Ian Fleming's experiences in the Second World War are long known to have inspired his James Bond novels.
The author's role in naval intelligence saw him help plan key operations and create an elite unit of commandos tasked with seizing enemy documents.
But now, a group of German fans of the Bond franchise have argued that Fleming based Moonraker villain Hugo Drax on a real military industrialist he encountered in Nazi Germany.
The group, whose name translates as the 'Bond Club', say that Fleming obtained top secret papers which he used to craft fictional versions of men he came across.
In the Moonraker novel Drax poses as a British army veteran working on a rocket project for Britain, before he is unmasked as Graf Hugo von der Drache - a Nazi seeking revenge for his country's defeat.
