Vauck presentation

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Referat Vauck was the unofficial but common name of Department  12 of Inspection 7 Group VI (In 7 / VI), i.e. the cryptanalytical group of the Army High Command (OKH) based on Matthäikirchplatz, not far from the Bendlerblock , in Berlin.

history

The department was set up on August 1, 1942 in addition to the other departments of In 7 / VI at the OKH. Reason was the heavy workload of the radio monitoring competent group OKW / WNV / Fu III at the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW), more precisely, in the Radiocommunication competent department of the official group Wehrmacht communication links (WNV) of the High Command.

The then 45-year-old Lieutenant Wilhelm Vauck (1896–1968) was entrusted with the management of the newly founded Department 12 . The main tasks were "agent procedures", ie the radio reconnaissance and deciphering of agent radio, thus tasks as they were also processed by Fu III. Possibly not only due to the proximity of the two offices in Berlin, there was close cooperation between the Vauck department and Fu III. Early in 1943, both were merged under the encryption department of the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW / Chi). When the radio defenses were relocated to the village of Zinna (near Jüterbog ) in autumn 1943 , the department went along with them. Apart from Germany, it worked on radio networks in countries such as France , Spain , Belgium , the Netherlands , Poland , Czechoslovakia , the Soviet Union and countries in south-east Europe . With these tasks, the number of staff in the department grew from 26 to 40 people.

One of the operations of the Vauck department known today was the " England game ". This was a German counter-espionage operation which resulted in dozens of agents from the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) being arrested by the security police immediately after their parachute jump over the German-occupied Netherlands .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Army Security Agency: Notes on German High Level Cryptography and Cryptanalysis . European Axis Signal Intelligence in World War II, Vol 4, Washington (DC), 1946 (May), p. 4.
  2. ^ Army Security Agency: Notes on German High Level Cryptography and Cryptanalysis . European Axis Signal Intelligence in World War II, Vol 4, Washington (DC), 1946 (May), pp. 4-10.
  3. ↑ Frode Weierud and Sandy Zabell: German mathematicians and cryptology in WWII. Cryptologia, doi: 10.1080 / 01611194.2019.1600076 , p. 25.
  4. ↑ Frode Weierud and Sandy Zabell: German mathematicians and cryptology in WWII. Cryptologia, doi: 10.1080 / 01611194.2019.1600076 , p. 26.
  5. ↑ Frode Weierud and Sandy Zabell: German mathematicians and cryptology in WWII. Cryptologia, doi: 10.1080 / 01611194.2019.1600076 , pp. 25-26.