I’m a student at the university of Kassel and they actually took the old Henschel factory and turned it into a campus, all of the major buildings still look pretty similar to how they did when it was still a factory and even the giant chimney is still standing, it’s pretty unique and I quite like the design.

imagine being a american tank commander, just driving along in '45, knowing that the germans don't have any real resistance left, but then you literally run into EIGHT KING TIGERS

Mark Felton: "King Tigers and The Battle of Kassel" History Channel: "Bigfoot - Elusive Primate or Nazi Secret Weapon?"

Germans: The situation is beyond beyond hopeless. Lets counter attack!

The idea that in April 1945 there was a factory left standing in Germany is unreal, that it was still producing tanks is mind blowing. I will echo what Patton was reported to keep demanding; 'Where is my air support?' Pretty sure he said it a lot more colorfully. Mr. Felton, as always thank you.

A lot of these late war desperate fights make for very interesting stories.

The amount of research that goes into these productions and the rate at which Mark produces them, is a testament to his love of history.

In the city of Kassel I did my conscription in the Supersommer of 1976 as a solider of the Jägerbataillon 42. Our Training Ground was the Dönche Valley, Mr. Felton is reporting about. Our tactical target for the "Zielansprache" in those hot days was a beer-garden with yellow parasols I will never forget since lifetime... Happy days of the youth! Thank You so much for Your stories, Mr. Felton!

When the German civilian led the GI’s around sgt. Wilms’ King Tiger and knocked it out reminded me of a mini Thermopylae

In 1971, I had a conversation with a Mr. Green, a WWII veteran. He told me that late in the war, most organized resistance had collapsed, and the Third Army was rolling across southern Germany almost unopposed. The only thing slowing them down was having to handle so many surrendering German troops. He was in a jeep driving a couple miles ahead of the main army on a reconnaissance patrol, when they encountered a German NCO standing beside the road holding a white flag. They quickly determined that he was not armed. He kept saying in broken English, "We must to surrender to the Americans." They didn't have the time to deal with him, so they told him to wait and the entire Third Army would be along soon and accept his surrender. The NCO seemed agitated as they drove off and chased after them. A half mile further, they crested a hill and stumbled into an SS Panzer unit in front of them. He slammed on the brakes and began backing furiously, when his Lieutenant ordered him to stop. The German Commander calmly walked up to the Lieutenant, handed him his pistol and said, "I wish to surrender my men to the American Army." Mr. Green said that it was then that he noticed that all the tanks were neatly parked along the sides of the road and they had been washed like they were on parade. The men were clean shaven, dressed their cleanest uniforms, were standing in formation at attention with their arms neatly stacked in front of them. Mr. Green later learned that the German Commander had been ordered to fight to the last man to slow the advance of the Americans as much as possible. He chose to not waste the lives of his men on what he knew was a pointless mission. He said that he Americans treated the German Commander with great respect.

Greetings from Kassel. I was born in Kassel and lived for a while right next ot the Dönche and now an Englishmen is lecturing me about a small part of the history of my birth place. What time to be alive.

My grandfather fought in the war. He always talked about his time on the Remagen bridge, which he had crossed multiple times in his ambulance that he drove. Once I asked him whether they feared the Wehrmacht in the final days of the war, insinuating that it was essentially a spent force. He told me that perception may have been true, but that all the men knew that the Germans could still pull together enough assets to really hurt you, and that all the men he served with had a healthy respect for their foe - as well as for their own self-preservation. This story, I think, exemplifies this dynamic quite well.

"Heavy armour" Tigers: Callin us fat?

Friend- "Whats your favorite porsche"? Me - *Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B* Friend-... Whhat..?

I see a new Felton story I stop everything to watch. You're the best, Mark...

One of my neighbors is 95. He fought in a king tiger number 122 or 124.

Takes me back to what the history channel use to be.

When having a Porsche really meant something..

I want to be here when Mr Felton breaks the 1 million mark. I have learned so much about Ww2 through him. His narration makes it such a good time to listen. Greetings from Mallorca/Spain.

I’ve been to Bovington Tank Museum, and they have a King Tiger II there. It’s genuinely the only tank in the whole place that made my jaw drop. It’s so big, so intimidating and genuinely chills your blood to look at.

Those King Tigers in the museum are beautiful

It's nice to learn more history about the Tiger IIs. They have got be one of the best looking tanks of WWII along with the JS-2.

Kassel suffered greatly from placing the Henschel factory just off the town centre. As Allied bombing took out the factory, it necessarily hit the highly populated areas as well. What was once regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in Germany became, after the war, a great example of Bauhaus reconstruction and the Documenta modern art festival. The city is well worth a visit! 🇩🇪

KZfaq's like 98% garbage, but you're in the 2% of actual great content man

Still had the new tank smell...Dang.

I am German. I would like to express my thanks. Their channel mainly represents the war events without moral evaluation. We must recognize that wars arise in this form, not on the failure of man on his own. The mostly simple men who faced each other, no matter which side, fought and died in faith in the supposed good that was imparted to them. All were incited against each other. And for all the lies and deceit that made her take up arms, her legacy and memory should be honored. Ich bin Deutscher. Ich möchte mal einen Dank aussprechen. Ihr Kanal stellt in der Hauptsache die Kriegsereignisse ohne moralische Wertung dar. Wir müssen erkennen, dass Kriege in dieser Form, nicht auf das Versagen des Menschen aus sich selbst heraus entstehen. Die meist einfachen Männer, die sich gegenüberstanden, egal welcher Seite, kämpften und starben im Glauben an das Vermeintlich Gute, welches ihnen vermittelt wurde. Alle wurden gegeneinander aufgehetzt. Und trotz all der Lüge und des Betruges, welches sie zur Waffe greifen ließ, sollte man ihr Vermächtnis und ihr Andenken in aller Ehren halten.

The great thing about Mark Felton productions (besides the subject matter content and historical narration) is that the video/image content is always going to be contextually relevant to the current audio segment playing. Most documentaries (even those professionally created for television broadcast) like to throw in 'filler' video segments that are sometimes poorly chosen or outright wrong for the associated audio narration. Rarely (if ever) do you see this in a Mark Felton production. Kudos to Mark!

Thank you, Mark, for keeping the love of history alive. I now have a 12 year old grandson watching your videos!

Even me who lives in this area didn't know there was still intense fighting ging on. Even more perplexing is how the Henschel Works still delivered in 1945 because next to all buildings got destroyed in the Kassel Firestorm bombing night.

Who is the lucky owner of that RC King Tiger model?

I was stationed in Frankfurt a/M as a member of the U.S. Army’s Third Armored Division Band from June 1975 until August 1977. For two years in a row we marched in the famous 20 kilometer-long Kassel RosenMontag (Rose Monday) Parade, which takes place two days before Ash Wednesday during Fasching. Also I attended a congregation of the German Church of God, or Gemeinde Gottes, which had its main bible school for pastoral training in Fritzlar, which I have also visited. So when you brought out the map and started recounting the battle, my ears perked up and I could definitely relate to the geography. However, at the time I had no idea that the Henschel factory that produced the King Tiger was located in Kassel-fascinating!! Thank you for sharing another amazing historical account from WWII!

Been watching you for years! I am a life long Kasseler🙂 I live a Stones throw from the current and old Thyssen factories. I love this town and this Video made my day🙂

Greetings from Kassel. They still build tanks a Kilometer or so down the road where I live.

Thank you Dr Felton. Another excellent war story. My father-in-law aged 21 met these King Tigers in 1944 in Normandy. He said they were truly terrifying as British tanks were completely outgunned. 50 years later, he was unable to look at them in Bovingdon museum.

The kind of military history i'd watch over and over again

My father, Herod Lowery Sr., was in Kassel on VE Day. My dad was all of 20. He landed in Nomandy on June 21, 1944 at 19. My dad was a tank wrecker driver, 544th Ordnance, First Army. Thanks Dr. Felton! Your stuff is great!

Videos been up 15 minutes and already has nearly 5,000 views. Such a statement for a amazing channel.

I am from Göttingen(home of the Horten 229), 50km north of Kassel. When the Allies bombed Kassel you were able to see the fire from Göttingen.

Mark, you do a fantastic job at presenting WW2 history - I very much appreciate it. I had the privilege of having grandfathers and great uncles, whom I was very close too, that served in WW2 in the European theater (U.S. Army, U.S Army Air Force). They have all since passed years ago. My young children will likely never meet a WW2 Veteran for they are now nearly all gone. You are keeping this history alive and by doing so honoring all that served - more importantly, you are ensuring the lessons are not forgotten. When it comes to WW2 history, I will be sharing these videos with my children, along with what their great grandfathers and great, great uncles passed on to me.

I’ve been falling asleep to your videoes for the past year. Keep it up👌

When you are infantry up against a weapon nicknamed "Meat Chopper" you know you are well and truly screwed.

"Hans, der Ami is coming! Lets build some King Tigers!" "Klaus, kannst du denn nicht schneller schrauben!"

I am enjoying these snippets of lesser known stories.Thank you Mark Felton for your knowledge.

Thank you for such dedication to history and to your channel, which my family has become accustomed to hearing aloud every evening. Wonderful work and content!

Dr felton delivers again, I am now set for tonights episode before bed, god bless and stay safe mate. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I clicked on that notification faster then the MG42 shoots.

Imagine being in a Sherman tank and facing a King Tiger just watching your rounds bounce off it

I love the Felton WWII history stories. Your attention to historical detail is outstanding. Thank you. I will contribute to your cause. I appreciate it so much you have not idea!!! Thank you again.

Mark - I love how you added the black and white footage of an RC tiger 2 into the video!!

I love American doctrine. Germans: "We have superior tanks" America: "We have lots of shells. Like a lot. When the artillery piece fails, we have more artillery. Also more shells"

Been watching since you had about 20k subscribers. To see the channel grow to almost a million is glorious! Fantastic videos mark me and the guys at work have you on all the time.

I just love that Mark includes a lot of original footage in his presentations I've not seen before--& I've been a bit of a student of military history for 30+ years...

Ah yes another wonderful video from Dr. Felton. Thank you sir for providing such quality content.

I live in Kassel i did never heared about this before. Thank you Dr Felton.

As always, a good and detailed story from Dr. Mark. I just don’t understand why there are people who are giving this a thumb down?!?

I met my family from Kassel...was nice to get some stories about the place at the time. Thanks for shedding a bit more light on this part of Germany!!

a video on my hometown, never expected that to happen :D side fact: the city of kassel was so much damaged due to allied bombing in 1943, that it was rebuild according to city plans the nazis made before the war. this changed most of the city´s street structure and when you look at pre-war photos, you think it´s a completely different city.

Nicely done Mark. using the RC King Tiger to fill in the footage from the war. Also nicely done with the story of the factory tigers fighting from the factory workers till they could fight no more.

Fantastic Historical work you do Sir. I Thank You.

You are on your way to a million subscribers Dr. Felton you really do inspire me to learn history on WW2 on the next peak level. You deserve so much recognition for your work and you have never failed to give us a new knowledge about this particular side of history.

Thank you to Mr. Feltons' parents for giving us Mark. A veritable font of information. Masterful.

I have a family member who's grandfather is from Kassel and served on the Eastern front in the Wehrmacht. Her other grandfather was an infantry soldier of the Kings Regiment, he became one of the British POWs under the Japanese in Burma. Both survived the war.

Always a pleasure to learn new things with Professor Felton, good stuff Mark.

Yet another gr8 story with narration and pictures / videos. Love you Mark ! ❤

Thank you for this insight into the history of my hometown! Greetings from Kassel!

A Video about my homecity... Thanks! Sadly the war changed the face of Kassel a lot. Only very few cities were destroyed to a higher percentage than Kassel and a lot of historical buildings and hundreds of old city houses were destroyed alongside the factories. Even near the small village outside Kassel were I live you can find several bombcrates until today (created when allied planes attack some heavy AA guns). Because of this destruction Kassel today has a lot of typical after war building areas that are not really a nice view- but still it is a very green city and we have the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe World Heritage Site that is always worth a visit! But again Thank you for your excellent videos....

I love your videos. Makes me miss the days of the history channel. When they actually covered history.

Best. WW2. History. Channel. Ever. Also; least annoying narrative voice. Always great footage. Not the stock clips that get recycled on KZfaq ad nauseum.

Those things must've drunk fuel like beer. As if German resources weren't stretched enough.

The way you pronounce words from the German language is very close to flawless and you are the only non German historican that I know of who even made such efforts at all. It somehow was odd at first because I always expect English speakers to anglicize" anything not originating from that particular language but you try to keep it as precise as possible, just as you do with the content of your videos. No American heroism, no facist farytale propaganda, you just focus on historical facts of the war itself and you do an outstanding job at it

morning routine: shower get changed make tea watch some mark felton. thank you Mark. please keep doing what you're doing.

Mark Felton is the reason why we all still have KZfaq.

6:38 I had an older friend, who was in West Germany during the Cold War. He got to interview some of the German WW2 vets. One of the guns they hated the most was the Browning M2. Because even if they were hiding behind a wall, the .50 BMG rounds would still go through it.

0:03 that is a SICK model and great camera angle..... that looks so cool nice work

Mark historians like you and yarnhub are what ensure we never forget the path our forefathers walked but also to educate folks on the fascinating tools of war in with those paths were laid. Love your videos thank you!

Thanks again Mark great work, your presentations always give a fresh insight into these well known historical events.

As always well researched tid bit of info during WWII. Very interesting. Kudos to you. Looking forward to viewing these lesser known facts.

I was just watching your other stuff there too! Legend!

Ahhh!! Always good to watch professor Felton before bed!

Mark blew up! Glad to see you getting the attention you deserve.

Dang, I misread it and thought it was the Tiger King.

clear video, accurate, balanced in conveying history is the felton style. Moreover, comments are opened and free to express opinions. Felton the best👍

Another great video Mark. My dad's AAA battery was attached to the 80th Division,317th Infantry at this time. The 317th did not advance on Kassel but stayed behind mopping up the XX Corps Rhine bridgehead at Mainz. My dad was wounded in the leg on 3-28-45 but didn't have to be evacuated and he crossed the river on April 1. They remained with the 80th for a few more weeks and were present at Buchenwald after it was liberated. My dad was very proud of his association with the 80th Blue Ridge Division as he was a native of Virginia where the division was originally formed.

Love the historic film of the King Tiger moving through countryside. Amazingly well preserved! Keep up the good work Mark. Love your videos.

I've learned more from this show than I did in highschool history class.

Last time I was this early, the Wochenschau didn't have to lie to tell of german victories.

Mark Felton's voice is so soothing 😂 I'm always relaxed while watching these videos although the topics are not relaxing, it's like if someone would be telling me a story or a legend or a bedtime story or something lol

All quite in the house,a new video from mark has landed.Thanks.

Mark teaches better than My history teacher in online class

My grandparents who lived in Kassel during the war were absolutely bombed out several times. My grandpa had to move 7 times during the war. Everytime staying in Kassel tho.

Some of the nicest people I have met are from Kassel. I always enjoy hearing stories about Kassel as it reminds me of those good people and memories.

You sir are by far my absolute favorite History teacher!!👊👊🤟🤟

see thats just amazing, im in my hotelroom in kassel starting the video and its about kassel. the very city i arived 3h ago. coincidence? i dont think so. thank you so much for your awesome content

It is cool to have the Hentschel last name. Yes, mine has a t in it and there's doesnt but I still feel proud of it

Its unbelieveable how much content you put out Mark Felton. I love it, i subscribed you because i get Information i wouldn‘t get here in Germany as a German like this. I thank you for your work. Iam happy That i learned english and Can See our history with different eyes too.

This is my new history teacher ...

In case anyone didn't know, the Tiger tank in the opening is an RC Model.

When Kassel was destroyed in October 1943, more than 10.000 people died and 80% of the houses were destroyed. My grandmother told me that you could see the fire in the night from our smalltown more than 40 miles away. The people gathered silently, then someone said: "What would we do now if it wasn't for our Fuehrer?!" An old man murmured sarcastically: "I bet we all, us and them, would sleep in peace and harmony."

Great content and the valuable lesser known details of the world's greatest conflict. Thanks Mark!

I absolutely love your channel. These videos are soooo informative. Thank you, sir.