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Helmuth Carl Rudolf SIMONS / Otto LEHMANN-RUSSBUELDT, alias LEHMANN: German. SIMONS...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/2001
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This record is about the Helmuth Carl Rudolf SIMONS / Otto LEHMANN-RUSSBUELDT, alias LEHMANN: German. SIMONS... dating from 1933 Jan 01 - 1936 Dec 31 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/2001
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1933 Jan 01 - 1936 Dec 31
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Helmuth Carl Rudolf SIMONS / Otto LEHMANN-RUSSBUELDT, alias LEHMANN: German. SIMONS and LEHMANN-RUSSBUELDT were refugees from Nazi Germany who arrived in Britain in 1933. Both were actively anti-Nazi and claimed to have documentary evidence of German chemical warfare plans, a claim that aroused some suspicion (never substantiated) about their motives. SIMONS, a scientist, left Britain after a short stay, finally settling in the United States. LEHMANN became very active as an expert on German military matters, as a leading member of various German ?migr? and International Peace and anti-Nazi organisations, and as a prolific author of books, pamphlets and press articles. This file contains accounts of the pre-war and war-time activities of various anti-Nazi and peace organisations, copies of associated pamphlets and articles and LEHMANN's own account of life in Huyton Aliens' Internment Camp
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Serial 7a: SIMONS and LEHMANN claim possession of secret (smuggled) German Chemical Warfare documents. Serial 45a: LEHMANN case summary
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 42816 VOL 1
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2005
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11249172/
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