The Magician Who Fooled the Nazis (and all of us) - WW2 Documentary Special
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2024
- Military deception is tricky. Sometimes you need to destroy a crucial piece of war industry or make an entire harbour disappear. Who do you call for this sort of job? Well, someone who knows a thing or two about tricking the eye. You need a professional magician. You need Jasper Maskelyne. But is there more to this illusionist than meets the eye?
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So, what do you think about Jasper Maskelyne? Did he construct his own legend? Has he fooled history as well as the Nazis? Will we ever know the whole story?
Whatever the truth is. Astrid told a riveting story again. That much is true.
I mean, his name is MASKelyne...
I think he may have worked as a consultant off the record and then did what he did best which was to misdirect the audience! After all we did have a fake Churchill, Monty, tanks, trucks etc. And it took ages for the Nazis to figure out Chain Home!
All the actors are dead. Unless some archive appears we'll never know. Are there still some classifications of secrets still not revealed? We are approaching 80 years.
Astrid brings that truly childlike wonderment to her story telling. It's infectious. There is glee in her demeanor as she recounts the events. Spys and Ties is surprising and entertaining. I read the book, The Double-Cross System... when it was published in 1972. It was a truly fascinating read. However, this series takes it to a whole new level. This is cutting edge docu-reporting. Awards should be given Spies and Ties!
thank you very much darling :)
Thank you for your kind words, Astrid's passion really bleeds through the camera!
Astrid obviously missed her calling as a magician, she has the flair required.
Or a televangelist. Hello darlings, do you have a moment to hear about about Astridism?
Astrid’s got that magical touch!
Thanks for watching.
@@CAP198462Many people would be offended to hear they have the "flair" for wirefraud 😅
She certainly has the hand gestures, and exotic accent. She is also probably right about Maskelyne, at least to judge from the Wikipedia article on him.
@@CAP198462I am normally a stout non-believer, but Astridism has me intrigued😂
Naming Maskelyne as the man responsible for the various deception schemes made it easier to explain goings-on because you just had to say that "a Magician did it" and everyone gets it. It explains all sorts of funny goings-on, strange structures and vehicles, with "oh it's just some magic tricks to fool the Germans!"
Yep makes perfect sense to me!
Well please do elaborate on the full details of everything in this video in a concise and easy to understand manner then Mark
The name of Maskelyne was famous in the UK for the Maskelyne penny-in-the-slot device which was used, for many decades, to get people to pay to use a public toilet. "To spend a penny" is still a fairly common British saying, meaning you are off for a pee.
And edited - here in Somerset, there were many Starfish sites - very successful in getting Germans to bomb the hills and Levels, rather than say Bristol or the Westland factory, but less popular with the locals living near them! Their remains can still be seen in some places.
That's a fascinating tidbit of history-thank you for sharing!
It must be quite a sight to see those Starfish sites and consider their impact during the war, with remnants that linger long after the conflicts have passed.
Excellent work Astrid & team!
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for this interesting Spies & Ties episode as always Astrid & team.
Thank you for the comment and thanks for watching.
Bless you Astrid you delivered another riveting story from the past about these secret warriors. The ones who likely played one of the biggest roles of all in defeating Nazi Germany.
Like Winston once said the truth is so important, one must hide it with a ton of lies. I paraphrase of course.
Bodyguard of Lies! That is the part of the expression you were looking for. Hence the D-Day deception operations became known as Operation Bodyguard.
The Alexandria trick was used by the citizens of Rock Ridge in the 1880's
Some bodies gunna have to go back and get a shit load a dimes!
Just want to say I fell behind on this channel around May due to vacation and general business as well as your frequent uploads kept me always behind since I'd try to catch up and new videos would come up ahead of me. But with this one I have FINALLY caught up. I love that the Spies series is getting more attention because the storytelling is top notch. Now onwards to the final year of the war.
Thanks so much for watching, let's see what next year brings!
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"practiced at the art of deception Well, I could tell by her blood-stained hands" -- Jagger & Richards
Brilliantly told like always, thank you Ingrid and team :)
You don' need guns to fight the enemy. Intellect can be far more effective.
Thanks for your kind words!
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There's a video here on RUclips named 'The Ghost Army of World War II' on "faking it" with dummies, loudspeaker trucks, radio traffic etc
One of your best Astrid👍👍👍
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
-- Churchill
Thank you for the lesson.
I knew about him from David Fischer's book "The War Magician" years ago. Wonderful character
Thanks for watching!
What a surgery you performed thru this one magician. Bravo Astrid!
Nice episode!
We, sometimes don't know what we're capable of until we find ourselves out of our depth or seemingly lost. These are the places that we sometimes find ourselves - or somebody else finds us.
Wot!?
No Astrid pulling a rabbit with a toothbrush moustache from a Stahlhelm?
Amazing video !! Amazing script as always 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Glad you enjoyed thank you for watching!
Jasper Maskelin wrote a book about his deception during WWII.
Absolutely magical!!
Really lovely photograph at 1723 seeing all the genuine faces of happiness in uniform, not something you often see during a war. Men and women of different colours and rank all looking naturally happy
Things one thinks they know is a great hiding place
Wow.
The ultimate magic truck.
Still baffling people into the next century.
Now THATS magic.😏
Spies and Ties let’s go!
Outsmarting the Nazis seems to be a common theme lol
They are Nazi's so it's not hard too do lol
Hi Sparty
Interesting story.
Loved it.
Thanks.
Plans within plans, within plans... how many layers were there, I wonder...
Whenever someone makes a claim that being a magician isn't a job for a man, after watching this episode you can easily reply that it's actually quite masculine. ;-)
Luv Ya Ms. Deinhard
I just saw a world War II espionage film. It's a little older from 2016 I believe but it was amazing and had such a beautifully dark twist, It was allied with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard.
Thanks for the recommendation, might have to check it out!
- Jake
@@WorldWarTwo no problem. I always do love finding a good historically based film. I wouldn't want to spoil it, but there's a question in there about British intelligence protocol when it comes to things like blue dye operations or having to execute potential spies yourself with your own hand if they were close to you and had infiltrated through you.
These is innovative camouflage it work 😀
For the algorithm
Thanks!
Where did you get that map from??
Astrid love the outfit! It gives you the illusion of being a spy and a magician and the truth is stranger than fiction! ❤❤❤ Keep the spies out ties coming
I don't understand the fake harbour in Alexandria. The British faked a harbour, but then It turned out to be a fake that they created a fake harbour?
What did the British gain🤔?
It's a bullshit story with no definitive sources. But people love to believe crazy things.
If it weren't for RV Jones and co winning the Battle of the Beams thre deccption efforts would not have any effect. Knickebein unjammed and unfooled could result in s bomb drop within about 1/4mile from mwemory.. Though the CEP would have been large. X Gerat drops coildv havbe been within a few hundred yards
Lockheed made an orange grove look not like an aircraft factory
This video has a little bit of a pacing problem.... could be 1/2 the length LOL
That Hogwarts education finally pays off.
It was a wonderful introduction and thrilled watching video about spying games of British against Nazism during WW2 ...Nazism regime fought allies furiously while Nazism regime found itself in desperate situations after 1941 ...since Nazism failed to established its airforce supermarcy on British Island and postponed Britain invading...later Nazism regime failed to captured Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, and concussian oil fields....So Nazism regime jumped over several persuasively failures .for that, it swallowed all British deceptions, misdirection ,and manipulations ...
Fun Fact: The best deception job done by the Germans in WWII was them completely camouflaging the port of Hamburg from Allied Air Raids.
Wub u. x
I can’t finish this. I keep trying to get into spies & ties but I just end up with a headsche
"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist.”-Charles Baudelaire
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It is a shame that Ewe Tube bombs a 20 minute video with 6 ads, makes the video unwatchable. Goodbye Astrid.
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Thanks for watching!
29th, 7 November 2023
Its not SUN SOO. The Chinese is more like SWOON-ZER. Tired of hearing this writer constantly quoted and as constantly mispronounced.
The Magic Gang. I only learned about them a few years ago (can't get American History in School history class, you can forget anything you have to fly over water to get to), Jasper Maskelyne heading the unit made up of other Magicians, Artist, carpenters and millwrights, scientist from different schools, various Engineers and even habitual Privates due to their constant Con Artist Schemes (their schemes were Good, getting Away, Not so much). A very British eccentric kind of outfit I think only Britain could do, with always a Sarcastic Flair stuck in somewhere (Google "Wood for Wood")