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Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine Andrew Gumbel © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Getty Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses. A new book published later this month presents extraordinary evidence that the refugees, all Germans who had fled from Nazi-annexed Sude...

04/22/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/22/2021 01:12 Keynote Address by External Affairs Minister at ICWA-USI International Gallipoli Virtual Seminar Excellencies, distinguished scholars, ladies and gentlemen. I am pleased to join you all today at the inauguration of the International Conference on Gallipoli 2021. This is the first major commemoration of the Battle of Gallipoli to be hosted by any platform of national significance in India. Perhaps, it is only appropriate that it should be done jointly by two venerable, historic bodies - the United Service Institution and th...

A Numismatist at War: Max von Bahrfeldt   …[T]he Army had become the most popular, most admired, and most respected and most influential entity in the new German Empire. …To most Germans their Army – the Emperor’s Army – represented stability as well as honor and glory (Dupuy, 110). The study of ancient coins is usually regarded as a quiet, scholarly pursuit. But one of the most eminent European classical numismatists of the early 20th century was a German general accused of atrocities in Belgium during the Willmine, 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Berlin, Max Bahrfeldt entered a...

A DORSET resident who played her part in Second World War military intelligence has celebrated her 100th birthday at a Blandford care home. Sylvia Spooner was the focus of international attention as family members and friends in the UK, Canada, Australia, The Gambia and the United States joined a Zoom call or sent greetings. Team members at Colten Care’s Whitecliffe House helped Sylvia welcome 26 Zoom groups for chats and good wishes during her special day. Born in Streatham, London in 1920, Sylvia, maiden name Blest, was in her late teens when she had a chilling foretaste of the lo...

AN EX-MI5 secretary has celebrated her 100th birthday in style - speaking to dozens of friends and loved ones from across the world from the comfort of her Dorset care home. Sylvia Spooner was taken on by the MI5 during the Second World War, in the section responsible for handling intelligence on threats to rail transport. She was the focus of international attention as she marked her milestone birthday from Whitecliffe House, in Blandford - with loved ones from across the UK, Canada, Australia, The Gambia and United States joining a Zoom call. Born in Streatham, London in 1920, Sylvi...