Word: wehrmacht
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egyptian generals and Cabinet members in the early 1960s knew Wolfgang Lotz as a wealthy German horse breeder with an engaging habit of sending champagne and other lavish gifts to well-placed friends. They thought of him as an ex-Wehrmacht captain in Rommel's Afrika Korps who later made a fortune in Australia. Some whispered that he was actually a former lieutenant colonel in Hitler's dread SS who had joined Egyptian intelligence...
Barthel's claim provoked some scholarly skepticism, even though the onetime Wehrmacht cryptographer has shown skill at cracking ancient linguistic codes. Fifteen years ago, Barthel reported deciphering the so-called "talking boards" of Easter Island in the South Pacific. The Inca mystery was every bit as challenging. But he had invaluable help from Peruvian Archaeologist Victoria de la Jara. If there was a written language, she suspected, it must be hidden in the geometric designs (tocapus) found on priestly garments and wooden vessels...
...Moscow. Stoph, 55, who joined the Communist Party at 17 in Berlin, where he had followed his father in becoming a bricklayer, went to Russia too-as an artilleryman and driver with Hitler's forces on the Eastern Front. Between 1942 and 1945, the young Wehrmacht private first class, who was later to become an East German general, dropped completely out of sight. As some stories have it, Stoph was captured and sent to Moscow, where he picked up his fluent Russian. Another version is that he had been a Soviet spy all along. Stoph's official biography...