Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

– O – OBERDÖRFFER, MANFRED (1910–1941). An Abwehr opera- tive killed during a mission to Afghanistan, Manfred Oberdörffer was a ...

military administration under Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel, as it gave Oberg ultimate authority over all police agencies in the ...

Oberländer’s belief that Hitler had no further territorial ambitions and that no world war loomed was soon shattered. Despite ha ...

Under the direction of Albert Norden, a longtime communist activist and the regime’s head propagandist, the government of the Ge ...

and bureaucracy of the German Democratic Republic, including the diplomatic service. Equipped with a detailed legend, they opera ...

His comprehensive reports—Meldungen aus dem Reich—started to appear shortly thereafter. With the invasion of the Soviet Union, H ...

illusory, causing him to offer his services instead to the Darzhavna Sigurnost while in Sofia. When the information he provided ...

from military usage and referred principally to West Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany. Among members of the Hauptver- ...

of the eavesdropping requests were initiated by the Hauptverwal- tung Aufklärung, although other MfS main divisions—along with t ...

his larger design for an Islamic revolution against the British in Egypt and India having failed to materialize. He died in Land ...

two residences in the Taunus between Falkenstein and Kronberg, the initial staff of 50 was largely drawn from the remnants of Fr ...

Ernst Wollweber, that culminated in Operations feuerwerk, pfeil, and blitz. Despite these setbacks, the OG could claim sev- eral ...

of major German defeats such as the battle of Stalingrad was also strikingly candid. In the final stages of the war, Oshima relu ...

Although similar eastern bureaus were maintained by the West German trade union federation as well as two other political partie ...

mentally ill by medical authorities. In early October 1940, Oster took an even bolder step and informed his friend, Gijsbertus S ...

born in Munich on 1 February 1903. Joining the Bavarian police in 1919, he subsequently worked alongside Heinrich Müller as a mi ...

wide range of espionage activities—recruiting agents throughout the country, disrupting grain and arms shipments to Europe, and ...

PASTORIUS. An unsuccessful Nazi sabotage attempt in the United States, Operation pastorius originated in the Abwehr in the sprin ...

government’s case appeared too weak for a civil court, since no act of sabotage had taken place. All were found guilty of variou ...

Vienna on 15 February 1725, the son of a judicial official. After serv- ing as an imperial page and completing his law studies, ...