Showing appreciation for hard work.

The Germans were utterly fucked when it came to gathering intelligence because threatening captives doesn't work. Allies put captured generals in a luxury prison and bugged them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098

That was true of Nazi interrogators with the exception of Hanns Scharff. He’s famously known in military intelligence for his use of kindness to extract information from unknowing participants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff
- It's almost like Nazis were naturally unkind people.
And yet later some of them decided gitmo was a good idea...
- some of them
  Without looking into it, I can guarantee you that no one involved in British Intelligence in WW2 were in the US Army Military Police in Iraq 60 years later. Not everything is connected.

That is very Monty Pythonesque. British humor is something special

Anyone have an actual citation on this particular fact?

I did and turns out this fact is made of wood.
- I fucking knew it.
Unfortunately, unlikely, per Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wooden-bomb/

As a German I was wondering how the Red Army Faction time-travelled to WW2.

Turns out RAF = Royal Air Force

When I first moved to Germany, I was surprised by the amount of leftists that seemed to support the Royal Air Force, lol
- For WW2, It's complicated, they did fight the nazis but they also applied carpet bombing.
  You can appreciate one without forgetting the other.

I've read about it and iirc, it's wasn't even official mission. It was just pilots goofing off and dropping a training bomb, without command approval.

They had training missions into enemy territory with fake ordinance?
- More like they had access to training bombs and planes, and frequently flew over enemy territory, so they put those things together and got a mad prank out of it.
I was about to ask. I'd hope command didn't risk a pilot's life to reveal strategic intel.

Would've been embarrassing if they'd been wrong and the airfield was real

!noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

"But ve worked very hard to trick you :("

What a flex

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I assume they knew because of the enigma cracking?

If that was the only way they knew they wouldn't have done it. The Germans not knowing the enigma was cracked was a lot more important than a silly prank.