How Monopoly rescued WWII POWs.

Via @alexthechick, this is a true story: Monopoly really did smuggle escape supplies in to POWs.

Monopoly – I didn't know this!

(You'll never look at the
game the same way again!)

Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their… pic.twitter.com/pfk2BV7qh4
— Judianna (@Judianna) February 13, 2024

The most amazing part? They actually kept their mouths shut about this for sixty years. Even after the war ended! I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen a bunch of articles confirming that.

#commissionearned

One thought on “How Monopoly rescued WWII POWs.”

Its a great story to be sure, but it was certainly not a secret for 60 years.

I first encountered the details in a book from 1969 called Escape from Colditz which was sort of a Hogan’s Heroes/ Great Escape tag on publication about real uncagable prisoners.

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