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3 unusual facts about Rudy de Mérode


Rudy de Mérode

In July 1940, he returned to Paris and set himself up at German military intelligence's HQ in the Hôtel Lutetia.

At first setting himself up in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in mid 1945 he was initially to be found in San Sebastián before reaching Madrid, where he dubbed himself "the prince de Mérode".

Attached to a supply office at 18 rue Pétrarque in Paris as a cover, he spied for the Abwehr alongside another SD agent, the Dutchman Gédéon van Houten (called the baron d'Humières).



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