1. Alfred Helmut Naujocks, alias Hans Muller, Alfred Bonsen, and Rudolf Mobert, was a German SS functionary during the Third Reich.
16 Facts About Alfred Naujocks
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Alfred Naujocks took part in the staged Gleiwitz incident, a false flag operation intended to provide the justification for the attack on Poland by Nazi Germany, which ultimately culminated in starting World War II.
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Alfred Naujocks then signed on as a low-ranking driver for the Sicherheitsdienst SD-Regional Command East, Berlin in 1934, but was entrusted with special assignments such as murder.
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Alfred Naujocks led an undercover attack on an anti-Nazi radio station in the village of Slapy in Czechoslovakia on 23 January 1935.
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Black Front activist Rudolf Formis was killed in the incident; Alfred Naujocks confessed to the murder in 1944 while in American custody.
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Mallmann Showell discerned that Alfred Naujocks is the sole source for details of his personal actions on the night of 31 August 1939.
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Later, on 9 November 1939, Alfred Naujocks participated in the Venlo incident, which saw the capture in the Netherlands of two British SIS agents, Captain Sigismund Payne Best and Major Richard Henry Stevens.
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Alfred Naujocks assisted Schellenberg in the secret assignment of spying on Berlin brothel Salon Kitty's clientele.
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In early 1940, Alfred Naujocks was put in charge of the counterfeiting unit of the SD charged with forging British bank notes under Operation Andreas.
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Alfred Naujocks was demoted and had to serve in the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front.
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Circa November 1944, Alfred Naujocks turned himself over to American forces, who subsequently placed him in detention as a possible war criminal by the end of the war.
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At the Nuremberg Trials, Alfred Naujocks declared the attack against the Gleiwitz radio tower was under orders from Heinrich Muller, the head of Gestapo and his superior, Reinhard Heydrich.
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In 1947, Alfred Naujocks was extradited to Denmark to stand trial.
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However, in 1950, Alfred Naujocks' sentence was reduced to 4 years, resulting in his immediate release.
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Alfred Naujocks was alleged to have been involved in running ODESSA, together with Otto Skorzeny, who handled contracts with the Spanish government, supplying passports and arranging for funds.
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Alfred Naujocks died of a heart attack in Hamburg on 4 April 1966, aged 54.