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After the war, 'Nicky' Hesse was sent to the London Cage, a facility ran by MI9 that elicited statements and confessions through torture.
Included in these slides is the transcript of a bugged conversation between 'Nicky' and another German POW about the murders of the 50 and a Telegram from Sydney to 'Nicky' while still in captivity.
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This article was published in The Daily Telegraph just a few months after Sydney was liberated in the Alps.
Sydney was one of 140 "Prominenten" prisoners held by the Nazis in the Alps. A film called "The Prominents" is currently in production directed by Peter Webber and starring Thomas Kretschmann about the plight of these political prisoners and their liberation.
These political prisoners included anti-fascist Pastor Martin Niemöller, the deposed Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, the families of the July 20 Plotters, Stauffenbergs, Hoffackers, Goerdelers, French PM Léon Blum, Field Marshal and future Greek PM Papagos, SIS Captain Sigismund Payne Best, and the former Chief of the German Armed Forces Forces (OKW) Franz Halder.
Sydney Dowse's statement from UK Exhibit 48, entered into evidence at the Nuremberg Tribunal.
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Harry 'Wings' Day's statement from UK Exhibit 48, entered into evidence at the Nuremberg Tribunal.
'Jimmy' James's statement from UK Exhibit 48, entered into evidence at the Nuremberg Tribunal.
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