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Bonzos – The SOE’s Secret Anti-Nazi Agents (also Online) – GI 26 048

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29 May 2026 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm BST

Tutor: Lorraine Spindler, BA Hons, Dip Euro Hum

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Date: 29 May 2026
Time:
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost:
£48.25 – £54.50
Reference Code:
GI 26 048
Location:
Ward Street
Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LH
The Guildford Institute
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Overview

Discover the remarkable story of the ‘Bonzos’ – German and Austrian anti-Nazi POWs recruited by Britain’s Special Operations Executive for sabotage, subversion, and assassination missions inside the Reich. Using newly released National Archives files, we will uncover their extraordinary exploits, surprising links to Surrey, and how truth in wartime espionage proves stranger than fiction.

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    • Members of the Kreipe abduction team (from l. to r.) Georgios Tyrakis, Moss, Leigh Fermor, Emmanouil Paterakis, and Antonios Papaleonidas. The two British officers are in German uniform. (Source: Wikipedia)

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