The Red Orchestra - The Nazi-Soviet Spy Dance - WW2 - Spies & Ties 04
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- An extensive network of spies and radio operators are gathering intelligence and sending it to Moscow from Western Europe. They are a colourful group of people who go by the name of Die Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra.
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So now I now why there's a game about ww2 named "red orchestra". On a more serious& darker note, will you do an episode about Hans asperger ? Being concerned by ASD, and having read a few things on that guy, it bothers me that we still often call it "asperger's syndrome", and since you probably have access to more ressources than I do, I would really like to know more about his role, ideas etc =)
Oh now thats a great one ill let it pass
edit: I found it, page 16 but the rest is intesting as well. www.cia.gov/static/4a49928928416a645a0e6b27c25181db/Theory-of-Soviet-Intelligence.pdf
Some time ago I came across a declassified CIA article about how soviet secret services turned people abroad. Too bad I can't find it right now. One example described in detail how the soviets stole some kind of a new advanced metallurgy process from Germany, during the interwar period. They couldn't get the inventor to give up his secrets but there was a subordinate who knew the process. They played him so well that they got him to travel to USSR to demonstrate how to repeat the process. A combination of money and jealousy did the trick, if I remember correctly.
@@kalle911
Cool!
I love Astrid and her style. Her hand gestures really make the story come alive. Normally I find people who talk with their hands annoying, but in her case her jazz hands are a natural part of the narrative. And I loved this video -- a totally new area of WW2 knowledge for me.
If you turn off the sound she looks like she's doing a combination of sign language and interpretive dance.
I was noticing the same thing. She's a great story teller. Very smart. Very feminine without being foo foo. Just an adorable lady.
@@longrider188 thank you darlings :)
Five Dollar Footlong syndrome. Not that it's a bad thing, just a quirk. It's hard to talk about spy schtuff without a bit.. drama? Bravado?
Reality becomes ridiculous when there's so much chaos and unlikely events being forced to happen..
What a treasure Astrid and her narration is!
You don't say
I totally agree.
Stalin: "you didn't see graphite on the roof!"
"Plans for an invasion? Not great, not terrible."
BECAUSE IT ISN’T THERE!!!!!!! He’s delusional, Take him to the infirmary!!!
this is a great comment.
I give it 3.6 out of 15.000
The quality of this comment is "Not great, not terrible".
@@RyanB1987 *work camp
Love these episodes of spy vs spy! Some of these are even better than the 007's movies! Truth is stranger than fiction!
Thanks Mikael!
@@WorldWarTwo your so welcome if I had you as history teachers in highschool I wouldn't have been doing other people home work! Keep it up 😁😁😁😁
Ian Fleming said if he'd make the Bond stories more real he'd face court martial
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan I still would have written them from jail!
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Yes, Fleming drew upon his experiences during WW2 in the British intelligence circles. He was also one of the primary people behind the Dieppe raid of August 1942. The German navy had added a fourth rotor to their enigma machine at the beginning of the year and Bletchley Park was no longer able to decode their messages to the U boats. As a consequence, the Atlantic convoys from Canada and the US were being sunk with greater regularity and the Allies were very concerned. So to "pinch" (British slang for steal) a four rotor Enigma, Ian Fleming and others came up with the ruse of a cross channel raid to destroy the naval HQ in Dieppe and steal a new Enigma machine. David O'Keefe has uncovered the entire plot from recently declassified documents at the British archives in Kew and written a book about it called "One Day in August." It is well worth a read.
I hope Indy, Astrid and Spartacus will do an entire episode on it in a month or so. It is top notch spy thriller stuff! 👌😉😎
I love this series, it makes a serious topic very fun and engaging, thanks to Astrid's presentation and energy in the subject matter. I can't wait for more
In Soviet Russia, secret keeps you.
Comrade Stalin has a Stalinium brain, which rejects bad news from his spy network.
Yes! Random Yakov Smirnoff quotes!
@@Otokichi786 but then again would you trust 100% a randomly thrown trove of plans?…
My brain heard Yakov Smirnov’s voice
That actually makes sense
Astrid has that super enthusiastic delivery that you get from teachers who absolutely love their subjects. It's infectious and makes her episodes great fun.
Astrid reminds me of my great aunt telling me stories about her time as a secretary in the US army. She passed in January 2020, at the age of 101. She'd make all the sound effects herself on her wooden table- we'd joke she told the stories so often the table was scuffed.
Now I wish she could tell them again, especially as this series continues. Excellent, and by pure accident, gut wrenching work.
I watched the first one of these on a whim, without any real initial interest. They are now required immediate viewing whenever I see them.
Astrid is a treasure.
are you in need of a raincoat
by any chance.
Love the story, digging the thumbnail and absolutely dying for your tie Astrid!! Fun fact: I lived in the neighbouring house in Brussels (14 Rue du Namur). Schöne Grüße nach Bayern!
Hallo my dear Dora - great to hear from you - I was so proud to find an instrument on red on a tie - I am happy you like it - all the best :)
Keep Astrid working, she is getting better and better.
Love Astrid’s unique storybook style, more practice, the more smoother and solid results.
Thank you. Time Ghost!
We officially need more WW2 spy movies
There are a lot of them! Some made in the States England France Germany yes and even in Russia!
Read "the red Orchestra" by the man himself, Leopold Trepper.
@@ducomaritiem7160 that i would love to do
Actually, the recent Brad Pitt WW2 spy thriller "Allied" is fairly good historically and a terrific film! Give it a look see!
@@ToddSauve there is also OSS with Alan Ladd! And James Cagney did one as well!
Astrid we love you so much! so expressive and excited to be telling these stories!
Hello Astrid! You can not imagine how I enjoyed this program yesterday. The Trepper story is unbelievable to the very end. I can not wait to listen about his adventures in France.
Oh that's another cracking tie. 4/5 for this wild collection of colours
I find myself looking for your comments haha. Hope that you are well!
thank you so much Gianni - the harp on red was just luck - have a great day :)
I love how many specials are being made before a weekly episode comes out! :)
We love making them! We couldn't do any of it without the TimeGhost Army and their generous support on Patreon
"...Uncle Jo says Nyet Nyet Nyet"
Holy shit that's funny.
While uncle Adi says "Nein, Nein, Nein, Nein....!" :D
So, how long before raincoats show up on the collectibles store? ;)
I actually thought the same just a minute ago :))))
I want one!
Astrid deserves some kind of award for this narration.
The Gordon Lightfoot Master Storyteller award.;)
If she was a clown? YES!
Why?
Astrid that was AMAZING. My partner and I both super impressed by the lively narration
Astrid, your animated presentation make the video even more enjoyable to watch and learn from. Keep up the amazing work!
I just adore Astrid. She seems to be a more colourful version of Sparty - if that's even possible - and, in keeping with the orchestral theme of this episode, I'm taken by the way she conducts the information with the effortless grace of a von Karajan or a Previn, but also leading the orchestra like a first violinist, a sort of Itzhak Perlman taking an often sombre tale and tastefully turning it into an adventure. And when she says darlings at the end... I think I'm in love!
Astrid you're a gem! Your series is awesome!
"The Red Orchestra" by V.E. Tarrant is a detailed account of this espionage apparatus. As we've seen in the weekly episodes, war is largely a matter of bungling.
So maybe that's where the Red Orchestra video game series get its name from, interesting. Good video by the way, not often we get much coverage on Soviet intelligence agents!
That game has some of the best german soldier voicelines in any WW2 game I've ever played. All the soldiers death rattles a mortifying.
Thanks Dickson! We appreciate the support
The heroes of Stalingrad title is a reference to Hitlers toast to the 6th army after they had been surrounded and ordered to fight to the last man.
As a German, I would translate the rote Kapelle to "the red chapel". Musicians as J.s.Bach would be called Kapellmeister "maestro" as they would be directing the choirs singing there... But I get the translation
Early in the mod's history it was going to be an espionage-themed single player campaign for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. After many false starts it was rebooted as a multiplayer mod for Unreal Tournament 2003, with a focus on regular infantry combat. Then it was ported to UT2k4, tanks were added, and they competed in a contest where the prize was a full commercial licence to the Unreal Engine. At that point, the developers of the mod formed Tripwire Interactive and released Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 as a standalone commercial product - the name had become vestigial.
I honestly think that the Time-ghost hosts could charm anyone at any time.
I know where I'd recruit my spies (and ties) from if I were to ever get into the raincoat business!
Gotta love these tales of the golden age of espionage. Astrid is a truly gifted storyteller.
3:13. Holy Sh*t, this part is good!
:D
This is honestly one of the best parts of the episode XD
@@samaccardi yes, strong editing made it perfect.
Did a great job Astrid. Appreciate your time and research. Coverage and commentary outstanding.
Thank you :)
Astrid you have some of the most intriguing spy stories from WWII. My hat's off to you. This video was great.
Astrid does all her own sound effects.
Plus the perfect mix of german accent and italian hand moving. What a lovely woman she is
Just finished Jennifer Chiaverini's novel Resistance Women and I wanted/needed to learn more about the Red Orchestra. Im so glad I found this channel! Astrid is great, love her style and I love how the info is presented.
I used to know a punk rock band in Tucson, in the Eighties, that called themselves . Some of them are still at large...
RIng up the FBI - they must be listed in the Phone book for your city - you American way of life depends on it. Whether Sleepy Joe will pick up the phone is the issue... He's probably still thinking about the THING in his Dreams. TEF
This has quickly become my favourite miniseries. It should have its own playlist (which I didn't see yet, correct me if I'm wrong)!
Fascinating stories I never heard about before.
A wonderful edition for the fans of your channel! Your researchers and writers did an excellent job with this episode. And your presenter was riveting with her delivery. Thanks again for making history enjoyable.
Thanks Brian! It's the TimeGhost Army that lets us creating new projects like this :)
This series is sooooo great. Keep it up!
There are so many Soviet Spies in Germany I wonder if they ever caught eachother.
"You're a spy?! Me too!! Small world, huh?"
During the Red Scare in the USA post-war, there were cases of FBI infiltrators of the US Communist Party (who may have been a fifth of the membership at one point) denouncing one another as Communists.
Excellent job of putting together a complex series of events into a coherent story that is revealing and fascinating. Researching all this data must of been challenging considering it was all secret at some point. Also enjoy your unique, animated presentation. Your whole team has a unique talent for teaching exclusive to each presenter. By the way you need to return Sparty's glasses so he can apply more teflon to the nose bridge.
How could Astrid feel so insecure in front of a camera not long ago. She's an amazing storyteller! I love the spies, ties and lies series (and name)
Please turn these into podcasts. It would make the morning commute so much interesting.
What a riveting storyteller! I can't wait for next time!
Such passion and devotion! Subscribed! You make history fun and even more captivating
"Great presentation! My asperations to be a spy have been diminished and reduced significantly!"
Amazing job, Astrid and the team!
Thank you!
Ah, Astrid charisma. So wonderful, so colorful. Love the spies and ties series. :D
Astrid sure puts on quite a show dont she? I've never seen such an animated story teller. We love you Astrid! -- Uh, BTW, what was this episode about again? Dang, I'll have to watch it again, lol.
thank you - yes - and do watch it again :))
@@astriddeinhard433 Astrid, I can totally see you at a public library there in the children's section, sitting in a rocking chair surrounded by a dozen kids. Telling them the story of Goldilocks And The Three Bears... And every single one of them has their eyes and ears completely riveted on you. You're a natural born story teller. ;-)
You have your style ma'am. I'm a Doctor and a 1st Lieutenant in Army, Armoured forces. I give lectures to soldiers on a weekly basis, I liked your grand gesture and use of hands style. Very often these gestures could be annoying but in your case it works perfectly, you have a nice style of delivering. Sorry for my bad English, it's my 3rd language.
@@MaziarYousefi thank you for your kind words - I love what I am doing and what else could one wish for :)) - all the best to you from the Queen of spies and thank you for watching 😎
Hi Astrid
Awesome explantion..
Really nice to hear your narration..
Awaiting for next episode.
Thank you..
Astrid's Gestures put Mussolini to shame
that makes me very happy :))
Excellent Raincoat Foreign Company is a great name for a rock band
Awesome video! I hope we can get many more as the war goes on.
The stories of selling raincoats directly to the army and getting official licenses for telegraphs and telephone wiring... amazing!!
I never understood why Hollywood writes fictional spy movies. History is crazier and more exciting than fake stories.
Hollyweird hates the truth, because that's in the public domain. Better to have screenwriters come up with wildly impossible scenarios that they can spin into the utter crap that they "own."
The really crazy part about that was that there a guy who actually worked in Hollywood in the postwar who was in the O.S.S. during the war and whose real life war exploits seemed like they were the invention of a Hollywood script writer. Yet there isn't any movie about him.
An excerpt from an article about him posted on historynet titled The Man and the Legend...
"One evening in the spring of 1944, the story goes, a tall, handsome man sat at a table in a bar in Nazi-occupied Lyons, France, listening with increasing irritation to the conversation among his drinking partners. The men, officers of the German Wehrmacht, were complaining about how a uniformed U.S. Marine Corps officer was helping the local Maquis attack German troops and installations. One man explained in lurid detail what he would do to the American if given the chance, and then the entire group began cursing the French resistance, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Allies and the Marine Corps in particular.
The tall man excused himself and discreetly slipped out of the bar. Minutes later he returned wearing a long raincoat. After ordering another round of drinks for the Germans, he suddenly flipped back his coat, beneath which he wore the uniform of a Marine captain and held a drawn .45-caliber pistol. Shocked into silence, the Wehrmacht officers could only comply as the American ordered them to toast first Roosevelt and then the Corps. Grinning widely, the Marine then backed out the doorway and disappeared into the darkness.
Pierre Ortiz had struck again, in typical swashbuckling style."
If that sounds insane, it's only the tip of the iceberg. He'd often openly wear his military uniform while in German occupied France because he thought it raised the morale of the local maquis (resistance) while accompanying them on raids or sabotage missions, and once while on a mission to rescue downed British pilots and escort them to safety across the Spanish border, he stole 10 vehicles from a Gestapo motor pool for that purpose despite the fact that he was known to the Gestapo and they had a bounty on his head.
You guys have the best ties I've ever seen
Go get them at Indy's Tie Barn! th-cam.com/channels/4Mi7C9N4-ocvqWGNm6F0bA.html
My former father in law (Soviet), was actually a pianist, and was actually a radio operator during the war.
This Gurevich - Trepper rivalry goes even further, even after ww2 in soviet union two books about these events were published, one balming Trepper making horrible mistakes, and another - Gurevich
An amazing presenter! Thank you Astrid 🙂
I should have been asleep long ago, but here I am rewatching my favorite episodes. ❤
@Terri Glad to have you with us
Astrid presentation is great!!!
Nikolai Berdyaev once wrote:
"There are no such things as nations, States and societies existing as collective common realities which stand on a higher level than personality and turn it into part of themselves"
You are such a wonderful storyteller
In his spare time Gurevich was also apparently a founding member of the Church of the Subgenius.
Is Astrid not only wearing Indy's clothes, is she also trying to use his mannerisms?🤣
Don't think Indy ever used dream-sequences, though.
Best episode yet !
Beautifully presented.
Thanks.
🥀🌹🥀
>>>ALWAYS
the nazis: "Ha, we took out your spyring Stalin, how do you like that?"
Stalin: "Joke's on you, I never cared about what those guys told me anyway."
These are so sick. Astrid is adorable, content is gold and there's so much content possible, despite some.. quirks. Reminds me of my Secondary School theater teacher: _"What are you doing with your hands? Got an invisible 5 Dollar Footlong?"_
Astrid is rocking this, I'm utterly captivated.
Astrid is so entertaining, love these episodes !!
I love Astrid's energy. Excellent host.
I never can get used hearing of the moment when these spies are arrested. We all know what happens next.
Great as ever, thanks.
This was the most interesting one yet, and that's quite a statement 😅
Your a magnificent story teller , Thank you .
Bloody brilliant. Thank you!
Always love seeing you in front of the camera out Queen of Everything, or is it Empress now?
tap-tap-tap tap tap-tap ... what a great episode! Thank you!
Indy is looking good!!
thank you - I did his make up :))
The Red Orchestra's hard work, constantly undermined by Josef Stalin, the Red Vuvuzela.
Is it just me or does anyone else want to go back to the 80s and chill with Astrid
I bought Leopold Trappers biography "The great game" a couple of years ago, but I still haven't read it. But now I really want to
Astrid's style works because she nails the storyteller grandma vibe
I love the Astrid series !
always different and surprising turns every now and then !
Where is the Deinhard ?
nnno, not the spy but the champaign which refers to a successfull ad campaign back in early 90s !
no bottles - just stories :))
Meanwhile in the west:
“Are you currently a Soviet spy due to your former membership in the Communist party and affiliation with this known Soviet agent?”
“No”
“Understandable, have a good day”
@peter michalski No, he wasn't. Not even close. He was a power hungry buffoon who make countless false accusations to take out his rivals
@peter michalski McCarthy got fed information from the Verona decrypts in the early days of his “red menace” campaign. He didn’t know he was just told X is a Soviet agent by someone told to tell him by the spooks. However more or less eveything after 1949 was bullshit. Ronald Reagan shopped everyone who was a better actor than he was, so that was almost everyone in Hollywood.
@peter michalski everyone he got right was known via Venona decrypts. The rest including the vast majority of the people accused were wrong.
The erroneous conviction that the state department was full of communist agents led the CIA to inform the UK via back channels rather than through diplomatic channels thus exposing the whole break to Soviet intelligence as the channel they chose was the MI5 head of station in Washington Kim Philby.
I'm not certain, but I always believed that "Die Rote Kapelle" stood for "The Red Chapel", not Red Orchestra. Since both chapel and a small orchestra or band is called "Kapelle" in German, it is difficult to say for sure which one is meant without hearing it from the people who invented the code word. But I always thought of it as "The Red Chapel".
so did I to be honest - but I learned :)
@@astriddeinhard433 Ok, thanks, never too late to learn. :)
The name being given by the GeStaPo, it kind of makes sense. It would be a little too obvious as a cover name. Like calling the invasion of the SU "Operation Moskaureise" or something... :)
The Red Chapel sounds like a good name for a music venue.
The name Die rote Kapelle originates neither from any orchestra or small church translated from german , but from the street were the shop was located from which Leopold Trepper operated , namely Kapellestraat in Oostende, Belgium.
The name of the famous book Die rote Kapelle is a translation itself by french writer and journalist Gilles ( or Gil) Perrault (his real name is Jacques Peyrolles ) from the french title L'orchestre rouge and is therefore correctly translated as The red Orchestra or in my native dutch language as ¨Het rode orkest¨.
@@fryfrysk thank you very much - I will speak about that in my next video :)
If I had a mug of hot cocoa, tucked up in bed listening to Astrid read a Harry Potter audio book I'd be happy.
Astrid, you should go into audio books, you have the knack for it. Another great video.
thank you so much and enjoy your cocoa :)
Pianists playing in the night, as the enemy roams around. Their "music" heard back at home. Their works are unknown and their plays never revealed.
Morning mpougatsa with spies and ties , priceless
Darling, sweet fair Astrid.
I know heaven will be a nice sofa, a good beer in my hand and these WW2 videos being played.
Very interesting, thank you!
I always have to get used to her voice for the first few minutes as a non native English speaker. But it is always top notch content.
Damn, you are sooo awesome Astrid. (Just a note, I think you meant “parachutists on Crete”.)
I'm really enjoying this series.
Red orchestra is cool but soon we will get Red orchestra 2 heroes of Stalingrad 😊
Goodness! I really don't know what to say. Bravo!
Love your series esp with your partner's shows.
Can I request: cut the fingers making a point & that sucking noise you make at times. Drives me nuts.
Once again perfect title for a spy movie
I love her energy in these videos and the outfits!
Plus, it’s super interesting to learn about all these spies who are risking their lives for leaders who don’t believe them. Yes, I’m looking at you comrade Stalin 🧐🧐
I love Astrid's energy.