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		<title>Behind the White House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During 1942 British Intelligence took over and modified Wilton Park near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. It became one of 3 main premises where the conversations of German prisoners-of-war were bugged from a special room called &#8220;The M Room&#8221;. Here for next 3 years the &#8220;secret listeners&#8221; recorded an unprecedented amount of intelligence that would help all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2013/04/behind-the-white-house/</link>
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		<title>A Tribute to Susan Lustig (1921-2013)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month saw the passing of a much-respected war veteran, devoted wife and mother: Susan Lustig. Susan was born Susanne Cohn in Breslau in 1921 at a time when no one could have suspected the horrors that would besiege the region after Hitler came to power in 1933. She managed to flee to England in July 1939. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2013/03/a-tribute-to-susan-lustig-1921-2013/</link>
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		<title>Can Anything New be said about WW2?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With a constant stream of books, documentaries and films about the Second World War, can anything fresh really be discovered after seven decades? Is there anything substantially new that could change our understanding of the war itself or cause historians to re-evaluate the campaigns? There is one major body of documents at the National Archives which has largely been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2013/03/can-anything-new-be-said-about-ww2/</link>
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		<title>London Jewish Cultural Centre honours WWII Heroes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only two surviving veteran &#8220;secret listeners&#8221; who during WW2 bugged the conversations of Nazi prisoners were honoured in the launch of a new book &#8221;The M Room&#8221; at the London Jewish Cultural Centre this week. Fritz Lustig and Eric Mark, now in their 9os, vividly recalled the work that they did for British Intelligence when they recorded some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2013/01/wwii-heroes-are-honoured/</link>
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		<title>Diplomats Honoured by Foreign Office: Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 a sculpture by prominent sculptor Philip Jackson FRBS was unveiled outside the Foreign Office to commemorate the British diplomats and consular personnel who saved victims of Nazi oppression. These included: John Carvell, Consul-General, Munich (1938-39); Arthur Dowden, Vice-Consul, Frankfurt am Main (1934-39); Frank Foley, Passport Control Officer, Berlin (1921-1939); Frank Fulham, Vice-Consul, Munich [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2013/01/foreign-office-honours-diplomats/</link>
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		<title>Living With the Enemy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was asked to speak to a group of Holocaust survivors at the London Jewish Cultural Centre. What a profound experience. In the discussion after my talk I realized for the first time that they had felt utterly abandonment by the world during the Holocaust. In the camps, they felt that the world did not care. Three of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2013/01/living-with-the-enemy/</link>
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		<title>The New Year Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We may be busy making and breaking new year&#8217;s resolutions? For me as an active historian it looks like a busy 2013. Already various newspapers are beginning to cover my new book &#8220;The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis in WW2&#8243;, which is being launched on 29th January by the London Jewish Cultural Centre. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2013/01/the-new-year-ahead/</link>
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		<title>What Happened 17th December 1942?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this date 70 years ago, concern at the events unfolding in Poland and Nazi-occupied areas with regard to the fate of Jews received the full attention of Parliament. Anthony Eden read the Allied Declaration to the House of Commons which encompassed other nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union as well as the governments-in-exile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2012/12/what-happened-17th-december-1942/</link>
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		<title>Bugging the Nazis &#8211; Secret Revealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The release of files at the National Archives in 1999 revealed a cache of over 100,000 transcripts of bugged conversations of Nazis PoWs in WW2. It provided a window onto Hitler&#8217;s most closely guarded secrets&#8230;  British Intelligence bugged the conversations of over 10,000 Nazi PoWs. At the heart of this clandestine unit were German émigrés [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2012/11/bugging-the-nazis-secret-revealed/</link>
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		<title>Remembrance: Honouring the Veterans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  This weekend as we remember the fallen of WW1, WW2 and subsequent conflicts, we can take a moment with the nation to reflect on the sacrifice which so many gave for our freedom. We remember those who lost their life on the battlefields; others too in dangerous operations behind the lines; and those who survived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.helen-fry.com/2012/11/remembrance-honouring-the-veterans/</link>
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