Fun Fact: The cracking of the enigma machine was so successful that Bletchley Park had to 'pick and choose' which information they would follow up on so as not to make it obvious that the codes had been cracked. essentially they had to allow the Germans to make attacks against the allies knowing they could have prevented it, but in the long run it saved countless more lives,
Not really. It wasn't that it was so common but because they needed to have an excuse. It should always be possible for the British to have gotten the information elsewhere. If they made it clear they knew things that they should never know would make the Germans suspicious.
For those of you who are wondering about the crossword puzzle, the schoolmaster got his words from his pupils and one of the pupils eavesdropped on a millitary base and heard the codewords which he passed on to his schoolmaster to be in the crossword
Thanks for sharing that extra tidbit! A quick Google search turns up more information and sources about that side of the story. Here's just one: www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/06/how-codewords-for-d-day-ended-up-in-british-newspaper-puzzles-a-month-before-the-operation-started/?.f89bce78f255 --Belinda
Actually, according to "D-Day Dawn of Heroes" the crosswords had been compiled six months in advance, in some cases before the codenames had even been thought up.
On June 6th 1944, more than 2000 Americans gave their lives on Bunny Hug beach to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten. #bunnyhugbeach
I do not know what was more incredible; the complexity of the Enigma machine, or the fact that the crossword in the English paper had SO MANY coincidental code names for the invasion locations and names for the operation!
so happy about the little pin on Alan! though his treatment by everyone else in his time was wretched for who he was I appreciate such a small thing being added in the video.
Look man i know this is litterly a animated video about World War 2 but my Great Grandfather Died at Sword i am not trying to be mean but XD does not fit the importance of such men who helped the war effort.
GrimKid Vurtex as far as I can tell, they weren’t trying to be insensitive. They where simply pointing out the irony of a doube agent getting a medal from those he had double crossed. They where not saying the war was any less horrific or tragic, they where just finding humor in some irony
GrimKid Vurtex my great great-grandfather also fought in WW2, so I understand your point. I did not mean to be insensitive, I was just pointing out the irony
Who said It wasn't a real place? Im pointing out the fact that there was not a single region after the Civil War in the whole country with the privilege of being treated as a Nation other than Spain itself. Portray Juan Pujol García as "a Catalan" is, to all intents and purposes, historically inaccurate. That's how it was and how it is now, wether you like it or not and, trust me, I don't like it either.
It's historically accurate. There's no need to use just the country to identify someone's place of origin. If they can be more precise by saying the region I don't get why they shouldn't. And besides, from what I heard, it might me a country in a few months so it's not really that weird to specify if there's already conflict over that.
it is a bit awkward to mention someones regional birthplace, if you want to be specific use their hometown and if you want to be broad use their nation. Of course that is only relevant if the regions do not have special political status (like the American states do) and Catalonia did not have any political status.
fun fact: one of the C̶a̶n̶a̶d̶i̶a̶n̶ Brittish Soldiers, a man by the name of "John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, nicknamed “Mad Jack,”" had a real combat-ready broadsword and bow that belonged to his family. He brought the medieval weapons with him to D-Day, used them effectively, and survived the war.
I read about this badass! He dropped the thing and said something like "no battle is complete without f&@#ing swords," turned around, picked it back up, and continued hewing Germans limb from limb! What a character!
In fact, he never landed in Normandy. He was a commando who, indeed, did attack, and kill, Germans with a longsword and a longbow. However, he also used hand grenades. He was captured in 1944, in Yugoslavia, while aiding the partisans there.
The treatment and persecution of Alan Turing is one of the most disgusting acts humanity has ever wrought upon itself. You can debate his influence in computing, but he was poisoned and pushed to suicide in a disgusting manner.
Operations unthinkable should explain what the polish situation was about. And as for Alan Turin what was the policy for gay men in the other allied nations at the time?
@@anujkhanna2428 Don't be silly it was a rare ocurence. If this is how they treated all their heroes, there would be no England. What matters is reparations were made, as were for the Japanese after the internment camp faisco - although in both these cases ofcourse it would have been better if it had not happened, but grave mistakes are an ever present part of mankind.
@@jammo6645 Yeah... And that war declaration... Did almost nothing - Poland was still by itself during over a month of battle, at the start of the war. French - almost the same. Why did Hitler attack Poland frist? He suspected that the British and French won't join the fight, but if he attacked France first - Poland would strike from the east immediately, because of the alliance. And the enigma - only Poles were successful in decoding it, giving all their results, and copies of the actual enigma machines, to the British and French, just before the start of the war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Polish_breakthroughs
CornishCreamtea07 Mr and Ms Average, your son have been killed by German guns at the assault of Bonny Hop land. He fought bravely with his troops to the bitter end
CornishCreamtea07 ik this is an old post but still miss and misses whoo haa your son has died doing what he told to do to get his squad mates out of the line of fire on bunny hug landing his loss will not be in bunny hugs vain
United States Military Officer: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith, your son was torpedoed into oblivion by the Germans at Coca-Cola Lake. We are sorry for the loss of your son. By the way, we're voting on a tax on texts, you wanna come and shout cuss word like a sailor and shit on the sidewalk?!!" Door slam
My grandfather was a medic for the navy at D-Day. He laned on Omaha Beach and was hit in the back with shapnel pretty early on. A marine dragged him in a foxhole and hid him. He waited there for hours until they finally found him and managed to bring him back to the ship. He passed away in the fall of 2019. I miss you Doctor Ramsey.
6:30 Not really a "series of coincidences" - the professor's students suggested the words to him after hanging around loose lip Allied soldiers. Also a lot of other information issues.
I would have thought MI5 would have asked him exactly what student suggested each clue and then followed that up with all despatch to discover the Allied soldier and then discover what else they might have said and to who and then followed that up and impressed upon them the importance of not betraying your country literally until no more people were left
Hey Wargaming, I really like your own documentaries, especially the World of Warships-related ones. Can you create some documentaries about tanks, discontinued tank concepts and tank battles as well?
I appreciate the rainbow ribbon on Alan Turing.. A small detail but a powerful symbol. He was brilliant man. One of the brightest in the world, in fact. It's just a shame his end had to be tragic one..
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Extra Credits it's nice you talked about us brits at d day as a lot of Americans forget that us brits where there and had a big part of why we won so thanks for that keep up the good content 👍
Kind of disappointed that the Canadians again get lumped in with the British as a minor partner. The Americans, British, and French get most of the focus on D-Day, and rightly so, but Canadians drove deeper into France than any other army and even met a few of their D-Day objectives. Was hoping with several countries getting episodes that we'd get some love. Maybe one day Extra History will do a series on us one day. :)
What do you expect from Extra History? 4,000 Canadians dead at Dieppe? 907. 907 Canadians were KIA at Dieppe. There weren't even 4,000 Canadian casualties total during Jubilee.
WAR: okay, so your heavy equipment and most of the strike force are under the waves. You should probably go ho- British Commandos: captures the battery anyway WAR: am I a joke to you?
Why didn't we learn about this massive, epic deception in history class? How come we never hear about all the interesting bits, the drama, the feats of victory and the horrific losses? We just get "yeah, this event happened at this date, for these political reasons. There will be a test next Monday." History has NEVER been as interesting as when you guys do it, EC!
I've heard about Alan Turning, but I was curious about the Pride ribbon you illustrated on him so i looked it up. His story was so sad, to think that a man that was so important to winning this war was being chemically tortured for his sexuality. Thank you for displaying that, to think that people can be so indifferent about these issues when a historic hero was submitted to such a cruel punishment for simply being born.
GHOST ARMY! My great great Uncle, Lacy Barton, died at Omaha. He got to safety, but a buddy from home started crying for help after he had been shot in the leg. He went back for him.....they stepped on a mine on the way back... ......A lot of good people die to war and conflict...in the end we are only left with the lucky ones or the spineless.
I at least thought that the ribbon was a nice touch and that Alan should be appreciated both for his achievements and his sexuality what happened was horrible but he is still fondly remembered and respected
Nuziburt 3rd Do you even have to ask? Of course the Axis are just preparing a defence in the east and D-Day was just a fluke; watch in the next episode because everyone knows the Allies will be pushed out of Europe.
That's the crux with historic tellings, no matter how hard you're trying to tell the happenings as captivating or dramatic as possible, the ending is already known.
Haha haha 8:12 tho Mailman: I’m sorry ma’am your son has lost his life at the bunny hugs landing Mother:*GASP* not my little Timmy how could you le- wait did you say bunny hugs landing?
MI5: Creates the most elaborate anti-intelligence system, employs the best agents to ensure secrecy and spreads false intel to the enemy. Also MI5: Idk, it's not enough
All because of a double agent in the Reich working with the french... He gave them monthly codes, and design for enigma, (The Spy in Hitler's Inner Circle, Paul Paillole).
Creepcast roger he could have been wearing a flag and riding a unicorn and it wouldn't be forced or in your face. He was gay and was persecuted and died for it. his sexuality is relevant.
It should be forced on every faces. Homophobia at the time killed one of the greatest mind of the 20th century for who he loved. We should never forget that.
+ZoeAlleyne He was also a brilliant mathematician and the father of modern computer science. He probably would rather want to be remembered by that, not by the fact that he was gay or prosecuted for it.
6:53 - Come on fhqwhgads, I said come on fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit the cheat is to the limit everybody come on fhqwhgads! 10/10 Homestar reference. That was a deep cut. Well played.
Man the British intelligence in this war was something else. It wasn't just D-day where the British had fooled the Germans, when they had artillery set up to strike London, a double agent had falsely informed them that the bombs were hitting their targets, when they were doing little to no damage in the countryside. The Germans continued to miss London thinking it was In ruins (after artists had worked together to make the city look as if it was in ruins) and London was able to quickly recover thanks to this after the war.
Alan Turing only continued Stefan Banach researches. One Enigma (no in 100% complete) used by Werhmacht( was different than used in Kriegsmarine) was transported by Polish AK soldiers from Poland in cooperation with RAF. Later British people found fully complete Kriegsmarine Enigma with code book. That was the final of breaking Enigma mystery :)
Komandor Bentus Stefan Banach, while great and influential Polish mathematician, had nothing to do with cracking the Enigma. Don't you mean Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski? Also, aren't you mixing Enigma with Operation Most III (when British got parts of the V2 rocket thanks to AK). If I remember correctly, Enigma machine they got from us was a copy of older version, build before the war, based on information gathered by our and French intelligences.
Yes, it was Stefan Banach and others mathematician like Rejewski, Różycki and Zygalski,. You're right, I meant an older version of Enigma based on Polish-French inteligences information. Thanks for notice, you made it more precise. Old type Enigma from Werhmacht was carried to London before war.
Fun Fact: Canada was credited with liberating the first house on European soil. The house was being used as an MG position and was responsible for the majority of the deaths at Juno. It was later re-named Canada House and still remains there today.
Kind of, they had broken a previous version of Enigma prior to the war. But by the start of the war the Germans were using upgraded machines that Poland had yet to crack. They did provide a huge amount of the early research though which absolutely made the job of the UKs code breakers far easier
Yet another Polish slavaboo fanboy boasting about accomplishments despite being misinformed. Poland cracked the EARLIEST enigma - Germans later upgraded and updated the code. And before you bring up the bs that "Enigma cracking machines in Bletchley Park were from Poles" I will just say no.
I’m friends with a WWII vet, and he told me what is probably one of my favorite stories of all time; When he was stationed in England, either before or after D-Day, he and a couple of his buddies were completely covered in mud after a day of hard training. They ended up going to a nearby village, where the locals thought they were commandos who had just come back from a raid in France. My friend and his buds repeatedly told them that they were in fact not commandos, but the locals thought that they were just trying to keep their “true” identities a secret. The locals ended up washing him and his buds’ uniforms for them, opened up the village pub for them, and gave them flowers and kisses when they finally left.
There are plenty of movies about these things. The Imitation Game for example was about the Egima and Patton movie dealt with the Germans thinking he was going to lead the attack for example.
Which part? The Longest Day is a good movie about the invasion day from the sides of most of the nations taking part (including the germans). ...as for the cloak and dagger stuff...um.... the new dads army movie maybe? There was also that abomination of an American movie that claimed the US navy stole the enigma machine....
If you mean the disinformation campaign not sure how much of a movie you could do. It's interesting as history but visually it'd just be a whole bunch of people talking total nonsense for two hours odd.
Always nice to hear about the ridiculous lengths the British went with fake intel for D-Day. Would of been nice to hear a bit more about the British Funnie tanks as well though - they were pretty amazing (floating tanks anyone?).
Not just the amphibious tanks, but the mine-flayers, the bunker busters with a cannon so big it had to be loaded from the outside, the bridge layers for medium length gaps. Even more badass were the tanks whose job was to drive into ant-tank trenches, lower the ramps fore and after to serve as a quick bridge for regular tanks pass over with the crew wait it out inside from before before moving. Finally, there were the armored bulldozers who had to do the grunt work clearing obstacles to enable the regular tanks to advance. In fact, this collection deserves a video in and of itself.
Totally right - there were an amazing number of tanks the British created. I've always been interested in if their is an analysis of there effectiveness (it's worth noting that the US, for the most part, didn't use them and had the most trouble capturing their beaches, but you can't draw conclusions for this). The main reason I mentioned the amphibious tanks is because I love their nick names. They were called DD tanks, so of course the troops nicknamed them Donald Ducks!
fun fact: during WW2 American car companies had stopped making cars and started making weapons for the US and they did a hell of a good job love the video keep up the great work
One of the things that made Fortitude a success was having Patton made a commander of the fictitious army. The Germans believed him to be the best Allied General and, as a result, were terrified of him.
Actually the Germans for the most part didn't know who Patton was. Harry Yeide did a Bio on Patton, and looking through the German archives found very few references to him, even when he was in actual command of 3rd Army in Europe. In fact, even in 1945 the Germans were often unaware who the commander of 3rd Army was. The notion he was well known and feared by the Germans is a product of the movie "Patton" and "A Bridge Too Far". In reality, archival evidence suggests he was significantly less well known then Monty, Eisenhower or Bradley to the Germans, in large part because those men created the strategy of which men like Patton carried out. Patton was used in Fortitude because he was without command after slapping shell-shocked soldiers, so he was available to sit in England until well after D-day. There is also evidence that the US command thought the Germans had a higher respect/level of knowledge of Patton then they really did. In reality, German intel didn't even pick up on Patton being the head of the fictitious US army until after D-day had begun, so we know his "reputation" played no role in Fortitude's success.
Joseph Sosa agreed, although I think Pattons overrating comes in popular culture rather than military academies (since it's hugely influenced by the movie "Patton" which lets face it, was baisically pro-Patton, anti everyone else propaganda.)
Really? I could've sworn I read documents saying otherwise, though it was a while back when I did so. In any case, the US leadership thought otherwise so let's just blame the Allied High Command for my mistake. And I was aware of the slapping incident and Patton's punishment; I just assumed it to be a very convenient excuse for the Allies to place him where he was in Operation Fortitude.
Mary that's a rather debatable position to take. Patton mostly faced comparative light opposition and usually had freedom of maneuver on his allies flanks, a situation most cavalry commanders would have loved to be given. His style was flashy, made headlines, and was the stuff of holywood (and so the public ate it up [and as mentioned it does help when you have a movie that essentially is made to worship you]) but nothing that made him "the best" really at anything. It's interesting to note that he never got promoted past command of an army while his equals and subordinates got up to army group level. And I'm only looking at people in the west, I don't think he really even compares with people like Zhukov or Rokossovsky.
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Yep my friend
Come on fhqhgads
Extra Credits I see you’ve done your best to minimize America’s role in this series. Typical of your channel
What did happened about the Uranus oparation..... eh?
Via ve France
4:17 to be fair, the highest award any spy can probably get is the medal of their enemy
Fair point.
And getting their Ubercharge
Or both if they make it back alive.
Spain was "neutral"
Northfield Stradford
Point still stands. Man got a medal from Germany for losing the war for Germany.
'If they failed tens of thousands of men would die.'
At least there wasn't any pressure.
At least they didn't have to do public speaking. Now THAT'S real pressure.
The true irony is that the cannon fodder died either way
you mean the americans?
america supplied the bodies, the british supplied the brains and the russians supplied the distraction.
Pretty sure the Russians were the primary cannon fodder. The American were just unlucky or less skilled at land-warfare than naval warfare.
I'd say it was just a matter of luck and being in a situation that didn't allow armor to fight effectively.
Daughter: how did father die?
Mother: he gave his life at the bunny hugs landing
I died of laughter when that came up
Mother: hug landing
@@rathisuhh4198 Daughter-is he a new caracter from 5 nights at freddy's??
Mom-wtf
*Salutes*
@@rathisuhh4198 me too
Fun Fact: The cracking of the enigma machine was so successful that Bletchley Park had to 'pick and choose' which information they would follow up on so as not to make it obvious that the codes had been cracked. essentially they had to allow the Germans to make attacks against the allies knowing they could have prevented it, but in the long run it saved countless more lives,
Not really. It wasn't that it was so common but because they needed to have an excuse. It should always be possible for the British to have gotten the information elsewhere. If they made it clear they knew things that they should never know would make the Germans suspicious.
Aurora07 in allied side
Yeah they stated that in the movie, The Alan Turning Project.
Actually poles had cracked enigma before the war
@@vacaction3897 they cracked an early version which was nothing like the one used in WW2.
"Whatever Ales Ya"
Best. Pub. Name. Ever.
Along with my favourite “The Drawing Board”
@@eamesaerospace2805isn’t that from foil arms and hog
- "Twenty Committee"
- named after Roman numerals XX
- "double cross"
Well played, Britain
Also: giving Alan Turning a pride ribbon was perfect. Thank you
I so agree. It was a lovely note
Indeed. Lovely acknowledgement.
Inkswitch greatest and most risk full troll ever? ha germans were too stuck up to notice the obvious
They could be the thirty comity or xxx😉
Thanks for discussing Dieppe, it's often overlooked in military history. As a Canadian, this pleases me.
@Gabriel Ordones English please.
And what is your point?
Our guys fought well, the british sold them out to save a few destroyers
@@bitpumpkinn2923what did Gabriel say?
For those of you who are wondering about the crossword puzzle, the schoolmaster got his words from his pupils and one of the pupils eavesdropped on a millitary base and heard the codewords which he passed on to his schoolmaster to be in the crossword
So it was *almost* a security breach.
ALMOST
Thanks for sharing that extra tidbit! A quick Google search turns up more information and sources about that side of the story. Here's just one: www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/06/how-codewords-for-d-day-ended-up-in-british-newspaper-puzzles-a-month-before-the-operation-started/?.f89bce78f255
--Belinda
Source: The World Wars
Actually, according to "D-Day Dawn of Heroes" the crosswords had been compiled six months in advance, in some cases before the codenames had even been thought up.
I always love when Garbo gets the recognition he deserves.
Yes
Garbo: Gets medal of honour of the enemy.
Sneak 100
Illusion 100
Block 100
You dumb bitch 100
elder scrolls reference
Britain definitely has block 100
*Speech 100
Intelligence 100
Deception 100
Mental stability 694201337 haha funni number
"If you hear gunshots it's ok it's just the neighbors go back to bed."
Lol
"but... we're not is Texas! Shots aren't normal!"
i would be like:
"okay, (lies) *hears gun shots* lemme check (≖︿≖ ) nah its just the canadian and british soliders XD
Lazarbeam convinces his neighbors that he did not kill his willie
Cerca 2019
@@kimothelimo Me:"Hey look a German."
Hans your neighbors are probrabrly getting raided by the gestapo
On June 6th 1944, more than 2000 Americans gave their lives on Bunny Hug beach to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten. #bunnyhugbeach
*cue ultra patriotic music*
Adam Lee TROLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
let us never forget the men at Bunny Hug beach
Adam Lee we salute the brave men who landed on Big Bear Hugville-walla that day
To the brave men who gave all at Cuddly Kitten hill, your sacrifice will never be forgotten.
Adam Lee just imagine "sorry ma'am, your son was hit by artillery at the jellybean hill landing"
I do not know what was more incredible; the complexity of the Enigma machine, or the fact that the crossword in the English paper had SO MANY coincidental code names for the invasion locations and names for the operation!
Not coincidental but loosley inspired.
so happy about the little pin on Alan! though his treatment by everyone else in his time was wretched for who he was I appreciate such a small thing being added in the video.
Why ? So he can pin pointed soley for his sexuality and hmm idk his work.
It was a nice gesture
Well, you guys have to know what happened to him after they won the war. It wasn't pretty
When a double agent gets the iron cross XD
Look man i know this is litterly a animated video about World War 2 but my Great Grandfather Died at Sword i am not trying to be mean but XD does not fit the importance of such men who helped the war effort.
No that was just the neighbor
GrimKid Vurtex as far as I can tell, they weren’t trying to be insensitive. They where simply pointing out the irony of a doube agent getting a medal from those he had double crossed. They where not saying the war was any less horrific or tragic, they where just finding humor in some irony
GrimKid Vurtex my great great-grandfather also fought in WW2, so I understand your point. I did not mean to be insensitive, I was just pointing out the irony
GrimKid Vurtex I think your grandfather was very brave
Juan Pujol García deserves a mini series himself.
The man was insane and yet such a pivotal character in world history.
Absolutely.
But why is he portrayed as "a Catalan"?
CristianFT86 He is called Catalan, maybe because he was born in Catalonia? As far as I know, it's a real place.
Who said It wasn't a real place?
Im pointing out the fact that there was not a single region after the Civil War in the whole country with the privilege of being treated as a Nation other than Spain itself.
Portray Juan Pujol García as "a Catalan" is, to all intents and purposes, historically inaccurate.
That's how it was and how it is now, wether you like it or not and, trust me, I don't like it either.
It's historically accurate. There's no need to use just the country to identify someone's place of origin. If they can be more precise by saying the region I don't get why they shouldn't.
And besides, from what I heard, it might me a country in a few months so it's not really that weird to specify if there's already conflict over that.
it is a bit awkward to mention someones regional birthplace, if you want to be specific use their hometown and if you want to be broad use their nation.
Of course that is only relevant if the regions do not have special political status (like the American states do) and Catalonia did not have any political status.
fun fact: one of the C̶a̶n̶a̶d̶i̶a̶n̶ Brittish Soldiers, a man by the name of "John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, nicknamed “Mad Jack,”" had a real combat-ready broadsword and bow that belonged to his family. He brought the medieval weapons with him to D-Day, used them effectively, and survived the war.
oh shit you're right, he was hong-kong born British. i must have gotten something mixed up there, sorry.
I read about this badass! He dropped the thing and said something like "no battle is complete without f&@#ing swords," turned around, picked it back up, and continued hewing Germans limb from limb! What a character!
"Guns and ships, no this is WWII, we need Guns and Swords."
He didn't actually use the sword though.
In fact, he never landed in Normandy. He was a commando who, indeed, did attack, and kill, Germans with a longsword and a longbow. However, he also used hand grenades. He was captured in 1944, in Yugoslavia, while aiding the partisans there.
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
-Winston Churchill
YESSSS you included Garbo! He deserves a video all of his own.
The treatment and persecution of Alan Turing is one of the most disgusting acts humanity has ever wrought upon itself. You can debate his influence in computing, but he was poisoned and pushed to suicide in a disgusting manner.
Kamo Only broke it, with the Enigma Machine :D
Operations unthinkable should explain what the polish situation was about. And as for Alan Turin what was the policy for gay men in the other allied nations at the time?
@Kamo Britain declared war on Germany in the defence of Poland. Do you literally not know history.
@@anujkhanna2428 Don't be silly it was a rare ocurence. If this is how they treated all their heroes, there would be no England. What matters is reparations were made, as were for the Japanese after the internment camp faisco - although in both these cases ofcourse it would have been better if it had not happened, but grave mistakes are an ever present part of mankind.
@@jammo6645 Yeah... And that war declaration... Did almost nothing - Poland was still by itself during over a month of battle, at the start of the war. French - almost the same. Why did Hitler attack Poland frist? He suspected that the British and French won't join the fight, but if he attacked France first - Poland would strike from the east immediately, because of the alliance.
And the enigma - only Poles were successful in decoding it, giving all their results, and copies of the actual enigma machines, to the British and French, just before the start of the war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Polish_breakthroughs
_"His Death, A Tragedy,"_
_"HIs treatment, an embarrassment"_
AHHHHH AHOY
ah, a person of culture, I see.
Ahoy.....hasnt posted in a long time
I would proudly give my life at the Bunny Hug Landing.
CornishCreamtea07 Mr and Ms Average, your son have been killed by German guns at the assault of Bonny Hop land. He fought bravely with his troops to the bitter end
HUGGED TO DEATH!!!
He fought very bravely but bunnies were too furious and hugged him till his death
CornishCreamtea07 ik this is an old post but still miss and misses whoo haa your son has died doing what he told to do to get his squad mates out of the line of fire on bunny hug landing his loss will not be in bunny hugs vain
United States Military Officer: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith, your son was torpedoed into oblivion by the Germans at Coca-Cola Lake. We are sorry for the loss of your son. By the way, we're voting on a tax on texts, you wanna come and shout cuss word like a sailor and shit on the sidewalk?!!"
Door slam
the funny part was that Canadian units were actually ahead of schedule through out most of the D-Day landings
“If you hear any guns or explosions, it’s just the neighbors again, go back to sleep!” Lmao, WTF kind of neighbors does this narrator have!?
The ones who fire automatics on New Years.
They were in France. The neighbors are French. Rebels.
@@C104-x9s sorry, you must've mistaken that I replied to you. I was replying to the OP.
@@whatshappeninganymore2473 oh yeah i have one of those neighbours
I only fire pistols
Americans
My grandfather was a medic for the navy at D-Day. He laned on Omaha Beach and was hit in the back with shapnel pretty early on. A marine dragged him in a foxhole and hid him. He waited there for hours until they finally found him and managed to bring him back to the ship. He passed away in the fall of 2019. I miss you Doctor Ramsey.
6:52 Good Homestar reference 10/10
I noticed that and was like NO WAY and I had to go through a lot of comments to find this one >_> apparently nobody else remembered T_T
I said come...on..fhqwhgads...I said come on fhqwhgaaads
Everybody to the limit, everybody to the limit, everybody come on Fhqwhgads
@@Sean1Lima I dont know who it is...but it probably is fhqwhagahds
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Wait, Operation Foritude? 1:21 Someone was sleepy when they were making the slides for this episode.
It was Walpole!
took me a second, but yeah
what's the actual name then?
Alwin Priven it's operation fortitude they forgot the T
Some Brittish drank the t.
The best thing about these videos is dose funny animated photos. They make learning fun.
6:30 Not really a "series of coincidences" - the professor's students suggested the words to him after hanging around loose lip Allied soldiers.
Also a lot of other information issues.
I would have thought MI5 would have asked him exactly what student suggested each clue and then followed that up with all despatch to discover the Allied soldier and then discover what else they might have said and to who and then followed that up and impressed upon them the importance of not betraying your country literally until no more people were left
Ah I’m going to correct people because I want to feel important
10:04 When a teacher asks for the homework you didn't do.
D-Day: "Ten of thousand men would die"
Battle of Somme: * hold my beer *
So mean but funny. My god...
Stalingrad : Hold my vodka
6:54
Come on, fhqwhgads.
I say come on, fhqwhgads.
The cheat is to the limit everybody a fhgwhgads
I do love when Extra history dumps Old and New Internet Memes on the sly~ X3
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JelloApocalypse I
The British had quite the network telling the Germans that other locations and people were to the limit.
and we are live!
Hey Wargaming, I really like your own documentaries, especially the World of Warships-related ones. Can you create some documentaries about tanks, discontinued tank concepts and tank battles as well?
Terribly sorry good sir, but it would appear that the game known as "War Thunder"
Is much better than your "World of Tanks"
Raafy so true!
im just getting world of tanks and war thunder in Steam
Woow
4:10 “If you hear any guns or shouting over there, just relax, it’s just the neighbours again, go back to sleep!”
XD I laughed so hard, that was gold!
I appreciate the rainbow ribbon on Alan Turing.. A small detail but a powerful symbol. He was brilliant man. One of the brightest in the world, in fact. It's just a shame his end had to be tragic one..
a lItTle rAiNbOw pIn
My god do you not care about anything else than sexuality
The planned Normandy landings were too obvious to hide from Germany - so Britain found other ways to deceive them.
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Ok
Extra Credits
I caught that simpsons reference
shh duh duh dum de dum de dum dum dum
Extra Credits that ribbon on Alan Turing as clever
Extra Credits it's nice you talked about us brits at d day as a lot of Americans forget that us brits where there and had a big part of why we won so thanks for that keep up the good content 👍
@Extra Credits You spelt Fortitude in Operation Fortitude wrong, other than that, good episode.
Kind of disappointed that the Canadians again get lumped in with the British as a minor partner. The Americans, British, and French get most of the focus on D-Day, and rightly so, but Canadians drove deeper into France than any other army and even met a few of their D-Day objectives. Was hoping with several countries getting episodes that we'd get some love.
Maybe one day Extra History will do a series on us one day. :)
The Canadians were part of the British 2nd Army, that's why.
Also it wasn't that many Canadans
At least you guys got a decent mention, Australia and New Zealand barely get mentioned at all by these channels
What do you expect from Extra History? 4,000 Canadians dead at Dieppe? 907. 907 Canadians were KIA at Dieppe. There weren't even 4,000 Canadian casualties total during Jubilee.
The Canadians killed the Nazis using their kind words.
it was on juno beach that James doohan, who later played scotty on the original star trek, had his combat debut and also lost part of his finger
Doohan = Canadian
6:52 Homestar Runner reference! Cracking that one must have pushed everybody to the limit.
WAR: okay, so your heavy equipment and most of the strike force are under the waves. You should probably go ho-
British Commandos: captures the battery anyway
WAR: am I a joke to you?
Commandos: Yes, Yes you are.
Nice touch getting the different Canadian uniform & webbing colors and the Mk.III helmets right.
Why didn't we learn about this massive, epic deception in history class? How come we never hear about all the interesting bits, the drama, the feats of victory and the horrific losses? We just get "yeah, this event happened at this date, for these political reasons. There will be a test next Monday."
History has NEVER been as interesting as when you guys do it, EC!
I've heard about Alan Turning, but I was curious about the Pride ribbon you illustrated on him so i looked it up.
His story was so sad, to think that a man that was so important to winning this war was being chemically tortured for his sexuality. Thank you for displaying that, to think that people can be so indifferent about these issues when a historic hero was submitted to such a cruel punishment for simply being born.
Again why praised some thing he could not control rather than his work
GHOST ARMY!
My great great Uncle, Lacy Barton, died at Omaha. He got to safety, but a buddy from home started crying for help after he had been shot in the leg.
He went back for him.....they stepped on a mine on the way back...
......A lot of good people die to war and conflict...in the end we are only left with the lucky ones or the spineless.
7:02 look at Turing’s chest
You are now crying if you know what happened to him
I know exactly what happened to him and I’m completely fine.
OlliOtter1004 *then your soulless*
Also hi Susan Wojcicki! Can you stop demonitizing people please?
OlliOtter1004 I don’t get it and I just did the whole soulless thing as a satire joke
I at least thought that the ribbon was a nice touch and that Alan should be appreciated both for his achievements and his sexuality what happened was horrible but he is still fondly remembered and respected
7:51 Why London is a freaking lake?
Well, It was once a fucking swamp
heh, seems like germans bormbarded london to such a degree that it was reduced to sea level
at least the British where off thier shes from the start of the war unlike the Americans
I thought it was a lake ;)
Yes
7:51 Why is London a pond?
Disguised so the Germans wouldn't spot it :P
Um where
I wonder who will win?
Ofc the germans! Everyone know that the allies winning was a conspiracy theory right?
Nuziburt 3rd Do you even have to ask? Of course the Axis are just preparing a defence in the east and D-Day was just a fluke; watch in the next episode because everyone knows the Allies will be pushed out of Europe.
devised by Walpole of course
lol, the fact that you aren't speaking german should tell you....
That's the crux with historic tellings, no matter how hard you're trying to tell the happenings as captivating or dramatic as possible, the ending is already known.
Haha haha 8:12 tho
Mailman: I’m sorry ma’am your son has lost his life at the bunny hugs landing
Mother:*GASP* not my little Timmy how could you le- wait did you say bunny hugs landing?
I love that you gave Garbo some love. You could do a multi part series on him and his insane spycraft.
4:13 that bed is cute
The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs Go back to make landing videos
JK, i love your videos man :)
I argree it is cute
Ich got it from mein garäge sale.
The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs lol
where do I get it?
Impressed they got the differing colours of otherwise more or less identical Canadian and British uniforms
6:52 I've watched this a few times but I JUST got the Homestar Runner reference here. Nice one!
MI5: Creates the most elaborate anti-intelligence system, employs the best agents to ensure secrecy and spreads false intel to the enemy.
Also MI5: Idk, it's not enough
They were like Kylo Ren in the last Jedi
An MI5 operative: sir we've done enough to fool the Germans.
MI5 command: MORE!!!!!!!
Just keep sponsoring these episodes wargaming. I won't ever play your games, but sponsor these series anyway.
lol
Shh, they might be reading these.
Sssh! Don’t say that!
hey dont be rude this is a cool way to to do ads
They know not everyone will, that's just how it works.
SWORD?! Covenant owns that now!
I love the tiny little touch of giving Turing a rainbow ribbon. Good on you guys.
2:59 fishman and baldy together finding Berlin on a map
This channel is the best historical channel on RUclips, period. I love all of your videos, keep up the amazing work
You guys should do an entire series on Garbo alone, it's absolutely fascinating.
8:12
I died of laughter 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like PM Churchill. I would not want to give my last at "bunny hop hill" either.
i'd love to have "bunny" on my tombstone
Extra Credit draws me in to the story more than any other history RUclips channel.
Rest in Peace for the 4,000 Canadians who gave there lives for the future of there families and the world
Not to mention that the Poles cracked the Enigma
To be honest it did not help them much
The Germans had different Enigmas for different branches. The Poles had the Enigma at the beginning, but the Germans updated and upgraded the code.
And the codes was broken again
All because of a double agent in the Reich working with the french... He gave them monthly codes, and design for enigma, (The Spy in Hitler's Inner Circle, Paul Paillole).
Nice touch giving Turing a rainbow ribbon.
Agamemnon Yes it was, not forced or in your face.
Creepcast roger he could have been wearing a flag and riding a unicorn and it wouldn't be forced or in your face. He was gay and was persecuted and died for it. his sexuality is relevant.
thank you.
It should be forced on every faces. Homophobia at the time killed one of the greatest mind of the 20th century for who he loved. We should never forget that.
+ZoeAlleyne He was also a brilliant mathematician and the father of modern computer science. He probably would rather want to be remembered by that, not by the fact that he was gay or prosecuted for it.
1:28
Can’t stop freaking laughing. The face of the Canadian. It’s priceless
6:53 - Come on fhqwhgads, I said come on fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit the cheat is to the limit everybody come on fhqwhgads!
10/10 Homestar reference. That was a deep cut. Well played.
Man the British intelligence in this war was something else. It wasn't just D-day where the British had fooled the Germans, when they had artillery set up to strike London, a double agent had falsely informed them that the bombs were hitting their targets, when they were doing little to no damage in the countryside. The Germans continued to miss London thinking it was In ruins (after artists had worked together to make the city look as if it was in ruins) and London was able to quickly recover thanks to this after the war.
Alan Turing only continued Stefan Banach researches. One Enigma (no in 100% complete) used by Werhmacht( was different than used in Kriegsmarine) was transported by Polish AK soldiers from Poland in cooperation with RAF. Later British people found fully complete Kriegsmarine Enigma with code book. That was the final of breaking Enigma mystery :)
Komandor Bentus Stefan Banach, while great and influential Polish mathematician, had nothing to do with cracking the Enigma. Don't you mean Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski?
Also, aren't you mixing Enigma with Operation Most III (when British got parts of the V2 rocket thanks to AK).
If I remember correctly, Enigma machine they got from us was a copy of older version, build before the war, based on information gathered by our and French intelligences.
Yes, it was Stefan Banach and others mathematician like Rejewski, Różycki and Zygalski,. You're right, I meant an older version of Enigma based on Polish-French inteligences information. Thanks for notice, you made it more precise. Old type Enigma from Werhmacht was carried to London before war.
Parent: dont lie, you will always be caught
Garbo: am I a joke too you?
7:00 Ok, am I literally the only person that saw the rainbow ribbon they gave Turing?
Yes my man deserved better.
Fun Fact: Canada was credited with liberating the first house on European soil. The house was being used as an MG position and was responsible for the majority of the deaths at Juno. It was later re-named Canada House and still remains there today.
I have watched this video many times but never noticed the pride pin on Alan until now. Thank you EC for including that (heart empji)
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The codebook didn't break the Enigma.. it was a little technical thing... Abused by the Turing "bomb"
Reminder. Actually the Poles broke the Enigma even before war. And they have informed allies about that.
Kind of, they had broken a previous version of Enigma prior to the war. But by the start of the war the Germans were using upgraded machines that Poland had yet to crack. They did provide a huge amount of the early research though which absolutely made the job of the UKs code breakers far easier
But the germans changed the code
Yet another Polish slavaboo fanboy boasting about accomplishments despite being misinformed.
Poland cracked the EARLIEST enigma - Germans later upgraded and updated the code. And before you bring up the bs that "Enigma cracking machines in Bletchley Park were from Poles" I will just say no.
Every intro of this channel is so cold and satisfying
Loved the Homestar Runner ref at 6:52
8:22 sounds like a topic for a Sabaton song
"If you hear Gunshots,explosives then it's just the Neighbours again,Go,Back to sleep."
You Living in Syria bro?
Oh. Oh boy
1:20 operation for*I*tude
I’m friends with a WWII vet, and he told me what is probably one of my favorite stories of all time;
When he was stationed in England, either before or after D-Day, he and a couple of his buddies were completely covered in mud after a day of hard training.
They ended up going to a nearby village, where the locals thought they were commandos who had just come back from a raid in France.
My friend and his buds repeatedly told them that they were in fact not commandos, but the locals thought that they were just trying to keep their “true” identities a secret.
The locals ended up washing him and his buds’ uniforms for them, opened up the village pub for them, and gave them flowers and kisses when they finally left.
I love ur animation I also love the extra knowlegde. WW2 is my fav part of learning history
4000 Canadian casualties, not deaths. 900 or so fatalities
Yes. Just under 1K killed, 1.5 K returned and 2.5 K taken prisoner at Dieppe.
lol the Germans at 5:36 was hilarious
And all of this because of a sandwich.
I think you ment wrong turn
Wrong war, dude!
@@lindenshepherd6085 what do you mean?
Brandon Stanfield that’s world war 1
@@PretzlcoatlTheFirst exactly hes saying all this on a video about WW2 not WW1
Juan Pujol García sounds like an awesome agent! What a great guy.
So happy to be part of a country that gets to be a footnote in your video. "And the Canadians did some stuff." Kay thanks, that was real nice.
10:30 a 60 mile stretch between them and the town? Surely he means 60 metres
Wait, so we had an Oscar winning movie for Argo and we don't have a movie version of THIS?
There are plenty of movies about these things. The Imitation Game for example was about the Egima and Patton movie dealt with the Germans thinking he was going to lead the attack for example.
Cheshire1501 what about the imitation game. It's about the British cracking the enigma machine
Which part? The Longest Day is a good movie about the invasion day from the sides of most of the nations taking part (including the germans).
...as for the cloak and dagger stuff...um.... the new dads army movie maybe?
There was also that abomination of an American movie that claimed the US navy stole the enigma machine....
Cheshire1501 dunkirk's coming out
If you mean the disinformation campaign not sure how much of a movie you could do. It's interesting as history but visually it'd just be a whole bunch of people talking total nonsense for two hours odd.
Always nice to hear about the ridiculous lengths the British went with fake intel for D-Day. Would of been nice to hear a bit more about the British Funnie tanks as well though - they were pretty amazing (floating tanks anyone?).
Not just the amphibious tanks, but the mine-flayers, the bunker busters with a cannon so big it had to be loaded from the outside, the bridge layers for medium length gaps. Even more badass were the tanks whose job was to drive into ant-tank trenches, lower the ramps fore and after to serve as a quick bridge for regular tanks pass over with the crew wait it out inside from before before moving. Finally, there were the armored bulldozers who had to do the grunt work clearing obstacles to enable the regular tanks to advance. In fact, this collection deserves a video in and of itself.
Totally right - there were an amazing number of tanks the British created. I've always been interested in if their is an analysis of there effectiveness (it's worth noting that the US, for the most part, didn't use them and had the most trouble capturing their beaches, but you can't draw conclusions for this).
The main reason I mentioned the amphibious tanks is because I love their nick names. They were called DD tanks, so of course the troops nicknamed them Donald Ducks!
@ 7:20 that uboat was captured and put into a Chicago museum. I saw it up close and even went inside it too.
fun fact: during WW2 American car companies had stopped making cars and started making weapons for the US and they did a hell of a good job
love the video keep up the great work
“D Day,” is a historical event that makes me truly proud to be an American...
or anybody from a country that sided with the allies
I love this channel so much!!!!
One of the things that made Fortitude a success was having Patton made a commander of the fictitious army. The Germans believed him to be the best Allied General and, as a result, were terrified of him.
Actually the Germans for the most part didn't know who Patton was. Harry Yeide did a Bio on Patton, and looking through the German archives found very few references to him, even when he was in actual command of 3rd Army in Europe. In fact, even in 1945 the Germans were often unaware who the commander of 3rd Army was. The notion he was well known and feared by the Germans is a product of the movie "Patton" and "A Bridge Too Far". In reality, archival evidence suggests he was significantly less well known then Monty, Eisenhower or Bradley to the Germans, in large part because those men created the strategy of which men like Patton carried out.
Patton was used in Fortitude because he was without command after slapping shell-shocked soldiers, so he was available to sit in England until well after D-day. There is also evidence that the US command thought the Germans had a higher respect/level of knowledge of Patton then they really did. In reality, German intel didn't even pick up on Patton being the head of the fictitious US army until after D-day had begun, so we know his "reputation" played no role in Fortitude's success.
Joseph Sosa agreed, although I think Pattons overrating comes in popular culture rather than military academies (since it's hugely influenced by the movie "Patton" which lets face it, was baisically pro-Patton, anti everyone else propaganda.)
dernwine overrated as he is, he was still one of the best allied commanders
Really? I could've sworn I read documents saying otherwise, though it was a while back when I did so. In any case, the US leadership thought otherwise so let's just blame the Allied High Command for my mistake.
And I was aware of the slapping incident and Patton's punishment; I just assumed it to be a very convenient excuse for the Allies to place him where he was in Operation Fortitude.
Mary that's a rather debatable position to take. Patton mostly faced comparative light opposition and usually had freedom of maneuver on his allies flanks, a situation most cavalry commanders would have loved to be given. His style was flashy, made headlines, and was the stuff of holywood (and so the public ate it up [and as mentioned it does help when you have a movie that essentially is made to worship you]) but nothing that made him "the best" really at anything. It's interesting to note that he never got promoted past command of an army while his equals and subordinates got up to army group level.
And I'm only looking at people in the west, I don't think he really even compares with people like Zhukov or Rokossovsky.
Wow someone who actually talks about the Canadians for more then 2 seconds thank you
this is an excellent segment