This country is at war with Germany.

We shall go under the end.

I remember the sheets of flame which came up and almost blinded us for my guns.

In public life, Canadian Dr. Winthrop Belzer, Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman

as MI6 agent Air 12.

He evaded gunfire and shook off pursuers to break up on the emerging Nazi conspiracy in 1919 Berlin.

His reports provided the first warnings of right-wing conspiracies in the German establishment

that would eventually lead to Hitler and the National Socialists.

In the 1930s, after reading Hitler's speeches and books, Bel was warning of the Holocaust

but his warnings fell on defiers until the outbreak of war.

I'm Angus Wallace and for this episode, I'm joined by Jason Bell.

Jason is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick.

He has served as a full bright professor in Germany and was the first scholar granted exclusive access

to Winthrop Belzer's classified espionage papers.

Jason is also the author of Cracking the Code, the untold story of Canada's greatest spy.

Which recruits Bell's story.

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