The OSS also recruited and ran one of the war's most important spies, the German diplomat Fritz Kolbe.

At the OSS office in Bern, Switzerland, Allen Dulles had made working contact with Fritz Kolbe, " a disaffected member of the Nazi foreign office in Berlin ".

" Fritz Kolbe transmitted to the OSS some 1600 documents and cables, traveling between Berlin and Bern, " slipping through a half dozen Gestapo checkpoints while carrying his death-by-torture warrant in a shabby briefcase ", Helms wrote.

Already the OSS office had been discussing whether to attempt parachuting new agents into Germany ( in addition to in place agents, like Fritz Kolbe ).

* Fritz Kolbe

Fritz Kolbe ( September 25, 1900 – February 16, 1971 ) was a German diplomat who became America's most important spy against the Nazis in World War II.

Fritz Kolbe was born in Berlin.

Fritz Kolbe died of cancer in Bern in 1971.

The grave has two names: Fritz Kolbe ( 1900-1971 ) and Maria Fritsch ( 1901-2000 ).

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* Pseudonym for Fritz Kolbe ( 1900 – 1971 ), German spy for the U. S. during World War II

Examples of spies with ideological motivations include Kim Philby and Klaus Fuchs ( communist ), Fritz Kolbe and Juan Pujol ( anti-Nazi ), Nathan Hale ( pro-American independence ), Harriet Tubman ( anti-slavery ), Ana Montes ( pro-Cuban )

* Fritz Kolbe, ( 1900 – 1971 ), World War II spy

The design is based upon a German war bonds poster by Fritz Erler ( painter ) | Fritz Erler.

* 1941 – Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast ( b. 1875 )

For example, Baldrick is reduced to making coffee from mud and cooking rats, while General Melchett hatches a plan for the troops to walk very slowly toward the German lines, because " it'll be the last thing Fritz will expect.

* 1868 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1934 )

* 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer ( b. 1909 )

In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons ; simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner.

The company that hired Coppola to edit Tonight for Sure brought him back to re-cut a German film titled Mit Eva fing die Sünde an directed by Fritz Umgelter.

Also, the German Expressionists ( including Fritz Lang, who was not technically an expressionist as popularly believed ) emigrated to America and brought their stylized lighting effects ( and disillusionment due to the war ) to American soil.

* 1902 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist ( d. 1980 )

Fritz Lang in Hollywood ; Wien: Europaverlag, c1986 ; ISBN 3-203-50953-9 ( in German )

Several twentieth-century German writers, including Peter Bender, Johannes Lang, Karl Neupert, and Fritz Braun, published works advocating the hollow Earth hypothesis, or Hohlweltlehre.

German chemist Fritz Haber discovered a process that is still used today.

* 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history — the Duquesne Spy Ring.

* 1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate ( b. 1868 )

* 1875 – Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast ( d. 1941 )

* 1948 – Fritz Bohla, German football player and manager

* 1920 – Fritz Wilde, German footballer ( d. 1977 )

* 1903 – Fritz Bauer, German judge ( d. 1968 )

* 1909 – Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart ( d. 1999 )

* 1919 – Fritz Langanke, German SS lieutenant ( d. 2012 )

* 1960 – Fritz Walter, German footballer

* Fritz Grobba: German Ambassador to Iraq ( 1932 – 1939, 1941 ) and Saudi Arabia ( 1938 – 1939 )

During the German occupation of Denmark, Fritz Michael Hartmann worked as a civil servant and joined a resistance group ( Frit Danmark ), actively counteracting any pro-German and pro-Nazi colleagues in his department.

Another major German missile development project was the anti-shipping class ( such as the Fritz X and Henschel Hs 293 ), intended to stop any attempt at a cross-channel invasion.

Percy Toplis the The Monocled Mutineer, founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Planters mascot Mr. Peanut, Batman series antagonist Oswald Cobblepot ( also known as The Penguin ), Portuguese President António de Spínola, filmmakers Fritz Lang and Erich Von Stroheim, prominent 19th century Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz, Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, actor Conrad Veidt, Dadaists Tristan Tzara and Raoul Hausmann, esotericist Julius Evola, French collaborationist politician Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, criminal Percy Toplis, Poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, singer Richard Tauber, diplomat Christopher Ewart-Biggs ( a smoked-glass monocle, to disguise his glass eye ), Major Johnnie Cradock, actors Ralph Lynn and George Arliss, Karl Marx and Milburn Pennybags.