Nazis Had a Post-Defeat Plan, Papers Indicate
From Times Wire Reports
Britain’s covert operations service had evidence toward the end of World War II that the Nazis were training boys to carry on the ideological battle in Germany after defeat, papers released today showed.
Lord Selborne, who headed Britain’s secretive Special Operations Executive, sent a letter intercepted from Germany in 1944 to Desmond Morton, a close advisor to then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, that described how boys ages 13 to 17 were given three hours a week of “theoretical instruction.”
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