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You feeble comic book villains have nothing on these WWII leaders

26 Diabolical World War II Schemes Worthy of the Red Skull

November 10, 2023

Movie, TV and comic book villains are known for their dastardly plots, conjured up by some twisted sicko of a writer. Well, some of those twisted writers seem to have been heavily influenced by real-life World War II leaders. Human-Ape Super Soldiers?! Was Stalin trying to get a job at Marvel?!

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CRACKED DROPPING ANTHRAX-LACED CAKES ON GERMANY This plan, called Operation Vegetarian, was to drop cakes laced with anthrax onto German fields where cattle were grazing. The idea was to destroy the food supply and make people eat infected meat, which could have killed millions. — Source

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The Bat Bomb

CRACKED THE U.S.' BAT-BOMB SCHEME During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps spent a lot of money to try out a plan that was thought up by a dentist from Pennsylvania named Lytle S. Adams. The plan was to attach tiny bombs to bats and release them over Japanese cities. — Source

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CRACKED TRANSITIONING HITLER The Allies wanted to try to make Hitler less aggressive, so they came up with a plan to put estrogen in his carrots to try to turn him into a woman. They did pull it off but, as you probably know from history, it didn't work. — Source

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CRACKED BRINGING FINNISH REFUGEES TO ALASKA In 1940, the US thought about bringing Finnish refugees from the Winter War to Alaska and setting up a mini-Finland in Central Alaska near the Tanana River. The plan didn't go ahead because Alaskan politicians in Congress disagreed with it. — Source

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Operation Tracer

CRACKED BURYING SIX PEOPLE ALIVE During World War II, the British set up a secret mission called Operation Tracer. They buried six people in a cave bunker for 2.5 years. This was so they could spy and get intelligence even if the Allies lost control of Gibraltar. NEW PEST — Source

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Volkswagen

CRACKED VOLKSWAGEN Volkswagen started in Nazi Germany to make a cheap car for Germans. It used Jewish and non-Jewish forced labor from eastern Europe, and ran four concentration camps and eight forced-labor camps. — Source

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CRACKED HUGO BOSS In 1931, Hugo Boss, founder of the clothing company, joined the Nazi Party and supplied uniforms to the SA, SS, Hitler Youth, Motor Corps, and other Nazi groups. During WWII, he used 140 forced laborers, mostly women, and 40 POWs. So Protection Squad Maa SS Sentry $$ Officer $$ Adjutant SS Guard $$ Mess Waiter officer 1934 COLLECTION Elite Honour Guard Reichsleader $5 BOSS Security Service Chief HUGO BOSS — Source

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CRACKED IBM In 1933, Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, had their German branch, Dehomag, bid for a Nazi census. They knew it would be used to identify Jews, and a Nazi statistician at one point said it was a road map to switch from knowledge to deeds. — Source

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CRACKED DUPONT In June 1941, during WWII, IG Farben opened a factory at Monowitz to make synthetic rubber for the military. Thousands of Jews were forced to work there, and DuPont gave IG Farben the tech to make it happen, helping Nazi Germany start the war. — Source

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Henry Ford

CRACKED FORD Ford Motor Company was one of 500 firms linked to Auschwitz; it's not clear how much they were involved. Some of the companies used slave labor, others just asked about using Auschwitz inmates. — Source

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CRACKED GENERAL MOTORS General Motors was way more important to the Nazis than Switzerland. Switzerland just held stolen money, but GM was a key part of the German war machine. The Nazis could've invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland, but not without GM. 1234 Science STOCKHOLS AN — Source

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Wojtek the Bear

Wojtek: Syrian bear turned Polish hero, captures enemy in shower. CRACKED COM Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear adopted by Polish soldiers during WWII, was allowed to stay as the unit's mascot and eventually became something of a national hero. Не even captured an anti-British fighter in Palestine while cooling himself off with showers. — Source

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World War II

During WWII, Britain caused three million deaths in India Despite being painted as a hero against genocide, Churchill's policies caused the Bengal famine of 1943. Не redirected food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nuclear Testing

Testing nuclear bombs in the U.S. has killed over 10,000 Americans The U.S. government had 1,000 nuclear tests in Nevada, with another 67 in the Marshall Islands. The tests caused cancer, resulting in a very low estimate of the fatalities being in the thousands. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The firebombing of Tokyo was as deadly as an atomic bomb Over 100,000 civilians died during the firebombing by the U.S. Army. Compare that to the estimated 140,000 civilians who died in Hiroshima and 74,000 people who died in Nagasaki, and it's a tragedy that it doesn't make our history books. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Holocaust

The US government turned away thousands of Jewish refugees Government officials accused the Jewish asylum seekers, fleeing from the Nazi regime, of being Nazi spies. For example, in June 1939, the US sent away all 937 passengers of the German ship St. Louis. 254 of those passengers died in the Holocaust. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Nazis had a lot of help to set up camps NARBEIT MACHT FRE A historian says of the Auschwitz blueprints, ...everyone who had even anything remotely to do with the planning and construction of the concentration camp must have know that people were to be gassed to death in assembly-line fashion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Japanese internment camp residents lost $400 million in property Around 120,000 people with Japanese ancestry were ripped from their homes and imprisoned. Congress only provided $38 million in reparations and then $20,000 to surviving individuals 40 years later. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Operation Unthinkable

CRACKED INVADING THE USSR JUST AFTER WWII In 1945, Winston Churchill asked his military leaders to make a secret plan called Operation Unthinkable to fight the Soviet Union right after the end of WWII and take back East Germany and Poland from their control. — Source

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CRACKED ASSASSINATING CHURCHILL, STALIN, AND FDR SIMULTANEOUSLY In 1943, Nazi Germany tried to kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin when they met for the first time in Tehran, Iran. The plan, called Operation Long Jump, was stopped by the Soviets. — Source

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Nazi Germany

CRACKED TURNING BERLIN INTO A BIZARRE MEGACITY In 1941, they built a huge concrete cylinder that weighed 12,650 tons to test how four pillars of a 120-meter-high Triumphal Arch would hold up. This arch was meant to be the main feature of Berlin as the new Nazi capital, Germania. — Source

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Nazi Rat Tanks

CRACKED THE NAZIS' RAT TANK The Nazis wanted to build a super tank called The Rat that was five times heavier than even their insane Panzer VIII Maus. It would have weighed an incredible 1,000 metric tons. — Source

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CRACKED HITLER'S LONDON-BOMBING SUPERGUN Hitler had a plan to bombard London with bombs from a supergun that could fire 25 barrels at a time from 100 miles away. This would have allowed him to launch one bomb per minute. MIMOYECQUES EASTERN SITE RECONSTRUCTED VIEW OF MAIN WORKINGS — Source

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CRACKED HITLER'S PLAN TO MOVE ALL JEWS TO MADAGASCAR In 1940, Adolf Hitler told Adolf Eichmann to move a million Jews each year for four years to Madagascar as part of the Nazis' plan for the island. The idea was to move all the world's Jews there. — Source

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CRACKED A GERMAN SUN-RAY GUN During World War II, German scientists wanted to make a huge gun that could shoot the sun's rays to a specific spot on the Earth from a station 22,236 miles away, which was beyond the Low Earth Orbit in a geosynchronous orbit. — Source

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CRACKED STALIN'S HUMAN-APE SUPER-SOLDIER In the mid-1920s, Stalin wanted scientists to create a kind of super-soldier by mixing humans and apes. Не wanted a living war machine that could do hard work without complaining. It was like something out of Planet of the Apes. — Source

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