Ukrainian SS Mutiny - France 1944

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In August 1944, a Ukrainian Waffen-SS battalion serving in France staged a dramatic mutiny against its German commanders and changed sides, joining the French Resistance.
Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.o...
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[@joeblow4566]

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[@occidentadvocate.9759]

Yeah "World at War" according to the Money power Victor's who launched the war in 1933. I watched it in early 70s too. Relised decades later pure lies and Propaganda.

[@MrKedab]

What on earth are you talking about?

[@eeste1147]

We must be around the same age..also have memories of watching world at war with my dad...thanks for the reminder.

[@paulmasterson386]

It was made by a British company called Thames Television, and is one of the best documentaries ever made. They sent film crews all over the world to interview people at huge expense. Most documentaries simply hire film from a footage farm and provide a voiceover.

[@joeblow4566]

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[@AidenRKrone]

“In western Ukraine, villagers greeted the invading Nazi armies with the traditional Slavic gifts of bread and salt. The older peasants touched the black crosses on the German tanks in awe, naïvely believing them to be emissaries of Christ. Statues of Stalin were pulled down and beaten furiously with pickaxes, and when Soviet planes were shot down, the villagers laughed and clapped their hands, announcing that Stalin’s regime would soon fall. The Ukrainian famine had taken place just eight years earlier, followed by a vengeful and very bloody Terror. Millions of Ukrainian lives had been already lost to Stalin. Perhaps if a father watches his children starve to death in his arms, he might welcome the devil himself.” - Tim Tzouliadis, _The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia,_ p. 193

[@-flanders-8975]

@Jean Armando is Zelensky Jew?

[@-flanders-8975]

@Jean Armando lol. Dude. He and his administration is Jewish. And Israel supports both sides of current Ukraine conflict.

[@AD-hu6ou]

@@-flanders-8975 take a look a Israel nothing pretty about it and the irony of them backing Ukraine and the 25 other nato nations doing so all a bunch of hypocrites who have committed war crimes. Ukraines hands are also bloody.

[@grahamlucas2712]

@@AD-hu6ou Jesus. Dejesus. What religion. what country, what army has NOT committed War crimes. Not one that has ever gone to war. You are just a Hitler apologist.

[@ciandoyle3315]

@@-flanders-8975 *Heinrich Himmler has just entered the chat*

[@hootsmon4723]

Always a pleasure to find a upload from you sir .hence the reason I tell people to look up your channel.

[@studiokiselbach]

Over 2000 of the SS Galacian regiment immigrated to Canada after the war and Canadian Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister is a decendant of one of them.

[@watching99134]

For real? Would make an interesting story in light of the recent controversy in Canada about the 98 year old Galizien veteran being honored.

[@me0_0irl]

@@watching99134no, she's not. She's granddaughter of Mykhailo Khomiak, he was a lawyer and a journalist.

[@KAMiKAZE-T.V.]

"Its divisional symbol, ironically, was the double cross." I dont know why i laughed so much from that🤣😂

[@drkarats6147]

Let's hope you don't have to end up documenting modern ukraine too much my friend, great content

[@alonzoalgerdas6802]

No way 😳I was shocked 😣

[@mikesiemens8672]

Not terribly surprising since Ukraine had a large number of ethnic Germans. After 1774, Russia encouraged large numbers of Germans to emigrate to Ukraine and Crimea so there were a lot of ethnic Germans in Ukraine, my ancestors among them although they emigrated to the USA in the late 1800’s. Also, Stalin’s policies in the 1930’s resulted in widespread famine and starvation in Ukraine. Given the opportunity to fight Russia, many joined the Wehrmacht and the SS. Probably didn’t turn out well for those caught by the Red Army.

[@nordicson2835]

Thank you for this post... history does repeat itself.

[@trapperjohn6089]

Ukrainian SS discipline is much better these days, just ask the Azov battalion. Well, you had best ask them quickly while you still can, they won’t be around much longer.

[@dosmundos3830]

The neo-nazi Azov Battalion has the support of all the western leaders, it should last a little while.

[@trapperjohn6089]

@@dosmundos3830 And I love how the main stream media is acting like Putin is full of shit. When that same main stream media used to report on the Azov battalion a few years ago.

[@trapperjohn6089]

For everybody who doesn’t know what we are talking about, the Azov Battalion, is a self Proclaimed Neo-Nazi militia that has the backing of the state of Ukraine. I think now they are actually integrated into the Ukraine army. Limit your searches to a couple to three years ago and you’ll find out all about how Nazi Ukraine actually is. This is one of those “are we the baddies?” Moments.

[@christophercarlone9945]

The Azov Battalion does not take up anywhere near the majority of the Ukrainian armed forces. While the government allowing it to exist is a tacit admission on the part of the government that they are okay with it existing and harassing people in the Donbas region, the rest of Ukraine clearly does not align with their views and seem to want to retain their independence. The people of Ukraine are caught in a bitter U.S. backed NATO coercive economic conflict, and Russia was unfortunately forced to play their hand. No winners in this situation. Just rich men throwing bodies at their problems until someone gives.

[@acruze7763]

Been searching for this...glad i found it thanks

[@caniconcananas7687]

Dr. Felton, three days ago I would have "liked" the video. But today I doubt this is the best time to talk about many things. Because many persons opinion can be influenced by a distant past they didn't live and their opinion and doing may have a big impact on the live of many innocent persons.

[@dave8599]

So ignorance is what you want. Perhaps that is how you plan to achieve you political goals, by keeping people uniformed. shameful of you.

[@caniconcananas7687]

@@dave8599 thank you for you non biased opinion on my desire of nobody getting hurted because what some neighbour of their grandparents did 70 years ago.

[@StevenKeery]

A rather strange choice of topic and sponsor for this video, given the events that are ongoing in Ukraine right now. God bless the Ukrainian people in their fight against Putin and his invading forces. I sincerely wish the Western militarily forces would intervene, to redress the imbalance with Russian forces and secure for the Ukrainian people, the Democracy they wished and voted overwhelmingly for.

[@caroline2833-o7c]

WAFFEN-SS DIVISION "GALICIA" - A UKRAINIAN MILITARY UNIT WITHIN THE WEHRMACHT. Nazi SS Galicia worked alongside SS-Sonderbattalion Dirlewanger, a unit that contained rapists, murders and the criminally insane and the two organizations, at times, transferred officers between each unit, noted Per Anders Rudling, a historian of Eastern European history and Associate Professor at the Department of History at Lund University, Sweden. In addition, Nazi SS Galicia-Ukrainian Military Unit had officers and NCOs who came from the Nachtigall battalion, a Ukrainian collaboration organization that had taken part in the mass killings of Jews in the summer of 1941. In 1943 Ukrainian Insurgent Army massacred 173 Poles in Parośla village. It is considered as a beginning of ethnic cleansing campaign in which even 100 000 Poles have been killed by Ukrainians in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia genocide - Volhynia Massacre

[@LucaFloreaUA]

The polonization of western Ukrainian lands in the interwar years was part of a larger plan to implement a policy of state terror against national minorities in the occupied lands. As early as the end of 1919, Poland took the first step towards radical action against the Ukrainian population: mass arrests of the nationally conscious part (about 100,000 Ukrainians, of whom about 1,000 Greek Catholic priests were imprisoned in concentration camps and prisons). In some cases, Ukrainian priests were shot without trial. All Ukrainian self-government bodies were also liquidated. In March 1920, a new official name was introduced for Western Ukraine - "Polonia Minor". All terms reminiscent of Ukrainian affiliation, such as "Western Ukraine", "Ukrainian", "Ukrainian" were banned, but instead began to use the names "ruskiy", "ruski", "ruthenian", and the use of Ukrainian in administrations is also prohibited. and other government agencies. Mass purges were carried out in state and county institutions and all Ukrainian intelligentsia was fired, all Ukrainian departments of Lviv University were liquidated, and discrimination on admission for Ukrainian-speaking students was introduced (only those who swore allegiance to Poland, which effectively deprived Ukrainians of higher education). Mass replacement of Ukrainian teachers by Poles or closure of Ukrainian schools in general. As a result, after 20 years of such Polonization in Western Ukraine, the number of Ukrainian schools decreased from 3,662 to 144. The picture was even worse in higher education. One Ukrainian gymnasium had as many as 230,000 Ukrainians (and one Polish gymnasium had 16,000 Poles for comparison). In 1934, the Polish government established a concentration camp in Bereza Kartuzka, where the majority were Ukrainian political prisoners, and officially renounced the constitutional rights of national minorities. Ukrainians were fired on national grounds not only from administrative bodies, but also from self-government bodies, state services and enterprises. The government relocated Polish colonists to Ukrainian lands, providing them with land, loans, and jobs. However, it should be noted that all these measures gave only a temporarily desired result - the government still managed to stop the anti-Polish pogroms, but the polonization and assimilation of Ukrainians in western Ukraine did not take place. On the contrary, it gave a strong impetus to the further growth of national self-consciousness among Ukrainians, the extraordinary intensification of hostility to the Polish state and Poles in particular, and to the radical aggravation of Ukrainian-Polish relations in these occupied lands. All this was reflected in the events of the Volyn TRAGEDY a few years later, during the German occupation of Western Ukraine. In November 1941, Polish troops began assassinating Ukrainian public figures. To counter the attacks of the Poles, a few units of Ukrainian self-defense were created. The Polish police took part in numerous "pacification" operations in Ukrainian villages, as evidenced by many memories from that period.The 202nd Schutsmanship Battalion most often took part in punitive actions against Ukrainians. According to some reports, often for every Polish village burned by the insurgents, Polish police destroyed five and sometimes more Ukrainian villages. Punitive actions of Polish armed groups against the Ukrainian population began. According to the participants, they referred to Ukrainian settlements close to the destroyed Polish villages, as their population was suspected of complicity. Polish attacks on Ukrainian villages began long before July 1943. Punitive actions were also carried out by units of the Polish Communist guerrilla movement. Reports of the action in the village of Lakhvychi even spoke of "massacring off the Ukrainian population." At the end of the war, the Polish underground attacked Ukrainian villages in order to carry out Operation Storm. In 1944, Polish troops carried out a series of attacks on Ukrainian villages in the Kholm region. On the night of March 9-10, 1944, the Ukrainian villages of Sagryn (more than 800 Ukrainians were killed), Turkovychi, Shikhovychi, Pasyky, Malytsia, Stryzhovets, Laskiv, and others were attacked. April - in more than 20 villages, including Novosilky, Krugle, Telyatyn, Zhulytsy. Polish military units continued to attack Ukrainian villages in 1945.

[@caroline2833-o7c]

@@LucaFloreaUA Methods The atrocities were carried out indiscriminately and without restraint. The victims, regardless of their age or gender, were routinely tortured to death. Norman Davies in No Simple Victory gives a short, but shocking description of the massacres. He writes: Villages were torched. Roman Catholic priests were axed or crucified. Churches were burned with all their parishioners. Isolated farms were attacked by gangs carrying pitchforks and kitchen knives. Throats were cut. Pregnant women were bayoneted. Children were cut in two. Men were ambushed in the field and led away. The perpetrators could not determine the province's future. But at least they could determine that it would be a future without Poles. An OUN order from early 1944 stated: Liquidate all Polish traces. Destroy all walls in the Catholic Church and other Polish prayer houses. Destroy orchards and trees in the courtyards so that there will be no trace that someone lived there... Pay attention to the fact that when something remains that is Polish, then the Poles will have pretensions to our land". Timothy Snyder describes the murders: "Ukrainian partisans burned homes, shot or forced back inside those who tried to flee, and used sickles and pitchforks to kill those they captured outside. In some cases, beheaded, crucified, dismembered, or disembowelled bodies were displayed, in order to encourage remaining Poles to flee". A similar account has been presented by Niall Ferguson, who wrote: "Whole villages were wiped out, men beaten to death, women raped and mutilated, babies bayoneted." Ukrainian historian Yuryi Kirichuk described the conflict as similar to medieval rebellions. The method used in most of the attacks was the same. At first, local Poles were assured that nothing would happen to them. Then, at dawn, a village was surrounded by armed members of the UPA, behind whom were peasants with axes, hammers, knives, and saws. All the Poles encountered were murdered; sometimes they were herded into one spot, to make it easier. After a massacre, all goods were looted, including clothes, grain, and furniture. The final part of an attack was setting fire to the village. In many cases, victims were tortured and their bodies mutilated. All vestiges of Polish existence eradicated with even abandoned Polish settlements burned to the ground. Even though it may be an exaggeration to say that the massacres enjoyed general support of the Ukrainians, it has been suggested that without wide support from local Ukrainians they would have been impossible. Those Ukrainian peasants who took part in the massacres created their own units.

[@LucaFloreaUA]

@@caroline2833-o7c PART 1. By the way, the "letter" that you've quoted is nowhere to be found. Probably Polish historians found it somewhere... in their hate to justify hate against Ukraine and its people. I'm gonna repeat in some places, but still. The newly created Polish state promised the Entente countries broad Ukrainian autonomy, but did not keep it. Instead, it took steps to: - all democratic institutions of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic were liquidated; - it was strictly forbidden to use the names "Western Ukraine", "Eastern Galicia"; - the words "Ukrainian" and "Ukrainian" were banned, and the ancient term "rusyn" and "ruski" were revived instead; - through the efforts of the Minister of Education Stanislaw Grabski, Ukrainian schools were transformed into Polish-Ukrainian ones with a predominance of the Polish language; - Ukrainians were not admitted to Lviv University, where all Ukrainian departments were closed; - Ukrainians and members of national minorities who supported the Western Ukrainian People's Republic (mostly Jews and Germans) were fired from leadership positions and government agencies. Terror engulfed the territories of Galicia. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians and those who sympathized with them were subjected to mass arrests, imprisonment, and concentration camps. Polish authorities launched an offensive against Ukrainian culture and education. Artificial colonization took place: 100,000 people of Polish origin were relocated to Ukrainian cities, and 200,000 to villages. To quell Ukrainian resistance, Polish Prime Minister Józef Pilsudski initiated a "pacification" in Galicia, a mass repression of Ukrainians by the military and police. The attack on political, social and cultural life was accompanied by arrests, pogroms of Ukrainian cooperatives and various institutions. To prevent the consolidation of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, an artificial border was established between Galicia and Volhynia, Polissya and Podlasie. The Polish government was constantly trying to sow discord between the 3 million Ukrainian population of Galicia, mostly of the Greek Catholic faith, and the 2 million Orthodox population living in other Polish lands under Polish rule. National oppression was complemented by brutal socio-economic oppression. The Polish government divided the country into two territories: "Poland A" and "Poland B". The first included ethnic Polish lands, the second - mostly Western Ukrainian and Western Belarusian. Rapid industrial development was defined for territory "A", and territory "B" was to remain a market for Polish goods and a source of raw materials. 85% of enterprises in this region were small and could not withstand serious competition. During the economic crisis of 1929-1932, a significant number of Ukrainian enterprises and farms suffered considerable losses or went bankrupt, and the Polish government actively supported Polish entrepreneurs and landowners. On November 1, 1918, on the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Lviv, a Ukrainian state emerged - the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, which on its birthday found itself in a war against the Poles, who wanted to take control of Galicia. This war lasted until the summer of 1919 and ended with the defeat of the Ukrainian Galician Army by Haller's Army [a Polish army of about 80,000 soldiers formed in France by the Entente and the United States for the war against Bolshevik Russia]. After that, the WUPR government went abroad, the UGA (Ukrainian Galician Army) retreated to Zbruch to help the UPR (Ukrainian People's Republic) Active Army in the war with the Bolsheviks, and Polish troops occupied Western Ukraine. It was about holding a referendum in the region on its status and granting political autonomy to the region within Poland. However, in 1923, the Council of Ambassadors (League of Nations) approved the eastern border of Poland without a referendum with a proposal to the Polish government to grant autonomy to Galicia, which later was rejected. Incorporation processes grew and were accompanied by oppression in all spheres of activity. In 1918, the political autonomy of the region was abolished - the Galician Regional Sejm and the Regional Department were abolished. In the field of education, on August 16, 1919, a ban was introduced on Ukrainian youth studying at Lviv universities who did not accept Polish citizenship and did not serve in the Polish army. In 1920, the Polish authorities conducted an illegitimate census of the population of Western Ukraine in order to call Ukrainians in 1921 to serve in the Polish Army. The number of Ukrainians in the local self-government bodies was limited by complicating the election procedure according to the law of March 23, 1933. Prohibition and restrictions on the activities of Ukrainian sociopolitical, cultural, educational and sports organizations and societies were imposed: "Plast" was banned in 1928 in Volyn, and in 1930 - in Galicia, the society "Sich" - in 1924, "Sokol's" activity was limited to the territory of Galicia. Numerous pogroms of "Prosvita" took place during the policy of "pacification" in 1930, strict control was established over the activities of the educational society. In the system of executive bodies of state power, leading positions were held exclusively by Poles, and in the legislative bodies of Polish power (the Sejm and the Senate) the participation of Ukrainians was hugely complicated by the new Polish constitution of 1935. Incidentally, this happened during the conclusion of political peace between the Polish government and the Ukrainian National Democratic Union (political party). A separate means of establishing the occupation regime was an extensive system of state police. In addition to its law enforcement functions, there were functions of political pressure: since 1921, the police have investigated political cases, prepared quarterly reports on the mood of the Ukrainian population, and described political and public organizations. Ukrainian officials were monitored, and reports contained information about specific individuals, their national and social backgrounds, membership in political and civic organizations, and the "degree of danger" they posed to the Polish government. For example, here is what was written about a Ukrainian who worked at the Lviv Post Office in July 1931: "Kostyshyn is a Ruthenian, he held a position in the Ukrainian Council in 1919 during the Ukrainian War, head of the postal department. In pre-war period is known as an ardent haidamak [supporter of the independent Ukrainian state]. It is necessary to send him to retirement. A state of "confidant" was introduced in the state police, an undercover agent tasked with providing the police with information about anti-government activities. His work was limited to supervising and describing Ukrainian national celebrations, including the Feast of Heroes (honoring the graves of Sich archers, accompanied by memorial services and patriotic speeches).

[@LucaFloreaUA]

@@caroline2833-o7c PART 2. Confident Skvaretsky recorded on June 11, 1923, the Ukrainian "religious and demonstration campaign" that took place on May 23, 1923. This protocol, in addition to describing the action itself, its participants and a summary of their speeches, was an assessment of the situation in the Ukrainian public: political views, methods of implementing these views, the most active and influential Ukrainian organizations. The agent states the division of the Ukrainian intelligentsia into two parts. The first of them is "inclined to peaceful coexistence with the Polish community within the Polish state", while the second part, much more active, is working towards "the creation of an independent Ukraine". The members of the latter group are mostly young Ukrainian intellectuals, led by priests. And already in the 1930s, the police from protocols and dismissals moved to decisive action to disperse peaceful demonstrations with the help of the municipal cavalry police. Special units (2nd and 4th divisions) were set up within the state police to suppress protests against the Polish authorities. Since 1919, a state of emergency has been declared in Western Ukraine (constant readiness of the army to suppress uprisings, restrictions on movement, curfew). The security forces were especially active in 1923, preparing to suppress an uprising against the decision of the Council of Ambassadors of the League of Nations. And in September-November 1930, the infamous "pacification" (national humiliation, intimidation, beating, robbery of the Ukrainian population in order to reduce their political and national activity and support for the OUN) involved about 2,000 police officers and several Ulan squadrons 6- corps of the Polish Army. In 1934, a concentration camp for political prisoners was established in the town of Bereza-Kartuzka (now the town of Bereza in Belarus) to isolate and re-educate "dangerous Ukrainians" from the OUN. Polish politics also interfered in church affairs, especially in the Kholm region, where the Orthodox Church was widespread. Without protection, its became a convenient target. By 1938, about 150 Orthodox churches had been closed and church lands confiscated. Instead, they built Polish-catholic churches. The patronage of the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrei Sheptytsky, who appealed to the Vatican to stop the Catholicization (= Polonization) of the region, did not help either. Some of the churches that came under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (unionist church or something like that, not sure how its written in English) were saved. "Revindication" (from Polish - "return of property") - an action of destruction of Orthodox churches in Kholm and Southern Podlasie under the pretext of forcible conversion of Polish Orthodox to Roman Catholicism, carried out in 1937-1938 by the Polish Border Guard Corps, Polish Army and Polish Army. The vindication campaign was part of the general policy of the Second Polish Republic towards the Orthodox Church, seeking to limit its political and social influence as much as possible and to sever ties with the national minorities of Ukraine and Belarus. Another important motive was the strong hostility to the Orthodox Church, usually associated with Ruzzia, as a force of religion that was consolidated in Poland by force. The vindication activity was carried out as a bottom-up initiative, through the spontaneous capture of the church by Catholics, and, especially at the last stage, according to pre-designed plans approved by the government. Orthodox churches that became the object of revindication were demolished, closed, converted into Roman Catholic churches or public buildings. First, the Orthodox Church was rebuilt into the Roman Catholic Church and the Uniate Church, however, with the revival and associated Polonization of the population, the active Orthodox Church was also destroyed or closed. Ukrainian education has also suffered significant losses. The teaching of Ukrainian studies, which existed under Austrian rule, was abolished at Lviv University. The number of Ukrainian students was limited. The Polish authorities carried out active assimilation processes, starting the so-called sedimentation policy. Families of Polish soldiers, mostly veterans of the Polish-Ukrainian war of 1918-1919, were sent to Western Ukraine, where they were given (taking from previous owners) land to establish colonies with all social benefits. Such policies created severe social inequality and corruption, as Ukrainians found themselves in a depressed position on their ethnic lands. Listen, I do not deny what happened in Volyn (an eye for an eye) and I am not happy or proud about that, but it looks like a lot of Poles can't throw it out of their heads and can't keep moving in life. Now, in 2022 do I really care about the fact of Polonization that been happening for CENTURIES? Not really. I mean, it's very sad that my language and culture were under oppression for centuries under different rules (Poles, ruzzians or anyone else). Ukrainians don't have that anger to Poles which SOME Poles have for Ukrainians. If it bothers you so much - please, open your eyes and look what is happening in my own country currently - Mariupol, Borodyanka, Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, Sievierodonetsk or entirety of the East of Ukraine. Only APPROXIMATELY ~20000 civilians dead in Mariupol, thanks to ruzzian invaders. Poland have helped and still helping to millions of Ukrainian refugees for which I am grateful. Even in peaceful times Ukrainians were studying, working and living in Poland, which also shows that 80 or 90 or 100 years old events can't deny the fact that Polish and Ukrainian nations are brotherly nations - by blood and by spirit. Neither you or me can't deny everything good that happened between our nations. So what now? Wanna have a pointless argument? Blame Ukrainians more?..

[@caroline2833-o7c]

On February 9, 1943, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army commanded Hryhory Perehyniak, pretending to be Soviet partisans assaulted the Paroślesettlement in Sarny county. It is considered a prelude to the massacres, and is recognized as the first mass murder committed by the UPA in the area. Estimates of the number of victims range from 149 to 173. In 1943 the massacres were organized westwards, starting in March in Kostopol and Sarny counties. In April they moved to the area of Krzemieniec, Rivne, Dubno and Lutsk. Between late March and early April 1943, killing approximately 7,000 unarmed men, women, and children in its first days. On the night of April 22-23, Ukrainian groups, commanded by Ivan Lytwynchuk (aka Dubovy), attacked the settlement of Janowa Dolina, killing 600 people and burning down the entire village. In one of the massacres, in the village of Lipniki, almost the entire family of Mirosław Hermaszewski (Poland's astronaut) was murdered along with about 180 inhabitants. The attackers murdered the grandparents of composer Krzesimir Dębski, whose parents met each other during the Ukrainian attack on Kisielin. Debski's parents survived. In another massacre, according to UPA reports, the Polish colonies of Kuty, in the Szumski region, and Nowa Nowica, in the Webski region. According to Polish sources, the Kuty self-defense unit managed to repel the UPA assault, though at least 53 Poles were murdered. The rest of the inhabitants decided to abandon the village. Maksym Skorupskyi, one of UPA commanders, wrote in his diary: Starting from our action on Kuty, day by day after sunset, the sky was batching in the glow of conflagration. Polish villages were burning. By June 1943, the attacks had spread to the counties of Kowel, Włodzimierz Wołyński, and Horochów, and in August to Luboml county. In June 1943, Dmytro Klyachkivsky head-commander of the UPA-North made a general decision to exterminate Poles in Volhynia. His secret directive stated: "We should make a large action of the liquidation of the Polish element. We should take advantage of this convenient moment for liquidating the entire population in the age from 16 up to 60 years. We cannot lose this fight, and it is necessary at all costs to weaken Polish forces. Villages and settlements lying next to the massive forests, should disappear from the face of the earth". In mid-1943, after a wave of killings of Polish civilians, the Poles tried to initiate negotiations with the UPA. Two delegates of the Polish government in Exile and AK, Zygmunt Rumel and Krzysztof Markiewicz attempted to negotiate with UPA leaders, but were captured and murdered on July 10, 1943, in the village of Kustycze. Sources claim they were tortured before the death. The following day, July 11, 1943, is regarded as the bloodiest day of the massacres, with many reports of UPA units marching from village to village, killing Polish civilians. On that day, UPA units surrounded and attacked Polish villages and settlements located in three counties - Kowel, Horochow, and Włodzimierz Wołyński. Events began at 3:00 am, leaving the Poles with little chance to escape. After the massacres, the Polish villages were burned to the ground. According to those few who survived, the action had been carefully prepared; a few days before the massacres there had been several meetings in Ukrainian villages, during which UPA members told the villagers that the slaughter of all Poles was necessary. Within a few days an unspecified number of Polish villages were completely destroyed and their populations murdered. In the Polish village of Gurow, out of 480 inhabitants, only 70 survived; in the settlement of Orzeszyn, the UPA killed 306 out of 340 Poles; in the village of Sadowa out of 600 Polish inhabitants only 20 survived; in Zagaje out of 350 Poles only a few survived. In August 1943, the Polish village of Gaj (near Kovel) was burned and some 600 people massacred, in the village of Wola Ostrowiecka 529 people were killed, including 220 children under 14, and 438 people were killed, including 246 children, in Ostrowki. In September 1992 exhumations were carried out in these villages, confirming the number of dead. Altogether, on July 11, 1943, the Ukrainians attacked 167 towns and villages. This wave of massacres lasted 5 days, until July 16. The UPA continued the ethnic cleansing, particularly in rural areas, until most Poles had been deported or killed. These actions were conducted by many units, and were well-coordinated and thoroughly planned by the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

[@Roller_Ghoster]

Ukraine. The effects of WW2 are still felt to the modern day just when we think we are nice and cosy in 2022.

[@greycatturtle7132]

Ye :/

[@M_M-1]

What do you mean by “felt to the modern day”?

[@Jozef-g6m]

​@@M_M-1 SS-AZOV a Banderovský rasisti.

[@I_Stand_With_RussiaZOV]

💯💯💯

[@I_Stand_With_RussiaZOV]

​@@M_M-1he mean Ukrainian N@zis ☠️ thousands of innocent civilians in DonBass all because they speak Russian and celebrate their Russian culture

[@Mr.Schmel]

putin: attacks Ukraine, causing a war Mark Felton: Ah yes, here's a video about the Ukranian SS

[@88worldtour80]

Azov 🧐

[@oasis1282]

Fun fact russian and ukranian SS fought together against the soviet union

[@DaveSCameron]

BUT NOT ABOUT THE NIGHTINGALE DIVISION SS, RAISED FROM 💯 UKRAINIANS 🇺🇦?

[@simonh6371]

@@stephencarroll9935 What do you mean ''um what''?? Reading comprehension not your strong point? Get a grown up to explain what it means. If you still don't believe then, check up on google.

[@vaterchenfrost7481]

@Leo the Anglo-Filipino no it's realy not

[@denbraun2732]

They are twice as traitors! Who can trust them?

[@POLSASWE]

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[@concept5631]

Only fools

[@Amputationsbesteck]

A very nice clip, Sir. As usual. A German commander of a similar unit in Normandy, who was asked why there were so many deserters in his (foreign) regiment, gave the cynical response: "Ukrainians in France against America for Germany doesn't work."

[@zigmundslv]

This was really good!

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Well, Ukrainians as well as Bosnian Muslims in SS were only good for massacring defenseless civilian population. Even stronger partisan detachments would make them pause, and US Army was definitely too much for them.

[@nunbiz7328]

@@aleksazunjic9672 seethe

[@highpath4776]

Why didnt the Germans keep them on the Vs Soviet front once Hitler and Stalin had their break up ?

[@richardstephens5570]

@@highpath4776 The Nazis did not fully trust them. They thought they could control them better if they were far from home.

[@Tamburello_1994]

These folks have never had a break, it seems. Thank you Dr. Felton for the enlightening yet timely lesson.

[@DaveSCameron]

And selective history

[@Ed70Nova427]

Estonia is next. Estonians have never had a break as well. EDIT: Well this time they are part of NATO so maybe they have a chance, but I feel their country may become the "Newest Weapons Testing Zone" where everyone gets to try out their newest weapons turning that naturally beautiful country into a Mars landscape.

[@scottw5315]

No they haven't. The book, Bloodlands, describes the sad fate of Ukraine at the hands of Stalin where millions starved to death during the Soviets collectivization of farmland. Late, the Nazis ransacked the country, shot and deported jews and left it in ruins as they retreated back to Germany. Finally, the Soviets shot those who had cooperated with the Germans. It remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Putin should be denounced as a savage criminal for what he is now doing. Russia should never be allowed to partner with civilized nations again as long as that savage is in power.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Neither did the Poles and they are their neighbours. It seems anything East of Germany can hardly ever get a break.

[@edwardburroughs1489]

@@DaveSCameron All history is selective, what matters is that it is true.

[@shingshongshamalama]

The irony of fascists bringing together a multi-national force of volunteers.

[@Iv987654321]

They were trying to build some sort of EU. 😂

[@jonmurphy4218]

Seen a documentary about cossacks that fought against Soviets in ww2. Towards the end of war, moved their entire village population to Austria. After the war the Soviets demanded the families to be returned to ussr. Entire Families committed murder/suicide while being forced back by British troops. History forgotten is often repeated.

[@dreamerthief2216]

It wasn't Austria, but Italy, toward the end of WWII they retreat in Austria to negotiate with the british for some sort of protection against Stalin, little did they now that their fate were already sealed.

[@Santeria78]

Linzer Cossacks?

[@LTPottenger]

Eisenhower is one of the worst war criminals in history and sent millions of children to be murdered.

[@MatijaCG]

Not only Cossack fought for Germany. Ostlegionen or Eastern legions were battalions and divisions consisting of people from Central Asia, Caucasus, Southern Russia and Middle East.

[@scockery]

@@LTPottenger You think that's bad, his treaty with the Greys was a crime against all humanity.

[@roman9598]

“The story of Ukraine is the long sequence of betrayals”

[@JustAsPlanned1]

Hundreds of years of siding with different parties in order to achieve independence and always failing.

[@marvinheemeyer5804]

​@@JustAsPlanned1Those who really need independence - getting it. Slowly building their political party and peaceful construction for their own. Look at the European Union.

[@JustAsPlanned1]

@@marvinheemeyer5804 I'm talking about 1600-1940. Times when all freedom was gained by blood and tears. American revolution, French revolution, Russian revolution, Polish, Hungarian uprisings, Italian unification wars, etc. The only reason Ukrainian radical nationalism was born in 1920s was the fact that Entente allowed Poland to take Western Ukraine under the conditions of creating a Ukrainian autonomy with Ukrainian authorities, schools and universities. Poland being a close to fascism police state quickly forgot about its promises. People were tired of being second class citizens and got radicalized.

[@LUDYNAKYIV]

@@marvinheemeyer5804look at Tatarstan slowly Russification

[@kacperwalkowiak2564]

@@JustAsPlanned1 It worked for Poland

[@leemichael2154]

John Williams excellent book "the birth of the SS" deals with this mutiny in detail, thanks Mark for the retelling of this fascinating subject, edit. Sorry guy's I got the authors name wrong it was GORDON Williamson not Peter and the title was "the SS Hitlers instrument of terror" ,apologies as I was commenting from memory which was mistaken by myself, so many people comment about this so I feel I should correct myself, thanks to all who felt they had to have their own opinion I respect you all for taking the time to weigh in! Stay safe friends

[@makebritaingreatagain8495]

SS is the Knights Templars . Check it out .

[@calvinfernandez1956]

@@makebritaingreatagain8495 What are you talking about?

[@makebritaingreatagain8495]

@@calvinfernandez1956 research the knights templars . Find in on another site I can’t say here . And look at the names and structure of the templars . Then look at himmlers crazy beliefs . There’s a certain name for them 🤔

[@MrBagpipes]

@@makebritaingreatagain8495 💩

[@wolfmauler]

He also adapted it into a superb musical!

[@pittbullking87]

I know the Wehrmacht had a unit of Spanish volunteers called the Blue Division that fought near Leningrad on the Eastern Front. Franco helped raise the unit to pay Hitler back for his help in winning the Spanish Civil War (1936-39.) Some of the Spanish communists that fought against Franco made their way to the Soviet Union after their defeat. During the war some of them served in the Red Army.

[@daveJDB]

They're also one of the most condecorated divisions, even getting a medal of their own.

[@akaddemirdag]

His royal highness dr Felton already made a video about this! It’s in his channel. Worth watching.

[@nicktamer4969]

The first allied soldiers who entered Paris on august 1944 were spannish republicans under free french command.

[@anothernpc4943]

@@caniconcananas7687 Franco liberated spain

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

The men of the Blue Division were heroes, God bless their souls

[@rebralhunter6069]

My grandmother had Ukrainian SS soldiers in her village. Się said they were far more brutal than typical Germans.

[@oddballsok]

yeah..and juuuust at right moment backstabbing and changing sides , makes them "heroes".... \well, not in my book...and how did they behave in Algeria and Vietnam, hey ? notably, also a LOT of dutch ex SS were enlisted in the indonesian independence / dutch policing actions 45-49...and it was ONLY them that dared to "kick ass"..so to speak..

[@phraya_techapit9910]

How brutal the Ukranian SS than the average Germans? Give me details.

[@alsneed7941]

Same as croats

[@xPlatiinHD]

Same can be red in the book of wladyslaw szpilman

[@MVProfits]

@@phraya_techapit9910 There is a Polish channel, most often with English subtitles, with lots of people that were in the mix of things during WW2. A lot of the atrocities against Poles are committed by Ukrainians, and these were not even working for Germany for the most part. Ancestral hatreds. Of course, Ukrainians suffered brutalities at the hands of the Soviets, Poles and Germans as well, but their rep for brutality remains a common thread. Even those working for Germany had this reputation.

[@SceneArtisan]

After watching various documentaries such as The World At War and The Nazis: A Warning From History and World War Two In Colour (to name but a few) as well as numerous fact-based films about WWII, I thought I knew all there was to know about WWII, but Mark teaches me something new almost every time, impressive.

[@bevinboulder5039]

The World at War is an amazing series notable for all the participants that were still alive when it was made to provide commentary. It also has the narration by the marvelous Sr Laurence Olivier. However it suffers compared to documentaries from the past 10 years which have the benefit of all the new info from the release of previously classified records after 50/60 years.

[@nedludd7622]

Look up the Russian documentary series "Soviet Storm".

[@philipsturtivant9385]

Nobody knows, nor will ever know, everything there is to know about WW2. It's too big, too much of it officially secret, too much of it un-documented. Even the people directing it (whether they were Heads of State, or Chiefs of Staff, or whatever) were working 'through a glass darkly'. Mark Felton does a good job of shining a bright light into crevices of history that would otherwise be overlooked, but which illuminate details that can fundamentally shift the way aspects of the war are understood.

[@jameswalker5223]

It's important to dig..you DEF won't get the whole picture (or even most of it) from mainstream sources..take any and almost everything you learn about the war with multiple grains of salt..the victors write the history

[@Robvdh87]

If you are interested in some more in-depth stories about some less known second world war history I'd like to suggest the books that Doctor Felton wrote. I have read almost all of them and they provide a ton of really interesting in-depth information.

[@creomanser1228]

Actually, it was the Belarusian SS division, which was formed under the leadership of the Belarusian Central Rada in Berlin and it consisted exclusively of Belarusians. The author of the video clearly does not understand the issue and misleads people.

[@chevi6494]

Interesting 👍

[@clintloranrand951]

"nice people" -those Ukrainians, very trustworthy indeed. I must say this: in 2022 WE MUST start DIVIDING "UKRAINIANS" vs "OKRAINIANS" (Russians living in suburbs of the ex Russian Empire - as EVIDENCE SUGGEST - THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT NATIONS! - Those U-krainians from Eastern Galitia are Catholics and keen to Nazism while WORD "OKRAINA" refers to "suburb region" and people living there are NOT another nation. Please refere to the creation of Ukraine and the name change in history books. Another aspect from this video is: UNPARALLEL SIMILARITY WITH CROATIANS (those from Zagreb area - USTAŠA MOVEMENT - the bloodiest Nazis the world has seen along with Banderovci of Galitia.

[@Artur_M.]

I'm really glad to hear that a separate video about the so-called Ukrainian National Army is coming. As was stated in the video, it was created by the Germans near the end of the war, with the former SS Galizien Division as its core. It's really an interesting and surprising topic, especially considering the figure of UNA's commander - *Pavlo Shandruk* . Let's just say that he only began collaborating with the Germans in late 1944 (previously refusing nazi offers) and he started the war, fighting with distinction against the Germans in Polish uniform.

[@tsar389]

History Hustle also made a very good video about the Ukrainian National Army but I'm sure you know that

[@Artur_M.]

@@tsar389 True, and many videos about other collaborating formations (including the Russian and Dutch ones). Although, his video was broader in scope, jointly covering the whole topic of Ukrainian collaboration. I remember making a comment under it about the story of the Ukrainians who ended up in Rimini and yet, still learning new things myself from other comments (about Shandruk). So it's exciting to hear that Mark Felton is preparing something about that specific story.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Shandruk was Galicia - part of modern Ukraine that was in Poland until September of 1939. Therefore, he could be considered Polish - as Galicians themselves are amorphous group held together only by they hate of Russia :D

[@waynecameron4579]

Make a great movie

[@woodrowpreacely7521]

Hitler may have won in 1941in Russia if he had courted the Ukrainians instead of hating on them too. Damn they hate Russians more than anybody else!

[@MrAitraining]

Your uploads have been perfect timing for me lately. Bored at work and eating lunch. Nice

[@Ratchet98]

I’m in the same situation lol. Perfect video for lunch

[@DaveSCameron]

Try6a book or other materials online 📙

[@sigmoidgrez2495]

Hi Mark, I recently found an old dvd called death on the Eastern front,and there was an episode where the Russians had to turn around from their push to Berlin to route the last Germans in zcechoslovakia And there was a hill where a t34 made its way to the top and I'm pretty sure the tank is now a monument,please could you do a video on this battle please as I don't believe it gets enough recognition

[@Shevchenko.1]

No, it is Belorussian-Russian 30th SS division.

[@GinVSLemon]

Dont cry princess

[@Shevchenko.1]

@@GinVSLemon bang your head against the wall, mom's historian.

[@mitcha1065]

I'd also to see a video on the 600,000 Hiwis in the nazi army (most being Ukrainians), and the 5000+ of these who served as prisoner guards (many with sadistic horrific brutality) in the nazi death camps.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Thank you so much Dr. Felton for providing us with this content. One of my clients was a Ukrainian teenager who was conscripted by the Nazis for labor. He told me that the Russians starved them and the Germans used them like work horses. He was able to escape to America just in time to fight in the Korean War. He was a little guy, maybe 5'5" in height, but had a giant heart. So proud to have known him. My heart bleeds for these poor people in the Ukraine.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

He was most likely concentration camp guard (Trawniki) :D

[@williamjackson5942]

@@Semperfi2011 Putin is a fascist toad and you are no better it would seem!

[@janvisser4132]

@@Semperfi2011 The Ukraine is in bad shape because of the terror the soviets did there. And now it is finally recovering and going to a more democratic state Putin is screwing it up again. The Ukrainians aren't crazy, whey would never have done anything to endanger Russia. Putin just wants to relive what is his perception where the glorious years of the USSR. I normally don't wish harm to people, but I would absolutely be cheering if that bastard dropped dead tonight. I don't really get why you can't feel sympathy for innocent people that are forced into a war they don't want. The images of scared, wounded and killed innocent people are heartbreaking. Russia is way more violent then the Ukraine, and probably more corrupt too. At least there are way less liberties for the Russian people then there were for the Ukranian people.

[@honved1]

@@Semperfi2011 Russia today viewer I take it? Grow up.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

@@aleksazunjic9672 John was a hero. You are a zero. :-D

[@buskingkarma2503]

The Ukrainian officers was some of the worst death camp officers,even the German one's would find them brutal,so that shows how bad they must have been!

[@SapperHavik]

Thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos.

[@onerider808]

I notice those Nazis did not “mutiny” until it was clear Germany was losing. Then they went home and started the new breed of Nazis, fighting in Ukraine now.

[@billderych8452]

The mutiny was because they agreed to fight soviets not the French.

[@russojap1864]

Except the real Nazis are invading your so called Nazis. How much is the Kremlin paying you for the propaganda posts?

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

A super-duper presentation, and it coincidentally related to current events. Didn't Ukrainians mistake the nazis as their deliverance from Russia?

[@M167A1]

Yes. They thought they were saved only to find out the Germans were almost as bad as the Communists. And then the Communists came back.

[@jeanvaljean341]

After the Holodomor, how could you not 😳

[@genghiskhan5701]

Most White Russians who hated Stalin did too

[@wbafc1231]

@@M167A1 Almost???

[@maisonraider4593]

@@M167A1 well however joining the SS was not the best idea

[@crayoneatinggo0n477]

Another home run of part of WW2 I was not aware about. You rock Mark!

[@arkimas1137]

He should do a video on UPA and Bandera. Many don't know about the Wolyn Massacre and Neo Nazi Groups (such as Azov) are still celebrating SS Galicia and Bandera.

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

“Hey whats the symbol for that new Ukrainian division we raised Hans?” “It’s a double cross” “……..”

[@Synystr7]

There is a memorial to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS in Oakville, Ontario. It is weird to see a Waffen SS memorial in Canada, but... do you fight for the people who killed your family by causing the famine of 1932-1933, or the people who are killing other families. I hope I never have to make that choice.

[@snoopersmokio]

Hundreds of thousands of Europeans volunteered and fought with Germany to stop Communism.

[@scutumfidelis1436]

Easy, the latter.

[@wilberwhateley7569]

History is complicated - “heroes” and “villains” are created post facto.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Galician division has nothing to do with Holodomor. Galicia was not part of the USSR until September of 1939 (it was in Poland). In fact, those who suffered most under communism are now in east Ukraine wanting to separate from it.

[@richardstephens5570]

@@snoopersmokio Many of them were anti-Semitic, so they didn't mind helping the Germans persecute Jews.

[@lulurodmon]

I love how all of your videos are not politically motivated in anyway. You just simply are a student of history and give us such great facts about history.

[@wolfgangemmerich7552]

Serval day ago the german television presented a very special report from a russian lady living in the netherlands . This lady follows her fathers russian ww2 history from recruitment , first fightings against the german wehrmacht , her fathers time in german captivity until get recruted in german service , her fathers work for the germans at the french atlantik coast fortifications , the escape from german captivity and the time he spend in alliied service as translator until all russian ,, displaced persons" went into british pow captivity and at least got homesend to russia. Wellcome there in russia as traitors and collaborators and send to siberian gulags for decades. The german TV titel was ,,Das Schweigen meines Vaters". A very impressiv documentation!

[@2anthro]

WWII was my father's/uncles' war. I watch your channel because you present material that exists no where else and to learn what kind of challenge the men of my family were dealing with. To me they were men who went to work, mowed the lawn but who "had been in the Army." I did not know what "being in the Army" really meant. Every one of your videos is a tribute to those men and is appreciated by their sons and daughters. Thank you.

[@rogersmith7396]

The "Double Cross" might have been a mistake.

[@sneezyserena]

The pun doesn't work in German; there is no such word as "Doppelkreuz" to mean a cheat or swindle.

[@External2737]

LoL, it might not be a concept in German...

[@SebiIIia]

Note that most of the Waffen-SS photos don't show Ukrainians. These are Germans from various divisions and places. The group photo where they smile innocently does show Ukrainians, as does one by the end. Most others are just random German-looking Waffen-SS soldiers. Also, going through the comment section... This sudden surge of love for the Ukrainians is really amusing. When it comes to morals or values, they are no different to the Russians. They may hate the "Moskal" with a passion, but the ethno-cultural bond is obvious and below the surface - which is the only part the West ever scratches - they can and do cooperate very well with each other. It should be a priority to freeze the existing border conflict, not fan its flame. Victimizing Ukrainians and applauding their defiance is a dead end. Don't look to Holodomor in order to explain their current attitude or problems, because this is silly. The West doesn't seem to understand the Slavic "soul" and how all it's cheerful open friendliness and warmth that can turn to shocking violence and cruelty in a heartbeat. You should do a video on the ethnic conflicts within the Ukraine. The fact that nationalists would go after their Polish neighbors is no surprise, but the savagery certainly is. It's one thing to shoot someone or even let him burn to death in a building, but stabbing out someone's eyes and cutting off someone's arms and legs and leaving him (and her) in agony... Poles were shocked by the fact that the Orthodox priests embraced this madness and would bless the weapons of these bandits. The same scenario of Eastern rampant brutality repeated itself at the hands of ethnic Russian RONA (and the much more exotic Kalamucks - the "Mongols"; as the Poles called them, trembling in fear of rape and abuse) during the Warsaw Uprising. Contrary to what some people seem to imagine, it was not the Dirlewangers who committed the most grizzly acts (although they were, in comparison, much more effective in killing). Long story short, Eastern Slavs are neither oppressed martyrs nor cuddly teddy-bears. Emotions run high and conflicts are violent because this is sort of our nature. Acts of kindness and mercy were often a result of caprice, not some strong moral code. Actions were guided by "samogon" alcohol, opportunism and greed (and not by the sort of "NS-utopia-building.idealism" that some SS-fanatics would display). The story recalled by Felton only goes to show the character of these people and how easy they are to sway. Caught by Allies, they would pretend to be Poles in order to avoid unpleasant consequences - despite their open hate for the "Lachy", as they called us. The media attention and, most importantly, financial help for refugees can encourage Ukrainians to choose escalation instead of a settlement. They think (or know) that this conflict itself, and not some structural changes within this society, will be enough to open the way towards EU (EU money/market) and NATO. Too bad that those who actually care about their homeland will be the real victims of this intrigue. As a Pole, I hope for peace and better relations with Russia, for building

[@Marvin-dg8vj]

Nobody is suggesting the Ukrainians are candidates for sainthood.However their recent history gives more cause for hope than Russia and they are not natural oppressors .These western govts took a big risk arming the Ukrainians because the loss of Ukraine is a major strategic blow to democracy in Europe and the existence of independent states in the area .They did not do this primarily for humanitarian reasons.

[@dongilleo9743]

The Nazi racial policies and general disregard for Slavs ironically doomed them to certain defeat. Ukrainians, having suffered greatly under Stalin and the Communist Party, initially greeted the invading Germans as liberators. If the Germans had prepared and organized a free Ukrainian government to immediately work towards collaboration with them, it might have been a great help towards winning the war in the East. Imagine teams of Ukrainian nationals sorting through the captured Soviet soldiers for Ukrainians, promising them freedom for joining the fight against the Soviet Union. Of course, Nazi racial attitudes made that impossible. Instead, the Nazis treated everyone they met like conquered people to be trampled on and abused. By the time that they did consider trying to recruit Ukrainians and others, they had treated the population badly, and it was increasingly obvious that Germany was going to lose the war.

[@FortniteBlaster2]

The Ukrainians were regarded as being mixed with slavs, not entire the same as the ones in Russia.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Actually, Galicians were only shortly under Stalin (from September of 1939) . They hatred for Russia came from long-standing Austrian propaganda. Galicia was part of Austria-Hungary before WW1 (and then part of Poland). They were forcibly converted by Austrians to Greek Catholicism (opposed to Polish Roman Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy) and made a sperate "nation".

[@j.w.b5048]

@@FortniteBlaster2 If I remember right, around 30% of the Ukrainians were seen as having Germanic traits, which is less than the Czechs, but more than Russians, Poles and others. But the Nazis made it clear that the majority of the Ukrainians were to be slaves or deported. The Ukrainian lands were of great interest for the "living space", so the inhabitans had to go.

[@Elitist20]

The eminent British historian Alan Bullock said this - Hitler could have had half of Russia (not just Ukraine) on his side after what they'd been through under Stalin, but instead he was just as brutal.

[@fartmckee446]

Thx for repeating what u read in a book

[@viliamklein]

My family in eastern Slovakia hid partisans in their village home. My grandfather remembers being a child during that time and helping get rid of the tailings from digging out the bunker for the partisans by dumping them in the nearby stream. The family reasoned that any occupying soldiers who saw a boy playing with dirt, they wouldn't think twice about it. I wonder who those partisans were and if they might have been some of the defected Ukranians. That same house will now be used to host some friends from Kiev. If they manage to make it out of the city... Slovak partisans also had an armored train. Which is kinda hilarious.

[@caniconcananas7687]

Why an armoured train is hilarious?

[@williamwhitehouse8214]

@@caniconcananas7687 @caniconc ananas Well because the Partisans were constantly in hiding. Having a armoured train is the opposite of hiding.

[@viliamklein]

@@caniconcananas7687 What William said. I think they managed to put it together in a tunnel, rolled it out once, then rolled it back and there it stayed. But it does kind of make you seem like a more regular force if you have the means to put together armored trains!

[@giroromek8423]

that train story is worthy of a video.

[@aasphaltmueller5178]

@@giroromek8423 there is a not-so bad CSSR film about it, from the 70s. Austria-Hungary built good armoured trains, most of them in Budapest, so one could have found its way into a Slovak Depot, may be having been deployed in 1919 to guard the border area against Poland.

[@chonkershahn307]

With such a mix of ethnicities, there was bound to be friction, most Eastern Europeans were used to being subordinate to German's, for centuries, for instance every single Mayor of Riga was Baltic German, & 1 Russian.

[@QuantumPyrite_88.9]

Most interesting and obviously timely. Thank You Dr. Felton and all the best.

[@tokomac7728]

very the same ideologies are present nowadays in ukrain and many other countries particularly baltic

[@skipdreadman8765]

I'm not sure that this was the best time to put this video out. Not that the truth should be hidden, but Putin is claiming to "de-nazify" Ukraine. As if Ukraine is being run by Nazis. My concern is that this video feeds into that line of reasoning.

[@mahouaniki4043]

Maybe that is exactly his intention.

[@skipdreadman8765]

@@mahouaniki4043 I would think that Dr Felton would find that aspersion to be insulting. If understanding that many Russians remember Ukrainians joining the Germans helps people to understand how Putin is playing this at home, then perhaps there is value. It does not mean that calling the Jewish president of Ukraine a, "Nazi," is accurate. But it frames the appeal to the Russian ear.

[@jankolenda7679]

Please continue the topic of Ukrainians in the SS and describe the murder of Poles by Ukrainian criminals from the UPA

[@Кипящийразум]

They are your brothers. Shut up and respect their Bandera.

[@mir-jan3496]

It is a shame that Poland now is supporting those Azov fasizt in Ukraine. Today 30 Polish mercenaries are killed by Russian trying to joint those Azov fasizt. Why Polish are not protesting against their government for supporting Ukrainian fasizt.

[@Кипящийразум]

@@mir-jan3496 The Poles are ready to spit on the graves of their ancestors to annoy the Russians. We will remember this to the Poles, let them not relax.

[@wielebny7346]

@@Кипящийразум hahahaha respect 😂

[@Кипящийразум]

@@wielebny7346 Two days ago (June 4) the Russian army "evacuated" another batch of Polish rambos to the underworld...

[@deanjericevic8912]

Interesting, Mark as it gives further historical background & insight to what is now playing out with the Russian/Ukraine conflict.

[@victormendiola4927]

Yes correct this got me very excited. I’m hoping America declares war on Russia so I can join the army and And cause havoc and Mayham

[@deanjericevic8912]

@@victormendiola4927 I would not get too excited as this war could be a nuclear one involving US, Russia, China, Europenn countries & UK. World War 3 ; I think that I will pass on that one Victor!

[@aerobique]

instead of actually helping, the UNITED STATES especially and also others (e.g canada and GB) are using/ brainwashing/ weaponizing ukraine's (identity) situation towards extremism (+actual nazism) and sheer hate to use them against russia, going on for 50+ years. just as one of many red flag examples, January 2010, ukraine officially gave their highest honor "hero of ukraine" to stepan bandera. with now being wirshipped and having pictures of him in many ukr offices of the people the "international community" eagerly playing the war drums for, go figure..

[@ladahunt9266]

​@@victormendiola4927 have you read the poem "Medal for City Washington"? :)))))

[@1JamesMayToGoPlease]

Of course they included some anti-Semites. Great vid, though, so thank you :)

[@andykerr3803]

So concise, maybe too much. Those "French Foreign Troops" that included those murdering Ukranians, were in fact stationed in modern day Vietnam, French Indo China, as Mark called it. The USA got sucked into rescuing the French there no less than 3 times, finally being implicated in the "Vietnam War". Young Americans going to battle would not even find "Vietnam" on a world map. The deceptions used to start a war should be studied as much if not more than military tactics. It is the best humans that die, the manipulative profiteers that survive.

[@antoinemozart243]

No the US did not rescue the french in Vietnam. The french had lost the battle of Dien bien phu. The US took their place to fight the communists.

[@andykerr3803]

@@antoinemozart243 That's so funny. The French called them in. Three times. So many French speaking Vietnamese deserted to France and Quebec instead of staying... Anyways, this was about that Ukranian faction of the French Foreign Legion. I'm descended from LA Fayette BTW, maybe check out the last talk he gave to that little Corsican Napolean Bonaparte. That fool had to sell half of the USA to finance his losses, never mind the dead. I'm also descended from the Montagnards (Hebert) that chopped off 15K empty little heads. Stick to facts. Look at the lying in Ukraine now....The little comedian expected a rescue... Like you he doesn't like the word.

[@NavinGrewsom]

Canada?🇨🇦?

[@nickdanger3802]

The Holodomor ( Ukrainian: Голодомо́р, romanized : Holodomór, IPA: [ɦolodoˈmor]; derived from морити голодом, moryty holodom, 'to kill by starvation'), also known as the Terror-Famine and sometimes referred to as the Great Famine, was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.

[@wojciechgrodnicki6302]

Mortality by Hunger.

[@sisyphusvasilias3943]

A) It was not a deliberate policy of starvation and there is no evdience that it was, just anti-soviet/antisemetic propaganda. B) The Holdomor was caused by 2 factors; A naturally occuring famine that co-incided with USSR introducisng Collectivised Farming. After the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin resdistributed agri-cultural lands owned by the Aristocratic Class to Workers/The People but Stalin reorganised food producing lands into collective farms. The new land owning class of farmers "Kulaks' who had become wealthy, rejected collectivisation and resisted violently. They killed the Gov officials who came to collective their farms and destroyed their equipment, burnts thir buildings, killed their livestock and destroyed their grain stores and seed stocks. It was this destruction of agri-production and foodstuffs that exacerbated the naturally occurring famine C) This happened across the SW of USSR. The greatest qty of deaths was inside the Russian Soviet Republic not Ukraine SSR, proving it was not a political attack of Ukrainians. C)Finally, this was the LAST major Faminie in to effect Ukrainians/Russians or any of the Soviet peoples. Famines were regularly occuring natural evenets throught the entire history of Wests Europe/Central Asia. It was the USSR that found a way to prevent them and these people have not experienced a famine since.

[@JEJAK5396]

@@sisyphusvasilias3943 Nein.

[@dennisp.2147]

@@sisyphusvasilias3943 Soviet revisionism.

[@alexyo2440]

@@dennisp.2147 No he is correct. What sounds more ridiculous is killing useful workers for no reason by starvation

[@jjboyd01]

years from now you'll do this Ukrainian war with the same music different evil guy. Its true some Ukrainians did greet them warmly. Many were scared of both the Germans and Russians.

[@davidcritchley3509]

That's my own understanding. They hated Stalin but many were anti-semetic and happy enough to man the death camps.

[@gk2811]

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

[@tanker00v25]

And how is anyone reapiting history?

[@BigMek456]

@@tanker00v25 Were not stopping a despot invading their neighboring countries

[@gk2811]

@@tanker00v25 The Russians - The Russians are 'repeating' history!

[@tanker00v25]

@@gk2811 fair enough

[@shh4894]

A meaningless platitude that just reinforces whatever bias a person already has. Pro-war Russians are probably using the same phrase to justify the invasion. "Oh wow we've been invaded a billion times. This time we won't wait for them to come for us - don't repeat the mistakes of the past!!1" Or how about we see if we can use it to vindicate not doing anything? "Think of WW1 and how it spun out of control because of countries sticking up for each other? And caused ww2! don't repeat the mistakes of the past!!1"

[@PodcastCentral333]

I’m a Jew and I don’t support Ukraine after what they did to us, on numerous occasions

[@alexyo2440]

Look in the mirror

[@Dex_Zuid]

What a timing for this video.... Wonder if anyone who watches know almost, if not every, country had S.S divisions or people joining in their armed forces. I've been in Berlin last year and saw some posters from different countries where they asked proudly for people to join and fight the 'bolsjewicks' (Sovet Union's red army).

[@drew19710]

The Azov brigade are a contemporary neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, well whatever's left of them!

[@Dex_Zuid]

@@drew19710 Can't judge a whole nation on what a small group do. Russian has neo-nazi groups itself too (and other countries too).

[@kurtengel6029]

Your spot on bro, everyone had ss divisions and proud of it. Social media full of people showing Putin as hitler, meanwhile Ukrainians sided with the furher over commies

[@gongobongo8197]

@@Dex_Zuid Ukraine still sees Stepan Bandera as a National Hero. Actually it was declared really recently.. (2010) Can't judge an entire Nation when tens of thousands march in the streets of Kyiv with torches commemorating a mass murderer? The war is tragic but it is hard to feel any empathy for psychos who dance on the bones of those wrongfully killed.

[@caroline2833-o7c]

the country which never have had SS division is Poland

[@caroline2833-o7c]

Volhynia and Eastern Galicia genocide. On February 9, 1943, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army commanded Hryhory Perehyniak, pretending to be Soviet partisans assaulted the Paroślesettlement in Sarny county. It is considered a prelude to the massacres, and is recognized as the first mass murder committed by the UPA in the area. Estimates of the number of victims range from 149 to 173. In 1943 the massacres were organized westwards, starting in March in Kostopol and Sarny counties. In April they moved to the area of Krzemieniec, Rivne, Dubno and Lutsk. Between late March and early April 1943, killing approximately 7,000 unarmed men, women, and children in its first days. On the night of April 22-23, Ukrainian groups, commanded by Ivan Lytwynchuk (aka Dubovy), attacked the settlement of Janowa Dolina, killing 600 people and burning down the entire village. In one of the massacres, in the village of Lipniki, almost the entire family of Mirosław Hermaszewski (Poland's astronaut) was murdered along with about 180 inhabitants. The attackers murdered the grandparents of composer Krzesimir Dębski, whose parents met each other during the Ukrainian attack on Kisielin. Debski's parents survived. In another massacre, UPA attacked, the Polish colonies of Kuty, in the Szumski region, and Nowa Nowica, in the Webski region. According to Polish sources, the Kuty self-defense unit managed to repel the UPA assault, though at least 53 Poles were murdered. The rest of the inhabitants decided to abandon the village. Maksym Skorupskyi, one of UPA commanders, wrote in his diary: Starting from our action on Kuty, day by day after sunset, the sky was batching in the glow of conflagration. Polish villages were burning. By June 1943, the attacks had spread to the counties of Kowel, Włodzimierz Wołyński, and Horochów, and in August to Luboml county. In June 1943, Dmytro Klyachkivsky head-commander of the UPA-North made a general decision to exterminate Poles in Volhynia. His secret directive stated: "We should make a large action of the liquidation of the Polish element. We should take advantage of this convenient moment for liquidating the entire population in the age from 16 up to 60 years. We cannot lose this fight, and it is necessary at all costs to weaken Polish forces. Villages and settlements lying next to the massive forests, should disappear from the face of the earth". In mid-1943, after a wave of killings of Polish civilians, the Poles tried to initiate negotiations with the UPA. Two delegates of the Polish government in Exile and AK, Zygmunt Rumel and Krzysztof Markiewicz attempted to negotiate with UPA leaders, but were captured and murdered on July 10, 1943, in the village of Kustycze. Sources claim they were tortured before the death. The following day, July 11, 1943, is regarded as the bloodiest day of the massacres, with many reports of UPA units marching from village to village, killing Polish civilians. On that day, UPA units surrounded and attacked Polish villages and settlements located in three counties - Kowel, Horochow, and Włodzimierz Wołyński. Events began at 3:00 am, leaving the Poles with little chance to escape. After the massacres, the Polish villages were burned to the ground. According to those few who survived, the action had been carefully prepared; a few days before the massacres there had been several meetings in Ukrainian villages, during which UPA members told the villagers that the slaughter of all Poles was necessary. Within a few days an unspecified number of Polish villages were completely destroyed and their populations murdered. In the Polish village of Gurow, out of 480 inhabitants, only 70 survived; in the settlement of Orzeszyn, the UPA killed 306 out of 340 Poles; in the village of Sadowa out of 600 Polish inhabitants only 20 survived; in Zagaje out of 350 Poles only a few survived. In August 1943, the Polish village of Gaj (near Kovel) was burned and some 600 people massacred, in the village of Wola Ostrowiecka 529 people were killed, including 220 children under 14, and 438 people were killed, including 246 children, in Ostrowki. In September 1992 exhumations were carried out in these villages, confirming the number of dead. Altogether, on July 11, 1943, the Ukrainians attacked 167 towns and villages. This wave of massacres lasted 5 days, until July 16. The UPA continued the ethnic cleansing, particularly in rural areas, until most Poles had been deported or killed. These actions were conducted by many units, and were well-coordinated and thoroughly planned by the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The atrocities were carried out indiscriminately and without restraint. The victims, regardless of their age or gender, were routinely tortured to death. Norman Davies in No Simple Victory gives a short, but shocking description of the massacres. He writes: Villages were torched. Roman Catholic priests were axed or crucified. Churches were burned with all their parishioners. Isolated farms were attacked by gangs carrying pitchforks and kitchen knives. Throats were cut. Pregnant women were bayoneted. Children were cut in two. Men were ambushed in the field and led away. The perpetrators could not determine the province's future. But at least they could determine that it would be a future without Poles. An OUN order from early 1944 stated: Liquidate all Polish traces. Destroy all walls in the Catholic Church and other Polish prayer houses. Destroy orchards and trees in the courtyards so that there will be no trace that someone lived there... Pay attention to the fact that when something remains that is Polish, then the Poles will have pretensions to our land". Timothy Snyder describes the murders: "Ukrainian partisans burned homes, shot or forced back inside those who tried to flee, and used sickles and pitchforks to kill those they captured outside. In some cases, beheaded, crucified, dismembered, or disembowelled bodies were displayed, in order to encourage remaining Poles to flee". A similar account has been presented by Niall Ferguson, who wrote: "Whole villages were wiped out, men beaten to death, women raped and mutilated, babies bayoneted." Ukrainian historian Yuryi Kirichuk described the conflict as similar to medieval rebellions. The method used in most of the attacks was the same. At first, local Poles were assured that nothing would happen to them. Then, at dawn, a village was surrounded by armed members of the UPA, behind whom were peasants with axes, hammers, knives, and saws. All the Poles encountered were murdered; sometimes they were herded into one spot, to make it easier. After a massacre, all goods were looted, including clothes, grain, and furniture. The final part of an attack was setting fire to the village. In many cases, victims were tortured and their bodies mutilated. All vestiges of Polish existence eradicated with even abandoned Polish settlements burned to the ground. Even though it may be an exaggeration to say that the massacres enjoyed general support of the Ukrainians, it has been suggested that without wide support from local Ukrainians they would have been impossible. Those Ukrainian peasants who took part in the massacres created their own units.

[@ktotam1567]

И все же вопрос остаётся открытым - что поляки делали на Волыни и зачем они убивали украинцев?

[@aleksanderkorecki7887]

​​@@ktotam1567Poles were living there and they were killing Ukrainians because they started killing them.

[@ronin36963]

​@@ktotam1567Wołyn was Polish and they killed Ukrainians because they were biggest pieces of sh*t that humanity has ever known. The simpleton Ukrainians were killing the most vulnerable people. That's the only way they could win.

[@megaotstoy]

@@ktotam1567 встречный вопрос: что украинцы делали на Волыни и зачем они убивали поляков (евреев, русских и даже украинцев, не разделявших их укронацистских "взглядов")

[@Larina__]

Благодарю вас за вашу честную работу. С уважением из России.❤

[@Common_Sense24.08]

Вы хоть слово поняли в этом видео, "из россии"?)))

[@jakef.7126]

Mark Felton is pro-Ukrainian, fascist katsap.

[@mansoortanweer]

A memorial to the 1st ukranian division was removed recently in Canada because of the unit's ties to the nazis.

[@JoeGator23]

How ironic... now they are ruled by Klaus.

[@caniconcananas7687]

​@@JoeGator23 Trhemmm! That was close, but his name is Claus. 😅

[@RichardCranium.]

Canada is under Zionist occupation. Red Army memorials are never removed even though Stalin killed more then Hitler.

[@JoeGator23]

@@caniconcananas7687 did it for the algo, you know who

[@rigelbound6749]

@@RichardCranium. even if you do want to blame the Jews in another stupid conspiracy theory, at least make some sense and don't use the word "Zionism" - Which is an ideology that calls for a Jewish homeland state in Palestine. It has nothing to do with Communism, Canada, Stalin, the Nazis, or war memorials.

[@TheBrowncoat2112]

It can’t be a coincidence this video dropped the same week major events in Eastern Europe are occurring.

[@nobodyspeical5450]

It’s the only reason it’s being posted

[@jazhanay19]

Pretty sure he has worked on the video for several weeks with research and editing.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

I seems purely coincidental to me.

[@davemartino5997]

who knows .

[@larshaidekk9889]

Thats the Guys Putins Talk about 🤣🤣🤣

[@blank557]

It seems that allegiance to nationality and ideology is so blurred in Europe due to all the changes of national borders since WWI, that its really hard to tell who were the good guys and who were the bad guys, and who was stuck in the middle of the two just trying to stay alive playing both sides.

[@thomasburke2683]

Exit only, Changes to national borders didn't just start with ww1, but you are correct, they are beyond the comprehension of most of us. Looking at a girl in my family history, she had been a governess in a town in Poland in late 1800s, it took a long time to identify the town, as it became Ukraine after 1945, having been part of some other country in between, and each time the town name changed according to the linguistic change.

[@creomanser1228]

Actually, the 30th SS Grenadier Division was the Belarusian SS division, which was formed under the leadership of the Belarusian Central Rada in Berlin and it consisted exclusively of Belarusians.

[@JustAsPlanned1]

Incorrect. All sources say it was a mixed Ukrainian-Russian-Belarusian unit.

[@marshalhistory9324]

Am I the only one that can see the similarities of Putin's and Hitlers moves? Austria is Crimea, Donbass is Sudetenland, the rest of Ukraine is the rest of Czechoslovakia, and what ever Putin goes for next is Poland. It could be Georgia, Kazakhstan, or Poland again. It might all come back to Poland today as well. History is repeating itself.

[@DaveSCameron]

How about The NIGHTINGALE DIVISION SS raised in Ukraine 🇺🇦?

[@ugniusstackunas8915]

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[@DaveSCameron]

Jawohl!

[@oldlonewolf9649]

Those guys and SS Galizien have very bad fame in Poland. So much crimes on their account. I will be hated, especially in recent situation, but the truth must be said, working with ukrainians I can say that they are in love with germany, and many of them are openly nazis. Their love for germany is for me hard to understand since germans treats them very instrumentaly.

[@josalynfarmer5336]

And I'm just a working class first line/responder on leave and I love love love Mr. Felton. I studied history specializing in Germany and I learn something new EVERY TIME I watch a video! Heck....I had a lazy day once and pulled him up on my laptop....laid in bed and watched and listened ALL day. Haha.

[@patrickbrooks2416]

Tens of thousands of Russians fought on the Nazi side. The hatred of the Communists was the motivating factor.

[@izsormova6286]

even the Russian liberation army, under the command of Germany, was more than half composed of Ukrainians

[@carletonchristensen9971]

"Galizien" is not pronounced "Galizeen," with stress on "zeen"; it is pronounced "Ga-li-zee-en," with stress on "li."

[@thomassibal5384]

I'd like to see a piece on the German idea of "useless eaters" during the war and how that campaign started and was carried out.

[@12yearssober]

In America we have very many useless eaters draining our treasury.

[@reginabillotti]

Here's a video on the T4 program, for starters: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5PTqYispbSLocU

[@stevebengel1346]

@@12yearssober glad to see you didn't off yourself 😃

[@Fjodor.Tabularasa]

Hungerplan

[@zf9903]

@@12yearssober Here, children, we see a troll on the internet. See how they sneakily advocate for eugenics under the alias of dead child trafficker and pedophile Jeffery Epstein? Simply brilliant, and sure to attract gullible individuals to argue. Let’s see who takes the bait.

[@louisverhagen]

Mark. Again a very good and interesting piece of work. A similar uprising was done by Georgian troops on the island of Texel in the Netherlands beginning of April 1945. At that moment there were children visiting from Amsterdam on the island of Texel to recuperate from the Hunger Winter.

[@wallclock4648]

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[@majordelays4909]

@@wallclock4648 you spelled cock wrong?

[@mikeblair2594]

@@wallclock4648 Hey! Why don't you tell us how you really feel? I mean I'm curious why you would have three nazi flags and then you put a pig against the Ukrainian flag three times and then you get even stranger with a pig with a star of David banner, another pig with a white flag and a rainbow( I'm not even sure what that means) and one more pig with the American flag.

[@brandonkew9122]

The first still photo is of the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Division in Normandy, not the 14th SS Division. That is Otto Funk closest to the camera.

[@Kaiserland111]

There might not be enough footage for him to only show the unit he's discussing.

[@ЭнкерСидоров]

Mark, thanks for the truth.

[@wildcolonialman]

Exceptionally challenging subject, considering the extensive damage trail of Ukrainians riding with the SS and SD primarily in many theaters, including Warsaw, its a numbing history unfortunately.

[@daviddoran3673]

An extraordinarily contemporary video!!!! Considering the current Ukraine's SS admiring units and the numbers who are surrendering!!!!

[@ChristopherGray00]

@@daviddoran3673 this everybody is an example of a russian propaganda sock puppet account, notice no profile picture, no profile content, suspicious western name, there are a lot of them and make sure to report them.

[@wildcolonialman]

@@stamfordmeetup Yes, there is centuries of fabulous and harrowing history, of course. Centuries of hospitality to the Jewish Peoples, yet remarkably fertile ground for Anti Jewish Measures. Stalin and Lenin were despicable racists, believing it no problem to dispose of entire peoples. Many MSM Western entities LOVE that Nazi tag in there headlines-its a MSM tool to create division for little other that titillation and ratings. Its unfortunate that the SS and SD using Reich Policy arrived in the Ukraine and did exactly as MSM CNN does today-create division, the better to control. It is unfortunate that Ukrainians served as Concentration Camp Guards, and along with Latvians, and others, did much of the Pit Shooting, such as Babi Ya, Kiev, 33,000. But Western Nations, all have despicable histories, and Russia no different to the USA or NZ, UK. all have remarkable histories of Racist Actions. Interesting days.....

[@AD-hu6ou]

@@stamfordmeetup And why doesn’t the European Parliament also consider what the Dutch did and other many European nations in Africa as war crimes ? I’m not for Russia nor am I for Ukraine but let’s not forget to mention how all the nato nations and Ukraine are hypocrites and have blood on their hands. Don’t believe me look up in your perverted search engine what happened to polish women and children during WW2 because of the Ukrainian SS regiments what did they do to deserve their brutality ?

[@JustAsPlanned1]

@@daviddoran3673 Ukrainian here. I don't we have specific unit's that admire SS. I know a guy who wears a german WW2 shoulder patch because it looks cool, but that's about it. And what did you want to say about surrendering? Didn't get that part.

[@marshalleubanks2454]

The Mutiny at Texel is also well worth a video - amazing, and pretty obscure.

[@ИльяЗаболотный-е5м]

Yes, an interesting topic to cover.

[@Kickback-dm7zt]

Another cracking and highly informative and educational video.. Are you aware of any Irish ss volunteers.. Be it on an individual basis or unit basis?

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

There were two Irishmen who served in the SS that we know about.

[@j.w.greenbaum]

@@MarkFeltonProductions In Chris Bishop's book Hitler's Foreign Divisions, he lists one in the British Free Corps. Was the other in the Standarte Kurt Eggers (the other place English-speaking SS seemed to show up)?

[@likklej8]

I first found out Ukraines nazi connections reading the late Phillip Kerr’r Bernie Gunther crime novels. Thanks Mark for this excellent history video.

[@YuraK25]

"Ukraine's nazi connections" this screams of a brain thoroughly washed by left wing propaganda

[@TM-yn4iu]

In a period of so much misinformation, Dr. Felton provides history - based on factual research aside from bias. Another great example here, thank you.

[@jspee1965]

Bravo.👍

[@davidbabcock1321]

It would be great to see a video on Ukraine's fight for independence in 1918, after the Bolshevik revolution. There is a film "Kruty 1918" on Amazon. Very eerie parallels with news today.

[@rjames3981]

I believe they also fought the Poles for 30 years. Killed 100,000 of them in WW2 (not including the Jews they killed). After WW2 they fought against the Polish again for two years before Stalin ‘intervened’.

[@Daerne44]

​@@rjames3981 Those pathetic cowards were murdering innocent civilians and now they worship them in ukraine. It devastates me when i think about what they did to my family

[@danmihaiescu3114]

Now in the new normal, even ss units are rebranded as resistants. Strange times. Or were they maybe just double traitors, like the Germans suspected ?

[@aleksandermiskowiec6591]

As a result of General Anders' personal intervention in London and the position of the Holy See, the British, despite Soviet demands, did not extradite the soldiers of the 14th SS-Freiwilligen Division "Galizien" SS to Joseph Stalin, as they considered them to be Polish citizens (which they unquestionably were until 1939 - the Soviet aggression and occupation on September 17, 1939 did not change their legal status) and allowed them to settle in the United Kingdom and other British Commonwealth countries in 1947.

[@wurf5336]

thank you russia for eliminating nazis once again o/

[@tonyves]

Ha LOL. Putin IS a Nazi.

[@wurf5336]

@@tonyves you ment Zelensky? Small typo there

[@necromorph1109]

Treated them with contempt and distrust. Ended up rebeling and joining enemy side and murdering there German allies ....so i guess they were right.

[@TonySlug]

Esteemed Dr. Felton : Sir, another uprising in the final days of WW2 occurred on the Dutch island of Texel, where Soviets (mostly Georgian) who had previously been sympathetic (to say the least) to the German war effort suddenly revolted against their masters. Said revolt resulted in an armed conflict lasting for several weeks until even AFTER the German unconditional surrender. Which may be a unique feature and perhaps a point of interest to you worthy of further indepth investigation (if you haven't done so already).

[@0nn3]

He did done so already

[@BiharyGabor]

@@0nn3 Where? Could you provide a link please?

[@georgesnarbonne2892]

Yes, what is the link?

[@AlexanderJScheu]

Toni Slug, Gentleman, I'm very obligated, this Themata, - Rus.(Soviet)-General 'Wlassov + his unit - first against fighting WH-Wehrmacht - later with - Germans. End of war 1945, must go- back to Soviet-Union, direct sent under Gallows.. English-Politik- did *Order..... Thank's for Attention, written by - a German.

[@robertmuller3145]

My grandpa told me about that. I'm still very proud of my German ancestry. Russia has to be taught a severe lesson for their murder in Ukraine

[@hootsmon4723]

It makes me realise we were only taught American history for some apparent reason I can't fathom, when we have Europe on our doorstep,

[@dave8599]

europe is a trash place, two world wars, now this ukraine crap. europe is a waste. the euro nato nations refuse to even pay for their own defense, rather they want the American taxpayer to pay. germany has never been an American ally, rather it leeches off American good will. Vlad can have germany.

[@davidcritchley3509]

Look up modern Ukrainian history to really know why this confict has started. The messages I've so far see on KZbin on this subject only merit an F mark in any exam.

[@hootsmon4723]

@@davidcritchley3509 says a guy whose country voted for trump. Laughing stock of the world lol

[@barrieroberts75]

So why don't you go home? 40000 plus troops and missiles pointing at Russia 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@hootsmon4723]

@@barrieroberts75 ehhhh I live in Scotland Hence the flag on my profile lol

[@enverhoxha545]

love your videos! i love to watch ww2 story that is very underrated

[@i-am-Hunter]

The main problem of people is that many cannot physically know where the story is true and where it is rewritten! my grandmother is from the Vinnitsa region, during the war the UPA warriors behaved exactly the same as the Maidan terrorists, supposedly for the sake of some kind of revolution they were engaged in looting and robberies, it’s sad that the collective West raised these maniacs on Ukrainian soil and relied on them to destroy the friendship between Ukraine and Russia... but the sensible majority of Ukrainians know their history and know what the SS Galicia, the UPA and now their descendants in the person of the Nazis from Western Ukraine were like... the terrorists of the UPA and the successors of Kiev, the people of Ukraine are intimidated by the terrorists of Kiev and the Nazis.

[@andrewadams6905]

It's sad that the collective Russian propaganda raised such lunacy in your head, and your grandmother had nothing to do with this I am sure... Your Russian Reich started a war in Europe and killed 500,000 people because of "looting" on Maidan Square?

[@izsormova6286]

@@andrewadams6905 ,Your statement is false, the war lasted eight years before Russia intervened

[@andrewadams6905]

@@izsormova6286 Russia started the war in 2014, Putin admitted that "little green men" were Russian forces invading in Crimea. Then same "little green men" strategy was used to invade Donbass imitating a "civil war". Russian citizen FSB agent Igor Girkin publicly admitted that it was his terrorist unit that opened fire and caused escalation on 04.12.2014. This is the guy who was sentenced to life in prison for killing 298 passengers of MH17 using Buk system from Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade in 2014.

[@izsormova6286]

@@andrewadams6905 these little green men were there for 230 years and left the Crimea only during the Second World War.They didn't invade.The OSCE mission with a microscope searched for Russian troops for eight years and did not find them, during the eight years of the conflict in the Donbas, Ukraine should have had thousands of captured servicemen, but there were none.

[@andrewadams6905]

​@@izsormova6286 Your every sentence is a lie translated from your Russian Zombie TV. Russia didn't have a military base in Simferopol where Russian troops captured Crimean Parliament, this is an act of aggression (invasion) according to multiple UN resolutions, including UN Resolution ES-11/4 12 October 2022 demands that Russia "immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw" from Ukraine as it is violating its territorial integrity and sovereignty. 143 countries in favor, 5 against (North Korea, Nicaragua, Syria, Russia, Belarus). OSCE was never tasked with identification of troops, only types of equipment and fire exchange. You also have an issue with comprehension: Girkin already admitted Russian invasion, and MH17 was shot down using Buk from Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade - direct Russian military involvement. There were also enough POW exchanges between Ukraine and Russia, for example Nadiya Savchenko exchange.

[@neilcastell6951]

Dr Felton does it again, i never knew there was Ukrainians in combat roles. I saw a Ukrainian nationalist posting pro-nazi stuff a couple of days ago, kinda helps explain his actions.

[@Nik0lay11]

SS volunteers on soviet territory were by wast majority the people who heavily suffered from communist occupation. Only during soviet retreat they shoot all persons who were previously arrested(mostly by political reasons) but not sentenced yet in a couple of days. It turned out as more than 20.000 (nazi in Kyiv shoot 37.000 jews in 2 days for reference) .

[@fabbewulf2997]

Big fan, keep it going

[@marks1638]

One of my neighbors, when I was a kid, was a survivor of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. He never really talked about it, but occasionally would get a bit morose and have a few too many drinks. One day while I was mowing his grass, he asked me to sit down so he can tell me a story. I liked his stories about Ukraine and his family. This story wasn't so nice. It was about getting chased down by the Soviet Special Forces (before there was Spetsnaz there were special units to hunt down traitors or perform sabotage missions.). He talked about himself, and several members of his group being hunted for weeks by this unit in the late 40's (after WWII) until only him and a couple of men survived. They snuck out with some help from Ukrainian locals and fled to the US on a freighter in Finland (Finns hated the Russians). He eventually got asylum in the US and settled in my city as a Steel Worker. He died a few years later and was buried in a local Cemetery reserved for people of Ukrainian descent. He would be sad to know that Russia and the Ukraine are fighting again. He hoped that Russia would just stop constantly trying to burn Ukraine to the ground to take its resources and destroy its population. His family was decimated by the Holodomor (the mass starvation of 1932) and the remainder killed during the Soviet reoccupation of Ukraine after the Nazis were defeated. Most of his family were farmers and had nothing to do with the Nazis (or least he claimed so). But to the NKVD if you sold food to the Nazis or a member of your family was against the Soviet Union, you were a traitor (even if you didn't have a choice and could get shot by the Germans.). They were executed in 1945 without a trial on their farm and a bunch of Russians moved in and took over the farm. He said that's what happened to a lot of Ukrainians, the Russians would deport you or send you to a gulag. They would take over your land or business and replace you with loyal Russians, then claim you were a stateless person (as you were in gulag) and had no rights to your land or business. Many of the Russians (who claim to currently be Ukrainians) are those people who took over Ukrainian land at the end of WWII. Now the Russians are using their supposed abuse by the Ukrainian Government to invade the country.

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Thanks for sharing this story. Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T

[@EroticOnion23]

Mmm weird how Ukrainians become the leaders of the USSR (Khrushchev & Brezhnev)

[@marks1638]

@@EroticOnion23 There are always people who take advantage of the system to gain power. It sure didn't help the Ukrainians too much, especially in the early days of the Soviet Union.

[@josesalazar8434]

MARK S......Apparently everyone who writes in this comment section is Russophobic. It is striking that there is talk of a Russia-Ukraine confrontation, and not a Russia-NATO confrontation, where Ukraine is only a pretext. There is also no mention that the West carried out a coup in Ukraine in 2013. With carelessness of this nature, narratives are built. That are then administered to children.

[@zivaradlovacki2666]

@@josesalazar8434 you are right! This is nato provoking Rusia through Ukraina. Ukraina is just another scape goat. Nato encouraging Ukrainians to take natos wepons and 'fight for their country' where they are actualy fighting for nato!

[@DennisDom]

My GrandFather was Croatian SS! The Ustashi or Ustasha! CLF these days... The Germans made too much common sense at that time. "If You can't beat em, You Join Em" he would Say...

[@pabloznotti6883]

The story of a Ukrainian who joins the SS to fight the Soviets and ends up in SE asia with the French foreign legion fighting the vietcong 15 years later is a movie i'd want to see

[@bragslvbm3870]

On the Devil’s tail is about a 15 year old Italian/German boy who’s family moved to Alsace Loraine before the war. He then joined the SS in 1944 and fought in the SS who escaped from the siege of Konisberg fled to Spain was caught by France escaped and fled to Italy before being caught again and joining the FFL to fight in Vietnam

[@autorotate1803]

There were indian SS, african SS, french SS.. list goes one... Race is no factor when you need man power it seems.

[@jerzybarankiewicz1712]

Nothing about atrocities on Poles and Jews by SS Ukrainian Galizien. ......