[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I remember seeing an early 1940’s copy of the Saturday Evening Post for sale at an used book store about ten years ago.

The magazine had a story about what a Nazi air raid over Detroit, Michigan would look like.

Large colored drawings showed factories and residential neighborhoods in flames.

At the time, my father’s side of the family lived there. I wondered if they had seen the magazine during World War II. It probably would have scared the bejesus out of them.

[colorado tanker]

One of the most notorious spy rings of WWII was in Detroit. A woman arrived from Europe, compromised from the beginning and turned by the FBI. There was an active Bund organization there at the time. The FBI fed them disinformation and monitored them until they finally arrested and prosecuted them.

Another bizarre story from Detroit is that German ladies were visiting German POW's in Canada and slipping stuff to them. One of them escaped, swam the river and showed up. A Bund member showed him the town, even taking him to a whore house, before putting him on a bus to Chicago. He wandered around with a half baked plan to get to Mexico before he was arrested and sent back.