Origins of the SS - 1919-1934

The story of how the infamous SS emerged between 1919 and 1934.
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[@averagewikipediaenthusiast3088]

Himmler's photo in the thumbnail makes him look like a middle aged boy scout

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@Star Trek Theory the brown shirt uniforms were pretty ugly

[@LuisSantos-hs8ur]

@Benjamin Mordecai wrong lol. American and British uniforms are better.

[@8-bitsteve500]

@Blue C ..Flat Earther detected.. Everything is a conspiracy. lol

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@Benjamin Mordecai they didn't wear those uniforms on any battlefield

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@@LuisSantos-hs8ur true,though i prefer the British ones.

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Mark how does it feel knowing you have the best history channel on KZbin ?

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he's better than the History Channel itself!

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Channels*

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I hope not - I'd be out of business!

[@Scurge237]

They're not unfortunately most are probably indoctrinated today.

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I hope your English teacher is reading your comment:)

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@@Scurge237 indoctrinated?

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@jack the flipper it has been edited

[@chipmunkhunt]

I used to walk around the US barracks in Berlin known as Andrew's Barracks and say to myself, "If only these walls could talk ". Andrew's Barracks was the Lichterfeld barracks for the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.

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I thought same, at Werner Barracks......Bamberg...

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Fitting place for NATO (US) soldiers in Europe.

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Well I hope you speak German, as if they could if they did talk and you couldn’t understand it would be anticlimactic.

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I wish I had you Mark as a history professor in college. Keep em coming

[@derdickemann]

Thanks for this one! Helps to add up a piece of family history. My grandfather obviously entered the ranks of the SS rather early (SS-Membership No. 967). Due to your timeline that would be probably sometime after 1928 but rather long before Himmler added thousands to that branch. A bit more to the puzzle. From 3 old photographs I figured out that he was member of an MP (Feldgendarmerie) Platoon or Company attached to one of the Totenkopf-Divisions and took part in the battle of Charkov.

[@peterbellini6102]

By your comments, he entered the Waffen-SS with Totenkopf (3rd Waffen-SS Division) probably upon it's formation in October 1939. With respect, you're sure of his SS#? Himmler's was 168; could they have known each other?

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Bosch advertisment in the middle of the story was priceless ;)

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"Night of the Long Knives." Dialing up the political hits so often the phone line literally glowed red..

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They don't teach this factual history in college, anyway.

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Not since Obama they don't. You are correct about that!

[@grahamclifton1483]

When "special advisors to Government" are given their own uniform..

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Research the Holodomor and the zionists that did it .

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_Ivanka_ and _Jared_ are wearing uniforms by now? *;-)*

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This is something I have never even thought about. And it’s very interesting.

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That there photo of Ed Norton cosplaying as a boy scout is some nightmare fuel.

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Well done Mark another fascinating audio !

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Very informative. enjoyed it! Thank you!!

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Continue making these videos! I really enjoy the knowledge and the content

[@brendanmccallion2350]

Was watching The Great Escape last night and was literally wondering this same question, and here is the answer the very next day. That is spooky. Thanks Mark 👍

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I think he was riding a Triumph MC

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Vee haff vayz off making you tock!

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I hope you do some more on the Kriegsmarine. I love watching all your videos on different military history. Keep up the great work.😀

[@ALWResearchTeam]

A sad and scary story. Excellent Writing and Narration.

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Thanks for the video

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I really enjoyed this. Great research. Thanks Mark

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Superbly researched historical content.

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Wonderful to listen too. Background learning. Thanks Mate.

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Love your work. Was wondering if you had considered uploading the audio only series onto to spotify.

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What a wonderful presentation of history, thank you Mark

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Greetings Mark. I truly appreciate your oratory skills and your historical accuracy. Moreover, proper annunciation of the names of groups and persons

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Enjoyed listening to that mark, thanks.

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Thanks for saving and not rewriting history. As I've grown older all the vets I knew from ww2 have long since passed. There's no way to learn if not from a professor or scholar and no one is teaching this thorough history anymore and in fact I believe its discouraged by most institutions.So thank you sir and I'm subbed.

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[@AaronfromEngland1989]

Cheers mark good video

[@admiralradish]

Was not notified of this. Just shows me those who do not learn history are going to repeat it.

[@AKmohanrajj1]

Was eagerly Waiting for your video Mark & Now only finished watching Third Atomic Bomb video, & now Origins of SS, thanks Mark for your informative & Educative videos 😊✌Way to go 🙏

[@andrewrobinson2565]

Another great episode full of small detail.

[@wkdravenna]

Thank you Mark 😊

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Your programming is fantastic. Thank you for all the work you pt into it. Question. Have you done a program on the role of the American Indian in the war? It's a fascinating story from what little I know. I'd love to see a program of your on this important topic. Thank you

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You should post your audio videos on Spotify or Soundcloud as a podcast

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@tylerfoss3346]

Another outstanding video containing excellent information. Most know about the well known Nazis (Himmler, Goering, etc.) but I never heard of these others you mention save for the head of the SA, Rohm. Thank you, Mark!

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How many has he written? I’d like to read them.

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

A great many thanks!

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22

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War Stories with Mark Felton holy moly. I’m retiring until I can get through all 22! Love that many are on Kindle

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@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton my conscience is 3/4 clear now,,, :-( However it means I have more books I can buy! :-)

[@davidmaslow399]

Thank You Mark!

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I cant wait to be watching your Netflix History doc series in a few years !

[@billthompson6442]

Great talent you have. I wish you all the success! You have a “great product “( lol ...a business term) ie people are truly fascinated and repulsed by such an evil man), you deliver it in an artistic format, both visually and your orally. Your presentation is very interesting to listen to! You have a natural charisma and it shows! I wish such talent much success. Your “ business” but in your case your love and passion will be successful. It is obvious you do this not for the money but for social justice. If one is not greedy( something innate character ( lol) that we all struggle with... unfortunately for man) and one does what he loves and he does it with passion for the sheer joy of helping others than God will bless that effort!

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Thanks God there is someone who cares about history.

[@daveberntson4081]

Whether it's names or places, your pronunciation sounds authentic. Do you speak German, French, and Russian?

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mark gives the best war stories true ones

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Mark do you have any podcasts or audio stories on a platform other than youtube? Id like to be able to listen on the move without having to have the youtube app open!

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Great vid!

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Thank you

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"My honor is loyalty. This was taken quite literally" @11:12 Don't see that anymore

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Omfg finally a documentary without music and loud sound effects over the talkers voice . Thankyou

[@thEannoyingE]

Contrary to popular belief, the SS did not wear the black parade uniform after 1934 in local settings. Hollywood has fed this myth even during wartime, with films like Hitler’s Madmen(1943), depicting the SS in black uniforms at all times. This continues even today.

[@MarCuseus]

*EPIC FAIL* :(

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@@MarCuseus What is wrong?

[@TheLocalLt]

What do you mean by local settings? And what uniforms did they wear instead?

[@news_internationale2035]

Huh? It was in use well later into the 30s.

[@alisonhilll4317]

Hollywood likes to rewrite history to suit their agenda.

[@TheSpritz0]

MARK FELTON- I've got a GREAT idea for you, you can extend the WW2 section of your videos by doing videos on the Vichy French "Milice" and the Ordnungspolizei, also the Russian auxiliary volunteer groups called "HIWIS"...

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Please reply Your videos are absolutely amazing so informative, I am so glad you make videos !!!

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"I definitely nazi this coming." - Ernst Röhm -

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F

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Felton is on the march with these videos. And we wouldn't have it any other way.

[@bravo0105]

Thank-you very much!

[@adavis5926]

Thank you for the video! I wonder if you can cover the SS from after 34 up until 39. I've tried to follow its development but it can be very confusing as so many changes occurred in those years as Himmler and Heydrich swallowed up so many other police forces in Germany. Also, can anyone recommend a decent book on the development in the prewar SS?

[@23draft7]

Most likely read it but Army of Evil. Adrian Weale.

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Subbed for the second time Mark!! JJ

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Yay a new vid

[@corin164]

Mark, the information you provide in this video very interesting, however it would have been more so if you had attached pictures of the people and various uniforms you describe.

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

Audio channel!

[@friendhui4320]

Thank you sir.

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

I don't think Rohm's orientation was a secret, everyone knew, and he was pretty open about his exploits with young SA men. When he went to, I think it was Bolivia as a military advisor, he was basically open about it there too!

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[@rvanhees89]

@Daver G that actually makes Hess even more terrifying I think. Imagine getting violently sodomized or beaten to death by a big *mean* beefy burly man wearing woman clothes and make-up. Last thing you would hear would be the brown-shirts shouting and chanting: 'Schwarzer Emma! Schwarzer Emma!'

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

@Daver G I have heard that, about Hess! And Goering had a feminine side. One just has to look at those "beautiful" Nazi uniforms and know there was going on! 💅👗👠💄

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

@UC69HKKqUtT-gNdEJDm12-UQ I saw an episode of a crime investigation show on TV once, they went into one of the San Francisco gay "leather" bars, you would swear you were looking at a 1930's SS meeting!

[@rvanhees89]

@@StalinTheMan0fSteel in that case check out 'Scorpio Rising' you can watch on Death Fetish his/her channel

[@Mandy-vn7rl]

November 1921, the brawl at the Munich beer hall . . . why oh why did the bullets fired at Hitler not hit their mark with fatal consequences !!! Can you imagine how different history would have been, and how many millions of innocent lives would have been saved if Hitler was killed in that beer hall ?

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thank you..

[@StrawHalo]

Very interesting

[@cyphi474]

Factual leader of SA was Ernst Rohm and that was problem for Hitler, because he had close to none authority over them.

[@lukenkc]

Is there any way to get these audio only programs in a podcast format? I would love to be able to listen to them as I'm out and about away from my computer. Thanks.

[@mackfisher4487]

Whenever I read history or listen to your excellent KZbin channel programming, I think of the "what if" scenario. What would the world be like in the 21st century if one is assassinations of Hitler had succeeded. What would Germany be like what effect on the Communist revolution, what impact on Europe It certainly would be a different world, It's rather mindnumbing.

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

I was just talking to a German friend. His Grandfather was in the SS. 12th SS I believe and was taken prisoner and ended up in. US Indiana ( Attebury ) pow camp. He picked tomatoes until the end of the war. He ran common wire and was captured at the end of the war. He said he Grandfather and extended family were proud of him when be joined.. He is from Bavaria..

[@brucecunningham1607]

He was probably a minority as a German in Atterbury, most of the pow's were Italian soldiers. I'm also a fellow Hoosier and live not very far from the camp.

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

@@brucecunningham1607 Yeap, I live in Seymour. So just 20 miles away..

[@carl_marks1626]

I read somewhere that Himmler was obsessed with medieval German witches. He even had some historians gather as much history as they could on the subject.

[@mesolithicman164]

With the exception of Heydrich it's amazing how few top Nazis had the kind of Aryan looks Hitler obsessed over. Including the little fella with the 'tache and glasses.

[@shutup2751]

i agree alright but to be fair even as evil as hitler was he'd still be considered quite good looking back in those days without the mustache of course

[@mesolithicman164]

shutup2 Apparently women were transfixed by Hitler's beautiful blue eyes. I'm sure that may be true but it's also funny how women suddenly find men incredibly attractive when the man is also incredibly powerful and/or rich.

[@amurleopard1457]

9:47 - SS Commanded by Shrek??? 10:10 - Shrek served Hitler as his personal driver. I'm dying here lol....

[@rickarmknecht8903]

I remember reading (decades ago) that the SS was so insignificant at the time of the Munich Putsch that the Wiemar government did not ban the SS as the SA was banned.

[@IrishCarney]

That doesn't make sense because the SS was part of the SA at the time.

[@rickarmknecht8903]

@@IrishCarney CAUTION -- Wikipedia Quote to follow (so it could be absolute nonsense): "By 1923, the Nazi Party (NSDAP) led by Adolf Hitler had created a small volunteer guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz (Hall Security) to provide security at their meetings in Munich.[4][5] The same year, Hitler ordered the formation of a small bodyguard unit dedicated to his personal service. He wished it to be separate from the "suspect mass" of the party, including the paramilitary Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA), which he did not trust."

[@IrishCarney]

@@rickarmknecht8903 Yes but it was not totally separate, as in fully independent of the SA. It was an elite unit within the SA that was meant to bypass the SA chain of command and report to Hitler directly. Not until 1934 and the Night of the Long Knives was the SS finally broken off from the SA and made totally separate.

[@leonmcmahon363]

That intro 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@nathanielcarreon5634]

The chicken farmer becomes the SS head.

[@letoubib21]

Just read the CVs of the high ranked Nazis. Nearly all of them had been underachievers before. . .

[@mikesaunders4775]

@@letoubib21 That's a bit unfair on chicken farmers.

[@clawhammer704]

I know some millionaires that run big chicken business.

[@budscroggins2632]

Please do a Vid on the Outkast Dirlewanger SS Brigade

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

Mark, my self proclaimed friend, you shall go down in well, history.

[@PRubin-rh4sr]

How about a grand project of narrating all battles in order of their timeline in a specific theater in WW2? Sounds ambitious I know, but it sounds great too

[@troystaunton254]

Ww2 week by week is doing that.

[@doctorstrangelove8815]

If this continues, we will need the history of Mark Felton War Stories narrated by Mark Felton

[@costaroumeliotis4639]

Hugo Boss catalog fall 1939

[@brt-jn7kg]

This is why you never give a failed chicken farmer power

[@scottcharney1091]

He was also, as someone once described him, a bullied nerd who had a lot of anger to take out.

[@dylantwomey7683]

who need netflix when you have mark felton