The British Bugged the German Generals They Captured. The Recordings Destroy Their Memoirs

Get both copies of German Command Ebooks here: https://www.germancommand.com/ The British recorded captured German generals for years without their knowledge. The transcripts contradict the memoirs those same officers published after the war. Between 1942 and 1945, Three country houses in southern England held German prisoners of war in rooms wired with hidden microphones. Jewish refugees who had fled Germany staffed the listening posts, transcribing thousands of hours of conversation. General Dietrich von Choltitz told a fellow prisoner in August 1944 that he had liquidated Jews down to the last detail; six years later he published a bestselling account claiming he disobeyed Hitler's order to destroy Paris. Other generals described mass shootings, prisoner killings, and scorched-earth operations in detail, then spent the postwar decades writing operational histories for the U.S. Army that blamed atrocities on the SS and portrayed the officer corps as professionals betrayed by an amateur. The transcripts remained classified until the end of the twentieth century, and most of the men recorded in them were never prosecuted.