Prison Camps in WW2 Britain
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What Happened to Asis Sympathizers?
Many refugees would make terrible spies because they didn't necessarily speak very good english. Far more likely that asis sympathizers or agents would come from the ranks of of the british union of fachiss and other right wing organizations. But ye, it didn't really make sense. What changes everything is with the invasion of holland. And so there suddenly becomes this shift of actually, hang on. We've got nearly a hundred thousand enemy aliens that we've allowed into our country. They're therefore unlikely to be mega nary sympathizers? Yes, you'd think so. In fact, the documents were stamped often with refugee from narce oppression. So at a institutional level
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