_Mark Felton voice_ Despite the fame of the two videos being dropped back to back, what is less well known is that a *third* Felton video was seriously being considered and prepared for release on that same day as well.
I used to walk around the US barracks in Berlin known as Andrew's Barracks and say to myself, "If only these walls could talk ". Andrew's Barracks was the Lichterfeld barracks for the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.
@Trumpasaurus Erectus try and get to the beer keller's where the thugs took the kidnapped lawyers ,trade unionists ,political opponents or any intellectual who stood up against them,who we're beaten to death.
I've always considered myself fairly knowledgeable about World War II history. But now thanks to Mark Felton I really see that I am just slightly above an amateur. Thank you Mr. Felton for the absolute best history channel on TH-cam. Or anywhere else for that matter. I learn something new with every story and video. I'm chuffed to bits with your channels.
Thanks for this one! Helps to add up a piece of family history. My grandfather obviously entered the ranks of the SS rather early (SS-Membership No. 967). Due to your timeline that would be probably sometime after 1928 but rather long before Himmler added thousands to that branch. A bit more to the puzzle. From 3 old photographs I figured out that he was member of an MP (Feldgendarmerie) Platoon or Company attached to one of the Totenkopf-Divisions and took part in the battle of Charkov.
By your comments, he entered the Waffen-SS with Totenkopf (3rd Waffen-SS Division) probably upon it's formation in October 1939. With respect, you're sure of his SS#? Himmler's was 168; could they have known each other?
Mark, your videos are really well made. I really appreciate the fact that you always talk extensively and you go in deep about the topics you cover. I've read a lot about WW2 yet by watching your video i always learn something new. Thank you for the quality content !
I was watching your new video and a new story pops up , it put me in a state of confusion how I watch and listen at the same time but I came to the rationalization finish one and then the other so I can absorb the content. Thanks Mark.
It is now a certainty that Mark Felton is the most prominent and prestigious WWII historian on the internet. Every video is a gold chest of invaluable knowledge. To him goes this quote from Napoleon to his 9th foot light brigade: "INCOMPARABLE!"
@@news_internationale2035 You are everywhere spreading you're zionazi lies aren't you , how's the weather in Tele Aivi today eh ? Shot any unarmed Palestinian children today ? Sunk any American ships ? We know the truth zionist and it doesn't look good for yous .
Was watching The Great Escape last night and was literally wondering this same question, and here is the answer the very next day. That is spooky. Thanks Mark 👍
US uniforms were basically identical in both wars, other than the Air Force. And by the way for all the praise the Germans get for their spiffy outfits, the US Marine dress uniform is outstanding. Plus if he had lived to see it Goering would have eaten his heart out at at the US Air Force officer peaked cap visor with its storm cloud and lightning bolt "scrambled eggs" - for some reason the Luftwaffe had no scrambled eggs at all in its visors.
IrishCarney the marine dress uniform is cool but the issue is that they ruined all the other services branches uniforms after they tried to copy the “less soldierly” look, thank god America recently brought back its wwii era army dress uniforms, which, while not as nice as the German or British threads from the era, is very sporty
@@IrishCarney Btw. Initially equipped with Minnesota's resources, Finland lost more than the US in Vietnam. Suitably the abbreviation for defense is still SA, as if paramilitary. In my opinion, the best uniforms for serious work. th-cam.com/video/J2TfMJ_utnE/w-d-xo.html
I have to say that I have learned so much from Mark. I love his style of narration, informative, knowledgeable, interesting and often entertaining. Many, many thanks.
Thank you for the video! I wonder if you can cover the SS from after 34 up until 39. I've tried to follow its development but it can be very confusing as so many changes occurred in those years as Himmler and Heydrich swallowed up so many other police forces in Germany. Also, can anyone recommend a decent book on the development in the prewar SS?
Your programming is fantastic. Thank you for all the work you pt into it. Question. Have you done a program on the role of the American Indian in the war? It's a fascinating story from what little I know. I'd love to see a program of your on this important topic. Thank you
Great talent you have. I wish you all the success! You have a “great product “( lol ...a business term) ie people are truly fascinated and repulsed by such an evil man), you deliver it in an artistic format, both visually and your orally. Your presentation is very interesting to listen to! You have a natural charisma and it shows! I wish such talent much success. Your “ business” but in your case your love and passion will be successful. It is obvious you do this not for the money but for social justice. If one is not greedy( something innate character ( lol) that we all struggle with... unfortunately for man) and one does what he loves and he does it with passion for the sheer joy of helping others than God will bless that effort!
Was eagerly Waiting for your video Mark & Now only finished watching Third Atomic Bomb video, & now Origins of SS, thanks Mark for your informative & Educative videos 😊✌Way to go 🙏
Thanks for saving and not rewriting history. As I've grown older all the vets I knew from ww2 have long since passed. There's no way to learn if not from a professor or scholar and no one is teaching this thorough history anymore and in fact I believe its discouraged by most institutions.So thank you sir and I'm subbed.
MARK FELTON- I've got a GREAT idea for you, you can extend the WW2 section of your videos by doing videos on the Vichy French "Milice" and the Ordnungspolizei, also the Russian auxiliary volunteer groups called "HIWIS"...
Whenever I read history or listen to your excellent TH-cam channel programming, I think of the "what if" scenario. What would the world be like in the 21st century if one is assassinations of Hitler had succeeded. What would Germany be like what effect on the Communist revolution, what impact on Europe It certainly would be a different world, It's rather mindnumbing.
Another outstanding video containing excellent information. Most know about the well known Nazis (Himmler, Goering, etc.) but I never heard of these others you mention save for the head of the SA, Rohm. Thank you, Mark!
Mark do you have any podcasts or audio stories on a platform other than youtube? Id like to be able to listen on the move without having to have the youtube app open!
I read somewhere that Himmler was obsessed with medieval German witches. He even had some historians gather as much history as they could on the subject.
How about a grand project of narrating all battles in order of their timeline in a specific theater in WW2? Sounds ambitious I know, but it sounds great too
I don't think Rohm's orientation was a secret, everyone knew, and he was pretty open about his exploits with young SA men. When he went to, I think it was Bolivia as a military advisor, he was basically open about it there too!
@Daver G that actually makes Hess even more terrifying I think. Imagine getting violently sodomized or beaten to death by a big *mean* beefy burly man wearing woman clothes and make-up. Last thing you would hear would be the brown-shirts shouting and chanting: 'Schwarzer Emma! Schwarzer Emma!'
@Daver G I have heard that, about Hess! And Goering had a feminine side. One just has to look at those "beautiful" Nazi uniforms and know there was going on! 💅👗👠💄
@UC69HKKqUtT-gNdEJDm12-UQ I saw an episode of a crime investigation show on TV once, they went into one of the San Francisco gay "leather" bars, you would swear you were looking at a 1930's SS meeting!
Contrary to popular belief, the SS did not wear the black parade uniform after 1934 in local settings. Hollywood has fed this myth even during wartime, with films like Hitler’s Madmen(1943), depicting the SS in black uniforms at all times. This continues even today.
I was just talking to a German friend. His Grandfather was in the SS. 12th SS I believe and was taken prisoner and ended up in. US Indiana ( Attebury ) pow camp. He picked tomatoes until the end of the war. He ran common wire and was captured at the end of the war. He said he Grandfather and extended family were proud of him when be joined.. He is from Bavaria..
He was probably a minority as a German in Atterbury, most of the pow's were Italian soldiers. I'm also a fellow Hoosier and live not very far from the camp.
With the exception of Heydrich it's amazing how few top Nazis had the kind of Aryan looks Hitler obsessed over. Including the little fella with the 'tache and glasses.
i agree alright but to be fair even as evil as hitler was he'd still be considered quite good looking back in those days without the mustache of course
shutup2 Apparently women were transfixed by Hitler's beautiful blue eyes. I'm sure that may be true but it's also funny how women suddenly find men incredibly attractive when the man is also incredibly powerful and/or rich.
November 1921, the brawl at the Munich beer hall . . . why oh why did the bullets fired at Hitler not hit their mark with fatal consequences !!! Can you imagine how different history would have been, and how many millions of innocent lives would have been saved if Hitler was killed in that beer hall ?
When I think of Himmler, I think of Mark Felton's description of his uniform and decorations, and I chuckle at the inferiority complex Himmler must have had compared to others who actually had combat experience and 'real' decorations.
I remember reading (decades ago) that the SS was so insignificant at the time of the Munich Putsch that the Wiemar government did not ban the SS as the SA was banned.
@@IrishCarney CAUTION -- Wikipedia Quote to follow (so it could be absolute nonsense): "By 1923, the Nazi Party (NSDAP) led by Adolf Hitler had created a small volunteer guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz (Hall Security) to provide security at their meetings in Munich.[4][5] The same year, Hitler ordered the formation of a small bodyguard unit dedicated to his personal service. He wished it to be separate from the "suspect mass" of the party, including the paramilitary Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), which he did not trust."
@@rickarmknecht8903 Yes but it was not totally separate, as in fully independent of the SA. It was an elite unit within the SA that was meant to bypass the SA chain of command and report to Hitler directly. Not until 1934 and the Night of the Long Knives was the SS finally broken off from the SA and made totally separate.
Saw a news broadcast with a chief of police in Austria speaking about gun control and Covid face masks. Dressed all in black. Looked like an SS officer.
Mark how does it feel knowing you have the best history channel on TH-cam ?
Check The history guy on YT
he's better than the History Channel itself!
@@OgiexOgilthorpe because he covers *actual* history
Channels*
Right? I only recently found out about this magic.
Himmler's photo in the thumbnail makes him look like a middle aged boy scout
@Star Trek Theory the brown shirt uniforms were pretty ugly
@Benjamin Mordecai wrong lol. American and British uniforms are better.
@Blue C ..Flat Earther detected.. Everything is a conspiracy. lol
@Benjamin Mordecai they didn't wear those uniforms on any battlefield
@@LuisSantos-hs8ur true,though i prefer the British ones.
I hope all history teachers become you someday
I hope not - I'd be out of business!
They're not unfortunately most are probably indoctrinated today.
I hope your English teacher is reading your comment:)
@@Scurge237 indoctrinated?
@jack the flipper it has been edited
Just as I finish the third atomic bomb video this one pops up, nice
got a link, for those vids?
@@scarcatch 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_Mark Felton voice_ Despite the fame of the two videos being dropped back to back, what is less well known is that a *third* Felton video was seriously being considered and prepared for release on that same day as well.
@@home2039 schitzophrenic
Let's get you out onto a tray...
I used to walk around the US barracks in Berlin known as Andrew's Barracks and say to myself, "If only these walls could talk ". Andrew's Barracks was the Lichterfeld barracks for the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.
I thought same, at Werner Barracks......Bamberg...
@Shove Your Mask Up Your Ass meine frauline! Lol
@Trumpasaurus Erectus try and get to the beer keller's where the thugs took the kidnapped lawyers ,trade unionists ,political opponents or any intellectual who stood up against them,who we're beaten to death.
Fitting place for NATO (US) soldiers in Europe.
Well I hope you speak German, as if they could if they did talk and you couldn’t understand it would be anticlimactic.
I've always considered myself fairly knowledgeable about World War II history. But now thanks to Mark Felton I really see that I am just slightly above an amateur. Thank you Mr. Felton for the absolute best history channel on TH-cam. Or anywhere else for that matter. I learn something new with every story and video. I'm chuffed to bits with your channels.
I wish I had you Mark as a history professor in college. Keep em coming
Wow, just got done with Third Atomic Bomb....keep 'em coming Doc!
IMAGINARY bomb ! ( like the previous two )
@@colliecandle ??
Thanks for this one!
Helps to add up a piece of family history.
My grandfather obviously entered the ranks of the SS rather early (SS-Membership No. 967).
Due to your timeline that would be probably sometime after 1928 but rather long before Himmler added thousands to that branch.
A bit more to the puzzle. From 3 old photographs I figured out that he was member of an MP (Feldgendarmerie) Platoon or Company attached to one of the Totenkopf-Divisions and took part in the battle of Charkov.
By your comments, he entered the Waffen-SS with Totenkopf (3rd Waffen-SS Division) probably upon it's formation in October 1939. With respect, you're sure of his SS#? Himmler's was 168; could they have known each other?
You should be proud.
Bosch advertisment in the middle of the story was priceless ;)
I get to watch two shows tonight, thanks Mark !
Who pays for college and school when you have
Mark Felton!
They don't teach this factual history in college, anyway.
Not since Obama they don't. You are correct about that!
Mark, your videos are really well made. I really appreciate the fact that you always talk extensively and you go in deep about the topics you cover. I've read a lot about WW2 yet by watching your video i always learn something new. Thank you for the quality content !
It’s a Feltonathon! Two uploads today on two channels, woohoo!
Feast or a famine with you big man isn't it lol.
Keep them coming
"Night of the Long Knives."
Dialing up the political hits so often the phone line literally glowed red..
I was watching your new video and a new story pops up , it put me in a state of confusion how I watch and listen at the same time but I came to the rationalization finish one and then the other so I can absorb the content.
Thanks Mark.
Two Dr. Mark Felton videos in one day... that's time well spent listening. Keep up the good work, Dr Felton!
A double shot of, Dr. Mark Felton today... ! AWESOME.....!
It is now a certainty that Mark Felton is the most prominent and prestigious WWII historian on the internet. Every video is a gold chest of invaluable knowledge. To him goes this quote from Napoleon to his 9th foot light brigade: "INCOMPARABLE!"
This is something I have never even thought about. And it’s very interesting.
@Crom the Wise The audio book version is free on TH-cam.
@Early Cobra We studied this exact material at High School, not easy to digest.
@Crom the Wise read it 58 years ago!! Yes, scarey!!
Love your videos Mark. I look forward to every single one! Keep doing what you do!
Hugo Boss, making men look sharp AF since 1933!
I hope you do some more on the Kriegsmarine. I love watching all your videos on different military history. Keep up the great work.😀
A sad and scary story. Excellent Writing and Narration.
Very informative. enjoyed it! Thank you!!
When "special advisors to Government" are given their own uniform..
Research the Holodomor and the zionists that did it .
@@alisonhilll4317 Research how most of the USSR's leaders were Ukrainian.
@@news_internationale2035 Why do zionists lie all the time , you're ether a zionazi or uneducated, the world is waking up to zionazis and their lying.
@@news_internationale2035 You are everywhere spreading you're zionazi lies aren't you , how's the weather in Tele Aivi today eh ? Shot any unarmed Palestinian children today ? Sunk any American ships ? We know the truth zionist and it doesn't look good for yous .
_Ivanka_ and _Jared_ are wearing uniforms by now? *;-)*
Wow, never knew Shrek was a Nazi
That there photo of Ed Norton cosplaying as a boy scout is some nightmare fuel.
Greetings Mark. I truly appreciate your oratory skills and your historical accuracy. Moreover, proper annunciation of the names of groups and persons
I appreciate your audio only videos!!
Was watching The Great Escape last night and was literally wondering this same question, and here is the answer the very next day. That is spooky. Thanks Mark 👍
I think he was riding a Triumph MC
Vee haff vayz off making you tock!
@Wise and Free I loved the film! I can't believe I'd never seen it before! :D
Vietnam had the best music, WW2 had the best uniforms.
US uniforms were basically identical in both wars, other than the Air Force. And by the way for all the praise the Germans get for their spiffy outfits, the US Marine dress uniform is outstanding. Plus if he had lived to see it Goering would have eaten his heart out at at the US Air Force officer peaked cap visor with its storm cloud and lightning bolt "scrambled eggs" - for some reason the Luftwaffe had no scrambled eggs at all in its visors.
IrishCarney the marine dress uniform is cool but the issue is that they ruined all the other services branches uniforms after they tried to copy the “less soldierly” look, thank god America recently brought back its wwii era army dress uniforms, which, while not as nice as the German or British threads from the era, is very sporty
Wars are fun movies that are cool and aesthetic. I am a serious student of history
@@IrishCarney Btw. Initially equipped with Minnesota's resources, Finland lost more than the US in Vietnam. Suitably the abbreviation for defense is still SA, as if paramilitary. In my opinion, the best uniforms for serious work.
th-cam.com/video/J2TfMJ_utnE/w-d-xo.html
@@patrickvanliere8690 By both wars I meant WW2 and Vietnam not the two world wars
Well done Mark another fascinating audio !
I have to say that I have learned so much from Mark. I love his style of narration, informative, knowledgeable, interesting and often entertaining. Many, many thanks.
Superbly researched historical content.
Continue making these videos! I really enjoy the knowledge and the content
Was not notified of this. Just shows me those who do not learn history are going to repeat it.
Thanks for the video
Nice two videos back to back thank you Mr. Felton
What a wonderful presentation of history, thank you Mark
You should post your audio videos on Spotify or Soundcloud as a podcast
If you don't want ads to interrupt these fine videos fast forward to the end and click the replay button, all the embedded ads will be removed.
Good tip
I cant wait to be watching your Netflix History doc series in a few years !
Thank you
Thank you for the video! I wonder if you can cover the SS from after 34 up until 39. I've tried to follow its development but it can be very confusing as so many changes occurred in those years as Himmler and Heydrich swallowed up so many other police forces in Germany. Also, can anyone recommend a decent book on the development in the prewar SS?
Most likely read it but Army of Evil. Adrian Weale.
Thank you Mark 😊
Superlative channel, Mr. Felton!
Your programming is fantastic. Thank you for all the work you pt into it. Question. Have you done a program on the role of the American Indian in the war? It's a fascinating story from what little I know. I'd love to see a program of your on this important topic. Thank you
Great talent you have. I wish you all the success! You have a “great product “( lol ...a business term) ie people are truly fascinated and repulsed by such an evil man), you deliver it in an artistic format, both visually and your orally. Your presentation is very interesting to listen to! You have a natural charisma and it shows!
I wish such talent much success. Your “ business” but in your case your love and passion will be successful. It is obvious you do this not for the money but for social justice. If one is not greedy( something innate character ( lol) that we all struggle with... unfortunately for man) and one does what he loves and he does it with passion for the sheer joy of helping others than God will bless that effort!
mark gives the best war stories true ones
"I definitely nazi this coming." - Ernst Röhm -
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Was eagerly Waiting for your video Mark & Now only finished watching Third Atomic Bomb video, & now Origins of SS, thanks Mark for your informative & Educative videos 😊✌Way to go 🙏
My conscience is clear on skipping the adds. I bought every book Dr. Felton has written!
How many has he written? I’d like to read them.
A great many thanks!
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War Stories with Mark Felton holy moly. I’m retiring until I can get through all 22! Love that many are on Kindle
@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton my conscience is 3/4 clear now,,, :-(
However it means I have more books I can buy! :-)
Felton is on the march with these videos. And we wouldn't have it any other way.
Omfg finally a documentary without music and loud sound effects over the talkers voice . Thankyou
Whether it's names or places, your pronunciation sounds authentic. Do you speak German, French, and Russian?
Thanks for saving and not rewriting history. As I've grown older all the vets I knew from ww2 have long since passed. There's no way to learn if not from a professor or scholar and no one is teaching this thorough history anymore and in fact I believe its discouraged by most institutions.So thank you sir and I'm subbed.
Can instantly tell an american wrote this comment- prove me wrong
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MARK FELTON- I've got a GREAT idea for you, you can extend the WW2 section of your videos by doing videos on the Vichy French "Milice" and the Ordnungspolizei, also the Russian auxiliary volunteer groups called "HIWIS"...
Cheers mark good video
I really enjoyed this. Great research. Thanks Mark
Whenever I read history or listen to your excellent TH-cam channel programming, I think of the "what if" scenario. What would the world be like in the 21st century if one is assassinations of Hitler had succeeded. What would Germany be like what effect on the Communist revolution, what impact on Europe It certainly would be a different world, It's rather mindnumbing.
Thank You Mark!
Another outstanding video containing excellent information. Most know about the well known Nazis (Himmler, Goering, etc.) but I never heard of these others you mention save for the head of the SA, Rohm. Thank you, Mark!
Mark do you have any podcasts or audio stories on a platform other than youtube? Id like to be able to listen on the move without having to have the youtube app open!
That intro 🔥🔥🔥🔥
If this continues, we will need the history of Mark Felton War Stories narrated by Mark Felton
Another great episode full of small detail.
I read somewhere that Himmler was obsessed with medieval German witches. He even had some historians gather as much history as they could on the subject.
How about a grand project of narrating all battles in order of their timeline in a specific theater in WW2? Sounds ambitious I know, but it sounds great too
Ww2 week by week is doing that.
Love your work.
Was wondering if you had considered uploading the audio only series onto to spotify.
9:47 - SS Commanded by Shrek???
10:10 - Shrek served Hitler as his personal driver.
I'm dying here lol....
I don't think Rohm's orientation was a secret, everyone knew, and he was pretty open about his exploits with young SA men. When he went to, I think it was Bolivia as a military advisor, he was basically open about it there too!
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@Daver G that actually makes Hess even more terrifying I think. Imagine getting violently sodomized or beaten to death by a big *mean* beefy burly man wearing woman clothes and make-up.
Last thing you would hear would be the brown-shirts shouting and chanting: 'Schwarzer Emma! Schwarzer Emma!'
@Daver G I have heard that, about Hess! And Goering had a feminine side. One just has to look at those "beautiful" Nazi uniforms and know there was going on! 💅👗👠💄
@UC69HKKqUtT-gNdEJDm12-UQ I saw an episode of a crime investigation show on TV once, they went into one of the San Francisco gay "leather" bars, you would swear you were looking at a 1930's SS meeting!
@@StalinTheMan0fSteel in that case check out 'Scorpio Rising' you can watch on Death Fetish his/her channel
Can you talk about the thulean society or the anhernabe
Enjoyed listening to that mark, thanks.
Always interesting, thank you.
Contrary to popular belief, the SS did not wear the black parade uniform after 1934 in local settings. Hollywood has fed this myth even during wartime, with films like Hitler’s Madmen(1943), depicting the SS in black uniforms at all times. This continues even today.
*EPIC FAIL* :(
@@MarCuseus What is wrong?
What do you mean by local settings? And what uniforms did they wear instead?
Huh? It was in use well later into the 30s.
Hollywood likes to rewrite history to suit their agenda.
I was just talking to a German friend. His Grandfather was in the SS. 12th SS I believe and was taken prisoner and ended up in. US Indiana ( Attebury ) pow camp. He picked tomatoes until the end of the war. He ran common wire and was captured at the end of the war. He said he Grandfather and extended family were proud of him when be joined.. He is from Bavaria..
He was probably a minority as a German in Atterbury, most of the pow's were Italian soldiers. I'm also a fellow Hoosier and live not very far from the camp.
@@brucecunningham1607 Yeap, I live in Seymour. So just 20 miles away..
Wonderful to listen too. Background learning. Thanks Mate.
With the exception of Heydrich it's amazing how few top Nazis had the kind of Aryan looks Hitler obsessed over. Including the little fella with the 'tache and glasses.
i agree alright but to be fair even as evil as hitler was he'd still be considered quite good looking back in those days without the mustache of course
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Apparently women were transfixed by Hitler's beautiful blue eyes.
I'm sure that may be true but it's also funny how women suddenly find men incredibly attractive when the man is also incredibly powerful and/or rich.
who need netflix when you have mark felton
Yay a new vid
Great vid!
November 1921, the brawl at the Munich beer hall . . . why oh why did the bullets fired at Hitler not hit their mark with fatal consequences !!!
Can you imagine how different history would have been, and how many millions of innocent lives would have been saved if Hitler was killed in that beer hall ?
Mark, my self proclaimed friend, you shall go down in well, history.
When I think of Himmler, I think of Mark Felton's description of his uniform and decorations, and I chuckle at the inferiority complex Himmler must have had compared to others who actually had combat experience and 'real' decorations.
I remember reading (decades ago) that the SS was so insignificant at the time of the Munich Putsch that the Wiemar government did not ban the SS as the SA was banned.
That doesn't make sense because the SS was part of the SA at the time.
@@IrishCarney CAUTION -- Wikipedia Quote to follow (so it could be absolute nonsense): "By 1923, the Nazi Party (NSDAP) led by Adolf Hitler had created a small volunteer guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz (Hall Security) to provide security at their meetings in Munich.[4][5] The same year, Hitler ordered the formation of a small bodyguard unit dedicated to his personal service. He wished it to be separate from the "suspect mass" of the party, including the paramilitary Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), which he did not trust."
@@rickarmknecht8903 Yes but it was not totally separate, as in fully independent of the SA. It was an elite unit within the SA that was meant to bypass the SA chain of command and report to Hitler directly. Not until 1934 and the Night of the Long Knives was the SS finally broken off from the SA and made totally separate.
Factual leader of SA was Ernst Rohm and that was problem for Hitler, because he had close to none authority over them.
Mark I believe one of the founders was Emil Maurice who has an interesting history.
Please do a Vid on the Outkast Dirlewanger SS Brigade
It’d be great if you could work with The Operation Room some time
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Your videos are absolutely amazing so informative, I am so glad you make videos !!!
I’d like to put in a request for a series on the battle of Kohima and Imphal. 🙏
Do what?
News_Internationale Lol. Maybe it will be ready by the time I get to Sugar Creek.
@@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 When they get you to Sugar Creek, they ain't gonna give you any Kohima or Impal!
Mark, can you do a documentary on how these institutions managed to fund themselves during these early days.
Early Go Fund Me campaign...
Mussolini was funded by the British security services,before his book Hitler and the movement were funded by ?
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Donations.
The chicken farmer becomes the SS head.
Just read the CVs of the high ranked Nazis. Nearly all of them had been underachievers before. . .
@@letoubib21 That's a bit unfair on chicken farmers.
I know some millionaires that run big chicken business.
Himmler looks badass on the intro picture.
It's the Brittish accent that keeps me coming back!👍🇬🇧😉
Like Lord Haw Haw.
this is whats forming in Melbourne Australia and everywhere else for that matter.
Already here with the black uniform of Reichsfuhrer Peter (Spud) Dutton's Australian Border Force. 🥔 🥔 🥔
Saw a news broadcast with a chief of police in Austria speaking about gun control and Covid face masks. Dressed all in black. Looked like an SS officer.
Mark you should do a video Vril.
This is why you never give a failed chicken farmer power
He was also, as someone once described him, a bullied nerd who had a lot of anger to take out.