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A carregar... A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War IIpor Lucas Delattre
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The Extraordinary Fritz Kolbe was born in 1900 and was a passionate German, but hated Hitler and the Nazis. Though a minor member of the Foreign Ministry in the Third Reich he refused to join the Nazi party. His refusal had economic and other repercussions for him, but he would not change his mind even if it meant imprisonment or death. As the war went on he began resisting in small ways and recruiting others to do the same. Eventually he decided to to pass Confidential/Secret documents from the Third Reich to the Allies. There was an impediment to that plan - there were no longer any embassies for the Allied countries in Germany and he was not allowed to travel to the nearest Allied embassy in Switzerland. The story of how he managed to make that contact and how he again and again risked his life to give the Allies valuable information is fascinating. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
A work of remarkable scholarship that moves with the swift pace of a John le Carre thriller, A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich is a chilling addition to the literature of espionage. In 1943, a young official named Fritz Kolbe from the German foreign ministry arranged to meet with Allen Dulles, then an OSS officer in Switzerland and later the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Kolbe had decided to betray his country. Over the next two years, Kolbe passed on countless valuable documents about German war efforts by tying the pages to his thigh and praying to avoid customs searches. He described the location of munitions factories and relayed diplomatic reports on Germany's intelligence operations and relations with other Axis nations like Romania and nominally neutral countries like Spain. Viewed by many Germans as a traitor, he was erased from the history books and, after Hitler's fall, his diplomatic career came to an end. Drawing on recently declassified materials at the National Archives in Washington and Kolbe's personal archives, Lucas Delattre has written an extraordinary tale of an ordinary man who knew the most valuable service he could provide his country was to betray it. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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