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4 unusual facts about Hugo Bleicher


Hugo Bleicher

He served as a private soldier in the First World War in the pioneer gas corps and was captured near the Somme.

In March 1943, Bleicher arrested André Marsac, a member of the resistance organisation known as Carte.

He disabled the Franco-Polish "Interallié" network, and captured both Polish Air Force Captain Roman Czerniawski and some of his headquarters staff, one of whom was Mathilde Carré, who had contacts with the Vichy 2nd Bureau.

Odette Hallowes

Churchill's operation in France was infiltrated by Hugo Bleicher, an Abwehr counter-intelligence officer, who arrested Odette and Churchill at the Hotel de la Poste in Saint-Jorioz on 16 April 1943 and they were then sent to Fresnes Prison.



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