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Title: For Fuhrer and Fatherland: SS Murder and Mayhem in Wartime Britain

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Language:        English

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For Fuhrer and Fatherland is the extraordinary story of how British and American Intelligence thwarted a wartime plan for a daring mass break-out of German prisoners-of-war from the PoW camp at Devizes in Wiltshire, led by a hard core of SS troops. As December 1944 drew to a close, trainee American interrogators stumbled on a plan so fantastic in concept that it was hard to take seriously. The Allied camp authorities were relieved of their command by a team from the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC), who broke the wills of the prisoners involved and got to the bottom of the story. With their escape plans in tatters, the SS took their revenge. Transferred to a harsh PoW camp at Comrie in Scotland, the SS plotters 'tried' and murdered one of their fellow prisoners (who was anything but a Nazi), accused of betraying the Fuhrer. Scotland Yard and CSDIC were called in to investigate the SS's rule of terror within the camp and the murder. Despite the SS code of silence, the investigating authorities succeeded in building a case of evidence against the perpetrators, five of whom were eventually convicted of murder and hanged at Pentonville Prison in October 1945. The author poses - and answers - a number of key questions: Why was Devizes Camp so woefully unprepared for a possible break-out? Why was a known anti-Nazi sent north to the camp in Scotland, and his death? Why was the SS allowed to continue its reign of terror within the Scottish camp? Why did the Government of the day not release the story after the war?

Book Details Summary: The title of this book is For Fuhrer and Fatherland: SS Murder and Mayhem in Wartime Britain and it was written by Roderick De Normann. This edition of For Fuhrer and Fatherland: SS Murder and Mayhem in Wartime Britain is in a Book format. This books publish date is January 1996 and it has a suggested retail price of $. There are 182 pages in the book and it was published by Sutton. The 10 digit ISBN is 0750912820 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780750912822. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.