Catalogue description Robey LIEBRANDT: South African. LIEBRANDT was a South African policeman and...

Robey LIEBRANDT: South African. LIEBRANDT was a South African policeman and international boxer before falling under the Nazi spell at the 1936 Olympics and moving to Germany to take up a physical culture scholarship at the State Academy in Berlin. There he was recruited as a sabotage agent and in 1941 landed in South Africa from a rubber boat with bomb-making equipment, a radio transmitter and 10,000 US dollars. The task given him was to form an organisation of disaffected Afrikaaners with the aim of overthrowing the government. He was caught after a number of small acts of sabotage, tried on charges of treason and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment