SS Werewolves - The True Story
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Did the Germans really create a stay-behind guerrilla force known as 'Werewolf' to continue the fight behind Allied lines in 1945? Yes, they did, but here you will discover the true story of an organisation that remains shrouded in myth and lies.
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You know, when I was a kid not all that long ago, the History Channel used too be like this. Now it's about aliens, ghost hunting and conspiracies. Which is why, Mark, as a fellow lover of history, I'd like to thank you for the time and effort you put into researching and producing these videos that are entirely unbias, based purely on facts and real history!
Hey you forgot to mention swamp rats gator hunters and long-haul truckers.and you know even the stuff they put on history channel now isn't even factual. I don't even watch them anymore.
The History Channel is history.
Right on
Morte Parla Trump's fault....
The Military History channel is pretty much all WWII documentaries 24/7. Iook into it.
Quickly becoming one of the most interesting channels on CZcams. Keep the awesome WW2 content coming, Mark 👍🏻
Thanks for your kind remarks
The boys from Brazil? Possibly one of the worst propaganda films ever produced by Hollywood . Total crap.
As weird as it sounds, thank you for not covering up the allied war crimes. Seems like a hard pill to swallow for most people. Thank you.
The western Allies didn't do many things that you could name a war crime. But the things that the Soviets did were very barbaric.
I have family in both zones. My Bavarian grandmother complained about such things as that that the American soldiers always slept with their boots on in her family's "good feather beds" while they had 3 years before polish forced labourers on their farm (that where deported later on).
The things that the Soviets did where pretty fucked up and could definitely be called war crimes though (mass executions of people who might be a Nazi etc. - basically revenge for the crimes of German soldiers in Russia).
Edit: Grammar
The suicides at Demmin in the Province of Pomerania (now in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern),...4:02 ...were either performed with guns, razor blades or poison, others hanged or drowned themselves in the Peene and Tollense rivers. Several mothers killed their children before killing themselves, or walked into one of the rivers with a rock in a backpack and their babies in their arms. Some families died by walking into the rivers, tied together. A local forester first shot three young children, then their mothers, then his wife and then himself, surviving as a blind man. In another recorded case, a daughter cut the wrists of her parents.
Further very sad details at Wikipedia: "Mass suicide in Demmin" esp. under section "Suicides." (with sources & citations in place).
What?
@@zepter00 maybe you must do some research and don't random believe what is told you
Yeah we all did things that were wrong. Everyone wanted revenge for the wrongs done to them. They took it out on civilians something that used to be considered dishonorable in European warfare. But once one side goes there, it's going to happen on all sides.
My great grandfather served in the US 78th Infantry division and stayed in Germany after the war with OMGUS to help rebuild as he was an architect. He passed about 6 years ago now and I have come into possession of all of his service souvenirs, including post cards from and photos of him skiing at the SS resort camp Berghaus Bayerischzell, but one thing really sticks out to me from the hundreds things in the collection. In the very bottom I discovered a piece of paper, in German, bearing the Wolfsangel and saying that now the Wehrwolf had awoken and referencing Der Wehrwolf. Very interesting piece of history from the end of the war.
My father was a MP assigned to occupation headquarters in Germany in 1946. He went through many files and told me that there was in fact, a large resistance against the occupation, but the US didn't want to publicize it.
We have so many German ww2 bunkers left here in Denmark that we are practically giving them away.. And throwing them into the sea.. The entire west coast of jutland is one huge bunker graveyard. I can promise that any ww2 interested person, would find a holiday in Denmark very informative. Lots of bunker museums and other sites of interest. And even to this day, the west coast isnt entirely mine free..
If you work for a West Denmark Tourist Authority you deserve a promotion.
Good job sir. Your mini documentaries are some of the best!
Thanks for the praise!
@@MarkFeltonProductions hey mark have you done narrations for some kind of mainstream media?? your voice sounds so familiar!
They are good, but they are too 'mini'. Should be 15 mins at least.
The master of getting so much information and on topics little heard of, making it interesting and putting it all in a bite size video. Thank you Mark for your channel.
Perry Biddiscombe is the authoritative historian on the Werwolf resistance movement, writing 3 books on the subject. I was fortunate to have him as one of my professors in university. Highly recommended reading for those who want a comprehensive account.
I guess you can call them
WehrWolves
XD
Where wolves
Yeah they were called Wehrwolf. Not Werewolf. It came from the novel Der Wehrwolf by Hermann Löns. A fictional story about a guy with the last name Wulf, who defended (Wehr) against French invaders with guerrilla warfare during the 30 years war.
Fire Power701 danka!
Just call them pathetic losers.
could you cover the 442nd Japanese-American combat battalion? It would be great to see them get some well deserved recognition
TheEtonianGamer is that the one that has the motto “go for broke”?
My Mother was a US Army nurse in that theater in WW2. She cared for these brave men. Said they never came in with one or two wounds, were always basically shot to pieces. I too, would like to see a piece on the 442 RCT and other Japanese American units.
Also, don't forget the 533nd Field Artillery battalion, then part of other U.S. Army divisions, marched into a Hell on Earth Nazi death camp on April 29, 1945. (A branch camp of the Dachau complex?)
@@opairsoft8100 there's an old war film that covers this. Of course its a little cheesy.
I'm pretty sure they've already received plenty of recognition.
Thank you for this post. As a german I am really thankful that you are pointing out, that not just the german side became hysterical about insurgent activities, and committed unproportionate reprisals against civilians. But the allies too, and not just the soviets but also the western allies. In Germany this topic ist until today a taboo. Nobody ist talking, writing or making TV-documentaries about it.
Everybody is just talking about the crimes an excessive force used by Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS-units.
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vics, his hair was perfect.
Wish you would do a video about the SS men who were recruited by the French after the war to fight in Vietnam (Indochina).
Always interesting to learn about. My history teacher I've known for a few years gave me his entire collection of WW2 books last year. A few of them talked about this. He probably gave me close to 100 books and i hope to eventually be a teacher.
Mark Felton is much more professional than the history channel ever was, or could ever hope to be! Love your channel sir! Merry Christmas!
Someone's mother who grew up after the war (born in 48) I used to know talked to us about how people talked about "Der Werewolf" during the late 1940's all the way in to the 1960's. People thought there would be an uprising by secret units that were waiting after the end of the war to start up again, but it never happened. They might have had it in the plans, but I think after the war was really over and the country was divided in half they knew it was over.
Wehrwolf is a term I have not heard in decades. My ex wife's grandfather had been a U boat captain and her dad being too young at the time for standard military , along with other young teen age boys were chosen for a group called this . When her dad mentioned it at dinner one night, it sounded more like our eagle scouts rather than the nefarious sounding clip I just watched. I may be confusing terms here like Wolf pak for Wehrwolf but it would seem logical that by 1945 there would have been very few fighting age men left except for the teens. He died so even if we were still married I could not ask him. It's sad how we lose so much history from the side of the armies that lose wars without it being distorted. I myself had a great uncle on the ack ack guns in London who's hair turned white over night when a V2 rocked landed unexploded only yards from him.
Mark - another outstanding video. It explains something that my Dad (RIP) told me about his stint in the US Army in W. Germany. This paranoia existed for some time in the US Zone. Dad had to run mail. Though one Bavarian town he was a accompanied by M3 flak wagons; all residents had to keep shutters shut. This was 1951. He may have mentioned the town, but I cannot recall. When I see or hear about the Werewolves I think about what Dad said.
For me, this channel is the best in CZcams! Thanks Mr. Felton
In the 1980s I worked with a German man who was a former Hitler Youth. He told me that his platoon hid in an attic when US forces arrived in their town. The eldest boy went down to surrender and was promptly put against a wall and shot. The remaining boys were terrified and decided to walk at night out to the Soviet zone approx 80km east of their town. The Soviets took their uniforms off and gave them civilian clothes, then sent them back to the US zone. A subsequent readjustment of the border then returned the town to Soviet occupation, leading my friend to escape and migrate to Australia. He said that the front line Soviet forces generally treated people well, but the following infantry armies were brutal. I guess this shows that war is really terrible, and that ordinary people can become desensitised to human suffering.
Are there any original Werewolf radio recordings? Particularly with the "wolf howling" intro?
1:32 A great Finnish saying at the time was “there are so many of them, and our country is so small. Where shall we find room to bury them all?”
(Regarding all the dead Soviets)
Your way of talking sounds like a war news report of that time, which I think makes your videos more immersive, I almost felt like I was thrown in those times for a sec or that it was a high-budget post-war doc. :)
This is what the History Channel used to be.
I just want to say thank you for making high quality, educational videos. Your professional narration style, combined with your upper class British accent reminds me of how the history channel used to be. It allows me to be nostalgic and learn at the same time.
Partisans are always a touchy subject. Everyone looks on the various resistance forces with adoration without much thought for the war crimes they commit and instigate through their actions.
Most important was that, in the final weeks of the war in Germany, the German people had actually lost the spirit to fight on, denying support for the Nazi guerrillas to rise up to effective military efficiency.
Was kind of hoping for SS super soldiers juiced up on steroids and amphetamines doing night raids 😕
Damn it Sean! this isn't Castle Wolfenstein
they still sometimes find forgotten werewolf caches
SO confident in this being yet another great piece, a "like" was clicked before the video.
Mr. Felton, I consider my knowledge of WWII pretty vast, as I can name times/dates/places/equipment/battles, etc with high accuracy. However, I am consistently pleased at learning either extra details of a subject I already knew or subject matter I'd not heard before. Bravo, sir. This channel is excellent!!
Here's one for you: German flamethrower squads (some say they didn't exist, but they did!!)
May all those Young German soldiers who died or who were murdered ... may their souls RIP. They were only fighting for their country. There was no other way out for them. War is very sad. Thank you for this video
Most interesting new information here...love your channel,keep it up and loyal viewers like me will keep devouring with relish all your informative and educational videos.Excellent narration too!...
Best documentary theme music ever created. Also, the number 1 factual history channel on utube. Pure facts. No bias. 👍
All those poor youngsters.
Thank you for your always very interesting, non biased and well researched Videos. There is so much to learn about the war. Also your pronounciation of german words is very good. Keep them coming!
Mark, I was always tuned into history, and this is pure to the point with no gimmicks etc. Keep it up and Historians will always enjoy it 👍
A more comprehensive history of the 'Werewolf" than I had known before today; very grateful to the Almighty that it was not more successful, and it's a shame that so many Germans lost their lives for less than nothing when the war was either practically over or had in fact ended . Well done, sir - thank you.
0:47 I love that clip where they duck the branch haha
I knew I’d heard your voice before. Looked you up to find you narrated many documentaries. You have an excellent voice for this type of work. 🙂
I wanna be a star on my GSXR
Polacy doskonale wiedzą o co kaman i nikt nam tego tłumaczyć nie musi, ale fajnie, że znalazł się ktoś, kto o tym chociaż wspomniał!
Thanks, Dr. Mark Felton 😊
Thanks for sharing. Allies also committed war crimes but that is never really spoken about. Unbelievable that the Soviets killed so many German children. German life at the end of the war was cheap and often disregarded.
Saw the title and rolled my eyes.
Then i saw its by Mark and went WAIT WHAT
Oh hey Spanish, didn't take you as fan of Mark.
Saw your comment and I rolled my eyes. Then I saw your point, then I rolled my eyes some more.
Shut up dork....
I knew none of this. Thank you for this video.
A pleasure
You missed the origin of the name. They were called Wehrwolf, not werewolf. It came from the book Der Wehrwolf by Hermann Löns. It was a fictional account of a guy with the last name Wulf who defended (Wehr) against the French using guerilla warfare during the 30 years war. Hitler and other Nazis had read and liked the book, this inspired the name for the wehrwolf units.
That's incorrect. The 'Wehrwolf' was a pre-war movement that was later absorbed into the SA, while the 'Werwolf' was the wartime movement by the Nazi government that's being described in this video.
Can you talk more about allied reprisals? This is something that is never talked about and it's the first I've heard they did this.
Mark, congratulations. You are one of a very few CZcams communicators that actually communicate. You channel is excellent.
What separates Mark’s videos from the rest are his succinct summary, lack of extraneous narrative, and he takes the time to pronounce foreign words properly. He does the same for Japanese and Russian, like he does here with German. As a German speaker of myself, I appreciate him not slaughtering the German language like so many other videos.
ur voice reminds me of the guy who narrated the commandos behind enemy lines game from years ago.
Thats a name I haven't heard or read in 10 years.
Could spend a tale on this topic. My grandfather was in HJ 1945 in Saxony. Hungry he went for a American tank to steal their chocolate by still wearing his uniform (lack of other clothing). The crew was outside, pissing XD. He made it home alive, sure they would have shot him on sight. Another day the Russians arrived. Forced everyone to burn any uniforms, flags an insignias etc. But they left after taking all the alcohol and some women. Luck this time.
His father was at the ghost division which Stalin wanted to kill every one of them (18km in front of Moscow). He went to Bavaria by foot after defending the south with Heeresgruppe Schörner. The Americans at that point were not able to take that much prisoners. So he went back to Frontline by foot, slip through Americans and Russians and arrived some days after grandfather burned his uniform and took the chocolate.
War ended peacefully for our little village.
But the allied troops were really nervous. Searching everywhere for resistance. Many spread out German soldiers where around in the woods. They fought bravely to the end, saving many German civilians as my grandfather told. Never forget, never forgive
Mark; your site is Great...really enjoying it!
Please keep up the good work Mark, I appreciate all the videos you release. Very informative and interesting.
Oh look, allied war crimes you never hear about and that noone was put on trial for. What a surprise.
Your channel is a hidden gem.
Excellent video - I'm supporting Mark on Pateron. Hope other will do the same. Give Mark some money for making these videos, he deserves it and will encourage him to make more.
My friend Charles Ray was in the 1 st infantry. (Big Red One) He told me he saw several Hitler Youth being shot along the road side even after the war had officially ended.
Shot by who?
Yours is a most informative and interesting program. History and true /first hand is better than fiction.
You have replaced the "History channel"....Now just reruns of "Hitler" and "Stalin", bla bla. Thanx
Amazing work as usual lad! Please could you dive into more info regarding how the Nazi regime reacted to French Morocco refusing to label it's Jews. Interested to know what happened before the US came into Casablanca and no one covers it!
You going to do one on the Rhine meadow death camps ?
Do a video on Oscar Dirlewanger. He was one of the worst Nazis!
No such thing as a "Nazi".
Geez.....really!!!
Allied invention.
Mark as a history follower myself I'd like to thank you for your projects, while there are always some problems with these documentaries overall I find your projects very important, please keep up the good work, best regards and stay safe everyone, from Israel.
Mark, you should do a video on Mathias Rust, the West German teenager who in 1987 flew his light plane to Red Square and led to the firing of top Soviet military personnel, who were the last conservative holdouts against the political and economic reform program of Mikhail Gorbachev. It seems a story tailor made for your talents.
I recall an account regarding the Werewolves when towards the end of the war a commander of a group of Hitler Youth anti-aircraft battery asked for volunteers to join him in forming a guerrilla band, those who didn't join would get a discharge. Only one came forth and then the commander said "Forget it I'm giving myself a discharge." This hints that no one really had any stomach for continuing the war even among the Hitler Youth. It was probably assumed - correctly or not - that the members of the Youth were completely indoctrinated into being suicidal killers dedicated to Nazi doctrine. They were probably as disillusioned as the other military detachments that had to do the fighting, but this is an assumption on my part. However, the fact few Werewolves continued on with the war hints that they were burned out from the war and just wanted it over.
Just discovered this channel, watched the great vid about The Eagles News and now this...subscribe button clicked. Very interesting, keep them coming. 👍
The Germans made a mistake by not killing everyone at Dunkirk.
One of many mistakes, but yes, that was a critical early one. However, at that time the German forces were battle weary and near exhaustion. Easy for us to look back now from a historical perspective and see what could have changed outcomes...
That may have been pretty drastic, even for the nazis. They could have tried capturing them first.
@@cpmenninga They had to fight them later. The English did not show them the same compassion.
Stay behind as in "stay behind while the rest go to Argentina and Antarctica"
Great to see you back again Mark brilliant videos as always
You should do videos about U Boats who helped save allied sailors and merchant seamen. Giving them water, food, and towing their lifeboats toward shore. If you can't do the entire war, at least do the Laconia Incident. It has been kind of covered up, especially in America. The British don't come out spotless with what they did to the Italian prisoners as the boat was sinking, I could justify that, an Englishmen on a sinking ship might fear Italian POWs, but the Americans look especially bad with their involvement strafing and bombing the English lifeboats.
Another good one. Clarifying end- of- war details. Thanks.
Mark, another very nice vid, thank you.
Here's a couple of things you might find interesting to look into.
-Some years ago I read a book (I read many, many books so I can't name it) wherein there was a two sentence reference to a high society group of British men (1940), who created an organization to continue resistance if there was s successful invasion of England. Recruitment was strictly on the old-boys network and the author related that he had gotten a whiff of it but couldn't find any more.
That such an organization was created isn't surprising but that it has remained secret to this day is remarkable.
-Another book, first hand account by an American infantryman, far south of the event, said that after the Malmedy massacre an order came down that no German prisoners were to be taken for the next thirty days. I would have dismissed this except the whole rest of the book was very credible.
Your voice is done so well. I get the vibe I am listening to a war correspondent of the era.
Post WW2 Japan is one of the few instances in history where some type of guerrilla resistance did not occur after being invaded (author of Renee: St. Mary's Virus).
Although, that can contributed to Japan already surrendered when the Allies landed and were ordered to do so by Hirohito who the Japanese people saw as a living god. Also, it should noted that there were many Japanese holdouts in the islands that were fought on such as the troops under Sakae Ōba and Hirō Onoda.
There's an image that sticks out in this video and that's the one of the two Hitler youth with their hands up beside the British soldier. It speaks volumes. Two kids, probably in the latter half of their teens. They look small and scared, but when standing beside the clearly much older British soldier, who has the weathered hard-bitten look of a career soldier, they look tiny. It's just the contrast that shows the desperation of the Germans late war. Makes me shudder slightly.
ThX Mark for another Great Video !
3:02 Seems that a German Special Commando landed a captured B-17 behind enemy lines .
Hope U will do Videos on Operation Keelhaul, and the Silbertanne Murders.
I loved how Your Video about Antarctica gave explanation about many rumours concerning Neu Schwabenland ect.
Greetings !
I really appreciate your channel my friend, I love the historical information on what my two Uncles Tom and Vic, United States Army, faced in the European Theater of Operations during WWII.
My uncle was the first to cross the Rhine river. I can’t recall his unit, but I know he was a ranger when he finally retired. My mother and her brothers were watching a movie in the theater, and in those days they would show short clips from the ongoing war. They saw their brother on the big screen! For years I have tried to find that footage, and have failed! The news reel showed him and other soldiers near the river they crossed. They fought one hell of a battle to make it across! If the author of this video happens to know a good place to find that clip, I would be thrilled to hear on it. Thank you and Semper Fi
Remember my Dad telling me that when he was in france during WW2 - They had set up camp near a grave yard ! - They had set up behind a large wall ! - That surrounded the cemetry !
Wasnt long before they were being shot at the shooter was in the church steeple fireing down at them ! Men were getting hit ! It was only when a troop with a bazooka fired a couple of times at the steeple - blowing apart the steeple and in the falling debris was a body ? -And it wss then they found out this werewolf was a female - Still fighting for the Reich ?
Everybody knew about the Werewolves; hardly anybody knew about the Scallywags. Even years after the war, the Scallywags were still unknown.
You could make your long videos and i would hang on your every word! Splendid content chap!
Not only Mark here but if you love history, try The History Guy. He digs through relatively little known history stories, "That deserves to be remembered".
mein freund danke für das video!!!
Top Notch videos from your channel Sir! Keep up the Great Work.
I have the SS WERWOLF combat manual. Great read...
Great video Mark, a lot of interesting unknown information there. Keep up the fantastic work.
Because my parents were military starting with the Second World War and my grandparents were VETERANS of the first world war, my grandparents adopted a few children who were in the German Werewolves at the request of the United States Government. Now members of my family are descendants of The German Reich. The most amazing thing about all of this is that my family is Black. And of course you know that the German propaganda was for a Nation an Aryan Race.
In 1961 we discovered that they had surviving families in Germany and we had one awkward family reunion with them. We still maintain contact with them and see them often.
The most strangest thing about this is that since they are my Grandparents "children," they are my uncles and aunts. Which means that they are my parents BROTHERS and SISTERS.
But they don't see color. We are family.
Marxists are indeed vampires.
I agree with my below fellow poster. Your channel is very very good and I have a feeling it will only get better. Top stuff Mark.
i have been trying to find information for these guys for so long, thank you so much mark!
Germany was the only country invaded in WW2 that didn't have a resistance movement.
How amusing that I just watched the episode of Grimm where they use that symbol .
I loved that show.
I knew about the Werewolf units. They were supposed to have been issued with a belt buckle which looked like a standard issue buckle but had four short pistol barrels behind it inside each with a round. The idea was that when they were captured the Werewolf soldier would place his hands on his belt as if surrendering. Then when the Allied soldier was close enough the Werewolf pressed a button on the buckle and the front of the buckle dropped down on a hinge and fired all four shots.
Not sure if it was ever used but it was possibly as dangerous to the Werewolf as it was to the Allied soldier. And if it failed the Germans would have been shot out of hand. And once news got around then the slightest resistance would have resulted in more Germans dead.
The "Forgotten Weapons" channel on CZcams has a video on the buckle you mention, featuring an actual example.
@@Kevin-mx1vi Good eye!
_Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol_
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awesome video! Short but with lots of information. Please continue with that.
"Caused even more unnecessary German death" Yeah Geobbels was pretty good at that. Sometimes I think he hated germans
+Otto Skorzeny
Boo hoo, russkies bad! Not like the germans commited worse rapes and genocides on soviet soil. Not like the allies did attrocities. Not like Japan literally raped and murdered 350 000 chinese people in a single city and TO THIS DAY never acknowledged it happened.
I seen a werewolf. His hair was perfcet.
Did you take down the Nomadic video? Also great video as usual.
another great video thank you . greatwork keeping history alive that is hard to find and relatively unknown.
Terrific as usual. I knew of the
Werwölfe but now I know quite a bit more. Do you know of print material that gives more enlightenment on this organization?
I thought this was going to be a mockumentary about Nazi lycanthropes.
Thank you very much for filling in what History Channel use to be!
i am in youtube since ~2002 and have 5 abos .. i look at this channel now since 6 month and subscribe today... very good work mark a small paypal is on the way..
i hope our green/left lacotovegan friends will not pull u in the right corner...as they allways do.
thanks for the uploads.