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4 March 2008 releases: German intelligence officers
This release of records includes files relating to two leading Nazi intelligence officers. Helmuth Knochen was the Gestapo chief in Paris and head of the Sicherheitsdienst, aide to the notorious "butcher of Paris" Klaus Olberg. The reconstituted file (KV 2/2745, 1944-1963) covers allied efforts to find Knochen at the end of the war and the intelligence gained from his interrogation after capture. Knochen was tried by the French and sentenced to death in 1954, reprieved in 1958, and was released in 1963. The file of Marcel Zschunke (KV 2/2747, 1944-1945), a senior Sicherheitsdeinst official in Brussels, gives a very full account of the work and methods of Himmler's organisation in Belgium.
Henrik Miersemann
File ref KV 2/2744
This reconstituted file (1944-1954) relates to a naturalised German man of Dutch parents, who worked in radio interception and decoding during the war, and decoded and translated many messages sent to SOE and Secret Intelligence Service agents in the Low Countries. Miersmann was arrested by the allies in Brussels in September 1944, having deserted his army post. The intelligence he gave in interrogations showed the degree to which Allied networks had been penetrated by the Germans and were being played back against the Allies. The CSDIC interrogation reports at serial 3a and following give a full account of his wartime work.
