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The mystery of Hitler's 'spyclists'
BBC ^ | Mar 8, 2010 | Sanchia Berg

Posted on 03/08/2010 6:01:32 AM PST by decimon

Summer 1937. What could be more fitting in the cool afternoon of an English country lane than a group of cycling tourists steadily pedalling their way from one historic site to another, stopping to camp overnight in fields along the way.

The only problem was, that summer, some of those groups of teenage boys were Hitler Youth.

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MI5 had been told that Hitler Youth groups visiting abroad were asked to complete a detailed questionnaire, including questions on terrain, population, and political views of the population.

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They had stayed at a Hitler Youth camp and even taken part in a torchlight rally. One of the boys, Les Fardon, told Radio 4's Document Programme ten years ago: "It was like a Roman legion," he said. "You had these long banners and you were marching to tune... it was very stirring and frightening"

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(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: bicycle; bicycling; bike; cycling

1 posted on 03/08/2010 6:01:32 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

Hitler youth then, mosque-itos now.


2 posted on 03/08/2010 6:04:57 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 410 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: decimon
Read about the Franco-Prussian War. All the german generals visited Paris to include to the Paris forts about 1 year before the war started...
3 posted on 03/08/2010 6:07:50 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: decimon
They came for the travel ...

... and stayed for the pants.

4 posted on 03/08/2010 6:19:39 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: decimon

Japanese admirals and generals served in menial capacities before Pearl Harbor and the Russo-Japanese war in the armies and navies of their opponants. It is a very old tactic.
Just between you, me, and the wastebasket in the corner; anybody notice all them there Chineee ‘students’ studyin just about EVERYWHERE in the good ‘ol U S of A these days?


5 posted on 03/08/2010 6:22:26 AM PST by Flintlock
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To: Liberty Valance
Monty Python, Hitler in England Skit.
6 posted on 03/08/2010 6:23:07 AM PST by Leisler (What 'free market', where is it?)
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To: Flintlock; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

Good point, Flintlock.


7 posted on 03/08/2010 7:18:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: Leisler

“Reginald you have the wrong map here you silly old leg-before-wicket English person.”


8 posted on 03/08/2010 7:20:31 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: decimon

Moe Berg, a US professional baseball player, also supplied US intelligence services with information he collected while traveling in Japan before the war.


9 posted on 03/08/2010 8:39:08 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: decimon

I understand that those Japs “fishing” in 1941 Hawaii were actually taking soundings of the waters. Much like those Muzzie “boaters” near a bridge in Virginia a while back, perhaps.


10 posted on 03/08/2010 9:09:09 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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