The British Renegades Warning List was a list of people that the British security services suspected of assisting the Axis forces during the Second World War. It was sent to SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) on 6 May 1944[1] in advance of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 to enable Allied troops to identify people in occupied Europe who might try to subvert the invasion effort.[2][3][4]
Names on the list edit
This is an incomplete list of the "renegades":
- Benson Railton Freeman (RAF flying instructor who served in the Waffen-SS)[5]
- No. 29 Susan Hilton (Pro-Nazi broadcaster)[6]
- No. 80 Walter Purdy[7]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Minute Sheet No. 6 in Susan Dorothea Mary Therese HILTON: a pre-war member of the British Union of Fascists,... National Archives. (subscription required)
- ^ West, Nigel. (2018). Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports. Stroud: The History Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-7509-8738-7.
- ^ Carlton, Eric. (2018). Treason: Meanings and Motives. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-429-77770-7.
- ^ West, Nigel. (2015). Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence (2nd ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-4422-4957-8.
- ^ Gerlis, Alex. (2018). The Berlin Spies. Canelo. p. 465. ISBN 978-1-78863-869-2.
- ^ "M.I.5. Report Re Susan Hilton", 14 November 1945, in Susan Dorothea Mary Therese HILTON, KV 2/423, National Archives. (subscription required)
- ^ Murphy, Sean. (2003) Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War. Sutton. p. 215. ISBN 9780750929363