Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau is a gripping diary-like personal account of espionage during the Second World War and is one of very few historic memoirs written by an ex-Abwehr officer. Detailed is how Colonel Nikolaus Ritter, following a brief World War I career and over ten years as a businessman in America, returned to Germany in spring of 1935 and became Chief of Air Intelligence in the Abwehr. He was assigned to establish a network of agents to gather information on British and US airfields, aircrafts, and state-of-the-art developments in the aerospace industry. Among others, Ritter’s cover names were Dr. Rantzau and Dr. Reinhard in Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg, Dr. Jansen in Hungary, Dr. Renken in Germany, and Mr. Johnson in America. Throughout his service in the Abwehr, Ritter smuggled America’s most jealously guarded secret, the Norden bombsight and the Sperry gyroscope, into Germany, and coordinated the planning for the invasion of the British Isles (Operation Sea Lion). Ritter was incarcerated by the British in 1945 and sent to the Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre.
Katharine Ritter Wallace, the daughter of Col. Ritter, presents the first English translation of the German World War II memoir. With a combination of collected documents, correspondences, personal notes, communications with peers, and from memory, this captivating account by an espionage agent reveals an insider’s glimpse of the German intelligence service and of a handler’s expansive and diverse agent network.
Spis treści
Foreword
Preface
Notes from the Author
Introduction
1. Arthur Owens (aka Snow and Johnny)
2. Dr. Rantzau
3. The Abwehr
4. Launching a Network
5. Orders from Admiral Canaris
6. Departing for America
7. New York
8. Herman Lang and the Norden Bombsight
9. Contacts in America
10. Mr. X
11. A Close Encounter
12. Reconstructing the Bombsight
13. British Agents in the Abwehr
14. Lily Stein
15. Ein Glas Bier
16. Count László Almásy
17. Sabotage across Borders
18. Border Closings
19. Sea Rendezvous
20. Operation Sea Lion
21. Suspending Sea Lion
22. Africa Mission
23. Desert Devils
24. End of War
25. Reflections
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Nikolaus Ritter Military Awards, 1917–1945
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
O autorze
Katharine Ritter Wallace is the daughter of Abwehr officer Nikolaus Ritter. She is the former chief library director of the Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland, and the former Division Head of the Technical Information Division at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
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