The Ribbentrop Hoard - WWII's Finest GI Trophy

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11 ай бұрын

On May 5, 1945, a US Army captain discovered one of WWIIs finest caches of trophy items in a small hotel in the Austrian mountains. The cache belonged to none other than Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.
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Primary source: 'The Orders and Medals of Joachim von Ribbentrop' by William C. Stump, 15 April 2012, Axishistory.com
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@michaelporzio7384 11 ай бұрын

Goering once insulted von Ribbentrop, saying "shut up you champagne salesman!" War, some people get rich and a lot of people get dead...Excellent posting Dr. Felton.

@jeremy28135 11 ай бұрын

For Goering to insult anybody….now THATS rich 🎖️🏅🥉🥈🥇🥈🥉🥇🥈🥉🏅🎖️🥉🥈🥇🥇🥇🎖️🎖️🎖️🏅🎖️🏅🥉🥈

@andrewstevenson118 11 ай бұрын

There's a line used in the American Civil War to describe how the wealthy could get out of serving. "More than x slaves" or "hire a substitute for $y". The grumble of the average private soldier was "rich man's war, poor man's fight."

@krishanuA 11 ай бұрын

Damn, I had completely forgotten that one. Hermann could give a proper dressing down when he wanted. Thanks, mate!

@yochaiwyss3843 11 ай бұрын

@@jeremy28135mm needs more Medals. It's Göring after all...

@funfact8660 11 ай бұрын

Ribbentrop snapped back to Reichsmarshall Goering, " What did you say Fashionist ?! "

@barrygower6733 11 ай бұрын

My mother and aunt worked at the laundry in Southfields that did the was used by the German Legation. One day, they were preparing a dress shirt for the wash when they found a pair of gold swastika cuff links still on the sleeves. The links were returned to the Legation and some time later, they received a box of chocolates and some flowers along with a note of thanks from Ribbentrop saying he was grateful to them as the links were a personal gift from Hitler. I wonder whether they ended up in the box at the Austrian hotel…

@angelachouinard4581 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your footnote, Things like this really make history come alive and show we are all touched by it.

@funfact8660 11 ай бұрын

Fascinating

@serwombles8816 11 ай бұрын

Really makes you wonder if the right side won

@funfact8660 11 ай бұрын

@@serwombles8816 lately I've been thinking that same thing

@serwombles8816 11 ай бұрын

@@funfact8660 we wouldn't be having all these "Diversity" issues

@JT-yz4rj 11 ай бұрын

Right now my wife is salty that I’ve been suddenly distracted by the latest Mark Felton production

@jerryjeromehawkins1712 11 ай бұрын

I hear you JT. Just like Pavlov's dog... when I hear Mark's intro? I start drooling! 😅

@thegunslinger8806 11 ай бұрын

You're sleeping in the dog house tonight bro lol

@JT-yz4rj 11 ай бұрын

@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 the hype is REAL

@djzrobzombie2813 11 ай бұрын

Simp

@djzrobzombie2813 11 ай бұрын

Beta male 😂

@RoboticDragon 11 ай бұрын

Always makes me a little sad to see things such as this sold off to private collectors, broken up and hidden away. In the words of a great man "It belongs in a museum!"

@jasonweaver6524 11 ай бұрын

At the end of WWII, Germany was flooded with US collectors, collecting everything of value without paying.

@Mike-01234 11 ай бұрын

I'm not if it was up to me all of this Nazi trash would be ground up and dumped into a landfill. The suffering these men caused to millions of innocent people is all that should be discussed in history not their medals.

@geigertec5921 10 ай бұрын

@@jasonweaver6524 They paid with the lives of their friends, sons, fathers, and brothers. I highly doubt the Americans taking guns and memorabilia even came close to paying off the debt the Germans owed to not just the Americans but the world as a whole.

@dontbeasadsoulja 10 ай бұрын

Well, I can understand you point of view, but no, just plain no. Because modern museums, especially the german and austrian ones, have the tendencies to lock WW2 items in the cellar - because those are the items of "evil". Heck there's even a debate in Austria as if those items should not be destroyed! So in the hands of private collectors this will never happen to these valuable pieces of history.

@jeffwolcott7815 10 ай бұрын

Maybe some of those collectors own museums.

@Ruud1911 11 ай бұрын

Strange story after just watching a video of a German general prisoner of war in Russia, telling a story that his "Ritter Kreutz" been given back to him after soldiers stole it from him, and the Top Russian officer, told the thief that a Ritter Kreutz was only given to a hero, so he got it back.

@uptoolate2793 11 ай бұрын

So, the Soviets were honorable where we were.....thieves.

@nmisnotnewandnotmexico.2262 11 ай бұрын

In his memoir "Panzer Commander", Hans von Luck recounts his capture by Soviet troops where his Ritterkreuz is stolen and then ordered to be returned to him. Unfortunately, the box where he later hid the medal was stolen upon his return to Germany.

@nordicson2835 11 ай бұрын

Things never change , we have modern day examples of this man and his actions.

@dougaldouglas8842 11 ай бұрын

Amen.

@charlesrb3898 11 ай бұрын

@@thedude5449 That was a good comment Vlad.

@BonShula 11 ай бұрын

@@thedude5449 How is Hunter Biden's c**k?

@Sshooter444 11 ай бұрын

@@charlesrb3898 what if "Vlad" is the good guy and we are the "baddies"??

@addrakettp 11 ай бұрын

@@Sshooter444your question is whether or not the dictator that invaded a neighboring country and robbed his people of a place in the worlds society is the good guy? No, he is not

@animationfanatic2133 11 ай бұрын

Gotta give props to that innkeeper for having the testicular fortitude to try to say no to armed victorious soldiers

@dante666jt 11 ай бұрын

Based

@wayneantoniazzi2706 11 ай бұрын

Well he tried, but probably didn't give too much of an argument when Capt. Goldsmith said "Move!"

@Rincypoopoo 11 ай бұрын

He had to fulfil his contractual obligations with the hotel owners....

@kennethbolton951 11 ай бұрын

He was lucky they weren't Soviets.

@angelachouinard4581 11 ай бұрын

@@kennethbolton951 So true!

@Normandy1944 11 ай бұрын

Many of those medals were magnificent looking, ...what a collection it was.

@kennethbolton951 11 ай бұрын

In case anyone is wondering $20, 000 dollars in 1947 would be worth $273,000 dollars in purchasing power today. So he didn't get shortchanged and he was young enough to spend it then.

@Lerxstification 11 ай бұрын

SMH...someone paid today's equivalent of about $200,000 in 1965 for the entire collection. What a fool Harry Goldsmith was. He could have easily got $2,000,000, or more, way more.

@nicknumber1512 11 ай бұрын

That's a lot of dollardollars.

@gamerxt333 11 ай бұрын

@KennethBolton951 Young enough to spend it, compared to ? Being old enough to spend it ? .......

@certaindeed 11 ай бұрын

Not a bad profit for selling stolen merchandise

@firefly44220 11 ай бұрын

@@certaindeed stolen from nazis

@parzivalthewanderer9687 11 ай бұрын

Such a shame that they were all sold off. A collection like that, together, is an amazing look into history that is not very common.

@robertdickson9319 11 ай бұрын

While I can understand the desire to make a buck off the items, the sheer historical value of the collection, as a whole, should have prompted a donation to a significant museum. Another example of "lost to history".

@EndritKaljevic-oh9wu 11 ай бұрын

He did go and display the artefacts eh? He could have sold it the same year he got home

@firefly44220 11 ай бұрын

@@EndritKaljevic-oh9wu that’s valid, but the war was much closer at that time. We need stuff like that today more than ever to remind people and keep history alive. Showing it off for a few years after the war is hardly any consolidation for the history lost

@tomwhite5868 11 ай бұрын

@@firefly44220Not everyone has history in mind, especially those who fought in it. Maybe he needed the money for his family, or simply didn't want them to go for nothing when he passed away? Maybe he just wanted to forget about the war, no doubt seeing what he'd seen? We shouldn't judge people for not doing the correct thing, when we didn't experience what they did.

@liamsouthwell27 11 ай бұрын

At least there are photos

@Roller_Ghoster 11 ай бұрын

I can never be educated enough as far as WW2 is concerned. Top notch stuff from my favourite KZfaq historian

@MichaelKingsfordGray 11 ай бұрын

Start by educating yourself as to what your real name is, before you strive for such lofty heights as history!

@Jack-bs6zb 11 ай бұрын

I’m sure he knows his real name though i can’t understand why it’s important to you. Are you feeling alright?

@MichaelKingsfordGray 11 ай бұрын

@@Jack-bs6zb I despise infantile cowards like you. I was in the armed forces to protect you children. It is because of your ilk that I now regret that choice.

@bsolutions525 11 ай бұрын

@@Jack-bs6zbi doubt so, seems abit off

@rudolphguarnacci197 11 ай бұрын

@@bsolutions525 Right?

@murphy6700 11 ай бұрын

Wow! I can't believe that von Ribbentrop was the only recipient of the Order of the German Eagle. That is a lot of work by a jeweler for just one medal to be struck. I always learn something from Dr. Felton's videos.

@certinstructorron4050 11 ай бұрын

One thing for sure. Mark Felton always has materials people often don't know about! Excellent job 😊

@jerryjeromehawkins1712 11 ай бұрын

5:55... that Iron Half-Moon badge is absolutely amazing. An award I wasnt aware of. Thank you as always Dr. Felton! 🎖

@deradler7571 11 ай бұрын

Dr Felcher got it wrong. The correct name is the Gallipoli star, although the Gemans did call it the Iron crescent. It was awarded to germans who served with the Ottomans during WW1

@MI-mx3rh 11 ай бұрын

Those were the good times

@jerryjeromehawkins1712 11 ай бұрын

@deradler7571 Thanks Deradler... very interesting! 👍🏽

@tanjusar114 11 ай бұрын

Von Rundstedt also had it...

@funfact8660 11 ай бұрын

@@MI-mx3rhThey were the best of times, and the worst of times.....one thing for sure is Reichsmarshall Goering was always having a pretty good time

@bevinboulder5039 11 ай бұрын

Imagine what that collection would be worth today if it hadn't been sold off separately. Another great report!

@mrdynamic8678 11 ай бұрын

Tens of millions dollars

@lt.petemaverickmitchell7113 11 ай бұрын

44th Infantry Division knocks on door and says we’re closed. Wonder if the innkeeper really thought that would work out?😂

@skydiverclassc2031 11 ай бұрын

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"

@louisavondart9178 11 ай бұрын

Germans were used to everyone following orders. It was worth a try.... lol.

@geigertec5921 11 ай бұрын

$20,000 for a priceless collection. "It belongs in a museum!" -Indiana Jones

@selfdo 11 ай бұрын

It was the opinion of some that Dr Jones also belonged in a museum.

@ejharbet6390 11 ай бұрын

If you can't own property,you are property.

@funfact8660 11 ай бұрын

It's worth mega millions by now

@MrSloika 11 ай бұрын

@@funfact8660 American troops were crazy about obtaining loot during WWII, and they hauled off a lot of it. During the the 1950s-1960s military and gun shows (swap meets) in the US were absolutely awash with the stuff. As a kid growing up in New Jersey in the 70s I remember playing 'army' with kids who had bits and pieces of authentic German and Japanese militaria Their father's had brought back after the war. I can't imagine how value some of that stuff would be today. Back then it was just some worthless old junk.

@funfact8660 11 ай бұрын

@@MrSloika Me too, I started putting ads in the newspapers in the 80's and 90's scored many German and Japanese items, I still deal in them, as well as ancient Roman coins and artifacts ✌️

@loca8048 11 ай бұрын

Love how the general says "sure take them" as if it was his to give away.

@MrSloika 11 ай бұрын

It was. To the victors go the spoils.

@loca8048 11 ай бұрын

@@MrSloika Really? I don't think that's how international law works. Granted it was through this kind of thinking that international law was born.

@Aramis419 11 ай бұрын

My parents were trying to clear out their attic a few years ago, and being an amatuer historian, I noted a number of things - mostly pins, medals, buttons, and a bayonet or two. My paternal grandfather served in Europe, and my maternal grandfather and his brothers (being first generation Italian-Americans) served in the Pacific. Incredulously, I shouted, "THESE BELONG IN A MUSEUM!"

@Alan.livingston 11 ай бұрын

WHERE THEY CAN PUT THEM IN A BASEMENT NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.

@grayparatrooper 11 ай бұрын

never put anything in a musueam keep it or sell

@kutter_ttl6786 11 ай бұрын

Just remember, if you loan it to a museum, make sure to draw up and sign a contract between you and the museum. Sometimes, they have a nasty habit of conveniently forgetting that you loaned it instead of donating it.

@jamesalexander5623 11 ай бұрын

@@grayparatrooper Unless it's important enough to display!

@wayneantoniazzi2706 11 ай бұрын

@@Alan.livingston That's the problem with a lot of museums, especially the larger ones. Many have so much stuff they don't know what to do with it all.

@shengyi1701 11 ай бұрын

He wasn’t called Goldsmith for nothing! He really struck gold!

@jamesalexander5623 11 ай бұрын

He let it go for a song compaired to what it was worth even at the time!

@funfact8660 11 ай бұрын

@@jamesalexander5623 His trove would be worth mega millions by now

@sealteamtwo117 4 ай бұрын

He was called "Goldsmith" because (gee, what a coincidence!) he was Jewish.

@firstcynic92 11 ай бұрын

Damn. Those should have gone to a museum. The Smithsonian or the West Point museum would have been the best of those open in the mid 60s.

@rorywest4937 11 ай бұрын

Wow, sad such historical items aren't in a museum somewhere. Often times private collections are neglected after the death of the owner, leading to loss or destruction of irreplaceable artifacts. 😑

@cklg88 11 ай бұрын

Wow! What a beautiful hoard. I'd be happy with one. Order of the White Rose spectacular!

@notyourdonkey 11 ай бұрын

You did manage to forget Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia in addition to bits of Poland that were "donated" to Russia as part of the accord between Germany and Russia.

@bergfc8848 11 ай бұрын

The chances that someone named "Goldsmith" discovers a hoard with these contents 😄 Great video as always, interesting to get a small insight in the diplomatic relations of the Nazis at the time!

@anthonyfuqua6988 11 ай бұрын

I thought your quote was antisemitic at first then I looked again and a goldsmith found the gold is pretty funny.

@mountainhobo 11 ай бұрын

@@anthonyfuqua6988 "I thought your quote was antisemitic at first" -- Did you manage to call thought police?

@anthonyfuqua6988 11 ай бұрын

@mountainhobo I never would have done that. People are free to say. For a minute I thought u were saying it was kind of like providence that a jew found the money. But goldsmith found the gold.

@bergfc8848 11 ай бұрын

@@anthonyfuqua6988 It had not even occurred to me that it might have been a Jewish name, but I can see how that would have been a possible negative post. Indeed not intended to be hurtful to anyone, but I like puns or words with double meanings, and this one struck me as funny coincidence 🙂

@kimwit1307 11 ай бұрын

@@anthonyfuqua6988 Well, I would call it ultimate irony if this was actually the case.

@xbcrcx 11 ай бұрын

Kudos to Mark Felton for clueing us onto the "my boxes syndrome" which seems to plague evil autocrats both past and present.

@JJMHigner 11 ай бұрын

Should have been kept together as a collection and placed in a museum

@davidgenie-ci5zl 11 ай бұрын

You should have bought them, and placed them kn a museum if that is the case, or better still fight your way through europe in the Army, collect them, then put them in a museum.

@johnbrattan9341 9 ай бұрын

@@davidgenie-ci5zl Huh?

@dave8599 9 ай бұрын

@@johnbrattan9341 Huh??????

@johnbrattan9341 9 ай бұрын

@@dave8599For starters, who's "you?"

@dave8599 9 ай бұрын

@@johnbrattan9341 You is the one that wants this stuff to be in a museum.

@snoop05 11 ай бұрын

It belongs in a museum!

@lt.petemaverickmitchell7113 11 ай бұрын

THANK YOU again for another stellar video Dr. Felton. You’re a treasure in keeping WWII history alive!

@pauldurkee4764 11 ай бұрын

That is quite a collection of awards, Von Ribbentrop was like a walking chandelier.

@sli191 11 ай бұрын

I never knew ribbontrop was a decent good soldier during ww1,you are the history channel Mark

@tanks1945 11 ай бұрын

I believed Ribbentrop's mother in law said " who would have thought the stupidest of my sons in law would have gone the highest"

@Katoshi_Takagumi 11 ай бұрын

Ribbentrop is considered stupid, yes, and apparently he was only the 10th in terms of IQ of the Nazi leaders, with an IQ of only 129.

@rickglorie 11 ай бұрын

His appointment was due to his friendship with Hitler rather than his qualifications. Ribbentrop's diplomatic efforts were borish and were characterized by loyalty to Hitler and his aggresive policies. He fit in well with the nazi apparatus which was based on manipulation and scheming rather then merit.

@dustyfarmer 11 ай бұрын

Talk about being at the right place at the right time.

@RaiderLeo69 11 ай бұрын

Another awesome history lesson from the world’s best professor of WW2 ! We are fortunate to have him! Many thanks to you Sir!

@robbietoms3128 11 ай бұрын

It's just a shame that the collection got broken up and not given to a museum to display along with the uniforms etc.

@Thomas-ps8hr 6 ай бұрын

10:11 I love how Mark so casually, yet passive aggresive says: you can't, I got all exicited at first...

@priestessthea 11 ай бұрын

This hoard is off the hook. Absolutely superb content. Thank you, Mark Felton!

@ashively1 11 ай бұрын

Once again, thank you Dr. Felton for another great video!

@jjeherrera 11 ай бұрын

How painful! This collection should have been bought by a museum!

@alcoholfree6381 11 ай бұрын

I bet the collection of all of Ribbentrop’s medals if sold off today would garner several millions of dollars?? What a haul!

@Therileyrileyriley 11 ай бұрын

Mister Mark Felton, about a year ago I commented about naming myself MARK FELTON PRODUCTIONS while playing WW2 shooter called Post Scriptum. You replied jokingly calling me an Imposter! I am back to say I now do the same in the game Hell Let Loose. Both games are massive with 80+ players who enjoy realistic WW2 games per match. Every match in both games, I run into AT LEAST one fan of yours on my team. Thanks for your uploads. Your educational videos offer entertainment and knowledge with a reach that knows no borders.

@bronze-hawk6914 11 ай бұрын

Stalin looks so happy in those pictures

@bobross8786 11 ай бұрын

Yep sticking it to the allies

@jebbroham1776 11 ай бұрын

Ribbentrop's hanging was botched, strangling him for nearly 20 minutes before he expired. I guess that was justice well served for the millions of lives he helped end during the war.

@Hendo56 10 ай бұрын

All of this stuff should have been in a museum... It's historical value outweighs it's intrinsic value.

@TellySavalas-or5hf 11 ай бұрын

Ribbentrop in the sublime series "Winds of War" (1983) is played by Anton Diffring.

@Katoshi_Takagumi 11 ай бұрын

Yes, and he also played Heydrich in one movie, and best I would remember him from 'Where Eagles Dare'.

@leonpaul9443 11 ай бұрын

He made a career playing playing Nazi bigshots

@RoadiewithRich 11 ай бұрын

Just wanted to say I am finishing up my second book by you! Thoroughly enjoying your writings and will be getting a third book real soon! Thanks.

@davidvaughn7752 11 ай бұрын

Wow! Just spellbinding! Excellent compilation, Dr. Felton!!! THANK YOU!

@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk 11 ай бұрын

Those items and uniforms should have been donated/sold to a museum.

@mikeypiros6647 11 ай бұрын

You should do an episode on his son, a gladiator in his time, he was every where in his service.

@rickglorie 11 ай бұрын

Maybe on some whereaboo channel, not here.

@lucvanackeren5445 11 ай бұрын

Indeed, Von Ribbentrop's son only passed recently ... Colourfull character too ...

@xeraoh 11 ай бұрын

did he ever sue this american dude who stole his faters property to give it back?

@nicobas773 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much mr.Felton for these excellent episodes of WW2 History. I really enjoy your channel 😀

@MrXdmp 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Dr. Felton!

@staaaaalbeton 11 ай бұрын

Why not naming the two collectors? W.C. Stump was very proud on his acquirement of the collection and told many people about it.

@centurion262 11 ай бұрын

Thank you I was wondering if anyone was going to mention that collectors name;

@mattgibbs73 11 ай бұрын

I came to the comments before watching the video having corresponded a few times with Bill Stump and his recounting to me of the cream of his collection, when he owned this. He was a little bit irascible with some folks online - I guess not suffering fools gladly - but friendly to me. If he doesn't even get a mention in the video you've saved me watching 👍since I've already seen his photos of it years ago 😄

@fatdaddyeddiejr 11 ай бұрын

I can never get bored with this channel. With every video, you learn something. Keep up the good work.

@extragoogleaccount6061 11 ай бұрын

How does he keep up the pace?!? Its amazing. Channels that talk over stock footage don't post as often as him and nearly all of his imagery/videos are pertinent to the exact historical events he is talking about.

@skyedog24 11 ай бұрын

As time goes by the monetary value ceases and the historical value increases it's a pipe dream but it would be nice to see all artifacts going back to the proper locations. Or conversely just being displayed in proper museums.

@R2Manny 11 ай бұрын

Such fantastic content - thank you for sharing and creating these videos, Mark!!

@twentyrothmans7308 11 ай бұрын

Damn you, Monty Python. Every time I hear Von Ribbentrop, I think "Ron Vibbentrop". Thank you, Mark, for this fascinating research.

@grapeshot 11 ай бұрын

All that gold bullion ended up in the movie Kelly's Heroes.

@bobross8786 11 ай бұрын

Really

@grapeshot 11 ай бұрын

@@bobross8786 I don't think so just my attempted at being funny.

@bobross8786 11 ай бұрын

@@grapeshot oh 🤣

@michaelharrison8036 11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for this video! Very informative! I often wondered what happened to all his awards and personal effects...now I know. 👍👍

@frankwood7878 11 ай бұрын

MARK FELTON IS AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERT HISTORIAN ON WORLD WAR 2 HISTORY. HE ALWAYS HAS GREAT STORIES TO TELL. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MR. FELTON

@kennethrouse7942 11 ай бұрын

Thanks once again, Dr. Felton, forward another fascinating video. I remember in my adolescence reading an article about the souvenir horde, including a picture of the dagger, in TRUE magazine. 👍😎

@geoffw8565 11 ай бұрын

Mark, your video posts are excellent and so interesting and so professionally done. I always enjoy them !

@allmightygreat1892 11 ай бұрын

My first supervisor and mentor in 1985 was a d day paratropper and fought in battle of the bulge.

@davidgenie-ci5zl 11 ай бұрын

My college chemistry professor worked on the first A bomb.

@alexamerling79 11 ай бұрын

Mark Felton, one of the best channels on the Third Reich.

@laurelrunlaurelrun 11 ай бұрын

Loving the trophies coverage!

@paulkoza8652 11 ай бұрын

Apparently, Goldsmith never watched Antiques Roadshow.

@TankerBricks 11 ай бұрын

Mark. Thanks for providing my Wednesday night entertainment!

@amywright2243 11 ай бұрын

Perfect timing! Sweetie and I just sat down with our ice cream floats and found a Felton!

@pierremainstone-mitchell8290 11 ай бұрын

Yet again you've taught me something I didn't know Mark! Well done!

@chaselampe13 11 ай бұрын

I love your channel mark, you’re amazing

@Dionaea_floridensis 11 ай бұрын

Another super fascinating episode! Thanks for keeping me sane during this boring summer dr. Felton

@johnhanson5943 11 ай бұрын

If you find this time boring, then you aren’t following events. Present events.

@paulmurphy42 11 ай бұрын

Keep 'em coming Mark!

@TimMonbrod 11 ай бұрын

Fascinating work Professor! Thanks!

@alexsmart5452 11 ай бұрын

My Grandfather took as war trophy's two pistols owned by and a dairy or a bundle of letters(seems like it was a diary*) of Ferdinand Schörner. He decommissions/destroyed the firing pen of the pistols(seems like they were both Walther P38, but one could have been a Lugar with his name engraved on the slide) but both got stolen* in 79' and the diary got lost to time. *I was 9 when they got stolen so some of my memory might be off.

@AtheistOrphan 11 ай бұрын

A dairy? Were the cows included? 🐄 I presume he shipped it back brick by brick.

@rohijulislam5756 11 ай бұрын

Ribbentrop's daughter is still alive today, aged more than 100

@caniacstevehenderson7115 11 ай бұрын

Well done sir!! Very much appreciated 😊😊😊😊

@threecatsandalady64 11 ай бұрын

Great work Dr. Mark

@xiaoka 11 ай бұрын

WWII will never run out of great stories! 😀

@apr8189 11 ай бұрын

And i'm more than ok with that 🙂

@dorianleclair7390 11 ай бұрын

It's a shame those were not put in a museum.

@timmyjones1921 11 ай бұрын

There needs to be a World History Medal for Dr. Mark Felton , in America we was never told Ribbentrop pressured Hitler to declare war on America. We was always told Hitler in a mental senseless rage declared war on America with no fore thought before doing so and now thanks to Dr. Mark Felton we know better now.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 11 ай бұрын

If Ribbentrop talked Hitler into declaring war on the US he was a first-class idiot and a worse foreign minister. The Tripartite Pact among Germany, Italy, and Japan was a mutual defense treaty, not a mutual agression treaty. Goering, Keitel, Jodl, and some other's of Germany's top brass advised Hitler NOT to declare war on the US as there was absolutely no need to do so. But Hitler did so anyway. If he WAS to declare war on the US he should have asked Japan for something in return for doing so, such as an attack on Siberia to tie down Russian forces stationed there and provide a major distraction, or no deal! But he didn't. And the Japanese had NO intention of doing so, Stalin's spies in Japan found out and passed the word to him making possible the re-enforcement of the Red Army fighting the Germans. As far as allies go German, Japan, and Italy were pretty poor ones, most of the time one didn't know what the others were up to or planning.

@amham48 11 ай бұрын

I am amazed and informed every week by Dr. Felton. Apparently the trove of little known historical facts continues...

@StevenKeery 11 ай бұрын

That doesn't seem like much money for such a unique collection. A pity it didn't go to a museum, it would be an interesting collection to view.

@davidlogansr8007 11 ай бұрын

It was probably in late 1940’s Dollars and would be more than 10 times that in today’s FIAT money! And no that doesn’t mean the car company!

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 11 ай бұрын

@@davidlogansr8007The US uses fiat money since the 1770's as the Continental Dollar. That got replaced with Specie coins by 1787 as part of the new Constitution's financial reforms but there are still holdouts in the West where gold coins are hard to come by...

@notsosilentmajority1 11 ай бұрын

What a shame that this collection has been separated and sold off to various buyers. Individually, the pieces are very nice, as a unit they are fascinating.

@MrSloika 11 ай бұрын

At the time it wasn't worth much more than its value in scrap gold and stones.

@notsosilentmajority1 11 ай бұрын

@@MrSloika I'm sure you're right but being that the original "owner" brought the collection around in shows and stuff, you'd think he would have realized the value as a complete set, not so much in the monetary sense, but in a collectors sense. But hey, we know how $$ money $$ can get people to sell just about anything.

@davemartino5997 11 ай бұрын

@@notsosilentmajority1you would think the set would make it way more valuable

@notsosilentmajority1 11 ай бұрын

@@davemartino5997 Agreed. You're right.

@robbiedolan340 11 ай бұрын

Fascinating as always. Thanks Mark

@jensenwilliam5434 11 ай бұрын

Thank you Mark!

@kenttyler1243 11 ай бұрын

You can bet that they were given to Ribbentrop for completely different reasons than the reasons they were designed to be awarded.

@rickglorie 11 ай бұрын

@@wingsandbeer4208 no, since there was no political gain on behalf of the party awarding it here, the Nobel Prize commity. It is a citation for excellence.

@jonathanwebster7091 11 ай бұрын

@@wingsandbeer4208nothing like that; Heads of State are granted the highest award of their host nation when making state visits (or for other diplomatic reasons). So a head of state visiting France for example, will be awarded the Legion of Honour. Because Hitler as head of state, refused them, Ribbentrop got them instead.

@rickglorie 11 ай бұрын

@@wingsandbeer4208 by whom? The norwegians? How?

@johnmurdoch8534 11 ай бұрын

VON Ribbentrop was the only one on top in germany who actually gave germany a shot at domination via soviet alliance..yet no one listened and everyone scorned him. He delivered the news of war to the soviets and even insisted on letting them know tearfully he had no desire for this war . For all this, he has my sympathy. I suspect the brits were the ones to push his hanging and few of the germans high command had love lost in him. .

@horusfalcon 11 ай бұрын

Thanks again for another look into the pages of history.

@eamo106 11 ай бұрын

Typical Felton, groundbreaking new WWII findings ! Noone beats Mark !

@picknikbasket 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Mark, I've been re-reading Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, fascinating and long! Ribbentrop was a thoroughly nasty bastard and the gallows were too good for him.

@timothyrounsfull9686 11 ай бұрын

Like Bi-Dum

@fredgarv79 11 ай бұрын

I was a young 16 year old in 1976, and was very curious as how this small country came close to dominating the world, So I read this book. I couldn't put it down. Then I read John Tolands Adolf hitler book, another like 1,000 page book. Both great books. But these mark felton videos are always something new

@stephenbridges2791 11 ай бұрын

It's amazing that a Lt.Col. would be allowed to keep something of that importance. Even more so, that it was sold off; piecemeal. Really should have stayed together.

@G.D.9 11 ай бұрын

Finders keepers

@thesteelrodent1796 11 ай бұрын

the US considered anything that wasn't of strategic value to be just tat. And they probably cared more about keeping morale up by letting the soldiers get what they wanted, than going through the hassle of returning things to the rightful owners

@tomhenry897 11 ай бұрын

Not really Officers have privileges

@selfdo 11 ай бұрын

That he brazenly looted Ribbentrop's personal property. These items were not things that the former Foreign Minister had looted. They should have been given back to his widow. Another example of Allied hypocrisy, especially where Jews were involved.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 11 ай бұрын

@@selfdoShould I respect the property rights of a Nazi and a convicted war criminal?

@ejk181186 11 ай бұрын

I remember being in an antiques shop in the vicinity of Wattisham airfield, Suffolk about 10 years ago. They had one of Ribbentrop's tunics in a glass display case.

@Jack-bs6zb 11 ай бұрын

A shame the collection didn’t find a home in a museum. Personal greed destroyed that possibility.

@timchamberlain2290 11 ай бұрын

Mark - It would be really interesting if you were to make a film about Ribbentrop's time as ambassador to the UK shortly before the War. His son went to Westminster School, and he had a country house built in my hometown of Pinner, something which always blew my mind when I was growing up! - If I recall rightly, it was requisitioned by the British military (RAF?) during the War and Goering's sister lived there under house arrest for a while, I think?

@uptoolate2793 11 ай бұрын

Not a thought given to returning these stolen items to the family. How charming.

@davidgenie-ci5zl 11 ай бұрын

No thought at all, the family of that nazi deserved nothing, not even life. they are lucky to have lived.

@amandaJ7449 5 ай бұрын

I have been waiting for someone to say that. There are those in the comments saying these things belong in a museum, they belong to his family, plain and simple.

@GooglyEyedJoe 3 ай бұрын

Why would he care about returning Nazi memorabilia to Ribbentrops relatives? I'm going to venture a guess that Ribbentrops relatives don't necessarily want to remember the fact they're related to an infamous Nazi.

@tomdemay6147 3 ай бұрын

@@amandaJ7449 bullshit, they are war trophies.

@Gunny672 11 ай бұрын

Outstanding video. Thank you for this interesting piece of history.

@mads3236 11 ай бұрын

Great episode. I just have one minor correction, Ribbentrop was not the only German to receive Großkreuz des Deutschen Adlerordens in Gold (Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the German Eagle in Gold), Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von Neurath also Reichsminister des Äußeren "Foreign Minister of Germany" (1932-1938) Rippentrop's predecessor and Reichsminister des Innern "Minister of the Interior" (1933-1943) Wilhelm Frick, both received this distinction. You can find pictures of both of them wearing the Grand Cross. In relating to the Order of the Dannebrog, and just a note to the story of this one. He received the Order of the Dannebrog Grand Grand cross with a diamond in 1941. Upon receiving the Grand Cross, you receive a coat of arms. This coat of arms will be hung in the castle church at Frederiksborg Castle, but he never got his a coat of arms, and by royal resolution on 10 October 1946 he was deprived of the Order of the Danneborg. Hermann Göring was also stripped of this order as part of the royal resolution.

@thesteelrodent1796 11 ай бұрын

he wasn't "deprived" of the order - he never deserved it. Neither did Göring. They didn't fulfil the requirements and should never have received them in the first place

@mads3236 11 ай бұрын

@@thesteelrodent1796 If you are convicted as a criminal, you will be stripped of your order to a large extent. The last person I am aware of who has had the order revoked was a Danish minister in 2021, when she received a sentence. I don't want to judge whether it was right or wrong to give them the order, this decision rested with the government that was at the time and must be the ones held accountable for their decision. But you have to remember that the Danish government and royal house, which were still in Denmark during the occupation, were under great pressure, and tried to find a limit to the cooperation, where the occupying power provided as little control as possible, and this was probably a means of maintaining this self-control. Was it right to give it to them, possibly not, but did the Danish government deemed it necessary, possibly. The Danish collaborationist government during the Second World War is still debated whether it was a good or bad thing for Denmark, but one can conclude that Denmark, unlike many other countries occupied during the war, came through very safely in comparison.

@faithlesshound5621 11 ай бұрын

@@mads3236 It's not unlike the awards given by Western countries to Nikolae Ceausescu: the UK was not under Romanian occupation, but its leaders admired the plucky little guy who stood up to Mikhail Gorbachev, so Queen Elizabeth made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. It was revoked the day before he faced a firing squad. The Danish Crown admitted him to the Order of the Elephant, from which their Queen expelled him before he bit the dust.

@Sven_Dongle 11 ай бұрын

@@thesteelrodent1796 Like Obama Nobel Peace Prize...