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Why would the Germans annotate their illustrations in English?

• JohnHammersley 11y ago
  From the article it sounds like these drawings were commissioned by MI5 (the British Intelligence service) to document and raise awareness of the booby-trapped devices. "The drawings were made by a young artist called Laurence Fish for MI5's counter-sabotage unit."
  • scottmcdot 11y ago
    It's a bit confusing: below the first image it says "Laurence Fish was recruited by MI5 to design hidden booby trap bombs during the war" So Fish designed them but they are "Germans' World War Two boobytrap bombs"?
    • gus_massa 11y ago
      It's very confusing. I guess the image captions are not written by the article author, but by some unrelated staff that only read the article superficially. Anyway, the chocolate example is very strange. Did they find one? Did they have some info about it? Did they just made up it?
      • quesera 11y ago
        More detail here (2012): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9405919/Death-by-chocolate-plot-to-kill-Sir-Winston-Churchill.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9405919/Death-by-chocolat...