Year: 2016

The Dangers of Drifting

Apologies to anyone who has been trying to find my Josef Jakobs website (www.josefjakobs.com)! I have drifted away from blogging about Josef for the last 6 months and wasn’t updating the website at all. With the domain up for renewal in January, I had a look at it and was shocked to discover that the […]

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Spooky Trees

Clara Bauerle – How Speculation can quickly turn to Fact

So, we’re back to Clara Bauerle again. The irrepressible German cabaret singer whose name will be forevermore linked with that of Josef Jakobs it seems. Those of you who follow this blog know that I’ve been trying to track down more information on Clara. I’ve done a fair bit and the most solid lead points

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The Lost Files of Abwehr Ast X

Digging up information on the activities of World War II secret services is challenging because… well… a lot of the documents were/are secret! The British MI5 files have been slowly released to the public domain over the last 15 years, which has been extremely helpful in researching the German spies, including Josef Jakobs. But what

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Abwehr Locales in Hamburg

Hamburg has proved to be a stubborn nut to crack. Very stubborn. During the last few years of writing this blog, I’ve been tackling various locales, people and objects, trying to deepen my own understanding of the role they played in the story of German spy, Josef Jakobs. Most of my blogs have focused on

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Tales of the Spies – Double Agents

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in researching the story of Josef Jakobs, it’s that sometimes you have to go sideways in order to go forwards. I’ve hit a lot of brick walls in my years of research, and oftentimes have experienced a breakthrough by focusing my research elsewhere. One of the obvious sideways alternatives

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The Ruins of RAF Upwood

I came across a few interesting sites that document the abandoned RAF Upwood base near Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. German spy, Josef Jakobs, landed near Ramsey on January 31, 1941 and MI5 speculated at the time that he might have been sent to snoop around the airbase. While Josef had a Shell Touring Map of England in

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