thought this might be of interest https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article03.html
Part of that story..as to where they would find Germans in England of the right requirement ....Evesham..The BBC and later Caversham together with Overbury court would have netted quite a few.
By coincidence was at a lunchtime leture at the National Army Museum given by Dr Helen Fry who was chatting about her new book on Churchills Secret German Army.
Extract from Amazon: This is the compelling story of the 10,000 Germans and Austrians who fled Nazi persecution and joined the British forces in their fight against Hitler during the Second World War. Known affectionately as 'the King's most loyal enemy aliens', many were Jews, but a significant number were political opponent of the Nazi regime and so-called 'degenerate artists'. With one or two exceptions, these refugees in uniform did not receive British nationality until 1946-47. At the end of the War, they returned in their thousands to Germany and Austria to begin the reconstruction of their homelands and the hunt for Nazi war criminals. Helen Fry documents the stories of those who fought for King and adopted country, drawing on a rich vein of archive material and personal accounts to bring this little-known aspect of British wartime history to light.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews 4.0 out of 5 stars A scholary weave of primary sources, 10 Jan 2010 By Adam Bartleby "Bartleby2009" (London, UK) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) This review is from: Churchill's German Army (Paperback) Churchill's German Army (Paperback) Helen Fry's book weaves together diaries, interviews and army records of German and Austrian nationals, mostly Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi Germany, who fought for the British in the European theatre of the second world war. As such it is an interesting and informative summary of those sources and a useful jumping off point for anyone who wishes to delve more deeply into those archives. It is also an important contribution to the summation and preservation of a genuine people's history of the second world war. However, I did find the narrative a little linear and formulaic; the book is organised into chapters according to branch of service, i.e. there is a chapter on the non-combatant pioneer corps, another on the infantry, another on the navy etc and within each chapter a number of case studies chronologically narrate the experience of an individual solider from enlistment to discharge. In this liner focus on case studies, Fry's structure does not focus on issues or themes and thus interesting questions such as allegations of war crimes on the part of Jewish units in the Normandy campaign (see Anthony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy) are not examined; these allegations may be of little substance, but I feel that they should have been addressed here. In summary, I think Helen Fry has done some excellent archival research but that this book reads more like a refined set of notes than a fully developed analytical narrative. That said, I think that the material pulled together here will prove an excellent starting point from which to write that broader narrative.
