Villages in the English countryside were cut off by the snow and the Thames froze over. It was the coldest winter for forty-five years. "The Germans were almost completely deceived, only Hitler guessed right, and he hesitated to back his hunch…" Still and all, one suspects something like this must have happened. It is also known that they suspected a trick, and that they tried very hard to discover the truth. It is known that the Germans saw the signs they were meant to see in East Anglia. The truth seems to be that there were very few MI5 did capture nearly all of them.
After the war a myth grew up that MI5 had rounded up the lot by Christmas 1939. Were there any spies? At the time people thought they were surrounded by what were then called Fifth Columnists. It would have been a miracle if none of Hitler's spies ever got to know about it. Literally thousands of people were involved in perpetrating the trick. It was a huge, near-impossible deception. The object was to fool the enemy into preparing for an invasion via the Pas de Calais, so that on D-Day the Normandy assault would have the advantage of surprise. The ships were rubber-and-timber fakes, the barracks no more real than a movie set Patton did not have a single man under his command the radio signals were meaningless the spies were double agents. Patton was seen in his unmistakable pink jodhpurs walking his white bulldog there were bursts of wireless activity, signals between regiments in the area, confirming signs were reported by German spies in Britain. Reconnaissance planes brought back photographs of barracks and airflelds and fleets of ships in the Wash General George S. M.S.W.Įarly in 1944 German Intelligence was piecing together evidence of a huge army in southeastern England. There are flaws-actors occasionally sound as if theyre too far from the microphone, and there are both melodrama and stereotypes-but the storys compelling suspense hurtles listeners to the riveting conclusion. The small ensemble creates a wide range of lead and supporting characters. Narrator Eric Lincoln proceeds smoothly, until the action starts cooking, and his urgency turns up the heat. Fans of old-time radio drama will particularly enjoy this full-cast version. A German operative named Die Nadel, The Needle, calculating and ruthless, is entrusted by Hitler himself to find out the truth. Nazi forces dominate Europe, and the Allies in England are using an elaborate subterfuge to convince Germany of a massive invasion, purposely creating confusion as to its location. A task that he ruthlessly carries through, until Storm Island and a woman called Lucy. His task is to discover the Allies' plans for D-Day, and get them to Germany at all costs. He is Henry Faber, Germany's most feared agent in Britain. His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: "The Needle".
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