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INTERNAL MEMORANDUM
From: Capt. Auger

To. Lt. Col. Stimson

KALTENRRUNNER
With referen
and 17.7.45. and W.
and 26.745. KAL
written a statement
NI LS'
"Rote Kapelle" ( B .
1. The name "Ro
discovered some t
through hearsay o
consisted of a gro
contact with Russia.
Air Ministry, but
in Paris. Military
organisation. B e c
went to the enemy, o
1943, in the Fthrer
the discovery of thi
OKW-Abwehr and the S
description of the a
remember two names:
regarding these pers
apparently willing t
Russia because of hi
e to B .1.W. (Mr. Ferguson's) Memoranda of 18.7.45.
.C.3a ( Mr. Ferguson's) Memoranda of 18.7.45., 20.7.45.
UNNER has been interrogated on these points and has
of which the following is a summary:
.W's Memorandum dated 18.7.45)
e Kapele" was given to a case of treachery which was
in the summer of 1942. KALTENBRUNNER knew of this case
since he did not come to B erlin until 1943. It
of people, apparently some 20-30 strong, who were in
The organisation may have had its centre in the B erlin
TEEB RUNNER also heard of the activities of a White Russian
rsonalities as well as civilians belonged to this
ot say, however, if it was chiefly military secrets which
if political information was in the majority. Once, in
Chancellery, , KALTENB RUNNER saw an elaborate report on
organisation. It had been worked out mutr11y by the
ate Police (Stapo) and contained photographs and a
tivities of each member. In this connection he can
SCHEIIB A and SAB RE. He does not know any details
ns. One of them, a member of the Air Ministry, was
commit treachery against his country to the benefit of
Communist outlook.
KAPKOW ( B .1.W's Memorandum dated 17.7.45)
2.KALTENB RUNNER
counter-espionage.
equipped with W/T set
"turning" the agents
sometimes happened th
W/T agents. They dee
getting back to their
voluntarily on landin
Home Army ( Ersatzheer
KALTENB RUNNER once sa
activities. He does
With regard to
of this man.
tates that Sturmbannfuhrer KOPKOW was engaged in
s chief task was tracking down enemy parachute agents
and discovering their contacts inside the Reich by
nd thus getting into W/T contact with the enemy. It
t German soldiers were dropped in this manner as Russian
ared on arrest that they had chosen this as a means of
country. The majority of them gave themselves up
. An order was issued by
HINVIER, as chief of the Reserve
, by which all such cases were to be reported to him.
a report of this type and thus came to know of KOPKOW's
ot know any further details regarding KOPWW's work.
LETZER, KALTENERUNNER states he knows nothing
Aktion B UNDSCHUH ( W.R..3a's Memorandum dated 18.7.45.)
3. KALTENB RUNNER s ates that although varioud matters falling within
the sphere of activity of Amts IV and VI were not reported to him, it is
nevertheless impossibl for a resistance organisation "B undschuh" to have
been set
up within the framework of the RSHA. Outside the RSHA also, he
has never heard the sl ghtest reference to any organisation of the type of
"B undschuh".
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WAGNER (W.R.C. 3a' Memorandum dated 20.7.45)
4. (ACditional
statements KAL
Gauleiter WAGNER p
Laeken in Brussels
received nor forw
information to Y.P. of 13.8.45). In one of his
UNNER said that he considered it possible that the former
id a visit to the King of the Belgians at the Castle of
However, he knows nothing about this. He has never
ed any report about it.
According to
Lower Silesia and a
removed from his po
CReichs price contr
from that post. WA
closely connected w
reason that KAL
had tried for a li
and Yestphalia had
if Germany collapse
establish a closer
say, however, if WA
his knowledge, WAGNER was simultaneously Gauleiter for
part (north or south) of Westphalia. When he was
ition as Gauleiter, he became Reichspreiskommissar
her) for a while, until he was dismissed by FISHBOECK
had the reputation of being a strict Catholic and
th the Catholic movement in WestphPlia. It was for this
UNNER said in his statement it might be possible he
-up with Belgium. The Catholic circles in the Rhineland
efeinite separatist tendencies also, and always hoped,
, or there were a reactionary change of regime, to
onnection with the Catholic part of Belgium. He cannot
NER played an active part in this matter.
WAGNER's nam also cropped up in the affair of the 20th July, 1944.
KALIOBRUNNER does ot think that he was involved in it personally. However,
HITLER s suspicions were aroused against WAGNER, because it so happeded that
several persons wer involved in the matter who had formerly been attached
to WAGNER s staff when he was Reichspreiskommissar, e.g. V. SCHULENBURG, Jhr.
It was rumo
"honorary custody" (
circiles that he had
In any case, no proo
d that, on HITLER's orders, WAGNER had been placed in
hrenhaft). However KALTENBRUNNER heard among military
been released at his awn request and sent to the front.
was ever produced against him.
Alois MIEDL (W.R.C. ;a's Memorandum dated
26.7.45)
5 .
KALTENBRUNNER does not know any person of this name. (See
SCHELLENBERG's answe
to this question forwarded under Y.P. dated 11.8.45 .)
(signed)
A.S. Augsk
Camp 020
ASA(JMS
14.6.45 .
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