Back in December 2017, I received a fascinating email from Tom Drayton, Director of Pregnant Fish Theatre and lecturer at the Universities of East London and Worcester. Tom teaches archival performance which sounds kind of strange until you learn that he basically “teaches students how to engage with archival material and research through performance experiments […]
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It would seem that Clara Bauerle will forever be linked with the mysterious Bella in the Wych Elm story. There is a lot if interest in the Bella story, and Clara’s name always seems to swirl into the space as a viable identity for the woman found stuffed in a Wych Elm in Worcestershire in
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During his interrogations at Camp 020, MI5’s secret wartime interrogation centre southwest of London, Josef Jakobs shared information about the black market passport business in which he was involved. One of the other characters in Josef’s account was Egon Rammrath, son of Franz Rammrath. While not of great interest to MI5’s interrogators, Rammrath’s existence was
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It’s safe to say that Nazi Germany was not a stable place for thousands of Jews. The Nuremberg Laws progressively stripped away the civil rights of those who were classified as Jews (either 3 or 4 grandparents who had been born into the Jewish religion). Jewish doctors and lawyers could only have Jewish clients. Jews
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I had a comment on one of my Stephens blogs the other day from Stephen D. Stephen had tracked down a London Gazette notice dated 22 May 1942 relating to the second “wife” of Robin Stephens. It would appear that Joan Geraldine Pearson Dowling may not have married Robin Stephens, but simply undergone a legal
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The title of this blog is a bit of a stretch… it’s hard to say if Route #11 was the favourite bus of spies but it was definitely the route that showed up twice in the MI5 files (so far). When double agent TATE (Wulf Schmidt) radioed the German Abwehr in Hamburg that he desperately
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Original Air Date – 30 January 2016Episode – Casefile – True Crime Podcast – Case 4 on YouTube – Who Put Bella in the ‘Witch’ ElmDuration – 31:48 minutesHost – Anonymous Yet another podcast on Bella in the Wych Elm! This one is put out by a team of Australians and is actually quite good.
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A few weeks ago, I had a question from one of the readers of this blog. The reader wanted to know why I never talk about Josef Jakobs being Jewish. That is actually a very good question! And one that I hope to answer in this blog. Court Martial Statements The idea that Josef was
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The Podcast – 13 O’clock Podcast – Murder by Witchcraft? Bella in the Wych Elm and the Warwickshire Pitchfork Murder (2017)Original Air Date – 25 July 201713 o’clock podcast – Episode 49 on YouTubeDuration – 56:06 minutes (Segment on Bella from 11:30 to 28:10Hosts – Tom Ross & Jenny Ashford I came across this podcast/YouTube
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I hit the jackpot a few weeks ago in the case of Clara Bauerle. At least… I think it’s a jackpot. I was doing a search on Ancestry for Clara’s name, something that I do on a fairly regular basis. New documents are always being digitized and I cycle through some of the key names,
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