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Catalogue description Hans ZECH-NENNTWITCH, alias Joachim NANSEN, codename COLUMBINE: a former Waffen SS...
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| Reference: | KV 2/397 |
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| Description: |
Hans ZECH-NENNTWITCH, alias Joachim NANSEN, codename COLUMBINE: a former Waffen SS Officer and adjutant to Himmler, he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 allegedly for helping a Polish resistance group, but he escaped and came to Britain via Sweden as a defector. ZECH-NENNTWITCH provided much intelligence of value to the Allies and was used to broadcast anti-Nazi material back to Germany. Although given an official post in the reconstruction of Germany, he was later brought before a de-Nazification court and in 1964 sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment for his past in shooting Polish Jews. Later he became a much-publicised escapee from his Brunswick prison, only to give himself up after 4 months on the run |
| Note: | Physical Description: with 11 photographs of ZECH-NENNWITCH in his SS uniform at s21k |
| Date: | 1943 Aug 10-1945 Nov 12 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 65879 SUPP A |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Open on Transfer |
| Record opening date: | 11 May 2001 |
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