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Aside from this article, just continuing to scroll down reveals quite a few interesting headlines. Here's one I found particularly interesting in light of curr
by nosianu 4y ago
Aside from this article, just continuing to scroll down reveals quite a few interesting headlines.
Here's one I found particularly interesting in light of current events and reports of looting:
"How German Soldiers Used Lentil Soup as an Effective Defense Mechanism Against the Soviets"
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/lentil.html https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/lentil.html
To gain time for a retreat they cooked soup for the attacking underfed Russian soldiers. The ruse was successful.
> The Soviets were hot on their heels at first, but once they reached the steaming pots of soup the scent was simply too much to resist. The hungry Soviet troops clambered over each other to grab some of the soup, inadvertently giving the Germans more time.
- cafard 4y agoThe history of warfare is full of cases in which the side that had just chased away the opponents became disorganized in looting, and then was overrun by a counter-attack.
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- robonerd 4y agoI never found a source for this, but I once heard that during the Second Punic War the Roman senate stalled Hannibal's army in a similar manner, using prostitutes.
- sandworm101 4y agoThere would need to be some very specific circumstances for this to work. The general rule of all cooking is that it takes much longer to cook food than to eat it. So spending time cooking soup, rather than fleeing, would be a net loss of time. Whatever time the Russians were delayed eating your soup would be less than the time you were delayed in making it. The only way it would work would be to just put the pot over the fire and run. Without someone watchin it, the window of time between soup getting hot and soup burning/boiling into nothing would be slim. A more likely version might be that starving Russian troops were so hungry that, upon finding ingredients left out, they stopped to make soup themselves.
- NicoJuicy 4y agoNot everyone needs to stay to cook soup :)
- rightbyte 4y agoThe persuit might be triggered by the Germans retreating. So the Soviet soldiers might not have advanced unless there was a retreat.
- sandworm101 4y agoIt is rather difficult to pursue someone who isn't already retreating. You cannot chase something that isn't already running away.
- scrumbledober 4y agothrow some ingredients in a pot, put it on the stove, and high tail it out of there. if it takes 20 minutes for the Russians to show up there's a nice fresh pot of lentil soup waiting for them
- ericbarrett 4y agoYou can keep a covered pot of lentils on a warm stove (or campfire) for hours, maybe days if the temp is right.