Friedrich von Boetticher
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Friedrich von Boetticher | |
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Born | Berthelsdorf, Kingdom of Saxony | 14 October 1881
Died | 28 September 1967 Bielefeld, West Germany | (aged 85)
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Rank | Lieutenant general |
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Friedrich von Boetticher (14 October 1881 – 28 September 1967)[1] was a German military officer who served as the military attaché of Germany to Washington DC from 1933 to 1941.[2][3] While serving as attaché, he provided many intelligence reports to Berlin documenting the isolationist movement in the United States, and the state of military preparedness before Pearl Harbor.
References
- ^ Alfred M. Beck: Hitler's Ambivalent Attaché: Gen.Lt. Friedrich von Boetticher in America 1933–1941. Potomac Books, Washington DC 2005, ISBN 1-57488-877-3, S. 232.
- ^ Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 (2013) ISBN 978-0812982145 by Lynne Olson
- ^ Lübken, Uwe (January 2007). "Hitler's Ambivalent Attaché: Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933–1941 (review)". The Journal of Military History. 70 (1): 251–252. doi:10.1353/jmh.2007.0049.
Categories:
- 20th-century German diplomats
- 1881 births
- 1967 deaths
- German Army generals of World War II
- German military attachés
- Lieutenant generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht)
- Recipients of the Iron Cross, 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of Military Merit (Bulgaria)
- Von Boetticher family
- Military personnel from Saxony
- German military personnel stubs
- World War II biography stubs