GoldenRivet
08-18-07, 03:41 AM
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ittle known facts about "The bernard file"
-BdU records division has an entire archive dedicated to "the Bernard file" :nope:
-Germany lost the second world war because of all of the resources and manpower that went into compiling, maintaining and producing ink, type writers and paper for the upkeep of the Bernard File.
-An entire library had to be constructed to contain the Bernard File by January of 1940. However the initial warehouse compound proved too small because the Bernard file had grown to include so many documents by the time the building was completed.
-Eventually an entire compound of archival warehouses were built for the purpose of containing the Bernard file.
-approximately 117,000 gallons of standard black ink was used every year by the Kriegsmarine to type case reports which had been contributed to the bernard file.
-15,270 Gestapo agents, undercover or otherwise have been listed as killed in the line of duty or missing while searching for or investigating the mysterious "Bernard" during the course of the entire war. Interestingly, each agent death was attributed to unexplainable circumstances.
-to this date, over 60 years after the closure of hostilities, the Berlin postal service STILL forwards a back log of Bernard file documents to the present day Bundestag.
-recently declassified documents from the bernard file indicate that a slip of paper was found near the bodies of Adolf and Eva in their Berlin bunker which contained only one small phrase... "E Tu Bernard"
-Prior to the German invasion of North Africa, the sahara desert was a fertile forrest, however all of the trees were harvested within a 9 month period so that paper production for the Bernard file could be sustained. It is rumored by military historians that the upkeep of the Bernard file's paper needs and Germany's Oil needs were the two main strategic reasons behind the North African invasion. Still today the lush sahara forrest is only sand.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. It is for this reason that correspondence clerks responsible for the distribution of documents related to the Bernard file never had to eat, and in fact gained weight at a steady pace.
-The first three pages of Germany's Surrender to the allied powers were typed on the back of paper which was borrowed from the bernard file archives... at the time there were no clean sheets of paper remaining anywhere in all of Germany.
-recently declassified bernard file documents indicate that the final enigma transmissions from 111 U-boats were simply one word... "Bernard!!!"
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=624270&postcount=3
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ittle known facts about "The bernard file"
-BdU records division has an entire archive dedicated to "the Bernard file" :nope:
-Germany lost the second world war because of all of the resources and manpower that went into compiling, maintaining and producing ink, type writers and paper for the upkeep of the Bernard File.
-An entire library had to be constructed to contain the Bernard File by January of 1940. However the initial warehouse compound proved too small because the Bernard file had grown to include so many documents by the time the building was completed.
-Eventually an entire compound of archival warehouses were built for the purpose of containing the Bernard file.
-approximately 117,000 gallons of standard black ink was used every year by the Kriegsmarine to type case reports which had been contributed to the bernard file.
-15,270 Gestapo agents, undercover or otherwise have been listed as killed in the line of duty or missing while searching for or investigating the mysterious "Bernard" during the course of the entire war. Interestingly, each agent death was attributed to unexplainable circumstances.
-to this date, over 60 years after the closure of hostilities, the Berlin postal service STILL forwards a back log of Bernard file documents to the present day Bundestag.
-recently declassified documents from the bernard file indicate that a slip of paper was found near the bodies of Adolf and Eva in their Berlin bunker which contained only one small phrase... "E Tu Bernard"
-Prior to the German invasion of North Africa, the sahara desert was a fertile forrest, however all of the trees were harvested within a 9 month period so that paper production for the Bernard file could be sustained. It is rumored by military historians that the upkeep of the Bernard file's paper needs and Germany's Oil needs were the two main strategic reasons behind the North African invasion. Still today the lush sahara forrest is only sand.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. It is for this reason that correspondence clerks responsible for the distribution of documents related to the Bernard file never had to eat, and in fact gained weight at a steady pace.
-The first three pages of Germany's Surrender to the allied powers were typed on the back of paper which was borrowed from the bernard file archives... at the time there were no clean sheets of paper remaining anywhere in all of Germany.
-recently declassified bernard file documents indicate that the final enigma transmissions from 111 U-boats were simply one word... "Bernard!!!"