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Catalogue description Wolfgang Hans Friedrich BLAUM, aliases Friedrich BAUMANN, Friedrich BLAUM, Federico,...
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| Reference: | KV 2/1976 |
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| Description: |
Wolfgang Hans Friedrich BLAUM, aliases Friedrich BAUMANN, Friedrich BLAUM, Federico, Arpinius: German. BLAUM was an Abwehr officer in Madrid between 1941 and 1945 with particular responsibility for sabotage and other covert operations against Allied shipping and targets in Gibraltar and elsewhere. He was captured and interrogated in 1945, and this file contains a detailed account, derived from his interrogation, of Abwehr operations in the Iberian sabotage context, including the German personnel involved and the extent of Spanish complicity |
| Note: | Serial 9a: summary of BLAUM's career. Serial 10a: BLAUM considered to be 'the best informed person on matters of sabotage and insurrection in the Iberian peninsula'. Serial 11a: a very full report on operations in and around Spain conducted by BLAUM's Abwehr unit (Referat 11 KO. Spanien) including targets, operational practices, successes, extent of Spanish co-operation etc |
| Date: | 1945 Jan 01 - 1946 Dec 31 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 602970 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2005 |
| Record opening date: | 23 June 2005 |
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