@@zachary3367 well, in the Spanish-speaking world (and arguably more so at this time), South American countries did have a higher living standard out of the other options, and considering he is leaving Spain/Europe it would make sense to move to South America. This all assuming language to be one of the factors. Just a guess.
The sheer fact that this man looked at the end of world war 2 and said “yep, my work here is done” and lived the rest of his life in obscurity running a bookstore makes him the biggest chad in history imho
If I can't be a spy no one can. Especially not the germans, but Ill fuck with them so hard that the shockwaves from my counterintelligence ass kicking will half dismantle the other sides spy system for a while too until they get me as an ally.
Garbo not only saved a lot of Allied lives with his work, he also saved a lot of German soldiers by getting them stationed at some random beach far away from the D-Day battle.
To me the fact that Hitler himself issued him the Iron Cross when in actuality he was a double agent the whole time is fucking mind blowing and hilarious
my favourite story about Garbo is he was such a convincing spy that after the war, the SS officer he tricked with the whole D-day thing still didn't blame him, or realise he was in on the trick, and came to visit him in secret where he basically told him "i don't know who i can trust nowadays with the war lost and all, how are we gonna start this all back up? i know out of everyone i can trust you bro" hilarious
Lots of nazi conspirators left to South America after Nazi Germany went belly up. There’s something about knowing garbo mans trying to read books in his bookstore, sipping coffee, trying to retire peacefully and there’s just this nervous and neurotic man who comes in once a month just to spill defunct Nazi plans to garbo’s deaf ear that’s just silly to me
never, in my entire life. have I ever heard of a man so enraged & filled with pure spite & anger, almost end a war. he was doom slayer levels of pissed at the yatzee's.
The only Man I know that could be on the same level of pissed at something is Lauri Allan Thörne. He was a finnish man who hated communism so much that he fought the soviets as a soldier in the finnish army during the winter war, the german SS during WW2 and later with the yankees in the Vietnam war. To my knowledge he was awarded many important medals for his "Ruthless bravery" by all of the armies he fought in, such as an iron cross, a bronze star, a purple heart and a finnish flying cross.
Guy wrote spy fanfictions so intensely the Germans trusted him, the British got wary of him, and whoever US guy recruiting him must've laughed his ass off twice over hearing his story.
@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am or recruit him as the most absurdly effective fake news agent in history. but considering how anti authoritarian he was ya i don't see him and Stalin getting along lol.
Honestly dude deserved the iron cross. By pretending there was a second wave coming and sending German troups to a completely random beach, he kept a lot of boys out of the actual battles and saved a lot of lives.
I mean, in a way he did help save Germany in general. Plus if I'm reading this correctly the Iron Cross, while not able to be awarded anymore, is sort of officially recognized by today's German government, so you could say retroactively that that was the justification.
I just want to imagine everyone stops doing their thing after hearing he's getting an iron cross just to listen non stop laughter as hitler gives a speech for how good he is and how well he played his role
What I like best about this story, is that at no point did he get into any high tension high stakes spy level danger. The guy was the most effective spy probably ever, and he did it by simply playing telephone.
@nssupremacy_4281 You'd actually be really surprised how few and far between field agents are deployed into danger situations like the movies suggest. Yes it happens from time to time, and it happened alot more frequently in the past, but since the advancement of technology and the creation of the Internet, a large portion of intelligence gathering is done via computers. Movies make things out to be far more interesting and action packed than real intelligence gathering actually is.
@@JackTheripper911 I assumed most modern spywork is done online lmao, people thinkin that ur being dangled into a room all mission impossible style and shit
Funnily enough, most people on the animal management / husbandry course I did a while back loved animals but either hated or were scared of horses. Horses are just crazy; they're big and they scare easy, imo other animals are easier to manage.
I work in animal husbandry and hate horses. I think it mainly comes from hating horse people though, a lot of them have really stupid demands for the care of their animals and have no real idea what they're talking about, the horse is just their version of a Ducati you ride a couple kilometres on the weekends then leave in the garage all week. I guess that hatred of horse owners eventually grows into a hatred of all things horse related 🤷 That and they're ugly, and poor grazers.
@@Coffin17I Dude, no need to do the horses like that in the end. Also, yes. I don't think animal loving has to be you love all animals. The PETA police won't come after you.
You know, in some history lessons, we went a little in depth about the allies vs. Germany in this time, and Germany kept making weird moves that was basically self-sabotaging. There was no mention of why they made those moves, and it was written off as them panicking. I had no idea that a lot of those moves were because of false intelligence. I wish this guy was in the history books.
A lot of it was simply written as "Hitler was stupid, lulz" when we were taught history on this subject and it came up that Germany kept doing these dumb things. What a discredit to this man's work.
many nore reasons than garbo, WW2 had way too many aspects. by breaking it down towards his work, youre also on a very wrong path. Another huge reason for example was the meth supply breaking down towards the end of the war, almost all the higher ups were heavily addicted to "Pervitin"
@@samuelwolch1302 Hitler, like many people in the war, made many sensible and questionable decisions that could have gone either way. He wasn't stupid. He didn't get to the top of the Socialist feeding-frenzy by being stupid.
@@samuelwolch1302lot of it was also under wraps until after the Cold War so in the meantime everyone has to guess and work off the public record and what little was revealed . German generals in the west played up Hitler’s (real but not omnipresent) involvement , for example, while the Allies didn’t want to explain the tricks they were using or prepared to use against the reds. This is ontop of the real inefficiencies and infighting inherent to nazism , which can’t be discounted either, but there was the fog of war
I find it poetically ironic that this neutral spy got the highest medals of honor from two sides of an opposing war. Not only that, but is possibly the only one to have such a thing happen.
Lauri Törni did that, but in sequence: Mannerheim cross in Finnish army, Iron cross in Waffen-SS and then Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze star, Purple heart in the US army. Guy hated commies
Small note- Lisbon is the capital of Portugal. It’s super easy to think of it as a part of Spain when it is in fact its own country. So, not only did he troll Germany with the fake passport, but he also trolled Portugal to get that passport.
Did he imply Lisbon was in Spain? He didn’t clarify that it wasn’t, and I guess maybe a lot of people might not know this, but I don’t think he really made it seem like it was either.
As a Portuguese woman, I'm deeply offended that you think "it's super easy to think of it as a part of Spain. " Many a war have been fought over this and at some point, Portugal and Spain literally divided the entire world between the two of us (ambitious plans..) Tone note: I'm joking at being offended but the rest is unfortunately true
@@LBPBumoutIn at least the first instance when our man "goes" to London, Wendigoon said he just went to Lisbon and then recounting the same episode, he says he was in Spain. It's a minor mistake, but yeah Lisbon is indeed in Portugal and not Spain. I actually think this makes the fact that he somehow got Spanish government ID before being an official spy a lil easier to understand. If he was indeed in Portugal at the time, we were under our own fascist dictator (Salazar, who actually chose to be neutral in wwii) and it's possible that a well placed bribe would be enough to do something like that and not arise suspicions from Spain.
also: garbo's wife hated living in london so much that she threatened to go to the spanish embassy, so garbo and british officials faked his arrest as a consequence of the security threat that his wife posed. they only "released" him after his wife issued a statement saying that she wouldn't do anything to jeopardize her husband's work in the future
And the only reason he even got involved to begin with was because he got pushed around by socialists and fascists in his homeland and saw those same political parties gaining ground in Germany. He only tried to become a spy in the first place out of political spite.
This guy and Jack Churchill are proof that, in my opinion, the universe just started loading NG+ characters during the world wars, because they're the kinds of people who clearly carried over their stats and info from a previous playthrough.
Jack Churchill was such an absurd person that you can't help but laugh. I remember reading that during the raid on Norway, he was playing patriot scot songs on his bagpipe almost the entire time. imagine being one of the germans. nothings really happening, you're far away from the carnage in the east, and all of sudden you hear Scotland the Brave in the distance before having 3 grenades lobbed at you and your mates
Pin every outrageous war hero in the field (Garbo, Churchill, Dan Daly, Cassius Clay etc) on one side and you would have probably the most terrifying army to exist. You wouldn’t need a nuclear bomb when you got the most decorated army there is on your side
Man, I would love if they made a whole movie about this, either a kinda serious movie with comedy elements or just straight up silly like Jojo rabbit. This is gold.
This guy didnt "Get mad". He Got even. He became the litteral bamboozler. Im surprised people havent heard of him sooner, I feel like someone could have even put the Giga chad theme over this entire video, and it would just make him even more incredible. This man did more than just earned his life after the war. I salute this absolute Chad.
You see this is what's wrong with history books, we always complain that they're boring when they're skipping out on stuff like this. I promise you, throw in a few fun and crazy facts and kids will love it!
For American history yes, but sophomore year I learned about the neothilic age of the world i think it’s pretty interesting world history is pretty cool
Another detail that makes this funnier is that Spain, while technically neutral in the war, was very much in support of the Nazis and even sent troops to support them on several occasions, but this random guy managed to singlehandedly influence the war more than the dictator of spain
Franco was not fascist, didn't like them and really just played possum during the war. The troops he sent were mostly Falange volunteers, wich never really liked him, ironically. Franco's regime is one of the most random shit that happened in that century, Spain always delivers when it's about crazy leaders and brave dumb shenanigans
@@concept5631 Franco was a Christian nationalist. He obviously rode the fascist wave to his benefit but most of his political views didn't fit the fascist ideals. It depends of your definition of fascist, the true meaning of it or the weponized buzzword that people use today
I have the image in my head of Garbo in MI6 HQ, surrounded by silent British officers, receiving the Iron Cross via radio, and the second the Nazis sign off, him and the rest of the room just explode into laughter.
The scene starts with everyone trying to hold it in. "Okay guys, be quiet for a few minutes." They all stand around holding hands over their mouths while the Germans solemnly tell them if their defeat, but of how much of an asset he was and that they wish to give him the highest honor possible. He responds to them sounding like he's sobbing, telling them he feels like he doesn't deserve it because for all his efforts he failed. They reassure him that he was one of their best spys and he shouldn't feel upset. They both say goodbye to each other, a sorrowful hitch in their voices. And then as soon as the phone is hung up he and everyone else immediately let out all of their pent up, hysterical laughter.
@@case3474 Look up the ghost army, this is literal what they were created to do. It was a bunch of artist who's purpose was to basically troll other countries with dummies of various different vehicles and such. I don't know if this specific tank was one of theirs but still very interesting.
The fun of watching was I knew parts of these stories, but never the whole thing connected together. Garbo's existence, the only one awarded both the Iron Cross + Most Excellent Order, and Patton's fake encampment were all introduced to me over the years independent of each other, so discovering Garbo's connection and vital participation to everything is the most hilarious recontextualization I've ever experienced.
@@thequeenofcringe1585 it's from the meme turn of phrase "Quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag busts it down sexual style. Is he goated with the sauce?"
I actually grew up in the town in Venezuela where he ran that bookstore, although I remember it being more like an antique shop, and I met him a few times! When he passed, his family revealed he was a German spy and my town’s news came out with that story so we all thought he just got away with it. I had no idea this was his actual story I’m actually awestruck 😅
@@CornPopsDood you misunderstood this losers comment. he saying why did he just learn about this youtuber today, after 22 years of being alive. its cuz this dude wasnt making vids 22 years ago and its cuz youtube wasnt a thing back then. dumb comment for dure
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly .... I’m not sure which rock exactly you’ve been living under... but most of the population of the us violently hates anything, literally ANYTHING, even remotely relating to communism and socialism. That includes the government. Take it from a democratic socialist. They get very violent.
@@Notenum_ no doubt. History is such a vast field to dig out gems like this, all you need is the will and effort to do it and daddy wendigoon is the perfect man for the job
@@rhetiq9989 absolutely, he’s serious enough to get the message across, but at the same time he isn’t a brick wall of speech. Glad I discovered this channel. Definitely becoming one of my favorites super quick
Ok but I think Wes Anderson would be an excellent director for a movie about Garbo. Bc let’s be real, the dry humor and crazy antics that actually happened could only be perfectly done with heavy pastel gradients and symmetrical camera shots.
I don't think this should be dry humor per se, I think a movie about this guy should be part "Man From U.N.C.L.E." and part "Johnny English", just straight up.
My grandpa worked with this guy and apparently would come home and tell my dad and aunt the dumb stuff Garbo had Mae the German believed. My dad said “that was the hardest I’ve ever seen the man laugh. Especially during a war.”
Don't take this as criticism, but Garcia's wife Carmen played a massive, if not equal role in this story. It was her idea to try the German Embassy, and she pretty much flirted her way into the Nazi's trust.
*arrives* *declares himself a spy* *dismantles the entire Nazi intelligence community* *refuses to elaborate on why* *retires peacefully* My boy Garbo was truly the world's ultimate sigma male.
@@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73 fair, but I meant to word it differently. I know Wendigoon mostly for his conspiracy videos and other things involving the paranormal, so seeing a World War 2 video from him is pretty interesting.
he definitely kept them, because considering the agents doesn't exist, there's nowhere to really send the money out but himself. He probably have like tens of bank accounts just to make the money trail legit.
I'd love to imagine a scene from this movie where the German high command is having a discussion about sending money for their fallen spy. In the next scene, Garbo is shown wearing a really nice new watch.
Definitely. I could just imagine a movie where hitler is pissed that he lost d-day and then he goes to speak to garbo and is praising him and telling him its not his fault etc etc then the next scene he's devising a plan to fool them
I love hearing stories of how the Nazis got completely dunked on in WW2 when it came to espionage. Like every so often I'll hear a story I've never heard before about how the Allies would concoct these plans to mislead the Nazis and they'd just fall for it every time.
Ww2 Germany was pretty bad at a lot of things; espionage definitely being one of them, it just rarely gets talked about because it's inconvenient for the German fetishism that's become very mainstream, and it makes the allied victory seem less impressive. A considerable amount of Germany's success was built off the back of them preparing for a world war for decades when others were not, and giving the finger to the treaties others were following. This is why you see these waves of initial success, then they hit a wall once their enemies have had the chance to respond and organise, and then it's just failure after failure for the axis. Strategically, the aggressor has a significant advantage: They get to decide when and where to fight.
The “socialist” part of “national socialist” was put in the name in an attempt to trick German workers into supporting the nazis, and it didn’t work. There was also this children’s book called “Der Giftpliz”, which translates to “The Poisonous Mushroom” or “The Toadstool”, and it was just full of nazi propaganda. I read some of it for a project, and it is absolutely ridiculous. One of the stories is called “What is the Talmud?” It’s basically a Jewish kid and a rabbi talking about how the Talmud tells them that they must oppress the German people. The story ends with “If you always follow the Talmud laws diligently, you will join our biblical fathers in the Jewish heaven. Amen!” Now, I’m not Jewish, but the last time I checked, Judaism doesn’t follow the Bible. Also I don’t think Jewish people believe in a heaven or hell. Overall, the nazis were fucking stupid.
@@thequeenofcringe1585 Other than to illustrate the point that the "nazis were stupid", this seems pretty random.... I'm not going to act like a political expert, but there is a staggering amount of copium being huffed by post-ww2 socialists in an attempt to distance themselves from the Nazis. In reality the far right movements of this period had some serious overlap with the far left movements. *Many* far right leaders had been, or still were overt socialists, and even communists before their rise to prominence in far right movements. And it's not simple politic gaming that can be handwaved. To simplify, the unifying core of these movements is collectivism. The difference between left and right is who the collective in question is. To the Fascists, it was the state. To the Communists it was, and is, "the worker" (in practicality, the state). To the Nazis, it was "the race" (in practicality, the state).
@@tommeakin1732 Yeah, it is pretty random. I just wanted to share because I think it’s funny. And if you think I’m gonna pass up a chance to dunk on nazis then you are dead wrong. I’m not gonna act like a political expert, but I do know that the nazis would persecute socialists just as much as they would Jewish people. Like I said, the “socialist” part was added to trick workers. Even though that plan failed. The nazis said that the socialists they persecuted weren’t “real socialists”, but if there’s one thing we know about the nazis, it’s that they were fucking liars. Also as far as I know, “far-right” and “socialist” (and by extension “communist”) are clashing ideologies. There is some overlap, sure, but the overlap is incredibly minimal.
@@tommeakin1732 "I'm not going to act like a political expert" *has completely wrong information* The Nazis were not, and never will be, a leftist party. Genuinely ask yourself, who do you see simping for Hitler more? Left wingers, or right wingers?
As a Spaniard obsessed with history thanks for bringing him to the spotlight. Knew about him years ago in school and I remember laughing my ass off in class lol
Garcia: *walks into churchill's office Churchill: "ah! Garcia! I've been meaning to ask, how's the espionage going lad?" Garcia: *slaps the iron cross medal onto churchill's desk*
@@AspenBrightsoul 'Tell you what, you get Erwin Rommel to stand on the wrong beach for 2 months, I'll give you the Order of Excellence to go alongside that.' "Bet"
If you think about it without Garbo the nukes would probably have been droped on Germany. Mostly because it would have taken a longer time to defeat Germany if D-day went any different.
Jesus, you said that and chills went down my spine. I was just smiling though the comments of everyone having a good time and being inspired and talking about the dark comedy of it all, and then your comment gave me whiplash. Dude!
forreal His Statue is in Front of the Troll hall of Fame Building like Jordan Dunking on all other trolls with BOTH MEDALS 🏅 🎖 Swinging from his neck as he flys over all other trolls to come before or after
As a spanish, and a War History enjoyer, i've never, ever heard about this guy, and i feel bad. This guy's history is so fucking epic and hilarious, it deserves real recognition.
i remember learning about juan garcia on my own a couple years ago and when i clicked the video, i thought "hmmm.. i wonder if this is juan pujol garcia- OH MY GOD ITS JUAN PUJOL GARCIA." this man was definitely fulled by spite & rage. i'm glad you're doing a video on him
"Well little Timmy there is the time i won the highest medals of honor on both sides of the war..." in an old grandpa sounding voice was all i could think when i read this
Imagine being so good at being a spy that even after the war you still werent figured as a double spy and they never havent retracted th highest honour...when said spy literally ruined your plans the entire time
I had heard many times that there was a deceitful campaign by the Allies just before Normandy but no one ever said that much of it was made possible by one man. IMO, most underrated chad in history
24:00 I've got a book about that magician guy. They still haven't named him, so he's just called "Mr.X". I don't believe it, but apparently they found him working as a private eye of sorts, and he had nearly 100% accuracy solving cases that came to him (mostly about missing people). He did some stuff in Cairo too.
@@rosiehawtrey Yes! Jasper Maskyln or something like that! There's a few books published on it, although the first edition one I'm after is very scarse and I can't find it for love nor money. Lol thank you for reminding me.
Apparently, the other guy who also got both the Iron Cross and the Most Excellent Whateverit'scalled is a guy called Eddie Chapman, who had two fiancees, one in every side of the war, but when it ended he left both to marry a girl he had left alone mid-date because he jumped out of the restaurant's closed window because he was going to get arrested for being part of the "Jelly Gang". He was described as "loving himself, adventure and his country, probably in that order"
It’s even more hilarious when those WWII “documentaries” that talk about how creative the Nazi party was in terms of warfare. Then you learn about stuff like this.
@@polocatfan oh trust me I don’t. But there’s a lot of “documentaries” (that end up on actual TV) that spend WAY to much time praising their “design” and selling you this idea that they where “ahead of the curve” while completely ignoring stuff like this.
It’s an objective fact that they were revolutionary in military tactics. The blitzkrieg utterly changed warfare. Incompetence in the intelligence agencies doesn’t mean incompetence on the battlefield
The funny thing about sending Rommel there to the North Sea was that he was constantly saying that Normandy was THE attack and he fought hard to try to get his army redirected there. So this guy (and a lot of others coordinating this feint) effectively neutralized one of Germany's top generals away from where they were flooding new troops onto the beach.
I feel like the reason why we don't have a movie about this guy yet is because film-makers don't know if this should be a docudrama or a straight up comedy
The Wendigoon history series is your dad telling you about your grandfather's war stories. You realize your grandfather is either several people simultaneously, you have several grandfathers or he is one person with several identities. You do not know which is the case and you do not question it.
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35 minutes ago? forget to write it 4 days ago wendigoon?
@@Super-Vision filmora boutta get the money back now
Start a podcast!
please make more of these videos i love to regurgitate the facts at the table when i have nothing else to say lmao
Will you be making a video about the recent Chris Chan news?
“So he faked his death and moved to Venezuela in 1949” is some how the most normal sentence in this entire video
It is odd though that a lot of nazis were reported to also go to Venezuela after the war and South America in general
@@zachary3367 Yeah, so that might’ve been a less safe move than he thought it was
@@zachary3367 well, in the Spanish-speaking world (and arguably more so at this time), South American countries did have a higher living standard out of the other options, and considering he is leaving Spain/Europe it would make sense to move to South America. This all assuming language to be one of the factors. Just a guess.
😂
I think I heard that the Catholic church was taking money from Nazis and helping them escape. Haven't done the research tho
The sheer fact that this man looked at the end of world war 2 and said “yep, my work here is done” and lived the rest of his life in obscurity running a bookstore makes him the biggest chad in history imho
him and that russian dude who prevented nuclear war
I’d honestly be pretty scared of being hunted by some old pissed of German or Nazi
all he wanted was to farm in peace and they wouldnt let him
@@Sutorenjalife wouldn’t let him farm in peace, so he made it the Nazi’s problem
that isnt a fact, when did he say that?
"can i be a spy?"
"no."
"ok." *proceeds to dismantle the entire german spy system*
If I can't be a spy no one can. Especially not the germans, but Ill fuck with them so hard that the shockwaves from my counterintelligence ass kicking will half dismantle the other sides spy system for a while too until they get me as an ally.
"oops, sorry about that guys, didn't mean to steal your thunder! anyways, how about that job?"
It’s morbin time!
I'm about to do whats called a pro gamer move -Garbo
Damn. I failed to become a spy. Guess I’ll just do my fallback plan. Become a spy
His entire career as a German Spy was just a creative writing exercise
He used the advanced tactic called LYING!
All warfare is based on deception. -Sun Tsu, The Art of War
@@wesleymclain9146and makarov
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@@wesleymclain9146 RIP technoblade
My man hated politics so much that he ended war using a library and a phone.
Now that's how you beat the left and right.
It would make such a good movie !
Tabloid would be proud
@@kingsnakke6888 yep, an anarquist with no balls
I think he wrote letters
Garbo: I’m a spy now.
Britain: No you are not
Germany: Yes you are
United States: Yes he is.
@@THE_RULE787 it’s like when an op character does incredible feats for fun.
@@dannysankyu he's as close to one punch man as we gonna get.
Bahahhhahh
@@THE_RULE787 And socialism so he hated them extra.
germany: wait what?
US: Nothing...
Interviewer: Why do you hate the Germans?
Garbo: They stole my chicken farm
Absolute Chad.
@@primorock8141 but he's Hispanic
Garbo: *proceeds to win world war two*
Garbo: So it all started with socialists in spain stealing my chickens and then the fascists' beating me up.
From a chicken farm too ww2
Garbo not only saved a lot of Allied lives with his work, he also saved a lot of German soldiers by getting them stationed at some random beach far away from the D-Day battle.
Seeing how much of a meat grinder the German army was at that point he probably just prolonged their lives a bit..
They probably thanked him for that after hearing what happened during d day
They shoudl of thanked them for that
Most of the garrisons In northern France were mainly formed by volunteers from conquered territories and POWs
Battle of Normandy
Imagine being so good at your double-agentry that the country you're spying AGAINST gives you an Iron Cross for such a nice job.
I like to think that they had found out by they gave it to him, they were just like “Damn I’m not even mad”
One thousandth like :D
I think the English investigating against him is even more amazing xD
To me the fact that Hitler himself issued him the Iron Cross when in actuality he was a double agent the whole time is fucking mind blowing and hilarious
Well that would be weird is Sweden gave me one. Lay off the pot and give you sentences some structure or at least thought before you spout out shit.
He got pissed that his farm was seized so he trolled the Germans so hard that he accidentally became one of the greatest double agents in history.
my guy just needed a reason to hate
One of? This dude was the _best_
It wasn’t even the nazis who took his farm
The Butterfly Effect is truly fascinating 😄
my guy sees socialist in national socialism in it, and decided fuck it we ball
I just imagine Garbo getting the Iron Cross over the radio and just dying laughing with his mic muted.
Csgo moments
then he unmutes his mic and says “thanks” but it’s obvious hes smiling
lmfaooooo
I imagine that he probably called in his close friends in British HQ and they all had a good laugh about it. Garbo is probably my favorite person now
I’m fuckin crying😂
my favourite story about Garbo is he was such a convincing spy that after the war, the SS officer he tricked with the whole D-day thing still didn't blame him, or realise he was in on the trick, and came to visit him in secret where he basically told him "i don't know who i can trust nowadays with the war lost and all, how are we gonna start this all back up? i know out of everyone i can trust you bro"
hilarious
Wait, what? The SS visited him in Venezuela?
@@PolishBigfootCircle11 i think at the time he was still in Portugal, it wasn't really "the S.S" so much as one former s.s guy on the run
Did the SS guy ever find out? @@obamabiden
Lots of nazi conspirators left to South America after Nazi Germany went belly up. There’s something about knowing garbo mans trying to read books in his bookstore, sipping coffee, trying to retire peacefully and there’s just this nervous and neurotic man who comes in once a month just to spill defunct Nazi plans to garbo’s deaf ear that’s just silly to me
I imagine Garbo sitting there listening to this ss officer trying his hardest to act serious and not laugh his ass off 😂
America: Are you two friends?
Garbo: Yes
Britain: No
Pfft-
never, in my entire life. have I ever heard of a man so enraged & filled with pure spite & anger, almost end a war.
he was doom slayer levels of pissed at the yatzee's.
gamers
Not just them, commies too
“Both sound the same to me, I’ll kill either one” - wwii vet, FreedomToons (2018)
@@chrisquiett1776 Seamus is a champ.
The only Man I know that could be on the same level of pissed at something is Lauri Allan Thörne.
He was a finnish man who hated communism so much that he fought the soviets as a soldier in the finnish army during the winter war, the german SS during WW2 and later with the yankees in the Vietnam war. To my knowledge he was awarded many important medals for his "Ruthless bravery" by all of the armies he fought in, such as an iron cross, a bronze star, a purple heart and a finnish flying cross.
Legends say he was the first and greatest gamer
He's the embodiment of "We do a little trolling"
Garbo does a little bit of tomfoolery
a hint of trickery, if you will
A hand of silliness, one might say
a TREMENDOUS amount of war ending trolling
An amount of mischief, one can add
The fact that he just moved away and had a normal life with a family. This is the ultimate dad lore
Just Dad doing Dad things
Loid Forger?
This is proof that when someone is petty enough they can literally do anything. Revenge is a dish best served in Lisbon hahaha
I'm just sad that he said Lisbon is in Spain when it is in Portugal but ok I'll forgive him bcs he's my dad
I agree,pettiness is the strongest weapon of all
@@tiagovieira1969 que bom que não falo que era no brasil
Pettiness > the power of friendship
@@notproductiveproductions3504 ?
Guy wrote spy fanfictions so intensely the Germans trusted him, the British got wary of him, and whoever US guy recruiting him must've laughed his ass off twice over hearing his story.
i wonder what the Russians would make of that guy?
@@IronWarhorsesFun
They'd likely just shot him.
@@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am or recruit him as the most absurdly effective fake news agent in history. but considering how anti authoritarian he was ya i don't see him and Stalin getting along lol.
Says a lot about the British and the Germans 😂 took an American to actually use their brain and look at it haha
@@toziassmitt The americans didn't have a war going on their soil at the time, so they didn't risk as much recruiting him
Germany: You’ve beaten me at my own game!
Garbo: Don’t flatter yourself. You were never even a player.
*azula noises*
*that ding sound that always plays when she’s around*
Germany was like the younger sibling with an unplugged controller
Shows up
Wins a war out of spite
Gains the highest military accolades possible
On both sides
Retires and dies peacefully
What a legend
Honestly dude deserved the iron cross. By pretending there was a second wave coming and sending German troups to a completely random beach, he kept a lot of boys out of the actual battles and saved a lot of lives.
When you put it that way, it does make sense. However I doubt that was the reason Germany awarded it to him but it was still deserved regardless
How is less dead Nazis a good thing?
@@zach7482 One point would be that, had these soldiers been in actual battles, that would also have ment more dead allies-soldiers.
I mean, in a way he did help save Germany in general. Plus if I'm reading this correctly the Iron Cross, while not able to be awarded anymore, is sort of officially recognized by today's German government, so you could say retroactively that that was the justification.
In both sides might I add. No human loss is worth it for political reasons. No war but class war.
I can imagine just the entirety of MI5's office just *cackling* when they heard Garbo got a fucking Iron Cross
Nobody:
Garbo walking into the M15 office with both a Most Excellent Order of the British Empire award and an Iron Cross on the same shirt.
Wonder how they felt when they found out he was that spy they we're looking for XD
I imagine it was doubly funny because they were hearing Hitler himself award it.
@@drneotech7254 just imagine him commissioning some random artist to make it because of the over the phone nature of the ceremony.
I just want to imagine everyone stops doing their thing after hearing he's getting an iron cross just to listen non stop laughter as hitler gives a speech for how good he is and how well he played his role
“They took my chickens so I won WWII”. What a legend, an absolute GOAT
Sounds like a clickbait title but you just can’t make this shit up
Yeah they took that too
Just imagine what he’d do if they killed his rabbit…
@@moleperson haha, I understood this reference :)
"They took my chicken so I took their chicken dinner."
What I like best about this story, is that at no point did he get into any high tension high stakes spy level danger. The guy was the most effective spy probably ever, and he did it by simply playing telephone.
I think that's the most insane part, he did all of that and then his story had a happy ending
man what a shocking discovery, I thought the spy wars was just suicidal intel gathering. This man just walks in and grab intel and goes back home.
@nssupremacy_4281 You'd actually be really surprised how few and far between field agents are deployed into danger situations like the movies suggest. Yes it happens from time to time, and it happened alot more frequently in the past, but since the advancement of technology and the creation of the Internet, a large portion of intelligence gathering is done via computers. Movies make things out to be far more interesting and action packed than real intelligence gathering actually is.
@@JackTheripper911 I assumed most modern spywork is done online lmao, people thinkin that ur being dangled into a room all mission impossible style and shit
I love how the Allies literally just said “lmao go off” and Garbo just casually got an Iron Cross.
Let him cook
slay
"Got into animal husbandry" and "hated horses" aren't qualities that you'd think go together
Funnily enough, most people on the animal management / husbandry course I did a while back loved animals but either hated or were scared of horses. Horses are just crazy; they're big and they scare easy, imo other animals are easier to manage.
I work in animal husbandry and hate horses. I think it mainly comes from hating horse people though, a lot of them have really stupid demands for the care of their animals and have no real idea what they're talking about, the horse is just their version of a Ducati you ride a couple kilometres on the weekends then leave in the garage all week.
I guess that hatred of horse owners eventually grows into a hatred of all things horse related 🤷 That and they're ugly, and poor grazers.
can you blame him for not wanting to go near something that can kill u in a second
@@Coffin17I Dude, no need to do the horses like that in the end.
Also, yes. I don't think animal loving has to be you love all animals. The PETA police won't come after you.
@@maybemay1403 but humans where like “hey lets ride these into war!”
You know, in some history lessons, we went a little in depth about the allies vs. Germany in this time, and Germany kept making weird moves that was basically self-sabotaging. There was no mention of why they made those moves, and it was written off as them panicking. I had no idea that a lot of those moves were because of false intelligence. I wish this guy was in the history books.
A lot of it was simply written as "Hitler was stupid, lulz" when we were taught history on this subject and it came up that Germany kept doing these dumb things. What a discredit to this man's work.
many nore reasons than garbo, WW2 had way too many aspects. by breaking it down towards his work, youre also on a very wrong path.
Another huge reason for example was the meth supply breaking down towards the end of the war, almost all the higher ups were heavily addicted to "Pervitin"
@@benjamintherogue2421 i like to imagine it was both factors.
@@samuelwolch1302 Hitler, like many people in the war, made many sensible and questionable decisions that could have gone either way. He wasn't stupid. He didn't get to the top of the Socialist feeding-frenzy by being stupid.
@@samuelwolch1302lot of it was also under wraps until after the Cold War so in the meantime everyone has to guess and work off the public record and what little was revealed . German generals in the west played up Hitler’s (real but not omnipresent) involvement , for example, while the Allies didn’t want to explain the tricks they were using or prepared to use against the reds. This is ontop of the real inefficiencies and infighting inherent to nazism , which can’t be discounted either, but there was the fog of war
I’d imagine that a spy being given a medal by the other side is more impressive than being given a medal by the side he’s working for.
I would keep both framed side by side.
I find it poetically ironic that this neutral spy got the highest medals of honor from two sides of an opposing war. Not only that, but is possibly the only one to have such a thing happen.
and poetically realistic he isn't a famous spy, and probably the most successful spy
"Colonel Hogan! It is illegal for one man to be on both sides of the same war!"
Walter Buchcik was awarded with both the Iron Cross and Polish Krzyż Walecznych. But he wasn't a spy.
Dr jolly falklands war. Awarded both an obe and the Argentinian highest award
Lauri Törni did that, but in sequence: Mannerheim cross in Finnish army, Iron cross in Waffen-SS and then Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze star, Purple heart in the US army.
Guy hated commies
Small note- Lisbon is the capital of Portugal. It’s super easy to think of it as a part of Spain when it is in fact its own country. So, not only did he troll Germany with the fake passport, but he also trolled Portugal to get that passport.
Was going to say something because that really kept bugging me, but I looked to see if someone else already brought it up.
Did he imply Lisbon was in Spain? He didn’t clarify that it wasn’t, and I guess maybe a lot of people might not know this, but I don’t think he really made it seem like it was either.
As a Portuguese woman, I'm deeply offended that you think "it's super easy to think of it as a part of Spain. "
Many a war have been fought over this and at some point, Portugal and Spain literally divided the entire world between the two of us (ambitious plans..)
Tone note: I'm joking at being offended but the rest is unfortunately true
@@LBPBumoutIn at least the first instance when our man "goes" to London, Wendigoon said he just went to Lisbon and then recounting the same episode, he says he was in Spain. It's a minor mistake, but yeah Lisbon is indeed in Portugal and not Spain. I actually think this makes the fact that he somehow got Spanish government ID before being an official spy a lil easier to understand. If he was indeed in Portugal at the time, we were under our own fascist dictator (Salazar, who actually chose to be neutral in wwii) and it's possible that a well placed bribe would be enough to do something like that and not arise suspicions from Spain.
Also, Greta Garbo was Swedish.
He didn’t do a little trolling, He did a hell of a lot of trolling. What a king.
He was the first troll
Germany got pranked
Troll king
Garbo, receiving a German Enigma machine: with this, we can now do......a loooooooootta trollin!
Imagine his mother and sister didn't get arrested, we might be in a different timeline 💀
The butterfly effect at it's best
@@AltraHapi but its a good thing that his story is this way (This man Juan pujol garcía has such a great story in history)
Alternatively, his mother and sister get in on it and become the greatest trolls of WW2.
Garbo really went and did the 100% completion run of WWII
Now it's time for new game plus
@@ClassicCountry348..... A-are you implying WW3?
@@ArcticLuna007 Nah, WWII Part 2.
@@Gaboguy11 but the _dolf_ is dead
Edit: why is this getting so many replies
@@ArcticLuna007 nacht der untoten round 5 million hitler boss fight
also: garbo's wife hated living in london so much that she threatened to go to the spanish embassy, so garbo and british officials faked his arrest as a consequence of the security threat that his wife posed. they only "released" him after his wife issued a statement saying that she wouldn't do anything to jeopardize her husband's work in the future
What Britain does to a person
@@cottncorp320 wEll aT lEaST OUr sKOOls aREn’T shOOTInG raNGes
I'd hate living in London too
What the angloid experience does to a mf
She literally almost fucked up years worth of work and espionage bc she didnt like the culture of london. Thats crazy
"He's a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will" has never fit more to a person than this dude
And pure goddamn salt
@@gyrozeppeli4862 if you ever wobble him in melee you're a fucking dead man
I once seen him kill 3 men in a bar… With a pencil.
And the only reason he even got involved to begin with was because he got pushed around by socialists and fascists in his homeland and saw those same political parties gaining ground in Germany. He only tried to become a spy in the first place out of political spite.
This guy and Jack Churchill are proof that, in my opinion, the universe just started loading NG+ characters during the world wars, because they're the kinds of people who clearly carried over their stats and info from a previous playthrough.
Jack Churchill was such an absurd person that you can't help but laugh. I remember reading that during the raid on Norway, he was playing patriot scot songs on his bagpipe almost the entire time. imagine being one of the germans. nothings really happening, you're far away from the carnage in the east, and all of sudden you hear Scotland the Brave in the distance before having 3 grenades lobbed at you and your mates
Honored to now be able to understand that
He knows all of the dialogue options, has gotten all but one ending, and this is his final playthrough.
@@WindowLickingDeer That goes so fucking hard.
Pin every outrageous war hero in the field (Garbo, Churchill, Dan Daly, Cassius Clay etc) on one side and you would have probably the most terrifying army to exist. You wouldn’t need a nuclear bomb when you got the most decorated army there is on your side
The image of Juan making German Spy Apologist OCs as a living is funny as hell
"his name is Michaelo and wears a cool brown coat"
Germany slowly nodding completely convinced: "my god.."
@@Sleepy_Cabbage gentlemen, this is a bucket! It contains the secrets of the allies!
Hitler: Dear god
@@Sleepy_Cabbage mein goht
*Germany tenso*
Garbo: "... and then they kissed."
*Germany hap*
@@snowgrave2475 but there's more!
Garbo: *waves his hand wearily* This is not the spy you're looking for
The Entire Nazi empire: *this is not the spy we're looking for*
He did so good they didn’t even know there was a spy they were looking for
Man, I would love if they made a whole movie about this, either a kinda serious movie with comedy elements or just straight up silly like Jojo rabbit. This is gold.
a jojo rabbit-esque movie would be perfect
One day
There is an old movie about it but it's pretty bad iirc
This sounds like one of those movies where they'd have to town DOWN some of the crazier elements!
fr omg
This guy didnt "Get mad". He Got even. He became the litteral bamboozler. Im surprised people havent heard of him sooner, I feel like someone could have even put the Giga chad theme over this entire video, and it would just make him even more incredible. This man did more than just earned his life after the war. I salute this absolute Chad.
He listened to Cave Johnson!
😢😢😢😢
I often times hate the romanticization and sensationalizing of war stories but this truly is epic.
War stories can be very interesting…and this here is proof
@@scottpeltier3977nobody said they can’t be interesting, he just said he often hates how war stories are romanticised and sensationalised
@@Sqk. lol
Such a good story, this guy trolled the nazi's so hard they lost the war. He should be on the money in every nation on earth
You see this is what's wrong with history books, we always complain that they're boring when they're skipping out on stuff like this. I promise you, throw in a few fun and crazy facts and kids will love it!
The school system has no need for kids to enjoy history 😭
You see your wrong. They want history books to be boring on purpose so history can repeat itself due to ignorance.
Damn bruh my teacher even mentioned the diversion but not how or why if happened. Damn bro. This is some real shit.
Most history books that cover the War do mention Garbo.
For American history yes, but sophomore year I learned about the neothilic age of the world i think it’s pretty interesting world history is pretty cool
Germans: “B-but we were so close!”
Garbo: “The truth is, the game was rigged from the start.”
No, Germany was very very close to winning the war and all historians agree.
funny timing btw when im playing fallout nv while listening this
@@hydrogamer471 yeah, I’m sure the meth addicts who tossed out their own doctors were totally masterminds.
@@hydrogamer471 Its way more complicated than that
he was no fink either
Another detail that makes this funnier is that Spain, while technically neutral in the war, was very much in support of the Nazis and even sent troops to support them on several occasions, but this random guy managed to singlehandedly influence the war more than the dictator of spain
Franco was not fascist, didn't like them and really just played possum during the war. The troops he sent were mostly Falange volunteers, wich never really liked him, ironically. Franco's regime is one of the most random shit that happened in that century, Spain always delivers when it's about crazy leaders and brave dumb shenanigans
@@jamie_d0g978 What's your source for Franco not being a fascist?
@@jamie_d0g978 he absolutely was fascist.
@@concept5631 Franco was a Christian nationalist. He obviously rode the fascist wave to his benefit but most of his political views didn't fit the fascist ideals. It depends of your definition of fascist, the true meaning of it or the weponized buzzword that people use today
I have the image in my head of Garbo in MI6 HQ, surrounded by silent British officers, receiving the Iron Cross via radio, and the second the Nazis sign off, him and the rest of the room just explode into laughter.
This’ll be an iconic scene when the movie comes out
I imagine it was just like this
th-cam.com/video/1UspcZANsco/w-d-xo.html
Just fuckin they all run away lmao
I imagine it was something like that wolf of wall street scene where he is about to close a deal Infront of the whole company.
The scene starts with everyone trying to hold it in. "Okay guys, be quiet for a few minutes." They all stand around holding hands over their mouths while the Germans solemnly tell them if their defeat, but of how much of an asset he was and that they wish to give him the highest honor possible. He responds to them sounding like he's sobbing, telling them he feels like he doesn't deserve it because for all his efforts he failed. They reassure him that he was one of their best spys and he shouldn't feel upset. They both say goodbye to each other, a sorrowful hitch in their voices.
And then as soon as the phone is hung up he and everyone else immediately let out all of their pent up, hysterical laughter.
@@tang620 literally 😭😭
I imagine that magician was just like "and for my next trick I'm going to troll an entire fucking country"
Unsung hero, I wanna know more about Tank Magician
@@case3474 Look up the ghost army, this is literal what they were created to do. It was a bunch of artist who's purpose was to basically troll other countries with dummies of various different vehicles and such. I don't know if this specific tank was one of theirs but still very interesting.
@@supergingerr Thats amazing! I will look them up
@@supergingerr welp ik what role I'm signing up for if we ever get drafted into a ww3
He "did a little trolling" and nearly single handedly destroyed the Third Reich. Truly an inspiration to us all.
The fun of watching was I knew parts of these stories, but never the whole thing connected together. Garbo's existence, the only one awarded both the Iron Cross + Most Excellent Order, and Patton's fake encampment were all introduced to me over the years independent of each other, so discovering Garbo's connection and vital participation to everything is the most hilarious recontextualization I've ever experienced.
LOL Same! I never would've thought Patton was enabled by a Spanish Comedic Mastermind
My god the sheer balls of this man to troll the germans so hard that they actually believed everything he said
Garbo: Gets the complete trust of Germany and respect of a general
Garbo: “With this… we can do… a LOTTA trolling!”
I love how america was like “damn this guy is kooky, let’s hire him”
Lol hell yeah, he sounds hilarious, I'd have done the same thing.
Quirked up Spanish boy with a little bit of swag
@@collinbeal Quirked up Spanish boy makes fools of entire German Spy Network.
@@collinbeal “a little bit of swag” that is a massive understatement and you know it
@@thequeenofcringe1585 it's from the meme turn of phrase "Quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag busts it down sexual style. Is he goated with the sauce?"
I actually grew up in the town in Venezuela where he ran that bookstore, although I remember it being more like an antique shop, and I met him a few times! When he passed, his family revealed he was a German spy and my town’s news came out with that story so we all thought he just got away with it. I had no idea this was his actual story I’m actually awestruck 😅
This dude is literally a fucking legend. Why have I only just learned about this man until today after 22 years?
Boomer teachers can't handle Juan's sheer level of culture
Cuz he's spanish, and Spain doesn't do heroes justice.
22 years isn’t all that long. Especially when you consider the topic. Not everyone wants to go any deeper than text books into any history.
@@CornPopsDood you misunderstood this losers comment. he saying why did he just learn about this youtuber today, after 22 years of being alive. its cuz this dude wasnt making vids 22 years ago and its cuz youtube wasnt a thing back then. dumb comment for dure
Well he wouldn't be a very good spy if everyone knew about him now would he
Garbo makes James Bond look like a rookie. great story, can’t believe we didn’t learn about this guy in school
Ikr!! I can believe this didn't make it in to school books 😂😂
Because he was both anti-socialist and anti-communist, both of which parties control modern Europe and the Americas.
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly .... I’m not sure which rock exactly you’ve been living under... but most of the population of the us violently hates anything, literally ANYTHING, even remotely relating to communism and socialism. That includes the government. Take it from a democratic socialist. They get very violent.
Why isn’t there a movie yet?
@@raccoon8743 he means the schools
You should make this a series called “hilarious history”
You make a fair pout sir. I would deffo sign that petition.
YES! THAT'S THE ONLY PART OF HISTORY THAT I CARE ABOUT
I’d love to see more people through history like this
@@Notenum_ no doubt. History is such a vast field to dig out gems like this, all you need is the will and effort to do it and daddy wendigoon is the perfect man for the job
@@rhetiq9989 absolutely, he’s serious enough to get the message across, but at the same time he isn’t a brick wall of speech. Glad I discovered this channel. Definitely becoming one of my favorites super quick
This guy was THE main character of WW2. Any country can say what they want, this guy single handedly won the war, and noone talks about it.
Otto Skorzeny was also one hell of a guy. Arguably more of a main character than agent Garbo, since he saw a lot of actual action. Look him up.
Ok but I think Wes Anderson would be an excellent director for a movie about Garbo. Bc let’s be real, the dry humor and crazy antics that actually happened could only be perfectly done with heavy pastel gradients and symmetrical camera shots.
Rebuttal: Coen Brothers because Garbo is basically Ulysses Everett McGill in real life
@@misszombiequeen come on it’s crazy historical shit, put Quentin Tarantino in charge of it and you’ll get something even more batshit
@@strategicrager1891 I'd be fine with either
I don't think this should be dry humor per se, I think a movie about this guy should be part "Man From U.N.C.L.E." and part "Johnny English", just straight up.
mY EXACT SAME THOUGHTS
wendigoon def has the most "just a guy" feel of any youtuber I've ever seen
That makes him so attractive
That's why he and penguinz0 are the best youtubers
Charlie is the uncle of youtube and Wendigoon is the dad
@@benjaminbarraza8972 I think you're onto something
@@benjaminbarraza8972 that's 100 percent the exact energy. goon perhaps being the older brother, even. charlie the uncle is fuckin spot on though
My grandpa worked with this guy and apparently would come home and tell my dad and aunt the dumb stuff Garbo had Mae the German believed. My dad said “that was the hardest I’ve ever seen the man laugh. Especially during a war.”
I know im supporsed to be skeptical of randos on the internet but I really want to believe this
I don't believe you.
Even if this isn't true, the likelihood of this happening at some point is pretty high. Even if it wasn't to the grandparent of the commenter.
@breaking legs and breaking hearts LOL so? Does that mean we should take their word for anything at all?
@@DraconisMarchVII Why should you trust anyone at all? Live life in deep mistrust of everything and everyone.
I can't help but imagine him whimsically writing funny ideas for false info in his diary while laying on his bed and casually kicking his feet
Don't take this as criticism, but Garcia's wife Carmen played a massive, if not equal role in this story. It was her idea to try the German Embassy, and she pretty much flirted her way into the Nazi's trust.
That's so cool!
Another underrated individual
She what? Okay now this story needs a sequel
@@Sleepy_Cabbage agreed
You're telling me that not only Juan was the absolute embodiment of trolling, but his wife as well ? Holy fuck
Who would win:
1 German Third Reich
or 1 Salty Spanish Boi
“One Salty Spanish Boi” Pfft- I am DeCeAcEd
@@snowdewford3175 if you're gonna make an unfunny CaPs comment at least spell right
Salty Spanish Boi trollstomps 10/10
@@HavingCrumpets You don't even know if English is their first language, you can correct people, but do so in a kinder manner
*arrives*
*declares himself a spy*
*dismantles the entire Nazi intelligence community*
*refuses to elaborate on why*
*retires peacefully*
My boy Garbo was truly the world's ultimate sigma male.
>Gets criticized once
>Fucking dismantles the government
Who would win:
A military industrial complex able to draw resources and troops from all of mainland Europe
Or
A singular Spaniard high school dropout
History Buff Wendigoon is pretty lit.
Any wendigoon is buff wendigoon
@@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73 fair, but I meant to word it differently. I know Wendigoon mostly for his conspiracy videos and other things involving the paranormal, so seeing a World War 2 video from him is pretty interesting.
@@SplendidCoffee0 I know what you mean
@@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73 I gotcha, lmao
@SplendidCoffee0 I just want to express that I really like your pfp
Great video. Just wanted to point out that Lisbon is in Portugal and not Spain. He was staying at a hotel there.
Exato
I saw the guy in my room but he said I was going to do it
It's would make a great dark comedy movie. Also I want to think that he somehow kept the $300,000 Germany sent him.
If it's 300000 USD in 1940s, that's about 5 million in today's dollars
he definitely kept them, because considering the agents doesn't exist, there's nowhere to really send the money out but himself. He probably have like tens of bank accounts just to make the money trail legit.
Probably what he used to fake his death and move to Venezuela
I'd love to imagine a scene from this movie where the German high command is having a discussion about sending money for their fallen spy. In the next scene, Garbo is shown wearing a really nice new watch.
Definitely. I could just imagine a movie where hitler is pissed that he lost d-day and then he goes to speak to garbo and is praising him and telling him its not his fault etc etc then the next scene he's devising a plan to fool them
I love hearing stories of how the Nazis got completely dunked on in WW2 when it came to espionage. Like every so often I'll hear a story I've never heard before about how the Allies would concoct these plans to mislead the Nazis and they'd just fall for it every time.
Ww2 Germany was pretty bad at a lot of things; espionage definitely being one of them, it just rarely gets talked about because it's inconvenient for the German fetishism that's become very mainstream, and it makes the allied victory seem less impressive. A considerable amount of Germany's success was built off the back of them preparing for a world war for decades when others were not, and giving the finger to the treaties others were following. This is why you see these waves of initial success, then they hit a wall once their enemies have had the chance to respond and organise, and then it's just failure after failure for the axis. Strategically, the aggressor has a significant advantage: They get to decide when and where to fight.
The “socialist” part of “national socialist” was put in the name in an attempt to trick German workers into supporting the nazis, and it didn’t work.
There was also this children’s book called “Der Giftpliz”, which translates to “The Poisonous Mushroom” or “The Toadstool”, and it was just full of nazi propaganda. I read some of it for a project, and it is absolutely ridiculous. One of the stories is called “What is the Talmud?” It’s basically a Jewish kid and a rabbi talking about how the Talmud tells them that they must oppress the German people. The story ends with “If you always follow the Talmud laws diligently, you will join our biblical fathers in the Jewish heaven. Amen!” Now, I’m not Jewish, but the last time I checked, Judaism doesn’t follow the Bible. Also I don’t think Jewish people believe in a heaven or hell.
Overall, the nazis were fucking stupid.
@@thequeenofcringe1585 Other than to illustrate the point that the "nazis were stupid", this seems pretty random....
I'm not going to act like a political expert, but there is a staggering amount of copium being huffed by post-ww2 socialists in an attempt to distance themselves from the Nazis. In reality the far right movements of this period had some serious overlap with the far left movements. *Many* far right leaders had been, or still were overt socialists, and even communists before their rise to prominence in far right movements. And it's not simple politic gaming that can be handwaved.
To simplify, the unifying core of these movements is collectivism. The difference between left and right is who the collective in question is. To the Fascists, it was the state. To the Communists it was, and is, "the worker" (in practicality, the state). To the Nazis, it was "the race" (in practicality, the state).
@@tommeakin1732 Yeah, it is pretty random. I just wanted to share because I think it’s funny. And if you think I’m gonna pass up a chance to dunk on nazis then you are dead wrong.
I’m not gonna act like a political expert, but I do know that the nazis would persecute socialists just as much as they would Jewish people. Like I said, the “socialist” part was added to trick workers. Even though that plan failed.
The nazis said that the socialists they persecuted weren’t “real socialists”, but if there’s one thing we know about the nazis, it’s that they were fucking liars.
Also as far as I know, “far-right” and “socialist” (and by extension “communist”) are clashing ideologies. There is some overlap, sure, but the overlap is incredibly minimal.
@@tommeakin1732 "I'm not going to act like a political expert" *has completely wrong information*
The Nazis were not, and never will be, a leftist party. Genuinely ask yourself, who do you see simping for Hitler more? Left wingers, or right wingers?
This man did the global conflict version of “mom said no, so I asked dad”
This is some "the pen is mightier than the sword" level stuff. OG stuff right here. Someone should make a movie about this.
There's a spanish documentary titled 'Garbo: The Spy'
I imagine a scene of a snarky garbo laying back in a library while laughing his ass offf
Seriously though, how is there not a movie about this yet?
I mean it wouldnt be crazy entertaining since its just him sitting in a library sending bs to the Germans and them 100% believing it
@@trevor8726 true but Hollywood will fix that with a love interest and explosions.
As a Spaniard obsessed with history thanks for bringing him to the spotlight. Knew about him years ago in school and I remember laughing my ass off in class lol
The ultimate flex would've been if they told Germany Garbo was in fact killed by a v1 strike
Genius move. Ultimate troolllololo
"Hey did you hear back from our spy?"
"No, let's check the paper to see the v1 results"
*Cue the panic from killing your most valuable asset*
Genius comment
Garcia: *walks into churchill's office
Churchill: "ah! Garcia! I've been meaning to ask, how's the espionage going lad?"
Garcia: *slaps the iron cross medal onto churchill's desk*
Im sorry but this comment gave me a weird pretty woman vibe
"You work on commission font you? Big mistake"
@@mynamegothit3825 you're right, i fixed it XD
Garcia: "So about that raise."
@@AspenBrightsoul 'Tell you what, you get Erwin Rommel to stand on the wrong beach for 2 months, I'll give you the Order of Excellence to go alongside that.'
"Bet"
I imagine this as a Monty Python scene.
What’s better: Dad Wendigoon, Crazy theory Wendigoon or History Wendigoon
Why not all of them
Yes
they are one in the same
Yes while they are all good I like crazy theory Wendigoon
Big Daddy Wendigoon.
If you think about it without Garbo the nukes would probably have been droped on Germany. Mostly because it would have taken a longer time to defeat Germany if D-day went any different.
Holy shit this puts so much in perspective.
You tellin' me there's an alternative timeline where anime is a german creation? Damn, Garbo really changed story huh
Jesus, you said that and chills went down my spine. I was just smiling though the comments of everyone having a good time and being inspired and talking about the dark comedy of it all, and then your comment gave me whiplash. Dude!
No matter how hard you try, you will never troll anyone as hard as the legend Garbo
His trolling is so good that it saved lives...literally
Not even BG Kumbi can troll his way that far (and he trolled politics too)
forreal His Statue is in Front of the Troll hall of Fame Building like Jordan Dunking on all other trolls with BOTH MEDALS 🏅 🎖 Swinging from his neck as he flys over all other trolls to come before or after
Juan is the definition of chaotic neutral. He fought on both sides without firing a single bullet.
A troll who trolled so hard he single handedly defeated the nazis.
Amazing.
to be fair the millions of soldiers kind of helped
we do a lil trolling
@@twisteddanid we engage in a bit of tomfoolery
"Singlehandedly" bro????
The legend of Garbo. Trolling since 1912. Rest easy soldier.
War is not about winning or losing, is about having fun.
Lisbon is in Portugal btw
As a spanish, and a War History enjoyer, i've never, ever heard about this guy, and i feel bad.
This guy's history is so fucking epic and hilarious, it deserves real recognition.
"We do a miniscule amount of trolling" - Garbo literally making Germany ragequit life
- the man who trolled Hitler to suicide
i remember learning about juan garcia on my own a couple years ago and when i clicked the video, i thought "hmmm.. i wonder if this is juan pujol garcia- OH MY GOD ITS JUAN PUJOL GARCIA." this man was definitely fulled by spite & rage. i'm glad you're doing a video on him
imagine a guy that immediately start laughing when his grandkids ask him for wartime stories
"Well little Timmy there is the time i won the highest medals of honor on both sides of the war..." in an old grandpa sounding voice was all i could think when i read this
Stories of people being so angry that they troll people in the most insane ways are just amazing
Imagine being so good at being a spy that even after the war you still werent figured as a double spy and they never havent retracted th highest honour...when said spy literally ruined your plans the entire time
I had heard many times that there was a deceitful campaign by the Allies just before Normandy but no one ever said that much of it was made possible by one man. IMO, most underrated chad in history
He really went: "I gotta do everything my goddamn self..."
I think this story would be perfect for a dad like figure to talk about in a fancy shirt on TH-cam.
Lindybeige?
Hopefully that happens one day!
Damn you're right
Oh boy do I have a surprise for you!
Maybe one day!
This is actually one of the greatest stories i have ever heard
Literally about a guy ending World War 2 out of spite
As a German.. he deserves the iron cross more than anyone else during that time. Best guy ever. Love his story.
24:00 I've got a book about that magician guy. They still haven't named him, so he's just called "Mr.X". I don't believe it, but apparently they found him working as a private eye of sorts, and he had nearly 100% accuracy solving cases that came to him (mostly about missing people). He did some stuff in Cairo too.
I need Wendigoon to devote a whole episode to Mr.X rn
Was a guy called Maskelyn or something similar if I recall.
@@rosiehawtrey Yes! Jasper Maskyln or something like that! There's a few books published on it, although the first edition one I'm after is very scarse and I can't find it for love nor money. Lol thank you for reminding me.
Apparently, the other guy who also got both the Iron Cross and the Most Excellent Whateverit'scalled is a guy called Eddie Chapman, who had two fiancees, one in every side of the war, but when it ended he left both to marry a girl he had left alone mid-date because he jumped out of the restaurant's closed window because he was going to get arrested for being part of the "Jelly Gang". He was described as "loving himself, adventure and his country, probably in that order"
It’s even more hilarious when those WWII “documentaries” that talk about how creative the Nazi party was in terms of warfare. Then you learn about stuff like this.
@@polocatfan oh trust me I don’t. But there’s a lot of “documentaries” (that end up on actual TV) that spend WAY to much time praising their “design” and selling you this idea that they where “ahead of the curve” while completely ignoring stuff like this.
They were. They were so creative they got a guy who sabotaged their war effort at every turn, just to give them a good hard challenge.
It’s an objective fact that they were revolutionary in military tactics. The blitzkrieg utterly changed warfare. Incompetence in the intelligence agencies doesn’t mean incompetence on the battlefield
@@Choatemister also wern't there tanks dogshit becuase they were too big
@@polocatfan tbf, the dude who killed hitler was probably a cool guy.
The funny thing about sending Rommel there to the North Sea was that he was constantly saying that Normandy was THE attack and he fought hard to try to get his army redirected there. So this guy (and a lot of others coordinating this feint) effectively neutralized one of Germany's top generals away from where they were flooding new troops onto the beach.
I feel like the reason why we don't have a movie about this guy yet is because film-makers don't know if this should be a docudrama or a straight up comedy
idk how Wendigoon makes history so damn entertaining, he’s just a naturally entertaining person.
The Wendigoon history series is your dad telling you about your grandfather's war stories.
You realize your grandfather is either several people simultaneously, you have several grandfathers or he is one person with several identities.
You do not know which is the case and you do not question it.
this reads entirely different after having watched the video abt the dementia album i forgot the name of
@@flurrronphobix7356 Everywhere at the end of time, I think
@@flurrronphobix7356 and the Angel hierarchy video