Читать книгу Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944 - Paddy Ashdown, Paddy Ashdown - Страница 10
Main Dramatis Personae
ОглавлениеAnulow, Leonid Abramovitsch – Alias ‘Kolja’ – Soviet ‘Rezident’ in Switzerland before Radó
Attolico, Bernardo – Italian ambassador in Berlin
Bartik, Major Josef – Head of Czech intelligence 1938
Beck, General Ludwig – Chief of staff of the German army until dismissed by Hitler in 1938. The army leader of the anti-Hitler plot
Bell, George – Anglican theologian and bishop of Chichester
Beneš, Edvard – Czech president 1935–38
Beurton, Leon Charles – Known as Len. Friend of Alexander Foote. Radio operator Dora Ring
Bihet-Richou, Madeleine – Lover of Erwin Lahousen. French secret services
Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von – Commander-in-chief of the German army until dismissed by Hitler in 1938
Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von – Von Tresckow’s uncle. Commander of Army Group Centre
Bolli, Margrit – Alias ‘Rosy’. Rote Drei radio operator
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich – Theologian, German pastor and key plotter
Bonhoeffer, Dr Karl – Father of Dietrich. Took part in the September 1938 plot
Bosch, Robert – German industrialist. Founder of the Bosch industrial empire. Supporter of Goerdeler
Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von – Commander-in-chief of the German army up to the defeat at Moscow in 1941
Cadogan, Sir Alexander – Head of the British Foreign Office
Canaris, Erika – Wife of Wilhelm
Canaris, Wilhelm – Head of the German Abwehr until his dismissal in 1944
Chojnacki, Captain Sczcęsny – Polish intelligence spy-master based in Switzerland
Ciano, Galeazzo – Italian foreign minister
Colvin, Ian – Central European correspondent of the London News Chronicle. Arranged von Kleist-Schmenzin’s visit to Britain in 1938
Daladier, Édouard – French prime minister
Dansey, Sir Claude – Deputy head of MI6 and founder of the ‘Z Organisation’. Known as ‘Colonel Z’
Dohnányi, Hans von – Lawyer in the Abwehr and a key conspirator
Donovan, Major General William ‘Wild Bill’ – Head of the US intelligence agency (OSS)
Duebendorfer, Rachel – Alias ‘Sissy’. ‘Dora Ring’ agent
Dulles, Allen – OSS representative in Bern
Eden, Anthony – British foreign secretary
Farrell, Victor – MI6 head in Geneva
Fellgiebel, General Fritz Erich (known as Erich) – Chief of the German army’s Signal Establishment and a key plotter
Foote, Alexander – Alias ‘Jim’. Radio operator, ‘Dora Ring’
Franck, Aloïs – Paul Thümmel’s Czech spy-handler
François-Poncet, André – French ambassador in Berlin at the time of Munich
Fritsch, Colonel General Werner von – Commander-in-chief of the German army until his dismissal on trumped-up charges of homosexuality in January 1938
Gabčik, Josef – Operation Anthropoid Czech agent
Gersdorff, Rudolf-Christoph von – Henning von Tresckow’s staff officer; volunteered to assassinate Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943
Gibson, Colonel Harold ‘Gibby’ – Head of the MI6 station in Prague
Gisevius, Hans Bernd – The ‘eternal plotter’ in the Abwehr. Key early conspirator and Canaris’s conduit to Halina Szymańska
Goerdeler, Anneliese – Carl Goerdeler’s wife
Goerdeler, Carl – Key early plotter. Ex-mayor of Leipzig
Groscurth, Lieutenant Colonel Helmuth – Canaris’s liaison officer with the army at Zossen
Guisan, General André – Head of the Swiss army
Haeften, Lieutenant Werner von – Von Stauffenberg’s adjutant
Halder, Colonel General Franz – German chief of staff under von Brauchitsch
Halifax, Lord Edward – British foreign secretary under Chamberlain and a key appeaser
Hamburger, Ursula – Née Kuczynski. Code name ‘Sonja’. Soviet spy who arrived in Switzerland in 1936
Hamel, Olga and Edmond – ‘Dora Ring’ radio operators
Hassell, Ulrich von – German ambassador in Italy before the war. Liaison between Beck and Goerdeler
Hausamann, Captain Hans – Founder of the Büro Ha, a private intelligence bureau in Switzerland
Heinz, Lieutenant-Colonel Friedrich – Leader of the commando who were to kill Hitler in 1938
Henderson, Sir Nevile – British ambassador in Berlin before 1939
Hoare, Sir Samuel, MP – One of Chamberlain’s leading appeasement supporters
Hohenlohe von Langenberg, Prince Maximilian Egon – Freelance spy. Friend of Dulles, Canaris and Himmler
Jelinek, Charles and Antoinette – Owners of ‘De Favoriet’ bric-à-brac shop in The Hague
Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm – Chief of the German armed forces high command
Kleist-Schmenzin, Ewald von – German emissary of the opposition to Hitler; saw Churchill in London in August 1938
Kluge, Field Marshal Günther von – Commander of Army Group Centre. Reluctant plotter
Kordt, Erich – Head of Ribbentrop’s office in Berlin
Kordt, Theo – Brother of Erich. Official at the German embassy in London
Kubiš, Jan – Operation Anthropoid Czech agent
Lahousen, Major General Erwin von – Head of the Austrian Abwehr and then senior officer in the German Abwehr. Close to Canaris and a key plotter. Lover of Madeleine Bihet-Richou
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von – Commander of Army Group South and mastermind of the Kursk offensive
March, Juan – Mallorcan businessman and prime mover in Spain – contact of Canaris and MI6
Masson, Roger – Head of Swiss intelligence
Mayr von Baldegg, Captain Bernhard – Staff member of Swiss army intelligence; Waibel’s deputy head
Menzies, Sir Stewart – Head of MI6
Mertz von Quirnheim, Colonel Albrecht – Friend of Stauffenberg; involved in the 20 July 1944 plot
Moltke, Count Helmuth von – Founder of the ‘Kreisau Circle’
Morávec, Colonel František – Head of the Czech intelligence service
Morávek, Václav – Resistance leader in Prague
Mueller, Josef – Canaris’s spy in the Vatican
Navarre, Henri – Madeleine Bihet-Richou’s French intelligence ‘handler’
Niemöller, Martin – Anti-Hitler Lutheran pastor
Olbricht, General Friedrich – Key plotter. Involved in the 20 July coup
Oster, Colonel Hans – ‘Managing director’ of the attempted 1938 coup. Head of Z Section in the Tirpitzufer
Pannwitz, Heinz – SD officer in charge of finding the ‘Dora Ring’
Payne Best, Captain Sigismund – MI6 officer captured at Venlo
Puenter, Dr Otto – ‘Dora’ agent – also in touch with MI6
Radó, Sándor – Head of the ‘Dora’ spy network
Ribbentrop, Joachim von – German ambassador to London and later Hitler’s foreign minister
Rivet, Colonel Louis – Head of French military intelligence (SR)
Roessler, Rudolf – Codename ‘Lucy’. Private purveyor of intelligence in Switzerland
Sas, Gijsbertus Jacobus – Dutch military attaché in Berlin; contact of Oster and Waibel
Schacht, Hjalmar – German minister of economics and president of the Reichsbank
Schellenberg, Walter – Heydrich’s protégé and mastermind of Venlo
Schlabrendorff, Fabian von – German lawyer. Liaison between Tresckow in Russia and Beck in Berlin
Schneider, Christian – Alias ‘Taylor’. Swiss businessman. Cut-out supplying information from Roessler to the Dora Ring
Schulenburg, Friedrich-Werner von der – Pre-war ambassador to Moscow and senior resistant
Schulte, Edouard – German businessman and one of Chojnacki’s agents
Sedláček, Karel – Alias ‘Charles Simpson’. Czech intelligence officer in Bern
Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus Schenk, Graf von – Architect and perpetrator of the 20 July 1944 bomb plot
Stevens, Major Richard – MI6 officer captured at Venlo
Suñer, Serrano – Spanish foreign minister
Szymańska, Halina – Wife of the Polish military attaché in Berlin before the war. Channel for Canaris to pass information to Menzies
Thümmel, Paul – Many aliases. MI6 agent A54. Important spy in the early part of the war
Timoshenko, Marshal Semyon – Commander of Soviet forces at Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk
Tresckow, Henning von – Chief of staff of Army Group Centre; a key plotter
Trott zu Solz, Adam von – German lawyer, diplomat and active resister
Vanden Heuvel, Count Frederick – Head of MI6 in Bern after 1941
Vansittart, Sir Robert – Head of the pre-war British Foreign Office
Waibel, Captain Max – Swiss intelligence officer
Weizsäcker, Ernst von – Head of the German Foreign Office and key plotter
Wilson, Sir Horace – Personal adviser to Chamberlain. Appeasement supporter
Witzleben, General Erwin von – Commander of the Berlin garrison and de facto leader of the September 1938 coup
Young, A.P. – One of Vansittart’s ‘spies’ in contact with Goerdeler
Zaharoff, Basil – Director of Vickers and notorious arms dealer