Nazi Saboteurs USA - Three Missions Landed By U-Boat! 

Donner pass and snow...I can't see where that would ever be a problem.

​@@JamesThomas-gg6il 🍖🥓🥩

@@bumpedhishead636 Naw, I’d rather be at one of those pacific island where it was a bloodbath….your father was a very lucky man indeed. What never gets talked about after wars is the collateral damage done to the souls of the men that fought them. Many live lives of quiet desperation in a pool of booze or pills trying to forget the hell they were apart of.

I know a guy who also was in a (U) Boot camp in 1942. In Kiel.

@@Bradydog-in7ut I wonder what the casualty rate of the return serviceman once back home was ( not able to deal with injuries or the horrors) ?

Toldinstone is a very good historian of classical antiquity who's content is in a similar style and quality to Mark Felton

Or tv

​@@morganfreeman5260I don't think the availability of definitive numbers regarding a historian's subject matter has any bearing on how good that historian is. I think ToldInStone is a history professor at Michigan, I consider TIS and Mark Felton to be the best history RU-vidrs in their chosen field 🤷‍♂️ I don't see why we need a pissing match between the two

i mean the first story isnt real its a book

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing this story almost lost to history

Man that must have been terrifying knowing that there were active spies in the country..

I worked at FBI records for awhile scanning old files. Hoover became connected back in 1911 or so when police in Clarksburg, WV caught 2 misbehaving and suspicious Italian travelers who had a thick handwritten book with a list of names and contact information around America for lots of people and some pages of writing. The book was written in Italian Upon translating it and grilling the prisoners it was forwarded to the US Dept of Justice AG Wickersham and given to J Edgar for followup. It turned out the book was a list of every member of the Black Hand inside the US and what their employment position or status was. Although FBI records had several letters from Clarksburg, WV before 1914 referencing the book and asking about it's veracity, I never saw any letters of reply. Early in WW2 Hoover and US Naval Intelligence negotiated a deal with Lucky Luciano and some others that in return for keeping the NYC and East Coast docks free of Nazi saboteurs the FBI would not interfere in other East Coast mob activities. Several previously pro-Nazi longshoremen and union leaders then had accidents or disappeared and the docks ran smoothly under mob management. Also the mafia provided information and assistance to the Allies regarding Italy. After the 1947 Havana, Cuba mob conference the new focus became communists and a similar deal was struck regarding events in Las Vegas.. During the time of Lucky Luciano J Edgar Hoover became a regular attendee and better at the horse race trackin Upper Marlboro, MD,, He became widely known he was a very shrewd better of horse races as he would often make large bets on very improbable to win horses against long odds, but often win large sums of money. Although his skill at the race track was written about in newspapers, none of those reporters bothered to notice a possible connection between the miraculous wins at the track and who the true owner of the horse track was. Hoover continued to bet at the Upper Marlboro racetrack until the early days of President Kennedy.

More like: Always work alone.

Unless you had a photo of him wearing a dress like the mafia had, he publicly stated there was no commission. Until Appalachia meeting happened he had to admit there was a national crime syndicate.

You still can't trust the FBI!

Hoover also took credit for operations he knew nothing about. Read "Hitler in Los Angeles, how Jews foiled nazi plots against Hollywood and America" by Steven J. Ross.

Americans will learn about the time the enemy landed saboteurs on their soil and come out thinking the government officials trying to protect them were the bad guys. Incredible.

FDR too

Agreed: He went back on his word, fraudulently took all credit, and... liked to wear dresses.

Both of them, and the federal government has only gotten worse since then.

Couldn’t trust the FBI back then and for sure can’t trust them today

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They age well like a fine wine.

I agree %100.. I feel the same way..

Always interesting stuff! The last two concerning Goring’s bling I found very interesting as the WW2 collectors market for German military materials (helmets, metals, daggers, guns ect ect) have gone through the roof.

Laptop?... What laptop, it's a fake.

FBI: Hillary, give us the emails on your secret server. Clinton: Give me a week to erase any incriminating ones. FBI: Oh, ok.

@@kerry9125 Also: Hillary: Here's $10 million from donations to the Clinton Foundation to support political corruption and unconstitutional acts. FBI: We will require $30 million.

President Kennedy said that the three most over rated things in the world were home cooking, home sex and the FBI.

Flat Earth much?

@@quad1000 Please enlighten me how the FBI betraying these Germans who sang like canaries to them, and all the other shenanigans the FBI pulled is the same as as being a flat earth nutter? Cause anyone with a brain can see the Earth is round. But anyone with a brain would not just blindly trust a government agency. Let alone a 3 letter security agency. So enlighten me, oh wise one, why we should trust the FBI?

Exactly. They’re a political arm of the Democrat party these days and corrupt as can be. It’s sad.

What was he doing for two years??

Agree What he do? Hide til ran out of money?

@@hoodatdondar2664 Wandering Canada picking up odd jobs here & there across the country. There was also an attempt by escaped German POW's to rendezvous with a U-boat along the St. Lawrence River, but if memory serves, though the U-boat waited the POW's they were intercepted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

I read a story about some German spies that were put ashore in Canada. And being dimed out by the smell of their clothing, which (just like American Submarineers in WWII) reeked of the smell of diesel oil and, of course, strong BO. They were in a hotel, as I remember, and the clerk was suspicious and called the RCMP..

East Coast Canada reporting. On the north coast of New Brunswick, which has a long history of international seamen and smugglers U boat crews would occasionally drop by remote villages and buy supplies and visit pubs. The locals thought nothing of it until military intelligence caught wind of it and put a stop to the practice. There was a German spy who gave himself up in St. John NB. And my buddy told me that his grandfather as a young boy saw a sea launched German plane with markings fly over the interior of Nfld. It took him a week to get back to civilization and phone to inform the authorities as he was out on an extended hunting trip to feed his family.

Ouch.

😢😊

Needs the gmod spawn in sound effect

No kidding man, thats one hell of a story, and id certainly love to know more about this too... i used to live in Wilmington years ago, but actually have spent most of my life about 45 minutes north-northeast of wilmington (in jacksonville, nc) which began as a small camp back in the very early 1940's & originally as well as ever since, used to primarily train marines, and a few sailors too, in amphibious landings, operations & warfare in general. And also concerning wilmington... it's been the permanent home for "the showboat" better known as the Battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55) since she was saved from the scrapyard several decades ago, and she is now an absolutely incredible museum ship, docked/moored on the far shore of the Cape Fear River, right across the river from historic downtown Wilmington.

There WAS extensive U-Boat activity in the Gulf of Mexico and quite a few ships were sunk, some within sight of shore. The Cajun story sounds like a lot of baloney. Cajuns were of French descent so wouldn’t have any sympathy for Germany.

@@lowellwhite1603a LOT of French collaborators…

@@jon9021 Cajuns are descendants of French Canadians who fled Canada when the English took over. They may have a longstanding grudge against the English but their connection to France was more than two centuries old. Their connection to Germany was nil.

@@lowellwhite1603 "fled"?Huh? That's a strange way to say the English ethnically cleansed their lands and expelled them like it was Gaza 2024.

@@Heike-- Yes, the English Expelled the Acadians from Canada and the fled to Louisiana. After the American Revolution, the Tories who collaborated with the English were expelled and “fled” to Canada. Such is the circle of life when one group conquers the other. Some of my Scotch-Irish ancestors were Jacobite’s and were forced to flee Britain. My Calvinist French ancestors, the Huguenots, were forced to leave or die. They “fled” to America.

Thank you for sharing

Murphy i Sabotatori facevano coraggiosamente e con determinazione il loro lavoro. ERANO VERAMENTE EROI. Hanno tutta la mia simpatia.

@@romsebrell710Utter nonsense.They were hopeless failures.

@@scottyg7284And Nazis too.

Like to know more Homegrown or imported?

'...I have a cunning plan..' 'Is it the plan of a cunning fox, who has just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?'.

There's a similar story in the midwest where the germans just turned themselves in once they saw a map of the united states and realized how far they were from the east coast.

Yes, they were U-Boat men interned at Papago Park north of Phoenix. They obtained a gas station map, and seeing the little blue lines on it, assumed they were viable waterways. They even built home-made Klepper folding boats -- in full view of the guards, who assumed it was just a hobby project. The many ''washes'' or arroyos on the map are dry gulches for the most part - except in the Monsoon Season, when they are raging torrents from flash floods... A tunnel was dug from under their barracks out to a spot outside the camp perimeter. When they emerged, they saw how impossible the kayaking plan was and broke into groups to exfiltrate thru the desert. Eventually all the Germans were recaptured. Local legend is that the leader was in the last group. They wound up in Downtown Phoenix with just enough money for a full dinner at a Chinese restaurant. The guards, tipped off, patiently waited until they got their furtune cookies and paid their bill. When they came out, they were taken into custody.

@@HootOwl513 The guys had been in the pitch black filthy desert for so many days that they were covered in dirt and had trouble adjusting to the lights in the restaurant. They kind of stood out.

Scoundrels even then.

True. It also reinforces the fact that nobody loves a traitor. Turncoats will generally find neither trust nor love nor sympathy from any side, even if they think they are doing the right thing.

Silly and uintelligent comment.

@@ChristianVik-y4u is that you J. Edgar?

​@@ChristianVik-y4u always one of you in every comment thread 😂

Emigrate.

Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt is another: A Baltic German, he immigrated (read: was deported) from the USSR after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact allowed the “repatriation” of ethnic Germans from the Baltic States. Due to prior military service, he was mobilized into the Heer, and was put in charge of convincing Russian POWs to join Andrey Vlasov’s collaborators due to knowing Russian. His requests to boost recruitment among Russians as well as cut back on the brutality of the occupation were all but ignored by the OKW, and the idea was only taken up by the SS near the end of the war. He wrote a book in 1970 about his experiences called “Against Stalin and Hitler: Memoir of the Russian Liberation Movement”. He died in 1977 in Southern Germany.

It is still worth a visit today. The viewing area is a National Park. Major traffic is NS coal trains, the length that stretches around both sides of the curve is impressive. Regretfully there are only 3 tracks now in use, not the original four.

@@johnmurray8428 it is a shame that very little of the Pennsys "broad way" is left these days

What is it about that point in the line that makes it so much more essential than the rest of the line?

​@@alanfike I think because of the geography. It is a "choke point," that would impair the US war effort for a longer period of time per KG of explosive.

@dannagy546 What the saboteurs planned to do was blow up the tunnels at Gallitzen, just west of the Curve itself, near the crest of the hill. Doing so would have shut down all traffic on the line.

as Canaris would have wanted

@@jvwilliams Somewhat later

As if on purpose

the Abwehr wasn't in the side of Germany, at least the head/big part

It was run by a traitor

There's absolutely no way (zero) to confirm what you just stated. No way to prove that. Germans were very sophisticated and feints occurred all the time

@@tegbolddos I would consider the facts presented in this very video evidence to the claim that the Abwehr was at times subpar. (Plus for example the fact that they couldn't figure out that even the navy's four wheel Enigma was broken.) I would even go so far and require you to provide evidence that the Abwehr was in fact good.

Most of it was pure incompetence by the US Navy’s part: We only adopted convoys in April 1942, when U Boats had practically paralyzed shipping since January! If you want to know more about this, read the book Torpedo Junction (published 1989) by Homer Hickam (yes, that one).

What other activities did J Edgar Hoover do that have been lost to history? A follow up story on him would be interesting.

That was much later? And what was the complaint, again?

Left out all the moles stalin put in the fbi

Black mail

His secret files that kept,him in office 48 years til he died Someone has them

When Edward Snowden first reached out to Glen Greenwald offering him classified documents, Greenwald didn't take him seriously and brushed him off.

Read "Seizing the Enigma" and "Hitler's Spies" by David Kahn. Also, "Hitler in Los Angeles" how Jews foiled Nazi plots against Hollywood and America by Steven J. Ross. Hitler's Spies details all of the operations mentioned here along with the general failure of German overseas spy operations during the war.

"Blood and Banquets" by Bella Fromm, a real-life journal of the rise of the Third Reich I always thought would make a good mini-series, with a spy thriller ending, and it's all true. You will be on the edge of your seat the whole time.

"The House on 92nd Street" I believe was loosely based on some of the events mentioned here. The upper east side of New York around 86th street was a center of German agent activity during the war. Read "Blood and Banquets" by Bella Fromm, a real story of a Jewish woman's escape from German agents after she fled to NY during the war.

I love Trois Rivieres, Quebec!

Hear the same thing but in Florida

I would agree to the urban myth, to get to Trois-Rivières the Uboat would have to get past Québec-City where the St-Lawrence is very narrow and very well guarded. Before reaching that point, that were some almost infinite coastline to discreetly land a party of saboteurs or even trumpet players if needed.

There was a similar story about a U Boat captain attending the opera in Trinidad without being noticed in German propaganda broadcasts. While this was undoubtedly false, the fact that such stories were ever originated shows how much of an open season there was off the American seaboard!

Their upper ranks are still corrupt and politically motivated beyond belief. I trust nothing they say.

Indeed! It is disgusting that he is so lionized today as a morally upright person when he was nothing of the sort.

A lot of American companies, such as Ford and the Bush family, made a lot of money out of the two wars.

And Goerings was Asia.

Until 1942 the USA was more of an ally than an enemy to the germans.

And also that the spy ended up living in a town named King of Prussia

Luftwaffe recovery hospital named Florida

Too much risk. Travel elsewhere with a new identity

Because US law enforcement agencies are infested with those lazy Stateless Traitors.

Harriman?