Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-21

where we met IN a Commu-
mist restaurant on Hedemann-
StraSSe.
While our operatives spread
the net around Professor
Schwartz, / took quarters in
a hut belonging to Lauben-
kolonie-a colony Of cottages
and small gardens-outside OF
Berlin, known as Felseneck.
Situated between the capital
and the suburban town of
Reinickendorf, it contained
less than 100 cottages, and
was more a secret camp of
the Communist military or
ganization than q community
of gardeners. The country
surrounding Felseneck was
rather lonely and undevel-
oped, despite the nearness
of newly erected apartment
blocks at the edge>of Berlin
Schoenau. Ill-kept hedges,
fences, piles of debris and gar
bage heaps added to the in
hospitality of the place.
This was important, for the
Felseneck colony contained
several houses which served
as guard stations for the Ger
man G.. p. u. Here / awaited
the delivery of the documen-
tary loot from Professor
Schwartz villa.
The material which Avatin's
aides gathered about Professor
Scwartz showed that he had
headed the intelligence bureau
attached to the headquarters
of Captain Roehm. the SUI
preme chief of the storm
troops.
When the foreign division OF
the NaZi Party was estab-
lished in the Spring of 1881,
Schwartz. who knew Russia
from World War service, had
been assigned to a special Sec
ton dealing with Soviet
affairs. If il was true that he
was in charge of numerous
Russian contacts, a raid on his
archives could possibly lead
to the determination OF all
Nazi agents in the Soviet
Union.
Schwartz was 81 years old.
His official rank was that of
storm troop leader. To
camoufiage the real nature of
his activities, he posed as
portrait painter. Where and
when he had obtained the title
of professor remained a mys-
terry.
LURED INTO TRAP
Avatin's crew struck on the
evening of January Is. Pro-
fessor Schwartz was lured
away from his Frohnau resi-
dence by a faxed call from the
office of DR.. Joseph Goebbels,
who was then the chieftain OF
the Nazi Party in the Berlin
district. The caller was a
G. p. u. man.
While Schwartz was away,
G.. p. u. men raided his villa,
tying up the professors wife
and two servants, and escaping
with two trunks full of mate
rial taken from his files. The
trunks were first brought to
"a Choriner Strasse, a Com
munist relay station in the
north of Berlin.
But il the c.. p. u. had its
spies inside the Hitler move
ment, so did the Nazi Party's
secret police chiefs-Heinrich
Himmler and one Diels-have
their agents in the Com
munist organizations.
A flying squad of storm
troopers swooped down unex-
pectedly on the house at "a
Choriner Strasse. But the
loot taken from Professor
Schwartz home was then al
ready on its way to the Felse-
neck colony.
the Brownshirts stormed
the relay station on Choriner
Strasse with guns in their
hands. Red Front guards on
duty in the house replied with
fire. Four of the Nazi raiders
were shot before the police
arrived.
Nazi headquarters was in
formed through some spy in
Communist ranks that Pro-
fessor Schwartz archives were
being rushed 10 a hiding place
in Felseneck.
RUSH TO COLONY
Ernst Schwartz h imse
sped 10 roadhouse named
Waidmannslust. which was a
storm troopers stronghold an
hours marching distance from
Felseneck. He put himself
at the head Of a force of
Brownshirts, and moved post
haste against the Communist
colony.
While all this was going on,
I sat serenely in a cottage by
a pot-bellied~stove. discussing
with comrades the general
political situation, and waiting
for the load of papers to take
to Hamburg.
The two trunks containing
the filched documents never
arrived. however. in Felseneck
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