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    The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle: Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Allied Intelligence Network that Decoded Germany’s Enigma
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    The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle: Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Allied Intelligence Network that Decoded Germany’s Enigma
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    The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle: Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Allied Intelligence Network that Decoded Germany’s Enigma

    By Paul Paillole

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    Ten years after the publication of his Services Spéciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the critical role that the French Secret Service played in the infiltration of German agencies. In this first English edition of The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle, Paillole brings us to the very heart of the world of espionage and counterintelligence, providing unique insight into the key figures that led to the decoding of the Enigma machine at Bletchley and the ultimate collapse of Hitler’s Third Reich, most notably through Hans-Thilo Schmidt, France’s German spy embedded in the very heart of the Third Reich. In compelling narrative style Paillole details how Schmidt delivered intelligence to France right from the source of the German Cipher Office. Schmidt, who’s brother Rudolf occupied one of the highest postings in the Third Reich, commander of 2nd Panzer Army in Russia, created an intelligence network between France, Poland and England, and successfully transmitted crucial details about Hitler’s strategic plans. From information about Germany’s rearmament and the reoccupation of the Rhineland, to fundamental technical intelligence about the Enigma machine, Schmidt’s contributions are key to the Allied victory in the intelligence war, despite the fact that France largely ignored his communications. Revealed here are the most secret aspects of the ‘secret war,’ the ‘war of numbers.’ By way of Hans-Thilo Schmidt Paillole sheds further light on the interaction of secret agents working inside the German government, bringing attention to the cooperation between the French, English and Polish agencies surrounding the challenges of decoding the Enigma machine. We learn the innermost details of the roles that men such as Gustave Bertrand, Rudolphe Lemoine, and Richard Sorge played in this dramatic history and ultimately the pivotal role that Bletchley’s Alan Turing was able to perform as a result. Paillole brings renewed focus onto one of the most important espionage affairs of the war and sheds new light on already existent Anglo-Saxon and Polish historiography, revealing new aspects of the participation of Enigma during the decisive phases of the Second World War: the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of Libya and the Battle of Normandy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasemate
    Release dateMar 19, 2016
    ISBN9781612003726
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    The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle: Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Allied Intelligence Network that Decoded Germany’s Enigma
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    Paul Paillole

    Paul Paillole joined the French army in 1925 and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1929. In 1935, Paillole was transferred to the Secret Services. Although initially reluctant to be desk-bound he rapidly excelled at the job. At the outbreak of the war Paillole was a prominent member of the active counter-espionage branch, the 5th Bureau. After the defeat of France in 1940 he took control of a clandestine counter-espionage network which operated from Marseille under the codename ‘Travaux Ruraux’, whose role was to arrest German collaborators, though the reality may have been murkier. Operating at the heart of the Vichy regime, he was a key figure in dealings between the Vichy government, the Germans, the Allies, and the French factions vying for post-war power. He wrote two books, one about his own experiences, and one about the Hans-Thilo Schmidt affair which he witnessed at first hand. He died in 2002.

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