Sources of Confusion
Over the years, reliable information about the British Free Corps has been remarkably difficult to obtain. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, prior to the 1990s, British Public Records law allowed British government departments to impose long periods of closure on official documents which prevented them from being released into the archives. Secondly, the private publication, in 1970 of a book entitled Yeomen of Valhalla by a Jersey-born author using the pseudonym "The Marquis de Slade". Yeomen of Valhalla is a broadly accurate account of the formation and activities of the British Free Corps and its membership; however, the author chose to apply pseudonyms to almost everyone mentioned in the book. "De Slade"'s book was subsequently effectively re-written by the British spy writer Ronald Seth as The Jackals of the Reich (New English Library, 1974). He also chose to use the same pseudonyms. Neither of these books included references or a bibliography; as a result, some subsequent writers have taken the pseudonyms to be real names.
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