Code-Lit

[Birchy]

Is there any truth in stories that POW's during WWII would write letters and even books with coded messages in them? I remember something about a book that was written inside a German POW camp where the ninth letters spelled out some secrets or other pertaining to enemy positions. Any websites that tell of inventive attempts to Lick Hitler?

[happyducky]

They did something like that, if I remember correctly. At the Colditz I remember hearing something about coded messages on music records. I don't know it thats true, but they definately communicated through code to the outside.

[Kit]

Check out tactics used by the Special Operations Executive (and Leo Marks in particular). A quick precis is given at http://www.64-baker-street.org/people_leo_marks_master_spy.html His code-poem, "The Life That I Have", was given to VioletteSzabo - Marks maintained that codes based on well-known poems could be easily broken by the enemy, and he sent agents out with unfamiliar poems, usually written by himself, that nobody else could possibly have known.