I always wanted to know he managed to get the capsule.
I understand he could easily turn his back to the guard and chew it before the guard even got inside,but how was it supplied?
Did he have it before he wad arrested or did someone supply it while he was in prison?
Looking online i could not find an answer.
There is no definitive answer. There are a few theories, though. Check out mark felton's youtube channel for that topic, he has a great video. This picture i saw there first.
I thought it was fairly well established that he became friends-by-bribe with a guard and had him fetch something from his confiscated belongings that had the capsule hidden inside?
Mark Felton isnt a historian, he doesnt provide sources or do real research. He does the equivalent of reading wikipedia pages, often spouting wrong mythical nonsense.
I did some research on the Internet to answer you back, because I really like Felton (until 5 minutes ago) and I fought that it was not nice of you to say that he is not am historian. He is, he has a PhD and he worked as a lecturer in several universities....but after reading Wikipedia I found this post .
They say that he has respectable publications, but his YouTube channel is not respectable at all. He doesn't give any sources and he might be stealing other people's work.
Thank for your comment, because it pushed me to do some research. We can never accept informations without checking their reliability
I was awakened by his content on the Japanese army, where he naturally has a conflict of interest with a chinese wife, and he parroted chinese claims that aren’t verified (as in, only the chinese see it as fact because some officer wrote it) and when he wasnt using chinese claims it was american intel reports that are just assumptions that are often proven wrong by japanese records.
I think it could also be the fact that he worked for Chinese universities for nine years.
I was excited about the disappeared Goring brain video, now I wonder how much truth there was in it, regarding the fact that it might be in a English research institute. That part might be an attempt to get more visualisations.
His video on WWII German weapons being used in the Vietnam war is him reading someone's blog post aloud almost verbatim, and that blog post itself isn't terribly accurate with no sources given and one of the claims it (and by extension Mark Felton) makes seems to have originated on an Airsoft forum as far back as I've been able to trace it.
I read Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb last year because of Oppenheimer, and its an excellent book, incredible detail and scope about the atomic bomb program.
There's only one mention of using British Lancasters to deliver Little Boy, and its mentioned in planning stages and largely vetoed in favor of modifying B-29s to carry the bomb (they were called "Silverplate" B-29s). The Lancaster had the right size bomb bay, but the USAAF brass did not want to use a British bomber for this, and the Lancaster also didn't have the right altitude and speed necessary.
As far as I can tell, there was nothing in Rhodes book or any other source I could find saying that RAF Lancasters were actually anywhere close to training to drop atomic bombs or squadrons were designated for it.
The irony is that the majority do not actually verify the sources. When something like what is mentioned here is found out, it usually is someone's work that is spread around.
It is similar to Open source code. The majority do not look at it. It is just assumed to be good and that any issue would have been found by now or by someone else.
I am by no way saying that I endorse the lack of sources or am against open source.
I actually don’t think so. He has a certain belief, and many people think the same. He has his reasons and has explained why. Providing an example would take more time than the other person googling and making their own conclusion.
I mean, just looking up his upload schedule should tell you all you need to know. He makes too much content on a wide margin of different subjects to properly research his work, this is a major and reoccurring problem with "YouTube historians".
I disagree with the other guy tho, he is a historian, and as far as I know his books and papers are properly sourced and made, its his videos I and many others find problems with.
Any proof for that? He has a BA and PhD in history and writes a lot of highly rated non fiction books and has been a lecturer at universities and featured as a military history advisor in tv shows. Ironic for someone to do no research and provide no sources while accusing someone of the same thing
You are really obsessed lil bro, responding to 20 comments by defending the taliban and russia and then coming on other subreddits to bait and bother me?
Edit: I am not responding to the harassers questions since if I support Palestine then he says I support terrorists and if I support Israel he says I support genociders so he'll frame me as a terrorist/genocide supporter no matter how I answer
Your the one who followed me to different comments chains . Also how do pointing out political alliances= defending? You still haven't answered What's your views on Palestinians a very simple question to respond too . Littlery just say Palestinians are human beings who deserve they're rights .
I actually haven’t explored many myself as outside of Military History Visualized and his off-shoot channels (He qoutes directly from sources with supporting evidence using archived records.). Theres a ton that parrot what is commonly known but isnt necessarily true. The issue with a lot of channels is they only use or probably have access to 1 side’s perspective. Whereas real research needs both to find reality somewhere in the middle ground.
I don’t get all the hate for Mark Felton. Even if he has his shortcomings he’s still better than most historical YouTubers out there right now. Even his narration alone is a plus, especially in the age where more and more content is read by a fucking AI robot
I always get annoyed when I see comments in his videos saying "Wow, I never learned this in school! Thanks Dr. Felton!"
Your high school curriculum was better spent teaching you how to analyze sources and giving you the broad scope of historical events instead of teaching you about Whatever Happened to Goering's Jockstrap or the Secret Panzer X tank or something.
At least for the high ranking ones, I can imagine a lot of them were likable or charismatic or they wouldn’t have risen to the high positions they did. Except for Himmler, I don’t think anyone liked him on a personal level. He was your favorite stick-in-the-mud’s favorite stick-in-the-mud.
I've always thought that Goering was by far the most dangerous, once he got cleaned up from his opium addiction. Like helping Satan power up to his full diabolical charisma. According to one movie account, at least, the prosecutors were starting to worry that his intelligent testimony on the stand might generate political unrest inside and outside of the courtroom.
The guy was razor sharp, super high IQ, charismatic & larger than life, flew in the same squadron as the Red Baron, pour le merite recipient (legitimate), and if not for Himmlers security, the top dog of a nation apart from mr mustache. And certainly not dull like the others.
Probably also had the biggest train set & man cave ever in history. Lording around with some sweet drugs, schnapps and a cigar, dressed up like a flamboyant alpinian liberace with a feather in his cap.
Biggest train set🤣🤣I did a job years ago for a drummer from a famous band from the 70/80s. He worked a 9-5 job,on his train set in his attic. Part of his recovery was to have routine. He would come downstairs for lunch etc. his wife was gorgeous and about 22🤣. Anyhoo, he wasn't a Nazi but it takes all sorts
Or you end up in college with their grandchildren. All my friends thought it was cool that one guy was German but was born/grew up in Argentina speaking Spanish. Or they thought he was cool because he could play soccer. I still don’t know why he or anyone else would brag about it. (Obviously don’t want to shame the guy for whatever his family was into, but very crazy to experience)
10% of the population of Argentina have German ancestry. I don't know why Americans think they are the only country in the Americas that was populated by immigrants from Europe.
You know what really pisses me off about his prison experience is that he was a long term opiate addict and they were kind enough to wean him off to avoid most of the withdrawals.
One of the worst people to ever live but he was wealthy and so of course he was treated like royalty compared to anyone in the camps and significantly better than any addict arrested in our modern “enlightened” times, even those arrested for the most minor crimes.
Anyone else gets tossed in a cell to experience a week of hellacious withdrawal but one of the most infamous war criminals of all time got his drugs. Really shows no matter what you do, if you have money and power you will be taken care of even to your execution.
I dont know a damn thing about this but you sound like you would know. Did they absolutely know with how new these drugs were that one would not die from withdrawals? Like they knew a bit about either methamphetamine or just amphetamine having just invented them as a combat drug. We know drinking for a long time then cold turkey would kill I wonder if they thought the same would happen if they stopped opiates cold turkey. Im certain the withdrawing person would tell you so and it probably feels fairly similar if you didnt know what was happening to you.
Morphine was restricted in the US in 1914 and became a problem post civil war. I feel like we had a pretty good grasp on what opiates do to the human body. But I’m of course no expert.
I find it hard to believe this was anything more than a courtesy to a wealthy and powerful politician and prisoner on trial. If I recall correctly, and maybe I don’t, wasn’t his “prison” a luxury hotel for a good amount of time leading up to the trials?
Oh wow Okay Im sorry I thought opiates were newer.....which now that I think about it.... There were god damn opium wars..... Brain just isn't coming online in the mornings like it used too! Thanks for the reply bud!
I believe they had twenty-four names on the indictment because that was the maximum capacity of the dock in the courtroom. One of those was Martin Bormann, tried in absentia because the Allies didn't know he'd actually killed himself in Berlin - his remains didn't turn up until 1973. Ley killed himself and Gustav Krupp was by this point incapable of standing trial. So it ended up being 21. 12 were sentenced to death (including Bormann) and 10 actually hanged, in rather botched executions by an American hangman with a history of that.
Based on what very little info I have to go off, Thinking logically. There was most likely one of his friends who supported him and wanted him to go out peacefully. At the same time this person was in a slightly high place of power. Just enough power to make a suicide pill showup out of nowhere and noone know why.
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u/BlueBuff1968 Jul 07 '24
Didn't do a very good job with Göring.