REALLY WEIRD HISTORY: Operation Mincemeat
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During WWII, Britain pulled off a cinema-worthy covert op inspired by a cinema-worthy writer. This is the story of Operation Mincemeat.
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Damn the homeless guy got a whole military funeral and got to be in a huge operation without even knowing
He knew
not to mention a novel.
@@anishmalgireddy2084 james bond
He became an officer by dying from rat poisoning
Well, it was probably a homeless guy. The identity of the body has never officially been revealed, so there are a few candidates.
I just glanced at the title and misread it as "Operation Minecraft"
Actually, believe it or not, there is a easter egg in Minecraft where the title screen has a 0.01% chance of saying Minceraft instead of Minecraft
Oh shit exactly what happened to me...
"crafted" evidence
Ricardo leave this dimension
Same, now I'm wondering how so many misread the word .I can understand our switching the e and c where we'd see minec but how did we see raft when the letters were meat???
So what you're saying is that Ian Fleming not only influenced spy thrillers, but also the course of the Second World War? Dude is a legend.
Elemental Turnip he was also embedded with British commandos in Italy.
@@spencerbrice5483 holy shhhnikes
He also made penicillin
He also invented oxygen
He's the reason gravity attracts matter to itself
"Europe's soft underbelly"
Churchill had the greatest burns in history
Yeah, Hitler shot himself because he couldn't handle the banter.
Big E in the UP ur mums a bantz
got em
Yeah he was very witty
We'll attack the soft underbelly...
*IS MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN*
Operation: the first cosplayer
First cosplay was probably of Werther in the 18th century.
@@MrTohawk First 19th Century cosplayer?
@@MrTohawk the first cosplay was in actual plays, because they would dress up as Gods and whatnot
1943 is not in the 19th century. Acting is not the same as cosplaying.
@@MrTohawk fair point, and I know that the 19th century was the 1800s.
imagine going through with all this and the body wasn't found in the end
Shrey Pandya what I was thinking
We don't talk about all the convoluted plans that didn't work.
Maybe there were operations similar to this that didn't work.
Oof
If the boy wasn't founded by a fishermen, the body will wash ashore at the beach, improve the chance to be found.
Damn Austin, phenomenal video ! Really want to see more of this stuff ! My jaw dropped upon finding out that this operation was what led to the creation of James Bond !!!
I think what the video said was that Ian Fleming was the author of both the memo and Casino Royale, because probably didn't knew about the operation given the restrictions of information.
Eduardo Escarez it was afterwards. And by the way, the fact that you are aware means there’s no reason he couldn’t be.
Yes, but it's 2018, Operation Mincemeat wasn't declassified until decades after the war, the book came out in 1953, it is unlikely he knew of the operation.
you should do some research in Ian Fleming as it wasn't this operation that led him to make James bond it was his Secret service team that inspired him to write the James bond novel based loosely on his team's exploits and what his handler's identity
his mission was too go to america and influence the local wealthy population into becoming pro war usually by fucking the wife of whoever was anti war
Had no idea what to expect from this video, that was a really interesting history lesson
I was hoping you'd make an episode on this!
My great uncle was actually the torpedo man on the Seraph during Operation Mincemeat.
Fun fact: the first thing the Seraph hit was a whale the mistook for a German U-Boat.
I’d like to thank your great uncle for his service
Poor whale
wow pretty cool
@@Michael-pd8ez The fact that this is your name. why are you here. are you actually seven. I hope that is ironic. please. I beg.
Fuck you Poppy Brooks, let the poor man have a name without being criticized for it.
alright we need a name for our operation. how about operation meat?
nah thats too generic and boring.
alright then how about mincemeat?
perfection yes lets use that one.
Dad?
Montagu chose the name from a list of code names the British secret service used for operations.
His dark war time humour led him to choose Mincemeat.
Why not just throw a body water
Cheerio
ur the new Justin Y for me lmao
Reality is really stranger than fiction.
Indeed, friend!
Ain't this the original ," ladies and gentlemen we got him "
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
MINCEMEAT SWALLOWED
Hey Spain and Germany, it says gullible on the ceiling!
*invades* *while* *they're* *not* *looking*
Oh so it doe- you stole my Sicily.
Lol
@@RandomiusBronius It doesn't help that Sicily kinda looks like a lung.
Was steht an der Decke? Gulliver?
Everytime I see that you posted a new video, I know Im in for something special. Thanks Austin.
Thank you!
Hello guys, this is Austin.
Your at 665 likes...
Yoooo Powdered Toast Man!!!
@@sublime4466 And you're at 0 😬😬😬
Okay Austin, that twist was so freaking amazing. Like, I was already in the state of "wow, this is a super cool story" and then Austin dumps the fact that this story lead to the creation of James Bond and I'm just dead rn. Thanks Austin, you actually killed me.
I read the title and was like "I've heard that somewhere before..."
Turns out, I watched the video Tom Scott made about this already. Doesn't stop me from watching this one...
Tom showed that grave right?
@@DarthSagit yes.
@@m.streicher8286 well, traveling is an effort... But I get your point.
soos
Depends on taste, Tom Scott literally went to Spain to film his video, spending several hours for multiple takes, editing, and audio-mixing whereas Austin spent way more time in created graphics and editing.
Cool video Austin, quite a complex operation concisely told in a short video, well done.
A little nitpick though, according to the book "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Macyntire, Operation Mincemeat relied on a lot of luck. The body was not just dropped in Spain for it's believability, but the village was specifically chosen because a German base/consul was nearby. The British counted on the Germans to intercept the message before the Spanish gave it back to the British as a courtesy. The officer stationed at this consul/base however, nearly missed the corpse entirely and when he did get it, should have seen it for a plant based on his training. Things were off because the Mincemeat Team wasn't given a lot of time and recources because they told almost noone of the operation and were blocked a few times in that short timespan of planning and executing the operaton.
Luckily, the German officer in Spain was so excited to get promoted over this information that he passed it on as valid without a doubt. Even luckier, noone further up the chain in Germany thought it strange that Allied forces would go for a strategically weak point instead of the obvious choice of Sicily. Somehow the message got to the top of the German military and it passed (supposedly) many examinations allowing the operation to be a succes.
Sorry if this comes across as conceded but I really like this operation and part of wat makes it so cool is the luck and haphazzard planning and execution of this operation, and it still lead to succes.
There are many books written on this operation, I suggest people pick one up (any really) and find out more about this.
It also worked because The UK also controlled 99% of the German agents.
Well to be fair we're talking about an army that believe they can start a second front with Soviet. Nazi army doesn't rely much on deception and believe their blitzkrieg will work all the time
(well they could invade Greece and get into mainland europe a bit faster and sardinia wouldn't be that easy to re-invade so that could be a place to store all the guns and vehicles)
I already knew the story, but it's still very interesting. Almost as interesting as *ARTILLERY ONLY*
no plz
Yes plz
+Matthew, The Walking Polar Bear
no
Yes.
when bannerlord?
*Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him*
ligma....
false intelligence
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I love how they could have just put very generic stuff in the pockets but instead they created a fake father, fake fiancé, book of stamps, cigarettes, a receipt for a diamond ring.
Like they created a novel, I guess the drama is just human nature.
Fleming and Dahl were involved, I guess they figured there could be something to creating Novels.
Operation Mincemeat where we replaced the Germans Sausages with Horse meat thus crippling the country.
Joke's on you - horse meat tastes good.
@@MrTohawk and is healthier than pork.
MrTohawk and you can get it from Tesco.
I need a Nolan's movie about this
The quality of your videos are amazing, keep doing what you’re doing!
German dud: What's that?
Spain: We found a British Navy corpse.
German dud: REALLY?
Spain: Yes!
German dud: What did he have?!
Spain: A pencil, a letter from his father, theatre tickets, a request for a diamond ring, a picture of his girlfriend...
German dud: NEXT TIME, CALL ME FOR SOMETHING IMPORTANT!
Spain: ... British Documents-
German dud: BRITISH DOCUMENTS?!
Spain: Yes, it seems like military orders.
German dud: WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!
Spain: I thought you might wanted some theatre tickets?
German dud: YOU... (Sigh) JUST GIVE US THE DOCUMENTS!
Spain: You should've just asked.
German dud: What's this? They're gonna attack Greece and Sardinia? Ha! Not if we have something to say about it! Thank you Spain for giving us these totally not fake documents, just how convenient is that?!
Spain: Hey you might want to be careful those documents might be fa-
*German dud ends call*
It was a little more complicated than shown. It was setup in such a way that the Germans thought they had been really clever by getting them. The Spansih were neutral and not going to give them up initially, but the British ambassador "strongly demanded they be returned immediately". This got the Germans attention and they had to pull a few strings to get ahold of the documents. They then went to great lengths to hide the fact that they accessed the documents. They believed they were authentic because they thought they were tricking the allies. The trick to lying is to say what the other person wants to hear. The Germans wanted to believe they were smarter and that they had just outplayed the British.
I'll take some movie tickets
Tom Scott would be proud
“Rod, line, and sinker” has so much of an energy I don’t even understand.
I always thought it was "Hook, Line and Sinker"
@@martinbass3366 it is.
Clearly.
I love this topic. More please. One thing: Chomondeley is pronounced "Chum-lee". Yes, I know. Best to check pronunciation of unusual names.
Operation: cool operation names
Failed
The British came up with by far the best operation names
Ironclad, Deadlight, Broadsword, Overlord, Marmalade...
Okay maybe not the last one but the rest were freakin cool
Dangit youtube. I can't give a video more than one like
So we have AustinMcconell with the "really weird history"
and we have OverSimplified that tells the history in more simple way as possible
They both should collab...
yes it shall be done
Just watched the trailer ... they've turned this UA-cam lesson into a movie ! ;-)
You’re moving up into the Lemmeno/Kurzgezagt tier of youtube and I love it.
I hope not Kurgezagt...
Max kurzgeagt is an overrated libtard
How dare you compare those two?!
@@spidercubed9718 They will never offer an explanation
I remember this from Horrible Histories! But it is very nice to hear the details this way ☺️
Braille Me love that show!!!
I live that show!!!! 😆😆😆😆
*B A M B O O Z L E D*
Cholmondeley is pronounced 'Chumley'.
Tell me about it. All that practicing and rehearsal for NOTHING!
Beat me to it!
... and St John is pronounced Sinjin.
Indeed, but I only knew that thanks to Harry Enfield....
He didn’t get even close to Glyndwr either. Glyn door would’ve been close enough for someone who hasn’t spent time in Wales but it’s like he didn’t even look the pronunciation for any of these names up.
This happened off the coast of the town my entire Spanish family are from so the second I saw the title of this video I got excited. Such a fascinating story
Damn the allies really made an entire fan fiction about a dead guy.
A body guard of lies to hide an obvious truth
Ben MacIntyre's book, Operation Mincemeat, tells the story in detail.
These are my favorite videos that you do, always so interesting and informative. Feels like they could all be made into a feature length movie.
Operation Mincemeat is one of my favourite things about World War II. Glad you covered it.
Great vid, just FYI, Glyndwr is pronounced 'glin-door' with a slightly rolled 'r' it's a Welsh name meaning 'valley of water'
(I'm welsh & it's my grandad's name)
The book Cryptonomicon features a fictionalized version of these events, it's really good
Came here to say this. The book had a different operation, but as soon as I watched this video, I thought of the incident in Cryptonomicon. To others, there's a LOT more in the book and now I wonder if any of the other episodes are similarly tied to real events, like the inaccesable gold.
Or ramming the boat into Sweden - I'll need to pick up the Mincemeat book
oK sO thEorY tiME
So you know the imaginary fiancee was named Pam, right. The photo of Pam was actually a desk clerk for the mi5. The term "desk clerk" can be often used as a synonym for "receptionist". I think this might actually be the origin of why they chose the name "Pam" for the receptionist in The Office.
badabingbadaboom
"This episode of Really Weird History-"
Wait a sec... this entire video was a more detailed version of a skit from Horrible Histories lmao
Ahh ungentlemanly warfare is glorious to hear about :D
“Mincemeat swallowed rod line and sinker” that is some hardcore prime British shit
I've watched like 5 different videos an this, did a presentation, and still watch new ones. It's absolutely fascination.
Hell ya! I read a book on this and have always thought it would fit this series well and hey here we are! Personally I think this is one of the coolest ops throughout WWII.
Read Agent Zig Zag
@@vapeoreon1525 I thought it, you said it. Would be one bombastic movie. And all true...
Well that was awesome. Sounds like “Flight 007” from Sherlock.
This whole segment is like a cinematic, less funny version of the dollop.
They made a movie about this called ‘The Man who Never Was’
And finding an appropriate body was extremely tough
British spies and espionage are the best !
2:52 "austin.exe has stopped working"
What
By the way Glyndŵr is pronounced Glin do er.
OMG, please make more of these! I had no idea Flemming was involved in such a thing. I knew he had done a lot of stuff during the war, but I didn't know he was part of this zany plot. This is so good. I love these episodes!
Churchill must've had really good genes if he was able to live as long as he did
Considering he drank brandy like water and smoked enought cigars to make a chainsmoker die from asphixation, he head really good genes.
His dad died relatively young of syphilis.
On the other hand, Winston was a direct descendant of the long-lived Duke of Marlborough...
@@warlordofbritannia ..and the Dame of Lucky Strike
Why are your Videos so damn interesting?
When this started I just thought, "Wow, this sounds like some kind of SOE mission Ian Fleming would have thought up", lol.
From what I've read he had a hand in more than one of their missions.
Tom Scott covered the same subject, but I like your way of explaining it.
"...top secret meteorological device..." Even the Brits use the weather balloon cover.
The first time I heard about this was on a Tom Scot video.
One of the most fascinating WWII stories, and well told in this video.
So that's what's in the canister not fookin laser sights but a dead man
Kinda well known but still interesting.
It's not about it being well known, it's about it being really weird
@@noelvalenzarro /really cool
Gilbert Valenzuela but people shouldn't have heard of it, Operation Mincemeat has been a code name in many many books/movies/plays/etc. because the act of doing this for the sake of a cool name is called operation mincemeat I'm pretty sure it was in Haddix's lost, a 39 clues book and at least 1 spy movie (although I don't remember)
Skrooge Lantay as said above I read about it in a children's book which was extremely popular at time due to the fact that it concerned clues
Fantastic Video, Very Infomative. I would of never known that This opperation would have the effect of indirectly creating the charector James Bond.
What a strange strange time to learn about such a weird operation and to think it was actually done. Churchill was nice to see, and the video was very well explained and thought out in general. Thanks for the video and hope to seem more content like this!
This would make an interesting movie, or a great documentary!
Dennis Caouki the documentary is posted on UA-cam, presented by Dan Snow a military historian.
And the movie, if you want to watch, and I'm sure you can find it somewhere, is called The Man Who Never Was (1956). And it's an awesome movie!
Damn Ian Flemming thought James Bond would also become Real. Instead... we got a movie. That's good too.
Fantastic. The horrible genius of humanity is truly enthralling.
I can't believe Netflix is making a movie about this lol!
Then there's only one more question...
*What's in the canister?*
Fooking laser sights
A six inch blade never loses reception.
Guy died(?) a hero and didn't even know it.
I love how beautifully you recreated all the photos related to the operation. I recently did a school project on Mincemeat and it was quite enjoyable to see the cartoon recreations.
"SIR its correspondence from the British military!"
"Well what does it say?!"
"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna turn around...cunts...."
"Seems legit. Call it in"
Wait but what would they do if the body wasn't found?
Go ahead with other plans probably. They wouldn't have planned on this working. It would have been more like a bonus to have it work out.
Remind me so much of a pioneer in storytelling , a radio host who would start a story about one topic, tben end it with a twist, a tie in of a completely different ending, known as "the rest of the story" by the ledgendary Paul Harvey. Great work Austin, your submissions are UA-cam Gold.
I knew most of that... except the James Bond part wow
Just goes to show you don't mess with the Brits, when the chips are down they aren't above playing dirty pool.
Another incident that comes to mind is the Mers-el-Kébir incident. The Royal Navy sent a whole squadron of French warships to the bottom to keep them from falling into Nazi hands after France surrendered. They did try to negotiate first, basically asking the French admiralty to sail with them back to England to keep up the fight, but the French were between a rock and a hard place, knowing fully well there would be reprisals against French civilians for doing so. In the end, they insisted they'd scuttle the ships themselves rather than let the Germans have them, but the Brits refused, and issued an ultimatum, sail with us, or we start shooting. The rest, as they say, is history.
The OG fake news.
I knew about this one thanks to a spanish series, El Ministerio del Tiempo, which one of the episodes covers this exact operation. Is a really good series, and the episode is trully emotional.
GTA heist in WW2
u got my sub
Wow the first James Bond was a dead body. That's neat
Cholmondeley is pronounced Chumley, by the way.....and Bernard, Burnurd....and St. John, as a name, Sinjun.
artillery only?
What if allies won ww2?
Muskets only as Stalin.
Immediately after he said, "the eyelash was missing," I glanced down at my phone and saw an eyelash stuck to the screen.
It was my own eyelash, of course, but still.
Interesting video... but dodgy pronunciation in youtube videos is a pet peeve of mine. Good work on "Huelva", but "Cholmondeley" is actually pronounced "Chum-lee" and "St John", when used as a given name, is "Sin-jun". Weird and obscure, sure, but if you'd looked these up on Wikipedia it would have given you the pronunciation.
Tbh, Cholmondeley has a pretty dumb pronuciation.
No, no, it's perfectly sensible... it's the spelling that's wrong.
Surely it was the pronunciation that has warped over time rather than the spelling? I know that a lot of the stranger pronunciations in English are due to us slimming down the word for convenience.
Thats seems like a good point at first, but is not necessarily true because the idea that English spelling should be fixed and standardised has only been around since 1750 or so with the publication of Samuel Johnson's first dictionary, so since this is the internet, I thought I'd see if it was refutable... Let's dive straight into the whirlpool of prescriptivist vs. descriptivist pain... A quick googling found this, "Cholmondeley was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Calmundelei', and in the Eyre Rolls of Chester, of 1287 as 'Chelmundeleg'. By the 14th century the pronunciation was 'Chumley or Chomley' and from that has derived the variant surname forms of Chaml(e)y, Champl(e)y, Chomley etc.The originination is from an Old English pre 7th Century personal name 'Ceolmund' with 'leah', a grove, thus, Ceolmund's grove." So no, the pronunciation changed before the spelling was fixed and the spelling is wrong ;)
Read more: www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Cholmondeley#ixzz5QPOD8uGe
So the spelling and the pronunciation are both wrong lol
A very professional video, thank-you. You might like to know that some of the British names have unusual pronunciations:
Cholmondeley is pronounced Chum-lee
Bernard is pronounced BERNard (accent on the first syllable)
Glendawr (a Welsh name) is pronounced Glen-dower
St John (as a person's name) is pronounced Sin John (accent on Sin)
keep making these, I love the style and detail that you go into.
@AustinMcConnell I know this is an old video, but one quick thing: Cholmondeley is pronounced "Chum-lee". I know that's insane. Like Worcestershire is said "Wuster". The English are a strange people, I have studied their ways for some time now and still they mistify me.
Absolute mad lads. Operarion Mincemeat was pretty ingenious. They believed in their "intelligence" so well that they lost the war.
Live for your profile pic 😂
*Operation
Yep. Happened again with D-Day. Those Germans were so gullible.
well the spy of Great Britain are much better than ze German
SampleText Brits have been practicing spycraft for four centuries. Expert and cunning.
Dude, we have this operation, why don’t we call it Dead Meat
_nah nah nah, call it Mince Meat_
Seth Tan you don’t want to give away anything about an operation in its name
M I N C E M E A T S W A L L O W E D
Seth Tan pfp hamilton animation?
Although it looks like it should be pronounced “Chol-mon-delay”, it is in fact pronounced “Chumley.”
I just cannot believe this...
Luckily, the Germans did not have that problem.
@@Grubnar beautiful response
The Germans didn't knew the backstory
There is a delicious conspiracy theory that claims that 'the man who never was' was not the Welsh tramp but a survivor from HMS Dasher. A super fit young sailor who had drowned would mush more likely pass for RM's officer
It is extremely unlikely that the body used as Major Martin was that of Glyndwr Michael. It would have been virtually impossible to make a vagrant in poor physical condition who had died by his own hand, not by drowning, months before the operation, appear to be that of a fit and healthy RM officer who had recently drowned. The truth is far more likely to be that the corpse used was that of one of the sailors who had been drowned when HMS Dasher , an escort carrier, blew up in the Clyde shortly before Operation Mincemeat was set in motion. It would have been quite unacceptable to use one of the corpses from that disaster as the corpse in this operation, so the officers running it probably made up the Owen Glyndwr story. Apart from anything else, it was legal then to use the corpse of a suicide in any way the authorities saw fit and, having no relatives, there was nobody to complain anyway. It would have been entirely illegal to use the corpse of a casualty of war. The dead from HMS Dasher were buried in mass graves and who could possibly know that one of them was missing?
Fun Fact: Only in the year 2045 we will really know about ALL the secrets and secrets mission of WWII
What's also interesting which is not mentioned in the video (understandably for brevity's sake, still an amazing video regardless!) is that the intel planted in the suitcase was heavily encrypted but in a way that they knew the Nazis would be able to decrypt. By doing this it truly makes said intel seem to be highly classified information at first glance, further incentivizing the Nazis to prioritize finding out what it says by focusing their men, time and resource into finding out its deciphering key and decrypting it which would've otherwise been spent on other "less important" documents. In other words, the 'intel' served to divert the Nazis in more than one way.
Wasn't Winston Churchill the guy who said, and I quote, "A record? Good Lord, man, have you never heard of downloads?"
Alt title:
The allies intellectually ascend to heaven while tricking, backstabbing, and quite possibly even bamboozling the nazis
This video has two of the biggest plot twists in history.