The Traitors; A True Story of Blood, Betrayal & Deceit

"The showdown was fittingly violent. It was 1946 and the war in Europe had been over for almost a year when armed police surrounded an apartment building in central Paris.
They were acting on a tip-off that a wanted traitor-on-the-run, a renegade British soldier who had sided with the Germans and betrayed hundreds of men and women to the Gestapo, was holed up in a flat there.
The police crept up the stairs, but their heavy tread gave them away and the tall, flame-haired fugitive was waiting at the open door, pistol in hand. He fired, they shot back and their hail of bullets slammed him back across the shabby room and onto the bed, where he bled to death.
It was over at long last — a blood-stained finale for the conman from Hackney, whose double-dealing and murderous collaboration with the Nazis since 1940 led to MI6 declaring him 'the worst British traitor of the war'.
MI5 marked his death with the terse note: 'He has now been liquidated.'
Harold Cole was his name, though he went by many others. He was variously Mason, Rooke, Corser, de Loebelle, Anderson, Deram, Godfrey, preceded by Paul or Joseph or Richard, Captain, Sergeant, whatever took his fancy, whatever he thought might give him an advantage or get him out of a tight corner.
But his business was always the same — treachery.
His story is told in a new book by author Josh Ireland examining the lives and motivations of British traitors in World War II. But whereas others — notably the radio propagandist William 'Lord Haw-Haw' Joyce and John Amery, who tried to recruit British prisoners-of-war to an SS 'Legion of St George' — betrayed their country on ideological grounds, what makes Cole stand out is that he did so out of nothing but greed and self-interest."
The East End jailbird who joined the Nazis in WWII | Daily Mail Online

 

Good. F*** him.