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Englandspiel

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Das Englandspiel ("The England Game"), also called Unternehmen Nordpol (Operation North Pole), was a counter intelligence operation launched by the German intelligence agency, the Abwehr, during World War II. [1]

46 relations: Abwehr, Allies of World War II, American Heroes Channel, Apeldoorn, Bad Nieuweschans, Balloo, Netherlands, Between Silk and Cyanide, Brussels, Castricum, Coercion, Counterintelligence, Dokkum, Drenthe, Duress code, Ede, Netherlands, Engelandvaarder, Ermelo, Foyle's War, Francis Suttill, Gelderland, Groningen (province), Hachette Book Group, Handley Page Halifax, HarperCollins, Hermann Giskes, Holten, Katwijk aan Zee, Leo Marks, Major (Germany), Netherlands, Oegstgeest, Ommen, Operation Overlord, Overijssel, RAF Tempsford, Scheveningen, Secret Intelligence Service, South Holland, Special Operations Executive, Steenwijk, STOL, Suicide pill, Voorthuizen, Westland Lysander, World War II, Yesterday (TV channel).

Abwehr

The Abwehr was the German military intelligence service for the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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American Heroes Channel

American Heroes Channel (AHC; formerly Military Channel and originally Discovery Wings Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Discovery Inc. The network carries programs related to the military, warfare, and military history and science.

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Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands.

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Bad Nieuweschans

Bad Nieuweschans is a village with a population 1,510, located in the north-eastern Netherlands on the border with Germany.

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Balloo, Netherlands

Balloo is a small village in the northeast Netherlands.

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Between Silk and Cyanide

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941–1945 is a memoir of public interest by former Special Operations Executive (SOE) cryptographer Leo Marks, describing his work including memorable events, actions and omissions of his colleagues during the Second World War.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Castricum

Castricum is a municipality and a town in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.

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Coercion

Coercion is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of threats or force.

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Counterintelligence

Counterintelligence is "an activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program against an opposition's intelligence service." It likewise refers to information gathered and activities conducted to counter espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons, international terrorist activities, sometimes including personnel, physical, document or communications security programs.

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Dokkum

Dokkum is a Dutch fortified town in the municipality of Dongeradeel in the province of Friesland.

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Drenthe

Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country.

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Duress code

A duress code is a covert distress signal used by an individual who is being coerced by one or more hostile persons.

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Ede, Netherlands

Ede is a municipality and a city in the center of the Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland.

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Engelandvaarder

Engelandvaarder, (literally translated as "England sailer") was the term given during the Second World War to men and women who attempted to escape from the Netherlands across over 100 miles of the North Sea to reach England and freedom.

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Ermelo

Ermelo (Dutch Low Saxon: Armelo or Armel) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland in the Veluwe area with a population of in.

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Foyle's War

Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during (and shortly after) the Second World War, created by Midsomer Murders screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse ended in 2000.

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Francis Suttill

Major Francis Alfred Suttill DSO (17 March 1910 – 23 March 1945) was a British special agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) inside France.

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Gelderland

Gelderland (also Guelders in English) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country.

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Groningen (province)

Groningen (Gronings: Grunn; Grinslân) is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands.

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Hachette Book Group

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world.

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Handley Page Halifax

The Handley Page Halifax was a Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hermann Giskes

Abwehr Major Hermann Joseph Giskes (28 September 1896 – 28 August 1977) was a wartime intelligence operative primarily stationed in the occupied Netherlands, and head of Abwehr Section IIIF.

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Holten

Holten (Dutch Low Saxon: Hooltn) is a small village in the municipality of Rijssen-Holten in the Dutch province of Overijssel, with approximately 10,000 inhabitants.

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Katwijk aan Zee

Katwijk aan Zee (literally, Katwijk-upon-Sea) is a seaside resort located on the North Sea at the mouth of the Oude Rijn.

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Leo Marks

Leopold Samuel "Leo" Marks, MBE (24 September 1920 – 15 January 2001) was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer.

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Major (Germany)

Major is the lowest staff officer rank in the German Army (Heer), German Air Force (Luftwaffe).

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Oegstgeest

Oegstgeest is a town and municipality in the province of South Holland in the western Netherlands.

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Ommen

Ommen is a municipality and a Hanseatic city in the Vecht valley of the Salland region, which is at the heart of the province of Overijssel in the eastern Netherlands.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

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Overijssel

Overijssel (Dutch Low Saxon: Oaveriessel) is a province of the Netherlands in the central-eastern part of the country.

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RAF Tempsford

RAF Tempsford is a former Royal Air Force station located north east of Sandy, Bedfordshire, England and south of St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, England.

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Scheveningen

Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands, as well as a subdistrict (wijk) of that city.

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Secret Intelligence Service

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence (HUMINT) in support of the UK's national security.

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South Holland

South Holland (Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of just over 3.6 million as of 2015 and a population density of about, making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas.

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Special Operations Executive

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation.

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Steenwijk

Steenwijk is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel.

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STOL

STOL is an acronym for a short takeoff and landing aircraft, which have short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.

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Suicide pill

A suicide pill (also known as the cyanide pill, kill-pill, lethal pill, Death-pill, or L-pill) is a pill, capsule, ampoule, or tablet containing a fatally poisonous substance that a person ingests deliberately in order to quickly commit suicide.

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Voorthuizen

Voorthuizen (Dutch Low Saxon: Voorthuzen) is a village in the municipality of Barneveld, in the Dutch province of Gelderland.

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Westland Lysander

The Westland Lysander (nickname the "Lizzie") is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft used immediately before and during the Second World War.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yesterday (TV channel)

Yesterday is one of the UKTV network of television channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Das Englandspiel, England Game, Operation Nordpol, Operation North Pole.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englandspiel

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