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There are both men and women on this list of Widerstandskämpfer ("Resistance fighters") primarily German, some Austrian or from elsewhere, who risked or lost their lives in a number of ways. They tried to overthrow the National Socialist regime, they denounced its wars as criminal, tried to prevent World War II and sabotaged German attacks on ...
Hans Bernd Gisevius (14 July 1904 – 23 February 1974) was a German diplomat and intelligence officer during the Second World War.A covert opponent of the Nazi regime, he served as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces in Germany.
Arrested by the Gestapo on 18 or 19 May 1942, the day after parachuting from a plane near the village of Dittau Executed at the end of 1942 Trained as an agent by the GRU and sent to Europe. Betrayed members of the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group after being turned by the Gestapo after almost a year of captivity. [86] Selma Gessner–Bührer
The Polish resistance movement was formed soon after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and quickly grew in response to the brutal methods of the German occupation. Polish resistance had operatives in the urban areas, as well as in the forests (leśni). Throughout the war, the Polish resistance grew in numbers, and increased the ...
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 ...
executed, location of death not known, possibly Gestapo-Prison Berlin-Moabit: Stefan Rowecki: 1895–1944: Polish: General, leader of the Armia Krajowa, journalist Polish resistance movement in World War II: executed, Warsaw: Stefan Starzyński: 1893–1943: Polish: Politician, economist, writer, Mayor of Warsaw 1934–1939 Polish intelligentsia
HIPO, like the Gestapo, had their own informers. The major difference was that most of the Gestapo were Germans working in an occupied country, while the HIPO Corps consisted entirely of Danes working for the German occupiers. During the last winter of the war a number of HIPO members were tortured and killed by Danish resistance members.