World War II Prison Camp Cross-Stitch Had Hidden Message For Hitler
This is a really awesome story. Below is the crafty and subversive work of Major Alexis Casdagli, a British soldier held captive in a German POW camp from 1941-1945. Here's a needle in your eye, Adolph!
"After six months held by the Nazis in a prisoner of war camp, Major Alexis Casdagli was handed a piece of canvas by a fellow inmate. Pinching red and blue thread from a disintegrating pullover belonging to an elderly Cretan general, Casdagli passed the long hours in captivity by painstakingly creating a sampler in cross-stitch. Around decorative swastikas and a banal inscription saying he completed his work in December 1941, the British officer stitched a border of irregular dots and dashes. Over the next four years his work was displayed at the four camps in Germany where he was imprisoned, and his Nazi captors never once deciphered the messages threaded in Morse code:"
"God Save The King" and "Fuck Hitler"