词条 | Karl Heinrich Meier |
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They both spoke good English, and carried papers showing them to be Dutch refugees from the Nazis.[2] From the Daily Mail Weekend Supplement, 26 November 2011 - page 14:- Mabel Cole was landlady at The Rising Sun in Lydd, Kent. The pub had been in the family for 140 years, so she was surprised when a stranger walked in at 9am one day in October 1940. Surely everyone knew the law prevented her from serving drinks so early?Her surprise turned to suspicion when the customer, a man with a faint American accent, returned to ask for a brand of `cider champagne' that, though advertised on the front of the pub, had long been discontinued. `But the real giveaway,' recalls her nephew, Eddie Baker, 73, `was when he went to pay. Aunt Mabel told him, "That'll be one and a tanner" – a shilling and sixpence. She totally confused him with that bit of slang. He pulled some cash out of his pocket and held it out for her to take.' Convinced he was up to no good, Mabel had the police called – and German spy Karl Heinrich Meier, 24, was apprehended. He was hanged a few weeks later at Pentonville. Vincent GraffThe Germans Are Coming, 6 December 2011 at 9pm, on the Yesterday channel. References1. ^http://ww2today.com/10th-december-1940-german-spies-executed-at-pentoville-prison {{DEFAULTSORT:Meier, Karl Heinrich}}2. ^http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,765078,00.html#ixzz1fekGFGlH 8 : 20th-century executions by England and Wales|World War II spies for Germany|Executed spies|Executed Dutch people|1940 deaths|Year of birth missing|Aliens executed under the Treachery Act 1940|People executed by the United Kingdom by hanging |
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