How did British soldiers use the Monopole game to escape from prison?
We all played Monopoly game when we were young children. The game was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Maggie, but it gained great popularity in the 1930s, when it was launched in the market by Parker Brothers. What you do not know is that this game played a major role in saving British prisoners in World War II.
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| How did British soldiers use the Monopole game to escape from prison ? |
How did British soldiers use the Monopole game to escape from prison?
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There were thousands of British prisoners in German camps but they had one advantage that the Germans did not know.
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| British prisoners |
British prisoners were allowed to receive packages of care from humanitarian groups through German soldiers. British intelligence has benefited from this in the best way possible.
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| packages of care from humanitarian groups |
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MI9 knew that the packets would be carefully examined before they were delivered to the prisoners so they had to be very careful, and they had to get more creative to achieve their plans. They used the game Monopole in packages of care going to prisoners.
MI9 and Monopoli Company participated in the acquisition of maps, small metal tools, magnetic couplings and other supplies carefully hidden inside the games sent to the soldiers. Intelligence officer Clayton Hutton was behind this ingenious plan.
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| british map |
The maps were printed on a piece of silk so that the soldiers could clear it, without crumpling the piece. This made it also waterproof and allowed to be stuffed into a small enclosure.
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| piece of silk |
number of british soldiers killed in ww2
About 35,000 British soldiers survived the German camps and 20,000 of these prisoners used the instruments in the Monopoli Games as a means of escape.
This plan had a lot of risk. If the Germans suspected anything, it would have resulted in the loss of many lives
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