Hitler's Jewish Soldiers

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  • čas přidán 22. 08. 2021
  • Many men who were partly of Jewish ancestry served in the German armed forces during WW2 - find out how and why they ended up in Hitler's army.
    For more information about this topic, suggested reading is 'Hitler's Jewish Soldiers' by Bryan Mark Rigg - www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish...
    Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fe...
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    Credits: US National Archives; Bundesarchiv
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  • @SP-sy5nq
    @SP-sy5nq Před 2 lety +2700

    Wow the German army was so inclusive!

  • @jacobmiller9133
    @jacobmiller9133 Před 2 lety +3604

    I love the obscure, little-known stories from WWII. Just when you think you’ve learned it all, Dr. Felton gives you another tidbit.

    • @benadam7753
      @benadam7753 Před 2 lety +25

      LOL! Bryan Mark Rigg wrote his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" 19 years ago! Mark Felton is a little late on this subject!

    • @peterharte5841
      @peterharte5841 Před 2 lety

      9

    • @fiendersPT
      @fiendersPT Před 2 lety +41

      Still if Mark Felton didnt have uploaded this video, many of us wouldnt have known

    • @AlvesHeim
      @AlvesHeim Před 2 lety +9

      Me too! I also love little-known (intentionally) stories from WWII and other times... I recommend you books of Thomas Dalton, PhD, and Veronica Kuznyar-Clark, they tell much more than Felton. Also search for "271,301 Red Cross", you will be very surprised. And to understand the opposite side, search for "Stalin's Enslavement of Rural Russia (full documentary)", and "sexual revolution in Weimar Germany in 1920s" and "Bolshevik sexual revolution in 1920s", and "extermination of Cossacks by Bolsheviks", and you will understand why at least 5,000,000 Slavs joined Germans in WWII. Real history was totally opposite from what modern schools tell to naive people. It was never about Germans or Germany, it was only about freedom from Marxism in all its ugly forms.

    • @benadam7753
      @benadam7753 Před 2 lety +1

      @@peterharte5841 19! The copyright of my copy of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" is 2002!

  • @erzherzogalbrecht8504
    @erzherzogalbrecht8504 Před rokem +104

    My great-grandmother was half Jewish, and because my great-grandfather married her, he got expelled from the Wehrmacht and sent to the Organisation Todt as a forced labourer to build bunkers on the French coastlines.
    Both survived the war and settled down in Vienna

    • @chamboyette853
      @chamboyette853 Před 9 měsíci

      Is it just me or does this division and different treatment of people in accordance with their DNA strangely remind me (of course in a much less drastic way) of the left's dividing people in accordance with their DNA as well as what they can and cannot say in accordance with this DNA?

    • @kalajari1749
      @kalajari1749 Před 3 měsíci

      Ah so they werent g-$$ed. They were only sent to labor camps

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Před 3 měsíci +6

      erz: You may wish to read the book: Hitler's Jewish Soldiers.
      The book's assertion is that there were 150,000 Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht.

    • @hanaluong2672
      @hanaluong2672 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@BasementEngineer they served in the German Army for their own survival.

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Před 2 měsíci

      @@hanaluong2672 If you drill right down to it, ALL western soldiers served for that purpose.
      That's what the heavy propaganda in the so-called democracies was for.

  • @SteDews
    @SteDews Před rokem +196

    Just been to a funeral of an old friend of the family, we knew she was a German Jew and her parents destroyed all her papers as a child and changed her name from Rachel to Ursula, in the funeral we found out that she was in the Hitler youth and was hiding in plain sight all through the war. Amazing to know that there were so many that survived this way

    • @ashrain6235
      @ashrain6235 Před rokem +21

      Once Jew, forever Jew
      There’s no paper or name that can change that

    • @Ratselmeister
      @Ratselmeister Před rokem +22

      So a national socialist by heart not by race. Thats true patriotism.

    • @Blissblizzard
      @Blissblizzard Před rokem +4

      My friends much older Jewish cousins (who were friends with Jung prewar) and whose parents were already "Buddhist" somehow survived the war,
      in Berlin!

    • @Foreign0817
      @Foreign0817 Před rokem

      ​@@ashrain6235Christians: ✡️

    • @Vilatkahang
      @Vilatkahang Před rokem +8

      @@ashrain6235 ultimately all people came from the same parents in Africa that’s all that matters

  • @Roller_Ghoster
    @Roller_Ghoster Před 2 lety +7167

    This is the sort of channel that should used on the curriculum of schools. Ive learnt alot from Mark Felton.

    • @RedVelvetBlackleather
      @RedVelvetBlackleather Před 2 lety +150

      Self education is the best education. I mean even if his videos were used in school people still wouldn’t pay attention

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 Před 2 lety +43

      @@RedVelvetBlackleather So you plan to be a self-educated doctor or rocket scientist. Don't call me, and I won't call you.

    • @billmcculloch8240
      @billmcculloch8240 Před 2 lety +41

      Most definitely , the PAST MUST be remembered , even Mandela said "bury history & it will happen again" .

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 Před 2 lety +3

      @@charlieboy-dh1ns The guy did not specify that that is what he meant. I just take him at his word.

    • @RedVelvetBlackleather
      @RedVelvetBlackleather Před 2 lety +59

      @@nedludd7622
      Chill out buddy I was under the idea that we were talking about grade school history students, of course we ALL LEARN something from school but for people who really want to broaden their education they usually do that outside of school, or they move on to higher education.

  • @elschaetty
    @elschaetty Před rokem +827

    "History is more grey than black and white" is an extremely good quote and maybe the best for summing up history as a subject in general

    • @fightfannerd2078
      @fightfannerd2078 Před rokem +1

      Ikr

    • @14monkelifter88
      @14monkelifter88 Před rokem +2

      @@aduantas this

    • @Blessed_V0id
      @Blessed_V0id Před rokem +21

      I'd argue its all black. There's no heroes in politics. Only martyrs and monsters

    • @robertjones447
      @robertjones447 Před rokem +16

      I suppose whitewaahing evil makes it appear grey.

    • @yayhandles
      @yayhandles Před rokem +8

      Or just all of existence, even. Almost *nothing* exists in stark white, nor pitch black - in nearly every regard, any action, inaction, or reaction is a double-edged sword. There is an inherent duality to everything that happens or exists - by choice, by design, or by happenstance.
      As an intentionally extreme example: It is only by the actions of murderers, and even genocidists, that a meaningful perspective of the true monstrosity of such acts is bestowed upon us.

  • @johnhenderson131
    @johnhenderson131 Před rokem +36

    I really appreciate that you locate and share these very interesting parts of history. I spent time in military school and study military history from the Ancient Greek, Romans, Spartans,Egyptian etc….and more in-depth WWI and WWIII. You continue to fascinate by constantly giving me new information. Thank you. Ignorance is a terrible thing.

  • @Steve-O_27
    @Steve-O_27 Před rokem +12

    Excellent episode as always Dr. Felton! I really appreciate and love all the work you do to produce such great content!

  • @jcgabriel1569
    @jcgabriel1569 Před 2 lety +2940

    "...History is more grey than black and white..."
    Well, sir, you have just added another color to give us a clearer picture of things. Thanks for the videos!

  • @Remembrance1776
    @Remembrance1776 Před 2 lety +2912

    A mini-episode on Eduard Bloch, a Jewish doctor who treated the Hitler family, would be worthwhile. He was protected by Hitler himself after the Nazi annexation of Austria and was allowed to immigrate to America with no resistance. As Hitler put it: “Dr. Bloch is an Edeljude - a noble Jew. If all Jews were like him, there would be no Jewish question.”

    • @lafox2833
      @lafox2833 Před 2 lety +1132

      The problem is that not all jews can be a doctor who personally treated Hitlers mother

    • @riteshyeddu9186
      @riteshyeddu9186 Před 2 lety +109

      @@lafox2833 😂

    • @uberalles9797
      @uberalles9797 Před 2 lety +88

      So apparently someone lied about history

    • @outis439-A
      @outis439-A Před 2 lety +1

      @@uberalles9797 Yeah because in Mein Kempf, Hitler says that during his youth he never actually understood what a jew even was. like he never saw one, un
      less he never knew the doctor was jewish until he grew up and stuff.

    • @nyimdewan3353
      @nyimdewan3353 Před 2 lety +361

      @@outis439-A What?Bruh did you ever read mein Kampf?
      Hitler was struggling in Vienna after he got rejected from the art school..
      Even he was sleeping in the streets sometimes... He clearly recalled there was a Jewish Cloth seller who gave cloths to Hitler when he was freezing in the cold..His commanding officer in the German army in WW1 was a Jew..Heck even a little girl used to visit Hitler before the war who was Jew.Whom she referred to as Uncle Hitler and Hitler used to talk with her and meet with her every week but after during WW2 he couldn't maintain that contact as the party pressured him to cut ties with the girl as she was a Jew..He even has a photo with her..Can google It if you like

  • @wilhelminamarquart240
    @wilhelminamarquart240 Před rokem +163

    Love your videos, my grandfather said this happened in Germany but I didn't believe him that there were German Jews in the Nazis. My grandfather was born in Berlin and lived there till 1939 and he had said that he knew Jews who were high up in the Nazis.

    • @chucklynch6523
      @chucklynch6523 Před 10 měsíci +25

      Research the 1933 German Transfer Agreement. It will blow your mind to see the 2 parties that were involved in this agreement and why!!

    • @eyeswideopen7777
      @eyeswideopen7777 Před 6 měsíci

      It just proves that the elite Jews sold out their own in those times

    • @markaguzmanartist630
      @markaguzmanartist630 Před 6 měsíci

      Yea HITLERS WIFE WAS HALF JEWISH

    • @Georgeos777
      @Georgeos777 Před 6 měsíci

      eichmann, heydrich(half), goebbels, himmler, its not about small hats and going to synagoge, its surnames, family and obvious genetics, for example eichmann appearance screams literally jew

    • @abdullahsaidgul8005
      @abdullahsaidgul8005 Před 6 měsíci

      Believable. Now there are Zionist Nazis in Israel

  • @EnforcerX71
    @EnforcerX71 Před 10 měsíci +3

    These are easily the best, more interesting WW2 videos on CZcams, I thank you Dr. Felton, you are a national treasure.

  • @ErnestJay88
    @ErnestJay88 Před 2 lety +1194

    summary of this video :
    "I'm deciding who is Jewish and who is not !"
    Herman Goering

    • @mkultra70
      @mkultra70 Před 2 lety +146

      Yeah Goering really didn’t care much about the racial stuff. In fact, if it was up to him all German Jews, especially those that served in the military during WW1 would have been “Aryanized”..

    • @bundesautobahn7
      @bundesautobahn7 Před 2 lety +14

      If I recall, Göring was state premier of Prussia before the administrative reorganisation from states into Gaue (a Gau is like a valley, but in this case more like a region), which was still a very large chunk of Germany after WWI, around 50% or so.

    • @edwardjj4224
      @edwardjj4224 Před 2 lety +1

      Herman was thinking about Alfred Kesselring Smiling Alfred

    • @user-tc4jc6ko2b
      @user-tc4jc6ko2b Před 2 lety

      Ja

    • @apfelschorle1988
      @apfelschorle1988 Před 2 lety +8

      they allowed people with Jewish ancestry in the military but not in science. I really don't get it. Wonder how important antisemitism really was to the high-ranking Nazis apart from Hitler and Himmler of cause. All the dead jews were nothing more than a tool for the Reich.

  • @anaveragejoe6710
    @anaveragejoe6710 Před 2 lety +2343

    Professor Mark is an unconventional youtuber. We need more educated CZcamsrs like him and he deserves more views.

    • @gubernatorial1723
      @gubernatorial1723 Před 2 lety +19

      Unconventional for being educated. Too true.

    • @bobbowie5334
      @bobbowie5334 Před 2 lety +9

      Best known for the _bumper music._

    • @DrJones20
      @DrJones20 Před 2 lety +9

      He's not unconventional, he's just the most known one. Watch less cat videos and you'll find more good stuff in here

    • @pmonkeygeezer6212
      @pmonkeygeezer6212 Před 2 lety +11

      @@Bobspineable He's not a professor to the best of my knowledge but does have a doctorate in history from the University of Essex.
      The problem with history as a subject for a doctorate or academic subject is that you are largely rehashing and collating what other people have documented. You can't tell it like it was, because by very definition, you weren't there.
      Whereas science, maths, and engineering are on the forefront of new and original work.

    • @chrispycreme9545
      @chrispycreme9545 Před 2 lety

      indeed

  • @johnelliott7375
    @johnelliott7375 Před 11 měsíci +7

    This man somehow always finds more and more interesting facts about these people,just when you think that the well has dried up. Bravo, enjoyable, and educational as always thank you and God bless your family and friends. Great work as always!

  • @samuelstevenson8279
    @samuelstevenson8279 Před rokem +3

    I absolutely love your content! I have been a viewer since 2020...keep up the good work Sir!

  • @news26boom
    @news26boom Před 2 lety +288

    Fun fact - Taiwanese were classified as white by the SA Apartheid government while Chinese were classified as non-white. Both are ethnically Han-Chinese. It was because the SA government had a close relationship with the ROC.

    • @stevenobrien557
      @stevenobrien557 Před 2 lety +34

      There are many non-Han in both Taiwan and China. The current president of Taiwan is Hakka.

    • @jeffreysommer3292
      @jeffreysommer3292 Před 2 lety +27

      The Third Reich trained several Divisions of Chinese troops until the alliance with Japan got in the way.

    • @raptornomad1221
      @raptornomad1221 Před 2 lety +14

      @@jeffreysommer3292 Imagine if Germany persuaded Japan to leave the then China alone and ally with them for natural resources and man power. Ohhh boy.

    • @tancreddehauteville764
      @tancreddehauteville764 Před 2 lety +36

      Commies are never 'white' - they are RED.

    • @alan-l2079
      @alan-l2079 Před 2 lety +13

      @@stevenobrien557 Hakka people are Han Chinese too, it's like within Han Chinese we have a lot subgroups.

  • @grandmufftwerkin9037
    @grandmufftwerkin9037 Před 2 lety +729

    Hitler: This man is the perfect Aryan.
    Soldier: Starts sweating in Hebrew.

    • @marcoAKAjoe
      @marcoAKAjoe Před 2 lety +22

      Lol

    • @bluetv6386
      @bluetv6386 Před 2 lety +24

      Presumably using some salty language?

    • @RusakovLA
      @RusakovLA Před 2 lety +58

      Most likely in Yiddish.

    • @seanokeefe703
      @seanokeefe703 Před 2 lety +15

      While hiding an uzi under his jacket

    • @ItzAdam03
      @ItzAdam03 Před 2 lety +28

      @@seanokeefe703 uzi in ww2?? Go back to the hospital mate

  • @GreenfieldPortfolioResearch
    @GreenfieldPortfolioResearch Před 7 měsíci +2

    unbelievably consistently good content. amazing.

  • @Ninikyu95
    @Ninikyu95 Před rokem +4

    Out of all the ww2/hitler/nazi docs I've watched, I don't ever recall hearing this. Thanks for sharing! Great video.

  • @MrTrimtab
    @MrTrimtab Před 2 lety +494

    I was busy procrastinating when this notification came - and all of a sudden I’m no longer wasting time but drinking good coffee and learning from history.

    • @rob5944
      @rob5944 Před 2 lety +1

      Me too, it's a lovely day here but I'm still in the virtual library burying myself deeper and deeper in the vast encyclopaedia that is the internet. It gets like this when no one is home.

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 Před 2 lety +2

      Procrastinating?
      Is that the thing which'll make you go blind?
      (Joke. I know what it means.)

    • @911treason3
      @911treason3 Před 2 lety +2

      If you want to learn some banned history watch Europa The Last Battle

    • @911treason3
      @911treason3 Před 2 lety +1

      @Grey Donovun ok jew

    • @its_deer
      @its_deer Před 2 lety +1

      @Grey Donovun Yeah, read the description

  • @gemusefachlummel6467
    @gemusefachlummel6467 Před 2 lety +870

    The quote: "I decide who is a jew" originally came from Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna during the late 19th century

    • @pamtnman1515
      @pamtnman1515 Před 2 lety +47

      I’m wondering when the Adolf Hitler lovers will show up here and accuse the Jewish German soldiers of not being Jewish enough.

    • @pamtnman1515
      @pamtnman1515 Před 2 lety +34

      @William Joseph Blazkowicz you are a Jew

    • @alvaro701
      @alvaro701 Před 2 lety +17

      @Electric Fire In my country we can criticise everyone, that means we got no rulers? D:

    • @alvaro701
      @alvaro701 Před 2 lety +12

      @Electric Fire Spain and this the rule in most of the UE.

    • @extanegautham8950
      @extanegautham8950 Před 2 lety +2

      and your point is, Mein Herr?

  • @planetx5269
    @planetx5269 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Wow, this was facinating. I subscribed. Thank you.

  • @chatita9527
    @chatita9527 Před rokem

    Wow, this I had not been aware of! Thank you for your great videos.

  • @pellefishermans
    @pellefishermans Před 2 lety +859

    World War 2 and the history around it has always been my biggest interest, and your channel is like heaven. You cover such interesting subjects, I thank you Dr Felton! 🙏🏼

    • @911treason3
      @911treason3 Před 2 lety +8

      Watch Europa The Last Battle

    • @v4skunk739
      @v4skunk739 Před 2 lety +5

      Read up what General Patton was saying before he got killed.

    • @PcGamerify
      @PcGamerify Před 2 lety +1

      Emil Maurice was also the co founder of the SS

    • @krisfrederick5001
      @krisfrederick5001 Před 2 lety +1

      Absolutely, enjoy mein freund

    • @StevenKeery
      @StevenKeery Před 2 lety +4

      @Jack Stucki : Simple anti-semitism and not everyone throughout history hated the Jews, so your premise is simply incorrect.

  • @TRHARTAmericanArtist
    @TRHARTAmericanArtist Před 2 lety +832

    Revealing the truth instead of creating a narrative is worthy of admiration. Thank you Dr. Felton.

    • @canadianmmaguy7511
      @canadianmmaguy7511 Před 2 lety +41

      I wonder if dr mark felton will mention the haavara agreement 1933-48 as it created the middle eastern wars

    • @jonathanduplantis1403
      @jonathanduplantis1403 Před 2 lety +2

      Exactly

    • @zaynevanday142
      @zaynevanday142 Před 2 lety +2

      @Dreymon Green lol no it started long before then buddy

    • @jonathan13co
      @jonathan13co Před 2 lety +25

      What truth? What are you implying?

    • @craxd1
      @craxd1 Před 2 lety +9

      This is what happens when you blame an entire race or ethnicity (the institution) for what a small handful may have done in certain professions. It led to the genocide not only in Germany, but the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, etc. This occurs when individual responsibility is ignored, or destroyed.

  • @defiant2dend181
    @defiant2dend181 Před 10 měsíci

    Simply, an extraordinary channel. And also extraordinary content.

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 Před rokem +2

    Interesting and informative.Excellent photography job.Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction.Class A research project.

  • @steven-el3sw
    @steven-el3sw Před 2 lety +2271

    I'm actually surprised at how relatively "lax" the classification scheme was compared to what I thought it would be. You could be all the way up to half Jewish and still be accorded German citizenship???!!! I'd always assumed even a hint of Jewish ancestry anywhere in your family tree and you were pretty much done for.

    • @maria-melek
      @maria-melek Před 2 lety +146

      Same here

    • @garypulliam3740
      @garypulliam3740 Před 2 lety +858

      Television and cinema is responsible for the misunderstanding there.

    • @samsayonara7788
      @samsayonara7788 Před 2 lety +553

      That's what those who wrote down the history book version wanted you to believe.... for ages.
      Welcome to the rabbit hole, it's much deeper in here and lot's more secrets want to light.

    • @8Maduce50
      @8Maduce50 Před 2 lety +109

      @Chad Plow well its also too much history to cover when covering ww2 especially u.s history since the pacific theater was more or less the result of U.S-Japanese tension. And the European theater was helping out old friends. For the larg part we get the anti germans British version of event and Japan get a soft ball lesson becaue we feel bad for dropping the a bombs so we don't learn about their atrocities in China.

    • @ibrohiem
      @ibrohiem Před 2 lety +253

      It also seems that it depends on who you know also. Connected mixed Germans might have gotten away with a lot more than just regular mixed Germans.

  • @mostlygamingstuff1260
    @mostlygamingstuff1260 Před 2 lety +960

    Nazi propagandist: Hmmm Werner Goldberg…. Doesn’t sound Jewish to me, welcome to team!
    Edited: spelling

    • @kebertxela941
      @kebertxela941 Před 2 lety +47

      I thought the same about Maurice. While I am not sure about it as a last name, it is pretty common first name for Jews in America.

    • @athelstaneofconingsburgh
      @athelstaneofconingsburgh Před 2 lety +161

      Imagine suspecting a guy named Reinhard Heydrich is Jewish, but not Werner Goldberg

    • @inotaishu1
      @inotaishu1 Před 2 lety +78

      There are several places in Germany called Goldberg, including a city in the north. And there have been and still are several germans with the family name Goldberg. It's just that outside of the german speaking area such names are usually taken for jewish names only. If you had said the same about the name Rosenberg, you would have regretted it quickly.

    • @andrzejstoszek4035
      @andrzejstoszek4035 Před 2 lety +1

      Na zdjecie widac tkz Reichweppen uzywane przez Ordspolizei i SS

    • @ccrider3435
      @ccrider3435 Před 2 lety

      Werner Quisling sound about right.

  • @KBr-ud6ly
    @KBr-ud6ly Před rokem +2

    Amazing details and information! Excellent job!

  • @leonardpiskacsr.7111
    @leonardpiskacsr.7111 Před rokem +1

    Awesome Content....thanks Mark!🙂

  • @tonyricebutwithahangover856
    @tonyricebutwithahangover856 Před 2 lety +822

    Another topic that would’ve been good talking about is Georg Rauch, he was a Jewish soldier who was known by the Nazis who didn’t care that he was Jewish, as long as he went to the Eastern Front. His book is called unlikely warrior, very interesting book.

    • @TopDrek
      @TopDrek Před 2 lety +46

      Couldn't be true, it isn't what professor. Goldblatt told me.

    • @geraint8989
      @geraint8989 Před 2 lety +87

      Rather a powerful message here - hatred of the 'other' falls apart logically and emotionally if one actually knows one of the 'other'.

    • @tonyricebutwithahangover856
      @tonyricebutwithahangover856 Před 2 lety +46

      @Gregory Smith He had a Jewish grandmother, he told his commanding officer this and the officer went ballistic and sent him to the Eastern Front

    • @angeladeleon5922
      @angeladeleon5922 Před 2 lety +7

      @Gregory Smith
      I call it 'Othering," or being 'Othered' into a different box, in order to save or give 'Grace' to those who are loved by those in charge.

    • @Smudgeroon74
      @Smudgeroon74 Před 2 lety +5

      @Gregory Smith are you a Marxist? Do you like what Stalin represented?

  • @jurassicpeter
    @jurassicpeter Před 2 lety +393

    I'm German and I've learned more about the second world war from you than I learned from my school and we're taught very thoroughly about Hitler, his rise and the second world war.
    Thank you for providing this information for free, I'm not a history student so I'd never have known alot if these facts without you!

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Před 2 lety +62

      Did you also learn that the Germans, singlehandedly, stopped the communist Soviets from invading Europe?
      I'm most grateful to my German relatives for their courage and sacrifice to achieve this.

    • @to3ta64
      @to3ta64 Před rokem +6

      @@BasementEngineer I’d like to hear that story, as I don’t believe I’ve heard it before. Can you elaborate?

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Před rokem +34

      @@to3ta64 There are numerous books that have dealt with these issues. Two that I can recommend are "Icebreaker" by Viktor Suvorov, and "Germany's War" by John Wear.
      Another good one is "Churchill and Hitler, the Unnecessary War".
      If you really wish to dig deeper into these issues, I can recommend another ten or so books.
      Naturally you wont find them in your library or neighbourhood book store.

    • @BasementEngineer
      @BasementEngineer Před rokem +42

      @@to3ta64 USSR was ready to invade Germany and western Europe. The Germans knew this and struck preemptively one month earlier.
      The books I have listed in an earlier reply deal with this scenario extensively.

    • @stryk3r
      @stryk3r Před rokem +12

      have you read Mein Kampf?

  • @ultimatemaha4550
    @ultimatemaha4550 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thanks for history information bro....

  • @benladenno1340
    @benladenno1340 Před 3 měsíci +2

    @markfelton I love your works especially the speed
    You’re doing well !
    As a Nigerian will say
    You’re doing well 👍🏻
    !!

  • @Mr037rally
    @Mr037rally Před 2 lety +656

    Ah, a cup of coffee and a Mark Felton video.

    • @fdumbass
      @fdumbass Před 2 lety +10

      Aye, same!

    • @8bitorgy
      @8bitorgy Před 2 lety +8

      early risers represent

    • @ayrtonholanda1167
      @ayrtonholanda1167 Před 2 lety +11

      *raises mug and nods*

    • @Gunthar100
      @Gunthar100 Před 2 lety +4

      You forgot the croissant 😀

    • @xleplex7070
      @xleplex7070 Před 2 lety +2

      It would of been tea for me but I finished that before I found this video.

  • @internetstrangerstrangerofweb

    Werner Goldberg’s Book is brilliant. I remember reading it in middle school and I still have it in my small little library. A lovely piece of biography.

    • @silverkingisley6438
      @silverkingisley6438 Před 2 lety +24

      Oooh, never knew he wrote a biography! Thanks for the info, think ill pick it up myself.

    • @cu4870
      @cu4870 Před 2 lety +10

      Could you, please provide the book name ?

    • @gforceeatingcorrect
      @gforceeatingcorrect Před 2 lety +5

      Where can I purchase his 📖 book please....

    • @internetstrangerstrangerofweb
      @internetstrangerstrangerofweb Před 2 lety +20

      @@cu4870 “A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army” I believe was the title.

    • @cu4870
      @cu4870 Před 2 lety +1

      @@internetstrangerstrangerofweb Written by Georg Rauch or Bryan Mark Rigg ? Thank you very much

  • @shirleybalinski4535
    @shirleybalinski4535 Před rokem +2

    The History Channel I believe did an episode on this, a few years ago. They interviewed a couple soldiers.

  • @user-nm3nb4oj5d
    @user-nm3nb4oj5d Před 10 měsíci +9

    The Nuremberg Laws are almost identical with Jewish racial laws on who a Jew is and who is not. The Jews use this for exclusivity also but are pissed if others apply the same rules for their own in-group terminology

  • @junglejack9954
    @junglejack9954 Před 2 lety +1374

    Mark Felton has been considered severely underrated. He deserves many many more credits

    • @benadam7753
      @benadam7753 Před 2 lety +7

      If Mark Felton is going to use Bryan Mark Rigg's work and title, he should at least acknowledge him!

    • @tempestvideos9834
      @tempestvideos9834 Před 2 lety +10

      Who exactly is underrating him?

    • @tempestvideos9834
      @tempestvideos9834 Před 2 lety +4

      @@benadam7753 Then he would have to pay Mr Rigg's a royalty.

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 Před 2 lety +17

      He is not underrated lmao especially for a history channel

    • @Kaarna5
      @Kaarna5 Před 2 lety +9

      how is he underrated, stfu

  • @angusolsen951
    @angusolsen951 Před 2 lety +245

    There is no “History” channel. There is only Mark Felton.

    • @jimtan8472
      @jimtan8472 Před 2 lety +5

      Nah he's history

    • @coimbralaw
      @coimbralaw Před 2 lety +2

      No, there’s definitely also a History channel.

    • @DrJones20
      @DrJones20 Před 2 lety +2

      So sick of these cliche comments on his channel

    • @OperatorMax1993
      @OperatorMax1993 Před 2 lety +1

      don't forget there's also Sandrhoman History, Kings and Generals and Armchair Historian

    • @texasdrz9515
      @texasdrz9515 Před 2 lety

      Ancient Aliens is really good.

  • @mitchellfelder2420
    @mitchellfelder2420 Před 10 měsíci +11

    The greatest irony of all is that there was a strong possibility that Hitler had Jewish ancestry.

  • @karenthomson9749
    @karenthomson9749 Před 11 měsíci

    Great content!

  • @federico02072
    @federico02072 Před 2 lety +146

    Mark I wish when I was in high school you were my teacher, you have my complete attention from start to finish. Please keep these videos coming, and thank you for all the hard work you put into each one

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 Před 2 lety +208

    I love this channel because it reminds me of the old days of the History Channel even down to the theme song. I believe this channel is continuing the long tradition of great World War 1 & 2 documentaries narrated by the British lol

  • @RyeJ_86
    @RyeJ_86 Před 9 měsíci +6

    The phrase “honorary aryan” fills me with a confusing disgust I didn’t know existed

    • @Ape8282
      @Ape8282 Před 9 měsíci +4

      Worthless banker 😂😂

  • @TonyNaber
    @TonyNaber Před 3 měsíci +1

    this was so full of new information for me that I was shocked when the video ended and it was only 8 minutes!

  • @patrickfrinker
    @patrickfrinker Před 2 lety +118

    You forgot to mention how about 20 of them also earned the Knights Cross

    • @sasukeuchihaa1447
      @sasukeuchihaa1447 Před 2 lety +4

      hey glad to see you here!

    • @DeathBlossom867
      @DeathBlossom867 Před 2 lety +4

      Sehr interessant, danke!

    • @frankgesuele6298
      @frankgesuele6298 Před 2 lety +8

      I remember reading how some Jews hid by serving in the Waffen SS on the Eastern front. That would make a good Felton video.

    • @bradleyg7498
      @bradleyg7498 Před 2 lety +1

      Ha, I watch your vids

    • @jewelltuber
      @jewelltuber Před 2 lety +5

      Kind of ruins the narrative.......................

  • @jussim.konttinen4981
    @jussim.konttinen4981 Před 2 lety +138

    Although a Finnish soldier, Salomon Altschuler (1913-2019) was one of the few publicly Jewish interpreters for a German officer.

    • @adambaker8689
      @adambaker8689 Před 2 lety +38

      Fortunately for him, in this alliance of convenience the Finns, unlike other states that were allied or occupied, didn't sell out their Jewish citizens, kudos to them for that, and fighting the damned Soviets so bravely.

    • @peltimies2469
      @peltimies2469 Před 2 lety +13

      @@adambaker8689 yes all Finnish jews who died during WW2 died fighting The Soviets. There was even a field synagogue.
      To My knowledge 8 jews were deported out of Finland to Germany in 1942, but they were not citizens.
      I am unaware how many of them died.
      I do know that after this event The Finnish church and prominent politicians and Marshall Mannerheim were furious, and during the war Finland took in 500 jews, many of them were sent to Sweden under direct orders from Mannerheim to protect their lifes from potential German killing.
      It really is weird that one of Hitlers most usefull allies, did not partake in exterminaton, nor facism.
      Maybe it was because Finland stayed a Democracy during the whole war and never truly joined the axis.

    • @adambaker8689
      @adambaker8689 Před 2 lety +1

      @@peltimies2469 Thanks for the reply, very interesting. Completely agree with your last paragraph. I believe that the UK was at war with the Finns to appease the Soviets, and this is the only instance where 2 democracies have ever been at war.

    • @carstenmanz302
      @carstenmanz302 Před 2 lety +1

      @@peltimies2469 Interesstingly hitler statet in an dokument a few weeks until the nazi-regime ends that the main reason to fight russia was to protect finnland, also rumanian from soviet occupation! There was not only one word to read about the interessts of germany/germans and only a few sentences about the lost war, a competley destroyed nation and millions of deads and refugees! At least i have to resume "we" made war "only" to protect a german minority in poland and to save finnland and rumanian?!

    • @eedragonr6293
      @eedragonr6293 Před 2 lety +1

      @@carstenmanz302 too late for the German minority in Romania

  • @17cmmittlererminenwerfer81

    Not only is history much subtly shaded than most would have you believe, it is also written by the victors, with their inherent bias against, and imperfect understanding of, their former enemies.

  • @cleverclark4834
    @cleverclark4834 Před rokem +3

    My history teacher used to say - a pure Arian is as blonde as Hitler, tall as Goebbels and blue eyed as Mengele

  • @Videx19
    @Videx19 Před 2 lety +348

    This was one of your best and proves laws can be dismissed at the whim of the powerful.

    • @DrewPicklesTheDark
      @DrewPicklesTheDark Před 2 lety +26

      Yeah the honorary Aryan clause was made specifically so that can be done. By the end of WW2 Germany employed a lot of non-Germans, because in war, manpower > principles. My step-uncles father was a Slav (Ukrainian) who willingly fought for the Third Reich since the communists killed most of his family, so life circumstances can really shape how someone views a conflict and lead to strange cases, such as a Slav fighting for the faction that wanted to Germanize Slavs, and eliminate those that refused.

    • @DrewPicklesTheDark
      @DrewPicklesTheDark Před 2 lety +7

      @engineer gaming You're power level is showing!

    • @SkepticalSteve01
      @SkepticalSteve01 Před 2 lety +7

      Yes, laws can be dismissed at the whim of the powerful - especially in a fascist state like Nazi Germany where the arbitrary prejudices of the leadership were always more important than law, morality or truth.

    • @olroy17
      @olroy17 Před 2 lety +1

      In time of war people are going to do what they need to do to survive and people are going to use whatever or whomever they think will help them win. This is another great Mark Felton production!!!

    • @BADD1ONE
      @BADD1ONE Před 2 lety

      Yep like right now

  • @fisk7aal
    @fisk7aal Před 2 lety +109

    That History is more grey, than black and white needs to be said more often in 2021.

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 Před 2 lety +19

      Truer words were never spoken. Every nation in every era had a mixture of evil people AND good people. We'll never know how many German folks really opposed Hitler, because remember that he tolerated absolutely NO dissent, similar to the Communists. One Luftwaffe pilot said years later that he and others were scared to even make jokes about Hitler, Himmler and other Nazi officials for fear they would be arrested.

    • @CS-zn6pp
      @CS-zn6pp Před 2 lety +16

      Exactly but history that doesn't meet today's woke purity standards gets suppressed...
      Doesn't bode well for the future. 😔

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 Před 2 lety +5

      @@CS-zn6pp Heck, anything that doesn't fit the woke narrative is covered up. How many younger people today know that there were female service personnel in every branch during World War II and that they were such a huge success (and so popular) that they were made permanent after the war? Or that the first US civil rights act passed in 1957, not '64?

    • @TheTwolesslives
      @TheTwolesslives Před 2 lety +1

      C S care to give any examples?

    • @fisk7aal
      @fisk7aal Před 2 lety +7

      @@TheTwolesslives Take a look at the "Pyramid of White Supremacy" it claims that we cannot go with the saying "Two sides to every story". That does not leave much space for "grey" conclusions.

  • @andybasten
    @andybasten Před 6 měsíci

    Very informative

  • @angiee5446
    @angiee5446 Před 6 měsíci

    Okay very interesting. Thanks for the very informative video.

  • @TheJames802
    @TheJames802 Před 2 lety +142

    This is by far one of my favorite channels and you never disappoint. Your research is extremely thorough and I am always surprised to learn something new. Thank you and keep it up!

  • @nd493
    @nd493 Před 2 lety +57

    This type of topic selection separates mainstream sellouts from actual bonafide historian.

    • @batman6621
      @batman6621 Před 2 lety +1

      bow do you mean mainstream sellouts

  • @jaded9234
    @jaded9234 Před 11 měsíci +8

    Well, Hitler also personally kept an eye on his mother's old Jewish Physician's situation and still actively kept in direct contact with him until allowing the man to move, with his family, to the US as Germany's situation worsened. He considered the man a "Good Jew". In one letter, Hitler remarks that if all Jews were like that man, he wouldn't have any problem with them.

  • @carlbowles1808
    @carlbowles1808 Před rokem +4

    Men from 50 nations served in the German army. Rules are guidelines.

  • @draganmestrovic
    @draganmestrovic Před 2 lety +186

    Great source for this topic also comes from "Hitler's Jewish Soldier: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military" by Bryan Mark Rigg

    • @vaxfiles9529
      @vaxfiles9529 Před 2 lety +15

      Berlin had a Jewish hospital for the entire duration of the war. When the Russian army reached it there were 800 Jewish people inside

    • @noedeverchere2833
      @noedeverchere2833 Před 2 lety +10

      Thanks you for showing the sources Mark Felton used for this video. I think he should write the sources down in the description of the video...

    • @williamsbark5592
      @williamsbark5592 Před 2 lety +4

      Hitlers mother was part Jewish...fact.

    • @eedragonr6293
      @eedragonr6293 Před 2 lety

      Pirates?

    • @vaxfiles9529
      @vaxfiles9529 Před 2 lety +10

      @@williamsbark5592 Mark Rigg, a Jewish historian has videos on youtube talking about this.

  • @bukitcengkeh1
    @bukitcengkeh1 Před 2 lety +74

    This is interesting, Thanks for sharing us this information

  • @michealgillman7418
    @michealgillman7418 Před 9 měsíci +2

    Brilliant once again Mark 👏

  • @user-nn4dz7hh6p
    @user-nn4dz7hh6p Před 6 měsíci +7

    Boycott Starbucks worldwide.

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 Před 6 měsíci +1

      *TROLL ALERT - account created Nov 21, 2023*

  • @lazerbehm8681
    @lazerbehm8681 Před 2 lety +80

    "History is more grey than black and white" perhaps the best way I've heard that said!

  • @cubemonkeys1514
    @cubemonkeys1514 Před 2 lety +342

    Me last week: Alright that has to be it, there is no way Mark has even MORE history to share/content to make about WW2...

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 Před 2 lety +4

      That era is FULL of surprises.

    • @911treason3
      @911treason3 Před 2 lety +6

      Watch Europa The Last Battle for more

    • @RonJohn63
      @RonJohn63 Před 2 lety +4

      It was a *big, long war* preceded by *decades of turmoil.* Just as importantly, you are not a historian *who focuses his whole life on the topic,* so of course there will always be new surprises.

    • @krisfrederick5001
      @krisfrederick5001 Před 2 lety

      That's kind of his thing.

    • @stephenkalatucka6213
      @stephenkalatucka6213 Před 2 lety +1

      Check out TIK on YT for more in depth analysis of history.

  • @tomaszheinrich8674
    @tomaszheinrich8674 Před rokem +5

    Honestly not surprised, because there were lots of cases like this, even exceptions where jewish people got arian status. Politicians always contradict themselves and Adolf was no different.

  • @mosads2986
    @mosads2986 Před rokem +1

    UNBELIEVABLE HISTORICAL INFORMATION ... THANKS A MILLION DEAR SIR ...

  • @fernandoreynaaguilar1438
    @fernandoreynaaguilar1438 Před 2 lety +59

    The list Is longer than just Goldberg, Milch and Maurice. It included at least two Kriegsmarine admirals and a few Wehrmacht generals.

    • @VisualdelightPro
      @VisualdelightPro Před 2 lety +4

      Apparently Erich Raeder was off Jewish.

    • @direconsequences5760
      @direconsequences5760 Před 2 lety

      Yeah new info

    • @michaelkovacic2608
      @michaelkovacic2608 Před 2 lety +6

      @@VisualdelightPro there were rumors about lütjens too, i believe.

    • @cleanTron
      @cleanTron Před 2 lety +3

      Perhaps the most popular was west german chancelor Helmut Schmidt, in the third reich he was just a soldier but very famous later.

    • @acertainshape
      @acertainshape Před 2 lety

      Indeed, there were many. Mark should do another video on this topic.

  • @deadendfriends1975
    @deadendfriends1975 Před 2 lety +94

    The Gran Moff of History hits us again ! Best channel out there.

  • @yuval5628
    @yuval5628 Před rokem +3

    Imagine being a Goldberg and having no clue you were jewish.

  • @harlanabraham7772
    @harlanabraham7772 Před rokem

    Am subscribed and hit the like button.

  • @mitchmatthews6713
    @mitchmatthews6713 Před 2 lety +45

    I never walk away from a Mark Felton video and not be more educated. Thank you, sir!

    • @waliwali3690
      @waliwali3690 Před 2 lety

      More educated ,and mainly more indoctrinated to Nazi ideal

    • @waliwali3690
      @waliwali3690 Před 2 lety

      @Stxr KillerX are You Ukranian ? Because i appreciate Ukrainians

    • @waliwali3690
      @waliwali3690 Před 2 lety

      @Stxr KillerX so ,You are basically a Nazi 🇩🇪

  • @sholtzi2593
    @sholtzi2593 Před 2 lety +117

    “Not realizing that Goldberg was a Mischling”
    His last name was Goldberg… did that seriously not raise any eyebrows? 😂

  • @pinkdiamonds9137
    @pinkdiamonds9137 Před měsícem +2

    Do a video on the Haavara agreement

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 Před měsícem

      jawohl mein führer!
      BTW you didn't watch this video, did you? ....it's not about Jews...but you can't help yourself when you see the word "Jewish" and you have to vomit your rabid antisemitism.

    • @bac6868
      @bac6868 Před 23 dny +2

      @@tatonemio6388 you are like a zionist rabbi, using antisemitism wherever you can lmao (oy vey!!!)

  • @usenglishwithnativeenglish3820
    @usenglishwithnativeenglish3820 Před 6 měsíci +6

    Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was a documentary about the IDF. 😮

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 Před 6 měsíci

      Yes, you are wrong again. This video is about Christian German with Jewish ancestor serving in the Army.
      Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) met up with Mussolini and Hitler in 1941 to establish an alliance during WWII.
      It's so unfortunate the Palestinian leaders have a long history to pick up the wrong alliances.

    • @Raza2483
      @Raza2483 Před 6 měsíci

      @@tatonemio6388So you’re trying to justify killing babies? The Zionists are shameless thieves, worse than Nazis

  • @MARfilms
    @MARfilms Před 2 lety +62

    This really is what they mean when they say "real life is stranger than fiction"

    • @tomigun5180
      @tomigun5180 Před 2 lety +5

      It's not strange, only in the light of what we were taught in school. After you did some research though...

    • @RealmRiftGaming
      @RealmRiftGaming Před 2 lety

      You must not have read any decent fiction then.
      War is very very natural and will always take place on this planet.
      "The Lord is a man of war" Exodus 15:3

    • @tomigun5180
      @tomigun5180 Před 2 lety

      @@RealmRiftGaming "And on the eight day, God made the art of war, and laughing planned the end." Nevermore: Deconstruction

  • @mikesimko3122
    @mikesimko3122 Před 2 lety +136

    Felton strikes again...
    the man, is unstoppable.

    • @Joshua_N-A
      @Joshua_N-A Před 2 lety +7

      Darth Felton? No. EMPEROR FELTON.

    • @mikesimko3122
      @mikesimko3122 Před 2 lety

      @@Joshua_N-A Strong within him, the force is.

    • @Joshua_N-A
      @Joshua_N-A Před 2 lety +2

      @@mikesimko3122 UNLIMITED HISTORY LESSON!

    • @jmartin9785
      @jmartin9785 Před 2 lety +1

      Yes! Yes! A most appropriate comment Mike. Wish l had said that!🌈

    • @mikesimko3122
      @mikesimko3122 Před 2 lety

      @@jmartin9785 Looking forward to see next topic.

  • @Soap_bubbles591
    @Soap_bubbles591 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Interesting video

  • @liamcrawford9861
    @liamcrawford9861 Před rokem +3

    Another high profile example that I think should’ve been mentioned was the story of Solomon Perel. He was a Jewish teenager who ended up in the German Army and later the Hitler youth. The whole time he would masquerade as an “Aryan German”.

  • @FuelAirSparkTime
    @FuelAirSparkTime Před 2 lety +259

    FINALLY someone with the balls to talk about this.

    • @ichhabe330
      @ichhabe330 Před 2 lety +22

      Eeeh, that there were Jews in the German military and the SS is actually breaking news. It has been talked about before.

    • @firebird4491
      @firebird4491 Před 2 lety +33

      This is a relatively well known thing among history buffs...

    • @FuelAirSparkTime
      @FuelAirSparkTime Před 2 lety +13

      @@ichhabe330 yeah, well that's why I already knew about it. But you can't really say it's been widely discussed , because nobody i talk to even believes it. I don't need to say that it is a series of facts that certain interested would rather weren't known to the masses, regardless of why.

    • @FuelAirSparkTime
      @FuelAirSparkTime Před 2 lety +9

      @@firebird4491Yes of course, among objectively informed people it is. But not one person I've mentioned it to over the years has even really believed it, let alone already knew.

    • @bobdylan1968
      @bobdylan1968 Před 2 lety +17

      @@FuelAirSparkTime wtf is your point?
      I don't understand what you're trying to say. That everyone is trying to hide this fact?
      Why??? It doesn't make the nazis anymore sympathetic.
      This video does nothing but show how dumb, how evil, how vile, the German government was at the time. And how racist they really really were. To a completely petty degree.
      If anything, it makes the nazis look that much worse for thinking about this to the level they did. It wasn't blind hate, it was calculated. Don't to the percentage of acceptable lineages. Lol. It makes them look worse.

  • @coolbreeze6198
    @coolbreeze6198 Před 2 lety +9

    I've been studying and watching documenteries on military history my entire life but I always learn something new from Mark's channel

  • @edd1e22
    @edd1e22 Před rokem +6

    Werner Goldberg didn’t know he was Jewish……right 😂

  • @SolomonsMartialArts
    @SolomonsMartialArts Před 5 měsíci +4

    You forgot Hitler a grandfather was Jewish.

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 Před 5 měsíci

      Even if true (and it's not) Shitler was a Austrian Catholic with Christian parents, educated in christian schools.
      And still he manage to kill millions of Christians and many only because they were Christians.

    • @famitsus987
      @famitsus987 Před 5 měsíci +2

      That don’t make him a Jew to be a Jew by law your mum has a to be a Jew

    • @SolomonsMartialArts
      @SolomonsMartialArts Před 5 měsíci +1

      I know that but did you watch the video? It's about Nazis with Jewish ancestors.
      Nobody said Hitler was a Jew. Watch the video

  • @SGTSnakeUSMC
    @SGTSnakeUSMC Před 2 lety +20

    Can't wait for the next vid. Always interesting and well researched information. Plus Mark has a good voice for the narration.

  • @eliseorodas3152
    @eliseorodas3152 Před 2 lety +429

    Very good observation. However, remember that in the jewish tradition you are jewish by matrilineal descent. Therefore if your father is jewish and your mother is not then within jewish tradition you're not. Most of these "jewish" soldiers where not even considered jewish by the jewish community.

    • @jessicamorris4748
      @jessicamorris4748 Před 2 lety +55

      Although the matrilineal line of desent is the most traditional way of differentiating Jews and non-Jews in the Jewish community it is not the only way. As a person who is half Lutheran/half Jewish, lacks the matrilineal line of desent, and was raised as a Jew I can state from both personal experience and many hours spent in Hebrew school that bloodlines are not the only way of recognizing a person as a member of the Jewish community. Most people would also probably be surprised to learn which Jews tend to adhere most closely to the part of the tradition that values the bloodlines. It isn't the Orthodox.

    • @eliseorodas3152
      @eliseorodas3152 Před 2 lety +26

      @@jessicamorris4748 I'm a conservative and Sephardic..if your mom is not jewish ..you have to do the conversion process via a Beth Din... Yes, reform jews bend the rule concerning matrilineal descent but most observant jews and halachically speaking jews will not consider other rule beyond the proper way of conversion. At least in Israel .. it does not accepts a conversion unless is halachically.

    • @eedragonr6293
      @eedragonr6293 Před 2 lety +13

      "the Jewish community". If they are living in a country where legally the children 's identity is given by the paternal descent, officially they will be Jewish with a Jewish father.

    • @olympusentertainment2638
      @olympusentertainment2638 Před 2 lety +6

      What????? Was that always the case of this matrilineal descent and would you say that the Jewish community is controlled by women?

    • @eliseorodas3152
      @eliseorodas3152 Před 2 lety +18

      There are 2 ways of seeing it.. The Jewish way and the non Jewish way. In a technical sense in the Jewish tradition if you're not from a Jewish mother you have to convert via religion

  • @jonathangems
    @jonathangems Před rokem +2

    'History is more grey than black and white.' So true. Another anomaly is that synagogues were open throughout the war and rabbis and congregations were not restricted in their worship.

  • @arthurmosel808
    @arthurmosel808 Před rokem +3

    A book on this was written about ten years ago. The Nurnberg laws were insane.

  • @magr7424
    @magr7424 Před 2 lety +18

    Your last sentence about the greyness of history is proof that you have true understanding of history... Well done, Sir

    • @adamburling9551
      @adamburling9551 Před 2 lety

      I tend to agree. Too much obscurity and greyness in history. People latch onto history a lot like they latch onto their poltics, in skewed perception. Things are either black or white to them. This is dangerous.

  • @manuelgomes1569
    @manuelgomes1569 Před 2 lety +102

    Cheers from Portugal! Being a WW2 nerd, I have to say it's a pleasure to watch such informative, detailed, and educational videos. My deepest thanks, Mark Felton.

    • @Mobev1
      @Mobev1 Před 2 lety

      Your English is great. Why? Also where can I arrive in Portugal to get my private pilot’s license? Thanks for your help!

    • @JAG8691
      @JAG8691 Před 2 lety +1

      Absolutely agree with you.There hasn't been a single video of his that I haven't learned something new about WW2.We all learned the Highway version of the History of WW2 but Mark Felton gives us the Byways of that period in Human history.
      Thank you Mark Felton.

    • @JAG8691
      @JAG8691 Před 2 lety

      @@Mobev1 English language is compulsory in the Primary school system and some grew up in former British Colonies like South Africa, Australia, Canada, USA etc.

    • @omarczar4057
      @omarczar4057 Před 2 lety +1

      I am also a ww2 nerd

    • @SylvaHodracyrda
      @SylvaHodracyrda Před 2 lety

      @@Mobev1 Because the Portuguese are renown geniuses. Source: I'm Portuguese.

  • @bvillafuerte765
    @bvillafuerte765 Před 6 měsíci

    Good video.

  • @user-re9mz2bt1e
    @user-re9mz2bt1e Před 6 měsíci +2

    Fun fact: The Ay DL threatened to shut down the entire red cross if they didn't suppress all autopsies from the camps.

  • @aislinnweeda7493
    @aislinnweeda7493 Před 2 lety +17

    I can’t believe this content is free. Thank you for your time in putting this together for us!

  • @ironicbrew19
    @ironicbrew19 Před 2 lety +11

    Mark once again smashing it! Great video man, would love to see you make a series on this kinda stuff for TV (idk if you have already).

  • @fishmonger1908
    @fishmonger1908 Před rokem +5

    I’m married to a Jewish woman. We have a fantastic relationship and have for almost 30 years. I state that for obvious reasons. Why are we not allowed to explore the litany of public comments and writings by Jews, many in positions of ‘power’ and influence that expressed hatred, or worse, towards the German and other European peoples? It seems far too convenient for a rational individual to be smeared as an anti Semite or conspiracy theorist when they point out that there are those of questionable motivations on ALL sides.......

  • @philip506
    @philip506 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Another prominent example in this regard would be the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 named Helmut Schmidt. He was considered a Jew 2nd degree, but fought for Hitler on the Eastern Front during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and served as an Oberleutnant in the Flak artillery on the Western Front from December 1944 onwards.

    • @tatonemio6388
      @tatonemio6388 Před 6 měsíci

      The fact The Nazi invented a classification for "Jewishness" is just racism and irrelevant.
      Helmut Schmidt was not a Jew
      "Schmidt's father was born the biological son of a German Jewish banker, Ludwig Gumpel, and a Christian waitress, Friederike Wenzel"

  • @danielbower2069
    @danielbower2069 Před 2 lety +34

    Every time I see Mark Felton come up, I feel like watching a tv show 15 years ago and you're screaming to you're sibling who went to get a snack during a commercial break: "It's oooonnnnnn"

  • @Apocalypse_Cow
    @Apocalypse_Cow Před 2 lety +81

    This channel should be required viewing for every student in the USA 🇺🇸 and the rest of the world 🌎.

    • @jamiefrankshire3503
      @jamiefrankshire3503 Před 2 lety +3

      You know this will never happen because it exposes that the Allies deliberately lied to their citizens in order to justify their own actions during war time. In war, everybody is a savage and the Red Cross only has legitimacy when being filmed. There are no exceptions.

    • @georgewbush762
      @georgewbush762 Před 2 lety +1

      Why the rest of the World second haha

    • @laurencethornblade8357
      @laurencethornblade8357 Před 2 lety +1

      Why the USA

    • @Cole-ui8bi
      @Cole-ui8bi Před 2 lety

      @@laurencethornblade8357 a lot of them think everything "German related" was Nazi. even if it's not nazi

    • @servantofthelivinggod6192
      @servantofthelivinggod6192 Před 2 lety +1

      What a striking resemblance to what’s going on right now. The nazi plan is being followed by most governments right now. Especially the early 30s.🤨

  • @dansuperbee3321
    @dansuperbee3321 Před rokem +3

    Amazing how these rules were calculated, especially when Hitler had more likely than not a Jewish grandfather.

  • @Zoydian
    @Zoydian Před 2 lety +178

    Emil Maurice: "I'm a Jew!"
    Hitler: "It's ok, nobody's perfect!"

    • @abehdts5170
      @abehdts5170 Před 2 lety +3

      LOL.

    • @amitmichaeli9019
      @amitmichaeli9019 Před 2 lety +5

      @Alt right Hapacel You are so damn stupid to believe neo-Nazi propaganda. How do you think it will end for you?

    • @badbotchdown9845
      @badbotchdown9845 Před 2 lety +3

      Haha quote coming from "some like it hot"

    • @LadyOfShaIott
      @LadyOfShaIott Před 2 lety +2

      ‘Some Like It Hot’ quote - brilliant 🤩

    • @Zoydian
      @Zoydian Před 2 lety

      @@badbotchdown9845 One of my fab movies :)