XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sci.math   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Donnerstag000013, 13.11.2025 um 17:55 schrieb Thomas Koenig:   
   > Thomas Heger  schrieb:   
   >> Am Donnerstag000013, 13.11.2025 um 08:35 schrieb Thomas Koenig:   
   >>> Bobbie Sellers  schrieb:   
   >>>   
   >>>> 	Hitler was a failed Artist and not a British agent   
   >>>   
   >>> Shortly after the war, there was a joke going round in Germany:   
   >>>   
   >>> In May 1945, In the headquarters of the British secret serivce,   
   >>> a man turns up, takes off his glued-on moustache and says: "Agent   
   >>> number seven: Mission accomplished, Germany is totally destroyed."   
   >>   
   >> Wrong, because the name was 'zero zero seven'.   
   >   
   > Could have been "agent number five", it has been some time since   
   > I read this.   
   >   
   >> And 'headquarters of the British secret serivce' wasn't in Germany.   
   >   
   > Who says the headquarters was in Germany in the joke?   
      
   Germans didn't speak English at that time and your   
   " joke going round in Germany" suggested, that you meant Germany.   
      
   But I guessed, that this was a British joke, told by British agents to   
   other British agents.   
      
      
   TH   
      
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