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The King's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens: Germans Who Fought for Britain in the Second World War.(Brief article)(Book review)

Contemporary Review | June 22, 2008 | Copyright

The King's Most Loyal Enemy Aliens: Germans Who Fought for Britain in the Second World War. Helen Fry. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]18.99. xv + 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-7509-4700-8. The author calls her story 'extraordinary' and she is correct. This is the story of 10,000 German and Austrian refugees who volunteered first to work in the Pioneer Corps where as non-combatants they would not fire on fellow Germans. After 1943 they could join the Armed Forces or work in SOE. These 10,000 represent one in seven of the 75,000 refugees…

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