Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2008
- Messages
- 8,995
The "Venlo Incident"...
On November 9, 1939 - the Second World War has only been raging for a few weeks - kidnapped in a cafe at Venlo ...
... in the neutral Netherlands, right on the German border, an SS gripping command under Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks ...
... two important employees of the British secret service MI6:
Major Richard Henry Stevens ...
... and Captain Sigismund Payne Best...:
The two British are until then the leaders of the British network of agents in Western Europe, which is directed against Nazi Germany and its allies.
Stevens and Best were caught in a cleverly set trap by SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg ...
... who had come into contact with the two of them in the camouflage of a Dutch resistance fighter against Germany and had ordered them to an allegedly secret meeting in the café on the border.
During the kidnapping, Naujock's people shot the Dutch lieutenant Dirk Klop, who resisted them and tried to prevent the kidnapping ...:
The two British are locked up in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of the war.
The Nazis publicly justify the action in Venlo by untruthfully denouncing the two kidnapped British people as alleged employers of Georg Elser ...:
The day before, Elser had tried to kill Hitler during a speech with a self-made bomb, which he had previously built into a column in the Munich "Bürgerbäukeller" during a long night's work ...:
Das Attentat mißlang, weil der "Führer" früher als geplant das Gebäude verlies. 13 Minuten später ging die Bombe hoch - die Hitler mit Sicherheit getötet hätte!
The Nazis did not hide the attack from their own population - too many people had seen it! But in order not to have to admit that there was resistance against Nazi rule within Germany, foreign assassins and clients were urgently needed in order to be able to show them.
And so the campaign against the two MI6 officers, which had already begun, came at just the right time for the NS leadership!
Today it is absolutely undisputed that the courageous Georg Elser, who was murdered on November 9th in the Dachau concentration camp, acted as a single perpetrator!
The "Backus" café, where the "Venlo incident" took place ...
... still exists today ...:
Only the name of the street has changed and to this day it reminds of the incident of November 9, 1939 ...:
The fact that the British network of agents directed against Germany was led from the Netherlands later gave Hitler the formal reason to regard Dutch neutrality as obsolete and to allow the Wehrmacht to move into the country on May 10, 1940.
Alfred Naujocks, SD chief Reinhard Heydrich's man "for the rough" - here both together in one photo ...
... you can really only call it a professional terrorist!
Before the "Venlo Incident" he had carried out another special assignment that had provided the Nazis with the formal occasion for the attack on Poland.
Dressed in Polish military uniforms, Naujocks and his cronies attacked the German radio station Gleiwitz and read a confused manifesto in Polish via the station - to simulate a Polish terrorist operation on German soil.
In order to make the matter even more "believable", they shot the Polish citizen Franz Honiok - who had previously been "procured" from a concentration camp and also put into a Polish uniform...
... and left him lying in front of the radio station.
Reason for Hitler's notorious “We have been firing back since 5:45 am!” - speech in front of the Reichstag, with which he announced the beginning of the war.
On November 9, 1939 - the Second World War has only been raging for a few weeks - kidnapped in a cafe at Venlo ...
... in the neutral Netherlands, right on the German border, an SS gripping command under Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks ...
... two important employees of the British secret service MI6:
Major Richard Henry Stevens ...
... and Captain Sigismund Payne Best...:
The two British are until then the leaders of the British network of agents in Western Europe, which is directed against Nazi Germany and its allies.
Stevens and Best were caught in a cleverly set trap by SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg ...
... who had come into contact with the two of them in the camouflage of a Dutch resistance fighter against Germany and had ordered them to an allegedly secret meeting in the café on the border.
During the kidnapping, Naujock's people shot the Dutch lieutenant Dirk Klop, who resisted them and tried to prevent the kidnapping ...:
The two British are locked up in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of the war.
The Nazis publicly justify the action in Venlo by untruthfully denouncing the two kidnapped British people as alleged employers of Georg Elser ...:
The day before, Elser had tried to kill Hitler during a speech with a self-made bomb, which he had previously built into a column in the Munich "Bürgerbäukeller" during a long night's work ...:
Das Attentat mißlang, weil der "Führer" früher als geplant das Gebäude verlies. 13 Minuten später ging die Bombe hoch - die Hitler mit Sicherheit getötet hätte!
The Nazis did not hide the attack from their own population - too many people had seen it! But in order not to have to admit that there was resistance against Nazi rule within Germany, foreign assassins and clients were urgently needed in order to be able to show them.
And so the campaign against the two MI6 officers, which had already begun, came at just the right time for the NS leadership!
Today it is absolutely undisputed that the courageous Georg Elser, who was murdered on November 9th in the Dachau concentration camp, acted as a single perpetrator!
The "Backus" café, where the "Venlo incident" took place ...
... still exists today ...:
Only the name of the street has changed and to this day it reminds of the incident of November 9, 1939 ...:
The fact that the British network of agents directed against Germany was led from the Netherlands later gave Hitler the formal reason to regard Dutch neutrality as obsolete and to allow the Wehrmacht to move into the country on May 10, 1940.
Alfred Naujocks, SD chief Reinhard Heydrich's man "for the rough" - here both together in one photo ...
... you can really only call it a professional terrorist!
Before the "Venlo Incident" he had carried out another special assignment that had provided the Nazis with the formal occasion for the attack on Poland.
Dressed in Polish military uniforms, Naujocks and his cronies attacked the German radio station Gleiwitz and read a confused manifesto in Polish via the station - to simulate a Polish terrorist operation on German soil.
In order to make the matter even more "believable", they shot the Polish citizen Franz Honiok - who had previously been "procured" from a concentration camp and also put into a Polish uniform...
... and left him lying in front of the radio station.
Reason for Hitler's notorious “We have been firing back since 5:45 am!” - speech in front of the Reichstag, with which he announced the beginning of the war.
