Currently Reading…
"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet - author of "Eye of the Needle", an all time favourite and also a most agreeable movie.
"Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design", Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. A most fascinating book - more to come…
I have also read Peter Øvig Knudsens book about Ib Birkedal Hansen. Birkedal was recruited as an informant by Gestapo, when working in Hamburg between 1940 and 1942. In 1943 Birkedal returns to Denmark to work for Gestapo as an interpreter, but he quickly advances to become the leader of a unit under department IV2a. As such, Birkedal instigates a reign of terror, using agent provocateurs, torture of both men and women, reciprocal bombings and murder to fight the Danish resistance. In the last days of the war, Birkedal flees for Germany but is caught by allied forces two years later. The subsequent investigation and trial took nearly three years, during which Birkedal was commited to various mental institutions and subject to both narcotic and electro chok treatments. Birkedal ended his days as the last Danish person to be sentenced to death: He was shot by a firing squad on July 20th., 1950.
In his book, Øvig focuses on Birkedals complex personality - the female agent provocateurs used by Birkedal in sting operations - and the relationships between Birkedal and these women. A review and summary can be found here.
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