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On March 6, 1939, the agent chief

Leopold Treffen came to Antwerp to set up

a new Soviet

spy network in Western Europe. He settled in

Brussels and quickly set up

an organization that would

later accommodate thousands of agents, informants and people The

name of the Red Band went down in the history

of espionage

when I met in the summer of 1940 during the

German invasion Troops in

Belgium have to be sent to Paris.

His most important employee,

the Soviet captain Viktor Zubkov,

knows the Belgian organization

and sets up a radio station in the Rue de la Bath.

This radio silence becomes

the most important link for the Reds after Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941

chapel to the

headquarters in Moscow when they heard about

the disadvantages of German

radio in the fall of 1941 Defense located encircled and

finally dug out on December 14, 41

Leopold Rapper's organization suffers its heaviest blow.

Radio operator Makarov alias Alamo and

a few other agents are

arrested. Kent and his girlfriend

Margaret Bause

narrowly escape to Marseille.

Rapper waits for more than two months In Paris on

a new order from the headquarters, finally in

February 1942 he received the instruction to take over the

radio activity to be resumed in Brussels

this time an old driver radio

specialist sits at the keys of the former

radio operator Johann Wenzel but

his great experience and his

technical knowledge are of use if they are

only of little use. It is of no use to him that

he changes his location night after night as

the radio defense takes aim His memory of

his escape over the roofs of

Brussels is just a last vain

attempt to evade the threat of arrest

under his papers The counterintelligence

captain Pieper finds information that

prompts him to go to Berlin immediately

and visit his superior in the

counterintelligence office

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The city belongs too

Open the bag I am not in debt

and some raw leather is

precious every minute here you know everything about

German food supplies

negotiations about the front line deployment

as a result of tank losses and

supply difficulties

Just advance everything and the people behind

are sitting here that

can't be the same the

Berlin top man had a

radio message with Berlin addresses with

him and Petri is called this

moment

of course

I'm making sure today

Altenburger Allee 19 33 from the right co

the man who in July In 1942 Harro lived on the third

floor of Altenburger Allee number 19 and

was registered in the files of the secret

state police since 1933

Schulze-Boysen

At the beginning of the 1930s,

as a student and resident of a

Berlin working-class district, Schulze Boysen experienced

mass unemployment and

street battles. He published a national

communist magazine with the

descriptive name of the opponents

and organized

discussion evenings at which he sought to unite young

communists and National Socialists into

a third front In

1933, after Hitler came to power,

an SS commando raided the editorial office of

magazine

kidnapped Schulze Boysen and his

friend to enter the SS as a private concentration camp and

forced the two students to

run the gauntlet.

All respect, man, you belong to us

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the friend died under the whips of the

SS. Schulze-Boysen was allowed to leave

after his release, he declared his

friends, I put my revenge on hold.

Schulze-Boysen began to work against the

Hitler regime. He made friends

Connections to anti-fascist

artists, journalists and

writers and organized

underground discussion rounds in which he

developed his national revolutionary ideas. In real terms that would be

Hitler, but I said

expressly that not only

a lot of imperialism is necessary but also a real

revolutionary myth that

allows a really strong state realize itself with

socialist means alone

the socialist state can free europe from

discipline and chaos only it will

protect our state from america's persecution campaign Destructive

tendencies of capitalist thinking

in front of the liberal illusion of freedom of the

individual We need the new

man to create this socialist state

and where should he come from the

new man perhaps from Russia yes

from Russia from Russia that is where

the new man is born in Germany but has

fallen from fighting The West accuses us of becoming

more and more strangers to the East, but

we are the German people who were warned.

Schulze-Boysen became an active member of

various resistance groups In

1934 he joined the air force as a

naval aviator and in 1936 he married

Libertas HSH, granddaughter of the Prince of

Eulenburg and Hertefeld labor service

leader, then dramaturge in the cultural

film headquarters of the Reich

Ministry of Propaganda.

This was also the time when he made his first

attempt at the Soviet Union To actively support them in their

fight against fascism,

he leaves anonymous reports in the

mailbox of the Soviet trade

Throw a mission in which

Hitler's Germany's military participation in the

Spanish Civil War was clearly

proven. The Gestapo got the

scoop on the matter, but the blame remained who had already packed his bags,

undetected, but what the

Gestapo failed to do was later done by the

Soviet secret service.

We thought for a long time about who the anonymous

letter writer was

In any case, I then commissioned them

for their excellent reports and

then

a small recognition for their effort.

I'm not a praise person. We didn't want to offend you,

what Willi Berger alias Aleksandrov

Colonel of the Red Army since 1937

busy

setting up a spy network in Germany

Handed over suitcases with radios at Berlin train stations at the beginning of June 1941

He

already had important

employees

Doctor Arita

Professor's son

Senior government councilor in the Reich

Ministry of Economics since Hitler's

rise to power Convinced anti-fascist

and active resistance fighter

eventually became like his woman the

American woman with fish Informant of the

object

Doctor Adam Kuckum Playwright

National Socialist follower

1932 Dramaturg at Berlin's

Schiller Theater Active opponent of Hitler since 1933

and confessed to communism by his wife Greta

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n't ever excuse

fireworks

The third suitcase was received by Hans Coppi

Electrician Dreher ice cream seller from the

Hitler justice system anti-fascist

propaganda imprisoned

copy should in an emergency operate the three transmitters

for first lieutenant hof schulze boysen

the emergency begins on june 14, 1941

they spoke to the italian attaché

you should actually expect from the italian war ministry

that a man with sense would be

sent to berlin like something like that He

then said

she didn't think it was possible

but wanted to know when the war against

Russia would start,

so understandably I told him

straight away that it was completely absurd

War on two fronts would

make sense for us and was out of the question at all.

Unfortunately, Hertha couldn't be convinced

when I finally explained to him that our

deployment in Poland was just a

tactical maneuver to distract from the invasion

of England Just

like an

Italian attaché

can count in his five fingers, 100 German

divisions cannot be sent to Poland

to attack England. Do

you also believe that? Fairytale of the

war against Russia,

Colonel, I'm afraid you'll

soon have to revise your opinion,

Schulze Boysen. That's unlikely to be necessary.

Colonel Hitler has

already declared that in 1914 it

was 18 crimes to wage war against East and West

at the same time.

Look at yourself These goals had

convinced them that

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at the director of Coro had solid

evidence that German attack on

the Soviet Union was imminent

after the goal Parties in the air force

command staff of its first day of attack

following cities are bombed

leader

Brest the tops Volkov know

and Lviv

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active and guarantor of the great

patriotic front of the great victory

are only the working masses of all the

countries of Europe who decided

under the leadership of the Soviet Union to put an end

to the cannibalistic murder of

brenner régine hitler's ingenious

strategy of stalin's heroism the

red army the resistance of the

working people of the soviet union will

break the back of hitler's army well

tell me what do you say about that

[ __ ] but say what it

all sounds pretty good but we ca

n't write a flight yet against a war

we haven't even started yet

But that will begin perhaps

tomorrow or today, at this very

hour, perhaps perhaps not

until now, there is still this

damn grip that Stalin concluded with Hitler and

explains that to the

working masses, but that's just the way it is It's

no secret how you want to use such

slogans to persuade your working masses to

resist Hitler.

A guilty hair, that's just

crazy. That's what it's like for me. It

's just that today, but you have to

project your ideas into the future.

Socialism will

inevitably happen socialism that means

production armies struggle of the

community complete commitment and

responsibility up to the extreme uprising

of the revolutionary masses and their

total mobile market

we will follow the facts

Everyone agrees that socialism

has the top priority. Only through it can

liberation take place. The only

starter but where

socialism rules today is the Soviet Union.

So if we want to liberate ourselves

we have to actively support the Soviet Union

with leaflets that only deal with

internal German actions If it is

no longer done, the people take a

look at whether the group leader is crouched down there

or whether Hitler is biting into the carpet with the ban,

but which cities will

be bombed first and which will see the visions

first Railway where to march to the east

that's not only of interest to

the Soviets but also to the German country

at the moment that has nothing to

do with resistance anymore that's simply

espionage agitation yes but espionage like that I did

n't know always in order to

eliminate Hitler we have to travel by any means possible

is what you do want hair with one

exception if it's espionage,

treason, there's

no discussion definitively

Heilmann, I

think so how do you think it's really difficult, you

can probably do that under certain circumstances

Opponents of the war deliver news, but

they must not lead to the destruction of

German soldiers, you are the

wrong dog to get our fur wet,

I know, you see, it's

easy, that's your strength, but I

'll be completely honest, I'm desperately

struggling with this requirement,

betrayal,

that it's your fault always not only in front of

oneself, not only in front of

one's father, but the social and

socialism knows the fatherland.

I think that is a guilt in front of the

world order To

even

consider

one has to understand a level of guilt that is more difficult to measure

then let us

understand it

then let us immediately assume what will

soften the outrage at the

crimes of the regime that this is our

fatherland and all of Europe and

finally the whole world in a

catastrophe will fall

what is because we need an

extension only then

you know where we only have an extension

here are the documents yes thank

you extensions can't

think about it beforehand excuse me It's a bit

impractical and practical, it's good to

be on the air at 58. Now he's gone. It's

not our fault why did

n't you come here. I do

twelve-hour shift work in the

factory and then

I can walk from one radio station to the other

expect that the device has the

delivery, it says

so, please,

why haven't you

taken things apart yet? you're too impatient, do

you need anything else?

On the day of the attack, there are

around 1,800

fighter planes and 500 fighters available on the German side

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Here is the Greater German Broadcasting Corporation with

all its stations. In just

a few minutes you will hear an important

announcement from the

Führer's headquarters

It starts

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next day the Führer issued an order to the German Wehrmacht,

weighed down by heavy worries,

obliged to remain silent for months,

now the hour has come in which I

can speak to you my soldiers. Since

this morning the German attack has been rolling

towards the east. We have hardly encountered any resistance.

Russia will be defeated in a few weeks.

This means that Tier would now enter into a hook and

responsibility

Reich, the existence of our

people is now solely in your

hands

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well at least there is clarity now

or the confusion will become even greater

says that you don't have anything to do with it

Stalin only decided to avoid the deadly

war on two fronts

and now over the field of Russia the

confrontation with the Soviet Union

was inevitable. Hitler

always knew that there is word for word my fight.

He believes that he has completely eliminated France and England

before

America can intervene Do you understand that

before America is ready to fight, when he

uses all his offensive power against the East, he expects that

America will stop because he wants the destruction of

the Soviet Union in the It

must be the interest of capitalist America.

They have all the messages encrypted

over they take a breather. But first they have to be in

such terrible agreement.

They already know that Hitler

attacked the Soviet Union. Adam told me

everything

According to reports, the thinner advancing units have higher officers in the

high command who are tasked with cutting off the

Soviet troops in the Baltic region

and taking Leningrad

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anton director your news clips are of

crucial importance to us from now on

try as soon as possible we wanted

to answer questions

firstly viborg is the weekly

loss of tanks aircraft

mr lieutenant a new enemy station

france 2 140

93 104 5 the Bearings

of course differ somewhat depending on the distance, but

I'm sure that it's Berlin.

Captain, I can do that.

There has to be a mood somewhere Mistakes

have crept in, perhaps

check the matter again from

our positions in Cranz today

will have 240 1 240 8 240 5 240 9 240 2 degrees

the hypocrites in Breslau remember in the evening

42 degrees 304 6 303 8 304 5 304 1

and a 37 degrees reported if you

want to see for yourself where the bearing is

cross wreath

242 5 wrestler 304 please berlin that is

completely impossible imagine an

agent who is

setting up his station in Berlin of all places no one is that tired of life

Mr. Hauptmann the analysis of the

departmental differences even

suggests that there are three stations

3

me I don't feel like

that again, they're always like that

and then you're quite sure that it's not all there

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by the way, with 2,

the Luftwaffe has it speaker for

airborne troops and parachutists in

the sabotage department of the Canaris counter-intelligence department.

Yes, in his civilian job as a consulate,

he will be a nerd at the Foreign Office and in

addition 150 deanships. Of all people, they

want to come to us. He is young, ambitious,

have a career and collect medals.

I promised to help him

or it is perfect I

made it clear to him in English that there was no progress

on Wilhelmstrasse, no more

aviation, what was that supposed to mean?

her wife works but she

actually gives hours at the university yes

but how do we bring the Balts together

we can turn on the work

which is easy for me like Ischgl just

teach and give the decision on in the

text mallorca reliably if you

like to chat but chat reliably

or you just want to make yourself important, look at

the colonel below, that

's nothing significant from what has been

delivered so far. Yes, I know the

most important thing would be a confidant at the

army high command as long as he does

We can't do a lot of things, it's not clear how

they proceed in the ukh I haven't been

able to make a connection yet, but

I can

get to know a

colonel who is in charge of the tour in the Reich Aviation Ministry

Education system

according to worthy people is confused on

the one hand he is a professing

Christian on the other hand only believed cold

nights and should also scenarios

completely messed up life two

secretaries in office as lovers something

very confusing will tell you all the

weaknesses and weak points

I could tap into that via Anna Kraus well everything

very vague everything so well we just have to

try to get people we trust into important

positions yes who, for example

Heilmann who Now there is supposed to be a test in

combination tasks. Pictures that

we have are the high command coming to

the referee department who is home. The

boy is writing texts for the leaflet Sticking up

posters is smart to get reliable

people who walk through the streets at night,

brush slogans on the walls,

maybe only the woman is the one

we want to keep our hands on

Schulze-Boysen like something like that, you have something

against anti-fascist propaganda, you

can't do both, either

the intelligence service or propaganda work,

I ask you, Schulze boysen, these people

pose far too great a risk for us,

these rows of poster stickers,

these leaflets, that's against

all the rules Conspiratorial behavior

that was crazy they are doing it I

also represent a risk yes if they

do that but

what happens if we are caught in one of

these poster graves

then we are all finished and I

know that they are not there

we will not be less but more

do coco after all it's not just

about the victory of the red army we

have to set something in motion here

we have to tell germany with a

production build

weapons depots the oppressed

organize the poles just no one

French Italians the foreign workers

summarize infections and

strike at the right moment

or do you want to come with empty hands

because who is coming the Russians

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in my horoscope it is very clear that

I will get into trouble if I do

this back

I don't know what I do anymore This is what

astrology has advised you to do: give

up your secretary and

reconcile with your wife. If you live with

a woman you think she's crazy

or something Reinfeldt then you would

really be crazy. Sometimes I have

the feeling that I'm watching just like

my wife Gertrud, that's your

secretary.

You wouldn't believe how much, really, that's almost what I'm

afraid of

This fear takes away

I need someone who understands

me and my world

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sometimes I just want to do something

I know a woman who has an eye for

people she is wouldn't

you she could help you

can you introduce me to her I'm

happy to follow

hello,

here I have a top gollnow

imagine

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moment sorry

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my wife

should give you the sizes of her thank you may

I shine again and again why don't you put an

ad in the newspaper this is the

quickest way to find a private language

teacher and you can choose in peace

anna loos is

fine because the new one I mean I have

no idea I don't know how to do something like that

I don't know what you're

doing either

like and women are so

much more practical that we

men continue in the text officer 28

is looking for further education cheap

better further education English lessons

from private

would you also accept a teacher

why not I think

that doesn't work and if she's pretty

if she's good

She's probably old and ugly and

English teachers are like that so

we describe private lessons in

English

the result is a bit poor Schulze

Boysen the whole 2 letters of reply so

far I can please

I don't think there's anything else to come.

The gentleman responded to your esteemed

ad on July 25th. I believe

I was a

professor at the Goethe Gymnasium until I

retired six years ago. Then

the good man is now, oh my goodness,

at least 70 please Tell me your

fee expectations

Well

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n't sound bad, I was

born with your Karin and work as a

lecturer at the University of Berlin.

I ask for a fee None I

would like to take the opportunity

to improve my German skills in class

Milred Harnack sounds

really good. I would like to answer that.

Maybe those who also identify as

American and on top of that have

free lessons are a lucky person.

Pay attention to the look

ten years

after coffee after coffee You

always just have to look at my lips

when the theory

comes along, which is making good progress today, thank you,

senior government councilor, but please, dear God,

I ask you to be too strict. The

association is still a model student A

few hours and he speaks without an accent.

They can then actually

jump over England with their soldiers and

then they are blowing up.

You won't be able to recognize them based on their pronunciation.

Thank you, it's a shame that you don't also

give Russian lessons It

would be nice,

but unfortunately there are no miracles.

Blow everything up,

but that doesn't exist yet,

dear Gollnow.

Of course, this is all speculation and

wishful thinking Why do

you know from your last conversation

that I am just as convinced of our victory

as you are in the end?

Are you really so convinced of it?

I sometimes have the impression that you are too

worried, so skeptical.

Excuse me, dear doctor,

but you have to commit to a

community service

At least they do in the Ministry of Economics and they

won't deny that we are

also vegan there, yes, certainly when it

comes to the civilian sector, not only

are we responsible for the entire economy

and also for

supplying the defense forces, so you ca

n't have an insight for a long time purely

military actions,

please excuse me, I have

and I will now make some tea,

please don't agree for me, I

have to leave right away, unfortunately, why does

n't Rosa do it? She has taken her day off

Will you

speak earlier about blowing everything up?

I could tell you things

like you would about your doubts, but

the official secrets you understand

websites see that in the place where

I sit in the ministry, I'm

used to official secrets, I stand up to

this point under official secrets, the

Russians will be amazed at what will soon

blow up in their country.

Well, let's hope for the best and as I

said, it would be nice. Please excuse

me, my dear, I have to go

back to office. Goodbye and

continued success When I'm learning

and jumping,

I definitely won't see you again

before six

at the director of Coco. The

retraining of pilots for the new

Messerschmitt fighter aircraft is

encountering considerable difficulties

because the machine a very complicated

equipment has

become [music] [music] [music] ten hours of combat aircraft

Secondly, the losses on combat aircraft

and fighter aircraft amounted to

800 aircraft between June 22nd and July first,

since then an average of eight aircraft have been going every day

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9:33 a.m. ring the bell before they had 0 48

degrees maybe straighten years of tutoring

briefly for You gentlemen in Poland,

we agents sent the transmitter within

eight hours. That was also something

else in Europe. We didn't have any

interference. Either the

waves are reflected here or the

transmitter change takes time. You do

n't seriously believe that the

guy with the device Berlin is wandering, why

not I would do it if I were him?

Such a transmitter can be easily

stored in a suitcase or, even better,

in a car, van or

something. Well, at the end of the presentation,

radio traffic is set It's because of

the damn stroll when you have to

start running all over again. Captain, you've already smelled the fuse.

How do

you come up with that when you drive around like we do

with this

furniture van on top of it with ink

that turns back and forth?

It's also about blind people,

but she's talking about it like wildfire

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it's despairing I think on the

1 They don't have 70 goals at all, even

the one from the plan could be exactly there for three years.

They are also checked according to your

information, but if your information is not

correct, the most important victories call signs

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recognition slogan plain text ltx from klk it

is the area instead of in moscow

they look like they are lost or

our problem

so if you ask me the lieutenant

of the radio operator here in berlin that must

be a bloody amateur for He

constantly confuses me with the frequencies,

it happens almost every day,

we know typical beginner herbs

from the news students have

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I have him

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from the director who arrives there knows from

evil and radio traffic has increased

in the In the event of failure or

further disruption, all material

is acknowledged so transmit send

existing material camp with against

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in the oven you should throw the whole

nonsense I think your child the

system the livestock the system if you

don't know message text the code

again the encrypted one

in Warsaw they

singled out a spy who worked with the sentence

angry snakes the Spanish woman

filmed the cities in so use

and then the appropriate key

book In addition,

private Heilmann is transferred to the ukh department EN

7. Oh, Heilmann, they speak

English and French, so it's more like a

first lieutenant magician English

people in the English department they

have a lot to do not satisfied

I actually wanted to go to the Russian

department they don't speak

Russian or I'm just

learning Russian we're

busy there at the moment I was in the truck

so let my English guy be over there

feel completely comfortable

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I ask you, madam, I do

n't want to drink your precious Schwarzenbek under any circumstances.

You have to have a small advantage when you're with

a man from the

Ministry of Economics If you are married,

you can describe them. As long as we still

have black tea, nothing is lost.

I hope to be able to convince your husband.

You can talk until it

goes dark. Work is a mathematician, a

professional skeptic. For him,

only numbers apply. Don't bother.

I've already given up

but years minister I know that we

have difficulties with the transport

I had to tell the Secretary of State

that we

no, Mr Minister

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hello where are you yes

you know I'm trying to pour out my heart to you

to explain to her why I

can't give up my sculptor, you sit there like three monkeys in

one person, I don't hear, I don't see, I'm

sure nothing's going to happen

Is that

the same for you? Yes and no, where to

be jealous, you definitely have me. We do

n't have jealousy.

We don't lead and we don't get it

in or out anymore, but

allotment for you, it's all just a

joke,

a joke

Hello,

yes, I understand, 6 a.m., Tiergarten

Löwenbrücke,

no, there's no work here, but I

'll get to

him straight away. Hopefully you'll have explained that to him in detail,

but of course

and maybe it couldn't

have come any faster. My name is Bauer, that's

the code name of conspiratorial rules,

you think Probably nothing here in Berlin,

I don't have much time, my train leaves in

two hours, I have to be back in

Brussels tomorrow, so I have to

report back in a few days.

A man can be heard contacting you

under this name Protection will

give your bunkers tutoring if

the connection with the headquarters

still doesn't work then

you have to send a courier to

Bronze every Tuesday at 7 o'clock in the evening

a man with a blue paper flower

in his buttonhole in the station underpass

was a second one We'd rather be

sure that

this is unfortunately not possible at the moment.

I can no longer do that. It's about time that you

get to know this specialist

who will teach you how it works in a

quick course

that they put their

organization on a better basis.

They need liaisons at the

railways, in the armaments factories, at the

airfields, in the officers' mess,

in the police. There are also enough

anti-fascists in Germany.

Of course there are, but a whole

lot of them are German anti-fascists,

communists, but Germans

Coming to communists nationally means

revealing military secrets

and what's more, do

n't exaggerate anything. We

don't live in Poland or France.

We don't have an underground movement that knows anything

about it all weapons fight our

anti-fascists have a German

intelligence service treason know

they discuss write articles stick

posters but they refuse to

take up the total fight

maybe the central people can support him

live in the Soviet Union enough to be

patriots

and can also give back in two days I

understand that was the mistake

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in the living room, lieutenant

Facebook has its limits, we are

in full cover here,

we need one stronger measure

personally explain that the postal

uniform would have been enough as camouflage yes

I think again on black van

der wurff leave the thinking to the

horses we have the bigger head

how many 2 183 degrees explain

the new address book

very fine cut

the best far better you're

a killer

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so have

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yes so

327 3 lost

gradually we're getting there people it's

slowly time to come calamus

sitting in the district over there

if you

already Saarland

yes I'm 200 meters from Cocos without

under Leipziger Strasse soldier's uniform

geis post office

doesn't close it

the radio traffic is stopped until further notice

the material is now sent by courier

to Brussels [

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