Dronkers was found guilty and hanged at Wandsworth Prison on 31
December.DU MOULIN-ECKART, KARL LEONHARDT COUNT (1900–
1991). A short-lived chief of intelligence for the Sturmabteilung (SA)
of the Nazi Party, Karl Leonhardt Count Du Moulin-Eckart was born
in Munich on 11 January 1900, the son of a university professor.
Attracted to the early Nazi movement, he was a participant in the
abortive Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, but charges of treason were later
dropped. Afterward, he practiced law in Munich. His close friendship
with SA leader Ernst Röhm led to his appointment as head of intel-
ligence on 13 April 1932 (he occupied room 50 in the Brown House).
Du Moulin-Eckart’s task was to place agents inside the Reichswehr
and rival paramilitary groups and simultaneously guard against hos-
tile penetration of the SA.
His position—as well as the very existence of the SA—became
increasingly precarious with the rise of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD;
Security Service) under Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Hey-
drich. Arrested during the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934,
Du Moulin-Eckart was sent to the newly established concentration
camp at Dachau, where he worked as a librarian. As part of a larger
campaign against homosexuality, particularly within the Nazi Party,
Du Moulin-Eckart faced yet another trial but was acquitted. His
eventual release occurred several years later. He died in Oberviechtel
(Bavaria) on 31 March 1991.DUQUESNE, FREDERIC (1877–1956). The central figure in the
largest Abwehr spy ring arrested in the United States, Frederic
“Fritz” Joubert Duquesne was born in Cape Colony, South Africa,
on 21 September 1877, the son of a prominent Boer farmer and
businessman. Following his early education in England and military
schooling in Belgium and France, he returned to South Africa in
December 1899 to fight in the Second Anglo-Boer War. Witnessing
the scorched-earth policy of Herbert Kitchener against the Boers in-
stilled in him an intense lifelong hatred of the British. His own under-
cover plan to take revenge by laying ruin to Cape Town was betrayed
and led to his arrest and trial. Banished to a prisoner of war camp in
Bermuda, Duquesne managed to escape and arrive illegally in the
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