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-	'''The Black Book''' was the post-war name given to the '''Sonderfahndungsliste G.B.''' ('Special Search List G.B'), the list of prominent British to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain by Nazi Germany in [[World War II]]. The list was a product of the [[SS]] [[Einsatzgruppen]] and compiled by [[Walter Schellenberg]]. It contained the names of 2,820 people, British subjects and European exiles, living in [[UK|Britain]] who were to be immediately arrested if [[Operation Sea Lion]], the invasion of Britain, succeeded.	+
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-	The list was appended to the 'Informationsheft GB', a 144 page handbook containing information on important aspects of British society including institutions such as embassies, universities, newspaper offices, and Freemasons' Lodges. [[British intelligence]] mole [[Dick Ellis]] provided much of the information.	+
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-	==Background==	+
-	The original handbook, or 'Informationsheft GB' covered geography, economics, political system, government, legal system, administration, military, education system, important museums, press and radio, religion, parties, immigrants, freemasons, Jews, police apparatus and secret service. The 'Black Book' as it is known in the Tabloid Press was a later appendage and consisted of 104 pages of names listed in alphabetical order. 'Fahndungsliste' translates into 'wanted list', 'sonderfahndungsliste into 'especially wanted list' or 'most wanted list'.	+
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-	Beside each name was the number of the [[RSHA]] (Reich Main Security Office) to which the person was to be handed over. Churchill was to be placed into the custody of Amt VI (Foreign Military Intelligence), but the vast majority of the people listed in the Black Book would be placed into the custody of [[Gestapo|Amt IV]] (Gestapo). The book had several notable mistakes, such as people who had already died ([[Sigmund Freud]]) or moved away ([[Paul Robeson]]), and omissions (such as [[George Bernard Shaw]], one of the few English language writers whose works were published and performed in Nazi Germany).	+
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-	A print run produced 20,000 books but the warehouse in which they were stored was destroyed in a bombing raid and only two originals are known to survive (one in the [[Imperial War Museum]] in London). On learning of the book, [[Rebecca West]] is said to have sent a telegram to [[Noël Coward]] saying "My dear - the people we should have been seen dead with."	+
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-	The list was similar to earlier lists prepared by SS like the [[Special Prosecution Book-Poland]] ([[German language|German]]: ''Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen''). It was an list of enemies of the Reich list prepared before the war by members of the German [[fifth column]] in cooperation with German Intelligence. The 61,000 people on this list were targets of [[Einsatzgruppen]] during [[Operation Tannenberg]] and [[Intelligenzaktion]], actions of elimination of Polish intelligentsia and the upper classes in occupied Poland between 1939 and 1941.	+
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-	==Notable people listed==	+
-	*[[Max Aitken]], Lord Beaverbrook <ref name = Schellenberg/><ref name="Hudson"/>	+
-	* Sir [[Norman Angell]], Labour MP awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1933 <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden-Powell]], founder and leader of [[Scouting]] (the Nazis regarded Scouting as a spy organisation) <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Edvard Beneš]], President of the Czechoslovak government in exile <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Violet Bonham Carter]], anti-fascist liberal politician. Cryptically referred to as "an Encirclement lady politician" <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Vera Brittain]], feminist writer and pacifist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Neville Chamberlain]], former prime minister <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Sydney Chapman (economist)|Sydney Chapman]], economist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Winston Churchill]], [[Prime minister]] <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Marthe Cnockaert]], First World War spy<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Claud Cockburn]], journalist<ref name = Schellenberg/> <ref name="Hudson"/>	+
-	* [[Seymour Cocks]], Labour politician<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Chapman Cohen]], secularist writer and lecturer<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Lionel Leonard Cohen]], lawyer<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Robert Waley Cohen]], industrialist<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[G. D. H. Cole]], academic<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Norman Collins]], broadcasting executive<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Edward Conze]], Anglo-German scholar<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Duff Cooper]], Cabinet Minister of Information <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Margery Corbett Ashby]], feminist<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Noël Coward]], actor who opposed appeasement and was an armed forces entertainer, arrestable also for his [[homosexuality]] and connections with MI5 <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Charles de Gaulle]], Free French leader<ref name = Schellenberg/> <ref name="Hudson">Hudson, Christopher.''Revealed: Hitler's little black guide...'', [[Daily Mail]] 23 February 2000</ref>	+
-	* [[Sefton Delmer]], journalist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Anthony Eden]], Secretary of State for War <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Conrad O'Brien-ffrench]], SIS/MI6 Agent ST36, Agent Z3 for [[Dansey]]'s [[Z Organization]] <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[E. M. Forster]], author <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Sigmund Freud]], founder of psychoanalysis and a [[Jew]] (died September 23, 1939) <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Willie Gallacher]], trade unionist <ref name = Schellenberg/><ref name="OGDoA"/>	+
-	* Sir [[Philip Gibbs]], journalist and novelist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Victor Gollancz]], publisher<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[J. B. S. Haldane]], geneticist and evolutionary biologist and Communist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Ernst Hanfstaengl]], German refugee. Once a financial backer of Hitler, he had fallen from favour and had fled Germany in 1937 <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Aldous Huxley]], author (who had emigrated to the USA in 1936) <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Alexander Korda]], Hungarian-born British producer and film director<ref name = Schellenberg/> <ref name="Hudson"/>	+
-	* [[Harold Laski]], political theorist, economist and author <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Megan Lloyd George]], politician<ref name = Schellenberg/><ref name="DJFUK">Dalrymple, James. ''Fatherland UK'', [[The Independent]], 3 March 2000</ref>	+
-	* [[David Low (cartoonist)|David Low]], cartoonist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[F. L. Lucas]], literary critic, writer and anti-fascist campaigner <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Jan Masaryk]], foreign minister of the Czechoslovak government in exile <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Jimmy Maxton]], pacifist politician<ref name = Schellenberg/> <ref name="OGDoA"/>	+
-	* [[Naomi Mitchison]], novelist<ref name = Schellenberg/> <ref name="OGDoA"/>	+
-	* [[Gilbert Murray]], classical scholar and activist for the [[League of Nations]]<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Harold Nicolson]], diplomat, author and diarist<ref name = Schellenberg/><ref name="Hudson"/>	+
-	* [[Vic Oliver]], Jewish entertainer, originally from Austria. Married to Winston Churchill's daughter [[Sarah Millicent Hermione Churchill|Sarah]] <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Ignacy Jan Paderewski]], pianist, former Prime Minister of Poland <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Sylvia Pankhurst]], suffragist, writer, journalist and anti-fascist<ref>D. Mitchell, The fighting Pankhursts, Jonathan Cape Ltd, London 1967, p. 263</ref> <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], German-born architectural historian <ref name = Schellenberg/><ref>Brian Harrison, ‘[[Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon]] (1902–1983)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004</ref>	+
-	* [[J. B. Priestley]], anti-Nazi popular broadcasts and fiction <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Hermann Rauschning]], German refugee and once personal friend of Hitler who had turned against him <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Paul Robeson]], African-American singer/actor with strong Communist affiliations <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Bertrand Russell]], philosopher, historian and pacifist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[C. P. Snow]], physicist and novelist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Stephen Spender]], poet, novelist and essayist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Katharine Stewart-Murray]], Duchess of Atholl<ref name = Schellenberg/> <ref name="OGDoA">Ogilvy, Graham. ''Duchess of Atholl was on Nazi list for assassination'' Daily Mail 13 March 2000</ref>	+
-	* [[Lytton Strachey]], died 1932, writer and critic<ref name = Schellenberg/> <ref>Fearn, Nicholas. ''A travel guide for Nazis'' The Daily Telegraph 18 March 2000</ref>	+
-	* [[Sybil Thorndike]], actress<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (politician)|Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus]], politician, former German minister <ref name = Schellenberg/><ref>Lawrence D. Stokes: ''Secret Intelligence and Anti-Nazi Resistance. The Mysterious Exile of Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus'', in: ''The International History Review'', Vol. 28, No. 1 (Mar., 2006), p. 60.</ref>	+
-	* [[Beatrice Webb]], socialist and economist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Chaim Weizmann]], Zionist leader <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[H. G. Wells]], author and [[socialist]] <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Rebecca West]], English suffragist and writer <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Ted Willis]], dramatist<ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
-	* [[Virginia Woolf]], novelist and essayist <ref name = Schellenberg/>	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	*[[Special Prosecution Book-Poland]] ([[German language|German]]: ''Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen'')	+
-	*Dr. [[Franz Six]]. SS official who was appointed by [[Reinhard Heydrich]] to direct state police operations in German-occupied Great Britain.	+
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