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    unfitted for that kind of warfare. Hermann Giskes, Abwehr, Netherlands Englandspiel ('England Game'), or Operation North Pole (German: Unternehmen Nordpol)...
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  • many agents and much sabotage material, in what the Germans called the 'Englandspiel'. SOE ignored the absence of security checks in radio transmissions,...
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  • counter-intelligence Abwehr. The Germans referred to their operation as "a game"—Das Englandspiel. Marks's warnings fell on deaf ears and perhaps as many as 50 further...
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    Mauthausen concentration camp, memorial plaques behind the Prison Block marking the spot where the ashes of the executed Englandspiel SOE agents are buried...
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    liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II Dutch resistance Englandspiel List of Dutch military equipment of World War II Military history of...
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    the Netherlands from 1941 to 1944. He carried out an operation called Englandspiel or Operation North Pole which resulted in the capture of more than 50...
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  • resistance organisation Special Operations Executive in the Netherlands, or Englandspiel Society of Operations Engineers, a British professional organization...
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  • August 1904. With German Intelligence Officer Hermann Giskes he ran the Englandspiel operation in which over 50 Dutch Agents were captured due to SOE refusal...
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    she was captured by the Germans on her arrival. She was a victim of Englandspiel, the successful counter-intelligence operation of the Germans. She spent...
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    Joseph Schreieder of the Gestapo cooperated in an operation known as Englandspiel, through which the Nazis gained "complete control" over all Dutch SOE...
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    first to resist Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten Dutch underground press Englandspiel Netherlands in World War II Resistance during World War II Verzetsmuseum...
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  • incriminating information such as names and addresses.[citation needed] The Englandspiel is perhaps the most notorious case of a duress code being ignored, where...
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  • September 1944, seven British Commandos (along with 40 Dutch members of Englandspiel) were executed over two days at KZ Mauthausen. On 21 November 1944 U...
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    the Low Countries, Belgium and Northern France and controller of the Englandspiel (1942–1944) counter-intelligence operation. Lucien Pieri, a shopkeeper...
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    1943 in destroying SOE networks in the Low Countries by playing the Englandspiel ("England game"), by which radio operators were captured and forced to...
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    which was being double played by the SD and Abwehr in the so-called Englandspiel. Given his aggregation of several functions, some people felt Van 't...
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    Met voorwoord van Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (1976), ISBN 9061001412 Englandspiel ontmaskerd. Schijnstoot op Nederland en België 1942–1944 (1990), ISBN 9061003458...
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  • (£2k) Alexander Monro for The Paper Trail, Penguin (£10k) Roger Beam for Englandspiel, Haynes (£5k) Jonathan Beckman for Cardinal Sins: Marie Antoinette and...
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    particular, the exhibition focuses on BBO agent Jos Gemmeke. Following the Englandspiel, whereby the Germans successfully infiltrated the Dutch resistance (costing...
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  • SOE that their network in Holland had been under the control of Das Englandspiel, a German counter-espionage operation, for more than two years. As a...
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