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 .
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.😮
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 😊
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.
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. 📚
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.
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.
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."
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.
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 .
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
New meaning to "Killer Fashion"...
Well done Brits 👏
And thank you for another wonderful documentary 🙏
@lesleyghostdragon3149 what a moniker!
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 .
Well said
Amies did not risk his life. He had others do it..
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.
A toast to your late father, Cheers. 🍻
@@lMazol Bless you for that.
@@lMazol Here Here! I can't believe the bravery of those men. They debt we owe them is mind boggling!
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!
@@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.
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.
Now - watch the documentary on the “Limping Lady” spy of WW2. Why her life hasn’t been made into a movie is beyond me.
She appears in this movie which came out a few years ago (heavily fictionalised)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Call_to_Spy
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.
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.
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy.
SAILOR AT THE END ???
Well, I see what you did there!
Love that movie!
He’s referring to the John Le Carre novel ….
@northerngirl4666 it's also a reference from an Abbot and Costello movie. I'm curious now if the book and movie are the same
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.
People are multidimensional. When given the chance they transform unveiling their amazing qualities!
....or their worst qualities...
These Résistance groups across Europe deserve a lot of credit for the Allied victory.
Very true. Thank God for them. Patriots to their countries. Unhearld heros.
Very interesting - while the exploits of the SOE in France are probably widely known, I for one knew little of what happened in Belgium.
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.
Thanks for mentioning the sound issues, now I won't waste my time getting aggravated, lol. Shame, sounds interesting!
I simply turned audio off and subtitles on..
Fascinating. Thank you. The background music could have been a lot lower so we could hear the narrator better. Thanks again.
I will never understand the need for loud intrusive and completely unnecessary “music” in these documentaries.
The bicycle pump gun was what you would call the very first of its kind silencer.
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”.
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.
This is a designer working for good to counter the designer working for evil (Hugo Boss).
What an incredibly well done documentary featuring a great leader and his brave compatriots! Thanks!
Love these documentaries…so very educational!
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.
The real "kingsman". Oxfords, not Brogues.
Ok..this where they got the base of the script for that movie from.
A TRUE PATRIOT.
This would make a great movie
Yes, before Spielberg gets in first and turns it into a US op.
My thoughts exactly
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.
@@Pseudonym-aka-alias - Indeed!
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.
Agreed! So many European WW2 stories are told over and over and over and over. So much more to explore!
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.
fascinating history! Amies, despite his foibles, is amazing! What a brilliant mind and superb warrior!
brilliant one of these unsong heroes. Thank you
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).
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.😮
This would make a great movie. What a story.
A formidable character. Wow. Learned something new. Thanks.
This sounds like an amazing foundation for a whole franchise of theatrical-release spy-type movies!
That was a extremely good program
What a fantastic film script!
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 😊
Great episode! Learned a lot. Thanks.
The German Military at that time wore snappy Hugo Boss designed uniforms.
Yeah don’t go into a Hugo boss and ask for anything from the ‘44-‘45 collection
😂😂😂
I shouldnt laugh at this
@@tifKh
Boss Rocks!
Only manufactured by Boss, not designed by him or his company.
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.
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. 📚
Excellent video...God Bless The Resistors..
Great vid!
What a great story! Such brave men!
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.
Totally new information, thank you, loved it :)
Thank you fantastic story ❤
When your ascot wearing grandpa has a higher body count than you do in COD. 😂
I've seen this movie. Yeah, I loved Zoolander!
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!
Yes. Thank u
Mark nevels signing out lol i love history
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.
I've read about this guy
Fantastic documentary. What an amazing man Hardy Amies was!
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."
what an amazing man
Thank You for this excellent 💛 documentary. I've learned a lot. Never knew the fashion industry could be so dangerous. Very interesting indeed.
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.
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 .
Your family story is as amazing, or maybe more amazing than the documentary.
What amazing and an extremely rare human being Hardy Amies was!
A real credit to our nation!🏴❤️
Never trust a fashion designer.
the Tailor of Panama ( 2001 ) movie
So we know now where the concept of kingsman comes from.
Nice pic of a Welrod pistol.
Absolutely fascinating
Thank you for this story, i had never heard of this fashion designer. So, he designed cloths for men and women then ?
THANK YOU!
Absolutely fascinating! Goes to show that anyone can be a master in The Trade.
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
Inspiration for Garak?
Garak was a traitor to Cardassian government, but other than that, I was thinking about that too, especially after costume note
lol! Was looking for this comment! Fellow Trekkie geeks unite! 🎉
He did his duty , then didn’t want to talk about it a fine fellow
Fantastic documentary.
That was fascinating! Thanks so much.
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.
Excellent! Thank you!
Canada didn't have an air force in 1918. The RCAF was established in 1924.
Now I know where they got the inspiration for the Garack character from Star Trek DS9 😅
"we can reveal for the first time" = classic piece of BS. 😀 His SOE experiences are old news and are all over the internet. 😀
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
@@mikebarry229 Yes, Barry. You do realize it is not just you who can read when the video was posted. 😀
Amazing history
The Kingsmen...without all the james bond action.
Excellent
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.
they did not do much of this in Czechoslovakia after Anthropoid that is for sure.
Awesome!
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.
After the war...curious what happened to the German "handlers" and administrators like Amies on the Axis side?
13:56 : Rexist Léon Degrelle speaks!
i had no idea about Amies part in the war ... my estimation of him has 99.9% raised
That Belgian man is hardcore.
I recognized the Welrod from the Sniper Elite video games
Belgium is like this today they play both sides of the political fence! Whilst plundering Africas wealth,
Where are they plundering still?
He probably came under the Official Secrets Act and couldn't talk to just anyone about his wartime activities anyway.
My New Idol.
Seriously what a life, fancy tailoring by day covert ops by night.
Well made and interesting but the loud music is rather distracting
WAS BLETLCHY PARK INVOLVED?
Probably it dealt with much of the intelligence, but there were other stations aswell.
These brave people were key to taking back their country.
finally! rat week exposed
Great documentary, but really horrible and annoying music..
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.
Vincenza Dale
How much is true? How much is false? How much is exaggerated?
Corkery Stravenue
Kingsman 😳
Why is the music so loud, constantly...🙄