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this powerful docudrama tells the story of one of world war ii's last secrets. 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. in this programme, they are dramatised - word for word - from the original
transcripts. 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. the programme also features the historian who uncovered the
transcripts, and one of the surviving 'listeners' - a hidden army, largely made up of german-speaking
jewish refugees, who had to transcribe accounts of appalling anti-semitic crimes while never betraying
their existence to the men they spent every day monitoring.
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this powerful docudrama tells the story of one of world war ii's last secrets. 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. in this programme, they are dramatised - word for word - from the original
transcripts. 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. the programme also features the historian who uncovered the
transcripts, and one of the surviving 'listeners' - a hidden army, largely made up of german-speaking
jewish refugees, who had to transcribe accounts of appalling anti-semitic crimes while never betraying
their existence to the men they spent every day monitoring.
