The Radio Show – Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm Original Air Date – 2 August, 2014Station – BBC Radio 4Show – Punt PI: Steve Punt InvestigatesDuration – 30 minutesHost – Steve PuntProducer – Sarah BowenClip available here Review In this half hour show, BBC’s resident gumshoe, Steve Punt, looks into the mystery surrounding […]
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On 24 July 1941, Josef Jakobs was visited by Lt. Col. William Edward Hinchley Cooke. Josef had been transferred to Wandsworth Prison the previous day and the move from Latchmere House boded ill. Hinchley Cooke charged Josef with: committing a civil offence, that is to say, Treachery, an offence contrary to Section I of the
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During World War II, several individuals were charged under the Treachery Act. The vast majority of them were found guilty and executed. A few escaped with their lives. Remember that during the House of Commons discussion on May 22, 1940, the Members of Parliament were told that the Treachery Act would only be applied in
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Josef Jakobs was charged under the Treachery Act of 1940. Prior to its promulgation, suspected spies and saboteurs could be charged under the Official Secrets Act or the Defence Regulations, neither of which offered the death penalty as a punishment. On May 22 and May 23, the Treachery Act bill was rushed through the House
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German spy Josef Jakobs was charged under the Treachery Act, 1940, tried by court martial and executed by firing squad on 15 August 1941. In total, 16 spies were executed within England during World War 2 under the Treachery Act, yet many others were spared. What was the Treachery Act and how did it come
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The Book Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi Spies, Lt Col. R.W.G. Stephens, introduced and edited by Oliver Hoare, Public Record Office, 2000. Review This book might not be what you would expect, in that it is not a “book” per se. In the 1990s, MI5 declassified a document entitled A Digest of Ham written
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The Film Tales from the Tower was released in 2001 by Ardent Productions, a film company based in England. It was produced for the American market and aired on The Learning Channel. Producers: Robin Bextor, Edward Wessex (also known as Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex), Larry Lamb and Peter Koper.Directors: Paul Bryers and Robin Bextor.Writers:
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The Film – Tales from the Tower (2001) Producers: Robin Bextor, Edward Wessex (also known as Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex), Larry Lamb and Peter Koper.Directors: Paul Bryers and Robin Bextor.Writers: Daniel Diehl and Mark P. Donnelly (who later published a book with the same title in 2004). N.B. This video should not be confused
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Happy Birthday Josef Jakobs! On this date, 116 years ago, Josef Jakobs was born in Luxemburg City. His parents both had long German pedigrees and Josef too was a German citizen. Luxemburg City was only a few dozen kilometres from the border with Germany and easily accessible from the ancient German city of Trier. In
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The Magazine German Spies in Britain, After the Battle, volume 11, Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 1976. Review In 1976, After the Battle Magazine published an edition that featured on German Spies in Britain. The series of articles focused on World War II spies and fleshed out a lot of their stories. A two-page
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