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84 Avenue Foch

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unit known as Section IV. It was under the control of Dr. Josef Goetz. The SD used captured allied wireless sets to transmit bogus
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On the fifth (top) floor contained a guardroom, an interpreter's office, and cells for prisoners under interrogation.
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messages in attempts to flush out resistance groups. The operation was colloquially known as
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Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army: The Official List of SOE Casualties and Their Stories
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who since 1940 had been attached to the SD as a civil auxiliary in the capacity of
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agents captured in France. Prisoners were regularly brought to the building from
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Head of Gestapo - Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) at 84 Avenue Foch
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in 1940. In 1942, Knochen's jurisdiction stretched from northern
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Buildings and structures in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
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and Heinrich Meiners, also had an office on this floor.
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A senior interrogator at number 84 was Ernest Vogt, a
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marching on Avenue Foch on 14 June 1940
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Index

48°52′21″N 2°16′41″E / 48.8726375°N 2.278157°E / 48.8726375; 2.278157
German
Parisian
Sicherheitsdienst
counter-intelligence
SS
German occupation of Paris
World War II
Avenue Foch
16th arrondissement
Arc de Triomphe
Bois de Boulogne
Timeline of SOE's Prosper Network

Wehrmacht
30th Infantry Division
interrogation
SOE
Fresnes prison
wireless
coded
Funkspiel
Standartenführer
Helmut Knochen
Paris
France
Belgium
French Jews
Sturmbannführer
Josef Kieffer

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