Movie Description
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
(2013)Overview
British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 10,000 German prisoners of war without their ever knowing they were being overheard. The prisoners' unguarded reminiscences and unintentional confessions have only just come to light, and prove how closely the German army were involved in the atrocities of the Holocaust. British intelligence requisitioned three stately homes for this epic task, and converted each into an elaborate trap. The 100,000 hours of conversation they captured provided crucial intelligence that changed the course of the war, and revealed some of its worst horrors, from rape to mass executions to one of the earliest bulletins from the concentration camps. But when the fighting ended, the recordings were destroyed and the transcripts locked away for half a century. Only now have they been declassified, researched and cross-referenced.
Featured Crew
Cast
Narrator
General Kittel
General von Thoma
General Bruhn
General Cruwell
General Von Choltitz
General Schlieben
Fried
Hartelt
General Von Felbert
Minnieur
Pffanberger
Lord Aberfeldy
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Facts
Original TitleSpying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
Status Released
Release Information
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2013-06-02
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 00h 47m
Homepagehttp://www.channel4.com/programmes/spying-on-hitlers-army-secret-recordings
Production CompaniesOctober Films,Channel 4 Television
Genres
- Drama
- Documentary
