Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
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- Many men who were partly of Jewish ancestry served in the German armed forces during WW2 - find out how and why they ended up in Hitler's army.
For more information about this topic, suggested reading is 'Hitler's Jewish Soldiers' by Bryan Mark Rigg - www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish...
Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fe...
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This is the sort of channel that should used on the curriculum of schools. Ive learnt alot from Mark Felton.
Self education is the best education. I mean even if his videos were used in school people still wouldn’t pay attention
@@RedVelvetBlackleather So you plan to be a self-educated doctor or rocket scientist. Don't call me, and I won't call you.
Most definitely , the PAST MUST be remembered , even Mandela said "bury history & it will happen again" .
@@charlieboy-dh1ns The guy did not specify that that is what he meant. I just take him at his word.
@@nedludd7622
Chill out buddy I was under the idea that we were talking about grade school history students, of course we ALL LEARN something from school but for people who really want to broaden their education they usually do that outside of school, or they move on to higher education.
I love the obscure, little-known stories from WWII. Just when you think you’ve learned it all, Dr. Felton gives you another tidbit.
LOL! Bryan Mark Rigg wrote his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" 19 years ago! Mark Felton is a little late on this subject!
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Still if Mark Felton didnt have uploaded this video, many of us wouldnt have known
Me too! I also love little-known (intentionally) stories from WWII and other times... I recommend you books of Thomas Dalton, PhD, and Veronica Kuznyar-Clark, they tell much more than Felton. Also search for "271,301 Red Cross", you will be very surprised. And to understand the opposite side, search for "Stalin's Enslavement of Rural Russia (full documentary)", and "sexual revolution in Weimar Germany in 1920s" and "Bolshevik sexual revolution in 1920s", and "extermination of Cossacks by Bolsheviks", and you will understand why at least 5,000,000 Slavs joined Germans in WWII. Real history was totally opposite from what modern schools tell to naive people. It was never about Germans or Germany, it was only about freedom from Marxism in all its ugly forms.
@@peterharte5841 19! The copyright of my copy of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" is 2002!
My great-grandmother was half Jewish, and because my great-grandfather married her, he got expelled from the Wehrmacht and sent to the Organisation Todt as a forced labourer to build bunkers on the French coastlines.
Both survived the war and settled down in Vienna
Is it just me or does this division and different treatment of people in accordance with their DNA strangely remind me (of course in a much less drastic way) of the left's dividing people in accordance with their DNA as well as what they can and cannot say in accordance with this DNA?
Ah so they werent g-$$ed. They were only sent to labor camps
erz: You may wish to read the book: Hitler's Jewish Soldiers.
The book's assertion is that there were 150,000 Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht.
@@BasementEngineer they served in the German Army for their own survival.
@@hanaluong2672 If you drill right down to it, ALL western soldiers served for that purpose.
That's what the heavy propaganda in the so-called democracies was for.
Just been to a funeral of an old friend of the family, we knew she was a German Jew and her parents destroyed all her papers as a child and changed her name from Rachel to Ursula, in the funeral we found out that she was in the Hitler youth and was hiding in plain sight all through the war. Amazing to know that there were so many that survived this way
Once Jew, forever Jew
There’s no paper or name that can change that
So a national socialist by heart not by race. Thats true patriotism.
My friends much older Jewish cousins (who were friends with Jung prewar) and whose parents were already "Buddhist" somehow survived the war,
in Berlin!
@@ashrain6235Christians: ✡️
@@ashrain6235 ultimately all people came from the same parents in Africa that’s all that matters
Wow the German army was so inclusive!
Very.
They even let captured Soviets serve by defending Normandy. 🤣
George Soros
Lol
They re more tolerate than Maga nazis 😂 !!
A mini-episode on Eduard Bloch, a Jewish doctor who treated the Hitler family, would be worthwhile. He was protected by Hitler himself after the Nazi annexation of Austria and was allowed to immigrate to America with no resistance. As Hitler put it: “Dr. Bloch is an Edeljude - a noble Jew. If all Jews were like him, there would be no Jewish question.”
The problem is that not all jews can be a doctor who personally treated Hitlers mother
@@lafox2833 😂
So apparently someone lied about history
@@uberalles9797 Yeah because in Mein Kempf, Hitler says that during his youth he never actually understood what a jew even was. like he never saw one, un
less he never knew the doctor was jewish until he grew up and stuff.
@@outis439-A What?Bruh did you ever read mein Kampf?
Hitler was struggling in Vienna after he got rejected from the art school..
Even he was sleeping in the streets sometimes... He clearly recalled there was a Jewish Cloth seller who gave cloths to Hitler when he was freezing in the cold..His commanding officer in the German army in WW1 was a Jew..Heck even a little girl used to visit Hitler before the war who was Jew.Whom she referred to as Uncle Hitler and Hitler used to talk with her and meet with her every week but after during WW2 he couldn't maintain that contact as the party pressured him to cut ties with the girl as she was a Jew..He even has a photo with her..Can google It if you like
I really appreciate that you locate and share these very interesting parts of history. I spent time in military school and study military history from the Ancient Greek, Romans, Spartans,Egyptian etc….and more in-depth WWI and WWIII. You continue to fascinate by constantly giving me new information. Thank you. Ignorance is a terrible thing.
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These are easily the best, more interesting WW2 videos on TH-cam, I thank you Dr. Felton, you are a national treasure.
"...History is more grey than black and white..."
Well, sir, you have just added another color to give us a clearer picture of things. Thanks for the videos!
Does that mean Mark is endorsing 50 Shades of Gray?
@@raygiordano1045 what???
Try blue history ... it'll blow your mind
Grey like German uniforms yes
History is nothing more then “his”story
"History is more grey than black and white" is an extremely good quote and maybe the best for summing up history as a subject in general
Ikr
@@aduantas this
I'd argue its all black. There's no heroes in politics. Only martyrs and monsters
I suppose whitewaahing evil makes it appear grey.
Or just all of existence, even. Almost *nothing* exists in stark white, nor pitch black - in nearly every regard, any action, inaction, or reaction is a double-edged sword. There is an inherent duality to everything that happens or exists - by choice, by design, or by happenstance.
As an intentionally extreme example: It is only by the actions of murderers, and even genocidists, that a meaningful perspective of the true monstrosity of such acts is bestowed upon us.
Love your videos, my grandfather said this happened in Germany but I didn't believe him that there were German Jews in the Nazis. My grandfather was born in Berlin and lived there till 1939 and he had said that he knew Jews who were high up in the Nazis.
Research the 1933 German Transfer Agreement. It will blow your mind to see the 2 parties that were involved in this agreement and why!!
It just proves that the elite Jews sold out their own in those times
Yea HITLERS WIFE WAS HALF JEWISH
eichmann, heydrich(half), goebbels, himmler, its not about small hats and going to synagoge, its surnames, family and obvious genetics, for example eichmann appearance screams literally jew
Believable. Now there are Zionist Nazis in Israel
This man somehow always finds more and more interesting facts about these people,just when you think that the well has dried up. Bravo, enjoyable, and educational as always thank you and God bless your family and friends. Great work as always!
Professor Mark is an unconventional youtuber. We need more educated TH-camrs like him and he deserves more views.
Unconventional for being educated. Too true.
Best known for the _bumper music._
He's not unconventional, he's just the most known one. Watch less cat videos and you'll find more good stuff in here
@@Bobspineable He's not a professor to the best of my knowledge but does have a doctorate in history from the University of Essex.
The problem with history as a subject for a doctorate or academic subject is that you are largely rehashing and collating what other people have documented. You can't tell it like it was, because by very definition, you weren't there.
Whereas science, maths, and engineering are on the forefront of new and original work.
indeed
World War 2 and the history around it has always been my biggest interest, and your channel is like heaven. You cover such interesting subjects, I thank you Dr Felton! 🙏🏼
Watch Europa The Last Battle
Read up what General Patton was saying before he got killed.
Emil Maurice was also the co founder of the SS
Absolutely, enjoy mein freund
@Jack Stucki : Simple anti-semitism and not everyone throughout history hated the Jews, so your premise is simply incorrect.
Out of all the ww2/hitler/nazi docs I've watched, I don't ever recall hearing this. Thanks for sharing! Great video.
Excellent episode as always Dr. Felton! I really appreciate and love all the work you do to produce such great content!
I was busy procrastinating when this notification came - and all of a sudden I’m no longer wasting time but drinking good coffee and learning from history.
Me too, it's a lovely day here but I'm still in the virtual library burying myself deeper and deeper in the vast encyclopaedia that is the internet. It gets like this when no one is home.
Procrastinating?
Is that the thing which'll make you go blind?
(Joke. I know what it means.)
If you want to learn some banned history watch Europa The Last Battle
@Grey Donovun ok jew
@Grey Donovun Yeah, read the description
Fun fact - Taiwanese were classified as white by the SA Apartheid government while Chinese were classified as non-white. Both are ethnically Han-Chinese. It was because the SA government had a close relationship with the ROC.
There are many non-Han in both Taiwan and China. The current president of Taiwan is Hakka.
The Third Reich trained several Divisions of Chinese troops until the alliance with Japan got in the way.
@@jeffreysommer3292 Imagine if Germany persuaded Japan to leave the then China alone and ally with them for natural resources and man power. Ohhh boy.
Commies are never 'white' - they are RED.
@@stevenobrien557 Hakka people are Han Chinese too, it's like within Han Chinese we have a lot subgroups.
unbelievably consistently good content. amazing.
Wow, this was facinating. I subscribed. Thank you.
I'm actually surprised at how relatively "lax" the classification scheme was compared to what I thought it would be. You could be all the way up to half Jewish and still be accorded German citizenship???!!! I'd always assumed even a hint of Jewish ancestry anywhere in your family tree and you were pretty much done for.
Same here
Television and cinema is responsible for the misunderstanding there.
That's what those who wrote down the history book version wanted you to believe.... for ages.
Welcome to the rabbit hole, it's much deeper in here and lot's more secrets want to light.
@Chad Plow well its also too much history to cover when covering ww2 especially u.s history since the pacific theater was more or less the result of U.S-Japanese tension. And the European theater was helping out old friends. For the larg part we get the anti germans British version of event and Japan get a soft ball lesson becaue we feel bad for dropping the a bombs so we don't learn about their atrocities in China.
It also seems that it depends on who you know also. Connected mixed Germans might have gotten away with a lot more than just regular mixed Germans.
summary of this video :
"I'm deciding who is Jewish and who is not !"
Herman Goering
Yeah Goering really didn’t care much about the racial stuff. In fact, if it was up to him all German Jews, especially those that served in the military during WW1 would have been “Aryanized”..
If I recall, Göring was state premier of Prussia before the administrative reorganisation from states into Gaue (a Gau is like a valley, but in this case more like a region), which was still a very large chunk of Germany after WWI, around 50% or so.
Herman was thinking about Alfred Kesselring Smiling Alfred
Ja
they allowed people with Jewish ancestry in the military but not in science. I really don't get it. Wonder how important antisemitism really was to the high-ranking Nazis apart from Hitler and Himmler of cause. All the dead jews were nothing more than a tool for the Reich.
Interesting and informative.Excellent photography job.Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction.Class A research project.
I absolutely love your content! I have been a viewer since 2020...keep up the good work Sir!
You should eat cheese flavoured cheese.
Mark Felton has been considered severely underrated. He deserves many many more credits
If Mark Felton is going to use Bryan Mark Rigg's work and title, he should at least acknowledge him!
Who exactly is underrating him?
@@benadam7753 Then he would have to pay Mr Rigg's a royalty.
He is not underrated lmao especially for a history channel
how is he underrated, stfu
The quote: "I decide who is a jew" originally came from Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna during the late 19th century
I’m wondering when the Adolf Hitler lovers will show up here and accuse the Jewish German soldiers of not being Jewish enough.
@William Joseph Blazkowicz you are a Jew
@Electric Fire In my country we can criticise everyone, that means we got no rulers? D:
@Electric Fire Spain and this the rule in most of the UE.
and your point is, Mein Herr?
Wow, this I had not been aware of! Thank you for your great videos.
Simply, an extraordinary channel. And also extraordinary content.
Revealing the truth instead of creating a narrative is worthy of admiration. Thank you Dr. Felton.
I wonder if dr mark felton will mention the haavara agreement 1933-48 as it created the middle eastern wars
Exactly
@Dreymon Green lol no it started long before then buddy
What truth? What are you implying?
This is what happens when you blame an entire race or ethnicity (the institution) for what a small handful may have done in certain professions. It led to the genocide not only in Germany, but the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, etc. This occurs when individual responsibility is ignored, or destroyed.
Werner Goldberg’s Book is brilliant. I remember reading it in middle school and I still have it in my small little library. A lovely piece of biography.
Oooh, never knew he wrote a biography! Thanks for the info, think ill pick it up myself.
Could you, please provide the book name ?
Where can I purchase his 📖 book please....
@@cu4870 “A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army” I believe was the title.
@@internetstrangerstrangerofweb Written by Georg Rauch or Bryan Mark Rigg ? Thank you very much
The History Channel I believe did an episode on this, a few years ago. They interviewed a couple soldiers.
Do a video on the Haavara agreement
jawohl mein führer!
BTW you didn't watch this video, did you? ....it's not about Jews...but you can't help yourself when you see the word "Jewish" and you have to vomit your rabid antisemitism.
@@tatonemio6388 you are like a zionist rabbi, using antisemitism wherever you can lmao (oy vey!!!)
@@bac6868History is antisemitic!
@@badmen1550 So is Jesus and the bible. I love it! 😂
@@badmen1550
no you are.
Ah, a cup of coffee and a Mark Felton video.
Aye, same!
early risers represent
*raises mug and nods*
You forgot the croissant 😀
It would of been tea for me but I finished that before I found this video.
I'm German and I've learned more about the second world war from you than I learned from my school and we're taught very thoroughly about Hitler, his rise and the second world war.
Thank you for providing this information for free, I'm not a history student so I'd never have known alot if these facts without you!
Did you also learn that the Germans, singlehandedly, stopped the communist Soviets from invading Europe?
I'm most grateful to my German relatives for their courage and sacrifice to achieve this.
@@BasementEngineer I’d like to hear that story, as I don’t believe I’ve heard it before. Can you elaborate?
@@to3ta64 There are numerous books that have dealt with these issues. Two that I can recommend are "Icebreaker" by Viktor Suvorov, and "Germany's War" by John Wear.
Another good one is "Churchill and Hitler, the Unnecessary War".
If you really wish to dig deeper into these issues, I can recommend another ten or so books.
Naturally you wont find them in your library or neighbourhood book store.
@@to3ta64 USSR was ready to invade Germany and western Europe. The Germans knew this and struck preemptively one month earlier.
The books I have listed in an earlier reply deal with this scenario extensively.
have you read Mein Kampf?
Amazing details and information! Excellent job!
@markfelton I love your works especially the speed
You’re doing well !
As a Nigerian will say
You’re doing well 👍🏻
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Another topic that would’ve been good talking about is Georg Rauch, he was a Jewish soldier who was known by the Nazis who didn’t care that he was Jewish, as long as he went to the Eastern Front. His book is called unlikely warrior, very interesting book.
Couldn't be true, it isn't what professor. Goldblatt told me.
Rather a powerful message here - hatred of the 'other' falls apart logically and emotionally if one actually knows one of the 'other'.
@Gregory Smith He had a Jewish grandmother, he told his commanding officer this and the officer went ballistic and sent him to the Eastern Front
@Gregory Smith
I call it 'Othering," or being 'Othered' into a different box, in order to save or give 'Grace' to those who are loved by those in charge.
@Gregory Smith are you a Marxist? Do you like what Stalin represented?
Nazi propagandist: Hmmm Werner Goldberg…. Doesn’t sound Jewish to me, welcome to team!
Edited: spelling
I thought the same about Maurice. While I am not sure about it as a last name, it is pretty common first name for Jews in America.
Imagine suspecting a guy named Reinhard Heydrich is Jewish, but not Werner Goldberg
There are several places in Germany called Goldberg, including a city in the north. And there have been and still are several germans with the family name Goldberg. It's just that outside of the german speaking area such names are usually taken for jewish names only. If you had said the same about the name Rosenberg, you would have regretted it quickly.
Na zdjecie widac tkz Reichweppen uzywane przez Ordspolizei i SS
Werner Quisling sound about right.
Thanks for history information bro....
Not only is history much subtly shaded than most would have you believe, it is also written by the victors, with their inherent bias against, and imperfect understanding of, their former enemies.
Mark I wish when I was in high school you were my teacher, you have my complete attention from start to finish. Please keep these videos coming, and thank you for all the hard work you put into each one
Hitler: This man is the perfect Aryan.
Soldier: Starts sweating in Hebrew.
Lol
Presumably using some salty language?
Most likely in Yiddish.
While hiding an uzi under his jacket
@@seanokeefe703 uzi in ww2?? Go back to the hospital mate
this was so full of new information for me that I was shocked when the video ended and it was only 8 minutes!
buy the book (in the description)
The greatest irony of all is that there was a strong possibility that Hitler had Jewish ancestry.
Jewish is an ancestry ? How ?
Bro thinks jew is a religion status 😂😂 bro judaism is a ethnoreligion@@LBJisBOULESPORTSANDPOLIT-tl3so
There is no “History” channel. There is only Mark Felton.
Nah he's history
No, there’s definitely also a History channel.
So sick of these cliche comments on his channel
don't forget there's also Sandrhoman History, Kings and Generals and Armchair Historian
Ancient Aliens is really good.
You forgot to mention how about 20 of them also earned the Knights Cross
hey glad to see you here!
Sehr interessant, danke!
I remember reading how some Jews hid by serving in the Waffen SS on the Eastern front. That would make a good Felton video.
Ha, I watch your vids
Kind of ruins the narrative.......................
Great content!
Okay very interesting. Thanks for the very informative video.
I love this channel because it reminds me of the old days of the History Channel even down to the theme song. I believe this channel is continuing the long tradition of great World War 1 & 2 documentaries narrated by the British lol
@@v.5442 Who runs youtube?
@@v.5442 Oh no. We aren’t about to go to that.
Imagine if History channel gave him a show.
@@v.5442 : Your wife?
Although a Finnish soldier, Salomon Altschuler (1913-2019) was one of the few publicly Jewish interpreters for a German officer.
Fortunately for him, in this alliance of convenience the Finns, unlike other states that were allied or occupied, didn't sell out their Jewish citizens, kudos to them for that, and fighting the damned Soviets so bravely.
@@adambaker8689 yes all Finnish jews who died during WW2 died fighting The Soviets. There was even a field synagogue.
To My knowledge 8 jews were deported out of Finland to Germany in 1942, but they were not citizens.
I am unaware how many of them died.
I do know that after this event The Finnish church and prominent politicians and Marshall Mannerheim were furious, and during the war Finland took in 500 jews, many of them were sent to Sweden under direct orders from Mannerheim to protect their lifes from potential German killing.
It really is weird that one of Hitlers most usefull allies, did not partake in exterminaton, nor facism.
Maybe it was because Finland stayed a Democracy during the whole war and never truly joined the axis.
@@peltimies2469 Thanks for the reply, very interesting. Completely agree with your last paragraph. I believe that the UK was at war with the Finns to appease the Soviets, and this is the only instance where 2 democracies have ever been at war.
@@peltimies2469 Interesstingly hitler statet in an dokument a few weeks until the nazi-regime ends that the main reason to fight russia was to protect finnland, also rumanian from soviet occupation! There was not only one word to read about the interessts of germany/germans and only a few sentences about the lost war, a competley destroyed nation and millions of deads and refugees! At least i have to resume "we" made war "only" to protect a german minority in poland and to save finnland and rumanian?!
@@carstenmanz302 too late for the German minority in Romania
Another prominent example in this regard would be the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 named Helmut Schmidt. He was considered a Jew 2nd degree, but fought for Hitler on the Eastern Front during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and served as an Oberleutnant in the Flak artillery on the Western Front from December 1944 onwards.
The fact The Nazi invented a classification for "Jewishness" is just racism and irrelevant.
Helmut Schmidt was not a Jew
"Schmidt's father was born the biological son of a German Jewish banker, Ludwig Gumpel, and a Christian waitress, Friederike Wenzel"
This was one of your best and proves laws can be dismissed at the whim of the powerful.
Yeah the honorary Aryan clause was made specifically so that can be done. By the end of WW2 Germany employed a lot of non-Germans, because in war, manpower > principles. My step-uncles father was a Slav (Ukrainian) who willingly fought for the Third Reich since the communists killed most of his family, so life circumstances can really shape how someone views a conflict and lead to strange cases, such as a Slav fighting for the faction that wanted to Germanize Slavs, and eliminate those that refused.
@engineer gaming You're power level is showing!
Yes, laws can be dismissed at the whim of the powerful - especially in a fascist state like Nazi Germany where the arbitrary prejudices of the leadership were always more important than law, morality or truth.
In time of war people are going to do what they need to do to survive and people are going to use whatever or whomever they think will help them win. This is another great Mark Felton production!!!
Yep like right now
This is by far one of my favorite channels and you never disappoint. Your research is extremely thorough and I am always surprised to learn something new. Thank you and keep it up!
I’m married to a Jewish woman. We have a fantastic relationship and have for almost 30 years. I state that for obvious reasons. Why are we not allowed to explore the litany of public comments and writings by Jews, many in positions of ‘power’ and influence that expressed hatred, or worse, towards the German and other European peoples? It seems far too convenient for a rational individual to be smeared as an anti Semite or conspiracy theorist when they point out that there are those of questionable motivations on ALL sides.......
UNBELIEVABLE HISTORICAL INFORMATION ... THANKS A MILLION DEAR SIR ...
I never walk away from a Mark Felton video and not be more educated. Thank you, sir!
More educated ,and mainly more indoctrinated to Nazi ideal
@Stxr KillerX are You Ukranian ? Because i appreciate Ukrainians
@Stxr KillerX so ,You are basically a Nazi 🇩🇪
I've been studying and watching documenteries on military history my entire life but I always learn something new from Mark's channel
Honestly not surprised, because there were lots of cases like this, even exceptions where jewish people got arian status. Politicians always contradict themselves and Adolf was no different.
Brilliant once again Mark 👏
I can’t believe this content is free. Thank you for your time in putting this together for us!
The Gran Moff of History hits us again ! Best channel out there.
Very informative
Am subscribed and hit the like button.
Great source for this topic also comes from "Hitler's Jewish Soldier: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military" by Bryan Mark Rigg
Berlin had a Jewish hospital for the entire duration of the war. When the Russian army reached it there were 800 Jewish people inside
Thanks you for showing the sources Mark Felton used for this video. I think he should write the sources down in the description of the video...
Hitlers mother was part Jewish...fact.
Pirates?
@@williamsbark5592 Mark Rigg, a Jewish historian has videos on youtube talking about this.
"History is more grey than black and white" perhaps the best way I've heard that said!
The subtitles are wild.
Well, Hitler also personally kept an eye on his mother's old Jewish Physician's situation and still actively kept in direct contact with him until allowing the man to move, with his family, to the US as Germany's situation worsened. He considered the man a "Good Jew". In one letter, Hitler remarks that if all Jews were like that man, he wouldn't have any problem with them.
Yes Hitler's main beef with Jews wasn't their inferior DNA or looks, it was that they were a potential fifth column which he believed caused Germany's defeat in WW1. Although even Hitler believed in a few exceptions, he felt they were natural spies, sabateurs, and a people that didn't earn their money fairly. Although the last point was likely more red meat for the public than what he actually believed. The main point was he didn't think as a whole they could be loyal Germans. As to non German Jews, most of them were in the east and he had a plan to kill most Slavs anyway, so killing those Jews was a complete no brainer. In Poland the Nazis had the death penalty for helping Jews in any way. In the west penalties were not nearly as severe.
This really is what they mean when they say "real life is stranger than fiction"
It's not strange, only in the light of what we were taught in school. After you did some research though...
You must not have read any decent fiction then.
War is very very natural and will always take place on this planet.
"The Lord is a man of war" Exodus 15:3
@@RealmRiftGaming "And on the eight day, God made the art of war, and laughing planned the end." Nevermore: Deconstruction
Hermann Goering "In conclusion, race is a social construct."
Who would have known that the Nazis were so progressive. Next episode "Hitler's transgender athletes competing at the 1936 Olympics".
Thanks Mark, awesome as ever.
Careful with that there knoife, you might offend the progressive fake left, the diversity squads might send their goons after you on twitter and try to get you cancelled, or killed whichever extremist of the fake left you might ask.
made me laugf
@@emmaisalone good
@@emmaisalone Good
@@emmaisalone is that true?
Interesting video
was it Hasbulla on the preview ?
That History is more grey, than black and white needs to be said more often in 2021.
Truer words were never spoken. Every nation in every era had a mixture of evil people AND good people. We'll never know how many German folks really opposed Hitler, because remember that he tolerated absolutely NO dissent, similar to the Communists. One Luftwaffe pilot said years later that he and others were scared to even make jokes about Hitler, Himmler and other Nazi officials for fear they would be arrested.
Exactly but history that doesn't meet today's woke purity standards gets suppressed...
Doesn't bode well for the future. 😔
@@CS-zn6pp Heck, anything that doesn't fit the woke narrative is covered up. How many younger people today know that there were female service personnel in every branch during World War II and that they were such a huge success (and so popular) that they were made permanent after the war? Or that the first US civil rights act passed in 1957, not '64?
C S care to give any examples?
@@TheTwolesslives Take a look at the "Pyramid of White Supremacy" it claims that we cannot go with the saying "Two sides to every story". That does not leave much space for "grey" conclusions.
Can't wait for the next vid. Always interesting and well researched information. Plus Mark has a good voice for the narration.
Another high profile example that I think should’ve been mentioned was the story of Solomon Perel. He was a Jewish teenager who ended up in the German Army and later the Hitler youth. The whole time he would masquerade as an “Aryan German”.
I love the click picture, the officer looks like he is thinking, what am I doing here
Very good observation. However, remember that in the jewish tradition you are jewish by matrilineal descent. Therefore if your father is jewish and your mother is not then within jewish tradition you're not. Most of these "jewish" soldiers where not even considered jewish by the jewish community.
Although the matrilineal line of desent is the most traditional way of differentiating Jews and non-Jews in the Jewish community it is not the only way. As a person who is half Lutheran/half Jewish, lacks the matrilineal line of desent, and was raised as a Jew I can state from both personal experience and many hours spent in Hebrew school that bloodlines are not the only way of recognizing a person as a member of the Jewish community. Most people would also probably be surprised to learn which Jews tend to adhere most closely to the part of the tradition that values the bloodlines. It isn't the Orthodox.
@@jessicamorris4748 I'm a conservative and Sephardic..if your mom is not jewish ..you have to do the conversion process via a Beth Din... Yes, reform jews bend the rule concerning matrilineal descent but most observant jews and halachically speaking jews will not consider other rule beyond the proper way of conversion. At least in Israel .. it does not accepts a conversion unless is halachically.
"the Jewish community". If they are living in a country where legally the children 's identity is given by the paternal descent, officially they will be Jewish with a Jewish father.
What????? Was that always the case of this matrilineal descent and would you say that the Jewish community is controlled by women?
There are 2 ways of seeing it.. The Jewish way and the non Jewish way. In a technical sense in the Jewish tradition if you're not from a Jewish mother you have to convert via religion
This is interesting, Thanks for sharing us this information
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was a documentary about the IDF. 😮
Yes, you are wrong again. This video is about Christian German with Jewish ancestor serving in the Army.
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) met up with Mussolini and Hitler in 1941 to establish an alliance during WWII.
It's so unfortunate the Palestinian leaders have a long history to pick up the wrong alliances.
@@tatonemio6388So you’re trying to justify killing babies? The Zionists are shameless thieves, worse than Nazis
Wow TH-cam actually didnt took that vid down, you lucky bastard
Me last week: Alright that has to be it, there is no way Mark has even MORE history to share/content to make about WW2...
That era is FULL of surprises.
Watch Europa The Last Battle for more
It was a *big, long war* preceded by *decades of turmoil.* Just as importantly, you are not a historian *who focuses his whole life on the topic,* so of course there will always be new surprises.
That's kind of his thing.
Check out TIK on YT for more in depth analysis of history.
Mark once again smashing it! Great video man, would love to see you make a series on this kinda stuff for TV (idk if you have already).
Mark Riggs wrote a book on this. Great work, great read.
The Waffen SS was THE most diverse army in known history.
They had more cultures and nationalities volunteering for them than Napoleon had in his Grande Armée in the Russian Campaign of 1812.
350,000 volunteers from +30 different countries, about 150,000 Jewish Soldiers whereas 5 of them were Generals and 2 of them rose to the ranks of Field Marshal. This is a strong counter argument to the narrative we've been sold for decades and is just another addition to the list of legitimate arguments for historical revision.
The more you know...
Good video.
Cheers from Portugal! Being a WW2 nerd, I have to say it's a pleasure to watch such informative, detailed, and educational videos. My deepest thanks, Mark Felton.
Your English is great. Why? Also where can I arrive in Portugal to get my private pilot’s license? Thanks for your help!
Absolutely agree with you.There hasn't been a single video of his that I haven't learned something new about WW2.We all learned the Highway version of the History of WW2 but Mark Felton gives us the Byways of that period in Human history.
Thank you Mark Felton.
@@Mobev1 English language is compulsory in the Primary school system and some grew up in former British Colonies like South Africa, Australia, Canada, USA etc.
I am also a ww2 nerd
@@Mobev1 Because the Portuguese are renown geniuses. Source: I'm Portuguese.
Mark will have forgotton more about history than almost all will ever remember.....such fantastic content and should be taught in schools all over the world.....no bias....no agenda....if we would like to know where we are going we have to hear about where we have been.Great stuff Mark.
Fregattenkapitän (Commander) Paul Ascher was also a mischling who served as Artillery Officer on the Graf Spee and later as Admiral Lutchens' Adjutant on the Bismark. He escaped captivity after the loss of the Graf Spee and returned to Germany. He was lost when the Bismark was sunk. He should have quit while he was ahead and stayed in Buenos Aires.
Fun fact: The Ay DL threatened to shut down the entire red cross if they didn't suppress all autopsies from the camps.
The list Is longer than just Goldberg, Milch and Maurice. It included at least two Kriegsmarine admirals and a few Wehrmacht generals.
Apparently Erich Raeder was off Jewish.
Yeah new info
@@VisualdelightPro there were rumors about lütjens too, i believe.
Perhaps the most popular was west german chancelor Helmut Schmidt, in the third reich he was just a soldier but very famous later.
Indeed, there were many. Mark should do another video on this topic.
This channel should be required viewing for every student in the USA 🇺🇸 and the rest of the world 🌎.
You know this will never happen because it exposes that the Allies deliberately lied to their citizens in order to justify their own actions during war time. In war, everybody is a savage and the Red Cross only has legitimacy when being filmed. There are no exceptions.
Why the rest of the World second haha
Why the USA
@@laurencethornblade8357 a lot of them think everything "German related" was Nazi. even if it's not nazi
What a striking resemblance to what’s going on right now. The nazi plan is being followed by most governments right now. Especially the early 30s.🤨
My sincere THANK YOU to Dr. Felton. As the Doctor so wisely pronounced, "There are many more Grey areas to WW2, especially the German Military, than most people realize.
The Haavara Agreement.
This type of topic selection separates mainstream sellouts from actual bonafide historian.
bow do you mean mainstream sellouts
Thank you Mark for another amazing history lesson. Im always looking forward to your next video....please keep them coming!!!!
'History is more grey than black and white.' So true. Another anomaly is that synagogues were open throughout the war and rabbis and congregations were not restricted in their worship.
Mark= my favourite history teacher
Hey Mark just want to say thank you so much for making this videos! i have loved world war 2 history since i was kid! and thanks to you i learn something new in every video you make! love from denmark!
I’ve learned more from Professor Mark than in 12 years of school.
Yes me too ! And that is in both german and english - history facts ! Felton ! Great Teacher !
They don’t teach you anything at school.
@@MrMalicious5 They teach you things you need to know. Mark Felton's videos are interesting and entertaining. But they won't help you get a job. School teaches you the fundamentals of things.
@@Brandon_J Not once in high school was I taught about how to get a job, file taxes, write a check, basic financing, or to even think critically.
@@MrMalicious5 Education for the most part is outdated in its current form.
Goldberg? Didn't that name give any clues.....
This is one of the most common last names in Germany.
Why are Americans so stupid??
Mark, you make me feel like you're a time traveller.
Pulling the strings back in history to get more history videos.
Your last sentence about the greyness of history is proof that you have true understanding of history... Well done, Sir
I tend to agree. Too much obscurity and greyness in history. People latch onto history a lot like they latch onto their poltics, in skewed perception. Things are either black or white to them. This is dangerous.