Yesterday on Yesterday.

[rhubarb]

Whilst mindlessly perusing the mediocre offerings on FreeSat and FreeView, I encountered a programme wot had Clifford Stoll in it.

Clifford Stoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'Twas all about some medical student who had a propensity for offing ladies he met via Craig's List.

Clifford Stoll was in it as an example of how he tracked down a naughty chap in West Germany who was up to no good.

Quite interesting compared with the other dross that was on at the time.

I read The Cuckoo's Egg many many years ago. It was very good!

[vetran]

this was an interesting dramamentary too even if it was Nazi expose

BBC News - The Nazi prisoners bugged by Germans

Crucially, she adds, the bugging was the first time the British overheard admissions that the German army had taken part in the atrocities and mass killing of Jews and were guilty of war crimes.

"The army had always denied it and that was believed for the last 65 years. What the transcripts show us now is that the German army - with the SS - was complicit in war crimes," she says.

Mrs Fry also says Winston Churchill was outraged when he learned the generals had been bussed into the lavish Simpson's-in-the-Strand in central London for lunch. He ordered what he called "the pampering of the generals" to be stopped.

But spoiling the generals and boosting their egos was providing so much useful information that the British intelligence officers decided to carry on, and simply stopped telling Churchill about it.

[zeitghost]

Whilst mindlessly perusing the mediocre offerings on FreeSat and FreeView, I encountered a programme wot had Clifford Stoll in it.

Clifford Stoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'Twas all about some medical student who had a propensity for offing ladies he met via Craig's List.

Clifford Stoll was in it as an example of how he tracked down a naughty chap in West Germany who was up to no good.

Quite interesting compared with the other dross that was on at the time.

Shortly afterward it reverted to its usual output of Nazis.

Must have been some sort of programming error.