Happy Birthday Josef Jakobs! On this date, 116 years ago, Josef Jakobs was born in Luxemburg City. His parents both had long German pedigrees and Josef too was a German citizen. Luxemburg City was only a few dozen kilometres from the border with Germany and easily accessible from the ancient German city of Trier. In […]
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When Josef Jakobs was executed on 15 August, 1941, his fellow spy, Karel Richter was told that Jakobs had died “a brave man”. As his impending appointment with the hangman’s noose approached, Richter wrote a letter to his interrogator’s stating that: “You will see, and you can rely upon it that I shall not be
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Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying
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Josef Jakobs was buried in the Common Plot at St. Mary’s Cemetery (Kensal Green, London). What this basically means, is that the public purse paid for his burial, along with many others. No gravestone marked his final resting place and in the mid-1970s, a thick layer of soil buried the resting places of all in
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In searching the internet for information on Josef, I have come across an interesting assortment of misinformation. Depending on where you look on the internet, for example, Josef was executed on: a) August 13, 1941b) August 14, 1941c) August 15, 1941d) none of these dates The correct answer is August 15, 1941. The death warrant
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I am the granddaughter of Josef Jakobs. I have been conducting research on Josef since 1988. My research has progressed from uncovering a few lines on Josef in obscure espionage books, to reading the entire set of files on Josef at the National Archives in London. My goal is to share information on Josef, to
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