The Germans were utterly fucked when it came to gathering intelligence because threatening captives doesn’t work. Allies put captured generals in a luxury prison and bugged them.
That was true of Nazi interrogators with the exception of Hanns Scharff. He’s famously known in military intelligence for his use of kindness to extract information from unknowing participants.
It’s almost like Nazis were naturally unkind people.
Yeah. It’s in the name
Nazi is short for national socialist. That wouldn’t per se suggest unkindness by name alone. The appearance is deceptive, of course.
It is worth pointing out that the national socialist party existed before Hitler. As Hitler gained power he forced out the true socialist. By the time he was in power there was no more real socialism in the party.
Socialism is an inherently globalist ideology. Any attempt to replace that with nationalism will lead to results just like the Nazis. Or the CCP, for that matter.
The Nazis weren’t good guys, even before the takeover and the emphasis on eugenics and anti-semitism.
“Globalist” is a white supremacist dogwhistle for Jews.
That is very Monty Pythonesque. British humor is something special
Anyone have an actual citation on this particular fact?
Unfortunately, unlikely, per Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wooden-bomb/
I did and turns out this fact is made of wood.
This is one of those things where I truly don’t care if it’s real or not, as my life is better for knowing about it either way.
I assume they knew because of the enigma cracking?
If that was the only way they knew they wouldn’t have done it. The Germans not knowing the enigma was cracked was a lot more important than a silly prank.
“But ve worked very hard to trick you :(”
Would’ve been embarrassing if they’d been wrong and the airfield was real
What a flex
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I’ve read about it and iirc, it’s wasn’t even official mission. It was just pilots goofing off and dropping a training bomb, without command approval.
They had training missions into enemy territory with fake ordinance?
More like they had access to training bombs and planes, and frequently flew over enemy territory, so they put those things together and got a mad prank out of it.
Eeeyup! And IIRC consequences back at base but eh, worth it.
As a German I was wondering how the Red Army Faction time-travelled to WW2.
Turns out RAF = Royal Air Force
When I first moved to Germany, I was surprised by the amount of leftists that seemed to support the Royal Air Force, lol
For WW2, It’s complicated, they did fight the nazis but they also applied carpet bombing.
You can appreciate one without forgetting the other.
Yet, wasn’t surprised they had bombers? :p
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