Spies?

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Some clarification of items from a previous blog entry:

1. Oskar Schindler.

"Schindler was charged with setting up spy network among the three million Germans of the Sudetenland region for the Abwehr"

"Czech secret police archives refer to Schindler as 'a spy of big caliber and an especially dangerous type.'"

"As a salesman, Schindler traveled to southern Poland and reported to Abwehr regarding points of military importance."

The famous Oskar Schindler, a confidant of Admiral Canaris and a case officer of the German Abwehr [military intelligence] in the time prior to the Munich Accords, recruiting spies and establishing an intelligence network in the Sudetenland.

This is an aspect of Schindler not ever mentioned or even recognized? The entire episode of Schindler's List must be seen in a totally different perspective?

Oskar was an opportunist or a man of ideals or a combination of both, etc.

2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

"Dietrich Bonhoeffer . . . was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr. He was also a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church"

Bonhoeffer also a man opposed to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, During the Second World War operating as a counter-intelligence officer of the Abwehr, using his position to make contacts with foreign officials at a high level, acting as an emissary of Admiral Canaris, all the while "playing" the "double game" of intelligence/counter-intelligence.

"Under cover of Abwehr, Bonhoeffer served as a courier for the German resistance movement to reveal its existence and intentions and through his ecumenical contacts abroad, to secure possible peace terms for post-Hitler government with the Allies. His visits to Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland were camouflaged as legitimate intelligence activities for Abwehr."

NOT necessarily "camouflaged as legitimate". Bonhoeffer as a counter-intelligence officer would have been authorized as his own discretion to make contact with foreign intelligence services, engage in dialog with them, make overtures, conduct business, etc. Legitimate intelligence activity.

And there was precedent for this.

The Venlo Incident.

German SD [SS intelligence] officers posing as dissident German military officers wishing to overthrow Hitler, capturing British secret service officers - - 1939!

"The Venlo Incident in 1939 was a covert German Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) engineered capture of two British SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) agents in the early months of World War II"

"Two assigned British SIS agents had met supposed discontented German Army officers in the Dutch border town of Venlo following a series of covert meetings"

Canaris and those opposed to Hitler did not necessarily seeking an END to the war, but merely a negotiated settlement with the western allied powers, a truce or armistice! THIS WAS NEVER TO BE, THE ALLIED FORCES HAVING ALREADY MADE THE AGREEMENT THAT ANYTHING OTHER THAN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER WAS NOT AN OPTION!

Canaris, Bonhoeffer and their colleagues were doomed from the start!

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