Hello everyone, welcome to Dance Nose History, I'm very happy to have Helen Fry back on

the podcast today. She's just a one of these extraordinary historians. She just goes to

the archives, she sits there, she puts in the work, she puts in the elbow grease and she

finds unbelievable stories from the second world war that we should know but that we don't

and she rescues some obscurity. It proper historians, historians are Helen Fry. In a recent

book called Spymaster, the man who saved MI6, she talks about a man called Thomas Kendrick.

Now you might have heard him mentioned before because she discovered Thomas Kendrick before

when she came on the podcast, talked about her extraordinary prison for senior Nazi generals

in Britain during the Second World War. It was like a stately home. They were all encouraged

to get drunk, have a good time, have debating societies and the whole thing was wired for

sound, including the outside, trees outside. And from that extraordinary intelligence gathering

operation, Kendrick and his team were able to find out vital information about German

war plans, particularly the V-Weapons program. Now she has researched more into Kendrick and

come up with a remarkable backstory. He rescued thousands, thousands of central European

Jews when he was a British passport officer in Vienna. So during and after the Ancheless

Hitler's invasion of Vienna, Kendrick managed to issue passports to thousands of Jews and

they could escape saying that they were in fact British. He also created over a thousand

temporary visas to allow Jews to escape to Palestine that young people could attend

a sports camp in Palestine knowing full well they would never come back. The Nazis tried

to kill him. There was an ambush on the road. I mean it's pretty exciting stuff. This

is the forgotten story of Britain Schindler. We know about Snittler's Winton who rescued

tons and tons of Jewish children, the Kinder Transport, but really Kendrick deserves to be

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