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arrested :shortly,. Jo one NEY.•

steps aro being • takon f their apprehensioni:• ithreorTigNiO3RIaliaa gi*tedilf.

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NAZI WAR CRIMES'OISCLOSU,RE ACTOATE 7001 2006

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Leo:MARTIN:V. 15 • , • .•

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Koipmandoeilehror:.• atprnabonnfuOhrer Hai s s•DiT.UIPNER.:Obersturreuohror . Charlio HAGEDORN-. • •

• Haliptsaharfuohror Hits tiLLERICH • •vnterOtiaaid*hrer:.Hdie!21{Daa:. 1.: •• • •

.itooharfuobrer fiomarm VJ1INTf• .Unt.erseheitiuehiOifFi;itii'•FINiCLE*44:ss scadi:OineummkA . .1. ,•

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Tht;ro 7r01`0 also seven other Prenoh 'names OSITLiCH does net know.HO gave thai:r oovor names to uaptollas Masse, of the SOaixritoliiIitai.re ' • . •Proiburg. • • , • • .?

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In . additn OSTRICH Pierro LAGARPERE,'.J44monciCOLCid:B.414,•:ancl.;CroztavdL.ITT.- • There wore two women with tAaARDERE; 'One other ••••••tmi =NAND ( ? ). Imo. VLIEGEN end. her • s, e,.:ZEreLER encl.fher..:4•spa,

HARREL were to remain" in the• Viaidaruhe'Villa..at;• badonWeacir •g: :j• lii: • 61dclition ., " •acfoording to OSTRICH, there Was French: maid who annie withheBolfort..

••. .. Because the original Plans the :KOrmilando oo. not % tearribedioixt .

DURUM decided to form srlol groupi3 of :. aa.pablø . pooplo and havo thom join inthe guer.ili.o. wart"arei: • • . . . .• • . .

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A:boOrd.1:1:4 to the last odors .g1*,93:1:;',1*;ZESEITAV::Pierre LAILARDME was to bo •pass ell.ritei kiini!.GUINAM. •and. they :11.16/40.• *then to go on to Pro.o.o:.:;have boon' carried, . bUt ,bee-a.u.Sci of t4crshartaiSzi t ./df. ';tiiiio.' '

About the 15 April DUFFNERVI/b•which at that time wassabotago.matorial. OSTRICH

KomMendb ; HAGVSohlaachtnhapson

sont a truck to tho Allswoissquartior of Amtat Hof or Altai in Bavaria, for obtainingdoos not know if tho truck returnod or•not.

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b tag° material dump.nowpacuording td OSTRICH,here they have a food dutp and a s

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Joan BART: UnterSaharfuehror, 242; 272; slender; vary blaak hair; brawn eyes;•formerly LIN.. Fr.onoh.

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Joan (?) OLIVIERI: alias Tomas RICCI - Untersoharfuebre/4. 28;.1n65-66;'ory dark hair; prominent nose. TYpical Corsican. Nervous in hismovements.

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Tho group .f seven Freneh people whose namos OSTRICH doos not 'Inow-were tobe sent with OberstUrmfuohter'DOBROWICH to NEISSER in San Remo, but again •OSTRICH feola that tho Prcjedt wad not havo been carriod out bocauso of 'tholack of time.

The group made up of- =KM, MARTINs . GIEU, OLIVIERI'and MARINI was splitup by . OSTRICH.who caused troublo betwoon DUNKER and his mistress GIEU andomO-ng the other men With the result, according to OSTRICH, that the group willnot be.in.actipn anymore.

DESCRIPTIONS

1Hans DUFFNER: Sturmbannfuohrer. About 38, looks 45; 1m72; modium build;

blond; typo 'of poet and thinker.. Pharmioist. Was with tho SD in Parisand Vichy.

-Hermann VALENTIN: Untorscharfuohrar, About 33;.1m82; oxtromoly strongly

'built; very thin brewn hair. Speaks good. Frandh.

•Ftits PINXLER: Untersalrfuehrer. 28; 1m68; vary -thin, voxY hollow Cheeks;long thin prominent nose; brown hair; bad stomach. , Beim in Metz.

HENNINGHR: SS Soldnt. About 40, .looks 30; 1m66; swirol and thin; light brownhair. Speaks good Pronch. Formerly in Foreign Logien.

josoph SCHOLZ: Untoroffizior. 1m70;.slondor; brown hair; slightly offominatowalk. tears Luftwaffe uniform. Instructor in radio,

WEGENER: nickname DEDDI ...Stabsgefroitor.and Verwaltungsfurhror for 'CommandoHAGEN. 1m66; smal l ; very' thin; light 'brown hair; lisps.

DUNKER: alias wrcol DALERIS SS Soldit. Native town Hallo. 33; 1m70;brown hair, thin; speaks Fronch"and English. Has boon in tho Statod andEngland.. .

Louis 33; ' 1m84. ; slander; very long curly black hair; eagle noso.Spanish origin. spook; Fronch with Spanish aocent. Untorscharfuohrcr.

Leo MARTIN: Cover name; 25; 1m75; slender; black hair.

Mancha-G.1BU: alias Maria ROSSI - 24.; snail dolicato build; hair combed highin a pompadour. Mistress of DUNEER.

Edmond COLOMMANI: About 2i.0; 1m70; brown bushy hair; very deep voice;one leg paralyzed.. Is said to havo been a sous-prefot in the south ofFranco. Corsican.

Francine X: 26; 4-67; very dark; fairly heavy; potty -brunotte.•

Mimi GUINAND: 281 1m67; brunette. comes from Normandy.. Pregnant,

.16an.OSTRICS first 'saw BESEROW and. •SKORZENY, at the ena,of . Januwzy.there wasa disoussion'about the possibility of attempts against'tho lives of variousmilitary and political personalitios. OSTRIaim9s - told that an attempt againstDE GAULLE was net . dosirablo at that moMantiliut .that, .on the contrary, attemptsagainst the lives Of prominent corramlitil like THOREZ wore desirable.. •

OSTRICH also•stp.tod that later on whilo ho s -ati 4 Badonwoilor ho dol*.vorod.•'alooturo to several hizh 83 offiCars,poutthogeheral , situgtign: in Franco.. ..

At tho end of tho'lecturViauntstri..teahrbr_riMAT)6ndgQborldutnant 'Dr V: a ked:OSTRICH what ho thought General Do LattieDe'TaSky . , :Thay asked hiri if .ho thought it would bo of any use- to got into • dirodt'qcintaot wit/I:DoTassigny:

• Thoy also askOd OSTRICH if he thought • DeTassigAy wa.e. ':pr.AAAMorioan, if .ho wore •. not more friendly to the DA;:lish, or ,if.ho"woro'potsib1y-aadestiblo to thc idoa

• of : aEurOpo for tho Europoans and to i thp idea of:oollgleration.botwoon.Gemany• and Franco against the Cammunists.... OSTRICH:was .nWtola whether they -word ,

to try to gt in touch with Tsaigny or not,'Imit . in lator,disousoionswhich ho overhoard 1 . otwoen•ICUBAT and =MEN an3 other SS 'arid SD pooplo:OSIIGH..thoUght thoro' must oxist somo on tho part of thd Gerdons'of getting in o •

• touch with Do . TassiLmy and that porhaps standartenfuohroi. BIOMER had. to-Wally made• an attempt already.

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OSTRICH gave the following information • abolsKommando ADLEROich'ho says' is a Wohrmacht undortaking. . • • .

• -The Komma erndcfuehr is Oberloutnant MERCK alias .Captain KAISER whose

description . is as . f011ows: 38; about 1370; strong build; lighthroon hairr,asthmatio; wears Wohrmacht uniform and always :wears o. .ilk scarf:.

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• TheJiead.quariprs.of the Kommando was in a hostelry, Gaststaote Waldherny Y : • N.

at.ScliiaighOf near .badenweiler. The 'Commando is under the orders of,the-Tc'of.the.

iV1.11:SS AK HauptisturMrunhrer KUBAT and has about thirty . mumbors. The turp066.of KomMando. ADLER WaS Fmntaufklaerungaml . intelligondo work behind:thatAllied• linesbut JBAT bold OSTRICH that the Kommando had' never suocoedod in a000mplishing:%anyth.14,4:61.apito'tho fact that thoyhpa boon given spools]. ,as , •OSTRTCH igw . tho . Kemmando for tho laat time about th01.5th ,of 41-711..andlhaSnO:%further information about it,

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: Under Kommando ADLKEZ therowore two other Kombanios, ; One was th koMmando•KIEgETZAhoseheadquartors woro the restannhnt Znv%Krono at Sulz • •TheKemmandOtUshier;waVntereffi whose .doseriptien asTollows;•about . .36:-36 r 1m65;; :ta-cm hair slightly grorAng; woars assos; smokoS.a.pipo.

• • Swiss'frbm the. Cantan of Zurich... SPeaks 'German and,Fronch With a Swiss accoht.'• This:Kommando Was under Oborgrefroiter Johnny •ELUMM from Coloe#o who wes with TONINlast autumn in the Villa Sans Soueia.toGerardmor. „TIME Wai•transforrodabout 12 April contrary to MERCK'swishos to tho'Sondorkommando Bedeniiuilar.71,13M's description is as follows': about 38; 1m62; light brOWn hair; married:with two

; Childron (his wife and children weravith-hit); 'formerly a barman; has a highthin voice like a woman's, Tho liurposo of KOmmando KOBITZ :was tho same as that ofKoMmando ADLER and like it has aecomplishod nothing..

Also under Kommando ADIM was the Kothmando at Kandorn.. OtTRICH does-not know thename of.tho.Kommando and knows only one mombor • of.tho • group, Louis DECEDRE•alias

.Lovis CHEVALIER. .Tho Kommando'movod to Froiburg'about the 10th of April whorc.itoheadquartors Woro On the Kronostrassa. • Tho Kammandofuohrer wasliporoffizieri.,

.WITTMANNAlhoso deseription is a -follows; about 331-1m78; fairly strong build;• light brown hair; hose bont to one sido; • rod . faoo; always in civilian olothot. •... Spooks good French. .Whan OSTRICH saw WITTMANN about tho 15th of April WITTMANN told.him that the-10=mnd° was going to move to Waldkiroh. OSTRICH says.that.thea

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burooso qf Kommande'wts the Same as that of KOmmando DL- dER-anlikotit, d •

accomplished _nothing.

••OSTRICH also gave some information about.a.KOMtandO st:NIU:nstorhaldal—. ' •(UntOpunstora1). This Xemando was under the. dot'ordOrsofliang6sturmfuohrot:Kt1BAT. 'The KOmmandofuohrer wutOntorsturmtup else.doeoriptieft is;

• aboUt-35r1m75vslonder athlotie appearance; very blond.. hair; b].squashed nose; takes good, care of . ths . men. under him and is: .admirod s.by thod;'4oaksgood Fronch; en' Austrian.. Tho description of HauptsturrafuChrorICUBAT;is. aS

33; . 1m68; yoong and opon . faCo;'blond'hadr;:formorly'in tholWaimxcht.andwas . a battalion chiof thn the RusSian.front; in 1542. was assimple seldicr :andbodelmO,an'offidor boöouso od his cob:raga; has . sovaral high.dodorations; oomog fromthoEgor-rogian.of tho Steptonland.

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KUBAT asked Ostrich to Visit tho =acre of the Kommando boatedin tho mountains :at Untormunotortal and. during tho first part of April - •Ostrich wont there. Thu day ho arrivo&fivo of PERNER's hon,waro preparing.to leave via SWitzorland . fer Franoo zardarto carry out.ashortnisaionfor the purposh of gathering nilitary.information. Thiz.group was,undor theorders of an Apatian;call4 HAMA Ostrioh doos.not lentwr. whether this wasa cover Or a real name. • r . -Ams 33; lm70; hcavilybuilti , dark brawn hair.

. very largo mouth; bad tooth. BP had a nunber.of high'dooprationS. The groupwas to be back within a week but . had not rsturnod at tho an4:41,1Narthight.KUBAT Said that ho had-successfuLlyzont a rmh adross the Allied lines eachweek and that they had avon sent Pon back' across the Rhino. They had been' .

•successful. in obtaining military i • 7ormation but thoy, had:dono no sabotago.' The group under HAMA wero to be ho-pod through Switzerland by the Organisation.'•WALZ.

• Os 'ch also ave some ix4ornation o Organisation WIawhioh ishoadod b r)Qborsturhror WALZ vham Ostrio 07. in Mulhauson In 1942.WALL is running en organisation which helps pooplo to pass through Switzerlandinto Franco. Through his contacts in Switzerland WALZ is able to passgroups tof fiVo and six mon into France. With the help of a Swiss customsofficial at the Frenzachef . Bern to whom WALZ gives information on pooplo

• in Switzerland Who are wanted for arrost, thus onabling the Swiss customs.•official-to got in the good graces of his superiors, WALZ sends-his pen by

• car thrObgh Switiorland directly to Montbeliard and:Easanoon."When.thoy- • ".,arrive at the French frontier they pose as inspoctors of Fibnch food supplies.Obarloutnant .DERESEN, Kepraniofuehror of Kappanio Skerpion2hcingau Propaganda

• told Ostrich that with' the aid of WALZ 1s Organisation ho had boon,•able :to spend a weak 'in Franco 'at the end of March travelling as an inspector

, pf. fOod.supPlies. ostrich says that WALZ had his hoadquartori in the building.of tha,Landgericht in Lorrach. WALZ also had his own radio station and a .

•Gotamto Aussemstalo at Grenzadh in the Cafo EAert. 'Montion was frociuontly .made of an Untursturufuchree . EXERT but Ostrioh does not know ifthbre.Ls any'connection between EXERT and the Cafe EkoTt.

•The following people were cOnnectod with Organisation VAL&

X. W.ALZ: real name . MALZACBER ..42; 1m73; light brown curly hair; stooping walk; distinguishod. • .looking; always wears eiviliah . olothos;Apmes'fran tho region •

• between Basle and Constance:. Vas chief of the Ast at A4kirch• ..111sapc.

WCNER: •Oborloutnant. )0; lme; heavy sot; very short haircut .; typical .German official; comes from tho region of Lorradh. 0,

)(Kurt FISCIIER: HauptMaan)( •aboFt 35; 1=75; blond; slender; badly weundod in the shouldor andin othor parts of the body; plays poker. ' " •

Lore' MDEBLICH:'Secretary. 1m65; brown hair combed

Ostrieh also said about WiLZ that the two of thop had boon, close•.-friends but that after WALZ had hoard the atorY told by TONIN about Ostrich,WILZ was.oxtronely suspicious of him.

. AbtoilunciAef the ' XV211 SS AK whioh was undor tho-orddrs of. tho Io.of.tho

1ç XV111SS A&Rauptsturnfushrer : Kampanio Skorpior) was . composed.chicfly' ••of members of the ,' SS Frepags .* Standar-to Kurt ,EGGERSAThoro =rot botwoonsixty to seventy non in the K. e. The "headquarters of tho Koppanio WOB at

'r Untornunstortal and the Kompanio fuohrors OberlOUtnant . DERKSEN. • . The purposel,10 - Of Kämpanio was to spread propaganda aumetho French -troops.' Thavsent.over

:tracts Contained in specially nado grenades; 'they ,put Up .big sigroolong theRhino bank; they sent over propagandainOsr:fAllad.balloans.or.inMentgolfieri.balloons. In aadition they were supposed to ancourago tho Gorman troops at the

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Ostridi also reported on tho Kemponiicorpion Rhoingau Propaganda .

- Threo aussonstellen which were calleN trupps mado up Kompanio Skorpicn.ahe first Trupp was in Vassar between Freiburg and Opebburg. This was theballoon truer). The second trupp was at Schwoighof noar Badenwoilor and thethird. at Kandorn between Eadenwellor and Larrach. The last two trupps wereospeoially for slogans, tracts and signs.

Karl Baia& DERKFEN:Kciapaniofuehrer of Eompanio SkorDion. 01.-4cacutmani;,

33; 1m70; slender; Very thinbrown hair; brown moustaeho;,dous not noo well out of one eye aud sometimes wears aricncelc; oyes pop out Woarn uniform of a Gorman Panzerunit. Jo.onalist in civilian aro. Comes from Braman.. Speaksvery good English awl was in Engaand for a long timo.Soho01 frionR of: Charlie HAGEDORWs.

CER,TiNri:Fur./.1:eo:-: or Ka:pan:to. Trip Schweighof.Un.horzoharfuebre:r.Abc_nri; .50; 7.m32-1.ra.91:.; blond e.rly hat.-; blue eyes; very good.-loo3cing; cams from a poor family of ICassol; old. Nazi party.member ani was a Standar tontuchre:o in the A.Ugoheine SS.

I During 1942-4 was aciirisOO attached. to the Germanumbassy a Copenhagon and. Stoalchcm.

_OSTPICH was in Freiburg in Laroh and April he rtports that

ho frc.)quently sow somo young non and. women who ob.:Iously- belongod tororao organization.. OSTRICH states that ho not a youzig TiCann who belongedto this group. Her nano was Hild.egard HAUCK who was an embroiderer, snril and. brunette, She told. OSTRICH that the group had. about t-renty morabors unclortho orders of a Major 111L15. The headquarters of the group was at WilhelmGustloffs- catse Freiblz.g. They -.-ireze instructed ,in radio and. were to beatay-behind. W/T agents after the Allied. occuPation. OSTRICH knows nothingfurther about the organization..