Talk:5 Fingers
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Accuracy of Information about D day
editThe article claims the information the Nazis received about D-day was purposely inaccurate, but it described a landing in Normandy on the first days of June. In any case, this seems accurate enough to be extremely valuable, if not dead on. The movie makes more sense that way, with the irony of the Nazis throwing out perfectly good and critical information out the window, literally. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frankman (talk • contribs) 16:06, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
A couple of points about the movie
editThere's a couple of points to be made about this movie but they really don't fit into the article as such. As in any movie (even documentaries) you can't take everything as gospel truth. Sometimes events are told out of order, two or more real life people are combined into one person, or even invented (the Polish countess is pure fiction, I think), and names, dates, and places are changed (The movie Adaptation comes to mind). A case in point is the part where the Germans don't tell the Rumanians about the impending bombing of the Ploesti oilfields. This would have never, ever happened in real life, as the oilfields were absolutely vital to the German war machine. (In truth, the oilfields were bombed, but it wasn't because the Germans deliberately allowed the British to do so.)
The German ambassador, Franz von Pappen, was the Chancellor of Germany before Hitler (Kurt von Schleicher actually served between the two for all of two months). Once out of office he worked with Hitler and was instrumental in getting Hitler placed as Chancellor (which isn't an office that the people vote for). In other words he was instrumental in the creation of the 3rd Reich. The reasons why he did this are too involved to go in here.
One last point: of the money Cicero got from the Germans what would it be worth today? After converting to dollars from Pounds and then calculating the rate of inflation, the £120,000 would be equivalent to about $8,000,000 today. Which explains why he lived so well down there in Argentina, until... __209.179.0.121 (talk) 22:24, 7 November 2015 (UTC)