11/09/2007 - The Black Book - Special Search List Great Britain

The Black Book - Special Search List Great Britain
From: Wikipedia.org

The Black Book was the post-war name given to the "Sonderfahndungsliste G.B.", German for "Special Search List Great Britain". It was a product of the SS Einsatzgruppen and contained the names of thousands of people living in Britain to be arrested if Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain, succeeded.

Notable people on the list were:

• Robert Baden-Powell - Founder and leader of Scouting - (Scouting was regarded as a 'spy organization' by the Nazis);
• Eric Blair aka George Orwell - for anti-totalitarian views
• Neville Chamberlain - a leading British politician;
• Winston Churchill - for being a prominent anti-Nazi/Prime Minister;
• Noel Coward - possibly for being an armed forces entertainer as well as his homosexuality or for working for MI5;
• Sigmund Freud - for being Jewish ;
• George Bernard Shaw - for openly ridiculing the Nazis
• H. G. Wells - for being a socialist;