Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors
This dramatic exposé of Allied subterfuge and betrayal uncovers the treachery of undercover fascists and American Nazi spy rings during the height of World War II.

Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted—mostly in secret trials—of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. In the same period, hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for, or working on behalf of, Germany. Collectively, these men and women were part of a little-known Fifth Column: traitors who committed crimes including espionage, sabotage, communicating with enemy intelligence agents and attempting to cause disaffection amongst Allied troops. Hundreds of official files, released piecemeal and in remarkably haphazard fashion in the years between 2002 and 2017, reveal the truth about the Allied men and women who formed these spy rings. Several were part of international espionage rings based in the United States.

If these men and women were, for the most part, lone wolves or members of small networks, others were much more dangerous. In 1940, during some of the darkest days of the war, two well-connected British Nazi sympathizers planned overlapping conspiracies to bring about a “fascist revolution.” These plots were foiled by Allied spymasters through radical—and often contentious—methods of investigation.
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Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors
This dramatic exposé of Allied subterfuge and betrayal uncovers the treachery of undercover fascists and American Nazi spy rings during the height of World War II.

Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted—mostly in secret trials—of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. In the same period, hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for, or working on behalf of, Germany. Collectively, these men and women were part of a little-known Fifth Column: traitors who committed crimes including espionage, sabotage, communicating with enemy intelligence agents and attempting to cause disaffection amongst Allied troops. Hundreds of official files, released piecemeal and in remarkably haphazard fashion in the years between 2002 and 2017, reveal the truth about the Allied men and women who formed these spy rings. Several were part of international espionage rings based in the United States.

If these men and women were, for the most part, lone wolves or members of small networks, others were much more dangerous. In 1940, during some of the darkest days of the war, two well-connected British Nazi sympathizers planned overlapping conspiracies to bring about a “fascist revolution.” These plots were foiled by Allied spymasters through radical—and often contentious—methods of investigation.
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Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors

Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors

by Tim Tate
Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors

Hitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors

by Tim Tate

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Overview

This dramatic exposé of Allied subterfuge and betrayal uncovers the treachery of undercover fascists and American Nazi spy rings during the height of World War II.

Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted—mostly in secret trials—of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. In the same period, hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for, or working on behalf of, Germany. Collectively, these men and women were part of a little-known Fifth Column: traitors who committed crimes including espionage, sabotage, communicating with enemy intelligence agents and attempting to cause disaffection amongst Allied troops. Hundreds of official files, released piecemeal and in remarkably haphazard fashion in the years between 2002 and 2017, reveal the truth about the Allied men and women who formed these spy rings. Several were part of international espionage rings based in the United States.

If these men and women were, for the most part, lone wolves or members of small networks, others were much more dangerous. In 1940, during some of the darkest days of the war, two well-connected British Nazi sympathizers planned overlapping conspiracies to bring about a “fascist revolution.” These plots were foiled by Allied spymasters through radical—and often contentious—methods of investigation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643130774
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 07/02/2019
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Tim Tate is a multi-award winning documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist, and prolific author. Over a career spanning almost forty years he has made more than eighty documentaries for all British networks and international broadcasters, and written for most national newspapers. His films have been honored by Amnesty International, the Royal Television Society, UNESCO, the International Documentary Association, the Association for International Broadcasting, the [US] National Academy of Cable Broadcasting, and the New York Festivals. He is the author of fifteen history books, including Hitler's Forgotten Children and the bestselling Slave Girl which has sold over 700,000 copies.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xi

Prelude xvii

Introduction xix

1 A Wake-up Call 1

2 Target Britain 15

3 A Nation Unprepared 29

4 'The Shadow of the German Sword' 43

5 The Last Spies of Peace 59

6 Phoney War 75

7 Perish Judah!' 89

8 Lords Traitorous 107

9 Two Weeks in May 125

10 Assisting the Enemy 143

11 The Kensington Conspiracy 165

12 'A Revolutionary Dictatorship Should be Imposed' 185

13 Password 'Peter Leigh' 209

14 Witch-finding 227

15 Humble Tools and Real Criminals 251

16 Treachery and Death 269

17 'Most Frank and Attractive' 299

18 'Rosebud' and the Road to Entrapment 327

19 Dorothy, Dormouse and Jack 341

20 The Marita Network 355

21 After the War 379

Afterword 391

Acknowledgements 395

Selected Bibliography 397

Notes 399

Index 449

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