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This chapter draws on Camp 020’s interrogation reports to examine who was sent to this place and what their stories reveal about the nature of the espionage threat that Britain confronted. Two broad patterns emerge. Few detainees appear to have been driven primarily by ideology in undertaking espionage missions. Interrogation reports show a far more complex political landscape, in which loyalties rarely aligned neatly with either Nazi fanaticism or anti-Nazi resistance. It is also striking that few were professional spies. British fears of highly trained enemy agents proved misplaced. Instead, Camp 020 received mostly amateurs: people thrust into espionage with minimal preparation, sent on missions that offered little chance of success and quickly exposed by skilled interrogation. These individuals were, in many ways, ordinary Europeans caught in extraordinary circumstances.

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