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The activities of the Hvidsten Group and several other resistance groups were revealed to the Gestapo by Jacob Jensen, a British Army paratrooper employed by the SOE, after he was captured on 13 December 1943 in Aarhus and interrogated under torture. On 11 March 1944, in the early morning, the Gestapo surrounded the Hvidsten Inn and the ...
On November 15, 1943, the Gestapo got together to suppress these resistance movements with a lightning operation, calling in a team of Lyonnais militiamen led by Francis André. [22] Under the direction of SS August Moritz, they received information from the Girousse couple [ 22 ] [ 23 ] of the Mouvement Franciste , and decided on the details ...
The resistance group, later discovered by the Gestapo because of a double agent of the Abwehr, was in contact with Allen Dulles, the head of the US Office of Strategic Services in Switzerland. Although Maier and the other group members were severely tortured, the Gestapo did not uncover the essential involvement of the resistance group in ...
As Gestapo chief, Grabner was responsible, among other things, for the fight against the resistance movement in the camp, as well as for the prevention of escapes and all contact with the outside world. These tasks were carried out with horrendous cruelties against the prisoners and a large number of incarcerations in the bunker in Block 11.
The raid was requested by members of the Danish resistance movement to free imprisoned members and to destroy the records of the Gestapo, to disrupt their operations. The RAF initially turned down the request as too risky, due to the location in a crowded city centre and the need for low-level bombing but they approved the raid in early 1945 ...
In Marseille, Multon continued to turn in resistance fighters and to participate in their arrest, which was the case for Roger Morange, head of TR [4] in Marseille in November 1943 [5] Multon, after having taken refuge in North Africa in the spring of 1944, was able to join in the Liberation Army and took part in the landing in Provence.
The resistance movement throughout the peninsula was crippled as supplies dried up. In Aarhus the resistance groups faced another problem as Grethe Bartram from communist and resistance circles in Aarhus was hired as an informant by the Gestapo in March–April 1944.
The Gestapo's purpose in running this particular funkspiel was to discover Soviet links to the French Communist Party, the French Resistance and the Red Three. [ 278 ] Two transmission stations were built on the outskirts of Paris [ 279 ] that were operated by the German Schutzpolizei [ 279 ] for use by the agents captured in France.