Thinking Sideways: Amikafer

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.3 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2013

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In post WWII Germany the Colorado potato beetle began decimating crops. No one knows why they appeared in such great numbers that season. Did the US dropped them there as a form of biological warfare, did they just happen to accidentally invade, or was it someone else?

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you listen to any of our new episodes, you're gonna notice that we're sounding a little different in these ones.
0:11.0	Yeah, there's a reason for that. There is. They've been remastered. They have been remastered. Because they had a really annoying hum.
0:17.0	Yeah, I mean, a huge thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this thing.
0:23.0	You'll also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before, and you're re-listening now, the music and sound effects are gone.
0:32.0	Yes, we've gone back to straight audio. So, be warned. We sound a little different today than we do in what you're about to listen to.
0:39.0	Yeah. Bye.
0:41.0	Thinking sideways.
0:46.0	I don't understand.
0:48.0	Don't not go cute.
0:50.0	You never know.
0:52.0	Keep the picture, keep the picture funny. Just smile.
0:54.0	What?
0:55.0	Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
1:00.0	Well, hi there, and welcome back to Thinking sideways, the podcast. I am Steve.
1:07.0	I'm Devon.
1:08.0	I'm Joe. And we, as always, are going to get into a story that doesn't quite have an answer and try and figure it out.
1:15.0	Because Joe loves to solve them.
1:17.0	Oh, yeah. We'll solve this one for sure.
1:19.0	Yeah. Okay. All right. Good.
1:21.0	Well, let's hop right into the story. I'm not going to tell you what it is quite yet. I want to set this stage.
1:28.0	So it's 1950, and we're in Germany.
1:31.0	I better stop talking then, huh?
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