Masks of Death - Third Reich Leaders' Death Masks
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"ROMMEL" is likely all, "Let me eat my Damn Soup, please" ! To that smiling Brownoser of an Officer bothering him while eating on the Bonnet or Hood of his Vehicle. Always liked Rommel of course !
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@MarkFeltonProductions have you seen the channel War Tales Uncharted? Is that Dr Felton or an AI impersonator?
your information is dated
In 2011, I worked in care and assisted a lovely gentleman who was a British Army medic in North Africa during the war. In the back and forth across the desert, his unit got a bit lost and whilst trying to get back to Egypt, we're overtaken by a German division. To his surprise, he was approached by Rommel and asked to treat German wounded which he and his colleagues duly did. The Germans then proceeded on their way. I asked Bertie why he wasn't taken prisoner. He explained that even though they were British Army, they carried Swiss Red Cross accreditation documents. As such, they were non combatants and were expected to treat any casualties without fear of favour. He said Rommel was very friendly and polite and thanked them warmly before parting company.
My understanding of Rommel, though an oxymoron in American language, A True Gentleman of war.
Gentleman soldier.
You hear a lot of anecdotes like this about his honor and courtesy in war.
We’re swiss! They said in a thick english accent.
Very cool storey to hear from a man who was there.
I cannot think of anything as truly creepy as going into a restaurant and seeing Heydrich's bust staring down at me.
More so for me as a Czech
@@jirkavebr-czmapper8059makes you feel like a death row inmate eating his last meal 😂
Looked like he had a comb over by that mask
Better that than seeing a corpulent and hungry Goering looking down at your meal, licking his lips...
Sling Blade. "Ummm...I reckon I'll have them french fries, then.@@Aged669
Heydrich was a really weird looking guy. The shape of his skull almost looks like an alien. EDIT: I know the mask isn't his whole head guys. I'm talking about his face in general.
I was thinking he looked like a character from a Dr. Seuss book.
Norid, part nordid, part dinarid. The dinarid explains the flat occiput
He’s a pinhead
looks slavic or ancestry from old Russia
It’s not the whole head.
0:48 Mary, Queen of Scots looks very nice and peaceful.
I agree. She also looks much younger than 44 when she died.
Took 3 chops of axe to take Mary's head off, then last bit tissue sliced off with knife. When executioner picked up her head by her red hair, hair was wig - wig came off (her older white hair was hidden underneath), and head fell from his grasp. Not exactly a peaceful death. As her headless body was moved, her little dog came out from hiding under skirt of her long full dress...
That one surprised me the most, used to seeing male death masks but, not female ones.
doesn't resemble her portraits very much.
That was assuredly not Mary. Actually surprised Mark would post that photo.
The epic intro music really helps set the mood
I have the same, every time I watch one of Felton's video's!
That’s an excerpt taken from ‘Redemption’s Last Chance’ (Elijah Robert) (“The Past of Burdens” album, which is wildly moving, dramatic and somewhat strange). It isn’t Easy Listening 🫣
Hey mark, Your videos have made my 13 year old who was very interested in ww2 history into a bit of a history buff. Thank you!
Ive always thought Reinhardt Heydrich had possibly the wierdest shaped head in history.
Yes I thought the same thing. It was one of those peanut-heads, often something correlated with maternal alcohol abuse during pregnancy or some chromosomal abnormality.
Heydrich looks a bit like Marilyn Manson in his younger days.
in all of history? An extravagant claim old chap
@@stirlingmoss4621 Who do you think has a weirder shaped head? I'm honestly curious.
Heydy the Pinhead to his friends...
Dr.Feltons ability to continuously put out top shelf historically accurate videos on all things WWII is truly amazing
10:50 the pilot credited with shooting Rommel's convoy was a Canadian named Charley Fox who's memorial is an art installation in a roundabout in London, Ontario
Nobody knows who really shot Rommel's car.
That must be new. I don't recall seeing that when I still lived in the area.
When I first saw Rommel's death mask and its eyelids bubbles first I thought they were coins. If I'm not mistaken ancient Greeks used to put coins on the eyes of the dead to pay for Charon's boat ride and avoid the loss of the deceased soul. That tradition continued on some later cultures.
Charon ferried the dead across the river Styx to the underworld
Unlikely. His death was basically forced suicide. He had handlers nearby when he did it.
Would've been quite fitting as, "Patton & MacArthur" considered themselves and very likely an Arch-Rival like Rommel to all be "Reincarnated Greco-Roman Generals/Warriors" !
*Charon is his usual English name.
They are swabs that are supposed to keep the eyelids closed. Normally they are modeled away, but here it was decided to include them. The mask was probably only intended to serve as a template for bronze casts, where it would then be retouched.
To judge from that death mask, Reinhard Heydrich had quite a pointy head.
He was an alien from outer space.
@@3shockarmy74project much?
@@3shockarmy74 go outside and play...kiddo
It’s not his whole head. The back is not sculpted.
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"Reluctantly agreed to the appointment of Hitler as chancellor" => as is evident at 2:35 While the new Chancellor is grinning like a _Honigkuchenpferd,_ the President is looking rather disgruntled.
Some images tell more than thousend words....
Honigkuchenpferd - "Honey Cake Horse" I just had to look it up to see what it meant lol. See also = "Horses ass"
@@Gitarzan66 A honey cake horse is a pastry made from honey cake in the shape of a horse from the 17th century that was sold at fairs. The horse had an extremely stupid friendly grin. The term dates back to the 17th century and is no longer as widespread today. Well-read and academic people in Germany still know the term, but the general population does not.
While I definitely agree that von Hindenburg was displeased with the appointment he had to make…I have also never seen a photograph or painting of the man where he *didn’t* appear absolutely disgusted with everything
He regarded Hitler as “the Austrian Private”.
The Nazi's must've had some difficulties with all of these bronzes of Heidrich. "Behold the superior Aryan cranium, cunningly disguised as that of a pinhead"!
He was a weirdly-shaped person.
Yeah I thought the same thing. He had one of those peanut-skulls. The sort unfortunates get if their mother drank too much while they were pregnant with them, of if they have a strange chromosomal abnormality.
You're ahead of me! Upon seeing Heydrich's bust I was surprised to learn Zip and Schlitzie were members of the master Aryan race.
Thinking the exact same thing.
Something obviously happened to the mask. Look at pictures of him alive. Looks normal.
Dr Felton, of all the masks presented in your video the one that I found most disturbing was the pretty face of Mary Queen of Scots considering she was beheaded. Thanks again Mark Felton Productions!
I saw that mask in the late 80's. They re-attached her head before making her death mask, you could see the stitching on her neck in the mold......
@@jeffkopher3468 How morbid and sad.
@@jeffkopher3468did they sew her head on straight?
She was beautiful, wasn't she?
@@shaggyrumplenutz1610 I doubt whoever did it got any complaints.
A much needed dose of historical education. Cheers, Mark!
Really interesting about Rommel’s death mask. I read David Irving’s biography “The Trail of the Fox” decades ago, but this detail stuck with me. When Rommel was taken for his last ride, one witness reported that Rommel had tears running down his face as he bit down on the cyanide capsule.
Well it is a quite significant emotion event, saying goodbye to your wife and son and then being forced to commit suicide by your boss.
I wouldn’t trust anything from Irving.
Irving's books are masterful classics upstaging turgid tomes like Kershaw's. Unlike all other WW2 writers he speaks German fluently and relies on primary sources. The others fumble around afraid of hurting feelings and quoting each other in a depressing echo chamber. Open your mind and dare to think.
@jameswolf133 Because some of his works offer a narrative that deviates from the official propaganda?
@@niallmcdonagh1093 I'm glad to see someone that shares my views. It really disgusts me to see how many primary sources were allowed to pass away without being interviewed and thus taking their observations to their graves with them. A lot of mysteries and misconceptions could have been cleared up by now.
Rommel took a wise decision, his family keept the villa and pension. His son Manfred studied law and became a politican. He later even became Secretary of State (federal) and Mayor of Stuttgart.
Thank you for this. I wondered what happened to Rommel's family.
I think Manfred met Patton's son.
Thanks for your videos Dr. Felton!
WTF is wrong with youtube, forcing a "context" warning on us concerning the death of AH.
Because YT takes on the role of moral arbiter- it's inane AI , in it's desire to control narrative, WHATEVER one's opinion on a subject, merely succeeds in dumbing down comments and preventing critical discourse. Why even critical comments about Neo Ns, or even historical ' Nasties,' are often purged if you spell those terms correctly. YT ( & other) AI THINKS it knows best but rarely does. I remember the last time I looked, Chat GPT had an estimated 'IQ' below that of many Mensa Members.
It's a bot to combat conspiracy theories about his death
@@bbgg8642 Yes- but it also clobbers non-conspiracy comment. It neutralizes everything and stops people using certain words even critically. If you don't believe this, get a second internet device & check to see if your previous comments are always there again. You may be surprised!
I dont see it, fyi
maybe it because you act like a ten year old.
Mark Felton productions video always makes my day. Excellent work!
Yeah, I ALWAYS watch Dr. Felton, even if I have no known interest in the topic.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one, Sir. A-1 insights
Always a good time of the day for a Mark Felton video
Wow...Awesome content had me watching to the last second...Thanks Dr.Felton!!😊❤
Love how Eisenhower received Himmler's death mask - Eisenhower symbolically received the head of his vanquished enemy.
Interesting video, Dr. Felton! Thank you!
Another really interesting, well researched video. Thank you Mark.
Always a great day when Dr. Mark Felton uploads! 🏆❤
Excellent Video. Thank you Mark for this interesting video,
Tea time already?? Thank you Dr Felton! 👍🏾
Another superb and interesting video Mark ,you are the GOAT ....BRAVO !
Always interesting and very instructive your videos. I'm grateful
Dr. Felton always pulling out the most juicy details.
Thanks Dr. Felton!
10:26 At Tobruk in 1941, Australians would put Marlene Dietrich singing "Lili Marlene" in German on their loudspeakers so that the Germans could hear it!
Well done and quite detailed as always, Doctor Felton.
Thank you for sharing!!!
KZhead forces an Adolf Hitler Context Box on us now?!
From Wikipedia no less, the home of misinformation.
Yeah, weird. The one person's mask that doesn't exist gets a context panel. All hail the Al Gore Rhythm!
Maybe due to all of the conspiracy theories around his death.
In case you think the worst thing he did was give toothbrush moustaches a bad name.
They remove innocuous comments on the subject too if you use the wrong words .
There was a Secret Joke during the Third Reich that could lead you into serious trouble: A boy brings flowers for Reichskanzler Hindenburg. His secretary jumps forward and rips the Paper violently from the Bouquet. „What do you do??“, says the shocked boy. „Don’t you know? Hindenburg is now signing everything!“ says the secretary. 🤭
I don’t get it
@@puppppppppppuuuuu6205 Hitler tricked Hindenburg into signing the papers to give him all the power he needed to start his third Reich. So the joke meant that Hindenburg so old and demented that he’s now signing every paper before him, no matter what the consequences.
Best and most educational channel on KZhead. Thank you.
Thanks again, Mark. Excellent work
ROMMEL must have had a MASSIVE concussion when his car crashed, it is a wonder he recovered to the state he was!!
I read Walter Schellenberg's autobiography. He was very wary of and hated Heydrich.
I'm not surprised. If what I've read is true many top SS officers were afraid of Heydrich and hated his guts. AND were actually relieved when he got "wacked." It says something when the most frightening men in Europe at the time were frightened of one of their own!
Can you explain to me why exactly they were afraid of him. Because on their cruel scale he did ”a really bloody good job“. Was it perhaps because he rose the career ladder very fast? If it sounds offensive please accept my apology, I am just very curious about that.
@@Dudewithguns-ww7wc It was because of the sheer ruthlessness of the man. Even some SS men had their limits but Heydrich had none.
Mark I love your videos can’t get enough of them! I made a New Year’s resolution this year to meet a WWII veteran before it’s to late! ❤
Great video as always.
On the subject of scammers getting your data, if a politician mounts a campaign for a fish and chips shop in town, don't put your details down until you read the small print, which usually contains consent to receive other campaign materials not related to the fish and chips shop.
That's the most random and irrelevant comment ever. Well done.
@@thomp5347 A British politician recently did this. Funny enough, he actually voted against a chippy in the town. So, kind of bizarre, but not out of nowhere.
Didnt expect that on dr Felton post. But there you have it.
So will this new chippy be named Fitz & Chipz?
@@thomp5347 It is related to the sponsor of the video. Don't you listen to sponsor messages? We should do that to support the channel.
Really interesting video Dr. Felton. Why does it not surprise me that Heinrich appears to have had a pointy head.
Fascinating stuff as always thank you!
Interesting that Hitler saved Hindenburg's body.
Hindenburg was more useful to Hitler dead than alive unfortunately
It was to give Hitler legitimacy.
He had no other choice but rest assured that he was fuming
Wanted to use it as propaganda
Propoganda to prove their legitimacy
Fascinating. I didn’t know about the tragedy of Rommel’s death.
Very interesting video, learned so much! Thank you for all of your quality content, Mark!
Well done Dr Mark! Thank you
This channel is brilliant
ngl ive been watching goofy ideology leaders death mask videos and now that my fav historian uploaded a death mask video makes me so happy 💯
Dr. Mark does it AGAIN!🎉 Highschool history would've been WAY more if MARK FELTON was teaching. Where do you find these things out? Thanks Mark !
Don't think I have ever seen one of your videos that I did not thoroughly enjoy, highly educational and interesting!
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@@SyntaxErr19287 You guys keep watching the video? ;)
Good morning, I had heard of these death-masks, but didn't know anything about them.
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Now you do, putinga.
Good bye.
@@TheWayOfTheWind Broski, why say "Good bye"?
Again, Dr. Felton, you bring forth wonderful videos detailing a terrible time in human history. Many thanks for your incredible work!
At the airfield where l keep one of my planes a gentleman has been restoring a C-47. It's an early 50s model but he's redone it in WW2 livery with the D-Day invasion stripes and proper markings. A couple weeks back it became airworthiness and he offered me a ride. He let me fly it for awhile, it's like a smooth handling bus. Funniest thing was that l had your intro music going through my head as soon as l climbed in.
I'm fascinated by death masks. There's a museum of them in Kyiv. One Street Museum... I mean probably not the best time to put it on your bucket list. But eventually.
Interesting stuff Mark! U knocked it out of the park once again! Excellent work! With much thanks!👍
This has always been a good KZhead channel.
Dr. Felton, thank you again for another amazing video. I just wanted to mention that there was a cenotaph dedicated to soldiers of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division in a Ukrainian cemetery in Oakville, Ontario, Canada that you brought up in a recent video of yours. Shortly after your video was released, the cenotaph was torn down. Though I don't condone the actions of the men inscribed on the tombstone, I also believe that history is not so black and white as we often believe it to be. What is your opinion on the censoring of history?
I have found that the most intolerant and agressive individuals tends to be those championing tolerance and peace.
Reinhard Heinrich had an elongated skull. Explains a lot.
Pinhead Freakazoid !!!
Good one! Nice fresh new material.
G'day Dr Felton, Fantastic video as always! I was wondering where I could find more information regarding the gravedigging around 8:20. I couldn't find it in the description or comments, cheers!
Another awesome video brought to us by Dr.Mark Felton. 👏🏻👏🏻🤝🤝
Mary, Queen of Scots, was quite lovely.
Too pretty to be English queen 😁That is why she ended like Princess Diana many centuries latter 😁
@@aleksazunjic9672 Right, you need to stop commenting when you’re high.
Considering she was beheaded
8:41 I swear to god he looks like one of those statues on easter island.
Very interesting as always 😊👏🏼👏🏼
You know about such interesting events what took place, I went through lots of War channels on KZhead and yours is the most detailed none of those channels ever go that deep like yours, I wish you luck with your Channel and in your life and happy Easter to you and your family.
Much better then the last video. Even the views reflect so compared to others.
A real gem this one, had to pause every few seconds to research it myself! An incredible story.
Hi Mark yet again more fascinating stuff thanks!
So Himmler was roughed up a bit well it could not have happened to a nicer fellow
KZhead is pathetic. They're offering "context" but linking a Wikipedia article 😂😂😂
Of course. U tube is fake news and proper-gander pushers.
Absolutely agree. Hitler is dead. There is no need for context. He was a very bad man. Not a secret.
You're on KZhead bro
@@DitoAldiSoekarnoPutraowned
Very interesting as always, Mark.
Absolutely fascinating.
I feel bad for Rommel. He was German, not a Nazi. And he had a great sense of responsibility and conscientiousness - that's what led to his stomach problems.
I know poor Rommel
Great pity Patton & Rommel never met as it would have been interesting⚔
Yeah poor Rommel. Didn't take a side, walked down the middle of the road, and died for it... I can't feel sorry for someone like that.
They were all Nazis. So what? They paid their price for losing a war. That should be the end of it. Nazism is a set of political beliefs, it doesn't mean you were murdering jewish civilians.
@@jb7483he picked a side in the end 😢 he chose to be part of an assassination attempt on Hitler’s life. He was not a perfect man 😔 but he went down fighting for what was right. He was just born in the wrong country.
Another good vid Mark thank you. Coupla suggestions? -At the end of WWII in Europe I believe it's true that Americans were forbidden to fraternize with Germans (policy was opposite in Japan). What was British policy? -During the war there was an agreement among the belligerents that neither Heidelberg nor Paris (Cambridge also?) would come under bombing attack. How was that arranged?
a couple of
@@DrLoverLover I thought I might be allowed a little slang.
British policy was the same - fraternisation was forbidden, and this was maintained for a few months after Germany's surrender. However, the British had been at war with Germany since 1939, and had POW camps on UK soil, so they had been exposed to Germans who weren't actively trying to kill them, ie. they saw them as ordinary people, just on the wrong side. British troops saw German civilians suffering the same hardships their families suffered - food shortages and bombed houses, but on a far greater and more terrible scale, so could empathise and treated the Germans far less harshly than the French (who had suffered German occupation) and the US - whose troops were indoctrinated to see the entire German people as "goddamned Kraut Nazis" who were not to be pitied or trusted, and whose soldiers were arriving in great numbers in Europe having missed all the action there, yet had still been primed to be dealing with a nation of dangerous fanatics. It's why so many German POWs stayed in Britain post-war, and why many German women ended up marrying British soldiers. A nation tired of 6 years of fighting didn't have the resolve to enforce the rule against people who were victims of a beaten regime too. It was not German policy to bomb non-military cities - until the RAF kept hitting German cities and attacked Berlin in retaliation for the mistaken bombing of London, but there were no "gentlemen's agreements" to avoid hitting anywhere, targets were chosen according to their importance tactically. The Germans could have attacked Cambridge, but why would they risk valuable crew, planes and bombs to hit a city famed for a university? There would be lighter defences for Cambridge, but it would be better to try and flatten Coventry, with its motor manufacturing. Places like Dresden had no military value, played no significant role in the German war effort, so subsequently had NO AA defences - there was simply no reason for it to be attacked, so no need to try and arrange anything with the enemy. Of course, we all know how short-sighted that approach was!
Brilliantly fascinating as ever.
The Himmler Death mask is currently on display at IWM North in Manchester. It’s in an exhibition that details the British Battalion from Leeds that aided in the capture of him :)
I hope Mark can gain access to the secret Himmler death files.
Maybe they will be made public in 2045, but if the contents were truly reprehensible the files will have been destroyed, like most colonial records have been.
8:51 That postage stamp curiously does not appear in the post-war Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue (the stamp "bible"), certainly not as late as 1962. I wonder why. It is genuine though. Incidentally, when a person like Himmler calls someone "highly sinister (as he did Heydrich), you better believe it!
If what I've read is true there were a lot of high-ranking SS officers who were glad Heydrich was dead, he scared the hell out of them too! Now that should tell us something about the man!
Many thanks!
I like history very much 😇 😇 ,, and when history is explained by a very educated and knowledgeable historian and teacher .... It makes history more enjoyable ... Great to listen to you Mr Mark Felton 😇😇... Or is it Dr Mark Felton 😇😇 ....
Looking at the thumbnail, for some strange reason I keep seeing the dipping front end of Concord.
Thank you YT for letting us know H it ler was a WW2 era dictator by posting something from that great source Wikipedia We had no idea ~~~
Dr. Felton never fails to deliver! Again, a rather unique and interesting film.
Fantastic thanks again
Hindenburg "a colossal figure". well played Dr. Felton
His reputation was highly inflated.
In more ways than one, I believe Hindenburg was over six feet tall. Quite tall for a European man of that time period.
Just started listening to another video but received a notification on my phone that Dr. Felton posted another video, so........yeah, I jumped over here. Always quality education.
Another very interesting video Mark!!! Many thanks for posting!
Thanks Mark - again, super interesting !
Hmm my dad was an MP in Patton's army. He raided one of Himmler's summer homes so the story goes and my dad grabbed a few papers out of a desk. An invitation to a party dated 1926. A torn page of a handwritten poem about a prostitute standing under a street lamp. A couple other pages. I don't know the name of the town or the location of the "summer home". I wish I knew more. ..
I wonder how many historical questions could have been solved if Allied troops hadn't torn captured properties apart in a frenzy looking for loot and souvenirs? How many critical documents which could have proven/disproven certain unsolved mysteries ended up chucked away when occupying troops remembered they couldn't read German and wondered why they had stolen them? German troops served long post-war sentences for their acts of looting in Russia (those that weren't executed), even for seemingly insignificant pilfering like your Dad's.
That can't be Heydrich's head.
It would be very interesting to hear that censored speech, or at least see a transcript of it.
Great video Markster, you should get some of those death masks scanned in and 3d print them up for sale in your shop.
Thanks!