Captain Julius Morris Green was a British prisoner of war who worked as a spy for MI9 during his time at Colditz Castle.
13 Facts About Julius Green
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Julius Green moved to Glasgow following his graduation to work as a dentist, before joining the Territorial Army upon the start of the Second World War.
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Julius Green's brigade was captured in June 1940 at St Valery-en-Caux, and he spent months travelling between Prisoner-of-war camps providing dental work for fellow prisoners-of-war as well as German troops.
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Julius Green would write coded letters to his family and friends in Scotland, which would then be analysed by MI9 for secret messages informing them of goings-on within the camps.
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Julius Green wrote a best-selling book about his experiences titled From Colditz In Code.
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Julius Green was born to a Jewish family in Killarney, a town in County Kerry in Ireland, though some sources say he was born in Carlisle, England.
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Julius Green eventually moved to Dunfermline in Scotland, and studied dentistry at the Dental School of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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Julius Green joined the medical unit of the Glaswegian 51st Division where he served in the 152 Field Ambulance.
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Julius Green had to hide his Judaism from troops there, disposing of his identity tags and claiming to be Presbyterian; at one stage, he narrowly escaped punishment for this deception through an assertion from Captain Hugh Dickie, a Medical Officer, that he had been circumcised for medical reasons.
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Julius Green's role was to communicate between Colditz and London through coded letters.
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Julius Green provided information on Germany troop movements and railways lines, what troops should bring with them should they too be captured, as well as which materials should be sent to Colditz to help PoWs escape.
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Julius Green exposed an English Nazi informant through his work, who after the war was prosecuted for treason.
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Julius Green worked as a businessman before returning to dentistry, and in 1971, wrote a best-selling book about his experiences as a spy, From Colditz With Code.