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  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

    www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff

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      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s almost like Nazis were naturally unkind people.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And yet later some of them decided gitmo was a good idea…

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      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        some of them

        Without looking into it, I can guarantee you that no one involved in British Intelligence in WW2 were in the US Army Military Police in Iraq 60 years later. Not everything is connected.

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      • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yanks are also dogshit at espionage for this reason. I think by Allies this is more referring to the British, whose intelligence was instrumental in winning the war.

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even regular pows had it pretty good, lots were out to work on farms in the Midwest then stayed and hung their shingle.

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  • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • bitwaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They had training missions into enemy territory with fake ordinance?

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      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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    • Glass0448@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was about to ask. I’d hope command didn’t risk a pilot’s life to revel strategic intel.

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Where did you read about it?

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a German I was wondering how the Red Army Faction time-travelled to WW2.

    Turns out RAF = Royal Air Force

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    • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When I first moved to Germany, I was surprised by the amount of leftists that seemed to support the Royal Air Force, lol

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      • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For WW2, It’s complicated, they did fight the nazis but they also applied carpet bombing.

        You can appreciate one without forgetting the other.

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    • EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Danke, das war verwirrend

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    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yet, wasn’t surprised they had boomers? :p

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  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anyone have an actual citation on this particular fact?

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I did and turns out this fact is made of wood.

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      • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I fucking knew it.

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    • nl4real@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unofrtunately, unlikely, per Snopes: www.snopes.com/fact-check/wooden-bomb/

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    • kromem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is very Monty Pythonesque. British humor is something special

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  • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I assume they knew because of the enigma cracking?

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    • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is 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.

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  • Norgur@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Would've been embarrassing if they'd been wrong and the airfield was real

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  • nick@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What a flex

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    • MrBusiness@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lmao, absolutely. Imagine being the reconnaissance that had to report this to command.

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Someone needs to make a “Hitler reacts” parody video for this story.

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  • Hupf@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

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  • RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “But ve worked very hard :(”

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek

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