The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis in WW2

The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis in WW2

As seen on pbs and Channel 4 documentary "Spying on Hitler's Army"... This is the story of the German Ã©migrÃ©s who fled Hitlerâ€™s regime and became secret listeners for British Intelligence during the Second World War. Behind the walls of the M Room (M for 'miked') they bugged the conversations of over 10,000 German PoWs, including 59 German Generals at Trent Park in North London. Providing a detailed, oft humorous, insight into life of the Generals in captivity, the book shows the farcical â€˜stage-setâ€™ in which they found themselves. But against this backdrop, the secret listeners eavesdropped on admission of war crimes and terrible atrocities against Russians, Poles and Jews; as well as details of an SS mutiny in a concentration camp in 1936, and Hitlerâ€™s human â€˜stud farmsâ€™. This story places firmly on record just how much British and American Intelligence knew about Hitler's annihilation programme and how early. Why at the end of the war were these files not released for the war crimes trials to bring the perperators to justice? Was this one of the darkest secrets of the war? These transcripts, and thousands of others, of some of the most important Nazi secrets remained classified until 1999. During their clandestine work the secret listeners did not set eyes on a single German PoW, yet their work and the intelligence they gained was as significant for winning the war as Bletchley Park and cracking the Enigma Code. For over sixty years the listeners never spoke about their work, not even to their families. Many went to their grave bearing the secrets of the nation which had saved them from certain death.

Country	USA
Author	Helen Fry
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781481020084
ISBN	1481020080
Label	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	298
PublicationDate	2012-11-20
Publisher	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Studio	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis in WW2

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