Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings (2013)
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. 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.
Director: Christopher Spencer
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/spying-on-hitlers-army-secret-recordings
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Philip Glenister as Narrator |
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David Barrass as General Kittel |
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Nicholas Farrell as General von Thoma |
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Jack Fortune as General Bruhn |
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Rupert Frazer as General Cruwell |
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Richard Freeman as General Von Choltitz |
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Peter Harding as General Schlieben |
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Gareth Keiran Jones as Fried |
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Elliott Jordan as Hartelt |
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Valentine Pelka as General Von Felbert |
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Rafe Pugh as Minnieur |
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Alan Turkington as Pffanberger |
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Thomas Wheatley as Lord Aberfeldy |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ria Biggerstaff | Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Paul Crosby | Editor |
| Lighting | Dave Kirkwood | Gaffer |
| Production | Adam Bullmore | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Alex Gibb | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Doug Dreger | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Dave Atoll | Electrician |
| Camera | Perry Barwick | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Christopher Spencer | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Erika Ökvist | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Erika Ökvist | Makeup Designer |
| Writing | Christopher Spencer | Writer |
| Camera | Rob Goldie | Director of Photography |
| Production | Jane Anderson | Casting |
| Sound | David Mitcham | Original Music Composer |
