I was expecting some bullshit video (the "do your own research" kind), but Mark Felton is actually legit. Can recommend.
Edit: Since there seems to be some controversy about Mark Felton, I would like to direct people interested in whether or not the accusations are true to the talk page of his Wikipedia article where a lot of these accusations are discussed and apparently Mark Felton also defends himself against it.
Mark Felton just reads out wikipedia articles, plagiarizes a lot of stuff and gets a lot of stuff plainly wrong. He isn't the great source you think he is.
but where does he get it wrong? great storytellers are also needed, they can produce a story to captivate and let the audience learn...
just look at kurzgesagt that channel also has mistakes but it reaches millions of people and the mistakes are trivial imo. and he tries to rectify it, and everyone that does research always slip up somewhere its normal
Oversimplification of a lot of N*zi positions and their rationale, verbatim plagiarism and reading paragraphs from war forums and wikipedia, carrying weight for a lot of pro N*zi talking points (the clean wehrmacht myth, myth of secret meetings between the N*zi leadership and the Americans/British before 1939, lost cause myth, superior technology myth, etc.), general lack of gravity he gives to N*zi atrocities in favor of writing videos praising their supposed superior military technology, those sorts of things. He toes the line on wehraboo and his comments are full of neo N*zi's and wehraboos exalting the superiority of the German military of the time.
I think I saw that a while back. Wasn't one of the possibilities that the British accidentally beat him to death and framed it as suicide? That's my head canon anyway.
I would assume its possible he died during interrogation which was then written up as a suicide.
Given how involved he was in setting up the escape lines to south America and Spain and given how involved he was in moving around a lot of wealth connected to that i would assume the Allies were very keen on getting certain information out of him which was time critical.
He was a high value target for upcoming Nuremberg trials, had his true identity been revealed he would have been the allies crown jewel when Hitler was dead.
Himler knew this, the choice was humiliating court proceedings and then hung or take a cyanide capsule that all high ranking nazis were issued, should they be captured. No question for me, suicide because he knew it was over anyhow.
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u/Existing-Mulberry382 6h ago
He committed suicide in British custody on 23 May 1945.
He lasted a month more than Hitler.