Heinrich Himmler's Pistols
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Fun fact, Himmler always carried
Supposedly, the K in PPK was for Kriminal and was advertised as such in brochures in the 1930's.
Mark can I ask you something, why is the values only in US dollars but not pound sterling as well. I'm a massive fan of your work for a very long time and I'm also from Norwich, Thorpe end. Keep up the great work
How’s that DVD box set coming along
Hello from India Dr Mark. Can you do a video on prisoners of war exchanges during ww2? I am not able to find anything on this. Thanks in advance
I love it when non native german speaking people, give the language a good go. Dr. Felton does give it a really good tilt. I can hear that he is not a native speaker but he has achieved a very high degree of proficiency in pronouncing words. I am fluent in german. But i speak the snooty Hoch Deutsch. The english equivalent would be the queens english. In germany the northern people tend to not speak with an accent and speak "clean" german. Nothing is clipped off. No syllable is missed. I really smile when i hear him speak german and it really does bring joy to my heart. It is not an easy language to master.
Ich glaube nicht, dass Sie hochdeutsch sprechen. Hochdeutsche Dialekte sind bayerisch und schwäbisch. Was sie unter "hochdeutsch" verstehen, wird korrekterweise als Standarddeutsch bezeichnet. Grundsätzlich gibt es keine Sprache ohne "accent". Genormt ist aus guten Gründen nur die Schrift, nicht die Aussprache. Überheblich ist Ihr Anspruch, dass bestimmte Leute "clean german", also sauberes Deutsch sprechen würden. Schlichtweg unerträglich halte ich den Anspruch vieler Leute, ihre fälschlich als "hochdeutsch" bezeichnete Aussprache als höherwertige Hochsprache aufzufassen.
@@antondichtl6557 Hochdeutsch ist der Dialekt der in Hannover gesprochen wird. Es wurde ein bestimmter Dialekt zur Standardsprache erklärt. Was viele nicht wissen: Hochdeutsch beschreibt lediglich die geschriebene Sprache. Die Standardaussprache leitet sich vom Bühnendeutsch ab. Hochdeutsch beschreibt wie z.B. das Wort König geschrieben, aber nicht wie es ausgesprochen wird. Ausgesprochen wird es allerdings: "Könich". Btw. Hochsprache und Hochdeutsch sind zwei völlig verschiedene Dinge.
You can hear that he's a non-native German speaker? Really? What gave it away? Perhaps it's because he's British? How observant of you.
@@dscales8484 Ah, the english with their ever so polite forms of humor never fail to deliver. Have a nice day mate.
@@cleancoder3838 And indeed hannover is where i am from. Near the Hitler built Maschsee.Hoch Deutsch, has never been attributed to bavaria and much less to the schwebisch. If anythng it is those two area's in germany that like to take the piss with us northerners for being so proper. Thanks for putting that into german.
This one is close to home for me. I am an appraiser and was offered a position at Rock Island Auctions. I just didn't want to commute 4 hours a day. I almost regret that. Also my son a few years ago, dated a girl whose grandmother was the daughter of an SS officer. This lady did inquire with me about selling a bit of her father's things...she ended up not following through but she and her father and mother were brought to the US by the US to right here in Iowa...he brought all his accoutrement with him...excellent video as usual Mr. Felton as I am also a WW2 aficionado. Thanks!
Should have married her, is she still single?
Lots of German descendants in Iowa including mine. My father said prior to WW2 the German American Bund was active in Davenport. Alas....my Uncle became a 2nd Battalion Ranger and climbed the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc killing Germans there and in the Huertgen Forest. He was lucky to have survived.
@@toastedt140 they were teenagers and my son is now 36. She did marry someone else later.
@@87325ci yes. I am actually 3rd generation here, my great grandparents came over in 1911 and 1923... WW2 was all the way brutal. My grandfather was in the Navy, Pacific Theater, Tarawa and went through Typhoon Cobra...
@@toastedt140 "Should have married her, is she still single?" - new top contender for worst life advice ever 😂
Dr Feltons channel is the only channel you need for anything ww2 related. Never ceases to amaze and astound and off course teach me something new
There are many WW2 channels, like the WW2 channel that covers 5he war from beginning to the end, but Dr Felton picks up all the tiny details that adds more color to the war.
Yes, I would start elsewhere though. Dr Felton productions presents the nuances and the icing on the cake for me. Can’t believe he’s still bashing out the content with stories I haven’t heard 🙌
Either you’re getting rewarded for these juvenile posts or aged 11, either way please give it a break as it’s disingenuous at best! Smh. 🏴📚☘️
Just as a taco is not the same without taco sauce, a video about WW2 Germany is not the same without an appearance of Hermann Fegelein.
I LIKED FEG. HE WAS ,AS FAR AS I CAN DETERMINE AT LEAST A QUASI HONEST CAVALRYMAN W/NONE OF THE FILTH OF ANTI SEMITISM SMEARED ON HIM. WOLF WAS OK AND SPEAR WAS A LIAR AND TOTALLY ESCAPED ALLIED JUSTICE
Hermann Fegelein taco sauce? I'm on it!
Fegelein! Fegelein! Feeeeeegelein!
Flawed logic. A taco without taco sauce is still a taco. Go with just like a taco bell taco is not a taco...
Your intellect is truly dizzying- The Princess Bride.😜
Me… Incredibly bored
Dr Felton… “Want to hear about Himler‘s pistols?”
Me… “Yes… Yes, I do!“
I find this really interesting, I love this stuff
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I TRY NOT TO LET MYSELF BECOME BORED... WHY DO YOU. ? I GUESS IT IS A COLLECTOR THING
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“I have always been keen on guiding the astray who followed those who earned the wrath of Allaah. Unfortunately, they were never guided because they did not use their minds to understand the Words of Allaah in the Great Qur'an, to believe it is the Truth. But, they will never understand it (the Qur'an) except through the torment of Allaah, Lord of the heavens, earth, and what is between them, and Lord of the Great Throne. In line with the Word of Allaah the Exalted:
{وَإِن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا نَحْنُ مُهْلِكُوهَا قَبْلَ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ أَوْ مُعَذِّبُوهَا عَذَابًا شَدِيدًا ۚ كَانَ ذَٰلِكَ فِي الْكِتَابِ مَسْطُورًا ﴿٥٨﴾وَمَا مَنَعَنَا أَن نُّرْسِلَ بِالْآيَاتِ إِلَّا أَن كَذَّبَ بِهَا الْأَوَّلُونَ ۚ وَآتَيْنَا ثَمُودَ النَّاقَةَ مُبْصِرَةً فَظَلَمُوا بِهَا ۚ وَمَا نُرْسِلُ بِالْآيَاتِ إِلَّا تَخْوِيفًا ﴿٥٩﴾} صدق الله العظيم [سورة الإسراء]
Qur'an - Surah: al-Israa' - Verses: 58-59
O mankind, here you are feeling the approach of the torment of Saqar, the greatest calamity. And I have already told you with truth that you have entered the summer of Saqar starting from 2023, despite having been constantly warning you of the passing of planet Saqar for 19 years. Unfortunately, the more I warn you, the more you run away and disbelieve in the existence of Allaah. Today's nations are like the people of the prophet Noah, they do not fear the majesty of Allaah (See Qur'an, Surah: Noah). Anyway, following a sweltering summer at the North Pole, the people of planet Earth, in both north and south, have declared the arrival of the autumnal equinox. At the same time, residents of Antarctica declared that the vernal (spring) equinox had begun there. And far is that from happening.
I had already given you a ruling before with the truth in a previous statement that the summer of Saqr was on the horizon of the Antarctic continent of the planet Earth, eliminating the winter of the far pole where nobody lives. Then, Saqar annihilated the winter of countries that share the Antarctic climate. Their winter has been replaced with heat, so that they may understand what I am warning them of. Those who live in the Antarctic are waiting for which spring after the annihilation of the Antarctic winter? Do they not reason?! Here is the summer of Saqar, which will attack the two temperate seasons (autumn in the north of the Earth and spring in the south of the Earth). And it will scientifically fail all your weather forecasting devices. It will mystify your knowledge and destroy your credibility among the peoples of the worlds. Indeed, ultimate proofs belong to Allaah, O worshippers of the Physics of Nature. We shall wait and see if the Physics of Nature, given to you by Allaah as a means of mercy for you, will submit to the power of Allaah, thus it turns against you and makes your knowledge equal to zero. Anyway, given that the summer of Saqar swept through the four seasons, there will be a war of hurricanes of fire attacking forests and homes, and a flood of water pouring down at the suitable time whenever Allaah wills and not when you will. So where are the inventors of artificial rain to extinguish wildfires if they are truthful? I truly pity Arabs for being manipulated by Arab and non-Arab devils to demolish the fundamental beliefs in the clear verses of the great Qur'an, thus they believe in the opposite of the challenge of Allaah in His Words:
{أَفَرَأَيْتُمُ الْمَاءَ الَّذِي تَشْرَبُونَ (٦٨) أَأَنتُمْ أَنزَلْتُمُوهُ مِنَ الْمُزْنِ أَمْ نَحْنُ الْمُنزِلُونَ (٦٩) لَوْ نَشَاءُ جَعَلْنَاهُ أُجَاجًا فَلَوْلَا تَشْكُرُونَ (٧٠)} صدق الله العظيم [ سورة الواقعة]
Qur'an - Surah: al-Waqi’ah- Verses: 68-70
Lo and behold, non-Arabs and Arabs! I swear by Allaah, I am thinking of disbelievers in the eras of prophets and I find them closer to knowing Allaah than the nations of this atheist world in the era of Allaah's caliph al-Mahdi. Disbelievers in the era of prophets were closer to becoming believers if it was not for their association of partners besides Allaah owing to their blind following to their fathers. See their response to the messengers sent by their Lord in the Word of Allaah the Exalted:
{وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ اللَّهُ ۚ قُلْ أَفَرَأَيْتُم مَّا تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ إِنْ أَرَادَنِيَ اللَّهُ بِضُرٍّ هَلْ هُنَّ كَاشِفَاتُ ضُرِّهِ أَوْ أَرَادَنِي بِرَحْمَةٍ هَلْ هُنَّ مُمْسِكَاتُ رَحْمَتِهِ ۚ قُلْ حَسْبِيَ اللَّهُ ۖ عَلَيْهِ يَتَوَكَّلُ الْمُتَوَكِّلُونَ ﴿٣٨﴾} صدق الله العظيم [سورة الزمر]
Qur'an - Surah: az-Zumar- Verse: 38
So call upon your gods that you worship other than Allaah to save you from the evil of Allaah's cosmic and Corona war if you are truthful. Here you have entered the summer of Saqar, so do not wait for the four known seasons from now on because they along with winter in the south pole and the coming winter have been replaced by the summer of Saqar. Do you reckon I am talking nonsense? How strange your stance is, non-Arabs and Arabs! Logically if Nasser Mohammed al-Yamani were truly truthful in announcing the entrance of planet Earth in the climate of planet Saqar, the four seasons would be annihilated that perhaps you may think. Indeed Allaah's proofs are far-reaching. Planet Saqar is going to be blazed by the command of Allaah to be a mercy from Allaah upon you for it is better for you to feel its blaze than aboding inside it. Also, perhaps feeling its hotness causes you any remembrance. Indeed, Hellfire (Saqar) will produce fuming and growling sounds towards the Earth and they shall surround the four cardinal directions (South, North, East, and West). This is the loud roaring of Planet Saqar which appears to mankind on the horizon from time to time, in line with the Word of Allaah the Exalted:
{إِذَا رَأَتْهُم مِّن مَّكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ سَمِعُوا لَهَا تَغَيُّظًا وَزَفِيرًا ﴿١٢﴾} صدق الله العظيم [سورة الفرقان]
Qur'an - Surah: al-Furqan- Verse: 12
Because it will pass on the Earth from a distance, it will not collide with it. You will see the circle of planet Saqar when it rises from the far Southeast to the far Southwest. It will be conspicuous in the visible universe. On the night it passes, it will obscure the horizons of planet Earth from the four cardinal directions. You are also going to witness the sign of the evident smoke of a painful torment. So wait, indeed I too am waiting with you, and I know what I am saying, in line with the Word of Allaah the Exalted:
{حم (١) وَالْكِتَابِ الْمُبِينِ (٢) إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةٍ مُّبَارَكَةٍ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُنذِرِينَ (٣) فِيهَا يُفْرَقُ كُلُّ أَمْرٍ حَكِيمٍ (٤) أَمْرًا مِّنْ عِندِنَا ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُرْسِلِينَ (٥) رَحْمَةً مِّن رَّبِّكَ ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ (٦) رَبِّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ۖ إِن كُنتُم مُّوقِنِينَ (٧) لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحْيِي وَيُمِيتُ ۖ رَبُّكُمْ وَرَبُّ آبَائِكُمُ الْأَوَّلِينَ (٨) بَلْ هُمْ فِي شَكٍّ يَلْعَبُونَ (٩) فَارْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِي السَّمَاءُ بِدُخَانٍ مُّبِينٍ (١٠) يَغْشَى النَّاسَ ۖ هَٰذَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ (١١) رَّبَّنَا اكْشِفْ عَنَّا الْعَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُونَ (١٢)} صدق الله العظيم [سورة الدخان]
Qur'an- Surah: ad-Dukhan- Verses: 1-12”
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How many other card games were played for all these prizes?
A lot😮
Only Mark can make a video on this subject and make it as interesting as a Hemingway novel!
9:35 When "confiscated" is synonymous with "taken from someone and kept for himself."
Ya stolen really
I know right. The grandfather was just a basic cop tyrant who abused his power and strong-armed a person who wasn't in great position in life to give up a unique pistol.
When "drifter" is synonymous with homeless veteran. None of the "Thank you for your service" stuff. More like give me that pistol or you end up in a ditch for resisting.
@@mikewells1070defeated nazis could not be stolen from. Only people can own things.
@@lunsmannyou do not know that.
Dr. Felton never misses the target. Always on point. Even in the mysteries of history brought to light. 🎯
Excellent day when Dr. Felton drops an episode!!!!
You should see what pistols go for at auction in the USA!
The japanese also used to give a lot of gifts to their military. In particular Seiko pocketwatches with swiss movements! I personally own one that is dated 1943 and was gifted to that years top graduate students of the imperial naval acadamy
Mark, you're videos are the cleanest, best pleasure
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lol what’s that quote from again? Some pædo sht if I remember correctly? Hahaha
Hahahaha to catch a predator! Lmao thanks for the laugh
@@sforza209 welcome
Have a seat right there...
Absolutely fascinating. This topic wouldn't even make a footnote in a history book but it is so important for the picture it gives of life in the SS and of Himmler's wish to reward talent. Great video!
Well, I don't have anything like these gems, but I have inherieted a Colt 1911 that I believe was not turned in and brought home by a relative in World War One. The serial number puts it in a batch produced in 1915. And it still works perfectly.
Honestly, I like yours better.
The "K" in PPK is "Kriminal", meaning detective section of the police. That is why a smaller version of the PP was made. It is neither Klein or Kruz.
Ian V Hogg stated this in a book decades ago but I think its actually "Kurz" meaning short, as it was the shorter version of the PP and makes sense! Calling the pistol Kriminal is frankly quite ridiculous if you think about it!
The "K" indeed is short for "Kriminal" as the shorter version of the PP was to be used by the Kriminalpolizei, which is the criminal police in civil and they wanted a smaller weapon for concealed carrying. But the originally wrong "K is for kurz" explanation is so sticky, even the manufacturer started to use it.
Fun fact the submarine opreaters in the Kriegsmarine used to carry wathler ppk pistols as the were compact and could be used to shoot a bullet into the head should the sub be flooded quickly
@@TheGeezzer It's not a matter of opinion. The PPK is still in production today. It does stand for Kriminal, short for Kriminalamt. It's not ridiculous at all, since it's not English. It's not saying it's a crininal's pistol, it's saying it's for an officer assigned to the Kriminalamt division of the police, in other words, a plain clothes detective's pistol.
@@Jason-hb8jy So I went to Walthers website and....er...Yeeeeah! Thank you for straightening my misconceptions Jason! For 40-odd years I thought it stood for Kurz....nope! You're right I'm a goon! it is indeed Kriminal, Walther said so themselves! Thank You...now I walk off stage like Sleepy Joe bumbling into the stage scenery looking desperately for the stairs?
HImmler invented the Battle Pass concept decades before video games.
Xddd
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haha was thinking the same thing, just basicly a reward and progression system build into the army, but hey, it does work
And his famous patented haircut
No. 7 has a typo. "Dem besten Schützen des SS" - should be "der SS".
I have a hard time imagining such a mistake would have been acceptable on such an expensive presentation gun. Make of it what you will....
Greetings from Germany!!
Late war
Non German workers
You mean No. 9.
Correct. The engraving was done by a non-native speaker, and this 'typo' is so prominently placed ... would never have been acceptable.
You couldn't sell this thing in Germany because it would be considered a fake - not just by experts.
@@JblackSupportTeam Indeed.
Probably another slave worker from some occupied country....
Ist mir auch sofort aufgefallen!
Niemals, aber auch wirklich niemals wäre so eine Waffe mit einem Schreibfehler ausgeliefert worden!!!
Daher kann es nur eine Fälschung sein!
Edited/Updated: To make it clear, as some people appear not to realise that the grammar is being called into question on at least TWO different pistols here - see someone’s reply below - and have either not actually read or understood what I wrote.
Summary: “Dem Scharfschützen” is correct grammar. “Des SS” is incorrect grammar. I hope that makes it clear now that we are talking about TWO different pistols.
There appears to be a debate about the veracity or authenticity of Number 3 due to the inscription engraved on it. Some people have been citing the grammar of the inscription, claiming it is incorrect German grammar and hence that the pistol is a fake.
HOWEVER……It is grammatically correct!
The inscription is implying a message of honour, recognition or acknowledgement “To The Sharpshooter” - which is common in German and uses the Dative form.
Therefore, the definite article becomes the Masculine, Singular Dative form….which is “Dem”.
HOWEVER (!), what causes slight confusion is that nouns which don’t already end in the letter “n” get an “n” added to them, in the Dative form.
Thus, the word “Der Scharfshütze” (in the Singular Normative form) now becomes “Dem Scharfschützen” (in the Dative form). “Sharfschützen” is (unfortunately) also exactly the same spelling as ALL the plural forms of the word!
This is perhaps where some people’s confusion arises and why it may at first glance appear odd.
I hope that clarifies the debate.
(P.S. Whoever said German is easy? 😂)
P.p.S. Number 9 is somewhat more questionable where it says “des SS”. This isn’t grammatically correct.
Completely wrong! The wrong spelling is at the end of the engraving: 'des SS', and this is incorrect! It should read 'der SS'. Nothing else is correct! The name Himmler is also engraved incorrectly. On the pistol it says Himnler, with 'mn', instead of Himmler with 'mm'. The two 'H's are also not engraved as Himmler signed them, and as can be seen correctly on the other pistols. And for your information: I am German and have an excellent command of my language!
@tobilinooo That's EXACTLY...EXACTLY...what I said! Please read what I wrote!
It should say "der SS"...because it is the genitive form! THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID! 🙄
To repeat verbatim, I said: "this isn't grammatically correct".
Please read it CAREFULLY!
I am bilingual English and German. If you haven't read and understood what I wrote, perhaps your understanding of English isn't as good as your German?
"Isn't" means "IS NOT", in case you don't understand that, BTW.
Elsewhere in this comments section, people are saying that the "DEM SCHARFSCHÜTZEN", on the other pistol (there are actually two pistols here under debate!), is grammatically incorrect, whereas it is actually correct, for the reasons that I explained above.
I would be grateful if you could now confirm that you have understood. Thanks.
Okay, can we please agree on that -
A. *'dem Scharfschützen'* is correct
B. *'des SS'* is incorrect. Most probably a fake, fabricated by a non-native speaker.
(Reminds my of the Kujau gaffe with the wrong initials on his fake Hitler diaries ... because it's the first detail that catches the eye)
Workplace entropy: Himmler gives out nice pistols, while I get a piece of paper saying 'a donation has been made in your name'. Progress, eh?"
...yeah, but do you work for one of the 5 or 6 most important people in the country?
You’re in the wrong line of work to be getting a pistol as praise.
I'm sorry but I disagree @@sforza209
Himmler personally was pro strict gun control, but as a matter of fact it ironically was much easier for the average person to legally procure a firearm in Nazi Germany than for example in any "democratic" country in Europe 2024. There were no licenses for ammunition and rifles and a pistol license was a formality. People are so easily fooled and controlled.
@@francisdec1615 "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology."
- Mark Twain
The soldier who lost this pistol in a poker game watching this video,,so goes life pal!
Possibly an English soldier who had it first. I read they were forbidden from taking souvenir guns home with them.
@@lunsmann Not sure of the actual legal mumbo jumbo but war souvenirs (and this is just an uneducated opinion) are unethical.
@@mattyabes - maybe. Taking a gun or a watch from a corpse - I agree. To a point. In WW2 such niceties were only frowned upon by some in the senior officer class. In the case of the UK and guns, they had rules about those before the war.
Souvenirs surrendered by living persons, I don't see an issue with that at all.
I was thinking to myself, “If I walk REALLY fast, I can make it to that job fair-“
*beep*MARK FELTON UPLOADED A NEW VIDEO*beep*
“Yeah, that place’ll be closed by the time I get there anyway!”
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So you are blaming Mark Felton for missing the chance to get your dream job?
@@clavichorddream job? 😂😂😂
Walk to the job fair while watching the video on your phone. Finish the video on your way back after having secured a job.
days of drifters having cool stuff is long gone
I saw one in L.A. today that had some newspaper stuck to his bare bottom .
Not really
Just stolen know
@@jerryakbar6147a man of learning
I think those grips are bakelite not plastic.
That's what I thought too.
Isn’t Bakelite a type of plastic?
@@jackpavlik563 whole different kettle of fish
Plastics can be divided into two main categories, thermosetting and thermosoftening.
Bakelite is a thermosetting plastic; during its manufacture it sets hard by the application of heat, and later heating will not soften it. By contrast, a thermosoftening plastic like polyethylene or polypropylene will soften under application of heat, enabling it to be recycled again and again.
@@kenmccormick8059yes , from what I remember, Bakelite was therefore brittle whereas more modern plastic products can withstand some flexibility, they did make early records from Bakelite also most famously the early telephone, any colour you like as long as it’s black 😂
11:11 When Mark said Fegelein, my mind immediately went to Hitler slamming his fist on his desk yelling: "Bring Fegelein over here, Fegelein!!! Fegelein! Fegelein!"
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One of my favorite episodes. As both a World War II and firearms enthusiast, the subject matter was fascinating.
Thank you Dr. Felton for bringing
us a daily dose of History ❤🕊
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This is like the Price is Right for Himmler memorabilia ;)
PEOPLE PAYING THESE PRICES SHOULD BEAR IN MIND THAT WW2/ NAZI ISM/THE SS/ HITLER/PARTY BIGWIGS/ETC,ET AL IS STILL CONSIDERED A VERY SPECIAL PIECE OF HISTORY,FRESH IN THE HISTORICAL/ COLLECTOR MIND. WHILE IT WILL ALWAYS BE WHAT IT IS, THERE WILL COME A TIME IN THE FUTURE WHEN ALL THIS WILL STILL FADE/DIM INTO MILITARY HISTORY AND BECOME JUST ... WW2. HISTORY. NEW GENERATIONS WILL NOT PRIZE ALL THESE PIECES SO HIGHLY , SAY IN ANOTHER 50 -- 70 YRS. OR LESS. GRUPENFURHER WHO? OH ,YEAH, HIM
The last price for 1 pistol is small fortune. You can buy a house with that money.
@@frankchan4272 Plus, who would be ‘proud’ to own such an item. Donate it to a museum - all good. But to keep it in a private collection raises eyebrows. I understand American citizens are proud of gun ownership but this weapon is nothing to boast about.
I was really expecting one in my price range but they were all over $100 USD !
Back in the 1960's that's about the average price for WWII vet bring back pistols.
Karl Wolff was imprisoned from late 1945, and released in June 1949. 30/9-1964 he was imprisoned with a 15 year sentence, but released in August 1969. In the early and mid seventees, he traveled around in South America and met up with Klaus Barbie and Walter Rauff. He is seen with Barbie in the 1988 film Hotel Terminus as well.
Nicely done Sir....Nicely done as always. Keep em' coming and I have always loved the intro music.
That sudden jump in price with Wolf's pistol made my eyes water!😵😵💫
All those high prices for Germany ww2 guns make's me wish my grandfather would have kept his luger pistol he had from ww2. But at least I have some of the German army uniform Insignias that he had. Thank you, Dr. Felton, I try and watch all your content.
Mark Felton x Ian McCollum collab, when?
Makes one wonder if the drifter in Decatur Illinois was a veteran.
John Rambo.
I pretty Much think the officer stole the pistol off him probably was homeless after the war and it was a trophy he got while over there. otherwise how did it not get destroyed as evidence.
A lot were
Regardless it's stolen property. Either it should have never been confiscated,l or once it was confiscated, It was stolen by the chief of police from the people he represents. Corrupt donut eaters.
I've been to Decatur...that pistol would have been the best tourist attraction in town.
This is might be the most Felton topic of all time. You didn't know you needed it, but you do!
So the Illinois cop STOLE that pistol. 🤔
At least the cops today aren't allowed to seize prop...nevermind.
@@therealuncleowen2588 Google 'Civil forfeiture" and be amazed and infuriated at the same it. It's why you have vice cops in Miami driving Ferrari Testarossas.
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It may have been rightly confiscated. The prior owner might well have been a criminal, might well have been threatening people with the gun, so it was taken from him, which may well have meant that the criminal was given a break, turning over the gun rather than being arrested.
@@davidgenie-ci5zl that's a lot of "may well have beens".
I wonder about Himmler and his ilk taking kickbacks directly from defense contractors
Like to see that topic covered
They loaded the boards of companies with party members, they held the reigns
Oh man those pistols are stupendous! Thank you Mark!
Many Thanks to Rock Island Auctions for its contribution to this Vid 👏
I can’t believe there exists a 20 minute long video about himmler’s pistols
Welcome to the interwebz
Wonderful ain't it?😅
Why would Mr. Felton do a show on Himmlers pistols? Nothing cool about anything to do with that era cept alone Himmler's guns .
@@spotty67 watching of youtube videos is entirely voluntary. If you don't agree with the content, just click on something else.
YOU'RE JOKING.... OR UNINTERESTED, BUT A LOT OF HISTORY BUFFS AND COLLECTORS ARE. I'M AMAZED THAT YOU THINK YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ROOM
Done it again Mark, another video that avoided the word 'looting'.
I Thought It Was Used When TaLking About °HimLer's Home Be'ing Searched ! •••••••••••• 18:48 : "This House Was Captured By U.S.•Troops & ThoroughLy °LOOTED Of It's Posessions" !
Is there a problem?
My Grandfather fought in the Aleutian islands 43to44 then Rhineland and Central Europe Jan 45 till the end. His 355th infantry regiment 89th infantry division liberated Ohrdruf. He earned 2Bronze Stars 2 Theatre Ribbons and his Riflemans Badge. He came home and raised 8kids and retired after 30yrs from the Bluegrass Army Depot. He brought home pictures from Ohrdruf and a Army Dagger with a yellow bakelite handle and eagle clutching a Swaz. He carved his initials on the backside J.A.B. when I went to jail once back in 2015 my home was broken into and that dagger was taken. It completely broke my soul and I've not yet been able to recover it.
AWE MAN!! That’s freaking heartbreaking!!! I come across those fairly often and go to the usual big Militaria shows in Ohio & Kentucky. I’ll keep an eye out for an army with those initials carved in it. Never know man hopefully maybe it’ll turn up eventually!
@@Nick_B_Badhavent been to my ole kentucky home for 15 years
Did you learn anything from your story?
Hey, brother...keep your eye on auction websites (Ebay, etc) SERIOUSLY...it might turn up! My heart breaks for you and your old grandad.
Not knowing much about guns I assume the safety lever on these gun, all moved off the red dot,means they were set not to fire? Heinrich Himmler did have a legible signature. Fascinating.
If you see a red mark then that means the safety is off, and ready to fire. I remember this with the saying "Red=Dead". Regards from Canada 🇨🇦
6:13 my understanding is the "K" in PPK stands for "Kriminal", referring to a detective's pistol.
Yes, you're absolutely right I just verified it on the Walther website!
Beyond me as to how this was researched. Amazing beyond belief.
Love the video Mark Felton, Keep up the good work as always
Upcoming specials by Dr. Felton:
-Hitler's Swear Jar
-Goering's Stamp Collection
-Heydrich's Cufflinks
-Mengela's French Press
....on a serious note, I would watch all of these.
Eva Braun's Knickers.
The
@@davidlyon1899 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Spears tea pot collection.
@@davidlyon1899crusty gussets?
"Dem Scharfschützen" is likely meant as "The Sharpshooter", as in the person, not the act of Sharpshooting.
"TO the Sharpshooter", since it's in the dative case, but as usual Felton doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@francisdec1615 I beg to differ. He only doesn't know the German language. Just in this vid, a location with the prefix "Bad" is not "bad" but literally means bath, referring to a sanitarium/health resort. I really wish he'd get some native speaker to help him with correct or at least better pronunciation.
W/RESPECT,THAT'S CONFUSING, MAKES NO SENSE. THE PISTOL WAS AWARDED FOR SHARPSHOOTING (SNIPING) TO A SHARPSHOOTER (SNIPER)
@@jimlong20 "Schützen" doesn't mean "shooting", it means "to protect". "To shoot" is "schiessen" in German. "Shooting" is also "Schiessen" but with a capital S. "The shooter" is "der Schütze", but in the dative case it is "dem Schützen".
It is grammatically correct
The inscription appears to be implying a message honour or acknowledgement “to the sharpshooter” - which is common in German and uses the dative form.
Therefore the definite article form is “dem”.
HOWEVER (!), what causes slight confusion is that nouns which don’t already end in the letter “n” get an “n” added to them in the dative form.
Thus, the word “Der Scharfshütze” (in the Normative form) becomes “Dem Scharfschützen” (in the Dative form).
I hope that clarifies the debate.
Amazing amount of work and detail. Fascinating.
I would not suggest watching this video while eating, because it’s absolutely jaw dropping
Thank you Dr. Felton! you made a sick day from work more tolerable. Excellent as always.
Quit goldbricking.
@winstonchurchill3597 😆...from my "retirement job"?..... 25 years in government harness old boy.👍
@winstonchurchill3597 just an elderly health and safety trainer now, in a small factory....attoning for my sins.
@@jameskelly7782 I'm jelly - enjoy your retirement! I've been an airline pilot for 35 years - 6 years to go until mandatory retirement.
Dr Felton you absolutely rule
An extraordinary video again Mark! I never ceased to be amazed be the material you present that I had no idea about. Thank you.
Did Himmler himself pay for these pistols and binoculars to be made, were comped by Walter or did the Reich pay for them?
Pretty sure Himmler didn't have to pay for anything!
Columns B and C.
Expense account
Been up since 0100 pouring concrete. But i have time to stop and watch Mark Felton.
Lucky americans, sending home war trophies, including guns, via mail like nothing is something so awesome, it's a real shame they can't do that anymore. Only thing funny is the classic "my grandpa on first line combat smoked a german officer and took this gun and banner from him", when in reality almost all bringbacks were taken from some giant pile of captured weapons and traded. Lots of nice war trophies ended in the homes of military personnel who never saw combat or even an enemy soldier not already dead or POW.
There is an antique arms dealer here on TH-cam who makes that same observation. It seems that every Luger he has offered to him for sale was obtained by the owner's grandfather after gramps snuffed a Nazi officer.
My Dad was posted in a large hospital far to the rear. He wanted a pistol and asked around. “Go see Sgt Smith in the Engineer Unit”. So he went over a saw him. Sgt opens up his foot locker and it’s full of pistols. Made a deal and I still have that gun. First time firing it back in the 60’s, the cartridge in the chamber must have gotten contaminated by oil as only the primer went off lodging the bullet in the barrel. Luckily the Range Master saw what happened and ran out to prevent us from firing another shot!
Worked fine after that.
I bet those snipers got rid of the pistols and binoculars if they were captured. 😂
You like stealing?
Mark, your videos are always fascinating to me. I watch every video you make as I have a keen interest in all these subjects. Thanks so much for your uploads. I dearly appreciate your research and narration.
What an interesting topic Dr. Felton! Could you do a video on the sidearms carried by top Nazi Women if any?
OOH, a late one. I'll get on this with my very early start tomorrow. Cheers!
Thank you as always!
Every minute of this 20min video was interesting! Thanks for the effort Dr. Felton!
So I suppose the German sniper portrayed in Inglorious Basterds had one of those sniper presentation pistols. 🤣
Are you sure that PPK stands for Pistole Polizei Klein, and not Pistole Polizei Kripo (Kriminal as in a pistole for Detectives ie. not openly visible)?
Breathtaking
Amazing craftsmanship
As always, great work Dr. Felton. Glad you were able to get out on the range in Cambridge recently.
Hello from Canada. Love your videos!
Pistol no. 9 reads „des SS“ which is grammatically incorrect. Might be a fake
Correct would be „der SS“, because it’s „die Schutzstaffel“. It’s hard to believe a gift from the Reichsführer would have such a mistake.
100% Fake
I wondered how many of these might be fakes.
Engravers make mistakes, too. And it could have EASILY been overlooked by the person making the presentation.
I believe almost all pistols shown are fake, the engravings are too crude and the gold finish too thin and fragile. This style of guns is one of the most faked everywhere.
As usual, you had me hooked! Thankyou Dr Felton!
I read the expert comments and realise that I am an ignoramus. However, Dr. Felton, I am still learning thanks to you.
Wait! Are you telling me that Heinrich Himmler and Hirohito AREN’T actually the same person?!!
Right?
Next they will tell us Hitler wasn't from Australia.
In American history Richard Nixon and Ed Sullivan were actually the same person. Makes the 1960s so much easier to suss out (threw that in there for Dr. Mark)....😊
@@andrewatwater oh. You must have attended the same public school as me.
@@andrewatwater don't forget about Gerald Ford inventing that famous car, the mustang.
What if gun jesus n dr. Felton did a crossover? Thst would be the freakin whip
Amazing! Thank you for posting.
Amazing episode! Mark Felton Productions never disappoints!
To me, that Walther PPK (The First one), seems incredibly inexpensive at UNDER $6K! Here in the UK you'd probably have to pay close to that for a black market Star 9mm!
A black market pistol in good shape here in Sweden costs about $2K, but the really hard thing is to find someone willing to sell. As the upside down world of gun laws works, it's only easy if you are a member of a gang of criminal immigrants.
Confiscated off a drifter? So he stole it from someone haha. The proceeds should go to the city of Decatur.
The cop stole the stolen gun that was probably stolen by the drifter!
Or the drifter could have been an ex-GI down on his luck.
Or a vet with pstd
@@tomhenry897 That too, it's been around for a long time.
Great, fascinating topic as always dr Felton!
Must have been one heck of a poker game.........
Thank you Dr. Mark. You're the gold on my history gun.😊
I see your Karl Donitz's pocket watch and raise you Heinrich Himmler's Walther PP, classic play
My Grandfather was a Major with some special Army(US)unit in Italy/Sicily that tracked down stolen art. For some reason he interviewed Kesselring soon after the Field Marshal was captured and the Field Marshal gave* him a P38 with Kesselring name engraved on one side and if memory serves, Hitter's (youtube policy. cant actually write the word) on the other. My Grandfather turned the "Hitters" side to the wall so it couldnt be seen/never displayed. That pistol along with a luger hung over the bed in the Spare room(where I stayed on weekends as a kid). The firearms had been decommissioned by my Grandfather and he said they would never fire again. In 1981 my grandparents house(Fresno, CA) got broken into and both pistol stolen.
*I dont know if Kesselring actually gave my Grandfather the pistol or he just took it. I never got the impression my Grandfather would have just taken something like that, He was very "gentlemanly". But who knows.
You can say Hitler
No matter where he got the Pistol it absolutely sucks to have something like that stolen
Presumably it never passed through the Rock Island auction house. Maybe it's still in use to this day in the 'hood? Or else it's being slavered over in secret by some far-right billionaire.
I only thought people here in Europe deactivated firearms. In England ordinary people can't even own pistols legally except for antique ones. They even made the gun law harsher as early as 1949, probably as a thanks for the Brits for their fight against tyranny. (It's not much better here in Sweden either, btw, even if it's still possible to own a modern pistol.)
THEY WERE TAKING THINGS,THEN, IT'S WHAT WAS GOING ON AND THE LOSERS DID NOT NEED THEM. IT MAKES ME PHYSICALLY ILL TO FIND YOUR G.F. HAD NO MORE REGARD FOR THOSE ITEMS THAN TO RUIN THEM W/OUT THOUGHT.HIS TAKING KESSELRING'S SIDEARM WAS A UNIQUE HISTORICAL MOMENT NEVER TO BE REPEATED. BUSTED UP OR NOT THOSE PISTOL,S DAYS OF WAR WAS OVER. IN OTHER WORDS,I AM SORRY AND DISAPOINTED FOR YOU. (I MEAN NO UNTOWARD CRITICIZM OF YOUR G.F. IN NO WAY I ASSURE YOU). I WISH I COULD TELL YOU WHAT YOU MISSED OUT ON
I have a Walther PP that my uncle brought back from WW 2. Engraved on the slide is a signature on "Julius Streicher." For years I thought that I had Julius Streicher's personal pistol. Then I found out that was a presentation piece probably given out as an award, and there are probably hundreds just like it out there. I still love it, and have no desire to sell it at any price.
Don't let appraisers rob you, "probably hundreds out there" isn't a definitive answer it's a guess made to justify a low valuation. Appraisers do this all of the time if they don't figure you to be the type to research the item. Antiques roadshow is known for this on items not featured.
Basically, the police Chicago police officer who "confiscated" the postol from the drifter basically STOLE that from the drifter who found it as war booty! Thats Chicago!
That story sounds made up, feel good lie. If it was true, the drifter was most likely a veteran like the cop, stealing from fellow soldier.
Cops!
A Police Chief in Riverside CA used to go down to the Property Room and go through like a supermarket. Sold guns at gun shows. When finally caught, they figured he’d taken 800 firearms.
Well, at least they weren’t destroyed.
@Rom3_29 yeah. That's what I was sayin.
When I was in high school, a school friend showed me a .22 caliber High Standard target pistol that his father gave him as a gift. He father was a municipal police officer. My friend told me the widow brought a bag full of pistols to the police station. The pistols belonged to her late husband and she was worried that they might be illegal (they were not). The police told her not to worry they would properly dispose of those bad pistols. Dispose of those pistols they did. The police divided up the loot among themselves, they literally robbed an old lady.
Decatur isn't Chicago it's downstate a bit.
Thank you for this very enjoyable and informative video. Have always wanted to own a PP just because of its stylish look. Thank you, Dr. Felton for the time to research, organize, film, edit and finally present this video. The best to you and yours, sir.
Thank you Dr Felton
The grips are not Plastic, they are Bakelite.
Not according to Rock Island Auctions catalogue
I could be wrong but... I think bakelite is a sort of early plastic.
@@MarkFeltonProductions They are probably simplifying the wording, or lacking in knowledge. Just google "walther pp bakelite grips" and you'll see it for yourself. As mcstabba said, Bakelite is a form of plastic. It is possible that the black grips are plastic, but it's highly unlikely. I used to work with historical guns fyi.
@@MarkFeltonProductions They are probably simplifying the wording, or lacking in knowledge. Just picture search "walther pp bakelite grips" and you'll it. As mcstabba said, Bakelite is a form of plastic. It is possible that the black grips are plastic, but highly unlikely. I used to work with historical guns fyi.
My Dad's collection has a NEW PP, with original paperwork, and who it went to, and the mag has matching numbers, oh, and his Iron Cross and ribbons are also in the same box.
I would love to see Ian aka Gun Jesus do a gun history collab with Mark! 😮 👍
Thanks Mark, keep up the good content, i enjoy it very much, especially the historic weapons episodes
Respect for your work & overall efforts with the videos...Hello from São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷.
The pistol had a stronger chin than Himmler. Great guns tho.
Wow, that Fegelein PPK is a work of art. Stunning!
This is the kind of video I wait for. Thank you sir.
Fascists are not “right wing”. They are the original Intersectional Marxists, combining Proletariat Collectivism with Ethnic Collectivism (racial solidarity and racist political philosophy as promoted in Germany, and to a much lesser extent in Italy).
National Socialism as an ideology was pioneered by an Italian COMMUNIST named Giovanni Gentile, and his work was the inspiration for the hard-core Socialist Benito Mussolini to create the Fascist movement, the first National Socialist party. Once Mussolini seized power, he appointed Gentile as his Secretary of Education.
The Nazis were also hard-core Socialists. In a 1925 speech, Goebbels said: “Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler” and that “the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.”
The violent street battles between the Nazis and the Communists all through the mid-1920’s and early 1930's were battles between SOCIALIST factions fighting for the same demographic - German workers.
In 1920, when Mussolini’s Black Shirts marched on Rome and seized control of the government, Lenin sent him a congratulatory telegram. That's because Mussolini was a hard-core SOCIALIST.
The two main ideological differences between Lenin and Mussolini were:
1) Mussolini believed it was more powerful to focus Socialist revolutionary work at the national level rather than the international level (hence the term "National Socialist")
2) Mussolini decided that rather than nationalizing private industry it was far more effective to co-opt the large industrial concerns. He did this by giving them monopoly control of the marketplace in return for their support of his monopoly control over political power.
Hitler followed a similar path, although he threw in a pathological racial component (an early form of identity politics) and a strong eugenics program modelled after the work done by Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood).
Hitler was the one responsible for changing the name of what became the NAZI party from its original name, the "German Workers Party", to the "National SOCIALIST German Workers Party" (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei).
For powerful political and propaganda reasons, after the breakdown of the German/Russian non-aggression pact in 1941 it became expedient for everyone involved (Communists, Western democracies, and the Nazis themselves) to intentionally bury the left-wing Socialist origins of the "Fascists" and instead designate them as “right wing”.
But the truth is that the Fascists were only "right wing" in the sense that they were the right wing of the Socialist movement. They were still Socialists.
In contrast, the Japanese truly were “right wing”, in that they were militarist and monarchist. Ironically, they were stridently anti-socialist and regularly executed any Japanese socialists they found, but they did share with Germany a deeply racist view of the world. Of course, the Japanese saw themselves as the obvious master race rather than the Aryans (or anyone else for that matter).
The main reason the Japanese allied with Germany and Italy was because they had common enemies in Russia and the United States, and because their planned empires didn’t overlap. It was not because of any ideological affinity.
“It is well known that Sorellian syndicalism, out of which the thought and the political method of Fascism emerged-conceived itself the genuine interpretation of Marxist communism. The dynamic conception of history, in which force as violence functions as an essential, is of unquestioned Marxist origin.” - (Giovanni Gentile, the “father” of Fascism)
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." - (Benito Mussolini)
“The individual is nothing. The state is everything.” - (Adolf Hitler)
“A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people’s time to look after them.” - (From the speech “SOCIALIST HOPES” given by George Bernard Shaw, March 4, 1910)
100% Correct. Nazis are LEFT WING.
After all the official name of the Nazi Party…
National SOCIALIST German Workers Party. Nazi was a slang term.
Duh?
The fights with Communist Party were “Turf Wars”, like gang war in Chicago.
Funny how the right wing now embraces their ideology
Real nice of the police officer who took the pistol from a drifter and kept it for himself. Completely destroying his second amendment rights by taking his gun and then selling it for $30,000 at auction what a complete corrupt police officer.
who cares
@@RealGerardButlerthis is Sparta!!! 😂
From a purely artistic point of view - ignoring the names etc in other words - these are truly beautiful weapons to look at. And the PPK versions would appeal to any James Bond fan as well (such as myself). Hopefully they are all deactivated now for security reasons (my late cousin was a gun collector and held strong views on guns NOT being deactivated., he felt that unless they were in use at the time they should be displayed and made safe at the same time. I could see some of these displayed on a wall (name hidden, sort of ruins the overall look) purely as works of art. Lethal works of art admittedly but the decorations are truly beautiful.
hi Dr Felton, are you gonna make a video about ww2 allies war crimes? there is a lot of them to cover.
Now wait a minute those can’t be Himmler’s pistols because those are my grandpa’s, he also has a helmet with 2 lightning strikes I think he was an electrician
Dr. Mark , really nailed it.
A feel good story thanks Mark
#9 is fake, because there's a grammatical error
Imagine paying 17000$ for a pistol where the nominativus is wrong lol
The grammatical error could have been made by the real engraver.
The text engraving itself also looks quite amateur. Almost cartoonish.
I am German and can say that it is very unlikely that such a grammatical error was made by a native German speaker. Very dubious.
That part of the engraving might have been performed at a later date, maybe after the war.