When Nazi Germany occupied France in 1940 during World War II, the Citroën factory was compelled to build trucks for the German military. However, the French weren’t going down without a quiet fight. Instead of explosives or open rebellion, they used something far smarter - a dipstick.
Pierre-Jules Boulanger, the head of Citroën at the time, came up with a clever act of sabotage. He ordered the oil dipsticks in the trucks to be quietly altered. The “full” line was lowered just enough to make it seem like the oil level was fine, even when it wasn’t.
What happened next? The trucks ran out of oil under pressure, engines seized, and German supply lines stalled. No one could point a finger because it looked like a simple mechanical failure.
It was just a quiet act of retaliation, hidden from plain sight. This was brilliance disguised as compliance. Not all heroes make noise. Sometimes, they just mess with the dipstick!
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