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Detailed Interrogation of Johann SANITZER, Gestapo, Vienna, Section IV21
APPENDIX A. * Tne . IV2a and 172b sections of the RSHe..
1. These two sections wore named IVa2, the head of which was thaniLriminal/40.
Horst KOPKOW. It was sub-divided in two sections about the beginning of 19433..._. .
IV2a: whose mission was to prevents attempts on the lives of officials,
sabotage, political falsehoods and the concealing of weapons and
ammunition. It was this section which made the technical investigation
of the attempt on the life of HITLER in July 1944.
(IV2b: which occupied itself with ti,(T deception plays (Funkspiele) and
searches for parachute agents. It was this section with which SANITZER
had the most contacts.
2. The tasks of the I72b section wore manifold:
a: Supervision of Funkspiele throughcut the Reich and in the Govern-
ment General. Funkspiele in occupied territories wen: played by the
Wermacht and did not fall in this section's cionpetency. a huge list
of Funkspiele was prominently displayed in KOPKoW l s office, and was
his pride and joy.. SANITM suspects that MAW synotices deliberate-
ly inflated this list to exaggerate the importance of his work: .Sub-
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ject received this impression when he saw a Funkspiol that he had only
Proposed tc KUPKOW and which had not yet been begun, being listed as
,a full-working spiel. Kammai reported the activities of this section
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directly to HITLER. „Subject remembers having seen a huge album,
adorned with maw photographs, typewritten in especially large typo,
which 'lens submitted to the Fuehrer himself.
b: In general IV2b gave general instructions about the Funkspiele,
general lines of conduct oncoming searches for parachute-agents and
the exploitation of intelligence gathered from the interrogation of
Allied agents. Every six or eight weeks 4 general meeting was hold
in this section of all the Referent°, who wore conducting Funkspielo.
KUFKOW would give thou specific instructions about their Spiole and
the different Gestapo-mmwould exchange technical information about
their plays. Subject remembers having given one day a lecture on the
"Tuchniquo of the Funkspiel" at one of these meetings.
c: The sQction had a cooplete "museum" of captured B/T materiel, sets,
1 signal plans, crystals, etc. At one time (Christmas 1944) tho section
1 trbut
. was Allied
to publish
:/T an illustrated
materiel,
lusated ma
nothing
nual came of it.
containing allloaewn information
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)14 dr. The IV2b section in the RSH, played a certain number of Funkspiele
itself. The only stape-stelle who played their Funkspielo independent-
ly were: Vienna, Brunn and Prague. All the other spielc were played
by specialists sent special l y by the Berlin section at Frankfurt, Ham-
burg and in Berlin itself. The specialists mere absolutely independent
from the local Stapo-stellen.
e: The section evaluated all information which was gathered not only
fromaithe interrogation of the captured agents, but the intelligence
whieff was obtained during the Funkspiel itself. It maintained a file
of all captured B/T agents and of all agents which might be expected
to be dropped in the near future. AS soon as an Allied agent was
arrested a teletyped message was to be sent to IV2b of RSH.1.
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ft The section was also charged with the dissemination of technical
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