The U-boat in the thumbnail is U-995, located in my hometown. It had quite an interesting history, as it survived over 9 patrols and after wars end was given to Norway as a training vessel. Eventually it was returned to Germany at the end of the 60s and was restored. It's a technical museum now and can be visited. Been inside many times. Very hard to imagine that about 45 people lived in this thing for months.
@sdcoinshooter
5 жыл бұрын
Chris, I have visited the U505 located in Chicago on a few occasions. I am not prone to claustrophobia, but I feel it whenever I am inside of that. And this is on dry land during peacetime. I can not imagine being inside that thing, several hundred feet underwater under attack. I am a veteran of combat myself, but will never know how those men had the courage to do what they did.
@michaelripperger5674
5 жыл бұрын
Where is U-995 now ?
@Daddyteddy3049
5 жыл бұрын
Best subscription I've made in a while.
@blackhairedgoon8218
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, fantastically researched video and always top quality.
@cass276
5 жыл бұрын
why did we 'dispose' of all the u-boats? surely we could have re-used them, (Esp the more modern type 21 & 23s) and if not why sink them and not break them for scrap? it seemed such a waste!
@christosvoskresye
5 жыл бұрын
You aren't kidding about it being small. It looks like a toy about two feet long.
@ivortheengine14
5 жыл бұрын
christosvoskresye 🙄🙄
@korbell1089
5 жыл бұрын
judging by the screw on the bottom of it, you may be overestimating it by about a foot if it is full size can you imagine how many men it would take to tighten that screw!!
@edd1e22
5 жыл бұрын
Love the demo video with the rc submarine
@cgaccount3669
5 жыл бұрын
Ah... I was wondering if they had such clear underwater photography back in the 40s
@noobster4779
5 жыл бұрын
In WW1 the first german branch to desert or surrender was the navy In WW2 the navy was the last branch to surrender The irony of history :)
@DyzelisLTU
5 жыл бұрын
Mark your videos never get old the muzic the animating is great keep up the great work
@THE-HammerMan
5 жыл бұрын
With only 2 torpedoes, the Electro Boats couldn't have made an impact on Allied shipping and Navies unless 100's were made and operational. It is agreed by all that destroying fine captured submarines after Germany's surrender was a tragic waste and should have been seen AT THAT TIME to be stupid to the point of complete lunacy. The rush by Allied nations to destroy German military equipment after WWII was not realized to be a tragic mistake until far too late and years later.
@ArenBerberian
5 жыл бұрын
Matthew Hamersly I think the loss of the Prinz Eugen is the one of the most notable examples of these tragic and unnecessary losses.
@davidfotheringham2480
5 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agree, however approx 10,000 ex werhrmacht troops were utilised by the French in Vietnam immediately at the end of WW2 as foreign legion recruits...another untold story.
@davidlogansr8007
5 жыл бұрын
What President Truman and staff, and Winston Churchill and staff (remember their respective ages, and having seen the murderous rise of Bolshevik SOCIALISM including the murder of the Tsar and his wife and children for no clear gain) were trying to accomplish was to not give the Murderous Soviets a leg up on technology that on its own would take them 10-20 years to even approach, and scale down the potential of Workd War 2 continuing, but with the Soviets as the new enemy! Remember what Patton had recently said, about denazifying and re-arming the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, and to what ever extent the could, the Kriegsmarine, and turning them and all other allied forces against the Soviets! It was actually a good idea, prevented in no small part by Patton!s arranged car accident, and would have given us a radically different post war world from the horrors we did have. I could say more, but why?
@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent mark. May I suggest ( for a future video) the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in Jan 1945.
@rickmoreno6858
5 жыл бұрын
Yes do a video on it, and tell the world how a Soviet sub, I believe u13/s113 whatever it is sunk it and how German civis lost over 10k in lives and how stalin glorified the captain with the highest honor of the Soviets, and how it was the greatest 2 days of maritime life disaster
@rickmoreno6858
5 жыл бұрын
And how the allies never scorned the Soviets either, just as they didnt do when Uncle Joe and his satanic army never were punished for invading Poland Finland and the baltics.
@TheIzroda
5 жыл бұрын
And the mystery about the Soviets sending divers to clear the entire wreck of basically everything inside. They even filled it up with concrete afterwards AFAIK.
@Unther
5 жыл бұрын
There are already good videos about this (don't wanna spam links here though, but I have seen good videos in English). Mark is not the one talking to us about things we know - he surprises us with things we don't know yet, so I doubt the Wilhelm Gustloff is a topic for him. :)
@oceanhome2023
5 жыл бұрын
Rick Moreno Absolutely don’t want to do anything that would make Stalin angry . Stalin was worse than Hitler
@Purpmaster
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video as always! It’s bizarre that the allies sunk the U-boats so quickly after capture. You would think that they would have kept them considering they were the most advanced in the world at the time.
@cobalt2361
5 жыл бұрын
If I ever need any footage about literally everything from WW2, I'll go to Mark Felton.
@u.h.forum.
5 жыл бұрын
cobalT except from the stuff that everyone knows about
@johntechwriter
5 жыл бұрын
With one proviso: You’ll find out only what the Axis were up to, and very little about the Allies.
@theobjector2881
5 жыл бұрын
The fate of those U-boats is breaking my heart. 😢
@rockerroller
5 жыл бұрын
The British and Americans shoulda rearmed the Germans and re established production of their advanced AF tanks and turned east towards Moscow. I always wondered how the hell anyone could ever think Stalin was serious about being true allies. The US was basically responsible for almost all the materials the soviets used to make their weapons of war but were they grateful? We shoulda never conducted the lend lease program with the soviets. I guess hindsight’s 20/20 but I’m sure the British and Americans knew they couldn’t trust the soviets even back then.
@Michael-wn4jj
5 жыл бұрын
I don't know whether there was such order but my father (born 1912) told me there were roumors to bring Wehrmacht units under British command to push back USSR behind of eastern polish border line of 1936. Of cause that never happended but something must have triggered such a roumor.
@Alftura
5 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video about U-boats in the Indian and/or the Pacific?
@Alftura
5 жыл бұрын
And you did! Thanks!
@nikolavrg5745
5 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video about the Ho 229
@justrandomman2415
5 жыл бұрын
johnan gilie what?
@Gorilla_Jones
5 жыл бұрын
@johnan gilie Shaddup
@Disableddonkeys88
5 жыл бұрын
@Gappie Al Kebabi Jesus bro you alright? Mummy hit you again?
@TheWilferch
5 жыл бұрын
From a design/shape standpoint....these latest German submarines types 21 or 23, look a lot like the 1950's US Nautilus....at least in my eyes.....
@johannsebastianbach9003
5 жыл бұрын
Who the hell wouldn't lose a war if your alone and u have 5 country against you explain that
@1catbrains
5 жыл бұрын
Char B1s pressed into German service might be an interesting future video.
@semiretired6033
5 жыл бұрын
I Find it really sad that most of these subs were sunk after they surrendered to the allies.Could they not have been re-purposed by the allies into their own navy's. These were amazing well engineered and expensive to build vessels, that proved their worth during combat. Yet they were treated and disposed of as worthless junk!!! These were not just a plane or a half track or a tank , they were submarines!!!!! So sad!!
@James-sh8mu
5 жыл бұрын
My grandad was on board a captured u boat when they sailed it through the Thames
@certaininterests7059
5 жыл бұрын
james Lambshead was UC5, captured on the 27th April 1916? Crew scuttled after running aground?
@noway57
5 жыл бұрын
Why does alot of ppl have that avatar?
@xsonohx7961
5 жыл бұрын
@@noway57 I know, right?
@sunnyjim1355
5 жыл бұрын
@@@noway57 It's from the cult classic PC game Deus Ex.
@Jackilichous
5 жыл бұрын
@@noway57 This guy asked all his subs to change their pic to that pic
@captainprice71
5 жыл бұрын
Nice! Love from the Philippines. You should do a video about the Battle of Samar and The Bataan Death March
@clarencebeeks1528
5 жыл бұрын
Gappie Al Kebabi : you ignorant peasant.
@peterlustig6888
5 жыл бұрын
Dönitz saved so many lives..!
@hrvatskibricks7745
5 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video about Croatia in WWII? I believe some were fighting up until 1946
@sarjim4381
5 жыл бұрын
There were two more electroboats on patrol at the surrender, the larger and more potent Type XXI versions. The U-2511 made a practice attack run on a British cruiser on May 4, according to the skipper, right after the surrender message was received. He stated he was never detected and could have easily torpedoed the vessel and escaped. It was lucky for the Allies that Germany didn't realize their plight until too late to get more boats into service.
@Gallagherfreak100
5 жыл бұрын
The allies, including the Soviets were eager to incorporate (copy) the revolutionary design of the Type XXI, into their own sub fleets. The world's first nuclear sub, the USS Nautilus, had her hull design copied from the type XXI.
@welshpete12
5 жыл бұрын
Nope, it was a copy of the shape of the whale , It is possible to see the likeness from the bow shape @@Gallagherfreak100
@2008acuratls
5 жыл бұрын
With the shortage of raw materials after the war, wouldn’t it make sense to cut up and reuse the metal from these subs, rather than to use them for target practice?
@hubolds1946
5 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was a dwarf and served on that little sub in the video. I have his tiny medals to prove it.
@plumpstery5199
5 жыл бұрын
Every time I hear your intro music I think of a last stand
@mixmaster2909
5 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on the last shot fired during ww2 or the last attributed to fighting in ww2
@4exgold
5 жыл бұрын
ive heard there were a number of small isolated or fanatical German units in central/eastern Europe who kept on fighting the Red Army for days after the official surrender. Dont know the extent of it.
@JonSkinner1944
5 жыл бұрын
I found very interesting is the time period from 1st May to the VE Day. With German combat operations in the East.
@828enigma6
5 жыл бұрын
Stupid to destroy state of the art (at that time) submarines. Should have either been mothballed, placed on display, or given to Allied countries who needed them.
@cgeisler505
5 жыл бұрын
Or at the very least scrap the damn things.
@dagbakka9995
5 жыл бұрын
Norway got some of Germany's
@W1se0ldg33zer
5 жыл бұрын
There were half-built ships of all sorts scrapped out at the end of the war. No use for them. They even scrapped the Enterprise - the most decorated warship of the war. If it didn't have nuclear power or jet engines it wasn't state of the art and was scrapped.
@Jibriltz
5 жыл бұрын
I would say it was pointless and a waste of life to sink ships when the war was so clearly lost but then the whole war was a pointless waste of life.
@spudpud-T67
5 жыл бұрын
Once a NAZI, always a NAZI.
@Jibriltz
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not saying there shouldn't have been a war to stop the Nazis. But I'm saying that their reasons were stupid - more farmland in Eastern Europe for a perceived special kind of people.
@mjoelnir58
5 жыл бұрын
@@spudpud-T67 Once an idiot always an idiot thanks for proving this yourself
@jeffsmith2022
5 жыл бұрын
Rubbish, you would be speaking German today...
@jethawk9941
5 жыл бұрын
Love your videos keep up the good work and I learn new stuff I didn’t know before from you
@redmask6952
5 жыл бұрын
You could do a video about battle of itter castle,where americans and germans fought as friends against the waffen ss.
@mauserk98bnz44
5 жыл бұрын
They should have kept them in working condition but it is what it is. Thanks for another awesome video!!
@danielchou9802
5 жыл бұрын
Happy 100K subscribers Mark! I’ve loved the channel and I’ve been here since you were at 20K! I swear, I’ve feel like you’ve grown extremely fast in terms of subscribers. I love all of your videos, they are an absolute treasure trove for history, both known and unknown. Can’t wait to see what you have next! #roadto1million
@Trimtank
5 жыл бұрын
SS Avondale Park was built in Pictou, Nova Scotia and was registered in Montreal, Canada. It was a Canadian ship not British.
@PopeBombsThe1st
5 жыл бұрын
they look like the baking soda submarines I used to get in cereal boxes back in the 80's.
@user-qp3hd3cn8e
5 жыл бұрын
I havae no idea why they destroyed all the captured stuff a few years later, I guess the ones sinking the ships/ shooting the tanks where highly experienced veterans anyway so there was no training effect, if they would have kept it a bit longer they would have profited in training and more stuff would have suvived.
@MrSvenovitch
5 жыл бұрын
Not how Képitelizm worked at that time @@iconoclastpleonast8726
@alswann2702
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark. Cool model sub to. Seems like a waste sinking new subs after the war.
@TheFaderland
5 жыл бұрын
What can you expect from Brits? To stupid to handle a sub. They had to force german crews to bring the boats to harbor.
@cgaccount3669
5 жыл бұрын
I've heard it had a lot to do with the upcoming cold war. They didn't want to share the tech with the Soviets. The easiest way was to destroy it... keeping what you wanted secret. Sorry Stalin... we sunk all the German and Japanese subs we captured. Pity we forgot to think about giving you samples
@christianhoffmann8607
5 жыл бұрын
they were scared of the technology falling in soviet hands. same reason why the I-400s were basically sunken immediately
@hugod2000
5 жыл бұрын
what do you call german hipsters????? a u-boat crew.... thank you. thank you.
@lycossurfer8851
5 жыл бұрын
Nice. I have an article out of an old magazine that may be of interest to you for a story; late WW 2 German subs & radios. How could I pass the article to you for you to review?
@TBreezy17
5 жыл бұрын
Crazy to think what would have happened if they had these u-boats 3 years earlier.
@ryanjohn8035
5 жыл бұрын
I still dont understand why the allies destroyed so many weapons and vehicles at the wars end. I can understand fear of maybe enemies gaining control of them. However it would've been profitable and smart to sell the weapons and vehicles or at least scarp them. Rather than completely destroy them and not gain anything.
@MrMattMWH
5 жыл бұрын
Criminal waste of lives sinking ships in the last days of the war :(
@cgaccount3669
5 жыл бұрын
@What About The Droid Attack On The Wookies? I heard a couple million German speaking civilians were murdered by other civilians after the war. Even if the German speaking individuals were against the nazis a lot of people had good reason to seek revenge and sadly it's often the innocent that have to pay. German dog breeds were even discriminated against in WW1. POWs were treated brutally by the Soviets but I'd suggest not nearly as bad as Soviet prisoners in German camps. We can't forget the German army was part of a plan to eventually murder the entire Soviet population
@cgaccount3669
5 жыл бұрын
It's weird how it seems more tragic to die at the end after it's officially over. There are also cases, especially in WW1 where allied commanders wasted lives attacking before upcoming plans to stop hostilities. Just for wasting lives on both sides for glory
@mjoelnir58
5 жыл бұрын
Allied air terrorist killed civilians till the last days of war
@lokai7914
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for keeping history alive, accessible and so very entertaining. You have real talent!
@russeljohn3471
5 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video. 100k subs soon Mark. 👍👍
@marks_sparks1
5 жыл бұрын
Well deserved
@je6874
5 жыл бұрын
6:47 - what a majestic piece of German engineering
@vmgqie
5 жыл бұрын
I had read somewhere the germans had developed a homing torpedo to go with there new subs
@charlesflint9048
5 жыл бұрын
I’ve got to hand it to you Mark, these are superb ‘snapshots’ of various parts of ww2.Absolutely Well Done!. I love them!.
@MikeMike-er7kn
5 жыл бұрын
So sad.... dying on the last day of the war...
@chiefseadawg5164
5 жыл бұрын
Those few U-Boats may have gotten their last licks in, but the Kriegsmarine lost 734 boats in the Atlantic, with the loss of about 28,000 crew members, with another 8,000 captured. There were a total of about 40,000 men who served on U-Boats, which means 70% of U-Boat crew members lost their lives during WW II. Quite the hazardous occupation, especially after 1942.
@robinderoos1166
5 жыл бұрын
What a waste to sink perfectly fine captured u-boats... They could have served the allies well against the soviets
@ArenBerberian
5 жыл бұрын
Robin de Roos But they wouldn’t have done because they never went to war.
@auselessidiot7854
5 жыл бұрын
Many type XII dindt even finishd traning.
@Underwaystudios
5 жыл бұрын
As always Mark, your videos and presentation are extremely well done and informative as well as entertaining. I find myself looking forward to them and enjoy them like mac and cheese! Would love to see something about the USCG Cutter Taney, 327' who has the honor of the last survivor of Pearl Harbor that is still afloat and a museum ship at Baltimore's Maritime Museum in the inner harbor of the city. There were 7 of these cutters prior to the start of the war and The Hamilton was sunk by a U-boat early on in the N. Atlantic. Tremendous amount of history and service behind these 327's before, during and, after WWII. Thanks
@Zakalwe-01
5 жыл бұрын
Never fails to amaze me how the best submarine builders went to war with the best submarine hunters!
@_zoinks2554
5 жыл бұрын
Great video as usual. I like how you edited the rc uboat with a black and white filter. Nice effort and effect.
@MrSamadolfo
5 жыл бұрын
😍 yay we have one on display at our Science Industry Museum ✌️😎
@michaelcollins2319
5 жыл бұрын
Love Your Videos You Should Make A Discord
@Collectorfirearms
5 жыл бұрын
So in total the type 23 only had 2 torpedoes?
@johnnya5667
5 жыл бұрын
Not about this specific video, but I figured you guys might know the answer. What were the last battles in Europe after Berlin fell? Some troops still fought for a few more days before surrendering. I know of: Itter(ended on May 3rd) Hamburg(ended on May 3rd) Prague uprising(ended on May 9th) Prague offensive(ended on May 11th) Pojana(ended on May 15th) Ozdak(ended on May 25th)
@henrykissinger3151
5 жыл бұрын
Video Suggestion: V1 rocket on the peacefull Island og Bornholm
@TheLety1976
5 жыл бұрын
So close to 100k subs Mark, congrats when you do hit it.
@kellybreen5526
5 жыл бұрын
Park ships were Canadian rather than British, although crews were sometimes mixed. I think this ship was Canadian crewed however.
@rybuds47
5 жыл бұрын
Imagine whay some of that eqipment would be worth now.
@KVD-kx5wx
5 жыл бұрын
Your model submarine fires torpedos! That’s cool. Now I really want one.
@gaiuscaligula2229
4 жыл бұрын
You gained a subscriber from this video, thanks for your U-Boat videos, please make more, you're the only KZitemr covering the subject in any detail!
@roybrowning6552
5 жыл бұрын
Wow ! Those guys never gave up, no matter what ! That's what I call true love for the motherland to the point of the supreme sacrifice of one's own life to defend your home soil.
@kiwihame
5 жыл бұрын
Utterly senseless actions. Those Electroboats were amazing though. Another great video Mark.
@jbcheema9883
5 жыл бұрын
I watched this channel for 10 secs, I subscribed!
@sorryociffer
5 жыл бұрын
Disposed of captured U-boats?...... Why not refurbish and press them into service?... Such a fucking waste.
@jaydibernardo4320
5 жыл бұрын
I feel the urge to start playing Silent Hunter 3 again now.
@gingerhimself7117
5 жыл бұрын
Battle of Point Judith, RI, May 1945. One of last U boat actions too
@drinkstout8018
5 жыл бұрын
Was thinking the same thing, didn't the US Navy or Coast Guard deny the action for years?
@evilfingers4302
5 жыл бұрын
Nice usage of a Large Scale RC U-Boat and the firing of a Torpedo, saw those videos years ago.
@eisenhertz
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks again Mark.did you ever heard of the German ship Gustloff,the biggest ship disaster in history?when a Russian Sub sank a ship,with thousands of refuges on it,in 1944.
@obiologo
4 жыл бұрын
I 'm not a naval expert, but I think the german navy wasted resources building up her surface fleet, when it was clearly no match for the royal navy. If Krigsmarina had focused its efforts in building advanced types of U-Boats from the beginning instead of building large capital ships like the Bismarck, they would have been a greater pain in the british's asses. I despise the nazis, and their motivations, but I admire the german ingenuity when building their war machines. Here in Brazil, our navy branch is known for wasting resources in our surface fleet. We wasted millions of dollars in the São Paulo aircraft carrier, an old and troublesome french carrier from the 70´s, that is now decommissioned. This money could have been used to buy or build a large fleet of diesel-electric submarines that would have made our coast a nightmare for any invading fleet.
@alainarchambault2331
5 жыл бұрын
I can imagine the last dive after receiving the cease-fire message.
@jknowstheway1462
5 жыл бұрын
Mark, your channel, from an avid WW2 'aficionado', is truly enjoyed and very, appreciated. Cheers.
@RedcoatsReturn
5 жыл бұрын
So if the last electric German subs were so advanced why did not the navy incorporate them into the British and American fleet? Seems a waste to sink them.
@frankwhite3406
5 жыл бұрын
Fighting to the very end.
@jshepard152
5 жыл бұрын
Americans interested in this topic would do well to go see U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Exceptional exhibit.
@jackpinesavage1628
5 жыл бұрын
Throw all artillery shells overboard. Remove all the pistols from the torpedoes. Fly a black-colored or white-colored flag. Surrender at the nearest allied port. Sing military songs while continuing to maintain the U-boat while in captivity. Serve time in an internment camp and eventually go back home. Unfortunately, many of those who were captured by the Russians never went back home. They died in Siberia.
@longdonglarry
5 жыл бұрын
I'd do the same. Say that I've never received an order and blow out my torpedoes before I surrender.
@theycallmedavidbrent
5 жыл бұрын
Mark - fantastic videos. Thank you, congrats on 100k subs. Well deserved
@Ruweisat
5 жыл бұрын
Great videos. Love the intro score.
@jrbbikerx3309
5 жыл бұрын
lol thats a 32nd Parallel RC model submarine at 5:20
@webcelt
5 жыл бұрын
Why would they sink captured u-boats that were the most advanced models? I'd think they would either reverse-engineer them, or just add them to the British submarines.
@cgaccount3669
5 жыл бұрын
Basically so none would fall into Soviet hands. Keep the secrets and sink the boats rather than deal with awkward conversations with allies you think will soon be enemies.
@stoneblue1795
5 жыл бұрын
Good one, Mark- thanks as always.
@burningnapalm4436
5 жыл бұрын
The Intro Music is what separates you from the other History channels
@drianmortiz9375
5 жыл бұрын
Those surrendered German U‐Boats should have been given to the other foreign allied navies, who badly needed a relable navy combat vessels.
@dovs9318
5 жыл бұрын
Mark, what is your accent? This is complete mystery to us...
@panzertracks
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing, great video again.
@deltamike33
5 жыл бұрын
Is U-BOOTE, not fucking boat!!
@sauravpanja2727
5 жыл бұрын
Only to realise that tye real enemy was Soviet communists and china but not germany
@dongochoangkhang
5 жыл бұрын
and i mention in other video about wehrmacht infantry weapon and pak 38,pak40,flak88 use by vietnam's people army durring fist indochina war and vietnam
@andrew72268
5 жыл бұрын
I love your videos mark!
@sidlittle4174
3 жыл бұрын
Would have made great tourists attractions today in the uk?
@minxythemerciless
5 жыл бұрын
U530 was suspected of torpedoing the cruiser Bahia on 4 July 1945 and the crew, after surrender on 10 July, were taken to America and charged. They were also suspected of dropping Nazi leaders in Argentina.
@brasilimperio2554
5 жыл бұрын
Uma maravilha da engenharia germânica , esses lobos cinzentos .... U - 513 , hoje descansa no sul do Brasil , trata-se do UBOAT mais distante de sua base da Alemanha. ..... O grande erro dos alemães foi tocar no povo judeu, povo filho do Deus vivo de Israel. ....
@dongochoangkhang
5 жыл бұрын
a video about vietnam Special forces army legendary attack on nha be fuel storage on 1-2 december 1973
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