... which was originally "nicked by the Germans"... from someone else. The end of WWII saw both US and Russia as competing to get the top German engineers, financial valuables, art, artefacts and technology.
Better to have valuable historical items "nicked by the Russians" and stored safely in Lubyanka basement in Moscow than to have these valuable items destroyed by fire and explosions when they are bombed into rubble by the American Army Air Force and the British Royal Air Force. And anything the Americans didn't destroy with aerial bombings was probably auctioned off on ebay and then lost forever in someone's garage!
@@flak509 Well in fairness... the E100 prototype wasn't even a complete vehicle :P . That; and we have the only fully operable, intact and original Tiger I in the world :D .
@@jimtaylor294 Thank you for your post. I did not know that U.K. (Great Britain) still had a functioning Tiger tank. I think it was a mistake when it was either the Czechoslovakian government or the Soviet Union government that sold off many of the surviving Tiger tanks to the Syrian government where the Syrian government lost them in combat during the Arab-Israeli Wars [ correction: I think that the German tanks in the Syria military were actually Stugs and Panzer IV's and not Tiger or Panther tanks? ]
And it’s these often overlooked, but highly entertaining factoids of WWII that keep me coming back to your channel, Mr Felton!! Another excellent video, sir : )
Factoid: a brief or trivial item of news or information. An assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact. I think you meant to say "fact."
Yet another piece of history that has been ignored by many except you Dr. Felton. And Charlie Chaplin was the first I thought off when I saw the title of this video. Thanks again!
Other historians didn't so much ignore this, it is simply irrelevant to the larger historical understanding of WW2 or even Hitler as a person. Of course, stories like this are intriguing to us and reveal a lot of compelling second hand facts but for most historians (that do not cater to a TH-cam audience) they are not the focus of their research. I don't mean this in a judgemental way at all, I absolutely love Mark's videos, the topics he covers and his enthousiasm for history. I just wanted to point to the fact, that history as an academic discipline has moved away from the certainly fascinating yet less 'revealing' stories of the lives of certain people and the stories of singular artefacts. Because most historians believe that deeper historical knowledge comes from analyzing long-term sociopolitical and cultural processes. Those, of course, make for less captivating videos.
@@DSBGangmember001 micro history and psychological understanding of figures is just as important as macro history and sociology . Felton covers both with more accuracy than the average historian. What difference would it make of Dr Felton made a historical book called what happened to hitlers globe as opposed to a historical youtube video. The audiences are virtually the same.
I had a good laugh at your disclaimer at the beginning of the video. But I tend to agree with your deduction of the globe's whereabouts. It makes sense that something like that would be a significant trophy for any of the Allied powers.
Carl, with respect, we cannot agree, we do not know the truth. This is fabrication, it is a good lead, but the lead goes cold. We may as well assume that it was not Hitler in the Fuhrer bunker in April '45 but his lookalike and the Globe went to Argentina on a U boat, to accompany it's leader, that makes more sense than anything else.
Bingo. I was hoping for a comment regarding this.. I find it very hard to believe a globe could be as heavy as a car, or am I missing something. A VW in the time would still weigh a ton would it not?. That would mean the globe would have to be a huge wooden structure.
The Globe is presently being used by the Globalists that Hitler and his soldiers fought against to decide where to unleash their strategy to seize control of everything and everyone next.
@@timturple7880 Patton warned of just this fate. As it turns out, contrary to popular myths about "making the world safe for [insert political buzzword]", the result has been to make the world safe for socialism. Regardless of the intentions, which at the highest levels align with the outcome, the world has collapsed into Leftism over the course of the last century. The number of human casualties, the diminution of human rights, and the meteoric rise in the national debt of the world's superpowers tell the tale.
Another amazing bit of research. I would never have cared about Hitler’s globe but the way you tell the story I was riveted and ended up learning about another wrinkle in WWII
Ever since I was a kid I had always had a fascination with globes!! I used to admire Hitler’s big globes that he had in his office and NEVER in a million years would I have guessed that someone would have made a documentary about Hitler’s globes! Thanks! I now have three globes of various sizes plus globe pictures in my office. I guess I like globes/maps.
this is why i love your videos Mark, gives me the feeling i have a private Oxford history class and a first class seat to historical discoveries which is probably exactly what it is anyway
Dr. Felton, your intro music has started to make my brain send off the same signals as the intro music from WWII in Color, which is a series I dearly love. Continue your great work; the tiny (or maybe not so tiny in this case) bits of history are always so interesting to learn about.
@@L_Train I take it your comment comes from anger from being a right winger. In the episode “Liberation of Buchenwald”, near the end for just about 20 seconds it mentions the fact that Republican Senator Joe McCarthy withheld 36,000 documents of Nazi war crimes from the UN during the Nuremberg Trials. Is that it? Are you mad the RNC did this? Or are you mad the DNC didn’t?
The only TH-cam channel that I can confidently recommend to someone to watch if I want to support my answer in a discussion about ww2. Regards from Pakistan.
What are the chances of someone taking that photo of the two German Kids sat playing on that broken Globe? Great piece of research in finding it Mark and sharing this iconic photo with us here.
No matter who might have that globe, it warms my heart to hear that it might have survived! These sort of objects are very valuable historically and it breaks my heart whenever I learn that rare and special made things like that are lost or destroyed. Let's hope that someday it will be available for display so that the public can enjoy viewing it.
If only one can locate the Blood Flag, there is a secret code stitched in the lining that directs you to the geo-coordinates of the Globe. Once you find the globe, say the magic word "Edelweiss" and the globe will open along the Prime Meridian, revealing an astral door that will take you into another plane of existence where Blondi will greet you and lead you to the Maus production factory located in the suburbs or Moscow where Dr. Felton's avatar will show you where Stalin's cryogenically-preserved head is on display........
"When historians inquired with the FSB, officials neither confirmed nor denied the story, but they did mention something about nerve gas and too many questions."
@@gamerxt333 Because in the Russian military and intelligence agencies, the Cold War literally never ended. They changed nothing, not even the personnel, and least of all the attitudes. First request gets you silence, second gets you "Nyet", and the third gets you beaten and thrown in a cell under suspicion of espionage. I am not being hyperbolic in the slightest.
When you post new videos, it’s pretty cool how quick the Comments role in, they’re lots fun to read…you definitely have some good and faithful followers!! You’re a great historian, and your TH-cam channel is the best. Thanks Mark
I never knew I could be so fascinated by a globe. But now I join the others wanting to know its location. You have fed my desire to know more. Thank you , a great video.
The History Guy is great too....he's more low budget, but really brings awesome stories from mostly forgotten history. He runs it out of his house. An American bloke
Dr felton... I live very close to where rudolph hess landed in a small village called waterfoot South of glasgow..... There's so much that needs to be told about that story..... I also have a small piece of the daimler benz engine from his messerschmitt.
Your work is always amazing, bringing out so many fascinating historical details and mysteries! Thank you for showing us all these and feeding our hunger for history!
Just awesome. You really unwind the second world war into small - and sometimes almost lovely - bits and pieces and, by doing so, show how complex that entire era was. Thanks for another fantastic video!
I happened to buy a very large old globe in a second hand market in East London . Intrigued by video , i gave it a good look . On the wooden base is an inscribed piece of metal that reads ...If This Globe Should Care to Roam , Box Its Ears And Send It Home , Signed Dolfy ... Hmmm , i wonder ...
I go along with your theory that Hitler's globe is now in Russia. If so, they might as well admit that they have it and put it on display in a museum. I just wonder how Beria could have ended up with it, because I think Stalin would have wanted it for his own office. Maybe it was a reward for loyal service or a present of sorts. Or the sneaky Beria just didn't tell him!
Actually lost myself laughing when you had to clarify it wasn't about his testicle. Truely a fantastic historian and one of the best channels on youtube.
I find myself looking forward to and anticipating Dr. Feltons new releases. That means it's time to start supporting. Pay pal and patreon you say? On my way.
Dr Felton's final comment about Hitler's Globe joining the Blutfhane and the Amber Room as something people are still searching for even today set my creative core going in odd directions (as often happens) and now I have a story concept in mind about a relic hunter succeeding in bringing together Hitler's Globe, his ashes, the Blutfhane, and also the piece of stone shaped like a hand (hence dubbed the Hand of Wotan) kept Hitler's desk at either the Obersalzberg or the Wolfsschanze, only to realise too late what he's unleashed... That makes at least three story Ideas I owe you, Dr Felton. Credit will be given!
I can just hear Rick: “It’s heavy, I gotta find the right buyer, you know I have to make it a profit too on this, and I worry that it’s not in mint condition.” Best I can do is some pocket lint and a date with my sister.
Even in school they didn't teach us about interesting things in history... History is not just class and grade it's more than that and history is very interesting. :D
These are great videos indeed but the constant comparing to school is somewhat tiresome. Military history is just one part of the curriculum. Sad fact for students who love everything and anything regarding guns, tanks and Hitler.
An indie TH-cam explorer found the Amber Room and filmed its first unwrapping since WW2. Then he re-wrapped it and left it the way he found it. Which is wise because dangerous people know where the Amber Room is stashed. Hitler can't do much about a whole government making off with his globe but if some random guy stole the Amber Room he'd go missing 411.
What an amazing short documentary the research that Mark puts in is truly amazing. Thanks Mark for this and every other documentary I watch them all absolutely facenating a real insight into WW2 👍
The globe at the Bergof in the Great Hall was actually a similar if not the exact same size as the one this video is of. In Christa Schroeder's book there is a photo of her standing next to it.
It was presented to Stalin together with other relics. The authenticity was confirmed by finding the pen line markinv the demarcation zone between Germany and Russia. This information is in the memoirs of a Polit Bureau member.
@EyewatchlessYTeach Timetheylockmeout Actually the Hitler bones were jumbled with other bones in an ammo crate. It could be Eva Braun or an unknown woman who died at the bunker.
@EyewatchlessYTeach Timetheylockmeout The present day fragments are just that -fragments. We don't know exactly how the suicides were comited and what exactly was picked out from the ultimately jumbled remains. Heat would have fragmented any whole skulls before defleshing took place. Hitler's remains were undoubtedly there, going from the autopsy protocols, but beyond that -who knows.
@@turkey0165 I think he might have actually. I remember he did a video on the two pistols found in the bunker, maybe he didn't do a video on the .32 specifically but I think he mentioned it was likely taken by a soviet soldier.
Thank you, Dr Felton, this is really interesting! If the globe exists, most likely it"s here, in Russia, but, may be, not in that building. After the collapse of the Soviet Union many valuable things and objects became private (suddenly). It's in case, if the globe was in the KGB headquaters at the time.
Hey Mark, great video. Have you ever done a video about Hitler's record collection? This is also a fascinating story that only recently came to light a couple of years ago. Hitler's extensive classical record collection, contained in special leather-bound volumes, was with him in the Berlin bunker in 1945. It was seized by Marshall Zhukov, who took it back to Moscow. It remained secretly in the possession of the Zhukov family until they finally announced they had it, and I believe was put up for auction.
I recall going to an old restaurant in the Catskills that also served as an antique shop. I like looking at old globes. I remember seeing one that must've been from the war since Germany looked a lot bigger than it normally should.
@nig a Greta Garbo was a double agent? I must admit that I wasn't even aware of this in spite the fact that I'm a massive fan of Classic Hollywood. That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. She very much kept to herself and never held down a relationship (indeed she slept with both men and women including the likes of Louise Brooks), but she was never ever in a stable relationship.
An episode on the Kyūjō incident may be interesting. It was a coup attempt during the final days of the war in the Pacific by members of the Japanese ministry of defense. They attempted to storm the Emperor's palace and physically prevent the record on which his surrender speech was recorded from being broadcast.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on the Amber Room. Saw photos at an amber exhibit in NYC back in the early '90s and read about it, but you're much more conversant on the topic, I'm sure. Thanks.
How Dr Felton continues to crank out amazing story after amazing story, without having a huge army of researchers under his command, is a constant source of wonder! Now he's brought it up though, when do we get a video on Hitlers missing testicle?
Never tought about this object of intrest and was not aware how huge and heavy it is. I have a tiny correction though: The Campbell Barracks where not given to the Bavarian Government, obviously since Heidelberg is in Baden-Württemberg, but where instead sold to the "Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben" to start a conversion process for the barracks and other areas and facilities to be turned into residential buildings and preserve some as landmarks.
@Kevin A it goes so much deep though, after the war many of these high lvl nazi occultist were brought over to America & were part of many major agencies, CIA & NASA for example.....lets just say there was good reason JFK wanted to abolish the CIA into a million pieces
This channel is better than most when it comes to telling history more accurately. If this same video was made by another “historian” more then likely the entire video would have been something along the lines of, “Hitler bad. His globe was big because he was overcompensating. In his evil bloodlust rage...” you get the point.
Stalin found out that Beria hid the globe from him and ordered him arrested and killed, but died shortly after that of a stroke, when he saw that Beria had drawn stick men and other doodles all over the globe.
Chaplin was born the same year as Adolf in 1889, actually 4 days before, and therefore said knew him without even meeting him in person. Chaplin believed in some sort of sociological tie between the both of them.
During de-Stalinization Beria was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder, rape, and of course counter-revolution (can't have a Soviet trial without that) so I think they would have moved any artefacts he might have had in possession to somewhere else.
@@arctic_haze Yeah I imagine either sold to some oligarch they display in their secret mansion or hidden by the KGB not wanting their trophy of the worst war in their history to be lost.
If in Moscow, it is interesting that the Russians would keep this quiet for so long. I can see anyone from a janitor all the way up to the top of the KGB letting it slip that a huge globe is sitting in that building. No one can keep their mouth shut for that long. Of course, if it is there, it would have to be authenticated. Something that might be difficult. This makes me wonder, if in fact, it is there at all. If I were to stumble upon it in some antique store, I'd think it was just a globe. Kind of difficult to move if it weighed as much as a VW Bug.
It is like all the people that believe that 9/11 was a US government plan. Just how many could be involved in something so huge without something coming out. Complete and utter rubbish.
I think that anyone who saw it would think nothing of it, not even thinking that it may have been owned by Hitler previously. But anyone who worked at the KGB, even the cleaners, would have it driven home not to say a word about anything in that building; the threat of being sent to Siberia, or death, being very real.
@@cactuslietuva True, i collect russian oligarchs, and when i acquire them i have to get rid of all their accumulated bric-a-brac. They complain a lot so i let them keep a faberge egg or two to keep the noise from bothering my guests.
Stalin would've looked at that globe each day, ruminating over what its previous owner might've thought when _he_ looked at it. Malenkov wasn't there long enough to get to know it and subsequently desire it. Khrushchev would've considered it his globe, but then Brezhnev coveted it. Finally, Andropov would've decided it really _was_ his, and probably kept it when he left. Being the former head of the KGB, he had the means of removing it without anyone else being the wiser - there one evening, gone the next morning ... Chernenko wasn't there long enough to wonder about the bare spot in the room - the carpet would've been different in that corner - and Gorbachev wasn't the type to want a globe. Putin probably watched this video, hoping Mark might provide clues of its whereabouts after Yuri absconded with it.
haha, was searching for a comment like this! You must be a child of the late 60's early 70's ? "Hitler, he's only got one ball - the other's in the Albert Hall" :)
More nugget gems of historical knowledge that are pure catnip for everyone! It's time that Dr. Mark became Sir Mark for services to historical research and education!!!
He loved that globe, it meant the world to him.
Oh boy...
Groan.
Very Good.
What on earth are you thinking?
Indeed.
"This is not a video about the Führer's missing testicle."
Good Disclaimer by Mark Felton
Next video:
"HITLER'S MISSING TESTICLE".
@@raypurchase801 #comedygold
It’s not missing, we all know it’s in The Albert Hall.
He vas shtill bitter hoff zen Gobbels
@@raypurchase801 we find out how it fled to Argentina
I'll go for the standard answer for anything sitting in Berlin in 1945, which is "Nicked by the Russians."
Beats the alternative "Scrapped by the British" 😆
... which was originally "nicked by the Germans"... from someone else. The end of WWII saw both US and Russia as competing to get the top German engineers, financial valuables, art, artefacts and technology.
Better to have valuable historical items "nicked by the Russians" and stored safely in Lubyanka basement in Moscow than to have these valuable items destroyed by fire and explosions when they are bombed into rubble by the American Army Air Force and the British Royal Air Force. And anything the Americans didn't destroy with aerial bombings was probably auctioned off on ebay and then lost forever in someone's garage!
@@flak509 Well in fairness... the E100 prototype wasn't even a complete vehicle :P .
That; and we have the only fully operable, intact and original Tiger I in the world :D .
@@jimtaylor294 Thank you for your post. I did not know that U.K. (Great Britain) still had a functioning Tiger tank. I think it was a mistake when it was either the Czechoslovakian government or the Soviet Union government that sold off many of the surviving Tiger tanks to the Syrian government where the Syrian government lost them in combat during the Arab-Israeli Wars [ correction: I think that the German tanks in the Syria military were actually Stugs and Panzer IV's and not Tiger or Panther tanks? ]
wow, finding the photo of the boys sitting on a globe, and actually recognizing it as such, is impressive!
And it’s these often overlooked, but highly entertaining factoids of WWII that keep me coming back to your channel, Mr Felton!! Another excellent video, sir : )
I suspect you mean fact, rather than factoid. ;)
Factoid: a brief or trivial item of news or information. An assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.
I think you meant to say "fact."
😊
Yet another piece of history that has been ignored by many except you Dr. Felton. And Charlie Chaplin was the first I thought off when I saw the title of this video. Thanks again!
He got his information from somewhere...
Other historians didn't so much ignore this, it is simply irrelevant to the larger historical understanding of WW2 or even Hitler as a person.
Of course, stories like this are intriguing to us and reveal a lot of compelling second hand facts but for most historians (that do not cater to a TH-cam audience) they are not the focus of their research.
I don't mean this in a judgemental way at all, I absolutely love Mark's videos, the topics he covers and his enthousiasm for history. I just wanted to point to the fact, that history as an academic discipline has moved away from the certainly fascinating yet less 'revealing' stories of the lives of certain people and the stories of singular artefacts. Because most historians believe that deeper historical knowledge comes from analyzing long-term sociopolitical and cultural processes. Those, of course, make for less captivating videos.
Oh…the commie Charlie Chaplin !
@@DSBGangmember001 micro history and psychological understanding of figures is just as important as macro history and sociology . Felton covers both with more accuracy than the average historian.
What difference would it make of Dr Felton made a historical book called what happened to hitlers globe as opposed to a historical youtube video. The audiences are virtually the same.
@@haroldkreye8770 Commie? That's no big deal compared to Chaplin being a pedo.
I had a good laugh at your disclaimer at the beginning of the video. But I tend to agree with your deduction of the globe's whereabouts. It makes sense that something like that would be a significant trophy for any of the Allied powers.
I want to know about the missing nut
@@inconspicuoususer6908 🤣🤣
I want to know if mark felton contributes to the poppy appeal etc since he recycles those heros war for his back pocket with youtube and patreon
Carl, with respect, we cannot agree, we do not know the truth.
This is fabrication, it is a good lead, but the lead goes cold.
We may as well assume that it was not Hitler in the Fuhrer bunker in April '45 but his lookalike and the Globe went to Argentina on a U boat, to accompany it's leader, that makes more sense than anything else.
@@mrkolasa. what
I love your German weight reference of "THE" globe as being as heavy as a Volkswagen.
Nice touch and nice video, as usual !
Bingo. I was hoping for a comment regarding this.. I find it very hard to believe a globe could be as heavy as a car, or am I missing something. A VW in the time would still weigh a ton would it not?. That would mean the globe would have to be a huge wooden structure.
@@ant7699 It would weigh that much if carved out of marble or granite.
@@ant7699 2300 pounds.
@@Pamudder thanks, I was curious why so heavy. I was thinking brass or some other dense metal.
"This is not a video about the Führer's missing testicle."
Now I want to see a video about that
It was confiscated by his father until Hitler became 'man enough'. Alas, it was buried along with his father.
Funny how so many leaders that have opposed Brits throughout the ages seem to be missing a ball. Hell of a coincidence.
Yeah I agree I want to see a video about his missing testicle. Never heard of that about him.
How many museums claim to hold it?
I think it's just a myth
You could have said it directly too: “I believe that it’s in Putin’s offices now”
Or in the palace on the black sea which he denies owning
First Crimea then Ukraine, next those tiny Baltic gardens….
You're one of the greatest historians ever watched
I agree 👍
I got a question for you you recommend any books of yours
The REAL "history channel"
The globe is in Mark's study helping to map out future episodes in history
"Nein Nein Nein !!" -Hitler
As it should be.
The Globe is presently being used by the Globalists that Hitler and his soldiers fought against to decide where to unleash their strategy to seize control of everything and everyone next.
@@timturple7880 You mean it's in Zuckerbergs office?
@@timturple7880 Patton warned of just this fate. As it turns out, contrary to popular myths about "making the world safe for [insert political buzzword]", the result has been to make the world safe for socialism. Regardless of the intentions, which at the highest levels align with the outcome, the world has collapsed into Leftism over the course of the last century. The number of human casualties, the diminution of human rights, and the meteoric rise in the national debt of the world's superpowers tell the tale.
Absolutely mesmerized by your recording of obscure lesser known history and videos on historical artifacts. Thanks for sharing your passions.
You know it's going to be an epic historical talk when this music starts: 0:01
Mark Feltons shows are provocative and brilliant always. I never refuse watching.
I would've never thought about it critically if it wasn't for you Dr Felton! Thank you. ❤️
There has been so many videos recently, it definitely makes lockdown much easier. Thank you Dr Felton.
Lockdown? I’m
In Florida.
I have friends in Brunei who have a curfew 8pm-4am as well as lockdown
@@cdybft9050 Me too. Love my Florida.
@@archstanton6102 so why is there a curfew
@@mattclements1348 Probably the Sultan wants to make sure no one gets rebellious ideas during the present crisis. He keeps a firm grip on things ...
Another amazing bit of research. I would never have cared about Hitler’s globe but the way you tell the story I was riveted and ended up learning about another wrinkle in WWII
One day a man with a slight accent will stand in line at Antiques Roadshow to see if it's worth anything.
Ever since I was a kid I had always had a fascination with globes!! I used to admire Hitler’s big globes that he had in his office and NEVER in a million years would I have guessed that someone would have made a documentary about Hitler’s globes! Thanks! I now have three globes of various sizes plus globe pictures in my office. I guess I like globes/maps.
There's a unique passion for everyone, fascinating video for sure.
Dude you're worse than Hitler. J/k
@@123canadagirl does it still mean the world to you?
I like dragons
i like turtles
this is why i love your videos Mark, gives me the feeling i have a private Oxford history class and a first class seat to historical discoveries which is probably exactly what it is anyway
Dr. Felton, your intro music has started to make my brain send off the same signals as the intro music from WWII in Color, which is a series I dearly love. Continue your great work; the tiny (or maybe not so tiny in this case) bits of history are always so interesting to learn about.
I liked his intro music better in Rudolf Hess Spandau video to be fair.
Weak minds are easily hypnotized
@@L_Train kinda ironic coming from a person that puts a like on his own comment, but its okay bro, nobody judges you…
@@L_Train I take it your comment comes from anger from being a right winger. In the episode “Liberation of Buchenwald”, near the end for just about 20 seconds it mentions the fact that Republican Senator Joe McCarthy withheld 36,000 documents of Nazi war crimes from the UN during the Nuremberg Trials. Is that it? Are you mad the RNC did this? Or are you mad the DNC didn’t?
The only TH-cam channel that I can confidently recommend to someone to watch if I want to support my answer in a discussion about ww2.
Regards from Pakistan.
Mark, you're great. You always have such good subjects. This is learning and fun at the same time.
What are the chances of someone taking that photo of the two German Kids sat playing on that broken Globe? Great piece of research in finding it Mark and sharing this iconic photo with us here.
No matter who might have that globe, it warms my heart to hear that it might have survived! These sort of objects are very valuable historically and it breaks my heart whenever I learn that rare and special made things like that are lost or destroyed. Let's hope that someday it will be available for display so that the public can enjoy viewing it.
Another banger, Mark,
Well done.
God, here we go . Wish he'd do fans only ...
@@billy4072 But testicles...
Also god is a meme
If only one can locate the Blood Flag, there is a secret code stitched in the lining that directs you to the geo-coordinates of the Globe. Once you find the globe, say the magic word "Edelweiss" and the globe will open along the Prime Meridian, revealing an astral door that will take you into another plane of existence where Blondi will greet you and lead you to the Maus production factory located in the suburbs or Moscow where Dr. Felton's avatar will show you where Stalin's cryogenically-preserved head is on display........
"When historians inquired with the FSB, officials neither confirmed nor denied the story, but they did mention something about nerve gas and too many questions."
Why is it an issue to say if it is or not ? Russians wouldnt like it if they knew they kept WW2 German artifacts or something ?
@@gamerxt333 Because in the Russian military and intelligence agencies, the Cold War literally never ended. They changed nothing, not even the personnel, and least of all the attitudes.
First request gets you silence, second gets you "Nyet", and the third gets you beaten and thrown in a cell under suspicion of espionage. I am not being hyperbolic in the slightest.
@@gastonbell108 Russia is a has been. I wish they'd realize that.
That's very on brand for the K̶G̶B̶ FSB
@@gastonbell108 Lol of course they changed the personnel, since tend to get old and die.
How is this guy not signed up to a major TV network? Bloody brilliant material and a great voice as if he was born to do this! Thank you Mark!
Because TV networks don't want people to educate themselves. They need you without education and ignorant.
When you post new videos, it’s pretty cool how quick the Comments role in, they’re lots fun to read…you definitely have some good and faithful followers!! You’re a great historian, and your TH-cam channel is the best. Thanks Mark
I never knew I could be so fascinated by a globe. But now I join the others wanting to know its location. You have fed my desire to know more. Thank you , a great video.
Thank you for all the free content you're giving us this is by far the best history content on youtube
The History Guy is great too....he's more low budget, but really brings awesome stories from mostly forgotten history. He runs it out of his house. An American bloke
Dr felton... I live very close to where rudolph hess landed in a small village called waterfoot South of glasgow..... There's so much that needs to be told about that story..... I also have a small piece of the daimler benz engine from his messerschmitt.
This amount of information you post regularly is fascinating. Thanks for uploading videos constantly and keeping me entertained.
You're welcome. I do my best.
Your videos are always so engaging and informative! Thanks for all your hard work and for sharing these!!!
Your work is always amazing, bringing out so many fascinating historical details and mysteries! Thank you for showing us all these and feeding our hunger for history!
One of life's most priceless treasures, a Mark Felton video.
When you mentioned SMERSH, I couldn't help but think of Bond, James Bond.
Just awesome. You really unwind the second world war into small - and sometimes almost lovely - bits and pieces and, by doing so, show how complex that entire era was. Thanks for another fantastic video!
I happened to buy a very large old globe in a second hand market in East London . Intrigued by video , i gave it a good look . On the wooden base is an inscribed piece of metal that reads ...If This Globe Should Care to Roam , Box Its Ears And Send It Home , Signed Dolfy ... Hmmm , i wonder ...
Found this dry Brit at exactly the right time. Cheers. You made my day.
Mark does it every time. A lovely nugget of history well researched. Have you done a piece on the blood flag?. That's new to me.
He sure has, would be around 6 or so months ago.
I go along with your theory that Hitler's globe is now in Russia. If so, they might as well admit that they have it and put it on display in a museum. I just wonder how Beria could have ended up with it, because I think Stalin would have wanted it for his own office. Maybe it was a reward for loyal service or a present of sorts. Or the sneaky Beria just didn't tell him!
Well, there’s always the problem of these relics becoming a nazi place of pilgrimage..
@@mats7492 Oh stuff it.
I think your last sentence tells it all. Beria hid the globe from Stalin.
@@mats7492 thats what the comments of every video on this channel has become
Probably owned by a rich oligarch who has absolutely no interest in selling it . Probably takes pride of place on a billion dollar boat 🚤
Actually lost myself laughing when you had to clarify it wasn't about his testicle. Truely a fantastic historian and one of the best channels on youtube.
You're a liar
The Columbus globe at the Munich museum with Germany shot up is a very good example of how things were in those times. Great video, by the way.
I find myself looking forward to and anticipating Dr. Feltons new releases. That means it's time to start supporting. Pay pal and patreon you say? On my way.
I miss the creative America that mocked dictators to their living faces, instead of toeing their party line for a piece of their market
If I did that, my big corporations would lose a lot of money from losing access to china.
Modern Americans hate themselves, they hate America and everyone around them.
@lati long Trivializing history needs to be done more often. its the only way people learn.
In case anyone wondered, the aforementioned missing testicle is held in the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington.
“Thanks, I hate it.”
I thought it was in an apple tree
I believe Himmler had something similar.
@@julianshepherd2038 And rumour has it that Goebbels had no balls at all
@Indigenous Advocate. You mean we scarpered while his panzers came down from their high.
Dr Felton's final comment about Hitler's Globe joining the Blutfhane and the Amber Room as something people are still searching for even today set my creative core going in odd directions (as often happens) and now I have a story concept in mind about a relic hunter succeeding in bringing together Hitler's Globe, his ashes, the Blutfhane, and also the piece of stone shaped like a hand (hence dubbed the Hand of Wotan) kept Hitler's desk at either the Obersalzberg or the Wolfsschanze, only to realise too late what he's unleashed...
That makes at least three story Ideas I owe you, Dr Felton. Credit will be given!
Still the most reliable and uncorrupted chanel. Thank you.
One of the few channels actually worth donating too. Thank you Mark!
Someone probably brought it into the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas and Rick offered them $50 for it.
$40 as Rick would tell them It will take up a lot of space in my shop ,and there is not much demand for this kind of thing!
Rick would only offer $30 for the globe, then turn around and sell it for $8000😀
I can just hear Rick: “It’s heavy, I gotta find the right buyer, you know I have to make it a profit too on this, and I worry that it’s not in mint condition.” Best I can do is some pocket lint and a date with my sister.
It's all a fictional show. There's nothing being sold there.
Even in school they didn't teach us about interesting things in history... History is not just class and grade it's more than that and history is very interesting. :D
That’s because the teachers don’t have time for small details.
Sadly, as it has been already said by others, “ those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it”. Look at current USA politics!!
These are great videos indeed but the constant comparing to school is somewhat tiresome. Military history is just one part of the curriculum. Sad fact for students who love everything and anything regarding guns, tanks and Hitler.
@@Sperminski because it's not grades there is more interesting stuff to learn beside the school. :)
@@andreaswiklund7197 my Bosnian grandfather and grand grandfather's were in Bosnia S S Handžar Division.
Thank you, sir. Brilliant, as usual.
The Amber Room. That would be a good episode, Mark!
An indie TH-cam explorer found the Amber Room and filmed its first unwrapping since WW2. Then he re-wrapped it and left it the way he found it. Which is wise because dangerous people know where the Amber Room is stashed. Hitler can't do much about a whole government making off with his globe but if some random guy stole the Amber Room he'd go missing 411.
I never miss a Mark Felton video they are all good. Thank you Mark!!!
Always a good day when one of Dr Felton's videos appears in my feed, thank you, Sir.
It's pretty much a certainly that the Soviets have it. There's no way Stalin or one of his henchmen would have passed it up as a trophy at the time.
It's in my basement, I turned it into a liquor cabinet.
Cheers from Canada
Prost from Germany
a lesbian cupboard?
What an amazing short documentary the research that Mark puts in is truly amazing. Thanks Mark for this and every other documentary I watch them all absolutely facenating a real insight into WW2 👍
Marks researches and topics are always top notch and stimulating interest and appetite for more and never saw a bad one amongst them.
The globe at the Bergof in the Great Hall was actually a similar if not the exact same size as the one this video is of. In Christa Schroeder's book there is a photo of her standing next to it.
I love all these obscure little tidbits you reward us with Dr. Felton, thank you!
I just read about this globe thing and low and behold Dr. Felton is a mind reader.
It was presented to Stalin together with other relics. The authenticity was confirmed by finding the pen line markinv the demarcation zone between Germany and Russia. This information is in the memoirs of a Polit Bureau member.
@EyewatchlessYTeach Timetheylockmeout No idea really.
@EyewatchlessYTeach Timetheylockmeout Actually the Hitler bones were jumbled with other bones in an ammo crate. It could be Eva Braun or an unknown woman who died at the bunker.
@EyewatchlessYTeach Timetheylockmeout The present day fragments are just that -fragments. We don't know exactly how the suicides were comited and what exactly was picked out from the ultimately jumbled remains. Heat would have fragmented any whole skulls before defleshing took place.
Hitler's remains were undoubtedly there, going from the autopsy protocols, but beyond that -who knows.
I really love the stories on the long lost or highly valuable relics and personal belongings of Hitler. They might be my favorite videos of yours!
I wish Dr. Felton would do a video of where Adolf Hitler‘s suicide Walther PPK .32 is also! Maybe the Russians have that also !
@@turkey0165 I think he might have actually. I remember he did a video on the two pistols found in the bunker, maybe he didn't do a video on the .32 specifically but I think he mentioned it was likely taken by a soviet soldier.
I always love it when mark Felton posts a new video!!
Excellent as always. Would love a “Felton’s Top 10 WWII unanswered mysteries” video!
Thank you, Dr Felton, this is really interesting! If the globe exists, most likely it"s here, in Russia, but, may be, not in that building. After the collapse of the Soviet Union many valuable things and objects became private (suddenly). It's in case, if the globe was in the KGB headquaters at the time.
Great video as always, thanks a lot. Small annotation: the German Historical Museum is actually located in Berlin, not Munich.
Hey Mark, great video. Have you ever done a video about Hitler's record collection? This is also a fascinating story that only recently came to light a couple of years ago. Hitler's extensive classical record collection, contained in special leather-bound volumes, was with him in the Berlin bunker in 1945. It was seized by Marshall Zhukov, who took it back to Moscow. It remained secretly in the possession of the Zhukov family until they finally announced they had it, and I believe was put up for auction.
this guy is more entertaining than any tv show or book. his knowledge and research blows my mind
What a great story. Always look forward to your new content!
I recall going to an old restaurant in the Catskills that also served as an antique shop. I like looking at old globes. I remember seeing one that must've been from the war since Germany looked a lot bigger than it normally should.
Please Mark, talk about Garbo, his story is extremely interesting, he did A LOT for the allies during WW2, and he would make for more than one video.
A Felton vid on Garbo is all we’re missing at this point.
Gretta Garbo did a lot for the boys. Do one on her great important asset.
Code named buro and giving information from travel guides. It was genius from someone who looked very unassuming.
Are you talking about the Swedish film actress Greta Garbo?
@nig a Greta Garbo was a double agent? I must admit that I wasn't even aware of this in spite the fact that I'm a massive fan of Classic Hollywood. That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. She very much kept to herself and never held down a relationship (indeed she slept with both men and women including the likes of Louise Brooks), but she was never ever in a stable relationship.
An episode on the Kyūjō incident may be interesting. It was a coup attempt during the final days of the war in the Pacific by members of the Japanese ministry of defense. They attempted to storm the Emperor's palace and physically prevent the record on which his surrender speech was recorded from being broadcast.
I love how Professor Felton brings us these forgotten bits of history!
Wow....all these amazing tidbits of history. Thanks as always for a great story!
I'd be interested in your thoughts on the Amber Room. Saw photos at an amber exhibit in NYC back in the early '90s and read about it, but you're much more conversant on the topic, I'm sure. Thanks.
Yeah he did that, look it up.
@@edwardschmitt5710 Thanks, Edward. Found it.
How Dr Felton continues to crank out amazing story after amazing story, without having a huge army of researchers under his command, is a constant source of wonder! Now he's brought it up though, when do we get a video on Hitlers missing testicle?
I like that last photo, the Russians are pointing at California. "We're going to Hollywood - You get Betty Grable, I get Greta Garbo..."
I really appreciate your incredible videos, they remind me of my dad’s World at War DVD collection.
This presentation is typical of your peerless scholarship, Dr. Felton. In my house your credibility soars, yet again. Thank you.
Never tought about this object of intrest and was not aware how huge and heavy it is. I have a tiny correction though: The Campbell Barracks where not given to the Bavarian Government, obviously since Heidelberg is in Baden-Württemberg, but where instead sold to the "Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben" to start a conversion process for the barracks and other areas and facilities to be turned into residential buildings and preserve some as landmarks.
Thanks for that correction. As a former student in Heidelberg i felt pain, when it was moved to Bavaria.
Dr. Felton, could you do a video on Himmler's obsession with the occult & how high ranking S.S. officers were also involved?
@Kevin A it goes so much deep though, after the war many of these high lvl nazi occultist were brought over to America & were part of many major agencies, CIA & NASA for example.....lets just say there was good reason JFK wanted to abolish the CIA into a million pieces
“It belongs in a museum”
-Indiana Jones
So that's what was really chasing him out of the temple in the beginning of _The Raiders Of The Lost Ark_ ...
Great research, as always. Mr. Felton passion for WWII is amazing and contagious!
Mark your videos on here are better than what’s on the discovery channel. Proper good stuff and well presented
I've heard an interesting rumour that it's currently located somewhere in the Albert Hall.
Now they know how many globes it takes to fill the Albert Hall...
@@johnathandavis3693 I can't say the next line as it would sound a bit weird. Incredible tune though.
@@eadweard. Yeah, that would be wierd, LOL...
This channel is better than most when it comes to telling history more accurately. If this same video was made by another “historian” more then likely the entire video would have been something along the lines of, “Hitler bad. His globe was big because he was overcompensating. In his evil bloodlust rage...” you get the point.
Stalin found out that Beria hid the globe from him and ordered him arrested and killed, but died shortly after that of a stroke, when he saw that Beria had drawn stick men and other doodles all over the globe.
Chaplin was born the same year as Adolf in 1889, actually 4 days before, and therefore said knew him without even meeting him in person. Chaplin believed in some sort of sociological tie between the both of them.
Lovely intro :) and a great episode on a small but intriquing historical detail and mystery!
During de-Stalinization Beria was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder, rape, and of course counter-revolution (can't have a Soviet trial without that) so I think they would have moved any artefacts he might have had in possession to somewhere else.
But if it was kept in hus office, it would be treated as property of the KGB. However it could be "privatized" in the 1990s.
@@arctic_haze Yeah I imagine either sold to some oligarch they display in their secret mansion or hidden by the KGB not wanting their trophy of the worst war in their history to be lost.
We’re going back to the Lubyanka to retrieve a globe. Come on Bell, we’ve got a job to do, let’s finish what we started.
i knew i would find a comment like this lmao
If in Moscow, it is interesting that the Russians would keep this quiet for so long. I can see anyone from a janitor all the way up to the top of the KGB letting it slip that a huge globe is sitting in that building. No one can keep their mouth shut for that long. Of course, if it is there, it would have to be authenticated. Something that might be difficult. This makes me wonder, if in fact, it is there at all. If I were to stumble upon it in some antique store, I'd think it was just a globe. Kind of difficult to move if it weighed as much as a VW Bug.
This is my thinking, it is hard to believe if it were there that it wouldn't be known by now,.
I would agree, it would be hard to keep it a secret plus it is bragging rights. Sure was an interesting video Mark made.
obviously it can be taken apart
It is like all the people that believe that 9/11 was a US government plan. Just how many could be involved in something so huge without something coming out. Complete and utter rubbish.
I think that anyone who saw it would think nothing of it, not even thinking that it may have been owned by Hitler previously. But anyone who worked at the KGB, even the cleaners, would have it driven home not to say a word about anything in that building; the threat of being sent to Siberia, or death, being very real.
Impressed by your videos, good enough for national tv if they ever go back to showing decent stuff
marks dry humor is always a 100% HIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In other words its Putin's globe now..... Mr Felton, thank you for hours of entertainment... Thank you for posting this fascinating video.
It would be really likely it is in some russian oligarch collection.
@@cactuslietuva True, i collect russian oligarchs, and when i acquire them i have to get rid of all their accumulated bric-a-brac. They complain a lot so i let them keep a faberge egg or two to keep the noise from bothering my guests.
Stalin would've looked at that globe each day, ruminating over what its previous owner might've thought when _he_ looked at it.
Malenkov wasn't there long enough to get to know it and subsequently desire it.
Khrushchev would've considered it his globe, but then Brezhnev coveted it.
Finally, Andropov would've decided it really _was_ his, and probably kept it when he left. Being the former head of the KGB, he had the means of removing it without anyone else being the wiser - there one evening, gone the next morning ...
Chernenko wasn't there long enough to wonder about the bare spot in the room - the carpet would've been different in that corner - and Gorbachev wasn't the type to want a globe.
Putin probably watched this video, hoping Mark might provide clues of its whereabouts after Yuri absconded with it.
Lets not forget Hitlers other missing globe, which ended up disappointing Eva Braun.
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@@ov4876 even if its not true
😆 lol
"It's in the Albert Hall" according to the version we sang at school.
haha, was searching for a comment like this! You must be a child of the late 60's early 70's ? "Hitler, he's only got one ball - the other's in the Albert Hall" :)
More nugget gems of historical knowledge that are pure catnip for everyone! It's time that Dr. Mark became Sir Mark for services to historical research and education!!!
Your research is always incredibly valuable. Very objective and scientific without political lecture. Greetings from Düsseldorf!