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How We Duped the Nazi Postal Service into Sending Stamps Bearing Hitler’s Skull

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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How We Duped the Nazi Postal Service into Sending Stamps Bearing Hitler’s Skull

In the skies over the Reich, planes dropped their bombs on a mail train bound for Linz, before a second wave of more insidiously incendiary cargo was released. Mailbags filled with around 3800 propaganda letters – some containing sinister stamps of Hitler wearing a grinning skull – were dropped into the wreckage, ready to be recovered and delivered to the Germans by the postal service. It was the first mission of Operation Cornflakes.

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