There’s been a flurry of activity around Jan Willem Ter Braak the last couple of weeks. The media has learned that a gravestone is going to be placed on his grave and there have been a couple of articles that have come out. The Cambridge News and the Daily Mail have similar articles that both […]
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I came across a podcast site last week that is rather interesting. The Unexplained Podcast is produced by Richard Maclean Smith and has garnered some great reviews. Smith tackles the Bella in the Wych Elm saga in two podcasts. The first aired on January 26, 2017 and the second aired on February 11, 2017. Various
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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 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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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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Article Review – Kriminalia Online Magazine I don’t often find anything published on Josef Jakobs in Germany, but… that has changed. Back in October, Michael Kirchschlager of Kriminalia, an online magazine on criminal and legal history, published a brief article stub entitled The Executioner at War: Soldiers, Spies, and Traitors – Der Henker im Krieg:
Today marks the 76th anniversary of the capture of German spy Josef Jakobs at Dove House Farm near the village of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Having broken his ankle during his exit from the aircraft via parachute, Josef was found around 8:30 am by two farmers on their way to work. Josef spent the next few months
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