Monday 4 April 2011

MI5 files, the Nazi's "Fourth Reich" and nationalists in Cornwall

I know the messenger will be blamed for the message, but the story is too good to ignore. So hearty congratulations to today's Daily Telegraph for telling us how French collaborator Olivier Mordrelle spilled the beans about Nazi plans for a Fourth Reich following his capture and interrogation towards the end of the Second World War.

The Telegraph quotes from MI5 files now released at the National Archives:
"Source states that this last meeting had a strange air of unreality. He had the feeling that last minute plans were being made in words and on paper when all the persons present were secretly preoccupied with the idea of how they could best save their skins."

The Telegraph continues:
"Mordrelle had performed a number of roles for the occupiers, culminating in being appointed French representative for post-war activities by the Nazi party's intelligence agency, the Sicherheitsdienst. He was also said to have had contact with nationalist movements in Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Cornwall."




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