Spying for Hitler

The Welsh Double Cross

By (author) John Humphries

Publication date:

15 September 2012

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

198x129mm

ISBN-13: 9780708325209

After Dunkirk the British Army was broken, the country isolated and invasion imminent. German Military Intelligence was sat the task of recruiting collaborators from among Welsh nationalists to sabotage military and civilian installations ahead of the landing. Strategic deception was one of the few weapons left. To fool the Germans into believing Britain was ready and able to repel invaders when in fact it had only the weapons salvaged from Dunkirk, MI5 invented an imaginary cell of Welsh saboteurs led by a retired police inspector.