Rat Lines - The Hunt for Nazi War Criminals (Episode 3)

How did so many important Nazi war crimes suspects escape to the Middle East and South America after the war? This new series will explain how and the efforts to bring people like Dr. Mengele and Adolf Eichmann to justice.
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[@Mondo762]

Back in 1982 I was an engineer on a ship on a voyage around South America. We picked up 2 pilots in Buenos Aries for the trip around Cape Horn to Valparaiso, Chile. Back out to sea I came up from the engine room for supper and there sat one of the pilots in the Officers Saloon. Over dinner we had a conversation and I noticed he had a German accent and looked to be in his mid 60's, the right age to have served in WW2. He was large, had gray hair and, what really caught my attention, had a shiny hook sticking out of his left sleeve. Although he was perfectly pleasant, he had an intimidating presence. It made me wonder about this guy and is a memory I'll always have from my time in the US Merchant Marine.

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@@Clipgatherer intimidating is the correct word, apologies for being a 'Grammar Nazi'

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@@Clipgatherer Yes, you are right. I'll fix it. Was in a rush.

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@@Clipgatherer no he does not Intimidating is totally correct

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Is intimitating even a word?

[@slartybartfarst55]

@@Clipgatherer Of course, if he was pretending to be what he wasn't, I guess he would have had an "Imitating presence"!

[@tinkmarshino]

This is fascinating Mark.. I remember growing up in the 50's and 60's they talked about the nazi war criminals on the news now and then.. In books and newspapers.. I have heard this story in bits and pieces over the last 68 years But I have never heard it all put together with all of the updated information from beginning to end.. I can not wait for the rest of it.. carry on..

[@MrBobthebird]

I remember that man saying he had shot Martin Bormann on a canoe, But said Bormann had fallen overboard When asked to show proof, LOL. That was in the 60s/70s.

[@josephdale69]

And they talk about the people who stormed the Capitol building the same exact way. Sometimes what you read and see on TV isn’t real.

[@tinkmarshino]

@@josephdale69 . it is the folks that made it happen.. This could have been a coup de tat if pushed far enough.. it was a very important event. And one you should try and find out more about.. As for tv.. I discount everything I see.. that is one of the reasons I quit watching it about 3 or so years ago.. no truth.. Be wise keep an eye out for the truth. It is out there brother.. bundled up in all the BS.. Carry on!

[@cornellkirk8946]

What can you remember from the 1950s? You’d be like 5 years old in 59…. What did you really know of nazi war crimes when you was 5? 🤔

[@tinkmarshino]

@@cornellkirk8946 I was a bit older in 59 but not much (7 ).. As for what I know and how I know it. You don't really care about that and we both know that much.. so go spill crap someplace that it matters.

[@Verntallat7]

That boarding house full of escaped nazis at 2:30 seems like the Monty Python sketch

[@ancilodon]

Ron Vibbentrop

[@cmikles1]

“Don’t mention the war. I did once but I think I got away with it.”

[@djquinn11]

The top secret joke sketch is pure gold.

[@Tiberius_Productions]

This is what History Channel’s “Hunting Hitler” should actually be about. Not dumb leaps in logic by the stupid hosts lol. Great work Mark! As always!

[@otisdriftwood8469]

Yea that show was entertaining to watch, and you got to see some historical places and things. But no proof of anything, just speculation. Did you see the movie Grey wolf by Gerrard Williams? Really something. He was on hunting hitler at times.

[@operation1968]

I never finished watching that show they lost me around halfway through season 2. The evidence they give can be considered circumstancial and coincidental at best

[@olesuhr727]

I'm very much looking forward to episode 4 of Rat Lines. You really have a way of making history come alive with your narration.

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Is love to see a Collab with indy Neidel

[@CBielski87]

he needs to change the pictures when switching stories

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He is the best!

[@uyraellsensenmann8931]

Mengele was 'common Knowledge" throughout my childhood. Whilst novels such-as 'The Boys from Brazil' were commonplace; they were largely -ignored: because the general-public _Knew_ there was far-more to-it than that. It's a very Personal relief to me that Mengele's death and fate are Finally-Known. Thank You, Mark Felton, for ALL your vast research, Videos, Books, and Works. I, as an Historian, Have greatly enjoyed them. Kind and Respectful Regards, Mark Felton ; Uyraell, NZ.

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Me too.

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Indeed

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I DONT GET WHY WE ARE SHOUTING BUT I ALSO AGREE

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@@giantfrigginnerd *WHAT?*

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I'M NOT YELLING, I'M JUST BEING INTENSE

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These videos are never long enough!

[@michaelrussell220]

I like the format of long videos being split up as they fit better into today's lifestyles. More parts though? Yes please.

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Stimmt

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@@motoreapersracing6729 Genau

[@jeromesullivan4th]

10:31"Stretches the limits of credibility." Excellent phrase, i will definitely use that.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Excellently researched , compiled, and narrated, BUT, despite that, and although extremely instructive to history students, for me, a 78 year old, who has seen and read much material of this catastrophic era, It is still sickening and vey frustrating, that there was no suitable and fitting conclusion, to these monster's demise. In that regard, I cannot listen / watch any further. This is purely personal, and does not, in any way, reflect on Dr Felton's excellent work.

[@Neal_Schier]

Very good point and well stated. This type of thing, for those of us of a certain age, is painful listening as it merely adds to that mournful list of those who have dodged justice for any and all manner of crimes throughout the 20th century. We definitely appreciate the need for it to be researched and admire scholars like Dr. Felton for taking up the task, but it is hard for many to grasp and process.

[@77thTrombone]

Well said. This whole business is a case study in the messiness of the world. One consolation is Stangl's death following an interview with Gitta Sereny. The consolation is not the man's death, but the appearance that under so many layers was a well protected conscious that still functioned. When his conscious faced his deeds, he recognized his errors, and that was his end. Available on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Stangl#Arrest,_trial,_and_death

[@VileCAESARB]

This is the history of the world, your government is not good. It will oppress and outright murder you if you are a threat or pursue course of action they don’t like. The people over here are not the goodies and them over there the baddies. People including you, get played their whole life and still go along with it, that’s what’s depressing to me. People hear when stuff comes out 30/50/70 years later and say that that was then, wouldn’t happen now... then 9/11 (gulf of Tonkin much) invasion of Iraq (lied to us, no WMD, war after protests) , David Kelly murdered in UK and people just disbelieve and carry on, until 30/50/70 years and then the cycle starts all over.. Epstein deserved death but he was definitely Mossad/CIA asset and was murdered, everyone knows that, does anything change nooooo . People...

[@allanpickering6939]

I to as a 75 year old man have stopped watching the films of the death camps and reading any articles pertaining to that period. Although when I was younger I could read and watch them now it just makes me so sad. And to think most of the people who committed these crimes were never brought to justice and how could the Vatican help these monsters.

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Where’s the signature intro music? 😭

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How about the source music track? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4qkcmN-pr6Kp9E Pay close attention at the forty six second and one minute,-thirty seven second marks.

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That's on the other channel usually. 👍🇺🇲🇬🇧

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Not in the stories

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Episodes 1&2 have the intro music, but 3&4 get the awkward silence. Had me checking my volume settings...

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Perfect to listen to while working on my project's, much appreciated 😎😎😎

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Perfect to listen to after hard day at work

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same here. I am working while listening. just perfect

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Never clicked so quickly! DR. Felton has us all on the edge of our seats cliffhanger! What thrilling narration!

[@sallyethridge1393]

Thanks Mark. Your stories are always appreciated.

[@davidmartini2757]

Great series. Very well researched and informative of this aspect of post war Nazi history.

[@cowan2933]

Top quality as always! Getting so frustrated hearing about these guys getting away with it and living full lives. Eichlers hanging was a welcome plot twist. Looking forward to the next episode, great job Mark.

[@VCRider]

Not sure hanging is the way to “punish” someone. Still lived a full life then died a martyrs death.

[@VitezRafael]

Getting away with what ?

[@edjopago1]

Looking forward to Episode 4! Thank you!

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Absolutely ‘killer’ series of content. Thank you MFP. There are few youtube channels i’ll drop everything for - and yours is the #1! Consistently great!

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Much appreciated!

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Outstanding Mark. Thank you. A series for the the ages.

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Thanks for this, Mark. Always fascinating to hear these audio stories.

[@oncall21]

Brilliantly and meticulously researched as always Mark. Thanks for sharing!

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Working through all your War Stories Mark. So far they have all been excellent and informative. Thanks

[@tiigerpoiss2004]

Really enjoying this series, always knew that some Nazis got away but never bothered to watch many of documentaries, because they are often full of too much assumptions.

[@The_ZeroLine]

It’s not the assumptions, it’s the absurd dramatizations. It’d actually be less galling if the criminals really had to always be so secretive, but they lived pretty openly and could have been easily caught if governments had actually tried.

[@oveidasinclair982]

Great another episode of Rat Lines, #1 & #2 were greats, I'll be watching tonight, thanks Mark

[@soco2020]

These short war stories are so interesting to listen to. Thank you Dr. Felton!

[@greglammers9905]

Excellent series mr Felton. It’s amazing how these people slipped away.

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Honestly your voice is a God send. Love your vids, just something I can listen to for hours and learn allot from

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fantastic work, mark. such a high quality content in such a short span of time. thx for all the hard work

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Thanks for the video Mark, keep up the good work.

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Top notch narration and content. Very interesting. Thank you

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Awesome content, I’m always excited to see an upload from you Mark! Keep it up!!

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so thankful that such amazing history is kept alive and analyzed. Thanks Mark.

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Excellent work. Thank you.

[@_____7704]

Eichmann couldn't even manage a rabbit farm... haha wow

[@aydon1276]

I mean, he did for most of the second world war ;)

[@evanroberts2771]

Yes, hard to believe he's as competent as he's made out to be, doesn't it???

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It would appear that he was better at killing than raising...

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Excellent excellent research and well said...WOW Thanks many times over...!

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Thank you for doing these excellent videos.

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Dr. Felton it always amazing how efficient you are with the English language. You pack so much information your You Tube presentations. Always thoughtful and well spoken. Rat lines episode three no exception, looking forward to episode four.

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

You are very welcome

[@danielirimescu312]

I think he is English

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Well he is English

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Great story Dr. Mark, keep 'um coming!

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Excellent as always

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Wow. Just brilliantly written and narrated. Thank you, Mark.

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Always informative, thank you.

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Very good story line definitely hooked Good job sir mark

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Excellent a bedtime story. Thanks Mark.

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Always fascinating!

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Brilliant as usual Mark.

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Thank you so much for these videos. Can’t get enough of them.

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

Glad you like them!

[@johnc4122]

"Like the good and efficient worker he had always been." There’s something so chilling about that. All that death brought... all of it was just a job. Wake up, clock in, kill people. Day after day. It was just a job... and he was very good at it.

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

There is a psychological experiments back in the 1960's that psychological explains how people were able to do what they did without their consciences getting the way.

[@MrHaveaword]

@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 - you don't mean the Stamford basement clusterfuck? *nah that's 1971

[@DemocratsareagentsofSATAN]

@@MrHaveaword I think he's talking about the one where people were allowed to "shock" someone.............. EDIT - looked it up.......the Milgram experiment in '63

[@machoopichoo2]

Likely meant Stanley Milgram and his experiments on authority starting in the early sixties. Worse than Zimbardo and Stanford. The "banality of evil".

[@ChrisCVW]

Most of these guys weren’t comic book monsters. It’s a common theme of allied people at Nuremberg to remark on how grey and dull manyof them were. They just didn’t have any empathy, and a system was in place that found people without empathy very useful. People much the same walk among us now, there just isn’t anyone at the top telling them it’s good to kill people at the current moment.

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Excellent documentation!

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Do a shot every time Mark says Rat Line in this series

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Very good. As usual.

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Excellent series.

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an awesome video series

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Best history show ever anywhere. Thanks for sharing sir.

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Great job

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Always interesting.

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Mark "excellent" Productions more like ! Super Work. Helps me with my history Degree.

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Great to hear!

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Interesting yet disturbing. Keep up the good work Mark

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

Thank you kindly

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Words can never suffice to truly thank Mark.

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Good video Mark! I plan on ordering one of your novels very soon. I had no idea you were an author till I listened to the audio broadcast from the other night!

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

Thanks but I haven't written any 'novels' - instead I've written 22 non-fiction history books.

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@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton I look forwards to reading most if not all of them!

[@mmurphy2528]

Really great research Gehlin (ep2) is a very intersting character new to me 👍

[@Glen.Danielsen]

Monstrous thanks, brother Mark, for sterling excellence in your incisive narration! To bring extreme human corruption and evil to light is deathly important so that we can learn from history. God bless you! 💛🙏🏼

[@Midnightwhiskeymassacre]

So if we agree with our learned history, its ok to kidnap and hang war criminals in other countries right? Thats fine by me but when are we going after other war criminals like Bush and Blair? And why did the church/vatican and US and Russian gov not get the same stick and demonisation for helping war criminals escape justice? I believe in equality and fairness for all. History seems to skew or lose this important point. Its just seems Germans were bad everyone else good 😂 its laughable especially when you look at who we did a deal with... cough cough Stalin.. massacred even his own people

[@jonathanljohnson]

@@Midnightwhiskeymassacre I was going to comment to Glen that individuals may learn from history, but societies and countries never learn anything as there is no group conscience nor any group memory. rough slugger, your comment illustrates several points supporting my observation.

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Yes, may Thor bless Mark, and may Mark one day be worthy of wielding the power of Thor!

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I’m 24 and love they way you bring history to life

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Excellent

[@drjanitor3747]

A video about Operation Chariot, St Nazaire raid would be a interesting one.

[@sammni]

You don't have your own history channel program because you talk sense.

[@bothewolf3466]

Also, he actually covers history instead of prescripted pawn-shop dealings.

[@billwilliams328]

What do you mean aliens had nothing to do with the Nazi escapees?!

[@SunflowerSocialist]

Anyone else remember when the history channel did history and not just shows on what the Klan does during the day?

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Just superb.

[@NancyDrewe]

Listening to these stories has been lovely in lockdown. Your narration is perfect. Thanks, appreciate these uploads. :)

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

Thanks for listening

[@Emanresuadeen]

Listening about Nazis while your government took totalitarian power, locked up the populace, was close to rounding people up and sending them to camps, and subjecting them to forced medical experiments.

[@theblackprince1346]

An idea for future videos Mark. What about a few videos on POW escapes during WW2?

[@pronstorestiffi]

Would love these in podcast form.

[@michaeljames4904]

Pum da-da-da da-dum, pa da-da dum, pa da-da-da da-dum, pum *pum* pum *pum.* _Denied???... I shall _*_never_*_ recover!_

[@ColinH1973]

Fantastic attention to detail communicated in an anecdotal, yet authoritative way. Great presentation again Mark. Thanks.

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dreammclackers]

Loving this series! One thing, it seems auto captions are disabled for this video? Would be really cool if I could use captions on this! Edit: there are now captions :D

[@glenwillard7537]

Awesome

[@julianjackson6824]

Your productions are really excellent. There's one thing I think would improve these - please caption the pictures in the audio programme - perhaps in the main blurb at the top, as I find I forget who is who - these mass murderers all look the same to me :-).

[@ptauagpt]

Mark has done a great job on the reporting on the history of Josef Mengele. Very well done.

[@varschnitzschnur8795]

If a soldier refuses an order from a superior, he will probably be locked up or executed.

[@truthseekers864]

They where enthusiastic about there work and the vast majority of time volunteered for the job as opposed to just being in the Wehrmacht. There is no justification for these heinous crimes.

[@KrimzonAlchemist]

I still heard the intro music in my head

[@scalemodellingmaniac7625]

aah yes music to my ears

[@emil8679]

"Fellow murderer..." nice one

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I vote Mark Felton " GOAT", greatest of all time..

[@samdherring]

Ironic that a man is ok with contributing to genocide but not ok with his Syrian neighbor eyeing his daughter...

[@LetsGoGetThem]

Not really, both are related.

[@sreckocuvalo8110]

Could you do a video about Simon Wiesenthal?

[@ORaddlyispissedoff]

Please no, we’ve had plenty of content about him. It’s all so tiresome

[@NeoConNET7]

I would like a video on Nazi Hunters.

[@lallen4999]

Thank you saying at the end "many NAZI"s remain free.Just like Hungary,Ukraine,France,Russia,Poland,etc.

[@danklvac4746]

you should make a radio show based on these

[@tomfrazier1103]

The hydroelectric plant here was built in 1897, and probably went out of service in 1946. It employed a Pelton water wheel driving G.E. dynamos.

[@hughtierney9109]

While I was listening to this it came to my attention that there was an advert for Hugo Boss clothing in the top corner of the screen. In the youtube window was depicted some of their clothing from the earlier part of the twentieth century that became 'all the rage' amongst many Germans.

[@ptauagpt]

Interesting to note that the movie "The Boys from Brazil" came out in 1978 ....1 year before the death of Josef Mengele in 1979 ( I do trust Mark's data ). Gregory Peck plays Mengele.

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Woof Woof !!

[@worldeconomicforumbarbie9323]

Then why was Mengele in L.A. in 1947 with Bormann and others, creating snuff films?

[@djquinn11]

GP also played MacArthur, go figure

[@djquinn11]

TWO CARDNIALS AND A PACK of MALBORO REDS : What? You have him confused with Colonel Hogan.

[@monkeytennis8861]

@@djquinn11 it's almost like actors play lots of different roles