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Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
9.5 / 10• 2013• 47m•NR• English
DramaDocumentary
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Philip Glenister
Narrator
Lead
David Barrass
General Kittel
Nicholas Farrell
General von Thoma
Jack Fortune
General Bruhn
Rupert Frazer
General Cruwell
RF
Richard Freeman
General Von Choltitz
PH
Peter Harding
General Schlieben
GK
Gareth Keiran Jones
Fried
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Christopher Spencer's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
5.0
“Every frame feels alive. Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
