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I wonder why they destroyed the remaining games after the war. What was there to hide?

• VLM 14y ago
  Presumably the maps were made from confidential info with the help of Germans in their .mil and .gov... and if like clockwork we had to fight WWIII in the 1970s it would have helped to not blow the cover of those agents. Even more excitingly, in the short term, about 1/4 of those agents probably were allied with the USSR .mil and .gov by 1950, quite handy human intelligence. Also having been in .mil, troops always have crazy stories that are blown off, but a large cache of rigged board games means POWs would probably never be able to play a board game again, which is a shame, so its vaguely humanitarian, although they must have realized the truth would eventually come out (like now). Its too bad, board games are nice for POWs, and now they can't have them...
  • antidoh 14y ago
    "and now they can't have them..." Actually they can. Print the board games on silk, and package the game in the board/silk.
    • yozmsn 14y ago
      What he means is that POW camps/prisons will no longer allow games inside for fear of what they're hiding.
• gpcz 14y ago
  From the movie "The Great Escape": "Ex-POWs asked filmmakers to exclude details about the help they received from their home countries, such as maps, papers, and tools hidden in gift packages, lest it jeopardize future POW escapes. The filmmakers complied." src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_%28film%29#Adaptation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_%28film%29#Ada...