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Karl is mistaken for a spy: sources | Source D1 | ACT! ACT! ACT! DO IT NOW!
In Britain you have to realize every German is an Agent. All of them have both the duty and the means to communicate information to Berlin. Daily Mail, 1940 | | Source D2 | I was conscripted into factory work for the war effort. I made friends with the factory girls and tried to put Germany out of my mind. But it was difficult because there were many things I was not allowed to do as a German. If I stayed out too late at a dance, I was called to the police station the next day to explain myself. That was what life was life was like living in England. It seemed strange that we were given refuge here because we were fleeing the Germans, but then we were closely watched because we were German,
Lisa Vincent, a teenager | | Source D3 | Ellen’s Story
Imprisoned with her family as enemy aliens My parents and I had moved to Britain in 1936 to get away from the problems Jewish families were having. After the outbreak of the war, my father had no papers to say that he was a ‘friendly’ alien. We were taken to the Isle of Man to be interned as enemy aliens.
I vividly remember hundreds of us being made to walk in a long crocodile down to the docks. The roads were closed to let us through. The streets were lined with soldiers armed with open bayonets – being seven years old, they were right at my eye level. I didn’t know why they were pointed at us. Behind the soldiers Liverpudlians crowded the pavements and actually jeered us, hurling insults. It was very confusing. http://timewitnesses.org/english/~ellenh.html |  | | Source D4 | The Tragedy of the Arandora Star
The Arandora Star was regarded as the height of luxury and was popular with the rich and famous. She was referred to a ‘The Wedding Cake' because of her white hull and violet stripe.
With the arrival of World War Two the Arandora Star was called up to Liverpool for its orders. It's main purpose was to deport prisoners of war, many bound for Canada.
However, the Arandora Star met its fate on July 2nd 1940 when a torpedo from a German submarine, the U-47, struck the ship, off the Irish coast. There were 734 Italians on board the ship, 486 died. Of the 479 Germans on board, 175 died. www.rossespoint.com/arandora_star.htm, based on the account of a survivor, Signor Baldelli | | Source D5 | The Charge
‘Committing treachery in that you at Ramsay in Huntingdonshire on the night of 31 January
1941/1 February 1941 descended by parachute with intent to help the enemy.’
The Verdict
Guilty - sentenced to death by shooting.
Josef Jakobs was shot dead by a firing squad in the Tower of London on 23 August 1941.
www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/josef_jakobs.htm |
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