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3 unusual facts about Rudy de Mérode


Rudy de Mérode

In July 1940, he returned to Paris and set himself up at German military intelligence's HQ in the Hôtel Lutetia.

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At first setting himself up in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in mid 1945 he was initially to be found in San Sebastián before reaching Madrid, where he dubbed himself "the prince de Mérode".

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Attached to a supply office at 18 rue Pétrarque in Paris as a cover, he spied for the Abwehr alongside another SD agent, the Dutchman Gédéon van Houten (called the baron d'Humières).



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