Whether you are selling just one WW2 German Ring or a whole collection of WW2 German Militaria, we would love to hear from you. If ‘the Few’ had lost the Battle of Britain, and Hitler’s ‘Operation Sea Lion’, the planned invasion of Britain in 1940, had succeeded, the people on the list would have been the first to be rounded up and risk being killed, sent to concentration camps or forced to throw in their lot with the Germans and start doing the Führer’s bidding. The list has been painstakingly translated from its original German, interpreted to make sense of the complicated government jargon and abbreviations, and transcribed by Forces War Records’ Managing Director Tim Hayhoe, with assistance from military history graduate Sean Bennington. Previously obscure abbreviations have been explained, biographical details for the people listed have been added where available, and background information has been given on each and every Nazi department mentioned and the heads of those departments. All of this has been a labour of love that has taken around a year to complete. Similar lists were drawn up, and indeed used, for the USSR, France, Poland and many other countries in Europe thankfully, the only place in the British Isles where the list was actually consulted to round up ‘enemies of the state’ was the occupied Channel Islands. Black Book (1,651) 7.7 2 h X-Ray R In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. Of the 20,000 or so versions of the German lists originally printed, only two are thought to be in existence today: one at the Imperial War Museum, the other somewhere in Germany.Īgain, the entire digital Black Book can be seen and searched for free on.
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