British Renegades Warning List Explained

The British Renegades Warning List was a list of people that the British security services suspected of assisting the Axis forces during the Second World War. It was sent to SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) on 6 May 1944^[1] in advance of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 to enable Allied troops to identify people in occupied Europe who might try to subvert the invasion effort.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Names on the list

This is an incomplete list of the "renegades":

• Benson Railton Freeman (RAF flying instructor who served in the Waffen-SS)^[5]
• No. 29 Susan Hilton (Pro-Nazi broadcaster)^[6]
• No. 80 Walter Purdy^[7]

See also

• List of Allied traitors during World War II

Notes and References

1. Minute Sheet No. 6 in Susan Dorothea Mary Therese HILTON: a pre-war member of the British Union of Fascists,... National Archives.
2. Book: West, Nigel.. Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports. 2018. The History Press. Stroud. 978-0-7509-8738-7. 459.
3. Book: Carlton, Eric.. Treason: Meanings and Motives. 2018. Routledge. Abingdon. 978-0-429-77770-7. 152.
4. Book: West, Nigel.. Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence. 2nd. 2015. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Lanham. 978-1-4422-4957-8. 95.
5. Book: Gerlis, Alex.. The Berlin Spies. 2018. Canelo. 978-1-78863-869-2. 465.
6. "M.I.5. Report Re Susan Hilton", 14 November 1945, in Susan Dorothea Mary Therese HILTON, KV 2/423, National Archives.
7. Murphy, Sean. (2003) Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War. Sutton. p. 215.