How did SOE agents send secret messages from occupied Europe back to Britain during WW2?

In this episode of The Adventures of an Ungentlemanly Warfare Explorer, we look at the Poem Code — one of the methods used by Special Operations Executive agents and wireless operators to encrypt messages before transmitting them in Morse code.

We begin with Leo Marks, author of Between Silk and Cyanide, and his famous poem “The Life That I Have”, later associated with SOE agent Violette Szabo. Then, step by step, we show how a poem could be turned into a secret key, how a message was encrypted, transmitted, received, and finally decrypted back in Britain.

This is a simplified demonstration, but it reveals the extraordinary mixture of poetry, mathematics, courage and danger behind wartime clandestine communication.

Can you solve the poem code challenge at the end?

In this video:
SOE wireless operators
Leo Marks and Between Silk and Cyanide
Poem codes explained
Morse code transmission
Secret messages from occupied Europe
WW2 espionage and resistance

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Book referenced:
Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
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