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No. of episodes
  
3

Program creator
  
Anthony Horowitz

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First episode date
  
27 October 2002

Writers
  
Anthony Horowitz

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Cast
  
Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Julian Ovenden

Series 8 of the ITV programme Foyle's War, comprising three episodes, aired in January 2015 on ITV1. It will broadcast in the United States as Foyle's War VIII, on PBS' Masterpiece and on Acorn TV.

Contents

Historical context

  • Foyle tours Monowitz concentration camp as part of his investigation of the murders of Professor Knowles and Hermann Linz. Linz was on trial because his firm, IG Farben, had during WWII hired Monowitz concentration camp inmates from the SS.
  • Clayton Del Mar who with his father owns Global American Oil, portrays a war profiteer who, like Linz, should have been tried during the Nuremberg trials. However, the MI5 had a history of looking the other way and of protecting Del Mar because the government desired his influence to help the UK build a presence with the Shah of Iran and ultimately, a countervailing presence to Soviet Union in the Middle East.
  • Adam is forced, on two fronts, to address the issue of women who went to work during wartime and do not want to give up their jobs postwar. One of his constituents does not want to be demoted to accommodate a returning soldier whose job she had filled, competently, in the soldiers' absence. Meanwhile, at home, Sam and Adam struggle over his desire for her to quit her job to become a stay-at-home mother.

    • Historical context

  • The episode opens with newsreel coverage of the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem as a prelude to violent actions by both Jewish terrorists and anti-Semitic agitators in London.
  • References are made and graffiti depicted symbolizing Perish Judah ("PJ"), and a "Right Club" type of organization which rallies Londoners to riot in Adam Wainwright's district.

    • Historical context

  • An example of actual events which influenced this episode is Operation NordPol, a successful German intelligence operation in Holland in 1942 and 1943. Its success was largely due to mistakes by the SOE Dutch Section in London. For 20 months, the London Secret Service radio links with their agents and the resistance movement in Holland were under German control, with a loss of Allied Secret Service and Air Force men. At least 50 agents were parachuted into the Netherlands to be met by a friendly 'welcoming committee' arranged by the German military counter-espionage chief H. J. Giskes. Following a debriefing, they were executed. At least 50 agents were sent to their death in this way. In order to maximize London's confidence and trust, the Germans under Giskes managed escape passages to England for many unwitting captured air crew.

    • References

    Foyle's War (series 8) Wikipedia
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