mdkboggle wrote:It get's worse
While digging deep into the History of bucketness i wondered what the German word was for bucket.
I wish i had never looked because now i am even more confused and almost convinced the bucket MAY have been some sort of secret weapon,,why you ask?
Because if google translation is right they have 3 words for bucket as follows,,,,,, Behylter, Eimer, Schaufel,,,,,,now i think this was done to confuse the allied code breakers at Bletchley park and may have been used in the breakout at the Ardennes,,,,bear with me here a sec please,,,
Ok i think the German bucket may have been painted with faces and placed along a false front making Allied spotters think thousands of troops were massing where in fact they were all buckets.
Due to the Germans using the Bucket as a code,cos they have 3 words for it,,Bletchley park are a little stuffed as to what is going on and this gave the Germans the element of surprise when they attacked.
you don't believe me do you?,,,i think i have evidence to prove my claim,,,,,look
Tiger 211 taking more than the average bucket to the false front line build up.
SS-Tiger-102-03.jpg
and here we see the buckets are gone and the guy on the motor bike is handed the starting pistol to be used to get the breakout under way
SS-Tiger-101-06.jpg
on a side note,,The Allied forces may have advanced on the bucket line and when finding out that they had been "Had" they kicked them over in anger hence the saying "Kick the bucket",.,,,maybe.
