The Most Interesting Man in the World | The Life & Times of Fritz Duquesne
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Music (in order of appearance):
Some music the Call of War people gave me that's just called "Soundtrack" so maybe it's music from the game?
Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
Kevin Macleod - Frog Legs Rag
Kevin Macleod - With the Sea
Kevin Macleod - Summon the Rawk
Kevin Macleod - Frog Legs Rag
Kevin Macleod - Deadly Roulette
Kevin Macleod - Beachfront Celebration
Kevin Macleod - Olde Timey
Kevin Macleod - Iron Horse
Kevin Macleod - The Entertainer
Kevin Macleod - Fig Leaf Rag
(holy smokes, this whole episode is a giant compilation of Incompetech silent film scores)
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No correct Patreon guesses this time, I kept posting hints relating to Victor Emmanuel III because I made a video for AHTV about him, and then no one had gotten that one and suddenly it was time to post this video so probably I really blindsided some patrons
swag
Yo
I'll click on the links so that you can keep on making these videos, but I'm NOT playing them. Ciao! :) I just like different games than this.
I've joined the map, lets see if my mongolia strat also works in a 100 player game. (Considering in the historic maps somehow late game mongolia is OP as hell)
@@wouterkessel4852 Interesting, I always try to avoid inland countries so I can focus on a single front, although I think the Allies/Axis bonuses are gonna trip me up
This reads like someone's history fanfic.
"And he's gonna fight in both world wars and he's gonna be Teddy Roosevelt's best friend but like he's still gonna be edgy because he fights with the Germans!"
@@JackRackam lol
It's basically a crossover episode between the whole early 20th century
@@MPHJackson7 20th Century Man
Isnβt alternate history just fanfiction for history
Theodore Roosevelt: *"Finally, a Worthy Opponent!"*
The fact that they ended up becoming friends is simultaneously the most and least surprising part of Fritz's life story
@@JackRackam Fritz is Teddy's lost South African cousin
Theodore Roosevelt: "Finally, a worthy shooting coach!"
Their brawl, legend says, still shakes the very soul of God.
Chuck Norris:pfft amature
This guy's life reads like an anime protagonist's backstory
Golden Kamui
Not the story, the BACKstory, because of course there is a ton more
... seems more like a wester pulp fiction protagonist to me tbh, hes way too much of a james bond kind of guy rather than a usual anime protag.
Backstory because he gets Reincarnated as an Average High Schooler.
@@Rabbit0King the first 3 minutes was almost exact premise of Golden Kamuy lmao
If this didn't have citation I would straight up refuse to believe it: "In a letter to the Chemical Warfare Service in Washington, D.C., Duquesne requested information on a new gas mask. He identified himself as a "well-known, responsible and reputable writer and lecturer". At the bottom of the letter, he wrote, "Don't be concerned if this information is confidential, because it will be in the hands of a good, patriotic citizen." A short time later, the information he requested arrived in the mail and a week later it was being read by intelligence officers in Berlin."
Oh my God, I can't believe it
Can you just send me this classified and absolutely secret information? come on, you know i'm trustworthy.
βYeah i know itβs classified but Iβm American so who cares?β
@@gufosufo337 I'm not a spy, don't worry!
-Source: Trust me bro
Stupidity is a terrible disease
Indiana Jones and James Bond, but better.
Me: suspicious
Me after watching it: he was not lying.
This comment posted within 30 seconds of the video going public XD
@@JackRackam when you said it's both Indiana Jones and James bond combined, I know where this is going for this guy.
@@JackRackam 26x speed or a time traveller.
@@combrade-t money's on time traveler. 26x speed sounds like a nightmare...
@@iagoofdraiggwyn98 indeed it is and it's like a crammer. Which in law school does exist. And where you cram as much information in very small time. I also did a full video crammed into it and ho boy did I learn a lot in such small space.
"despite overflowing with Aussie energy..... the man was actually a South African Boer"
I mean, from what I've heard the Boers were essentially the Aussies of Africa at the time.
Except the slavery bit
@@joewilson3575 Not really, Australians enslaved the aboriginals.
@@ProjectEkerTest33 Shit, true even the ausies weren't the ausies of Australia
Still are
@Kroi Albanoi what?
We have the least and most interesting man and we need now the most average man in history
Least interesting is average
Alejandro Kaplan there won't be any news or something, if you're avarege nobody cares and history forgets you
That's just me
I propose:
* Admiral Halsey
* General Zhukov
* Khalid ibn Walid
I propose someone who got remembered in history but when you look at it they didnβt *actually* do anything
that moment when the insurance company does a better job at finding spies than a government department
That reminds me how the Joker doesn't fear batman but the ISS
@@urielantoniobarcelosavenda780
Yeah
Heart of Al Capone? The IRS got him too, not the FBI
@@urielantoniobarcelosavenda780 so true , that post-Joker War had Batman without a lot of his money and gadgets because of the IRS
Joseph Haydn: "Finally, a worthy opponent!"
DAMMIT YOU BEAT ME BY 13 MINUTES
Lol stfu that other guy had a royal ass wiper lol even in combat he dint wipe his ass π€£
@@based_prophet It's a joke due to Jack's title for his Haydn video "The Least Interesting Man In The World"
the irony in the end though
guy who fought the british for years for their horrifying concetration camps joins the nazis
I know right? I seriously wonder what his direction in life was after Kitchener died, he really seemed to just keep putting himself in bad situations
@@JackRackam It's almost like what people assumed were his supposedly altruistic motivations were wrong and he in fact simply took advantage where he found it.
@@JackRackam i think its worth noting that there was a worrying increase in antisemetic rhetoric in ira publications during the second world war and the nazis went and hosted some prominent ira leaders in germany, trying to find themselves an ally. theres an irish nationalist slogan that goes like "englands difficulty is irelands opportunity" - and the people who really threw their whole lot in behind that clearly didnt mind what the nazis were about if it meant they got to harm their most hated enemy
maybe homeboy was just so blinded by his hatred of the english he didnt care what happened in germany
(though realistically being lgbt or jewish in america at the time wasnt exactly a basket of sunshine so, like, dude was probably just a huge bigot like most of everyone else in his peer group)
@Vince negra Patton certainly believed that. I'd say it's more accurate that we didn't fight all of the right enemies, the Nazis unquestionably deserved what they got.
@@amperzand9162 no Patton didn't mince his words. We fought The Wrong Enemy, and we allowed the much greater threat to get away.
_Assassin's Creed: Duquesne_
You freaking KNOW you'd play it. The boss fight is against Kitchner, for God's sake!!!
the boss fight would be against king kong, in the hold of kitchener's ship
@@LTPottenger
It'd be like Dragon Age 2, where the story is told by an unrealiable narrator and you simply have to believe that everything told actually happened.
Youβve got to wonder wtf he was thinking by attempting to be both a public figure *and* a spy
Like, um, buddy, you canβt really do both without getting arrested....
Mate plenty of people do that
Just look at North Vietnam spy, Pham Xuan An
Study to be a reporter in the US, famous among reporters in Saigon, got access to many CIA document cause they fucking trust him lol, friend with the head of South Vietnam Secret Police
The man literally surrounded himself with enemies
Depends. Some people will use their clout to talk their way into information.
Malory: Because most secret agents don't tell every harlot from here to Hanoi that they ARE secret agents.
Archer: Then why be one?
I would imagine spying for the Nazis might be why this guy isn't more popular. Hard to live that one down.
Yeah, not his best decision for sure
He started fighting against people who put his mother in concentration camps and ended up allying himself with people doing concentration camps. Familial revenge is a hell of a drug at times.
@@alentjanestetico3014 Still not a good look however sympathetic he may have been.
@@rickyhunt4075 Completely agreed, hence my pointing out the irony of the situation.
Definitely an ugly thing, thats for sure.
Wrestling control of a grown mans spear as a child is metal, I agree.
JACK WEβVE BEEN HERE BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT IβM GONNA SUGGEST
3 WORDS FLAVIUS GERMANUS BYZANTIUM
Who is he?
@@philipthegreat7230 Justinianβs cousin and intend heir and all around cool guy
fake
This guy reached Chad levels that remain unparalleled today.
I learned about this guy from a cracked article like a decade ago, such a cool set of stories.
You should do Pancho Villa, he's got a pretty interesting life, or Bakunin, dude escapes from a Siberian work camp and goes on a trip around the world to escape the tsar
Ferdynand Ossendowski and his journey to gtfo Russia during the civil war could be interesting, or a collection of stories from the Russian civil war like the Czechoslovak Legion's experience could be pretty good
Pancho Villa would be fantastic.
My personal hero is Bakunin
"a u-boat rised up from underneath him. The day was saved!" Wow, that's a first
Fritz Duquesne's Bio = *Some Random Fanfiction with Extra Steps*
Otto Skorzeny: Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be LEGENDARY!
Being Irish-Boer descent, I'm all about sticking to the British. How did I not know about this absolute legend till now?
I can see this being a movie told interview style, where Fritz is in prison for the last time talking to his cell mate who occasionally interrupts the narrative with a "bullshit" or "that didn't happen." Each time we return to the present where he's telling his story, the crowd of inmates around him slowly grows larger and larger. As the story progresses, the *one* guy that keeps calling him on his shit gets more and more angry glares from the other prisoners. He's just such a charming bastard that they can't help but admire his hustle, even the bits about helping the Krauts.
It all sounds like a 15 year old writing James Bond.
He was so strong as a kid, he stabbed him with the wrong end of the spear and still suceededπ€£
How bout he animate someone getting stabbed with a bat
"Due to his skills in Afrikaans" you mean 17th century Dutch with an accent where you sound like you have an stroke
Jou poes ou.
Hahahaha I laughed way too much at this. I don't even speak Dutch, but I know a South African and have a couple of Dutch friends!
Ik zou beledigd zijn als het niet helemaal waar was
Normal dutch sounds like that too
@@freakymoejoe2 Afrikaans: Meme Dutch
I love the new Style, it would be impossible to fit such a story in only 3 Minutes. This was super entertaining
That prison break sounded suspiciously like Dwight Shrute's fantasy.
This sounds like 12 different people's lives put together into one, ridiculous life.
This is Joseph Hayedhβs Echo Fighter in Smash Ultimate
Truly a battle for the ages.
I have to wait 90 days to change my name Haydn's*
That biographer really took one for the team.
I love how in the chalkboard segments he uses the bit of chalk like a magic wand.
So this is what having a stroke feels like.
Seriously though- this shit is wild and your channel is a treasure.
π much appreciated!
he sounds like what people from the future would make fairytales/legends about
Jesus, there are so many possible crossover episodes with this one guy. Talk about efficiency.
South African history β
Both World Wars β
Teddy Roosevelt β
Kitchener β
And who knows what he might've gotten up to during his time in Brazil and Mexico
@@JackRackam
Indeed.
I like how he uses the blunt end of the spear when he stabs that customer who was attacking his mother.
I am once again asking you to make an episode on Zenobia, queen of Palmyra.
Love how jack rackam would say βbruh, thats cool afβ to something like: *βthis guy fucking diedβ*
Speaking about crazy stories involving children and spears: The South African navy had a Daphne class submarine named in honour of Johanna van der Merwe, who was a 13 year old teenager at the time she took part in the Great Trek. When king Dingaan attacked the unsuspecting Trekboers after he had murdered Piet Retief's delegation to his court, Johanna's family were victim to the attacks (at the Weenen massacre) and she sustained more than 20 spear stab wounds (the Zulu short spear is called an ilkwa, but the English made up the word "assegaai" for it), but managed to survive by hiding in a tree for the rest of the night and sought help the next morning.
When the ANC took power in South Africa, the navy, now under new command, renamed the SAS Johanna van der Merwe to...the SAS Assegaai.
Dude youβre a perfect combination of great storytelling and hilarity
office reference 3:32
original quote:
"What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier." -Dwight season 5 episode 8
SO...I recently watched The King's Man. And I knew IMMEDIATELY that it was going to read hilariously like a history fanfiction because they STARTED OUT with Kitchener and what I'm assuming are the Second Boer War concentration camps.
EDIT: But seriously, the antagonist SHOULD have been Fritz Duquesne. That would have brought things into a (golden) circle REALLY well.
I agree big wasted fucking opportunity there guys
Dude ... they need to make a miniseries about this guy's life
"Frederic Frederics...."
*cries in Brazilian shame*
The boers are like to the dutch as the aussyβs are to the brits
@Kroi Albanoi Dutch* with your logic aussies would be Dutch aswell
@@mitchellmarijt3941 wa jonge kanker, i gues i really misphrased that
@Kroi Albanoi both underdeveloped
Well, Dutch Aussies with more than half their ancestry coming from the Germans, French, Italians, English and Irish yes
@Kroi Albanoi it takes experience to craft weapons and tactics. Africa is and was a big place, people and society varied quite a lot, but the thing is Africa, even before colonial powers had a foothold, had (most parts) a denser population than native Australia. With virtually no contact with the rest of the world for 40k or more years and such a dispersed population, the chances of major conflicts and major empires to arise are slim
Damn, I remember spending hours upon hours playing supremacy 1914 years ago
I remember spending a whole summer on a campaign as Britain, if you survive long enough to start snowballing man is that satisfying
Until you collide with the other mega-empires and suddenly things get serious
@@JackRackam the best game I ever had was in a round where I was Japan. It lasted for like 4 months and no matter what I did, I couldn't get the moral in my provinces to rise. In the end, I decided to simply start a total war with ALL my neighbors with the goal of conquering their capitals for the moral boost. Damn was I lucky that so many NPC one province islands where close by, they kept me running for weeks
As soon as I saw the video title I was like "oh the hippopotamus guy"
WHERE IS THE 50 EPISODES SERIES ABOUT THIS DUDE
Like I said in your last stream, Iβm doing my Masters at the Royal Military College of Canada so if you want help with research, Iβd be my honour! Love your videos man, keep up the great work!!!
Dwight Schrute approves this video.
I was going to be sad if no one got that reference
A real-life AFT Jungle Recon. He just needs a kick-ass mustache.
You have to do a story on Baron Amedeo Guillet The Devil Commander This guy was an Olympian, a Ladies man who may of dated a Hollywood Star, an Italian Lawrence of Arabia of WW2, lead cavalry charges against against armoured vehicles, disguised himself and claimed a reward for his own capture and used it to fund his gruella activities, he was a spy, a diplomat, Recovered the Stolen the Crown of the Ethiopian Negus and returned it to Haile Selassie. Not once but twice as a diplomat he helped rescue people during coup and lived to be 101
I feel so much Dwight schrute energy at the beginning lol. When Dwight describes his "perfect crime."
Beautiful thankyou jack and crew!
Netflix should make a series out of this guys life for real....I'd watch it
An entire life spent sticking it to Anglos and basking in glory.
Truly the man lived as full a life as any can.
So I may have just binged all of your videos in the past few days, and might have a new fav channel. This was unexpected. These videos are incredible!
Honestly I think this is the best video you've done. Really well researched, well edited and put together and is really funny.
god bless this channel. always giving me a new historical figures to obsess over
Just found your crack den of a channel and I love it. Subbed with notifocations.
"Largest espionage case in US history" well thats one way to become a laughing stock for other spies.
Yeah...I feel like he was famously not very good at being a spy.
@@jameswoodard4304 given how he fooled most of the world for years he wasnβt that bad
β@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 You can be big and bold (power of audacity!), just don't be too BIG and too BOLD.
Neat, nice Video. Edit: heard from that dude before so i am hyped already :D
Always a good day when Jack uploads
This story is so wild, that I'm watching this for the third time now! And I regret nothing!
South African with Aussie energy. The only words I needed to hear to know this would be the best Jack Rackham episode ever. James Bond wishes he was this good at lying.
Do one on Tolkien!
It would be a bit hard. Toliken isn't exactly a shounen or seinen protagonist (which this site usually cover), he's _shoujo protagonist._ _80's Shoujo_ protagonist.
@@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 Yeah but he is absolutely cool. He is like the King of Linguists! He made whole languages from scratch! THEN for fun he made lore surrounding them. He had a great academic career! He worked for the dictionary! He was an officer in the war! He did so much! Besides we could use the story of a scholarly man and unless Jack wants to do that guys who saved all the Viking lore I don't know who else.
@@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 He has to do one on Christopher Lee at least, he was a shounen protagonist if there ever was one.
Just Remember Folks, The Unkillable Soldier Carton De Wiart was in the same War as this Madlad.
What we could've gotten...two Chads of War fighting in an Epic Clash, and we never got one.
That was incredibly interesting, you were true to your word so I subscribed. Itβs going you be hard to top that story, but good luck.
love the office reference
Goes to Brazil
Actually speaks Spanish like a boss without getting caught
Except that very few people in Brazil speak Spanish, so I'm not sure if that would be useful?
*Portugese(?)
@@concept5631 nΓ£o
@@concept5631 it was a joke, cause in the brazil part, the guy who made the video spoke spanish instead of portuguese xd
@@lucasouza4846 Wow
Man Jack, you have waaaay to few subscribers!!! Your stories are friggin awesome!!
Iβm just so happy you listened to my suggestion and made this video . Thanks .
12:23 man heβs such a good spy that he was working for the Tomanians at the same time? Amazing
King David... But dang as a South African this man and his persona rings many bells of old stories told of majestic courage and witt. Proud to be a Boer
Thank you for introducing me to so many incredible people I had no idea did stuff
Fritz Duquesne Is the definition of a Chad or at least Chad energy!
please keep making these videos. i lub dem. i lub dem so much
Sometimes a madlad is born to wreak havoc across the world, this one is much more than a madlad
I just found your channel today....
Ive learned more than history class
Thank you for sharing β€οΈπ
So lucky when I catch an olβ Jack video on the first day ππ€βΊοΈ
That was a wild ride from start to finish.
I love that office reference when he breaks out the jail.
6:36 This image makes me emotionally sick. It pains me to know someone, especially children, are experiencing what this person went through. I hope this child died quickly or was nursed back to optimal health. No one deserves to be that unhealthy.
no doubt this channel is gonna get a million subs in the next year or two.
Here's hoping!
This looks like a school project someone put too much effort into and I love it
Someone should make an open world game loosely inspired by this guy's life.
this man is the definition of pure badassery
I couldnβt believe anything I was reading about this man so I had to dive a bit deeper into his story
Part of this sounds suspiciously like the perfect crime of a certain assistant to the regional manager...
This guy maxed out his charisma and luck
Country: has resource
Britain: TARGET LOCKED
"By the Grace of her Majesty, Queen Victoria, this land is now under British protection. Please refrain from resisting"
Murica: βYOU TAKE THE TEA, *IβLL TAKE THE OIL!*β
didn't expect to see Doug in one of these videos
this channel is scratching my Sam O'nella itch
This guy sure had an adventurous life. Wow. Funny video.
Giant thumbs up for the Ask a Ninja reference. Man I miss that guy.
Gone but not forgotten
He's got more adventures than Henry Stickmin.
Kitchener was known for being a prick. Few of his Troops nor the brass liked him according to what I have read.
His officer seemed to like him though?
You gotta just suck up to the right people sometimes I suppose.
If your an career officer you need to make your higherups think you like them
@Kroi Albanoi And people still use that fake Patton "quote" to say that the US should've fought the Soviets and not the Nazis lmao.
Haha love the office reference with the first prison story
I live in Bermuda, It is always a good day when it gets mentioned in a UA-cam video. Also despite the description Bermuda at the time as being βshark infestedβ there arenβt any sharks here so either the British overhyped the impossibility of escape or its Fritz Overhyping his escape.