Carl May and the Death of Hitler

In 1939, when Hitler's armies were preparing to invade Poland, a Nazi plane crashed a neutral Belgium carrying two officers with copies of the invasion plans. They did manage to destroy the plans in time, but the German military wasn't 100% certain that nothing had gotten out and so they reconfigured their forces just in case. "I was like, you know, we got a base our economic policy on Harry Potter has a room full of gold," he says.