Farm Hall

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The Farm Hall country estate

Farm Hall is an English country estate near the village of Godmanchester , 10 miles north-west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire . During the Second World War , the British secret service used the building to train agents .

The property was best known because ten German nuclear physicists were interned here as part of Operation Epsilon by the British and US secret services from July 3, 1945 to January 3, 1946 , whose conversations were bugged and logged without their knowledge :

Web links

Commons : Farm Hall  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Gerhard Oexle: Hahn, Heisenberg and the others: Notes on 'Copenhagen', 'Farm Hall' and 'Göttingen' In: Carola Sachse (Ed.) On behalf of the Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society for the Promotion of Science. V .: Preprints from the research program “History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism”, pp. 4–49

Coordinates: 52 ° 18  '56.7 " N , 0 ° 10' 44.7"  W.