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Raimund Werner Martin PRETZEL, alias Sebastian HAFFNER: German, naturalised British....
Catalogue reference: KV 2/1129
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This record is about the Raimund Werner Martin PRETZEL, alias Sebastian HAFFNER: German, naturalised British.... dating from 1938 Aug 29-1940 Aug 03 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/1129
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1938 Aug 29-1940 Aug 03
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Raimund Werner Martin PRETZEL, alias Sebastian HAFFNER: German, naturalised British. PRETZEL, a German-born writer, came to Britain in 1938 to write articles for a Berlin publishing house and did not return to Germany until after the war. He was interned briefly in the early 1940's and thereafter concerned himself with the war effort against Nazism through editorship of a German refugee newspaper in London,"Die Zeitung", and work for the Ministry of Information
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- L312-309 VOL 1
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- Retained Until 2002
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- Open Document, Open Description
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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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