British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 10,000 German prisoners of war without their ever knowing they were being overheard. The prisoners' unguarded reminiscences and unintentional confessions have only just come to light, and prove how closely the German army were involved in the atrocities of the Holocaust. British intelligence requisitioned three stately homes for this epic task, and converted each into an elaborate trap. The 100,000 hours of conversation they captured provided crucial intelligence that changed the course of the war, and revealed some of its worst horrors, from rape to mass executions to one of the earliest bulletins from the concentration camps. But when the fighting ended, the recordings were destroyed and the transcripts locked away for half a century. Only now have they been declassified, researched and cross-referenced.
Release Date : Jun 02, 2013
Genres : Drama, Documentary
Production Company : October Films, Channel 4 Television
Production Countries : United Kingdom
Original Language : English
Casts : Philip Glenister, David Barrass, Nicholas Farrell, Jack Fortune, Rupert Frazer, Richard Freeman, Peter Harding, Gareth Keiran Jones, Elliott Jordan, Valentine Pelka, Rafe Pugh
Director :
Status : Released
Budget : 0
Revenue : 0
