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Cover NameNikolaus Ritter

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"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…

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3 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2019
    University Press of Kentucky · 264 pages · 9780813177342
  • Other · English · 2019
    University Press of Kentucky · 264 pages · 9780813177359
  • Other · English · 2019
    University Press of Kentucky · 264 pages · 9780813177366
Germany, armed forcesSpiesGermany, biographyEspionage, germanBiographyOfficersWorld War, 1939-1945Secret service