Hitler's Private Library Hidden in America

[@johnkelley2615]

Mark, I have commented before but just following up since grandpa will be 99 in September. One of the youngest and last ww2 vets. He loves your videos thank you

[@ettajfan5882]

If you haven't already, please record his stories.

[@lindagardenlady]

Yes! Please record the stories!!❤❤❤ Thank you for your service

[@luke8329]

What does he think of his country's development post-war?

[@markreynolds6715]

Enjoy him while you can. One of my WW2 vet uncles died a few years ago on his 100 birthday. And he had a wonderful granddaughter born into the family the same day. God is gracious. She'd been trying for years and thought she was never going to conceive. So obviously she'll always remind us of her wonderful grandfather.

[@lindagardenlady]

@markreynolds6715 What a wonderful memory! Her great grandfather will always be with her!!❤️❤️🫂🫂

[@jeffguide3609]

Mark. Having worked at the Library of Congress for many years… and had retired 20 years ago, this collection was an open secret, but not widely known when I was there. There was no need to discuss it. The Library has open secrets but I probably know only a few. A very interesting place to work. Thanks for your great videos!

[@linda10989]

Did the LoC destroy some volumes of books received from Hitler's collection?

[@eddierusset]

We're going to need to hear the other ones you know about Jeff.

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

The President's Big Book of Secrets?

[@utk.k]

plz spill the beans...

[@finscreenname]

@@MarkFeltonProductions If Trump wins with RFK Jr by his side we just may find out who killed JFK and RFK.

[@EdMcF1]

Trying to imagine how gutted those GIs were to find Schnapps crates... full of books.

[@PakawanDuangsuwan]

😂

[@dark_matt3r_]

The Red Army at that. I’m surprised they didn’t try to eat the books lmao

[@scottklocke891]

😅😂

[@thediddly]

Reaches for a drink...gets an education instead

[@cyrex686]

That's worse than mom's danish cookies tin full of sewing supplies.

[@dennisud]

You definitely made your point on Historical writers not using available resources!

[@ReclusiveEagle]

Depends on the author. Some authors had personal access to or knew the people they were writing about. Unfortunately when it comes to well known individuals, authors tend to cite other authors who themselves wrote opinion pieces because they feel that there is very little to add to the topic. Yet had anyone done any basic research, such as I don't know, pick up a phone and call the Library of Congress, they would have had access to Hitlers personal writings without having to use uninformed opinion pieces as sources.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Why study history when you can make it up?

[@markfryer9880]

Dr Felton has been running up more flight hours on his time machine in order to produce yet another episode about A.H. Few other channels on KZbin show such dedication to providing us with fresh information. Thank Doc. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

[@coadypurchase923]

Hey neighbour!

[@nickywags0712]

I met a beautiful girl my age (early 20’s) who was from Melbourne when visiting Rome. She was right next to me asking all sorts of deep questions about the Roman forum and its history. Cool to see other aussies like her love history too! We’re all so similar even growing up on other sides of the earth

[@garyfrancis6193]

AH? Andy Hardy?

[@seandelap8587]

You learn far more from this channel then anything that you have ever read about on a history book or have ever seen on TV

[@rovercoupe7104]

I might give you a quiz one day. M

[@Lerxstification]

Too bad (or not?) that Adolf did not have a copy of "How to conquer Russia for Dummies"

[@rovercoupe7104]

@@Lerxstification ‘A History of Tear Gas’. Read it and weep. M

[@Josh-tx8sj]

You won't learn much from TV, and if you do it likely not be the truth. Living in a country with censorship laws makes TV near useless

[@bearcb]

Actually there is a book about it, Hitler's Private Library by Timothy Ryback, which I highly recommend. It is an insightful dive into Hitler's mind and influences through his books. A work that delivers more than it promises.

[@wxwaxone]

Yeah, that’s the historian whom Dr. Felton expressly cites and relies upon as his source in the video. But no harm in reminding us. Even Captain Obvious has a job to do. 🫡

[@bearcb]

@@wxwaxone I missed his mention of the book in the video, just saw it in the description. In the video he does say the libraries didn't get the attention of historians, which motivated my comment. Hopefully other people who missed the description will read the comments and get the book reference

[@samuelj2408]

Echarts an often less spoken about figure, yet his last words were infamously haunting and accurate.

[@Jumanjini]

@@toddsmith1617 Fortunately.

[@TheCleb21]

Thank you Mr. Felton, very interesting subject matter once again. 60 years old and been a military history buff for my entire life and I learn something new each time you publish a video, usually something small or never discussed before…….

[@alpexoid1]

Schertels passage strongly reminds Nietzsche's "You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star" published 40 years earlier.

[@saudade72]

Mark, your impeccably researched and produced videos sets THE standard for objectivity on WW2 history and its main protagonists.

[@IamNiggler]

I ❤ mark

[@owenr2973]

Ask him to be objective about Ireland

[@rorywest4937]

And antagonists, I guess you could say

[@amptechron]

Yes!

[@ryanSLF]

​​@owenr2973 why should he be? The Irish were nowhere to be seen during WW2. Probably supported the Austrian painters ideology

[@krisfrederick5001]

Dr. Felton is the Librarian of History. Godspeed.

[@ericfg806]

Easy there tiger

[@terryscott7121]

Brilliant work Mark, that last quote Hitler underlined was a truly fascinating find, thank you.

[@jimplummer4879]

very scary

[@juliuscaesar1573]

What is this quote ? I couldn't find

[@terryscott7121]

@@juliuscaesar1573 Just watch the video son. It was something like a man who would create a new world could not do it without demon seeds in him.

[@babygerald4645]

I work at a major university that holds a great deal of confiscated LCCAP [Library of Congress Comfiscation and Acquisitions Program] which scoured Nazi and other German libraries after the war for de-Nazification. We have at least one book with a book plate from the library of Franz Xavier Shultz- one of the very first party members and, if I recall, the treasurer of the NSDAP. We also have books from the Sonthofen SS school. I haven't found a Hitler book plate yet but I'm always on the lookout.

[@mito88]

confiscation, aka looting....

[@paulmaxwell8851]

@@mito88 When you start a vicious war of aggression against your neighbors and lose, you may expect the victors will care little about your fragile feelings.

[@mito88]

@@paulmaxwell8851 triggered.... :)

[@abcba9]

Hi Mark, great video! Sometime around 2001-2002 there was an article in The Atlantic Monthly about what this book collection revealed about what was in his mind. The author commented on the handwritten notes on the margins and choice of highlighted passages (as you did). Sorry I do not have more specific dates. Thank you for this most excellent video.

[@embossed64]

Great start to the weekend, Mark drops a video.

[@alekwisinski6767]

Very interesting! As a student at Purdue University I worked the archives there. We found a collection of German books all dating from the 30’s and 40’s, specifically about farmers and Nazi agricultural policy. I always assumed these were obtained before the war broke out. They would likely make for an interesting research piece!

[@pj61114]

Polish children and children with anti nazi parents were sent to farms to produce food. I know of a pole and worked with a German who did that. The Germans father went to death camp. The boy sent to a farm. He said they cheered when planes were shot down. They did not care who’s side. They figured every plane shot down would bring the war closer to an end. The polish boy learned how to graft fruit trees and had a farm near Mitchall Field in Milwaukee WI in the late 40s and 1950s. He made his own wine too.

[@alekwisinski6767]

@@pj61114 Interesting, these books pertained more to German farmers, Bauern as they were called. Not so much the impressed labor. I think it was centered around domestic policy.

[@bradschoeck1526]

Damn, should’ve been a bit more scholarly while I was there because that sounds really interesting now that I’m 40! 2002-2008 though, I’d a bit hazy, though I’m pretty sure I was in West Lafayette at the time!

[@libertyvilleguy2903]

Boiler Up brother!

[@bushwackcreek]

Way off topic but aligned with the theme of famous men's libraries... Years ago, I was the Government Documents Librarian at the New Mexico State Library. Part of my "mission" was to flesh out our collection of the Congressional Serial Set volumes that had anything to do with New Mexico. We paid the postage to have many dozens of volumes shipped to us from the Dayton Public Library (Ohio). For the price of shipping we received many priceless volumes that they no longer had space for. The 1855 Railroad surveys were particularly important but, among the volumes of the Serial Set were also law books. These turned out to be the most historically important in my assessment as they comprised the personal, annotated and inscribed collection of John Sherman (including his first law book from 1851). He was brother to General William Sherman and the author of the Sherman Anti-trust Act. I was dismayed that the Dayton Library had sent them to us considering their historical importance but the library staff probably wasn't paying the slightest attention in their "weeding".... something I witnessed too many times in my career as a Librarian.

[@georgielancaster1356]

As well, I knew an archivist who cynically said that the best investment he ever made was a Withdrawn from library stamp. I have to say, to me, many modern day librarians have the souls of dump truck drivers.

[@bejoyful]

Cannot believe all the biographers of Hitler never mentioned a library or used his annotations that would speak of Hitler's thoughts; history needs a documentary film of Hitler's annotations.

[@jonspengler5891]

For fear of humanizing him, which would clash with the grand Zionist narrative

[@BillGreenAZ]

There's a reason for that.

[@musicandbooklover-p2o]

Did they know it even existed or did they assume everything was destroyed after the war.

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

You kidding? There are more docs about hitler then there are George Washington and MLK combined.

[@TheDarkWizard666]

The cleanest, best pleasure yet again Mark, always good when you upload mate, big fan ❤ all the best

[@OpusDogi]

I find it both incredible and yet unsurprising that historians would not attempt to study Hitler's books. It was one of the first things I wondered about when Toland's biography mentioned that Hitler was a voracious reader and had "lots of books" in his cell in prison. I would think notations would be very insightful. Two other points Given the context, the word "demonic" was probablty used in the Greek sense of daemonic (moved by a spirit). @5:27 note the title: "Statistik, Presse [...] Organisationen des Ju.. in den Vereinigten [Staaten] und Kanada" (I.e. statistics about the organizaton of [Jews] in the United States and Canada.) I did not know that such a book existed, and one might think it would be of particular interest to historians. Thanks again for your wonderful research

[@Redmenace96]

The information is not hidden, but not advertised. Perhaps it is a nod to fairness and respect. From a time when people had more civility. Would it be fair to the authors and publishers if a group started saying, "Look! This book was on of Adolf Hitler's favorites." Do you know what I mean?

[@musicandbooklover-p2o]

Wonder how many even know it exists, would they be allowed to visit and look at the books if they did know? I'd say the majority have never even heard of this library and if they had, the chances are many wouldn't have access in any case - great if you're in the US, not so much for the rest of the world to whom it is probably largely out of bounds/unavailable for viewing.

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

They absolutely studied them. Hence this video.

[@markhodge7]

"He, who does not carry demonic seeds within' him, will never give birth to a new world." I've been studying WWII and Hitler for nearly 60 years. This one line may be the most profound concept associated with him, that paints the clearest picture yet, of the motivations, of such an individual. He was totally aware of who/what he was.

[@jameslafontaine5557]

If you want to understand hitler, understand that the man was entirely about his vision, above all else, totally dedicated to bringing his vision to life, and he believed this vision to be so important that it must succeed to completion at truly any and all cost, including himself. This defines him and absolutely everything he does throughout his life. Absolute dedication to bringing up his vision to life.

[@christophermaulden733]

Why does this quote immediately make me think of Klaus Schwab , The World Economic Forum , The World Government Summit , The New World Order , and the Rothschild and ? created Central Banking System ? Add the Perpetual War for Perpetual Profit profiteers .

[@projektkobra2247]

@@christophermaulden733 -Schwab is just plan evil...and wasnt a product of the most horrible war in human history....Hitler and JRR Tolkien both lived through it as young men. One was able to turn it into something beautiful and rich, nostalgic for a more perfect England/Shire...while other saw aggression (Mordor) as the only means to conquer his demons, and have control (Sauron). And yes yes yes people all say he hated "allegory"...there's no way WW1 didnt affect Tolkien in some major way.

[@davidsmart8594]

@@jameslafontaine5557 I would add that the first few chapters of Mein Kampf reveal an extremely disturbed individual…

[@davidsmart8594]

@@christophermaulden733 Yes Sir.

[@susiemcdonald1112]

Wow, this history lesson really made you think about Hitler’s mind and what he thought about the Darkside. Very scary. But thank you so much, Mark. I would never have known this if you didn’t put it on your channel.

[@nancyM1313-Boo]

👍👍❤ wonderful uploads every time. Thanks Dr Felton.

[@msjoanofthearc]

Excellent Mark, thank you for this incredible presentation.

[@josephphoenix1376]

Excellent Episode 👍

[@williamwhite2113]

Very interesting video, Dr. Felton. We can see that Adolf was a complicated historical figure and his taste in books shows that.

[@user-wo7us4tk8m]

Absolutely fantastic stuff as always Mark.

[@nodarkthings]

Absolutely fascinating, Dr. Felton. Thank you.

[@starzkream]

I believe that the reason that this collection is so rarely referenced is that so many people (such as myself!) have been unaware of it. I suspect that this video will increase awareness, and therefore we will see more writers and historians actually checking out and referencing them. Great work, Mark, as usual.

[@emagreene9775]

Thank you Mr. Felton. It is truly odd that people "forget" to quote his books or mention that library...

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

As always a surprising and intresting vid👍 Thank you very much! Greetings from the Netherlands, TW.

[@phillipellis2119]

Thank you Mark, for another important piece of research. Your final point is intriguing and chilling. In the book 'Magie' or 'Magic', ' He who does not carry demonic seeds within him will never give birth to a new world ... ' , etc., as you say is heavily underlined by HItler. It is extraordinary that his library and notations have not received careful scholarly evaluation. Who knows what we might discover?

[@gertgilich3508]

Many thanks Mark. Fascinating. I wish my pops was still alive to follow your great documentary. Regards from SSW. 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@Riposte821]

This is FASCINATING. What a channel!

[@duncanrogers4211]

Mark An excellent and extremely informative and interesting video of the books of Hitler. A little known subject. Thank you for sharing this video. Regards Jennifer and Duncan from Canada

[@brianivey73]

Youre the true master of the WW2 complete history. No stone left unturned. Splendid work Dr Felton!

[@davidholmgren659]

Very interesting video. Great research and well narrated. Who would have thought his books are here!

[@Birgitte-jh9nv]

Love this channel. Am going through the videos slowly and with care, not all at once, too much to deal with. My grandparents and parents (as children) went through WWII in Amsterdam and I have heard so many stories about their lives and the great suffering they all had to endure during that war. WWII was such a devastating time for the people of Europe. Thank you, Mark, for your incredible videos and reports, they are truly exquisite.

[@babbybailey]

An obscure subject, but you tackled it and opened my mind. Very interesting. Can't wait to see what's next.

[@PakawanDuangsuwan]

Absolutely a unique toppic among WW2 videos. Well done.

[@peerpede-p.]

This episode was highly interesting. Thank you.

[@Kapdad]

Mr. Felton .. thank you for ANOTHER banger ..!! I'm currently reading one of the books you've shown here called "Hitler a study in tyranny" Alan bullock . I'd like to check out his personal library tho..

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Thank you for the video.

[@renelogtenberg141]

Thanks Dr. Felton

[@PaulJohn01]

5:18 So did the Library of Congress destroy these books, in the same way the Nazis destroyed books ? keeping only what was deemed "worthy" .

[@denniscoughlan685]

Mr. Felton, may the roof over your head always be sound and may your time portal never break down. You astound me sir, the way you shed intricate light on subjects that myself, as well as hundreds of thousands of others would never uncover in our lifetimes. Everything is worth learning and thank you for helping us. I greatly appreciate the way you put across that no matter how things change then , quite curiously, they somehow remain the same.Studying history is like saying to yourself that what errors l made yesterday l will try to correct today to make tomorrow more agreeable. Truly a most noble quest and thank you Professor Felton.

[@Generichjm]

Thank you for your service, Mark Felton! I appreciate it.

[@glennday7802]

Sir, sincerely want to thank you for your outstanding research and engrossing videos. Salute!

[@rdhunkins]

I look forward to your analysis of this library!

[@petehafner3844]

At 65 years old I thoroughly enjoy the history lessons you present,thank you from New Jersey

[@falke_blade9341]

Mark I love your videos so much!! I always wish I had a teacher like you when I was in high-school/college ❤

[@daystatesniper01]

Another top shelf video Mark , i wager in those hills there are treasures waiting to be discovered

[@Tappa83]

My great grandpa will be 100 he was In the free Arabian legion, he was born in Tunisia but was half German and already spoke German, Italian, Spanish , French ,Arabic when the Germans got there later learned Russian he then went on to Eastern Front , then transferred to the SS and was wounded for the fourth and final time in the battle of Berlin he was in Russian Captivity until 1953.

[@dominikbt7891]

Whats the other half of the family

[@DavidHamburg-i5d]

What an eye-opener of a video. Thank you for the look at Hitler’s reading list, as well as your usual informative nuggets.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Wow, the last quote was a bombshell! Thanks.

[@paulmurphy42]

Keep 'em coming Mark!

[@brianrobson5208]

Very interesting content Mark. I really appreciate the effort you make compiling these videos. I am currently holidaying on Jersey with a visit to Guernsey. Visiting the various occupation military sites I wondered if you have covered the Channel Islands and their occupation? Apologies if I have missed this.

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

I have covered Jersey

[@jjeherrera]

It would indeed be interesting to unravel his personality through the annotations in his books. Interesting video.

[@josephwarren3498]

Absolutely the best. Thank you, Dr. Felton.

[@mitchmatthews6713]

I would be very interested in Sir Felton's library! Cheers, Mark!

[@arispanagiotopoulos2533]

Extremely interesting video Mark! Any chance you may try to gain access to any of these libraries and be able to check out some of these books? It’s criminal, these books have not been studied by historians. They’ll most certainly provide more insight into Hitler’s personality and way of thinking which is a topic all biographies about him lacking, we don’t really know clearly his complex character, thoughts and beliefs in various subjects!

[@JoeDiGiovanniIV]

Mark Felton, I live just 10 minutes away from Brown University... I've done much work within their facilities over the years... if you'd like any information or it could be of any help to you I'd be glad to do any research that would be of any interest or help to you

[@samparkerSAM]

I have seen several reputed books for sale recently. Thank You for the information.

[@shawnr771]

Thank you for the lesson.

[@Davivd2]

Wow. I never thought of Hitler as someone who read a lot of books. I see him a different light now. Much more cerebral than I would have previously given him credit for. His underlined quote is powerful: "He who does not carry demonic seeds within him, will never give birth to a new world." You know, an interesting book or documentary could be made by someone who has access to Hitlers personally annotated books. The insight that could be learned about Hitler from his annotations would be fascinating.

[@markmonaghan2309]

Fantastic thanks again

[@ahall1459]

Excellent piece...the library would be interesting to see...certainly didn't know about it.

[@Clipgatherer]

Karl May (1842-1912), whom Hitler read in his boyhood, was a popular German writer of “Indian stories”. Some of his books were filmed in the 1960s with Lex Barker as frontiersman hero “Old Shatterhand” and Pierre Brice as his Red Indian friend “Winnetou”. May’s stories were never much read in America, maybe partly because of their association with Hitler.

[@389383]

Americans felt American writers were more authentic since it is their land and history. Just as May would have more feeling for German history.

[@tonik.5767]

Hitler being a May reader is an known perspective; but I'm not sure that is the reason that his novels weren't popular in the US. Karly May was widely reprinted in Southern and Eastern Europe even after WWII, and these countries wanted nothing to do with Hitler. May's novels are basically cheap simple novels for young adults written from a perspective of a German adventurer which might not align with the US reader. Also, May's view tends to take the side of Indians when they are persecuted by the white settlers and he even writes about Bolivar in a sympathetic tone. Perhaps this was to much for US publishers at the time. Or, perhaps his Germany publisher just had no good connections in the US :)...

[@erniefrijole2618]

​@@tonik.5767Karl May never set foot in the New World. He used newspaper stories about the Wild West and other exotic places to craft his fiction.

[@musicandbooklover-p2o]

@@erniefrijole2618 So, many US writers write novels set in and about Europe but they've never set foot in Europe [which many of the novels make painfully clear]. In fact - and unlike May who had no access to the internet for information on the US - they don't even appear to do basic internet research for their novels. He had an excuse, the US writers have none.

[@oarsteed]

@@musicandbooklover-p2oAn example of a book whose US author never set foot in Europe? Just curious. No romance novels, please.

[@donclowers7666]

I often wonder if the quickest way for things to get lost is to store them in libraries for safe keeping. Museums are a close second.

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@qiajenaehamilton6397]

I went to the Library of Congress in the 90s to the James Madison bldg, across the way from the Thomas Jefferson bldg. to the Music manuscripts dept. to look at the George Gershwin files, for research purposes for my performing. I had to make an appt, interview with the dept head, & have a letter of reference, luckily from a friend of George's brother, Ira, the author Edward Jablonski. One must sit at an assigned table, no pens allowed, & I thumbed through George's personal letters without gloves. It's not an easy thing form Joe Public to go & look at what we'd like in our main public library...

[@CA999]

I presume you could make a multi part series on this topic Mark? Given how managing the government of the nation would have been, it amazing he still had time to qualitatively read.

[@erniefrijole2618]

Being on methamphetamines prescribed by his personal quacks probably helped 😵‍💫

[@stephenrickjr.7519]

Very interesting, I did not know something like this existed. Thank you.

[@davidsummer8631]

I remember in a interview David Bowie name checking Magic: History, Theory and Practice when talking about his time living in Berlin

[@fatcole1152]

Admit it, you're just here for the correct pronunciation of "Obersalzberg"

[@markfryer9880]

Yes, this is true! I eagerly await every episode from Dr Felton in the hope that once again he will find a way to incorporate something about Hitler's Alpine home in order to satisfy my craving to hear him talk about the Obersalzberg. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

[@Tjalve70]

I'm not so much here for the pronunciation. I am more interested in seeing what kind of bedevilment KZbin's Closed Captions can make of Mark Felton's videos. I always turn on Closed Captions. And I have to say, no channels have WORSE closed captions than Mark Felton's. And I don't think this is his fault. I think it's basically KZbin being unable to deal with German pronunciation and names.

[@musicandbooklover-p2o]

@@Tjalve70 You should see the mess they make of Korean, the difference between the translation/captions put up by the Korean TV/KZbin channel and the version Google/KZbin puts up would be hilarious if it wasn't that many rely on them to know what a channel is saying.

[@AbdulGabagool83]

Now that you mention it

[@LeGitCoOProductions]

Mark Felton is easily the best, or at minimum, most consumable, historian in the world by far! Every video is a treat, Mark. Thank you!

[@mpravica]

One can only wonder how many treasures stolen from WWII are still hidden.

[@joejones3387]

Whatever number we can imagine i would say double it again. All these things hidden away in the private collections of the wealthy rich only to be sold privately for obscene profits. If a soldier takes something from a conflict zone now they are charged. Yet WW2 stolen artifacts, books, paraphernalia etc will never be returned to living descendents or gifted to the public.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Indeed, there’s been a few interesting TV documentaries about the subject, they’ll keep turning up for many years to come.

[@potnudles]

I clicked this with 2 views count, after 9 minutes, it was at nearly 2k views.. Anyway - really impressive research and narration, as always.

[@pekkamustonen6654]

Thank you, for your effort Mr. Felton. Hello from effing Finnland.

[@patrickcardon1643]

Nice to see a picture of the Lam Gods painting from Van Eyck ... hanging back in Ghent now for everyone to enjoy

[@heatherporterfield7343]

We learn something new everyday. Thank you Dr. Felton.

[@bobspatafore1696]

Darn fine video Mark!

[@J0einOK]

Always enjoy Felton’s histories.

[@jaredmello]

Fascinating. I had never heard of Dietrich Eckart. “Follow Hitler. He will dance, but the music he will dance to was composed by me.”

[@thinman8621]

Wish there were a book written in English that is the amalgamation of Hitler's annotations in Hitler's personal library books.

[@saguarosamsrecordroundup8660]

That would be extremely interesting

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

Why?

[@dan.lannes]

@@stehfreejesseah7893i mean, why not? There’s a bunch of insights into his mind there, most likely. Many would love to read more in depth about what Hitler and important nazis would write and think, for the same reasons we all came for this video (curiosity, although morbid)!

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

@@dan.lannes He wrote his own book full of his thoughts, enough to know he wasn’t really that interesting. Just another lunatic with too much power and a cult following.

[@TrzeciaWspolnota]

Another fantastic video.

[@SurreyBoy500]

My favorite channel Nazi Stories with Mark Felton

[@petercarter9034]

Another fascinating topic

[@davidsmart8594]

First class edutainment. Thank you. Sir.

[@rburrows7786]

Best history channel on KZbin hands down. Mark should have his own TV show to tell real history 👏👏

[@smithsway]

He has, we are watching it....

[@b.o.4492]

Fascinating video.

[@paultapner2769]

When it comes to insights into his personality, I'm fascinated to hear that he scribbled in books. I would never ever do that. I hate to leave them in anything other than pristine condition. Which probably says a lot about me as well about him.

[@faithlesshound5621]

One author whose works Hitler read and annotated while in Landsberg Prison was Eugen Fischer, the doctor in charge of the Shark Island death camp during the SW Africa genocide of 1904 -08. He inspired colonial laws against inter-racial marriage and later the Nuremberg laws of Nazi Germany. Hitler made him rector of the university in Berlin. Before that he was head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. His successor had a special interest in twin studies as did his protégé Dr Mengele, whose "research" was ostensibly for his habilitation, or higher doctorate.

[@kevinhensley4643]

This was a fascinating video. Thank you for sharing

[@dirkvanerp7332]

And how many know, Napoleon Bonapartes personal library, 8,000 pieces of his furniture, probable the largest collection of Empire Furniture in the world, his hat, teeth, rings original death mask are in Havana Cuba? Say what? Yes! The entire Napoleon Bonaparte estate was bought by a wealthy resident of Havana (La Habana) to furnish their mansion, where it remains to this day! Fyi .....

[@MightyMezzo]

Heck, I want to see his annotations in the tales of the Old West that he devoured.

[@johnsullivan6843]

Thank you, Mark, for another interesting video. Just me, or does that other guy in the frame at 8:44 look a bit like the 6:14 photo of Dietrich Eckart (who you mention died in 1923)?

[@Jdinaz]

U.S. Army Colonel Albert Aaronson, one of the first officers… to appear in the phone book. 😂

[@johnjacobs1625]

Thanks Dr Mark!! Cheers JJ