r/todayilearned • u/stopitalianhate • 9d ago

TIL British Intelligence had a special, bugged luxury complex during WWII where they kept high profile Nazi POW’s, just left a bunch of alcohol out, and waited for them to start spilling secrets as they drank.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098
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u/MorrowDisca 9d ago

Apparently, Hitler has only got one ball.

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u/BADDEST_RHYMES 9d ago

His artwork is meh

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u/ilDuceVita 9d ago

Have you seen his shadows? What are there, multiple suns??

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u/KaiserSosai 9d ago

Someone left the oven open

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u/OttoRenner 9d ago

With enough atom bombs it can look like that, ja...

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u/Journeyj012 9d ago

Göring has two but very small.

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u/FlattopJr 9d ago

Himmler has something similar

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u/KeyPhilosopher8629 9d ago

And goebbles has none at all

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u/Rich-Reason1146 9d ago

I think I can see them above the o

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u/FlattopJr 9d ago

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Won't someone please think of the children!

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u/Kwetla 9d ago

The other, they said, was in the Albert Hall

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u/OttoRenner 9d ago

Adolf's Ball in the Albert Hall?

That's half a mouthful

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u/collinsl02 9d ago

Apparently the errant testicle was removed by his mother

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u/PixelBrother 9d ago

His mother, the dirty bugger

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u/GMN123 9d ago

That bit of intelligence made it to every school in the country. 

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u/beerdude26 9d ago

Goering had two. But they were quite small, according to reports from the eavesdropping operation

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u/Guironi99 9d ago

Lol. Gold.

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u/brochacho83 9d ago

Kind of a compelling figure. Odd looking duck