Hitler Was a British Agent (True Crime Solving History Series)

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Lieutenant Grosch was the alias of SS- Hauptsturmführer Christian, a long-serving SD officer trusted by Walter Schellenberg. [16]

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The BBC were furious, because they felt that the impartiality of the BBC would be infringed [by airing the tape] and they felt that the Nazis were using the Duke of Windsor for their own propaganda, which they were, of course," says Wilson. Chapman, Betty; Bonewitz, Dr. Ronald L. (2013). Mrs Zigzag: The Extraordinary Life of a Secret Agent's Wife. London: The History Press. ISBN 9780752488134.

Masterman, J. (2013). The Double-Cross System: The Classic Account of World War Two Spy-Masters. New York: Vintage. ISBN 9780099578239. Seaman (2004). p. 56 "This imaginary espionage material he constructed with the aid of the following reference documents..." Starting in January 1941, he approached the British Embassy in Madrid three different times, [4] including through his wife (though Pujol edited her participation out of his memoirs), [19] but they showed no interest in employing him as a spy. Therefore, he resolved to establish himself as a German agent before approaching the British again to offer his services as a double-agent. [19]

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The Man Who Fooled the Nazis. The 90-minute Spanish documentary retitled and narrated in English, shown as part of the Storyville series, first shown on BBC Four, 22 February 2011. [58] The Swedish industrialist Birger Dahlerus tried to establish peace through an early form of shuttle diplomacy, partly performed on Dutch soil. And in early October the Dutch ambassador in Ankara, Philips Christiaan Visser, was communicating peace proposals on the line of the Dahlerus proposals, made by Hitler's former deputy chancellor and then ambassador to Turkey, Franz von Papen, to the British ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. [6] Macintyre, Ben (2011). "Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story". Walkergeorgefilms.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 3 November 2011. The 1966 film Triple Cross was based on the biography The Real Eddie Chapman Story [29] co-written by Chapman and Frank Owen. The film was directed by Terence Young, who had known Chapman before the war. Chapman's character was played by Christopher Plummer. [30] The film was only loosely based on reality, and Chapman was disappointed with it. In his autobiography, Plummer said that Chapman was to have been a technical adviser on the film, but the French authorities would not allow him in the country because he was still wanted over an alleged plot to kidnap the Sultan of Morocco. [31]

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During interrogation by MI5, then 27-year-old Chapman reportedly said his German spymaster -- referred to by Chapman as "Dr. Graumann" -- had promised to take him to a Nazi rally as a reward for completing his first British mission and would place him in the first or second row, near Hitler. The circumstances that led to Denis Donaldson becoming a British agent are uncertain, like much else about his time as a spy. In April 1943, the body was dropped into the sea from a Royal Navy submarine and then floated towards the coast of Spain.