Month: November 2015

Pathologist Spilsbury’s Notes at the Wellcome Library

After Josef Jakobs was executed on 15 August, 1941, his post mortem was conducted by two men: London Eastern District Coroner W.R.H. Heddy and renowned pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury. Both men likely took meticulous notes but trying to track those notes down has proved to be a wild goose chase. In 2008 and 2009, a […]

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Exporter of Stockings & Spies – Captain Julius Jacob Boeckel

What does it take to become a spymaster? What are the qualifications? For the German Intelligence Service (Abwehr) in 1940, the answer would have been, “Not much”. We’ve already heard a bit about Major Nikolaus Adolf Fritz Ritter. He was hired by the German Abwehr in 1937 to run spy rings in the United States

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The German Spymaster and the Alabama Schoolteacher

Researching the life Josef Jakobs has led me down some very interesting side paths. I have come across many interesting characters whose lives intersected with that of Josef. Some were friends. Many were foes. Some were both. When Josef was recruited into the Abwehr (the German Intelligence Service) in 1940, he brushed shoulders with spymaster

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Magazine Article Review – After the Battle Magazine – Volume 100

The Magazine Article From the Editor, After the Battle, volume 100, Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 1998, page 23. Summary A very brief paragraph noted that the chair in which Josef Jakobs had been executed had been placed on display at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. Included a photograph of the chair in a

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Magazine Article Review – After the Battle Magazine – Volume 80

The Magazine Article From the Editor, After the Battle, volume 80, Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 1993, page 2. Summary A brief mention of my trip to London in 1991. Winston Ramsey, editor of After the Battle Magazine, kindly took me on tours of Latchmere House, the Duke of York’s Headquarters, the Tower of

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