During the Second World War the allies spent, roughly, a staggering 3 and a half trillion (2023 adjusted) US dollars on munitions. Those munitions had to be manufactured, stored, and transported, creating notable risk to everyone in their path. That risk became all too real in rural Staffordshire, UK, on November 27, 1944.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.