Halina Szymańska (agent)

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Halina Szymańska ( December 6, 1906 - October 28, 1989 ) was a Polish resistance fighter. During the Second World War , as an agent of the British secret service MI6 , she ensured the connection between the military resistance in the Foreign Office / Defense in the High Command of the Wehrmacht around Wilhelm Canaris and Hans Bernd Gisevius and the Allies . She also had direct connections to residents of the French intelligence service Deuxieme Reseau and to the OSS via Allen Welsh Dulles .

Life

Halina Szymańska was married to Antoni Szymański (1894–1973), the last Polish military attaché of the Second Polish Republic in Berlin . Shortly before the start of the war, she returned to Poland with her family. Canaris had an officer from the Wehrmacht Abwehr Office look for her in occupied Poland and was able to locate her in Lublin . Canaris made sure that she could emigrate to Switzerland . He then made an arrangement with her to exchange information with the British intelligence service. There were several personal encounters between Canaris and Szymańska, including in Paris occupied by the Wehrmacht . In addition, Hans Bernd Gisevius served as a courier.

literature

  • Nigel West: MI6. Brit. Secret Intelligence Service operations, 1909-45. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1983, ISBN 0-297-78290-8 .
  • John H. Waller: The Unseen War in Europe. Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War. Random House, New York NY 1996, ISBN 0-679-44826-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Schubert: The stain on Uncle Sam's white vest. America and the Jewish Refugees 1938–1945 . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M. - New York 2003, p. 133.
  2. intellit.muskingum.edu