A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich
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A fascinating account of Fritz Kolbe, a German bureaucrat who worked secretly with the Allies during World War II, describes his harrowing espionage work relaying valuable information on high-level Axis meetings and munitions factories to the Allies. 25,000 first printing.
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The story of the nondescript German diplomat who became one of the United States' greatest spies in Nazi Germany reads like a thriller.
It was important to me because it showed how a single person, working alone, could do incredible damage to the Nazi war effort.
Kolbe’s story did not come out until well after the war, when declassified CIA documents revealed 1,600 diplomatic cables copied by Fritz Kolbe, a career-functionary in the German Foreign Office. Koble had smuggled the documents into Switzerland – mainly tucked down into his pants – to be passed to the OSS bureau head, Allen…
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