Operation Pastorius: The History of the Nazi Intelligence Operation to Commit Sabotage in the United States during World War II by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2020-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

The urgency of the mission meant that the training period was severely curtailed. The 12 men were given just three weeks of training in all aspects of their mission. Given that none had any previous experience doing intelligence work, it could never have truly been expected to be enough, but nonetheless, at the end of the training period, nine of the 12 were selected to take part in Operation Pastorius. These nine men were divided into two separate groups, each of which was assigned a leader.

The oldest member of the group, 39-year-old George Dasch, was appointed leader of the first group. Dasch had lived in the United States from 1922-1941 and had spent time as a member of the US Army Air Corps. The group led by Dasch was comprised of four other men. Ernest Peter Burger had been an early Nazi follower and had taken part in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in the 1920s. He moved to America in 1927 and became a US citizen and member of the National Guard before returning to Germany in 1933 when Hitler became chancellor. Heinrich Heinck and Richard Quirin both moved to the US in 1927 and returned to Germany in 1939 when the Nazis offered to pay the travel expenses of any German willing to return home. The fifth member of the group was Joseph Schmidt, who had lived in Canada after emigrating there in the 1920s, but Schmidt had contracted gonorrhea while on leave from the training camp and was removed from the group, leaving Dasch’s group with a total of four men.

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