Synopsis
This is the extraordinary story of how British and American Intelligence thwarted a wartime plan for a daring mass break-out of German prisoners-of-war from a camp in Wiltshire, led by a hard-core of SS troops. As December 1944 drew to a close, trainee American interrogators stumbled on a plan so fantastic in concept that it was hard to take seriously. The allied camp authorities were relieved of their command by a team from the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC) who broke the prisoners involved and got to the bottom of the story. With their escape plans in tatters, the SS took their revenge. Transferred to a harsh POW camp in Scotland, they 'tried' and murdered a fellow prisoner (who was not a Nazi), accused of betraying the Fuhrer. Eventually Scotland Yard and CSDIC were called in to investigate the SS's rule of terror within the camp, and the murder. Despite the SS code of silence, enough evidence was uncovered to convict of murder, and eventually hang, five of the perpetrators. Why was the Devizes camp so unprepared for a possible break-out? Why was a known anti-Nazi sent to the camp in Scotland, and to his death? Why was the SS allowed to continue its reig
