In 1942, eight males are despatched from Nazi Germany to infiltrate America. Their mission: to sabotage vital infrastructure. Their drawback: they’re idiots. Operation Pastorius quickly devolves into one of the crucial baffling failures of World Warfare II.
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Additional Studying
The story of Operation Pastorius is informed in They Got here To Kill: The Story of Eight Nazi Saboteurs in America, by Eugene Rachlis, and Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America, by Michael Dobbs. The traditional experiment of the smoke-filled room is Bibb Latane and John M Darley’s Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies. And if you happen to assume you might need seen Joseph Schmidt, please contact J. Edgar Hoover.
