The B-Dienst (‹See Tfd›German: Beobachtungsdienst, observation service), also called xB-Dienst, X-B-Dienst and χB-Dienst, was a Department of the German...
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German code breaking in World War II (section B-Dienst)
III. Abteilung, radio intelligence. The B-Dienst (Beobachtungsdienst, "surveillance service",) and the xB-Dienst ("decryption service") were able to break...
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Convoy PQ 18 (section B-Dienst)
decrypts and eavesdropping on Luftwaffe wireless communications. The German B-Dienst code-breakers read some British signals and Luftwaffe used the lull in...
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At 11:15 am the British Admiralty sent out a signal "Total Germany". B-Dienst intercepted the message and it was promptly reported to Dönitz. Dönitz...
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Convoy ON 154 (section B-Dienst)
January 1943 traffic was read quickly. The German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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intelligence gathering service of Nazi Germany. Observation Service (B-Dienst, χB-Dienst, MND III) (German: Beobachtungsdienst): Naval intelligence service...
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Convoy PQ 1 (section B-Dienst)
transmissions were embarked on warships. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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Convoy PQ 9/10 (section B-Dienst)
transmissions were embarked on warships.. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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Operation Orator (section B-Dienst)
before they were detected by radar. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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Convoy PQ 2 (section B-Dienst)
transmissions were embarked on warships. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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Convoy PQ 11 (section B-Dienst)
transmissions, were embarked on warships. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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Convoy PQ 16 (section B-Dienst)
before they were detected by radar. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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December, Meisel started searching for the convoy HX 94, which according to B-Dienst intelligence was nearby. Admiral Hipper encountered a few independent sailing...
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Convoy QP 1 (section B-Dienst)
transmissions were embarked on warships. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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operation, while the navy maintained its listening service, known as the B-Dienst. Further complicating COMINT matters, the Foreign Office also had its own...
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Convoy HG 73 (section B-Dienst)
August to 80,000 long tons (81,000 t). The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine and the Marinenachrichtendienst...
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Convoy PQ 8 (section B-Dienst)
transmissions were embarked on warships. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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Navy High Command (B-Dienst) was documented in B-Dienst Yearly Progress reports prepared by the navy and by interrogation of B-Dienst Chief Cryptologist...
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war. After the war, saw the establishment of the observation service (B-Dienst) in 1918–1919. In spring 1925, the Naval Intelligence Division was disbanded...
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Hermann Göring (category EngvarB from September 2023)
Richard (2012) [1984]. Goering: Hitler's Iron Knight. London and New York: I.B. Taurus. ISBN 978-1-84885-932-6. Overy, Richard J. (2001). Interrogations:...
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Force (Luftwaffe) Chi Stelle Navy (Kriegsmarine) Beobachtungsdienst or B-Dienst Foreign Office Pers ZS Nazi Party Forschungsamt or FA Drs Huttenhain and...
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and to keep radio silence. To help find Soviet convoys, staff from the B-Dienst (Beobachtungsdienst Observation Service), the Kriegsmarine wireless interception...
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and so he began to search for targets with this in mind. On 8 February, B-Dienst alerted the German warships of convoy HX 106 which sailed from Halifax...
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Kneschke Luftnachrichten Abteilung 350 Wolfgang Martini Ferdinand Voegele B-Dienst Kurt Fricke Ludwig Stummel Heinz Bonatz Wilhelm Tranow Erhard Maertens...
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Operation FB (section B-Dienst)
before they were detected by radar. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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(navy) was B-Dienst of (‹See Tfd›German: Seekriegsleitung) III of the Oberkommando der Marine (OKM/4 SKL III) or colloquially as B-Dienst, appeared to...
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Convoy QP 14 (section B-Dienst)
before they were detected by radar. The rival German Beobachtungsdienst (B-Dienst, Observation Service) of the Kriegsmarine Marinenachrichtendienst (MND...
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a Fish cipher codenamed Sturgeon by the British Short Weather Cipher B-Dienst Reservehandverfahren OKW/CHI Gisbert Hasenjaeger Hagelin machine Enigma...
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Banburismus Hut 4 Hut 6 Cryptanalysis of the Enigma Huts at Bletchley Park B-Dienst OP-20-G Noskwith 2011 Asa Briggs (2011), Secret Days: Code-breaking in...
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section which would work in closest cooperation with the Kriegsmarine and B-Dienst. During this period the Wireless telegraphy section was working to annihilate...
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