My father, the German refugee who fought the Nazis as a ‘secret listener’
- Posted on June 2, 2026
- By The Guardian
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My father, the German refugee who fought the Nazis as a ‘secret listener’
As the far right fulminates about who ‘belongs’ in Britain, let’s remember Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an ‘enemy alien’, he played a vital role in a top-secret military intelligence unit