Norman Ohler

So he would put his life on the line for that possibility.

How did they get caught?

They were approached by the Soviet Union who wanted to recruit them as spies, and they didn't want to do that.

Howell refused the Soviet intelligence.

These are documents that were found in the early 90s.

one of the sons of one of the members of that group, a good friend of Haro, one of his sons, went to Moscow to look at the files and he found kind of furious Soviet KGB kind of descriptions of this weird guy, Haro, that doesn't want to be a proper Soviet spy and just says, yes, I'm going to give you information so you can hurt Hitler, but I'm not going to play your game.

I'm not going to be one of you.

So still, they did collaborate with the Soviet Union.

They accepted a radio transmitter from the Soviet Union with which they were supposed to send military information via radio to Moscow.

And they like struggle with the technology.

The Russians give them like an apparatus only with like a Russian instruction.

And it's like very difficult.

They make mistakes.

But what actually then gets them caught is the Russians at one point answer and send a message to them through the ether.

And that message is coded, but the Nazis intercept that message and are able to decode it.

And in the message, it gives the clear names of Haro and his address, which is a total like intelligence blunder or

Maybe they just wanted to give them up and had their revenge because Stalin did crazy stuff like that.

So they suddenly know, the Gestapo knows, Haro Schulze-Boysen, the high-ranking officer in the Luftwaffe Ministry, is giving military information.

To the Soviet Union and apparently like he's meeting with all kinds of friends.

So they started, the Gestapo started observing the group for months.