I'm an older guy just a working-class dump truck driver really like your Channel I used to watch the world at war with my father as a young lad in the early 70s I don't recall if that was British Broadcasting I loved that television show thank you for your videos I appreciate the history and your knowledge of it
Yeah "World at War" according to the Money power Victor's who launched the war in 1933. I watched it in early 70s too. Relised decades later pure lies and Propaganda.
It was made by a British company called Thames Television, and is one of the best documentaries ever made. They sent film crews all over the world to interview people at huge expense. Most documentaries simply hire film from a footage farm and provide a voiceover.
Estonia is next. Estonians have never had a break as well. EDIT: Well this time they are part of NATO so maybe they have a chance, but I feel their country may become the "Newest Weapons Testing Zone" where everyone gets to try out their newest weapons turning that naturally beautiful country into a Mars landscape.
No they haven't. The book, Bloodlands, describes the sad fate of Ukraine at the hands of Stalin where millions starved to death during the Soviets collectivization of farmland. Late, the Nazis ransacked the country, shot and deported jews and left it in ruins as they retreated back to Germany. Finally, the Soviets shot those who had cooperated with the Germans. It remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Putin should be denounced as a savage criminal for what he is now doing. Russia should never be allowed to partner with civilized nations again as long as that savage is in power.
I love how all of your videos are not politically motivated in anyway. You just simply are a student of history and give us such great facts about history.
A very nice clip, Sir. As usual. A German commander of a similar unit in Normandy, who was asked why there were so many deserters in his (foreign) regiment, gave the cynical response: "Ukrainians in France against America for Germany doesn't work."
Well, Ukrainians as well as Bosnian Muslims in SS were only good for massacring defenseless civilian population. Even stronger partisan detachments would make them pause, and US Army was definitely too much for them.
“In western Ukraine, villagers greeted the invading Nazi armies with the traditional Slavic gifts of bread and salt. The older peasants touched the black crosses on the German tanks in awe, naïvely believing them to be emissaries of Christ. Statues of Stalin were pulled down and beaten furiously with pickaxes, and when Soviet planes were shot down, the villagers laughed and clapped their hands, announcing that Stalin’s regime would soon fall. The Ukrainian famine had taken place just eight years earlier, followed by a vengeful and very bloody Terror. Millions of Ukrainian lives had been already lost to Stalin. Perhaps if a father watches his children starve to death in his arms, he might welcome the devil himself.” - Tim Tzouliadis, _The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia,_ p. 193
@@-flanders-8975 take a look a Israel nothing pretty about it and the irony of them backing Ukraine and the 25 other nato nations doing so all a bunch of hypocrites who have committed war crimes. Ukraines hands are also bloody.
@@AD-hu6ou Jesus. Dejesus. What religion. what country, what army has NOT committed War crimes. Not one that has ever gone to war. You are just a Hitler apologist.
Thank you so much Dr. Felton for providing us with this content. One of my clients was a Ukrainian teenager who was conscripted by the Nazis for labor. He told me that the Russians starved them and the Germans used them like work horses. He was able to escape to America just in time to fight in the Korean War. He was a little guy, maybe 5'5" in height, but had a giant heart. So proud to have known him. My heart bleeds for these poor people in the Ukraine.
@@Semperfi2011 The Ukraine is in bad shape because of the terror the soviets did there. And now it is finally recovering and going to a more democratic state Putin is screwing it up again. The Ukrainians aren't crazy, whey would never have done anything to endanger Russia. Putin just wants to relive what is his perception where the glorious years of the USSR. I normally don't wish harm to people, but I would absolutely be cheering if that bastard dropped dead tonight. I don't really get why you can't feel sympathy for innocent people that are forced into a war they don't want. The images of scared, wounded and killed innocent people are heartbreaking. Russia is way more violent then the Ukraine, and probably more corrupt too. At least there are way less liberties for the Russian people then there were for the Ukranian people.
And I'm just a working class first line/responder on leave and I love love love Mr. Felton. I studied history specializing in Germany and I learn something new EVERY TIME I watch a video! Heck....I had a lazy day once and pulled him up on my laptop....laid in bed and watched and listened ALL day. Haha.
WWII was my father's/uncles' war. I watch your channel because you present material that exists no where else and to learn what kind of challenge the men of my family were dealing with. To me they were men who went to work, mowed the lawn but who "had been in the Army." I did not know what "being in the Army" really meant. Every one of your videos is a tribute to those men and is appreciated by their sons and daughters. Thank you.
Seen a documentary about cossacks that fought against Soviets in ww2. Towards the end of war, moved their entire village population to Austria. After the war the Soviets demanded the families to be returned to ussr. Entire Families committed murder/suicide while being forced back by British troops. History forgotten is often repeated.
It wasn't Austria, but Italy, toward the end of WWII they retreat in Austria to negotiate with the british for some sort of protection against Stalin, little did they now that their fate were already sealed.
Not only Cossack fought for Germany. Ostlegionen or Eastern legions were battalions and divisions consisting of people from Central Asia, Caucasus, Southern Russia and Middle East.
I know the Wehrmacht had a unit of Spanish volunteers called the Blue Division that fought near Leningrad on the Eastern Front. Franco helped raise the unit to pay Hitler back for his help in winning the Spanish Civil War (1936-39.) Some of the Spanish communists that fought against Franco made their way to the Soviet Union after their defeat. During the war some of them served in the Red Army.
John Williams excellent book "the birth of the SS" deals with this mutiny in detail, thanks Mark for the retelling of this fascinating subject, edit. Sorry guy's I got the authors name wrong it was GORDON Williamson not Peter and the title was "the SS Hitlers instrument of terror" ,apologies as I was commenting from memory which was mistaken by myself, so many people comment about this so I feel I should correct myself, thanks to all who felt they had to have their own opinion I respect you all for taking the time to weigh in! Stay safe friends
@@calvinfernandez1956 research the knights templars . Find in on another site I can’t say here . And look at the names and structure of the templars . Then look at himmlers crazy beliefs . There’s a certain name for them 🤔
After watching various documentaries such as The World At War and The Nazis: A Warning From History and World War Two In Colour (to name but a few) as well as numerous fact-based films about WWII, I thought I knew all there was to know about WWII, but Mark teaches me something new almost every time, impressive.
The World at War is an amazing series notable for all the participants that were still alive when it was made to provide commentary. It also has the narration by the marvelous Sr Laurence Olivier. However it suffers compared to documentaries from the past 10 years which have the benefit of all the new info from the release of previously classified records after 50/60 years.
Nobody knows, nor will ever know, everything there is to know about WW2. It's too big, too much of it officially secret, too much of it un-documented. Even the people directing it (whether they were Heads of State, or Chiefs of Staff, or whatever) were working 'through a glass darkly'. Mark Felton does a good job of shining a bright light into crevices of history that would otherwise be overlooked, but which illuminate details that can fundamentally shift the way aspects of the war are understood.
It's important to dig..you DEF won't get the whole picture (or even most of it) from mainstream sources..take any and almost everything you learn about the war with multiple grains of salt..the victors write the history
If you are interested in some more in-depth stories about some less known second world war history I'd like to suggest the books that Doctor Felton wrote. I have read almost all of them and they provide a ton of really interesting in-depth information.
@@stephencarroll9935 What do you mean ''um what''?? Reading comprehension not your strong point? Get a grown up to explain what it means. If you still don't believe then, check up on google.
An absolute lie, a whitewash ! Ukrainian SS are known to be the most vicoius f french Resistance torturers and the Ordnen gruppen did act not just in france but in Slovenia too ! Sadly most of the french Resistance member I've spoken to are not alive anymore, but THEY told me about the "notoriously vicious" Ukrainian SS.
He should do a video on UPA and Bandera. Many don't know about the Wolyn Massacre and Neo Nazi Groups (such as Azov) are still celebrating SS Galicia and Bandera.
yeah..and juuuust at right moment backstabbing and changing sides , makes them "heroes".... \well, not in my book...and how did they behave in Algeria and Vietnam, hey ? notably, also a LOT of dutch ex SS were enlisted in the indonesian independence / dutch policing actions 45-49...and it was ONLY them that dared to "kick ass"..so to speak..
@@phraya_techapit9910 There is a Polish channel, most often with English subtitles, with lots of people that were in the mix of things during WW2. A lot of the atrocities against Poles are committed by Ukrainians, and these were not even working for Germany for the most part. Ancestral hatreds. Of course, Ukrainians suffered brutalities at the hands of the Soviets, Poles and Germans as well, but their rep for brutality remains a common thread. Even those working for Germany had this reputation.
I'm really glad to hear that a separate video about the so-called Ukrainian National Army is coming. As was stated in the video, it was created by the Germans near the end of the war, with the former SS Galizien Division as its core. It's really an interesting and surprising topic, especially considering the figure of UNA's commander - *Pavlo Shandruk* . Let's just say that he only began collaborating with the Germans in late 1944 (previously refusing nazi offers) and he started the war, fighting with distinction against the Germans in Polish uniform.
@@tsar389 True, and many videos about other collaborating formations (including the Russian and Dutch ones). Although, his video was broader in scope, jointly covering the whole topic of Ukrainian collaboration. I remember making a comment under it about the story of the Ukrainians who ended up in Rimini and yet, still learning new things myself from other comments (about Shandruk). So it's exciting to hear that Mark Felton is preparing something about that specific story.
Shandruk was Galicia - part of modern Ukraine that was in Poland until September of 1939. Therefore, he could be considered Polish - as Galicians themselves are amorphous group held together only by they hate of Russia :D
@@victormendiola4927 I would not get too excited as this war could be a nuclear one involving US, Russia, China, Europenn countries & UK. World War 3 ; I think that I will pass on that one Victor!
instead of actually helping, the UNITED STATES especially and also others (e.g canada and GB) are using/ brainwashing/ weaponizing ukraine's (identity) situation towards extremism (+actual nazism) and sheer hate to use them against russia, going on for 50+ years. just as one of many red flag examples, January 2010, ukraine officially gave their highest honor "hero of ukraine" to stepan bandera. with now being wirshipped and having pictures of him in many ukr offices of the people the "international community" eagerly playing the war drums for, go figure..
Often when I watch a Mark Felton Production, I learn little bits of history of WW2 that I'd never even suspected of happening-& I've read PLENTY on WW2.. Love the attention to detail given, thank you, Mark.
The Nazi racial policies and general disregard for Slavs ironically doomed them to certain defeat. Ukrainians, having suffered greatly under Stalin and the Communist Party, initially greeted the invading Germans as liberators. If the Germans had prepared and organized a free Ukrainian government to immediately work towards collaboration with them, it might have been a great help towards winning the war in the East. Imagine teams of Ukrainian nationals sorting through the captured Soviet soldiers for Ukrainians, promising them freedom for joining the fight against the Soviet Union. Of course, Nazi racial attitudes made that impossible. Instead, the Nazis treated everyone they met like conquered people to be trampled on and abused. By the time that they did consider trying to recruit Ukrainians and others, they had treated the population badly, and it was increasingly obvious that Germany was going to lose the war.
Actually, Galicians were only shortly under Stalin (from September of 1939) . They hatred for Russia came from long-standing Austrian propaganda. Galicia was part of Austria-Hungary before WW1 (and then part of Poland). They were forcibly converted by Austrians to Greek Catholicism (opposed to Polish Roman Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy) and made a sperate "nation".
@@FortniteBlaster2 If I remember right, around 30% of the Ukrainians were seen as having Germanic traits, which is less than the Czechs, but more than Russians, Poles and others. But the Nazis made it clear that the majority of the Ukrainians were to be slaves or deported. The Ukrainian lands were of great interest for the "living space", so the inhabitans had to go.
The eminent British historian Alan Bullock said this - Hitler could have had half of Russia (not just Ukraine) on his side after what they'd been through under Stalin, but instead he was just as brutal.
My family in eastern Slovakia hid partisans in their village home. My grandfather remembers being a child during that time and helping get rid of the tailings from digging out the bunker for the partisans by dumping them in the nearby stream. The family reasoned that any occupying soldiers who saw a boy playing with dirt, they wouldn't think twice about it. I wonder who those partisans were and if they might have been some of the defected Ukranians. That same house will now be used to host some friends from Kiev. If they manage to make it out of the city... Slovak partisans also had an armored train. Which is kinda hilarious.
@@caniconcananas7687 What William said. I think they managed to put it together in a tunnel, rolled it out once, then rolled it back and there it stayed. But it does kind of make you seem like a more regular force if you have the means to put together armored trains!
@@giroromek8423 there is a not-so bad CSSR film about it, from the 70s. Austria-Hungary built good armoured trains, most of them in Budapest, so one could have found its way into a Slovak Depot, may be having been deployed in 1919 to guard the border area against Poland.
A meaningless platitude that just reinforces whatever bias a person already has. Pro-war Russians are probably using the same phrase to justify the invasion. "Oh wow we've been invaded a billion times. This time we won't wait for them to come for us - don't repeat the mistakes of the past!!1" Or how about we see if we can use it to vindicate not doing anything? "Think of WW1 and how it spun out of control because of countries sticking up for each other? And caused ww2! don't repeat the mistakes of the past!!1"
Mark. Again a very good and interesting piece of work. A similar uprising was done by Georgian troops on the island of Texel in the Netherlands beginning of April 1945. At that moment there were children visiting from Amsterdam on the island of Texel to recuperate from the Hunger Winter.
@@wallclock4648 Hey! Why don't you tell us how you really feel? I mean I'm curious why you would have three nazi flags and then you put a pig against the Ukrainian flag three times and then you get even stranger with a pig with a star of David banner, another pig with a white flag and a rainbow( I'm not even sure what that means) and one more pig with the American flag.
I like how Mark Felton manage to his narative in this politicaly sensitive subjects left clean of emotional coments,as that is often the case in many videos of WW2 history.
@@12yearssober Here, children, we see a troll on the internet. See how they sneakily advocate for eugenics under the alias of dead child trafficker and pedophile Jeffery Epstein? Simply brilliant, and sure to attract gullible individuals to argue. Let’s see who takes the bait.
Hi Mark, I recently found an old dvd called death on the Eastern front,and there was an episode where the Russians had to turn around from their push to Berlin to route the last Germans in zcechoslovakia And there was a hill where a t34 made its way to the top and I'm pretty sure the tank is now a monument,please could you do a video on this battle please as I don't believe it gets enough recognition
Dr Felton does it again, i never knew there was Ukrainians in combat roles. I saw a Ukrainian nationalist posting pro-nazi stuff a couple of days ago, kinda helps explain his actions.
SS volunteers on soviet territory were by wast majority the people who heavily suffered from communist occupation. Only during soviet retreat they shoot all persons who were previously arrested(mostly by political reasons) but not sentenced yet in a couple of days. It turned out as more than 20.000 (nazi in Kyiv shoot 37.000 jews in 2 days for reference) .
@@JustAsPlanned1Those who really need independence - getting it. Slowly building their political party and peaceful construction for their own. Look at the European Union.
@@marvinheemeyer5804 I'm talking about 1600-1940. Times when all freedom was gained by blood and tears. American revolution, French revolution, Russian revolution, Polish, Hungarian uprisings, Italian unification wars, etc. The only reason Ukrainian radical nationalism was born in 1920s was the fact that Entente allowed Poland to take Western Ukraine under the conditions of creating a Ukrainian autonomy with Ukrainian authorities, schools and universities. Poland being a close to fascism police state quickly forgot about its promises. People were tired of being second class citizens and got radicalized.
Esteemed Dr. Felton : Sir, another uprising in the final days of WW2 occurred on the Dutch island of Texel, where Soviets (mostly Georgian) who had previously been sympathetic (to say the least) to the German war effort suddenly revolted against their masters. Said revolt resulted in an armed conflict lasting for several weeks until even AFTER the German unconditional surrender. Which may be a unique feature and perhaps a point of interest to you worthy of further indepth investigation (if you haven't done so already).
Toni Slug, Gentleman, I'm very obligated, this Themata, - Rus.(Soviet)-General 'Wlassov + his unit - first against fighting WH-Wehrmacht - later with - Germans. End of war 1945, must go- back to Soviet-Union, direct sent under Gallows.. English-Politik- did *Order..... Thank's for Attention, written by - a German.
Actually, the 30th SS Grenadier Division was the Belarusian SS division, which was formed under the leadership of the Belarusian Central Rada in Berlin and it consisted exclusively of Belarusians.
Very well-made series. No propaganda, just simple facts arranged into a good story. As a Ukrainian, I would like to agree with the narrative. I must say that Ukrainians found themselves between two major forces Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Two were bloody dictatorships. Ukrainians suffered the most in WW2, with more than 10 mln casualties. Now we commemorate the fallen, we are in good relations with Poles and Jews. We mourn all of our victims, who are people of different ethnic groups.
I have many Ukranian friends and I feel like I know their character and values. I can see how they would jump at the chance to break from the Russinas and communism - but as they do so nobly today. Canadian here and in spite of what I just said I am truly disgusted by that ss monument referred to above and with the recognition by our moronic members of parliament (led by Trudeau the ultimate moron) of the ss visitor to our House of Commons recently. It is like our government and voting public are zombies. After the ss slaughtered the Jews and our pow boys in Normandy we are somehow celebrating this scum. I don’t struggle at all with my Ukranian brothers, but if you signed up for the ss you knew damn well what you were getting into and that is laundry that never comes clean. You have nothing to be proud of sir and your neighbours are pathetic for letting you build and keep that monument. How that is not hate speech or the very epitome of racism I have no idea. It wont last be very sure of that.
With such a mix of ethnicities, there was bound to be friction, most Eastern Europeans were used to being subordinate to German's, for centuries, for instance every single Mayor of Riga was Baltic German, & 1 Russian.
Great video as always. I was thinking how the Ustase sure worked for the Nazis but we are then talking about Croatia and not Ukraine. Very informative and interesting because so much of our past helps us understand the present. I was surprised to see my Dad in a program on the BBC from WWII footage and he remembered the day the footage was filmed. I never expected to see him. I also watched The World at War series and bought the DVD set. You do great work. I love watching your productions.
History never ends, it only continues.Thanks Mark for a better and fairer education on this part of modern history, high school teachings of the subject contained to much bias based on the victors perspective rather than overall.
Mark, continuing the fascinating theme of European ethnic/political groups and factions choosing sides to fight on, may I suggest a video on exiled Spanish Republicans' service with the French Army from 1940 to service with the Free French 2nd Armored division in '44-45. Quite the journey considering they started in French internment camps and in 1944 led the 2nd into Paris. Great video and thanks for your sterling work illuminating the most obscure and interesting corners of WW2!
Please consider a video on Spanish troops that Francisco Franco sent to assist Germany. They were known as the Blue Division or Condor Legion if I recall.
My father was born in 1918 in Newark, NJ, USA. After completing the 3rd grade in the Newark public school in 1927, my grandmother took her three American born boys back to be raised in Zbaraz County, Ternopil Province, Galicia or Halychyna, Ukraine, then Eastern Poland. My grandfather remained in Newark, NJ sending money to my grandmother and his three sons. My uncle, my father's oldest brother, was 21 in 1935, so not to serve in the Polish Army, he went back to the land of his birth, USA, Newark, NJ got work in the Ballatine Brewery, send money with my grandfather, to continue to support my grandmother
Similar story to my Grandfather John, Irish though, but was from Newark, signed up, not drafted. He worked as an aircraft repair specialist, eventually training Poles, Russians ect ect. In Europe & eventually was stationed at Ft Dix in N.J.
One of my neighbors, when I was a kid, was a survivor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. He never really talked about it, but occasionally would get a bit morose and have a few too many drinks. One day while I was mowing his grass, he asked me to sit down so he can tell me a story. I liked his stories about Ukraine and his family. This story wasn't so nice. It was about getting chased down by the Soviet Special Forces (before there was Spetsnaz there were special units to hunt down traitors or perform sabotage missions.). He talked about himself, and several members of his group being hunted for weeks by this unit in the late 40's (after WWII) until only him and a couple of men survived. They snuck out with some help from Ukrainian locals and fled to the US on a freighter in Finland (Finns hated the Russians). He eventually got asylum in the US and settled in my city as a Steel Worker. He died a few years later and was buried in a local Cemetery reserved for people of Ukrainian descent. He would be sad to know that Russia and the Ukraine are fighting again. He hoped that Russia would just stop constantly trying to burn Ukraine to the ground to take its resources and destroy its population. His family was decimated by the Holodomor (the mass starvation of 1932) and the remainder killed during the Soviet reoccupation of Ukraine after the Nazis were defeated. Most of his family were farmers and had nothing to do with the Nazis (or least he claimed so). But to the NKVD if you sold food to the Nazis or a member of your family was against the Soviet Union, you were a traitor (even if you didn't have a choice and could get shot by the Germans.). They were executed in 1945 without a trial on their farm and a bunch of Russians moved in and took over the farm. He said that's what happened to a lot of Ukrainians, the Russians would deport you or send you to a gulag. They would take over your land or business and replace you with loyal Russians, then claim you were a stateless person (as you were in gulag) and had no rights to your land or business. Many of the Russians (who claim to currently be Ukrainians) are those people who took over Ukrainian land at the end of WWII. Now the Russians are using their supposed abuse by the Ukrainian Government to invade the country.
@@EroticOnion23 There are always people who take advantage of the system to gain power. It sure didn't help the Ukrainians too much, especially in the early days of the Soviet Union.
MARK S......Apparently everyone who writes in this comment section is Russophobic. It is striking that there is talk of a Russia-Ukraine confrontation, and not a Russia-NATO confrontation, where Ukraine is only a pretext. There is also no mention that the West carried out a coup in Ukraine in 2013. With carelessness of this nature, narratives are built. That are then administered to children.
@@josesalazar8434 you are right! This is nato provoking Rusia through Ukraina. Ukraina is just another scape goat. Nato encouraging Ukrainians to take natos wepons and 'fight for their country' where they are actualy fighting for nato!
There is a memorial to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS in Oakville, Ontario. It is weird to see a Waffen SS memorial in Canada, but... do you fight for the people who killed your family by causing the famine of 1932-1933, or the people who are killing other families. I hope I never have to make that choice.
Galician division has nothing to do with Holodomor. Galicia was not part of the USSR until September of 1939 (it was in Poland). In fact, those who suffered most under communism are now in east Ukraine wanting to separate from it.
I’m 21 years and have great knowledge of history by studying it and reviewing what I learned. In far WW2, Ancient Greece, Mayan and Aztec and a few others are my favorite to learn about. From how the U.S won war with companies and mass production its great
There was also a similar uprising late in the war by the Georgian's on the small island of Texel in The Netherlands! They put up a real fierce fight against the Germans with a heroic last stand in the lighthouse on the north of Texel.
Can you please do some videos about the events that led up to this war? I have no idea what's truly going on and I would love to hear from someone who I trust. Preferably from an accomplished historian.
The story of a Ukrainian who joins the SS to fight the Soviets and ends up in SE asia with the French foreign legion fighting the vietcong 15 years later is a movie i'd want to see
On the Devil’s tail is about a 15 year old Italian/German boy who’s family moved to Alsace Loraine before the war. He then joined the SS in 1944 and fought in the SS who escaped from the siege of Konisberg fled to Spain was caught by France escaped and fled to Italy before being caught again and joining the FFL to fight in Vietnam
I'm an older guy just a working-class dump truck driver really like your Channel I used to watch the world at war with my father as a young lad in the early 70s I don't recall if that was British Broadcasting I loved that television show thank you for your videos I appreciate the history and your knowledge of it
Yeah "World at War" according to the Money power Victor's who launched the war in 1933. I watched it in early 70s too. Relised decades later pure lies and Propaganda.
What on earth are you talking about?
We must be around the same age..also have memories of watching world at war with my dad...thanks for the reminder.
It was made by a British company called Thames Television, and is one of the best documentaries ever made. They sent film crews all over the world to interview people at huge expense. Most documentaries simply hire film from a footage farm and provide a voiceover.
@@paulmasterson386 thank you mr. Masterson I really appreciate that info be safe be well your dump truck driving buddy from Marysville Washington USA
These folks have never had a break, it seems.
Thank you Dr. Felton for the enlightening yet timely lesson.
And selective history
Estonia is next.
Estonians have never had a break as well.
EDIT: Well this time they are part of NATO so maybe they have a chance, but I feel their country may become the "Newest Weapons Testing Zone" where everyone gets to try out their newest weapons turning that naturally beautiful country into a Mars landscape.
No they haven't. The book, Bloodlands, describes the sad fate of Ukraine at the hands of Stalin where millions starved to death during the Soviets collectivization of farmland. Late, the Nazis ransacked the country, shot and deported jews and left it in ruins as they retreated back to Germany. Finally, the Soviets shot those who had cooperated with the Germans. It remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Putin should be denounced as a savage criminal for what he is now doing. Russia should never be allowed to partner with civilized nations again as long as that savage is in power.
Neither did the Poles and they are their neighbours.
It seems anything East of Germany can hardly ever get a break.
@@DaveSCameron All history is selective, what matters is that it is true.
I love how all of your videos are not politically motivated in anyway. You just simply are a student of history and give us such great facts about history.
A very nice clip, Sir. As usual.
A German commander of a similar unit in Normandy, who was asked why there were so many deserters in his (foreign) regiment, gave the cynical response: "Ukrainians in France against America for Germany doesn't work."
This was really good!
Well, Ukrainians as well as Bosnian Muslims in SS were only good for massacring defenseless civilian population. Even stronger partisan detachments would make them pause, and US Army was definitely too much for them.
@@aleksazunjic9672 seethe
Why didnt the Germans keep them on the Vs Soviet front once Hitler and Stalin had their break up ?
@@highpath4776 The Nazis did not fully trust them. They thought they could control them better if they were far from home.
Ukraine. The effects of WW2 are still felt to the modern day just when we think we are nice and cosy in 2022.
Ye :/
What do you mean by “felt to the modern day”?
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SS-AZOV a Banderovský rasisti.
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@@M_M-1he mean Ukrainian N@zis ☠️ thousands of innocent civilians in DonBass all because they speak Russian and celebrate their Russian culture
“In western Ukraine, villagers greeted the invading Nazi armies with the traditional Slavic gifts of bread and salt. The older peasants touched the black crosses on the German tanks in awe, naïvely believing them to be emissaries of Christ. Statues of Stalin were pulled down and beaten furiously with pickaxes, and when Soviet planes were shot down, the villagers laughed and clapped their hands, announcing that Stalin’s regime would soon fall. The Ukrainian famine had taken place just eight years earlier, followed by a vengeful and very bloody Terror. Millions of Ukrainian lives had been already lost to Stalin. Perhaps if a father watches his children starve to death in his arms, he might welcome the devil himself.”
- Tim Tzouliadis, _The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia,_ p. 193
@Jean Armando is Zelensky Jew?
@Jean Armando lol. Dude. He and his administration is Jewish. And Israel supports both sides of current Ukraine conflict.
@@-flanders-8975 take a look a Israel nothing pretty about it and the irony of them backing Ukraine and the 25 other nato nations doing so all a bunch of hypocrites who have committed war crimes. Ukraines hands are also bloody.
@@AD-hu6ou
Jesus. Dejesus.
What religion. what country, what army has NOT committed War crimes.
Not one that has ever gone to war.
You are just a Hitler apologist.
@@-flanders-8975 *Heinrich Himmler has just entered the chat*
Thank you so much Dr. Felton for providing us with this content. One of my clients was a Ukrainian teenager who was conscripted by the Nazis for labor. He told me that the Russians starved them and the Germans used them like work horses. He was able to escape to America just in time to fight in the Korean War. He was a little guy, maybe 5'5" in height, but had a giant heart. So proud to have known him. My heart bleeds for these poor people in the Ukraine.
He was most likely concentration camp guard (Trawniki) :D
@@Semperfi2011 Putin is a fascist toad and you are no better it would seem!
@@Semperfi2011 The Ukraine is in bad shape because of the terror the soviets did there. And now it is finally recovering and going to a more democratic state Putin is screwing it up again. The Ukrainians aren't crazy, whey would never have done anything to endanger Russia. Putin just wants to relive what is his perception where the glorious years of the USSR. I normally don't wish harm to people, but I would absolutely be cheering if that bastard dropped dead tonight. I don't really get why you can't feel sympathy for innocent people that are forced into a war they don't want. The images of scared, wounded and killed innocent people are heartbreaking.
Russia is way more violent then the Ukraine, and probably more corrupt too. At least there are way less liberties for the Russian people then there were for the Ukranian people.
@@Semperfi2011 Russia today viewer I take it? Grow up.
@@aleksazunjic9672 John was a hero. You are a zero. :-D
And I'm just a working class first line/responder on leave and I love love love Mr. Felton. I studied history specializing in Germany and I learn something new EVERY TIME I watch a video! Heck....I had a lazy day once and pulled him up on my laptop....laid in bed and watched and listened ALL day. Haha.
WWII was my father's/uncles' war. I watch your channel because you present material that exists no where else and to learn what kind of challenge the men of my family were dealing with. To me they were men who went to work, mowed the lawn but who "had been in the Army." I did not know what "being in the Army" really meant.
Every one of your videos is a tribute to those men and is appreciated by their sons and daughters.
Thank you.
Seen a documentary about cossacks that fought against Soviets in ww2. Towards the end of war, moved their entire village population to Austria. After the war the Soviets demanded the families to be returned to ussr. Entire Families committed murder/suicide while being forced back by British troops. History forgotten is often repeated.
It wasn't Austria, but Italy, toward the end of WWII they retreat in Austria to negotiate with the british for some sort of protection against Stalin, little did they now that their fate were already sealed.
Linzer Cossacks?
Eisenhower is one of the worst war criminals in history and sent millions of children to be murdered.
Not only Cossack fought for Germany. Ostlegionen or Eastern legions were battalions and divisions consisting of people from Central Asia, Caucasus, Southern Russia and Middle East.
@@LTPottenger You think that's bad, his treaty with the Greys was a crime against all humanity.
Your uploads have been perfect timing for me lately. Bored at work and eating lunch. Nice
I’m in the same situation lol. Perfect video for lunch
Try6a book or other materials online 📙
A timely presentation Dr. Felton. Thank you sir!
Thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos.
I know the Wehrmacht had a unit of Spanish volunteers called the Blue Division that fought near Leningrad on the Eastern Front. Franco helped raise the unit to pay Hitler back for his help in winning the Spanish Civil War (1936-39.) Some of the Spanish communists that fought against Franco made their way to the Soviet Union after their defeat. During the war some of them served in the Red Army.
They're also one of the most condecorated divisions, even getting a medal of their own.
His royal highness dr Felton already made a video about this! It’s in his channel. Worth watching.
The first allied soldiers who entered Paris on august 1944 were spannish republicans under free french command.
@@caniconcananas7687 Franco liberated spain
The men of the Blue Division were heroes, God bless their souls
In a period of so much misinformation, Dr. Felton provides history - based on factual research aside from bias. Another great example here, thank you.
Bravo.👍
John Williams excellent book "the birth of the SS" deals with this mutiny in detail, thanks Mark for the retelling of this fascinating subject, edit. Sorry guy's I got the authors name wrong it was GORDON Williamson not Peter and the title was "the SS Hitlers instrument of terror" ,apologies as I was commenting from memory which was mistaken by myself, so many people comment about this so I feel I should correct myself, thanks to all who felt they had to have their own opinion I respect you all for taking the time to weigh in! Stay safe friends
SS is the Knights Templars . Check it out .
@@makebritaingreatagain8495 What are you talking about?
@@calvinfernandez1956 research the knights templars . Find in on another site I can’t say here . And look at the names and structure of the templars . Then look at himmlers crazy beliefs . There’s a certain name for them 🤔
@@makebritaingreatagain8495 💩
He also adapted it into a superb musical!
After watching various documentaries such as The World At War and The Nazis: A Warning From History and World War Two In Colour (to name but a few) as well as numerous fact-based films about WWII, I thought I knew all there was to know about WWII, but Mark teaches me something new almost every time, impressive.
The World at War is an amazing series notable for all the participants that were still alive when it was made to provide commentary. It also has the narration by the marvelous Sr Laurence Olivier. However it suffers compared to documentaries from the past 10 years which have the benefit of all the new info from the release of previously classified records after 50/60 years.
Look up the Russian documentary series "Soviet Storm".
Nobody knows, nor will ever know, everything there is to know about WW2. It's too big, too much of it officially secret, too much of it un-documented. Even the people directing it (whether they were Heads of State, or Chiefs of Staff, or whatever) were working 'through a glass darkly'. Mark Felton does a good job of shining a bright light into crevices of history that would otherwise be overlooked, but which illuminate details that can fundamentally shift the way aspects of the war are understood.
It's important to dig..you DEF won't get the whole picture (or even most of it) from mainstream sources..take any and almost everything you learn about the war with multiple grains of salt..the victors write the history
If you are interested in some more in-depth stories about some less known second world war history I'd like to suggest the books that Doctor Felton wrote. I have read almost all of them and they provide a ton of really interesting in-depth information.
thanks Mark for this post!
putin: attacks Ukraine, causing a war
Mark Felton: Ah yes, here's a video about the Ukranian SS
Azov 🧐
Fun fact russian and ukranian SS fought together against the soviet union
BUT NOT ABOUT THE NIGHTINGALE DIVISION SS, RAISED FROM 💯 UKRAINIANS 🇺🇦?
@@stephencarroll9935 What do you mean ''um what''?? Reading comprehension not your strong point? Get a grown up to explain what it means. If you still don't believe then, check up on google.
@Leo the Anglo-Filipino no it's realy not
Your timing is impeccable, Dr Felton
Nice clean up job Felton
An absolute lie, a whitewash ! Ukrainian SS are known to be the most vicoius f french Resistance torturers and the Ordnen gruppen did act not just in france but in Slovenia too ! Sadly most of the french Resistance member I've spoken to are not alive anymore, but THEY told me about the "notoriously vicious" Ukrainian SS.
Always a pleasure to find a upload from you sir .hence the reason I tell people to look up your channel.
Most interesting and obviously timely. Thank You Dr. Felton and all the best.
Thank you, Professor!! Your work is for the ages!!
Another home run of part of WW2 I was not aware about. You rock Mark!
He should do a video on UPA and Bandera. Many don't know about the Wolyn Massacre and Neo Nazi Groups (such as Azov) are still celebrating SS Galicia and Bandera.
Another amazing story by Dr. Mark Felton productions! Thank you!!
My grandmother had Ukrainian SS soldiers in her village. Się said they were far more brutal than typical Germans.
yeah..and juuuust at right moment backstabbing and changing sides , makes them "heroes"....
\well, not in my book...and how did they behave in Algeria and Vietnam, hey ?
notably, also a LOT of dutch ex SS were enlisted in the indonesian independence / dutch policing actions 45-49...and it was ONLY them that dared to "kick ass"..so to speak..
How brutal the Ukranian SS than the average Germans? Give me details.
Same as croats
Same can be red in the book of wladyslaw szpilman
@@phraya_techapit9910 There is a Polish channel, most often with English subtitles, with lots of people that were in the mix of things during WW2. A lot of the atrocities against Poles are committed by Ukrainians, and these were not even working for Germany for the most part. Ancestral hatreds. Of course, Ukrainians suffered brutalities at the hands of the Soviets, Poles and Germans as well, but their rep for brutality remains a common thread. Even those working for Germany had this reputation.
Great video as usual Sir Mark Felton!
What a timely video! Thank you so much for these insights into histories that would otherwise go all but forgotten.
“timely” lol
OK, OK. Relevant to the times in which we live!@@coreyleander7911
I'm never disappointed with any of your videos. I always look forward to new videos. Keep up the good work.
I'm really glad to hear that a separate video about the so-called Ukrainian National Army is coming. As was stated in the video, it was created by the Germans near the end of the war, with the former SS Galizien Division as its core. It's really an interesting and surprising topic, especially considering the figure of UNA's commander - *Pavlo Shandruk* . Let's just say that he only began collaborating with the Germans in late 1944 (previously refusing nazi offers) and he started the war, fighting with distinction against the Germans in Polish uniform.
History Hustle also made a very good video about the Ukrainian National Army but I'm sure you know that
@@tsar389 True, and many videos about other collaborating formations (including the Russian and Dutch ones). Although, his video was broader in scope, jointly covering the whole topic of Ukrainian collaboration. I remember making a comment under it about the story of the Ukrainians who ended up in Rimini and yet, still learning new things myself from other comments (about Shandruk). So it's exciting to hear that Mark Felton is preparing something about that specific story.
Shandruk was Galicia - part of modern Ukraine that was in Poland until September of 1939. Therefore, he could be considered Polish - as Galicians themselves are amorphous group held together only by they hate of Russia :D
Make a great movie
Hitler may have won in 1941in Russia if he had courted the Ukrainians instead of hating on them too. Damn they hate Russians more than anybody else!
A very timely video… Dr Felton never fails to amaze us.
This is magnificent content :) thanks for the honest and graphic descriptions
Thanks for all your work Dr. Felton, your videos are exceptionally educational and entertaining.
Благодарю вас за вашу честную работу. С уважением из России.❤
Вы хоть слово поняли в этом видео, "из россии"?)))
Mark Felton is pro-Ukrainian, fascist katsap.
I have read a lot about WWII, still, you manage to surprise everytime with amazing content
Interesting, Mark as it gives further historical background & insight to what is now playing out with the Russian/Ukraine conflict.
Yes correct this got me very excited. I’m hoping America declares war on Russia so I can join the army and And cause havoc and Mayham
@@victormendiola4927 I would not get too excited as this war could be a nuclear one involving US, Russia, China, Europenn countries & UK. World War 3
; I think that I will pass on that one Victor!
instead of actually helping, the UNITED STATES especially and also others (e.g canada and GB) are using/ brainwashing/ weaponizing ukraine's (identity) situation towards extremism (+actual nazism) and sheer hate to use them against russia, going on for 50+ years.
just as one of many red flag examples, January 2010, ukraine officially gave their highest honor "hero of ukraine" to stepan bandera. with now being wirshipped and having pictures of him in many ukr offices of the people the "international community" eagerly playing the war drums for,
go figure..
@@victormendiola4927 have you read the poem "Medal for City Washington"? :)))))
Big fan, keep it going
Often when I watch a Mark Felton Production, I learn little bits of history of WW2 that I'd never even suspected of happening-& I've read PLENTY on WW2..
Love the attention to detail given, thank you, Mark.
Why do you think he posted Russian propaganda just a few days after their invasion?
The Mutiny at Texel is also well worth a video - amazing, and pretty obscure.
Yes, an interesting topic to cover.
The Nazi racial policies and general disregard for Slavs ironically doomed them to certain defeat. Ukrainians, having suffered greatly under Stalin and the Communist Party, initially greeted the invading Germans as liberators. If the Germans had prepared and organized a free Ukrainian government to immediately work towards collaboration with them, it might have been a great help towards winning the war in the East. Imagine teams of Ukrainian nationals sorting through the captured Soviet soldiers for Ukrainians, promising them freedom for joining the fight against the Soviet Union. Of course, Nazi racial attitudes made that impossible.
Instead, the Nazis treated everyone they met like conquered people to be trampled on and abused. By the time that they did consider trying to recruit Ukrainians and others, they had treated the population badly, and it was increasingly obvious that Germany was going to lose the war.
The Ukrainians were regarded as being mixed with slavs, not entire the same as the ones in Russia.
Actually, Galicians were only shortly under Stalin (from September of 1939) . They hatred for Russia came from long-standing Austrian propaganda. Galicia was part of Austria-Hungary before WW1 (and then part of Poland). They were forcibly converted by Austrians to Greek Catholicism (opposed to Polish Roman Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy) and made a sperate "nation".
@@FortniteBlaster2 If I remember right, around 30% of the Ukrainians were seen as having Germanic traits, which is less than the Czechs, but more than Russians, Poles and others. But the Nazis made it clear that the majority of the Ukrainians were to be slaves or deported. The Ukrainian lands were of great interest for the "living space", so the inhabitans had to go.
The eminent British historian Alan Bullock said this - Hitler could have had half of Russia (not just Ukraine) on his side after what they'd been through under Stalin, but instead he was just as brutal.
Thx for repeating what u read in a book
Thank you Mark
You videos are so informative I look forward to all of them thank you.
That perfect beat after "double cross" -- sublime.
Good timing for this documentary. Thanks again.
My family in eastern Slovakia hid partisans in their village home. My grandfather remembers being a child during that time and helping get rid of the tailings from digging out the bunker for the partisans by dumping them in the nearby stream. The family reasoned that any occupying soldiers who saw a boy playing with dirt, they wouldn't think twice about it. I wonder who those partisans were and if they might have been some of the defected Ukranians. That same house will now be used to host some friends from Kiev. If they manage to make it out of the city...
Slovak partisans also had an armored train. Which is kinda hilarious.
Why an armoured train is hilarious?
@@caniconcananas7687 @caniconc ananas Well because the Partisans were constantly in hiding. Having a armoured train is the opposite of hiding.
@@caniconcananas7687 What William said. I think they managed to put it together in a tunnel, rolled it out once, then rolled it back and there it stayed. But it does kind of make you seem like a more regular force if you have the means to put together armored trains!
that train story is worthy of a video.
@@giroromek8423 there is a not-so bad CSSR film about it, from the 70s. Austria-Hungary built good armoured trains, most of them in Budapest, so one could have found its way into a Slovak Depot, may be having been deployed in 1919 to guard the border area against Poland.
Thanks
Thank you so much for brightening up the the story of my countryman.
I would probably never knew about it
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
And how is anyone reapiting history?
@@tanker00v25 Were not stopping a despot invading their neighboring countries
@@tanker00v25
The Russians -
The Russians are 'repeating' history!
@@gk2811 fair enough
A meaningless platitude that just reinforces whatever bias a person already has. Pro-war Russians are probably using the same phrase to justify the invasion. "Oh wow we've been invaded a billion times. This time we won't wait for them to come for us - don't repeat the mistakes of the past!!1"
Or how about we see if we can use it to vindicate not doing anything? "Think of WW1 and how it spun out of control because of countries sticking up for each other? And caused ww2! don't repeat the mistakes of the past!!1"
love your videos!
i love to watch ww2 story that is very underrated
Important history. Thank you Mr. Felton.
Mark. Again a very good and interesting piece of work. A similar uprising was done by Georgian troops on the island of Texel in the Netherlands beginning of April 1945. At that moment there were children visiting from Amsterdam on the island of Texel to recuperate from the Hunger Winter.
СЛАВА РОССИИ! МОЛИТЕСЬ ЗА СОЛДАТ! 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
🐖🇺🇦🐖🇺🇦🐖🇺🇦🐖
🐖✡️ 🐖🏳️🌈 🐖🇺🇸.
@@wallclock4648 you spelled cock wrong?
@@wallclock4648 Hey! Why don't you tell us how you really feel? I mean I'm curious why you would have three nazi flags and then you put a pig against the Ukrainian flag three times and then you get even stranger with a pig with a star of David banner, another pig with a white flag and a rainbow( I'm not even sure what that means) and one more pig with the American flag.
“Hey whats the symbol for that new Ukrainian division we raised Hans?”
“It’s a double cross”
“……..”
Thank you for the content mark 👍
The "Double Cross" might have been a mistake.
The pun doesn't work in German; there is no such word as "Doppelkreuz" to mean a cheat or swindle.
LoL, it might not be a concept in German...
Such exquisite timing
Or not it sharp point on the Ukrainians who were nazis as Putin have denounced yesterday (we know it's BS but)
Right timing Professor 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Mark, thanks for the truth.
I have to say Mark, that the amount of research you put into your stories impresses the hell out of me.
I like how Mark Felton manage to his narative in this politicaly sensitive subjects left clean of emotional coments,as that is often the case in many videos of WW2 history.
I'd like to see a piece on the German idea of "useless eaters" during the war and how that campaign started and was carried out.
In America we have very many useless eaters draining our treasury.
Here's a video on the T4 program, for starters: th-cam.com/video/AbpxUvpOXkc/w-d-xo.html
@@12yearssober glad to see you didn't off yourself 😃
Hungerplan
@@12yearssober Here, children, we see a troll on the internet. See how they sneakily advocate for eugenics under the alias of dead child trafficker and pedophile Jeffery Epstein? Simply brilliant, and sure to attract gullible individuals to argue. Let’s see who takes the bait.
Hi Mark, I recently found an old dvd called death on the Eastern front,and there was an episode where the Russians had to turn around from their push to Berlin to route the last Germans in zcechoslovakia
And there was a hill where a t34 made its way to the top and I'm pretty sure the tank is now a monument,please could you do a video on this battle please as I don't believe it gets enough recognition
I shared your video EVERYWHERE IN the world!
A super-duper presentation, and it coincidentally related to current events. Didn't Ukrainians mistake the nazis as their deliverance from Russia?
Yes. They thought they were saved only to find out the Germans were almost as bad as the Communists.
And then the Communists came back.
After the Holodomor, how could you not 😳
Most White Russians who hated Stalin did too
@@M167A1 Almost???
@@M167A1 well however joining the SS was not the best idea
Dr Felton does it again, i never knew there was Ukrainians in combat roles.
I saw a Ukrainian nationalist posting pro-nazi stuff a couple of days ago,
kinda helps explain his actions.
SS volunteers on soviet territory were by wast majority the people who heavily suffered from communist occupation. Only during soviet retreat they shoot all persons who were previously arrested(mostly by political reasons) but not sentenced yet in a couple of days. It turned out as more than 20.000 (nazi in Kyiv shoot 37.000 jews in 2 days for reference) .
Mark's videos always deliver
Wow! Fascinating. Love the "Double Cross" reference.
Much appreciated thanks for the historical insight
“The story of Ukraine is the long sequence of betrayals”
Hundreds of years of siding with different parties in order to achieve independence and always failing.
@@JustAsPlanned1Those who really need independence - getting it. Slowly building their political party and peaceful construction for their own.
Look at the European Union.
@@marvinheemeyer5804 I'm talking about 1600-1940. Times when all freedom was gained by blood and tears.
American revolution, French revolution, Russian revolution, Polish, Hungarian uprisings, Italian unification wars, etc.
The only reason Ukrainian radical nationalism was born in 1920s was the fact that Entente allowed Poland to take Western Ukraine under the conditions of creating a Ukrainian autonomy with Ukrainian authorities, schools and universities. Poland being a close to fascism police state quickly forgot about its promises. People were tired of being second class citizens and got radicalized.
@@marvinheemeyer5804look at Tatarstan slowly Russification
@@JustAsPlanned1 It worked for Poland
Unknown episode. Never heard of it. Thanks. Would make a great movie.
More great info about this in The Hamilton Spectator article about Leon Hloba.
would make usa germany and france look rather stupid if such a movie was made.
Watch polish movie ‘ wolyn’ volhynia in English which is forbidden in Ukraine about Ukrainian genoicide on Poles
Always love this channel,thanks mark.
my Felton, this nation is now struggling to stay alive and yet you found a time to bring their dark history into light, perfect timing, well done
Well said
Stop consuming so much mainstream propaganda. Just glance at alternative media and you'll see an entirely different story.
@@evaone4286 tell that to children who were bombed by russians today
@@Markustajahoyrylaiva Watch where you get your information from. Could be an entire lie.
Esteemed Dr. Felton : Sir, another uprising in the final days of WW2 occurred on the Dutch island of Texel, where Soviets (mostly Georgian) who had previously been sympathetic (to say the least) to the German war effort suddenly revolted against their masters. Said revolt resulted in an armed conflict lasting for several weeks until even AFTER the German unconditional surrender. Which may be a unique feature and perhaps a point of interest to you worthy of further indepth investigation (if you haven't done so already).
He did done so already
@@0nn3 Where? Could you provide a link please?
Yes, what is the link?
Toni Slug, Gentleman, I'm very obligated, this Themata, - Rus.(Soviet)-General 'Wlassov +
his unit - first against fighting WH-Wehrmacht
- later with - Germans. End of war 1945, must go- back to Soviet-Union, direct sent under Gallows.. English-Politik- did *Order.....
Thank's for Attention,
written by - a German.
My grandpa told me about that. I'm still very proud of my German ancestry. Russia has to be taught a severe lesson for their murder in Ukraine
Mark Felton would be the guy to find an event about some random revolutions' in the 1900s good job and keep up the good work!.
Actually, the 30th SS Grenadier Division was the Belarusian SS division, which was formed under the leadership of the Belarusian Central Rada in Berlin and it consisted exclusively of Belarusians.
Incorrect. All sources say it was a mixed Ukrainian-Russian-Belarusian unit.
Very well-made series. No propaganda, just simple facts arranged into a good story. As a Ukrainian, I would like to agree with the narrative. I must say that Ukrainians found themselves between two major forces Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Two were bloody dictatorships. Ukrainians suffered the most in WW2, with more than 10 mln casualties. Now we commemorate the fallen, we are in good relations with Poles and Jews. We mourn all of our victims, who are people of different ethnic groups.
You basically forgot the Russians,most importantly,and this is costing you alot today.
@@astikessymvaseis8858 No we did not forget them. They killed millions of Ukrainians. We will never forget it. they are a real nazi regime.
Thx!!! Its verry important for us!
My sincere respect to Dr. Felton and his grounded, objective and unexited, yet passionate and fully accurate representation of historic facts.
I was at the Ukrainian 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS. monument today here in Canada. thanks for this video Mark.
ТЕБЯ НУЖНО АРЕСТОВАТЬ, ЗА ФАШИЗМ СС
I have many Ukranian friends and I feel like I know their character and values. I can see how they would jump at the chance to break from the Russinas and communism - but as they do so nobly today.
Canadian here and in spite of what I just said I am truly disgusted by that ss monument referred to above and with the recognition by our moronic members of parliament (led by Trudeau the ultimate moron) of the ss visitor to our House of Commons recently.
It is like our government and voting public are zombies. After the ss slaughtered the Jews and our pow boys in Normandy we are somehow celebrating this scum.
I don’t struggle at all with my Ukranian brothers, but if you signed up for the ss you knew damn well what you were getting into and that is laundry that never comes clean.
You have nothing to be proud of sir and your neighbours are pathetic for letting you build and keep that monument.
How that is not hate speech or the very epitome of racism I have no idea. It wont last be very sure of that.
This is incredibly interesting. Thanks for posting.
With such a mix of ethnicities, there was bound to be friction, most Eastern Europeans were used to being subordinate to German's, for centuries, for instance every single Mayor of Riga was Baltic German, & 1 Russian.
Great video as always. I was thinking how the Ustase sure worked for the Nazis but we are then talking about Croatia and not Ukraine. Very informative and interesting because so much of our past helps us understand the present. I was surprised to see my Dad in a program on the BBC from WWII footage and he remembered the day the footage was filmed. I never expected to see him. I also watched The World at War series and bought the DVD set. You do great work. I love watching your productions.
History never ends, it only continues.Thanks Mark for a better and fairer education on this part of modern history, high school teachings of the subject contained to much bias based on the victors perspective rather than overall.
Mark, continuing the fascinating theme of European ethnic/political groups and factions choosing sides to fight on, may I suggest a video on exiled Spanish Republicans' service with the French Army from 1940 to service with the Free French 2nd Armored division in '44-45. Quite the journey considering they started in French internment camps and in 1944 led the 2nd into Paris. Great video and thanks for your sterling work illuminating the most obscure and interesting corners of WW2!
Please consider a video on Spanish troops that Francisco Franco sent to assist Germany. They were known as the Blue Division or Condor Legion if I recall.
the famous La Nueve
My father was born in 1918 in Newark, NJ, USA. After completing the 3rd grade in the Newark public school in 1927, my grandmother took her three American born boys back to be raised in Zbaraz County, Ternopil Province, Galicia or Halychyna, Ukraine, then Eastern Poland. My grandfather remained in Newark, NJ sending money to my grandmother and his three sons. My uncle, my father's oldest brother, was 21 in 1935, so not to serve in the Polish Army, he went back to the land of his birth, USA, Newark, NJ got work in the Ballatine Brewery, send money with my grandfather, to continue to support my grandmother
Similar story to my Grandfather John, Irish though, but was from Newark, signed up, not drafted. He worked as an aircraft repair specialist, eventually training Poles, Russians ect ect. In Europe & eventually was stationed at Ft Dix in N.J.
Maybe the best historian of our time. Cheers!
One of my neighbors, when I was a kid, was a survivor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. He never really talked about it, but occasionally would get a bit morose and have a few too many drinks. One day while I was mowing his grass, he asked me to sit down so he can tell me a story. I liked his stories about Ukraine and his family. This story wasn't so nice. It was about getting chased down by the Soviet Special Forces (before there was Spetsnaz there were special units to hunt down traitors or perform sabotage missions.). He talked about himself, and several members of his group being hunted for weeks by this unit in the late 40's (after WWII) until only him and a couple of men survived. They snuck out with some help from Ukrainian locals and fled to the US on a freighter in Finland (Finns hated the Russians). He eventually got asylum in the US and settled in my city as a Steel Worker. He died a few years later and was buried in a local Cemetery reserved for people of Ukrainian descent. He would be sad to know that Russia and the Ukraine are fighting again. He hoped that Russia would just stop constantly trying to burn Ukraine to the ground to take its resources and destroy its population. His family was decimated by the Holodomor (the mass starvation of 1932) and the remainder killed during the Soviet reoccupation of Ukraine after the Nazis were defeated. Most of his family were farmers and had nothing to do with the Nazis (or least he claimed so). But to the NKVD if you sold food to the Nazis or a member of your family was against the Soviet Union, you were a traitor (even if you didn't have a choice and could get shot by the Germans.). They were executed in 1945 without a trial on their farm and a bunch of Russians moved in and took over the farm. He said that's what happened to a lot of Ukrainians, the Russians would deport you or send you to a gulag. They would take over your land or business and replace you with loyal Russians, then claim you were a stateless person (as you were in gulag) and had no rights to your land or business. Many of the Russians (who claim to currently be Ukrainians) are those people who took over Ukrainian land at the end of WWII. Now the Russians are using their supposed abuse by the Ukrainian Government to invade the country.
Thanks for sharing this story.
Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T
Mmm weird how Ukrainians become the leaders of the USSR (Khrushchev & Brezhnev)
@@EroticOnion23 There are always people who take advantage of the system to gain power. It sure didn't help the Ukrainians too much, especially in the early days of the Soviet Union.
MARK S......Apparently everyone who writes in this comment section is Russophobic. It is striking that there is talk of a Russia-Ukraine confrontation, and not a Russia-NATO confrontation, where Ukraine is only a pretext. There is also no mention that the West carried out a coup in Ukraine in 2013. With carelessness of this nature, narratives are built. That are then administered to children.
@@josesalazar8434 you are right! This is nato provoking Rusia through Ukraina. Ukraina is just another scape goat. Nato encouraging Ukrainians to take natos wepons and 'fight for their country' where they are actualy fighting for nato!
There is a memorial to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS in Oakville, Ontario.
It is weird to see a Waffen SS memorial in Canada, but... do you fight for the people who killed your family by causing the famine of 1932-1933, or the people who are killing other families.
I hope I never have to make that choice.
Hundreds of thousands of Europeans volunteered and fought with Germany to stop Communism.
Easy, the latter.
History is complicated - “heroes” and “villains” are created post facto.
Galician division has nothing to do with Holodomor. Galicia was not part of the USSR until September of 1939 (it was in Poland). In fact, those who suffered most under communism are now in east Ukraine wanting to separate from it.
@@snoopersmokio Many of them were anti-Semitic, so they didn't mind helping the Germans persecute Jews.
I’m 21 years and have great knowledge of history by studying it and reviewing what I learned. In far WW2, Ancient Greece, Mayan and Aztec and a few others are my favorite to learn about. From how the U.S won war with companies and mass production its great
There was also a similar uprising late in the war by the Georgian's on the small island of Texel in The Netherlands! They put up a real fierce fight against the Germans with a heroic last stand in the lighthouse on the north of Texel.
Night of the long bayonets covers that, really interesting book
They are twice as traitors! Who can trust them?
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Only fools
Thank You for this piece of a puzzle.
"Its divisional symbol, ironically, was the double cross." I dont know why i laughed so much from that🤣😂
It can’t be a coincidence this video dropped the same week major events in Eastern Europe are occurring.
It’s the only reason it’s being posted
Pretty sure he has worked on the video for several weeks with research and editing.
I seems purely coincidental to me.
who knows .
Wow talk about a timely video!
I first found out Ukraines nazi connections reading the late Phillip Kerr’r Bernie Gunther crime novels. Thanks Mark for this excellent history video.
"Ukraine's nazi connections" this screams of a brain thoroughly washed by left wing propaganda
Can you please do some videos about the events that led up to this war? I have no idea what's truly going on and I would love to hear from someone who I trust. Preferably from an accomplished historian.
Well done sir 👍. Learned something new.
4:45 "It's insignia, ironically, was the double-cross."
The Alpha Legion: "You had my curiosity, now you have my attention!"
The story of a Ukrainian who joins the SS to fight the Soviets
and ends up in SE asia with the French foreign legion fighting the vietcong 15 years later is a movie i'd want to see
On the Devil’s tail is about a 15 year old Italian/German boy who’s family moved to Alsace Loraine before the war. He then joined the SS in 1944 and fought in the SS who escaped from the siege of Konisberg fled to Spain was caught by France escaped and fled to Italy before being caught again and joining the FFL to fight in Vietnam