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4 unusual facts about Leopold Bürkner


Leopold Bürkner

On 25 April 1935 he officially informed the British Naval attaché to Germany, Captain Gerard Muirhead-Gould, that Germany had laid down twelve 250-ton U-boats at Kiel.

In 1938 he became head of the foreign liaison section of the Abwehr, the General Staff intelligence department.

On 15 June 1938 Captain Bürkner was appointed head of the foreign liaison section (Abteilung Ausland, later Amt Ausland) of the Abwehr, the intelligence organization of the

After his release he became director of the German staff of the Dutch airline KLM in Frankfurt.



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