[the invisib1e hand]

Do not trust anything the Times says, especially about this. The "secret army" which saved Western civilization was as openly villified then (to the very limited extent it was known) as anything the US is doing in Iraq now.

Get the book mentioned on my FR page if you care to know the truth. Get it, and read it.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Cool find! Thanks!

[DieHard the Hunter]

Interesting comments at the source...

[weegee]

Their role was to engage in irregular warfare, which meant that, as civilians, their capture by the Germans would have led to their instant execution as spies.

They would not have been "spies", they would have been at most "insurgents". No espionage charge in defense of nation on homeland territory.

[Billthedrill]

I suppose it’s redundant to point out that there are people in the UK today who have stashes of “explosives and weaponry.” It isn’t the nation’s freedom they have in mind, though.