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SS-Major Horst Kopkow - From the Gestapo to British Intelligence (Hardcover)
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SS-Major Horst Kopkow - From the Gestapo to British Intelligence (Hardcover)
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On 27 May 1942, SS General Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by
British-trained Czech agents who had parachuted into
Czechoslovakia. He died of his wounds on 4 June 1942. Two days
later, Gestapo Captain Horst Kopkow's department at Reich National
Security HQ was given fresh directions. From 6 June 1942 until the
end of the war, Kopkow was responsible for coordinating the fight
against Soviet and British parachute agents dropped anywhere in
Germany or German-occupied territories. This new direction for
Kopkow made his name. Within months the "Rote Kapelle" Soviet
espionage ring was uncovered in Belgium, who could be traced
directly to Berlin and Paris. A new counter-espionage fight had
begun, and any agents caught would pay with their lives. In France
and Holland the Gestapo caught many Special Operations Executive
agents trained in Britain. By spring 1944 almost 150 British agents
had been caught and deported to German concentration camps, and
almost all had been murdered without trial by the December. Kopkow
was directly involved in these murders. Arrested by British forces
after the war, Kopkow was extensively interrogated due to his
counter-espionage experience. For the next 20 years, Kopkow was a
consultant for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service.
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