"Revision to the earlier rule... new rule!" 📉🇬🇧 In 1940, Britain removed station signs to baffle potential Nazi invaders. In this sketch, the railway staff take "security" to a whole new level of absurdity. From whispering passwords to vetting passengers with national anthems, finding your stop has never been more difficult—even for the actual German spy on the train! The Narrative Breakdown: The Sign Removal: The real historical tactic used to disorient German paratroopers. 📉🤔 The Anthem Test: Why not knowing the lyrics to God Save the King made you a suspect. 🔊🎶 The Whispering Protocol: The conductor’s hilarious attempt to keep station names "top secret." 📉🧤 The Polite Paratrooper: A very British end to a very German invasion. 🛑🤣 Do you think you’d pass the "God Save the King" test under pressure? Let us know in the comments! 👇 #HorribleHistories #WWII #BritishHistory #HomeFront #HistoryHumor #WorldWar2 #FunnyHistory #MathewBaynton #RailwayHistory #SpyFail
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German: "How inefficient. Gotta fix this"
Okay but the point wasnt to stop spies, it was slow an invasion force. A paratrooper wouldnt be hiding on the train
R.I.P OG Horrible Histories
For people thinking this is ridiculous.... Which it is, remember that in WW2, the British found a homeless man who just died, put him on military uniform and dropped him off the coast of *peacefully allowing nazi forces inside* Spain with fake official invasion plans of the Mediterranean. (Sorry they weren't occupied). UK offials asked the Germans to return the documents and to please not read them since that wouldn't be proper... The Germans moved their troops to where the documents said we'd invade and the UK invaded elsewhere. Another thing the British did, Germans built a fake airfield with wooden planes. The day it was completed the RAF bombed it with a single.... Wooden bomb. No, it did not explode. - alledged yes but their are sources claiming it's true.
He couldn't resist the torture of inefficiency.
They should all write down what their stop is and give it to the attendant. When they are approaching a station, the attendant should go collect that specific person. No need to mention the station aloud. Voilà.
To anyone who thinks the British were inept, the German agents sent to Britain in 1940 were even worse. One pair of spies were caught asking for a ticket to London from a remote Scottish station. The ticket collector noticed they had wet feet after just landing on a nearby beach. They were executed.
90% of these comments are talkibg about the racists, only 10% are the actual racist comments, and like one guy is saying they miss old horrible histories
The original "I'm the spy"
The only non racist comment here
Coventry. The next station is Coventry.
im racist but only on thursdays so its okay
Where are these racist comments? I see more people coping over racist comments than the racist comments themselves. 😂
I love how the train noises stop after the guy said he's German 😂
"This is to stop paratroopers that have landed, gotten well dressed and integrated themselves into society and then boarded a train to a destination of which they hopefully will not be able to read before boarding"
Gosh I miss this era of Horrible Histories 😢
At least the Guard is wearing a Southern Railway uniform. The SR went to Kent and the rest of the southern coast, so they would be serious about not tipping off German infiltrators.
insufficiency on a train...... a germans greatest weakness
the real solution: the worker asks people what their stop is when they get on. the people are given a number and the worker calls out the numbers of the people who need to get off at their stop. for example: you get on, say you need to get off at Oxford, the worker gives you a ticket that says #35, and writes down that #35 needs to get off at Oxford, then when they get to Oxford he calls out all the numbers that get off there but not the name of the stop.
The Brits are so inefficient. They've managed to torture the Germans off the train 😂