84 Avenue Foch
48°52′21″N 2°16′41″E / 48.8726375°N 2.278157°E
| 84 Avenue Foch | |
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Vierundachtzig Avenue Foch | |
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| General information | |
| Address | 84 Avenue Foch |
| Town or city | Paris |
| Country | France |
84 Avenue Foch (
Avenue Foch is a wide residential boulevard in the 16th arrondissement that connects the Arc de Triomphe with the Porte Dauphine on the border with the Bois de Boulogne. During the German occupation of Northern France, the buildings at numbers 82 and 86, either side of 84, were also commandeered by the German occupation forces.
Counter-espionage activities
Number 84 was used for the
The second floor was used by the SD's wireless unit known as Section IV. It was under the control of Dr. Josef Goetz.[1] The SD used captured allied wireless sets to transmit bogus coded messages in attempts to flush out resistance groups. The operation was colloquially known as Funkspiel (the 'radio game').[2]
The third floor was used by SS-
The fourth floor was used by SS-Sturmbannführer Josef Kieffer, the commander of number 84, as an office and private quarters. His assistants, SS officer's Ernst Misselwitz and Heinrich Meiners, also had an office on this floor.
On the fifth (top) floor contained a guardroom, an interpreter's office, and cells for prisoners under interrogation.
A senior interrogator at number 84 was Ernest Vogt, a
See also
- RSHA
- Peter Churchill, a British secret agent was tortured and held here.
- Harold Cole, a British traitor who served the SD and Gestapo in occupied France.
- Ernst Misselwitz Head of Gestapo - Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) at 84 Avenue Foch
- Pierre Brossolette, a notable French Resistance leader, killed himself by leaping from the sixth floor of 84 Avenue Foch.
References
- ^ "A Jewish Hero in the SOE Part 1". BBC. 25 October 2002.
- ISBN 978-1-78337-664-3.