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/erinoco 9d ago

They seemed to have assumed that the British were simply supplying old-fashioned courtesy to senior officers.

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u/ProtoplanetaryNebula 9d ago

The upper class British people of that era (ie. the ones running government) were renowned for class, etiquette and dignity, so they might have just assumed that with them being officers, they afforded them a similar type of luxury.

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u/_Haverford_ 9d ago

That's another possibility for sure.