The Personnel Composition of the Anti-parachutist Subsection IV 2b of the Prague Gestapo Command Office in 1943–1945. The Attempt for the Reconstruction on the Basis of the Testimony of the Chief Subsection IV 2b Decipherer Karl Schnabl and the Other Cover Image

Personální obsazení tzv. protiparašutistického podreferátu IV 2b pražské řídící úřadovny gestapa v letech 1943–1945. Pokus o rekonstrukci na základě výpovědí hlavního dešifranta podreferátu IV 2b Karla Schnabla a dalších pramenů
The Personnel Composition of the Anti-parachutist Subsection IV 2b of the Prague Gestapo Command Office in 1943–1945. The Attempt for the Reconstruction on the Basis of the Testimony of the Chief Subsection IV 2b Decipherer Karl Schnabl and the Other

Author(s): Pavel Kreisinger
Subject(s): History
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: The Gestapo Prague Command Office; section SBF; subsection IV 2b; chief decipherer K. Schnabl (1911–?); Willy (Willi) Leimer (1912–1945?); personnel composition

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with so-called anti-parachutist subsection IV 2b of the Prague Gestapo Command Office in 1943–1945 and primarily concentrates on a personnel composition of this section. The opening part introduces circumstances of the large reorganization of all command offices of the Gestapo with the consequence of the subsection’s establishment, resp. its transformation from the special section SBF established in 1942 after the attempt on R. Heydrich’s life. On the basis the detailed testimony of the chief subsection IV 2b decipherer K. Schnabl (1911–?) and other sources, eight charts, which transparently show not only a structure and personnel composition of this subsection but also post-war fortunes of each employee, have been compiled. The article also contains a biogram of K. Schnabl who was apprehended after the war and condemned to 25 years in jail as a war criminal by the Extraordinary People’s Court in Prague. The similar fate waited for some of Schnabl’s colleagues, which is also shown in charts and three graphs as well.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 169-203
  • Page Count: 35
  • Language: Czech