Splendid PrisonsConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 395
Mar 23, 2020 • 51m
The Walls Have Ears
Guest: Helen Fry, author, "The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II"
Thinking that their British intelligence guards were incompetent, German POWs unsuspectingly spilled Nazi secrets—intelligence that proved invaluable in the war effort and the Cold War years that followed.
Such Splendid Prisons
Guest: Harvey Solomon, author, "Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America During World War II"
The story of the American luxury hotels that serviced more than a thousand Axis-power diplomats during World War II.