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xthetenth posted:For another reference the electricity Oak Ridge consumed was somewhere in the 20-40% range of the entire electrical production of the Third Reich during. Total, not annual. Pennsylvania outproduced the entire Axis in steel. (Apologies if this has come up in the thread recently.) Also, it was markedly better steel toward the end.
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Spaced God posted:Oh poo poo I can talk about World War Two and early nukes for days. Feynman was a total prankster and he ruled.
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Spaced God posted:A few people Feynman pranked were scared into thinking he was a spy, which is funny because while Feynman wasn't a spy, his roommate and very good friend, one Klaus Fuchs, very much was. This is hilarious. "Boys, I think we have a German spy on our hands. It has to be Richard, Bob, Andy or Klaus." "It's probably Richard, that guy is an rear end in a top hat"
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mediocre dad okay posted:This is hilarious. "Boys, I think we have a German spy on our hands. It has to be Richard, Bob, Andy or Klaus." "It's probably Richard, that guy is an rear end in a top hat" Fuchs was a Soviet spy though 
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System Metternich posted:Fuchs was a Soviet spy though Yeah, that's he wants you to believe..
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System Metternich posted:Fuchs was a Soviet spy though Oops. See, this is what ruined my career in counter-intelligence.
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mediocre dad okay posted:Oops. See, this is what ruined my career in counter-intelligence. I thought it was that mongoose.
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mediocre dad okay posted:This is hilarious. "Boys, I think we have a German spy on our hands. It has to be Richard, Bob, Andy or Klaus." "It's probably Richard, that guy is an rear end in a top hat" No joke, someone asked Fuchs before he was outed if there was a spy who it would be, and he totally said "oh yo 100% Feynman. He breaks into safes and poo poo"
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mediocre dad okay posted:Oops. See, this is what ruined my career in counter-intelligence. The Nazis were aggressively bad at intelligence. They knew the U.S. had used native language codes during the Great War, so they sent some academic types over to study them. The U.S. was aware of this, but the spies gave up on their own because there were too many different languages and they thought it was hopeless to even try to understand them. Every single Nazi agent in Britain was imprisoned, killed, or turned double by war’s end. Then there was GARBO, literally a one-man spy ring. Nazi Germany didn’t even come close to penetrating the Manhattan Project. Their own scientists were in disbelief when the bombs were dropped on Japan. In contrast, Stalin knew about the bomb before Truman.
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The Nazi's top spy for most of the war was working against Hitler. That should show how bad German Military intelligence was.
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Fuckin' Garbo. I love how he managed to convince the Nazis that the main attack was coming through Calais even after Normandy happened. Plus that whole Iron Cross + MBE thing. A goddamn national treasure, that man  .
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Alhazred posted:Another was caught because he had german sausages in his suitcase. I need to read more about this. Or maybe I don't, because my mental image of him walking down the street with his suitcase and it splitting open sending German sausages flying everywhere as he scrambles to get them all back into suitcase before someone notices they're bratwurst and not cumberland is probably better than the real story.
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It was probably just a normal lunch except it had german language on the package and that aroused suspicion when you are, ya know, fighting germans.
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Baron Corbyn posted:I need to read more about this. Or maybe I don't, because my mental image of him walking down the street with his suitcase and it splitting open sending German sausages flying everywhere as he scrambles to get them all back into suitcase before someone notices they're bratwurst and not cumberland is probably better than the real story. Nah, it's even better than that: quote:Another pair were stopped while cycling through Scotland on the wrong side of the road: once the police discovered German sausages and Nivea hand cream in their luggage, their cover was blown.
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One story I read in one which I really hope is true is that in the early months of the war, an elderly woman in England locked a man from the electricity board who'd come round to read the meter in a cupboard because he had a little moustache like Hitler, and she thought that meant he might be a devious German spy.
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Wheat Loaf posted:One story I read in one which I really hope is true is that in the early months of the war, an elderly woman in England locked a man from the electricity board who'd come round to read the meter in a cupboard because he had a little moustache like Hitler, and she thought that meant he might be a devious German spy. I hope he learned his lesson. 
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Nah, it's even better than that: oh poo poo, i use nivea hand cream! 
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Platystemon posted:Every single Nazi agent in Britain was imprisoned, killed, or turned double by war’s end. Wikipedia has a decent overview of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-Cross_System quote:Writing in 1972, John C. Masterman [...] said that by 1941, MI5 "actively ran and controlled the German espionage system in the United Kingdom." It was not an idle boast; post-war records confirmed that none of the Abwehr agents, bar one who committed suicide, went unnoticed
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duTrieux. posted:oh poo poo, i use nivea hand cream! Caught you, smooth handed!
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mediocre dad okay posted:Fuckin' Garbo. I love how he managed to convince the Nazis that the main attack was coming through Calais even after Normandy happened. Plus that whole Iron Cross + MBE thing. A goddamn national treasure, that man The masterstroke was selling “the Normandy feint was so unexpectedly effective that they’ve called off the landings elsewhere, the ones which the Normandy landings were originally intended to cover”.
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duTrieux. posted:oh poo poo, i use nivea hand cream! Please present your sausage for inspection 
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Alhazred posted:One spy was caught because he didn't know that landlords weren't allowed to serve alcohol before lunchtime. Another was caught because he had german sausages in his suitcase. On the other hand there was the story of the German POWs who escaped from Island Farm camp in Wales via tunneling under the fence: Stage 2 of their escape involved stealing a car, which promptly refused to start up without the keys. Luckily they were met by four passing camp guards, who saw nothing suspicious about a carful of tall, blond 'Welsh miners' with inexplicably German accents trying to start the Camp doctor's car and kindly pushstarted it for them. They then picked up a rather baffled hitchhiker who rode along and gave them directions to Gloucester under the impression they were Norwegian tourists. The group were captured some hundred miles from the camp after abandoning the car when it ran out of petrol. When they later found out it belonged to a doctor they offered to pay for any damage done and the petrol used in their escape. Of the 80 or so prisoners who escaped, only three weren't recaptured and possibly made it home; one prisoner was shot and wounded, and a guard suffered injuries when he fell into the entrance of the escape tunnel while chasing an escapee. As an interesting aside, the Italian POWs held in Scotland apparently had so little interest in escaping and returning to the war that they were effectively held in open prison, and the officers were given leave to wander into the local town to buy cigarettes. After the war finished some of them actually moved back to the area as they had enjoyed their time there so much.
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In the U.S., we treated Nazi prisoners of war better than our own citizens of Japanese descent.
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Nivea and Hugo Boss. Any other nazi products I can put on my avoid-list?
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:Nivea and Hugo Boss. Any other nazi products I can put on my avoid-list? Orangina.
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:Nivea and Hugo Boss. Any other nazi products I can put on my avoid-list? Fanta. Volkswagen.
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ThyssenKrupp. Hope you didn't take an elevator recently.
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Ford Nestle General Electrics IBM Siemens BMW
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Slime posted:Orangina. bean_shadow posted:Fanta. Volkswagen. Admiral Joeslop posted:GROHE. Ensign Expendable posted:ThyssenKrupp. Hope you didn't take an elevator recently. steinrokkan posted:Ford The whole nein yards?
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as long as we're taking the lofty approach to the affiliations of WWII era companies you might as well not fly anymore as it was largely boeing that roasted a couple hundred thousand civilians
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Ensign Expendable posted:ThyssenKrupp. Hope you didn't take an elevator recently. No, no. You mean Schindler's. Edit: A more serious comment - Babylonians were able to count up to 60 in their hands, using the knuckles of four fingers on one hand and the five digits on the other as multiples of 12. That's why there are still some methods of measurement dependent on 60 or subdivisions thereof. Samovar has a new favorite as of 16:33 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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Dhl. If you get a package delivered by them, you're pretty much a nazi.
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Samovar posted:No, no. You mean Schindler's. Schindler was the guy who hid jews from the nazis, if I remember the film correctly.
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Dr Oetker was a nazi and volunteered for SS.
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Why were there so many Nazi sympathizers in the US? It seems strange to me after the US had just fought in World War 1. Was it due to the large German population here? I read that was a big reason the US waiting so long to get into WW1 but didn't know if it played a part in WW2.
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