20th Century Time Machine | FDR Uses Counterfeit Nazi Invasion Map to Turn America Against Germany (1941) @20thCenturyTimeMachine | Uploaded July 2017 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
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27 October 1941 In his nationally-broadcast Navy Day address, Roosevelt made an extraordinary claim :
"I have in my possession a secret map made in Germany by Hitler's government," he said. "It is a map of South America and a part of Central America, as Hitler proposes to reorganize it… This map makes clear the Nazi design not only against South America but against the United States itself."
The speech amazed both the United States and Germany; the latter claimed the map was a forgery.
The British Security Coordination forged the map and arranged for discovery by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Indeed, historical documents show that the map was the brainchild of William Stephenson, a former Canadian air ace and personal friend of Winston Churchill, who by 1941 was basically running British intelligence in North America.
One of the biggest remaining mysteries of Roosevelt’s counterfeit Nazi map is whether or not the president himself was aware of the ruse. After all—real or fake—the secret, unseen map worked entirely in Roosevelt’s interest.
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A public domain video
27 October 1941 In his nationally-broadcast Navy Day address, Roosevelt made an extraordinary claim :
"I have in my possession a secret map made in Germany by Hitler's government," he said. "It is a map of South America and a part of Central America, as Hitler proposes to reorganize it… This map makes clear the Nazi design not only against South America but against the United States itself."
The speech amazed both the United States and Germany; the latter claimed the map was a forgery.
The British Security Coordination forged the map and arranged for discovery by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Indeed, historical documents show that the map was the brainchild of William Stephenson, a former Canadian air ace and personal friend of Winston Churchill, who by 1941 was basically running British intelligence in North America.
One of the biggest remaining mysteries of Roosevelt’s counterfeit Nazi map is whether or not the president himself was aware of the ruse. After all—real or fake—the secret, unseen map worked entirely in Roosevelt’s interest.
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