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mainder of the war he helped in the preparation of propaganda broad-
casts to Germany.
At the end of the war, zu Putlitz returned briefly to Germany but
discovered that he was no longer welcome in his own country. His
family estates were in ruins and there were no jobs for a man widely
regarded by his contemporaries as a turncoat. Instead he returned to
England to lecture German prisoners of war about democratic poli-
tics. In January 1948 White helped him acquire British citizenship,
and later in the year he gave evidence for the prosecution at the Nu-
remberg war crimes trial.
Zu Putlitz revealed his Communist sympathies when, in 1952, he
went to live in East Germany. As he was to reveal in his autobiogra-
phy—which also included an acknowledgment to the kindness of
Blunt, much to the latter’s embarrassment—zu Putlitz had been in
touch with the Soviets since 1943. Zu Putlitz was also a close friend
ofGuy Burgess, whom he had first met at a party at Cambridge in- When Burgess defected to Moscow, zu Putlitz felt compelled
to follow, and in January 1952 he crossed into East Berlin. This was
an odd move, considering that his brother had died in an East German
prison in 1948, but zu Putlitz never gave a complete account of his
motives. He died in September 1975. In his autobiography, which
had been published in England in 1957, he disguised the identities of
Dick White (whom he referred to as ‘‘Tom Allen’’), Klop (‘‘Paul
X’’), Klop’s wife Nadia Benoist (‘‘Gabrielle X’’), and their son Peter
(‘‘Hugo X’’).
ZULULAND.In March 1879 the Honourable William Drummond was
appointed intelligence officer to Lord Chelmsford’s force as it
marched into the Transvaal to engage King Cetewayo’s army. The
son of Lord Strathallan, Drummond was a Natal civil servant and
spoke the local language. He was able to identify Cetewayo’s head-
quarters at Ulundi, which was attacked by the Royal Scots Fusiliers
and the 17th Lancers. The Zulu Impi was decimated, but Drummond
was killed as he searched for the Royal Kraal.