SS-Major Horst Kopkow: From the Gestapo to British Intelligence

On 27 May 1942, SS General Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by British—trained Czech agents who had parachuted into Czechoslovakia. He died of his wounds on 4 June 1942. Two days later, Gestapo Captain Horst Kopkow’s department at Reich National Security HQ was given fresh directions. From 6 June 1942 until the end of the war, Kopkow was responsible for coordinating the fight against Soviet and British parachute agents dropped anywhere in Germany or German—occupied territories. This new d...