It's not surprising that a global conflict like World War II generated so many amazing spy stories. Espionage has always been a business marked by deceit, betrayal, and frequently, death. The fate of a captured spy is usually brutal, and even relatively benign entities like the Allies dealt harshly with such individuals. Still, their treatment was relatively kind compared with the Nazis.
These stories include heroes and villains, loyalists and traitors, and the greatest WWII spies who were motivated by duty, principle, or just plain money.
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Berg's children: What did you do in the war, Daddy? Berg: It's complicated, kids.
Tinker, tailor, soldier, baseball player, spy
This baseball player became an assassin right off the BAT. 😜
This guy's got the biggest baseballs in all the game 😅
So many interesting stories during WW2.
There is a movie about this very person, it's called "The Catcher was a Spy". It came out in 2018 featuring Paul Rudd. 33% on Rotten Tomatoes but I liked it.
Rotten tomatoes is stupid .
Added it to watchlist. Thanks
Omg his eyebrows alone deserve an award😂😂
And still we know nothing of the epic 'White Spy' vs. 'Black Spy' backstory.
And who was that Grey Spy working for? And if there were baseball catchers involved, it's very well possible that any of the players on the 43-Man Squamish teams were also. It's a riddle wrapped around a mystery inside an enigma!
Who knew James Bond was a Baseball Player
Now here’s another hit, Barry Bonds
i really like this channel!!
Listening from Harbour Springs
I read the book on Moe Berg. While on a mission in Italy he took on the guise of a German Captain. Not only was his German perfect, he could also speak in the accents of various regions of Germany. Under that guise he talked his way into a number of high-security areas.
🗣️YOU'RE OUT
😤 safe!
Where's my baseball Johnny? 🤭
Clever!
me, after i came out the closet
@@ACloutTokenha, gay!😂
Recently saw the movie the catcher was a spy
0:01 The scene where Harry Lime (Orson Welles) is first seen in the film The Third Man is one of the most famous introduction scenes in film history.
A politician bringing classified documents to private residence where anyone can take pictures of them; glad we don’t have that problem anymore…
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Just don’t let Trump near it!
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Who is James Bond not based on "allegedly" at this point?
I imagine a sign on his front door “no foul play”
I would love to see a list of the twenty or so people Ian Fleming supposedly based James Bond on.
Thank you for this! ⚾
"This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more." - William Stephenson
Awesome!!
BEST narrator on youtube👌🏻 witty and funny too😅🏆
You guys need to eventually do the Chuck Barris story, the game show host/creator who claimed he was also a CIA assassin.
it is always great to hear about Spys but imagine that you are named after a canary bird
Aye Moe, Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk!!!
A+ video! Fascinating topic and video, the history of spies has such great stories!
You should do a video about Mona Parsons - the only Canadian civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazi’s in WWII who then later escaped
1:19 Those prison suits lol.
10:44 Christophe Nolan, who directed The Dark Knight, won the Academy Award for Best Director this year for the film Oppenheimer. He was born on July 30th, the day I graduated from the Master's Program at the University of Missouri.
11:48 I remember the film Spies Like Us, great comedy! I am so grateful that comedians like Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd made such fun and great comedies for us to enjoy!
1:39 We watched the James Bond Franchise A LOT when I was growing up.
Suggestion for a new video, the idea for the 1972 Kung Fu TV series was not stolen from Bruce Lee, as proven by Matthew Polly in his authoritative biography 'Bruce Lee: A Life.' At this point even Wikipedia knows it, but the myth persists.
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0:40 There was also a stuffed bunny and a musical number about it on the musical film Easter Parade with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire.
Who's on 1st
What’s on second?
@@navret1707I don't know is on third
A catcher to does "hits", huh? 😉
He sued a government over giving him bogus money?
3:54 A diary is read as the main speech at the end of the film College Musical.
6:53 One of my paternal great-grandmother's has the name Murphy (referenced to Cilian Murphy).
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What does this have to do with baseball?
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@@jenniferlonnes7420 thank you I must have glossed over this
None of them surprise me to be honest, that’s just what people was doing back in those days. Ah the past.
In regard to Moe's baseball career it was said he could speak 12 languages couldn't hit in any of them.
Last lol haha
This talk about Hungary is making me hungry.
Does that make you a Hungrian😏
@@robert.m4676 Yes I'm Hungrian for stinky haggis, and peanut butter with tuna fish sandwiches. 😜
@@davea6314 I hungrian for tuna pizza and warm beer and then I’ll hook up with my ugly woman for a romp in the --well never mind
If you grew up in a Jewish household anytime after the 1950s, you know the story of Moe Berg
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal! Eating Hot Dogs*† (Johnsonville)...while watching this Weird History video! * From the Weird History video "Every Style of Hot Dog We Could Find Across the US" † I put barbecue sauce,basil, and parmesan cheese on one of them and caesar dressing, basil, and parmesan cheese on the other.
Nope the other guy beat you. Does it mean that much? Your life is so sad that you need the attention of saying first when you weren't. I hope you find a life.
Please don't be offended. I'm just trying to understand the excitement of saying first and nothing else. Is it something to be proud of? Something to brag about? I'm just trying to understand why so many do it? Maybe you could explain. Is it because you have never come first in anything in your life. That saying one word on a youtube video makes you feel important? Damn I hope your life improves.
@@Me4-gc8qs You shouldn't have wasted your life in matters of no importance. You will soon be crushed and you will have no credibility for the rest of your life. It's only a matter of time before you pay the piper.
@@Me4-gc8qs When everyone is pointing fingers at why the state of everything is so terrible, you are leaving records (your posts) of the cause of the problems: unproductive, cowardly, self-interested, and malicious people are to blame.
Which hot dog was the best?
0:40 B-Rabbit is the rapper name of Jimmy Smith Jr. (Eminem) on the film 8-Mile.
0:35 The White Rabbit is a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that Alice follows "down the rabbit hole."
I am going to watch the video: ---TIMELINE 1995---
I didn't hit the subscribe button.
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