In 1936, Margery Booth began her singing career in Covent Garden, London, but moved to Germany in th

In 1936, Margery Booth began her singing career in Covent Garden, London, but moved to Germany in the late 1930s and achieved fame with the Berlin State Opera.  At the outbreak of World War II, Booth was positioned at a camp for potential recruits to the British Free Corps by the Nazis.  There, she worked was a British spy working with agent John Brown and obtained details surrounding British traitors.  During the war, Booth helped prisoners of war send coded messages back to their chiefs in London.On one occasion, Margery Booth met and sang for Adolf Hitler at a British prisoner of war camp.  While singing for the Fuehrer, Margery had a collection of secret ciphers hidden inside her undergarments.  Hitler was so taken by Booth’s performances that he once visited her dressing room, and sent her 200 red roses wrapped in a sash with a swastika on it.  After being discovered as spy, Booth endured torture by the Gestapo, but kept her silence.  At the end of the war, Margery escaped to Berlin and fled to Bavaria. -- source link
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