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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1223928" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Subject: Monopoly and POW's</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Starting in 1941, an </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">the involuntary </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">for ways and means </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">to facilitate their escape... </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">make a lot of noise when you open</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">if they get wet, they turn into</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">mush. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Someone in MI-5 (similar to </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">America's OSS ) got the idea of printing escape</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">maps on silk. It's durable, </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">as many times as needed, and </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">makes no noise whatsoever. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">At that time, there was only one manufacturer </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">in Great Britain that had</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">perfected the technology of printing on silk, and </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">that was John Waddington,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">was only too happy to do</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">its bit for the war effort. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">By pure </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">American </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">category of </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">the </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">International Red Cross to prisoners of war. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Under the strictest of </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">workshop on the grounds </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">employees began mass-producing </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">or Italy where Allied POW camps </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">were regional system). When processed, these</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">maps could be folded into such </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">tiny dots that they would actually fit inside</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">a Monopoly playing piece. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">managed</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">to add: </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">compass 2. A two-part metal</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">file that could easily be screwed together 3. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Useful amounts of genuine</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">high-denomination German, Italian, and French </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">currency, hidden within the</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">piles of Monopoly money! </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">British and </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">American air crews were advised, before taking off on their</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">first mission, </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">red dot, one </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">located in the </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">corner of the Free Parking square. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">who successfully escaped, an estimated</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">one-third were aided in their flight </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">by the rigged Monopoly sets. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">indefinitely, since the British</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Government might want to use this highly </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">successful ruse in still another,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">future war. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">The story wasn't </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">Waddington's, as </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">ceremony. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">It's always nice when you can play that 'Get Out of Jail' Free' </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black">card!</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"><span style="color: black"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'HelveticaNeue'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1223928, member: 1246"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=HelveticaNeue] [COLOR=black]Subject: Monopoly and POW's Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape... Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush. Someone in MI-5 (similar to America's OSS ) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever. At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort. By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war. Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece. As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add: 1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass 2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together 3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money! British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square. Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets. Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war. The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public ceremony. It's always nice when you can play that 'Get Out of Jail' Free' card! [/COLOR] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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