Show – BBC – Spy! Episode 2: Camp 020 (1980)Original Air Date – 20 January 1980TV Series – Spy!Duration – 47:00 minutesDirector – John Bird A few years ago, I read snippets from Christopher Andrew’s authorized history of MI5 (The Defence of the Realm). At the time, I was digging into background information on Lt. […]
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I came across a WordPress blog yesterday entitled the BS Historian – Sceptical Commentary on Pseudohistory and the Paranormal. I’ll leave it to everyone’s imagination as to what “BS” stands for. The anonymous author of the blog wrote a post on: Conscience Bullets – Firing Squads and the use of blank cartridges. The blog author
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A book came out last year, written by a German author, that outlines the widespread use of drugs in the Third Reich. One of the main drugs was Pervitin, whose active ingredient is methamphetamine – today known as crystal meth. I had come across suggestions of this before, that the German troops favoured methamphetamine while
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It’s been a while since I wrote a post on Lt. Col. Robin William George Stephens, a.k.a. Tin-Eye Stephens, fearsome former commandant of MI5s secret wartime interrogation centre, Camp 020. I have, through this blog and my website, made contact with a distant relative of Stephens. Together, I’m hoping that we might crack the case
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Two local newspapers (Dudley News and Hales Owen News) from the West Midlands in the UK, recently carried the same article about the HD Paranormal investigation into Bella in the Wych Elm. See my blog post from Friday March3… Both articles note: Jayne has also been in touch with the grand-daughter of Josef Jakobs –
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A few days ago, Kit Ward sent me a link to his blog (no longer live) on the chair used at Josef’s execution. He drew on my website and blog for a lot of the information and got most of the details correct. It’s always nice when people touch base before, or after, posting a
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Yup, more Bella in the Wych Elm. It seems that this story will never rest. HD Paranormal is raising funds for a film on Bella using previously classified police and MI5 records. You can check out their page here. They have naturally latched onto the idea that Bella is actually Clara Bauerle, the German cabaret
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The Mail Online has an interesting article about an old map that has recently come to light. The map, which belonged to a Luftwaffe navigator, was found in an attic of a former WW2 air gunner and likely came from a downed Luftwaffe plane. Dated November 30, 1941, the map identifies some of the key
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Well, this is interesting. Some budding poet has written a few verses about Josef and his execution. While the poem is short, there is an interesting discussion in the comments from other readers. Most are quite taken with the line: … but died he did, and the chair never healed. Indeed, a moving line. I
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The Episode BBC4 – Majesty & Mortar: Britain’s Great Palaces (2015)Original Air Date – 2 July 2014Series – Majesty & MortarDuration – 59:25 minutesDirector – Graham CooperHost – Dan Cruickshank Last January, a friend in England informed me that BBC4, Majesty & Mortar had aired a piece which included a reference to Josef Jakobs. It’s
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