Rumors say he also designed the trap doors so they’d be too small for the perpetrator to fall through so most of them also hit their face on the edge as they fell
Honorable mentions:
source: from the Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz
that clip’s from right before his death, but earlier in his life he said
“I watched it happen and did nothing. It was not my duty to stop it, even if I could have, and frankly, I was not inclined to try. There seemed to be no limit to human brutality in wartime. I headed back to Munich to write my reports.” -Benjamin B. Ferencz
At the end of The Saboteur as you ascend the Eiffel Tower in pursuit of your quarry, there is a Nazi officer plunking away at a piano
He will play as Paris burns in the night, the partisans routing the Nazis at every turn
He won’t get up, he won’t try to do anything
I always shoot him in the back of the head
There’s an account of FDR joking about executing tens of thousands of Nazi officers, and Stalin joked back about how that’s too little and they should increase it by like 3 times.
And Churchill was just yelling and getting so angry that either Stalin or FDR pulled him aside and said “you know we’re just messing around right?”
I can’t stop imagining Churchill was in the corner alone, just red and flailing his arms yelling incoherently. Looking like
We should go back to hanging Nazis.
Wow so much for the tolerant left
