UNSOLVED Mysteries Of World War II

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Check out these unsolved mysteries of world war 2! This top list of unexplained and bizarre unsolved cases remains a mystery to this day! Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Watch our "WORST Military Mistakes Ever!" video here: https://youtu.be/bDFVyeuZ2yA Watch our "SCARIEST Monsters Seen During Wartime!" video here: https://youtu.be/14rz9eOR8xU Watch our "Most LUXURIOUS Prisons In The World!" video here: https://youtu.be/BhFoWYBlJ8Y 8. The British soldiers In 2009, workers were doing routine maintenance on one of the buildings at the most infamous camp of them all. During their work, they uncovered a strange list. It contained the names of 17 British soldiers. There were check marks next to eight of the names. Even today, no one knows what the list was for. Also written on the paper were a few German words—and these words don’t make the mystery any clearer. The words that have been identified are “since then,” “never,” and “now.”There are a couple of guesses about the purpose of the list and who the men were. One is that they were British prisoners of war—there were many housed in the E715 camp, where they were put to work laying cables and pipes, loading freight cars, or in skilled laborer positions. Another theory is that the names on the list were British men who had switched sides, working for the British Division during the war. Any other theories you might know of? 7. Missing globe Charlie Chaplin made the globe famous in his film The Great Dictator, where he portrayed a megalomaniac dictator dancing with a massive globe. It was inspired by a globe that really did sit in the office and is now missing. There’s one on display at the Markisches Museum, but it didn’t belong to him. A handful of these giant, small-car-sized globes existed at the time. They were called the “Columbus Globes” and were made in two limited-edition runs (the second run made minor corrections to the maps). Some of the globes were presented him and other leaders of the party, and they were supported by specially designed custom stands. The stand from the photographs of the office doesn’t match the one that’s long been claimed to be his. No one knows what happened to this giant artifact. A lot of these globes have survived, many in museums or in private collections. His is not among them, despite being one of the most iconic artifacts in pop culture. It’s almost as famous because of Charlie Chaplin as it is for belonging to him—having been turned from a symbol of power to a mocking jab at egomania. One retired cartographer has been documenting the globes and there provenance, or where they came from. He’s managed to identify globes that belonged to other officers, but this globe remains a mystery. 6. Operation Mincemeat When the Allied troops settled on Sicily as a major target, the next part of the plan was to convince the Axis powers that they were headed somewhere else. They turned to a plan concocted by an assistant to the head of British Naval Intelligence—Ian Fleming. Sound familiar? Fleming pitched a number of ideas on how to mislead the Axis officers, including one that involved forged papers with false information being planted on a body. They dubbed it “Operation Mincemeat” and went ahead with the plan. The body—with falsified documents that identified it as Major William Martin of the Royal Marines—was dumped off the coast of Spain. In 1943 Spain was officially neutral but had pro-Axis leanings. The body was recovered, and the Axis powers discovered the message. Axis troops were diverted away from Sicily and into Greece— leaving the intended target wide open. The mystery is- Whose body was it?? In 2003, a documentary claimed that the body belonged to a British soldier who was on the ill-fated HMS Dasher—an aircraft carrier that sank in 1943. The documentary named the man as Tom Martin. The following year, there was a memorial service for the crew of the Dasher. During the service, a special commendation was given to a man named John Melville, saying that it was his body that was used in Operation Mincemeat. More recently, a Canadian historian has put forth the idea that none of that is true and that the body actually belonged to a mentally ill, homeless Welshman named Glyndwr Michael. Michael had died after eating rat poison, the historian says, and his body was then used for the operation. Although the operation was a success, we may never know the hero who carried it out.

UNSOLVED Mysteries Of World War II

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Check out these unsolved mysteries of world war 2! This top list of unexplained and bizarre unsolved cases remains a mystery to this day! Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Watch our "WORST Military Mistakes Ever!" video here: https://youtu.be/bDFVyeuZ2yA Watch our "SCARIEST Monsters Seen During Wartime!" video here: https://youtu.be/14rz9eOR8xU Watch our "Most LUXURIOUS Prisons In The World!" video here: https://youtu.be/BhFoWYBlJ8Y 8. The British soldiers In 2009, workers were doing routine maintenance on one of the buildings at the most infamous camp of them all. During their work, they uncovered a strange list. It contained the names of 17 British soldiers. There were check marks next to eight of the names. Even today, no one knows what the list was for. Also written on the paper were a few German words—and these words don’t make the mystery any clearer. The words that have been identified are “since then,” “never,” and “now.”There are a couple of guesses about the purpose of the list and who the men were. One is that they were British prisoners of war—there were many housed in the E715 camp, where they were put to work laying cables and pipes, loading freight cars, or in skilled laborer positions. Another theory is that the names on the list were British men who had switched sides, working for the British Division during the war. Any other theories you might know of? 7. Missing globe Charlie Chaplin made the globe famous in his film The Great Dictator, where he portrayed a megalomaniac dictator dancing with a massive globe. It was inspired by a globe that really did sit in the office and is now missing. There’s one on display at the Markisches Museum, but it didn’t belong to him. A handful of these giant, small-car-sized globes existed at the time. They were called the “Columbus Globes” and were made in two limited-edition runs (the second run made minor corrections to the maps). Some of the globes were presented him and other leaders of the party, and they were supported by specially designed custom stands. The stand from the photographs of the office doesn’t match the one that’s long been claimed to be his. No one knows what happened to this giant artifact. A lot of these globes have survived, many in museums or in private collections. His is not among them, despite being one of the most iconic artifacts in pop culture. It’s almost as famous because of Charlie Chaplin as it is for belonging to him—having been turned from a symbol of power to a mocking jab at egomania. One retired cartographer has been documenting the globes and there provenance, or where they came from. He’s managed to identify globes that belonged to other officers, but this globe remains a mystery. 6. Operation Mincemeat When the Allied troops settled on Sicily as a major target, the next part of the plan was to convince the Axis powers that they were headed somewhere else. They turned to a plan concocted by an assistant to the head of British Naval Intelligence—Ian Fleming. Sound familiar? Fleming pitched a number of ideas on how to mislead the Axis officers, including one that involved forged papers with false information being planted on a body. They dubbed it “Operation Mincemeat” and went ahead with the plan. The body—with falsified documents that identified it as Major William Martin of the Royal Marines—was dumped off the coast of Spain. In 1943 Spain was officially neutral but had pro-Axis leanings. The body was recovered, and the Axis powers discovered the message. Axis troops were diverted away from Sicily and into Greece— leaving the intended target wide open. The mystery is- Whose body was it?? In 2003, a documentary claimed that the body belonged to a British soldier who was on the ill-fated HMS Dasher—an aircraft carrier that sank in 1943. The documentary named the man as Tom Martin. The following year, there was a memorial service for the crew of the Dasher. During the service, a special commendation was given to a man named John Melville, saying that it was his body that was used in Operation Mincemeat. More recently, a Canadian historian has put forth the idea that none of that is true and that the body actually belonged to a mentally ill, homeless Welshman named Glyndwr Michael. Michael had died after eating rat poison, the historian says, and his body was then used for the operation. Although the operation was a success, we may never know the hero who carried it out.