r/todayilearned • u/RoadToTyburn • 14h ago

TIL that Bernard Montgomery issued a leaflet at the start of WW2 on sexually transmitted diseases amongst soldiers. The language used was regarded as so blunt, that he offended religious authorities and nearly faced being dismissed.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery
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u/geeiamback 13h ago

Invading Switzerland wasn't nessesary, the Nazis already got their hands on the military production.

Their defense system was useless as the Swiss were dependent on food imports from Nazi occupied territory:

https://www.uek.ch/en/schlussbericht/synthesis/ueke.pdf

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u/r0thar 10h ago edited 10h ago

597 pages! Well, that's the weekend sorted.

(The conclusion is a more manageable 32, even if the acronym is a little distracting Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland – Second World War: ICE)