Mark Felton (born 1974) is an English YouTuber, writer, and historian. Felton has written over a dozen non-fiction books. He runs several YouTube channels on 20th and 21st century historical subjects, mainly related to World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Felton has taught at the University of Essex and at various universities in China. He has also been featured on television as a military history commentator. In 2014, he published Zero Night, a book about the 1942 mass allied escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag VI-B.
Felton taught at the University of Essex before moving to China for nine years, where he taught at both Shanghai University and Fudan University.[3][6] He was a volunteer for the Royal British Legion in Shanghai, organising the annual Poppy Appeal in Eastern China, from 2010 to 2014.[7] He assisted the British Consulate Shanghai in the rediscovery of the graves of four British soldiers killed by the Japanese in 1937.[8][9][10]
Felton has appeared on television as a military history commentator, including in the series Combat Trains (History Channel), and Evolution of Evil (American Heroes Channel).[11][12] His book Zero Night was about an escape from a German prisoner-of war camp;[13][14][15] it was mentioned in a 30 minute BBC Radio Cambridgeshire local radio station documentary, Three Minutes of Mayhem.[16]Zero Night was optioned in 2016 by Essential Media for feature film development.[17][3] In 2016, Felton's book Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz, which concerns the escape of British generals from Vincigliata Castle near Florence in 1943, was optioned for feature film development by Entertainment One.[18]
In 2017, Felton became a member of the Naval Order of the United States, a hereditary organization in the United States for members of the American sea services.[19]
In October 2017, Felton started his first YouTube channel, titled Mark Felton Productions, which explores a variety of historical subjects in terms of the 20th century (including material outside of the First World War and Second World War context, such as releases about the Cold War).[20][non-primary source needed] For example, he has covered the German Wehrmacht's use of captured U.S. M4 Sherman tanks during the Second World War.[21] In April 2022, Felton published a video identifying an abandoned tank found in an English field as a Canadian Ram tank, a trainer tank designed and built during WWII.[22]
In November 2019, Felton created a second YouTube channel, titled War Stories with Mark Felton, on which he posts recordings of himself reading from books that he has written.[24][bettersourceneeded]
In January 2022, the German Tank Museum issued a statement responding to a YouTube video Felton had posted, refuting a claim that they had "recently sold a TigerI to a private collector and replaced it with a 1:1 plastic model." The museum said that they had previously made multiple public statements describing the tank as a loan that was returned to its owner, and accused Felton of "just want[ing] a maximum degree of sensation and emotion in his video, regardless of facts and with minimum workload".[25]
In May 2022, Felton and 118 others had their applications for fellowship accepted by the Royal Historical Society.[26]
In 2023, Felton released the YouTube series Find the Führer: The Secret Soviet Investigation, concerning the forensic investigations of Hitler's death (as well as that of Eva Braun). As only Hitler's dental remains are known to have been found, Felton surmises that rather than the Soviet Union falsifying their reports (although they propagandised them),[a] the Germans committed last-ditch forensic fraud.[32][b][c][d]
Felton, Mark (2015). "The Perfect Storm: Japanese Military Brutality in World War II". In C. Carmichael; R. Maguire (eds.). Routledge History of Genocide. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315719054. ISBN9781315719054.
↑ The Soviet forensicists ostensibly conducted autopsies before obviously revealing issues about the corpses would have been known to them,[27][28] with Soviet propagandisation of the findings only occurring later.[29] Felton also notes that the Soviets had already branded Hitler's death fake news,[30][31] which Joseph Stalin seemed to think was true.[32]
↑ Though not cited by Felton, both Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann and SS-Rottenführer Harry Mengershausen surmised that Hitler's suicide gunshot ruptured his dentistry—a decade or two before the fragmentary condition of Hitler's mandible was known to Western sources.[33][34][35][36][37]
↑ Felton surmises that after the real bodies failed to burn completely, certain Nazis (in 31 hours and despite Soviet bombardment) procured similar bodies, secured and planted dental remains on them, and interred them outside the bunker exit—while also concealing the real corpses (elsewhere in the Reich Chancellery garden according to Hitler's valet Heinz Linge).[38]
↑ In 2025, Felton suggested the Reich Chancellery hospital and the nearby garage of Hitler's chauffeur Erich Kempka as possible places adecoy body could be found and stored, respectively.[39]
↑ "About Mark". 3 September 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2023. Born in Colchester in 1974, Mark gained his PhD at the University of Essex where he lectured in history before spending nearly a decade teaching in Shanghai, latterly at one of China's most prestigious colleges, Fudan University. He also organised the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal for Eastern China, and was an education instructor for the Peoples' [sic] Liberation Army.
↑ Felton, Mark (2023). "The Forgotten Theory". Find the Führer: The Secret Soviet Investigation. Episode 6. The Russians have never found Hitler's body. I know that because—uh... he uh, they never—they questioned me repeatedly about it.
↑ Felton, Mark (2025). Hitler's Real Grave May Still Exist! 80th Anniversary Special. 10 minutes in.
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