Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings (2013)

2013-06-02

(GB) •

Drama,

Documentary

9.5/10

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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.

Movie Cast

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Philip Glenister

Narrator

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

David Barrass

General Kittel

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Nicholas Farrell

General von Thoma

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Jack Fortune

General Bruhn

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Rupert Frazer

General Cruwell

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Richard Freeman

General Von Choltitz

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Peter Harding

General Schlieben

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Gareth Keiran Jones

Fried

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Elliott Jordan

Hartelt

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Valentine Pelka

General Von Felbert

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Rafe Pugh

Minnieur

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Alan Turkington

Pffanberger

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Thomas Wheatley

Lord Aberfeldy