My Dad was there! He was a communications (wireless) sergeant in the R.A.F. He parachuted into Yugoslavia with Randolph Churchill and had to spend a night in a tent with him. When I was a schoolboy in the 1950's he was always telling anyone who would listen about his experiences, but most of it went over my head. What I do recall was his contempt for Churchill's son, and how he and Tito had to stealthily circle round a tree to avoid being spotted by a German aircraft. He presumably was the wireless operator for the mission that rescued Tito. He died in 1993 and I only wish I had quizzed him more. I know that after Fitzroy McLean, who was his boss, published "Eastern Approaches" he corresponded with him, with, I believe some factual corrections. He never went back to Yugoslavia.
@panicatack63183 жыл бұрын
It's a great loss for the history of ww2 ( especially in Yugoslavia) that your father didn't leave memoirs or writings of any kind about his wartime experiences. It would be interesting to read, no doubt. As we , ex Yugoslavs , would say, eternal glory and gratitude to your father for his service and may he rest in peace.
@muamermalik7813 жыл бұрын
Did he learned little our languagle? Can you more write his experiance here? Thank you greeting fromBosnia
@ratkomartin2005 Жыл бұрын
Wow.All Respect and Salute for your father and other staff.Thanks to Mr Churchill who decided to help our PARTISANS. trully Heroes, contrary to all Nazi Colaborators from other side(Croatian Ustasa,serbian Cetnics,Nedic gendarms,Ljotic Fashist movement...and many others).
@user-rx5ot7gj7k Жыл бұрын
God bless your family and your father. I’m sure he was a great man
@datastorage7388 Жыл бұрын
@@user-rx5ot7gj7k My father was the SS Gruppenfuhrer General who had secret mission to capture son of CHurchil and demand UK extradite churchil to Hague to stand trial for war crimes. Mission was secret that even Hitler Himmler and Goebels didn't know about it. They put tother 100,000 SS troops armed with special guns, and they used C-130 planes to drop 10,000 airbone IFVs.
@mikebrase51613 жыл бұрын
I knew a guy who made this jump. He was shot in the foot. He was a Communications officer. He was captured at Nijmegen later in the war and sent to the US as a POW and came back to the US and became a citizen in the 50's.
@chriscourson28243 жыл бұрын
ended up good for him, I'd say!!
@Cheeki_breeki63 жыл бұрын
He was an SS man?
@mikebrase51613 жыл бұрын
@@Cheeki_breeki6 yes he was an SS- UnterStrumfuhrer.His name was Gerhard Franzky. He wrote a book called learning to walk He was shot in the foot while coming down in his chute and had to learn how to walk again hence the title.
@dannythomson52393 жыл бұрын
@@mikebrase5161 fantastic piece of additional info, thankyou sir! it is always worth reading comments under Dr Feltons videos, there are quite often little beautys of additional info on the videos subject.
@scottstewart57843 жыл бұрын
@@dannythomson5239 and from a generous and generally polite group of commenters
@devilsadvocate73893 жыл бұрын
Tito has SS and Stalin coming for his head and he outlived both.
@LoFiOAS1S3 жыл бұрын
Tačno, a i Staljinu je poslao pismo posle ne znam koliko pokušaja staljina da ubije tita..." nemoj vise slati ljude da me ubiju jee cu biti prinudjen da ja posaljem agente pri cemu necu imati potrebu dabih saljem drugi put" Opasan Tito bio pravi diplomata.
@richardm30233 жыл бұрын
@@LoFiOAS1S Talk American! Ya heathen Frenchman.
@scockery3 жыл бұрын
And Tito outlived Michael.
@Mega-P713 жыл бұрын
@Andrija Garovic He was being sardonic
@stanleyrogouski3 жыл бұрын
@@richardm3023 It's Tito's famous letter to Stalin. “Stalin. Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send another.”
@YouDingo883 жыл бұрын
Nobody messes with Yugoslava. We prefer to do it ourselves.
@AA-bz1pr3 жыл бұрын
Yugoslavia was bored of no one being able to destroy them... so they did it themselves
@konstantincvetanovic53573 жыл бұрын
A sad truth
@Dan_Mio3 жыл бұрын
Stane Dolanc one of Yugoslav high officials and close Tito's aides was asked once by a journalist about rumors that Yugoslavia would disintegrate after Tito's death. He said: "If someone attacks us they will see how united we are." The journalist then asked: "What if no one attacks you?"
@kieranlillis71213 жыл бұрын
@@AA-bz1pr problem is it was an artificial creation so many issues. I did 3 tours there, beautiful country and people were great, just no to each other
@AA-bz1pr3 жыл бұрын
@@kieranlillis7121 Its a shame we cant all get along really, but it is what it is
@wallaceralston20573 жыл бұрын
As an ex-paratrooper I always marveled at how the German's seemed to dive out the doors of their aircraft. We trained to go feet first into the prop blast so as not to get the risers and lines twisted.
@louisavondart9178 Жыл бұрын
..They only had one riser, attached to their backs. That meant they couldn't steer their chute except by waving their arms around wildly. They also jumped without heavy weapons and had to recover them from containers. That cost them a lot of casualties, especially in Crete.
@kenduffy5397 Жыл бұрын
I can see the positives of not jumping out with your “kit” as the British say. But to jump out with your weapons; is crazy! If you can’t somewhat control where you’re going to land? It most likely will be your last time alive if you didn’t get shot coming down or killed by hitting the ground? You were most likely going to get killed trying to get to your weapons, unbelievable! @@louisavondart9178
@jdrancho1864 Жыл бұрын
@@louisavondart9178 I heard the German parachute design was the worst of any nation in the war. As a result, they suffered a high number of injuries on landing, reducing their battle effectiveness from the off. The Soviets actually were said to have the best parachutes.
@TheProtagonistDies3 жыл бұрын
I wouldve stayed awake in history class if Mark was my teacher
@rijnvanessen73593 жыл бұрын
Yes mark is the best
@TermlessHGW3 жыл бұрын
U probably wouldn't. Wisdom and interest with things that matter come with age.
@franciscorodriguez2593 жыл бұрын
You're right,,!!! the video would had helped alot,good day!!
@Baddy1873 жыл бұрын
It helps Mark only does WW2, alot of people cant handle 3 hour talks about the Celts.
@marialaden42593 жыл бұрын
i killed the pedo historiy teacher
@NlGHTSKY3 жыл бұрын
What a coincidence, an hour ago i was asking myself if SS paratroopers ever existed. I was amazed to see that YES they did. And just now Mark Felton posted a brand new video on them !
@slapzk53553 жыл бұрын
The youtube god has answered your questions and prayers.
@Szymanskill3 жыл бұрын
They had impressive kit kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJPbg36OgM2nabs
@ih3023 жыл бұрын
Dr. Felton is as usual, Johnny on the spot.
@alexandriac66413 жыл бұрын
And they got completely fucked!
@thedoctor7553 жыл бұрын
Yep, just the 500.Battalion, later reorganized as 600.Bat. (which I believe didn't get to jump at all). They all used Luftwaffe FJ equipment (camo smocks, helmets, and of course the parachutes), so in combat, they looked almost identical to their Luft counterparts. Most of the film footage Mark uses here is of the regular Fallschirmjaeger, but there's so little film or photos of the SS guys.
@jovicamateric77563 жыл бұрын
I'm in Drvar right now visiting family and Tito's cave is a massive tourist attraction here. Its a pain to climb up there though.
@davidrixon23213 жыл бұрын
Please put some flowers on this sacred ground. I was marriedcto a Serbian and her pop survived until 1945 wgere he died from kidney disease.hiswife was tortured and spent the next 60 term in an institution. My exwifes mum was looked after in in orphanage and was a very cold and strange woman. Its the aftermath of the war that affects generations to this day. My ex never had a childhood either but a fantastic mother to our children. The best thing her parents did was to immigrate to Australia where we have a large population of Serbian people.
@hercg19673 жыл бұрын
Piss in the cave, just a bunch of communist, that bled the fake made up country called Yugoslavia, right up till the end of 1990s war country was poor, look at Croatia now… land of gold
@edwardcuruvijapenrose50813 жыл бұрын
@@hercg1967 70.73% debt to GDP, what a land of gold genius.
@hercg19673 жыл бұрын
@@edwardcuruvijapenrose5081 I was referring to the beauty of the country
@milun30003 жыл бұрын
@@edwardcuruvijapenrose5081 Good answer and he forget to mention enormous emigration to europe to find work, Yugoslavia had a economy in the 80 s a lot of countrys wish for. And in time of big earthquake a lot of coastline was destroyed Yugoslavia build it up again. People that post these comment are usually the ones that don't live in ex Yugoslavia anymore.
@neveniusvondubowatz77053 жыл бұрын
Dear Mark Felton. My grandma was there in the famous 6. Lička Division. She was a partisan nurse. I've heard this story many many times in my childhood. It was bloody hell. EDIT: The 6th Lička Division was part of the famous 1st Proletarian Corps. My grandfather was in the corps and met my grandmother in Drvar during the Skorzeny raid. He was wounded at the Sirmyan front in 1945., the Yugoslav partisan version of the Battle of the Bulge. Grandpa died in 1999. and grandma 2014.
@RiamCute3 жыл бұрын
She muat be very beautiful
@machinegun31333 жыл бұрын
my Grandfather was in the 1st Proletarian Brigade. Bravo to your family!
@baki43413 жыл бұрын
@@machinegun3133 my great grandpa s brother was in the 2. Dalmatian he was a desetar
@grale9793 жыл бұрын
I'm from drvar😁
@panthrothundercat3 жыл бұрын
Bless your grandparents. 👍
@stephenbrand56613 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid in the early 90s my mom would take me to the local library and make me read biographies about major figures from the 20th century. Marshal Tito was my favorite by far.
@marknovak84713 жыл бұрын
My father joined his older brother in the Slovenian mountains in 1943 when he was 16. The middle brother was KIA first battle - shot through the thigh, abandoned, found by the Germans and shot, aged 17. I've been fascinated by what those boys did all of my life since I was a little boy. My mum was Croatian Volksdeutsche & fled Croatia when Partisans took over in mid-1943. She was 8 at the time. She was shunted all over Germany in a refugee train (yep, you actually lived in the train for months at a time), watched Berlin Hamburg and Dresden get flattened. Her father joined the 13th Waffen Mountain Division and was made an Unterofficer (sergeant equivalent). His hip was shattered by artillery fire the first time he saw action & he was promptly pensioned off never having seen an enemy soldier. Had the Partisans discovered the real reason he walked with a cane and a limp they would have shot him. There's a heap of great stories that came out of that mad country. I used to talk to the old vets all the time but they're all dead now.
@dzonikg3 жыл бұрын
@@marknovak8471 Brother off my grandmother was in partisans whole war after Germans killed his 17 years old brother and father on 21 oktober 1941..he was student off law then and his personal friends were well known partisans ...but i was younger i was not interested in that so i never ask him anything about it and he died in 2004
@t.r.8386 Жыл бұрын
@@dzonikg is there in his biography a detail that he ordered killing thousands at the end of the war.
@marks_sparks13 жыл бұрын
05:10 Max Schmelling training at Stendal before Crete
@jimmylight48663 жыл бұрын
I saw Big Max
@vonspajzmann27953 жыл бұрын
Yup,thought them eyebrows looked familiar!
@blueeyeswhitedragon98393 жыл бұрын
Excellent story...told by an accomplished historian and worthy of a TV history channel mini series.
@chuckcts-v34603 жыл бұрын
Producers of a TV history channel would destroy all that Dr. Felton does. Also, there would be too many commercials, you would actually get about 20 minutes of programing once a week. KZbin is the best place to view/listen to what Dr. Felton has to teach us.
@lysanderkrieg54743 жыл бұрын
I have no idea what you are smoking, but recommend you stop it.
@lysanderkrieg54743 жыл бұрын
Teach us? I could learn more off of the back of a box of rice crispies than Felton could ever teach me. If he was my kids history teacher at school, I'd pull them out of class. Mark regurgitates one side of a coin. Every coin has two sides.
@StevenKeery3 жыл бұрын
@@lysanderkrieg5474 : Yet here you are, yet again. You seem to spend a lot of time in a channel that you purportedly despise. What is this masochistic fetish I wonder, or you just don't know how to change to a different channel? Your own channel perhaps, where you can commit to the work to make it a success?
@manfredheck35293 жыл бұрын
@@StevenKeery Well, I share your opinion about L. Kriegs comments. However, this report shows a lot of "Wochenschau"-films about the German attack on Crete (Operation "Merkur", may 20th 1941). Probably there was not enough film material on the SS-assault available.
@rogerhudson28143 жыл бұрын
The SS 500 para unit were badly deployed, the local German commander attacked before Skorzeny' men (the Brandenburg unit) was ready. Drvar is a very wild area, well worth a visit . 36 Celsius in Bosnia today.
@Xiphactinus3 жыл бұрын
Badly deployed? Good.
@MrClajen3 жыл бұрын
To hot for me lol
@fengkorberfer3 жыл бұрын
@@Xiphactinus Jocko?
@charlesmartella3 жыл бұрын
36 degrees Celsius is bearable . Love from Australia xx
@RangaTurk Жыл бұрын
The resources that went into this operation could have supplemented the 91st Luftland Division, Panzer Training Battalion 100, and the 6th Parachute Regiment in Normandy. Air support included. D-Day was just weeks away. But yeah I guess the Italian front was important and Army Group E was just across the Adriatic getting squeezed with the recent loss of the Crimea to the Soviets.
@araneus323 жыл бұрын
Tito and the men surrounding him were all veterans of the Spanish civil war, where they fought in the international communist brigades. The SS troup were facing a though and battle hardened oponent
@souvikdas56623 жыл бұрын
Yet they managed from getting completely eliminated. The mission was somewhat success 😉
@whydoyougottahavthis3 жыл бұрын
And most importantly, well armed and just as importantly, knew each other which makes such a difference it's not even close, it's why the U.S. Army sucked so much treating it's units like a machine, lose a part replace it, lose a man shove in a new one, you heard at the end where they withdrew them for rest and refitting, that's such a key important component of how the Germans constantly extracted more blood than they lost, just could never extract enough
@whydoyougottahavthis3 жыл бұрын
Also no, the U.S. Army really never learned this lesson, not until the 1980's when they went through a total doctorial change and became possibly for the first arguable time a legitimately thoroughly professional ground force as opposed to naval and air which had always had the luxury of getting the best of the best to begin with, and often still do, the ground pounders nowadays couldn't be more different both in how they fight and how it's structured at the lowest levels, plus we can have blacks (and sadly women), command troops in battle now, which is good (except for the women thing, stay out of close-in ground combat
@larsnilsson87823 жыл бұрын
The Communist had superior numbers and prepared positions, and still took heavier casulties then the SS. Communist are only good at one thing, killing unarmed civilians.
@nikola12nis3 жыл бұрын
@@larsnilsson8782 Both Communists and Nazis alike.
@diecastduderacing3 жыл бұрын
As a historian of world war 2, this is the most complete and accurate channel I’ve come across! Hats off to you and a fine production!
@samsejdich68673 жыл бұрын
Yes i agree
@boskopuric45893 жыл бұрын
Филм кључ
@fotografdj3 жыл бұрын
you do not have a clue and you and he are communist agitators
@automaticmattywhack14703 жыл бұрын
It amazes me how little most people know about WW2. If they could only realize how much it still affects our lives today...
@ottodidakt30693 жыл бұрын
unfortunately so true !
@chaptermasterpedrokantor16233 жыл бұрын
So many wars affect our lives today. WW2 was spawned by WW1, which in turn was spawned by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, which was probably spawned by the Napoleonic Wars, etc. Sadly, military history has fallen out of favor in history classes in favor of social economic stuff and political correct subjects.
@automaticmattywhack14703 жыл бұрын
@@Elatenl I think the answer is a well known saying by George Santayana: "those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it."
@chaptermasterpedrokantor16233 жыл бұрын
@@Elatenl Because what happened 80 years does affect our lives today, and lets not forget that the radical left is doing its utmost to erase our past, so apparently it IS important to them. And if it is that important to radicals to tear down statues and change the history curriculum then it should be important to us too. Because don't cry wtf when your child comes home from school talking to you about your white privilege and how you are racist. Radicals have taken over the education system because we didn't deem it important enough to bother with teaching our kids what happened 80 years ago, and now they're using it to create more radicals. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell
@ulihaack24643 жыл бұрын
The stepfather of my stepfather was there with Tito's personal guard. After the war he continued his career as professional gambler. Being a war hero he was forgiven the occasional robbery, forgery ... and never went to prison. He always carried.
@vanja25653 жыл бұрын
Ofc he did, if you were with tito or commie party, you were untouchable
@andro78623 жыл бұрын
@@vanja2565 Tell that to the stalinists who ended up in a gulag.
@vanja25653 жыл бұрын
@@andro7862 what do they have to do with any of this?
@saoirseoceallaigh33873 жыл бұрын
@@andro7862 Yeah Tito was cool like that
@yewisemountaingoat5283 жыл бұрын
@@andro7862 Tito's island to deal with Stalinists was neither freezing cold, nor some enormous forced-labor camp and above all not used to relocate large group of civilians. Therefore it's quite a stretch to call it a "gulag". Also, the Soviets dealt with the Stalinists themselves following the death of Stalin in 1953. Nobody missed them as they all either were lapdogs or opportunists.
@manwith2dogs8953 жыл бұрын
Everytime Mark makes a YUGOSLAVIA video, everything else becomes secondary.. Air, Food, Sex, Love, everything becomes secondary.. watching the video is the most important thing. I stop everything I'm doing.. I even forget to breathe.. these Yugoslav videos are the best, I have watched them all atleast 3 times over.. thank you Mark.. PLEASE make more detailed videos Yugoslavia, because SOOOO much happened here in WW2. Explain the Chetnik. The USTASE. All the partisans, Soviet support, soo much..
@MrSloika3 жыл бұрын
And Dr. Felton has a lot of material to work with, as Churchill once quipped, 'The Balkans produce more history than they consume."
@altergreenhorn3 жыл бұрын
@Kafa kafica In fact you need to go in the late 19 century in those time the idea to unite small south slave tribes become a thing. It started in areas under austro hungarian empire or better in Zagreb and Ljubljana. Idea wasnt bad unfortaly the Serbian king in the 1918 didnt realy understud a concept, and take new lands as a gift to him, thats why was only a month after the merger all ready a clashes between Serbian king and Croatian & Slovenian politicians.
@ZUGI8493 жыл бұрын
GOD DAMN YUGOSLAVIA,PRISON FOR CROATIAN NATION!!!
@ISSH-nu7rn3 жыл бұрын
@Kafa kafica It was nation before Yugoslavia!!!!
@ZUGI8493 жыл бұрын
@@altergreenhorn No haga waga in our clear and croatian Adriatic see!!! Adriatic see is part of land dear God gave to Croats!!! There is a one legend about CRO land,we moustly bealiv,in time when dear Lord has giving a land to nations,in one moment he sow a man still wait in front of his door!!! He asked him what's up??? He said:Dear Lord,you forgotten on us,Croats!!!! No land for us??? Dear God feels guilty,he sad,i am sorry,i'll give you piece of my own land!!!! That is thrue,there is no beaty like Croatia,bcs.of that,everybody try to take our land,but we,proud sons of Croatia,will defend it till last breath!!!!!💪💪💪👊
@renatogaucho78102 жыл бұрын
My late grandmother and grandfather were in that battle, 1st Proletarian Brigade. She said that they were sleaping near the tito's shelter (cave) and early in the morning she was awakened by the sound of Stuka's, they destroyed centre of the town in first attack. This was a mistake because they alarmed whole brigade. Immediately after they have seen first gliders and paratroopers they started to shoot them in the air. I remember that I was joking with her about geneva convention and no shooting on paratroopers in the air. She would always say - to hell with that convention :) Nice channel Mark ;)
@thepinkplushie2 жыл бұрын
The Germans themselves and just about every faction in the war disregarded that convention anyways. On paper it makes sense but in reality when men and supplies are being dumped on your head, it makes no sense to allow them to land.
@guitarjacob1237 Жыл бұрын
@@thepinkplushie It's not against any convention to shoot on airbourne troops. Only unarmed pilots
@guitarjacob1237 Жыл бұрын
@@phildoddhistoriaantiqua Ever heard about like any other country ever? Soivet had concentration camps long before Hitler even thought about it.
@guitarjacob1237 Жыл бұрын
@@phildoddhistoriaantiqua No but you can't say it was something new and unique.
@cebeho Жыл бұрын
Convention does not prohibit shooting paratroopers. Whether the soldier is in the air, in a bus, train, or under water, for that matter, they are legitimate targets, especially during assault operation. Go to your grandmother's grave and apologize.
@TitaniumEye3 жыл бұрын
I've read about this assault in an excellent book with maps and battle assessments. Partisans knew very well that the Germans could mount an airborne assault, so they positioned a lot of troops in and around Drvar. Along with Tito's personal guard there were elements of one of the (veteran) Proletarian divisions positioned close by, and when the Germans landed, they were rushed into the fight with the sole intention to bog them down and deny them effective maneuver - that's why the Partisans had such high casualties. In the end this was a battle of small numbers of excellent quality paratroop soldiers against numerous Partisans with very high morale and knowledge of local terrain.
@Charlesputnam-bn9zy2 жыл бұрын
The partisans even had some light tanks of the American Stuart type. Wonder why the Allies didn't send the partisans some Locust M22 tanks (glider-borne) for evaluation.
@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын
Sounds like something I'd enjoy reading, have you a name at all?. 👍
@kalashnikovdevil3 жыл бұрын
Eastern Approaches, Fitzroy Maclean's autobiography is one hell of a read and has lots of details about Tito and the war in Yugoslavia, along with the formation of the Special Air Service.
@jamesbussey29113 жыл бұрын
It also has an excellent report of a Stalinist show trial during the purges of the 1930s in the first third of the book. The second third is about SAS operations in the Western Desert.
@celtaclassroom70823 жыл бұрын
Agreed - Maclean's book is an excellent read. Loved the part about his travels in the pre-war Soviet Union and how one day when he was walking in the Caucasus the KGB spies who had been trailing him came up and asked if he wouldn't mind stopping at one of the spies' homes up ahead for dinner!
@tongobong13 жыл бұрын
Is there the most important detail that Stalin executed the original Tito and replaced him with the brilliant Russian general? My great grandfather personally knew the original Tito.
@mikepette44223 жыл бұрын
@@tongobong1 oh yes of course ! yes indeed. that would explain why soviet /yugoslav relations were so warm and cordial after the war .... right ?
@tongobong13 жыл бұрын
@@mikepette4422 Russian Tito did a mistake dealing with Stalin so he knew that Stalin will replace him. This is why he put Yugoslavia on the line to save his skin. The gamble was successful for him.
@1nemann3 жыл бұрын
It's so weird this was uploaded today. I was literally just searching this morning if there were any SS fallschirmjäger after a fellow reenactor had brought it up. Another wonderful video.
@laniakea7773 жыл бұрын
SS Brandenburger Brigade. Check it out. Compromised Mission.
@Pe6ek3 жыл бұрын
You are using the word literally incorrectly.
@koenvandam12813 жыл бұрын
@@Pe6ek dontbelikethatplease ;)
@robertlaube5743 жыл бұрын
Dude, why you have that B.S for a pic?
@NlGHTSKY3 жыл бұрын
DUDE i was litteraly thinking about that too an hour ago ! Was wondering if SS fallschirmjager ever existed and BAM a mark felton video on them. I'm starting to think Mark has some kinds of superpowers
@livianegidius97723 жыл бұрын
Thank you .My grand grand father fought with him . His name was Josip Surname Broz , Tito .We engaged 33 German divisions during the war .And we won despite all odds. Ideas and longing for freedom are bulletproof .Respect from Beograd mr Felton.
@alfredovilla85603 жыл бұрын
You're good Dr. Felton! When you said "elite SS paratroopers" I remember reading that they were a penal battalion and therefore not very motivated, but you addressed that point and clarified further their combat quality. Kudos to you, sir!
@thepinkplushie2 жыл бұрын
Their command left quite a bit to be desired, but the entire plan was flawed. Deeply so. The Nazis consistently underestimated the reaction time of the partisans but also their ability to hold a battle line.
@vukaleksic1654 Жыл бұрын
maybe-this was the some kind part of eastern front..In YUG there was 10 german divissions, 122 divission on Russia and 12 divission in western europe..So Balkan was good mess
@alonzocalvillo67023 жыл бұрын
Tito was a real badass unlike murderous Stalin who tried to kill him22 times.After the last attempt, Tito sent a letter to Stalin telling him " If you don't stop sending killers, I am sending one to Moscow and I won't have to send a second one!."
@StalinTheMan0fSteel3 жыл бұрын
As I understand it, that was written in a letter from Tito that was found in Stalin's safe, after his death. That must have surely contributed to Stalin's paranoid mania in his last year's!
@28ebdh3udnav3 жыл бұрын
Great Job. You taught us a lot with this one. I never heard of this operation.
@rhavenovoidderris41093 жыл бұрын
It's so secret we barely knew it
@jonatanvlaisavljevic53743 жыл бұрын
Its very well known operation among the Yugoslavs, since primary school, It was called Desant na Drvar..
@miloslazarevic17373 жыл бұрын
You can find movie "Desant na Drvar". So old... Black and White movie
@damyr3 жыл бұрын
Been there, half of century later, in a different war. We also couldn't find Tito.
@andro78623 жыл бұрын
Best comment 🇧🇦
@inkognitou69823 жыл бұрын
If there were Tito, you wouldn't be there in first place..)
@stonecold60223 жыл бұрын
@@andro7862 Poturčeni Srbine tišina
@stonecold60223 жыл бұрын
@@inkognitou6982 Facts
@Ado555555 Жыл бұрын
@@stonecold6022 and you would end up in Goli Otok with that statement above
@KokkiePiet3 жыл бұрын
Fitzroy MacClean wrote an excellent memoir on his time in the Sovjet Union North Afrika and Yugoslavia "Eastern Approaches". A great read I can Highly recommend.
@ottodidakt30693 жыл бұрын
Yes have read, very good indeed !
@sheilbwright76493 жыл бұрын
The book also covers his time in pre-war USSR, insights into the purges, Stalin and his escapades in illegal tourism.
@KokkiePiet3 жыл бұрын
@@sheilbwright7649 Correct, its a great memoir and a great bit of history
@sheilbwright76493 жыл бұрын
@@KokkiePiet I was thinking about how you could do a great book "The Great British Warrior eccentrics of WW2" for such a hierarchal conformist society they seem to find room for them in wartime. Alister, Jack Churchill, Orde Wingate and David Stirling immediately spring to mind but I am sure that a few moments reflection would provide an embarrassment of riches.
@KokkiePiet3 жыл бұрын
@@sheilbwright7649 Would make a great book, I would also include Sergeant Peter King, Pearl Cornioley
@zagorteneej12832 жыл бұрын
Mark very accurate view on the particular offensive by Germans, the only thing that needs to be corrected is that initial partisan position was stormed for there was only 3 companies ( 300 men or so) guarding the perimeter, plus at that time there was a military school in Drvar, with teachers roughly (80 to 100 man) , main partisan force came from place called Trubari wich is some 20 km away from Drvar. The unit that stopped the Germans is 3. Lika Proleterian Brigade, unit that really distinguished itself during that battle. In a 15-hour battle it nearly destroyed entire SS regiment. They fought a good fight that day, I think they deserve to be mentioned.
@berniescheid52863 жыл бұрын
As a Canadian stationed in Lahr Germany I ended up in Yugoslavia in 1991 after Tito died and the civil war broke out. As a young Captain I was deeply affected by the cruelty show by both sides against each other. My mission changed from a cease fire monitor to a cease fire violator monitor very quickly and I left there with a completely different perspective on humanity. To this day I think about my time there and how proud I was to have tried to help the people who suffered there. Thanks Mark for showing me how this all came about. 🇨🇦
@borisfilipovic52533 жыл бұрын
Stop equalizing victims and mourders
@romanlesjak38443 жыл бұрын
@@borisfilipovic5253 aha, so you are trying to tell the Croats were angels and all the yugoslav/serbian troops murders?
@josephcro21382 жыл бұрын
@@romanlesjak3844 we were to merciful. We shouldn't have let 200 000 rats escape without proper punishment
@romanlesjak38442 жыл бұрын
@@josephcro2138 you mean Ustasa or who you referr to this 200.000?
@josephcro21382 жыл бұрын
@@romanlesjak3844 I mean 200 000 rats who sowed all the death and destruction on Croatia and bosnia in the 90s. They just escaped scott free when they should've been hanged by their guts
@1977Yakko3 жыл бұрын
And yet another interesting example of history I knew nothing about until now. Thanks as always for the lesson.
@EndOfSmallSanctuary973 жыл бұрын
>tfw you're so feared by the enemy that they send multiple special forces units to take you out
@berserk68553 жыл бұрын
he lived chad life indeed
@AirsoftReviewArgentina3 жыл бұрын
They failed and he lived. That's some achievement
@projectmayhem68983 жыл бұрын
I'd drink to that ... if I weren't such a Tito-taler. I'll show myself out now.
@motorTranz3 жыл бұрын
Tito was like a cat with 9 lives. Thanks Dr. Felton.
@robrob9050 Жыл бұрын
He was just lucky Belorussian
@araneus323 жыл бұрын
Tito was never a Yugoslav(kingdom) soldier. He was a saoldier in Austro-hungarian empire army durin WWI
@serdradion4010 Жыл бұрын
But he was trained agent of the Comintern in USSR personally appointed by the Stalin as Chief - Secretary of Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Kingdom at the time.
@daviddirom74293 жыл бұрын
4.24 Mark answers my previous question. What a guy.
@altergreenhorn3 жыл бұрын
4:00 Tito is on the right side of the picture , left of him with the hand in the back is Edvard Kardelj the main brain behind Tito's way of socialisms, which was quite different than Soviets or Chinese. Yugoslavia had semi free market, citizens could freely travel, small private business wasn't unusual, etc.
@eddyinthailand3 жыл бұрын
Great cultural scene as well! Fantastic movies, music, rock groups etc....
@northernstar48113 жыл бұрын
Don`t forget they had "Goli Otok "( Barren Island) gulag for those people who couldn`t keep their mouth shut all the time.
@altergreenhorn3 жыл бұрын
@@northernstar4811 You ate fake news
@janezjonsa31653 жыл бұрын
@@northernstar4811 nope, Goli otok was reserved for psychopats and corrupt civil parasites. Thats whats lacking today
@Shmerpy2 жыл бұрын
Traveled through there twice in '73-'74. Cheap wine, unbelievably littered highways and beaches, but the mountains were fabulous, as was Dubrovnik.
@aleksandarnikolic77573 жыл бұрын
Great video again. The history of Yugoslavia is my field of interest. Thank you, Dr. Felton.
@I_Cunt_Spell3 жыл бұрын
He's a historian, not a medic, you dummy.
@antartis733 жыл бұрын
This is a video I was hoping Mark would do.. and he has come through again! Superb
@DocLeQuack3 жыл бұрын
Tito the man who Hitler and Stalin couldn’t kill.
@exploreradverturer83963 жыл бұрын
Stalin hated Tito, he tried to take Tito out few times but after 3rd attempt Tito said that 'somebody in Moscow tried to do-away with me but failed thrice, but If, I have to take out somebody in Moscow than I can assure you I will only try once & will be successful' The message was received & understood to the concerned quarters in Moscow and Tito lived till his natural death 1980.
@cliftonjames7853 жыл бұрын
@@exploreradverturer8396 thats badass lol
@NoNoseProduction3 жыл бұрын
@@exploreradverturer8396 this didn't happen btw. It's just old bullshit story
@brokenbridge63163 жыл бұрын
A very accurate description of Tito.
@bocko1593 жыл бұрын
@@NoNoseProductionyou are funny
@11Kralle3 жыл бұрын
My Grandfather always told stories about hunting for Tito during WW2 - he claimed, he saw him a few times but didn't even take aim. I guess these were the kind of self-developing stories which grew and grew over the decades (from "we heard rumors Tito is near" to "I had him in a head-lock, but he slipped out"). Well-told stories though, the whole dinner table turned into a strategic map of western Slavonia until my grandmother decided to bring the cake...
@baki4341 Жыл бұрын
Amazing stories i imagine, what unit was he a part of, maybe that could shed light on wether he actually could have came close
@11Kralle Жыл бұрын
@@baki4341 16. Jäger/ 721. Regiment (so it says on his certificate for the Wound-badge in black) I don't think there's much light to shed unlike you know the whereabout of Tito and my grandfathers unit. He was in an outfit that saw heavy fighting against the partisans, was for a long time stationed in Banja Luka and had to do a lot of patrols together which Croatian units, who always stumbled about each other when it came to dealing with Serbian prisoners. One could summarize his view on WW2 in one quote: "Als die Amerikaner kamen, haben wir sofort unsere Gewehre weggeschmissen und sind uns ergeben gegangen." (When the Americans came, we threw aways our weapons on the spot and went for surrender.)
@Janjanjjaakkiiccaa3333 жыл бұрын
If you are interested more you can watch a Yugoslav war movie named Desant na Drvar.
@marvwatkins70293 жыл бұрын
Tito cleverly played both the Soviets and the West to his advantage. I saw it first hand in Yugoslavian military hardware. Quite the brain and leader.
@curseditem83543 жыл бұрын
selling a 3 billion defunct space program to kennedy also works
@peterprandel46693 жыл бұрын
you saw it first hand? explain...
@jamesmaier55443 жыл бұрын
@@curseditem8354 wait what? 😄
@ssyphoniss2 жыл бұрын
He was leader of the Non-Aligned movement. If it didn't dissolve, today it would include India, Africa, South America,Middle East, South-East Asia and China. That's a lot of people. I think both USA and USSR were competing to give Tito best equipment in order to gain his favor.
@Ado555555 Жыл бұрын
It's funny how Vucic has been trying to do the same. Now he's about to recognize Kosovo :DD
@alanrogers70903 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how many obscure, or little-known stories from the war there are. I recognized some of the parachute traing film clips showing former boxer Max Schelling as a teacher in how to exit a plane and how to roll when you actually land. Keep it up, please.
@Nik-nd1mv6 ай бұрын
Schmeling😊
@HTN33 жыл бұрын
More eye-opening revelations from KZbin's premier authority on the fascinating insights into the history that nobody else knows about the Second World War. Keep 'em coming, Mark!
@dr.barrycohn54613 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this one doc. I love how you are able to mate the topic with interweaving film material.
@rijnvanessen73593 жыл бұрын
It would be nice if Mark felton could make an episode about South Africa's and other Commonwealth nations involvement in WW2
@igerce3 жыл бұрын
Yes please
@-CLUMSYDIYer-3 жыл бұрын
Maybe!
@dannythomson52393 жыл бұрын
the South African border war and the SADF in the 60's would also be very good.
@-CLUMSYDIYer-3 жыл бұрын
If your going to do all of these could you do a vid on when Britain colonised 25% of the worlds land mass. PLEASE!
@EndOfSmallSanctuary973 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see one about the Desert Rats of Tobruk. As an Australian I really like their story.
@morgan974753 жыл бұрын
Though pretty ballsy to jump into such an environment, whoever approved the use of paratroopers in such a fashion should've been drop-kicked. WTF? Jumping into a mountainous area, no real DZ to speak of, not to mention crap LZs for the gliders. Then, to top it off, two daylight jumps with one at mid-day when the enemy is alerted to the assault. Rather amazing the 500th had anyone survive.
@zefallafez3 жыл бұрын
To the risk-takers go the rewards
@dpeasehead3 жыл бұрын
@@zefallafez Mass casualties and numerous unmarked graves from a nearly forgotten mission?
@saoirseoceallaigh33873 жыл бұрын
@@zefallafez Yeah, an early death and a failed mission lol
@shannonquinn86873 жыл бұрын
Same thing in Crete. The German intel on Crete was so off the mark that I wonder if it was a deliberate attempt at sabotage. If not, it was sheer stupidity.
@michaelpayne81023 жыл бұрын
The video didn’t really get into it much, however the 5XX series was officially a penal battalion, (mostly what would be considered.low level infractions today - gambling, falling asleep, etc). Nonetheless expendable and if they failed it wouldn’t be a large issue. The volunteers were NCO’s, Comms, etc. German drops were low level chute pops and you are on the ground (the chutes didn’t offer any options for navigating). The intel on the drop zone from aerial recon turned out to be bad, what was thought to be a stronghold turned out to be a walled cemetery. The good - the walls offered some protection throughout the battle, however Titos forces had the high ground and Tito was not in the immediate area. The unit was reformed after this operation, and ultimately was no longer a penal unit as the 600th.
@megamillionfreak3 жыл бұрын
I saw Tito once. It was in Dubrovnik, at the “Libertas” hotel in 1978. I was 6. He walked in and all the kids ran toward him.
@D.N..3 жыл бұрын
Im always fascinated by Marks videos! WWII is so massive and complicated, a person can spend years studying the war
@sicknote15583 жыл бұрын
Very true
@florencemodina62933 жыл бұрын
Mark felton is never boring.
@mch123119693 жыл бұрын
I remember reading about this operation as a kid, thank you for the video Dr. Felton.
@okm87503 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather participated in this event. He was in the partisans, he survived.
@andro78623 жыл бұрын
Which unit?
@miroslavradakovic59423 жыл бұрын
My grandfather too! It was partisan unit named- VI lička division.They was located 5-6 kilometers away from Drvar.
@okm87503 жыл бұрын
@@andro7862 i dont know the exact unit. But i can tell you stories of my other great grandfathers. One was forced to go to the Italian army, he participated in the Battle of El Alamein, (he was an ethnic Slovene) then, he was captured by the French foreign legion. He was then given to the British and was trained by them. And sent into a prekomorska partisan brigade, and went to Yugoslavia. The 3rd great grandfather was in the Ustaše, in 1942 he went to the Partisans. He joined the ustaše because he was a Croatian patriot, he was later sent to goli otok.... The 4th was a Croatian who served in the Dalmatinska udarna brigada, he fought in battles from Split all the way to Trieste
@andro78623 жыл бұрын
@@okm8750 Wow that's an amazing family history. I'm sure with more details I can find their units. My grandpa never told us his unit name, but we later deduced he was in the in the 11th Udarna. The Slovene one could possibly have been in the 5th Prekomorska. Did he ever mention spending time in London, England? If he was there then he was in the 5th. The 4th great-grandfather then fought the same battles as my grandpa, though not sure if he was also in the 11th brigade.
@okm87503 жыл бұрын
@@andro7862 It is possible he spent his time in England. He was trained as the Airplane signaler guy. I don't know that much about the 4th great grandfather. The only thing i know is that he was in a udarna brigada, and was present during the liberation of Trieste. The only person i have a lot of details about is the great grandfather that served in the Ustaše. He first served in the Peasent's (Maček's) civil protection. Paramilitary wing of HSS, he was a officer of the Ustaše. Upon realising that Pavelić was a brutal, bad man. As i said, joined the Partisans in 1942.
@NoYouAreNotDreaming3 жыл бұрын
My Grandfather fought in this battle...he was first in German forces but after his father told him that they will lose war and that he should switch sides he went to join partisans...he fought in this battle he protected tito..and after he didnt want to lie about what happened there he ended up in prison,gulag...Goli Otok...5 years...after that he came home and got rifle with insignia on it in gold from Tito...saying thank you for your service...
@josephcro21382 жыл бұрын
He protected tito and tito sent him go gulag? And then gave him a golden rifle?
@NoYouAreNotDreaming2 жыл бұрын
@@josephcro2138 yes...not golden rifle but gold inscriptions on rifle like "thank you for your service" bullshit
@josephcro21382 жыл бұрын
@@NoYouAreNotDreamingthat's socialism for you
@kristiangustafson41303 жыл бұрын
I was in Yugoslavia as part of the Canadian Army in 1997. Took a trip to Drvar (we had a station there) and had a walk about Tito's Caves. A treat.
@banskobrdo2 жыл бұрын
Yugoslavia 1997, ? No way Hose.
@kswan65813 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I always enjoys your channel. I did a 6 month tour in Drvar as part of the stabilization force some years ago. As a former paratrooper, I could only imagine dropping in on such a nasty DZ. Perhaps it was a little more open in 1944. It was interesting to see the fuselage of one of the DSF 230 gliders on the outskirts of the town. Landing in one of those on such rough terrain just as bad. Very poor Recce and planning on that Op.
@Roller_Ghoster3 жыл бұрын
Tito was a real thorn in the side of the Germans in occupied Yugoslavia. Well done Mark for highlighting this story in a well produced video.
@nigeh53263 жыл бұрын
So much so that his partisans liberated Yugoslavia not the Red Army plus he irritated the hell out of Stalin after the war
@Theanimeisforme3 жыл бұрын
@@nigeh5326 that more so the position of the area versus anything else, really quite at the cusp
@nigeh53263 жыл бұрын
@Kafa kafica read the history the Yugoslav partisans were the only ones to liberate their own country. Remember by then the Red Army was trying to take Germany and other Central European states. Tito’s partisans were relatively well organised, well armed and knew their own terrain. They had been tiring down relatively large numbers of Nazi troops for a long time before.
@milantrajceski83223 жыл бұрын
@Kafa kafica Reading your comments here i am not sure that history is your strongest subject, mauby you should stick to some cartoons instead!
@milantrajceski83223 жыл бұрын
@Kafa kafica I have no idea where you took the exams, obviously you haven't learned absolutely nothing
@jenseninsulation22023 жыл бұрын
P{ossible Topic: New York was home to an amazing number of Royal Navy deserters during WW2 who traded American goodwill for the British uniforms and a line of bull. I believe they numbered in the thousands. What happened to them after the war and did the British Government go looking for them?
@sicknote15583 жыл бұрын
I've never heard anything about it
@fe70573 жыл бұрын
Do you have a source?
@dp-sr1fd3 жыл бұрын
There were also many thousands of British soldiers who deserted in France after D. Day. I always wondered what happened to them after the war. There were also thousands of G I,s who deserted and hijacked trucks and sold the supplies on the black market in Paris. I read about this in the book "A Bridge Too Far" by Cornelius Ryan.
@nico-zt9od3 жыл бұрын
Yes! I always wondered the same
@wolfmauler3 жыл бұрын
Traded goodwill for uniforms and a line of bull...Can you be more clear, you sound as though you're quoting something you must've read? Thousands of Navy deserters from the Channel would be very difficult to understand, so you mean the Pacific theatre specifically?
@thEannoyingE3 жыл бұрын
I missed this history lesson, thanks again Dr. Felton.
@landofthesilverpath58232 жыл бұрын
Mark did leave out the fact that Germany and Yugoslavia had formed an alliance(the pact of steel) but then the Yugoslav government was overthrown in a coup and the new government broke the treaty. The coup was supported by Britain and with possible assistance from the USSR.
@garathminis51083 жыл бұрын
Thanks heaps ! We Croats are proud of the Partisan movement and condemn the Pavelic Nazi puppet "state" . My grandfather was a 14 year old partisan scout. Please make a video about the Battle at river Neretva. Or about the battle for Sutjeska.
@vlatkotemelkov30353 жыл бұрын
greetings from Yugoslavia ! 🇲🇰
@jackpavlik5633 жыл бұрын
Are you in a time machine?
@vlatkotemelkov30353 жыл бұрын
sorry my mistake Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ✌️
@ragman26233 жыл бұрын
@@vlatkotemelkov3035 it's called North Macedonia
@jspec-vz3mc3 жыл бұрын
Greetings! Fyi, your country makes excellent AK's. They shoot great for the money, are are sought after in the US.
@SuckerFreeGear3 жыл бұрын
Is it true that there have been rumors the real Tito had been replaced by the Soviets and that's why he celebrated two different birthdays amongst many other difference between the early Tito and later years Tito? My family is from Yugoslavia and I remember hearing these stories as a child, I am an American today.
@kilofoxtrotdelta61123 жыл бұрын
But can you imagine some German grandad telling his grandson about when he was a SS Fallschirmjäger and his mission was to capture Tito. (only saying as when I was in the British Army based in Germany, I dated a German girl, her dad was a paratrooper, he lost both his legs at Crete, he couldn't speak English, but we drank beer and sang roll out the barrels)
@ComboMuster Жыл бұрын
hahahaha EPIC!
@11070533 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mark sincerely for posting this material..my grandad was there -The Third Licka Proletarian brigade ..our beloved former Yugoslavia ❤️warm greetings from Montenegro 🇲🇪
@robrob9050 Жыл бұрын
6th, he thanked them very well by forbidding in 1970 last Serb cultural society "Prosveta" , bunch of idiots anyway ha ha
@d_rooster3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a wonderful video, dr. Felton. Cheers from Ex-Yu.
@michaelodonnell186117 күн бұрын
I’ve been reading and watching tv shows on WW2 for 40+ years. I never heard anything about this. Thanks again!
@r2gelfand3 жыл бұрын
Work has been set aside, a new Mark Felton video is available.
@AirsoftReviewArgentina3 жыл бұрын
"... if you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow and I won't have to send another." (Tito to Stalin. Imagine the balls it takes to send such a message)
@Charlesputnam-bn9zy3 жыл бұрын
0ne of the bloody-joe-sent goons to take out Tito was captured & taken airborne in a biplane by Tito's guards. There he was summoned to spill the beans 'bout the plot or splattered on Yugoslav soil as fertilizer. He preferred to spill the beans.
@AirsoftReviewArgentina3 жыл бұрын
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy i truly believe they would have gone full war-of-the-worlds fertilizer on that guy. I hope you get the reference...
@Charlesputnam-bn9zy3 жыл бұрын
@@AirsoftReviewArgentina seeing the mountains of Yugoslavia & remembering the nazi mishaps there, awfoul-joe thought thrice & called it a ''well, you can't win them all ...'' & went back to his easier domestic purges.
@dpeasehead3 жыл бұрын
@Airsoft Review Argentina: Imagine the scene in Tito's office. As he finishes dictating his message to Stalin, the late Charles Bronson looks up from his Belgrade newspaper for a moment sighs, and continues reading..
@niallpadden3 жыл бұрын
That's a brilliant quote. One of the best (by far), I believe I've ever heard. Thank you.
@Charlesputnam-bn9zy3 жыл бұрын
There was a 1973 movie about a previous (May 1943) operation to destroy Tito's main force : ''Sutjeska'' or ''The Battle Of Sutjeska'' with Richard Burton as Tito.
@bekibekic112 жыл бұрын
There is a movie about this event too. "Desant na Drvar"
@Charlesputnam-bn9zy2 жыл бұрын
@@bekibekic11 I believe it's infinitely better than the shameful ''Force 10 from Navarone''. To add insult to injury, the in-uniform Harrison Ford's complete moronic mug is a sore sight for blind eyes. Wonder how he could have turned out into such a fine actor after the completely detestable Han Solo.
@morrisbuschmeier20473 жыл бұрын
I am happy to listen to M. Felton, because his videos remind me oldschool documentaries used to be aired on tv once upon the time.
@stitchjones71343 жыл бұрын
Another good one Mark. Bugger jumping into that terrain. Fractured a vertebrae after the airforce dropped us 400m off the dz into rocky ground. Battalion had 40 percent casualties and we weren't being shot at like those fallschirmjager.
@hoosierpatriot22803 жыл бұрын
I had never heard of Tito until now. Thanks once again for educating me Dr Felton!
@FortuitusVideo3 жыл бұрын
o_O
@lukav35093 жыл бұрын
bruh
@nobodyherepal32923 жыл бұрын
Double bruh.
@akwida3 жыл бұрын
Check out Sterling Hayden, he has a few words about Tito...
@RA7KO3 жыл бұрын
Triple bruh
@gvozdenrovina38133 жыл бұрын
As Croat born and living in former Yugoslavia I can say that Tito never held the rank of "former sergeant major" (1:29) . in 1941 he was proclaimed by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) Chief of all national liberation military forces (National Liberation Army). He held the rank of marshal. This operation is called in our parts "Desant na Drvar".
@gregb64693 жыл бұрын
This battle would make a good movie, with a good script and the right director and cast.
@johnryder17133 жыл бұрын
Tito or This That, This video is exactly what I have come to expect from That genius Dr Felton
@nickie20113 жыл бұрын
Im amazed by the incredible amount of extraordinary things that happened every single day for 6 years in that era... Today we are only going to the supermarket.
@zmajooov3 жыл бұрын
And be thankful as long as it stays that way.
@bigblue69173 жыл бұрын
I did read about this raid though that was some time ago. So it is good to hear the details again. I first came to know about Sir Fitzroy Maclean through his book Eastern Approaches. An excellent book and well worth a read. He was part of the British Embassy in Moscow before the war and he would explore parts of the Soviet Union by dint of the fact that those who were following to so terrified of Stalin that no one would stop him. When war broke out he was not allowed to leave the diplomatic corp to enlist so he became an MP which now meant he could no longer be a diplomat. But it did mean he could join the British Army. He served in North Africa, Persia and then as liaison to Tito. If you get a chance then this book should be on your reading list.
@urashimatarou95753 жыл бұрын
Definitely second the book recommendation - not having it right in from of me, I'm thinking maybe there is some mistake in the video, though? IIRC the person identified as Maclean at 2:50 or thereabouts doesn't at all resemble pictures of him from the book. But the guy front and center with dark hair and glasses standing next to Tito (at about 9:30) *does*. In the book Maclean talks about how the partisans were fascinated by his US 1911 pistol - think I've seen some color footage on YT of him shooting it with them... The film "Force 10 from Navarrone" is supposed to be based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, but there is an account in Eastern Approaches of a very similar, supposedly non-fiction mission? - never have sorted that one out...
@Ye4rZero3 жыл бұрын
Tito fascinates me, Yugoslavia encompassed something like 20+ different ethnic groups & their history pre-Tito is.. volatile. He isn't hated in the region, even today (by eastern european standards) and as far as I know his 'rule' did not involve mass killings, and considering he was a Communist, that's almost shocking. And once he was gone the region descended into.. ethnic cleansing that was particularly sad. Would have been helpful if he had written down some of how he managed to do it.
@milosjovicevic60832 жыл бұрын
Tito was a Croatian-Slovenian man who fought against Serbs in 1914 in an Austro-Hungarian uniform. He hid it from the Serbs. Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, etc. with 700,000 troops attacked exclusively Serbia. He took advantage of the fact that the Germans and others dismembered Serbia. Many Serbs were naive and believed in his morals. But in essence, he worked against Serbia, in favor of the Croats. The Serbs lost 2 million people in WW1 and WW2, while Tito suddenly turned the Croats from a defeated side into winners. He allowed WW2 for Catholic Croats to have monstrous concentration camps for Orthodox Serbs. Then, in 1974, he divided only Serbia into 3 parts. Serbs are a people who gave several million victims for freedom. And then in 1989 the Croats returned the flags from their puppet Nazi state in 1941. The Serbs did not want to live with that. But CNN and other Western media sided with Catholics against Orthodox Serbs.
@ericscottstevens3 жыл бұрын
Grandfather participated in this. He was cadre with the flight training unit SG151 in the area with flight cadets (and cadre) provided air support with their JU87s and newly issued FW190s. It was an emergency order, but they had tactical capabilities, but not for sustained yearly missions.
@thekroop47773 жыл бұрын
Ah Mark Felton, the best WW2 narrator and teacher out there. Awesome channel, learned more here than in any history class
@paulgaskins77133 жыл бұрын
Whoa. That scene in the plane where the German pilots yell back and the music that is playing is the exact music usually played while watching the 101st jump in World War Two films the whole thing gave me a reverse man in the high castle vibe.
@kondor999993 жыл бұрын
This wasn't an operation (Unternehmen Rösselsprung) undertaken by "elite troops". The 500th SS Parachute Battalion was a *penal* unit, and many of the officers assigned to it wanted out when they found out what it was (Source: Osprey Raid, Knight's Move and the excellent book "Kommando"). However, they fought very well and, at least afterward, could've been considered 'Elite' or at least 'Good'. But really, they were mainly desperate. Desperate to win back their ranks and reputations. Which they did - those that made it.
@aleksazunjic96723 жыл бұрын
Unit was mixed bag. There were volunteers, and there were volunteers who did some mild disciplinary infractions (AWOL, drunk on duty, stealing ..) and wanted to clear their honor. Overall, they were well trained and motivated, but the whole battalion was practically wiped out that day. Later they were reformed with lower quality recruits and were never elite unit or even trained to perform parachute jumps.
@EngelinZivilBO3 жыл бұрын
Volunteer was used different back than... just saying
@abbcc59963 жыл бұрын
apart from some obvious disasters the german penal units usually performed pretty good in the war, the soviets even copied them by creating their own penal units like the germans.
@Betterifitsfree3 жыл бұрын
I dated a Yugoslavian girl in middle school. Our anniversary was May 25, the same day as Marshal Tito's birthday. She had really large 🧿🧿 bazookas for 8th grade.
@Wuestenkarsten3 жыл бұрын
lol...
@scockery3 жыл бұрын
So she had great big Tito's?
@hiramatangi17363 жыл бұрын
Great video. Using basic round canopy parachutes to deploy troops during the day into rugged terrain was a recipe for disaster. It’s a surprise the SS didn’t loose more men.
@malfunctioninggoon52923 жыл бұрын
If the SS wasn’t already scary enough, SS raining from the sky would certainly be the icing on the even more terrifying and deadly cake.
@judgedredd88763 жыл бұрын
...unless some Cretans with pick forks are awaiting for them.
@Joker-vg9wk3 жыл бұрын
@@judgedredd8876 or yugoslavs 🤭
@saoirseoceallaigh33873 жыл бұрын
Or, if you were on a light AA gun, icing on a very tasty cake topped with their crushed hopes and dreams
@vladtheimpaler29303 жыл бұрын
Id say Chetniks guerillas were more scarier to fight than SS units
@chrizzle62223 жыл бұрын
@@vladtheimpaler2930 hahahaha no id fight them over the einsatzgruppen anytime
@redwolf79293 жыл бұрын
Some of the parachute jumpers came out at really crazy angles
@GaboneG603 жыл бұрын
Mark, you should do a whole video about Tito himself.
@Smudgeroon743 жыл бұрын
Tito married a minor. She was only 14 years old and he was like 23. That's why he rose to become so powerful.
@paulroberts36393 жыл бұрын
I love learning about these small actions on less well know fronts, that are largely forgotten. History is always interesting. But learning something completely new is brilliant.
@DrJones203 жыл бұрын
They're not really forgotten at all
@baki43413 жыл бұрын
@@DrJones20 well not over here in the balkans but the rest of the world yes its good felton educated them here i hope he does more videos about partisans
@DrJones203 жыл бұрын
@@baki4341 I'm not from the balkans and I know about this. I guess I'm a nerd
@baki43413 жыл бұрын
@@DrJones20 i guess so
@tigvi34293 жыл бұрын
Just joining the chorus here. Mark does a fantastic job and I watch all I can find. Has he ever done a full length documentary?
@sicknote15583 жыл бұрын
Yeah he's been on the telly seen him in a few world war 2 documentaries like the history Channel or discovery
@manoelreinaldoreinaldo61203 жыл бұрын
Thanks Doctor Felton, are amazing these Pictures from bootcamp .. Interesting the amount of record of the WWII
@mewinthedark85133 жыл бұрын
Mark you got me addicted to your vids haha. keep it up! i love the content! i really would like to see more videos about the bloodflag!
@egeesey723 жыл бұрын
NOTIFICATION: Mark Felton Post a video! Me: awwwww shoot. Grabs popcorn and starts video
@vividvulpe98423 жыл бұрын
that's right. Time to grab a beer and sit dat ass down!
@benjaminhodzic48403 жыл бұрын
When He died, there was a world gathering event on the funeral. Almost every country had a representative that day. Can't think of any leader today that would have the same thing.
@sjoormen13 жыл бұрын
Pa da. I ja bih, da se osiguram da je stvarno mrtav. Mnogo je dugovao.
@finsfan903 жыл бұрын
@Billy B Omg 🤦🏻. Comparing an historic figure like Tito, to a drugged out common criminal like Floyd. Excellent comparison.. 🙄.
@finsfan903 жыл бұрын
@@LegendLength Biden cant even spell fascism.
@stephentokley45213 жыл бұрын
HM the Queen I would suggest
@danielkurtovic90993 жыл бұрын
@Billy B Over 100 world leaders , how many world leaders beside americans were there ??
@mikeohagan22063 жыл бұрын
brilliant program, you had to have serious balls to be a paratrooper or a glider troop. very high casualty rate, on both sides, total respect.
@user-bo8iy1zj7i2 жыл бұрын
Я в гдр служил и видел немецкого ветерана десантника - это ребята был настоящий волк!.. Мы советские десантники очень хотели с ним поговорить но наш командир отогнал нас и сказал-Вы слышали выражение «руки по локоть в крови»?!.. так вот он и такие как он не просто-«по локоть..» - а по колено!.. - ПО ПОЯС В КРОВИ ХОДИЛИ!!!..
@celtaclassroom70823 жыл бұрын
Tito was an exceptionally shrewd leader. I remember that when he died in 1980 he was considered the last of the great WW2 statesmen. Not a bad career for a guy from humble farm-boy beginnings who never attended a university but learned the trade of a metalworker. Before WW1, Josip Broz worked briefly for both Daimler and Skoda, which are still among Europe's auto-makers 110 years later.
@peterbowie73473 жыл бұрын
Nobody knows his real identity .
@Ado555555 Жыл бұрын
@@peterbowie7347 That's the most cringeworthy serb-revisionist conspiracy theory ever. And there are many serb-revisionist conspiracy theories out there
@DD-qw4fz Жыл бұрын
"shrewd leader" the only thing he cared about is his own skin and luxury life he had as a dictator, while ordinary ppl drove shitty cars unable to buy a normal washing detergent, he was driving expensive mercedes cars, living in mansions, and smoking fat cigars like some kind of a south american narco boss/banana dictator. He never made any plans to secure yugoslavias stable future after his death, so when he died the country was doomed, a problem with any dictatorial regime with a cult of personality.
@robrob9050 Жыл бұрын
@@peterbowie7347He was Russian mole, not real JB
@robrob9050 Жыл бұрын
@@Ado555555Nonsense read NSA analyse of his speech, he was Russian mole originating from border between Belarus and Poland
@tazmod72723 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing an old paratrooper film on TV where you could see a couple of parachutes not open. I haven’t seen that film again.
@wayneantoniazzi27063 жыл бұрын
It was known to happen, but thank God it didn't happen often. If the 'troopers were jumping from a high enough altitude they'd have a reserve chute, but for low-level drops (around 500 feet) they wouldn't, there wouldn't be enough time to deploy it.
@tazmod72723 жыл бұрын
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 : Do you know whether the paratroopers had a reserve chute during WWII when using deployment line?
@wayneantoniazzi27063 жыл бұрын
@@tazmod7272 The Americans referred to it as a "static line," it's those canvas belts you see hanging out the door of the plane. Again, it depended on the altitude of the drop. A reserve chute would have to be deployed by the paratrooper himself, the static line opened the main chute automatically.
@sicknote15583 жыл бұрын
@@tazmod7272 I don't think the germans had static lines during ww2 they either had the chute under there arm or pulled a chord plus I don't think they had a reserve chute would have to do a bit of research on internet
@tazmod72723 жыл бұрын
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 : I had a brain freeze and couldn’t think of the right term for that line. What was the saying “ there is no reason to jump out of a perfect air plane” or something like that.
@felixcortez76043 жыл бұрын
While unable to capture Tito, the Germans did find his marshal's uniform in Drvar, and later placed it on display in Vienna.
@AtlasAugustus3 жыл бұрын
Yugoslavia: where victory nor defeat is granted hospitality
@vanja25653 жыл бұрын
that depends, if you are coming to occupy them croats will wait with flowers, serbs on the other hand, well you'll have problems with them.
@adrianbrala14903 жыл бұрын
@@vanja2565 what a dumb comment
@DaveSCameron3 жыл бұрын
Behave, no war gets a welcome you daft quilt!
@vanja25653 жыл бұрын
@@skyguard155 serbs never really came to occupy croatia. Look at others, Hungarians, germans, it's always flowers.
@skyguard1553 жыл бұрын
@@vanja2565The Serbs occupied 18.4% of Croatian territory.