Hitler in Paris - The Secret 1940 Visit

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  • Find out the story of Hitler's one and only visit to Paris shortly after its capture in 1940. Behaving like a tourist, he was driven around the famous sights in an open topped car with little protection.
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  • @A_Man
    @A_Man 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6173

    So thats who was in paris

  • @BayardTardieu
    @BayardTardieu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13343

    Imagine yourself in your local city, morning routine, buying a baguette and then out of nowhere crossing the path of tourist Hitler

    • @stevesampson9693
      @stevesampson9693 4 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      I K R?!! Talk about surreal ! 🤔

    • @mediocreturbulence5746
      @mediocreturbulence5746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +690

      "tourist Hitler"

    • @shaheerthekhan
      @shaheerthekhan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Oof noone commented on this one

    • @felixnimo
      @felixnimo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +243

      Gluten Tag !

    • @g.koch.
      @g.koch. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well..in the show Preacher ge sells some Sandwiches 🤔

  • @jpaulc441
    @jpaulc441 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16140

    "Hitler in Paris" sounds like the sequel to the first Hitler movie

    • @FuckYouWhosNext
      @FuckYouWhosNext 4 ปีที่แล้ว +553

      to me it sounds like a broadway musical

    • @PHDarren
      @PHDarren 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom's next production.

    • @dusty4459
      @dusty4459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +210

      He hated the Empire strikes back.

    • @mipmipmipmipmip
      @mipmipmipmipmip 4 ปีที่แล้ว +350

      ... where Hitler falls in love with a rich hotel eiress and socialite, sneakily tapes their romantic encounter, but accidentally mixes up this tape with his attack plans. 'Hitlerity' ensues as we follow him and his buddy Goebbels as they blitz their way through Europe to retrieve the tape before his high school love Eva would get to see it.

    • @Irobert1115HD
      @Irobert1115HD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      lets hope that those movies get made in the current woke climate with a black, disabled woman as hitler.

  • @OKMX5
    @OKMX5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14779

    When you want to visit Paris without all the annoying people around so you conquer France to do it.

    • @Imtahotep
      @Imtahotep 4 ปีที่แล้ว +368

      He was mostly all alone touring occupied Paris, just like he'll be all alone in the very hottest hell.

    • @henkgerritsen1444
      @henkgerritsen1444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +280

      A shame he could not even climb the Eifel tower. He put in all this efford😂

    • @JohnO318
      @JohnO318 4 ปีที่แล้ว +212

      Then he orders the place destroyed.
      What a psycho he was.

    • @knutdergroe9757
      @knutdergroe9757 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      My kind of plan.....
      😎😁😉

    • @brightgarinson3099
      @brightgarinson3099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Jokes are only funny when they're true.

  • @VideoLeakPolice
    @VideoLeakPolice 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4090

    France declared war on Germany first, lost their entire country in 6 weeks.

  • @SFCKNZSD
    @SFCKNZSD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7596

    Me and the boys on a school field trip:

  • @hereLiesThisTroper
    @hereLiesThisTroper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4722

    The first to win the Tour de France was the 7th German Panzer Division.

    • @Optimaloptimus
      @Optimaloptimus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +288

      Too bad they forgot to present them with medals lol

  • @uncleeric3317
    @uncleeric3317 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7689

    I’m no Nazi but 50 marks is 50 marks.

    • @Rick2010100
      @Rick2010100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +362

      Today ca. $250

    • @commanderred5573
      @commanderred5573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +269

      *Reichsmark ;)

    • @eccoregitv9484
      @eccoregitv9484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      and not 50 marx!

    • @wonderfalg
      @wonderfalg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Marks do not exist any more. Maybe after Euro Crisis in some years.

    • @anvilbrunner.2013
      @anvilbrunner.2013 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      Principles are priceless.

  • @ramsesandadrian3820
    @ramsesandadrian3820 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5646

    6:02 : funny that Napoleon visited Frederick the Great tomb when he conquer Prussia and 100+ years it's a German visting a French

    • @tywinlannister8015
      @tywinlannister8015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +543

      Well, one conqueror tips his hat to the other.

    • @thibskywalker4450
      @thibskywalker4450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      It was the Tourism of the past

    • @mcaddicts
      @mcaddicts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      Both small men with ego problems who ended in defeat.

    • @carhouse1563
      @carhouse1563 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ozymandias And When napoleon lost his war with russia?/prussia

    • @tonyhawk94
      @tonyhawk94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      And yet Hitler was nothing like Napoléon in terms of genius. Also what is not told is that Hitler didn't want to bow before the French emperor (because the room is made so that you HAVE to bow before him) so he installed a system of mirrors and yet he fell miserably... :')

  • @vaidassaldziunas1037
    @vaidassaldziunas1037 4 ปีที่แล้ว +881

    "People going to church recognized Hitler, but ignored him".
    How very French of them to deal with tourists since 1940.

  • @christopherdarker1426
    @christopherdarker1426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3648

    While he was looking at Napoleons tomb he should have considered his greatest defeat . Russia

    • @flynnlivescmd
      @flynnlivescmd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      Hadnt happened yet, but i bet he was considering some of napoleon's defeats and how he powered through them to overall win. Im sure he knew, despite his ego, that most the world is about to be against him.

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      I found that scene mind-blowing, the most infamous meglomaniac dictator in history visiting the other most infamous megalomaniac dictator.

    • @JaegerHammer
      @JaegerHammer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +330

      German defeat in Russia only because of U.S. involvement in the war. Otherwise Russia would have been defeated. Massive arms and transportation aid from U.S. through Iran and Archangel. Additionally the U.S. opened second front in Africa then Europe itself. Then bombing campaign on German industry. Without U.S. involvement we would have video of him visiting Moscow.

    • @januszkowalski5345
      @januszkowalski5345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      He did consider that. His political credo in "Mein Kampf" was 'Never wage a war on two fronts !' Why did he abandon it and acted against his better knowledge ? - is the greatest question of all. Rudolf Hess knew teh answer but the British murdered him before he could reveal it and now with his documents classified until 2041 one can be absolutely sure that Hitler was cheated into a war on two fronts by the British...La perfide Albion , Napoleon would say.

    • @johanjonsson6504
      @johanjonsson6504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@flynnlivescmd I think he meant Napoleon's loss of Le Grande Armée in Russia, :)

  • @danbrennan8675
    @danbrennan8675 3 ปีที่แล้ว +678

    Didn’t know there was unreleased version that Jay Z and Kanye made

  • @sanpedrosilver
    @sanpedrosilver 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2707

    I stood in the same area (near Eiffel tower) a few weeks ago & thought about this scene.
    Very educational channel! Cheers

    • @subscribeorsus6862
      @subscribeorsus6862 4 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      I'm gonna keep an eye on you kid.

    • @arturokarl8022
      @arturokarl8022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      socalsilver I am going and want to visit all these things in this video mate any tips ?

    • @1keykneedeep
      @1keykneedeep 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      History comes alive in those moments.

    • @sanpedrosilver
      @sanpedrosilver 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Arturo Gatti Paris, It’s so different & crowded with newer buildings, fountains and other structures nowadays but you can find approximate locations based on these scenes.
      I definitely recommend going to the top of the tower. It’s an incredible place. I stayed at the Shangri-La hotel. Beautiful view of the tower

  • @blueboychapple
    @blueboychapple 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2681

    Mark can u do a video about the clean up of the battlfields of europe like there would have been a lot of leathal weapons lyeing about

    • @ronaldderooij1774
      @ronaldderooij1774 4 ปีที่แล้ว +245

      It is still ongoing, day by day, on land and at sea. In France and Belgium even from the first world war.

    • @Timbo5000
      @Timbo5000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Yes, that'd be very interesting

    • @whoaitstiger
      @whoaitstiger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      That would be good. He did do an episode about German personnel being forcefully enlisted to clear mines after the war.

    • @chrisneedham5803
      @chrisneedham5803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      I was in a wooded area in Holland and asked an old man about some mounds and holes. He was 10 year-old when there was a battle there in 1944. He said that the ammunition (shells) layed there for about 12 months and the kids climbed on the boxes.

    • @Kiwionwing
      @Kiwionwing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Drove truck in London with a guy who as a 16 year old in 1946
      Drove all over Europe collecting ordinance.
      An American officer was taking out motors and privately shipping them back
      He had lots of other stories like this

  • @kiardothefirst8011
    @kiardothefirst8011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +385

    I bet when he was staring down at Napoleon's tomb, that he was thinking to himself "I'll have one surely built for me when i die".

  • @thekameleon9785
    @thekameleon9785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1814

    Must have bin the best day in his life.
    His earthrival France defeated.
    The world at his feet.
    Finally had his revenge for treaty of Versailles.

    • @samiam619
      @samiam619 4 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      The Kameleon Too bad for him and the German people that he didn’t know when to stop.

    • @olegoleg1838
      @olegoleg1838 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      best day of his life was when he took poison

    • @fatihsaidduran
      @fatihsaidduran 4 ปีที่แล้ว +253

      @Joseph Swanson The Germans were still in a ww1 mindstate. Their biggest rival was France then, when they had beaten France so easily the world must have really felt under their feet.

  • @marks_sparks1
    @marks_sparks1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +871

    On his way to Paris, Hitler stopped off in Ypres and visited the Menin Gate. It's not recorded what he thought of this monolithic memorial but obviously he was content with its intended purpose to leave it remain for prosperity. Other WW1 memorials in France and Belgium with an anti-German message were destroyed.

    • @kylephilipe8347
      @kylephilipe8347 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      He was at ypres and his unit was destroyed, 600 survivors of 3000

  • @thomass1891
    @thomass1891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +465

    For those wondering how much exactly was the 50 RM. During WW2 the “Reichsmark" was roughly 2.50RM to 1US$, so that's 1 US$ in 1940. One dollar in 1940 is worth $18.60 today. In other words, 1 RM would be worth $7.44 today. Thus, 50 RM would be 372$ in today's money.

  • @alexandersturm3033
    @alexandersturm3033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +878

    Hitler drove around in an open topped car with little protection.
    Meanwhile, modern French leaders have to be driven around in armoured motorcades. Really makes you think.

    • @Carlos-nq7up
      @Carlos-nq7up 4 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      That all changed after the assassination of JFK.

    • @user-nt6ur4ef5r
      @user-nt6ur4ef5r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      US President also decided to drive around in an open top motourcade once, well didn't end nice for him, certainly

    • @kenmeri5832
      @kenmeri5832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      On top of that, those leaders are mostly democratically elected, while Hitler was an occupier and an enemy to the people. Really makes you think indeed

    • @pokiparkassistent
      @pokiparkassistent 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Alexander Sturm so what? Modern french leaders dont put their einemies into kz. Also this is propaganda. They will not show the safety measurements so people think he is a good leader. Works well with fools like you

    • @Timbo5000
      @Timbo5000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Terrorists, you see. But even that is not an excuse, tbh. Here in the Netherlands, the prime minister goes to work by bike...

  • @ChineseChicken1
    @ChineseChicken1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1026

    What did you do in the Wehrmacht during WW2? ....... Xylophone player......

    • @fleshwoundp1744
      @fleshwoundp1744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      I think it's a glockenspiel lol

    • @davidsmart8594
      @davidsmart8594 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      'Glockenspiel', not xylophone...

    • @beachside1
      @beachside1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      That was a serious xylophone . It was decked out lol

    • @jonathanandrew2909
      @jonathanandrew2909 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      they were winning the war up until the point they needed to replace him. moral wasn't the same after that.

  • @danielplainview2360
    @danielplainview2360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +576

    "Hitler In Paris" was released in 1940 to raving reviews and was soon followed up by 1945's disappointing "Hitler in the Bunker".

  • @pedrolistacarey4880
    @pedrolistacarey4880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1355

    The Führer may have been a bit crazy, but he certainly was no fool...He knew a lot about History, Architecture, Cathedrals, Monuments, Classic Music, Literature....and having been utterly poor in his youth, he never could afford a trip to Paris to behold its beauties. That's why he took the great risk of visiting Paris just a few days after the French Capitulation...he was more than eager to see with his own eyes everything he had read about the city during years.

    • @traditionalfascists3303
      @traditionalfascists3303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +251

      Pedro Lista Carey he wasn’t as crazy as his enemies would have you believe. Then again, why get information from his enemies? Would you read the Satanic Bible to learn about Christianity?

    • @blan_k4691
      @blan_k4691 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      No, I think he began to go crazy midway through the war. I think his dr.s may have been sabotaging him, or just didnt realize what the amount and combining them did to his mental state.

    • @10000Cacau
      @10000Cacau 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pedro Lista Carey 😂

    • @traditionalfascists3303
      @traditionalfascists3303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Bob Loblaw lol imagine believing that shit

    • @wideyxyz2271
      @wideyxyz2271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Actually his family were fairly well off as his father was an Austrian customs official and on a good salary. He lived well as a teenager and young man off his fathers and later his mothers pensions...

  • @fahrero793
    @fahrero793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +460

    3:32 1940 Hitler drives in an open car through Paris
    2019 Merkel won't dare this in Berlin
    What went wrtong?

    • @faithmountaindestiny4491
      @faithmountaindestiny4491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      One was a conqueror who had everything under control, other an elected leader with pockets of anarchy. Question is not thought out.

    • @Paretozen
      @Paretozen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Islam Extremism

    • @San-uv9ue
      @San-uv9ue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      Fahrer O to be fair politicians stopped riding in open topped after JFK

    • @tawfeeqmiskeen2231
      @tawfeeqmiskeen2231 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Damn thats true😂😂😂💔

  • @angryjock3938
    @angryjock3938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +321

    Look at Paris now.

    • @miksuko
      @miksuko 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Pretty nice!

    • @whitephillip6997
      @whitephillip6997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      @@miksuko it's shite compared to what it used to be... Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case /whoosh

    • @iHaveTheDocuments
      @iHaveTheDocuments 4 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      Islamic state of franceistane

    • @saeedvazirian
      @saeedvazirian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      >Comes from a culture that killed innocent Muslims
      > Blames Muslims for migrating to their continent

  • @tinkmarshino
    @tinkmarshino 4 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    This is becoming an addiction for me rather then an interesting perspective.. I am to the point now where I can not wait until the next video is out... Thanks for the share, carry on and be safe...

  • @notmenotme614
    @notmenotme614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    0:14 "What did you do in the War, Grandpa?"
    "I played the glockenspiel"

    • @knutdergroe9757
      @knutdergroe9757 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Military bands are trained as weapons platoons. So he most likely was a machine gunner.
      A very under rated job in the military.

    • @thunderbolt2145
      @thunderbolt2145 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Still a funny post though

    • @steve1978ger
      @steve1978ger 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      no match for the Stalin orgel

  • @NoFlu
    @NoFlu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +281

    5:09 can we just aknowledge that the tourguide pulled a "I was just doing my duty/following orders" on Hitler before it was cool post '45?

    • @56squadron
      @56squadron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I don't think so. I think what he was thinking was "I hope you die you pig, I'll never take a dime from you" but if he had said that the next stop would have been Auschwitz. All he could do was say "Thank you no... it's my job".

    • @reallyhappenings5597
      @reallyhappenings5597 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      wrong. to decline the tip was to subtly assert the sovereignty of himself & his duty to that palace of French culture he was entrusted with.

  • @filipkralj2618
    @filipkralj2618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    this is a good guide to sightseeing in Paris for tourists

  • @Daniel-kq4bx
    @Daniel-kq4bx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +404

    This is interesting to see Hitlers more human side. Just being fascinated by Paris

    • @willykaranikolas2391
      @willykaranikolas2391 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Yeah and also him trying to tip the French Guide at the Opera House, weirdly humane gesture for such an odd circumstance

    • @10000Cacau
      @10000Cacau 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      kaiser doge he was very human . He fought the NWO

    • @elpidiovillarreal6246
      @elpidiovillarreal6246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      kaiser doge crazy right and when he was going to lose it he ordered its destruction.

    • @SpeCifiC0507
      @SpeCifiC0507 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      @@elpidiovillarreal6246 I firmly believe that to be anti German propaganda more than anything. If you look at Dietrich's supposed "orders" to do so, then also look at how many times Dietrich lied about many other things, it is very likely that he was never ordered to do anything of that sort. Also, there is no other physical or circumstantial evidence that shows Dietrich receiving that order. Dietrich exclaimed it was just a phone call, how convincing.
      It is actually more likely that Dietrich if he actually did receive that order, was unable to carry it out because at that time France was seeing a huge revolt, partisans aplenty and the allies closing in. So it is likely that IF he did receive the orders' that he was unable to carry them out due to having his hands tied given the current circumstances.

  • @user_____M
    @user_____M 4 ปีที่แล้ว +562

    "Paris survived the war largely untouched" but not the peace.

    • @derkernspalter
      @derkernspalter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +257

      When German occupation dis less harm than the Globalist.

    • @watchout3811
      @watchout3811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Mark Evans Yeah but not huge bombings...or non white immigration

  • @fishyc150
    @fishyc150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +474

    Dont care what you say; moving the same carriage to the same spot for the french surrender was a stroke of absolute genius.

  • @williammiller8317
    @williammiller8317 4 ปีที่แล้ว +386

    Just look at Paris today and wonder what happened?

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      All the monuments, museums and art galleries are still there.

    • @lioraselby5328
      @lioraselby5328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Pretty sure it’s the same city it’s always been

    • @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@archstanton6102 But where are all the French? I was in Paris this year and it many areas looked like the streets of Africa. The architecture was the only thing reminding me I was in France.

    • @kingray3879
      @kingray3879 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Immigration is what happened

    • @svenschwingel8632
      @svenschwingel8632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Don't worry. Diversity is our strength.

  • @vincevandergoes2362
    @vincevandergoes2362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Fantastic video Mark. I love the non biased and factual coverage you bring in your videos.

    • @Bialy_1
      @Bialy_1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Old Corps Marine That is why he is claiming that Poland surendered and British was the only one fighting... because it is "non biased", Polish soldiers was deffending 300km of British coast, best squadron of Battle of Britain was Polish 303 and Polish destroyer discovered Bismark and made first shots at him after Churchils order to find him and sink him. In Berlin when Adolf was making decision to end his life Polish and Soviet soldiers was fighting on Berlin streats and only French in Berlin were fighting with them in 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French), British Free Corps suposed also be with them but they prefered to run awey...

    • @marcoAKAjoe
      @marcoAKAjoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's true

  • @weirdshibainu
    @weirdshibainu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    Say what you want about Hitler, but imagine being penniless ,hungry and feeling betrayed after fighting the allies in ww1, watching your country in ruins and then accepting the surrender of 20 some years later

    • @quintrankid8045
      @quintrankid8045 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Didn't Adolph Galland quote Hitler as saying something like, "Give me control of Germany for 10 years and you won't recognize it."? And didn't Galland follow up by saying that after the war as he looked from his window at the unrecognizable wreckage of a German city that Hitler had been quite right?

    • @knightowl3577
      @knightowl3577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I'll say he was an insane, megalomaniac and genocidal monster. No matter what had happened to him you can't excuse the man that became the Anti-Christ.

    • @steveh.3370
      @steveh.3370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      The Allies in WWI humiliated the German people who surrended when they were actually winning the war.

  • @SJ23982398
    @SJ23982398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I want to point out a mistake in this video, he did return to Paris, to be assassinated by the Basterds in a small movie theater. A band of allied commando's, who were known to operate behind enemy lines.

  • @timheersma4708
    @timheersma4708 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    "Destroy Paris"...sounds like one of those "If i can't have it, no one can"

    • @manictiger
      @manictiger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Stalin should sue for copyright infringement. Stalin came up with that, first!

    • @scsi_joe
      @scsi_joe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One simply doesn't just, "destroy Paris'

    • @marcoAKAjoe
      @marcoAKAjoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @fbshamrock
      @fbshamrock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Sounds like cheap propaganda

    • @boss180888
      @boss180888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      true, he also didn't want berlin to survive if it fell, so you see as you said either he has it or nobody can...

  • @bigpapadrew
    @bigpapadrew 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    if the dude who was ordered to destroy paris refused to do it, then that is definitely the subject of a video right there :)

  • @truthsearcher596
    @truthsearcher596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Probably my favourite channel of all my subscription's. Thank you for your time and effort you put into these videos Mark.

  • @germanwojtek3576
    @germanwojtek3576 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This reminds me of when the History channel actually had good shows . You’re a good man ! Subscribed .

  • @papibou516
    @papibou516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    I like the view of Hitler, with the best architects and sculptor beside him, and the generals behind. It tells a lot.

  • @ericcheatwood7248
    @ericcheatwood7248 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    History Channel: Hitler visited Paris once in 1940.
    Mark Felton: In between visiting the Paris Opera House and la Madeleine, Hitler bought a crepe and had a quick bathroom break.

  • @marsdenmullac9664
    @marsdenmullac9664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    It gives me goosebumps because where he is stood I've stood myself, I couldn't help but think what he felt as Europe was in his hands

  • @andrewpestotnik5495
    @andrewpestotnik5495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    2:40
    Hitler to Keitel: Your job is to carry my glasses, nothing more

  • @stephanlustig5490
    @stephanlustig5490 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Beautiful Pictures.
    Greetings from Germany,
    American Sector, Berlin.

  • @Timbo5000
    @Timbo5000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    I always thought he was just a failed artist with minimal cultural knowledge, but apparently he was a true man of culture. I wonder if he ever lamented how many historical buildings he's responsible for destroying, or his decision to refuse to surrender even when defeat was inevitable, which caused unnecessary destruction of German historical buildings. To think that a man with such admiration for art would order the destruction of Paris...

    • @sirmoke9646
      @sirmoke9646 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The destruction of german cities is a two sided coin. Don't forget that the big cities and their population were considered strategic targets by the allied air forces. Especially the Brits. Dresden wasn't burned to the ground because Hitler didn't surrender. It was however unnecessary. Just as destroying Paris would have been. There was no surrender. The ideology dictated victory or death long before the war.

  • @matro2
    @matro2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    Dietrich von Choltitz
    was the German general who disobeyed the Paris destruction in 1944. 6:54

    • @pratiktandel5706
      @pratiktandel5706 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Salute that man

    • @thkempe
      @thkempe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Saint Joan of Arc, heroine of France The Polish Resistance tried the same that year. Not much left of Warsaw after it ...

  • @beachside1
    @beachside1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    A lot of these photos and video I have never seen. Great job Mark

  • @nilcars
    @nilcars 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Mr. Felton, always a great pleasure to watch your videos about WW2. Congratulations for your historical research and the choice of subjects.

  • @TheTeoras1
    @TheTeoras1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Just another holiday abroad, huh?

  • @philipcheng1618
    @philipcheng1618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Huh I can see where Speer got his ideas for that massive "Germania" model for the planned "renovation" of Berlin.

  • @jimbobjimjim6500
    @jimbobjimjim6500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This was very early in the morning in Paris, you can see the early morning sun reflected off the wall at 5:36 min. Fascinating footage, a moment in time.

  • @pazgames8016
    @pazgames8016 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ... and I thought I knew everything about this visit. Learned a few more details. BRILLIANT! keep up the good work. One of my favourite channels.

  • @buddhadrummer087
    @buddhadrummer087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I enjoyed this greatly, I think it's your best one.. I loved how long it was compared to your others. Please keep making more.

  • @ColinH1973
    @ColinH1973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    How on earth can anyone give this a thumb's down is beyond me. Mark's videos are clear, approachable, and always engaging. I don't know about anyone else, but I look forward to watching and enjoying them immensely. Keep up the excellent work Mark.

  • @stonehaven
    @stonehaven 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of the things that make your work so great is you share facts and footage we've never seen before.

  • @1keykneedeep
    @1keykneedeep 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was an awesome video. I've never seen those clips before. You have unbelievable resources to find those gems. Everytime I get a notification for a new video - I cant get to the video fast enuff !! Again, amazing work.

  • @Some_random98
    @Some_random98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    I highly doubt Hitler said he wanted to destroy Paris

    • @bigdick6225
      @bigdick6225 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      White Male1998 yep he wanted it gone as he wouldn’t have control over it after it

    • @fbshamrock
      @fbshamrock 4 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      Just anti German propaganda

    • @FierceScavenger
      @FierceScavenger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Sounds like a "If I can't have it, no one can" moment imo.

    • @jbelcher6473
      @jbelcher6473 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@fbshamrock 🇺🇸🇩🇪👍

    • @Some_random98
      @Some_random98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@bigdick6225 read mein kampf and you'll see why that's a bullshit lie

  • @TommyRhodes69
    @TommyRhodes69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    you put out so much content Mark and it is all great. thank you for all the great videos!

  • @michaelswaak49
    @michaelswaak49 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Wonder how Eva reacted when she found out that he had visited the city of romance without her. Did he get a way with it?
    Nein mien Schatz, das war nur business. Ehrlich.

  • @madmodder123
    @madmodder123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man I just binge watched all your videos like a month ago, and now there are 20+ new videos to watch, keep it up!

  • @drumbergunnerer3162
    @drumbergunnerer3162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mr. Felton; your videos and attention to historical detail is fantastic.
    Very, very well done sir.

  • @christopherthrawn1333
    @christopherthrawn1333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Sir,
    Excellent work on this historical time.
    You are educating me still.
    Excellent work Sir.

  • @browngreen933
    @browngreen933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Open top cars? Streets not guarded or cordoned off? Trump or Biden wouldn't dare do that!

  • @peternewman3487
    @peternewman3487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    What was so secret about it ? It was filmed and it’s been shown many times on tv documentaries. My late German Grandfather was one of the soldier’s marching in Paris.

  • @lawsonone6015
    @lawsonone6015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It's funny how in the thumbnail, he looks like a tourist taking a selfie, "How do I look? Do I look authoritative but like you can have a beer with me too?"

  • @Hockeyfan9884
    @Hockeyfan9884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mark Felton , I personally thank you so very much of the very impressive and informative videos you provide for all. thank you.

  • @stevenkeegan6260
    @stevenkeegan6260 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Interesting to see his itinerary and the accompanying film, (some of which I’ve not seen before). Well done!

  • @Unregistered.Hypercam.2.
    @Unregistered.Hypercam.2. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +987

    " we going to paris!"
    Girls : omg the city of love! , i cant wait to eat baguette!
    Boys:

    • @aukusti3761
      @aukusti3761 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Unregistered hypercam 2 I see we have similar tastes

    • @jackamelar1455
      @jackamelar1455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I won't be going to Paris for my vacation this year. Oh wait, that was last year. This year I'm not going to Hawaii.

  • @benleno
    @benleno 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I see why he arrived at 5:30 in the morning. Get there before the Chinese!

  • @robertcoffey4487
    @robertcoffey4487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Sublime as always Mark.....
    Bravo!

  • @tonymcnamara9368
    @tonymcnamara9368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another brilliant film.
    A new subscriber too!
    I enjoy the unbiased information given too, it make's a change from the usual films we get.

  • @Imtahotep
    @Imtahotep 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You can automatically click "like" for any and all of Mr Felton's excellent videos. You won't find any more informative or succinct history in just a few minutes of your attention.

  • @koldomakazaga6846
    @koldomakazaga6846 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As always it is a great pleasure to enjoy your formidable WWII knowledge. Thanks

  • @BC-cp4mc
    @BC-cp4mc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    nice quality WW2 footage. great work. thank you for this channel.

  • @Carlos-nq7up
    @Carlos-nq7up 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Great Video! Love all of the history from WW2!!

  • @fuyu5979
    @fuyu5979 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very interesting your video, especially the facts n statistics!
    Looking forward to your next video.

  • @waglefar
    @waglefar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This channel is pure quality. Thank you sir!

  • @Stormvermin-bx1lh
    @Stormvermin-bx1lh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    Look at France now, even less free and less french.

    • @Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht
      @Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perhaps so , I assume Hitler's reigning style was just different ...

    • @nahouledeb5949
      @nahouledeb5949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Just A Clown
      That depend of what is France for you.
      I live in Southern France in the city of Toulouse. I was in a public school and 90% of the students was whites and 75% was pure Toulousians.
      Paris is an exception because 50% of the migrant population live in Paris suburbs.
      But in the rest of France especially in the West, whites are a big majority like in Poland or Hungary.

    • @Consrignrant
      @Consrignrant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      No. France is Not less free, nor is it less French. You haven't even been to France or you wouldn't have made such an incredibly ignorant comment. Nor do you know what living under the Nazi occupation was like. Yes, you are "just a clown", and a dumb fuck, bigoted swine.

    • @knunyabeasewhacks8744
      @knunyabeasewhacks8744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The French are just tired of being French, I guess.

    • @christopherdenniston746
      @christopherdenniston746 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Consrignrant yes it is

  • @omarhamid3638
    @omarhamid3638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Really fascinating! This trip always piqued my curiosity and it’d be great if you could make a little compilation about other visits he made e.g. Rome, Florence, Prague and Brussels.

  • @OuttaMyMind911
    @OuttaMyMind911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My wife and I went through Paris on a trip. I've always had a big interest in WW2 and several times we would be somewhere that I knew Hitler had been. I would tell her "you know, Hitler once stood exactly where you are standing". She was not amused.

  • @lst141
    @lst141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    As usual, short and precise. Congratulations

  • @calendarpage
    @calendarpage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I've seen the film of Hitler looking out to the Eiffel Tower, but have never heard or seen such detail about the entire trip. Thanks.

  • @Alan_Connor
    @Alan_Connor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Another excellent video-I didn't realise his visit was filmed.

  • @BostonsF1nest
    @BostonsF1nest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    We’re all very fortunate the Eiffel Tower miraculously survived that war

  • @guffmulderEOD3119
    @guffmulderEOD3119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The details of history are not forgotten with your excellent videos.

  • @yoshbiginz
    @yoshbiginz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Perhaps make a video on his visits to the world war 1 memorials

    • @MrRobot01010
      @MrRobot01010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Sorry... no can do, only demonizing Allied propaganda permitted, anything that would paint the NAZI's in a positive light would run against the narrative of our post-Holocaust, white-guilt world we live and worship in now...

  • @georgefoord7240
    @georgefoord7240 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I discovered your videos last week and love them thank you

  • @martinmichael2535
    @martinmichael2535 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Good video, thanks for posting it.

  • @Lexyvil
    @Lexyvil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    It's insane to think these events were just 50 years before I was born.

  • @jeromywong6041
    @jeromywong6041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    5:59- Hitler actually brought Napoleon's remains back to France from Vienna as he was a great admirer of Napoleon; and Napoleon was apparently an admirer of Julius Caesar.

  • @KO0LAIDBROTHA
    @KO0LAIDBROTHA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    If mark creates it - i like it

  • @barkebaat
    @barkebaat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Quality content & presentation from the doctor, as usual :-)

  • @williambinkley8879
    @williambinkley8879 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I had always wondered about the lighting in that footage. Being so early in the morning makes sense.

  • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218
    @insideoutsideupsidedown2218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    With all the different views on battles, I am patiently waiting for Mark's video operation Market Garden.

    • @tyrionlannister4920
      @tyrionlannister4920 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Germans to british, polish and american paratroopers:
      "Your overconfidence is your weakness..."
      Brits, poles, americans look at germans....
      ...look at italy...:
      "Your trust in your friends is yours..."
      Allies rolling on the floor loughing....
      Germans:"tu che.... But why does the polish paratrooper lough though?"

  • @walshjustin04
    @walshjustin04 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the videos you make!! Please keep it up and continue to make amazing content like this!

  • @superhoney5397
    @superhoney5397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +321

    Teacher: we’re going to france
    Girls:ohhh it’s gonna be so romantic
    Boys:

  • @roblouw3038
    @roblouw3038 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks Mark - usual uncompromisingly high standard that we have ALL come to appreciate.....

  • @roamingtiger
    @roamingtiger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    It’s almost as if hurler ordered the city destroyed because he enjoyed it so much he didn’t want the allies to have it and enjoy it too...

  • @discingaround
    @discingaround 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Love your videos on Hitler and the Germans during WW2. I always learn something new, and the video composition is great. Keep it up Sir!

  • @anthonywalsh7613
    @anthonywalsh7613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Another great upload here. Those German soldiers must have loved Paris