Christopher Burney (1917-1980) was an upper-class Englishman who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. The Special Operations Executive (SOE), sometimes referred to as the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill and Hugh Dalton in July 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II...

The Germans locked him up, firstly in Fresnes prison, for fifteen months of solitary confinement, then in Buchenwald. Fresnes Prison (Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne near the city of Paris. ... Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). ...

Freed in 1945, he published Dungeon Democracy in 1946, and Solitary Confinement in 1951.