GR question

[rich]

there's many skeletons in that chick's closet--selling herself,
selling out Jews, etc.

The Dutch have a fairly awful rep. during the occupation, pbly only
second to the French--I wouldn't blame the effectiveness of the
Germans in Holland (a great percentage of Dutch Jews were murdered)
solely on their infiltration of the underground there.

the consensus is that the Abwehr was highly distracted due in part to
Canaris' worrying more about Himmler's encroachment and threats than
he was about the Allies. the other point is that the Abwehr was the
German military intelligence not part of the SS/SD--that was the
problem at least for Canaris--he felt paranoid about the Heydrichs and
with good reason--his only trunp card was that he like many had
physical evidence of Heydrich's tangential Jewish heritage or so I've
read

isn't the whole point in GR about the meaningless of sides taken during the war?

rich

On 7/6/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend sent me the following, which I'm not sure I see the significance
> of.
>
> Although nothing was very explicit I at least half understood that
> Katje was supposed to be a Nazi double agent.
>
> His message was as follows:
>
> I hope you had a nice 4th of July.
>
> Big problem in GR.
> Katje Borgesius Slotrop's "lover" and member of
> the Dutch Underground would have been a Nazi double agent
> according to David Kahn's  _The_Code_Breakers_
>
> In the case of the Dutch  the
> Nazi Counterespionage Service (Abwehr)
> had "flipped" (or snuffed out) most of the Dutch Underground.
> And even worse the Nazis had "flipped" the whole Dutch Resistance
> Clandestine Shortwave Radio Network and
> used it to feed false data to their British handlers and
> used it to lure many a British agent to parachute into
> capture.
>
> The Nazis were so subtle that they used a "phoney"
> Dutch Underground to help an occasional flier brought
> down in a Allied bombing raid to Spain and freedom.
> And such fliers would "testify" to the bravery and
> honesty of the Dutch Resistance!
>
> Poor Anne Frank never had a chance.
>