Hitler's British Traitors

Hitler’s British Traitors is the first authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War.

Drawing on hundreds of declassified official files – many of them previously unpublished – Tim Tate uncovers the largely unknown history of more than 70 British traitors who were convicted, mostly in secret trials, of working to help Nazi Germany win the war, and several hundred British Fascists who were interned without trial on evidence that they were working on behalf of the enemy. Four were condemned to death; two were executed.

This engrossing book reveals the extraordinary methods adopted by MI5 to uncover British traitors and their German spymasters, as well as two serious wartime plots by well-connected British fascists to mount a coup d’etat which would replace the government with an authoritarian pro-Nazi regime.

The book also shows how archaic attitudes to social status and gender in Whitehall and the courts ensured that justice was neither fair nor equitable. Aristocratic British pro-Nazi sympathizers and collaborators were frequently protected while the less-privileged foot soldiers of the Fifth Column were interned, jailed or even executed for identical crimes.

Tradatorii britanici ai lui Hitler este prima relatare autoritara a unui secret bine pastrat: a cincea coloana britanica si activitatile sale din timpul celui de-al doilea razboi mondial. Desenand pe sute de dosare oficiale declasificate - multe dintre ele nepublicate anterior - Tim Tate descopera istoria in mare parte necunoscuta a mai mult de 70 de tradatori britanici care au fost condamnati, mai ales in procese secrete, pentru a ajuta Germania nazista sa castige razboiul si cateva sute de fascisti britanici care au fost internati fara proces pe baza probelor ca lucreaza in favoarea inamicului.