KG200 sorties 1945

[Franek Grabowski]

I am not very much on the subject, does anyone know if any list of KG200 agent drops on the Eastern Front in 1945 was ever published?
TIA

[RossGmann]

Hi,

The following Website

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=6142

gives the following information. You can read the full details on the site.

15 · Abwehr.
- 3 French men : Louis Marie Maurice Zeller, François Munoz and Alfred Gross used by the Abwehr since 1943. Under the command of Maurice Zeller a Frontaufklärungstrupp is organized against the French maquis/SAS in Saint Marcel (See Part II about the French SAS units).
They captured 1 officer + 2 NCO of the 2nd RCP. Then thanks to these uniforms they gathered information among the population and killed 7 other SAS (among them the commanding officer, Pierre Marienne) and 8 resistants. All 3 men have been executed on July 17, 1946.
- many special units depending from the Abwehr and later from the RSHA (Reichsicherheitshauptamt).
Albert Beugras aka "agent 30018" organized a spy network called "Atlas" in North Africa. Several of its members infiltrated the FFL forces that landed in Italia and Southern France.
Beugras directed also 6 sabotage schools during 1944 and 32 infiltration operations from Germany to France in late 1944. These infiltrations were conducted using allied captured planes (dakota, B17, B24). Classical airborne operations or using the PAG (Personen Abwerf Gerät), an airborne container with 3 men have been performed.
The captured allied planes were flown by KG200 and the "Olga" squadron.
95 men have been infiltrated but 86 were captured and 16 of them executed probably because a Free French spy was infiltrated in there !

http://www.kg200.org/historyac1.html

Kind regards

Ross

[Nick Beale]

Can't help you at all on Eastern Front operations although "Unternehmen Zeppelin" (a failed attempt to infiltrate agents to kill Stalin) generally features in books on KG 200. Geoffrey Thomas and Barry Ketley did the best English-language one a couple of years ago: KG 200-The Luftwaffe's Most Secret Unit (Hikoki).

I just took a look at http://www.kg200.org/historyac1.html which Ross linked to but it seems to repeat a lot of misconceptions and legends - e.g. the author seems to think that III./KG 200 never became operational (wrong!).

[Franek Grabowski]

Well, the question is because I have received an account of possible drop in early 1945. I am not sure if it is not a gossip, hence trying to verify it. KG200 is not my subject, hence the question.

[anderbe]

A quick look through G.W. Gellermann's 'Moskau ruft Heeresgruppe Mitte' shows flights the 23.12.1944 from Cracow to Odessa with 6 agents, another the first week of january 1945. Next two flights from Stubendorf the 18 and 19 january with agents to the area of Lublin.
They were flown with B-17G code A3+IB, 1./KG200.

Regards Anders

[Franek Grabowski]

Thanks Anders, albeit it seems it was neither of mentioned drops, it makes them more likely. Does the book precise, who were the agents?