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World War 2

U.S. Liberators Tell Stories of the Horror of Liberating Concentration Camps

9 March 2010

Roll Call, 9 March 2010: We must never forget. It is the creed of the survivors who braved unspeakable horrors at the hands of the Nazis. The brave Allied soldiers who battled to free them share it, too. But the reality is, as time moves forward, fewer and fewer firsthand voices remain. As they go, [...]

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Revealed: Nazi spy duped by failed actor in ‘Monty’s Double’ hoax

8 March 2010

Times of London, 8 March 2010: . . . . On the eve of D-Day the failed actor found himself plucked from obscurity to play the starring role in the war’s most melodramatic deception — as the spitting image of Monty. The operation, codenamed “Copperhead”, became the basis for the 1958 film I Was Monty’s [...]

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New MI5 Security Service files released

8 March 2010

UK National Archives, 8 March 2010:  Security Service records released today include personal files on US film director Carl Nathan Foreman, Irish playwright Brendan Behan and Nazi propagandist Gottfried Rosel, as well as investigations into the dangers posed by bicycling groups of Hilter Youth and the Communist links of Theatre Workshop. The 196 files cover subjects [...]

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Uncovered documents reveal spy who fed information on Hitler’s secrets

15 February 2010

Times of London, 13 Feb 10: MI6 obtained vital secrets from a spy operating at the very heart of Hitler’s high command during the most crucial years of the war, newly discovered intelligence documents have revealed. The secret agent, code-named “Knopf”, furnished the intelligence service with information on Hitler’s plans in the Mediterranean and on [...]

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Today in History: ‘Doll Woman’ indicted for WWII espionage

11 February 2010

Washington Examiner, 11 Feb 10: On this day, Feb. 11, in 1944, Velvalee Dickinson was indicted in a plot to deliver messages to the Japanese during wartime through her doll business. Known as “The Doll Woman,” Dickinson used her doll shop in New York to send information about U.S. naval forces such as “Doll in [...]

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Sorge’s Spy is Brought in From the Cold. A Soviet-Okinawan Connection

8 February 2010

Japan Focus, 7 Feb 10: The Sorge espionage case concerns one of the most spectacular instances of clandestine influence in the history of international relations.
In the mid-1930s, the former Soviet Union enlisted the German national, Dr. Richard Sorge and four others in Tokyo, secretly to collect information on the likely policies of the Japanese government [...]

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Noor Inayat Khan: Princess, Spy, Martyr, Heroine

27 January 2010

PakTribune, 27 Jan 10: . . . . Although Noor Inayat Khan was deeply influenced by the pacifist teachings of her father, she and her brother Vilayat Inayat Khan decided to help defeat Nazi tyranny. (Vilayat Inayat Khan later became head of the Sufi Order International.) So on November 19, 1940 she joined the Women’s [...]

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Invasion and the body snatchers

13 January 2010

Times of London, 14 Jan 10: In a new book (coming 18 January), an author reveals for the first time secrets of one of the most audacious acts of wartime deception — how a British corpse was dropped into the sea with a new identity to fool Hitler about Allied invasion plans . . .
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Historian claims to have finally identified wartime ‘Man Who Never Was’

4 January 2010

Daily Telegraph, 3 Jan 10: A historian claims to have conclusively proved the identity of the “Man Who Never Was”, whose body was used in a spectacular plot to deceive the Germans over the invasion of Sicily in the Second World War, Ian Johnston reports.
It was a turning point in the Second World War. [...]

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