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In Reply to: Tape. Brought to you by the same folks who brought you WWII! :) posted by mhardy6647 on January 16, 2024 at 10:34:07:
The Nazis used tape recorders to try to fool Allied intelligence personnel as to where Hitler actually was, on any given day.
As in, if Hitler was supposed to be addressing a rally in Meisenberg, but he was actually in a meeting in Heidelberg, the Allied spooks would listen carefully to the Meisenberg broadcast of his speech, for the the tell-tale sounds of a 16-inch acetate radio transcription disk.
But when the Nazis started faking Hitler's live events with magnetic tape, the Allied spooks were fooled.
My favorite Hitler story.
In the final days of WWII in Berlin, in the Fuhrer Bunker, Hitler asked a young officer to find out the identity of the Russian unit that was closest to killing him.
The young officer later passed on the information. Hitler looked up at him and said words to the effect that, when Hitler was invading Russia, he could have slowed down the invasion and taken the time to kill them all, as they were not themselves engaging the Nazis. But, at the time, getting to Moscow was more important.
Hitler sadly shook his head and said, "Young man: At the very end, it is the unthinking kindnesses one regrets most."
That story is from Paul Johnson's "Modern Times."
john
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- Thanks for the belly laugh!!! (And a favorite Hitler story of mine.) - John Marks 01/16/2415:55:31 01/16/24 (0)
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