Year: 2017

Egon Rammrath through the eyes of Josef Jakobs

During his interrogations at Camp 020, MI5’s secret wartime interrogation centre southwest of London, Josef Jakobs shared information about the black market passport business in which he was involved. One of the other characters in Josef’s account was Egon Rammrath, son of Franz Rammrath. While not of great interest to MI5’s interrogators, Rammrath’s existence was

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Dealers in Black Market Passports – Josef Jakobs and Egon Rammrath

It’s safe to say that Nazi Germany was not a stable place for thousands of Jews. The Nuremberg Laws progressively stripped away the civil rights of those who were classified as Jews (either 3 or 4 grandparents who had been born into the Jewish religion). Jewish doctors and lawyers could only have Jewish clients. Jews

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A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – Germany’s Medium Bomber – Heinkel HE 111

Last year, I wrote a post on the Heinkel 11 (HE 111), an aircraft developed in Germany in the mid-1930s as a civilian transport machine. Given the prohibitions against rearmament placed on Germany after WW1, the designers of the aircraft did an end-run by creating an aircraft that could ultimately be used as a fast

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Another Clue in the Hunt for Robin William George Stephens

I had a comment on one of my Stephens blogs the other day from Stephen D. Stephen had tracked down a London Gazette notice dated 22 May 1942 relating to the second “wife” of Robin Stephens. It would appear that Joan Geraldine Pearson Dowling may not have married Robin Stephens, but simply undergone a legal

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The Disappointing West Mercia Police Files on Bella in the Wych Elm

Last month, I ordered the West Mercia Police files on the Bella in the Wych Elm case. The price was a bit steep but… the idea of actually being able to access historical documents on the case was too tempting. The archivist at the Worcestershire County Archives admitted that the files contained quite a bit

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