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captivity, see Adrian O’Sullivan, Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia
(Iran): The Failure of the German Intelligence Services, 1939–45
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) [NSW], 49–53.
- Herzog Joachim Ernst von Anhalt (1901–1947) was a trained agricultural
and forestry farmer. Always at odds with the Nazis, he was arrested in 1944
and imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp for three months. He was
arrested again in September 1945—this time by the Soviets—and was sent
to the notorious NKVD Special Camp No. 2 at the site of Buchenwald
concentration camp. The Duke of Anhalt died at the camp on 18 February
1947, and his remains were thrown into a mass grave. Scott Mehl, ‘Joachim
Ernst, Duke of Anhalt,’ Unofficial Royalty: The Site for Royal News and
Discussion, http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/category/formermonar-
chies/german/anhalt-royals/ (accessed 11 May 2018).
- Abw II (and subsequently Mil D) was divided into the HQ staff (Eisenberg)
and the following nine desks: East (Schöneich), West (Gambke), Southwest
(Lormis), Southeast (Niklasch/Ferid), Middle East (Wagner), Finance
(Todte), Air (Paulus), Technical (Mauritius), and Evaluation and Planning
(Kniesche). When Wagner was transferred to Leit West in France in
December 1944, the Middle East desk was disbanded. Annex I, Changes
in Abw II organization (1942–1945) as known to Ferid, Intermediate
Interrogation Report (CI-IIR) No. 44, 18 January 1946, Record Group
263, Entry ZZ18, Box 35, NARA.
- See Perry Biddiscombe, SS Hunter Battalions: The Hidden History of the
Nazi Resistance Movement 1944–45 (Stroud: Tempus, 2006), 36–9.
- Biddiscombe, SS Hunter Battalions, 37. Eisenberg must of course have
been fully aware of—and possibly even connived at—Naumann’s
intentions.
- Kaltenbrunner encouraged the development of an élite clique of Austrian
officers within the RSHA, many of whom were old acquaintances from his
Vienna days. See NSW, 76, 135–6, 140.
- According to Biddiscombe, SS Hunter Battalions, 37, Skorzeny never once
visited Mil D HQ. Regarding Skorzeny and the inflation of his reputation
by historians and journalists, see NSW, 95–7; Adrian O’Sullivan, Espionage
and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran): The Success of the Allied
Secret Services (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) [ECOP], 177,
181–2, 189.
- For more about Loos, see PIR No. 67, CI-FIR/72, HQ US Forces
European Theater Interrogation Center, APO 757, 19 September 1945,
Records of the U.S. Nürnberg War Crimes Trials: Interrogations, 1946–
1949, Record Group 238, NARA.
- SCI 12th Army Group Munich to CO X-2 Germany, 13 July 1945, Record
Group 263, Entry ZZ18, Box 35, NARA. Many of the details in this pro-
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