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after the war they might have had another issue: what to do with all these forgers that had no employment anymore I mean the forger would not have so many job offers or at least till cold war broke out.
Astrid, try some narrow cat-eye glasses. You can tilt your head down and peer over the top of them for emphasis. I like doing that to people with mine. 😆
Y'all made a good choice having Astrid host this series. The content is great enough on its own, but her style and tone are the perfect extra touch. Thanks!
I love watching this series while having dinner, it's like having a family dinner while one of your cool aunts keeps telling you interesting stories of her youth. Thanks Astrid for being an awesome host!
When starting the OSS. Bill Donovan said "We need PHD's that can win bar fights." The skills needed to operate behind enemy lines are vast and varied. Not many of them require brute strength. Spying is asymetric warfare. The SOE training was physically and mentally tough.
Big Bill Donovan sounds like he was referring to Little Bill (Sir William Stephenson), who suggested Roosevelt found the COI (later OSS) with British assistance and Donovan in charge. Stephenson was a WWI pilot, inventor, millionaire, socialite, featherweight boxing champion, head of BSC, and top British spy in the western hemisphere. He also ran Camp X, the first spy training school in the Americas! He certainly had some vast and varied skills! Fleming may have alluded to him partly inspiring James Bond as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stephenson
@@drsamueltran2561 sidenote, generally he's been referred to in most books on the period as "Wild Bill" Donovan as he brought in some people that were considered 'Wild Cards' in their approach to things. The book "The Bastard Brigade" by Sam Kean covers a lot of interesting material about the unlikely folks that Worked with/for Donovan.
My favorite SOE gadget is probably one of the simplest: explosive coal. A charge of plastic explosive disguised as an ordinary lump of coal. Toss it in the feed car of a locomotive or in the supply headed for a power plant and when it is almost inevitably shoveled in to the boiler the heat sets it off, damaging or hopefully outright destroying said boiler.
During the Vietnam War, I was recruited for communications intelligence. I imagined myself becoming a cross between James Bond and an electronics whiz kid. The recruiters encouraged this idea. 007 I wasn’t. I was trained on computers. One out of two ain’t bad. For a year I served at US Army Security Agency Radio Research Unit #1. We weren’t radio and we weren’t research. Before I left for overseas, I had to remove all uniform indications that I was part of Intelligence. I was assigned to a logistics detachment that was a “weather station”. The Russians still knew we were there. They would try to spy on us while we were spying on them. Reminded me of “Spy vs Spy” in Mad Comics.
I love the almost archaic way you say "nineteen hundred and forty" rather than the commonly used "nineteen forty." Keep it up, Astrid, it's great, I love listening to this series!
@@HugostarGames I was just thinking this. I wanted to write out 1943 in German and letters instead of numbers. But then i realized i don't know how. Lol. Other than that my German is pretty okay.
@@IudiciumInfernalum it's "Neunzehnhundert(-)dreiundvierzig" or, as it was custom till the the mid of the 20th century "Neunzehnhundertvierzigunddrei" Note that "neunzehnhundert" is only used to describe years, im the number describes an Amount of anythin you'd say "Tausendneunhundertdreiundvierzig"
Great video Astrid. With talks to my grandmother over 20 years ago talking about what she with SOE, she talked about the training that her and the other women received. They were sent to Scotland for training & were taught by commandos. She said at the time that recruits did die during the harsh training. My grandmother was just a shade under 5ft tall & she said it was tough going. Before she was sent to Northern France (as she was there before the war), she was furnished with numerous pieces of equipment. The old fashioned barbers straight razor being her favourite. She had forged papers, money, coupons as well as transmitters & yes they even issued her with clothing. She didn't have much in the way of gadgets but she was well trained in the use of explosives & firearms. When she passed in 2013 I was made executor of her will. The will was quite odd as I was to notify the MoD in the UK of her passing by a series of digits to inform them by so I contacted the British consulate in Sydney & I was told to expect a phone call. When I got the phone call they made an appointment for me to go see them & I had to provide her birth certificate, death certificate, my grandfathers paperwork (he passed away in 2002) photos & my mother's birth certificate. When I went to the appointment, I asked for my grandmothers service record (which the consulate knew I'd ask) & all it said was her length of service, rank of 2nd Lieutenant & medals earned. There was nothing else on the document. Both my mother & I told this official from the consulate that we knew she served in Northern France during the Nazi occupation with SOE & was told by them that files were officially sealed by the MoD under the Official Secrets Act. I really did want to know more but they couldn't say. All they could say was that she served her country well at it's time of need & that there's still a lot of files that are still sealed & not for public access for 99 years. By the time when they're unsealed I'll be 76. My grandmother after the Normandy invasion was part of Operation Jedburgh in France. Astrid, I hope episodes down the track that you might be able to make or show off in a museum the equipment used by SOE as I'm sure you'd like to hold those items that were personally used by SOE.
I just love these nuts and bolts episodes! As much as history is about the people and their actions, what they use to do these actions is just as important.
"And learning local customs" So that you don't use the wrong fingers when ordering beer while disguised as a German officer in an underground bar in Nazi occupied Paris you know stuff like that
A German teacher in college told us that Germans love guessing where someone is from based on their accent, and it really bugs them if they can't figure it out. And thirty years later I saw that played out on the big screen. Made me appreciate it even more.
Well, exactly stuff like that. The SOE handbook describes how agents needed knowledge of local celebreties and public figures, drinking habbits, gestures, rituals and holidays, prices and timetables of public transportation, slang and accents, World War Two related slang and general attitude towards the Germans, what produce or items were scarce during the war - everything which might give you away as non-local.
Will there be a special on the SOE agent who became a police officer in Nouvion and thaughted the plans of Herr Otto Flick of the Gestapo, with help of a humble Cafe owner?
I feel like today creators of spy-ware and todays historical costumers and behaviorists would have a field day training spies to operate this way. Thank you, miss Astrid for such a fun history lesson.
The fact that in some areas they were so secretive they didn't even tell their agents who they worked for was mind blowing information, I didn't have a clue about.
Today it's called "Compartmentalization" and it's a basic foundation of modern security. The whole idea of "need to know" comes from this. What you don't know about, you can't accidentally or purposefully give away.
@@cammobunker It can backfire. In the 1960’s, a raid was planned to liberate POWs from a jungle prison in Laos or North Vietnam. Everything worked perfectly but they had been moved. That info was in someone else’s compartment.
@657449 I think that a more relevant example would be the inept compartmentalisation of the US security apparatus and the resulting enormous intelligence failures prior to 9/11.
Spartacus, Astrid and Indy have found in their performance and educational skills the way to make an already thrilling and interesting subject (soul wrecking in the case of Spartacus) and turn it into unmissable segments. I know what the holocaust was and still find myself gutted by Spartacus descriptions of horror. I know what each operation of the war is going to yeild in result and still find Indy's narrative entrancing. I'm aware of the huge and underrated role of spies in the outcome of the war and yet, Astrid theatrics and stoytelling skills make the emotion and gravity of the matter impossible to dismiss. Congratulations to the team! love from Mexico
Hi Astrid.. Awesome episode. Wonderfully explained.. New aspects added in this video. Lot of innovative things in this video.. Also learned about q section how its named and about real Q chaes fraser.. I like james bond novels and also film.. Learned a lot.. Thanks astrid and team..🙏👍
If previous episodes went from great to epic, this episode raises the bar from epic to legendary. The editing, the costumes, the narrative, oh my god it's just legendary! :D
Ah the Special Operations Executive, sometimes often seen in games like Medal of Honor: Rising Sun and more recently Call of Duty: World War 2. This will be an interesting video to watch...
This series is pure gold! Astrid is killing it. Informative as usual, but I'm shook by laughter. Great, great work, I applaud the whole team. Grüße aus Wiesbaden, keep up the phenomenal work.
A great episode! There was also, the British Political Warfare Executive (PWE), which spread “black propaganda,” or clandestine deception, although it is difficult to say how effective it was!
My grandfather was an agent of the SOE (N section) who was Married to to a Swiss Born agent of F section. They met during their training at wireless (wt) training school Thame Park. My grandfather survived working as an organisor/WT operator 8 months in occupied Netherlands. His wife on the otherhand was caught by the SD/Gestapo in France. She was murdered together with three other F section female agents in Dachau concentrationcamp. My grandfather had a suitcase from q section with a hidden compartment to transport 25.000 guilders and fresh pictures of the dutch queen for the underground newspapers.
Fantastic presentation! Loved the content and costume changes. The subject of intelligence, counter-intelligence, spy craft and deception operations is covered BRILLIANTLY in the book Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown. I'm a geezer who has been geeking on WWII since I was in grade school and have read countless books on the subject and this is by FAR my favorite WWII book.
I just love these ‘nuts and bolts’ information episodes. The history of SOE is a hall of mirrors, but learning about people and stuff is always enlightening and very entertaining....
One of my fathers last commanding officers was a junior U.S. navy officer back in ww2 involved with code breaking down in Australia. He retired as a 2 star admiral with NSA at Pearl Harbor, my father served under him as a U. S. army LTC.
A local TV station ran a Sunday matinee of war/adventure movies that I could watch after mowing the lawn or raking leaves. Movies based on the books by Alastair McClean were my consistent favorites. It's been interesting in the decades since to find out where the boundaries of truth and fiction were in those stories.
Small point. During the early years of the war when America was still ostensibly "neutral", the British SOE headquarters were actually located in New York City. No joke! The concept was that if Britain was invaded and fell the SOE would still be free to continue operations against the Germans. During that time, regardless of "neutrality", the FBI worked hand in glove with the SOE to gather intelligence about the Germans. Reference "A Man Called Intrepid", the factual story of perhaps Britain's greatest SOE operative. A really great read for anyone interested in history!
Always remember reading a tale about I think North Africa. It was noticed that German truck drivers found it hilarious to drive over animal dung in the road so SOE started to make fake dung with explosives in it and the drivers would get a surprise when they steered and aimed for it. I can't give a source as I read it some time ago and I forget where.
I'll second that. Though I had heard it was the SAS pulling that stunt. Regardless, after the Germans lost enough trucks and had the tracks blown off enough tanks they started having people sweep the dung off the roads before their vehicles drove over them. Literally one of the more sh_t jobs somebody could get.
Oh man, you guys always do a great job, but your lighting guy needs to move that key up so that the reflection on her glasses isn’t directed straight back at the camera
As great stories as field agents with all their gadgets created they simply lose badly in significance to weedy looking dudes just listening radio traffic and codebreakers using big machines. Still those stories are worth telling because they bring human drama to mix.
These videos are great. It's like some bizarre cross of Mark Felton and your favorite K-pop star. One of the few things on youtube that actually still makes me smile.
The biggest use of British spycraft in WWII was to serve as cover for intel from Betchley Park. "How did we find out about this? Uh... we have some new spies there. That's it! But you have to keep it quiet"
4:53 is definitely not in Poland since it is general Sosnkowski in uniform with "Poland" patch, on exile in UK, probably while he was Commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces.
Great video, so many things about the SOE and it’s agents i didn’t know. If possible, could you do a segment on Virginia Hall (an SOE agent with a wooden leg named Cuttbert) or one on Noor Inayat Khan who sent radio messages from France to Britain, but ultimately caught by the Germans and sent to a Concentration Camp. =(
Other things that the British Q department worked on was tools for escape that were sent to the prisoners of war... Jon Pertwee (the actor, of Dr Who Fame) was involved in the development of some of these things. Officially he was attached to the Naval Intelligence Division but was lesioned with the folks working on gadgets, from what I read some years ago about his service, working beside Ian Fleming (he was on the HMS Hood, but was transferred off shortly before it was sunk by the Bismarck).
I so glad Astrid has a show of her own to host. So animated in her way of presenting the information, yet in the back of my mind I hear a squadron of B-17's and Lancaster bombers loaded with F bombs just waiting for the order to release...😂😂
As usual... another GREAT! video.. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. That said, and please know that this positive feedback. The lights are doing a number on her glasses
There exists film of interview with a retired Charles Fraser-Smith where he describes how he had to confront battery makers about the garbage they produced so they could sell more batteries to consumers. He knew better flashlight batteries could easily be made, so he threatened to publicly expose the manufacturers, when then agreed to make good batteries for the SOE if he remained silent. So, we consumers got garbage carbon acid batteries for 30 more years.
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Yes.
oh man, Indie is in trouble. This is quickly becoming my favorite segment and presenter on the channel
after the war they might have had another issue: what to do with all these forgers that had no employment anymore
I mean the forger would not have so many job offers or at least till cold war broke out.
you guys are having too much fun...I can tell
Astrid, try some narrow cat-eye glasses. You can tilt your head down and peer over the top of them for emphasis. I like doing that to people with mine. 😆
Y'all made a good choice having Astrid host this series. The content is great enough on its own, but her style and tone are the perfect extra touch. Thanks!
I love watching this series while having dinner, it's like having a family dinner while one of your cool aunts keeps telling you interesting stories of her youth. Thanks Astrid for being an awesome host!
Come, on this gilfy lady isn't THAT old!
Yes! I keep saying that this series is exactly how I imagine bedtime stories from The Queen of Thorns from GoT.
I always get a kick out of Astrid's narrations. She strikes me as a fun person to have a drink with.
@@ghostofnorm420 Dont you dare insult her. She is just so great. She is the only Women i will ever simp for. Even would go as far to say she's perfect
Agreed
When starting the OSS. Bill Donovan said "We need PHD's that can win bar fights."
The skills needed to operate behind enemy lines are vast and varied.
Not many of them require brute strength.
Spying is asymetric warfare.
The SOE training was physically and mentally tough.
Big Bill Donovan sounds like he was referring to Little Bill (Sir William Stephenson), who suggested Roosevelt found the COI (later OSS) with British assistance and Donovan in charge. Stephenson was a WWI pilot, inventor, millionaire, socialite, featherweight boxing champion, head of BSC, and top British spy in the western hemisphere. He also ran Camp X, the first spy training school in the Americas! He certainly had some vast and varied skills! Fleming may have alluded to him partly inspiring James Bond as well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stephenson
@@drsamueltran2561 sidenote, generally he's been referred to in most books on the period as "Wild Bill" Donovan as he brought in some people that were considered 'Wild Cards' in their approach to things.
The book "The Bastard Brigade" by Sam Kean covers a lot of interesting material about the unlikely folks that Worked with/for Donovan.
My favorite SOE gadget is probably one of the simplest: explosive coal.
A charge of plastic explosive disguised as an ordinary lump of coal. Toss it in the feed car of a locomotive or in the supply headed for a power plant and when it is almost inevitably shoveled in to the boiler the heat sets it off, damaging or hopefully outright destroying said boiler.
During the Vietnam War, I was recruited for communications intelligence. I imagined myself becoming a cross between James Bond and an electronics whiz kid. The recruiters encouraged this idea. 007 I wasn’t. I was trained on computers. One out of two ain’t bad.
For a year I served at US Army Security Agency Radio Research Unit #1. We weren’t radio and we weren’t research.
Before I left for overseas, I had to remove all uniform indications that I was part of Intelligence. I was assigned to a logistics detachment that was a “weather station”. The Russians still knew we were there. They would try to spy on us while we were spying on them. Reminded me of “Spy vs Spy” in Mad Comics.
Love the outfit changes. Asterid is getting better all the time.
"We dress like students
We dress like housewives
Or in a suit and a tie
I've changed my hairstyle
So many times
I don't know what I look like"
I love the almost archaic way you say "nineteen hundred and forty" rather than the commonly used "nineteen forty."
Keep it up, Astrid, it's great, I love listening to this series!
its the german way of saying the year
@@HugostarGames really? My late partner was German, and she never said it like that. She would have said "nineteen forty"
@@HugostarGames I was just thinking this. I wanted to write out 1943 in German and letters instead of numbers. But then i realized i don't know how. Lol. Other than that my German is pretty okay.
@@IudiciumInfernalum it's "Neunzehnhundert(-)dreiundvierzig" or, as it was custom till the the mid of the 20th century "Neunzehnhundertvierzigunddrei"
Note that "neunzehnhundert" is only used to describe years, im the number describes an Amount of anythin you'd say "Tausendneunhundertdreiundvierzig"
Makes sense, as it's the literal English translation of the German way of saying years/numbers.
Great video Astrid.
With talks to my grandmother over 20 years ago talking about what she with SOE, she talked about the training that her and the other women received. They were sent to Scotland for training & were taught by commandos. She said at the time that recruits did die during the harsh training. My grandmother was just a shade under 5ft tall & she said it was tough going. Before she was sent to Northern France (as she was there before the war), she was furnished with numerous pieces of equipment. The old fashioned barbers straight razor being her favourite. She had forged papers, money, coupons as well as transmitters & yes they even issued her with clothing. She didn't have much in the way of gadgets but she was well trained in the use of explosives & firearms.
When she passed in 2013 I was made executor of her will. The will was quite odd as I was to notify the MoD in the UK of her passing by a series of digits to inform them by so I contacted the British consulate in Sydney & I was told to expect a phone call. When I got the phone call they made an appointment for me to go see them & I had to provide her birth certificate, death certificate, my grandfathers paperwork (he passed away in 2002) photos & my mother's birth certificate. When I went to the appointment, I asked for my grandmothers service record (which the consulate knew I'd ask) & all it said was her length of service, rank of 2nd Lieutenant & medals earned. There was nothing else on the document. Both my mother & I told this official from the consulate that we knew she served in Northern France during the Nazi occupation with SOE & was told by them that files were officially sealed by the MoD under the Official Secrets Act. I really did want to know more but they couldn't say. All they could say was that she served her country well at it's time of need & that there's still a lot of files that are still sealed & not for public access for 99 years. By the time when they're unsealed I'll be 76. My grandmother after the Normandy invasion was part of Operation Jedburgh in France.
Astrid, I hope episodes down the track that you might be able to make or show off in a museum the equipment used by SOE as I'm sure you'd like to hold those items that were personally used by SOE.
Great story. We all owe a huge debt to people like your grandmother who did so much for the war effort.
I just love these nuts and bolts episodes! As much as history is about the people and their actions, what they use to do these actions is just as important.
It warms my heart that the graphic for "this is when we get to James Bond" is from The Living Daylights.
Great movie...although it's funny how that Bond girl, Kara, had a male surname. :-D
"And learning local customs" So that you don't use the wrong fingers when ordering beer while disguised as a German officer in an underground bar in Nazi occupied Paris you know stuff like that
i thought of the same scene xD
And speaking Deutsche, with an weird accent 🙄
@@mjstbnsn6294 he’s from the mountains
A German teacher in college told us that Germans love guessing where someone is from based on their accent, and it really bugs them if they can't figure it out. And thirty years later I saw that played out on the big screen. Made me appreciate it even more.
Well, exactly stuff like that. The SOE handbook describes how agents needed knowledge of local celebreties and public figures, drinking habbits, gestures, rituals and holidays, prices and timetables of public transportation, slang and accents, World War Two related slang and general attitude towards the Germans, what produce or items were scarce during the war - everything which might give you away as non-local.
Was that the special effects budget for 2021? All in one episode? What an episode!
Can't wait for the episode regarding Operation Mincemeat.
Admiral-ity, guerill-ia warfare. Gotta love Astrid's delightfully quirky presentation.
I genuinely used to hate her presentation. Now I'm in love!
Astrid is hilarious....I always look forward to her presentations!
Will there be a special on the SOE agent who became a police officer in Nouvion and thaughted the plans of Herr Otto Flick of the Gestapo, with help of a humble Cafe owner?
Good Moaning. Do not Forget the forgery of The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies.
Perhips they mit jist do that
@@Kanbei11 Gold.
I loved the series except for that character -- so irritating.
Another great episode! This has quickly become my favorite subseries, keep up the great work please!
I feel like today creators of spy-ware and todays historical costumers and behaviorists would have a field day training spies to operate this way. Thank you, miss Astrid for such a fun history lesson.
This is a great series, I'm really enjoying it.
Production note: The reflection of the studio lights in Astrid's glasses is really spooky.
Surely, Astrid must star as the next Miss Moneypenny.
Or M
@@yksisolttu That is what I meant to write!!!!
Or as Nancy Wake, the "White Mouse". Lots of sass.
Agent 99 1/2 ?
Well Astrid, if you're going to dress like a waitress at the Hofbruahaus, then you force me to subscribe. 😄
I was thinking the same thing. I know I'm here to learn history, but I couldn't help but notice Astrid showed that dress who's boss.
Indeed sir!
Anna decked out like that would be an even bigger inducement...ya think ?
If she had been in Munich, she would have totally distracted Adolf...
The fact that in some areas they were so secretive they didn't even tell their agents who they worked for was mind blowing information, I didn't have a clue about.
Pretty sure there are still groups out there today doing the same thing.
@@shawnr771 I imagine they do, it's quite a clever and pretty simple thing to do
Today it's called "Compartmentalization" and it's a basic foundation of modern security. The whole idea of "need to know" comes from this. What you don't know about, you can't accidentally or purposefully give away.
@@cammobunker It can backfire. In the 1960’s, a raid was planned to liberate POWs from a jungle prison in Laos or North Vietnam. Everything worked perfectly but they had been moved. That info was in someone else’s compartment.
@657449 I think that a more relevant example would be the inept compartmentalisation of the US security apparatus and the resulting enormous intelligence failures prior to 9/11.
Maybe the most entertaining video ever uploaded on this channel, good job Astrid and the editing crew!!
Woow, great quality of show! Thanks Astrid!
Spartacus, Astrid and Indy have found in their performance and educational skills the way to make an already thrilling and interesting subject (soul wrecking in the case of Spartacus) and turn it into unmissable segments. I know what the holocaust was and still find myself gutted by Spartacus descriptions of horror. I know what each operation of the war is going to yeild in result and still find Indy's narrative entrancing. I'm aware of the huge and underrated role of spies in the outcome of the war and yet, Astrid theatrics and stoytelling skills make the emotion and gravity of the matter impossible to dismiss. Congratulations to the team! love from Mexico
"Mr. Prime Minister, what's your real interest in setting up all this spy stuff?"
"Because it's bloody cool"
This series is utterly brilliant, it gets better and better, more and more interesting and as new episode are out. Congrats Astrid!!!
I find watching Astrid’s videos delightful since she really enjoys making them
Astrid has such a neat way of presenting. A mixture of flamboyance and enthusiasm that still remains true to the details.
Thank you! We're glad you're enjoying our content!
Hi Astrid..
Awesome episode.
Wonderfully explained..
New aspects added in this video.
Lot of innovative things in this video..
Also learned about q section how its named and about real Q chaes fraser..
I like james bond novels and also film..
Learned a lot..
Thanks astrid and team..🙏👍
very good episode, you are getting better and better
I love this episode’s editing. Really awesome
If previous episodes went from great to epic, this episode raises the bar from epic to legendary.
The editing, the costumes, the narrative, oh my god it's just legendary! :D
Thank you so much! We do our best and seeing that you enjoy our work really makes it worth it!
Ah the Special Operations Executive, sometimes often seen in games like Medal of Honor: Rising Sun and more recently Call of Duty: World War 2. This will be an interesting video to watch...
And Call of Duty United Offensive has something similar with the SAS. Which includes a mission very reminiscent of "The guns of Navarone".
Love your episodes Astrid! Hope you have a good evening
This series is pure gold! Astrid is killing it. Informative as usual, but I'm shook by laughter. Great, great work, I applaud the whole team.
Grüße aus Wiesbaden, keep up the phenomenal work.
cyberfutur Thanks for watching, we're very glad you enjoy the channel! Please do stay tuned for more
Props to the editor for the "here... no, here he is"
One of my favorite episodes. Astrid is entertaining and informative, I learned many things from this. Well done!
Thank you!
Holy crap this tie has PERSONALITY. 5/5
Yeah, that is a thing of spice!
o my God, darling - you made my day and the next and the next :)))))))))
@@astriddeinhard433 Love you queen
@@gianniverschueren870 🥰🥂😎
Great episode good work thank you
More videos with Astrid please! #teamAstrid
Astrid's videos are always so fun to watch!
We would like to see more Asrtid here... errr uh here!!
She is such a wholesome narrator!! We need some more bloopers!!
omg the editing and the costuming are amazing
Will we see more of Amir?!
Wonderful history presented by a wonderful soul. Danke
A great episode! There was also, the British Political Warfare Executive (PWE), which spread “black propaganda,” or clandestine deception, although it is difficult to say how effective it was!
Astrid's tie is too wild for me. Looks great on her. Great report.
My grandfather was an agent of the SOE (N section) who was Married to to a Swiss Born agent of F section. They met during their training at wireless (wt) training school Thame Park. My grandfather survived working as an organisor/WT operator 8 months in occupied Netherlands. His wife on the otherhand was caught by the SD/Gestapo in France. She was murdered together with three other F section female agents in Dachau concentrationcamp. My grandfather had a suitcase from q section with a hidden compartment to transport 25.000 guilders and fresh pictures of the dutch queen for the underground newspapers.
What about camp X in Canada run by Stevenson I think that was his name.
Fantastic presentation! Loved the content and costume changes. The subject of intelligence, counter-intelligence, spy craft and deception operations is covered BRILLIANTLY in the book Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown. I'm a geezer who has been geeking on WWII since I was in grade school and have read countless books on the subject and this is by FAR my favorite WWII book.
I just love these ‘nuts and bolts’ information episodes. The history of SOE is a hall of mirrors, but learning about people and stuff is always enlightening and very entertaining....
One of my fathers last commanding officers was a junior U.S. navy officer back in ww2 involved with code breaking down in Australia. He retired as a 2 star admiral with NSA at Pearl Harbor, my father served under him as a U. S. army LTC.
Excellent, this keeps getting better and better, thanks!
A local TV station ran a Sunday matinee of war/adventure movies that I could watch after mowing the lawn or raking leaves. Movies based on the books by Alastair McClean were my consistent favorites. It's been interesting in the decades since to find out where the boundaries of truth and fiction were in those stories.
Small point. During the early years of the war when America was still ostensibly "neutral", the British SOE headquarters were actually located in New York City. No joke! The concept was that if Britain was invaded and fell the SOE would still be free to continue operations against the Germans. During that time, regardless of "neutrality", the FBI worked hand in glove with the SOE to gather intelligence about the Germans. Reference "A Man Called Intrepid", the factual story of perhaps Britain's greatest SOE operative. A really great read for anyone interested in history!
Thanks for the suggestion, Tom
@@WorldWarTwo You are more than welcome.
One of my favorite books
This book should be required reading for this channel.
As i said last time, Astrid episodes are guranteed treats!
Can we please please have a special on Sir Christopher Lee!! He was in SOE during the war and had a hell of a life during and after!! Great work team
As a teenager he witnessed an execution by guillotine in Paris.
Always remember reading a tale about I think North Africa. It was noticed that German truck drivers found it hilarious to drive over animal dung in the road so SOE started to make fake dung with explosives in it and the drivers would get a surprise when they steered and aimed for it. I can't give a source as I read it some time ago and I forget where.
I'll second that. Though I had heard it was the SAS pulling that stunt. Regardless, after the Germans lost enough trucks and had the tracks blown off enough tanks they started having people sweep the dung off the roads before their vehicles drove over them. Literally one of the more sh_t jobs somebody could get.
Great video
Oh man, you guys always do a great job, but your lighting guy needs to move that key up so that the reflection on her glasses isn’t directed straight back at the camera
Absolutely a must see is this series! ...Brilliant cheers
Thanks!
As great stories as field agents with all their gadgets created they simply lose badly in significance to weedy looking dudes just listening radio traffic and codebreakers using big machines. Still those stories are worth telling because they bring human drama to mix.
These videos are great. It's like some bizarre cross of Mark Felton and your favorite K-pop star. One of the few things on youtube that actually still makes me smile.
The biggest use of British spycraft in WWII was to serve as cover for intel from Betchley Park. "How did we find out about this? Uh... we have some new spies there. That's it! But you have to keep it quiet"
Great episode Astrid-awesome actually... and love your Sabaton T Shirt you rocker... .
Interesting topic 😎👍
Astrid seriously shocked me with her bar maiden look. Gee whiz
Love the Spook FX @ [2:33]! St Pauli Girl @ [7:51] brilliant.
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Nicely informative video Astrid. I also liked the costume changes you made. They were good. Have a nice day or night wherever you are.
Astrid, you rock with your Sabaton shirt... Well done
there you go :) thank you
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
4:53 is definitely not in Poland since it is general Sosnkowski in uniform with "Poland" patch, on exile in UK, probably while he was Commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces.
8:00 was not expecting dirndl-clad Astrid.
I made an effort :)
@@astriddeinhard433 And it shows! Continuing to keep us on our toes!
Alright Spies and Tie episode 007 let’s go!
Omg I love this and I love her!! You should get polarizing filters for that camera though.
Great video about espionage World War Two channel, and thank you for the briefing, M.
Astrid rocking the Sabaton t-shirt!
Great video, so many things about the SOE and it’s agents i didn’t know.
If possible, could you do a segment on Virginia Hall (an SOE agent with a wooden leg named Cuttbert) or one on Noor Inayat Khan who sent radio messages from France to Britain, but ultimately caught by the Germans and sent to a Concentration Camp. =(
Wow, this is amazing...I had no idea the real thing was even better than the movies!
5:21 looking badass
Astrid is a character....love it!
A most excellent episode.
I loved the "Disguises"...
more than I should say. :-)
Nice seeing you Astrid, even with all the wardrobe changes.
This was a great episode
Lovely tongue-in-cheek episode! You guys had fun making it too as we did watching.
Wow Astrid!...Why do I feel like it's time for me to order a dozen beers and just keep them comin'!
Other things that the British Q department worked on was tools for escape that were sent to the prisoners of war... Jon Pertwee (the actor, of Dr Who Fame) was involved in the development of some of these things. Officially he was attached to the Naval Intelligence Division but was lesioned with the folks working on gadgets, from what I read some years ago about his service, working beside Ian Fleming (he was on the HMS Hood, but was transferred off shortly before it was sunk by the Bismarck).
Another wonderful eposode! The various outfits were superb. Loved to see the Bavarian flag on your Timeghost jacket!
I so glad Astrid has a show of her own to host. So animated in her way of presenting the information, yet in the back of my mind I hear a squadron of B-17's and Lancaster bombers loaded with F bombs just waiting for the order to release...😂😂
Love you guys!!
As usual... another GREAT! video.. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
That said, and please know that this positive feedback.
The lights are doing a number on her glasses
Not gonna lie: Astrid in a barmaid's outfit raised my blood-pressure.
My sympathies to Sparty
Love this series and Astrid's presentations. I knew about Q-ships but didn't know the connection with 'Q' in the James Bond series. Pretty neat.
I knew the term "Q-boat" was used in the 1960's to describe cars that hid their serious performance under a layer of luxury trim.
Absolutely marvellous,
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Thanks again.
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Gosh i hadn't even considered the amount of precision in just an agent wardrobe back then!
keep doing what you do!
Those light reflections in the lenses are a bit much. Can you angle the lighting?
There exists film of interview with a retired Charles Fraser-Smith where he describes how he had to confront battery makers about the garbage they produced so they could sell more batteries to consumers. He knew better flashlight batteries could easily be made, so he threatened to publicly expose the manufacturers, when then agreed to make good batteries for the SOE if he remained silent. So, we consumers got garbage carbon acid batteries for 30 more years.