{"id":33607,"date":"2024-02-26T08:20:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T07:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=261033"},"modified":"2024-02-26T12:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:11:36","slug":"winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Winthrop Bell: a Canadian spy who predicted Nazi horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Jason Bell discusses Dr Winthrop Bell, a Canadian Harvard professor who turned to espionage in the aftermath of WW1 <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 26 February 2024 at 07:20 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>In his public life, Dr Winthrop Bell was a Harvard professor and wealthy businessman. But as a secret agent, reporting from Germany in the aftermath of the First World War, he was one of the first to warn of the Nazi plot for racial supremacy that would lead to the Second World War. Speaking to Elinor Evans, Jason Bell discusses this Canadian professor turned spy.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-261033-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/02\/crackingthenazicode-f681afe.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/02\/crackingthenazicode-f681afe.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/02\/crackingthenazicode-f681afe.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Jason Bell is the author of <em>Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada\u2019s Greatest Spy<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/cracking-the-nazi-code-the-untold-story-of-canada-s-greatest-spy-jason-bell\/7411423\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cracking-Nazi-Code-Canadas-Greatest\/dp\/1443466743\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?id=489797&amp;clickref=historyextra-0&amp;awinmid=3787&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fcracking-the-nazi-code%2Fjason-bell%2F9781443466745\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Jason Bell discusses Dr Winthrop Bell, a Canadian Harvard professor who turned to espionage in the aftermath of WW1 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":33608,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/winthrop-bell-a-canadian-spy-who-predicted-nazi-horrors.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Jason Bell discusses Dr Winthrop Bell, a Canadian Harvard professor who turned to espionage in the aftermath of WW1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/33607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}