{"id":19506,"date":"2026-08-05T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19506"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:57:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:57:01","slug":"uk-mansion-where-listeners-spied-on-nazi-generals-becomes-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=19506","title":{"rendered":"UK mansion where &#8216;listeners&#8217; spied on Nazi generals becomes museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>Upstairs, Nazi generals enjoyed wine and lounged in elegant rooms. Downstairs in the basement, a team of covert listeners followed their chatter, gleaning vital insights into Germany\u2019s war plans.<\/p>\n<p>During World War II, Trent Park, a country house north of London, was turned into a camp for high-ranking German prisoners of war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now it has become a museum called Trent Park House of Secrets, which highlights the role of the team of German speakers, most of them Jewish refugees, who transcribed titbits from the prisoners\u2019 bugged conversations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrent Park is one of a network of intelligence houses, let\u2019s call them, the most famous of them being Bletchley Park,\u201d museum director Giuseppe Albano told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Depicted in the Oscar-winning film \u201cThe Imitation Game\u201d, Bletchley Park, north of London, was a country house where mathematician Alan Turing cracked the code on encrypted Nazi messages.<\/p>\n<p>For Albano, Trent Park is \u201con a par in terms of the military intelligence that was gained and\u2026 was used by the British government to shorten the length of the Second World War\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of a network of country houses with similar set-ups for eavesdropping, with the gathered intelligence then shared with Bletchley Park.<\/p>\n<p>The idea to accommodate Nazi generals in comfort to lure them into indiscretions was a \u201cbrilliantly devious strategy\u201d, Albano said.<\/p>\n<p>Trent Park was famed for its fashionable interiors in the 1930s when it was owned by a wealthy politician and guests included Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n<p>During the war, the government handed it to a top-secret military intelligence unit, and engineers wired it with hidden microphones throughout \u2014 even in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>These connected to listening equipment downstairs in the servants\u2019 quarters, monitored day and night.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 84 generals and 22 lower-ranking officers were held in the house \u2014 known as No. 11 Camp \u2014 between 1942 and 1945, served by valets and even allowed out on day trips.<\/p>\n<p>They included General Dietrich von Choltitz, the last Nazi commander in Paris, who arrived in late August 1944 after defying Hitler and surrendering the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Rocket secrets \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Not realising they were audible even leaning out of windows or in the garden, the prisoners let slip secrets, including details of the development of the first ballistic missiles, V-2s.<\/p>\n<p>This helped the British to bomb the research facility and delayed the use of the rockets, which first hit London in 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The government removed the bugs when the war ended, but some wiring was left behind and is now on display at the museum, which opened as part of redevelopment by a property company.<\/p>\n<p>The transcripts were released to the National Archives, but \u201csome things are still classified\u201d, said Albano.<\/p>\n<p>In the museum\u2019s recreated listening rooms, visitors can hear actors reading out some of the conversations.<\/p>\n<p>One prisoner refers to a \u201crocket testing site\u201d while discussing bratwurst supplies for the top brass.<\/p>\n<p>Some also admitted atrocities. Von Choltitz said \u201cthe worst job I carried out was the liquidation of Jews\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Britain did not hand this to war crimes trials, however, to avoid revealing how they had obtained the information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened at Trent Park was obviously very important and it\u2019s good it\u2019s being commemorated,\u201d said Adam Ganz, author of a radio play broadcast by the BBC called \u201cListening to the Generals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His late father, Peter, was recruited as a listener after fleeing Germany where he was detained in Buchenwald concentration camp.<\/p>\n<p>The Oxford professor never spoke publicly about his war work, Ganz said, but \u201cI think it was something he was proud of, committed to\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government trusted the listeners with the most sensitive secrets, but at the time no one knew of their role and \u201cthere was widespread hostility to refugees\u201d, Ganz noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important and valuable that that contribution is being recognised.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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