Tag: espionage

  • Tarnschriften: Miniature Espionage

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    Katie Slattery
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    CODED MESSAGES, SECRET DOCUMENTS, resistance fighters in the Polish forests, or camouflaged corpses as in the 2022 movie Operation Mincemeat—WWII anti-Nazi activities fascinate us. During a recent visit to the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, I discovered Tarnschriften, a special kind of anti-Nazi undertaking new to me. The word translates as “hidden writings,” and that…