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Alfred Naujocks (Alfred Helmut Naujocks) was born on 20 September, 1911 in Kiel, Prussia, German Empire, is a German Nazi functionary (1911–1966). Discover Alfred Naujocks's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Alfred Helmut Naujocks
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Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 20 September, 1911
Birthday 20 September
Birthplace Kiel, Prussia, German Empire
Date of death 4 April, 1966
Died Place Hamburg, West Germany
Nationality Russia

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1911

Alfred Helmut Naujocks (20 September 1911 – 4 April 1966), alias Hans Müller, Alfred Bonsen, and Rudolf Möbert, was a German SS functionary during the Third Reich.

He took part in the staged Gleiwitz incident, a false flag intended to provide the justification for the attack on Poland by Nazi Germany, which ultimately culminated in starting World War II.

Naujocks was born in Kiel and attended the University of Kiel, where he studied engineering.

1931

In 1931, after an incomplete apprenticeship as a precision mechanic, he joined the SS. A well known amateur boxer, he was frequently in brawls with the communists.

1934

He then signed on as a low-ranking driver for the Sicherheitsdienst SD-Regional Command East, Berlin in 1934, but was soon entrusted with special assignments such as murder.

1935

He led an undercover attack on an anti-Nazi radio station in the village of Slapy in Czechoslovakia on 23 January 1935.

1937

By autumn 1937, Naujocks had been promoted to Hauptsturmführer (captain) and by the following year, had been promoted again to Sturmbannführer (major).

1939

On 10 August 1939, Reinhard Heydrich informed Naujocks of his mission to lead a small group of German operatives to seize the Gleiwitz radio station.

Three weeks later, on the night of 31 August, Naujocks led the attack on the German radio station at Gleiwitz, one of twenty-one similar concentrated attacks which the German government quickly attributed to the Poles.

Once inside the radio station, a short anti-German message in Polish was broadcast (the precise content of the message is now uncertain).

Shots were fired in the studio and a corpse left on the floor near the microphone.

This attack formed Hitler's justification to the Reichstag regarding the necessary "pacification" of Poland, thereby igniting the Second World War in Europe.

More recently, author and researcher Jak Mallmann-Showell's investigation has suggested that Naujocks's claims as to his actions at the Gleiwitz radio station may have been a fabrication to curry special handling by the Allies after the war.

Mallmann-Showell discerned that Naujocks is the sole source for details of his personal actions on the night of 31 August 1939.

He also avers that the Poles may have accessed the site to obtain Enigma machine secrets for the Allies.

Later, on 9 November 1939, Naujocks (along with Walter Schellenberg) participated in the Venlo incident, which saw the capture in the Netherlands of two British SIS agents, Captain Sigismund Payne Best and Major Richard Henry Stevens.

For this, he was personally awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler.

1940

In early 1940, Naujocks was put in charge of the counterfeiting unit of the SD charged with forging British bank notes under Operation Andreas.

By late 1940, Naujocks had been removed from his position after he fell out of favor with Heydrich.In 1941, he was dismissed from the SD after disputing one of Heydrich's orders.

He was demoted and had to serve in the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front.

1943

In 1943, due to ill health, he was sent to the West, where he served as an economic administrator the following year for German troops in Belgium, while involving himself in the deaths of several Belgian underground and Danish resistance members.

After his promotion to Obersturmführer (first lieutenant) he participated in sabotage and terrorist actions against the Danish population from December 1943 until autumn 1944, as the leader of the "Peter Group", including the murder of Lutheran pastor Kaj Munk.

Later leadership passed to SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Alexander Friedrich Schwerdt (SS-Jagdverbände).

1944

Black Front activist Rudolf Formis was killed in the incident; Naujocks confessed to the murder in 1944 while in American custody.

Circa November 1944, Naujocks turned himself over to American forces, who subsequently placed him in detention as a possible war criminal by the end of the war.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Naujocks declared the attack against the Gleiwitz radio tower was under orders from Heinrich Müller, the head of Gestapo and his superior, Reinhard Heydrich.

After the war, he was not considered high-ranking enough to stand trial, but was called as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials.

1947

In 1947, Naujocks was extradited to Denmark to stand trial.

There, he was found guilty of his role in the murders of Danish resistance fighters and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

1950

However, in 1950, Naujocks's sentence was reduced to 4 years, resulting in his immediate release.

Following the trials, Naujocks worked as a businessman in Hamburg, where he eventually sold his story to the media as The Man who Started the War.

He was alleged to have been involved in running ODESSA, together with Otto Skorzeny, who handled contracts with the Spanish government, supplying passports and arranging for funds.

Naujocks and his associates handled former Nazi war criminals going to Latin America, being responsible for their reception and protection there.

1966

Naujocks died of a heart attack in Hamburg on 4 April 1966, aged 54.