Month: March 2015

Today in 1941: March 31 – German spy Josef Jakobs returned to Brixton Prison Infirmary

Today in 1941, German spy Josef Jakobs was transferred from Ham Common Internment Camp (a.k.a. Camp 020) to Brixton Prison Infirmary. Josef had been transferred to Ham Common around March 26, having recovered sufficiently from his injuries and illnesses. Unfortunately, after a day or so at Ham Common, Josef began to develop a fever and […]

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Today in 1941: March 27 – German spy Josef Jakobs transferred from Dulwich Community Hospital to Ham Common Internment Camp

Today in 1941, German spy Josef Jakobs was transferred from Dulwich Community Hospital in East Dulwich to Ham Common Internment Camp (a.k.a. Camp 020). Since his arrival at Dulwich Hospital on 3 February, 1941, Josef’s shattered ankle had been put into Plaster of Paris several times. He had developed septicemia at the site of the

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E.B. Goodacre – Historian and Interrogator at Camp 020 in 1941

N.B. 2021 03 25 – I’ve been  doing a bit more digging into Edward and a new blog is available here. Digging up information on the elusive Camp 020 interrogators is a bit tricky given that they were generally only referenced by their initials and last name (e.g. E.B. Goodacre). Several sources suggested that Goodacre’s

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G.F. Sampson – Diplomat and Interrogator at Camp 020 in 1941

Digging up information on the elusive Camp 020 interrogators is a bit tricky given that they were generally only referenced by their initials and last name (e.g. G.F. Sampson) and rarely by their first and last names (e.g. George Sampson). But, by cross-referencing the British Army Lists and the London Gazette from 1940 and 1941,

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Interrogators at Camp 020 in 1941

Very few photographs exist of the mysterious interrogators from Camp 020, also known as Latchmere House, Ham Common or simply Ham. In May 1941, with the help of Josef Jakobs, Camp 020 interrogators finally broke newly arrived spy Karel Richter. On the morning of 18 May, Richter reluctantly admitted that he had arrived by parachute.

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Magazine Review – After the Battle Magazine – Volume 35

The Magazine German Spies in Britain, After the Battle, volume 35, Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 1982, page 20. Summary Last year I wrote a short article review on After the Battle Magazine’s classic piece on German Spies in Britain (Volume 11, published 1976). When the editor of the magazine, Winston Ramsey, wrote the

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Albert Pierrepoint – Britain’s Most Efficient Executioner

During World War II, 15 men were hanged as spies in Great Britain, either at Pentonville Prison or Wandsworth Prison. Many of those spies were hanged by Albert Pierrepoint, a man who would eventually become known as Britain’s Most Efficient Executioner. Pierrepoint served as a hangman from 1932 to 1956 and during that period executed

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