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Britain’s Nazi collaborators

PRESUMABLY BECAUSE I HAVE written on this subject, a good few months ago I was sent this book, and I have seen no reviews of it. This is a surprise, for it shakes the story the nation tells itself that the British stood alone against Adolf Hitler in 1940 and went on to win the war. Hitler’s British Traitors shows that if Hitler’s planned invasion had succeeded after the fall of France he would have found collaborators as fanatical as those in all the countries the Wehrmacht had conquered.

A very thorough researcher, trials and imprison them under emergency legislation.

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