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A chilling account of Nazi espionage, ideological subversion and a deadly reckoning.

During the Second World War, German Intelligence waged a covert campaign against Britain and its allies, recruiting agents whose loyalty to Adolf Hitler would ultimately cost their lives. Among them were Karel Richter and Theodore John Schurch — two men drawn into espionage by very different paths, yet bound by the same fatal outcome. One would prove a spectacular failure; the other an effective traitor.

Richter was sent to England on a single, high-risk mission to test the loyalty of Germany’s key London-based agent at a moment when the Abwehr network in Britain had fallen under suspicion. Dropped into an unfamiliar country and poorly prepared for the task before him, his mission began to unravel almost from the moment he landed.

Schurch, by contrast had been radicalised at home, recruited by Axis intelligence, and embedded within the British Army. Operating across war-torn North Africa and Italy, his actions would have deadly consequences for Allied forces.

The activities of these two diametrically different spies exposed the vulnerabilities of wartime security and the dangerous power of ideology. Both stories would end in arrest, trials and ultimately, execution.

Based on archival research and previously top-secret intelligence records, Hanged for Hitler brings to life the shadow war fought beyond the battlefield, revealing how espionage, ideology and human frailty led two men inexorably to the gallows.

‘Reveals the dangerous reach of Nazi espionage not only in Britain but also in North Africa and the Continent.’