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Hitler's spies and saboteurs;, based on the German secret service war diary of General Lahousen, [by] Charles Wighton and Günter Peis

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Hitler's spies and saboteurs;

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[by] Charles Wighton and Günter Peis

based on the German secret service war diary of General Lahousen

At Nuremberg, in 1945, General Erwin von Lahousen-Vivremont, head of Abwehr II-the sabotage division of the German Armed Forces Secret Service-shocked the world with his revelations of Nazi war crimes. He exposed the activities of Gr̲ing, Ribbentrop, and other top-ranking Third Reich officials. But there was much more he did not tell! Here is the rest of his story-the top-secret details of Germany's international espionage ring during World War II.Lahousen had kept a diary. In the United States, Britain, France and other countries, his agents-often citizens of these countries, for Lahousen believed Germans lacked the spontaneity that made for expert spies-carried out some of the war's most daring missions.In his diary, Lahousen named names and described espionage activities in detail. He wrote of Hermann Lang in the United States, a German-American who provided the Nazis with blueprints of U.S. military machinery; of Robey Leibbrandt, the young African "Olympic Boxer Spy"; of beautiful Vera, bilingual mistress of an Abwehr agent; and many others. Their astounding stories, along with that of the master spy, Lahousen, appear documented and unabridged in these pages. No fictional spy novel can compare with the drama and excitement of the authentic espionage missions revealed here

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