During World War II, in addition to frontal gun battles, there were also many less serious battlefields behind enemy lines. The entire country made counterfeit coins, forged stamps, airdropped pornographic leaflets to enemy countries, and played pornographic radio stations late at night. Although it sounds very outrageous, they all really happened. Fasten your seat belts, and today's story is about to begin.
Part One Counterfeit currency is rampant
Hitler mobilized the whole country to send counterfeit currency to the British. The currency was so well made that he was reluctant to give it away in the end.
In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, the Germans came up with a crazy idea. They forged 30 billion pounds sterling and dropped it from the sky above the United Kingdom. This is mainly because as the world's reserve currencies, the US dollar and the pound are the strongest. They not only have unique advantages in international economic and trade, but also allow the UK to overpower Germany economically.
Manufacturing counterfeit currency can not only disrupt the market order in the UK, but also cause confusion in the entire world through inflation. However, there are hundreds of anti-counterfeiting marks on a pound, and the first batch of counterfeit coins produced were too inferior to be sold at all. Therefore, Hitler recruited counterfeiting talents across the country. They looked for production technicians and simulation experts among prisoners. The technical team was mainly Jews from concentration camps. They were smart and easy to control, and they did not have to worry about leaking secrets.
Through careful observation, these Jews discovered that the material of the pound was mainly linen . For this reason, the Germans specially bought a large amount of linen as rags and used it to make pounds. In order to more accurately restore the raw materials for making pounds, even the water quality must be simulated by several major rivers in the UK. The patterns, text, watermarks and even the serial numbers on the counterfeit coins can be called a one-to-one replica.
However, because the equipment was all brand new, the new British pounds printed looked like fakes, so the Germans hired a group of prisoners to make these counterfeit coins old, rubbing them repeatedly with sweaty or oily hands, and even writing and drawing on them. 142 Jewish prisoners eventually forged up to 9 million counterfeit British pounds, which even exceeded the number of real banknotes issued by the British Bank.
In order to check the quality, German agents specially brought a large amount of counterfeit banknotes to Swiss Bank for inspection, and told them that the money came from the black market and hoped that they could be inspected. In the end, the Swiss Bank only detected 10% of the counterfeit banknotes. determined that there was no problem with other banknotes and exchanged them into other currencies at the request of the agents. In this way, the first batch of counterfeit currency smoothly flowed into the British market.
This time it was the turn of the German high-level officials to worry. They spent a lot of time and energy on counterfeiting money, but in the end they accidentally made real money. How could they give it to the British for nothing? So they classified these counterfeit banknotes. If the authenticity could not be verified, they used them to buy war equipment and exchange them for US dollars. If they were slightly defective, they threw them to the British in the sky as originally planned. This counterfeit currency war successfully disrupted the British market economy and dragged the pound down from the high level of the international currency.
brought the trade war to the country and brought the psychological warfare to the front line. The Germans' damaging tactics were far more than just printing two counterfeit bills. He was well aware of the influence of Lao Wang next door, so he began to blow the "pillow wind" to the enemy.
Part 2 Peach Blossoms
During World War II, in order to provoke the alliance between the United States, Britain and France, Germany dropped a large number of connotative leaflets on various fronts. For example, the anti-American leaflet for the British army showed an American soldier and a British girl having fun on the front, and the graves of British soldiers on the back. It also wrote "This is a happy war for Americans." means that although you are colluding with American soldiers on the battlefield, they not only make you sacrifice your life, but also steal your wife and daughter.
Or it describes that when British soldiers were fighting on the front line, the French were living at home with their wives. The leaflet also printed "When you are not at home..." , which means that when you are not at home, the old king next door comes to your door.
The Germans wanted to use this method to arouse the war weariness of the British soldiers, so that they would only care about home without fighting spirit.But this trick didn't work at all for American soldiers. Instead, it became the lubricant of flirting in the war. It is said that the American soldiers who stayed in the trenches all day were really bored. The peachy leaflets falling from the sky made the idle American soldiers ecstatic. They even ran around in order to collect the complete set of leaflets. Sure enough, the gangsters had to be punished by gangsters.
In order to counter Germany's obscene behavior, Britain also began to carry out pornographic counterattacks against the Nazis, especially senior generals. They used cartoons, leaflets, broadcasts and other methods to claim that Hitler only had one egg, and that his men either had none or were extremely small. One of the pictures in
is very similar to the behavior of middle school students, that is, a photo of Hitler who was crudely transformed. transformed the Nazi lunatic into a perverted image wearing leather shorts and putting his hands on his inner thighs.
The British's wishful thinking was to lower their prestige in the hearts of the Germans by making pornographic attacks on top Nazis. After all, they were powerless to refute this form of rumors, and it was difficult to tell the difference. What was more embarrassing than cutting open the stomach to see how many bowls of noodles they had eaten was taking off their pants to see how many eggs they had. This is an unprecedented obscene propaganda war. No matter how the German public thinks of it, at least in front of untouched German children, all the top Nazis are half-eunuchs, and Hitler is an underdeveloped paranoid lunatic.
Xiao Nippon started his own business and planned to use his eccentric music to disturb the morale of the US military. Unexpectedly, the female announcer fell into the hands of the enemy and almost became the object of sexual desire.
Part 3 Tokyo Rose
Since Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, they have been losing ground in the Pacific battlefield . If you can't do it from the front, then consider playing dirty tricks behind your back.
Japanese executives came up with an idea, that is, to create an exclusive midnight radio station for Americans - "Zero O'clock" . To this end, they recruit female anchors across the country who have sweet voices and can speak American English fluently. The broadcast content is mainly to recite letters from prisoners of war and play popular music.
The starting point of the Japanese is to let the American soldiers listen to the letters written by their family members or listen to the music from their hometown in the dead of night. will arouse their strong homesickness. The female anchor will then describe to you some stories about how your wife and girlfriend had an affair with the old man next door when you were not at home. This will arouse the war weariness of the American soldiers and try to get them to drop their weapons and go home in a minute.
High-level officials in the United States have also noticed the influence of this late-night radio station. However, through investigation, it was found that although soldiers like to listen to this program, the effectiveness of the program does not affect their combat morale. Imagine that every midnight, there is a gentle and sweet voice accompanying you to sleep. Although she claims to be your enemy, she can always tell some dirty jokes to satisfy your fantasies. This is simply the best way to relieve anxiety and release stress.
The gentle and lingering tone of these female anchors, as well as the distinctive melodious sounds, have made American soldiers dream about it countless times. They even named the female anchor of this radio station Tokyo Rose and graffitied her on the US military fighter jets. Not to mention being war-weary , the US soldiers wanted to fight to Tokyo overnight and capture Tokyo Rose alive!
As two mushroom clouds bloomed over Japan, U.S. senior officials paid attention to Japan's surrender letter, while American soldiers were thinking about their Tokyo Rose. In fact, this radio station was composed of 12 female anchors, but in the end only one woman named Ikko Tosua admitted that she was one of Tokyo Roses and that she was a Japanese-American. This woman was taken away by Fobo for investigation. It is said that she had been imprisoned with some war criminals for up to a year.
