Echo Operation Suppression game. Secret of the agent of the verte. Who at the headquarters Hitler helped us win the Kursk battle. Full refusal of suddenness

August 23, 1943 ended the grandiose battle on Kursk Dug.. For a month and a half of the battle with Soviet troops, the third Reich army expired with blood - 500 thousand soldiers were killed, 1500 tanks and 1,700 aircraft were destroyed. From this defeat, Nazi Germany did not recover: the Germans began to retreat across the Eastern Front. In fact, our victory under Kursk was provided on April 12, 1943, when Soviet intelligence put on the table Stalin Plan of the future operation "Citadel", signed by all Lamprise Generals - Hitler I saw the same plan ... Only in three days! It was thanks to the success of intelligence officers of the USSR was able to prepare for the German tank offensive and crush the enemy. Meanwhile, the names of our agents are surrounded by Hitler, who got a plan "Citadel", still (!) Not declassified. Almost their code names are known - Verte and Olga.

The richest spy

It is believed that the main role in the abduction of documents from Berlin was played owner of the modest publishing house "Vita Nova" Rudolf Rössler. This 45-year-old German, emigrated after the arrival of Hitler to power in Switzerland, in November 1942 he himself offered his services to the main intelligence department of the USSR gene-headquarters, having received his nickname Luzi.. Rössler handed the special services of the Soviet Union not only the "Citadel" plan, but also drawings german tank Panther and other valuable information. Alas, unlike most Council residents abroad, Rössler was not a convinced communist - he worked exclusively for money and was considered the highest paid agent in the entire history of the USSR intelligence. The exact figure is unknown, but Western newspapers assured that Rudolf received about $ 500,000 for the "Citadel".

- Rössler is a very mysterious person in the history of world espionage, "believes Dietrich Mainz, historian researcherfrom the Swiss city Basel. - Since the beginning of the invasion of the Germans to Europe, he, as if tomatoes on the market, traded secrets for special services Britain, Switzerland and the United States, and then decided to help the USSR. According to him, "Only the Soviet Union is able to win the war." Surprisingly, until May 1944, the Council-Skye exploration did not even know his real name! A participant in the First World War, he was familiar with a large number of senior officers of the Third Reich. It is assumed that Luzi had connections in the headquarters of Hitler, it worked about two hundred (!) Agents: Werker, who delivered information about the operations of the Wehrmacht, Olga (in the Luftwaffe Command), Anna(in the Reich Foreign Ministry) Teddy and Bill.

And although in Moscow repeatedly demanded to inform the real names of the agents, Rudolph Rössler flatly refused to do this. There is an opinion that he called their USSR GRU only before his death (December 11, 1958) - True, our special services do not give comments on this. Even 70 years after the battle on the Kursk arc, the archives for the work of Agent Luzi are still classified, and this allows you to build a huge number of assumptions: by whom I was the agent Waiter, photographed the documents of the "Citadel" plan and transferred them to Switzerland through Olga ... and was Is it at all? The West German magazine "Spiegel" in 1967 published an investigation where he claimed: only one informant worked on Rössler in Berlin, and he was simply invented by the rest to emphasize his importance and "knock out more money from Russian." Writer Helmut Reververin his book, "German and Soviet espionage in World War II" called Rössler "mystitor": they say, Rudolph, obsessed with the thirst for fees, allegedly fabricated reporting to Moscow and London from ... ordinary newspaper clippings. But neither "Spiegel" nor the Riever was bothering to explain - where did the "mystifier" got the drawings of the Panther tank and the secret plan "Citadel"? After all, even colonel-General Alfred iodlThe head of the operational leadership of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht, stated in the Nuremberg process: "Stalin received documents on our offensive under Kurk where they were on my desk."

Sex and exploration

— The head of the Soviet speakers "Dora" in Switzerland, Shandor Radoat one time, I was also surprised: how can Rössler, with such a speed, receive information from Hitler's headquarters? - Says Swiss journalist Pierre Liace. - Later in the memoirs, he noted - there would be several couriers, the clock between Berlin and Lucerne cruising, and this is physically impossible.

There was no walkie-talking in Rössler's apartment, and he was not trained by the Mastery of the Radyst. Perhaps Werker and Olga transferred Radiograms from Berlin to their trusted person In Switzerland, attributed to Ruesler, and then "Dora" sent material to Moscow. NOT-TSI, watching the work of Soviet intelligence at the German border, were in rabies. In 1943, they took a cunning maneuver: an Abweiver officer arrived in Switzerland Hans Peters. - Handsome, who was called the "bed officer." Able to professionally catching women, Peters quickly seduced by the Radio Radine - 23-year-old Margarita Bollya. During the night, the name of the book used to encrypts, "everything began in September." On October 13, 1943, the Police of Switzerland arrested, and in May 1944, the authorities detained the Rudolph Rudolph himself ...

Germany with foam at the mouth demanded that the Swiss authorities of urgent issuance of Luzi - the special services of the Third Reich could not find out to find out the name of the agent of the heter, providing Hitler defeating in the Kursk battle. However, Rudolf was silent at the interrogations, and in Germany, by the time there were quite bad things on the front. Given this, the Swiss did not contact the USSR - after a few months, Rössler was fully justified. Margarita Bolly received a soft sentence - 9 months conditionally and fine in 500 francs.

I tried to find Margarita for three days in Basel, where she moved with her husband in 1956. Now she should be 93 years old. Whether the radio market is still - it's hard to say, but there is no information about her death in the press. However, I could not find it in the reference service of the Basel of its address - perhaps she lives under a different name. Meanwhile, Bolly - the only (except Rudolf Rössler) Member of the "DORA" group, who knew the name and position of the agent of the verter in Berlin. I have no doubt that this person existed. But, damn, who is he so?

"This is a person from the environment of the Fuhrer. Perhaps a friend of his family. " Adolf Hitler I. Eve Brown Did the Soviet agent introduced? Read the continuation of the next issue "AIF".

A very patestical order issued the commander of the 7th Infantry Division on July 4, 1943 on the following day: "Soldiers! It is time offensive. I know that each of you will fulfill your duty to the last. You will cover the new fame of the victorious banners of the division, crashing the enemy in Poland, in France and at the gates of Moscow, and then during the two years of defensive battles reflecting all the offensive in Russian land. Our fallen soldiers look at you from your graves. We welcome Germany, we are committed to her and her beloved Führer. "

Lieutenant-General Fritz-Georgu, Fritz-Georg Von Rappard, was clear where he guides his soldiers. His message from June 28 does not leave any doubts about this: "The enemy, opposing our corpus, expects a German offensive and focused significant forces. It has an extremely deep, well-prepared and not lack of lack of living positions, he created a strong, carefully distributed anti-tank defense system and, moreover, the enemy has an unusually powerful artillery and a large number of multi-rocket installations and he also has a shock reserve, in including tanks. I should expect stubborn resistance from the enemy ready for defense on the front line, and later also carrying out distracting operations and counterattacks. "

German manual understood perfectly what would happen after the occurrence scheduled for 3 hours 30 minutes on July 5th. From the Northern Destiner, the Army Army Army Army under the command of Walter Model (Walter Model), and from the southern direction of the 4th Tank Army Army of the South Army under the command of Hermann Goth (Hermann Hoth) were to be moved towards Kursk In order to destroy the Soviet troops, which focused on the protrusion of the front line in 200 and a depth of 100 kilometers.

Just a limited offensive operation

Even if the exact figures relative to the number of enemy forces and were not known to the leadership, their order indicted that the existing mistake. 625,000 German soldiers with 2,700 tanks and 1,300 aircraft were to attack three times superior to the number of enemy, which had 17,000 earth fortifications, 30,000 artillery guns and turned the front section under Kurk to the largest field strengthening of all time. It is not by chance that the intelligence department "Foreign Army of the East" (Fremde Heere Ost) warned: "Thus, it is not enough likely that a German offensive will be able to break through the defense ... With the German side, taking into account the situation as a whole, they will be tightened and used those reserves that are in later Will be acutely necessary. "

In principle, it was only about to prove their ability to act in the inner front and the enemy and at the same time defeat as much as possible of the red army compounds. "The" Citadel "operation ... has already followed not a strategic offensive, but a limited offensive operation within the framework of strategic defense," the historian of Karl-Heinz Friesier (Karl-Heinz Frieser), one of the best connoisseurs of World War II, East.

Full refusal of suddenness

Although the operational deployment plans constantly emphasized the need to maintain preparations for the occurrence in the strictest mystery, the Soviet leadership no later than June solved the plans for the German operation. And German intelligence was also able to learn about it in a timely manner. Nevertheless, Wehrmacht abandoned his biggest trump card, who until recently allowed during the lightning operations to achieve impressive success, at least at the initial stage, - that is, from suddenness. The enemy "fully prepared for defense" was emphasized in a quoted order with which, along with other documents of the 7th Infantry Division, can be found in the military archive of the federal archive in Freiburg.

This compound belonged to the 9th Army, which was supposed to move from the north towards Kursk. The positions of the Red Army were stretched 30 kilometers in the depth and consisted of trenches, as well as from other field-type fortifications. Only once on the first day of the offensive, it was possible to take a breakthrough to a depth of eight kilometers. Already on July 6, one day after the start of the operation, he received an order about the "temporary transition to defense".