X Troop - The Strangest Elite Unit of WW2
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- On July 17, 1944, Erwin Rommel’s car was strafed by British aircraft after leaving his headquarters. The Field Marshal was seriously wounded and hospitalized with severe head injuries that took him out of World War 2.
The Normandy landings had taken place just a month before, and the British had suspected that Germany had mined the beaches of Northern France, a devastating ploy that could foil their landing efforts. Thus, British Army officer George Lane was sent to gather intelligence.
Lane was captured after having completed two successful missions. He expected to be executed according to Hitler’s Commando Order, but instead, he was blindfolded and taken to a secret location where he met Rommel face to face.
The clever Jewish soldier managed to charm the Desert Fox and hide the fact that he was German and Jewish, and he was then sent to a prisoner camp.
While there, Lane shared Rommel’s location with the other inmates, and after confirming the specific château through a book in the camp’s library, they relayed the information to London via a smuggled wireless radio.
Rommel would be intercepted by British aircraft weeks later, one of many extraordinary accomplishments carried out with the help of German Jewish operatives of the legendary X Troop, whose brave actions would significantly shape the fate of the war…
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I have never heard of X-troop. This is why I watch these outstanding videos. Thank you for all you do to help us to never forget the heroes and villains of WW2.
That's right ! An I pray we are as brave as them when WW3 HITS !! give me a Gun an ammo an let's GO !! I rather give my life then it just go !
Have you seen The movie "Inglorious Bastards"?
Yes I have seen that movie a while ago. But don’t remember it very well. Maybe I need to watch it again.
Heck, I didn’t even know some soldiers used folding bicycles to cross the beach on D-Day
I'm right there with you, fascinating!!!🙏😢
This video clip reminded me a story about my father.
The Nazis cought him during a round-up. The location was close to a forest and once their counting went on, he slipped into the forest.
A short time later, the local Partizans cought him and recruited him into their group. He fought with them till the end of the war.
That’s amazing
So he became a terrorist
I thought I knew a lot about World War II but this is the first time I’ve ever heard the story this is absolutely amazing thank you!
You should follow Mark Felton’s channel then bro. He does all untold stories, battles, and a bunch of other stuff related to WWII. Best Channel on CZcams.
Yes sir I’ve seen Mark Felton’s episodes and they are very interesting and you learn a lot of kind of oddities of world war two yes Mark Felton’s got a lot of good stuff
@@victorfoster122 💯💯💯
Try researching that international Zionist banker's declared war on Germany in 1933 after Hitler took back control of the German Central bank From the Rothschilds and locked one up, Kennedy was about to take back the federal reserve look what happened to him, we have been lied to for a long time, it's time to take back our Central banks from these parasitic psychopaths once and for all do some research read Churchill's " Zionism vs Bolshevism" and Henry Ford's " The International Jew" then just ask who was behind this covid BS.
Because it's pure BS.
This story should be told forever to anyone and everyone. I could not begin to comprehend how these men felt, or the bravery they displayed daily.
Over and over again!
Goodness, yes
I’m not sure the current generation would be able to face withering machine gun fire without safe distancing and an up to date booster?
@@tz7813 So true
@@tz7813 I was born in 2000 & a lot of my friends have served in the military but now I’ve seen more pussys than Ik ppl who have served & Ik a LOT of veterans. If there was a war I would promptly enlist. Imo as a man if your country calls you to fight & your healthy enough physically & mentally your responsible to go serve. An exception could be made for ppl with jobs necessary for the war effort
Thank you to these people who did this. And thank you to this channel for raising awareness about this. It needs to be told. Bloody amazing heroes, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Im from the UK and interested in the ww2.i had not heard of these brave men until now.great video thanks.
I assure you, it was not an accident. The UK hierarchy does not like to share the glory with lessers.
@@jerrycallison6125 nothing has changed since then its still the same now.
I too had not heard of these men. An amazing story, from displaced & persecuted people, to heroes.
What amazing stories. The speech of that commander to his men gave me goose bumps.
I always enjoy your videos. Today was an extra special one. What an honor to hear about the X-Troops.
Dang. This was one of your best, well done, without flaw videos I've ever had the privilege of viewing. You literally inspired me to be a better man and be grateful for what I have. You are a true professional & a master of your craft.
I have never heard of X-Troop before at all and I've been big into the history of WW2 since I was a child. These men were true warriors.
X trooper's were incredibly inspired from the cruelty they endured and the determination to save their families and friends. If everyone went into battle with the same frame of mind every war would end just as quick as every battle ended with the X troopers
Outstanding. Wonderfully told and presented. One man drives a jeep from the western to the eastern front to find his parents in a concentration camp??! Why the hell isn't that a well known story in the history of the war??! Thank you for presenting these lost stories for us! Keep up this great work!
dark docs voice man, something about it just makes me listen, yet another great video!
I’d watch this dude narrate anything
For real!!! I’ve never heard a better voice for narrating.
Fun Fact: The narrator is English actor Damian Watcyn Lewis OBE who attended Eton College. He is best known for portraying U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in Spielberg's miniseries Band of Brothers and U.S. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the TV series Homeland. He's had an extensive career in Stage, Film and Television.
@@simonbrennan7283 wait for real? That’s the same dude! That’s so dope!
Dark docs is to be highly recommended. It is snappy and straight to the point. No padding or filling out, just straight to the point facts. I particularly like the non-partisan approach. No favouritism here. Congratulations to all those involved in Dark docs.
thank you so much - as a jewish vetern of war who served in too many dangerous areas - thank you
Shalom! Thank you for your service fellow jew
Thank you for your service sir. These men were giants. Your also a true hero. I'd fight side by side with you any day. God Bless 🙏.
May God bless you all.
As an ancestor of Holocaust survivors, I thank you for your service, greatly.
Thank you for your cervix!
Hey man, I don’t know if you read this but I want to say, I love your progress man. You used to be hard to follow and talk really fast but now you’re so calm and collected and you’re really nice to listen to man. Proud of you man, thanks for the awesome videos!
This is the most incredible story I've ever heard! These fine men without a doubt, proved a 100% that they were giants amongst men. I have nothing but respect and admiration for these incredible human beings. 🤓🙂
Can we all agree that anyone who fought in the war and especially anyone still alive should get a medal? They all deserve a new medal just for saving the world, with a ceremony and the whole nine yards. Before they’re all gone they deserve to know that they’re not forgotten and their service and sacrifice is still appreciated today. It can be the “Greatest Generation” medal.
In my father’s family, Japanese was spoken at home, because my grandmother was an immigrant and never learned to speak English. He was recruited for this skill, along with his older sister after she was released from an American concentration camp. Aunt Haruko spent the war decrypting Japanese messages. Uncle John landed in Leyte, and later in Luzon and helped liberate the Philippines. Both later served in the American occupation of Japan, helping form a new civilian government, and hunt for war criminals like their uncle Shigeru.
I would love for this channel to do a video about your family! They sound truly amazing!
Interment camp* America wasn’t systematically killing Japanese Americans like the Germans were doing to the Jews. Interment camps were wrong and a dark history of the US but they weren’t concentration camps
Although Americans had forcibly concentrated many Japanese and Japanese Americans in to camps, they were nothing like German concentration camps, where millions of people were forced into camps and then slaughtered industrially. The camps in the USA were not like that, but they were terrible in their own way. 120,000 people of Japanese descent, a third of which were Japanese citizens, most of whom lived on the west coast. These actions were initiated by president Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a different time back then.
@@andiemay8410 If they want to do a documentary about the family They will have to spend months researching interviewing any Surviving members during the war
Whoever does your research is brilliant. The quality of it is second to none. You are in the elite of content providers on CZcams.
anyone else bawling by the end of this? man this is heavy but I'm grateful for the knowledge . Thank you so much again for these.. #XTROOP4EVER take care...-Sick
Absolutely incredible, this is what needs to be taught in schools, this is something I would have remembered and hopefully effected my decisions to be a better person, thank you for sharing and keeping true history alive!!
Thank you for this wonderful account and very moving description of the No. 3 Troop of the No. 10 Inter Allied Commando of the British army. I had read about these brave men before but this documentary really summed it up in a powerful way. The No 10 Commando had several other Troop units as well, French, Belgians, Polish, Norwegians, Dutch, and others. In the film The Longest Day, you can see the French commandos take the town of Ouistraham. I'd love to see a documentary on the exploits of each Commando troop.
Exactly right about the Belgian and Dutch
Their Troops were the nucleus of 1st SAS (bel) 2 Para (bel) 3 Marines (bel) and the Dutch KMT (Marine Kommamdo Troppen)
An outstanding job done by those who served. When finally able to prove their Valor and value. They were truly a remarkable group of soldiers. When finally given a chance they went above and beyond.
Great content and I always learn something from your videos. Thanks for taking the time to research and tell these stories.
Amazing history that I was unaware of. I enjoy all of your videos, but this is my favorite. A reminder of the horrors of war and the spirit and courage of those who saved Europe and likely the world.
An important aspect of the war that deserves to be better known. Their stories would make a great movie or better yet an entire series.
My friend's father used to train them in Scotland, commando tactics. 43/44.
Oh, here we are a random a****** attempting to claim some spotlight instead of just letting the people who deserve it have it.
Did you catch the clout you were so desperately chasing?
@@botulismcasserole9832 it costs you $0 to say something like this. Mans was just sharing smh
@@jeppykid Ever heard of BS propaganda eh ? try doing some research.
@@alisonhilll4317 stop clowning lmao what are u talking about 😂
I love learning about Rommel and this is the first time I have heard about him being out of the war for the last year.
thanks for doing this episode Dark-a great way to make sure it is never forgotten
Very informative and something that more people should know about. I really enjoy your channel great content
My goodness.. X-troop were truely amazing. I can't imagine how hard that would've been emotionally to live in this time, to see and do what they did. I hope to God we never see anything like this again.
That's so very impressive an X-troops German soldiers. It's very interesting story. They should make a movie about this X-Troops.
Another group of hero's that I never knew anything about.
I have been to Terezin. I found it more haunting than Auschwitz-Birkenau mostly because I was the only one there at the time. All of the structures were also still standing as opposed to Birkenau.
Yes, Terezin is a terrifying place in its own right. Having also visited it and the Auschwitz complex I agree with you.
Beautiful, tragic, inspiring!!!
Thank God for them. The entire civilized world owes them much.
Giants did exist. This troop were sent by God. Excellent documentary. Bravo 👏
I've been watching every video of yours, this one's pacing is really good I gotta say! Thank you for your work making these, they are appreciated (:
Good piece of history... definitely news to me.
Thank You
your channels are the best by far
The self control. To question Hoss and not cut his throat. Much respect.
Members of the X Troop possessed such courage and determination, I don’t think any of us here can fully comprehend. Well done episode.
I wish a series of movies could be made with each one portraying the plight of several of the heroes of X-Troop
Thank you. Excellent work!
I never heard of this Troop. But, am damn glad they existed. My heart goes out to these brave warriors. Well done, lads. Well done.
That's one of the coolest stories I've ever heard! I'm so glad that you brought it to light- thank you!
And knew one of them in Croydon, England, he became a Rabbi after the war, if I remember right in the 1960s, to find some solace. He passed away in the 1990s. A friend of his told me what he did and experienced.
Excellent work as we have now come to expect. Thank you
Compelling, well-researched, written, and narrated. Also great footage.. Masterful.
Valiant group of soldiers.
I’m in tears. What incredible things these men did, and mostly forgotten…..
you have a very good channel, I've watched a lot of war history and you always come up with something I haven't heard of, thanks for the time and research you must put into your shows
As an avid WW2 enthusiast. I can say you have the most interesting topics that show the full scale of what it took to defeat the highly organized Nazi war machine
Lord Lovat used his property in the highlands as a school for special forces - the sniper's ghillie suit was first used by his gamekeepers to stalk deer. The major users were commando and SOE, but after the war, the SAS became frequent customers, until they had their own base.
Could you please look at Anders Lassen VC as he was a real warrior that was involved in a lot of SBS raids, his story is amazing!
Just about to start reading his book
@@59patrickw it's brilliant m8,my grandad is mentioned in it briefly as Lassen was the officer who interviewed him for the SBS and as my grandad had worked on merchant ships prior to the war like Lassen himself,helped the interview process go smoothly.
HANDS DOWN the best of these videos yet. Lots of personal connections to some of the men in this video.
Another excellent episode. Thankyou.
Heroes every one of them we are lucky to of had these great men on our side
I didn't know about this. Thank you. I'm impressed.
I see that Conserative Members of Parliament and the Daily Mail haven't changed much since that time.
Brilliantly told.
Thank you for sharing this amazing piece of history.
Amazing testament of the caliber of men that generation produced.
The Czech people refer to the camp outside Prague as Terezin, the Nazis added the stadt. I had the opportunity to visit it a few years ago, it was where the Nazis invited the Red Cross to see "how well", they treated the inmates and some people were fooled by this charade. The film footage was widely distributed as propaganda. The fortress was also the location where Gabriel Princip died from tuberculosis after his assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
Terrific video! Never heard of this group before. Thanks for telling their story.
Forever love this channel
X Troop was amazing, Thank you Sir for your great channels, I'm subscribed to all. 👍
Finally, your narration was at the perfect speed. Your content is amazing. Thank you!
I'm addicted to dark doc vids. I watch like 20 a day 😂 This is one of my more favorite episodes.
I learn more about WW 2 on this channel than I did in school. And my dad was in the war.
What an incredible story! I had not heard about the X troops before, or if I had I did not remember their heroics.
Jesus, after having gone such a long way, that must've been heartbreaking to see what their families had been through. They went through hell to find them, only to find that their families had been through worse. Incredibly grim, but incredibly courageous. A true test of the human spirit
holy crap. *THAT* was a good one!
I'm Jewish, 61, educated, interested in the Holocaust, but had never heard of X Troop. Thank you.
Thanks
Me too X troop it astonishes me how people achieve surviving such things, when we are so focussed on our comfort and convenience.
Amazing story, thank you for this and all the stories you put out.
We can only aspire to have our current generations even begin to measure up to this one.
Your presentation brought tears to my eyes. Well done!
Your best yet.
Thank you for the frankness. Too many of these types of videos don’t let onto the less than admirable aspects of culture at the time.
The members of the X Troop showed incredible courage. True steel nerves.
Excellent video. So inspiring was the X Troop. Overcoming all that they did, even among "friendlies".
You should do a video of the Japanese people whom we (the US) sadly interred and those that chose to fight FOR the United States.
I have heard of the Brandenburg Kommandos, a German unit mainly recruited from Germans living abroad and being able to speak other languages fluently. And probably very motivated, since they made their way back to Germany to fight for their old homeland. I've never heard of the X Troop, but it seems someone in Britain realized, just as someone in Germany did with the Brandenburgers, that highly motivated people with language skills are extremely valuable.
Never heard of this platoon...great story should be made into a movie documentary..although they all would be gone now...that's why I like this channel
A story of great determination. Thank you for telling it so well.
I listen to your channel mainly while commuting. And I end wishing had a few more miles to go, so I could finish one more video.
Incredible information detailing the highest acts of bravery! We should be grateful to these brave soldiers and never forget what they accomplished. God Bless them all and their families
These are the factual stories that should be taught in school !
Truly inspiring and yet heart-wrenching story
I'm learning a lot on this channel. Blessings to you and yours...
Thanks just love all your stories but this one was the very best.
Thank you this was very informative as I’ve never heard of X Troops
I can’t imagine the stuff those men were made of. To endure and preserve; adapt and overcome everything thrown at them. They not only won against insurmountable odds, but also saved loved ones! 🫡
Beans and bread mostly. And milky tea
This was one of your best !
I enjoy your work, your presentation combined with a though knowledge of the topic makes for an astounding video.
One of your best videos
One of the best history docs ever
Outstanding troops. Heroes one and all. Thank you for your valuable service.
May God bless them all.
🤗🙏❤️✌️🖖👋🇬🇧
i heard from those soldiers long ago from familie members and watch your videos ,keep on going
I think The British Government should had reward those brave man.
And put their names on war memorials also.
They fought And die, serving The British Army, so their are so British as The true British, even Without an accent. Forgotten Heros, if wasnt for channels like this, Who do a outstanding job, makes us not to forget.
Thanks for The wonderful
Greatings content.
There was a couple of desert war movies, one with Richard Burton, about british troops pretending to be POWs with German guards. The guards were from X Commando Interallied. The movies were fiction but I think based on real events.