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he had to make a declaration that ‘he was an Englishman of Aryan descent and have never, neither now nor previously, been a member of a Freemasons lodge nor any other secret society’. The Kurt Eggers Company was a specialist propaganda unit that publicised the actions of Waffen-SS units, deploying reporters to the various front-line theatres. Rising to the rank of Untersturmführer, or lieutenant, he was responsible for vetting propaganda material. As the Third Reich collapsed in April 1945, Freeman flew a Fieseler Storch aircraft to Lenggries in southwest Germany, where he surrendered to US forces on 9th May 1945.
Brought back to Britain, he was court-martialled at RAF Uxbridge in a specially convened court to try members of the air force who had assisted the enemy while POW. Freeman was cashiered from the RAF and received ten years in prison, a relatively lenient sentence considering the death penalty handed to William Joyce and John Amery, the founder of the BFC. After sentencing, Freeman told his lawyer, ‘This just shows how rotten this democratic country is. The Germans would have had the honesty to shoot me!’
After serving his sentence, Freeman and his wife Muriel simply disappeared, leading to rumours that he may have been a double agent all along who was then ‘relocated’ by a grateful nation.
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