MONOPOLY--REALLY GET OUT OF JAIL FREE

During World War II, the British licensee of the Parker Brothers* Monopoly game put out a special edition for use by Allied POWs in Germany. Prisoners knew to look for a small red dot on the "Free Parking" space, which would identify the game as one which would have silk maps, a compass, a steel file, and genuine foreign currency concealed within the board.  The British Secret Service devised a fake charity to distribute these games, as it did not want the Red Cross to be involved and ultimately blacklisted by the Germans in the event one of the boards was discovered. Unfortunately for World War II paraphernalia collectors, the manufacturer destroyed all remaining copies of the game after the war was over. *Parker Brothers was absorbed into Hasbro in 1991.

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