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Cover name: Dr. Rantzau

Title: Cover name: Dr. Rantzau / Nikolaus Ritter ; edited and translated by Katharine R. Wallace ; foreword by Mary Kathryn Barbier.
Author: Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, 1899-1974
Publication: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2019]

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Description

xvii, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau is a gripping diary-like personal account of espionage during the Second World War and is one of very few historic memoirs written by an ex-Abwehr officer. Detailed is how Colonel Nikolaus Ritter, following a brief World War I career and over ten years as a businessman in America, returned to Germany in spring of 1935 and became Chief of Air Intelligence in the Abwehr. He was assigned to establish a network of agents to gather information on British and US airfields, aircrafts, and state-of-the-art developments in the aerospace industry. Among others, Ritter's cover names were Dr. Rantzau and Dr. Reinhard in Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg, Dr. Jansen in Hungary, Dr. Renken in Germany, and Mr. Johnson in America. Throughout his service in the Abwehr, Ritter smuggled America's most jealously guarded secret, the Norden bombsight and the Sperry gyroscope, into Germany, and coordinated the planning for the invasion of the British Isles (Operation Sea Lion). Ritter was incarcerated by the British in 1945 and sent to the Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre. Katharine Ritter Wallace, the daughter of Col. Ritter, presents the first English translation of the German World War II memoir. With a combination of collected documents, correspondences, personal notes, communications with peers, and from memory, this captivating account by an espionage agent reveals an insider's glimpse of the German intelligence service and of a handler's expansive and diverse agent network"--

Series Statement

Foreign military studies

Uniform Title

Deckname Dr. Rantzau. English
Foreign military studies (Lexington, Ky.)

Alternative Title

Deckname Dr. Rantzau.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biography.
History.

Note

"An AUSA book."
"The original German edition of this book was published as "Deckname Dr. Rantzau" (Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1972)"-- Title verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-229) and index.

Language (note)

In English translated from the original German.

Contents

Arthur Owens (aka Snow and Johnny) -- Dr. Rantzau -- The Abwehr -- Launching a network -- Orders from Admiral Canaris -- Departing for America -- New York -- Hermann Lang and the Norden bombsight -- Contacts in America -- Mr. X -- A close encounter -- Reconstructing the bombsight -- British agents in the Abwehr -- Lily Stein -- Ein Glas Bier -- Count László Almásy -- Sabotage across borders -- Border closings -- Sea rendezvous -- Operation Sea Lion -- Suspending Sea Lion -- Africa mission -- Desert devils -- End of war -- Reflections.

Call Number

JFE 19-8065

ISBN

9780813177342
0813177340

LCCN

2019006675

OCLC

1066126539

Author

Ritter, Nikolaus Adolf Fritz, 1899-1974, author.

Title

Cover name: Dr. Rantzau / Nikolaus Ritter ; edited and translated by Katharine R. Wallace ; foreword by Mary Kathryn Barbier.

Publisher

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Foreign military studies

Foreign military studies (Lexington, Ky.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-229) and index.

Language

In English translated from the original German.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Wallace, Katharine R. (Katharine Ritter), 1934- editor, translator.

Barbier, Mary, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-8065

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