
Splendid Prisons
Constant Wonder - Radio Archive, Episode 395
- Mar 23, 2020 6:00 am
- 50:39 mins
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.