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I only found this out three hours ago and I'm already planning on buying eBay's current lot of offerings.
I wonder if the modern day equivalent would be just as effective if smuggled inside an Xbox lol.
Back on subject -
I have doubts about the whole thing.
1) given that the maps supposedly had safe houses and key resistance details on them.
This was apparently concealed within the "Scotty Dog" playing piece and when broken open (card counters due to metal usage restrictions etc) there would be a silk escape map. What I doubt is that this much data about key resistance locations would be sent in uncontrolled parcels. Still it's possible.
2) real local currency hidden inside the deck of Monopoly money. My doubt is. What if the Red Cross parcels were intercepted and the German guards fancied a game of gold old Monopoly. It wouldn't take the Gestapo to work out what was going on if the money was discovered.
The only way I can sort of justify this is that Mi9 and the Waddingtons knowing that monopoly takes at least three weeks to complete a game, took a chance and realised that Germans would have got bored and packed the whole thing away.
Does anybody have contact with any former POW's who could confirm the claims?
Cheers Chris
Wait a minute - what's this about "completing a game of Monopoly"? Show me video or it didn't happen.
Completing Monopoly.... HA! Right.....
I first heard about this from a TV doc featuring actual MI-9 workers, MI-9 had a lot of clever ideas about how to get things in to camps and I while believe the bare bones of this story are true I doubt the details. I believe the Americans also had a way of not only getting info and items into camps but also importantly a method of getting info out of camps. From memory I believe the Americans may have deliberately planted specially trained people into camps and that info was returned home through coded letters, again through memory I seem to recall that the info returned home included details of units resting in Germany that sometimes guarded camps etc.
Hi Pattle, any further information on the specifics would be appreciated. I really want to try and get some of these into my collection if they can be found. Even if just to recreate them using vintage examples of the items etc.
Cheers Chris