I came across a news article about RAF Upwood, the former wartime airbase near Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire). Josef Jakobs landed southeast of Ramsey near both RAF Upwood and RAF Warboys. Let’s see how the article did in terms of historical accuracy. I have added italicized comments in square brackets where needed. The derelict RAF […]
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Just over 30 years ago, I discovered volume 11 of After the Battle Magazine. It included a full page spread on German spy, Josef Jakobs, my grandfather. That article was really the key that unlocked my journey to discover the story of Josef. I contacted Winston Ramsey, the editor of the magazine, who kindly gave
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The Magazine Article From the Editor, After the Battle, volume 150, Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 2010, page 53. Summary A full page spread (mostly photos) summarizing my visit to Ramsey, Huntingdonshire with Winston Ramsey. Includes photograph of me standing in the potato filed where Josef Jakobs landed, and in front of the Ramsey
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Over the course of the last year, I’ve written a few blog posts in which an Abwehr officer named Walter Schulze-Bernett played a role. Dutchman Harm Knol Bruins – German Spy and Civil Engineer– 18 Dec 2018 Irish Naturalization – Wolpe, Roos and Smith – Black Market Passport Business – 11 Oct 2019 From June
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The Article Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC: the Camp 020 affair. Christopher J. Murphy. Intelligence and National Security, Volume 34, Issue 5, p. 688-702, 2019. Summary A few months ago, I received a complimentary copy of this article from the author. He had earlier requested a copy of the Camp 020 Spy! television episode
Another interruption to the blog series on the black market German passport business. I’m needing some serious research time to look into the Finn Algot Niska. Quite a character but much of the information is in Finnish and requires some tedious translation work with Google Translate. Stay tuned for the continuing series in a week
Article Review – Kriminalia Online Magazine I don’t often find anything published on Josef Jakobs in Germany, but… that has changed. Back in October, Michael Kirchschlager of Kriminalia, an online magazine on criminal and legal history, published a brief article stub entitled The Executioner at War: Soldiers, Spies, and Traitors – Der Henker im Krieg:
Article Review – The Guardian Another great article came out on August 28, 2016 via The Guardian. This one was written by Ian Cobain, author of Cruel Britannia. The Guardian Article is entitled Secrecy and firing squads: Britain’s ruthless war on Nazi spies. The article begins with the story of the first four spies who
Article Review – Daily Telegraph AU I’m a bit behind the times and catching up on six months of references to Josef around the web. Back in August, the Daily Telegraph in Australia published an article on Josef. The article was actually quite well written and has no glaring inaccuracies, which is a nice surprise.
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Article Review – National Archives Blog Another pleasant surprise – a National Archives blog on the case of German spy, Josef Jakobs. The blog post was written by Dr. Richard Dunley at the National Archives and is well researched. Given that the National Archives has the voluminous declassified MI5 files on Josef as well as
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