Tribute paid to German who spied for Allies

[Kellanved]

WASHINGTON - Fritz Kolbe, the World War Two German diplomat who gave crucial intelligence from Hitler's foreign office to the Allies but later was shunned and rejected by fellow public servants, received a second posthumous nod from the German government on Thursday.

German ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, speaking at a small ceremony at the embassy in Washington, said that Kolbe, who died in 1971, displayed "the courage of a simple person vis-à-vis the tyrant's machinery".

Details of Kolbe's wartime activities came to light when two correspondents for the German magazine Der Spiegel, Axel Frohn and Hans-Michael Kloth, gained access to documents the CIA unsealed in June 2000.

The diplomat's story gained even more attention last year with the publication of 'A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich', French journalist Lucas Delattre's account of Kolbe's contacts with the Allies.

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Now this is a German diplomat I can respect. Very unlike the former Nazis defended by the conservative party. It is insane: The German conservatives still want to uphold the Nazi legislation against deserters, spies and resistance fighters; as the icing on the cake they went insane, when the Social Democrats and the greens decided to stop honoring former Nazis. If you ask me, men like Kolbe should be honored, not the selection of Nazi officers and diplomats the German conservatives believe to be worthy.

[Karenina]

1. SWOOSH!

Schatz, die Amis sind ein bißchen L-A-N-G-S-A-M. Let me :kick: with a tag... HOW ABOUT THAT MARK FELT, EH?