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Paul Thümmel

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Paul Thümmel (15 January 1902 – 20 April 1945), aka Agent A-54, was a German double agent who spied for Czechoslovakia during World War II. He was a high-ranking member of the German military intelligence organisation, the Abwehr, who was also a highly decorated Nazi party member. From 1937 onwards Thümmel passed intelligence first to Czechoslovakia and later to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London via the Czech underground resistance.[1] He was killed by the SS at Theresienstadt concentration camp in April 1945.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Paul Thummel - A 54". Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  2. ^ Binet, Laurent (2009). HHhH. London: Harvill Secker. p. §254. ISBN 9781846554797.
  3. ^ I.C.B Dear, ed, The Oxford Companion to World War II (1995) p 1108

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