Great story. That’s a beautiful location!

I've found abandoned sites here on Oahu since the '90s, and seen how they have progressively been found by taggers & vandals. These range from 19th century plantations to WWII era emplacements. There have been a few books published on urban exploration, authorized & otherwise.

That is a bummer it's completely destroyed. Vandals suck so much.

@@tomfrazier1103What did they grow on the plantations? Sugar cane? Plantations would be fascinating, if you could find some historic photos.

Your misspent youth sounds like it was a lot of fun to me!

@@TheDogGoesWoof69 Jfc, get lost wehraboo

LA Weekly wrote about it awhile ago. Tho, this is the most imformative piece I have seen.

LA is a hell hole. I live north of LA county and I stay away from that crime ridden pile of disease needles at all costs.

@@TheDogGoesWoof69 I'm hoping you're playing the part of my hero Don Rickles just really really well at the moment and not actually meaning such !

You should also look at a few other YT channel's, Oddity Odysseys, and California Through My Lens, on this subject.

Mr. Mike my grandpa Harold Johnson has the gum 1939 it was black the white gun was more of his commemorative 7.65mm Walther PP ,Wings of Honor WW2 Wings oF Honor MUSEUM the one he shot his self with as well as A Silver Nazis Crown 👑 that Hitler wore during the 2 would war Kathrine Ponder is one of the few WW2 vets we have in our community from Pearl Harbor, we have Douglas Macarthur authentic pictures we got 2 BT-13 one is in A Hanger my Grandpa bought he is Order of DEADALIN Gold metal from Skyjacking Southern Airways flight 49, November 10th, 1972!!

they dont want you to know about any of this ..fast forward to today and ask yourself whose running your country?

@@WillyEckaslike People with a grudge against grafitti evidently 🙄 In *all* seriousness I like it, the place would be drab dump without it.

@@WillyEckaslike Always a mysterious "they". You're going to have to be more specific.

@@WillyEckaslike let's not start with the politics, please

@@julienvalley28 politics is a sham...theres only one party and thats the moneyed elites

If he starts to ... there's lots of wars for him to cover.

has anyone told you to run for office?... you look like a true leader

Ok there Putin Uke Boy, No Using Hitler's Photo for anything unless it's a Mel Brooks Version from "To Be Or Not To Be"......... Then you can continue on with "Seme Putin's" Propaganda !

Top sycophant *

Have we met before? You look familiar

SIR," Thank You".

There was a documentary about them also called the California Reich.

I’ve never heard of them either but am aware of the other aspects of this video. Mark always has something up his sleeve of WW2 knowledge. They were like the American Legion but evil. Lol

I grew up in Asheville ....first heard about the silver shirts early 90's ...the guy operated out of one of the older buildings in Biltmore ...Building is still there in the town squire next to Railroad tracks ....

Eh, it's California. You'll probably get told to leave at the worst.

Good looking out!!

@@Charles_Anthony Only if you're on drugs or a criminal though.

Mark makes my Fridays much more enjoyable !

@stevenhershman2660 that is true my friend!!

You could at least watch the video before commenting.

its actually in Brentwood.

@@SidewaysBurnoutsexactly, Brentwood LA

Same here, never knew of this place at all. And @sidewayz LA is considered to be everything in its county and sometimes beyond.

They’re complete and total morons. They couldn’t survive in the private sector.

Hoover was famous for manipulating the media, maybe they were deliberately going for a gunslinger look for the pictures

@@scottabc72 Oh, I'm sure he did to appeal to the public's imagination. Also notice he timed it for just after Pearl Harbor when people were afraid of enemy agents and says.

Think those were the guards in side the compound

Why? Nazis staged mass marches in New York. Henry Ford was a major supporter.

Lmfao 😂 4th reich coming straight outa Compton

Never heard of the Aryan Brotherhood? There are more Nazis in USA than in Germany today

We’re here

Very much real and growing lol

Are you talking about the other site just a little way up canyon from this bunker? Might even be visible from the bunker. We used to ride our mtn bike around there back in the early '90s. Back then that other site was the ruin of a 2-story structure, still had the second story on it. Had a basketball court right in front. I remember the hoops, and a small bicycle, maybe a BMX bike that someone had shoved through one of the hoops. That bldg was really weird. Seemed to be made largely of corrugated sheet metal on the outside. But there was a lot of broken glass around it too, which we thought was odd. Maybe it was some kind of greenhouse. The building's purpose was a source of much speculation to us. My cousin, who lives in LA had since told me that particular building was "gone now".

@@SDwriter.and.surfer I believe we are talking about the same second structure. I was there in the early 90s as well. Was a strange place to be sure!

Probably one in every city. Like today. I mean, political groups in general.

I to live a hour from there an never knew

Something never taught in school

@@ruobe1 You're right, they don't. They didn't teach about the "German American Bund" run by Fritz Khun either, but that info did at least become mainstream in the early 90's thanks to "The History Channel" on television.

The silver shirts weren't a national socialist organization at all

Fully agreed. Witnessing countless different sites, statues, monuments, graves/mausoleums & headstones, plaques, signs and not to mention God only knows how many vast sums of books, films, wide varieties of artworks and even (perhaps especially) digital and/or online articles, pictures, videos, comment threads & forums, and all sorts of other documents have been scrubbed, removed, vandalized, edited/changed or often rewritten and/or otherwise destroyed, and nowadays only increasingly more often happening all over the country, in nearly every part of the country... For me, as a profoundly passionate & dedicated lifelong history buff, to put it very simply & mildly, it downright disgusts me and is infuriating to no end. I grew up being taught & always remembering the saying: those who forget about or fail to learn history, are damned to repeat it. And most of the figures I was taught by came from the older generations... often those who fought in Vietnam & Operations Desert Storm & Desert Shield; however several others (whom I was very, VERY fortunate to have learned from) were from the even older, tougher, wiser (Greatest) generations, who had taught the generation who taught me; the very same people who had defeated the Nazis & Imperial Japanese, and (to me) were the very reason & still very much the living embodiment of how & why the Allies won the Second World War. They were very much aware of just how important it is to never forget where we all came from, and to do as much as possible to share & pass down as much knowledge & experience to the younger generations, so that they could maybe learn from it, and perhaps even avoid repeating the same mistakes yet again

Nein!

I've been to Camp Josepho, a Boy Scout camp in the canyon. Now I know where it got it's name. Thanx.

To be fair lots of people do t like their neighbors and packing heat is common

@Tom Henry - sure, but when they wear Nazi brownshirt uniforms and march around doing Hitler salutes, it probably has a little more urgency. Good thing the FBI rolled the nazi neighbors up the day after Pearl Harbor! Josepho, who'd made his fortune back East by designing and selling those "Fortune-Teller" arcade machines with the animatronic people inside - he bought the land in L.A with his fortune and upon his death, gifted the land to the Boy Scouts who still have it as a camp today

@@DaveSCameron Nein was?

Let's hoe it's not just hibernating. Hard to tell with the recent back to front claims of a current AgGrEsSoR.

The long range canon bunkers built along the California coastline for the impending Japanese invasion might also be interesting. Iirc, there's one in San Diego near the Mexico border; and, visited one near SF, embedded at the top of Mt.Tamalpais.

Powell s Boy Scouts, eh..... Pon which was styled the Hitler Yoth. 💦

Interesting. Nearly got to visit the real Eagle's Nest, but my girlfriend wasn't interested and won the debate. So i only saw it from the distance. Should have just gone there alone in hindsight. Stunningly beautiful location. I heard Hitler didn't much care for the place and only visited it a few times at most. How about that?

SIR--" Thank You".

Wasn’t it torn down?

@@thEannoyingE I haven't been up there in several years (10?). I would have to drive up there and see.

@@morningstar9233 from what I've studied over the years, regarding Hitler & the (actual) original Eagle's Nest, this was true... And if I recall correctly, it was initially designed & built for Der Führer by Albert Speer, although it was actually gifted from Martin Börmann, as one of countless attempts that he (along with the rest of those who were a part of "Hitler's Inner Circle") were endlessly fighting over one another to please Hitler. And yet, despite all of these countless favors, gifts & extravagant efforts presented to AH by those wanting to please him, the Eagles Nest was a classic example of how said efforts nearly always turned out, as indeed it's also true that Hitler only ended up visiting/using it once, MAYBE twice! Side note fun fact: unlike nearly almost all Third Reich & Nazi-era structures, relics, monuments, symbols, etc (particularly regarding use of the swastika) that were destroyed or otherwise thoroughly removed in post-war Germany, as well as the vast majority of any of the territory that, at one time fell under the auspices of the Third Reich, the Kellsteinhaus (which is the actual name given to the Eagle's Nest mountaintop tea house) is one of the extremely rare, incredibly small handful of structures leftover from the era, that has survived up to today, and what's even more unique is the fact that, besides the removal of all the swastikas, it is otherwise nearly perfectly intact, as well as almost entirely authentic to that original time period!!

"I hate Illinois Nazis!" - Jake Blues 😜🤣

Why were there so many hofbrau restaurants in LA? My brother worked for the family of one; Hoppe's Old Heidelberg Hofbrau in one of those LA towns like Van Nuys, or Anaheim

@@drdr76 because of the heavy German influence in the city. And it was within those communities where to local Silver Legion & German Bund groups were able to hide amongst. There there used to be a park close to the border between the cities of Glendale & La Crescenta called “Hindenberg Park” (named after the German president) where the German-American Bund used to hold Nazi rallies in the 1930s. Check out the book I mentioned in my main post “Hitler In Los Angeles” by Steven J Ross. It tell a lot about the history of the Nazis in the LA./ Southern California area.

As a SoCal native, I am very intrigued by the mention of this book. Thank you for telling me about it!

Speaking of hofbrau huts in the LA area longtime German restaurant, supermarket, and Ocktoberfest location Alpine Village in Torrance is shutting its doors after 50 years.

You ever notice that in certain cities in Southern California there are swastikas decorating the lamps? About a month a go I went to a used book store in Whittier, I bent down to tie my shoe and I noticed a ring of swastikas on the street lamp. Blew my mind. Found out they were there before any of this Nazi stuff. Also found out that several cities have the same lamp decoration.

@@skutchwashere Nazis don't own the swastika.

And then there was the Business Plot exposed by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC. It's telling that no one was particularly interested even as he testified in Congress.

Authoritarianism is bad period. You can't replace one with another because the outcome is the same. I would rather have a socialist goverment with working democracy than capitalist nationalism

Why ruin a good thing?

He’s have to change to Bigfoot and ufos

What an old way of thinking. The history channel is a mess.

He narrates a certain WW2 program on the military heroes channel which name I can’t recall

I'm not making excuses for fascism but the list of people and organizations that sympathized with the nazis prior to 1939 are long. Canada's longest serving Mackenzie King was a nazi sympathizer and an anti semite. As preppers the stevens family might have found some things in common with the silver shirts but might not have shared all their beliefs. It sounds like they ran with a bad crowd, that said some people aren't inherently evil but instead fall in with bad people. Being under Hoover's surveillance in and of itself isn't proof of guilt.

Unfortunately he never lists sources. I enjoy his videos but always take them with a pinch of salt for this reason. It is interesting to see in the comments just how many people take it all as complete verified fact, just because it's a well presented video on KZfaq. It sheds light on how easy myths can take root and how misinformation abounds in what is generally termed the age of information.

Liverpool, tho some years before..... 💦

I literally saw that episode the other day lmaoo. The other fake name they used was "O'Brian"

Maybe fighting Hitler was a mistake

In some way it is worse, because that knowledge about how all that horror worked 90 years ago is freely available, and you see it imitated by the letter TODAY. Back then the methods were rather fresh, you had had monarchies before.

@@feedingravens That's a really depressing thought, but you're right.

Nice to see that! I live in Granada hills which it isn’t too far!

Thanks for mentioning, so far you're the only one I've seen on this thread to even mention it! Absolutely fascinating and yet to me still a very underrated & even somewhat unknown series, but definitely one of my all time faves. I'll most certainly be checking that episode out. Thanks for sharing

Wow, that is quite a story! 😯😯

Your Great Grandfather is a legend, he knew then what most are too afraid to admit now

If that actually ever happened...

Burn it down.

Do Americans hate communists more than fascists?to this day?

@@OompaL0ompa fascism has never been an international movement. It’s regional and parochial and suffers (thankfully) as such. It should be noted, however, that fascism is an action, not a political movement. As such, communist movements can, and have, taken on the character of fascism. America was founded along enlightenment values that cherished “natural law” forgotten today, but seriously challenged the precepts of hereditary rights and divine birthright. A much older beginning point of the great questioning of 18th century status quo. From there it begins. Karl Marx is late to the game. Both Communism and Facism are European perversions forced upon us where they inorganically never existed. The southern confederacy was soundly defeated and Marxism failed to sufficiently infiltrate American labor unions. The pathetic wokism of today is a flickering ember for a desire for international revolution. Not going to happen in the land of Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Hamilton. And of course, Washington.

SIR" Thank You".

Right like I have gotten drunk there when I was like 16 the other one mark did of my old drinking spots was the hotel del in Coronado lol

So what's the issue with the K-98 Mauser?? Btw, a common military bolt action rifle.

Even in the most anti gun states the k98 should be fine.

Many folks around the world were anti semitic back then. Also many folks around the world were bedazzled by the pretty pretty of the G.Nazi's, in the 30's. Happen not so many after the War had been fought, and the truism of their heroes was more fully made clear.

I wasn't interested in history at all when I was in high school. Now in middle age, I realise just how vital it is to have good knowledge of history so (as is often said by wise people), that we do not repeat mistakes of the past. Sadly, it looks like we have a very long way to go before we learn this.