Fun fact, the alligator in Belgrade zoo was given as a gift from Germany to Yugoslavia in 1936, so far he survived German bombing of Belgrade 1941, Allied bombing of Belgrade in 1944 and NATO bombing of Belgrade 1999, and he is still alive and kicking. He is the oldest alligator in captivity ever
His name "Muja". Only needed vet care in 2012 when his right claw had to be amputated due to gangrene. Due to his advanced age, Muja doesn't move much but becomes snappy during feeding time, which comes only once or twice a month. Thanks, now I know of two famous gators from WWII.
@@michaeljames4904 20 fucking years in the can. He wanted fresh deer, but he compromised, he ate beef trimmings instead. He wanted to fuck a female alligator, he compromised, he humped a tree stump instead. You see where hes going with this?
This turned out to be a sadder story than I expected. Drunks and idiots throwing stuff at him, loses his girlfriend, and gets flashbacks when tanks roll by. I never thought I'd feel sorry for an alligator before.
The tale of that poor soul weeping at the sound of military action in the distance is really heartbreaking. An innocent animal terrorized by the evil of human behavior for so many decades is simply so unfortunate.
Related to this, the Belgrade Zoo still keeps a crocodile which was acquired as an adult male in 1934. The old guy survived both Nazi and Allied air raids (the 6th of April bombing actually hit the zoo) and is still alive and well although blind and with one leg amputated. You can still visit him at the zoo :) A veteran and one of the oldest of his species.
Mark Felton Productions Is it possible Von Braun had a part in naming the Saturn rocket program after this alligator? I mean he was a devoted Nazi until we made a deal with him to help us.
@@12yearssober Saturn is a planet. The scientist most likely did not know the name of every animal in a zoo far from him. Also von [!] Braun was not a devoted Nazi. His aims were not combatible with the focus on weapons. Anyway the military paid for his research, but he did not like to involve with the Nazi Party.
Yeah that is so true , a true love does not have to die for one to stop eating . I was only 121 lbs 6 months after my love left me for another man , my lady landlord came up to my apt 1 day and said Kill Your Self / Die / Or Get The F Up and Be a Man so two days later I got up been living every since . I wonder if my lost love is eating these days as her new love had a heart attack ? I wonder if my daughters are eating also ? after gunmen got tired of their boyfriends talking about killing me for fun and gunned their boy friends down killing them and gunned my step daughters BF down at Quick Trip Gas Station in Cahokia Illinois killing him also . They all keep calling our United States Armed Forces Base , my attorneys instructed me to ignore them and not reply to their texts/emails/ phone calls ect... I'm not going to answer any ways as it is not wise to be around people when God gets tired of B.S. and people start shooting at them as they could miss them and hit men with some that hot pistol led.
“He cried out when he heard the vibrations of the tanks because it reminded him of the Battle of Berlin” I don’t know why that made me so sad :( no animal regardless of what it is should have to suffer a fate like Saturn. At least he died peacefully and ended up in a good place. RIP Saturn
selfie kroos Yep. Cold blooded for sure. I’ve seen a crocodile have his arm completely ripped off whilst fighting for food, and just completely carried on with its day like *Nothing happened*
There is one still alive in Belgrade (Serbia) Zoo, he was born in 1937, and also experienced bombing of German forces and then American and British at the end of the war.
Interesting fact: the first and only casualty of the first air raid on Berlin was an elephant, there were 9 elephants in the Berlin Zoo at the beginning of the war, only one survived the air raids of WW2
OYyYY, he fed saturn jus. the horror. why wasn't this presented in the Nuremberg trials along with the lamp shade and the shrunken head... that was sitting right next to THEE lamp shade and which wasn't accepted as evidence because of obvious reasons.?.?.?
Great, now I'm sad about an American-German Alligator. How did this happen to me? Did I make a mistake? Life goes on. Poor Alligator had PTSD, was assault by a drunk man, couldn't have kids, mate dies decades before he does. Saturn, I'm sorry for you having such a horrible life.
Google-Translating this article on Moscow Zoo's official website (as of writing the comment not updated to include the alligator's death) may make you feel better: moscowzoo.ru/about-zoo/articles/stati-o-zhivotnykh/saturn-zhertva-velikoy-voyny/ An extract: "...In younger years [Saturn] liked eating mintai - a fish low on calories but abundant in other nutrients. He became more discerning with age - right now he prefers keta. Notably, he perfectly distinguishes keta (a wild fish) from gorbusha (artificially grown). When offered the latter he begins to protest. We respect our venerable inhabitants and sometimes adapt diets to their desires if that doesn's harm their health. Saturn wants keta? Here you go!" It seems his life did have calmer and brighter moments.
Jakob The Viking Officer: "Maybe Vodka will soothe mood yes???" Proceeds to pop open the bottle of vodka and inserts it into Saturns mouth Saturn: imediantly turns communist and puts on that hat Stalin's always wearing "yes"
I think I feel worse about people throwing things at him than I do about the bombing. Seems so personal. What assholes people can be. I hope he had caretakers being nice to him at least.
@@大砲はピュ When I wrote my comment, I hadn't made it to the very end of the video. I thought about amending it before someone called me on it, but, oh well. It's nice to know he was cared for, and probably spent way, way, more time being pampered than not.
@The Nova renaissance Right? Doesn't get much lower than throwing something at an animal's head while he's in an enclosure. They're about the same level as people who steal mementos from gravesites.
@@Pantheragem every living thing should have the right for self defence, like a baby bird biting your finger And just because life is dosent especially make a 'me' important Not innately Crocodilians are on the surface of the planet is reasonable for wanting self defense but this is an abductee This croc had significant parts of his life changed because of humans He can't defend against that We removed him from his environment he would have ruled more greatly than a lion May he rest well The truth is in time
@Jeffrey Dohnger I wouldn't call his experiences well cared for, hence the shaking at loud noises. Also, rather live 40 years in the wild than 80 in a cage.
"Tourists nick named the alligator Hitler." Hey! That's a horrible thing to call the poor guy! "Although the pair mated many times the eggs were infertile." Ok now I get it.
@@scottmclaughlin2329 Well... except that Saturn probably had more of a heart, almost starving to death after his mate died, out of some sort of grief.
@@kevindavis5966 It would definitely depend on your definition of PTSD in regards to a reptile. But alligators certainly have good memory, and they definitely have a fight or flight mechanism, and put those two together with pain or distress and you can get a reactionary disorder.
Man, that must have been hard for, Saturn, they have pretty delicate sensors on their bodies to feel fish and other things going past, so to eat when they can’t see. The bomb blasts would have been crippling to the senses most likely. Not to mention it looks like his face is scarred like a burn victim. On another note, I feel like this is the war equivalent to stealing another fraternities mascot pet. Ultimate power move. Also, is this where.hitler being a lizard human hybrid, theory began?
I mean, the people that spawned it are likely the same kind of people who take out their nastiness on a defenseless animal, just because of the menace that "owned" it (only coming to visit it twice in his whole life is truly pathetic).
Charles Darwin reputedly brought a young Galápagos giant tortoise back from his research expedition and named her Harriet. Darwin died in 1882. Harriet lived until 2006!
James Cook also brought such a tortoise to England, it died in London Zoo in 1960s. James Cook died 1779. On a somewhat related note, a few days ago I've been to zoo in Athens, they have two Aldabra giant tortoise (second largest tortoise species after Galapagos), one born in 1910, the other 1890^^
Between the Chief Mousers at 10 Downing Street and Hitler's gator, I learn more about animals here than I do on the Discovery Channel let alone more about history than on the History Channel. Thanks Mark!
Stalin: Alright Germans the war's over. Those of you who didn't freeze to death in my gulags can go home. Saturn: *Happy Alligator Noises* Stalin: Except you. You stay Saturn: *Sad Alligator Noises*
He was sensitive, yet tough enough to survive ...he mourned his mate he lost too young and disliked sounds of war . Lived like a soldier... He was bombed by England with explosives and Russians with boulders and Vodka bottles . He never got to have offspring He died like an old soldier🙏.
“Thrown by a drunk visitor” only in Russia would someone be drunk enough to get into an enclosure with a full grown American alligator and almost kill it
I know a guy who broke into a gorilla enclosure and tried to box a silverback. If he hadn't been drunk, the gorilla would have killed him, but because he was he only ended up in the hospital (same way a drunk usually the one who survives a traffic accident).
@@dannya1854 "All the time in the United States"? You can't name 2X when drunks entered into a zoo and threw rocks at animals nearly killing them in the United States Comrade. When people get drunk in America, they don't go staggering to zoo's to throw objects at animals.
looks like his Russian captors fed him humanely, as he still had all his teeth. I wondered if Israel ever tried to secretly capture him for possible war crimes
Well humans are very cruel to animals. I'm not vegan/vegetarian nor am I an animal rights activist, but the conditions inside of meat factories, or the seafood industry, are insanely cruel.
I never expected to feel bad for an alligator today but when they said that about the Gator "crying out" like you don't really hear something like that when referring to these animals really felt for that little dinosaur
“I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand? ...”
At first I thought this was a funny story but upon hearing it its quite sad how much this innocent animal went through after getting caught up in mankinds war.
Stalin: our army captured Hitler?? Soviet general: no tovarich he conmit suicide Stalin: what about his woman Eva Braun Soviet general: she suicide too Stalin: ok his dog at least was captured ??? Soviet general; no tovarich Stalin dog was killed too Stalin: god we captured somebody dear of Hitler Soviet general: yes great Stalin we captured his alligator. Stalin: ok is enought for me
Just imagine: you survived a bomb raid by the allies and then get killed by a lion or a crocodile because they got out of the zoo. Kind of surreal, but also kind of humorous.
@@HansTheGreatestApocPlayer yes but before getting capture by the british saturn wandered by the streets of berlin with the other surviving crocodilians for 3 years, althought it was reported that they would return to what remained of the zoo from time to time.
7:44 - That part was saddest for me TBH. Probably because having a bunch of smart and kind people (the vets that fought for Saturn's life afterwards) forced to undo barbarism of a drunk loser encapsulates the bulk of Russian affairs over the last 50 years or so. RIP Saturn. I hope no tanks will catch up with you there.
Poor beast suffering from PTSD 😔 Wish I could've hugged him but that would've not been a good idea. But I can't believe he lived for over 80 years, an above average lifespan of an American alligator. That's amazing
My heart also goes out to the employees and zoo keepers who had to endure the bombings, trying to survive and witnessing their beloved animals being hurt or killed by air raids.
I'd heard about Saturn before, and I thought it interesting that he too had "Shellshock". Great video Dr. Felton, I wonder, you be able to do a video on Timothy the tortoise (1844-2004), the last "veteran" of the Crimean War? Or possibly one on "Unsinkable Sam", a Bismarck's shipscat. If not, that's cool, Cheers.
@@scratchy996 true, but being a Crocodile, it's not like he could sit at the kitchen table in the middle of the night, sobbing and screaming while drinking whiskey, like my Grandad and his buddies.
I had a great uncle was on Ark Royal with Unsinkable Sam and saw him quite often on the ship and after the sinking too, as he and others of the crew were fond of him. Oddly enough, I had another relative on Rodney at the same time so got family stories of most of the final part of the Bismarck saga.
The fact that there is an alligator that survived the battle of Berlin, had PTSD, and lived into his 80s was not something I expected to learn today
Business Boi same here! Wild story for sure! Very interesting!
@@xanshen9011 ... are you stupid?
All alligators can routinely live over 100 years
Mr. Fancypants I was under the influence when I wrote that comment. My bad.
survived the battle of berlin, but the russian zoo goers were the real danger,... jeez
"Hitler had a Mississippi Gator" is a country music gold record waiting to be written.
Imma write it, to who shall I send the prophets to
Mr BushWookie good luck lol
Mr BushWookie also, did you mean profits? Because a prophet is a follower of Jesus...
Sounds like a Primus song maybe
@@OpRaven-62 that is one usage of the word, and it is a good one, but you might want to google the expanded meaning
Fun fact, the alligator in Belgrade zoo was given as a gift from Germany to Yugoslavia in 1936, so far he survived German bombing of Belgrade 1941, Allied bombing of Belgrade in 1944 and NATO bombing of Belgrade 1999, and he is still alive and kicking. He is the oldest alligator in captivity ever
His name "Muja". Only needed vet care in 2012 when his right claw had to be amputated due to gangrene.
Due to his advanced age, Muja doesn't move much but becomes snappy during feeding time, which comes only once or twice a month.
Thanks, now I know of two famous gators from WWII.
carlos green
You body becomes alert at everything
What's the best russian vodka?
@Stavex Depending on where you live, it's most likely not russian, but a product from Latvia. Great drink still but to nitpick, not russian.
I’m Serbian, that’s just how we roll, it worked for the guys who shot down the stealth bomber
All those years in captivity and he never talked.
Not a peep. He compromised,
@@michaeljames4904 20 fucking years!
@@michaeljames4904 20 fucking years in the can. He wanted fresh deer, but he compromised, he ate beef trimmings instead. He wanted to fuck a female alligator, he compromised, he humped a tree stump instead. You see where hes going with this?
😎
Well... apart from his distressed noises during the Yeltsin vs Parliament struggle.
This turned out to be a sadder story than I expected. Drunks and idiots throwing stuff at him, loses his girlfriend, and gets flashbacks when tanks roll by. I never thought I'd feel sorry for an alligator before.
Same
Yeah man, war is fucked up. Animals know it just as much as anyone. Sad to see he had flashbacks.
He got bonked by a drunken guy.
Yikes. Think I'll forgo the video.
@@mortalclown3812 I would still recommend it. It has a happy ending
“They nicknamed the alligator “Hitlers Alligator”
I haven’t seen this level of creativity before
No they didn't even name it Hitlers Alligator. They straight up just called it HITLER. "Hey comrade wanna go to the zoo and see Hitler?"
If that alligator could only talk, there would have been either a book , or a movie about him. At least he didn't become a suit case or something.
@@RogerCharlamange lmao that would be the most russian thing ever
In communist country this is called creative genius.
I'm surprised Goering didn't turn him into a pair of jackboots.
This alligator lived longer than the 2 nations that captured it.
Wrong©Orange man
Germans are still germans.And Soviet Union now just a bunch of different countries.
And the many nations of Soviet Union still existing.
You can say aligator LASTED longer than 2 countries that owned him.But the nations of this countries was existing many years ago before ww2.And will be after it.
@@floridamanstrikesagain6915 You just ruined the joke. Thank you. Don't do that again, please.
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Good gosh! The floor is made out of floor!
Florida Will dominate The world
Family at the dinner table: talking about their day
Me: so there's this alligator. . .
This is literally me whenever I watch a mark Felton video 💀
The KGB and he turns him self into a pickle...
Family: talking about school and work
Me:
yes!
Is this something of an inside joke for the KGB?
The tale of that poor soul weeping at the sound of military action in the distance is really heartbreaking. An innocent animal terrorized by the evil of human behavior for so many decades is simply so unfortunate.
Hitler himself gave the gator the order to destroy USSR.
Many years later, in 1991, he accomplished his order, good soldier!
The Martin haha good joke...
✌️ to Israel
he was a sleeper cell
@@Shawnmiller1903 he was the real reason Stalin died
Like a real life terminator as it killed John after skynet was destroyed as it was his mission
Related to this, the Belgrade Zoo still keeps a crocodile which was acquired as an adult male in 1934. The old guy survived both Nazi and Allied air raids (the 6th of April bombing actually hit the zoo) and is still alive and well although blind and with one leg amputated. You can still visit him at the zoo :) A veteran and one of the oldest of his species.
RIP Interior crocodile alligator.
He died as he lived,
driving a Chevrolet movie theater.
Thank you for this perfect comment
Interior crocodile alligator I drive a Chevrolet movie thee-a-ta
Critically underrated comment.
“The subject of this TAIL was not a soldier or civilian...”
I see what you did there Mark
Finally, someone spotted it!
Mark Felton Productions
Is it possible Von Braun had a part in naming the Saturn rocket program after this alligator? I mean he was a devoted Nazi until we made a deal with him to help us.
Bro I had spotted that as well haha..
Mark Felton Productions This is why we’re not allowed nice things.
@@12yearssober Saturn is a planet. The scientist most likely did not know the name of every animal in a zoo far from him. Also von [!] Braun was not a devoted Nazi. His aims were not combatible with the focus on weapons. Anyway the military paid for his research, but he did not like to involve with the Nazi Party.
Dude don’t eat after his wife died, that’s true love
Never underestimate the soul of an animal.
still a better love story than Twilight
@@LoneWolf051 Way better than Twilight. I'd watch a movie about this creature.
Yeah that is so true , a true love does not have to die for one to stop eating . I was only 121 lbs 6 months after my love left me for another man , my lady landlord came up to my apt 1 day and said Kill Your Self / Die / Or Get The F Up and Be a Man so two days later I got up been living every since . I wonder if my lost love is eating these days as her new love had a heart attack ? I wonder if my daughters are eating also ? after gunmen got tired of their boyfriends talking about killing me for fun and gunned their boy friends down killing them and gunned my step daughters BF down at Quick Trip Gas Station in Cahokia Illinois killing him also . They all keep calling our United States Armed Forces Base , my attorneys instructed me to ignore them and not reply to their texts/emails/ phone calls ect... I'm not going to answer any ways as it is not wise to be around people when God gets tired of B.S. and people start shooting at them as they could miss them and hit men with some that hot pistol led.
@@griffingamer8624 Same. Felt as bad for this Alligator as the protagonist of UP!.
Hearing that the Alligator had PTSD made me legitimately sad
same
Made me laugh
“He cried out when he heard the vibrations of the tanks because it reminded him of the Battle of Berlin” I don’t know why that made me so sad :( no animal regardless of what it is should have to suffer a fate like Saturn. At least he died peacefully and ended up in a good place. RIP Saturn
Ya that's crazy because lizards are the animals that tend to show the least affection in the wild.
Dude right. I want to give Saturn a hug 😭
selfie kroos Yep. Cold blooded for sure. I’ve seen a crocodile have his arm completely ripped off whilst fighting for food, and just completely carried on with its day like
*Nothing happened*
@@selfiekroos1777 crocodilians aren't lizards.
@@labangrankvist2993 Correct, they're actually archosaurs, but I don't think this the place to get so bent out of shape over such a common mistake...
I can imagine a Russian shouting Tigers, while his comrade preparing an anti-tank grenade only to see an adult tiger running into them.
Sound fun
*Americans.
X A L T H Z I L L I N O I were Americans troop in Berlin?
Is that a *Smug Purifier*?!
@@xalthzdornier4805 no, it was the Russians.
A normal alligator lives 30-50 years, this boy lived to 84. Even the alligators were ubermensch.
There is reason why it called "Hitler Aligattor"
UberGator actually works really well
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm honestly amazed that alligators lived that long. I mean, 1936-2020 is 84 years!!! That's insane!
Don't most reptiles continuously grow over the course of their lifespan, unlike mammals? Must have been a big scaly boi.
If only Saturn could talk.....
There is one still alive in Belgrade (Serbia) Zoo, he was born in 1937, and also experienced bombing of German forces and then American and British at the end of the war.
@@atomic_wait Sort of. Reptiles generally grow rapidly until they reach sexual maturity and grow very slowly for the rest of their lives.
It’s common knowledge that they live this long and often much older?!
Interesting fact: the first and only casualty of the first air raid on Berlin was an elephant, there were 9 elephants in the Berlin Zoo at the beginning of the war, only one survived the air raids of WW2
Besides the air raids, that one elephant survived being eaten..............
Hard to hide when you are an elephant.
The people of WW II Berlin found the zoo elephants...delicious.
2 elephants survived. There is old footage of 2 elephants helping with the cleanup after the war.
@@spencersholden Right.
He outlived two dictators and survived a world war and a cold war, I think we can officially declare this alligator a total badass.
Russian Tanks: Drives past zoo
Saturn: THE SOVIETS HAVE SURROUNDED BERLIN
lol
Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen
@@nvo7024 😂
Like a flashback..
'morphs into Killer-Croc and smashes T-34s'
The stories that Saturn must have keep me up at night
Also, can we acknowledge how perfectly Mark's opening music goes along with that opening video clip?
pretty sure he fed them people alive
OYyYY, he fed saturn jus. the horror. why wasn't this presented in the Nuremberg trials along with the lamp shade and the shrunken head... that was sitting right next to THEE lamp shade and which wasn't accepted as evidence because of obvious reasons.?.?.?
He doesn't have any he an animal
he survived several bombings
You forgot to mention his testimony at the Nuremberg Trials.
I don't remember a thing and only following orders.
he ate a couple of people
@@pi1523 crazy how he took matters into his own hands (or should I say jaws) like that.
He refused to talk
"'''much loved and pampered exhibit of Moscow's zoo" [where he was showered with affection and liquor bottles.]
Not to mention concrete.
And the vodka
Underrated comment
Throwing liquor bottles at you is just Russian love. Well that and Adidas clothing.
Of course there will always be some drunkard idiots
Great, now I'm sad about an American-German Alligator. How did this happen to me? Did I make a mistake? Life goes on.
Poor Alligator had PTSD, was assault by a drunk man, couldn't have kids, mate dies decades before he does. Saturn, I'm sorry for you having such a horrible life.
Was an alligator but had soul.
Pretty hard life
May he rest in peace
Google-Translating this article on Moscow Zoo's official website (as of writing the comment not updated to include the alligator's death) may make you feel better:
moscowzoo.ru/about-zoo/articles/stati-o-zhivotnykh/saturn-zhertva-velikoy-voyny/
An extract:
"...In younger years [Saturn] liked eating mintai - a fish low on calories but abundant in other nutrients. He became more discerning with age - right now he prefers keta. Notably, he perfectly distinguishes keta (a wild fish) from gorbusha (artificially grown). When offered the latter he begins to protest. We respect our venerable inhabitants and sometimes adapt diets to their desires if that doesn's harm their health. Saturn wants keta? Here you go!"
It seems his life did have calmer and brighter moments.
Wtf!? That's horrible!
Something tells me they tried to get him to talk
Russian Officer: "Tell us everything you know!"
Saturn: *Loud angry hiss of Death*
Jakob The Viking
Officer: "Maybe Vodka will soothe mood yes???" Proceeds to pop open the bottle of vodka and inserts it into Saturns mouth
Saturn: imediantly turns communist and puts on that hat Stalin's always wearing "yes"
ChewYour Beer lol
Lol
@@spongebobbies No no, it's "Da"
Jakob The Viking i originally was gonna use “da” but couldn’t exactly figure out the correct spelling for it even though it’s blatantly obvious
I think I feel worse about people throwing things at him than I do about the bombing. Seems so personal. What assholes people can be. I hope he had caretakers being nice to him at least.
Pantheragem right!
You hope? He explicitly mentioned how without that, he would not have been able to live to his long life....
@@大砲はピュ When I wrote my comment, I hadn't made it to the very end of the video. I thought about amending it before someone called me on it, but, oh well. It's nice to know he was cared for, and probably spent way, way, more time being pampered than not.
@The Nova renaissance Right? Doesn't get much lower than throwing something at an animal's head while he's in an enclosure. They're about the same level as people who steal mementos from gravesites.
@@Pantheragem every living thing should have the right for self defence, like a baby bird biting your finger
And just because life is dosent especially make a 'me' important
Not innately
Crocodilians are on the surface of the planet is reasonable for wanting self defense but this is an abductee
This croc had significant parts of his life changed because of humans
He can't defend against that
We removed him from his environment he would have ruled more greatly than a lion
May he rest well
The truth is in time
The way humans live can give an alligator PTSD. That's a sad reflection on us all.
It's so true that I'm ashamed.
True. But also because of humans he lived twice his life expectancy.
@Jeffrey Dohnger I wouldn't call his experiences well cared for, hence the shaking at loud noises. Also, rather live 40 years in the wild than 80 in a cage.
"Tourists nick named the alligator Hitler."
Hey! That's a horrible thing to call the poor guy!
"Although the pair mated many times the eggs were infertile."
Ok now I get it.
Thats sad.
Damn ur joking right 😐
I dont get it
@Pro Shooter He only had one, don't get your facts about balls from Dictators who killed millions of people wrong.
Elijah Soper Cyclops
*Soviet Russia*
"Comrade Stalin. We did not manage to capture Hitler."
"WHAT!"
"...But we did capture his alligator, Saturn."
"Close enough...."
Well they did get Hitler's jaw at least
Both cold blooded individuals.
"Attach freaking laser beams to its head"
@@scottmclaughlin2329 Well... except that Saturn probably had more of a heart, almost starving to death after his mate died, out of some sort of grief.
@@scottmclaughlin2329 and yet I only feel sympathy for Saturn. Even a alligator was more human than Hitler.
Not nice to imagine a reptile having PTSD
@@rickt.1870 Mammalian brains are certainly more advanced than literal lizard brains. I find it difffuclt to believe it could have had a form of PTSD.
@@rickt.1870 Thanks. Agreed.
@@kevindavis5966 It would definitely depend on your definition of PTSD in regards to a reptile. But alligators certainly have good memory, and they definitely have a fight or flight mechanism, and put those two together with pain or distress and you can get a reactionary disorder.
@@BagOCheetos I once rescued a horse who wouldn't even come out of his stall. I'm glad to say he had a happy life with me.
@@kevindavis5966 Alligators are closer to birds than lizards, and are actually quite smart.
"You ever wonder whats going on in someone's head" ( alligator having ptsd from 1945 )
Me: "Isn't there anything new on TH-cam? It's just the same old crap every day."
Mark Felton: "Let me tell you about Hitler's alligator."
“It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.” Joseph Goebbels
Felton: "Hold my beer"
Things that keep me up at night
1: My fears and concerns
2: What happened to Hitler's alligator?
What about the droid attack on Wookies?
I feel kinda sad for the Aligator. He has PTSD, and he was also badly treated by the tourists, even though he did nothing wrong.
"Hitler's alligator did nothing wrong" is a take that I never thought I'd see, but I agree entirely.
Imagine surviving the fall of Berlin, and then in the 1990s drunken morons throw bottles at you. Kids these days! No respect. Get off my lawn...
That was 30 years ago grandpa
Chris C that’s the point
The fall of the USSR fucked Russia's society completely. Drug deaths skyrocketed, life expectancy plummeted in 1991
Life of Saturn
Born in America
Raised in Germany
Nearly killed by the British
Taken as a war prize by Soviets
Died a CHAD 🇹🇩
He came a long way.
Hotel? Trivago
*gifted to the soviets.
Epic
The diaries he kept in captivity are fascinating to read.
Coca cola, WV and Hugo boss:
Let's hide out Nazi past.
Lacoste:
LET'S SPONSOR HITLER'S ALLIGATOR!
MrRedsjack i know right. I bearly found about that...
I'll only buy Lacoste then
Hitler - "I want an alligator with a frickin laser beam attached to it's head"
FER RIKKIN
LAY
ZER
BEEMZ
😂😂😂🤣👍
We can then hold the world ransom for 1 MILLION dollars
Bro when I saw this it reminded me of Blofeld lmao. Every evil guy gotta have their cliche pet.
20 quid on Battlefield V
Man, that must have been hard for, Saturn, they have pretty delicate sensors on their bodies to feel fish and other things going past, so to eat when they can’t see. The bomb blasts would have been crippling to the senses most likely. Not to mention it looks like his face is scarred like a burn victim.
On another note, I feel like this is the war equivalent to stealing another fraternities mascot pet. Ultimate power move.
Also, is this where.hitler being a lizard human hybrid, theory began?
I mean, the people that spawned it are likely the same kind of people who take out their nastiness on a defenseless animal, just because of the menace that "owned" it (only coming to visit it twice in his whole life is truly pathetic).
Charles Darwin reputedly brought a young Galápagos giant tortoise back from his research expedition and named her Harriet.
Darwin died in 1882. Harriet lived until 2006!
Wow WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW 😁😁😁😁
As they say on SCREEN RANT CHANNEL 😁😁😁😁😁
@Kevin Lee
"Stupid human died so early"
It also belonged to steve irwin
Edit: belonged*
James Cook also brought such a tortoise to England, it died in London Zoo in 1960s. James Cook died 1779.
On a somewhat related note, a few days ago I've been to zoo in Athens, they have two Aldabra giant tortoise (second largest tortoise species after Galapagos), one born in 1910, the other 1890^^
Between the Chief Mousers at 10 Downing Street and Hitler's gator, I learn more about animals here than I do on the Discovery Channel let alone more about history than on the History Channel. Thanks Mark!
Don't forget the SS horses that joined the Circle C Cowboys - America's Cold War Cavalry.
Dont forget the Chief Mouser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office!
Wojtek the Bear, "recruited" into the Polish Army, who saw action in WWII's Italy campaign.
"GERMAN ALLIGATORS ARE THE FINEST IN THE WORLD!"
-Rudol Von Stroheim probably
Yes
Tf Europe doesn’t even hold any wild alligators to cold over there
@@Arktischen
He could've imported it from Indonesia seeing how Japan took it over during WW2
@@goldenhydreigon4727 Indonesia only has Crocs
Niiiiice
If only Saturn could have talked....
The stories he would have told
Don't do that
Saturn: "You're standing on my tail."
@@MichaelJ44 Oh yes I remember that one it's brilliant! Some mind blowing stuff 😉
“Fucking hell its cold all the time here”
"Back in my day.."
Wait as second! Are you telling me the last German PoW was an AMERICAN!!!? A Southerner at that! The OUTRAGE!
Lol
And a native american to 😁
Immigration at its finest.
Not only that but he died in Russia is a communist
That's Right Boi- " Sheriff JT Higgs from Georgia in James Bond lol
Interior Crocodile Alligator “Help me I don’t wanna die in a gas chamber”
This legitimately made me laugh very hard
Mark Felton: Did you hear the one about Hitler's alligator?
Me: WTF!
His.. WHAT?!
Well Crocodilian stories are his forte. Like The History Guy and Pirates, or the Anti-Trekker & "because... quantum..."
Yeah, he named it Goering and gave it morphine; the goofin' gator thought he could FLY. It was exciting; the horses REALLY thought so.
@Methani K. No
Stalin: Alright Germans the war's over. Those of you who didn't freeze to death in my gulags can go home.
Saturn: *Happy Alligator Noises*
Stalin: Except you. You stay
Saturn: *Sad Alligator Noises*
real nice exept that the soviets probably got some dumb excuse to keep all of the pow's in labor camps
I know it's a joke but most (still-alive) German POWs only went home in 1955, ie after Stalin's death
Bwahahahahahahahahaha
That croc was no POW... He was treated like a Croc king.... It lived for ages.
Hitler's alligator during the Chernobyl incident: Looks like Godzilla will rise!!!
I never thought I could cry over an alligator, but here I am 😭
I guess Saturn truly suffered Lacoste of war...
*phweeeeeettttt* OK, THAT'S IT! YOU, OUT OF THE SANDBOX!!! :))
bravo
The best comment
Good one funny man...... now go to gulag ;-)
@Caleb Edwards no card is large enough to depict that fatso
He wasn't really upset. It was all crocodile tears.
I'll see myself out...
That's a false alligation.
😂😂
See you later alligator.
Don’t allienate the crocodiles
No please stay, I wanna die more inside
1:45 "Outlived two totalitarian regimes"
No. He just ate them
I got sad when I heard the alligator was essentially crying
:(
Edit:
Wow you bastards have to turn everything political...
Honestly stfu
Same here so sad.
Found the Nazi
@@dannya1854 Found the commie
The Fking Lizard King ignorant twat
@@Soldmysoulforablurayplayer You sound like a 14 year old Redditor.
He was sensitive, yet tough enough to survive ...he mourned his mate he lost too young and disliked sounds of war .
Lived like a soldier...
He was bombed by England with explosives and Russians with boulders and Vodka bottles .
He never got to have offspring
He died like an old soldier🙏.
Poor thing.. Felt really sorry for him..
A true German soldier
He didn't die at Moscow zoo, he escaped and is now in Argentina whit his owner
Saturn - the only defendant to have successfully used the "I was only following orders" defence at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials in 1946.
Haha
“Thrown by a drunk visitor” only in Russia would someone be drunk enough to get into an enclosure with a full grown American alligator and almost kill it
That happens all the time in zoos especially in the United States.
I know a guy who broke into a gorilla enclosure and tried to box a silverback. If he hadn't been drunk, the gorilla would have killed him, but because he was he only ended up in the hospital (same way a drunk usually the one who survives a traffic accident).
He didn't get into the enclosure, just tossed a bottle at it like a drunk idiot
@@dannya1854 ya that sounds like Florida Man
@@dannya1854 "All the time in the United States"? You can't name 2X when drunks entered into a zoo and threw rocks at animals nearly killing them in the United States Comrade. When people get drunk in America, they don't go staggering to zoo's to throw objects at animals.
Rumour has it, Hitlers last words to saturn: "See you later..." :D
looks like his Russian captors fed him humanely, as he still had all his teeth. I wondered if Israel ever tried to secretly capture him for possible war crimes
The Jew said that the alligator was in Dachau supervising it
I would like to see you make that joke in front of magneto.
He was seen on more than one occasion pouring Zyclon B through the glass windows.
I'm surprised he wasn't found guilty at the numberburg trails. surely there were alligator pits in aushcwitz!
What is this Israel you speak of?
The poor animals don't deserve to experience the horrors of war, they don't do shit like humans do to suffer like that.
WONT SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE ANIMALS
That alligator would eat the fuck outta you and not feel a thing.
I mean animals eat others alive so I'm not sure if they are really better than us
Poor horses who all died in warfare RIP
Well humans are very cruel to animals. I'm not vegan/vegetarian nor am I an animal rights activist, but the conditions inside of meat factories, or the seafood industry, are insanely cruel.
I never expected to feel bad for an alligator today but when they said that about the Gator "crying out" like you don't really hear something like that when referring to these animals really felt for that little dinosaur
"Do you know that alligators can reach 15 feet."
"No, I always saw one with 4 feet."
Your gonna be kidding me
Your gonna be kidding me
Your gonna be kidding me
Your gonna be kidding me
Your gonna be kidding me
I’ve learned more about ww2 from this Chanel alone then all my school years combined
Mark's channel is way better than History channel! Especially nowadays.
Well, yeah he's a historian
Third Reich: we'll survive
Saturn: then ill outlive you
That intro music over the walking alligator is too perfect
“I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand? ...”
Man,you perfectly match my post 5 minutes ago. RIGHT ON RIGHT ON 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
WOW. BEAUTIFUL 😁😁😁😁
At first I thought this was a funny story but upon hearing it its quite sad how much this innocent animal went through after getting caught up in mankinds war.
Stalin: our army captured Hitler??
Soviet general: no tovarich he conmit suicide
Stalin: what about his woman Eva Braun
Soviet general: she suicide too
Stalin: ok his dog at least was captured ???
Soviet general; no tovarich Stalin dog was killed too
Stalin: god we captured somebody dear of Hitler
Soviet general: yes great Stalin we captured his alligator.
Stalin: ok is enought for me
@Crom the Wise it was joke you wet towel
Something Something So instead of correcting the dude yourself, you waited for someone else to do it?
@The Nova renaissance absolutely truth:)
Crom the Wise r/whoosh
Micah Tshibangu Nothing flies over his head. His reflexes are too good. He would catch it.
The intro along with the music is typical daily Florida life.
Even on the golf courses! The iguanas are insane too!
I have one in my backyard
Lol
Most interesting thing I have learned in years.
I see this in my notifications and I'm like, Hitler had an ALLIGATOR!
Mein fuhrer...Steiner........Steiner reports the alligator has gotten loose in the bunker.....
BASED AF
And Elvis had a monkey, named Scatter!
@@LoneWolf051 it must be another one of Fegelein's antics! FEGELEIN!
FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!
Same
Injured German soldier: Ahh glad to be back home after surviving everything the Red Army could throw at me.
5:00
*Ah Schieße*
@Valerie O'Brien Its a croc they have the brain the size of a walnut.....
@Valerie O'Brien He had a great life, normally he would have ended up as a handbag and shoes. 😆
@@chen_plays4173 if your not even german and cant write Scheiße right dont do it
We press “F” to our fallen freunde and comrade.
Our Kamarad and our Tavarisch
Imagine being a German civilian after the 1943 air raid and seeing a alligator just wondering around the rubble.
Just imagine: you survived a bomb raid by the allies and then get killed by a lion or a crocodile because they got out of the zoo. Kind of surreal, but also kind of humorous.
hi.. I mentioned that to my husband.. and he said... they probably eat the dead bodies...
@@annettehadley9718 u right
Where on earth does Felton get this stuff? It's absolute gold....
Just an amazing story.
Another reason why Mark Felton has one of the best channels in TH-cam.
Spudskie totally agree! Well done Mark!!
i want to hear the stories about the escaped animals and what they did
Some joined the French Foreign Legion to fight communists.
MG42.
Lol a tiger ate a tiger crew in a tiger factory in Berlin
They became East German
Look, a Panther!
that intro music with the gator walking is just perfect lol
Cant imagined how a alligator liked the weather in Berlin and then Moscow.
Brother, there are controlled climates in zoos
@@HansTheGreatestApocPlayer yes but before getting capture by the british saturn wandered by the streets of berlin with the other surviving crocodilians for 3 years, althought it was reported that they would return to what remained of the zoo from time to time.
The alligator was actually an American spy 😳
Yep, the zipper got stuck. He never made it back home...😂😂
I imagine if he could speak he's have a country accent.
Tbh I had to cry during this video. I don't know why, but the fates of animals during war always gets closer to me than the fates of humans.
7:44 - That part was saddest for me TBH. Probably because having a bunch of smart and kind people (the vets that fought for Saturn's life afterwards) forced to undo barbarism of a drunk loser encapsulates the bulk of Russian affairs over the last 50 years or so.
RIP Saturn. I hope no tanks will catch up with you there.
Hopefully he is resting easy with his fellow american alligator that we gave to Russia.
So true. I hope he is in a better place now 😢
Imagine being an Alligator and you get bought by Nazis. What a life huh
And then get given to Communists what a life.
Nazbol alligator
Being owned by Nazis then Russians, not sure which is worse...... poor thing never got a break.
@@Soldmysoulforablurayplayer Well... except having almost HMS Warspite levels of endurance under fire ;-) .
Why do you think the alligator was mistreated in Germany?
I actually feel sad that he couldn't have kids with his alligator 'wife'. RIP
Hitler: this alligator is mine now
Alligator: * confused alligator noises *
Deutschland über alligators.
I’m surprised the Russians didn’t eat him
@বাঙালী গেমার LOL
@@Ivan_Drago. that sounds very british;)
@@Ivan_Drago. I tried alligator in Texas, it's actually pretty good!
Very old animal with PTSD. as much wholesome this might be, this is just as sad.
Poor beast suffering from PTSD 😔
Wish I could've hugged him but that would've not been a good idea.
But I can't believe he lived for over 80 years, an above average lifespan of an American alligator. That's amazing
Sad story, poor alligator he just wanted to live in the Mississippi biome in peace :(
Who the hell would want to live in Mississippi
Well I guess it is better than New Jersey.
Russian Child: Dad can we go see Hitler,
Russian Father: Yez comrade.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Itzz Ghoul anything more than two emojis is cringe
My heart also goes out to the employees and zoo keepers who had to endure the bombings, trying to survive and witnessing their beloved animals being hurt or killed by air raids.
How could one possiby pass up a story headlined "Hitler's Alligator"
Mark's intro music is a perfect Alligator walking soundtrack.
I don't know why, but that photo of Hitler visiting the zoo at 2:46 is legitimately the creepiest image I've ever seen of him.
I'd heard about Saturn before, and I thought it interesting that he too had "Shellshock". Great video Dr. Felton, I wonder, you be able to do a video on Timothy the tortoise (1844-2004), the last "veteran" of the Crimean War? Or possibly one on "Unsinkable Sam", a Bismarck's shipscat. If not, that's cool, Cheers.
Some of Saturn's friends died in the bombings, of course we was upset :(
@@scratchy996 true, but being a Crocodile, it's not like he could sit at the kitchen table in the middle of the night, sobbing and screaming while drinking whiskey, like my Grandad and his buddies.
for Sam have a look at Drachinifel - he does naval history
I had a great uncle was on Ark Royal with Unsinkable Sam and saw him quite often on the ship and after the sinking too, as he and others of the crew were fond of him. Oddly enough, I had another relative on Rodney at the same time so got family stories of most of the final part of the Bismarck saga.
@@danielb7117 He wasn't a Crocodile, he was an Alligator.
84 years: That's 7 X the life span of a Third Reich!
Yeah :)
SmilingIbis I wonder how long they would've lasted if there's wasn't no WW2?
Hitler: ‘This Reich will last 1,000 years!’
Saturn: ‘Yeah, about that...’
All the death, destruction and mayhem described in this video and I'm feeling sorry for an alligator that lost its mate and got depressed. 🥺
Saturn thinking in 1993 during the fighting with Yestin. "Russian Tanks and bombing again?" Cant i just retire to Florida!
"I just wanna go home to the US, and live my normal alligator life there, with my alligator family."
@@anaveragesoviettankfromthe70s well, he didn't have any kids, and his wife died.
Austin McCune He had some gator family back in the states.
Just saw American alligators at butterfly creek in Auckland a couple of weekends ago