Venlo Incident by BEST SIGISMUND PAYNE


ISBN
9781848325692
Published
Binding
Paperback
Dimensions
138 x 216mm

In November 1939, the Nazis used the so-called Venlo Incident as a pretext for invading the Netherlands. Following orders from Himmler, two British intelligence officers, Sigismund Payne Best and Richard Stevens, were captured from the Café Backus in the town of Venlo. Best had been trying to contact German officers plotting against Hitler. The Netherlands had been an ideal ground for operations, because of its proximity to Germany and the fact that Dutch Intelligence was badly funded. When Best met the three agents ? including Walter Schellenberg ? he was carrying with him a list of British agents who were working in Europe. When he arrived at the café, which was just over the Dutch border, he realised he had walked into a trap. A Dutch intelligence officer who accompanied them, Dirk Klop, was fatally wounded. Best and Stevens were taken into Germany. After their Berlin interrogation and torture they were taken to the notorious Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Hitler used the incident ? together with the Elser bomb plot ? as an excuse for war with the Netherlands, claiming their involvement with Britain violated their neutrality. As Nigel Jones explains, the incident was crucial in making the British suspicious of dealings with anti-Hitler resistance. AUTHOR: Sigismund Payne Best was a British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, more commonly known as MI-6) agent during World War I and World War II. While head of the highly secret Section Z in the Netherlands he was captured and imprisoned. He died in 1978. SELLING POINTS: -Gripping first hand account by a survivor of the Sachsenhausen camp -New edition to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Venlo Incident -A rare account by an undercover British agent ILLUSTRATIONS 8 pages of plates
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