Nowadays, these public urinals have all but disappeared from French streets. Of course, dismantling the Nazi regime wasn’t the pissotières’ original purpose: The structures were initially commissioned to expand options for well-hydrated (but lazy) men looking to empty their bladders. And the French had open-air urinals.Īs Digby Warde-Aldam reports for the Guardian, the pissotières of Paris-public pee-spots first installed in the 1830s-became popular rendezvous points for members of the French Resistance to covertly exchange information on enemy movements. To keep precious military intel out of enemy hands, forces fighting in World War II resorted to some pretty creative communication tactics.
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