Beneath the Medal - War Stories
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Official history is just the beginning.
Every medal for heroism has an underside—a hidden story of sacrifice, impossible choices, and the secrets that were left in the shadows.
This channel is an archive of the untold. We investigate the forgotten heroes, the clandestine operations, and the incredible acts of valor that were buried by time. From the resistance cells of WWII to the silent sacrifices of the Cold War, we reveal what lies beneath the medal.
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The Priest Who Turned the Church Wine Cellar Into a Shooting Range for the Resistance
The Doctor Who Put Casts on Healthy Arms and Legs to Prevent Young Men from Being Recruited
The 18-Year-Old Forger Who Used Chemistry to Erase Jewish Names from Official Documents
The Famous Singer Who Smuggled Secret Messages in Invisible Ink on Her Musical Scores
The Resistance That Used Knitting to Code Military Train Movements
The British Spy Who Used Dead Rats Stuffed with Explosives to Destroy Boilers
The Prisoners Who Sabotaged Nazi V-2 Rockets by Urinating in the Guidance Systems
The Carpenter Who Spent 30 Nights Carving a Hollow Pillar to Hide a Bomb for Hitler
The Prisoner Who Collected Typhus Bedbugs and Released Them in SS Guards' Beds
The Nazi Doctor Who Operated on a Wounded American Soldier Under Heavy Gunfire
The 10-Year-Old Orphan Who Guided Lost Soldiers Through the Forest at Night
The conductor who turned his passenger train into mobile shelter for refugees across occupied Europe
The Farmer Who Hid a Jewish Family Inside a Liquid Manure Tank to Fool Nazi Dogs
The baker who baked secret codes in bread to warn the resistance before each raid
The Gestapo Secretary Who Hid Hundreds of Files So No One Would Be Arrested
The German Officer Who Pretended to Be Drunk to Let Mothers and Children Escape the Forest
The Doctor Who Invented a "Phantom Disease" So the SS Would Quarantine the Town and Save 8,000 Jews
The 9-Year-Old Girl Who Derailed a Military Train Using Only Grease and Her Jump Rope
The Three Monks Who Dressed as Gestapo Officers to Rescue Children from the Ghetto
The Mother Superior Who Evacuated 74 Jewish Children as the Bombs Fell
The Girl Who Smuggled Dynamite Past Nazi Checkpoints Hidden Inside Her Porcelain Doll
The Teenage Sisters Who Never Revealed How Many Nazis They Killed
The Ballerina Who Hid Microfilm in Her Shoes and Danced for Hitler While Spying for Allies
The Cleaning Woman Who Poisoned the SS Headquarters Water Tank with Typhus Bacteria
The SS Guard Who Left the Gate Unlocked Every Night So Prisoners Could Escape
The 10-Year-Old Boy Who Stopped a Nazi Train by Changing the Track Signals All By Himself
The 13-Year-Old Boy Who Guided Allied Bombers to Target Using Only a Flashlight on a Rooftop
The seamstress who sewed escape maps into Nazi uniforms — The resistance's secret workshop