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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @lesleyghostdragon3149
    @lesleyghostdragon3149 9 месяцев назад +80

    New meaning to "Killer Fashion"...
    Well done Brits 👏
    And thank you for another wonderful documentary 🙏

    • @John-ih2bx
      @John-ih2bx 9 месяцев назад +1

      @lesleyghostdragon3149 what a moniker!

  • @johnlansing2902
    @johnlansing2902 9 месяцев назад +59

    It takes a special kind of courage to risk your life knowing people will never hear of your exploits . To be willing to work and possibly die in the dark with not a person to bowing their head with your passing . God bless you all .

    • @Tawadeb
      @Tawadeb 9 месяцев назад +3

      Well said

    • @gb-jg1ud
      @gb-jg1ud 9 месяцев назад

      Amies did not risk his life. He had others do it..

  • @emilien.
    @emilien. 10 месяцев назад +90

    I followed this documentary with rapt attention. I had to remember to tell myself to breathe during parts of this. My late wonderful father (passing in 2017) was a medic on Omaha Beach June 6, 1944 and participated in the push eastward in the aftermath of D-Day. A voracious reader, he may have already known about this fellow, but if not, oh how I wish I could have shared this with him.

    • @lMazol
      @lMazol 10 месяцев назад +14

      A toast to your late father, Cheers. 🍻

    • @emilien.
      @emilien. 10 месяцев назад +7

      @@lMazol Bless you for that.

    • @totostamopo
      @totostamopo 9 месяцев назад +7

      @@lMazol Here Here! I can't believe the bravery of those men. They debt we owe them is mind boggling!

    • @totostamopo
      @totostamopo 9 месяцев назад +7

      Thanks for sharing this will all of us. May his memory be eternal...as so far the results of his bravery have been! My best to you!

    • @emilien.
      @emilien. 9 месяцев назад +8

      @@totostamopo Thank you for your wonderful reply. My dad was so special on so many levels and yes(!), his memory is eternal. 😇Eternal blessings back to you.

  • @fabrisseterbrugghe8567
    @fabrisseterbrugghe8567 9 месяцев назад +24

    When I lived in Belgium in the late 1970s, we talked to others who lived in our building about their experiences during WWII.
    The husband of our concierge was 17 when the war ended. He said that he worked with the resistance because it was more fun than going to school. RIP Guillaume.
    I recognized that house in Ixelles, but had no idea of its history. And I spent some time at the Athenee in St. Gilles, not realizing that the grand building down the street had been a prison.
    As a child in London, I had a dress from Hardy Amies that I wore to church and the theater. It's still one of the chicest things I ever owned. At 7, I felt so fancy wearing it.

  • @TheCopeland45
    @TheCopeland45 9 месяцев назад +34

    Now - watch the documentary on the “Limping Lady” spy of WW2. Why her life hasn’t been made into a movie is beyond me.

    • @emmcee662
      @emmcee662 9 месяцев назад +3

      She appears in this movie which came out a few years ago (heavily fictionalised)
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Call_to_Spy

  • @MakerBoyOldBoy
    @MakerBoyOldBoy 9 месяцев назад +11

    From over Ths Pond. We get little, except the odd book or movie about these events. This was an exceptional offering. Factual, critical and informative. Well done. More please.

  • @Ammo08
    @Ammo08 9 месяцев назад +9

    That Lysander at 9:26 was one of my favorite model planes when I was a kid. Always wanted to fly in one. This is one of the best videos I've ever seen on RUclips.

  • @john4896
    @john4896 10 месяцев назад +152

    Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy.

    • @donsarde
      @donsarde 10 месяцев назад +3

      SAILOR AT THE END ???

    • @alexhubble
      @alexhubble 9 месяцев назад +8

      Well, I see what you did there!

    • @glow4200
      @glow4200 9 месяцев назад +2

      Love that movie!

    • @northerngirl4666
      @northerngirl4666 9 месяцев назад +6

      He’s referring to the John Le Carre novel ….

    • @glow4200
      @glow4200 9 месяцев назад +2

      @northerngirl4666 it's also a reference from an Abbot and Costello movie. I'm curious now if the book and movie are the same

  • @indigocheetah4172
    @indigocheetah4172 9 месяцев назад +12

    The SOE, Resistance Fighters and other People who assisted them were brave beyond reason. Knowing what the outcome would be if caught. Never forget their sacrifice.

  • @dorapavlou9353
    @dorapavlou9353 9 месяцев назад +29

    People are multidimensional. When given the chance they transform unveiling their amazing qualities!

  • @CLARKE176
    @CLARKE176 9 месяцев назад +81

    These Résistance groups across Europe deserve a lot of credit for the Allied victory.

    • @kathleenmcdonald6641
      @kathleenmcdonald6641 8 месяцев назад +2

      Very true. Thank God for them. Patriots to their countries. Unhearld heros.

  • @emmcee662
    @emmcee662 9 месяцев назад +17

    Very interesting - while the exploits of the SOE in France are probably widely known, I for one knew little of what happened in Belgium.

  • @lynton09
    @lynton09 9 месяцев назад +13

    A thoroughly enjoyable dissertation on Amies role in SOE. The only pity is that the music is so loud as often to obscure the commentary, and at times make it almost unintelligible.

    • @bthedwards
      @bthedwards 9 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for mentioning the sound issues, now I won't waste my time getting aggravated, lol. Shame, sounds interesting!

    • @marciamcgrail5889
      @marciamcgrail5889 8 месяцев назад +1

      I simply turned audio off and subtitles on..

  • @stevesinclair8667
    @stevesinclair8667 9 месяцев назад +14

    Fascinating. Thank you. The background music could have been a lot lower so we could hear the narrator better. Thanks again.

    • @sibert1974
      @sibert1974 7 месяцев назад

      I will never understand the need for loud intrusive and completely unnecessary “music” in these documentaries.

  • @safiremorningstar
    @safiremorningstar 9 месяцев назад +13

    The bicycle pump gun was what you would call the very first of its kind silencer.

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 9 месяцев назад +1

      Not the first of its kind. That dates back to Hiram Maxim’s research.
      The guns are still available commercially - they are classified as “veterinary pistols”.

  • @shirleyross6037
    @shirleyross6037 9 месяцев назад +12

    Many of the SOE’s agents were arrested, German officials had their codes and often intercepted their communications. Causing many to lose their lives, some were caught after they parachuted to the destination of drop off. Those caught were tortured by gestapo and imprisoned or executed.

  • @kennethmotolenich9820
    @kennethmotolenich9820 9 месяцев назад +8

    This is a designer working for good to counter the designer working for evil (Hugo Boss).

  • @northerngirl4666
    @northerngirl4666 9 месяцев назад +2

    What an incredibly well done documentary featuring a great leader and his brave compatriots! Thanks!

  • @The95AVALON
    @The95AVALON 8 месяцев назад +1

    Love these documentaries…so very educational!

  • @safiremorningstar
    @safiremorningstar 9 месяцев назад +10

    Bicycle pump my father often had to deliver bicycle pumps some contained messages and some might have been those weapons themselves it explains a lot about the guy traveling on a bicycle who kills the collaborator who is about to hand over a list my father found out after the war that his name was on that list. I forgot to add here that it was his cover name the name he used it was the false name that he had been given by those who made him the false papers that he had that looked authentic they could pass inspection. Also when you see that the ammunition part of the case is taken off it looks just like an old fashioned bicycle pump if you have to smuggle it somewhere you you could smuggle it passed any number of people and all they would think is that you had a bicycle pump on you but that also required you to have the bicycle to go with it.

  • @alteisn
    @alteisn 10 месяцев назад +23

    The real "kingsman". Oxfords, not Brogues.

    • @jayste9334
      @jayste9334 9 месяцев назад +1

      Ok..this where they got the base of the script for that movie from.

  • @morrispartow759
    @morrispartow759 10 месяцев назад +11

    A TRUE PATRIOT.

  • @18Bees
    @18Bees 10 месяцев назад +41

    This would make a great movie

    • @Pseudonym-aka-alias
      @Pseudonym-aka-alias 10 месяцев назад +16

      Yes, before Spielberg gets in first and turns it into a US op.

    • @camerongill101
      @camerongill101 9 месяцев назад +4

      My thoughts exactly

    • @Team33Team33
      @Team33Team33 9 месяцев назад

      Only illegal war operations aren't quite fashionable in this world.
      It just goes to show how obvious other terrorist acts worldwide are in fact self inflicted ... to gain internal support and allied backing.

    • @wiseonwords
      @wiseonwords 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@Pseudonym-aka-alias - Indeed!

  • @WesternAustraliaNowAndThen
    @WesternAustraliaNowAndThen 10 месяцев назад +15

    Excellent docco. So many great stores about this period are almost unknown. I would love to see the complete series about SOE made in 1984 re-released.

    • @markcampbell369
      @markcampbell369 9 месяцев назад +1

      Agreed! So many European WW2 stories are told over and over and over and over. So much more to explore!

    • @markcampbell369
      @markcampbell369 9 месяцев назад +2

      And I would love to know just how effective SOE was. I know much of the work is probably still classified, and we may never know.

  • @jwdickinson1
    @jwdickinson1 9 месяцев назад +2

    fascinating history! Amies, despite his foibles, is amazing! What a brilliant mind and superb warrior!

  • @rudyvanderhoeven9628
    @rudyvanderhoeven9628 9 месяцев назад +5

    brilliant one of these unsong heroes. Thank you

  • @chaimlevin125
    @chaimlevin125 10 месяцев назад +7

    My great grandfather was a tailor in the British army during the war… perhaps he had some fun as well? (Almost sure he didn’t lol).

  • @alexhubble
    @alexhubble 9 месяцев назад +6

    Well, Mr Amies had a long history of coordinating the work of small teams of artisans to complete special, bespoke commissions. Assassination / dress making - same same.😮

  • @kenknight4560
    @kenknight4560 9 месяцев назад +3

    This would make a great movie. What a story.

  • @jabbermocky4520
    @jabbermocky4520 10 месяцев назад +16

    A formidable character. Wow. Learned something new. Thanks.

  • @johnscanlan9335
    @johnscanlan9335 9 месяцев назад +1

    This sounds like an amazing foundation for a whole franchise of theatrical-release spy-type movies!

  • @davidharris4062
    @davidharris4062 9 месяцев назад +3

    That was a extremely good program

  • @FutureMythology
    @FutureMythology 10 месяцев назад +7

    What a fantastic film script!

  • @57113
    @57113 9 месяцев назад +10

    Very interesting documentary, never knew of this dressmaker turned soe , very determined to carry out the mission, yet humble about his part he played. Thanks 😊

  • @brianponcelet3529
    @brianponcelet3529 9 месяцев назад +7

    Great episode! Learned a lot. Thanks.

  • @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus
    @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus 10 месяцев назад +24

    The German Military at that time wore snappy Hugo Boss designed uniforms.

    • @tifKh
      @tifKh 10 месяцев назад +13

      Yeah don’t go into a Hugo boss and ask for anything from the ‘44-‘45 collection

    • @laurafabianmarrero
      @laurafabianmarrero 10 месяцев назад +5

      😂😂😂
      I shouldnt laugh at this
      ​@@tifKh

    • @RC19786
      @RC19786 10 месяцев назад +2

      Boss Rocks!

    • @SaigonMikael
      @SaigonMikael 10 месяцев назад +6

      Only manufactured by Boss, not designed by him or his company.

    • @ChiefRxcka
      @ChiefRxcka 10 месяцев назад +4

      Wow. Did Hugo Boss really only manufacture the uniforms? If that's the case then I guess I always just assumed that Boss designed them too. But if I did assume that, then it's most certainly bc documentaries implied that to be the case.

  • @DiabolikalFollikles
    @DiabolikalFollikles 10 месяцев назад +14

    Whoa. Top-shelf docu., in production *and* subject matter. The switched newspaper really helped to turn the tide for Belgium and her people. Media's *power* was used for *good* in this particular situation. 📚

  • @thenoworriesnomad
    @thenoworriesnomad 9 месяцев назад +7

    Excellent video...God Bless The Resistors..

  • @janetrushton5796
    @janetrushton5796 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great vid!

  • @lindamcgough3645
    @lindamcgough3645 8 месяцев назад +1

    What a great story! Such brave men!

  • @safiremorningstar
    @safiremorningstar 9 месяцев назад +5

    I would have loved to see the picture better just to see if there are any of my relatives in that picture, I have family that were in both the Belgian underground and the French Underground. And I really would have liked if there are any of those pictures.

  • @TheLastSongbird124
    @TheLastSongbird124 10 месяцев назад +15

    Totally new information, thank you, loved it :)

  • @agnescassar7604
    @agnescassar7604 9 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you fantastic story ❤

  • @pkt1213
    @pkt1213 10 месяцев назад +7

    When your ascot wearing grandpa has a higher body count than you do in COD. 😂

  • @bandit6272
    @bandit6272 9 месяцев назад +4

    I've seen this movie. Yeah, I loved Zoolander!

  • @georgevardan5924
    @georgevardan5924 7 месяцев назад

    Great men! I have Cambridge tie from Hardy Amies. Thank you for the film. I always admired Brits doing their work. With respect from Armenia!

  • @MarkNevels-m8k
    @MarkNevels-m8k 10 месяцев назад +13

    Yes. Thank u
    Mark nevels signing out lol i love history

  • @ahartify
    @ahartify 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hardy Amis visited New Zealand over 20 times, so was quite a regular presence here. He wanted to make New Zealand men dress more fashionably, and at least partly succeeded! I associate him mainly with the costume designs for 2001: a Space Odyssey. I knew he was a spymaster, but not to such an important extent.

  • @jamesross1799
    @jamesross1799 10 месяцев назад +7

    I've read about this guy

  • @ggoldie604
    @ggoldie604 4 месяца назад

    Fantastic documentary. What an amazing man Hardy Amies was!

  • @celticman1909
    @celticman1909 8 месяцев назад +1

    This Belgium government in exile could have had individuals with relatives that were collaborating with the Nazis. That was my first thought as to why they would not approve "Ratweek."

  • @loonylinda
    @loonylinda 9 месяцев назад +2

    what an amazing man

  • @judithcampbell1705
    @judithcampbell1705 9 месяцев назад +2

    Thank You for this excellent 💛 documentary. I've learned a lot. Never knew the fashion industry could be so dangerous. Very interesting indeed.

  • @Curmudgeon2
    @Curmudgeon2 9 месяцев назад +4

    and then the Antwerp was useless as the islands along the channel leading in was not take. Ike finally had to give Monty a direct order to open Antwerp. The Germans had, had a good bit of time to fortify and a log of Canadians and Brits paid for the delay.

  • @AndrewChappell-kl6ld
    @AndrewChappell-kl6ld 8 месяцев назад +1

    My grandmother worked for him as a seamstress in the fifties The family story was as he heard about her past. She was imprisoned by the Nazis for refusing to join the " Bund Deutscher Mädel" and was unfortunate enough to be in Dresden during the bombing and then had to walk hundreds of kilometres to her mothers house in Villach. Her mother fainted when she knocked on the door as she thought my grandmother had died in the firebombing. My grandfather was an English soldier who took her home to the U.K and they split up and she met her second husband and moved to London and ended up as a seamstress for Hardy Amies .

    • @CareyTisdal
      @CareyTisdal 8 месяцев назад

      Your family story is as amazing, or maybe more amazing than the documentary.

  • @HarryFlowerrs
    @HarryFlowerrs 6 месяцев назад

    What amazing and an extremely rare human being Hardy Amies was!
    A real credit to our nation!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️

  • @20alphabet
    @20alphabet 10 месяцев назад +23

    Never trust a fashion designer.

    • @PSMCR69
      @PSMCR69 10 месяцев назад +1

      the Tailor of Panama ( 2001 ) movie

  • @veronicaskov3752
    @veronicaskov3752 9 месяцев назад +3

    So we know now where the concept of kingsman comes from.

  • @stevehowell231
    @stevehowell231 9 месяцев назад +2

    Nice pic of a Welrod pistol.

  • @johnroff1941
    @johnroff1941 9 месяцев назад +1

    Absolutely fascinating

  • @donsarde
    @donsarde 10 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for this story, i had never heard of this fashion designer. So, he designed cloths for men and women then ?

  • @janejdough2230
    @janejdough2230 10 месяцев назад +1

    THANK YOU!

  • @MsSteelphoenix
    @MsSteelphoenix 7 месяцев назад

    Absolutely fascinating! Goes to show that anyone can be a master in The Trade.

  • @Ana-bn9tw
    @Ana-bn9tw 8 месяцев назад +13

    Once again, this story should remind people that our sexual preferences don't matter. They are our own. What matters is what, as a human, we bring to the table. I am straight but, my colleagues are not. They save people and care for them everyday. They're heroes everyday. Does it matter if they're LGBT? Nobody's asking when they're in crisis. People, let's look at the person human first

  • @Hokies4evr
    @Hokies4evr 10 месяцев назад +7

    Inspiration for Garak?

    • @Voitilus
      @Voitilus 10 месяцев назад +2

      Garak was a traitor to Cardassian government, but other than that, I was thinking about that too, especially after costume note

    • @d.r.7396
      @d.r.7396 9 месяцев назад +3

      lol! Was looking for this comment! Fellow Trekkie geeks unite! 🎉

  • @bearsagainstevil
    @bearsagainstevil 9 месяцев назад +6

    He did his duty , then didn’t want to talk about it a fine fellow

  • @lilly7187
    @lilly7187 10 месяцев назад +2

    Fantastic documentary.

  • @Traveler19491
    @Traveler19491 8 месяцев назад

    That was fascinating! Thanks so much.

  • @KyleCowden
    @KyleCowden 8 месяцев назад +1

    I always liked the Lysander liaison aircraft. I went through a phase of model building where the more "green house" the better. Not a "sexy" plane but cool.

  • @beckyeinolf3300
    @beckyeinolf3300 8 месяцев назад

    Excellent! Thank you!

  • @lesliemaitland3551
    @lesliemaitland3551 9 месяцев назад +1

    Canada didn't have an air force in 1918. The RCAF was established in 1924.

  • @crazycutz8072
    @crazycutz8072 9 месяцев назад

    Now I know where they got the inspiration for the Garack character from Star Trek DS9 😅

  • @TheJapanChannelDcom
    @TheJapanChannelDcom 10 месяцев назад +2

    "we can reveal for the first time" = classic piece of BS. 😀 His SOE experiences are old news and are all over the internet. 😀

    • @mikebarry229
      @mikebarry229 9 месяцев назад +3

      You do realise that this TV program was recorded at least 13 years ago so obviously it has been known for at least that long, but it might have been true when the TV program was first broadcast

    • @TheJapanChannelDcom
      @TheJapanChannelDcom 9 месяцев назад

      @@mikebarry229 Yes, Barry. You do realize it is not just you who can read when the video was posted. 😀

  • @mn4169
    @mn4169 8 месяцев назад

    Amazing history

  • @jayste9334
    @jayste9334 9 месяцев назад +1

    The Kingsmen...without all the james bond action.

  • @englishmaninfrance661
    @englishmaninfrance661 9 месяцев назад

    Excellent

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 10 месяцев назад +2

    It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about SOE,Tea section, Hardy Emmi ,and ratweek operations in Belgium 🇧🇪 during WW2..against German calibrators..thank you 🙏 ( time line) channel.

  • @gb-jg1ud
    @gb-jg1ud 9 месяцев назад +1

    they did not do much of this in Czechoslovakia after Anthropoid that is for sure.

  • @RoxannSnyder
    @RoxannSnyder 10 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome!

  • @DavidMScott-cs8pp
    @DavidMScott-cs8pp 8 месяцев назад +1

    Ooops. The Royal Canadian Airforce is 100 years old in 2024. So, Dezitter couldn’t have been a member in WW 1.
    He might have served in the British Flying Corps the precursor of the RAF.
    I’m 84 a Canadian and a
    long time studier of WW 1 and 2 and Dezitter was born and died in Belgium not Canada. He was executed in Belgium as a traitor. Get your facts right please.

  • @gb-jg1ud
    @gb-jg1ud 9 месяцев назад +1

    After the war...curious what happened to the German "handlers" and administrators like Amies on the Axis side?

  •  9 месяцев назад

    13:56 : Rexist Léon Degrelle speaks!

  • @calxtra5361
    @calxtra5361 3 месяца назад

    i had no idea about Amies part in the war ... my estimation of him has 99.9% raised

  • @TonyWhite-s4c
    @TonyWhite-s4c 5 дней назад

    That Belgian man is hardcore.

  • @WhoWantsToKnow81
    @WhoWantsToKnow81 4 месяца назад

    I recognized the Welrod from the Sniper Elite video games

  • @trevorpalmer1891
    @trevorpalmer1891 9 месяцев назад +3

    Belgium is like this today they play both sides of the political fence! Whilst plundering Africas wealth,

    • @nicolad8822
      @nicolad8822 9 месяцев назад

      Where are they plundering still?

  • @celticman1909
    @celticman1909 8 месяцев назад

    He probably came under the Official Secrets Act and couldn't talk to just anyone about his wartime activities anyway.

  • @vernonbrana8205
    @vernonbrana8205 8 месяцев назад

    My New Idol.

  • @CarlosTomasS.
    @CarlosTomasS. 9 месяцев назад +1

    Seriously what a life, fancy tailoring by day covert ops by night.

  • @carolannemckenzie3849
    @carolannemckenzie3849 7 месяцев назад

    Well made and interesting but the loud music is rather distracting

  • @hamerjohn
    @hamerjohn 9 месяцев назад +2

    WAS BLETLCHY PARK INVOLVED?

    • @robharris8844U
      @robharris8844U 9 месяцев назад +1

      Probably it dealt with much of the intelligence, but there were other stations aswell.

  • @rebeccaboudreau7589
    @rebeccaboudreau7589 8 месяцев назад

    These brave people were key to taking back their country.

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 10 месяцев назад +4

    finally! rat week exposed

  • @julianneheindorf5757
    @julianneheindorf5757 9 месяцев назад +2

    Great documentary, but really horrible and annoying music..

  • @misty5805
    @misty5805 9 месяцев назад +1

    I know this story is true because you can see it in The Tell-Tale teardrops of a serial murderer in the pics of his later years. Which make the younger pictures of him all the more sad.

  • @WhittierJerome-u9m
    @WhittierJerome-u9m 3 месяца назад

    Vincenza Dale

  • @kprosser310
    @kprosser310 9 месяцев назад

    How much is true? How much is false? How much is exaggerated?

  • @PabloTRUE-v8d
    @PabloTRUE-v8d 3 месяца назад

    Corkery Stravenue

  • @ddoherty5956
    @ddoherty5956 8 месяцев назад

    Kingsman 😳

  • @WienWag
    @WienWag 8 месяцев назад

    Why is the music so loud, constantly...🙄