The Diabolical Witchcraft of MI9: How British Intelligence Encouraged POWs to Escape and Gather Intelligence ‹ CrimeReads

By the time the invasion of Poland officially kicked off the Second World War, the Germans had been engaged in strategy sessions for years-probably even before the ink had dried on the Treaty of Versailles. Eager to redress their losses and keen to demonstrate the imagined superiority of the Aryan race, the country had been zealously preparing its youth, citizens, infrastructure, military, and factories (not to mention its pigeons) for another chips-all-in fracas. The Brits, meanwhile, were thoroughly occupied in moving on after the devastating war years and were eager to downplay the indications that another war was looming on the horizon. They may as well have been an island of optimistic ostriches. But on September 1st, 1939, war was once again upon them. One by one, the Allied countries fell, and as the Luftwaffe blitzed across the Channel, and the threat of a British invasion seemed imminent, the situation was desperate indeed.