Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

HERRMANN, LISELOTTE (1909–1938). A communist spy ex- ecuted by the Nazis who became a celebrated figure in the Ger- man Democrat ...

a correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt, the party directed him to Department IV (intelligence) of the Red Army. Arriving in ...

HESS MISSION. A quixotic attempt by Rudolf Hess to broker a negotiated peace with Great Britain, the Hess Mission began with his ...

the Wehrmacht and held as a British prisoner of war, he returned to Magdeburg in 1945 and served with a border patrol unit of th ...

it was planned for the evening of 19 May 1956. Volunteering to stand guard alone in the office, Hesse was joined there by two ot ...

Impressed by his self-confidence, cold-blooded technocratic skills, and Aryan appearance, Himmler engaged Heydrich in developmen ...

honor guard was maintained at the assassination site until the end of the war. See also BERNHARD; EINSATZGRUPPEN; SALON KITTY; T ...

Vistula, which proved unable to halt the advance of the Red Army into Pomerania. Yet as early as mid-1942, anticipating the even ...

persuade his superiors of the necessity of small elite units—fluent in other languages and highly skilled in sabotage methods—th ...

and an investigation was launched in 1993, it was suspended three years later because of his poor health. HITLER DIARIES FORGERY ...

diaries underwent their first forensic analysis. But only relatively small samples had been sent by the magazine to experts for ...

Lübeck. Although praised by his superiors for “outstanding work” and eager to acquire the extra funds, he became fearful of dete ...

attempted suicide by jumping from a sixth-floor window, leaving her critically injured. The charges against Hofer eventually exp ...

regarding their plan for a negotiated peace between Great Britain and Nazi Germany. Describing her as “extremely intelligent, da ...

II and member of the anti-Nazi resistance, Prince Maximilian Egon zu Hohenlohe-Langenberg belonged to a Sudeten German noble fam ...

bar on Wittenbergplatz and returned to the German Democratic Re- public (GDR), presumably as the victim of a kidnapping. Not onl ...

HORATZEK, JOHANNES (1896–?). A veteran intelligence op- erative, Johannes Horatzek entered the Abwehr in 1924. Because of his Cz ...

HÖTTL, WILHELM (1915–1999). An Austrian Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service) officer who established contacts with multiple ...

May 1945. American authorities concluded that Höttl was probably playing a double game and decided that he would only be used as ...

Recalled to Berlin in June 1941, Huppenkothen was appointed head of the counterintelligence division (Group IVE; after 1944, Sec ...