Catalogue description Fred Hermann BRANDT: Estonian, naturalised German. Having passed through Estonian,...
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Reference: | KV 2/752 |
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Fred Hermann BRANDT: Estonian, naturalised German. Having passed through Estonian, Russian and Latvian citizenship, BRANDT became a German in 1941. He was an entomologist and had spent time doing research in Persia. In 1941 he was taken on by German Intelligence for a mission to Afghanistan to foment unrest. On his return to Berlin he joined the Brandenderg Regiment. In 1943 he had a posting to Albania and elsewhere in the Balkans. While there he established contact with a British officer who eventually arranged for his ''defection'' to the Allies |
Date: | 1943 Aug 06-1947 Mar 21 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | PF600632 |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | file(s) |
Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
Access conditions: | Retained Until 2002 |
Record opening date: | 01 May 2002 |
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