Operation North Pole
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Operation North Pole

Unravelling the Truth Behind the Execution of 50 SOE Agents in the Second World War

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eBook - ePub

Operation North Pole

Unravelling the Truth Behind the Execution of 50 SOE Agents in the Second World War

About this book

Englandspiel Nordpol, or Operation North Pole, was a successful Second World War counterintelligence operation conducted by Germany's military intelligence (the Abwehr) between 1942 and 1944. On the night of 6-7 November 1941 two SOE agents, Huub Lauwers and Thys Taconis were parachuted into the Netherlands and dropped over Stegerveld, near Ommen. Lauwers was captured on 6 March 1942, while Taconis was captured 3 days later on 9 March. Lauwers was persuaded to send messages back to London by the Germans, in which he intentionally left out two security checks. This should have automatically sounded 'alarm bells' with those who received the messages, but for some inexplicable reason, it did not. Whether this was just a genuine mistake or something more sinister has never been fully ascertained. After all, security checks were in place to ensure that messages received from agents in the field were genuine and were part of the SOE's own transmission protocol.??? As no one in London realised messages being received from SOE agents in the Netherlands were being sent under the control and direction of German military intelligence, more and more agents and equipment followed unabated for more than 18 months.Of the 54 SOE agents sent to the Netherlands from England during Operation North Pole, 50 died or were executed while being held prisoner by the Germans.

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Information

Publisher
Pen and Sword
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781399000147
Edition
0
Subtopic
German History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter One Why Did Operation North Pole Take Place?
  7. Chapter Two The Special Operations Executive
  8. Chapter Three Leo Marks – SOE Bletchley Park
  9. Chapter Four Lodo van Hamel and the Start of Operation North Pole
  10. Chapter Five Agents Captured During Operation North Pole - 1941
  11. Chapter Six Agents Captured During Operation North Pole - 1942
  12. Chapter Seven Agents Captured During Operation North Pole - 1943
  13. Chapter Eight Anton van der Waals – Collaborator
  14. Chapter Nine RAF Tempsford
  15. Chapter Ten Hermann Josef Giskes
  16. Chapter Eleven Discussions in Parliament about Operation North Pole
  17. Chapter Twelve Post-War Press Articles About Operation North Pole
  18. Conclusion
  19. Appendix A: List of Murdered Operation North Pole Agents at Mauthausen
  20. Plates