So often the only thing we hear about the Mafia is its ruthless gangland activities, never about its involvement and how instrumental it was during World War II. Thank you, Timeline for presenting this aspect of the Mob!

@epic6434

Ай бұрын

The MIC? Or Tammany Hall ? They're right next to DC and have ports also routes to Major cities in the Eastern Boards the 5 points in NY is a different Mob but what's the difference? Vermont? 😂

@454FatJack

Ай бұрын

And Mussolini govt was anti mafia. So Allied cause was wise guy’s best bet.

I remember reading about the mob's influence in the invasions of Sicily and Italy when I was a young teen. I couldn't believe it was true! Of course, as I got older and was able to understand things better, I came to realize that sometimes nations play marbles with other nations that are normally on the opposite side of their beliefs and philosophy because the sacrifice for both would be catastrophic if they refused to accept the new reality. In this case, the world was at war and there was a good chance that the Allies might not be victorious.

It was a thrilled watching documentary about the mafia exploited by the US during WW2.

This channel has so many good documentaries! Glad I found It

Thank you

It’s Fiorello LaGuardia, not Flores 💐

THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY....IS MY FRIEND

They helped in Sicily, but little impact in the Italian Campaign.

My history teacher told me about lucky in school I was amazed the government needed his help in ww2😂

Well presented

It was the other war around: How did the Mafia become enabled internationally as a result of WW2? A surprising answer for a peaceful country. Between 1946 and 1950, the three big Mafia groups in Italy and Sicily, the Cosa Nostra, D'hangreta and the Camorra, sent many members to Australia as refugees. They did the same to the USA. But in Australia, they thrived quietly and exist today in mainly legitimate businesses, but it was not always that way. They engineered a river of washed cash to flow to their new countries and used it to buy into certain industries that were vulnerable to intimidation. These were wine, automotive, transport, construction and fruit and vegetables. Today, each family thrives and is run by a third generation of sons, but they still take orders from and send money back to their families in the home countries. I could name names, but that would be a death sentence. For them secrecy is everything.

@Cigars...

2 ай бұрын

Very well said

14:30, the General has a Nike logo among his medals there

@MrGrace

2 ай бұрын

Wow! He sure does 😅

USA: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse

"Life is like Sunday afternoon during football season: you may be focussed on one channel, but there is always more than one game being played . . . "

very interesting !

London callin New York Chicago, Sicily, Rome, Marseilles, Paris, Belfast,Dublin, Madrid, Budapest,Quebec... !!! Ect. ⚡🌐⚡⚔🎯😎

Seen this before on another history channel years ago. Is there something NEW?

Yeah

If commercials are going to persist on every timeline video I watch I won't watch anymore and I will not tell my friends or anyone about timeline how does that feel remember you lose one you could possibly lose three or four more and if they go they'll be 10 more to follow that's how you keep your business you treat them right and I pay for no commercials so why did I see your freaking commercial

@jjspider22

Ай бұрын

Lmfao bro mad af 💀

@Davey-TheDJ

Ай бұрын

@@jjspider22 FMFGAO

@laurenallen3350

29 күн бұрын

Probs the mob

@blpblp-tj7ux

20 күн бұрын

jfc, if you learn to use punctuation then the commercials will go away...stop being such an idiot.

@eirip1

13 күн бұрын

Please use punctuation!

Adrianna Marie Zazueta 💕

😂😅 you're right about some things, but you got the wrong group lol.

@ChrisPBacon3000

2 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@mydogniko

2 ай бұрын

Who would that be?

@ghostrider369

2 ай бұрын

@@mydogniko when government is involved with criminals what does that make them. Everyone involved in every war is associated with some sort of mob.

@wauliepalnuts6134

2 ай бұрын

@@mydognikoQui?!

@johnwodetzki6326

2 ай бұрын

😅 not your group chat British boy

He was next in line to be king

The enemy of my enemy is my friend!!!

❤

Cuz you dnt pay enough lol 😂

Claiming he won the war is ridiculous. He played a small part in Sicily, which was a small part of the Italian front, which was a small part of the war in Europe, which was only half of WW2. As for his contribution to the New York harbour, not sabotaging the war effort doesn't count as actually helping, or if the Normandie sinking was indeed an accident, then having dock workers be careful to avoid any further accidents is only a small help.

My great uncle

He was half brother to alphosne capone

i dont know oppps

It worked for the allies when it came to the soviets, my enemies enemy is my friend

Another Mafia 🤫

Not by a longshot

"ci" in Italian is pronounced "chi" not "shi." Luciano rose to prominence by rubbing out my cousin Joe "The Boss" Masseria. The mayor of NY was not named Flores but rather Fiorello, and La Guardia is pronounced with a "wa" sound not like "Guard," which everyone in NY knows.

Firmation

Mossoinni and patten were brothers

He was my father and a good man in the end

@user-jd4kx4ff9q

16 күн бұрын

Dewey was really Dillinger the bankrobber

@user-jd4kx4ff9q

16 күн бұрын

Lies the Kennedys did them in

They sent italian americans to pacific

US Govt ❤ Mafia. Italy Mussolini’s Govt was anti Mafia. Wise guy’s helped Allies by accident ? 😂

When Italy was losing badly trying to colonize Ethiopia, massive amount of Italians (some Mafia aligned) living in America signed up to fight for a country they left behind. On the other hand, when bIack Americans tried to do the same for Ethiopians, US gov blocked them.

@residentzero

Ай бұрын

The guy with the funny mustache mentions USA inspired him in his book

Provokers

Twins

😇🥰😍🤩😘

His uncle was Mussolini

They were brothers

Murmur irma

did an ai write the dialog?

@t-and-p

Ай бұрын

What makes you say that? This documentary is far from new. At 49:33 it gives the date the documentary was made - MMXI (or 2011). Don't think they were using AI for scripts back then.

John Alite

Pusher musher

Dewy was the rat

Lies

America did the same thing with Jihadists in Bosnia and Kosovo. They paid and supplied Al Qaeda to topple Yugoslavia.

No he didnt lol

I pay KZread premium not to see commercials why did I see a commercial?

@johnhardy7764

Ай бұрын

lol bro mad asf

@mohaosman1473

28 күн бұрын

😂😂 same here

@Cjephunneh

23 күн бұрын

Timeline works for the Tatalia s that rule America.

@blpblp-tj7ux

20 күн бұрын

it's because you don't use punctuation

@jessicaspain5005

20 күн бұрын

It’s because it’s got podcast style commercials, so they’re built into the show. I just fast forward through them.

They were not “Luciano’s Girls” who testified against him. Misogynistic description of 5000 women he exploited and abused. Those are the words men describing this criminal should be using.

@wauliepalnuts6134

2 ай бұрын

No. They were there of their own volition. Try again you Italophobe.

@Swellington_

2 ай бұрын

omg dude,for real?

@wauliepalnuts6134

2 ай бұрын

No.

@C77-C77

2 ай бұрын

bahahahahaaaaaa

@johnwodetzki6326

2 ай бұрын

Oh shut up and write your own documentary

The second I heard this ridiculous, over the top, cheesy narration with that new York accent, I turned it off. Blegh.