EPISODE · Dec 17, 2012 · 8 MIN

The M Room

from Witness History: World War Two history · host BBC World Service

How exiles from the Nazis helped British intelligence listen in on German prisoners-of-war.Ninety-three-year-old Fritz Lustig, a refugee from Nazi Germany, is one of the last surviving members of the secret "M Room".He helped glean vital information from German POWs about Hitler's war machine. Photo: Sgt Fritz Lustig, circa 1942 (courtesy of Lustig family)

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