Paul Ernst Fackenheim (born 1892) was a

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lieutenant who fought in

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and received the

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1st and 2nd class. In 1939 he was detained and transferred to Dachau concentration camp; he was prisoner number 26336. In 1941 Fackenheim was recruited by the

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to serve as a spy; the German Military Intelligence Service appealed to his officer's sense of honour to serve his country once again as a spy in

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. His job as a spy in the Middle East lasted only a few days; he was detained and interrogated by the

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, who kept him in captivity until 1946. He survived the war as one of the few Jews to be freed from an extermination camp by the German authorities and returned to Germany, settling in

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wrote his biography, titled in

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"Hitler's Jewish Spy"

References

*http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/29/books/the-jew-who-spied-for-th-nazis.html *http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/sharpe/111208 *http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=8331692&SearchInit=4&SearchType=6&CATREF=KV+2%2F1163 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fackenheim, Paul Ernst 1892 births Abwehr Dachau concentration camp survivors German Jewish military personnel of World War I Year of death missing Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class