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TROMPKE Organisation for German Espionage in South Africa: Paul TROMPKE was German...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/758
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This record is about the TROMPKE Organisation for German Espionage in South Africa: Paul TROMPKE was German... dating from 1943 Mar 29-1943 Apr 22 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/758
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1943 Mar 29-1943 Apr 22
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TROMPKE Organisation for German Espionage in South Africa: Paul TROMPKE was German Consul General in Lourenco Marques during the Second World War. From his Consulate an Abwehr officer, Luitpold WERZ, controlled the German Intelligence network operating to South Africa. Communicating by radio and secret ink, an important task of this spy ring was to provide intelligence on Allied shipping for exploitation by German U boats. Its agents in South Africa were also in close touch with members of the extreme right wing Afrikaaner opposition to General Smuts's ruling party with the aim of forming a pro-Nazi government. These files detail the investigation by British Intelligence of the TROMPKE/WERZ network, in the course of which most German radio traffic was intercepted and read. All volumes contain summarised details of German messages and periodic analyses. The files also contain much information about the Ossewa Brandweg, an extreme right wing South African nationalist organisation with which the German agents were in touch
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF65657 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Retained Until 2002
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11050102/
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