Tuesday 19 February 2019

724) Friedrich von Boetticher

Friedrich von Boetticher (1881 -1967). Lieutenant General in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II and military attaché of Germany to Washington, DC from 1933 to 1941. 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.

- "... was the office of General Friedrich von Boetticher, a short, thick-bodied figure, sporting a monocle, his red hair standing up in a stiff, brush cut... https://books.google.it/books…

- "Short and plump, his red hair cut in an old-fashioned brush, Boetticher wore a monocle..."  https://books.google.it/books…


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