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episode 19: How Monopoly helped win World War 2
In todays episode we look at the history of Monopoly and how the game helped thousands of allied prisoners to escape and rejoin the fight to help win WW2
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www.historyonline.com/instant-articles/Germanys-pow-camp.html
www.armedforcesmuseum.com/monopoly-in-world-war-ii/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/how-monopoly-games-helped-allied-pows-escape-during-world-war-ii/266996/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/08/history-monopoly-waddingtons-victor-watson-stalag-prisoners-of-war
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wwii-monopoly-game-escape-version.html