He met Rudolf Hess and translated a speech he had made to war veterans. This appeared in a pamphlet entitled “Germany and Peace”, sent to numerous organisations overseas. The excellence of his translation led to Murphy being appointed official translator of Hitler's (and later other Nazi officials’) speeches into English. He engaged a highly intelligent German woman, Greta Lorke, to help him. After the war that it became known that she, and her husband Adam Kuckhoff (executed in 1943), were members of the Soviet spy ring Rote Kapelle and that she secretly radioed advance copies of the texts of the speeches to Moscow.
