Hitler's Jewish Soldiers

Many men who were partly of Jewish ancestry served in the German armed forces during WW2 - find out how and why they ended up in Hitler's army.
For more information about this topic, suggested reading is 'Hitler's Jewish Soldiers' by Bryan Mark Rigg - www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish...
Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fe...
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[@SP-sy5nq]

Wow the German army was so inclusive!

[@RedDevil66991]

Very.

[@crimony3054]

They even let captured Soviets serve by defending Normandy. 🤣

[@dr.lecter9795]

George Soros

[@ghostsoul529]

Lol

[@katbrown1449]

They re more tolerate than Maga nazis 😂 !!

[@Roller_Ghoster]

This is the sort of channel that should used on the curriculum of schools. Ive learnt alot from Mark Felton.

[@RedVelvetBlackleather]

Self education is the best education. I mean even if his videos were used in school people still wouldn’t pay attention

[@nedludd7622]

@@RedVelvetBlackleather So you plan to be a self-educated doctor or rocket scientist. Don't call me, and I won't call you.

[@billmcculloch8240]

Most definitely , the PAST MUST be remembered , even Mandela said "bury history & it will happen again" .

[@nedludd7622]

@@charlieboy-dh1ns The guy did not specify that that is what he meant. I just take him at his word.

[@RedVelvetBlackleather]

@@nedludd7622 Chill out buddy I was under the idea that we were talking about grade school history students, of course we ALL LEARN something from school but for people who really want to broaden their education they usually do that outside of school, or they move on to higher education.

[@erzherzogalbrecht8504]

My great-grandmother was half Jewish, and because my great-grandfather married her, he got expelled from the Wehrmacht and sent to the Organisation Todt as a forced labourer to build bunkers on the French coastlines. Both survived the war and settled down in Vienna

[@chamboyette853]

Is it just me or does this division and different treatment of people in accordance with their DNA strangely remind me (of course in a much less drastic way) of the left's dividing people in accordance with their DNA as well as what they can and cannot say in accordance with this DNA?

[@kalajari1749]

Ah so they werent g-$$ed. They were only sent to labor camps

[@BasementEngineer]

erz: You may wish to read the book: Hitler's Jewish Soldiers. The book's assertion is that there were 150,000 Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht.

[@hanaluong2672]

@@BasementEngineer they served in the German Army for their own survival.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@hanaluong2672 If you drill right down to it, ALL western soldiers served for that purpose. That's what the heavy propaganda in the so-called democracies was for.

[@SteDews]

Just been to a funeral of an old friend of the family, we knew she was a German Jew and her parents destroyed all her papers as a child and changed her name from Rachel to Ursula, in the funeral we found out that she was in the Hitler youth and was hiding in plain sight all through the war. Amazing to know that there were so many that survived this way

[@ashrain6235]

Once Jew, forever Jew There’s no paper or name that can change that

[@Ratselmeister]

So a national socialist by heart not by race. Thats true patriotism.

[@Blissblizzard]

My friends much older Jewish cousins (who were friends with Jung prewar) and whose parents were already "Buddhist" somehow survived the war, in Berlin!

[@Foreign0817]

​@@ashrain6235Christians: ✡️

[@Vilatkahang]

@@ashrain6235 ultimately all people came from the same parents in Africa that’s all that matters

[@Remembrance1776]

A mini-episode on Eduard Bloch, a Jewish doctor who treated the Hitler family, would be worthwhile. He was protected by Hitler himself after the Nazi annexation of Austria and was allowed to immigrate to America with no resistance. As Hitler put it: “Dr. Bloch is an Edeljude - a noble Jew. If all Jews were like him, there would be no Jewish question.”

[@lafox2833]

The problem is that not all jews can be a doctor who personally treated Hitlers mother

[@riteshyeddu9186]

@@lafox2833 😂

[@uberalles9797]

So apparently someone lied about history

[@outis439-A]

@@uberalles9797 Yeah because in Mein Kempf, Hitler says that during his youth he never actually understood what a jew even was. like he never saw one, un less he never knew the doctor was jewish until he grew up and stuff.

[@nyimdewan3353]

@@outis439-A What?Bruh did you ever read mein Kampf? Hitler was struggling in Vienna after he got rejected from the art school.. Even he was sleeping in the streets sometimes... He clearly recalled there was a Jewish Cloth seller who gave cloths to Hitler when he was freezing in the cold..His commanding officer in the German army in WW1 was a Jew..Heck even a little girl used to visit Hitler before the war who was Jew.Whom she referred to as Uncle Hitler and Hitler used to talk with her and meet with her every week but after during WW2 he couldn't maintain that contact as the party pressured him to cut ties with the girl as she was a Jew..He even has a photo with her..Can google It if you like

[@jacobmiller9133]

I love the obscure, little-known stories from WWII. Just when you think you’ve learned it all, Dr. Felton gives you another tidbit.

[@benadam7753]

LOL! Bryan Mark Rigg wrote his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" 19 years ago! Mark Felton is a little late on this subject!

[@peterharte5841]

9

[@fiendersPT]

Still if Mark Felton didnt have uploaded this video, many of us wouldnt have known

[@AlvesHeim]

Me too! I also love little-known (intentionally) stories from WWII and other times... I recommend you books of Thomas Dalton, PhD, and Veronica Kuznyar-Clark, they tell much more than Felton. Also search for "271,301 Red Cross", you will be very surprised. And to understand the opposite side, search for "Stalin's Enslavement of Rural Russia (full documentary)", and "sexual revolution in Weimar Germany in 1920s" and "Bolshevik sexual revolution in 1920s", and "extermination of Cossacks by Bolsheviks", and you will understand why at least 5,000,000 Slavs joined Germans in WWII. Real history was totally opposite from what modern schools tell to naive people. It was never about Germans or Germany, it was only about freedom from Marxism in all its ugly forms.

[@benadam7753]

@@peterharte5841 19! The copyright of my copy of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" is 2002!

[@johnhenderson131]

I really appreciate that you locate and share these very interesting parts of history. I spent time in military school and study military history from the Ancient Greek, Romans, Spartans,Egyptian etc….and more in-depth WWI and WWIII. You continue to fascinate by constantly giving me new information. Thank you. Ignorance is a terrible thing.

[@wilhelminamarquart240]

Love your videos, my grandfather said this happened in Germany but I didn't believe him that there were German Jews in the Nazis. My grandfather was born in Berlin and lived there till 1939 and he had said that he knew Jews who were high up in the Nazis.

[@chucklynch6523]

Research the 1933 German Transfer Agreement. It will blow your mind to see the 2 parties that were involved in this agreement and why!!

[@eyeswideopen7777]

It just proves that the elite Jews sold out their own in those times

[@markaguzmanartist630]

Yea HITLERS WIFE WAS HALF JEWISH

[@Georgeos777]

eichmann, heydrich(half), goebbels, himmler, its not about small hats and going to synagoge, its surnames, family and obvious genetics, for example eichmann appearance screams literally jew

[@abdullahsaidgul8005]

Believable. Now there are Zionist Nazis in Israel

[@jcgabriel1569]

"...History is more grey than black and white..." Well, sir, you have just added another color to give us a clearer picture of things. Thanks for the videos!

[@raygiordano1045]

Does that mean Mark is endorsing 50 Shades of Gray?

[@theyoutubenomad.3035]

@@raygiordano1045 what???

[@hakrj12]

Try blue history ... it'll blow your mind

[@comradekenobi6908]

Grey like German uniforms yes

[@redditor7548]

History is nothing more then “his”story

[@elschaetty]

"History is more grey than black and white" is an extremely good quote and maybe the best for summing up history as a subject in general

[@fightfannerd2078]

Ikr

[@14monkelifter88]

@@aduantas this

[@Blessed_V0id]

I'd argue its all black. There's no heroes in politics. Only martyrs and monsters

[@robertjones447]

I suppose whitewaahing evil makes it appear grey.

[@yayhandles]

Or just all of existence, even. Almost *nothing* exists in stark white, nor pitch black - in nearly every regard, any action, inaction, or reaction is a double-edged sword. There is an inherent duality to everything that happens or exists - by choice, by design, or by happenstance. As an intentionally extreme example: It is only by the actions of murderers, and even genocidists, that a meaningful perspective of the true monstrosity of such acts is bestowed upon us.

[@EnforcerX71]

These are easily the best, more interesting WW2 videos on KZbin, I thank you Dr. Felton, you are a national treasure.

[@Steve-O_27]

Excellent episode as always Dr. Felton! I really appreciate and love all the work you do to produce such great content!

[@anaveragejoe6710]

Professor Mark is an unconventional youtuber. We need more educated KZbinrs like him and he deserves more views.

[@gubernatorial1723]

Unconventional for being educated. Too true.

[@bobbowie5334]

Best known for the _bumper music._

[@DrJones20]

He's not unconventional, he's just the most known one. Watch less cat videos and you'll find more good stuff in here

[@pmonkeygeezer6212]

@@Bobspineable He's not a professor to the best of my knowledge but does have a doctorate in history from the University of Essex. The problem with history as a subject for a doctorate or academic subject is that you are largely rehashing and collating what other people have documented. You can't tell it like it was, because by very definition, you weren't there. Whereas science, maths, and engineering are on the forefront of new and original work.

[@chrispycreme9545]

indeed

[@steven-el3sw]

I'm actually surprised at how relatively "lax" the classification scheme was compared to what I thought it would be. You could be all the way up to half Jewish and still be accorded German citizenship???!!! I'd always assumed even a hint of Jewish ancestry anywhere in your family tree and you were pretty much done for.

[@maria-melek]

Same here

[@garypulliam3740]

Television and cinema is responsible for the misunderstanding there.

[@samsayonara7788]

That's what those who wrote down the history book version wanted you to believe.... for ages. Welcome to the rabbit hole, it's much deeper in here and lot's more secrets want to light.

[@8Maduce50]

@Chad Plow well its also too much history to cover when covering ww2 especially u.s history since the pacific theater was more or less the result of U.S-Japanese tension. And the European theater was helping out old friends. For the larg part we get the anti germans British version of event and Japan get a soft ball lesson becaue we feel bad for dropping the a bombs so we don't learn about their atrocities in China.

[@ibrohiem]

It also seems that it depends on who you know also. Connected mixed Germans might have gotten away with a lot more than just regular mixed Germans.

[@johnelliott7375]

This man somehow always finds more and more interesting facts about these people,just when you think that the well has dried up. Bravo, enjoyable, and educational as always thank you and God bless your family and friends. Great work as always!

[@Ninikyu95]

Out of all the ww2/hitler/nazi docs I've watched, I don't ever recall hearing this. Thanks for sharing! Great video.

[@news26boom]

Fun fact - Taiwanese were classified as white by the SA Apartheid government while Chinese were classified as non-white. Both are ethnically Han-Chinese. It was because the SA government had a close relationship with the ROC.

[@stevenobrien557]

There are many non-Han in both Taiwan and China. The current president of Taiwan is Hakka.

[@jeffreysommer3292]

The Third Reich trained several Divisions of Chinese troops until the alliance with Japan got in the way.

[@raptornomad1221]

@@jeffreysommer3292 Imagine if Germany persuaded Japan to leave the then China alone and ally with them for natural resources and man power. Ohhh boy.

[@tancreddehauteville764]

Commies are never 'white' - they are RED.

[@alan-l2079]

@@stevenobrien557 Hakka people are Han Chinese too, it's like within Han Chinese we have a lot subgroups.

[@MrTrimtab]

I was busy procrastinating when this notification came - and all of a sudden I’m no longer wasting time but drinking good coffee and learning from history.

[@rob5944]

Me too, it's a lovely day here but I'm still in the virtual library burying myself deeper and deeper in the vast encyclopaedia that is the internet. It gets like this when no one is home.

[@raypurchase801]

Procrastinating? Is that the thing which'll make you go blind? (Joke. I know what it means.)

[@911treason3]

If you want to learn some banned history watch Europa The Last Battle

[@911treason3]

@Grey Donovun ok jew

[@its_deer]

@Grey Donovun Yeah, read the description

[@samuelstevenson8279]

I absolutely love your content! I have been a viewer since 2020...keep up the good work Sir!

[@chatita9527]

Wow, this I had not been aware of! Thank you for your great videos.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Revealing the truth instead of creating a narrative is worthy of admiration. Thank you Dr. Felton.

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

I wonder if dr mark felton will mention the haavara agreement 1933-48 as it created the middle eastern wars

[@jonathanduplantis1403]

Exactly

[@zaynevanday142]

@Dreymon Green lol no it started long before then buddy

[@jonathan13co]

What truth? What are you implying?

[@craxd1]

This is what happens when you blame an entire race or ethnicity (the institution) for what a small handful may have done in certain professions. It led to the genocide not only in Germany, but the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, etc. This occurs when individual responsibility is ignored, or destroyed.

[@ErnestJay88]

summary of this video : "I'm deciding who is Jewish and who is not !" Herman Goering

[@mkultra70]

Yeah Goering really didn’t care much about the racial stuff. In fact, if it was up to him all German Jews, especially those that served in the military during WW1 would have been “Aryanized”..

[@bundesautobahn7]

If I recall, Göring was state premier of Prussia before the administrative reorganisation from states into Gaue (a Gau is like a valley, but in this case more like a region), which was still a very large chunk of Germany after WWI, around 50% or so.

[@edwardjj4224]

Herman was thinking about Alfred Kesselring Smiling Alfred

[@user-tc4jc6ko2b]

Ja

[@apfelschorle1988]

they allowed people with Jewish ancestry in the military but not in science. I really don't get it. Wonder how important antisemitism really was to the high-ranking Nazis apart from Hitler and Himmler of cause. All the dead jews were nothing more than a tool for the Reich.

[@GreenfieldPortfolioResearch]

unbelievably consistently good content. amazing.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative.Excellent photography job.Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction.Class A research project.

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Hitler: This man is the perfect Aryan. Soldier: Starts sweating in Hebrew.

[@marcoAKAjoe]

Lol

[@bluetv6386]

Presumably using some salty language?

[@RusakovLA]

Most likely in Yiddish.

[@seanokeefe703]

While hiding an uzi under his jacket

[@ItzAdam03]

@@seanokeefe703 uzi in ww2?? Go back to the hospital mate

[@junglejack9954]

Mark Felton has been considered severely underrated. He deserves many many more credits

[@benadam7753]

If Mark Felton is going to use Bryan Mark Rigg's work and title, he should at least acknowledge him!

[@tempestvideos9834]

Who exactly is underrating him?

[@tempestvideos9834]

@@benadam7753 Then he would have to pay Mr Rigg's a royalty.

[@googane7755]

He is not underrated lmao especially for a history channel

[@Kaarna5]

how is he underrated, stfu

[@defiant2dend181]

Simply, an extraordinary channel. And also extraordinary content.

[@RyeJ_86]

The phrase “honorary aryan” fills me with a confusing disgust I didn’t know existed

[@Ape8282]

Worthless banker 😂😂

[@tonyricebutwithahangover856]

Another topic that would’ve been good talking about is Georg Rauch, he was a Jewish soldier who was known by the Nazis who didn’t care that he was Jewish, as long as he went to the Eastern Front. His book is called unlikely warrior, very interesting book.

[@TopDrek]

Couldn't be true, it isn't what professor. Goldblatt told me.

[@geraint8989]

Rather a powerful message here - hatred of the 'other' falls apart logically and emotionally if one actually knows one of the 'other'.

[@tonyricebutwithahangover856]

@Gregory Smith He had a Jewish grandmother, he told his commanding officer this and the officer went ballistic and sent him to the Eastern Front

[@angeladeleon5922]

@Gregory Smith I call it 'Othering," or being 'Othered' into a different box, in order to save or give 'Grace' to those who are loved by those in charge.

[@Smudgeroon74]

@Gregory Smith are you a Marxist? Do you like what Stalin represented?

[@gemusefachlummel6467]

The quote: "I decide who is a jew" originally came from Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna during the late 19th century

[@pamtnman1515]

I’m wondering when the Adolf Hitler lovers will show up here and accuse the Jewish German soldiers of not being Jewish enough.

[@pamtnman1515]

@William Joseph Blazkowicz you are a Jew

[@alvaro701]

@Electric Fire In my country we can criticise everyone, that means we got no rulers? D:

[@alvaro701]

@Electric Fire Spain and this the rule in most of the UE.

[@extanegautham8950]

and your point is, Mein Herr?

[@planetx5269]

Wow, this was facinating. I subscribed. Thank you.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

The History Channel I believe did an episode on this, a few years ago. They interviewed a couple soldiers.

[@pellefishermans]

World War 2 and the history around it has always been my biggest interest, and your channel is like heaven. You cover such interesting subjects, I thank you Dr Felton! 🙏🏼

[@911treason3]

Watch Europa The Last Battle

[@v4skunk739]

Read up what General Patton was saying before he got killed.

[@PcGamerify]

Emil Maurice was also the co founder of the SS

[@krisfrederick5001]

Absolutely, enjoy mein freund

[@StevenKeery]

@Jack Stucki : Simple anti-semitism and not everyone throughout history hated the Jews, so your premise is simply incorrect.

[@jurassicpeter]

I'm German and I've learned more about the second world war from you than I learned from my school and we're taught very thoroughly about Hitler, his rise and the second world war. Thank you for providing this information for free, I'm not a history student so I'd never have known alot if these facts without you!

[@BasementEngineer]

Did you also learn that the Germans, singlehandedly, stopped the communist Soviets from invading Europe? I'm most grateful to my German relatives for their courage and sacrifice to achieve this.

[@to3ta64]

@@BasementEngineer I’d like to hear that story, as I don’t believe I’ve heard it before. Can you elaborate?

[@BasementEngineer]

@@to3ta64 There are numerous books that have dealt with these issues. Two that I can recommend are "Icebreaker" by Viktor Suvorov, and "Germany's War" by John Wear. Another good one is "Churchill and Hitler, the Unnecessary War". If you really wish to dig deeper into these issues, I can recommend another ten or so books. Naturally you wont find them in your library or neighbourhood book store.

[@BasementEngineer]

@@to3ta64 USSR was ready to invade Germany and western Europe. The Germans knew this and struck preemptively one month earlier. The books I have listed in an earlier reply deal with this scenario extensively.

[@stryk3r]

have you read Mein Kampf?

[@benladenno1340]

@markfelton I love your works especially the speed You’re doing well ! As a Nigerian will say You’re doing well 👍🏻 !!

[@17cmmittlererminenwerfer81]

Not only is history much subtly shaded than most would have you believe, it is also written by the victors, with their inherent bias against, and imperfect understanding of, their former enemies.

[@internetstrangerstrangerofweb]

Werner Goldberg’s Book is brilliant. I remember reading it in middle school and I still have it in my small little library. A lovely piece of biography.

[@silverkingisley6438]

Oooh, never knew he wrote a biography! Thanks for the info, think ill pick it up myself.

[@cu4870]

Could you, please provide the book name ?

[@gforceeatingcorrect]

Where can I purchase his 📖 book please....

[@internetstrangerstrangerofweb]

@@cu4870 “A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army” I believe was the title.

[@cu4870]

@@internetstrangerstrangerofweb Written by Georg Rauch or Bryan Mark Rigg ? Thank you very much

[@Mr037rally]

Ah, a cup of coffee and a Mark Felton video.

[@fdumbass]

Aye, same!

[@8bitorgy]

early risers represent

[@ayrtonholanda1167]

*raises mug and nods*

[@Gunthar100]

You forgot the croissant 😀

[@xleplex7070]

It would of been tea for me but I finished that before I found this video.

[@ultimatemaha4550]

Thanks for history information bro....

[@TonyNaber]

this was so full of new information for me that I was shocked when the video ended and it was only 8 minutes!

[@tatonemio6388]

buy the book (in the description)

[@mostlygamingstuff1260]

Nazi propagandist: Hmmm Werner Goldberg…. Doesn’t sound Jewish to me, welcome to team! Edited: spelling

[@kebertxela941]

I thought the same about Maurice. While I am not sure about it as a last name, it is pretty common first name for Jews in America.

[@athelstaneofconingsburgh]

Imagine suspecting a guy named Reinhard Heydrich is Jewish, but not Werner Goldberg

[@inotaishu1]

There are several places in Germany called Goldberg, including a city in the north. And there have been and still are several germans with the family name Goldberg. It's just that outside of the german speaking area such names are usually taken for jewish names only. If you had said the same about the name Rosenberg, you would have regretted it quickly.

[@andrzejstoszek4035]

Na zdjecie widac tkz Reichweppen uzywane przez Ordspolizei i SS

[@ccrider3435]

Werner Quisling sound about right.

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

Although a Finnish soldier, Salomon Altschuler (1913-2019) was one of the few publicly Jewish interpreters for a German officer.

[@adambaker8689]

Fortunately for him, in this alliance of convenience the Finns, unlike other states that were allied or occupied, didn't sell out their Jewish citizens, kudos to them for that, and fighting the damned Soviets so bravely.

[@peltimies2469]

@@adambaker8689 yes all Finnish jews who died during WW2 died fighting The Soviets. There was even a field synagogue. To My knowledge 8 jews were deported out of Finland to Germany in 1942, but they were not citizens. I am unaware how many of them died. I do know that after this event The Finnish church and prominent politicians and Marshall Mannerheim were furious, and during the war Finland took in 500 jews, many of them were sent to Sweden under direct orders from Mannerheim to protect their lifes from potential German killing. It really is weird that one of Hitlers most usefull allies, did not partake in exterminaton, nor facism. Maybe it was because Finland stayed a Democracy during the whole war and never truly joined the axis.

[@adambaker8689]

@@peltimies2469 Thanks for the reply, very interesting. Completely agree with your last paragraph. I believe that the UK was at war with the Finns to appease the Soviets, and this is the only instance where 2 democracies have ever been at war.

[@carstenmanz302]

@@peltimies2469 Interesstingly hitler statet in an dokument a few weeks until the nazi-regime ends that the main reason to fight russia was to protect finnland, also rumanian from soviet occupation! There was not only one word to read about the interessts of germany/germans and only a few sentences about the lost war, a competley destroyed nation and millions of deads and refugees! At least i have to resume "we" made war "only" to protect a german minority in poland and to save finnland and rumanian?!

[@eedragonr6293]

@@carstenmanz302 too late for the German minority in Romania

[@KBr-ud6ly]

Amazing details and information! Excellent job!

[@leonardpiskacsr.7111]

Awesome Content....thanks Mark!🙂

[@angusolsen951]

There is no “History” channel. There is only Mark Felton.

[@jimtan8472]

Nah he's history

[@coimbralaw]

No, there’s definitely also a History channel.

[@DrJones20]

So sick of these cliche comments on his channel

[@OperatorMax1993]

don't forget there's also Sandrhoman History, Kings and Generals and Armchair Historian

[@texasdrz9515]

Ancient Aliens is really good.

[@kickingmustang]

Hermann Goering "In conclusion, race is a social construct." Who would have known that the Nazis were so progressive. Next episode "Hitler's transgender athletes competing at the 1936 Olympics". Thanks Mark, awesome as ever.

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

Careful with that there knoife, you might offend the progressive fake left, the diversity squads might send their goons after you on twitter and try to get you cancelled, or killed whichever extremist of the fake left you might ask.

[@rockubey]

made me laugf

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@emmaisalone good

[@jurassicsparks5220]

@@emmaisalone Good

[@hugoc1861]

@@emmaisalone is that true?

[@jaded9234]

Well, Hitler also personally kept an eye on his mother's old Jewish Physician's situation and still actively kept in direct contact with him until allowing the man to move, with his family, to the US as Germany's situation worsened. He considered the man a "Good Jew". In one letter, Hitler remarks that if all Jews were like that man, he wouldn't have any problem with them.

[@philip506]

Another prominent example in this regard would be the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 named Helmut Schmidt. He was considered a Jew 2nd degree, but fought for Hitler on the Eastern Front during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and served as an Oberleutnant in the Flak artillery on the Western Front from December 1944 onwards.

[@tatonemio6388]

The fact The Nazi invented a classification for "Jewishness" is just racism and irrelevant. Helmut Schmidt was not a Jew "Schmidt's father was born the biological son of a German Jewish banker, Ludwig Gumpel, and a Christian waitress, Friederike Wenzel"

[@draganmestrovic]

Great source for this topic also comes from "Hitler's Jewish Soldier: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military" by Bryan Mark Rigg

[@vaxfiles9529]

Berlin had a Jewish hospital for the entire duration of the war. When the Russian army reached it there were 800 Jewish people inside

[@noedeverchere2833]

Thanks you for showing the sources Mark Felton used for this video. I think he should write the sources down in the description of the video...

[@williamsbark5592]

Hitlers mother was part Jewish...fact.

[@eedragonr6293]

Pirates?

[@vaxfiles9529]

@@williamsbark5592 Mark Rigg, a Jewish historian has videos on youtube talking about this.

[@cubemonkeys1514]

Me last week: Alright that has to be it, there is no way Mark has even MORE history to share/content to make about WW2...

[@thunderbird1921]

That era is FULL of surprises.

[@911treason3]

Watch Europa The Last Battle for more

[@RonJohn63]

It was a *big, long war* preceded by *decades of turmoil.* Just as importantly, you are not a historian *who focuses his whole life on the topic,* so of course there will always be new surprises.

[@krisfrederick5001]

That's kind of his thing.

[@stephenkalatucka6213]

Check out TIK on YT for more in depth analysis of history.

[@mosads2986]

UNBELIEVABLE HISTORICAL INFORMATION ... THANKS A MILLION DEAR SIR ...

[@angiee5446]

Okay very interesting. Thanks for the very informative video.

[@Sevenigma777]

I love this channel because it reminds me of the old days of the History Channel even down to the theme song. I believe this channel is continuing the long tradition of great World War 1 & 2 documentaries narrated by the British lol

[@cameraman1234567890a]

@@v.5442 Who runs youtube?

[@anthonychilders9549]

@@v.5442 Oh no. We aren’t about to go to that.

[@exactlybasically8603]

Imagine if History channel gave him a show.

[@StevenKeery]

@@v.5442 : Your wife?

[@federico02072]

Mark I wish when I was in high school you were my teacher, you have my complete attention from start to finish. Please keep these videos coming, and thank you for all the hard work you put into each one

[@mitchellfelder2420]

The greatest irony of all is that there was a strong possibility that Hitler had Jewish ancestry.

[@LBJisBOULESPORTSANDPOLIT-tl3so]

Jewish is an ancestry ? How ?

[@user-nm3nb4oj5d]

The Nuremberg Laws are almost identical with Jewish racial laws on who a Jew is and who is not. The Jews use this for exclusivity also but are pissed if others apply the same rules for their own in-group terminology

[@coolbreeze6198]

I've been studying and watching documenteries on military history my entire life but I always learn something new from Mark's channel

[@mitchmatthews6713]

I never walk away from a Mark Felton video and not be more educated. Thank you, sir!

[@waliwali3690]

More educated ,and mainly more indoctrinated to Nazi ideal

[@waliwali3690]

@Stxr KillerX are You Ukranian ? Because i appreciate Ukrainians

[@waliwali3690]

@Stxr KillerX so ,You are basically a Nazi 🇩🇪

[@arthurmosel808]

A book on this was written about ten years ago. The Nurnberg laws were insane.

[@jonathangems]

'History is more grey than black and white.' So true. Another anomaly is that synagogues were open throughout the war and rabbis and congregations were not restricted in their worship.

[@fisk7aal]

That History is more grey, than black and white needs to be said more often in 2021.

[@thunderbird1921]

Truer words were never spoken. Every nation in every era had a mixture of evil people AND good people. We'll never know how many German folks really opposed Hitler, because remember that he tolerated absolutely NO dissent, similar to the Communists. One Luftwaffe pilot said years later that he and others were scared to even make jokes about Hitler, Himmler and other Nazi officials for fear they would be arrested.

[@CS-zn6pp]

Exactly but history that doesn't meet today's woke purity standards gets suppressed... Doesn't bode well for the future. 😔

[@thunderbird1921]

@@CS-zn6pp Heck, anything that doesn't fit the woke narrative is covered up. How many younger people today know that there were female service personnel in every branch during World War II and that they were such a huge success (and so popular) that they were made permanent after the war? Or that the first US civil rights act passed in 1957, not '64?

[@TheTwolesslives]

C S care to give any examples?

[@fisk7aal]

@@TheTwolesslives Take a look at the "Pyramid of White Supremacy" it claims that we cannot go with the saying "Two sides to every story". That does not leave much space for "grey" conclusions.

[@sventextor1309]

Mark will have forgotton more about history than almost all will ever remember.....such fantastic content and should be taught in schools all over the world.....no bias....no agenda....if we would like to know where we are going we have to hear about where we have been.Great stuff Mark.

[@liamcrawford9861]

Another high profile example that I think should’ve been mentioned was the story of Solomon Perel. He was a Jewish teenager who ended up in the German Army and later the Hitler youth. The whole time he would masquerade as an “Aryan German”.

[@karenthomson9749]

Great content!

[@eliseorodas3152]

Very good observation. However, remember that in the jewish tradition you are jewish by matrilineal descent. Therefore if your father is jewish and your mother is not then within jewish tradition you're not. Most of these "jewish" soldiers where not even considered jewish by the jewish community.

[@jessicamorris4748]

Although the matrilineal line of desent is the most traditional way of differentiating Jews and non-Jews in the Jewish community it is not the only way. As a person who is half Lutheran/half Jewish, lacks the matrilineal line of desent, and was raised as a Jew I can state from both personal experience and many hours spent in Hebrew school that bloodlines are not the only way of recognizing a person as a member of the Jewish community. Most people would also probably be surprised to learn which Jews tend to adhere most closely to the part of the tradition that values the bloodlines. It isn't the Orthodox.

[@eliseorodas3152]

@@jessicamorris4748 I'm a conservative and Sephardic..if your mom is not jewish ..you have to do the conversion process via a Beth Din... Yes, reform jews bend the rule concerning matrilineal descent but most observant jews and halachically speaking jews will not consider other rule beyond the proper way of conversion. At least in Israel .. it does not accepts a conversion unless is halachically.

[@eedragonr6293]

"the Jewish community". If they are living in a country where legally the children 's identity is given by the paternal descent, officially they will be Jewish with a Jewish father.

[@olympusentertainment2638]

What????? Was that always the case of this matrilineal descent and would you say that the Jewish community is controlled by women?

[@eliseorodas3152]

There are 2 ways of seeing it.. The Jewish way and the non Jewish way. In a technical sense in the Jewish tradition if you're not from a Jewish mother you have to convert via religion

[@TheJames802]

This is by far one of my favorite channels and you never disappoint. Your research is extremely thorough and I am always surprised to learn something new. Thank you and keep it up!

[@tomaszheinrich8674]

Honestly not surprised, because there were lots of cases like this, even exceptions where jewish people got arian status. Politicians always contradict themselves and Adolf was no different.

[@user-kd2ij7te5v]

It is amazing how humans can wrap their minds around the most weird twists in reality

[@lazerbehm8681]

"History is more grey than black and white" perhaps the best way I've heard that said!

[@aislinnweeda7493]

I can’t believe this content is free. Thank you for your time in putting this together for us!

[@MrTHYPOON]

Hi Mark!! I think that you should make a video about the Dr. Eduard Bloch, Jew Doctor, he was a general practitioner of Czechoslovak origin who practiced his profession in a Baroque house at 12 Landstraße, the main avenue in Austria's third largest city, Linz. In 1907, Dr. Bloch received a postcard from Vienna from a grateful patient who had treated both him and his mother some years before: "I am forever grateful, AH." He was no less than Adolf Hitler, in those years an aspiring painter, but future Führer of National Socialist Germany. Over the years, the friendly relationship between Bloch and Hitler had remained intact; even when Austria was annexed in the Anschluss and they had begun to be persecuted throughout the Reich, it could be said that Dr. Bloch and his family were the only people who received special treatment in which they did not suffer the differential treatment that the other Jews suffered. Despite this, the doctor understood that, given the entire situation experienced, the best thing for him and his family was to change scenery. And in this fact, it was Adolf Hitler himself who would end up helping him to leave Germany.

[@Videx19]

This was one of your best and proves laws can be dismissed at the whim of the powerful.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Yeah the honorary Aryan clause was made specifically so that can be done. By the end of WW2 Germany employed a lot of non-Germans, because in war, manpower > principles. My step-uncles father was a Slav (Ukrainian) who willingly fought for the Third Reich since the communists killed most of his family, so life circumstances can really shape how someone views a conflict and lead to strange cases, such as a Slav fighting for the faction that wanted to Germanize Slavs, and eliminate those that refused.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

@engineer gaming You're power level is showing!

[@SkepticalSteve01]

Yes, laws can be dismissed at the whim of the powerful - especially in a fascist state like Nazi Germany where the arbitrary prejudices of the leadership were always more important than law, morality or truth.

[@olroy17]

In time of war people are going to do what they need to do to survive and people are going to use whatever or whomever they think will help them win. This is another great Mark Felton production!!!

[@BADD1ONE]

Yep like right now

[@patrickfrinker]

You forgot to mention how about 20 of them also earned the Knights Cross

[@sasukeuchihaa1447]

hey glad to see you here!

[@DeathBlossom867]

Sehr interessant, danke!

[@frankgesuele6298]

I remember reading how some Jews hid by serving in the Waffen SS on the Eastern front. That would make a good Felton video.

[@bradleyg7498]

Ha, I watch your vids

[@jewelltuber]

Kind of ruins the narrative.......................

[@user-re9mz2bt1e]

Fun fact: The Ay DL threatened to shut down the entire red cross if they didn't suppress all autopsies from the camps.

[@Daggz90]

Mark Riggs wrote a book on this. Great work, great read. The Waffen SS was THE most diverse army in known history. They had more cultures and nationalities volunteering for them than Napoleon had in his Grande Armée in the Russian Campaign of 1812. 350,000 volunteers from +30 different countries, about 150,000 Jewish Soldiers whereas 5 of them were Generals and 2 of them rose to the ranks of Field Marshal. This is a strong counter argument to the narrative we've been sold for decades and is just another addition to the list of legitimate arguments for historical revision. The more you know...

[@MARfilms]

This really is what they mean when they say "real life is stranger than fiction"

[@tomigun5180]

It's not strange, only in the light of what we were taught in school. After you did some research though...

[@RealmRiftCreations]

You must not have read any decent fiction then. War is very very natural and will always take place on this planet. "The Lord is a man of war" Exodus 15:3

[@tomigun5180]

@@RealmRiftCreations "And on the eight day, God made the art of war, and laughing planned the end." Nevermore: Deconstruction

[@Apocalypse_Cow]

This channel should be required viewing for every student in the USA 🇺🇸 and the rest of the world 🌎.

[@jamiefrankshire3503]

You know this will never happen because it exposes that the Allies deliberately lied to their citizens in order to justify their own actions during war time. In war, everybody is a savage and the Red Cross only has legitimacy when being filmed. There are no exceptions.

[@georgewbush762]

Why the rest of the World second haha

[@laurencethornblade8357]

Why the USA

[@Cole-ui8bi]

@@laurencethornblade8357 a lot of them think everything "German related" was Nazi. even if it's not nazi

[@servantofthelivinggod6192]

What a striking resemblance to what’s going on right now. The nazi plan is being followed by most governments right now. Especially the early 30s.🤨

[@davidmartin3080]

Fregattenkapitän (Commander) Paul Ascher was also a mischling who served as Artillery Officer on the Graf Spee and later as Admiral Lutchens' Adjutant on the Bismark. He escaped captivity after the loss of the Graf Spee and returned to Germany. He was lost when the Bismark was sunk. He should have quit while he was ahead and stayed in Buenos Aires.

[@magr7424]

Your last sentence about the greyness of history is proof that you have true understanding of history... Well done, Sir

[@adamburling9551]

I tend to agree. Too much obscurity and greyness in history. People latch onto history a lot like they latch onto their poltics, in skewed perception. Things are either black or white to them. This is dangerous.

[@mikesimko3122]

Felton strikes again... the man, is unstoppable.

[@Joshua_N-A]

Darth Felton? No. EMPEROR FELTON.

[@mikesimko3122]

@@Joshua_N-A Strong within him, the force is.

[@Joshua_N-A]

@@mikesimko3122 UNLIMITED HISTORY LESSON!

[@jmartin9785]

Yes! Yes! A most appropriate comment Mike. Wish l had said that!🌈

[@mikesimko3122]

@@jmartin9785 Looking forward to see next topic.

[@michealgillman7418]

Brilliant once again Mark 👏

[@andybasten]

Very informative

[@coellnbrueder8879]

In dark times as the ones we´re witnessing, it is truely beautiful to see that more than a million people now have a sense for these fifty shades of grey History has to offer. Thank you very much, Mr. Felton!

[@lsmart]

If it's a Mark Felton video, you know it is incomparable and irreplaceable. Thanks a million, as always.

[@willfakaroni5808]

You understand that a lot of his stuff is plagiarized?

[@TeresaAE]

Thank you for your excellent and informative KZbin videos, Dr. Felton ( @Mark Felton Productions). I’ve often wondered what would have happened if DNA 🧬 genetics were available as they are now?

[@scarlettbazile9374]

If DNA genetics was available than lile now the Germans would be surprised to find out how much European a lot Jews have I'm them.

[@ildart8738]

Dr. Felton, can you make a video about Jewish WWI veterans who earned the Iron Cross, and were treated well, inspite of being in a concentration camp. I learned about this in a Canadian high school history class, but even as a professional historian, I cannot find information about this. Perhaps you will.

[@nd493]

This type of topic selection separates mainstream sellouts from actual bonafide historian.

[@batman6621]

bow do you mean mainstream sellouts

[@chaoticposting4591]

Mark, you make me feel like you're a time traveller. Pulling the strings back in history to get more history videos.

[@surajratti1329]

At school I mainly the subjects we were never taught to hate the Angrezi which means English people it was totally imperative main focus was mainly study it was quagmire

[@Z3r0XoL]

judge people for what they do, not who they are

[@ironicbrew19]

Mark once again smashing it! Great video man, would love to see you make a series on this kinda stuff for TV (idk if you have already).

[@mlc4495]

Emil Maurice was also a more senior SS member than Himmler, being officially ranked #2 to have joined the organisation. Hitler was #1. He also had a relationship with Hitler's half niece which was why Maurice was dismissed as Hitler's driver after being ordered to break off the relationship.

[@badbotchdown9845]

Himmler wasn't number 2 of the SS

[@fifthbusiness1678]

@@badbotchdown9845 Yes, he said that. He’s stating that Maurice was #2, and more senior.

[@mlc4495]

@@badbotchdown9845 I'm referring to their membership number which is when they officially joined. Hitler was the first member of the SS, Maurice was the second. This does not denote rank or seniority in the SS.

[@harlanabraham7772]

Am subscribed and hit the like button.

[@ErikS-]

It can't really get more contradictory than this.... I also always wondered why the Nazi party was so focussed on the Aryan race (i.e. muscular with blonde hair an blue eyes), whilst almost the complete party leadership had brown/black hair with brown eyes whilst being small and thin.

[@SafetySpooon]

Because even they knew it was all bullshit; they just wanted it to be true.

[@generalmichaelconstantine4598]

Because that's mostly propaganda spread by the allies. They didn't care about hair/eye color.

[@firemangan2731]

@@generalmichaelconstantine4598 Please look at the old Nazi propaganda posters and state your proof of your claim.

[@basedkaiser5352]

Hitler could kinda fit the description of the Aryan ideal to a certain degree. He had black hair but blue eyes, he was average height but he served on the frontlines thus he was courageous and had to be fit because he was a runner. The only one who really fit the description of the ideal Aryan was Reynhard Heidrich and he was suspected of being Jewish.

[@SanctusBacchus]

@@firemangan2731 or how about you provide proof that blonde hair and blue eyes was the ideal, eh? That's the initial claim made here. The person contesting this assertion does not have the burden of proof.

[@FuelAirSparkTime]

FINALLY someone with the balls to talk about this.

[@ichhabe330]

Eeeh, that there were Jews in the German military and the SS is actually breaking news. It has been talked about before.

[@firebird4491]

This is a relatively well known thing among history buffs...

[@FuelAirSparkTime]

@@ichhabe330 yeah, well that's why I already knew about it. But you can't really say it's been widely discussed , because nobody i talk to even believes it. I don't need to say that it is a series of facts that certain interested would rather weren't known to the masses, regardless of why.

[@FuelAirSparkTime]

@@firebird4491Yes of course, among objectively informed people it is. But not one person I've mentioned it to over the years has even really believed it, let alone already knew.

[@bobdylan1968]

@@FuelAirSparkTime wtf is your point? I don't understand what you're trying to say. That everyone is trying to hide this fact? Why??? It doesn't make the nazis anymore sympathetic. This video does nothing but show how dumb, how evil, how vile, the German government was at the time. And how racist they really really were. To a completely petty degree. If anything, it makes the nazis look that much worse for thinking about this to the level they did. It wasn't blind hate, it was calculated. Don't to the percentage of acceptable lineages. Lol. It makes them look worse.

[@usenglishwithnativeenglish3820]

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was a documentary about the IDF. 😮

[@tatonemio6388]

Yes, you are wrong again. This video is about Christian German with Jewish ancestor serving in the Army. Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) met up with Mussolini and Hitler in 1941 to establish an alliance during WWII. It's so unfortunate the Palestinian leaders have a long history to pick up the wrong alliances.

[@Raza2483]

@@tatonemio6388So you’re trying to justify killing babies? The Zionists are shameless thieves, worse than Nazis

[@RhiannonSenpai]

1:12 Their name is Doma, they came from the Dalit caste (untouchables) of India. The exonym for them is Gypsies. Western Europe decided to change Doma to Roma and the plural Romani in order for people to confuse Gypsies with ethnic Romanians, natives to Eastern Europe.

[@oldedinburgh6014]

You just know, before you've even watched, that you're going to enjoy anything Mark Felton produces, he is in his own league.

[@SGTSnakeUSMC]

Can't wait for the next vid. Always interesting and well researched information. Plus Mark has a good voice for the narration.

[@strontiumstargazer103]

The department store C&A, that remains family run, was Herman Goering’s favourite shop. The family wrote to Goering stating that it never employs or sources it’s goods from Jews or Jewish owned companies.