That’s the most amazing thing about these Germans (and I’m half German) - it’s one thing to get caught up in the Nazi excitement as a youth. But to stay that way after knowing all that we know now-these Germans really had no souls. Just obey no matter what, for some idea of “Germany”, no matter what. Wow.
Such detailed reporting is difficult to find these days. Mark Felton needs to be commended for bringing all this to light. It should be used to educate the next generations.
Despicable how not a singel allied was on trail for warcrime ..Odd dont you think ..Or are you so brainwashed that you think the allied never commited warcrime.
This is history that can’t be forgotten. Humanity has to learn from the mistakes and cruelty of the past so they don’t repeat. Unfortunately this is not the case!! Great video and thanks again the lesson Mark
Learned something new again thanks to Dr Felton: In 1919, an Allied Commission on Responsibilities investigated the issue of the immunity of head of states to prosecution over the conduct of a war. It recommended that heads of state (and other state officials) were not immune but with the proviso: We desire to say that civil and military authorities cannot be relieved from responsibility by the mere fact that a higher authority might have been convicted of the same offence. It will be for the Court to decide whether the plea of 'superior orders' is sufficient to acquit the person charged from responsibility.
Why would he be remorseful when he was fighting a war for the sovereignty of Europe? Who should be remorseful are those who enabled the destruction of Europe
Erich knew exactly what he was doing, hiding behind the notion of "just following orders", in his weakness Erich forgot his humanity, his compassion and became a monster.
Staunchness which protects false ego to a great horrible fault. Today Putin does not take moral responsibility for his actions killing innocent. He says he is compelled by the deeds of a distant personage. Similar nightmarish thinking and action.
Specific weird compliment but: I appreciate how you don’t feel the need to try hard to be a quirky comedian, or rip off Tim and Eric’s editing style like much of the rest of TH-cam. It’s fine for a serious subject to be presented seriously.
Incredible to think a mass murderer got away with just a few years in jail because he was old. That he was unrepentant to the end he should have dictated that he rotted in jail until his death Magnificently researched and presented again. Fascinating viewing.
It’s chilling that so many of these old Nazis have escaped justice, even living into ripe old ages. I have a friend who turned out to be a descendent of the Butcher Of Prague Reinhard Hyderich.
Im from Chile, we have some notorious nazis too, Walter Rauff comes to my mind, the guy who engineered the mobile gas vans…here he never hid his identity and he never was extradited or face justice because our Supreme Court didnt conside that crimes against humanity never prescribed. So the man died peacefully in the south of Chile which has a large german ancestry and is extremely beautiful, makes you wonder things
@@markrobinowitz8473 A lot of ex SS ers have been educating some latin american gouvernments the art of torture. That is why they could live relativly easy there. The worse from the worse,protected by the worse of the worse.
Dr. Felton if you are looking for ideas on new videos you should look into German investigations of their own crimes during the war. For example the story of SS judge Morgen investigating concentration camps is very interesting and not that well known.
Thank you for your excellence in telling this disturbing story. As I have followed each episode in turn, I have grown increasingly sickened by Nazi inhumanity.
Great video series as always, Dr Felton! There's also a case of Germans investigating their own crimes (by judge and lawyer, SS-Sturmbahnführer Georg Konrad Morgen), which you might want to consider for the next series.
@@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 you dont think He knows!? Hes a historical Dr. Im a mear pheasant. Lets keep it one hundred. If you are miss informed its very easy to find.
@@asintonic Not who I replied to. Amazing how reading comprehension and critical thinking are so unbelievably rare as is spelling and grammar. I'm sure there's excuses for the above observations and maybe I'll be blessed with some shortly.
They was many for sure. Murder, rape and torture. One of them was a American soldier who one time was a suspect in the Phantom Killer cases by the name Emmett Daniels who was involved in the Lippach massacre in Germany in 1945, where he murdered and raped but the charges were dropped. Yes, they was many in also many war since World War 2 & before.Its like Stalin once said, One dead is horrific but a million is statistic.
Another fine series. I would like to see (and I know this one has been done ad infinitum) The Battle of Midway done Mark Felton style. Also the Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Japanese, after the war, were the same as the Soviets during the war. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. They knew the USSR was quickly going to be a MUCH bigger problem than the Japanese ever were.
@@quintrankid8045 That's not a comparable argument. To apply your metaphor: if one only ticketed people who speed while driving red cars, then punishment would be unjust for how haphazardly the law is enforced.
@@cretansuperbos2121 The car color is an absolutely horrible analogy. Fact is things were extremely complicated. Lots of people were useful to our side, and that usefulness is the only reason they didn't hang. Others got lucky one way or another, and a few undoubtedly got worse than they deserved.
Another very interesting video. I find this period extremely interesting. I find it very, very interesting that SS personnel who refused to commit atrocities were not punished. This alone gives the lie to the "I was only following orders" nonsense.
@@deerdave Okay. I'm listening. Carefully. Perhaps Harriet meant "...SS personnel who ordered atrocities yet refused to themselves commit them..." ? Perhaps we should leave it for Harriet to clarify. Unless you are telepathic or something. Or the same person.
@@markmaki4460 Listening again in particular the passage from 4:30 to 5:35 approx it confirms that SS personnel who refused to carry out an execution order were not punished. That is by the SS themselves. Hope this clarifies Harriet's point. Note I'm not trying to be clever or seem superior in any way just trying to point out your apparent mis reading of the event.
I cannot imagine that a German officer, especially a member of the SS, existed who would have had both the legal knowledge and the nerve to declare Adolf Hitler had given an illegal order.
As a Christian devotee (eternal sinner) Roman Catholic, I was immensely proud to learn from Mark Felton's podcast, that this unmentionable swine hund, (manifest sinner), was denied Holy Absolution from our Church. Justice
Lol the catholic church helped him (and plenty of other Nazi and fascist war criminials) to flee in the first place, so nothing the catholic church can be proud of.
The thing I find disturbing is that he didn't seem to realise there was anything to have remorse about. I think that might be a problem that we can still see today.
Well he does seem to have taken responsibility. Proudly, though. So, no chance of sorrow from him. (And none of sorrow from any of us now the old bastard's dead...)
Dr. Felton - I watched all 4 episodes. Well done. Your research, attention to detail, and presentation was outstanding. I must admit I was shocked to learn that many Catholic officials not only aided Nazi war criminals, but did so enthusiastically. Why did they do this? What was their rationale?
Because being wrong or an idiot isn't a war crime. Bad intelligence from an Iraqi spy lead them to believe Iraq had chemical weapons. Wasn't right but they weren't rounding up civilians.
@@harrypotta2188 so it had nothing to do with Saddam Hussain wanting to trade oil in a different currency to the Petrodollar? The same reason why Gadaffi was ousted and killed because he wanted to trade in gold.
Mark; another high quality presentation. You might be interested to know that TH-cam abounds with Russian Trolls currently justifying the actions and atrocities perpetrated by Russian soldiers in Ukraine (they target anyone that posts a sympathetic view towards Ukraine and also anyone who mentions war crimes). The very arguments that they put forward; are exactly the ones that you quote in your video from the WWII Nazi period. I have been targetted on several occassions. Keep up your excellent service (Thank You).
There are also a sadly numerous faction of nazi sympathizers around here who use the brutality of the soviets as an excuse for German war crimes. (Even explaining away Goebbels murdering his own children…)
Indeed i will attest to this. I suspect many if not most of them are actually "false flags" - that is, they are actually Ukrainian directed or inspired trolls who are behaving so in order to discredit Russia. I suppose we can never know for sure without impractically costly investigations. Truth is the first casualty of war, and i would argue is also the first casualty (where this is any) of any media product.
What atrocities by Russians? Those announced by CNN and disproven within days? The false flags claimed by the heroic but notoriously dishonest Ukrainians?
One life wouldn't be sufficient to know all about british crimes that they carried all over the world. It would be great if Dr. Felton also cover the Stalin's war crimes
@@KriegZombie Empathy for those who were part of one of the greatest crimes against humanity and felt no remorse? I'll save my empathy for better recipients.
@@5000rgb I bet you buy plenty of Chinese shit. Are you okay with what they are doing? You have been taught to have an emotional reaction to this subject. Grow up. There is a lot more going on in the world than the childish story you were told. You think being filled with hate for a corpse that was already punished makes YOU the good guy?
The law should also go after all those, including Catholic priest and bishops, that aided and abetted these criminals escape. As a Catholic, the behavior in this and other matters demonstrates a serious problem at the highest levels of The Church. I guess the behaviors they call sinful when others engage in them don’t apply to them, including sexual behavior of the clergy.
Surprising, the longevity of these old Nazis. I wonder why? Could it be that they were so physically fit in their youth and they had continued with a physical regime into later life?
Quite a large amount of Allied D-Day survivors still around, too, at 100 or above. Some below, of course, but not by much. And most likely, a lot of people that never became famous got or will get to that age. But wars and tragedies show up in the newspapers, that's how you learn about, for example, people who survived the Titanic disaster in 1912 that also reached or passed the 100 year mark. They simply "were there", and got put on a list of sorts.
Because they found help in many countries, for food and job and protection. Under these circumstances it's not difficult to live comfortably and long! Unjust destiny... unfortunately...
Priebke was simply on the wrong side. When Americans murdered Italian and German POWs in Sicily, they were tried and got a slap on the wrist. In the worst case, a life imprisonment sentence was commuted after a year, the soldier restored to his former rank and eventually granted an honorable discharge. Truth, Justice and the American Way.
Oh yes and these events naturally excused those directed from the top on the German side. I suppose you used the same style of argumentation too when caught in the wrong as a small child and probably throughout your life. Cheers.
@@markmaki4460 nice straw man, the guy is just pointing out an obvious double standard. The idea presented by Felton that a British officer would never do such acts is laughable when you know anything about the history of the British army, same goes for the Americans
@@markmaki4460 you’re such a biased fool and engaging with you any further would be totally useless so I’ll let you bask in your wilful ignorance and leave it at that
For those who are not astute enough to detect the fallacy of this argument, i shall explain a little. The crimes committed by the Germans which are addressed in this series are documented to have originated with orders at the highest levels of the chain of command. The crimes committed by the Allies which this commenter uses as excuses for those of the Germans never originated any higher than the field command level. The Germans who committed the crimes addressed in this series could have, it is argued, refused to carry out the crimes they were ordered to commit. I will leave it for the reader (as it was left to the Germans on the spot at the time) to conclude if this was indeed the case. The difference perhaps is easiest to conceive of as this: in the case of the crimes committed by the Germans, the crimes were 1st degree murder; in the case of the crimes committed by the Allies (and many of the Germans and their allies, not addressed in this series, i would add) used to excuse those of the Germans, the crimes were 2nd degree murder. That is, premeditated murders versus murders of passion. In the case of premeditation, those actually performing the murders who do so willingly are also guilty of premeditation. "BUT DAD! My brother did the same thing and he wasn't punished like you are punishing me!" said the child, shedding tears. Did the child really do the same thing? Perhaps all of us argued this way when we were small children caught in the wrong; but most of us outgrew this way of arguing, while others grew skilled at applying the argument to other situations. Nevertheless it is hollow and immature and frankly cowardly.
I don't care how old he was, he should have been put into a dark dank prison cell with all the other criminals because that is exactly what he was-a criminal! I kind of wish he had been sentenced by his own people in Germany where he could have been booed!!! Then maybe he would have realize that even 'his people whom he loved' didn't even support him!
If war criminals were punished fairly , at least 75,000 American soldiers from our many wars an operations from the last 20 years would be in prison for life , or hanged .
Even in death, this war criminal cannot escape the investigating eye of Dr. Felton.
That, and Hell is hot.
That's because he's a historian?
Yea after the fact anyone could’ve done a video like this
He obviously learned nothing up until the end. If he was put in the exact same situation again it would not turn out differently.
That’s the most amazing thing about these Germans (and I’m half German) - it’s one thing to get caught up in the Nazi excitement as a youth.
But to stay that way after knowing all that we know now-these Germans really had no souls.
Just obey no matter what, for some idea of “Germany”, no matter what. Wow.
Such detailed reporting is difficult to find these days. Mark Felton needs to be commended for bringing all this to light. It should be used to educate the next generations.
Despicable how desperately he fought for his own freedom but was so quick to take it from others
Yes, you nailed it.
maybe he was just another one of thoes "Ordinary Men"
Despicable how not a singel allied was on trail for warcrime ..Odd dont you think ..Or are you so brainwashed that you think the allied never commited warcrime.
It’s a lot more complex than that..
nonsense, those criminals had it coming.
Thanks Mark for the conclusion of Priebke’s story.
Lol
I hadn't realised the defence of superior orders not being valid was decided that far back, thank you Mark once again a really interesting video.
This is history that can’t be forgotten. Humanity has to learn from the mistakes and cruelty of the past so they don’t repeat.
Unfortunately this is not the case!!
Great video and thanks again the lesson Mark
Ya right tell Putin this!
People forget in one generation.
Covid proves we are more than capable of repeating history.
Can't? You mean mustn't, of course, as it clearly bloody well can...
@@daddyrabbit835 So does Jan 6...
Enjoying this series, amazing how this unfolded
Same thoughts
The sage continues. Thanks to Dr Mark Felton
Love me some sage 😋😁
Same gotta burn some to cleanse the 🏠
I think you mean "Saga"
Learned something new again thanks to Dr Felton:
In 1919, an Allied Commission on Responsibilities investigated the issue of the immunity of head of states to prosecution over the conduct of a war. It recommended that heads of state (and other state officials) were not immune but with the proviso:
We desire to say that civil and military authorities cannot be relieved from responsibility by the mere fact that a higher authority might have been convicted of the same offence. It will be for the Court to decide whether the plea of 'superior orders' is sufficient to acquit the person charged from responsibility.
Hopefully. Putin won't die aged 100 still babbling about a Great Russian Destiny, but tonight and in considerable misery
Is it just me or does 'lack of remorse' spring to mind? Another excellent video Dr Felton. Thanks for sharing!
The more remorseful ones probably got caught and executed.
Why would he be remorseful when he was fighting a war for the sovereignty of Europe? Who should be remorseful are those who enabled the destruction of Europe
You think he's had 50 years to come up with a better defense than I was just following orders.
That's because he didn't plan to ever stand trial and thought himself above the law.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 exactly. He and others of his ilk found refuge in Nazi friendly countries. He thought time would erase history. Yeah,no
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Probably yes.
How do you defend the indefensible?
Nazi’s aren’t known for their creativity.
Goss darn, I really should be sleeping, but Dr. Felton uploaded another video
Excellent mini-series. I remember his trial from the news of the time.
I haved learned so much from Mark about WWII. Keep the videos coming!
That monster lived a long time. Unfortunately in this case no justice was served.
In the end, justice will be served for what he did.
He benefitted from the Italian rule that old people get house arrest, not prison. Silvio Berlusconi enjoyed that privilege too.
Outstanding Mark 👌🏽
A WW2 historian second to none
Dr. Felton, you're so knowledgeable and I'm so grateful to subscribe to your channel !! Thank you so much for educating me!!!!
Excellent Dr. Felton, you've set yourself a high standard that you keep meeting at the very least
Mark. Your record of this war will stand for decades perhaps centuries. Bravo Mr Felton.
Ty brother
Great 4 part series broken into manageable chunks.
A facinating tale, thank you.
Erich knew exactly what he was doing, hiding behind the notion of "just following orders", in his weakness Erich forgot his humanity, his compassion and became a monster.
Much like the criminals in our societies today with their mandatory lock downs, forced vaccinations, and beating protesters on the streets.
Allegedly
Agreed, he got away with murder.
Did they order him to run away? Monsters all of them
Staunchness which protects false ego to a great horrible fault.
Today Putin does not take moral responsibility for his actions killing innocent. He says he is compelled by the deeds of a distant personage.
Similar nightmarish thinking and action.
Dear Dr. Felton:
This Chanel is by far the Greatest Contribution to History one can find!
Thanks for your efforts and entusiast dedication.
Specific weird compliment but: I appreciate how you don’t feel the need to try hard to be a quirky comedian, or rip off Tim and Eric’s editing style like much of the rest of TH-cam. It’s fine for a serious subject to be presented seriously.
Are you joking? Have you ever seen a history channel use Tim & Eric’s editing style. This comment is beyond bizarre.
Watched all 4 episodes absolutely amazing story, once again thank you.
Great series, would love to see more of these types of videos!
He literally does these videos all the time. Stfu
Italian Justice is just insane !!
Incredible to think a mass murderer got away with just a few years in jail because he was old.
That he was unrepentant to the end he should have dictated that he rotted in jail until his death
Magnificently researched and presented again. Fascinating viewing.
It’s chilling that so many of these old Nazis have escaped justice, even living into ripe old ages. I have a friend who turned out to be a descendent of the Butcher Of Prague Reinhard Hyderich.
Is it illegal to be related to someone?
@@hanzzimmer1132 you are right. sins of the father and all that
Reinhard Hyderich was assassinated during WWII. He didn’t live until a ripe old age.
More people like you & I need to read this!
Space Race
Heydrich was murdered. Shot dead on the streets, in cold blood. It is chilling how so many young “liberals” have escaped reason.
Great work sir. Kindly do one about the Vatican role in hiding Nazi criminals
I love the look of the guards next to Priebke
Thank You Dr.Marc.
Im from Chile, we have some notorious nazis too, Walter Rauff comes to my mind, the guy who engineered the mobile gas vans…here he never hid his identity and he never was extradited or face justice because our Supreme Court didnt conside that crimes against humanity never prescribed. So the man died peacefully in the south of Chile which has a large german ancestry and is extremely beautiful, makes you wonder things
he helped Pinochet's regime
@@markrobinowitz8473 A lot of ex SS ers have been educating some latin american gouvernments the art of torture. That is why they could live relativly easy there. The worse from the worse,protected by the worse of the worse.
Kissinger put a democratically elected govt.out in Chile because they were "socialist".
And so did Pinochet who is still revered there, evaded trial and died quite old and in peace.
@@Hudpix16 not revered actually, but yes, he is a very controversial figure
Dr. Felton if you are looking for ideas on new videos you should look into German investigations of their own crimes during the war. For example the story of SS judge Morgen investigating concentration camps is very interesting and not that well known.
Sounds very interesting
nice to see everyone up late I could always use a nighttime Nazi story
Thank you, Mark!
Wow, what a story!
Thank you for your excellence in telling this disturbing story. As I have followed each episode in turn, I have grown increasingly sickened by Nazi inhumanity.
...and worried about its resurgence all over the place, perhaps?
thanks for all you do Mark
Great video series as always, Dr Felton! There's also a case of Germans investigating their own crimes (by judge and lawyer, SS-Sturmbahnführer Georg Konrad Morgen), which you might want to consider for the next series.
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With which soft result?!
My god all those lives cut short, yet the monster got to live a century in relative harmony.
Yup and they still didn't put him in jail
Yep. How the world works...
Always interesting, thank you.
I would love to see a video based on August Kubizek's memoirs on young Hitler.
Excellent book. Amazon has it but I read it many years ago.
Very well done indeed Mark
Damn been following this series for a month
Glad I stayed up late tonight. Great job as always my friend. 👍
The good die young. Priebke lived to 100.
Whoever thought life was fair hasn’t been paying attention.
Perhaps more likely, your lifespan has nothing to do with your perceived virtue or the morality of your actions while alive.
To live long has nothing to do with being a good or bad person. Just exercise more daily and eat healthy, that's all.
Me Felton thank you for your video, unfortunately this is just one more that got away.
Would love to see you do a deep dive on the Belford agreement
Do you mean the Balfour agreement? The Zionist bringing America into WW1 to get Palestine.
@@djmech3871 yes, that one.
Great job. Thanks for the videos.
i hope you keep it transparent and share the atrocities some allied soldiers also commited in Asia and Europe!
Maybe if you provide some examples he'll know where to start digging. It's not like it's printed in a history book somewhere.
I would be interested in such videos as well
@@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 you dont think He knows!? Hes a historical Dr. Im a mear pheasant. Lets keep it one hundred. If you are miss informed its very easy to find.
@@asintonic Not who I replied to. Amazing how reading comprehension and critical thinking are so unbelievably rare as is spelling and grammar. I'm sure there's excuses for the above observations and maybe I'll be blessed with some shortly.
They was many for sure. Murder, rape and torture. One of them was a American soldier who one time was a suspect in the Phantom Killer cases by the name Emmett Daniels who was involved in the Lippach massacre in Germany in 1945, where he murdered and raped but the charges were dropped. Yes, they was many in also many war since World War 2 & before.Its like Stalin once said, One dead is horrific but a million is statistic.
Keep em coming Doc
Excuses can't absolve one of war crimes commissioned wilfully or not.Thanks Doc.
Unless they are done by our troops in the middle east.
Another fine series. I would like to see (and I know this one has been done ad infinitum) The Battle of Midway done Mark Felton style. Also the Battle of Leyte Gulf
“I’ve been in the hands of men that were just ‘following orders”… never again!”
- Erik Lehnsherr, Cuba, 1962
Easy to say, harder to do.
@@theforgottenbrawlers it's a lot easier when you have magnetic superpowers.
It's amazing how the monsters lived until they were in their 90s
If the “justice” was across the board for all German and Japanese perpetrators maybe I’d feel different about how Mr. Priebke was treated.
The Japanese, after the war, were the same as the Soviets during the war.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
They knew the USSR was quickly going to be a MUCH bigger problem than the Japanese ever were.
Do you think that if a police officer only tickets one speeder and not all of them the one speeder who was ticketed shouldn't have any penalty?
@@quintrankid8045 That's not a comparable argument. To apply your metaphor: if one only ticketed people who speed while driving red cars, then punishment would be unjust for how haphazardly the law is enforced.
I must agree with you.
@@cretansuperbos2121
The car color is an absolutely horrible analogy.
Fact is things were extremely complicated. Lots of people were useful to our side, and that usefulness is the only reason they didn't hang.
Others got lucky one way or another, and a few undoubtedly got worse than they deserved.
Can't wait for part 5!
We are repeating history now.
Putin ☠️
Thank you for showing only relevant images, and not padding your great narrative with stock photos and video.
So let me get this straight. A soldier cannot claim they were following orders because during WWI they didn't want to have to execute heads of state?
Excellent video bud.
Good morning, all.
I love listening to you Mark
It's surprising to me that many of these escapees didn't get quietly "offed" before the law could officially catch up with them.
At least one did...though that was a botched Mossad operation that was supposed to render a living defendant.
Joachim Piper, not so quiet though.
Mark. Thanks for providing my Monday night entertainment!
Good series , are you going to cover the war crimes trials at the end of World War One ?
As a gentleman below comments, it would be fascinating to see an investigation of the Vatican's role in helping Nazis escape justice.
Another very interesting video. I find this period extremely interesting. I find it very, very interesting that SS personnel who refused to commit atrocities were not punished. This alone gives the lie to the "I was only following orders" nonsense.
Judging from the context, perhaps you meant to write "...SS personnel who did not refuse to commit atrocities..." ?
@@markmaki4460 You need to listen again carefully. The wording expressed by the former is correct.
@@deerdave Okay. I'm listening. Carefully.
Perhaps Harriet meant "...SS personnel who ordered atrocities yet refused to themselves commit them..." ?
Perhaps we should leave it for Harriet to clarify. Unless you are telepathic or something. Or the same person.
@@markmaki4460 Listening again in particular the passage from 4:30 to 5:35 approx it confirms that SS personnel who refused to carry out an execution order were not punished. That is by the SS themselves. Hope this clarifies Harriet's point. Note I'm not trying to be clever or seem superior in any way just trying to point out your apparent mis reading of the event.
@@deerdave I will leave it to Harriet to speak for herself thank you.
The concept we call justice seems to have enduringly avoided Erich Priebke's mind.
Seems to have pretty much avoided the old bastard himself, too...
Love the 11:11 run time. Seems fitting for this video.
Love your stuff as always, if you have some stuff on WW1 that would be great also.
Never was one Soviet War Criminal tried?
No, their crimes were applauded internationally, and intranationally awarded with statues and medals.
Well the main one was in charge of every damn thing, so...
I cannot imagine that a German officer, especially a member of the SS, existed who would have had both the legal knowledge and the nerve to declare Adolf Hitler had given an illegal order.
As a Christian devotee (eternal sinner) Roman Catholic, I was immensely proud to learn from Mark Felton's podcast, that this unmentionable swine hund, (manifest sinner), was denied Holy Absolution from our Church. Justice
I like to call it St. Maximilian Kolbe's righteous vengeance.
I guess it's alright to have all those pedophile priest running around and the church did nothing.
As if that did anything of value.
@@GeoStreber ohhh edgy boii alert
Lol the catholic church helped him (and plenty of other Nazi and fascist war criminials) to flee in the first place, so nothing the catholic church can be proud of.
Fantastic Documentry Mark
Which shows that no one be hidden away from crimes against no matter how many years after WW2 !!
This is the kind of attitude expressed by the members of the WEF..
Also the W.H.O. who will/has the power to shutdown any country dump enough to sign their independence away like the US has or is about to.
I have resisted googling this story to not get spoilers
"International Law" will only ever favour the powerful. It was not heeded in Vietnam/Iraq...... etc. Hypocrisy.
The North Vietnamese would not have been punished for their treatment of American POWs, nor Iraqi Terrorist.
William Calley and Lyndie England disagree.
The thing I find disturbing is that he didn't seem to realise there was anything to have remorse about. I think that might be a problem that we can still see today.
I wonder what would have happened if he had admitted his guilt & his sorrow for the crimes committed?
perhaps he would not be screaming in hell , as he is now . I hope.
If released he would have been hunted by Israel and assassinated or kidnapped
Well he does seem to have taken responsibility. Proudly, though. So, no chance of sorrow from him. (And none of sorrow from any of us now the old bastard's dead...)
Dr. Felton - I watched all 4 episodes. Well done. Your research, attention to detail, and presentation was outstanding. I must admit I was shocked to learn that many Catholic officials not only aided Nazi war criminals, but did so enthusiastically. Why did they do this? What was their rationale?
It seems like that these people got off easy.
at 0:20 the dude in the right looks like he pushed the slider all the way to the max for face width and did the minimum for length. That's a wide boi
How the hell are Tony Blair and George Bush still not in prison for war crimes?
"This is a war about VALUES!" Blair promised us, when the balkanic idiocy began.
Because being wrong or an idiot isn't a war crime. Bad intelligence from an Iraqi spy lead them to believe Iraq had chemical weapons. Wasn't right but they weren't rounding up civilians.
@@harrypotta2188 so it had nothing to do with Saddam Hussain wanting to trade oil in a different currency to the Petrodollar? The same reason why Gadaffi was ousted and killed because he wanted to trade in gold.
@@ulrikjensen6841 I do not see the Balkan issue being connected with American dominance in the trade of oil in dollars.
Because they were on the "winning" side....
When is “The Vault” channel coming out?
Mark; another high quality presentation. You might be interested to know that TH-cam abounds with Russian Trolls currently justifying the actions and atrocities perpetrated by Russian soldiers in Ukraine (they target anyone that posts a sympathetic view towards Ukraine and also anyone who mentions war crimes). The very arguments that they put forward; are exactly the ones that you quote in your video from the WWII Nazi period. I have been targetted on several occassions. Keep up your excellent service (Thank You).
There are also a sadly numerous faction of nazi sympathizers around here who use the brutality of the soviets as an excuse for German war crimes. (Even explaining away Goebbels murdering his own children…)
Indeed i will attest to this. I suspect many if not most of them are actually "false flags" - that is, they are actually Ukrainian directed or inspired trolls who are behaving so in order to discredit Russia. I suppose we can never know for sure without impractically costly investigations.
Truth is the first casualty of war, and i would argue is also the first casualty (where this is any) of any media product.
What atrocities by Russians? Those announced by CNN and disproven within days? The false flags claimed by the heroic but notoriously dishonest Ukrainians?
War is the crime.
Can we have a video on Britain's war crimes in the Opium Wars of 1843?
One life wouldn't be sufficient to know all about british crimes that they carried all over the world. It would be great if Dr. Felton also cover the Stalin's war crimes
Nah, he prefers the easy WW2 storys, I would like to see one on Churchills famine/genocide of 3 million Indians.
@@y_ffordd How about one about nazi and rusky trolls ?
Nope we are never getting that
How does crimes against humanity and/or war crimes have an expiration date
Seems kind of petty that they wouldn't let him be buried with his wife.
He deserved far worse than than that but at least Argentina eventually turned away a Nazi.
@@5000rgb I hope something happens that causes you to develop empathy.
@@KriegZombie Empathy for those who were part of one of the greatest crimes against humanity and felt no remorse? I'll save my empathy for better recipients.
@@5000rgb I bet you buy plenty of Chinese shit. Are you okay with what they are doing?
You have been taught to have an emotional reaction to this subject. Grow up. There is a lot more going on in the world than the childish story you were told. You think being filled with hate for a corpse that was already punished makes YOU the good guy?
Not as petty as shooting people in the back of the head!
Shame on them for letting him serve his time at home. A privilege not permitted to those he murdered
The law should also go after all those, including Catholic priest and bishops, that aided and abetted these criminals escape. As a Catholic, the behavior in this and other matters demonstrates a serious problem at the highest levels of The Church. I guess the behaviors they call sinful when others engage in them don’t apply to them, including sexual behavior of the clergy.
Rules for thee, not for me. A very long-established principle...
Surprising, the longevity of these old Nazis. I wonder why?
Could it be that they were so physically fit in their youth and they had continued with a physical regime into later life?
Quite a large amount of Allied D-Day survivors still around, too, at 100 or above. Some below, of course, but not by much.
And most likely, a lot of people that never became famous got or will get to that age. But wars and tragedies show up in the newspapers, that's how you learn about, for example, people who survived the Titanic disaster in 1912 that also reached or passed the 100 year mark. They simply "were there", and got put on a list of sorts.
Because they found help in
many countries, for food
and job and protection. Under
these circumstances it's not
difficult to live comfortably
and long! Unjust destiny...
unfortunately...
Dziękuję za program, ciekawe ilu ich zmarło śmiercią naturalną w Ameryce Południowej.
Thousands and thousands.
That symbol on the police hats is a bit over the top!Looks like a flame 🔥 or maybe a feather?
Priebke was simply on the wrong side. When Americans murdered Italian and German POWs in Sicily, they were tried and got a slap on the wrist. In the worst case, a life imprisonment sentence was commuted after a year, the soldier restored to his former rank and eventually granted an honorable discharge. Truth, Justice and the American Way.
Oh yes and these events naturally excused those directed from the top on the German side. I suppose you used the same style of argumentation too when caught in the wrong as a small child and probably throughout your life. Cheers.
@@markmaki4460 nice straw man, the guy is just pointing out an obvious double standard. The idea presented by Felton that a British officer would never do such acts is laughable when you know anything about the history of the British army, same goes for the Americans
@@patrickfleming253 You willfully ignore the differences. There is no double standard, except in your mind and those of your ilk.
@@markmaki4460 you’re such a biased fool and engaging with you any further would be totally useless so I’ll let you bask in your wilful ignorance and leave it at that
For those who are not astute enough to detect the fallacy of this argument, i shall explain a little.
The crimes committed by the Germans which are addressed in this series are documented to have originated with orders at the highest levels of the chain of command.
The crimes committed by the Allies which this commenter uses as excuses for those of the Germans never originated any higher than the field command level.
The Germans who committed the crimes addressed in this series could have, it is argued, refused to carry out the crimes they were ordered to commit. I will leave it for the reader (as it was left to the Germans on the spot at the time) to conclude if this was indeed the case.
The difference perhaps is easiest to conceive of as this: in the case of the crimes committed by the Germans, the crimes were 1st degree murder; in the case of the crimes committed by the Allies (and many of the Germans and their allies, not addressed in this series, i would add) used to excuse those of the Germans, the crimes were 2nd degree murder. That is, premeditated murders versus murders of passion. In the case of premeditation, those actually performing the murders who do so willingly are also guilty of premeditation.
"BUT DAD! My brother did the same thing and he wasn't punished like you are punishing me!" said the child, shedding tears. Did the child really do the same thing? Perhaps all of us argued this way when we were small children caught in the wrong; but most of us outgrew this way of arguing, while others grew skilled at applying the argument to other situations.
Nevertheless it is hollow and immature and frankly cowardly.
I don't care how old he was, he should have been put into a dark dank prison cell with all the other criminals because that is exactly what he was-a criminal! I kind of wish he had been sentenced by his own people in Germany where he could have been booed!!! Then maybe he would have realize that even 'his people whom he loved' didn't even support him!
If war criminals were punished fairly , at least 75,000 American soldiers from our many wars an operations from the last 20 years would be in prison for life , or hanged .
… and Dick Cheney.
… and Donald Rumsfeld.
@@pmcmanus420 Bill Clit.. Clinton, George W. Bush.
Indeed. 😄
And Joey Biden, for pulling out & causing 13 Americans deaths.
The arrogance of this man is sickening