@@Peirithous I gotta ask you: who is this GG? Is it the enduring of hardship during the Depression and WW2, or the witnessing of and participation in those events that defines this group? Either way, Americans are the least accurately described this way because, it could be argued, we suffered and participated less than our European cousins and, dare we admit it, could also have been the nation possibly more responsible for the whole debacle than any other single participant, (setting aside the Nazis who were not and are not a sovereign nation).
My late Father was a merchant seaman, and on D Day he was on a troopship called the Empire Farmer, so great was the naval bombardment that Mum said when he came back he was deaf and shook for a week.
@@colindebourg9012 Yeah,my Grandad was a R.N gunner in a D.E.M.S team(defensively equipped merchant ship).I was a bit too young to have been able to speak to him about the war though.👍
@@Anglo_Saxon1 I think we don't realise just how young these heroes were, my Dad went to sea in 1940 aged 18, endured the Arctic convoys to Russia, North Atlantic convoys to America and many other trips including being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean aboard the Dorrington Court, he must have been terrified.
Brilliant. The amazing thing is that by today's standards they did it for the right reasons and not money. We could learn a lot from their actions and behaviour.
I have great respect for Nigel West and Max Hastings. My Father, Mother, Uncles, and Aunts, millions unknown and known, tacking part in what has been described here. A nice sampler to a fascinating subject and brave individuals.
There are errors, the most egregious of which is totally omitting *OPERATION MINCEMEAT,* a British plant of disinformation (using a dead body) which is probably the most convincing ruse which resulted in Hitler’s absolute refusal to send help to Normandy….one of a handful of fatal misjudgments. Look it up in Wikipedia where there’s an excellent article. There’s also an excellent documentary just about this operation on the Timeline channel.
They are the heroes forever without them we wouldn’t have been enjoying freedom that we take for granted. Thank you for all those known all unknown individuals who played significant roles on winning the war and made the world a better place for humanity. Imagine what if the German and Japan have won the ww2. I’m sure many of us would have been gone instinct and there were dictators all over the world.
There is a wonderful mini-series called "Reilly Ace of Spies" which is a true story about the greatest British spy in UK's history spanning from the 1890's during the Russian-Japanese War until Stalin took office in Russia. It is starring Sam Neill as Reilly plus a whole large group of British actors everyone will recognize from Masterpiece Theater. It's in ten episode and to this day probably the most intense exiting spy thriller made. This was long before the fantasy James Bond etc. and well worth everyone's time to watch. Sam Neill was brilliant incredible. Reilly was so successful that he turned the tides of history time and again to UK's favor.
I think that a line from the TV series Secrets Of War, narrated by Charlton Heston, really summed it up: "In World War Two no one, but no one, did espionage better than the British".
@@richardcaves3601 and all three kidnapped German scientists when it ended just to start the cold war...German physicists obviously had more brains than all three lol....true though
Jebsen & Pujol were partners, they planned their entry into Abver & MI6 in order to destroy the Nazis on their own. These 2 guys were true SUPER HEROES as were the rest.
Canadians after Italy were seen as shock troops so reporting on their embarkation for Pas de Calais while Americans were staying in England was an important part of the deception that the first attack was a diversion at Normandy.
What about not only the Canadians but also.the Australians and New Zealanders and all the Commonwealth troops too. You forgot the South Africans etc etc.
Whilst not disagreeing with you I have never read any Australian or NZ formations arriving on D Day beaches on June 6 or even in the months thereafter. However, the was a 100 French Commando unit which did and the Polish armoured division (which finally opened the Failaise gap !) arrived shortly thereafter. The Free French division arrived in Normandy from Algeria in July 1944 I believe and were "allowed" to help in the liberation of Paris.
American lacuna - the “rest of the world” ( or actually the world except America - which is the real “American exceptionalism” not its flawed “democracy”.
South Africa fought with Brittain for Brittain against the Nazis less than 50 years after Brittain went full throttle to wipe us out completely by burning farms, killing each and every farm animal and killing defenseless women and children in concentration camps throughout South Africa. However when Germany started kicking their behinds they were quick to come begging for the lives of those very same people to help them defending their island. No hard feelings. Just an eyeopener to see the bully hiding behind the bullied when the chips are down for them. It does not mean they were defenseless, just scared when they faced the devil. No one was allowed by them to came to our aid whilst they were rampaging through our country. They callled that strategy, Scorched Earth. What it was, was the slaughtering of unarmed women and children by starvation for one. They would execute children in front of the mothers and siblings to force them to inform on Boer positions.
frankly, although a super documentary, it must be said there are lot's of books on this subject published for some years now and all the key subjects are pretty well known
Juan Pujol - Garbo - has been known about since at least the 1980s! As was Dusko Popov - Tricycle - but many especially not WW2 fans, will never have heard of them.
There is a lost reel of film that was taken by a Marine color-movie photographer dropped behind the German lines the night of the 4th, and concealed in a spot overlooking Omaha beach from the south. He asked what he was to photograph and was told, "You'll know when you see it." His reels have disappeared into the archives and have not surfaced.
As far as I know their were no Australian New zeland people involved in DDay except some in the RAF. Australia was committed to fighting the Japanese .
I like the guy says treasure is a difficult women. (Aren’t they all). Lol😊. I will admit,as Marco and tough I was back in the day. I would so terrified of getting caught.being beaten,mentally and physically. Thanks Bearhunter5
Films are a flashy activity, but in reality it is a steady activity to collect and organize information. Leading figures who do not appear on the stage.
Such as *Operation Mincemeat,* an incredibly subtle British ruse which was just as important as Patton’s “army” and the double agents which isn’t even _mentioned!!_ I won’t be watching anymore videos produced by this company!
I knew the son of a personally powerful woman spy of WWII. He was, himself, quite a formidable fellow: extremely intelligent and charismatic, but his mother was a powerful person in his mind, so much so, in fact, that I don’t recall much about his father even though he was a handsome and imposing figure in his own right. This was a superwoman with a very unusually powerful persona. Oh, and she was gorgeous as well; the ‘housemaster’ who lived at and oversaw the house I boarded at (there were about 10 or so houses, averaging perhaps 70 boarders per house, that made up the school of approximately 750 students aged between 13 and 18. Oh, by the way, my school was named ‘Rugby’ and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what we invented!
JAPAN'S UNWITTING D-DAY SPY By Charles Fenyvesi May 26, 1998 Washingtom Post Japan's wartime ambassador to Berlin, a great admirer of Hitler, unwittingly supplied the United States with a methodical accounting of German defenses along the Atlantic coast in the critical months leading to the Allied invasion at Normandy, newly released documents show. For instance, after a four-day tour of the Third Reich's Atlantic fortifications in November 1943, he accounted for every German division's location, manpower and weaponry. He accurately described tank ditches as "built in a triangular cross section with a span across the top of 5 meters and a depth of 3.5 meters." He wrote about turrets "built in a continuous line, close to the shore," each equipped with two or three machine guns as well as grenade launchers.
@@richardcaves3601 The SIS built its first machine that could decrypt Purple messages in late 1940. A second Purple analog was built by the SIS for the US Navy. A third was sent to England in January 1941 on HMS King George V, which had brought Ambassador Halifax to the U.S. That Purple analog was accompanied by a team of four American cryptologists, two Army, two Navy, who received information on British successes against German ciphers in exchange. This machine was subsequently sent to Singapore, and after Japanese moves south through Malaya, on to India. A fourth Purple analog was sent to the Philippines and a fifth was kept by the SIS. A sixth, originally intended for Hawaii, was sent to England for use there.[3]: p.23
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Interesting character. The Germans gave him an Iron Cross but the British seem to have given him money and a pardon for his criminal record but, alas, no MBE.
Oops, I lost my direction there …. Our housemaster openly showed his infatuation with her, which would have been an embarrassment, had he not been surrounded by similarly motivated men, and women, on the staff. I don’t know if she had a professional career; she might, I think, have been a writer and political commentator.
Not sure about Max Hastings assertion about German Panther and Tiger Tanks being superior to anything the allies had. I would counter with The Pershing and The Sherman Firefly, both of which could more than hold their own against the Germans. Also, what defines superiority; is it the ability to produce small numbers of arguably technically superior vehicles, or is it the ability to produce thousands of standard models of an allegedly lesser technical specification. I don't believe some of the mythology that has been spun around the German army and its equipment of WW2. The allies of that period consisted of men of the highest quality across all areas.
You are quite right. The much touted superiority of German tanks was neutralised by overwhelming numbers, of both Sherman's and T35s. Nazi obsession with bigger and better tanks actually caused their defeat, because effort was diffused, parts weren't interchangeable, and just like the jet fighters, there was too little fuel
Chris Dorrington, Yes, totally agree that Operation Mincemeat was a brilliant and effective Allied pre-invasion deception - but for the 1943 invasion of Sicily, not 1944 D-Day at Normandy.
My comment would be why did it take so long for us (i.e., The US) to realize that the agents of the GPU whom were posing as American Citizens entered into the USA after outfitting themselves at Macy's in Toronto & Ontario. Then just walking through both Canadian and U.S. Customs as if they were returning home from a vacation. Oops!
That is incorrect. They did not "change" the course of history. That WAS the course of history, To change that...one would need a time machine. Using the phrase is so silly.
Hitler had a sour-looking, troubled-soul of a face. His quiet spoken voice, however, sounds very powerful. This was probably a major factor in his influence of senior military and political figures, without whose unreserved cooperation, to the point of complete and utter self-subordination, he could not possibly have harnessed the power of Germany to wage war for his specific purposes. This sole, unassisted power of an individual is no longer enough, although unfortunately the versatility and efficiency of modern communications technology provide much of that necessary assistance before the cooperation of close political associates is even tapped. So, the power of an individual is technologically magnified; and that is also, therefore, the soft point of weakness at which the attack on a bad actor must be concentrated. We know and are equipped with the know-how to neutralize bad actors; we only need the will to do so!
Considering English, Great Britain's history, wicked, this was their finest hour. The English showed their core true selves by voting their greatest leader out of office before the end of the war. Churchill did not deserve their ingratitude.
He was going to keep the country back in the 30's; no NHS, no council houses, and robber Baron's still in charge of transport and industry. When the safeguards were in place by Atlee, he was voted back in.
Wait a minute…. *WHERE IS “OPERATION MINCEMEAT”?!?!?* How can anybody trust a channel that misses something _THAT IMPORTANT?!?_ This ruse was just as important as the double agents, bc it was so subtle!! What a terrible thing to convince people they know about an extremely critical event in history, but they’ve not seen the critical element!!
voracious reader, Yes, totally agree that Operation Mincemeat was a brilliant and effective Allied pre-invasion deception - but for the 1943 invasion of Sicily, not 1944 D-Day at Normandy.
I could not disagree more, or more loudly! Without *Operation Mincemeat” (which wasn’t even mentioned here, making this video highly suspect), Patton’s “ghost army, and the double agents, the Allied soldiers would have been *SLAUGHTERED* by the huge forces Hitler instead kept encamped in the Pas de Calais had the ruses been unsuccessful, or worse, never implemented. As it was, the allied soldiers were gunned down in droves on the beaches by the German tower emplacements which Hitler had built on France’s western coast all the way to Norway. All of the naval bombardment hadn’t destroyed even ONE of them. You can scoff at this evidence if you like, but I would ask you to try to find a historian who disagrees, military OR civilian! *Hitler so strongly believed the misinformation for TWO MONTHS,, refusing to send even one tank division to Normandy, as he was so convinced that Patton was landing with his huge fake army across the Channel* and every Allied general fully understood how critical this was to the success of the invasion, with comparatively minimal loss of life for the men who risked their lives during the initial landings.
@@voraciousreader3341 again the fog of war can turn any well planned operation to failure. The enigma code was broken and to hat was just as vital for the success of the landings. The best regiment's we're on the Eastern front, and the supply lines harassed by superior air power. Yet the battles had to be won by ordinary soldiers who fought in the difficult terrain of France. Like Wellington remark at Waterloo it was a close run thing.
@@southernsmoke8391 again how do you attain victory in war by claiming more territory you can't manage or defeating the army . Blitzkrieg failed in Russia because of its vastness and the rapid advance of the tanks and mechanised artillery. Yet the Germans had more horses than vehicles. So how could the infantry catch up with the rapid advancing tanks to secure the ground they won.
I will forever be in awe of the GREATEST GENERATION for as long as I live …so much gratitude ❤❤❤🌹🕊
What nationalities and ethnicities are you allowing into that fabled group??
@@Davidfooterman not the nazzzzis that’s for sure👿👿
@@Peirithous I gotta ask you: who is this GG? Is it the enduring of hardship during the Depression and WW2, or the witnessing of and participation in those events that defines this group? Either way, Americans are the least accurately described this way because, it could be argued, we suffered and participated less than our European cousins and, dare we admit it, could also have been the nation possibly more responsible for the whole debacle than any other single participant, (setting aside the Nazis who were not and are not a sovereign nation).
There is so much suspense why isn’t this a movie?
To think of 8,000 warships all together and part of the same operation is absolutely mind blowing!
My late Father was a merchant seaman, and on D Day he was on a troopship called the Empire Farmer, so great was the naval bombardment that Mum said when he came back he was deaf and shook for a week.
@@colindebourg9012 Yeah,my Grandad was a R.N gunner in a D.E.M.S team(defensively equipped merchant ship).I was a bit too young to have been able to speak to him about the war though.👍
@@Anglo_Saxon1 I think we don't realise just how young these heroes were, my Dad went to sea in 1940 aged 18, endured the Arctic convoys to Russia, North Atlantic convoys to America and many other trips including being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean aboard the Dorrington Court, he must have been terrified.
Brilliant. The amazing thing is that by today's standards they did it for the right reasons and not money. We could learn a lot from their actions and behaviour.
Fascinating to learn about the unbelievably incredible of the stories behind the stories behind the story. Superb thank you
The use of micro dots and invisible ink put digital technology into the shade (where it belongs) - absolutely love this type of video, thank you
I have great respect for Nigel West and Max Hastings. My Father, Mother, Uncles, and Aunts, millions unknown and known, tacking part in what has been described here. A nice sampler to a fascinating subject and brave individuals.
Tacking?
That was absolutely amazing 👏 one of the best docs I've seen in a long time!!!!! 👏
You might enjoy operation Fortitude. Feeding misinformation to the Germans. Many put their lives on the line and others died. We owe them everything
Fascinating documentary.
There are errors, the most egregious of which is totally omitting *OPERATION MINCEMEAT,* a British plant of disinformation (using a dead body) which is probably the most convincing ruse which resulted in Hitler’s absolute refusal to send help to Normandy….one of a handful of fatal misjudgments. Look it up in Wikipedia where there’s an excellent article. There’s also an excellent documentary just about this operation on the Timeline channel.
'Brutus' is buried in the Polish Cemetery in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England.
Amazing. Incredible story, well told.
They are the heroes forever without them we wouldn’t have been enjoying freedom that we take for granted. Thank you for all those known all unknown individuals who played significant roles on winning the war and made the world a better place for humanity. Imagine what if the German and Japan have won the ww2. I’m sure many of us would have been gone instinct and there were dictators all over the world.
Indeed.ask any true war hero and without fail their answer is uniform:the true heroes never came home ...
There is a wonderful mini-series called "Reilly Ace of Spies" which is a true story about the greatest British spy in UK's history spanning from the 1890's during the Russian-Japanese War until Stalin took office in Russia. It is starring Sam Neill as Reilly plus a whole large group of British actors everyone will recognize from Masterpiece Theater. It's in ten episode and to this day probably the most intense exiting spy thriller made. This was long before the fantasy James Bond etc. and well worth everyone's time to watch. Sam Neill was brilliant incredible. Reilly was so successful that he turned the tides of history time and again to UK's favor.
Brilliant and amazing - thank you
Spies, outright fascinated. I admire the men and women, right up to this very day. A agent is awesome, but a double agent WOW. Thanks Bearhunter5
Lol there are NO women spies u silly goose..... now go eat a cucumber 🥒 sandwich 🥪
I think that a line from the TV series Secrets Of War, narrated by Charlton Heston, really summed it up:
"In World War Two no one, but no one, did espionage better than the British".
True....the one they done with the doppelganger Nazi floating off the coast was genius
There's a fairly accurate statement made after the war that goes: This war was won by Russian blood, American brawn and British brains
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I think you mean the fake Royal Marines Major in Operation Mincemeat.
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I like that phrase very much indeed. Thank you. 🙂
@@richardcaves3601 and all three kidnapped German scientists when it ended just to start the cold war...German physicists obviously had more brains than all three lol....true though
A great documentary. ⭐️
Great stuff!
Absolutely fantastic documentary!!!
truly fascinating !!!! i love a happy ending .
Excellent! Thanksalot
Just awesome!
Glad you like it!
Epic! Great documentary!
Jebsen & Pujol were partners, they planned their entry into Abver & MI6 in order to destroy the Nazis on their own.
These 2 guys were true SUPER HEROES as were the rest.
Actually it was Jebsen and Tricycle. Not Pujol.
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From Ramsses, Tut or Ptolemys time???
@@jorgecruzseda7551 Yes absolutely ❤️
Canadians after Italy were seen as shock troops so reporting on their embarkation for Pas de Calais while Americans were staying in England was an important part of the deception that the first attack was a diversion at Normandy.
What about not only the Canadians but also.the Australians and New Zealanders and all the Commonwealth troops too. You forgot the South Africans etc etc.
There is many Nations what taken part in D-day and as a British citizen I can I say thank you very much we hold great depth to these Nations
Whilst not disagreeing with you I have never read any Australian or NZ formations arriving on D Day beaches on June 6 or even in the months thereafter. However, the was a 100 French Commando unit which did and the Polish armoured division (which finally opened the Failaise gap !) arrived shortly thereafter. The Free French division arrived in Normandy from Algeria in July 1944 I believe and were "allowed" to help in the liberation of Paris.
American lacuna - the “rest of the world” ( or actually the world except America - which is the real “American exceptionalism” not its flawed “democracy”.
South Africa fought with Brittain for Brittain against the Nazis less than 50 years after Brittain went full throttle to wipe us out completely by burning farms, killing each and every farm animal and killing defenseless women and children in concentration camps throughout South Africa. However when Germany started kicking their behinds they were quick to come begging for the lives of those very same people to help them defending their island. No hard feelings. Just an eyeopener to see the bully hiding behind the bullied when the chips are down for them. It does not mean they were defenseless, just scared when they faced the devil. No one was allowed by them to came to our aid whilst they were rampaging through our country. They callled that strategy, Scorched Earth. What it was, was the slaughtering of unarmed women and children by starvation for one. They would execute children in front of the mothers and siblings to force them to inform on Boer positions.
Yes they were there too and we can thank them as well.
frankly, although a super documentary, it must be said there are lot's of books on this subject published for some years now and all the key subjects are pretty well known
Juan Pujol - Garbo - has been known about since at least the 1980s! As was Dusko Popov - Tricycle - but many especially not WW2 fans, will never have heard of them.
New information on the war surfaces all the time.
The British government still has many WWII files that remain classified.
Whilst I agree with you I don't know anyone under 25 who even knows what ww2 was. A video game possibly
@@whatiswrongwithwhatihadwankers lol. Do they even know who George Washington was?
There is a lost reel of film that was taken by a Marine color-movie photographer dropped behind the German lines the night of the 4th, and concealed in a spot overlooking Omaha beach from the south. He asked what he was to photograph and was told, "You'll know when you see it." His reels have disappeared into the archives and have not surfaced.
2:10 there was a Polish Division on Juno Beach with the Canadian 1st Army
Very interesting 👌
Next you can do a video about Agent Zig-Zag. The UK's triple agent!
@Gavin Lepoer No, his code name was Agent Zigzag. Eddie Chapman.
As far as I know their were no Australian New zeland people involved in DDay except some in the RAF. Australia was committed to fighting the Japanese .
The music is TOO much.
Excuse me? Give me a break
I like the guy says treasure is a difficult women. (Aren’t they all). Lol😊. I will admit,as Marco and tough I was back in the day. I would so terrified of getting caught.being beaten,mentally and physically. Thanks Bearhunter5
"Aren't they all"? So all women are difficult? What a piece of work u are..... #respectallwomen
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Your comment actually makes no sense whatsoever. Write in your native language, maybe.
the author Ben MacIntyre has written a wonderful book about this subject, well worth a read/listen
during the war, my dad in the Royal Navy was issued H M S cap tallies instead of the ship's name as normal
Films are a flashy activity, but in reality it is a steady activity to collect and organize information. Leading figures who do not appear on the stage.
Such as *Operation Mincemeat,* an incredibly subtle British ruse which was just as important as Patton’s “army” and the double agents which isn’t even _mentioned!!_ I won’t be watching anymore videos produced by this company!
I knew the son of a personally powerful woman spy of WWII. He was, himself, quite a formidable fellow: extremely intelligent and charismatic, but his mother was a powerful person in his mind, so much so, in fact, that I don’t recall much about his father even though he was a handsome and imposing figure in his own right. This was a superwoman with a very unusually powerful persona. Oh, and she was gorgeous as well; the ‘housemaster’ who lived at and oversaw the house I boarded at (there were about 10 or so houses, averaging perhaps 70 boarders per house, that made up the school of approximately 750 students aged between 13 and 18. Oh, by the way, my school was named ‘Rugby’ and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what we invented!
You invented methamphetamine?
No of course not . Everyone knows Hitlers chemists invented it .
The rugger boys just perfected it !
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BFD.
@AbdulRaman, so what's your comment? Eediot
45:40 month and a half after Normandy invasion
JAPAN'S UNWITTING D-DAY SPY By Charles Fenyvesi May 26, 1998 Washingtom Post
Japan's wartime ambassador to Berlin, a great admirer of Hitler, unwittingly supplied the United States with a methodical accounting of German defenses along the Atlantic coast in the critical months leading to the Allied invasion at Normandy, newly released documents show.
For instance, after a four-day tour of the Third Reich's Atlantic fortifications in November 1943, he accounted for every German division's location, manpower and weaponry. He accurately described tank ditches as "built in a triangular cross section with a span across the top of 5 meters and a depth of 3.5 meters." He wrote about turrets "built in a continuous line, close to the shore," each equipped with two or three machine guns as well as grenade launchers.
Which of course was read by ultra
@@richardcaves3601 The SIS built its first machine that could decrypt Purple messages in late 1940. A second Purple analog was built by the SIS for the US Navy. A third was sent to England in January 1941 on HMS King George V, which had brought Ambassador Halifax to the U.S. That Purple analog was accompanied by a team of four American cryptologists, two Army, two Navy, who received information on British successes against German ciphers in exchange. This machine was subsequently sent to Singapore, and after Japanese moves south through Malaya, on to India. A fourth Purple analog was sent to the Philippines and a fifth was kept by the SIS. A sixth, originally intended for Hawaii, was sent to England for use there.[3]: p.23
Pujol Garcia was so successful he was awarded an MBE and an Iron Cross 2nd class. I think that's a one of.
Read up on Eddie Chapman, then.
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Interesting character. The Germans gave him an Iron Cross but the British seem to have given him money and a pardon for his criminal record but, alas, no MBE.
@@chrisvickers7928 question his class & background in those days. Now they are "two a penny" and let's notvraise the question of knighthoods !
A one of WHAT?
Dusko was similarly awarded an OBE and Iron Cross.
Interesting programme indeed, but the music is to high and irritatating!!!😖
Do one on the unreported contributions of the Red Tails & frontline melanated soldiers.
WWII is not over Andorra is stillat war with Germany as they were not included in the surrender documents.
Not so, they signed after the reunification of Germany in 1991
Oops, I lost my direction there …. Our housemaster openly showed his infatuation with her, which would have been an embarrassment, had he not been surrounded by similarly motivated men, and women, on the staff. I don’t know if she had a professional career; she might, I think, have been a writer and political commentator.
What was her son’s name?
Read the book, "Double Cross" by Ben MacIntyre.
Not sure about Max Hastings assertion about German Panther and Tiger Tanks being superior to anything the allies had. I would counter with The Pershing and The Sherman Firefly, both of which could more than hold their own against the Germans.
Also, what defines superiority; is it the ability to produce small numbers of arguably technically superior vehicles, or is it the ability to produce thousands of standard models of an allegedly lesser technical specification. I don't believe some of the mythology that has been spun around the German army and its equipment of WW2. The allies of that period consisted of men of the highest quality across all areas.
You are quite right. The much touted superiority of German tanks was neutralised by overwhelming numbers, of both Sherman's and T35s. Nazi obsession with bigger and better tanks actually caused their defeat, because effort was diffused, parts weren't interchangeable, and just like the jet fighters, there was too little fuel
Double Agent Tricycle looks like Reinhard Heydrich
What about Operation Mincemeat
Chris Dorrington, Yes, totally agree that Operation Mincemeat was a brilliant and effective Allied pre-invasion deception - but for the 1943 invasion of Sicily, not 1944 D-Day at Normandy.
Unrelated to the D-Day invasion.
Operation mincemeat was bout to he invsion of Sicily
Different event honey
Mincemeat was just a movie lol
My comment would be why did it take so long for us (i.e., The US) to realize that the agents of the GPU whom were posing as American Citizens entered into the USA after outfitting themselves at Macy's in Toronto & Ontario. Then just walking through both Canadian and U.S. Customs as if they were returning home from a vacation.
Oops!
That is incorrect. They did not "change" the course of history. That WAS the course of history, To change that...one would need a time machine. Using the phrase is so silly.
'Shaped the course of history' is the phrase the editor probably should have given them. Oh, right: we don't seem to have editors anymore, do we?
@@FigaroHey 👍 Got that right. That would have been a better phrase.
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The repetitive background music is so ANNOYING!
Hitler had a sour-looking, troubled-soul of a face. His quiet spoken voice, however, sounds very powerful. This was probably a major factor in his influence of senior military and political figures, without whose unreserved cooperation, to the point of complete and utter self-subordination, he could not possibly have harnessed the power of Germany to wage war for his specific purposes. This sole, unassisted power of an individual is no longer enough, although unfortunately the versatility and efficiency of modern communications technology provide much of that necessary assistance before the cooperation of close political associates is even tapped. So, the power of an individual is technologically magnified; and that is also, therefore, the soft point of weakness at which the attack on a bad actor must be concentrated. We know and are equipped with the know-how to neutralize bad actors; we only need the will to do so!
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We paid for lend lease, did the French pay reparations, it was their country we fraught for. Again.
Considering English, Great Britain's history, wicked, this was their finest hour. The English showed their core true selves by voting their greatest leader out of office before the end of the war. Churchill did not deserve their ingratitude.
Insulin is a miracle for many diabetics, BUT they don’t take a stat dose if their blood sugar is down to normal.
He was going to keep the country back in the 30's; no NHS, no council houses, and robber Baron's still in charge of transport and industry. When the safeguards were in place by Atlee, he was voted back in.
Don't tell me we were mugged with the whole bill. We finally paid the yanks back but it took 50 years.
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The MI5 should have just let the dog into the country
Aren't there enough dogs in the country?
Annoying unnecessary background music
Wait a minute…. *WHERE IS “OPERATION MINCEMEAT”?!?!?* How can anybody trust a channel that misses something _THAT IMPORTANT?!?_ This ruse was just as important as the double agents, bc it was so subtle!! What a terrible thing to convince people they know about an extremely critical event in history, but they’ve not seen the critical element!!
Absolutely agree, it was a masterpiece of deception and played a huge role in the successful invasion of France.
voracious reader, Yes, totally agree that Operation Mincemeat was a brilliant and effective Allied pre-invasion deception - but for the 1943 invasion of Sicily, not 1944 D-Day at Normandy.
Operation mincemeat had nothing to do with Normandy landings it was Operation husky to invade sicily in 1943
This video is about the spies relating to the D-Day invasion. Mincemeat was the year before to deceive against the landing on Sicily.
I agree but the operation didn't involve spies per se
Bad music,disturbing
Yes, i had difficulty making out what was being said.
Max Hastings is woefully ignorant
Ah human hermaphrodites are infertile they're also extreamly rare
You ruined it at the end by snapping us back to reality with modern video...And yet you were doing so great. Shame!
My name is John masterman, no relation unfortunately. I read everything publication on xx
Laughing my bloody ass off
This is nonsense. The fog of war is never predicted , its the ordinary soldier whose deeds make the final outcome.
You comment like an amateur
I could not disagree more, or more loudly! Without *Operation Mincemeat” (which wasn’t even mentioned here, making this video highly suspect), Patton’s “ghost army, and the double agents, the Allied soldiers would have been *SLAUGHTERED* by the huge forces Hitler instead kept encamped in the Pas de Calais had the ruses been unsuccessful, or worse, never implemented. As it was, the allied soldiers were gunned down in droves on the beaches by the German tower emplacements which Hitler had built on France’s western coast all the way to Norway. All of the naval bombardment hadn’t destroyed even ONE of them. You can scoff at this evidence if you like, but I would ask you to try to find a historian who disagrees, military OR civilian! *Hitler so strongly believed the misinformation for TWO MONTHS,, refusing to send even one tank division to Normandy, as he was so convinced that Patton was landing with his huge fake army across the Channel* and every Allied general fully understood how critical this was to the success of the invasion, with comparatively minimal loss of life for the men who risked their lives during the initial landings.
@@voraciousreader3341 again the fog of war can turn any well planned operation to failure. The enigma code was broken and to hat was just as vital for the success of the landings. The best regiment's we're on the Eastern front, and the supply lines harassed by superior air power. Yet the battles had to be won by ordinary soldiers who fought in the difficult terrain of France. Like Wellington remark at Waterloo it was a close run thing.
Two answers can be the right one. Mission planning & empowering soldiers to make decisions.
@@southernsmoke8391 again how do you attain victory in war by claiming more territory you can't manage or defeating the army . Blitzkrieg failed in Russia because of its vastness and the rapid advance of the tanks and mechanised artillery. Yet the Germans had more horses than vehicles. So how could the infantry catch up with the rapid advancing tanks to secure the ground they won.