The British Renegades Warning List was a list of people that the British security services suspected of assisting the Axis forces during the Second World War. It was sent to SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) on 6 May 1944 in advance of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 to enable Allied troops to identify people in occupied Europe who might try to subvert the invasion effort.
Names on the list
This is an incomplete list of the "renegades":
- Benson Railton Freeman (RAF flying instructor who served in the Waffen-SS)
- No. 29 Susan Hilton (Pro-Nazi broadcaster)
- No. 80 Walter Purdy
See also
References
- Minute Sheet No. 6 in Susan Dorothea Mary Therese HILTON: a pre-war member of the British Union of Fascists,... National Archives. (subscription required)
- West, Nigel. (2018). Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports. Stroud: The History Press. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-7509-8738-7.
- Carlton, Eric. (2018). Treason: Meanings and Motives. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-429-77770-7.
- West, Nigel. (2015). Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence (2nd ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-4422-4957-8.
- Gerlis, Alex. (2018). The Berlin Spies. Canelo. p. 465. ISBN 978-1-78863-869-2.
- "M.I.5. Report Re Susan Hilton", 14 November 1945, in Susan Dorothea Mary Therese HILTON, KV 2/423, National Archives. (subscription required)
- Murphy, Sean. (2003) Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War. Sutton. p. 215. ISBN 9780750929363