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Yes, I‘ve heard of him. Still, I consider his videos rather sensationalist. Sorry about it.

This story of his dealings with the German Tank museum, for example, was a little dodgy to me, especially with me being a historian myself:

https://daspanzermuseum.de/regarding-mark-feltons-king-tiger-still-in-lake-video/

Thus, Mr. Felton seems to me very similar to many other „British style“ historians: the narrative- which is always extremely good and clearly written- is the most important. Facts, not always.

That should be of no wonder. After all, Britain‘s rich literary heritage would be unthinkable without the British narrative tradition.

In scholarship, there are national traditions which pay more attention to facts, but whose scholarly works normally make for rather dry reading. My own writings are no exception in this regard 😀

Furthermore, one should not forget that Britain teaches her children unconditional hatred for my people, the fact notwithstanding that we are a slave colony now, not a country., after losing you-know-what, as well as being a partner in Nato.

Well, if I had my way, my country, what’s left of it, would be as isolationist as ancient China, ancient Korea, or as Japan during the „sakoku“ era. I think, then, people on both sides of the German border would be happy 😀

The only pity would be that we wouldn’t be having this conversation now 🙂

I didn't realize you lived in Germany. And I hope your health has improved since you wrote your profile. Were you born in Germany, or are you from another country, and settled there? I never got to Germany, but my oldest son in his late 50's had spent many of his vacations, up until the lockdown, visiting Germany, and met several nice people in Munich that he stays in contact with. He was very fluent in German, but since he hasn't been there in a while, and hasn't used the language, he says he's not up to par. But he wants to be able to travel again at some point. Like most of us, he has other priorities at the moment.

My father was born in Holland, near the border of Belgium. He came here as a little boy of 8 with his two brothers, and their parents in 1913. Sadly I never knew my grandparents, they were all gone on both sides when I was born in 1947.

Back in 2006, my oldest son and I traveled to Europe together, first stopping in Brugge, so we could rent a car and drive the 50 miles to Schoondijke, Holland where my father had been born. Schoondijke was occupied by the Germans during the war. Canadian forces were assigned the task to clear the area. The allies bombed the village of Schoondijke very heavily, and not much of it was left when the war ended. We only stayed overnight as we both had our own itineraries to hold to. My son went on to Germany, and I headed to Paris to tour the D-Day Landing Beaches, and then to London for a week there, and then a 3 week bus tour of the British Isles.

The majority of my DNA ancestry comes from England, Wales and Northwestern Europe. My mother was born in Canada and came to the U.S. with her mother and only brother when she was quite young. My great-uncle served with the Canadian Forces in WWI, was wounded in France, and died of his wounds two months before the Armistice.

Unbeknownst to either of my parents was the fact that our family also has DNA from Sweden, Denmark, Germanic Empire, Scotland and Ireland. The closest DNA-connected ancestor from Germany that I have is a 5th Great-Grandfather John Conrad Sills (von Sills)(von Sells), who was born in Rothenbergen, Hesse in 1738. He emigrated to New York State. He was a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War, served with a special Ranger unit, then moved with his family to Canada.

My traveling days are over unfortunately. I only get to visit my two sons, and my brother's family. I'm the last one left from mine. I'm glad at least that I did get to both birthplaces of my parents, and grandparents. In Canada, I met cousins I never knew I had. Thanks for the link to the video, and for the info on Dr. Felton. And thanks for sharing this conversation. Although I have British DNA, I've always felt that Britain treated some of her colonies very badly. Not just because of our Revolutionary War here, but because the Brits had a habit of colonizing places like India, and others, and then when it got inconvenient for them, they ran away and left messes for others to clean up. At least that's the impression I've gotten in some of my reading. Take care. It's been a pleasure.