• 1940, Jakobs was sentenced to death and shot by a military firing squad. He was not hanged since he was captured as an enemy combatant. Jakobs, who was...
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    August 1941, the last execution at the Tower was that of German Cpl. Josef Jakobs, shot for espionage during World War II. The United States Army took...
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    Mossop's death. Another theory comes from an MI5 declassified file about Josef Jakobs – the last man to be put to death in the Tower of London, on 15 August...
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  • Jens Jakobs (1985), Swedish ice hockey player Johannes Jakobs (1917–1944), German footballer Josef Jakobs (1898–1941), German spy Julian Jakobs (1990)...
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  • Hermann Görtz Herbert Hans Haupt Stephanie von Hohenlohe Kurt Jahnke Josef Jakobs Werner von Janowski Johnny Jebsen Tyler Kent Edward Kerling Simon Emil...
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  • Josef Jakob (sometimes spelled Iosif Iacob; born 11 September 1939, Carani, Romania) is a Romanian-born former handball player and coach of Banat Swabian...
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    Yeomanry. During the Second World War, the courts martial of German spies, Josef Jakobs and Theodore Schurch, (both tried under the Treachery Act 1940) were...
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  • Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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  • Paul Josef Jakob Gelmo (17 December 1879 – 22 October 1961) was an Austrian chemist who worked on synthetic dyes and discovered sulfanilamide in 1908...
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  • Jakob Josef Petuchowski (1925 – 1991) was an American research professor of Jewish Theology and Liturgy and the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of...
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  • and the Hague, Richter met another spy, Josef Jakobs, who was sent to Britain on 31 January 1941. Unlike Jakobs, who was to report on the weather in Britain...
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    of 31 January 1941, the German spy Josef Jakobs parachuted into the Ramsey area, landing near Dovehouse Farm. Jakobs broke his ankle during his descent...
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    Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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    Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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  • Hangover Square: a tale of darkest Earl's Court is published. 15 August: Josef Jakobs, who parachuted into England as a German spy, is shot by a military firing...
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    Huntingdonshire from 1937 until her death, and set the Green Knowe series there. Josef Jakobs (1898–1941), German spy captured in Ramsey Hollow, Huntingdonshire in...
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    hanged at HMP Wandsworth on 10 July 1941. In addition, German agent Josef Jakobs, the last person to be executed in the Tower of London, was tried by...
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  • Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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    executed Josef Jakobs, the last person executed in the Tower of London. Major P.D.J. Waters – Commander of the Firing Squad that Executed Josef Jakobs. Retrieved...
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  • This was true right up until the era of World War II; for example, Josef Jakobs was a Nazi spy who parachuted into Great Britain in 1941 and was executed...
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    Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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    the castle. The last person to be executed at the Tower was German spy Josef Jakobs who was shot on 15 August 1941. The executions for espionage during the...
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    Ritter (Abwehr Hamburg) and the website of Giselle Jakobs (a granddaughter of Lena-agent Josef Jakobs). KV2/114 TNA (MI5 file of Ter Braak) Jan-Willem van...
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    Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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  • Koestler, Austrian Hatchet – Albert de Jaeger Jacobs – (real name unknown) Josef – Yuri Smelkov Junior – Hans Ruser, German La Chatte – Mathilde Carré Lambert...
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    Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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    Nazi Party, in May 1941. The last person to be executed in the Tower, Josef Jakobs, Nazi spy, shot by a firing squad on 15 August 1941. The last people...
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    Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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    Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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  • Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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