Visit of Magdeburg Town

Getting organized in the morning...

... to see The New Order 'Art'

MP S. Byczyński on Magdeburg's square

Taking a walk

The city hall of Magdeburg

An old man at the entrance of an restaurant: "HITLER IS A CURSE OF THE GERMANY. HE SPOILS OUR YOUTH. THEY ONLY KNOW HOW TO MARCH IN UNIFORMS AND SING, RECITING SLOGANS ABOUT WORK AND FATHERLAND. THEY ARE BUILDING ROADS, SO HE CAN SHIFT HIS PANZERS AROUND. THE TRENCH WAR IS OVER; THE NEXT ONE WILL BE MOTORIZED WITH THOUSANDS OF PLANES IN THE SKY AND COLUMNS OF FROZEN VEHICLES IN THE NIGHT. MANY OF OUR YOUNG MEN WILL DIE... I HAVE SEEN IT IN A DREAM. I WAS IN IT.

June 30 1934. "Night of the Long Knives", Himmler eliminates the opposition within the Nazi Party.

December 1, 1934. Jagoda passes into the action, Sergey Kirov, a founder of the Bolshevik Revolution, is assassinated by a former Chekist.

Stalin appoints personally Jagoda to lead the investigation. A purge of the old TCHEKA guard follows, but Jagoda's hold on NKVD weakens and he knows it. Nikolay Yezhov, Laventi Pavlovich Beria and Ivan Serov are challenging him.

Stalin has his own plans. Hitler will open the Europe for him; he will be an icebreaker... so the soviet revolution may reach the Mediterranean Sea. Hitler's Condor Legion in Iberian Peninsula will start the war; Stalin must be ready to step in and take over the Europe. The Motherland must build an army no one could resist it... a force of millions with a power of steel (in Russian; Stalin = steel man).

Christmas 1934. Wilhelm Canaris is appointed the head of "Abwehr" since Captain Patzig was in conflict with SS intelligence chief and SD head; Walther Schellenberg.

Hans Berno Gisevious, a counselor in the ministry of the interior, who's duty was with criminal police, met with Canaris and provided information about criminal activity of Colonel Rudolf Bamler. In this reorganization, Canaris took care to surround himself with a hand-picked staff, notably his second-in-command, Hans Oster and Erwin von Lahousen, Section II Chief. All were not members of the Nazi Party. The exception was Rudolf Bamler, who was appointed as chief of Section III to cement Himmler's trust in him, but Canaris made sure to keep a tight leash on him and gave him limited access to operational information.

January 1, 1935. Before he took over the Abwehr, the soon-to-be Admiral Canaris was warned by its previous head; Patzig of attempts by Himmler, Walther Schellenberg and Reinhard Heydrich to take over all German intelligence organs. Canaris, a master of back-room dealings which were so much a part of his life, thought he knew how to deal with them. But even while he tried to maintain an at-least cordial relationship with them, the antagonism between the Abwehr and the SS did not stop with Canaris at the helm. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, a man of Italian descent, had extensive connections among European aristocracy.

In 1935, Lev Kamenev, the son of a jewish engine-driver on the Moscow-Kursk Railway, was arrested and charged with being involved in the assassination of Sergy Kirov. Found guilty, he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. The following year he was charged with forming a terrorist organization to kill Joseph Stalin and other leaders of the government. Lev Kamenev was found guilty and executed in Moscow on 25th August, 1936.

In 1935, Gregory Zinoviev, the son of jewish dairy merchant, was arrested and charged, like Lev Kamenev, with being involved in the assassination of Sergy Kirov. Found guilty, he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. The following year he was charged with forming a terrorist organization to kill Joseph Stalin and other leaders of the government. Gregory Zinoviev was found guilty and executed in Moscow on 25th August, 1936.

1935 Colonel Luis Rivet becomes the head of French intelligence; Deuxieme Bureau.
The Deuxième Bureau de l'État-major général was France's external military intelligence agency from 1871 to 1940. It was dissolved together with the Third Republic upon the armistice with Germany.

French military intelligence was composed of two separate bureaus prior to World War II. The Premier Bureau was charged with informing the high command about the state of French, allied, and friendly troops, while the Deuxième Bureau developed intelligence concerning enemy troops. The Deuxième Bureau was celebrated for its cryptanalytic work, but criticized for its consistent overestimation of German military formations prior to World War II.

1935. Capt. J. Sosnowski, the agent of Polish intelligence, arrives in Berlin. He presents himself as a wealthy man. By means of seduction, promises of marriage or blackmail with pornographic photos he had taken, he is able to obtain from his mistresses Wehrmacht secret documents. After discovery, he is exchanged for few German agents whom the poles arrested. Two women are executed by ax. One is given a long prison sentence.

Winter 1936. Major Pokorny, Coronel J. Albrecht, Marshal's Ridz-Śmigły representative and Senator S. Byczyński meet. Major Pokorny announced - "Polish veterans of polish-bolshevik war received an invitation to Magdeburg. We are to meet with Germans there, the same ones that were helping bolsheviks during the war. We are coming as friends mind you. I feel we will be tested as to a possibility of alliance against Soviets. This is the opportunity we were waiting for."

In 1936, during Berlin Olympics, Nazis invited Polish veterans of Polish-bolshevik war, the Marshal's men, to Magdeburg for a get-together. MP Stefan Byczyński, Colonel J. Albrecht and Captain Antońy Landowski were there along with others.

During a grand tour of Magdeburg, Nazi hosts offered a veiled invitation to join the Germany in a future invasion of Soviet Russia. In reality Polish objected to the idea, but the Polish Intelligence service used Magdeburg meeting to set the sting operation against soviet intelligence services.

Accordingly, spacial teams of burglary experts broke into the archives files of the General Staff and the Abwehr and removed documents related to german-soviet collaboration. To conceal the thefts, fires were started at the break-ins, which included Abwehr headquarters. Admiral Canaris was convinced that it was the work of SS.

August 1936. Berlin. Olympic games. Severyn Kulesza had to ride on a spare horse. As result, he only got second. At the games he passed, against the high payment, the "documents" to a Czech agent.

Through an agent, Colonel Frantisek Moravec, the head of Czechoslovak Intelligence, was informed about a secret memorandum "signed" between Poles and Germans. The fabricated memorandum, in which Poland and Germany pledges a mutual support to attack Soviet Union, was delivered to Czechs. The memorandum mentioned a secret support that will be given to invaders by a mutinous fraction of the Red Army officers, who will stage a military coup against Stalin at the time of German-Polish invasion. Fabricated documents (memos of live and telephone conversations with Michail Tukhachevski), supposedly stolen from German Military Intelligence files, were planted in France through NKVD agent Sobolev, who gravitates in white Russian circles. In Czechoslovakia, President Benes himself delivered to soviet ambassador the copy of secret memorandum of Polish-German military pact. It was then passed to Stalin.

Stalin was Georgian and very suspicious. He was controlling the early soviet politics in Russia, and later the communist movement around the world. To secure his political future, he needed a pretext to sweep up the peoples Lenin has left. The Polish Intelligence sting operation, presented to Czechs, as a security leak from Poland, provided Stalin with the pretext he was looking for. The Czech president Benes personally informed Stalin's ambassador about Polish-Nazi alliance and a planned secret coup within the Red Army's high command. Delivered by Benes, the sting message was looking very real to Stalin. Benes was scared to be isolated in the center of Europe, at the time when Hitler was demanding Sudetenland from Czechs.

Maybe the Magdeburg's "memorandum" was more than a pretext to Stalin, since he had paid (in gold), few months later, for the list of all future Red Army mutineers. It was delivered by a soviet NKVD agent in Paris; white general Sobolev who later, with his Russian ex-ballerina wife, was executed by his former employer. The list was prepared based on the information available from monitoring the golden era of Soviet-German military cooperation. The General Tukhachevski was at the top of the list. Stalin swallowed the decoy, or used it for his own ends.

The BIG CLEANUP of 1936-38 started.