How Did The Mafia Impact The Outcome Of World War 2? | Secret War | Timeline

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  • The Mob played a pivotal role in the outcome of World War 2, particularly in the Allies' invasion of Italy. Follow the infamous gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano' as he manages to bargain his way out of prison and into a vital role in the war effort.
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  • @delana2842
    @delana2842 2 місяці тому +19

    So often the only thing we hear about the Mafia is its ruthless gangland activities, never about its involvement and how instrumental it was during World War II.
    Thank you, Timeline for presenting this aspect of the Mob!

    • @epic6434
      @epic6434 Місяць тому

      The MIC? Or Tammany Hall ? They're right next to DC and have ports also routes to Major cities in the Eastern Boards the 5 points in NY is a different Mob but what's the difference? Vermont? 😂

    • @454FatJack
      @454FatJack Місяць тому +1

      And Mussolini govt was anti mafia. So Allied cause was wise guy’s best bet.

  • @cynthiaalver
    @cynthiaalver 2 місяці тому +8

    I remember reading about the mob's influence in the invasions of Sicily and Italy when I was a young teen. I couldn't believe it was true! Of course, as I got older and was able to understand things better, I came to realize that sometimes nations play marbles with other nations that are normally on the opposite side of their beliefs and philosophy because the sacrifice for both would be catastrophic if they refused to accept the new reality. In this case, the world was at war and there was a good chance that the Allies might not be victorious.

  • @JohnnyCarterMusicOfficial
    @JohnnyCarterMusicOfficial 10 днів тому +1

    This channel has so many good documentaries! Glad I found It

  • @jorgecruzseda7551
    @jorgecruzseda7551 2 місяці тому +17

    THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY....IS MY FRIEND

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 2 місяці тому +6

    It was a thrilled watching documentary about the mafia exploited by the US during WW2.

  • @bridget687
    @bridget687 Місяць тому +4

    It’s Fiorello LaGuardia, not Flores 💐

  • @lilafrazer7373
    @lilafrazer7373 2 місяці тому +4

    Thank you

  • @user-yy9hk9od9u
    @user-yy9hk9od9u 2 місяці тому +19

    They helped in Sicily, but little impact in the Italian Campaign.

  • @REDDEVIL9269
    @REDDEVIL9269 2 місяці тому +5

    My history teacher told me about lucky in school I was amazed the government needed his help in ww2😂

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins4685 Місяць тому +1

    Well presented

  • @Steve1734
    @Steve1734 2 місяці тому +10

    It was the other war around: How did the Mafia become enabled internationally as a result of WW2? A surprising answer for a peaceful country.
    Between 1946 and 1950, the three big Mafia groups in Italy and Sicily, the Cosa Nostra, D'hangreta and the Camorra, sent many members to Australia as refugees. They did the same to the USA. But in Australia, they thrived quietly and exist today in mainly legitimate businesses, but it was not always that way. They engineered a river of washed cash to flow to their new countries and used it to buy into certain industries that were vulnerable to intimidation. These were wine, automotive, transport, construction and fruit and vegetables.
    Today, each family thrives and is run by a third generation of sons, but they still take orders from and send money back to their families in the home countries. I could name names, but that would be a death sentence. For them secrecy is everything.

    • @Cigars...
      @Cigars... 2 місяці тому +4

      Very well said

  • @tafadzwasadomba4095
    @tafadzwasadomba4095 2 місяці тому +5

    14:30, the General has a Nike logo among his medals there

    • @MrGrace
      @MrGrace 2 місяці тому

      Wow! He sure does 😅

  • @achaljoshi402
    @achaljoshi402 14 днів тому +1

    USA: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse

  • @jazzfinger88
    @jazzfinger88 9 днів тому +1

    very interesting !

  • @joiedevie3901
    @joiedevie3901 Місяць тому

    "Life is like Sunday afternoon during football season: you may be focussed on one channel, but there is always more than one game being played . . . "

  • @Alexzander19736
    @Alexzander19736 Місяць тому +1

    Seen this before on another history channel years ago. Is there something NEW?

  • @danielcruz8347
    @danielcruz8347 2 місяці тому +3

    London callin New York Chicago, Sicily, Rome, Marseilles, Paris, Belfast,Dublin, Madrid, Budapest,Quebec... !!! Ect.
    ⚡🌐⚡⚔🎯😎

  • @Davey-TheDJ
    @Davey-TheDJ Місяць тому +5

    If commercials are going to persist on every timeline video I watch I won't watch anymore and I will not tell my friends or anyone about timeline how does that feel remember you lose one you could possibly lose three or four more and if they go they'll be 10 more to follow that's how you keep your business you treat them right and I pay for no commercials so why did I see your freaking commercial

    • @jjspider22
      @jjspider22 Місяць тому +1

      Lmfao bro mad af 💀

    • @Davey-TheDJ
      @Davey-TheDJ Місяць тому

      @@jjspider22 FMFGAO

    • @laurenallen3350
      @laurenallen3350 26 днів тому

      Probs the mob

    • @blpblp-tj7ux
      @blpblp-tj7ux 17 днів тому

      jfc, if you learn to use punctuation then the commercials will go away...stop being such an idiot.

    • @eirip1
      @eirip1 10 днів тому

      Please use punctuation!

  • @shanelamkie4755
    @shanelamkie4755 2 місяці тому +2

    Yeah

  • @AdriannaMarieZazueta
    @AdriannaMarieZazueta 2 місяці тому +2

    Adrianna Marie Zazueta 💕

  • @ghostrider369
    @ghostrider369 2 місяці тому +11

    😂😅 you're right about some things, but you got the wrong group lol.

    • @ChrisPBacon3000
      @ChrisPBacon3000 2 місяці тому +4

      Exactly.

    • @mydogniko
      @mydogniko 2 місяці тому +1

      Who would that be?

    • @ghostrider369
      @ghostrider369 2 місяці тому

      @@mydogniko when government is involved with criminals what does that make them. Everyone involved in every war is associated with some sort of mob.

    • @wauliepalnuts6134
      @wauliepalnuts6134 2 місяці тому +1

      @@mydognikoQui?!

    • @johnwodetzki6326
      @johnwodetzki6326 2 місяці тому

      😅 not your group chat British boy

  • @ionpop8
    @ionpop8 11 днів тому

    Claiming he won the war is ridiculous. He played a small part in Sicily, which was a small part of the Italian front, which was a small part of the war in Europe, which was only half of WW2. As for his contribution to the New York harbour, not sabotaging the war effort doesn't count as actually helping, or if the Normandie sinking was indeed an accident, then having dock workers be careful to avoid any further accidents is only a small help.

  • @robertpaul6257
    @robertpaul6257 19 днів тому

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend!!!

  • @sambrinegar5193
    @sambrinegar5193 2 місяці тому +3

  • @Illiana888
    @Illiana888 2 місяці тому

    i dont know oppps

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    He was half brother to alphosne capone

  • @objetivista686
    @objetivista686 2 місяці тому +1

    Another Mafia 🤫

  • @PhilipShawn
    @PhilipShawn Місяць тому

    Firmation

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    He was next in line to be king

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    My great uncle

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    Not by a longshot

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    He was my father and a good man in the end

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    Mossoinni and patten were brothers

  • @zikky6599
    @zikky6599 15 днів тому

    Cuz you dnt pay enough lol 😂

  • @diannerose8030
    @diannerose8030 Місяць тому

    It worked for the allies when it came to the soviets, my enemies enemy is my friend

  • @gmalcolms
    @gmalcolms 14 днів тому

    "ci" in Italian is pronounced "chi" not "shi." Luciano rose to prominence by rubbing out my cousin Joe "The Boss" Masseria. The mayor of NY was not named Flores but rather Fiorello, and La Guardia is pronounced with a "wa" sound not like "Guard," which everyone in NY knows.

  • @gibememoni
    @gibememoni 2 місяці тому +1

    They sent italian americans to pacific

  • @BristolBerg
    @BristolBerg Місяць тому +1

    When Italy was losing badly trying to colonize Ethiopia, massive amount of Italians (some Mafia aligned) living in America signed up to fight for a country they left behind. On the other hand, when bIack Americans tried to do the same for Ethiopians, US gov blocked them.

    • @residentzero
      @residentzero 29 днів тому

      The guy with the funny mustache mentions USA inspired him in his book

  • @PhilipShawn
    @PhilipShawn Місяць тому

    Provokers

  • @johnsterling5425
    @johnsterling5425 2 місяці тому +1

    did an ai write the dialog?

    • @t-and-p
      @t-and-p Місяць тому +3

      What makes you say that?
      This documentary is far from new. At 49:33 it gives the date the documentary was made - MMXI (or 2011). Don't think they were using AI for scripts back then.

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    His uncle was Mussolini

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    They were brothers

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    Twins

  • @454FatJack
    @454FatJack Місяць тому

    US Govt ❤ Mafia. Italy Mussolini’s Govt was anti Mafia. Wise guy’s helped Allies by accident ? 😂

  • @kalbitmalbit2312
    @kalbitmalbit2312 2 місяці тому

    John Alite

  • @GevEdgar
    @GevEdgar Місяць тому

    😇🥰😍🤩😘

  • @PhilipShawn
    @PhilipShawn Місяць тому

    Pusher musher

  • @Davey-TheDJ
    @Davey-TheDJ Місяць тому +19

    I pay UA-cam premium not to see commercials why did I see a commercial?

    • @johnhardy7764
      @johnhardy7764 Місяць тому +8

      lol bro mad asf

    • @mohaosman1473
      @mohaosman1473 25 днів тому +3

      😂😂 same here

    • @Cjephunneh
      @Cjephunneh 20 днів тому

      Timeline works for the Tatalia s that rule America.

    • @blpblp-tj7ux
      @blpblp-tj7ux 17 днів тому +6

      it's because you don't use punctuation

    • @jessicaspain5005
      @jessicaspain5005 17 днів тому +1

      It’s because it’s got podcast style commercials, so they’re built into the show. I just fast forward through them.

  • @PhilipShawn
    @PhilipShawn Місяць тому

    Murmur irma

  • @dartvader9939
    @dartvader9939 Місяць тому

    Dewy was the rat

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    Lies

  • @nebelwerfer199
    @nebelwerfer199 2 місяці тому

    America did the same thing with Jihadists in Bosnia and Kosovo. They paid and supplied Al Qaeda to topple Yugoslavia.

  • @sableempire9654
    @sableempire9654 2 місяці тому +7

    They were not “Luciano’s Girls” who testified against him. Misogynistic description of 5000 women he exploited and abused. Those are the words men describing this criminal should be using.

  • @user-jd4kx4ff9q
    @user-jd4kx4ff9q 13 днів тому

    No he didnt lol

  • @Mewmew-gn5ul
    @Mewmew-gn5ul Місяць тому

    The second I heard this ridiculous, over the top, cheesy narration with that new York accent, I turned it off. Blegh.