Ja Verlierer!

@@spacewater7 As a bi-lingual speaker myself (English and German), I too am very impressed with Dr. Felton's impeccable German pronunciation. It comes as a surprise, considering that 99% of Englishmen (Americans, Australians, etc.) sound terrible when trying to pronounce German - even those native English speakers who've been studying German for years. I also have to give props to Aaaargle (the native German) for commending Dr. Felton, and for refraining from the tired, worn out standard defeatist line, "the victors write the history", which is obviously nonsense. Aaaargl seems like a stand-up guy, as opposed to a pimple on me arse called spacewater7. Clearly the number 7 indicates the age at which your maturity and mental development came to a screetching halt. Are those the only two German words you know?

@@spacewater7 stfu

Vielleicht spricht er deutsch ? Ja er ist sehr gut. Ich spreche französich , englisch und deutsch ein Wenig. Grüss aus Kanada.

@@vincentlefebvre9255 nein, er ist Brite. In Großbritannien lernt man kein Deutsch, Die wenigsten können das dort.

Or as it was called, "The Hitler Channel".

@@1pcfred All Hitler, all the time. How many times have we seen that film of Hitler inspecting the line of kids defending Berlin?

@@davidgoldberg8238 there's only so much media available.

Yeah now it's Ancient Aliens with that weird looking guy who looks like Londo from Babylon 5

The history Channel ww2 stuff is junk. I made the mistake of buying one of their DVDs

He'd have to make it a reality show like Forgotten Weapons to get on History channel now... lol

@@g1mmedatdome284 I like those

FUZE ANTATIC no

KZfaq is already a major TV outlet. Just give him an assistant, I believe Mark will be quiet happy.

G1MMEDATDOME he have to make Hitler in to a lizard while Churchill as an alien

shouldnt be surprising, they did have James Bond after all

I’m surprised he didn’t mention happy many civilians were killed?

You are a knob Louis

Agreed, it feels like we've been on the ride with him, watching his channel grow and the quality of video get better

Agree with you all the way up to the showing of Otto Carius at 8:44. He was not in the West til 1945.. But Beckers homemade Hotchkiss Assault Guns were a nice touch..

Yes. It's remarkable just how much dross there is on 'YT' re-WWII and it is rare to find anything recent that has much historical depth. So many enthusiastic (American) contributions to WWII history suffer from a real lack of historical knowledge, specialist insight or breadth of perspective.

@Celtic Resistance lol you got me wrong, I love me some Mark Felton...

I don't know why anyone would want to give up the freedom of their own independent media outlet in favour of network or cable television--but otherwise, agreed!

Intelligence is only really useful if your enemy has none. Against the Germans, it was pivotal at times.

Indeed!

Really?

@@christopherthrawn1333 Yes.Read military history and this will quickly become apparent.Really.

@@cgross82 Hitler boasted to Mannerheim that 'we had no idea' how many divisions the Soviets had when they invaded the USSR. The Soviets had a spy in German High Command. Big difference. Predictable outcome.

I’d love some WW1 videos from him tbh

I'd like some more videos about the Cold War.

#Yeah ~ I'd swear he must make this stuff up 😉

Deniz Metinoğlu T. Please no, I like to hear about actual battles.

@@denizmetint.462 cold war meh...more like sanctions war and shitty small rebellions here and there .....need actual war

I don't think it is this attack specifily. Like he described in the intro. These kind of attacks where rare not unusual. The depiction of Model in a bridge to far always seemed to me like charcter assination. Sure the guy was an nazi and an terrible person. But not an idot. Why depict him like that in the movie .

@@scheikundeiscool4086 Not a Nazi. Not a Party member. Hitler loyalist as per his officer's creed. Condemned the Nazis after listening to Goebbels ranting on the radio shortly before he (Model) shot himself. Said, 'Can you believe I've spent X years serving these bastards?'

@@0WickedSensation0 Had a bit to much of DAS INTERNETZ lately?

@@0WickedSensation0 Dude, drop the kool-aid you're drinking right now! It seems to be shrinking both your brain & your manhood. Germany wasn't at war in '33 with anyone, physically or socially. Not yet. And in '33 the Republic was so weak that the Salvation Army could have kicked their ass.

@@johnrichmond.4783 Yet, he was a criminal,

did you hear about eisenhower's death camps for pows?

Yeah unbelievable...

Enigma code breaking was an important but generally ignored part of the war; much like reading an adversary's cards, it contributed a great deal to the allies' war effort.

Mark Felton has a perfect record with me: I've never heard of anything he covers and I've been reading WWII books and watching documentaries since I was a kid in the 50's. Goes to show how much more there is when you get down to the fine-grain details of war, which is made up of thousands of stories.

@@kevinmiele5289 I've heard about the deaths of German pows in Europe due to lack of nutrition, but my understanding is that it happened because of a mistake. Are you suggesting it was done purposefully?

I have a keen interest in WW2 and thought I at least knew all of the main facts. Mark Felton does an unbelievable job of bringing important facts to the surface in a very entertaining fashion

Very very nice

@@marcwebb687 Same, since childhood for me and yet i still see some videos of Mark's with subjects i've NEVER heard of lol hella subbed since 300k-350k

Yes, a very effective mission I never heard of. Thank God allies could read the German code. " Remember if there's lightning outside don't go out to look at it, " said Mom.

Lol

May he rest in peace.

I was thinking the same thing... air raid siren sounds, "Hey guys, let's go out and see what's attacking us!"

Heck, I'd have carried on eating given the limitations of food on offer! Oink!

@@JohnSmith-qv6hp I am wondering if these are there full names. Some German names could take up several lines in an average hardback book. In fact Germany passed a law several years ago restricting the length of a persons name for official documents.

Yes, the names of some nobleman in Germany are very long. This is the name of the German Defence minister from 2009 to 2011: Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg

@@horstschlemmer2042 Had to google it: he's a baron!

In the British army in the 1980s I had a Sergeant of German origin whose name tape on his jumper went around from his left chest to damn near his armpit.

@@horstschlemmer2042 Or just known as "Maria" :)

Ironically All those officers wouldve been safer probably near the front line. Really shows how old doctrines cannot conform with the present, most of those officers probably still had the mindset of WW1 doctrines where the war is 2 dimensional(There is the front line and there is a rear line) instead of the 3 dimensional current one where the front line can be anywhere, due to enhanced capabilities to air power.

@John Lorenzo sounds like an enjoyable day :)

@@MrDaiseymay At the same time remember that early on most of the French Resistance were communists; you'll never hear that from Western sources.

@@watching99134 Just after the war, the Resistance in France and elsewhere were heroes and got medals: but with the cold war, America preferred to trust the old collaborators and pressed to have the communists pushed out of government. So the likes of Mitterand and Maurice Papon rose to the top.

VIVA LA FRANCE

Living through mortar barrages and the ammo dump at FOB falcon was good enough for me. Firefights are one thing, artillery is some scary shit. Thankfully no bombs

The receiver would not like war anymore and would retire

I agree that it is a lot, but they were also very inaccurate, hence the brutal amount. They wanted to make sure SOME of it would hit home - their calculations were correct.

Absolutely, 61 bombers, wow. They must have really, really wanted those guys dead

Imagine the thought processes going through their minds when they realised that they were the target of those planes. "Ah, let's look at those planes" "Interesting, they're changing direction" "They seem to be heading our way" "**** they ARE heading heading our way and firing rockets" "Holy **......."

Yup Dr Felton is a Master.

KZfaq might provide him with a broader platform than he would enjoy on cable, but that doesn't necessarily translate into more money.

Once a pro,money is but part of the process not the objective

erich von Manstein as well, the one responsible for the planning on the attack on france via Belgium to circumvent the Maginot line

@@stanleydavidge8859 Many iare responsible for the Clean Wehrmacht myth, including former adversaries

Sure , Nazi's are obiquitous and omnipresent :) You ever,never can imagine , how dare we love germans and Nazi's !

@@stanleydavidge8859 Actually there is evidence to suggest that Von Schweppenburg was the German resistance's secret envoy to Britain during the Munich crisis of 1938. Apparently he met with Peter Ustinov's father at their home in London to discuss Britain's response to Hitler's demands - if Britain held firm and threatened war then the generals like Ludwig Beck were prepared to mount a coup in order to prevent another world war. The British government were unsure if this was a ruse and didn't want to be seen to be meddling in the internal politics of a major European nation. The opportunity was lost. Btw, if you want to know who was responsible for the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth then that would be Franz Halder and the generals employed by the American Army's Historical Research division.

@@stanleydavidge8859 well both generals where "clean" so the blame is not to them

Isn't the universe expanding and cooling though? Is this that rebound theory?

@@nw932 Heat Death means the death of heat itself, not dying from it. Yes, that means cooling. Not a single force remain to produce heat.

He'll just publish a video about the secret campaign to halt the heat death of the universe.

He'll just fabricate more and more.

@@roxrolldog Are you suggesting his stories are false?

@@5heffPaul "Erased"? That's utter nonsense. As a graduate of a US Army senior service college, I can assure you that the efforts of all Allies are taught with equal importance.

I did not know this story either. I subsequently saw it in Rick Atkinson’s book, “Guns at Last Light”

Good one...

Not a bad way to begin the day. I might do it too!

Summarizes really anybody's military career in Nazi Germany who had a brain

Playing devils advocate for a minute. Isn’t it true to say that keeping the Panzers in a position to respond to an invasion in the Pas de Calais (most likely); Normandy (likely); or Aquitaine (least likely) did keep it away from the worst possible bombardment and did allow for the greatest flexibility of response. If the panzers had been committed to Pas de Calais, then the response to Normandy would have been even later. If the paneers had been split between the two (or three), the strength of the response would have weak enough for the allies to hit them piecemeal. Where did Rommel want the panzers - as I understand he did think the most likely place for the invasion was the Pas? I suppose the only right decision is the one we can take with the benefit of 100% hindsight. Dr. Felton to decide?

@@martincox7354 It's difficult to imagine that the panzer divisions would have taken more casualties riding out the initial bombardment in the relative vicinity of the beaches, especially as they could have been dug in to a degree, than they took during the march to get to Normandy from positions further back. It's my understanding that the march to the front was a fairly brutal affair for the panzers due to allied air power and that the threat of allied air attack was one of the reasons Rommel wanted them near the beaches to begin with. His experiences in N. Africa had taught him about allied air power, he knew the allies had already established near air supremacy over Normandy long before the invasion happened and that all the allies needed to do was pull the trigger on it to make daylight road movement nearly impossible. I recall reading an anecdote once. A German solider stationed in Normandy before the invasion commented that he could always spot the N. Africa veterans because when they stood together in groups they never directly faced one another. Instead, they'd each face a different quadrant of the sky and were constantly scanning for aircraft. They'd been under intensive air attack before and it had taken it's toll on them. I understand the reasoning behind holding the panzer divisions further back, I understand the value of flexibility and get that the German high command was trying to create the possibility of a massive, panzer heavy counter attack. But, it seems to me that they didn't take the threat of allied air power nearly as seriously as they should have. The information on how deadly it could be was there, from top to bottom among the veteran soldiers who'd fought in the west before. They should have known that they'd be unable to move troops around quickly enough to give value to a rearward deployment and that the flexibility they were trying to gain was illusory. I just can't help but think that Rommel was right, and the panzers should have been nearer to the beaches, even if that meant they'd have fewer in any given area than they would have liked.

@@sextuspompeius1266 well sup - if the German High Command were so dumb then how come it took the entire world more than 5 years to defeat it - unless of course the so called "Allies" were actually dumber than the Germans - which was the case.....

@@silentotto5099 Indeed, there were legit arguments for and against both strategies. Regarding allied air superiority there was the story of one American general who complained that the allied air forces weren't doing enough, so a senior USAAF officer took him up in a spotter plane. Behind the allied lines it was like a giant military camp - troops, tanks, trucks, supply dumps, convoys, as far as the eye could see. The German side of the lines was completely devoid of life - not a tank or truck could be seen, not a single thing moved. The army general retracted his complaint.

One forgets most of us have also grown since and appreciate more now.

You realize he does talk English - right ?

@@MrDaiseymay there is much more to the enigma code-breaking story than can be included in a movie, that much should be quite obvious to most I would hope.

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten.

@@MarkFeltonProductions Good!

Mark Felton Productions 1 day ago wtf

How did you comment a day ahead?

@@julianrenardy4398 Patreon perks

The british were just good at sacrificing. They would let them "have" some "victories" so to speak. They wouldn't aave every ship, kntercept every mission etc... however they would do major things like this.

exactly..... Leo Reichsfreiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg. (first name, noble title, noble family)

Lucky he wasn't French.

It's also the first youtube channel I have supported financially but I will certainly continue to with this one. I can't imagine all the hard work that goes into these.

The Typhoon was an amazing aircraft, from its 24-cylinder engine built by mating two 12-cylinder engines to its rocket load that was equivalent in power to a broadside from a naval destroyer. Here's a great documentary on the Typhoon: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abF2hJWBmt6rg30.html

@@hshs5756 Became a fantastic ground attack aircraft with the ability to take on any Axis fighter.

What about real housewives?....😂

Mysterious guy in corner: all of them

It was certainly worth it, goes to show how important the army commanders were. Destroy a few tanks or troops and its just another day in the war. Wipe out a general and his staff and the whole army loses its ability to counter-attack for almost a month.

I sing along with that intro far too many times for my wife to bear!

A bold claim for cowards that indiscriminately bombed civilian targets at night.

Cowards that firebombed civilians, and destroyed whole cities. Targeted everything that moved on the roads: farmers with their animals, women and children, refugees etc. Shame on the R.A.F and their scum leaders.

Paul Frederick explain your comment

@@keithcrispin1368 what kinds of missions do you think the RAF flew? They bombed civilian targets at night. The US 8th precision bombed strategic targets during the day. That's just how it was.

​@@1pcfred Must be so hard to be so woke. Idiot.