Babi Yar Massacre - The Forgotten Prisoner Uprising (Ep. 1)

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  • Babi Yar was one of the greatest crimes of WWII. The Germans determined to 'sanitise' the site of the massacre by destroying all the buried bodies. For the concentration camp inmates forced to do this grim work, they faced a choice between being killed by the SS or staging a mass breakout in the hope that some could survive. This is their story.
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  • @darren1819
    @darren1819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    Your content is incredible. I am so tired of over-produced, over-dramatised and poorly voiced history documentaries. I couldn’t believe my luck when I found your channels. I binge them every night before bed, fantastic research, clarity and presentation! Thank you Mark!

    • @ald1050
      @ald1050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Darren I agree with you. Well stated.

    • @deadlyoneable
      @deadlyoneable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Not only that, but I detect no bias or eluding to current political trends. That is what I find most refreshing about Felton’s work.

    • @mickcraven980
      @mickcraven980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Amen, brother. Felton is awesome!

    • @unkn0wnpers0n
      @unkn0wnpers0n 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes agreed

    • @danm7298
      @danm7298 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Dont forget the cool intro music lol!

  • @asorbus1966
    @asorbus1966 2 ปีที่แล้ว +467

    My dad was an eyewitness to the round up leading to the original massacre. He was an 11 year old boy at the time. The memory haunted him for over sixty years. He recounted what he saw to me shortly before he died. He wasn't included in the round up because a German noncom assumed he was Volksdeutsch since he could speak German and told him to get out because no kid should see what they were doing.

    • @achord9204
      @achord9204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      So your like me I had 2 survivor parents

    • @LK-bz9sk
      @LK-bz9sk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Eleven years old and a witness to such horror. May your father RIP. I had 10 great aunts executed this way outside Minsk, todays Belarus. My stepfather survived Sachenhausen outside Berlin, and my great uncle a labor camp at Auschwitz. It took me years to get bits and pieces of stories out of them as a boy back in the 1960s.

    • @robmax4416
      @robmax4416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Thank you for sharing your story.

    • @joebombero1
      @joebombero1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      I am of Belgian heritage and heard horror stories witnessed by my family in World War I and II. No horrors from Germans surprise me. I ended up marrying a Filipina and felt an odd kinship with Filipinos who keep alive similar horrors they experienced from the Japanese. Difficult time of human history. All we can do is tell these stories to our children and work for a better future.

    • @oldbordergeek
      @oldbordergeek 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How can i care? How can we care? We have concentration camps in china, north korea. Shame on us because we do nothing.

  • @garyK.45ACP
    @garyK.45ACP 2 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    Thank you Dr. Felton.
    I had the great opportunity during my career to work for 7 years in Ukraine. Where I met my beautiful wife, now a naturalized US Citizen. I have had the opportunity to visit Babi Yar ravine and many other memorials in the former Soviet Union. The slaughters at Babi Yar continued beyond the infamous slaughter in 1941. Though not to the degree they were in Sept., 1941. They ended only in late 1943, as the Red Army arrived to liberate Kiev.
    The Memorial of Glory in my wife's hometown of Kharkov (Kharkiv) honors 274,000 residents of that city, which was fought over three times, killed in the war. A beautiful park built on what is actually a mass grave. More people killed in ONE city than all Americans killed in the European Theater.
    Throughout other Ukrainian cities...Donetsk, Odessa, Sevastopol, Dnipropetrovsk (now Dniepro), Poltava and many more cities and villages...there are memorials to women and children murdered. You don't see these things in American parks, our population has been spared such horror. When the war was over, nearly 25% of the population had been exterminated, roughly half the men between the age 17-45. Not a family escaped without one or more members being killed.
    Though few veterans are left now, when I worked there, not long after the Soviet Union broke up, there were still many. They wore their decorations on their civilian clothes. When a veteran, man or woman, entered a bus or subway or tram, the others would offer their seat and say "Thank you for our freedom" or "Thank you for our happiness". If they were standing in a line, they would be offered to go ahead to the front.
    These are not easy places to visit. I would suggest any American who has the chance to do so.

    • @funfact8660
      @funfact8660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Real President Trump actually won the election, just look at that Alzheimer's ridden, International Weakling and Laughingstock, fake President Biden, and his Puppeteers endless Skyrocketing Prices, Inflation, Mandates and Trainwrecks commencing daily 🚫🥔

    • @dongately2817
      @dongately2817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @Fun Fact - Isn't there a more appropriate place to share your views?

    • @guydreamr
      @guydreamr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@funfact8660 Take your political diatribes somewhere else, your comment has been reported as spam.

    • @funfact8660
      @funfact8660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@guydreamr You Crybaby too much

    • @guydreamr
      @guydreamr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@funfact8660 You like your own comment too much

  • @MrBellsa61
    @MrBellsa61 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Mark Felton is the reason I don't go stir crazy at work

    • @Paches92-
      @Paches92- 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The solstice of lunchtime :)

  • @viking0116
    @viking0116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    My heart aches for every single innocent man, woman, and child that lost their life during that horrible time in human history.

    • @tillman40
      @tillman40 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It happens today , endless wars….

    • @funfact8660
      @funfact8660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Political Ideologies suck

    • @jimb6781
      @jimb6781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Wait to see what happens to us in the near future. Interesting, this is all layed out in the Bible. Once you are sealed by The Holy Spirit (Believing The Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ) the Bible will become clear.Yes,the Bible gives us the past,present,and future events of mankind.

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jimb6781 So please enlighten us. Tell us what your book predicts for the near future?

    • @jimb6781
      @jimb6781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@archstanton6102 There are many souces out there.Checkout this video on you tube.15-Revolutions,Tyrants & Wars/walter veith. He quotes everything. We are about to experience revolution,tyrants and wars.Checout some of his other videos too.

  • @ThroatSore
    @ThroatSore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Important work. Never forget.

    • @philliphall5198
      @philliphall5198 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just think what putin would do to Ukraine population, same thing as the Nazi did and Russia is no different

  • @youngimperialistmkii
    @youngimperialistmkii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Every time I hear this story I find myself seething with anger, and that's a good thing. We must never forget that these people. The victims and the their murderers were human. That we ourselves are human, just as they were. And while we may not be responsible for these crimes. We are responsible for not allowing such things to happen in our time. We are not removed from these events. This is our history as a species. Never forget.

    • @Gordonz1
      @Gordonz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually we are witnessing ecocide the extensive long term negligent damage to our planet's environment , our life support systems. We are calling for the Int Criminal Court to prosecute the corp leader and politicians committing ecocide Ref Stop Ecocide International

    • @THIS---GUY
      @THIS---GUY 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree I set aside time to listen to this and do some research after because I knew it would be truly awful

    • @faizanrana2998
      @faizanrana2998 ปีที่แล้ว

      No point in getting angry bro. We just have to accept it

    • @youngimperialistmkii
      @youngimperialistmkii ปีที่แล้ว

      @@faizanrana2998 No, I'm not just accepting it. There were people who just accepted it at the time. Look how that turned out. So no bro. I'm not doing that.

    • @faizanrana2998
      @faizanrana2998 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@youngimperialistmkii bro, we can't change the evil people now. We just have to turn the cheek like Jesus did it

  • @SunshineMix101
    @SunshineMix101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Thanks for giving an account of the Babi Yar massacre Mark. I only learned of it through my own research and feel one of the worst atrocities of the war is generally ignored or, at the very least, unknown. The level of cruelty meted out beggars' belief.

    • @braxxian
      @braxxian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Indeed. That’s what happens when you let a madman take over your country. Learn from history.

    • @tadghosullivan
      @tadghosullivan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don't think you can describe Babi Yar as being ignored or unknown.

    • @SunshineMix101
      @SunshineMix101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@tadghosullivan I know it is unkown by many people. It was unkown to me for many years and I have read extensively about WWII and the atrocities that took place.
      We know that there were attempts for it to be covered up by Wilhelm Koppe at the end of war and it wasn't until Yevtushenko's poem in the early '60s that shed light on the fact that were no monuments to what took place. Why was this allowed to happen? I appreciate that every massacre and attorocity cannot and maybe should not be commemorated but I feel that the magnitude of what took place at Babi Yar is exceptional in its barbarity, hatred and intolerance.

    • @colinpowis3600
      @colinpowis3600 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@SunshineMix101 Try reading the ''RIDDLE OF BABI YAR '' by a survivor .. it's one of the worst auto biographies EVER

    • @SunshineMix101
      @SunshineMix101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@colinpowis3600 Thanks Colin. I will look out for it.

  • @Betterifitsfree
    @Betterifitsfree 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    It's hard to imagine the horror when I can't even watch culling Elephants when it's on television.

  • @guildedtalleywacker4627
    @guildedtalleywacker4627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    No words can accurately describe how these atrocities make my heart ache for the victims. Equally at a loss to describe the incomprehensibly soulless monsters that carried them out. Sickening, just sickening.

  • @TankerBricks
    @TankerBricks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Mark. Thanks for bringing this often forgotten incident to TH-cam.

  • @bradleybriscoe2608
    @bradleybriscoe2608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln was the Higher SS and Police Leader of Southern Russia during this atrocity. Jeckeln was quite possibly the most brutal and utterly ruthless of all the HSSPF's in occupied countries. Jeckeln was also the inventor of the morbidly infamous 'sardine packing' method of bodies in mass graves for more efficient use.

    • @jb6027
      @jb6027 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Happily, Jeckeln was hanged by the Soviets on February 2, 1946 in front of a crowd of 4,000 onlookers.

    • @steventhompson399
      @steventhompson399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think I first heard of him in that book "bloodlands" by timothy snyder, the term "sardine packing" is sinister, like they thought of mass shootings as just another day at work, using dark euphemisms like the Japanese at 731 calling people "logs"

    • @saini1976
      @saini1976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      OMG, that is sickening.

  • @Flofutz
    @Flofutz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    The work of you Mr. Felton is as always spot on an important as well.
    But it sure feels weird to give a thumbs up for it this time. My heart just sank another meter in to the ground since the last visit at a KZ.

    • @carl-christianlohmann1307
      @carl-christianlohmann1307 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Was Menschen Menschen antun können...
      Niemals vergessen!

    • @cristianhernandez2708
      @cristianhernandez2708 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The thumbs up isn't an approval for the crime. It's recognition of the crime, and of the work put into researching it

  • @PedroConejo1939
    @PedroConejo1939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    That must have been far more difficult to research and narrate than it was to hear. Thank you. Shalom, Dr Felton.

    • @Simon_Nonymous
      @Simon_Nonymous 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      And it's not easy to listen to. I turned it off. Shame upon me.

    • @PedroConejo1939
      @PedroConejo1939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Simon_Nonymous No shame. Far better to say that it was too horrendous to listen to than to say it didn't happen.

    • @Simon_Nonymous
      @Simon_Nonymous 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ​@@PedroConejo1939 You are right. Thank you my friend. Shame upon us humans.

    • @Simon_Nonymous
      @Simon_Nonymous 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@sonsen25 explain yourself please.

    • @Kellen6795
      @Kellen6795 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sonsen25 WTF is wrong with you?

  • @maddazza9557
    @maddazza9557 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Dr Felton you make my passion for history even more stronger every video, i have learnt so much thanks to you.

  • @DeusGladiorum
    @DeusGladiorum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    11:45 glad you mentioned the 6th army. Important to remember that the Wehrmacht was *not* clean. They often supplemented the SS in many, many nazi atrocities.

    • @THIS---GUY
      @THIS---GUY 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sympathizers often try to pretend the Wehrmacht and even the soviets were completely clean in their practice of warfare.

    • @Laughandsong
      @Laughandsong 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Herr SD-Standartenführer Just like Nazis.

    • @lessssssgooooo
      @lessssssgooooo ปีที่แล้ว

      @Herr Untersturmführer ϟϟ of course they did

    • @pyatig
      @pyatig ปีที่แล้ว

      @Herr Untersturmführer ϟϟ right and 20 million Soviet civilians just happened to fall on a bullet

  • @cactuslietuva
    @cactuslietuva 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    amazing work Mark Felton.

  • @falatoronto
    @falatoronto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Painful as it will always be for the families, and even for those with no connection to those who suffered, these stories must be told. Thank you Dr Felton.

  • @Barwasser
    @Barwasser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    It's hard to believe monsters like these Nazis even existed. That's all the more reason to remember history and to never forget the depths the human spirit can sink to given the right circumstances.

    • @karjalanpie6606
      @karjalanpie6606 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      *exist

    • @hakimcameldriver
      @hakimcameldriver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Humans are just vicious hairless apes, they will do whatever they think they can get away with..

    • @franky012
      @franky012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@hakimcameldriver speak for yourself.

    • @quickclaw240
      @quickclaw240 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@karjalanpie6606 you beat me to it by 40 minutes.😜

    • @mrspin3315
      @mrspin3315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Remember the Soviets did this too!

  • @jwatson078555
    @jwatson078555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Unimaginable. Thank you Mark for making this.

  • @23draft7
    @23draft7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Unreal the evil he puts in people's minds. Sadly man does not learn. This could easily happen again as I see it with people today. It's totally sickening.

    • @hughneek12
      @hughneek12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Its not so much a human thing as a spiritual downfall. The devil is out of his cage yet again. If anything it shall be even worse next time because Christianity is looked down upon by so many rather than participated in, which shall mean the dark side on the ascendant. Satan is dancing a merry dance right now.

    • @23draft7
      @23draft7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@hughneek12 for now. As usual he's think of now, not what's coming to him. When it does, hallelujah. Praise Jesus for that. Amen.

    • @hughneek12
      @hughneek12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@23draft7
      Yes indeed!

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@hughneek12 Any fact checked evidence to support your statement?

    • @hughneek12
      @hughneek12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@archstanton6102
      Any fact checked evidence to use against me?

  • @dhrichardson5798
    @dhrichardson5798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great episode Mark........no matter how many times I hear it, the brutal depravity never ceases to shock

  • @zionzone45
    @zionzone45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    With love from 🇳🇬 and to all lovers of history ❤

  • @j-dub618
    @j-dub618 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    The lessons and events of WWII should never be forgotten. Man turned on fellow man and in doing so, turned on humanity itself.

    • @alexs1954
      @alexs1954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Which is why I think our school systems and media fail us when they fail to teach about the ideologies and tendencies of those who turned on humanity. We need to know what to look for if we are to stop these horrors from happening again.

    • @B.A.B.G.
      @B.A.B.G. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Guess what it's happening again.

    • @wally9935
      @wally9935 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@B.A.B.G. lmao

    • @Noutelus
      @Noutelus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alexs1954 Unfortunatly the most dangerous things always comes from an unexpected source

    • @alexs1954
      @alexs1954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Noutelus Which is exactly why I think the ideologies and tendencies of these people should be taught. The reason that monsters get into power is often because nobody expects them to be monsters despite what they say and do before getting into power.

  • @idleonlooker1078
    @idleonlooker1078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The massacres committed by the Germans, or with the complicity of civil authorities and/or the civillian populations of each European country (such as Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary etc)
    etc) MUST never be forgotten!! Thanks for uploading Dr Felton. 👍

    • @renataheiberg7534
      @renataheiberg7534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Leave Poles out of it. They were never part of german war machine.

    • @David99356
      @David99356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@renataheiberg7534 true. But there were not a few individuals who took part in massacres - see Jedwabne and Kielce.

    • @renataheiberg7534
      @renataheiberg7534 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@David99356
      Jedwabne is not so certain as exhumation of victims was stopped. More over it is a well known fact that truth was distorted after the war by occupying soviet forces. The ongoing custom of calling concentration camps "Polish" that were located on Polish territory is a good example of disinformation and blaming Poles for german and soviet atrocities. There are evil people in each nation and but Poles in general were always a hospitable nation and very tolerant.

    • @idleonlooker1078
      @idleonlooker1078 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@renataheiberg7534 WRONG!!

    • @daintree98
      @daintree98 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why do include Ukrainians? They had their own massacre organised by Stalin. When millions of civilians were murdered in 1931-1933, known as the Holodomor.

  • @jeremyalde2272
    @jeremyalde2272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Wow. That is absolutely horrific

  • @oncall21
    @oncall21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Unbelievable. Thanks for sharing Dr Felton!

  • @Tonatar
    @Tonatar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Mark, on behalf of UkrainiansI thank you for highlighting this event, keeping memory of it alive.

    • @funfact8660
      @funfact8660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Beware of Putin

    • @nikolaykrotov8673
      @nikolaykrotov8673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sadly many Ukrainians forgot the horrors of Nazism and allowed their country to be taken over by neo National Socialist regime. Make no mistake ethnic cleansing is alive and well in the modern Ukraine.

    • @dominikaxy
      @dominikaxy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Most Ukrainians where on Nazi side.

    • @MrKakibuy
      @MrKakibuy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I would thank Ukrainians if they stop holding UPA parades

    • @romandawydiak4476
      @romandawydiak4476 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nikolaykrotov8673 Your pro-Stalinist/Putinist/Kremlin propaganda (partly from the St. Petersburg troll factory) is both completely derogatory and absolutely false. Why? There are two primary reasons, including a) Shortly after Putin assumed power, his regime resumed the old Stalinist lie of accusing his enemies (and Ukraine in particular) of committing some dastardly crime (such as being fascists) whereas in truth, Putin's regime had already committed this crime and was trying to deflect this crime by falsely accusing another country of this same crime which has always been complete and utter rubbish. b) Ever since Ukraine regained its independence in 1991, every Ukrainian Government has been both anti-fascist and anti-communist. And, most unfortunately, and I say this with great sadness for the sake of the Russian people and the multitude of Russia's minorities, the same has not been true with Putin's imperialistic, kleptocratic, tyrannical undemocratic and neo-fascist regime whose ultimate goal is to resurrect an old-styled Russian Empire. However, try as he might, the genie (AKA Ukraine in particular) has escaped its bottle and no amount of force will voluntarily make it return to the age of darkness. AMEN!

  • @bobjohnson3794
    @bobjohnson3794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    My great great grandparents were murdered in Babi Yar. Thank you for covering this. Many Ukrainians have no idea that this even happened

    • @steventhompson399
      @steventhompson399 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How don't they know about it, it seemed to me that WWII is relatively well remembered in eastern Europe, and the Soviets put ugly communist monuments everywhere, do they not have a monument for babi yar?

    • @bobjohnson3794
      @bobjohnson3794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@steventhompson399 they have a small on that's not well known and not even by the site, the actual mass graves are a few hundred feet away under some commercial buildings. Plus the "monument" makes no mention of Jews or the compliance and even encouragement of the locals.

    • @DAndyLord
      @DAndyLord 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@steventhompson399 Many younger Cambodians don't know about the Khmer Rouge even though Pol Pot died in 1998.

    • @23draft7
      @23draft7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      God bless. I never knew about this genocide. It's sickening.

    • @steventhompson399
      @steventhompson399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@23draft7 yeah many people haven't, one mostly hears about gas chambers like at Auschwitz or treblinka, but before that phase of mass murder there were countless mass shootings all over the eastern front, babi yar was just the largest

  • @leeskyles9903
    @leeskyles9903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Thanks for this history lesson. excellent!

  • @markwitt7983
    @markwitt7983 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for doing this subject. It needs to be heard.

  • @1Svatej
    @1Svatej 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Mark. Just came back from my visit to Kiev and now I know much more about Babi Yar than just reading wikipedia info.

  • @markrobinowitz8473
    @markrobinowitz8473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    "Babi Yar" by Anatoli Kuznetsov, a "document in the form of a novel," discusses this episode in detail. It is amazing anyone managed to survive.

    • @user-oh2kt8lf6g
      @user-oh2kt8lf6g 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I read that novel in the "Yunost" magazine. It was published around 1961.

    • @Alexwhatisit
      @Alexwhatisit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for the recommendation.

  • @angiehemp4295
    @angiehemp4295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for your amazing and informative work.
    The depths of human cruelty are unbelievable.

  • @sovinr8658
    @sovinr8658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video Mark, can't wait for the part 2

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert2974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God bless you and yours Dr. Felton. i look forward to your next installment!:-)

  • @collind3670
    @collind3670 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can't be forgotten if I never knew. Thanks for telling these hard historical lessons Mark

  • @reilneid6436
    @reilneid6436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dr. Felton, thanks for all the FACTUAL information you provide with ALL of your video's. Fact's are fact's, lie's are lie's & some refuse to accept that. Appreciate the hard work you & your staff put in

  • @brettshea8623
    @brettshea8623 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Felton, the legend...thankyou again ✌️

  • @TheNukite
    @TheNukite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Impressive as always, thanks for your work.

  • @deeppurple883
    @deeppurple883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's hard to believe that humanity can be reduced to this horror. The indignity of the whole scene. This needs to be retold forever. Less we forget and repeat.

  • @stevenodland
    @stevenodland 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Absolutely horrific.....so disheartening. Thank you for shedding light on this very dark history Dr Felton. Let us not forget this history......so that it may NEVER be repeated!

  • @kevinmcgettigan8844
    @kevinmcgettigan8844 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    By far one of the best channels on here for very accurate information and full of information that is absolutely 💯 accurate I love seeing new documentaries on the platform this guy leaves absolutely no stone unturned great narrative 👍 keep up the amazing work it is well appreciated

  • @geddonjt
    @geddonjt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for your great and important work.

  • @nelsano3
    @nelsano3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's almost impossible to comprehend the numbers of victims....

  • @IFarmBugs
    @IFarmBugs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    My grandfather who was an orphan living in war torn Ukraine once said that when the Germans covered the pit with soft and sandy soil you could see areas where it was moving, there were survivors being buried alive.

    • @matthewcoombs3282
      @matthewcoombs3282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Jesus, how do you get over seeing things like that. That generation suffered so much. I am from the UK and we suffered no where near you guys in the East did, but my father lost relatives when London was bombed in the Luftwaffe and my great Uncle Bruce came back from Monte Cassino with PTSD and never married and wanted to live alone for the rest of his life. We must never have a war again in Europe. We are all Europeans and need to be brothers and sisters.

    • @funfact8660
      @funfact8660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tough Kid

  • @raybarron316
    @raybarron316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We can only imagine the horror. Thank you for helping to preserve this lest we forget.

  • @RJC10101
    @RJC10101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Really is quite staggering the atrocities that happened during this period! We’re so lucky to live in the times that we do! Good episode Mark!

    • @Gordonz1
      @Gordonz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually we are witnessing ecocide the extensive long term negligent damage to our planet's environment , our life support systems. We are calling for the Int Criminal Court to prosecute the corp leader and politicians committing ecocide Ref Stop Ecocide International

    • @davidcollins8574
      @davidcollins8574 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you serious.. There will be a Nuremberg 2.0 for the bastards forcing this "vax" onto Billions of people..

    • @THIS---GUY
      @THIS---GUY 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidcollins8574 you science deniers and anti vaxxers are almost as bad as nazi or Soviet sympathizers
      Which vaccinations do you think are good medical advancements? Which are you against?

  • @RaiderLeo69
    @RaiderLeo69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My heart weeped as you narrated this, may the world never forget these vile evil crimes against humanity and never forget the innocent victims.

  • @richarddixon7276
    @richarddixon7276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    You really set the standard for factual WWII documentary's ,really looking forward to Episode 2 . Thanks Mark .

  • @davidlogansr8007
    @davidlogansr8007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I liked this on the quality of Dr. Felton’s reports

  • @davidppfitzner
    @davidppfitzner 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always crisp, clear and insiteful. Your documentaries are admirable and learned and your revelations are interesting and often shocking. Thank you

  • @americanpatriot2422
    @americanpatriot2422 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Outstanding video and presentation.

  • @ericcloud1023
    @ericcloud1023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I can't even begin to imagine the fear of running up to your own mass grave, 33,771 people... humans.... slaughtered worse than pigs.

  • @keithweiss7899
    @keithweiss7899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am grateful to Mark for bringing this to us. People prefer to forget such sickening history. But it must not be forgotten lest we be forced to experience it again.

  • @smeggerssmeghead3100
    @smeggerssmeghead3100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Unholy hell, how can a human do this? One of Dr. Felton's most horrific TH-cam videos on the Nazis.

    • @franklin7387
      @franklin7387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Easy take a look at Australia now, that's how it begins. First you are forbidden to go the theatre, work , parks and such. After that the 'quarantine' camps and lastly genocide.

    • @niccolopasqualetti2698
      @niccolopasqualetti2698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@franklin7387 Shut up

    • @carl-christianlohmann1307
      @carl-christianlohmann1307 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@franklin7387 wtf!

    • @franklin7387
      @franklin7387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@carl-christianlohmann1307 Remember, these atrocities begin with excluding people from society. Just like they are doing right now.

    • @franklin7387
      @franklin7387 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@niccolopasqualetti2698 Over my dead body! My grandfather and his brother in law had to work for the nazi's in a ammunition factory in Bordeaux because he refused to sign the Arier declaration. His brother in law died there of malnutrition.
      I bet your grandparents stood first in line to do voluntary work for the nazi's.
      We're obliged to speak out.

  • @deathrv
    @deathrv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Great stuff again Mark, thank you ..

  • @dominiquecharriere3751
    @dominiquecharriere3751 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I cannot understand how human beings could do this to other human beings. I can only try to convince myself that they people (the executioners) we not human beings, they were violent beasts but then again what sort of animal would kill for political reasons? Babi Yar must not be forbidden! Thanks Mr Felton for keeping this horror known to the new generations!

    • @slooob23
      @slooob23 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The same darkness is in all humanity

  • @MisteriosGloriosos922
    @MisteriosGloriosos922 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Informative video, thanks!!!

  • @dante666jt
    @dante666jt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is intro is my ring tone. And when my phone rings, I bow thrice in the name of good Lord Mark Felton.

  • @edwardd9702
    @edwardd9702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    At Babyn Yar the Nazi killers didn't use Mauser rifles they used captured Russian submachine guns because they had a semi auto setting and a large capacity drum magazine.

    • @archlich4489
      @archlich4489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Insult to injury. D:

    • @edwardd9702
      @edwardd9702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      After WW2 the Soviets used the massacre site ravine as a rubbish dump until finally bulldozing the site and building over it.

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      they probably used whatever they had available.

    • @funfact8660
      @funfact8660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@edwardd9702 a Restaurant

    • @colinpowis3600
      @colinpowis3600 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      PPSH ?

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert2974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Every time i try and find empathy with the suffering of that hell my mind skitters off, shattering like a bottle on a slate roof. It's all too awful. It's painful, but i must watch.
    Remembering the past to protect the future is my gift to NOW. !:-)

  • @VitorTutoriaisJogos
    @VitorTutoriaisJogos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Mr. Felton. Your videos helped me to win the Military History Olimpiad!

  • @mr.niceguy1812
    @mr.niceguy1812 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Merry Christmas Dr. Felton, hope 2022 is better than the last 2! ✌❤ from Canada

  • @Tyler.i.81
    @Tyler.i.81 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Cheers Mark

  • @minipup1
    @minipup1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Shooting 33,700 in 2 days seems a tall order logisticaly, that's around 140 every 6 mins.

    • @coops1964
      @coops1964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sadly yes.

    • @barryirlandi4217
      @barryirlandi4217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On history numbers are often added to..

    • @warriorbeta
      @warriorbeta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      if you have hundreds of men doing it not really....

    • @keng7758
      @keng7758 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WTF? That is your sick takeaway from these murders?

  • @stalban8687
    @stalban8687 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you. Superb

  • @felixthecat3n2
    @felixthecat3n2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a horrific, shocking reminder of what terrible things people are capable of doing. It is a warning to us all of the fragility of civilisation.

  • @stevenhershman2660
    @stevenhershman2660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mark is on FIRE ! He keeps on making videos that are often never mentioned by other Sources. I can not wait till part 2. Keep up the excellent work !

  • @stefanmolnapor910
    @stefanmolnapor910 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Evil minds like this do not frighten me, what does frighten me is there are innocent people hurt by these evil minds.

    • @dandog7653
      @dandog7653 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What frightens me most is that people think these things happen in the past, these kinds of people don't exist now and the future is free of their menace.

    • @funfact8660
      @funfact8660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Democrats in USA studying SS tactics

    • @oldesertguy9616
      @oldesertguy9616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@funfact8660 I'm not a liberal by any means, but claiming either party is similar to the Nazis minimizes what the Nazis did and is just wrong. Please leave modern politics for another forum.

    • @peternystrom921
      @peternystrom921 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @UCqmV40eu-XAjtjzByNvKNQg Get the fuck out of here with that shitt.

    • @MrKakibuy
      @MrKakibuy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@funfact8660 Oh no... you just couldn't resist ruin this comment section with American political dogshit.

  • @lachlanbird9688
    @lachlanbird9688 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the video report .

  • @BmcN72
    @BmcN72 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fabulous Mark. Iv learned so much from you

  • @noelio67
    @noelio67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The most dramatic depiction of Babi Yar I've seen is in Herman Wouk's ' War and Remembrance ' ......really graphic

  • @bubbahkiriza
    @bubbahkiriza 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ben Ferencz, one of the prosecutors in the Einsatzgruppen trial after the war, is still alive today.

  • @masr8875
    @masr8875 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm stuck in this endless, dark loop where I keep coming back to these videos. Then I come to the only logical conclusion I can draw from watching this... that the world is an evil place without justice. But somehow I can't wrap my head around that conclusion. My brain will not (cannot?) accept what my eyes are seeing. I don't know how anyone could truly grasp what happened and still maintain a sense of hope...

  • @oneshotme
    @oneshotme 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyed the video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

  • @carolinekaplan542
    @carolinekaplan542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    On behalf on my beloved relatives there thank you. Many had young children and simply couldn’t flee.

  • @joeeagles7528
    @joeeagles7528 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I follow all of Mark Felton's episodes but I read about this horrible event some years ago and that really upset me so I will give this one a pass. The horror of seeing your family members getting killed before your eyes, knowing that you are next.

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is tough to get through, I'm taking breaks.

    • @achord9204
      @achord9204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can’t even watch it my grandparents and uncles, cousins were murdered by these subhumans

  • @evancrum6811
    @evancrum6811 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for telling this story

  • @kevinstreet5709
    @kevinstreet5709 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this

  • @maxsportsman2416
    @maxsportsman2416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you Mark Felton for covering this! You are a “hero of history”

  • @michaelstewart7820
    @michaelstewart7820 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Mark I've enjoyed every video I've listened to from your channel your voice and accent perfect I appreciate your work thank you

  • @martinbruce6651
    @martinbruce6651 ปีที่แล้ว

    This needs to be told!! Well done.

  • @rokahna7847
    @rokahna7847 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Life is simple, Dr. Felton releases a new video, I click it, I click like the second I can, I watch the video, I learn and I’m
    Happy.

  • @yourweirdbrotha2924
    @yourweirdbrotha2924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My Great Grandfather Was a rottenführer and participated in these killings in 2018 he was under invastigation for war crimes, a year later he passed away though. Iam really ashamed to have someone like that as my great grandfather.

    • @captainamerica6525
      @captainamerica6525 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your great grandfathers crimes and atrocities are in no way your fault or attach to you. He made his choices, those choices were not your choices.

    • @sectorsweep14
      @sectorsweep14 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Babi Yar is an obvious myth. Do you really believe they killed all those people then unburied them and hoisted them out of a ravine months later to be cremated? It's such a ridiculous story.

    • @Occident.
      @Occident. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      BS!

    • @yourweirdbrotha2924
      @yourweirdbrotha2924 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Occident. its true

  • @Klaaism
    @Klaaism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Good to preserve such history. The depths of evil humanity reaches beggars belief sometimes. Eisenhower and others knew beforehand that people would eventually question the truth.

  • @mightymuzrub
    @mightymuzrub 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice work.

  • @abiebarraca5873
    @abiebarraca5873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have read a book about this 3 years ago, and same as Katyn, the Babi Yar is not that known to many. But we should not forget this, thanks to historians who keep this stories told to the Earth.

    • @renataheiberg7534
      @renataheiberg7534 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Katyn story was revealed by Germans during Nuremberg trials. Soviets used to blamed it on the Germans. That story was always kept a secret. Russians finally admitted to it after the fall of Berlin Wall.
      The allies were not happy about the discovery as well. They loved Uncle Stalin so much that they let him go all the way to Berlin and keep the whole Eastern Europe.
      Roosevelt was a commie and a traitor.

  • @ProperLogicalDebate
    @ProperLogicalDebate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    There were only two means of escape. The second was death.

  • @Swellington_
    @Swellington_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is an example of something you'd think was in a horror movie but actually you couldn't write this brand of evil and depravity, it's crazy just how hard they had to work to kill that many people, it's no wonder they lost the war

    • @MagereHein
      @MagereHein 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Håkan Bergvall I'm sure quite a few Jesus nazis in the USA would love to give it a go.

    • @StevenKeery
      @StevenKeery 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MagereHein : Why bring Jesus in to this?

    • @timcahill4676
      @timcahill4676 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@StevenKeery because he doesn’t know anything about Jesus

    • @MagereHein
      @MagereHein 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@StevenKeery Read Christian Nationalists for Jesus Nazis if you like that term better.

  • @tonyalways7174
    @tonyalways7174 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The truly terrifying aspect of this is that before the war the soldiers doing the slaughtering were ordinary people working in shops, offices, factories, farms and schools.

    • @klown839
      @klown839 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They were all sociopaths in disguise. The Nazi takeover allowed them to show their true colors.

  • @DiceStrike
    @DiceStrike 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its werid to congratulate you on great History coverage when it's this dark.

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. We look forward to your sequel video(s) on this. Amazing how cruel humans can be. Imagine how advanced the world would be if humanity didn't have such crippling cruelty holding us back throughout recorded history.

  • @waitingforrealitytosetin4807
    @waitingforrealitytosetin4807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The human ability to get used to almost anything is often a strength, but not in the case of case of being able to commit murder over and over. Often ordinary people committing extraordinary crimes.

  • @x13xmonkey
    @x13xmonkey 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done!

  • @douglasjones2570
    @douglasjones2570 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you.

  • @wojak6351
    @wojak6351 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You should cover the uprising of the Georgian units in Greece I believe

  • @Jasmine_06
    @Jasmine_06 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Wow, this one made me ill.

  • @rennexk4754
    @rennexk4754 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are like bedtime stories for history buffs. I listen to one MF story almost every night

  • @johnny450gf
    @johnny450gf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cant wait for part 2