Stumbled across this the other day. Never heard of any of it before (so don't know how true any of it is), but thought it was really interesting.
http://listverse.com/2013/11/05/10-hilariously-childish-weapons-we-used-against-the-nazis/
Basically it's a list of, well, practical jokes almost that the British used to undermine the Nazis in WWII. Quite incredible.
I thought this was going to be another ads/premier thread....
Did we ever set deadlines that couldn't be met to demoralise them? I think that's high on the list of passive aggressive management techniques.
I think we just put the cookie jar on the top shelf instead.
To reinforce his stories of sexual misconduct among senior Nazis, he began doctoring photographs of Hitler to make it look as though he was exposing himself or masturbating in public. Artists like Marion Whitehorn spent hours painstakingly drawing genitals onto pictures of the Fuhrer. For added effect, the penis shown was always circumcised to add credence to the rumors Hitler was secretly of Jewish descent.
I believe Jamie has been recruited to similar for the current war effort
They got guts in those days but what we get nowadays ... 🙄
Not so much the propaganda war but there were some interesting psychological games on the battle field - I quite liked the sort of deadly practical jokes department the british government had. - the [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Wheezers-Dodgers-Clandestine-Development/dp/1848320264 ]"wheezers and dodgers"
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For the african campaign they developed a landmine disguised as camel shit. German drivers used to think running over shit was lucky - so they'd basically developed a mine that drivers would deliberately aim for. Once the german army got wise to that there was already a mark 2 camel shit mine which was in the shape of a squashed turd with a tyre track in it.
Behind enemy lines in mainland europe dead rats were packed with explosives and left in factories - caretakers that found them would toss them into the fire to dispose of them long after the saboteur had left the scene, allowing them to bomb factories without blowing their cover
Whilst funny, that article is actually sensitively written and gives a bit of insight into the resistance movements..
Directly under the headline on that article I got a picture of a Lezyne Track Pump, which confused me for a moment 😆