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Hans Bernd Gisevius (14 July 1904 – 23 February 1974) was a German diplomat and intelligence officer during the Second World War. A covert opponent of the Nazi regime, he served as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles , station chief for the American OSS , and the German Resistance forces in Germany .
Gustav-Adolf Timotheus Hans Bernd Gisevius war ein deutscher Politiker, Gestapobeamter und Widerstandskämpfer. Gisevius stellte sich als ehemaliger Deutschnationaler zunächst dem Nationalsozialismus zur Verfügung, bevor er sich dem Widerstand zuwandte. Bis zu seinem erzwungenen Ausscheiden im Januar 1934 und anschließenden Wechsel in die ...
Gisevius was ostensibly a German Vice Consul in Zurich. In reality, he belonged to a small circle of men in the German counter- intelligence service, the Abwehr, who, under Admiral Wilhelm Canaria and General Hans Oster, were working against the Nazis.
Feb 19, 2019 · Hans Bernd Gisevius, a counterintelligence agent operating under cover as a vice consul in Zurich, reported, for example, that the Germans were preparing two types of missiles—later called V-1 and V-2—that enabled the Allies to understand seemingly contradictory intelligence reports.
Nov 16, 2010 · In the autumn of 1945, Hans Bernd Gisevius arrived in Nuremberg to testify against his former boss, the notorious Hermann Goering.
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Mar 1, 2023 · Hans Bernd Gisevius, who worked for the Gestapo in 1933 and later as an Abwehr intelligence operative who conspired against Hitler during World War II, testified to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in April 1946 that the Reichstag fire had been orchestrated by the Nazis.
Mar 27, 1974 · GENEVA, March 26—Hans Bernd Gisevius, an anti‐Nazi German police official who was a leading prosecution witness at the Nuremberg war crime trials, died of a heart attack on Feb. 23 in West...
