Espionage in Nazi Germany

Introduction

Foreign intelligence in Prussia and the succeeding state of Germany was frequently collected by diplomats and consular officials, as well as members of the press and various other sources, but the lion's share of the work was done by military and naval attaches, officers who were stationed at embassies to monitor foreign political and military developments . Espionage was not the preferred method of obtaining information; exploiting social connection was much more highly regarded among attachés. But the legendary general staff of the German Army nevertheless did maintain a small office (Section IIIb) to manage paid informers, secret agents, and counterintelligence assets. Much useful data was also gleaned from foreign press reports, military journals, and military exercises that attachés were customarily invited to attend.

Background

On the morning of December 16, 1944, 600 thousand soldiers of the Wehrmacht struck at U.S. troops in snowy Belgian Ardennes, completely surprised the Allied forces. At the same time the front line German paratroopers landed dressed in American uniforms and speaking English fluently, and equipped with American equipment. Among them was the legendary Otto Skorzeny, notorious for daring operation, the release of Mussolini from a mountain prison (Rogers, 1991, 64-79). This caused a handful of commandos behind Allied unimaginable panic. In mid-December 1944, when German armies seemed already defeated, the allies were surprised by a major offensive, prepared in secret, in which six hundred thousand German soldiers broke down the front of the Bulge, defended by troops of the United States, Nazi soldiers uniforms while Americans created turmoil in the rear, behind the Allied lines . Charles Whiting was able to reconstruct the history of this "secret battle", which totally fooled allied intelligence services and was much closer to the victory which they say, through the testimony of three of its protagonists: Herman Giskes, controlling an army of spies and saboteurs, Baron von der Heydte, who was in charge of the paratroopers, and the legendary Otto Skorzeny, who had the task of running the commands infiltrators (Rogers, 1991, 64-79).

Beginning of the Espionage in Nazi Germany

When the war of the U.S. and Germany broke out on 8December 1941, a five-man group of U.S. Jews who had fled the young people decided to take part in it. Motivates them to fight against Hitler's empire, as it had caused untold suffering to them and their relatives . five members had escaped from the clutches of Nazi Germany and the thirst for revenge. Their training started in OSS training base at Country Club in Maryland, where they were taught the basic skills kommandomiesten. (Whiting, 2000, 9-11)

They participated in the U.S. Army laskuvarjohyppykelpoisuuteen leadership training program, which is notoriously tough - training will be the U.S. Army still hard warrior's reputation. Education was not an easy target: the task was to infiltrate enemy lines through the Alps, the heartland of the Third Reich and to get clarity on the area in which Hitler was going to happen the last bloody battle of defense . Any group ...