Friedrich von Boetticher
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German general and author (1881–1967)
Friedrich von Boetticher | |
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| Born | (1881年10月14日)14 October 1881 Berthelsdorf, Kingdom of Saxony |
| Died | 28 September 1967(1967年09月28日) (aged 85) Bielefeld, West Germany |
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| Rank | Lieutenant general |
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Friedrich von Boetticher (14 October 1881 – 28 September 1967)[1] was a German military officer who served as the military attaché of Germany to Washington DC from 1933 to 1941.[2] [3] While serving as attaché, he provided many intelligence reports to Berlin documenting the isolationist movement in the United States, and the state of military preparedness before Pearl Harbor.
References
[edit ]- ^ Alfred M. Beck: Hitler's Ambivalent Attaché: Gen.Lt. Friedrich von Boetticher in America 1933–1941. Potomac Books, Washington DC 2005, ISBN 1-57488-877-3, S. 232.
- ^ Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 (2013) ISBN 978-0812982145 by Lynne Olson
- ^ Lübken, Uwe (January 2007). "Hitler's Ambivalent Attaché: Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933–1941 (review)". The Journal of Military History. 70 (1): 251–252. doi:10.1353/jmh.2007.0049. S2CID 159147005.
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