The Archive · 1940

Foreign Office Activities

The German Foreign Office thus has two irons in the fire abroad. One are the millions of Germans in Bohle's Auslands-Organization, The others are the German diplomats abroad. By noting that on the whole the German Government has four or five times as many "accredited" diplomatic and consular agents in each post as any of country, one can perhaps guess bpe of activity of four-fifths of Often they publicly mix in the policy of the countries to which they are accredited. Thus the famous Captain Wiedemann, consul-general in San Francisco, was publicly congratulated by order of the Fuehrer in Berlin for his work in preventing the American Senate from accepting It's modified neutrality legislation in July, 1939.

"The intelligence services of the German army, navy, and air arm are not much different from those in other countries, with the possible exception that the German army maintains, in the Prinz Friedrich Hark Strasse in Berlin a "psychological laboratory." The heads are (or were) Colonel Von Voss and Oberregierungsrat Max Simoneit. A secret section bears the title, "International Psychology." Here are trained not only the military spies but the Gestapo and party agents especially designated for Service abroad.

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