... and stayed for the pants.
Posted on 03/08/2010 6:01:32 AM PST by decimon
Summer 1937. What could be more fitting in the cool afternoon of an English country lane than a group of cycling tourists steadily pedalling their way from one historic site to another, stopping to camp overnight in fields along the way.
The only problem was, that summer, some of those groups of teenage boys were Hitler Youth.
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MI5 had been told that Hitler Youth groups visiting abroad were asked to complete a detailed questionnaire, including questions on terrain, population, and political views of the population.
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They had stayed at a Hitler Youth camp and even taken part in a torchlight rally. One of the boys, Les Fardon, told Radio 4's Document Programme ten years ago: "It was like a Roman legion," he said. "You had these long banners and you were marching to tune... it was very stirring and frightening"
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(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Hitler youth then, mosque-itos now.
... and stayed for the pants.
Japanese admirals and generals served in menial capacities before Pearl Harbor and the Russo-Japanese war in the armies and navies of their opponants. It is a very old tactic.
Just between you, me, and the wastebasket in the corner; anybody notice all them there Chineee ‘students’ studyin just about EVERYWHERE in the good ‘ol U S of A these days?
Good point, Flintlock.
“Reginald you have the wrong map here you silly old leg-before-wicket English person.”
Moe Berg, a US professional baseball player, also supplied US intelligence services with information he collected while traveling in Japan before the war.
I understand that those Japs “fishing” in 1941 Hawaii were actually taking soundings of the waters. Much like those Muzzie “boaters” near a bridge in Virginia a while back, perhaps.
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