Hitler Visits His Past - Austrian Childhood Homes
On 12 March 1938, Anschluss or union between Germany and Austria occurred. Hitler decided to pay a visit to his childhood homes and school and drove into Austria at the head of a large convoy of SS bodyguards and members of his staff and inner circle. Beginning at Braun, where he was born, the tour ended in Vienna two days later. The places Hitler visited in 1938 are little changed in 2024.
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My lovely step-dad was captured in Greece by the Germans and forced to work on the railways in Klagenfurt, Austria. He escaped seven times, finally making it back to the UK. He always said that the Austrians were even more enthusiastic about Hitler than the Germans.
Yes that holds a lot of water, I've known Austrians, very "PRO" the little monster
I worked with an Austrian who was forced to serve in the Wehrmact, he did not like being thought of a German. There is a scurrilous rumour that he and his platoon took action against their German officer when he ordered them to fight to the last man, they chose to surrender and the officer no longer had a say in the matter, or any other come to that😉
Absolutely...until May, 1945!
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 'The little monster' was above average height for his time.
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg They knew what our today would eventually look like.
It's almost as if Austria annexed Germany! Also, I'm no Nazi apologist but I wish gravemarkers and signage could be left up and in place. These places are of paramount historical importance after all!
There will always be people waiting to rob these graves.
And unpleasant folks who want to turn them into shrines.
If it isn't fans, it is victims or victors, maybe losers. What holocaust victim or relative wants to see even AH's relatives idolized? You can't win with Adolf. If it was Stalin, in Russia, maybe?!
Isn’t a grave a shrine by another name?
@@TheZogsvengali Not necessarily! I once went to see the grave of Karl Marx, a man whose musings I have nothing but contempt for!
That Mercedes he used for the parades is beautiful.
And can be seen in museums
Where @@aka99
@@Kam-King213 Auto und Technik Museum Sinsheim, Germany.
It’s wrong to conceal history, those that forget history are condemned to repeat it. Keep up the great work Mark. Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺
In reality, you are overreacting. We dont have the actual bomb dropped on hiroshima, yet we still remember what it is and know what happened
@@TonysopranoyafinookWell of course we don’t have the bomb. It exploded. But we do have the plane that dropped it, memorials to the men that built it, and a plethora of other artifacts related to it. And of course we know it happened. It was only 80 years ago. These things become more important as time goes on. There are an infinite number of things we DON’T know about endless cultures specifically because there’s no written record or physical evidence.
@@Tonysopranoyafinook 'Reality' you say? Take a wild guess why we don't have the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima. Hint; IT WAS A BOMB.
Not exactly forgetting though in this case. Rather preventing it coming back. In particular at this point in politics with the Right in the rise again across the globe.
That six-wheeled Mercedes is a beaut.
Awesome, eh ?!!
Isn't that incredible? Think of how well the roads it travelled on had to be maintained.
@@AroundTheWorldWithEase THAT didn't even need any roads
It's even prettier than my wife's Mercedes ML-500.
Reminds me of the time Top Gear did a skit on it
Felton, I am from Kenya and your channel brought what I studied into reality. Someday I will visit Normandy and these historical sites and invite you for a coffee
You could jump on a little boat and succeed where the Germans failed.
😋🏆Kenyan coffee is the best !
Met many fine people when I was there, hello from America m
@@mtlicq always is
@@williamwilliam5066 I haven't the slightest innuendo to live in Germany if that is your concern. I know you hate Africans but I am fairly successful on my own. A medical doctor, researcher and a lover of history. My visit wouldn't be illegal but as a tourist just like many of your people commented here of their visit to Kenya. Perhaps your intentions were different? My apologies if being a darker skin or of African origin offended you. I merely am just curious of seeing the world's history and not just as a story on Dr. Feltons page. My apologies if this came off rude. Have nice day
Seems a bit overkill to remove or hide the grave markers of relatives. It's history ...hiding from it is the best way to recreate it.
How would hiding the parents grave markers recreate what vile things Hitler did?
@@seattlewa8500 When you hide from history. You do not learn from it. So, relive it.
this generation is all about censorship and overkill
Such actions are made to prohibit Nazi sympathizers to use these places for pilgrimage.
For me, it's not so much that it's history as it is they died decades before Hitler would ever go on to do the things he did. the local government essentially desecrated an innocent grave at that point
Another great topic by Mark
I was trying to wipe your profile picture off of my screen.......
❤The Great One knew where the problem lay🎉
@@notlad1282 🤭
@@Sony_Toprano Yes, with inbred internet trolls, such as yourself.
@@notlad1282Me too I thought it was a piece of dirt or hair lol.
Another banger from Dr. Felton! Previously we’d only been informed of a smidgeon of details about the Painter’s Old Home Week. I’m sure if those cops had noticed Mark outside the station, they would have happily turned over the keys to the building to him to film whatever he liked. Surely everyone appreciates this channel worldwide! Thanks, Dr. Felton!
I grew up in Leonding and lived on the other side of that cemetery in viewing distance of the house. It always felt surreal to have this kind of historical background in my quiet and peaceful hometown.
Thanks for keeping history alive Mark!
What's the difference today between Austria and Germany? There are still lots of Nazis in Austria.
Perfect timing for my lunch break. Cheers, Mark!
I thought one of your lines was telling. The part of about a quarter of a million people in Linz happy to claim him at the time. I just got through watching ‘Judgement at Nuremberg’ and that line reminded me of everyone in that movie being quick to disassociate themselves with nazism as soon as they lost the war.
See my comment above. Entirely correct, Keith.
Austrians do exactly that
Revolutions were all in and from Austria & Austrians, the communist revolution there in 1918, then later the Putsch in München, then you know who...who was born and raised and was Austrian
The Austrian's only chance of being allowed to exist as a state post war was to claim the victim narrative, and describe the Anschluss as an invasion. It is not entirely untrue; Hitler was putting immense pressure on the Austrian leadership to capitulate peacefully or be taken anyway.
Thanks Dr. Felton!
That's the most German staff cars I've ever seen in one place. Gotta love those cars they were built to go anywhere.
No they weren't, they never reached Moscow...
@@laetiziacoronet243Didn't the Russians take one as a war prize for their war museum?
Those are some nice looking cars. I never noticed them before in the black and white films but the color photos that were shown in this video are spectacular. 👍
@@J-1410i wouldn't be surprised, they took everything that wasn't nailed down.
@@J-1410 Taking a car somewhere and using it to go somewhere are not the same thing.
Thanks Mark for another great video, as an English/Welsh man living just north of Linz this really brings home the area history. Thanks again!
You never disappoint, Mr. Felton. I marvel at the historical nuggets you find, most of which would be far beyond the reach of most people. Thank you for keeping such history and events alive for us.
It's an absolute disgrace what has been done to the graves of his parents and sister.
I feel it’s dumb removing it considering they just birthed him, they had no idea he would be this way
Especially not his mother
Yea thats messed up...Not their fault he turned out crazy...Plus they were dead before the war even started
What happened?
I just read a newspaper article about it from 2013. It stated that there were (Neo-)Nazis regularly visiting the grave and putting on candles while wearing classic Neonazi cloths. Out of repect for the families that needed the graveyard to mourn for their relatives at the graveyard, they wanted to get rid of it for quite some time. This wasn't possible as an anonymous person (due to data protection laws) still paid for the grave that would normally already be removed to make room for a new grave. As the anonymous person finally agreed to remove it, they did it. I don't think his parents and sister would have liked that their grave was turned into a shrine for Nazis, so I guess it's better this way.
Thank you for sharing this video Mark. It is important to remember history.
Yeah!!! Another epic video by Dr. Felton 🎉🎉🎉
I’ve always wondered about this topic. Thank you for this 👌
Yes far point about Hitler be a more successful painter and going to the college in Austria that rejected him, he would of still been called up to fight in the first World War as a Austrian and because Austria was part of the Austrian Hungary Empire that fout in the War with the Germans against the French and Great Britain so he still may well of come to power as the leader of the Nazis and chancellor of Germany in the 1930's and all that followed....
Amazing archival still pics n films still exists in well preserved condition of the various events of that time period. Kudos for very informative n well researched documentary. As always looking forward to more of ur uploads. Peace
Outstanding work, very well done.
Thank You Mr Felton Another Great Topic / Slice of History
It's so refreshing to have a video of Dr Felton if it's n night time or day time Thanks Doc !
Fascinating, of course! Thank you again Dr. Felton. I was up late reading your book, "Operation Swallow". :)
Love the use of old news reels in your video's. Hope to see more.
Another excelleny video by dr. Felton. Thank you.
Thursdays are the best. Mark Felton and 618 fishing downloads. Life don't get no better
Could we get some videos on Churchill's wacky military exploits? Hitler is fun and all but I feel like there's a lot of content on Hitler already... And Churchill's shenanigans were pretty remarkable. The early-life Churchill's military exploits are not topics I've ever really seen well covered anywhere.
Well, considering the Churchill museum at Chartwell refused access to film and photograph artefacts such as his uniforms and weapons, the answer is 'no'.
Churchill was an old drunk who treacherously did the bidding of his semitic bankrollers. A traitor to his people.
@@MarkFeltonProductionsThat’s a bummer! Why they gotta be so snooty!?
Drat, what a terrible shame... Did they give you the Buckingham Palace toilet lecture treatment? British museums/historic places really seem to be letting history down!@@MarkFeltonProductions
@@MarkFeltonProductionsmy guess is they want exclusive right to show his artifacts.
My grandmother was one of the students who met the Führer. She said he seemed like such a kind man at the time. He signed her curriculum binder - I still have it to this day.
Must be worth a fortune
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He was
You still have an Adolf Hitler signed curriculum?! that must feel surreal just looking at it
N azzi
Whenever you post any video I know it's going to be so much interesting part of History which I have never heard before. Thanks for doing this beautiful work Mark
It was a great topic...thanks for sharing
Mark Felton channel is must watch! Thanks Dr Felton! @8:04 Hitler looking at model cities in 1945, that was in several Hitler bunker films!
Thanks for great closed captions. ❤️
I like when you add little clips into the documentaries
Great detail as always. Thanks.
Another great production from You. The airport he left from in Munich is where the Olympia park is today.
marks uploads ong makes me smile ear to ear ngl
Seeing "Ong" and "NGL" in comments about someone getting really hyped about a WW2 history video is surreal
Dr. Felton never fails to impress! Great work sir!
"Storm Troopers and Austrian Nazi's were everywhere, stimulating a peace loving people cheering and accepting their self-styled leader" That didn't age well. Amazing as always Dr. Felton
I wonder when that was made, it sounds like they wanted to sort of hide his real intentions behind this
@@Azurethewolf168Quite possibly. Many Americans were thoroughly besotted with Hitler before the war, including some real luminaries (Charles Lindbergh, for example)...
he was the Michael Jackson of Nazism
@@stevetournay6103 it’s the same sort of thing they did with the riots in 2020, calling looting and pillaging of stores as peaceful
He was on Time Magazine's cover as Man of the Year in 1938 for saving his country. At least up until that time.@@stevetournay6103
you look at all the people in the crowds and wonder what happened to them in the next 7 years
Yes. But not much imagination of what happened to the marching soldiers.
i wonder what happened to the girl hitler held at 5:35
@@azathoth8838she probably is dead by now
I always have the same thought when I see videos from before the war(s). An interesting and quite well researched instance is that of Ned Parfett, the boy stood with the newspaper headline of the sinking of the Titanic.
59 Patrickw: Especially that one woman in the crowd, featured frequently in close-ups, eyes shining with fervour. A similar report tracked an Afghan woman that had featured on the front of Time magazine. Her photo was a really iconic image and the follow up story was interesting.
I find this era and subject matters absolutely fascinating and could watch and read out it all day on my time off. Thank you Mark for making it so available
Thanks for sharing!
They should have just let the guy into architecture school.
He was advised that he had a knack for the subject, but High Art was his aim. The world was spared a succession of "suitable for the Hofbrau/train station/Burgomeister's front room/public building" paintings, but got something completely different.
Among his artist drawings and paintings are structures. Likely where the propaganda about him being a "house painter" originated.
Yep
He should have stopped wanting for more glories right after the parade
@@josephbingham1255 it wasn't propaganda it was an insult. He Saw himself as a master painter, the insult is that he wasn't even good at painting a picture of a house.
Austria drove on the left like the UK, Japan etc., until the anschluss.
not exactly, western parts drove on the right side, easten parts with vienna on the left.
@@bukovic1971I live in Galicia. Left hand here originally. Makes for some aggravating crossroads even today.
It was the same across the Hapsburg Empire. Czechoslovakia was preparing to change when Hitler invaded and forced an immediate change. Hungary was the last part of the old Empire to change sides in 1942. Sweden, 1967, being the last continental nation to change. Italy was a mix. Some provinces used the right while others used the left. Mussolini in 1923 decreed all provinces must change to the right although some vehicles brands continued building only RHD vehicles well into the 1950's.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Sounds like a recipe for chaos.@@bukovic1971
Top tier as always! Thank you for amazing videos!
The best videos always of history showing us new and old photos and clips! Absolutely love these!! Thanks so much Mark for these 👍👍
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I’ve noticed quite a few people commenting that Nazi-adjacent graves shouldn’t be unmarked. After WW2, the Allies regarded Nazi burial sites as potential shrines for Axis sympathizers, and also targets for looting and desecration. To prevent these events, the graves are either unmarked or removed altogether. Recently, 2019 saw Reinhard Heidrich’s unmarked grave dug up, so these things do happen.
I feel like this is one of those things where trying to do as much as you can to remove it ends up keeping it in your mind more
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Wow, I didn't know Hitler's convoy was that large. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for the lesson.
Thank you for respectfully preserving this piece of history.
9:11 Wow, I'd never seen footage of one of those parades with audio before
Thank you for your work! A small correction here(2:57): He did not land at todays airport(red circle), that was opened in 1992. He must have arrived either at Oberwiesenfeld(today Olympiastadion), Schleissheim(today a very interesting aviation museum), or at Riem, airport until 1992.
I never knew they built the Olympic Stadium at the site of a former airport.
Muchas gracias por compartír, sigo su canal con especial atención!!!
That last newsreel ... Dr. Felton, you are indeed the king of finding footage. The tone of the narrator of that last one is so positive compared to all others I have seen of Hitler in Austria. Bravo again and thanks for your service to history.
Another great example by Dr. Felton.
The Austrian Painter and WW2 will forever be the most interesting time in history.
The great one.
If only he’d been a more gifted painter
don't ban tiktok, tic tac toe, it's a winner!
I have yet to find the correct English term for the German word Kunstmaler, an expression that is situated somewhere slightly above house painter and below artist.
@@Peter_Pepper_the_Pickled_Piper 🤚🏻
Thanks Mark, almost always things l didn't know & ALWAYS fascinating !
Great video as always, but something just occurred to me, besides Hitler being born in "Braunau", brownshirts, you just can't make stuff like this up. But what occurred to me was, imagine! Imagine having a KZhead channel like Mark Felton's, that is gleefully consumed by so many people that are veterans, history buffs, history experts, people who have lived in the various places he covers, people who were directly affected by the events Mark covers, and although I have no idea, I would guess the vast majority enjoy and go from surprisingly informed to having revelations about the subject matter. Everyone that was involved or has intimate knowledge, has something to add I am sure, but the level of respect we have (sorry to speak for others) is absolute. Not to mention the thoughtfulness and professionalism. Just....dayum. Finally, I have my own channel that has nothing to do with this subject, but I just realized I am informed by Mark Felton. Not by his style, not by his productions standards, but I realized just now he influences me by his thoughtfulness, his focus on accuracy, all while providing an element of very, very low key nuance. So, thanks brother.
It’s interesting to note, one of these staff cars was used in the tv show Hogan’s Heroes.
Really?
It's silly; turning buildings into police stations and removing grave markers won't deter fans. And it keeps historians from being able to visit these spots to experience the history.
I really hate the attitude of western governments towards anything related to the party, they should be left as they were so we know the history behind it. Concealing and hiding it will only cause the same things to happen again. It would be like if France removed all the things related to napoleon, it’s part of their history no matter how you try to hide it.
well, considering it's on KZhead historians know where they are and what they are....
I really don’t understand why you would remove historical buildings like this. It would be like France erasing things relating to napoleon, it’s still part of their history no matter how much they try and remove it.
Some do not like being reminded when the power of their group was against the Germans - they lost! They managed the maneuvering to have the columns of the Zeppelin Field torn down before the Germans were able to establish a historic structure preservation law which now exists.@@Azurethewolf168
@@Azurethewolf168 A global authority wants those ideas associated with that particular time in history to be misremembered and retold. All the other ideologies are fine though, nothing to see here.
Great vid as always. I really enjoy having this on while I play hoi4.
Best opening music of all KZheadrs everywhere!
It's good to see the grave markers disguised. It stops people making pilgrimages there or others from desecrating the graves. May these 'innocents' continue to rest in peace.
School children had no shoes. People really struggled.
Once again a fascinating account, thank you Mark.
Outstanding Dr. Felton. I actually saw the parents grave in 2011, little did I know?
Pretty silly that his parent's grave stone would have to be removed. They didn't do anything wrong lol
No? You don't think Alois, Sr. Beating Adolf til he peed had any bearing on his later behavior?
Hmm not silly at all...
No it’s perfectly logical and reasonable to remove a magnet for loonies.
@@lynnmeyers10 i doubt his father didnt know/expected his actions would make his son to what he became in later life. They should leave the dead in peace.
@Kededian a lot we dont kno w about Alois, Sr. Was he antisemitic , was he jealous. of "Addie," and we know he assaulted Klara even as his wife lay dying upstairs and Klara had been made to come to ALOIS as his housekeeper. There is a great deal we don't know and a lot we k now. It didnt help. The whole possible grandfather Jewish thing also played into his troubled mind. Who told him? They are left in peace with no headstones thanks to Adolf & his evil ways. Ask the 6 million JEWS & 50 million Dead Europeans about their being left in peace after mass Graves and crematoria!
Austria had in some ways a lucky war , in the end they were treated like any invaded country like France, unlike a hostile country like Germany.With little bomb damage to it's cities.Despite the take over being at ' least ' welcome on a large scale and the country gaining significant benefits.
True and still falls under the radar of nazism during the third reich when people talk about it today.
Your videos fascinate me. Thanks!
Please never stop making videos, you are very good at it, needless to say of course. By Azura, I am an adoring fan.
mark will go down as the greatest narrator in history
i wonder do those who live in that town now find it eerie going about their daily lives like normal people in the same places a man who changed the world once went about his life as just a normal person
Another great video ♥️♥️keep up the good work
Thanks again for another fine video Sir.......Shoe🇺🇸
Little messed up they took away his parents grave marker.
No fault can be levelled at his parents. They had passed away before he came to power. Why did they remove the headstone?
Because it was a pilgrim site for neonazis?
some people just want to eradicate history.
One of the best audio intro's on YT
Very good Mark!
Nice
But how can this be ? The media told me that he was very unpopular…🤔
Eventually. In the 30s he was wildly popular, and not only in Germany...
His popularity was subjective. With the Jewish people he was wildly unpopular. The same can be said for the communists. Many Poles didn't care for him either. The Belgians weren't very ecstatic about him, nor were the French, Norwegians,or Dutch. For the Finnish he was a means to an end. Hungarians, and Czechs it was whatever, just another government. Some saw political stability, others agreed with his political ideology, some liked his racial ideology, others just never missed jumping on a bandwagon.
No, he was very popular..until he started losing the war.
Thanks Mark for more great stuff cheers 🥂
Great video !
They should not have removed the Gravemarkers they weren't responsible for his actions, he was.
Yea, I can’t stand how they try to erase history
@@sc1338 True and those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it
In our official history Austria is labeled to this day "Hitler's first victim" 😂
cringe
Hi Mark , maybe cover the preceding years in Austria before the "Anschluss" .. there is lots to look into
Thanks!
Could anybody think Rishi Sunak, or any recent politician, would ever get such support from the delighted people? Just saying!
Another great video there Mark. Excellent work. However, it is very apparent to me that we should never ever forget history because of seems like this here in my country, United States of America. We've recently been going through something some semblance of similarity. Some people may argue and say that I'm wrong, but when you see people who are so fervent and supporting a particular political leader it, it's a little scary. I feel as though anytime you are voting for someone. You should always keep a very jaundiced eye on these kind of people. Because well, it's never a good idea to trust somebody like that fully. And Adolf Hitler is a very good example of that. These people were cheering him and celebrating him and welcoming him home and in just a few short years, he would plunge the entire world into war a war, the likes of which thankfully hasn't been repeated I think a whole lot more people need to be watching this kind of material and being made to not forget about history
I agree 100%.
The most recent state of the union address seems very heavily like one of Hitler’s speeches, where he just is shouting while not saying anything much of substance.
Democracy Now states 31,000 of which 12,000 are children. America's current leader and administration are grievously complicit. Like Eisenhower the current leading Republican candidate might be the one to rein in the perniciousness of a state that believes its people's souls are higher than any other peoples - and behaves that way.
The problem is that it’s not clear to everybody what the lessons of history teach us.
I think so too. Different groups come to different conclusions about the same historical event. @@David99356
minor inaccuracy: at 2:37 you marked the present day Airport of munich which wasn't an airport back then... not 100% sure but i think in 1938 it would have been Oberwiesenfeld which would roughly be north of the u in 'Munich' on the Map at said timestamp about where the inner Ringroad of today Munich is located great video btw
I really admire the way you make these videos. It would be interesting to chat to you. I've never met anyone who knows more about ww2 than I do. I researched ww2 so much that it inevitably lead to having to research both ww1 and the cold war to understand further.
Did his father call the honey business Hive Hitler?
No,idiot.
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Watching him strutting and saluting I am reminded of Thomas Hardy's Quote from the end of the film "Der-Bunker" ( with Anthony Hopkins) "...For though many things are too strange to Believe, Nothing is too strange to have Happened..." God Bless.
Excellent as usual
Your videos are so well put together. I would love to know what tech you use to put them together.
I'm a simple man. I see a new Dr. Felton video in my feed. The whole house stops for a WW2 history lesson.
Same. I usually preemptively strike... Er, like as well.
How crazy would it be to see a guy you grow up with return to your vilage as the head of a neighbouring country followed by a unit of the best armed security ever seen in the world.
Successful people often go back to a place were they began. A connection to their roots. Perhaps even meeting with people who thought they would never amount to anything.
Thank you.
I love Dr. Felton. A true historian deserving of his accolades. I would, however, like to suggest to anyone interested in WW2 history to check out "The Nazi Officer's Wife". It is the story of Edith Hahn Beers. Absolutely EPIC!! It's here on KZhead. As much as I've researched and learned about this unprecedented historical event, Edith's story is my absolute favorite! It surely does not disappoint.