If you'd hidden your daughter's paper in a salon, would you become someone else?
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If you'd hidden your daughter's paper in a salon, would you become someone else?
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If you'd hidden your daughter's paper in a salon, would you become someone else?
In this episode, we follow the life and choices of Jessie Jordan, a naturalised German who returned to Scotland in 1937 and opened a Dundee hair salon where military maps and parcels began to arrive. The episode traces her movements, relationships, and the decisions that turned an ordinary salon into a postal relay - and asks what responsibility and identity mean in such moments.
Person: Jessie Jordan
Date: 23 December 1887 (birth); July 1937 (registered with Glasgow police)
Location: Kinloch Street hair salon, Dundee, Scotland
Event: Salon used as postal relay for parcels containing maps and documents
Topic: Recruitment by German military intelligence (Abwehr)
- Jessie was born in Glasgow as Jessie Haddow, later naturalised German after marrying a German waiter in 1912.
- She ran a salon in Hamburg, lost her first husband in World War I, and returned to Germany before moving to Dundee in 1937.
- Her daughter Marga needed documentation proving Aryan heritage, prompting Jessie’s trip and furnishing a motive for collecting papers.
- Before arriving in Scotland Jessie had been recruited by the Abwehr and set up the salon to receive packages from abroad.
- A cleaner discovered military maps hidden among parcels, an ordinary discovery that set a wider chain of events in motion.
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