SS Women - Female Concentration Camp Guards
Vložit
- čas přidán 18. 12. 2020
- The stories of some of the most notorious SS female guards in the concentration camp system and their fates.
This is an AUDIO PROGRAMME. For videos, visit Mark Felton Productions: • Circle C Cowboys - Ame...
Help support my channel:
www.paypal.me/markfeltonprodu...
/ markfeltonproductions
Disclaimer: All opinions and comments expressed in the 'Comments' section do not reflect the opinions of War Stories with Mark Felton. All opinions and comments should contribute to the dialogue. War Stories with Mark Felton does not condone written attacks, insults, racism, sexism, extremism, violence or otherwise questionable comments or material in the 'Comments' section, and reserves the right to delete any comment violating this rule or to block any poster from the channel.
Music: "Pursuit" licenced to iMovie by Apple, Inc.
Too old to stand trial but the child wasn’t too old to be stomped to death. It’s amazing how relaxed the Justice system was of the crimes these women committed.
The germans were lucky that we were fighting the cold war with Russia,because they wouldnt of gotten off so easy.Even the german women are wicked.What nasty monsters
All the nazis got off easy. Only 11 ppl hung. So nuts
@@JohnSmith-jz4pkagree. Why were there even trials?! Shit was obvious. Any who had anything to do with the genocide needed to be purged like a disease.
It was a travesty of justice.
What you expect it was woman women never get punished how they deserve
My first job out of high school was washing dishes in a restaurant owned by a Czech concentration camp survivor. The commandant of the camp was a woman. He told me some of the things he saw her do and it would chill your blood. He escaped the camp as a dead man, then worked with the Underground helping other escapees and hiding civilians. The female commandant was hanged by the British when they liberated the camp.
German here: No concentration camp had a female commandant. There where women in high-ranking positions, sure. Some like Ilse Koch or Irma Greese perpetuated and orchestrated atrocities, sure. But in the end they where below the "Lagerkommandant" ( commander of the camp) in the hierarchy.
I dont doubt that your Czech buddie endured horrible things, but he seems to have misremembered or confused that detail.
@@RabenmundK To be fair to the Czech Guy, he probably doesnt know how the Hieararchy work. He probably see that this Woman is in a posisition of power and assume she is the head of the camp.
Which camp was it and what was the female guards name? They said that the female guards were hanged
A female concetration camp was located in Protectorate Bohmen und Mahren, in Zwodau ( Svatava) close to Falkenau ( Sokolov) around 10.000 women during a war. They was forced to work in worst condition. Often they was used for medical examination on womens and childrens.
@@RabenmundK I know he was caping
As a student of history, thank you ever so much Dr Felton for all of your contributions to the field.
I'm nearly fifty years old and honestly thought I knew a lot about the second world war..... HOW WRONG WAS I!!
Mark is an absolute star.
I didnt know they had female ss guards. Thought it was all run by men unless they needed a secretary
Did you know about the human breeding farms I just learned about that recently
Evil and horrible acts are not limited to gender. This should be shown in all high schools. No one should forget. Thank you for posting.
Along with further balanced fare and open debates I would go for after that horror of War yet we've reached a far similar state of societal order now than you clearly ignore..
No, it should not be shown in high schools. For what purpose would you show it ? Haven't you ever heard of history books ?
Because of the power of video, and the spoken word. It needs to horrify and awaken young adults of the capacity of uncontrolled hate and tyranny, and recognize it. To help prevent it from ever happening again.
@Captain Obvious No doubt you restrict your 'learning' to CZcams and possibly the more violent products of Hollywood. That's hardly a basis for understanding our world and its past. History, real history, should be taught whether or not its "interesting". Rather curious that you consider the Nazi crimes of WW2 as merely "mistakes". I suspect that your "interest" in the subject here is rather superficial. Perhaps a name change to "Captain Oblivious"?
@@Baskerville22 I must concur and hardly see grammar as a top 10 when our very history is concerned.
My ex was born fifty years too late to find the perfect job for her personality 👀
Beat me to it
are you the victim or the persecuteur (lol)
Mine too. She would have been perfect 😝
Damn you too ? My ex was a large woman of German descent and a real brutal sadist type ! Perfect concentration camp guard!
Oh my God. You all have my sympathy & condolences. It’s a shame but 10% of society falls into what I call: “the wackjob 10%.” Sociopaths, Psychopaths, criminals, “high conflict people.” Always angry, never take personal responsibility.
It took me decades of dating to find the right woman. If I may give two pieces of advice.
1. Only get involved with women who have/had good relationships with their fathers. The ones with bad relationships with their dads will be a nightmare. Don’t even think about wasting your time playing therapist and fixing them.
2. Here is my own rule I wish I followed more often when I was single: take a woman out for an inexpensive, casual first date, coffee/Starbucks is good for this..something similar. Go out of your way to pay for their drink. I found 60% of the women would not even say “thank you” when I paid. Never call them again, when they are this poorly mannered. You will thank me later.
As an history teacher I never pulled my punches. When teaching about the camps I would show my classes some truly horrific photographs, and tell the students the full stories behind them. Before the end of the lesson many in the room would be sobbing, and as they left I used to get many thank me, and later parents would also do the same, for having told them what they all felt was something they needed to know. When I taught there was limited information about the role of women in the camps, and it was necessary for me to gloss over the topic. I have to say that it was even worse than I thought, and despite my years of dealing with this period in history, I found it very disturbing.
Thank you Dr Felton for your efforts in researching and presenting this information. How I wish I'd known then more of the facts that you present in your videos.
Thank you for teaching the truth about the concentration camps and showing the photographs.
Blíži sa doba, keď bude v móde znova plač. Tentokrát náš.
@U WinTV W-R-O-N-G ABOUT THAT DUMMY 🤡
@U WinTV You're the one who decided to bring American politics into this. If you really nave to go that route, the Democrat party isn't exactly spotless either. Meanwhile you miss the point about democracy. It's actually not only a blame game. It's also about trying to find ways of making the world better. Do you not wonder how easily the USA has run down the shitter, while the two parties were busy playing the blame game? I think you can do better.
Did you think to go over how and why they were driven to a level to do something like this or did you just play it off like they did it for no reson what so ever?
Thanks for getting this out Matk. Shocking stuff, but your careful work is much appreciated.
As a student of history for 25 years and especially in WWII, I've always shied away from saying anything political in regards to these type of videos etc.. But in recent years I have noticed that whenever I strike up a conversation or vice versa about these type of events, it seems I now get instantly ridiculed for knowing actual history by the same folks who refuse to study history or that refuse to acknowledge it because it doesn't go along with what they perceive as factual. I do believe we are in for dark days ahead and as the old cliche goes, which I hate saying, "history repeats itself."
I think you're right man. We're headed for dark days indeed. When it comes to people, anything goes it seems.
People who cannot think for themselves are a danger to themselves and others, and for the rest who have to deal with the upshot of their ignorance, total frustration.
@Nekkepen Ecke Us Germans sure had a lot of rain though.
@Nekkepen Ecke Ich hoffe auf bessere Tage für Deutschland.
Should check out Tuberville's inane comment about why WW2 was fought..
You are an incredible writer, narrator, and producer. I am a huge supporter of all your work. The care, compassion, and detail you clearly put into the research and crafting of these videos is amazing. I can’t believe you’re a one man team. Just awesome.
I read a book about the concentration camps that actually discussed these women, the female prisoners described how the "blitz maidens" would actually jump on tables and crack their whips at any prisoner they could reach for intimidation purposes. They were maniacs and would inflict brutal beatings if angered. Absolutely horrific.
@@thunderbird1921 What goes around comes around. The Japanese regulars were just, or evan, more brutal and finatical than ss!
Hes a lying bastard who suited himself on what way he wants to spin history. Do your research on Churchill, Rosvelt and Stalin and you will see they all started the war in Europe not Hilter.
@@taichihead42 look it up it is true
@@hugbug4408 japan, a proud nation, never defeated before, now bomebd to death... compare to native americans
Thank you Dr. Felton. I'm watching this for the second time since it is streamed.
Thank you CZcams.🇮🇳
In case anybody's wondering the image in the thumbnail is from a Polish war film from 1948 called The Last Stage.👍
My late grandfather was one of the allied servicemen who helped with the liberation and relief effort at Bergen Belsen. What pictures can never describe is the SMELL of the place. My grandfather used to say you can smell the place before you could even see it. And upon entering, things only got worse. My grandfather was about 25 when he helped with the liberation and relief effort.
Did your late grandfather, ever tell you what he thought of these holocaust deniers?
Same with my Grandfather, he said the worst part was stopping starving people from getting food.
@@creightonjason Those crimes, never again!!!
My uncle Raymond was a medic in ww2 he told me people were laying in boxes to frail to walk he would give them his orange marmalade He never really talked much about doing his duty in Normandy.
@@danluzurriaga6035 Too much food too soon can be fatal, especially for the seriously malnourished like these poor souls.
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322120
My great uncle William arkle was one of the British soldiers who librated belson he often said you could smell the camp three miles away it was heart breaking and was totally disgusted at what they found on arriving
@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE These women were German women employed in the camp, they got a salary for their "work". I am Polish and I know a lot from eyewitnesses. It is a pity that so many books and stories of former prisoners are not translated into English.
My paternal grandfather was also one of the first in there. He never forgot til the day he died. He never forgave the Germans for what he saw there. He wouldn't even visit my parents in Germany when my father was stationed there in the early eighties.
What confounds me is with that OVERWHELMING stink of putrification, and incineration, how in the HELL did locals not have any idea what was going on? They HAD to know!
They villagers could smell it but were in denial the British troops dragged them all in to the camp to show what had been going on half of them puked up and some fled back to there village
@@billyjoel6352 REALLY. well thanks for the history lesson BILL, however i do not believe the british killed any inmates and as for the bombing tough luck thats what happens when a nation follows a mad dictator who would have dominated europe and gassed anyone he thought of as inferior
Why would anyone dislike Marks videos/documentaries? He’s literally just telling the truth. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Idiots dislike videos based on the topics even if they enjoy the video
I love these videos. They are very interesting and informative. Thank you Mark for keeping history alive. People need to hear these stories of history.
It"s horrifying how humans can treat other humans.
especially when people are seen as objects threats or others... not people
Yeh there still out there I can imagine( carrie lam )lamb Currie )as an ss guard !sadistic power mad and bowing down to her leader in Beijing !
and we're still doing it today - in Africa there are dozens of wars going on - tribe vs. tribe or religious and they're equally brutal.
Wow. FCK! Powerful. The thought of a woman stomping a child to death. Too fking much. At the same time I wonder if they were victims too. Without choice. You couldn't choose to do that. Could you?
its more horrifying when you realize that some of these people are actually just 'normal'
Excellent job, as always, sir. I appreciate your ability to stick to the facts without missing the moral dimension in the process. A+!
Excellent reporting Dr. Felton. I have learned so much from your channels. Thank you.
Very well made and informative! Thank you again Dr. Felton.
You know you are bad when the Gestapo thinks there are valid reasons to arrest you.
The Scholl siblings?
@@MothaLuva I was referring to the Koch getting executed by the gestapo for stealing from the Nazi. Human skin lamps were fine.
@@mikeFolco I see...I was looking for one of these lamps...can’t seem to fInd one...
Johnny Kavanaugh you can make them yourself
@@vankallahan59 Good idea! Though I was looking for a vintage original...
Take an average person and give them a uniform and a license to do anything they want. Watch the results. The Stanford Experiment comes to mind.
I think of Abu Grhaib prison, Iraq in 2004 during the US occupation. Similar dynamic there as well.
@@abrahkadabra9501 the people's enclaves in Portland
@@demonprinces17
Get lost troll. The left in the US may have done a lot of stupid things, but nobody was tortured or killed.
I agree with the general idea of your post, but the "Stanford experiment" has been discredited long time ago.
@@chainoad how many did the BLM police murder in the Portland free zones, and let's mentioned any Democratics city that had a riot.
It's you that's the troll for supporting state sponsored murder
Each passing generation becomes less aware of these horrible events. It's important to constantly remind people of the cruelty and hatred unleashed when the wrong people gain political power. Some say this could never happen again, but it has in various forms. Perhaps not exactly the same conditions,but torture and murder hidden from view still takes place.
based and true
Agreed. Thats why black lives matter is crucial: just as a consistent reminder of the inhumane atrocities comited by those evils for 400 years.
It is happening again in china
by choice
Great program. Well researched and detailed on subjects that are off the beaten path of history books
13:48 thank you for covering Hertha bothe ! I have been Searching her for years and nobody has come close to your coverage on her, I truly appreciate it
I put a "like" even before I listen. I am never disappointed with the content of Mark's uploads.
Same here PARTNER 👍👌
You should wait at least 2 minutes into the video so as to "feed" the algorithm.
@@alanstrawn732 care to explain?
Same
Thank you Dr Felton for such informative documentaries.
wonderful work you are doing by exposing these stories. thank you
Mark your informative videos are helping me get through these rough times. I can’t recommend your channel enough the quality of your videos is unmatched!
It's incredibly unsatisfying so many of these sadistic guards managed to walk away with barely any punishment
Punishment for what?
@@jacenkun2931 this jerkoff is probably 12 years old 👆
@@jacenkun2931 Murdering and torturing innocent people?
@@noambelder5850 yes the Bolsheviks the Soviets murdered tortured starved and killed a lot of people in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet States estimates are over 200 million. But why is that not talked about? The hell is wrong with you if you're going to ignore it
@John Macmillan, don't change the subject dude. This video is not about the NKVD and its atrocities. I guess you distract peoples attention on purpose trying to persuade people that the crimes of these women were "ordinary".
Fascinating subject and material.
Excellent writing, editing, and presentation of a seldom-discussed and quite shocking, IMHO, facet of WWII.
Mark Felton is a truly great video producer. The BEST.
Outstanding video and narrative, Dr. Felton. Thanks so much. 💛🙏🏼
This should have been presented for Women's History Month.
Would be an interesting subject for a university women's studies course. But they would most likely be protrayed as victims.
well said
@@amber4351 Said feminazi we are talking about you idols😏
@@amber4351 Nice descriptive prose. Even got the sewer language and a threat in also. Your English comp teacher would be so proud.
@@amber4351 lol What, the NAZIesque list that you are creating? How ironic.
"The british let her go for leniency"
Country hasn't changed has it.
America would have just given her a job, just like the hundreds of war criminals that were imported after the war.
@@corposh Yes, Sadly I must agree. They also used a great deal of very cruel and unethical research of the Nazis. The one example I know of are the studies done by Nazis on hypothermia where prisoners were put in swimming pools in the winter and observed how long it took them to die, among other data. The Nazis were not politically correct and their propaganda was unsophisticated and I feel quite simplistic as it was race/culture based. Modern Western propganda (primarliy American) is exceptionally sophisticated when coupled with modern technology. The U.S. does and has done lot of terrible things all over the world but is quite usccessful in whitewashing its image.
@@corposh she would be hired on a lot of no good police depts in this country today.
@@corposh You say that like we're the only ones. Most ally countries grabbed top scientists. You have a lot of your modern day luxuries thanks to nazis... but you'll never admit that now would you?
@@tibzig1 I don't see it as inherently wrong to use the data collected from the unethical experiments of the Nazis, so long as we continue to denounce those who conducted them.
Scientifically speaking, data is data, it has no moral stance. It's just measurements and numbers. If we were to throw it all away then those who were victims will have had meaningless, purposeless deaths. The very least we can do after such atrocities is to try to give some meaning to the deaths by making some positive use of the knowledge gained. That said, most of the medical experiments the Germans did do was pseudoscientific junk and will never be useful for anything, other than to demonstrate the callous stupidity of Nazi ideology.
In the case of Operation Paperclip, it's rather more ethically complicated.
I've always been reviled by the deliberate programme by the US of repainting Werner Von Braun as some sort of great hero figure. His war role as a Nazi party sadist that tortured, poisoned and worked to death countless thousands of slave labourers was determinedly whitewashed. His research on rocketry was indeed revolutionary, but he was not a fit human being to be the scientific face of anyone's space program.
Even if they did need him in the lab each day, they should have been locking him back into a solitary cell at night. Not giving him mega-dollar book deals, letting him open shopping malls and appear on primetime chat shows. It just makes me feel sick.
Thank you Dr Mark Felton A troubling history to expose, I am sure.
These truths need to get the exposure they warrant.
Hello,.... My Husband is telling this story.. I'm only typing it for him, When I was a international Truck Driver, I had loaded gunnery Equipment for the British Army of the Rhine, but All I had on my Delivery note was " Honer " west Germany, and driving all night from Ostend, I arrived at Honer about 5 am, I thought to myself, the army camp must be easy to find, but I was wrong, so I drove around Honer without success, until I spotted a German , so I stopped and asked where the British Army camp was, and he replied.. 80 km's away and he showed me on my map. Dam I thought... so started driving to my new destination, as I approached Honer, I picked up the signs for the army camp... all I had to do was follow the Red arrow, However the town name changed from Honer to... "Belson-Honer" and I soon reached the camp, While the soldiers were unloading my truck, the officer in charge asked me if I had my breakfast yet, to which I replied.. I hadnt, The officer send.. come with me and took me to the officers mess, and he stayed with me while I was having breakfast, while I was eating I asked him... is this the Belson concentration camp ? to whichy he repied.. no... this building use to be the SS Barracks, but the concentration camp is about 1 km down the road but, do yourself a favor... dont go there,... So what did I do... yes, I went there, and to this Day, I wish I hadnt...
Annette...gives meaning to the phrase "you cannot unsee".
@@marinazagrai1623 Brilliant 😂 Interesting story though
Some of your facts are wrong :) It was called Bergen-Hohne (not Honer or Belson-Honer) and the old Belsen concentration camp site is about 3km from the main Bergen-Hohne camp. I don't know which Officers mess you are referring to as there were several around the camp as British, German and Dutch military were stationed there. It's a big camp, which I was stationed at for four years in the 1970's.
@@Slaktrax That's quite a name you have in a comment section of a history channel covering, among others, the second world war. Are you serious?
Great anecdote, thanks.
How easily the human becomes evil when there is no thought of repercussions.
SOME HUMANS BECOME EVIL when there is no thought of repercussions. MANY HUMANS WOULD NEVER DO SUCH THINGS, but there are some who are just "itching" for the chance to "come out" and show their true evil and crazy side, or even their true evil and crazy personality, which they can sometimes keep hidden, sometimes for decades, sometimes even from family and friends.
@Antivaxxer Ccp hater You are in a cult, seek help.
@@ih302 and you are as blind to modern day fascism as blind can be. You will no doubt cry, 'we we're only following orders', when they bring you to trial.
@@deanpd3402 LOL, you know nothing about me.
@Jim Kalpa Yep, none of the nonsense that's been going on in the US that's for sure...
It's sad we see college campuses trying to say it never happened.
That is absolutely appalling, I can't even find words for some people.
Why are you surprised when people are saying the world is flat?
College campuses also say Stalin and Mao combined didn't k|ll 60 million people, but facts are facts.
College campus of today's University's are doing their best to repeat the past and the worst of it.
@@markhonerbaum5789 Alot of professors are leftists!
And mark felton I love your stories and videos. History is one of my favorite things to learn about thank u.
Corrie Ten Boom, a fairly well known Christian, lived at Ravensbruck for a time. She survived it because of an 'administrative glitch' causing her to be released. She tells of a time in postwar Germany that she met up with one of her former guards in a church service she was speaking at. Corrie's sister was incarcerated there as well, but she perished at the camp prior to Corries release.
I met her in the late 1950's and visited with her before a church event later that evening.
I found her books so powerful as a kid. I think that they really brought the brutality of the camps home to me.
Powerful story told by an amazing woman. I remember seeing The Hiding Place when I was a teen and it impacted me forever. Her unwavering faith in God is humbling.
The Hiding Place (by Corrie Ten Boom) is an unforgettable book. I think of it a lot in these trying times.
@@jsunit5354 wow, how old are you?
While in the service I worked with a guy that worked at different US prisons. He said that he would rather work at a male prison than a female prison. He said the woman were far more conniving, and in some ways more cruel than male inmates.
Men tend to be more direct in their thinking and actions while women tend to be more abstract.
@@snugswashere6504 - that means conniving
I've read a book to effect that it was one of the reasons why after one of wars israel withdrew women from frontline service. Also, there was a study about american gangs confirming pretty much the same.
They become "Butchie" in proving they are as tough and formidable as any male... Cruel they become
I cannot blame him (..."a guy who used to work...").
Thank you so much for this Mark
OUTSTANDING research Mark !!
Thx !!
Excellent work Dr. Mark Felton-this part of history needs to be shared no matter how cruel and gory it was. Thank you for sharing.
incredible how Dr Felton researches all of this and puts it together in a marvelous and informative video
Another great video. Thank you!
I really do appreciate the light that you shed on the darkness that was WWII. I believe that we should know about the cruel acts of sadism perpetrated by men and women against their fellow men and women. It should move us to be more loving and kind to each other, and especially appreciate what we do have, and the freedom that we share. Thank You Mark.
Peoples deserve to die!And violence is GREAT!
Another very informative piece of research, production, and presentation. [Those who chose to submit comical remarks in the accompanying comments section should be ashamed of themselves].
Thanks Mark, i always enjoy new and interesting stories from you, being a lover of all things historical myself.
Well presented, Mark!
Another informative, interesting, well-done special.
The frightening truth. Thank you for bringing light into the shadows, Mr. Felton.
Thanks for clearing up my conscience on shooting the "elite female guards" in Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Seems you should be beating their heads into the floor for half an hour instead.
@@maeton-gaming It's because both men and women value a woman's life over a man's. Man's lives are far more expandable.
@@ivansusanj2706 Hence the widespread punishment of male Nazis, and widespread clemency for female Nazis.
@@ivansusanj2706 It's a sad state of things, but I believe it will change in time.
@@maeton-gaming are you a gamer by chance ? Often people feel emotion about their decisions especially in role play games
Another fantastic presentation by Mr. Mark Felton.
Love your stuff Mark as a highly self taught historian and writer I really appreciate your knowledge and treating the listeners as intelligent people whilst also not sounding like a “know it all”.
My father served tn the Royal Artillery. His best friend was one of the first soldiers to enter Bergen Belsen. Dad used to say that his mate was never the same again. He used to have terrible nightmares and flashbacks. A changed man...
I lost several of my UK grand uncles in WW2. My family says the one that survived the Burma campaign was never the same. I can't imagine how horrible it would be
I'm really interested to know what happens chemically/ physically to the brain upon such experiences to produce the permanent change in someone
@@C63Bez Chronic stress can have permanent effects on the brain. Not to mention the horror of having those memories haunt you. It is interesting for sure.
@@paul6925 for sure but I think of memories and thoughts as something you experience but not a chemical change. Really interested in that though
@@C63Bez it's documented. The PTSD research is interesting and sad.
Merry Christmas to all other lovers of history out there, and specially to Mark Felton for all the research and work in general that must be going into the creation of these episodes. I've read a lot about WW2, but a lot of the information I've heard on this channel is brand new to me.
Great video.
I always find Mark Felton documentaries are the best.
Thank you Mark, for yet another excellent and very interesting presentation.
Many of these woman received light sentences compared to the male guards. Germany did a very poor job in dealing with these female guards. Nuremberg trials did no better!
Female privilege duh
The Nuremberg trial was all scam those judges who were giving out punishment where we'll known Nazis,
The majority of male and female Nazi criminals only had light sentences due to the reason, that the US Government needed them to quickly establish a western German vassel state to block the Soviet's sphere of influence.
@@Chris-ce7ve preach knowledge to this lame generation
@Wehrmacht Bear they should have hung all the guards no deals.
My dad was in the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp... he said they could smell the place from several miles away... when he got there what he saw was horrific.. thanks for the vid👍🇳🇿
Funny how another person wrote the exact same. Must be many dads with good sniffers in WW2 I guess.
@@WoofyMcDoodle It's not that funny. It kind of makes sense to me that people who have direct family connections to this stuff would thus seek out videos like this and then comment their own experiences. It then makes even more sense that these personal tales would end up w/ upvotes and you'd see them near the top.
@@WoofyMcDoodle Or the smell was just really bad.
I worked at the Dept. of Public Works in my town with a tenure of 32 years and eventually becoming foreman in the Water/Sewer Div. I’ve obtained state drinking water (potable water: fit for human consumption,) licenses. Let me tell y’all…there’s A LOT to know about water. From its raw form to intake at disinfection plants to disinfecting it w chlorine or hypochlorite solutions to detention time to distributing it to customers’ homes via the system of piping of which we maintained. Within my studies, the term Typhoid Fever was everywhere and I’ve learned that it comes from unclean, fecal infected water. As I watch these films on WWII and learn of Nazi barbarism it saddens me to the core on what these innocent prisoners had to endure. Simple things that we take for granted today: faucets at the ready to run clean water in every house, toilets to carry away waste water, a hot shower, refrigerators w food in them and other simple things I can’t think of right now…. All of these were unavailable to these prisoners for long periods of time. Though tough to watch and learn of these despicable acts, it’s important to know that it did in fact did happen.
Yes it did, but it only became serious during the few last months of the war. Until then those problems had been managed at least well enough to avoid such horrific epidemics. Unfortunately, the allies are quick to blame the Germans for it when it was them who hads destroyed the whole infrastructure systems all over Germany. Food, medications, spare parts and anything else needed for the operation of overcrowded camps could reach their destination, by then the Allies pilots were shooting anything that moved, including farmers in their fields. That is clearly confirmed in the 1948 Red Cross Reports on their activities during the war.
Yet again Dr Felton I’m truly astounded at the level of detail in your programs, they stand alone in there quality and content, you sir are eminent in your roll as a historian.
I very rarely comment on videos. This is one of the most powerful videos from you. A reminder to us all. I served in the army during Desert Storm... seen things that Iraqis did in Kuwait. Mindbogling what people do to each other... please keep your videos coming and have a great Christmas.
Mark's dialogue on all these issues, is a valuable record that will become history in and of itself.
Always interesting, thank you.
My 3rd grade Teacher was a WAAF, part of the nursing corp and embedded in the Army for the purpose of liberating the camp. She said they wanted to go in with the lead column but ordered back because they were 'still' women. When they got there......She truly was the right person at the right time for many, but the weight of that experience.... Decades later she and her husband would retire and sail the Pacific on their sailboat to finely find peace and solace. I pray they did.
The US Army Nurse Corps (ANC), Women's Army Corps, (WAC) and the Women's Army Air Corps (WAAC) were three different sections. Only the ANC is still here. Being a noncombatant would not stop them from getting shot at. Some nurses did "doctor" work. Some went on to being doctors. Very few people know that ANC came on the second or third wave on D-Day.
@@leondillon8723 WAAFs are Woman's Auxiliary Air Force. They were paramilitary organization part of the RAF and they parachuted into occupied France, ferried combat planes across the Atlantic, and provided medical treatment where it was needed in occupied territories for resistance and downed pilots. As such they had an argument to be made they were no pushover and they were armed. That said, it was appropriate for combat troops to clear the area per SOP.
@@baronvonbeedy7987 Got the units mixed up again. Women who operated behind the lines, like Josephine Baker OSS, were Special Ops Executive (SOE).WRAF was Royal AF. Women pilots, ATA. US had the civilian WASPs. WACs and WAACs were US Army. The WAACs became WAFs 1947 AD.
@@leondillon8723 haha yes, i didn't mean they were spys and OSS types. The WAAFs were the RAF's women corp. The RAF's better half. They did jobs ranging from mechanics, plotters, spotters, and nurses. I would leave a link but it won't let me. Look up the Flying Nightingales. They repatriated 100,000 wounded soldiers to England from D-Day to the end of the war. They followed the British Army's advance landing from airfield to airfield keeping as close to the front as possible. To be as effective as possible. They were the difference for many no doubt.
@@baronvonbeedy7987 Actually you were right first time. Many of the female SOE operatives held WAAF officer rank, partly as they were under military discipline, and perhaps in the faint hope this might give them some protection if captured.
It never ceases to amaze me the depths of human depravity........the frightening thing is it could happen again.....and probably will.
The Democrats want Christians in camps like this.
@@ChineseChicken1 they make that more clear every day. The racism and bigotry of the Democratic party is astounding.
Still happens.
@@ChineseChicken1 I dislike the Democratic Party, but jesus man even thats too far
John Macmillan Soviets and red China was the most recent. And you could make the argument that nazis and Soviets were committing atrocities at the same time. The only problem is that it is factually documented that the communists did kill more people than the Nazis, and even had racist views them selves (see Stalin’s views on Slavs and Ukrainians). So yes, you are correct there are many camps like this throughout history; the question is, who do we give more attention to, and why.
Thank You, Dr. Felton, for sharing these videos. Rest in Peace to All the Innocent Victims 💔🙏🙏🕊️🕊️💔💔💔🙏🙏🕊️🕊️
I’m surprised that you didn’t mention that one of Ilsa Koch’s evil acts was that she liked to collect “interesting” tattoos from camp prisoners and keep them, sometimes turning them into lamp shades and other pieces of furniture.
Yes that is a story and despite preserved pieces of skin with tattoos, there was no proof offered at Nuremburg that she made lampshades out of them. She was privileged as the wife of the Kommandant (Shot by the SS around early 1945) but she wasn't a guard and her sentence did not belt her actions.
@@von-Adler You should probably do a search for Ilse Koch Lamp Shade. Her pride and joy was on display at Buchenwald, and was in the museum for a long time.
@@JamesD92763 The infamous Ilse Koch lamp shade was found to be goatskin after tests and never brought up at Nuremburg trials. Whether some Doctor at Buchenwald cut out and preserved skin sections of dead prisoners with interesting tattoos is another matter.
@@von-Adler It appears that I missed that in my hasty research, When stationed over there we had a small travelling exhibition come thru, I remember more seeing the photo display. Hat's off, more better research!
I also suprised he did not mention how much of a pervert irma grese supposedly was!
OMG this is absolutely staggering... so many guards were released without standing trial and lived quiet lives after commiting war crimes.
Yes, extremely disturbing.
What do you expect to happen?
Monsters living among us.
That's probably because some of the guards had no choice but to do as they were told. Or be shot.
@@animaltvi9515 Wrong. Watch the video again
I love these longer videos. I enjoy listening to them whilst I go about my day. Most people listen to music whilst doing their chores - I listen to Mark Felton.
I spoke to a German woman of this generation and she would explain atrocious doings as being an "act of war.". It would be lovely, Mark, if one of your shows could discuss The Geneva Convention. Great job!
I’ve met a couple of this generation and beneath the niceties, their hate surfaces.
Thank you, Ricardo. The Germans are reputed to be hard workers, and the problem there is hard working people have more to vent about.
Very thought-provoking. Thanks.
This channel is growing fast and rightfully so! 👍
Holy cow, Mark! I've only just realized how many people Love your videos! Merry Christmas!
excellent presentation, thanks!
Mark you are the best mate love your work thank you!
This is something I don’t ever want to forget. It’s horrible and disgusting. But it has to be remembered and studied. Thank you mark for your doing this.
Just found this channel and LOVE IT! So informative and engaging. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
The Germans always say nobody knew what was happening. But, here Mark tells us women worked at the camps. Now we know everyone knew what was going on
Lmao that’s a good one. I think the joke flew over a lot of people’s head.
They ALL knew.
There were a few thousand guards directly involved with the camps. A few hundred thousand soldiers were involved with escorting prisoners.
A lot of these knew of mass executions, some were even directly involved but something like the camps was not something many people had actual knowledge off.
If you live in 1942 Germany, you don't have free press.
What you do have is a gigantic secret police that took any open critics of the regime, as well as anyone who they knew to be critical & you have a ton of propaganda concerning an alleged "resettlement". It’s not that _nobody_ knew but even the allies thought that the reports from the camps were fake.
That nothing so bad could actually be going on.
Covering up something that is happening in an occupied territory, far away from home, is incredible easy if are in a totalitarian state.
People always ask the wrong questions:
Was the Wehrmacht clean?
Did the Germans know?
Of course the Wehrmacht wasn’t clean, of cause the Germans knew. But to what *degree* ? That’s the thing, nobody ( and by that I mean really few people ) are talking about actual numbers. They just make it into yes and no questions but really, the answer is usually, it depends.
Some knew, others didn’t.
@@Arcaryon you’re right…….& good post!
@@stevebrownrocks6376Today, when te whole world's knowns about these German crimes, mamy Germans downplay these facts, e.g. by saying: " this was the war".
They" fogot" who caused it.
Good video cheers mark
You have gained my attention Mr.Felton
Mark, your war stories are much appreciated! HISTORY MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN!!!!
Absolutely…history always reviles the truth. No matter how hard it is to hear. Thank you for this honest story.
Good video. I have watched many of your YT uploads. I rarely pull them up out of the viewer to vote or comment. I went out of my way for this one. This stands as ultimate proof you are not glorifying the German side as I have seen charged in comments on other videos of yours.
Mark will never run out of stories to tell man
I'll never complain about my wife again.
Amac: Buy her some flowers.
@@harrysweeten9417 And chocolate.
@@henkbarnard1553 And shoes!
@@archlich4489 Especially chocolate-covered shoes decorated with flowers!
And maybe a Ridge wallet they are strong Af and you could get one using markfelton as a code 😉😅😅
Many years ago one of my work colleagues was "Smithy" a carpenter, He was one of the very first of British troops to enter Bergen Belsen camp. he and another 18-year soldier stood guard over Joseph Krammer the camp commandant, Krammer was a tall burly swine, and Smithy said he got on their nerves as Krammer paced up and down the wooden hut all night. Smithy also acted as escort to the war correspondent Richard Dimbleby. They came to a mass grave in which children had been placed for burial, Richard Dimbleby asked Smithy to step down into the grave and be a size reference as he wanted to take a photograph, , Dimbleby quietly assured Smithy that this would be for his own record and not for public publication, Smithy had photographs to back up his story. R.I.P Smithy.
I wonder what Smithy thought of holocaust deniers?
Funny how many nazis actually had Jewish names, such as Joseph, Peter, David, John, Anders, Filip, Paul, Thomas, Johann etc. etc.
@@AdamHiley-pj2zn : yep.
What a great true story.
Thanks for posting it and RIP Smithy.
@@AdamHiley-pj2zn Who would have chaired Question Time all those years?
Listening to another Felton informative CZcams contribution, while the SSpicegirls are glaring at me.
As much as it's very horrific, I am glad it's not forgotten these terrible deaths and the persons responsible. I was surprised the Gestapo actually tried their own. Good video
Human cruelty is nothing new, nor exclusive to anywhere on the globe.
These dregs of society are lurking in every country. Weather or not they will be empowered is up to you.
Proof of the validity of your statement can be found in recent news. This is proof that the US is no exception. Least someone jump in with their own twist on my words, I am speaking specifically of ANTIFA and BLM.
Or separating children from their parents. That is very cruel.
Agreed, all you need to do is force an idea into people's heads. And what we have seen in this video. Is the end result.
Fascism, a word first used by Bennito Mussolini to describe the merger of corporate power with government power. More well known, is the racism used by Hitler to divide a nation against itself and quickly rise to and gain more power.
@@paulboegel8009 Yes, B. Hussein Obama built those cages for the kids and that was how it went until Trump found out and stopped it. Grown-ups taking advantage of liberal immigration for human trafficking; disgusting I am sure you will agree.
Those are some grim looking women.
Fits their personality
Youd simp for em
@@waltermodel6647 who would simp for woman named gertrude who are built like men? Your dad doesnt count we already know that one
I think the description your looking for is a 10 pint end of the night munter
@@badmutherfunster And that's why the British look like:
I don't have to finish that insult.
Still not as frightening as some of those sourkrauts! And it is always the sour ones! 😅
Amazing work Dr. Felton, it is also interesting how aged the women look being that they're so young. A testament to the evil that they've both seen and committed. I do know of a few such cases where prison commandants were fired for not being "cruel enough" to prisoners, as if a certain quota was expected. I wonder how many fell into this category as I would imagine many people lack the capacity to be this evil. I'm sure there is little record of this, we can only speculate.
I love how Mark doesn't hold back in his disgust of these pieces of filth
And you thought cruelty, masochism, brutality, and sociopathic behavior is an all male domain. Fooled you!
That was feminist Propaganda.
Dear Mr Felton, yet another brilliant piece of work by you and your team. Sadly, for all the wrong reasons. Horrifying.
Your sir, are the Mjcheal Jordan of the "spoken word" I am also a WW2 fanatic & absorb every book, video, doc no matter how obscure, when I seem you advising on few documentaries on " military channel aka Amrican Heroes channel" then watched first content of yours I n CZcams, I've been an adamant supporter of everything you do & cover, your research is second to none & you can narrate & tell the tale with so much "calm conviction", I admire your work & plzz PLZZ COVER MORE ON FALL OF BERLIN, OR THE CHAOS OF THE BATTLE OF BULGE, KEEP VIDEOS, STORIES COMING SIR!!! YOU ALWAYS KEEP ME IN KID MODE WAITING FOR THE NXT MINI DOC, ETC!!!! THANK YOU VWEY MUCH!!!!
Thanks for sharing.