Par USPCC
Un jeu qui rappelle le
jeu spécialement conçu par la USPCC et les
agences de renseignements britannique et américaine pendant
la seconde guerre mondiale, afin d’aider les
alliés prisonniers de guerre à
s’échapper des camps allemands…
La face de chaque carte contient à
l’arrière-plan l’image d’une
carte géographique…
Descriptif original
anglais :
During World War II, the United States Playing Card
Company joined forces with American and British intelligence agencies
to create a very special deck of cards. This deck was specifically
created to help Allied prisoners of war escape from German POW camps.
This deck of cards became known as the "map deck." It was made by
hiding maps of top-secret escape routes between the two paper layers
that make up all modern playing cards.
These decks, when soaked in water, could be peeled apart to reveal
hidden maps that allowed escaping prisoners to find their way to safety.
Due to the nature of the war and the prosecution of war crimes
thereafter, the map decks remained a closely guarded secret for many
years after the war ended. The secrecy surrounding them was so high,
that no one really knows how many were produced or how many have
survived.
There is one on display at the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. and
another one said to be in private hands. It's possible that these are
the ONLY two surviving examples. The card shown in the picture here is
a limited edition reproduction made in April of 1990.
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