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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412353] Wed, 17 November 2021 11:54 Go to next message
D.J. is currently offline  D.J.
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:57:11 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach
<ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:39:19 -0600, D.J. wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:45:09 +0100, Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
>> wrote:
>>> On Mo 08 Nov 2021 at 10:52, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>>>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>>>> thing.
>>>
>>> It wasn't 'a couple of expendables' - it were prisoners from a
>>> concentration camp.
>>
>> Exactly, they were dressed in Polish military uniforms. Goebbels
>> claimed on the radio that they had attacked a German radio station in
>> Germany. They were murdered, and it was made to look like they had
>> attacked.
>
> The RAF also silenced a speech of Göring at some point.
>
> < https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/world-war-iis- strangest-bombing-mission-180974470/>
>
> One of the daring RAF operations. "Funny" that listeners on the radio
> heard the roaring sound of the bomber's engines and exploding shells,
> because it was a live transmission. *g*

Wasn't it some party where he declared no Allied aircraft would bomb
Germany ?
Re: Who Knew ? [message #412357 is a reply to message #412353] Wed, 17 November 2021 14:16 Go to previous message
Andreas Kohlbach is currently offline  Andreas Kohlbach
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:54:29 -0600, D.J. wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:57:11 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach
> <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
>>
>> The RAF also silenced a speech of Göring at some point.
>>
>> < https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/world-war-iis- strangest-bombing-mission-180974470/>
>>
>> One of the daring RAF operations. "Funny" that listeners on the radio
>> heard the roaring sound of the bomber's engines and exploding shells,
>> because it was a live transmission. *g*
>
> Wasn't it some party where he declared no Allied aircraft would bomb
> Germany ?

Yes, in September 1939, when being very confident after Poland was
relatively easy and swift defeated. Göring then said his name was no
longer Göring but Meyer (a very common German name, similar to the
English "Miller"), if any single enemy plane would make it to the Ruhr. A
few months later not only the Ruhr (relatively close to the British
Island), but Berlin, deep in the German heartland, was bombed. Not much
damage was done at first, but must have pissed him off.

< https://www.historyhikes.org/hh-dispatches/you-can-call-me-m eyer>
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Andreas

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