Special Interrogation Group
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Special Interrogation Group (SIG) (some sources interpret this acronym as Special Identification Group or Special Intelligence Group) was a unit of the British Army during World War II. It was organized from German-speaking Jewish volunteers from the British Mandate of Palestine. The SIG performed commando and sabotage operations against Axis forces in the Western Desert. The idea to create the SIG belonged to Herbert Cecil A. Buck, MC of the Punjabi Guards and Scots Guards, an Oxford scholar and German linguist who was captured and escaped from ...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Special Interrogation Group (SIG) (some sources interpret this acronym as Special Identification Group or Special Intelligence Group) was a unit of the British Army during World War II. It was organized from German-speaking Jewish volunteers from the British Mandate of Palestine. The SIG performed commando and sabotage operations against Axis forces in the Western Desert. The idea to create the SIG belonged to Herbert Cecil A. Buck, MC of the Punjabi Guards and Scots Guards, an Oxford scholar and German linguist who was captured and escaped from Egypt using German uniform. He subsequently became the SIG commander. In March 1942, Col. Terence Airey (Military Intelligence Research at the War Office in London) wrote that "a Special German Group as a sub-unit of Middle East Commando... with the cover name 'Special Interrogation Group', to be used for infiltration behind the German lines in the Western Desert, under 8th Army... the strength of the Special Group would be approximately that of a platoon... The personnel are fluent German linguists... mainly Palestinian (Jews) of German origin. Many of them have had war experience with 51 Commando..."
