@donmoore7785 (they say she drove around, like crazy.....just never bothered to get a license, she took the test to avoid legal action in an attempt to keep her off the road)
Incredible video. Thank you Dr.Felton for helping me realize the truth is never in black or white but in many shades of grey.
Damn, I didn't know that the sex shop chain founder used to be a pilot in the war. What a life!
Then there was the famous nazi prison interrogator who went on to create mosaics for Walt Disney at Disney World. Check out " Hanns-Joachim Scharff"
Same for me, I didn't know about her first career
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And to NASA greatest scientist like Von Braun
she must have released quite a few bombshell videos after the war.
I am so impressed how Mark keeps finding these fascinating stories. This one could make a great movie.
Loved this episode. Was like a mini movie; very interesting and hope to see many more episodes presented in this manner, Mark.
I am flabbergasted by the quality of Dr. Felton’s content. It’s incredible. Bravo 👏
Wonderful. She's very attractive. My late Aunt was a Fluko-Luftwaffe office secretary in Essen, Germany. My late Uncle was also in the same department as a truck driver; that is how they met and, later married. My Cousin, their first Son, was born in Salzburgerland, Austria. My Dear Mother worked in a cafeteria in Hallein, Austria, in the mountain-based factory area where my Mom told me that the V3 missed were built. You probably know the famous German, the late Dr. Wernher von Braun, inventor and manufacturer of the V3 and other missile products; he past away in 1977, in Huntsville, AL, United States; he was also a loyal engineer of the US in NASA's space programs, and Editor of POPULAR SCIENCE periodical. My Ancestor is Dr. Willy Messerschmitt, who later became fighter aircraft designer in 1955, in Washington, DC, USA; he passed away in 1978 after a heart ailment surgery in a heart hospital in Munich in 1978. All of the above people are good natured people; my Mother and I paid respects to all the Luftwaffe pilots whom my Mother knew as school classmates, and loyal friends, were all lost while during their air duty. We are saddened that these fine young men were fond, loyal, liked and respected by my Dear Mother -
Wow!!!
So many WW2 documentaries get churned out but you never hear about stuff like this.
My second time thru, I’ve learned that, at least I, need 2 or 3 views to get everything out of your presentations. Newly diagnosed with cancer I need to keep my mind occupied with other things and your videos are just what the doc ordered (pun intended). I’m glad you stay true to history and don’t blur images you include. I think content reporters who use blurry images are too lazy to look for appropriate images, use what you must to tell the story truthfully and accurately. Kudos sir.
I have met Beate Uhse and her son. She gave a lecture on her business at HSG, my University in Switzerland in 1989 or 1990. Impressive women, driven, focused and business savvy. One thing that stroke me, how she read the needs of society and had her business evolving in a successful way over time.
Beste Uhse was famous even to us kids in primary school and yet we never knew about her time as a pilot.
Who needs The History Channel when Mark Felton has your back.
What’s wrong with the History channel?
Uhse’s rescuing of her son and escape from Berlin would make a hell of a movie
@Wayne Smith It's called history pal. You wanna pretend it just didn't happen? Not saying you have to like it, but it is what it is. People wanna see war movies now where Nazis aren't mentioned because they were the worst of the worst. Except they actually existed. It is what it is man.
@Wayne Smith jesus. History with all her horrors are oke, but a old skool sexshop is not cool?
@Wayne Smith You're a freak, dude. Get over it...
@Wayne Smith You are right. I spent 3 hours checking out the shop's website and it's awful and terrible. I went back for another hour just to confirm and you are definitely correct.
@@douglasharre7156 nice
That was superb Mark 👍
Crazy. That's the kind of stories i could listen to for hours.
Beate Uhse was (and still is) an absolute legend here in Germany ... not so much for her being a pilot but for her post war business.
Her post war business? How sad for Germans to be like that now!
@@justdoit6928 Times change.
@@thomas_jay so running sex shops over being a hero is more valued?
@@justdoit6928 Yes. Germany was thoroughly pacified by the allies.
I imagine the information and products she made available to German women about sexual health and pregnancy prevention was more valuable to the country than any wartime efforts.
I met a women in the Luftwaffe. Her name was Betty Hass. She was captured by the 'Ivans' and walked home from Russian in 1948 to discover her home town Dresden destroyed.
How sad!!
You never cease to amaze with these little vignettes! Thanks!
Thank you again Mark, amazing histories...love your presentations!
Beate = "Bay-Ah-Tah"
As always, another great video by Mark
Beate Uhse was an extreme cool and brace woman I must say. What surprises me is how relatively easy it still was to get in and out of Berlin, even when the soviets had reached the eastern part of Mitte and had begun circling Berlin.
She would have made an excellent astronaut today.
I can't believe it: Switzerland has a bunch of these shops and since they sell sex gear, I figured the name "Beate Uhse" was a wordplay on "Beat Us", a reference to sadomasochism.
It's an amazing story.
Its real ... she opened the first sexshop in the world and even though she died 2001 in St. Gallen her company had around 1500 employees last year.
Same in Germany, i was pretty surprised after hearing that name 😂
Understandable that someone so fearless would be fearless enough to put her real name on the erotic boutiques.
Well there is another word play because the german word for breasts is Buse or Busen and the name would be spoken as Be-a-te Uh-se. If my way of writing how to say that failed im sorry but it aint easy, but it should get clear on google translate.
Thank you so much for all your wonderful and unique war stories.
Always enjoyable to listen and watch. Great production quality, narration abs documentation of subtleties.
Those 262's still give me a chill.
7:36 "... and incredibly only learned to drive at the age of 75." You misunderstood something here. She made her diver certification at the age of 75.
i was wondering why her name sounded familiar. I grew up in Germany in the 90's and her brand was well known amongst teenage boys, haha.
Mark Felton never ceases to amaze. I learn more here than from my bookshelves of WWII history books and my history minor in college lol
Gatow is quite far from central Berlin. There is a very interesting museum there now, with a large number of Luftwaffe aircraft.
Congratulations on the video Mark, I am a Brazilian who appreciates the history of WWII and I really appreciate your work. I recently finished reading the book The Pilot of Hitler, biography of Hans Baur. I was very interested in the trip Hans made to South Africa in 1938 to deliver a Junkers Ju 52/3m to that country. It is said that Baur filmed the trip with a 16 mm camcorder that was filming in color. But I couldn't find more details of this epic journey, nor this movie anywhere on the internet. Do you have any knowledge about this trip and if this movie still exists? In time, forgive me for the bad English
Your English is better than many native English speakers.
A color camcorder in 1938, not bad going.
So strange that I go all of high school hating learning about this stuff but as soon as I found this guy right after I graduate I’m obsessed with ww2 lol
My Mother's best friend drove tanks during the war.
She was awesome!
astonishing: I love the personal details: you Mark, make history come alive with this fine attention to detail and human stories: once again: well done: great yarn!
Just brilliant. Thank you Mark. This story would make a great film.
Very nice again! One tip: Beate is pronounced as “bea”-“ah”-“te”
bay at ta.
Also the last name is pronounced Uh-se, like in unheard. There is no Umlaut.
@@murrayterry834 no, Be -aaa-te.
@@More_Row heard it pronounced that way too.
Was much worse to hear "Üüse". Okay, maybe Saxons and Anglo-Saxons do be near relatives *. . .*
I like how she figured out how to fly that plane as it was fueling. Total pro.
I'm glad that she survived the carnage to save her child not all Germans were fiends and it is good that all turned out ok for her , to only learn to drive at 81 well believe it or not I have heard this before with other pilots but what a incredible lady , a part of a generation who new what the job was and got on with it wow she even flew the Sitka I believe they were a slow difficult plane to fly , but excellent dive bombers cheers we watch all you videos mark ,
Dude u make the very best WWII videos ever I swear
Dr Felton is always full of surprises. He ventures where others don't. Intriguing!
The sex shop thing caught me completely by surprise lol! Fact is stranger than fiction!