The Game of the Foxes - The untold story of German espionage in the United States and Great Britain during World War II

Ladislas Farago

David McKay Co. (NY)

1972

878 páginas

1d 5h 16m

ISBN-10: 0340158794

This book is ostensibly about German espionage, but the political history includes a great deal of information that will startle many readers. Here you can read the hidden & disgraceful facts that led up to the incredible slaughter of WWII. I will give just one example. Here are the 1st few paragraphs of Chapter 11:
"In 1936 the British colony in Holland was badly shaken by a scandal. On September 4, Major Dalton was found shot dead in his quarters. It was a plain case of suicide. An audit of his books had revealed a substantial shortage in a special slush fund entrusted to his care.
"Earlier in the year, the British had abruptly begun to block the migration of Europe's frantic Jews to Palestine. The Zionists responded by organizing an underground railroad on which able-bodied young Jews were smuggled into the Holy Land from Germany & Poland via Hungary, Rumania & Turkey. The British Secret Service was assigned the task of combatting this illegal immigration, & a special Palestine Fund was appropriated for the Secret Service by the Foreign Office to finance the operation.
"Dalton was given 60,000 pounds from this fund. However, even tho he had a salary of 12,000 guilders a year with an expense account, Dalton dipped into the Palestine till to defray a costly love affair that was overtaxing his own means. When an audit discovered that 2000 pounds was missing from the Palestine Fund, & Dalton could not raise the money to make up the shortage, he killed himself."
As history, this is totally fascinating. What did the British expect the Jews of Europe to do? The Nazi threat was already very clear to anyone of Jewish ancestry. Of course they wanted to escape. Yet the British government apparently wanted to condemn these people to death. I wonder how a British historian would deal with this extremely unpleasant story? There is so much more in this book that is totally fascinating. For example, we can read how and why John L. Lewis, the fabled labor leader of the 30s, actually accepted Nazi money to campaign against Franklin D. Roosevelt. Any student of WWII will be fascinated by this book!--Herbert H. Highstone