No ones going to mention this is obviously horse shit?
Like there’s so much wrong with this story I’m sure where to begin, like they will have produced ammunition in the 100s of thousands, did they write a note in like 1 in 20, or did they just get extremely lucky?
Where did they fund the shells? They either would have gone in one side and out the other, or they would have just disintegrated, especially if they were hollow.
The explosive filled in these shells is fairly significant amount of their mass. Did the Nazis running the factories not notice when the cases of ammunition are 20% lighter than they should be and the workers have several tonnes of explosive filler left over? Was there no quality control in the factories at all?
Why would they just start cutting open shells they presume are high explosive?
This 1,000% didn’t happen.
This is the same kind of logic that would say 9/11 is fake because one of the terrorists’ ID cards was found unscathed in a New York street.
I’m not saying it happened, but your skepticism is way out of proportion.
- The filling issue is an obvious problem, which is why any Czech trying to sabotage it would have spent the first couple years of their enslavement trying to to come up with a method that works. Maybe the factory made its explosives in-house and the explosives guy was in on it too, instead making inert chemicals with the same raw materials. Maybe the explosives where rendered inert through a chemical process. Maybe the explosives were smuggled out of the factory to empower resistance movements and exchanged with dirt.
- When locked in a factory and ordered to make a certain amount of explosives, not making those explosives but making duds instead leaves you with a lot of spare time. If you’re already supposed to be a line worker making thousands of the same thing, why not make thousands of similar letters expressing your hope of rescue?
- The shells would have been more solid than explosive shells, being filled with inert shock-absorbing dirt. Many of them would have exited the craft, but some would naturally have gotten stuck because the point of cluster munitions is to be birdshot.
- It’s good military-scientific practice to study the weapons of the enemy, especially if they don’t do what you expect. British military intelligence was very thorough, down to using novel statistical techniques such as the German Tank Problem. Explosive munitions not exploding is a definite curiosity worth investigating.
- No, the Nazis did not have good quality control. A lot of the popular conception of Nazis as technological geniuses comes directly from Nazi propaganda, repeated by American propaganda for the sake of demonizing the USSR and trying to justify Operation Paperclip scientists like Von Braun being given a warm welcome and getting rebranded as a hero.
Right? And really, what is the reason for all this negativity? There are tons of inspiring stories with questionable veracity. They’re designed to give hope. Shooting holes in them is not helping anyone. It only denies hope to others. Great job negative posters on “hopeposting” - you’ve all done something really productive.
This comments section is wild. It’s really a pretty simple post even if it’s not spelled out as clearly as it could be; it’s just saying in WW2 an allied bomber (American) was attacked with explosives by Nazi defenses (Germans during WW2) and was thwarted by Czech made blank anti-aircraft shells because they only pretended to work for the Nazis. Given current context, I assume the analogy is that now that Americans are the Nazis, you can still resist the regime by doing what the Czechs did.
That said, I don’t really believe the story since it reads as “and everyone clapped” levels of evidence, but the overall message is fine. This is hope posting, anyway.
Edit: fixed a term
You know the thing about “and everyone clapped” meme is silly because those things actually do exist.
It’s just unlikely.
Like winning the lottery. You can read up on hundreds of lottery winners, but winning one yourself is kinda unlikely.
I literally had a “and everyone clapped” thing, where a bus full of people literally everyone clapped and cheered for me. I was pretty drunk and just a few years out of the army and the driver was having some issue with a drunken older woman (like not 60 but close enough, still pretty spry but super drunk), so I ran to the front of the bus, demanded for the to exit the vehicle in a booming voice (I have a very strong voice and I was and NCO) and when she wouldn’t, I just dragged her out. The bus driver closed the door and drove off slightly, I thought he was taking off but he was just driving a bit further so I’d run there. I did, got back on the bus and literally everyone clapped.
Felt pretty great I have to say.
