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Catalogue description Otto DIETERGAERTNER: South African/German. Born in South West Africa, DIETERGAERTNER...
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| Reference: | KV 2/1296 |
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| Description: |
Otto DIETERGAERTNER: South African/German. Born in South West Africa, DIETERGAERTNER went to Germany in 1937 to study medicine. After serving in the Wehrmacht in the Polish campaign, he was eventually recruited into the Abwehr and sent, together with Herbert Heins TRIBUTH, joined later by an Indian called OBED, through France to Ireland with the aim of reaching England and engaging in sabotage. They were arrested on arrival in Ireland, tried and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Later analysis suggested that TRIBUTH and DIETERGAERTNER were members of the Lehr Regiment Brandenburg, a military unit controlled by the Abwehr, made up mostly of expatriate Germans and extensively used for sabotage operations |
| Note: | With 2 photographs |
| Date: | 1940 Jan 01 - 1948 Dec 31 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 51530 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2003 |
| Record opening date: | 26 September 2003 |
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