Adolf Hitler - Secret Agent
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- Between 1919 and 1920, Adolf Hitler was a paid intelligence agent of the German Army - it was his intelligence-gathering mission that would bring him into politics and the creation of the Nazi Party.
Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, 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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“Who the hell are you?”
“AGENT HITLER, FBI”
"Who the Heil" you mean.
Agent Mark Felton MI6
_"Who the hell are you?"_
_"HITLER ... ADOLF HITLER"_
@@PSMCR69 👀🧐😎😜🙈
Probably sign him up
“This guy is easily manipulated and looking for direction in life. Let’s send him to spy on the extremist political group!” Good work boys
Underrated
TBF, they were just a few nutjobs who met over a pint when Hitler was sent to spy on them. Doubt anyone expected them to get that much traction so fast
Not remotely easily manipulated.
He quickly began trying to take over......and succeeded.
And I would say he was more "looking for a cause", than looking for direction.
You angloid now you paying karma. You will become extinct in your own nation for 3world
Hitler has the same arc as Anakin Skywalker
No stone left un-turned when Mark Felton is on duty. Great stuff (as usual).
Except the banking links.
Dr. Mark Felton. He's earned that at least.
@@G58 Are you spouting conspiracies? This is a history channel.
Correction: Are you suggesting conspiracy theories without foundation or expert credentials?
@@georgehh2574 you responded:
“G58 Are you spouting conspiracies? This is a history channel.”
Oh good god above! Surely you cannot be THAT ignorant.
First of all you need to explain:
What you think a conspiracy is;
What you think you mean by “spouting conspiracies”;
Why you believe that “This is a history channel” means that that precludes discussion of conspiracies.
If you actually understood the meaning of the word conspiracy, you would be aware that this video literally discusses NOTHING BUT conspiracies.
Now go find a dictionary and look up the definition, and begin curing your ignorance. Then you can perhaps stop making a fool of yourself in public.
Then, because it is well documented historical fact that both WW1 and WW2 were started and funded by the same elements, look for another book titled WHO FINANCED H***€R.
And don’t come back here to double down on your ignorance.
@@G58 I have nothing I need to double down on.
I think you have a problem that I can't help with.
Boy, my knowledge of Hitler has holes in it...I wasn't aware of his secret agent status for going to the DAP meetings. Thanks Professor Felton 👍
Really? That’s how just about every story about him starts off. Wow. Glad people are learning about stuff. There’s more to the story, you should read into it. It’s fascinating.
G'day,
Well, it's always been in all the History Books and Biographies covering Hitler before the 1923 Beer Cellar Putsch - which he led, and was gaoled for.
I always get a giggle out of the FACT that the only reason Hitler ever joined the DAP meetings, which became the NSDAP, as a Government Spy..., then he became an Agent Provocateur, and that he did done do so spectacularly well ; that like ASIO or FBI informers goading alleged ISIL Sympathisers into talking about plotting to do something stupid - eventually taking over their entire "Organisation"
Hitler hatched the Nazis out of the DAP Egglet he was detailed to keep an Eye on...; whereas ASIO put 3 Teenagers in Supermax Solitary Confinement for,
"Planning to attack an ANZAC Day Dawn Service, by capturing an Alpha-Male Kangaroo (!) filling it's Pouch with Explosives (!!!) and releasing it into the Congregation - to kick and bite the Assembled CitiZens before being detonated and exploding....(!!!!!???!!!!!).
That's what the Prosecutor told the Court, and one young Bullshit Artist is still behind Bars for that bit of braggadocio.
Apparently NONE of the Spooks, nor their Lawyers, nor the Defendant's Lawyers, nor the Judges..., has the wit nor wisdom to ponder the pitfalls which prevented any such "Plot" from ever becoming a practical Plan.
1) Alpha Male Kangaroos are not able to be "caught and trained" to do ANYTHING.
2) Wild Kangaroos will NEVER charge towards a gathering of Humans...; so IF a Kangaroo was released on the edge of any Crowd - it would hop away from them at it's maximum Speed.
3) The Juvenile Delinquents had no source of Explosives available, nor any means of detonating them.
But the standout Showatopper, which SHOULD get EVERY Cop, Prosecutor, Lawyer, Judge and Courthouse Clerk fired simply for processing the paperwork in such a Vexatious Litigation...; is the FACT that MALE Kangaroos are not equipped with Pouches, available to be packed with Hypothetical Explosives....
Except, apparently, within the ignorantly diseased imaginitus of the ISIL Wannabes..., and the Human Sheepdogs who are sufficiently stupid as to take any such a "Plot" seriously.
If the Weimar German Army "Intelligence" Brigade had not PAID Hitler to go and stir up the DAP to see if any of them "needed" to be suppressed...; then Hitler might have gone back to painting almost passable Postcards.
Well played,
Eh, what...;
Olde Bean,
Secret Squirrel
Team
Victory-HURRAAAHHH !
(Which, in German is of course,
"Sieg-HEIL...!").
Who watches
The
Watchers...
And checks ;
To determine how
Counterproductively
Stupid -
Is their collective
Paranoia...?
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe,
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Ciao !
If you made his life into a Hollywood film many people would not believe half of it.
@@reagandow850 someone gave me a cussing for saying the same thing you did,they said I have an inflated ego and everything, but this information is like you said,one of the first things mentioned in a hitler documentary,unbelievable 🤷♂️
OMG! YOUR knowledge of Hitler has holes in it??? OMG!!!
Now I'm having images of Hitler in action with Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man" playing in my head
The same song was playing in my head the whole time I was watching this lol.
Epic
@@hibernianperspective6183 yooo
@@hibernianperspective6183 I mean, I would totally see a spy comedy with Hitler 🤣
@@Vingul Hello there x3
Although I had some knowledge of his covert assignment, I had never heard anyone expound on it. Never really knew what happened to the other players that were involved. Well done, Dr. Felton.
Same here, and heartily agree with your comment. Well done, indeed--thank you, Dr. Felton.
Soldier, secret agent, painter, orator, stateman and philosopher. Man of many talents
Shushhh you’re destroying an 80 year old narrative.
Yes👍👍
Vegetarian....
@@SnoopReddogg He wasn't. He didn't eat much meat because digestive problems. Be he loved meatballs
Person of Jewishness 🇮🇱
Dr. Felton, I have long known of Hitler's work as a spy. You got my attention when you asked what would have happened if Hitler had been sent to spy on a different organization! Thank you for your work and insights.
Hitler was sent not to spy in the DAP, as this party was supported by the Reichswehr and Hptm. Mayr was a regular visitor of its meetings. Hitler was no spy, he was trained by the Reichswehr as political propaganda orator for the PoW's returning from Soviet-Russia to give Thema anticommunist counter propaganda. In this evening at the DAP the Bavarian Reichswehr tested its most talented orator if he would have success in a civilian environment. And he passed his exam. I wrote my Thesis on his life 1914-20.
Girlscouts marching across Europe, forcing overpriced cookies on the unwary.
@@LTPottenger overcharging people with no sense for art
What an interesting thought, I have been reading and watching many media reviews of Hitler's life etc. It would have been better if he'd been a better artist and spent his life immersed in paint and colours.
If it were reactionary and volkish enough, we might know the name of that crappy party today
Amazing information Professor Felton, had no idea of Hitler’s intelligence credentials.
Glad to have you back to posting more historical lessons.
I didn't either, I always learn something new
Hitler was the German counterpart of Col. Flagg, the paranoid Army spy in "M*A*S*H", the T.V. comedy series set during the Korean War. 😂
Its crazy how he is in so many pictures before he became as we know him. He certainly was in the right place at the right time alot.
I knew Hitler had been an undercover agent but I had no idea of Meyer's fate. As always a fascinating and informative film. Thank you Dr F.
One of our creative writing students , wrote an obituary of an artist who after WW 1 traveled to America to paint movie posters beginning with Charlie Chaplin , Swashbuckling movies with Errol Flyn and some early 1960s album covers until his death from lung cancer in 1968. You have to wonder if he got into art school , what type of world we could have had.
I would argue we would be much worse off in the modern day, but that is a whole different conversation based purely in opinion and speculation.
Ww2 would have happened regardless
If you haven't seen it, the movie "Max" 2002 is a film about Hitler when he was trying to become a successful artist. It has an interesting twist.
@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 Years later, but fought with nuclear weapons, not ended with them
After seeing those images, he was actually a rather gifted artist. As much as I hate to admit it.
5:06 even the logos of political parties look like beer brands in Germany
Ha, ha, ha! 😂
A secret agent turned politician after radical changes in his country that later caused a major world problem, i think i see some similarities with recent events, Mr Dr. In addition, as always, great work. Keep it on.
Vlad never fought in the trenches - plus he is pure KGB / FSB- look at his history of financing communist terrorists in germany during cold war. Vlad is the epitome of KGB/CIA material. I bet looking at him, guys at Langley must've become more ambitious.
One mistake. Communists are loyal to a small country. 30s and 40s Germany were absolutely not.
Since when is Russia a "small" country?
Mark Felton with another stunning historical episode. Absolutely amazing.
The twists and turns in Adolf Hitler's life are fascinating.
And they shoud remind ourselves, why social and psychological ills should be treated much better and wherever possible be prevented from occuring in any society! As opposed to now, where their treatment is merely seen as an afterthought - if found to be necessary at all. It's a shame and a tragedy - and an ongoing one at that. In a way, we groom despair so much within certain parts of our societies, that we create the tools of our own demise. And I'ld tend to say, with a statistical significance much greater than any "external forces" of the physical world.
I learned about Hitler a lot when I read John Tolands book on Hitler back in 1978. My brother gave me the first edition. It detailed the fact the army sent him to gather information on the nazis.
I have the same book 📖 but I don’t recall them being NAZI’s back then he was tasked with spying on up and coming political parties or certain gatherings!!
That's a good read. I've read all the major English language biographies of Hitler.
Toland's is the best biography of Hitler that I've read. I've also read Robert Payne's and Joachim Fest's bios, all of which were published in the 1970s. I haven't read any of the newer ones, though. I guess I got a little burned out on Adolf.😵💫
Mark Felton is the best historian on CZcams. I first discovered him while taking college courses years ago, but have continued to watch with great interest after graduation.
No..... he's really not. All of this is still just someone else's regurgitated work. Great historians write new histories and do serious research. I doubt Mark Felton ever went to an archives ro research on of these
Strange how circumstances can change a man.... for better, or WORSE...
if young Adolph had a more stable family, would he have had the compelling need to to belong ,first to the army and then politics
@@raymondtonns2521 every single human has a compelling need to belong, we are social creatures. Hitler wasn't any special in this case, as much as people like you like to dehumanize him, he was still a human with human desires, needs, and wants.
@@twilightknight2333 by 2040 or sooner white people ill be a minority in the good old USA. tribal homelands anyone? we are in trouble
I’m just finishing reading “Mein Kampf” (I have about 25 pages left to go) and this is very interesting information after reading about Hitler’s beginnings in the Party. He mentions 90% of what was told in the video, except the part about being a spy for the Army. I highly recommend that anyone truly interested in WWII History, or the life/rise of Adolf Hitler read Mein Kampf. I have been consistently surprised at how “mild” it is compared to the Grandfather of Vanned Books most people consider it to be. A truly informative historical document. Thanks, Mark!
Hitler didnt write Mein Kampf.... Goering and Hess did. Hitler was raised to his position by forces who intended for him to be exactly who he was.
Hitler didnt run the show - He was just front of house
@@Nick-mb7wc
And who ran the show?
@@Combat-Mindset You want the proper answer or a short one?
@@Nick-mb7wc
Any you are comfortable with
@@Nick-mb7wc exactly right.
This is going to be good as always Dr. Felton.
This is probably heresy to say but his art was good. I hadn't seen the ones shown in this video before. He had some talent for sure.
Adolf Hitler, that great Austrian Architect of the early 20th century.;)
His art while technically proficient was lacking in feeling and soul.
He truely had a talent for painting - gifted man
I had friends in 7th grade who were better artists than him. Pfft
No.
Could we please have a video or a series about Rudolf Hess especially before his flight
Great show as always doctor felton, thanks, liam from the West of Ireland
Thank you for the excellent video Dr Felton 🍷🗿
I had read somewhere previously Hitler was sent first as a spy at an early NSDAP meeting but that was the extent of what I knew. Very fascinating episode Mark.
Another one of Professor Felton’s jewels. I love these obscure history facts.
Totally stunning piece of historical digging Mark.
Very in depth and well put together, another amazing video Mark.
Babe, wake up! Dr. Felton has a new video
-my wife
I looked but don't see a Dietrich Eckart video with the special Mark Felton touch. Can we get one sometime? Thanks.
I actually knew about a Mark Felton subject!! Great video !!
Another eye-opening documentary, Doc- keep them comin'!
Thank you very much for your video Mark! You made my day.
I love Mark Felton's work! Always impressed and educational!
"We are sending you to Stalingrad. Agent Hitler."
"Stalingrad? I won't have much fun there...."
What an informative video Mark! Thank you!!!!
"...would throw in his lot to anyone that would show him kindness." Those paintings didn't look bad, I'm no judge of art. Imagine a world where one of those applications were accepted.
A great interesting video.Have a good one Mr.Mark.
DR. FELTON, YOU ALWAYS PRODUCE GREAT 👍🏽 WORKS 😊🧡
Interesting piece not often talked of. Many thanks, started the day learing something new.
I always find it interesting that nobody talks about (and Many don't even know) that Hitler was German Army Intelligence or that he was wounded multiple times and was a decorated Combat Veteran (i.e., the real deal) and had one of the Most Dangerous jobs on either side, a Message Runner. Most people just think he's a man with a funny mustache who popped up out of nowhere and started WW2 for no reason.
Real History (Not Propaganda) is Much More Complicated and interesting than that.
Great vid sir.👍👌
Whats more important is that Hitler was also an animal lover, for somebody to have such empathy for some animals but lack of empathy for others, shows how the far right can capture even those at its foundations and and turn them to atrocity. The problem is that his crimes are simplified to just being those of an evil man, the concept of good and evil can be useful but its also restrictive of our growth as human beings and leaves open a gap for exploitation by the right wing.
For most people erasing history is the main goal otherwise they can't write the story they want to tell when there are all these facts lying around getting in the way.
@@LTPottenger - The victors write the history
@@y_ffordd Yeah Hitler was a vegan and under him there were very strict animal welfare laws, but most Nazis seemed to like animals, there was for example a zoo at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The animals were well fed and the inmates, well ... May they rest in peace.
History is the study of the records that weren't purged by the victors.
Those paintings are very good
Awesome! Thanks for all the hard work :)
Dr. Felton your research abilities are unparalleled!
One of your best vids in my opinion Dr. Felton. This was very succinct and very informative at the same time. I swear I have a tenuous grasp on German now, all because of your vids 😆. It's helped me on "Jeopardy" several times.
All these many decades it were told and repeated that Adolf Hitler was rejected from the Vienna Art Acadamy was that he couldn't draw human faces, just landscapes. Then, I see his rendering of Mary and baby Jesus. Bravo, Dr. Felton.
Fascinating as always. Thanks for sharing Dr Felton.
Great video. I never knew this. I shared your video on Facebook like I do with all your videos and I'm shocked that they removed it as against community standards.
What I could say about Facebutt (Facebook) could not be printed here!
Imagine Karl Mayr, sending an agent to some random organization to watch over possible radicals, and a couple of years latter, the agent is now one of the biggest radicals in history just comming after him while invading Europe. "What have i done?"
This could be your most interesting story yet. Thank you.
Another wonderful video. I'm learning so much from your content. And none of the click-bait rubbish on other channels.
Excellent report 👍
Thanks mark for the great videos! 👍 I am greatfull
Wow. Another great job Mark. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Mark ! Wow !
This ties together alot of loose ends l simply hadn't researched or pieced together. Fundamental !
Wow! Dr. Felton just keeps bringing us these historic gems! This gem filled in a lot of what I did not know of Hitler after the Great War . Also, great photos with this story. Pictures of all the players and photos of Hitler I have never seen before. And those paintings! Hitler doing religious art. And those paintings weren't bad.
I'd never seen that painting of the Virgin and Child by Hitler before. I wouldn't have thought him capable of such tenderness. He was probably thinking of his own deceased mother when he painted it.
Fascinating, thank you.
That was very interesting and informative. I always learn something new whether it’s big or small, thank you Dr. Felton
Well done as always
I'm surprised that so many ppl in the comments didnt know this,and I'm a nobody and this is one of the first things i learned by watching any documentary on CZcams,damn,thats very surprising
Adolf hitler the greatest story never told gives alot of good information on him
Is English your second language?
@@ovwarrior 3rd,how bout you big dawg?
if you want impecible English and grammar then dont look for it in a CZcams comment section:)
@swellington.
Sure you knew all about Hitler's past intelligence work.
Not mentioned in nearly all CZcams posts or documentaries ,or books on Hitler.
The only thing 'Swelling' is your head, It must weigh a 'ton' by now.
Cheers, how is your inflated ego going?
Time for you to watch any documentary on interpunction.
Absolutely amazing research Mark. Thank you for everything you do for us WW2 buffs.
Excellent work as usual!
Beyond superb. Keep 'em coming Mark.
i have said it once and i will say it again....fantastic content from a fantastic historian.
That was very interesting. Thanks!
Thank you for such detailed information. Excellent
One of your most consequential analyses, Doc. 🤩
Those paintings look good though. If uninspired.
99.9% of people cant draw and paint people and architecture and nature this good > 0:57
I thought his paintings were really good also
Alfred Rosenberg noted in his diary,”We now have 55 members, odd fellow but a good speaker “…
Very interesting, dear brother Mark.
Hitler is generally derided as some sort of frustrated painter who somehow took over Germany. Very interesting to here more about Hitler's development from being a soldier to the political man he became.
Everyone knows Hitler was the grandson of Anna Schicklgruber. Which also makes him the grandson of Solomon Rothschild.
A secret agent indeed. The NWO provocateur, offering an enemy against the elite, that they controlled. He was placed there, to enact the atrocities he did, by those who also funded and owned the UK, US, Russian and European nations....
Get a history lesson people..... The same agents of chaos orchestrated the Napoleonic wars, the Bolshevik revolution, WW1 and WW2. They currently fund the atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza.
This is the end of a long road. WW3 is inevitable. Global standoff ensues. You all crap your knickers, and the crusty banker families will set up the Global UN 2.0. That's what this whole pantomime is for... YOU.... So, you will give up everything you had for a safety your enemy stole from you.
You will all cheer for it like inept morons, when it is the final resting place of humanities freedom in realty. They (your enemy) knew long ago that you can do everything with a bayonet except sit on it. Well, this is their effort to bring a bayonet and a chair
Jesus wept. You all lost. You pulled the rest of us down with you. Shame on every last one of us. At this point, our oppressors cant be blamed. We let it happen because we are fearful cowards...
You all better take what they give you now, bend over, then stick it where they tell you to.
I understood this from William Shirers Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. But I have heard in books on Stalin there were rumours he could have worked for the Tsarist authorities as an informed because of the easy way he escaped from the prison camps in Siberia and all the freedom he had in the camps.
Thanks for your work, I appreciate it.
Yes Sir, I knew that!!!! Right on M, another great video.
Amazing work again, thank you Dr. Felton !
These years, 1918-1922 are hard to find information about although it's a fascinating period to learn what turn Hitler from a caporal with "lack of leadership" to the leader of the NSDAP.
Would love more videos about the details of each of the characters contribution to this transition.
Will Dr Felton EVER run out of WWII content? 😂
Amazing
That, I find doubtfully sir!
Amazing thank you for the content
Wow what an interesting story. Great work Mark.
Adolf Hitler: Secret Agent sounds like an edgy South Korean show.
Surprised that everybody has been unaware of his secret agent role. This is common knowledge in Germany. Police and Fascism has always gone together very well.
His rank of "Gefreiter" is often translated as corporal or lance-corporal but it is in fact not a NCO rank but a higher private without any command authority.
Interesting, one of the best videos of AH’s early influencers I have seen
I didn't know he could paint that good. I wish they took him into the art academy whether he could paint or not. Thank You for another informative documentary.
The core of the training at art college was drawing and painting the human body, but Hitler's portfolio consisted of depictions of grand buildings and empty cityscapes. There was a market for that, but the art professors probably thought there was little they could work with.
@@faithlesshound5621 Yes Sir. I thought that I heard from William Shirers, "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich", that Hitler was rejected from art school because "he could not capture the human face". The painting of Mary & Jesus looked like he captured it pretty well. I realize that it was no Rembrandt, but it looked like material for training/improvement to me. Of course, I am no art scholar. The Hitler paintings I have seen previously are as you describe. Simple & without imagination.
@@robertsansone1680 If he had submitted a portfolio of cat pictures (or dogs, or horses ...) the result would have been the same.
You could still see large swastikas painted over, on the ceiling of the hoffbrauhaus in the late eighties.
A lot of this information is interesting, can we have a video with citations and sources?
Lookin' stylish in that image next to Dietrich Eckhart's grave, Mark
Say what you want, he was a very gifted artist. Shame that the morons in Vienna didn't recognize that talent, the world would be completely different today.
They suggested he study Architecture. Imagine the Hitler School of Architecture, rivaling Bauhaus.;)
Describing Hitler as "a very gifted artist" is the same as describing Paris Hilton as "a very gifted actress"
@@Otokichi786 Considering his love of the Classical world, I imagine Hitler's School of Architecture would push for more Neo-Roman and Neo-Greek buildings, like his planned mega-city "Germania" had in droves.
Robert Carlisle did an excellent job portraying hitler in the film
Hitler the rise of evil with Matthew Modine and Peter o toole. I believe it was a two part mini series.
@brendan Roberts just checked and you are right
Interesting details. Excellent.
this incredible story we haven't heard in history books only to sir mark felton stories
I never knew he was a secret agent! 😱🤯
1:52 He actually got a W?
Evening Dr F hope your well and staying safe.
That's a big piece of the puzzle I wasn't aware of until now. Thanks
I have read Hitler biographies by Fest, Kershaw, and most recently Ullrich, yet Dr. Felton never ceases to amaze me with his ability to uncover and address these biographical knowledge gaps. WOW!
“Not academically gifted…”
And yet he was at the top of his class with grades
Makes you wonder what else is being distorted in this presentation, doesn't it?
LMAO...wow.
Ok, first off, he was TOP of his class in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. After this he became a slacker and dropped out at age 16.
@@timothyhouse1622
Like a lot of genius’, he lost interest from sheer lack of boredom, not inability.
@@timothyhouse1622 Guys IQ was in the 140s at least.
Not for long, towards the end of his academic career, he was failing. Not sure if it was the death of his father or his disagreement with his father's wishes (while he was still alive) to become a civil servant. Hitler violently opposed this idea and may have revolted against his father. He lost interest in school at the same time.
Very interesting video.
Amazing. Thank you so much.