My dad was an eyewitness to the round up leading to the original massacre. He was an 11 year old boy at the time. The memory haunted him for over sixty years. He recounted what he saw to me shortly before he died. He wasn't included in the round up because a German noncom assumed he was Volksdeutsch since he could speak German and told him to get out because no kid should see what they were doing.

Your content is incredible. I am so tired of over-produced, over-dramatised and poorly voiced history documentaries. I couldn’t believe my luck when I found your channels. I binge them every night before bed, fantastic research, clarity and presentation! Thank you Mark!

Thank you Dr. Felton. I had the great opportunity during my career to work for 7 years in Ukraine. Where I met my beautiful wife, now a naturalized US Citizen. I have had the opportunity to visit Babi Yar ravine and many other memorials in the former Soviet Union. The slaughters at Babi Yar continued beyond the infamous slaughter in 1941. Though not to the degree they were in Sept., 1941. They ended only in late 1943, as the Red Army arrived to liberate Kiev. The Memorial of Glory in my wife's hometown of Kharkov (Kharkiv) honors 274,000 residents of that city, which was fought over three times, killed in the war. A beautiful park built on what is actually a mass grave. More people killed in ONE city than all Americans killed in the European Theater. Throughout other Ukrainian cities...Donetsk, Odessa, Sevastopol, Dnipropetrovsk (now Dniepro), Poltava and many more cities and villages...there are memorials to women and children murdered. You don't see these things in American parks, our population has been spared such horror. When the war was over, nearly 25% of the population had been exterminated, roughly half the men between the age 17-45. Not a family escaped without one or more members being killed. Though few veterans are left now, when I worked there, not long after the Soviet Union broke up, there were still many. They wore their decorations on their civilian clothes. When a veteran, man or woman, entered a bus or subway or tram, the others would offer their seat and say "Thank you for our freedom" or "Thank you for our happiness". If they were standing in a line, they would be offered to go ahead to the front. These are not easy places to visit. I would suggest any American who has the chance to do so.

Mark Felton is the reason I don't go stir crazy at work

My heart aches for every single innocent man, woman, and child that lost their life during that horrible time in human history.

Every time I hear this story I find myself seething with anger, and that's a good thing. We must never forget that these people. The victims and the their murderers were human. That we ourselves are human, just as they were. And while we may not be responsible for these crimes. We are responsible for not allowing such things to happen in our time. We are not removed from these events. This is our history as a species. Never forget.

Thanks for giving an account of the Babi Yar massacre Mark. I only learned of it through my own research and feel one of the worst atrocities of the war is generally ignored or, at the very least, unknown. The level of cruelty meted out beggars' belief.

It's hard to imagine the horror when I can't even watch culling Elephants when it's on television.

Mark. Thanks for bringing this often forgotten incident to KZfaq.

No words can accurately describe how these atrocities make my heart ache for the victims. Equally at a loss to describe the incomprehensibly soulless monsters that carried them out. Sickening, just sickening.

That must have been far more difficult to research and narrate than it was to hear. Thank you. Shalom, Dr Felton.

Important work. Never forget.

The work of you Mr. Felton is as always spot on an important as well. But it sure feels weird to give a thumbs up for it this time. My heart just sank another meter in to the ground since the last visit at a KZ.

SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln was the Higher SS and Police Leader of Southern Russia during this atrocity. Jeckeln was quite possibly the most brutal and utterly ruthless of all the HSSPF's in occupied countries. Jeckeln was also the inventor of the morbidly infamous 'sardine packing' method of bodies in mass graves for more efficient use.

Dr Felton you make my passion for history even more stronger every video, i have learnt so much thanks to you.

11:45 glad you mentioned the 6th army. Important to remember that the Wehrmacht was *not* clean. They often supplemented the SS in many, many nazi atrocities.

Painful as it will always be for the families, and even for those with no connection to those who suffered, these stories must be told. Thank you Dr Felton.

The massacres committed by the Germans, or with the complicity of civil authorities and/or the civillian populations of each European country (such as Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary etc) etc) MUST never be forgotten!! Thanks for uploading Dr Felton. 👍

Mark, on behalf of UkrainiansI thank you for highlighting this event, keeping memory of it alive.

amazing work Mark Felton.

Unimaginable. Thank you Mark for making this.

My great great grandparents were murdered in Babi Yar. Thank you for covering this. Many Ukrainians have no idea that this even happened

Unbelievable. Thanks for sharing Dr Felton!

Great episode Mark........no matter how many times I hear it, the brutal depravity never ceases to shock

Thank you for your amazing and informative work. The depths of human cruelty are unbelievable.

It's hard to believe monsters like these Nazis even existed. That's all the more reason to remember history and to never forget the depths the human spirit can sink to given the right circumstances.

Thanks for doing this subject. It needs to be heard.

Wow. That is absolutely horrific

My grandfather who was an orphan living in war torn Ukraine once said that when the Germans covered the pit with soft and sandy soil you could see areas where it was moving, there were survivors being buried alive.

"Babi Yar" by Anatoli Kuznetsov, a "document in the form of a novel," discusses this episode in detail. It is amazing anyone managed to survive.

By far one of the best channels on here for very accurate information and full of information that is absolutely 💯 accurate I love seeing new documentaries on the platform this guy leaves absolutely no stone unturned great narrative 👍 keep up the amazing work it is well appreciated

God bless you and yours Dr. Felton. i look forward to your next installment!:-)

With love from 🇳🇬 and to all lovers of history ❤

Dr. Felton, thanks for all the FACTUAL information you provide with ALL of your video's. Fact's are fact's, lie's are lie's & some refuse to accept that. Appreciate the hard work you & your staff put in

Impressive as always, thanks for your work.

You really set the standard for factual WWII documentary's ,really looking forward to Episode 2 . Thanks Mark .

Thanks for this history lesson. excellent!

Absolutely horrific.....so disheartening. Thank you for shedding light on this very dark history Dr Felton. Let us not forget this history......so that it may NEVER be repeated!

The Felton, the legend...thankyou again ✌️

Great video Mark, can't wait for the part 2

It's hard to believe that humanity can be reduced to this horror. The indignity of the whole scene. This needs to be retold forever. Less we forget and repeat.

The lessons and events of WWII should never be forgotten. Man turned on fellow man and in doing so, turned on humanity itself.

Always crisp, clear and insiteful. Your documentaries are admirable and learned and your revelations are interesting and often shocking. Thank you

Thank you Mark. Just came back from my visit to Kiev and now I know much more about Babi Yar than just reading wikipedia info.

It's almost impossible to comprehend the numbers of victims....

Unreal the evil he puts in people's minds. Sadly man does not learn. This could easily happen again as I see it with people today. It's totally sickening.

Thanks for your great and important work.

Can't be forgotten if I never knew. Thanks for telling these hard historical lessons Mark

Really is quite staggering the atrocities that happened during this period! We’re so lucky to live in the times that we do! Good episode Mark!

We can only imagine the horror. Thank you for helping to preserve this lest we forget.

I liked this on the quality of Dr. Felton’s reports

My heart weeped as you narrated this, may the world never forget these vile evil crimes against humanity and never forget the innocent victims.

Unholy hell, how can a human do this? One of Dr. Felton's most horrific KZfaq videos on the Nazis.

Mark is on FIRE ! He keeps on making videos that are often never mentioned by other Sources. I can not wait till part 2. Keep up the excellent work !

Thank you Mr. Felton. Your videos helped me to win the Military History Olimpiad!

Merry Christmas Dr. Felton, hope 2022 is better than the last 2! ✌❤ from Canada

Mark I've enjoyed every video I've listened to from your channel your voice and accent perfect I appreciate your work thank you

Great stuff again Mark, thank you ..

Thanks for this

Thank you Mark Felton for covering this! You are a “hero of history”

Outstanding video and presentation.

I cannot understand how human beings could do this to other human beings. I can only try to convince myself that they people (the executioners) we not human beings, they were violent beasts but then again what sort of animal would kill for political reasons? Babi Yar must not be forbidden! Thanks Mr Felton for keeping this horror known to the new generations!

Informative video, thanks!!!

I am grateful to Mark for bringing this to us. People prefer to forget such sickening history. But it must not be forgotten lest we be forced to experience it again.

I follow all of Mark Felton's episodes but I read about this horrible event some years ago and that really upset me so I will give this one a pass. The horror of seeing your family members getting killed before your eyes, knowing that you are next.

Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. We look forward to your sequel video(s) on this. Amazing how cruel humans can be. Imagine how advanced the world would be if humanity didn't have such crippling cruelty holding us back throughout recorded history.

Thank you for telling this story

Fabulous Mark. Iv learned so much from you

Every time i try and find empathy with the suffering of that hell my mind skitters off, shattering like a bottle on a slate roof. It's all too awful. It's painful, but i must watch. Remembering the past to protect the future is my gift to NOW. !:-)

I can't even begin to imagine the fear of running up to your own mass grave, 33,771 people... humans.... slaughtered worse than pigs.

Enjoyed the video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

Thank you. Superb

Cheers Mark

At Babyn Yar the Nazi killers didn't use Mauser rifles they used captured Russian submachine guns because they had a semi auto setting and a large capacity drum magazine.

Thank you for the video report .

This needs to be told!! Well done.

The most dramatic depiction of Babi Yar I've seen is in Herman Wouk's ' War and Remembrance ' ......really graphic

On behalf on my beloved relatives there thank you. Many had young children and simply couldn’t flee.

This is intro is my ring tone. And when my phone rings, I bow thrice in the name of good Lord Mark Felton.

I'm stuck in this endless, dark loop where I keep coming back to these videos. Then I come to the only logical conclusion I can draw from watching this... that the world is an evil place without justice. But somehow I can't wrap my head around that conclusion. My brain will not (cannot?) accept what my eyes are seeing. I don't know how anyone could truly grasp what happened and still maintain a sense of hope...

There were only two means of escape. The second was death.

You should cover the uprising of the Georgian units in Greece I believe

Nice work.

Thank you.

Ben Ferencz, one of the prosecutors in the Einsatzgruppen trial after the war, is still alive today.

Shooting 33,700 in 2 days seems a tall order logisticaly, that's around 140 every 6 mins.

I have read a book about this 3 years ago, and same as Katyn, the Babi Yar is not that known to many. But we should not forget this, thanks to historians who keep this stories told to the Earth.

This is a horrific, shocking reminder of what terrible things people are capable of doing. It is a warning to us all of the fragility of civilisation.

Evil minds like this do not frighten me, what does frighten me is there are innocent people hurt by these evil minds.

Good to preserve such history. The depths of evil humanity reaches beggars belief sometimes. Eisenhower and others knew beforehand that people would eventually question the truth.

The truly terrifying aspect of this is that before the war the soldiers doing the slaughtering were ordinary people working in shops, offices, factories, farms and schools.

Mr. Felton, please make a video about the conscientious objectors. It's possible to find information about those from Germany but not Japan and other countries. I would like to know the stories of those who are not well known. Thank you for your hard work.

This is an example of something you'd think was in a horror movie but actually you couldn't write this brand of evil and depravity, it's crazy just how hard they had to work to kill that many people, it's no wonder they lost the war

The human ability to get used to almost anything is often a strength, but not in the case of case of being able to commit murder over and over. Often ordinary people committing extraordinary crimes.

Well done!

Life is simple, Dr. Felton releases a new video, I click it, I click like the second I can, I watch the video, I learn and I’m Happy.

My Great Grandfather Was a rottenführer and participated in these killings in 2018 he was under invastigation for war crimes, a year later he passed away though. Iam really ashamed to have someone like that as my great grandfather.

hope mark going to do same style videos about soviet death camps and atrocities.

My dad signed up in Oct 1939, by spring of 1940 was in London, He went to Sicily in 43, fought right up to 5th of May in Holland and on to Berlin in July 45, home in Sept 45, only when he was 85 would he say anything, could never tell us about being in on liberating BELSEN, l could not imagine what he went through, and what these people went threw before they were killed...Great video but hard to watch..Thank you

When I joined the Railways in Victoria Australia as a boy in 1977 I worked with guys that had come out of post war Europe , they came from everywhere , Ukraine , Latvia , Russia , Italy , Germany ,Hungary , Poland, Serbia, you name it ! I heard some pretty extraordinary stories . Its a shame that my knowledge about the events of the time were not as extensive as they are now , In hindsight I should have asked more and learned more from those guys who lived through so much history and turmoil of life . For the most part they were great workmates , friendly and humorous . Much of what they went through I am sure they kept to themselves but I have to say there was a comradeship as Railwaymen that seemed to mitigate the fact that in many cases they were from very opposing sides not that long beforehand.