Defectors from the Reich: The Double Agent and the Adventurer

Two German defectors turned British double agents, disillusioned with Nazism, manipulated wartime intelligence and postwar politics.

Two German defectors who were to serve British Intelligence from 1942 to 1945 were, in many ways, two of a kind. One was a Nazi, having served in the Waffen—SS and given the code name COLUMBINE as a double agent under the Double—Cross System, while the other was not. Both had become disillusioned with the way things were going with the war and generally disgust...