Comments by "" (@watching99134) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. Just imagine that Korean guy that was supposedly forced into service by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets, forced into service in the Red Army, captured by the Germans, forced into service in the Wehrmacht, and then captured by the Americans at D-Day. They were probably like "What are you doing here?" and he answered "Don't even get me started..."
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  2. Switzerland is all mountains, Belgium has no defensible frontiers; it makes a huge difference.
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  3. They have same kind of thing with Iron Crosses on a smaller scale in Kyiv, they're arranged in a swastika pattern itself which I couldn't decide if it was a sign of respect towards the Nazis or just an artistic statement.
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  4. Fashion of the times.
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  5. Soviets often broke out of German encirclements as well, lines on a map don't mean they're strongly held in every case.
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  6.  @wote2760  I believe so yes.
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  7. I've read that most Germans in the FFL after WW2 were simply young men who needed jobs, the ex-Nazi angle is salacious hyperbole (although it's certainly possible).
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  8.  @ecmarks438  Because Christianity is universalistic and Judaism is particularistic.
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  9. Think you're stretching the concept of "alternative history" a bit far there.
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  10.  @wildlandfirefighter5656  There was no Soviet Union at the end of World War One.
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  11.  @MrDaiseymay  At the same time remember that early on most of the French Resistance were communists; you'll never hear that from Western sources.
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  12. Not necessarily, the NSDAP's chief "ideologist-intellectual" was named Alfred Rosenberg.
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  13.  @cookiesupervisor2211  Probably not, considering the National Socialists never got a majority of the vote.
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  14.  @mr.spuddy7062  Grow up please.
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  15. Also that the Swedes don't publicize more of it, probably they don't want people to know how much money they made off the war.
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  16.  Peter Mortensen  Because it's part of history and gives a valid reason, not just "Hitler's madness".
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  17.  @douglasspencer745  Why? They're very similar in certain ways (political neophytes who offer a radical-conservative agenda, an emphasis on defeating your alleged enemies, a highly nepotistic and extra-legal ruling style, an ability to create and capitalize on chaos and a persona based on supreme confidence and decisiveness. There are differences too but it's not that far-fetched).
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  18.  Nicolas d'Avout  The western Allies didn't "worship the spread of communism", they even sent forces to assist the Whites in the Russian Civil War.
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  19.  @duped8273  It's also a national identity (regardless of whether or not Israel exists); this is how Russians have always counted them.
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  20.  @AcidNinja158  Acting as if other people can't find Croatia on a map, it's right there in his comment.
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  21.  @marvelousmoostacheman5560  In retrospect, sure (they did a lot of favorable things once the Nuremberg Trials ended though, like helping Klaus Barbie to escape).
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  22.  @НиколайМайстренко-п1х  NKVD killed many thousands of Soviet citizens; you're delusional.
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  23. Yes it's amazing how even educated and otherwise fair-minded presenters like Felton can take Anglocentrism for granted.
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  24. Karl Marx's parents converted to Lutheranism to advance their legal careers and had him and all his siblings baptized fwiw.
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  25. His pronunciation is good but not quite perfect (for example in other videos he always pronounces Reich like Rike rather than with a hissing 'ch' sound, in this one he puts the emphasis on the second syllable in Cordoba instead of the first).
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  26.  @adamsmith9898  Yes, they are in the Military Museum in Moscow as mentioned in the video. (I don't think the Russians are selling.)
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  27. All good points, but probably under the wrong video.
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  28.  @FalkeEins  The British lol
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  29. "Fiction, repeat *fiction*.....of course, fueled by the Internet" lol
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  30. Perhaps the construction needs of the Norwegians after the war outweighed their sentiment towards respecting German war dead.
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  31.  @Scipionyxsam  Bavaria chose to support Prussia in the Franco-German War of 1870.
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  32. No, it means "Red Beard" and refers to an ancient Germanic king who is supposedly asleep underneath the Harz Mountains.
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  33.  @Hero.Lone-Wolf  The Netherlands was a Hitler-worshipping country? What kind of drugs are you on?
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  34.  @musicofnote1  At the same time many of the "sympathiser groups in the US" were simply isolationist (didn't think it made sense for the US to get involved in another European war).
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  35.  @jonah9905  Because the U.S. Navy was already attacking German submarines in the Atlantic (under their own flag, not Lend-Lease).
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  36.  @HolgerLovesMusic  Soviets committed numerous atrocities before the war even began.
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  37.  @LeporidaeanDream  Italy had rearmed in the early 1930s, but by the time war broke out its equipment was already dated.
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  38.  @mikemancuso2526  Although in Asia WW2 started in 1937.
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  39. "Interestingly, the Americans never left." Where have I heard that before?
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  40. And you have to ask in whose interests it is to continue to present them as supernatural beings?
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  41. Well he had already won a Pour le Merite in World War One, so...
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  42. I didn't (I am distantly related to a famous Luftwaffe general [who was never in North Africa] but most people immediately respond with scorn and derision so I hardly say it anymore).
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  43.  @eltigre4419  At the same time that was after the war so the analogy is not good.
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  44. He wasn't first and foremost a "fighter pilot" or soldier (he flew dive bombers and ground support aircraft).
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  45. Sounds like a tall tale (my mother's first cousin claimed to have escaped the encirclement at Stalingrad; his widow later told us he wasn't even in Army Group South).
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  46. They're interesting but I think the one with the flags is kind of on the outskirts in a run-down neighborhood iirc, they're giant buildings but not necessarily filled with thousands of exhibits.
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  47.  @holyfox94  If he was East German his report is meaningless
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  48. They did, they told him he had more promise as an architect than a painter and said he would be admitted to the architecture school if he simply submitted proof of his high school education but he didn't graduate from high school and never went back.
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  49. Also he was using and carrying explosive bullets (his first war crime).
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  50.  @anthonyhawk7484  The Brits were war-weary but Churchill was less under Stalin's spell than FDR had been; Churchill knew what Stalin had in mind but was no longer in much of a position to do anything about it as the U.S. had become the senior partner in the western Allied alliance.
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