Babi Yar Massacre - The Forgotten Prisoner Uprising (Ep. 1)

[@darren1819]

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!

[@ald1050]

@Darren I agree with you. Well stated.

[@deadlyoneable]

Not only that, but I detect no bias or eluding to current political trends. That is what I find most refreshing about Felton’s work.

[@mickcraven980]

Amen, brother. Felton is awesome!

[@unkn0wnpers0n]

Yes agreed

[@danm7298]

Dont forget the cool intro music lol!

[@asorbus1966]

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.

[@achord9204]

So your like me I had 2 survivor parents

[@LK-bz9sk]

Eleven years old and a witness to such horror. May your father RIP. I had 10 great aunts executed this way outside Minsk, todays Belarus. My stepfather survived Sachenhausen outside Berlin, and my great uncle a labor camp at Auschwitz. It took me years to get bits and pieces of stories out of them as a boy back in the 1960s.

[@robmax4416]

Thank you for sharing your story.

[@joebombero1]

I am of Belgian heritage and heard horror stories witnessed by my family in World War I and II. No horrors from Germans surprise me. I ended up marrying a Filipina and felt an odd kinship with Filipinos who keep alive similar horrors they experienced from the Japanese. Difficult time of human history. All we can do is tell these stories to our children and work for a better future.

[@oldbordergeek]

How can i care? How can we care? We have concentration camps in china, north korea. Shame on us because we do nothing.

[@garyK.45ACP]

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.

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[@dongately2817]

@Fun Fact - Isn't there a more appropriate place to share your views?

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[@viking0116]

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

[@tillman40]

It happens today , endless wars….

[@AutomatedPersonelUnit_3947]

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[@jimb6781]

Wait to see what happens to us in the near future. Interesting, this is all layed out in the Bible. Once you are sealed by The Holy Spirit (Believing The Gospel of The Lord Jesus Christ) the Bible will become clear.Yes,the Bible gives us the past,present,and future events of mankind.

[@archstanton6102]

@@jimb6781 So please enlighten us. Tell us what your book predicts for the near future?

[@jimb6781]

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[@SunshineMix101]

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.

[@braxxian]

Indeed. That’s what happens when you let a madman take over your country. Learn from history.

[@tadghosullivan]

I don't think you can describe Babi Yar as being ignored or unknown.

[@SunshineMix101]

@@tadghosullivan I know it is unkown by many people. It was unkown to me for many years and I have read extensively about WWII and the atrocities that took place. We know that there were attempts for it to be covered up by Wilhelm Koppe at the end of war and it wasn't until Yevtushenko's poem in the early '60s that shed light on the fact that were no monuments to what took place. Why was this allowed to happen? I appreciate that every massacre and attorocity cannot and maybe should not be commemorated but I feel that the magnitude of what took place at Babi Yar is exceptional in its barbarity, hatred and intolerance.

[@colinpowis3600]

@@SunshineMix101 Try reading the ''RIDDLE OF BABI YAR '' by a survivor .. it's one of the worst auto biographies EVER

[@SunshineMix101]

@@colinpowis3600 Thanks Colin. I will look out for it.

[@PedroConejo1939]

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

[@Simon_Nonymous]

And it's not easy to listen to. I turned it off. Shame upon me.

[@PedroConejo1939]

@@Simon_Nonymous No shame. Far better to say that it was too horrendous to listen to than to say it didn't happen.

[@Simon_Nonymous]

​@@PedroConejo1939 You are right. Thank you my friend. Shame upon us humans.

[@Simon_Nonymous]

@@sonsen25 explain yourself please.

[@Kellen6795]

@@sonsen25 WTF is wrong with you?

[@youngimperialistmkii]

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.

[@Gordonz1]

Actually we are witnessing ecocide the extensive long term negligent damage to our planet's environment , our life support systems. We are calling for the Int Criminal Court to prosecute the corp leader and politicians committing ecocide Ref Stop Ecocide International

[@THIS---GUY]

I agree I set aside time to listen to this and do some research after because I knew it would be truly awful

[@faizanrana2998]

No point in getting angry bro. We just have to accept it

[@youngimperialistmkii]

@@faizanrana2998 No, I'm not just accepting it. There were people who just accepted it at the time. Look how that turned out. So no bro. I'm not doing that.

[@faizanrana2998]

@@youngimperialistmkii bro, we can't change the evil people now. We just have to turn the cheek like Jesus did it

[@MrBellsa61]

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

[@Paches92-]

The solstice of lunchtime :)

[@Flofutz]

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.

[@carl-christianlohmann1307]

Was Menschen Menschen antun können... Niemals vergessen!

[@cristianhernandez2708]

The thumbs up isn't an approval for the crime. It's recognition of the crime, and of the work put into researching it

[@TankerBricks]

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

[@ThroatSore]

Important work. Never forget.

[@philliphall5198]

Just think what putin would do to Ukraine population, same thing as the Nazi did and Russia is no different

[@guildedtalleywacker4627]

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.

[@bradleybriscoe2608]

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.

[@jb6027]

Happily, Jeckeln was hanged by the Soviets on February 2, 1946 in front of a crowd of 4,000 onlookers.

[@steventhompson399]

I think I first heard of him in that book "bloodlands" by timothy snyder, the term "sardine packing" is sinister, like they thought of mass shootings as just another day at work, using dark euphemisms like the Japanese at 731 calling people "logs"

[@saini1976]

OMG, that is sickening.

[@Tonatar]

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

[@AutomatedPersonelUnit_3947]

Beware of Putin

[@nikolaykrotov8673]

Sadly many Ukrainians forgot the horrors of Nazism and allowed their country to be taken over by neo National Socialist regime. Make no mistake ethnic cleansing is alive and well in the modern Ukraine.

[@dominikaxy]

Most Ukrainians where on Nazi side.

[@MrKakibuy]

I would thank Ukrainians if they stop holding UPA parades

[@romandawydiak4476]

@@nikolaykrotov8673 Your pro-Stalinist/Putinist/Kremlin propaganda (partly from the St. Petersburg troll factory) is both completely derogatory and absolutely false. Why? There are two primary reasons, including a) Shortly after Putin assumed power, his regime resumed the old Stalinist lie of accusing his enemies (and Ukraine in particular) of committing some dastardly crime (such as being fascists) whereas in truth, Putin's regime had already committed this crime and was trying to deflect this crime by falsely accusing another country of this same crime which has always been complete and utter rubbish. b) Ever since Ukraine regained its independence in 1991, every Ukrainian Government has been both anti-fascist and anti-communist. And, most unfortunately, and I say this with great sadness for the sake of the Russian people and the multitude of Russia's minorities, the same has not been true with Putin's imperialistic, kleptocratic, tyrannical undemocratic and neo-fascist regime whose ultimate goal is to resurrect an old-styled Russian Empire. However, try as he might, the genie (AKA Ukraine in particular) has escaped its bottle and no amount of force will voluntarily make it return to the age of darkness. AMEN!

[@Betterifitsfree]

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

[@maddazza9557]

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

[@falatoronto]

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.

[@Barwasser]

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.

[@karjalanpie6606]

*exist

[@hakimcameldriver]

Humans are just vicious hairless apes, they will do whatever they think they can get away with..

[@franky012]

@@hakimcameldriver speak for yourself.

[@quickclaw240]

@@karjalanpie6606 you beat me to it by 40 minutes.😜

[@mrspin3315]

Remember the Soviets did this too!

[@cactuslietuva]

amazing work Mark Felton.

[@DeusGladiorum]

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.

[@THIS---GUY]

Sympathizers often try to pretend the Wehrmacht and even the soviets were completely clean in their practice of warfare.

[@Laughandsong]

@Herr SD-Standartenführer Just like Nazis.

[@lessssssgooooo]

@Herr Untersturmführer ϟϟ of course they did

[@pyatig]

@Herr Untersturmführer ϟϟ right and 20 million Soviet civilians just happened to fall on a bullet

[@bobjohnson3794]

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

[@steventhompson399]

How don't they know about it, it seemed to me that WWII is relatively well remembered in eastern Europe, and the Soviets put ugly communist monuments everywhere, do they not have a monument for babi yar?

[@bobjohnson3794]

@@steventhompson399 they have a small on that's not well known and not even by the site, the actual mass graves are a few hundred feet away under some commercial buildings. Plus the "monument" makes no mention of Jews or the compliance and even encouragement of the locals.

[@DAndyLord]

@@steventhompson399 Many younger Cambodians don't know about the Khmer Rouge even though Pol Pot died in 1998.

[@23draft7]

God bless. I never knew about this genocide. It's sickening.

[@steventhompson399]

@@23draft7 yeah many people haven't, one mostly hears about gas chambers like at Auschwitz or treblinka, but before that phase of mass murder there were countless mass shootings all over the eastern front, babi yar was just the largest

[@idleonlooker1078]

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. 👍

[@renataheiberg7534]

Leave Poles out of it. They were never part of german war machine.

[@David99356]

@@renataheiberg7534 true. But there were not a few individuals who took part in massacres - see Jedwabne and Kielce.

[@renataheiberg7534]

@@David99356 Jedwabne is not so certain as exhumation of victims was stopped. More over it is a well known fact that truth was distorted after the war by occupying soviet forces. The ongoing custom of calling concentration camps "Polish" that were located on Polish territory is a good example of disinformation and blaming Poles for german and soviet atrocities. There are evil people in each nation and but Poles in general were always a hospitable nation and very tolerant.

[@idleonlooker1078]

@@renataheiberg7534 WRONG!!

[@daintree98]

Why do include Ukrainians? They had their own massacre organised by Stalin. When millions of civilians were murdered in 1931-1933, known as the Holodomor.

[@dhrichardson5798]

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

[@felixthecat3n2]

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.

[@richarddixon7276]

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

[@RJC10101]

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!

[@Gordonz1]

Actually we are witnessing ecocide the extensive long term negligent damage to our planet's environment , our life support systems. We are calling for the Int Criminal Court to prosecute the corp leader and politicians committing ecocide Ref Stop Ecocide International

[@davidcollins8574]

Are you serious.. There will be a Nuremberg 2.0 for the bastards forcing this "vax" onto Billions of people..

[@THIS---GUY]

@@davidcollins8574 you science deniers and anti vaxxers are almost as bad as nazi or Soviet sympathizers Which vaccinations do you think are good medical advancements? Which are you against?

[@stevenodland]

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!

[@j-dub618]

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

[@alexs1954]

Which is why I think our school systems and media fail us when they fail to teach about the ideologies and tendencies of those who turned on humanity. We need to know what to look for if we are to stop these horrors from happening again.

[@B.A.B.G.]

Guess what it's happening again.

[@wally9935]

@@B.A.B.G. lmao

[@Noutelus]

@@alexs1954 Unfortunatly the most dangerous things always comes from an unexpected source

[@alexs1954]

@@Noutelus Which is exactly why I think the ideologies and tendencies of these people should be taught. The reason that monsters get into power is often because nobody expects them to be monsters despite what they say and do before getting into power.

[@23draft7]

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.

[@hughneek12]

Its not so much a human thing as a spiritual downfall. The devil is out of his cage yet again. If anything it shall be even worse next time because Christianity is looked down upon by so many rather than participated in, which shall mean the dark side on the ascendant. Satan is dancing a merry dance right now.

[@23draft7]

@@hughneek12 for now. As usual he's think of now, not what's coming to him. When it does, hallelujah. Praise Jesus for that. Amen.

[@hughneek12]

@@23draft7 Yes indeed!

[@archstanton6102]

@@hughneek12 Any fact checked evidence to support your statement?

[@hughneek12]

@@archstanton6102 Any fact checked evidence to use against me?

[@jwatson078555]

Unimaginable. Thank you Mark for making this.

[@smeggerssmeghead3100]

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

[@franklin7387]

Easy take a look at Australia now, that's how it begins. First you are forbidden to go the theatre, work , parks and such. After that the 'quarantine' camps and lastly genocide.

[@niccolopasqualetti2698]

@@franklin7387 Shut up

[@carl-christianlohmann1307]

@@franklin7387 wtf!

[@franklin7387]

@@carl-christianlohmann1307 Remember, these atrocities begin with excluding people from society. Just like they are doing right now.

[@franklin7387]

@@niccolopasqualetti2698 Over my dead body! My grandfather and his brother in law had to work for the nazi's in a ammunition factory in Bordeaux because he refused to sign the Arier declaration. His brother in law died there of malnutrition. I bet your grandparents stood first in line to do voluntary work for the nazi's. We're obliged to speak out.

[@leeskyles9903]

Thanks for this history lesson. excellent!

[@RaiderLeo69]

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

[@jerryswallow]

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

[@reilneid6436]

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

[@jeremyalde2272]

Wow. That is absolutely horrific

[@IFarmBugs]

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.

[@matthewcoombs3282]

Jesus, how do you get over seeing things like that. That generation suffered so much. I am from the UK and we suffered no where near you guys in the East did, but my father lost relatives when London was bombed in the Luftwaffe and my great Uncle Bruce came back from Monte Cassino with PTSD and never married and wanted to live alone for the rest of his life. We must never have a war again in Europe. We are all Europeans and need to be brothers and sisters.

[@AutomatedPersonelUnit_3947]

Tough Kid

[@zionzone45]

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

[@davidlogansr8007]

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

[@1Svatej]

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.

[@collind3670]

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

[@markrobinowitz8473]

"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.

[@ФилиппЛыков-д8е]

I read that novel in the "Yunost" magazine. It was published around 1961.

[@Alexwhatisit]

Thank you for the recommendation.

[@raybarron316]

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

[@angiehemp4295]

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

[@stevenhershman2660]

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 !

[@markwitt7983]

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

[@nelsano3]

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

[@masr8875]

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...

[@deathrv]

Great stuff again Mark, thank you ..

[@keithweiss7899]

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.

[@joeeagles7528]

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.

[@AdamBechtol]

It is tough to get through, I'm taking breaks.

[@achord9204]

I can’t even watch it my grandparents and uncles, cousins were murdered by these subhumans

[@barrydysert2974]

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

[@dominiquecharriere3751]

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!

[@slooob23]

The same darkness is in all humanity

[@skyhigh1154]

Its really very easy when all has gone to hell.

[@VitorTutoriaisJogos]

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

[@maxsportsman2416]

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

[@kevinmcgettigan8844]

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

[@americanpatriot2422]

Outstanding video and presentation.

[@holger9588]

Lies

[@brettshea8623]

The Felton, the legend...thankyou again ✌️

[@michaelstewart7820]

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

[@oncall21]

Unbelievable. Thanks for sharing Dr Felton!

[@edwardd9702]

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.

[@archlich4489]

Insult to injury. D:

[@edwardd9702]

After WW2 the Soviets used the massacre site ravine as a rubbish dump until finally bulldozing the site and building over it.

[@jwenting]

they probably used whatever they had available.

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[@colinpowis3600]

PPSH ?

[@davidppfitzner]

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

[@ericcloud1023]

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.

[@barrydysert2974]

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. !:-)

[@noelio67]

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

[@dante666jt]

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

[@alexamerling79]

I can't believe I never heard about this heroic uprising. I had heard about Sobibor, Treblinka,, Warsaw, the Auschwitz sonderkommando uprising and numerous ghetto uprisings but this is the first I've heard of this one. Thank you Mark Felton :)

[@geddonjt]

Thanks for your great and important work.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

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.

[@abiebarraca5873]

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.

[@renataheiberg7534]

Katyn story was revealed by Germans during Nuremberg trials. Soviets used to blamed it on the Germans. That story was always kept a secret. Russians finally admitted to it after the fall of Berlin Wall. The allies were not happy about the discovery as well. They loved Uncle Stalin so much that they let him go all the way to Berlin and keep the whole Eastern Europe. Roosevelt was a commie and a traitor.

[@stefanmolnapor910]

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

[@dandog7653]

What frightens me most is that people think these things happen in the past, these kinds of people don't exist now and the future is free of their menace.

[@AutomatedPersonelUnit_3947]

Democrats in USA studying SS tactics

[@oldesertguy9616]

@@AutomatedPersonelUnit_3947 I'm not a liberal by any means, but claiming either party is similar to the Nazis minimizes what the Nazis did and is just wrong. Please leave modern politics for another forum.

[@peternystrom921]

@UCqmV40eu-XAjtjzByNvKNQg Get the fuck out of here with that shitt.

[@MrKakibuy]

@@AutomatedPersonelUnit_3947 Oh no... you just couldn't resist ruin this comment section with American political dogshit.

[@sovinr8658]

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

[@Love.life.ashigzoya]

This is disgustingly so real and barbarous. Remarkable research and attention to details. World should not see such times again but we are slipping into memory black out as new cold war seems to on way to repeat history. Thank you Dr Felton .Indian Military eternal

[@rokahna7847]

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.

[@yourweirdbrotha2924]

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.

[@captainamerica6525]

Your great grandfathers crimes and atrocities are in no way your fault or attach to you. He made his choices, those choices were not your choices.

[@sectorsweep14]

Babi Yar is an obvious myth. Do you really believe they killed all those people then unburied them and hoisted them out of a ravine months later to be cremated? It's such a ridiculous story.

[@Occident.]

BS!

[@yourweirdbrotha2924]

@@Occident. its true

[@stalban8687]

Thank you. Superb

[@tonyalways7174]

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.

[@klown839]

They were all sociopaths in disguise. The Nazi takeover allowed them to show their true colors.

[@360Nomad]

"The panicked Germans decided to try to hide the crimes of Babi Yar" Well maybe they shouldn't have done it in the middle of fucking town where everyone could see it. Because that's literally where Babi Yar is, it's in the heart of Kiev.

[@Ob1sdarkside]

They never thought about losing the war.

[@Nik0lay11]

Now its in the middle yes, but back then it was not in the city

[@amg863]

The victors will always be the judge and the vanquished the accused

[@AMP-pr5zq]

@@amg863 Judging the vanquished? This was one of the worst genocidal behaviors in human history (aside from that of Stalin who we also judge)

[@kamilpotato3764]

@@amg863 Germans are lucky to exist. For their crimes in Eastern Europe most of them that survived the war should have been resettled to Siberia. Germany and Austria should have been partitioned between it's neighbours.

[@carolinekaplan542]

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

[@charlessedlacek5754]

Your channel has taught me more about history than 4 years of high school and 2 years of college. Thank you. And for those that think the "Wermacht" was innocent in these massacres, guess again. The ss and einzatsgruppen" were the main killers, but there were not enough of them. The German army helped round up these people and provided outer security to keep away prying eyes...the german army was just as culpable, and I am sure mr. Felton can confirm this.😮

[@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro]

Yes, though we should keep in mind that there were still a great number of men in the German army who were drafted against their will and forced to aid atrocities at a very young age. Some of these were little more than boys, and lived the rest of their lives with the constant weight of what they’d seen and been made accessories to. We humans all too often jump between extremes in judgement, rather than maintaining a balanced, middling view of events, which I believe to be fair in this case.

[@bubbahkiriza]

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

[@TheNukite]

Impressive as always, thanks for your work.

[@waitingforrealitytosetin4807]

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.

[@ludmilawheeler2001]

I am so shocked, this story left me speechless,!! I know exactly when it all had happened back then ,, both locations Babi Yar and Syretz camp it is in my home city Kiev, I know exactly where all that horror took place, it makes me feel so terribly sad !!

[@minipup1]

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

[@coops1964]

Sadly yes.

[@barryirlandi4217]

On history numbers are often added to..

[@warriorbeta]

if you have hundreds of men doing it not really....

[@keng7758]

WTF? That is your sick takeaway from these murders?

[@Western_Hemlock]

It's so hard to comprehend how atrocities like this could be carried out. It sounds like something out of a novel set in the dark ages. Reality truly is the scariest genre

[@Klaaism]

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.

[@gladtownghost]

Mark Felton IS the History channel.

[@Swellington_]

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

[@MagereHein]

@Håkan Bergvall I'm sure quite a few Jesus nazis in the USA would love to give it a go.

[@StevenKeery]

@@MagereHein : Why bring Jesus in to this?

[@timcahill4676]

@@StevenKeery because he doesn’t know anything about Jesus

[@MagereHein]

@@StevenKeery Read Christian Nationalists for Jesus Nazis if you like that term better.

[@midnightteapot5633]

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.

[@bartstryszowski4277]

It's absolutely horrid, how people suffered and what cruilty was done. How a short time ago this was in reality and how unobtainable it is to deal out the proper punishment to those whom dealt out the suffering to the innocent.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

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

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

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

[@martinbruce6651]

This needs to be told!! Well done.

[@wojak6351]

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

[@georgebrown8312]

Thank you for this video of the Nazi atrocities in Babi Yar and elsewhere in Europe. The SS, Einsatzgruppen and their collaborators deserved to lose many nights of sleep for their cursed, damnable atrocities to innocent civilians in concentration camps and death camps. Now the names of those murderers shall go down in infamy, bitter reproach, and utter shame for their savagery. I believe that if there is a final judgment from God those murderers will have much to account for. Those who laughed shortly before being executed by earthly justice will not be laughing when they face the final Judgment from God. They will cringe in fear and horror instead.

[@jnauttube]

Me: I have my PhD in history. Someone: What university did you attend? Me: Mark Felton Productions.

[@DiceStrike]

Its werid to congratulate you on great History coverage when it's this dark.

[@Tyler.i.81]

Cheers Mark

[@averagejoe8358]

I've been to the place where the ravines used to be, it's chilling. It's like you can still hear the terrified screams of children and adults alike, before they have ammunition pumped into their skulls. Makes me so angry at the scale of the cost of human lives, almost threw up on that day. Just imagine you're having dinner at your own house, and then your door being kicked down and being shoved into a ditch a few miles away. You know what's about to happen, you can't reason, all you can do is resign yourself to your fate.