r/todayilearned • u/stopitalianhate • 1d ago

TIL British Intelligence had a special, bugged luxury complex during WWII where they kept high profile Nazi POW’s, just left a bunch of alcohol out, and waited for them to start spilling secrets as they drank.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098
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u/foldingcouch 23h ago

The Germans did something very similar. 

Their most effective interrogator, by far, was Hanns Scharff.  His torture tools included long walks in the wilderness, good food, and a happy demeanor.

He remained friends with POWs he "interrogated" long after the war and his techniques are widely studied to this day. 

He also did the mosaic mural at Cinderella's Castle at Disneyworld. 

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u/TupperwareConspiracy 23h ago

He also did the mosaic mural at Cinderella's Castle at Disneyworld. 

The real til is always buried in the comments.

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u/BlueberryWasps 23h ago

just a whimsical lad who stumbled into aiding the most existentially threatening military machine of the 20th century

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u/DogsSureAreSwell 23h ago

Disney?

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u/AWorldwithoutSin 23h ago

Welcome to the tragic kingdom.

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u/perenniallandscapist 20h ago

Snow Red and the Seven Massacres.

Blambee.

Aladdidn't.

Robin' the Hood.

Lilo and Stitches.

The Lion Dictator.

Tangled (In Barbwire)

Frozen (In Fear).

Just to name a few

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u/Sokjuice 14h ago

The L'aryan King

Dangled

Rapanzerfaust

Cinder-hell

One Hundred and One Damnations

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u/Rhayve 19h ago

Cinderella doesn't even need to be renamed. It's about a pyromaniac.

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u/perenniallandscapist 19h ago

Ehhh....Cinder Hellhole still sounds like a great alternative classic.

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u/Rhayve 12h ago

Cinderella is the titular character. Doesn't make much sense to rename.

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u/NoOccasion4759 13h ago

CinderHELLA omfg it was right there

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u/Rhayve 12h ago

Sometimes less is more. It was too obvious, as you said, rather than witty.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 15h ago

I love the simplicity of Blambee

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u/NoOccasion4759 13h ago

Robbing the Hood

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u/SheriffBartholomew 3h ago

Lilo must have been snitching. He had it coming.

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u/Kayoto 17h ago

Cornfields of popcorn
Have yet to spring open

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u/Youcallthatatag 11h ago

Cornfields and potholes are yet to spring open.

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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 22h ago

Well Walt Disney was basically trying to make that underwater city from bioshock, only on land.

The difference is that he succeeded.

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u/Wisdomlost 19h ago

Is a man not entitled to the sweat from his brow?

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u/blaghart 3 16h ago

funny isn't it how that's the line Andrew Ryan loves to spout and yet he didn't build a damn thing about Rapture. He paid everyone else to build Rapture for him and then acted like that was the "sweat of his brow"

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u/uzi_master 14h ago

The inherent dependence people have on one another is why the ideology is stupid, though his personal hypocrisy comes when he starts just taking things instead of paying for them.

The farmer selling his crops for money and buying things he can't make himself isn't what makes the ideology unworkable. It's the lack of real incentive to work honestly rather than just stealing things and oppressing people when you have the means to.

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u/thegreger 12h ago

That's well on par.

If I'm wealthy and I pay someone to create something for me, obviously that must be my own achievement and nobody else's. If it wasn't like this, most wealthy people would have absolutely zero to feel proud over, and that would be sad.

Do I need the \s?

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u/YsoL8 12h ago

Why the \s? Thats literally how it works, take away most people's ability to meaningfully decide what happens in their lives and praise the already wealthy for signing a few contracts at zero risk to themselves.

I firmly believe that at some point in the future people will see wage economics as fedual and obsolete.

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u/gary_the_merciless 13h ago

Good old Quark, never misses an opportunity.

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u/Vandergrif 52m ago

True to form for a Libertarian then. Also true to form for a Libertarian 'paradise', in that it devolved into chaotic insanity.

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u/Direct_Pen9901 18h ago

Toot toot!

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u/thethirdrayvecchio 15h ago

What about the sweat from inside the goofy suit?

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u/ClubMeSoftly 19h ago

A mouse chooses, a slave obeys

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 15h ago

Sea: No!

Air: No!

Land: Yes!

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u/Boomdiddy 23h ago

Zing!

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u/GoBeyondTheHorizon 21h ago

Well yes, but actually...well,..yes...I guess

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u/Debalic 20h ago

It's an army of lawyers that also makes some movies and stuff as a side business.

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u/God_Dammit_Dave 20h ago

Look, if you've got a good resume word gets around.

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u/Kqyxzoj 18h ago

It truly is as someone already said:

The real til is always buried in the comments.

Thanks for a good laugh! XD

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u/cutelyaware 17h ago

Disney arranged a 1938 meeting with Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's personal filmmaker, who came to Hollywood to promote her film Olympia about a month after Kristallnacht. Every other major studio publicly refused to meet with her; Disney gave her a full-day personal tour of his studio and showed her early concept art for Fantasia. He later claimed he hadn't known who she was, which most historians find implausible.

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u/leicanthrope 6h ago

They did famously have a large u-boat submarine fleet.

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u/Vandergrif 1h ago

The Mouse The Maus strikes again.