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The Spies Who Came from the Sea

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The Spies Who Came from the Sea

Wednesday September 23, 2009 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network

By the fall of 1942, in the midst of World War II, German U-boats (military submarines) had penetrated deep up the St. Lawrence River, sinking 21 ships and killing more than 250 people. Germany achieved its goal: to shut down the St. Lawrence River to Canadian convoys on their way to Great Britain. The worst fear of people living along the river was a German invasion of Canada.

The Spies Who Came from the Sea tells the untold story of the few Germans who did land on our shores - spies secreted off U-boats in the dead of night. With exclusive interviews with German survivors and a chambermaid who unmasked a spy, the filmmakers reveal a dramatic story - and a secret that was kept for more than 35 years.

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