Nazi invasion of Winnipeg, 1942

[Alvis 3.14159]

Wow, I live in Canada and I never heard aboot this, eh?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/day-shows-manitoba-fell-nazi-forces-during-world-213832799.html


Interesting, a "If Day". Almost a What If done in real life. Interesting that they were driving Universal carriers too. Would make an interesting diorama, that would be totally correct too. Heh.


Alvis 3.1

[The Rat]

Yeah? Let 'em try it. If they thought Stalingrad was cold, wait until they try Winterpeg.

[PR19_Kit]

The participants were darn lucky that some patriot who wasn't 'in the know' didn't shoot them! What price the Manitoban Resistance?

[rickshaw]

This reminds me.  Wasn't there some US town in the late 1940s-early 1950s which did something similar about "what if the Communists took over"?  I seem to remember seeing some footage of it, somewhere.

[RussC]

This was a segment on the feb. 12th edition of the program CBS news Sunday Morning, a film docu about the exercise as a way to sell bonds and stamps. In the exercise the Germans take the city and round up and gulag the politicians, teachers, police, intellectuals and also "undesirables".

  There was a US town that did a "red scare" exercise in the 50's. There was later a 1980's comedy flick about it with John Travolta but I can't recall the name. It was about a town in Russia made up to look like a US city and was used to film propaganda but the town decides to defect!

[sequoiaranger]

I have a "wartime" book called "If We Should Fail" that tells short stories of tyrannical behavior in various, named American towns, then at the end of each story there is an explanation that the event DID take place as told, but somewhere in Nazi-Occupied Europe instead. The stories, if they truly occurred in America, would OUTRAGE any American (or person from a Democracy), as they were expected to. Good way to bring home the reality of "far-off" tyranny!

[RussC]

Sounds a lot like Philip K. Dicks' "The man in the high castle" which had the US and Canada pretty much divided down the middle between fascism and the Rising Sun and everyone waiting for when the two would start fighting for all the marbles on the plains of Kansas.