BRITISH GESTAPO ????

[Aleksei22]

Hello, All

I think that everybody knows famouse W.Churchill's
post war ( pre election 1945 ) speech. He said about
"liberal-gestapo " ...

Pls, look at this photo

Was it some kind of british "liberal-gestapo " ???

Does it means that ALL war-mailings had been perlustrated
during 1939-1945.

Who did it ????


Thank you.






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[Andy H]

All mail sent by service personnel was subject to review by the various censorship units/bodies, so no 'useful' information could be gained by the enemy if the mail came into there hands.

As far as I know only a small proportion of civilian mail was subject to censor and usually because the authorities had been given some reason to do this.

Andy H

[Aleksei22]

All mail sent by service personnel was subject to review by the various censorship units/bodies, so no 'useful' information could be gained by the enemy if the mail came into there hands.

As far as I know only a small proportion of civilian mail was subject to censor and usually because the authorities had been given some reason to do this.

Andy H

Hello, Andy

Who ordered this. Were those docs published anywhere ( www for ex.) ????

Thank you.

[Andy H]

Who ordered this. Were those docs published anywhere

I presume (and that's all it is) that the War Ministry would invoke some paragraphs of military law to set this up. In regards to civilian mail I presume it would involve the Home Office, the Postmaster General and the Security Agencies.

Andy H