Did German Paratroopers Land in England?

[@thelonerizla1]

I met a captured german paratrooper in Pembrokeshire around 2008 . I was on a callout to his house for an electrical fault . Spent a couple of hours talking to him and ended up buying a quality german air rifle off him ! Hell of a nice guy .

[@dlxmarks]

A captured German in Pembrokeshire in 2008! Did you tell him the war had been over for 63 years? 😉

[@tankman7711]

​@@dlxmarks LMAO!!!

[@rodan2852]

Dont be a rat

[@andrefiset3569]

Do you denounce him?

[@kremits9360]

@@rodan2852chill

[@michaelbatterbee448]

A German airman was captured Dracote Derbyshire he was found hiding in the chimney of a stately home he was treated well and saw out the remainder of the war in captivity. It’s now a pub with pictures of his capture pretty interesting

[@petermorris3665]

Oh, interesting. My wife is from that very area and we are back there every few weeks - What's the name of the pub?

[@jamesleon5985]

It was called The Draycott Arms, the pub was knocked down in 1960 and the stately home was built around 1860 and that two was knocked down in the 1970s when the UK government was knocking down old buildings to make way for new builds.

[@jamesleon5985]

Draycott is a civil parish in the Borough of Erewash district of Derbyshire, England.

[@Bibidybobidy]

Bet it's a nice pub.!

[@petermorris3665]

@jamesleon5985 but he said 'it's now a pub with pictures...' so I am somewhat confused!

[@charlessaint7926]

Mysterious gentleman enters a pub, "How'd you do, fellow Englanders?"

[@borderlands6606]

In the novel Rogue Male, the protagonist noted that his pursuer's English was too perfect.

[@andyreynolds6194]

I believe that one was caught by trying to pay for a celebratory pint in a pub (or was it the bus, I can’t remember) with a crisp £20 note - which was more money than anyone else had in the local area by a considerable margin.

[@jaycfc6955]

Just remember to not use your thumb 👆 when ordering two or three beers 😂

[@freddiespreckley6324]

​@@andyreynolds6194If true, they would also have been tipped off as the largest denomination in use at the time was £5.

[@draco84oz]

They made a bit of a joke of this in one of the episodes of Foyle's War - a guy had walked into a pub at 9am and asked for a pint. He was picked as a spy as licensing laws prevented early drinking like this.

[@d.pierce.6820]

My Dad was an 8th AAF bomber crewmember-he once mentioned that all the aircrew and groundcrew members were issued M1 carbines in the months before D-Day-he said there was some fear that German paratroopers would land on a one-way mission to disrupt the bombing campaigns and the invasion preparations-the bomber airbases were essentially undefended otherwise.

[@Dogmeat1950]

Yeah the Japanese did that once in the Pacific, but they landed on the run way and starting destroying stuff. They didn't last long

[@andydudley1775]

@@Dogmeat1950 we did the same thing thats how lewis bomb was invented

[@memkiii]

@@andydudley1775 The *Lewes* bomb...

[@geoffreypiltz271]

Not all spies for Germany were Germans. Some were Dutch, Belgian or French Nazi party members or sympathisers. They often arrived in Britain posing as refugees from France, Belgium and the Netherlands together with other genuine refugees in small boats.

[@Paul-md8de]

Quite a few were British , a book titled Hitler's British Traitors by Tim Tate is an eye opener on this subject .

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

​@@Paul-md8deThere was a Fascist movement in Britain. And by now, the aims of the abdicated royal are common knowledge. For interested people at least. There was a comprehensive screening program for immigrants/ refugees.

[@Paul-md8de]

@@nomadmarauder-dw9re According to Tim Tate's book most of the spies/traitors were home grown , the "working class" ones were dealt with and the others that were of a higher class were largely not prosecuted ( except Mosely)

[@effexon]

oof that rings awful tone nowadays with sympathizing refugees and anyone crossing border.

[@Veylon]

@@effexon Indeed. Spies will always have the most sympathetic story imaginable to make people reluctant to accost them. When America was scouting out bin Laden's hideout, their agents were disguised as medical workers. You wouldn't mess with a doctor trying to eliminate polio, would you?

[@brick6347]

Just a submarine, but a witch and some suits of armour sorted that out.

[@andrewduke1489]

Hahaha brilliant

[@vinnyganzano1930]

The great Angela Lansbury was that witch.

[@donaldkroth2579]

That was back when Disney made those hard to find things, movies out in Hollyweird. What was it called? Oh, yeah... Entertainment!

[@Checkit12]

Amazing haha

[@blacksabre5343]

Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee!

[@gregcampwriter]

As Liam Devlin put it, "There is an old poem I know, which freely translated from the Irish says, 'I realized fear one morning, when the blare of the fox-hunters sound. When they are all chasing after the poor bloody fox, it's safer to be dressed like a hound.'"

[@SamuelKoepke-r3o]

“It is my pleasure to inform you that the Eagle has Landed.”

[@rf6934]

Your credentials are hopelessly impeccable.

[@grantdeancommons5390]

Liam your an extraordinary fellow , Captain Steiner you have an extraordinary judge of character 😂

[@happysingle6240]

@@SamuelKoepke-r3o Absolutely my favorite movie.

[@chrisadams6595]

My Grandfather had a holiday cottage in Wales , we would go for a few weeks in the Summer. The guy next door was a very nice guy , and I would play with his kids and Dad would go to the pub with him. He had a strange accent which I thought was odd , but at the age of 7 you don't really notice that. Many years later Dad told me he was a German paratrooper who had been held in a prison camp in Wales , and stayed after the war.

[@johnlennox-pe2nq]

He may have been shot down, bailed out, and not an intentional invader or spy; thus treated well after interigation

[@chrisadams6595]

Oh I think he was captured in Europe somewhere and then sent to prisoner of war camp in Wales

[@MrXdmp]

Thanks Dr. Felton. "The Eagle has landed!"

[@torpedoterrones6318]

I read this book at list 20 times and also the movie as well

[@teddelguercio2173]

Great read and a great movie!

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

Me too - have you got the book Special Edition with tons of extra material Higgins put back in. Well worth tracking down.

[@oj_ow]

@@MarkFeltonProductions It's a special treat for a Norfolk reader, for sure! The _Britisches Freikorps_ character in the 1st and the German sympathiser characters in the 2nd make for some cheesy reading, but it jazzes it up a bit.

[@kingofcapp]

Really this is more like Eye of the Needle.

[@rinoz47]

Never ceases to amaze me how little concern Germany gave to its spies in WW2

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

It's almost as if the attitude was "Let's keep throwing "mud" at the wall, some of it's bound to stick!" Mind you, the Germans weren't stupid, they were smart as whips and damn dangerous but as far as espionage goes maybe second-best or third-best is all they could manage?

[@WielkaStopa-qh1rr]

Might be an internal sabotage

[@oddballsok]

Allies were NO DIFFERENT (England spiel..ahum)

[@varovaro1967]

With Canaris at the helm?

[@martinh4630]

As I understand it, before WW2, Germany did not consider the UK a 'natural enemy' so there was little investment in putting spies into the UK.

[@williamkennedy5492]

As my grandfather a WW1 and WW2 vet lay dying, his best friend was by his side, a German WW2 paratrooper, He took me to one side and told me he had never seen a braver man face his fate. AND i remember seeing an all black Heinkel 1-11 at a biggin hill air show in the early 60s, static display, I also recall a Lanc that had flown in from Oz.

[@ankles632]

The aforementioned Josef Jakobs was the only German agent executed by firing squad in the UK and the last person executed at the Tower of London. The rest were hung, mostly by Albert Pierrepoint . Jakobs was captured by a military unit and was court martialed . The method of execution for the military was firing squad. The other agents were captured by the security services and their trials held in civilian courts under the espionage act of 1940. Civilian court death sentences were by hanging.

[@michaelbevan3285]

i thought turned agents were used to transmit anti-German propaganda and given new identitites after the war.

[@memkiii]

A grand total of 20 spies were sentenced to death between 1940 and 1946 in the UK. One was reduced to life. Not many considering the time span.

[@alanmarr3323]

I met a German who had parachuted into Britian and remained free . He was half British and could speak with a strong west country accent . He decided to lay low and do odd jobs on farms . People still did casual labour!

[@Reziac]

And here I was wondering how many of those agents just quietly defected.

[@oldesalt10310]

That’s crazy

[@1932christian]

😎😎😎😎😎😎🙈

[@MyLateralThawts]

Late in the war the Germans came up with an ingenious solution to dispense with all the extra parachute training their agents had to undertake prior to their mission; they simply bundled them up into a parachute droppable container, carried externally on a bomber with up to three agents in a container. One mission failed when the bomber was chased by a night fighter, successfully avoiding said fighter by escaping into the clouds, but upon returning to base, all the agents suffered frostbite. I don’t know if they tried again.

[@gamerxt333]

It's amazing what Amazon delivers these days...

[@SouthLondonForever]

Basically they went out of the plane in their own coffins. Horrible

[@danielking3611]

Ah, Dr. Felton. The only videos I always watch in “normal” speed. Thank you for all the most interesting content.

[@wasakawakawaka2028]

My mother-in-law was part of the batch of children evacuated to the north to stay in a school where it was run by the Catholics and she said they would very often have to lock down the building while the British army tried to track down the Germans who had parachuted into the area. I think she said the Germans were regimented in that they always dropped a certain number of Germans every time so if they found 5 Germans there would be another to look for. Something like that. I can’t exactly remember the actual number the British would look for but it was always the same number of people the Germans dropped every time.

[@johnlennox-pe2nq]

My mother's mother took in a German fighter who had bailed out; she gave him food and bandaged his arm before the local police came to take him off to Chipping Sodbury police station to be questioned..... German bombers being hit by the village anti aircraft guns and the Germans bailing out in parachutes; they got caught up in the trees with the burning bomber nearby in the woods. These were unintentional paratroopers. The stories were gruesome, men bunt alive, and on other occasions German fighters it was reported were raking the streets of Bath with machine gun fire, civilians running for their lives

[@MadAntz970]

Incredible to think that WW2 classified documentation was placed under a 100 year rule. Some of which "might" be extended beyond that including lists of collibrators from the occupied channel islands, SOE and other agency's records etc.

[@paulmalore]

That's well understandable, actually. For instance, the French don't disclose the identity of double agents, as long as anyone related to the matter is still alive. In post-war Europe, kids sometimes had nasty fights at school because they were namesake of someone on the wrong side.

[@MadAntz970]

@@paulmalore Agreed. Through work many years ago I had access to the West German electronic directory system. I was amazed that there entry's for Hess, Goering, Mengler, and to cap it all off at least half a dozen Hitler surname entry's, all active and up to date.

[@effexon]

wait, why could that be.... WW1 papers are wide open.... everyone is dead after 100 years.

[@effexon]

@@MadAntz970 but that would apply to lot of other things too.... dumb actors, politicians, dictators(by surname in many countries living elsewhere). I bet Joe Kardashian not related would get bullied at school too.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

No, not at all. The Allies a had a lot to hide too. Especially SAS, SOE, and OSS. Allen Dulles' papers are locked up at Princeton University in perpetuity.

[@KyleAndKellen]

YaY, new Dr. Felton video for the win! Best historian on KZbin for both narration and relevant video to go along with it.

[@johnklein233]

Another great video about largely unknown information. Thanks Mark!

[@headshot6959]

Good to see a KZbin channel that makes a reference and says 'link in the description'.... and _there is actually a link!_

[@HannoImmelman]

The earliest I have ever been on a mark felton video.

[@a.grimes4202]

Mark/Dr. Felton, your videos are all quite fascinating, and not just the WWII ones like this one. I’vr no doubt you’re whipping up something absolutely brilliant about the 85th anniversary of the start of WWII in roughly a week and a half, and I will look forward to it with bells on!

[@madaprak]

All of the regional accents in the uk must have made things very difficult for the Germans

[@hhale]

Dressed in a suit and carrying a brief case, it would be assumed that you were from out of town. The REAL trick would be in being able to fake a proper accent for a particular region, and then know enough about it that so that if you encountered someone from there, you could fake your way through a brief conversation about "home". That's what made the movie "The Eagle Has Landed" more plausible. They didn't even try. The commandos were "Polish" and there on a training mission, and their primary contact Irish and charming enough to be believable as someone who immigrated to England that no one questioned it.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

It made things difficult for the Americans too, in BOTH world wars! Remember what George Bernard Shaw said? "The Americans and the British are two peoples separated by a common language!" 🤣

[@GordonDonaldson-v1c]

@@chrisyoung1359 Yes, and Mrs Miniver too.

[@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069]

Imagine landing in CHATHAM 😂

[@amazer747]

@@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 You'd immediately request evacuation. (I was born in Chatham!)

[@lunarmodule6419]

8:40 The "gravity folding knife" blade was deployed by holding the flipper tab and pointing downward.

[@sailordude2094]

Looking up Mutt and Jeff, I found the Imperial War Museum has a 240 minute audio interview with Double Cross agent Moe, Herbert John Neal AKA Mutt. I love to watch your history videos and look up the people in them, thanks Mark!

[@oncall21]

For the years that I have subscribed the intell just keeps getting better. Thanks for sharing Dr Felton.

[@lightwoven5326]

My Father who was based in Cornwall said there was a major landing there on the coast, and that as part of the fleet air arm, he and others picked up many of the bodies. He would not tell me anymore.

[@michaelpalmer4387]

As there was supposedly at Shingle Street on the Suffolk coast

[@barrybark3995]

@@michaelpalmer4387 i found a German bullet clip on shingle street beach

[@gilbydog7350]

How intriguing. Did he say what year of the war this occurred in ?

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

Interesting. There were a number of incidents during WW2 where British personnel involved were sworn to secrecy afterward, the capture of Enigima from a U-Boot was one of them. A violation of the oath would mean prison or worse. Maybe your father would say no more as the secrecy oath had no expiration date, or one he was aware of? If he took that secret to the grave that's real dedication to duty!

[@Teddy-mj9wd]

I really dig the obscure history on your channel.

[@bertokleine280]

Another splendid video. A big thank you. 🥳

[@mitchmatthews6713]

Well done! Cheers, Mark!

[@lynderherberts2828]

Your theme music is perfect for your show. ❤

[@davidcoleman2796]

You are always coming up with new things in your videos . I have been a fan now for a few years. Thank you .

[@alanscott7798]

Hope you're in good spirits Dr Felton. Best wishes from Mexico. Excellent video - as always.

[@simonwood1461]

Wonderful video. Many thanks, Dr, Felton.

[@grapeshot]

Reading about the Battle of Crete you find out that airborne operation have the tendency to be extremely bloody.

[@vinnyganzano1930]

Some are, some aren't.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

That was because their equipment was blown a distance away from them and they didn't have their machine guns and mortars, wasn't it?

[@floydfanboy2948]

The Hague May 1940: am I a joke to you?

[@GhostRanger5060]

Airborne operations are always risky. But a unique problem for the Germans was their lame parachutes. They fell and landed at the mercy of the pilots, the weather and the terrain. US parachutes, in contrast, were steerable. If you were heading toward a boulder, cliff, or high chimney, you could alter your falling path enough to avoid the obstacle. But the German chutes were a gamble every jump. It doesn't take too much of an obstacle to injure, kill or otherwise disable a paratrooper.

[@WielkaStopa-qh1rr]

Does not matter, paratroopers are a mobile strategic reserve and just their existence forces the enemy to maintain garrisons

[@robertkalinowski4481]

Dr Felton. Speaking of paratroopers, you should present a piece on British trained, silent and unseen Polish paratroopers, soldiers and spies. Fascinating stories of bravery and sacrifice.

[@Heike--]

Why don't Polish people do that? Why is it always the responsibility of western people to tell the stories of every minor country in the world? Do it your damn selves!

[@nmr3352]

@@Heike-- what an ungracious person you are. there's plenty of Polish books and movies written about it. Have you ever seen any? That's why their stories deserve to be told by an English speaking historian for English speaking audiences.

[@cammobunker]

Fun fact: British SOE came to the same "we're injuring more in training, we should stop that" decision regarding parachute training. Little known also (Although I think Dr. Felton has covered it) is that a great majority of agents dropped into Europe lept (or walked off the Lysander aircraft) into the waiting arms of the Gestapo, who had pretty well taken over the SOE/French agent system by mid 1942. Dozens of brave French, Dutch, Belgian, Norwegian and Danish agents, to say nothing of British and later American OSS agents went from landing to a Gestapo cell in hours at most. Tortured and wrung dry of information, more than a few were turned and used as false reporting sites for years. The ones who would not turn wound up in concentration camps, if they weren't simply shot out of hand.

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

spy business is bloody

[@GilbertdeClare0704]

An uncle of mine was in FJR2 and later in 4FJD in Italy. He once told me that when he was in FJR2 and fighting outside Leningrad, he went on a couple behind the lines missions and dropped from a stripped out Ju88. He said that all the equipment behind the cockpit had been stripped out, allowing just enough room for him and three others. Two such Ju88s would go in fast and low, and drop their section behind the lines. I so wish I had asked him more.

[@adamcekanski2527]

This is a kit of a "German spy who was never caught". Unlimited possibilities for a screenplay.

[@mattgeorge90]

Great episode! 🎉

[@andreasmartin7942]

They landed, tried the food, enjoyed the good weather, and made a hasty retreat.

[@johnhuge3972]

Bert Trautmann (captured German paratrooper), stayed in the UK after the war, and became a celebrated goal keeper for Manchester City. Afterwards, he became our soccer coach at the grammar school I was at. We 10/12 year olds were I awe of him! He was a really nice man

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Thank you Mark.

[@Russojap2]

Fantastic video! 😃 Greetings from East Tennessee!

[@MrSabram07]

They have clothes and a parachute from a German spy that was never caught? That's absolutely amazing

[@psalmno.51]

It appears that he didn't or couldn't bury the items. Perhaps he was injured in the drop?

[@HerbertDuckshort]

A Kriegsmarine U Boat crew were apprehended in Warmington-on-Sea. They were rounded up by the local Home Guard commanded by a certain Captain Mainwaring.......I saw it on the telly......."Don't tell him Pike!"

[@barriemitchell7460]

You vil go on ze list!

[@paultapner2769]

@@barriemitchell7460 I want Plaice Und chips

[@nigelparker5886]

@@paultapner2769And when Heinz went to the F+C shop, he fell for the young girl who served him, but he found out later that…She was only a fisherman’s daughter, but she had Crabs on her Plaice poor Sole! Cheers

[@davidjackson2580]

@@paultapner2769 I don't want nasty, soggy chips; I want mine crisp und light brown.

[@davidkanengieter]

But did they get vinegar and salt?

[@bruceruzicka6089]

The US government has refused to declassify a huge amount of WWII era classified documents. It was stated to congress by current Intelligence officials that the classified material absolutely needs to remain classified. When asked why, it was stated that the information would be extremely dangerous if released even today.

[@suburban404]

It can be declassified telepathically from any distance.

[@brandongardner9829]

More likely, Extremely Embarrassing lol.

[@bert8373]

Like Operation Keelhaul-forcible repatriation of former Soviet POWs,labor back to USSR,UK archives are also classified regarding this

[@nickmoloney9820]

My mother used to tell me that a German paratrooper landed in Ireland , on the Cork Limerick border , according to her he was not reported to any authority rather he was fed and in return he worked the land , she said that the silk from the parachute was used to make shirts. She was 19 in 1939 not sure what year this happened but she eloped with my father to England in 1942.

[@f.dmcintyre4666]

Tell us more 😮😮😮

[@smokeysunday]

​@@f.dmcintyre4666Nothing really to add , except that said German paratrooper is not my Dad lol , I was born I 1960 my Mother was 'betrothed' to a wealthy farmer, she wasn't having anything to do with that and married my father against family wishes.

[@phelimridley6727]

​@@f.dmcintyre4666 The character Donald Sutherland plays is based on the real life person Frank Ryan. It makes for interesting learning. The machinations during the Second World War of the underground irredentist IRA (illegal on both sides of the Irish border), a young and impoverished Irish state eager to not get dragged into a costly global conflict, competing factions in the German halls of power with varying opinions on how to finally secure Europe's Atlantic coast, and a Britain that remained un-conquered but desperately vulnerable.

[@JohnSmith-zr3yz]

Yes! Mark has a new upload! 😃

[@starshipchi-rhostudio7097]

Thank you for another great video.

[@legioveritum]

The German war machine missed the opportunity to plant agents during the chaotic retreat at Dunkerque…

[@ghandithesupremeleader9740]

They thought Britain would just sign a peace deal but instead they didn't and luckily they did...

[@EOJ111]

NOT luckily... they should have made peace early, as was the right thing to do at the time.. and we'd all be better off​ today. But i understand most of you are brainwashed@@ghandithesupremeleader9740

[@SamuelKoepke-r3o]

Doubtful that there was an opportunity at all: The defense of Dunkirk was so viscous - and the German units attacking so far away from effective supply - that is was hell to take the city before the British left at all, let alone train spies to speak fluent English, dress them in a captured uniform, and plant them there.

[@EOJ111]

@@SamuelKoepke-r3o That was not the problem. They could easily have been destroyed but that they were ordered to stand down. They were allowed to pack up and leave as a gesture of good will to hopefully try to improve the chances of them being willing to accept peace and stop the war. Of course that did not happen, for reasons that i cannot say here.. 👃

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

@@legioveritum they did But the British rejected all isolated soldiers nobody vouched for, taking in units only.

[@PickleRick65]

Awesome as usual sir👌👍👍

[@PeteOLindstrom]

I love your documentaries

[@martynm.449]

Being from St. Austell, Charlestown is well worth a visit to see where they filmed part of 'The Eagle Has Landed'.

[@Laconic-ws4bz]

Who cares, irrelevant.

[@johnlennox-pe2nq]

Interesting, I would love to visit the area

[@martynm.449]

@johnlennox-pe2nq yeah it's great. You can see where Donald Sutherland got thrown out of the pub window, where the Motor Boat came into the harbour, and where Robert Duvall was shot against the wall. Just down the road is Pentewan Sands, where they parachuted onto the beach and RAF St Mawgan, near Newquay, is where they filmed some scenes too. But you aren't allowed in there, sadly.

[@DronescapingBritain]

WW2 U Boats visited the lonely Ceredigion coast sometimes at night to fill up their water tanks. Several coastal villages have legends of this including Cwmtydu and Tesaith where the tanks were filled from the beach waterfall. Years after the war as local legend has it, a visitor to the local shop turned out to be an ex U Boat officer who said he knew his way around the village and had even visited the shop during the war! What cheek! Apparently he was a really nice chap who later kept in touch!

[@oliverreedslovechild]

' Don't tell him your name Pike '

[@DronescapingBritain]

@@oliverreedslovechild "No, you can trust me Captain Mainwaring"

[@alanparadis5061]

I love this stuff, history is fascinating..Thank you for sharing!

[@DohuuVi]

I remember that movie with Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland - my two most favorite actors.

[@vinnyganzano1930]

Don't forget the gorgeous Jenny Agutter❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@MisterSwanson94]

“Don’t forget father, the last shall be first!”

[@donaldkroth2579]

Yeah, and let's not forget Larry Hagman got shot a second time in his career. Lol...

[@Jonny_Red]

And Donald Sutherland in 'Eye of the Needle' 👍

[@ClarenceCochran-ne7du]

Donald Pleasance, Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Jean Marsh, Anthony Quayle and so on. The list of accomplished Actors for the Eagle Has Landed is quite lengthy Too bad the movie didn't follow the book more closely.

[@bigcrispyhied]

Enjoyed that, thank you Mark.

[@neno-hd2ks]

*THANK YOU MARK!*

[@trooperdgb9722]

Another excellent presentation. One (very) small correction though. There is no "Ripcord" on static line operated parachutes... the static line itself is directly attached to the pins holding the container closed, and usually via a "break tie" to the pilot chute (if used) or the deployment bag (if used) or canopy apex.

[@KokkiePiet]

@Mark Felton: Suggestion for a clip: Time on Target artillery. A Subject where there is little attention for in WW2 history. It was developed by the British in the North African campaign, and then perfected by the Americans. It's a technique to have a large amount of Houwitsers all firing several shells in such a way (arc) that hundreds of shells all land at the same time. This has a huge impact, psychological, but also physical, as there is no time to take cover. During WW1 it was learned that prolonged firing has little effect after the first shell hit. AFAIK it was used in great effect by the Americans amongst others in the Battle of the Bulge. Multiple round simultaneous impact (MRSI) is a modern version of the earlier time on target concept.

[@mehmetyanilmaz1167]

Thank you, Dr. Felton. Another weekend treat! Now, I will watch, once again, The Eagle Has Landed.

[@phaywood5883]

Great video as always, but I was sad to see you forgot the bit when Angela Lansbury flew over on her broom and scared them off.

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

I think she was mentioned in his video of the German Commando Raid on the English coast. At least in the comment section 😂😂😂

[@jackwalker9492]

I was stationed in Germany from 84-86. One restaurant/bar we would go to a lot (I came from the 82nd but 3,000 of us got transfered as they were way over strenghy right after the Grenada rescue). There was a group of Germans who all dressed exactly alike and would send us beer. They spoke no English and I was 19 and spoke little German. Turned out our barracks used to be theirs. Politics are not most soldiers and I made good friends amongst former enemies in more than one country and hate the killing most of the time

[@anthonywalsh7613]

Bert Trautmann (paratrooper) was certainly in England. Held as a POW in Huyton nr Liverpool & decided to stay. Look him up. He became a professional goalkeeper

[@anthonywalsh7613]

@@Occident. really. Tell me more. I’m unaware of him being a target of nastiness

[@atomise2010]

Trautmann played for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964, making 545 appearances and earning the nickname “The German Giant.” He was known for his exceptional goalkeeping skills, including saving 60% of penalties faced. His most famous moment came in the 1956 FA Cup Final, where he played on with a broken neck to help Manchester City defeat Birmingham City 3-1.

[@suethompson1736]

Thank u dr Felton, 4 many hours of insightful watching ❤

[@1951GL]

Two were parachuted into an area north of London - Karl Richter and Josef Jakobs - on 12th May 1941. Both were captured within a couple of days, Richter on 14th who, it transpired was sent to report on another German national who the Abwehr suspected had been "turned" by the British. Richter was tried under the 1940 Espionage Act on 24th October 1940, sentenced to death and executed by hanging at Wandsworth prison, 10th December 1940. Albert Pierrepoint described the worst execution he had to do, Richter using brute strength and driven by fear, had to be subdued by warders in a melee within the condemned cell and in the execution chamber, Richter falling through the drop, having jumped on the trap door and causing the noose to slip. The record confirms he did die instantly, but instead of the usual 12 seconds it took 17 minutes to dispatch him from Pierrepoint entering the cell and Richter hanging on the rope.

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

He sold his skin expensivly like we say in German.

[@naguerea]

Mark Felton, always a pleasure.

[@Gamble661]

"I realized fear one morning, when the blare of the fox-hunters sound. When they are all chasing after the poor bloody fox, it's safer to be dressed like a hound." Donald Sutherland's quote as Devlin in The Eagle Has Landed just before he jumps into England, my favorite quote from the movie and rather appropriate for the topic at hand!

[@wolfgangthiele9147]

Regarding the very few German agents who were indeed successful (11:20): It would be interesting to know why the British government still to this day is secretive about it. The successful cryptanalysis of the Enigma - which arguably was the decisive factor for the Allied victory in WWII - was disclosed in the early to mid 1970s, if memory serves right.

[@rjmun580]

I take it that their existence was only known because their parachutes were found. As they weren't caught there are no records to be secretive about.

[@foamer443]

Presumably the successful agents were found out about at some point. Perhaps the records are still sealed due to HOW it was they were so and whom may have known this and knowingly helped them.

[@phillipallen3259]

Successful could be a matter of perspective. It could be that the British government turned them into double agents to feed information to Berlin. If that were the case part of the agreement could be for their true identity to be concealed permanently.

[@markfryer9880]

Bletchley was being revealed in mid to late 70s. I first found out about it in the early 80s while visiting my brother's friends house and the topic came up in discussion with his Dad. The Dad had a early paperback book on the subject and he kindly loaned me the book. He was interested in the subject because he lectured in Mathematics at a technical college. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

[@gilbydog7350]

So interesting. Years ago I watched "SOE Executive" as a child about the dropping of airmen into France. I had always wondered what similar operations the Germans had to drop airmen into England.

[@Colonel_Obvious]

Incredible timing! I was just watching “The Eagle Has Landed”.

[@russwoodward8251]

Very interesting. Thank you again Dr. Felton.

[@glenngosline1710]

Good stuff as always

[@XFly170]

Kampfgeschwader (KG) 200 operated several captured Allied aircraft, including the Vickers Wellington L7842 KX-E that landed in France by mistake in February 1941. Little is known about the testing and the missions performed by this aircraft, but it is plausible that it was used to insert Abwehr agents into UK territory. Another precision, the large sums of banknotes carried by the agents were actually very intricate forgeries, produced in concentration camps during Operation Bernhard. These forgeries were so good that they remain very difficult to distinguish from the real bank notes, even to this day.

[@victorbeauvois]

Always very interesting and historical facts about what we never knew about

[@goata8]

Rudolf Hess is like “hold my beer paratroops”

[@Tacamo_1]

Great video! Learned more about world war 2. Thank you.

[@twistedyogert]

It's crazy that Germany decided to fly them in since you said they weren't experienced parachutists. If a spy landed and snapped one or more of his legs, he would've been SOL. Anyone who rescues them would've been suspicious, and authorities would be even more suspicious when they found the pocket pistol on him. A rowboat seems like a better idea.

[@davidryan4454]

Look up Josef Jakobs as Mr Felton suggests. He broke his leg & was captured. Because of the publicity surrounding his capture, there was no point in turning him so he was shot in the Tower Of London. Sat in a chair due to his recently broken leg

[@BillSikes.]

Too slow!

[@BillSikes.]

​@davidryan4454 😮

[@nickhorten97]

Or a rubber dinghy.

[@allangibson8494]

Wet spies are also rather obvious…

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

A wonderful historical coverage video 9

[@grantorino2009]

The paratrooper who landed in the pond at the beginning...that would be my luck, I can promise you.

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Jumping in darkness is a scary thing......Thank you Sir. Shoe🇺🇸

[@mriamilne]

Another fabulously revelatory story. Ty. You are a master of your craft.

[@phillylove7290]

Someone really said, "You can't have jump training injuries if you don't have jump training"

[@twowheelexploration9228]

Brilliant video always wanted to know more about this.

[@toad1771ify]

In this vein, I found an interesting book at a thrift store called "KG200 The True Story" all about a special unit that primarily dropped agents and others behind enemy lines. I love your videos. Perhaps one on KG200 😂. Great stuff and cheers.

[@johnjacobs1625]

Very well done Dr Mark !! Thanks for Sharing!! JJ

[@richardtallent8175]

Mentioned was the movie, " the eagle has landed ". But coming to mind is the 60's movie "triple cross ". Starring Christopher Plumber. Thank you for the fine video.

[@Hogsbelly]

Four films in just over a week! Mark, has someone kidnapped you? Are they waving a Luger at you, demanding you provide excellent and intriguiging documentaries every few days? Blink once for yes...

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

We need to rescue him! 😅

[@PlebCentral]

100% saw it on Bed knobs and Broomsticks Mark ;)

[@yesyesyesyes1600]

Didn't Tolkien also use ghosts to fight the invaders? Wonder if they knew more than they would tell ...

[@calistudent6335]

Can we shout out to recently departed Donald Sutherland for playing practically the same German spy in both The Eagle Has Landed and Eye of the Needle?

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

If I remember correctly in "The EAgle Has Landed" Sutherland's character is an Irishman working for the Germans, and an IRA man to boot. "Once in, never out." In "Eye Of The Needle" he does play a German deep-cover agent who's been in Britain since the end of WW1. Both great movies! (Except for that VERY anachronistic helicopter in "Eye" but oh, what the hell! Kate Nelligan more than makes up for it!)

[@PABeaulieu]

Donald Sutherland's character in "Eye of the Needle", Faber, is different from the German spy in the novel of the same name. In the novel, Faber pukes after killing a woman, and he hopes to be as courageous as the crippled British pilot he killed on Storm Island when facing his own death. In the movie, Faber is far more cold blooded. Sutherland's version of Devlin in the movie is closer to the one in the novel.

[@incub8]

I tried to make a similar comment but it might not have been allowed. I will try again. The movie is currently available for legal free streaming on TubiTv. It has a 7.1/10 score on IMDb. It's not bad, and I recently re-watched it before Mr. Sutherland departed us.

[@loumu7176]

Is there any brief few seconds of audio that captures the essence of ww2 hype better than Mr. Felton’s intro music? I think not…

[@BodywiseMustard]

It's a fairly standard royalty-free track.

[@deanbuss1678]

Thanks!

[@dlxmarks]

This brings to mind the 1981 BBC series _Private Schulz_ starring Michael Elphick and Ian Richardson. Not only was Elphick's Schulz ordered to parachute into Kent despite not knowing English, his contact was already a double agent and his civilian disguise included a bowler hat and plus fours which would be like wearing a fedora with shorts. On top of that, he had to lug around a torpedo case stuffed full of counterfeit five pound notes that he somehow had to distribute into the British economy.

[@nickg1789]

I remember that series.. I wonder if there are any channels repeating it .

[@dlxmarks]

@@nickg1789 I saw the series just once in the early 1990s when my PBS station aired it. Not surprisingly, no streaming services offer it at this time. Even though Schulz is just an ordinary and apolitical guy trying his best to stay out of combat, the main character as a SS member doesn't fly these days.

[@jimpolk]

More. Cool stuff i never heard before. I figured there had to have been some incursion of some kind however few but ciuldnt nail it down. Thanks.

[@shellman5844]

Professor Felton. Where you automatically hit the like button even before watching the video.

[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Good post, thank you.

[@TroupeGoal]

Fascinating that those files are still kept secret. For all we know lots of them could have gone uncaptured.

[@larsrons7937]

In Denmark we have some documents about the German capture of Copenhagen in April 1940. When their "top secret" status was about to run out and they were to be revealed to the public some 10-15 years ago, they got a new stamp: Top secret for additionally 60 years. Thus it'll be absolutely certain that no-one even alive in 1940 will be alive when some day the content is revealed. I wonder what's in them? But I will never know.

[@adamsimpasa330]

Another great video from the best historian made me to rewatch Terrence Young's triple cross.

[@marcitos_9329]

Drop everything Lads! Dr Felton uploaded a new video!

[@oldskool731]

his not a doctor

[@InternetDarkLord]

100 likes in the first minute

[@marcitos_9329]

@@oldskool731PhD from University of Essex entitles him to the use of Dr.