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SOURCES METHODS EXEMPT I 0113B2B
NAZI WAR CR IMES DISCLOSURE ACT
DATE 2001
2005

HEADQUARTERS 12th Al : GROUP

SCI DETACHMENT
APO 655
USA

XR5'7

18 rune 1945

SUBJECT: Hildegard BEETZ, nee BURKEIARIV, SD Executive and Agent

11.44,014

TO

: Chief,. 0Th, G-2, 12th Army Group

Following is a report from Lt. Stewart FRENCH, SCI Detachment,

Munich:

1. D. Wilhe

for South

Euro e
- now n
rd Army
n erroga on enter, volunteered information that an important .
woman . executive and agent of the Ater was to the best of his know..
ledge living in WEIMAR. She was Frau Hildegard. 'BEET; .. nee
BUREHIRDT, cover name "FELICITAS R . Dr. HOETL stated he believed'
:she had in her possession important Italo-German official records,
including the personal diaries of the late Count CIANO -during his years
'a:s Foreign Minister of ITALY.

2. Frau 13EETZ was interrogated by representatives. of:Ape

.MUNICH and WEIMAR SCI Detachments at her parents' home, Belvedere
.411es 14, WEIMAR, on 14 June and the following infOitati:On:
, .
.
3. she unquestionably has detailed knowledge
alities and events of- .AMT VI, ITALY; ; from 1940: to
uary 1943 to August of that year she was in fa -exeou
the AMT in Rom .reporting directly to Herbs APPZiER
At ache in ROME o, in turni."rigiOrted d
She a lso' worked -in tiurblv-OXIX070g.:,..where: : abe was head ant/iit ;. ..tintes the 'o
Thporta s.: 04 'other Italian . documents. '
,

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4..In September'1943, Dr. HOWL Sent:::
to obtain i
from ClANG, then
agent of ARP
AIZMAMBHAUSEN on the Stamberger See, near ../IONICHkHer'..0:0101W4;
that;ovvino*Ei secretary and AtiaiislatOt
,
0.11 th SeCtit meetings,: negetilOant,..and
whebtQL
.
during his years as Foreign Minister.

6.' ; 'She Ot.Oe s . that she 'VAS *611)wierliie

ssense, 'i 4,0tib1e0,S 8Iied- the .PD;;.:: She . dellia08 : .101W .- 4
mistress, 'but POS.EO ETL along the iiflei
self lAiggeated... indc 1VOrkOk cidIAT
te CTANIrt:.:001+.0 a
the SD
'.:Init'thettIVALERIO".:elettity
85 head for all ITALY, an

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8. On 18 October, CIANO was transferred . to a prison in

VERONA, ITALY, and on 3 n ovember Frau BEETZ was sent there to him from
BERLIN by Dr, HOETL,.who had fought against giving ciAIn up to the
Italians.. In VERONA, she saw CIANI every day in his cell, and .
reported to HOETL ihrough k4W_Genera, head of t#0 SIPO and SD
for ITALY. Through her effoits, -KELTMRUNNER and HOETL came to
INNSBRUCK in. January 1944 to negotiate for CIANO's papers: .KALTENBRUNNER gave her a letter to CIANO written in his own longhand promis!in g to have CIANO freed if he surrendered all doculents of -.interest

to Germany. CIANO agreed.

.

'7, Frau BENZ went by guarded automobile to ROM, where

she obtained seven volumes ot secret Foreign Office docUments from a .
hiding. place in. a. private address that CM had given her. She

turned these papers over to HARSTER, who himself flew them to BERIX.N.

At the time he confided to her that HITLXR personally had refitsed....-tO.Y.!:lpermit the release or CIANO, but that the OD was 'going toi..s:-obtetin..:all
.

. thef:Aciaument anywayf

8, She wrote -a letter of protest at the

double

croirrto . ..

ICALTENERTTNNER, but his only reply was a large bouquet of roses,. thank.
done a good sob.g Meanwhile a plan for:ICIANO..to
lag her for havin
escape tailed when a guard was transferred the day before. (EppA
took
smuggling some poison to CUM,
alto! had- suebeeded
the night .before his
Iceoutioli
b
e
to
work).
.

'
. : . . . . 94 . . EDDA, .111.:.fuit er aftilme nt of the tar:
1;126if.,
f.a:reitdeZtrOue..,with..Frau:13.1q with -the-Cteaten...vOluMe.s:Of4,:
concealed
her indi -. and .. . lane . , prepared to ;turn
nqz,. acr
able
-her, Aevot
la":

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I' Florentine ajst2orat and

fojITZ
rat

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near--Igq

t hat

messages reaihed 1

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wrk in the .ciiO

ttI
,ilin2i*X,X1Ye:gln:gelliTiOlaatl
whic h
ad 10.4(7-'11

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_by gO1ST
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...
ip end-obtain the 66
a which d.,, staitai.rfol. a
German_banker: whose home bad been

SECRP

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SECRET
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d made into an agents' headquarters. In charge was VOETTEL- of the

rD GRENWPOLIZEI who *.r
nuplw.of SD agents from the house?
ct.A7
,
1-c.-thie..
.
ather
d ' Oman Catholic riest who was.frierri .
12.
and confessor
of E returne(
so an
a en under Gen
fi;-Oiii.SVITZERIAND
him of
`theFaTLER-MUSSOLINI oorre,
pdenoe, repor
their meetings, an
et-her dootWon TAL
--0G
- ar ERMAN relations. PANCINO Stated
. that EDDA. bad told him there were six or seven copies of thesepapers .
in existence. - Frau BEETZ herself -knew of three . copies -one In COM,
one near COMO and another at the house of a Partisan sympathizer in -
RAXILOLA. .
. ,
.
13. Roping to forestall discovery of the . Partisaie.s - .
activities ., Frau BEIMZ states she took a not too bright' 'member oil theA.
.3D .. and' went 'alone to the house, and obtained the doonmehtti.::. She toot
office in BERLIN. HOETL.:`had4 . by. .
thembaok e by train to .the . A.MT
. this time' gone to HUNGARY, and his deputy .couldn't .read.anY',.1.talien:;:..
1

FranBEETI was given the-lob of translating the entire . set from Italian

into German, - On the Pretext of wanting to be with her mother, . '00 she
said was 11l,. she obtained permission to do this work at hii hOnie : in' s. WEIMAR. There she made.a.n .-original and one copy for the 118114,.. and one
..,.
copy , for herself.

,
14, At the time of the German Collapse thin pr
bullied : this, copy, tog-ether with certain personal papeXT
of to 110=14 :etc.. iatin box beneath: an':iPpl*
the 'strawberry pate)); of her garden. There the SOT agentAC,
: there they found the tin box with the papers, which 41)0
bed them.as important

15; CIANtre'r.ee.frenfltoluitii diary *an kept 4.4 boand no. copies were :tiver. ; :siadei Frau BEETZ inajate. Shir:
tire ...still: in EDD.A.'s : pcooieapton in pvaTzxgrdivp - TheY::
*with the correspondence, and further digging by SOT' in
failed to 'reveal th.01; :- Or:any , other :Material of interes

"

Papers have tieSn.delivered'per.0,0n.

afte*.,p;eOper.:1104"0.00dith
persona1'.41:00(1i'Aettet* ficOnlUggli-
.end drift* Of .reporte-:Tran : B4,61.4:made to her .0uperiors.
kept with the bOdy. 1 .41-1117.*Alt in . 01itito4y of SCI..
-..

The

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of ,,et11$1 ,4 .01*(40 . Office re.0.0r.. 0 ; :iv .10
17. The e
6::: .<
Frau mem ,.9bta4zed' for 14m..froa:R OE in the eXPOI4tielir
..
. . diitibl.
n
1
with
the
:except/on
,
.
.of:.
one
.
were translated' .
in :TIEPTAR4,:..-atxd,:.0ratkipor.474::::0
AVIA whieh. abs
:eitel.',.thee:originai. ZtOli gaz and the:
has no -eopiets.
gansiation

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taxmrptikr,
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near STORKOW, approximately 40 kilometers southeast of BEpLIN,

may still be there, unless bombed.

They

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184. 1 ierau 2E4= 1 who JR an attractive young woman of 25 And

gives an appehranee-Xshyness and modesty, speaks excellent English
and talks willingly/ Personnel record is as follows:

a. BottLX.Z44-.1.9.1.9.41..g.tglalla.,A. Atear iivEIMAR, Attended

Dolmetscher School for Translators at Leipsig in 1939, assigrted by
WEDMAR Arbeteant to . SD WEIMAR. in Oct. 1939. Served as mall clerk
there until Tull,* when she was sent to BERLIN as an Italian interpreter
for AMT VI-E .
She w sent to ROME as secretary to - Guj o
b . -1 In . July 1941,'r
Chief. of the AMT , s agents in .November 1941, she retUrned:
o
Tirith.ZIMIR and resumed her duties as interpreter.
(iinu whose- cover. job wets
. was succeeded by MI. T

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pondent for the M oh newEipa .NACEIRItztrrni.
.znnat
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et. In Ally 1942, Fran'BETZ returned to ROME as secretary

to the new'AXT -1/I representative, Helmut- LOOSS. When !DOSS, Joined
the,Waffen SS in Russia and was not replaced, irrau
became,
practical Put.poses, deputy for AMT TI under police attache ICAP. F.,--

After the BADOGLIO coup in August 1943, all taermaii,w

employees were evacuated from ROME.. Frau BEEMreturned . to .B

to work under HOWL,- then new chief. of Amir VT
Referat.c
Prot Sept 43 to- Zuly. 44i.- She was engaged:- on 'the
faflsists she double-crossed the SD in an orb'

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elan,) Claimed to have friends
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re es in ri0117. re made reports on matters
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he purportedly heard discussed therein..

0, An Englishman, believed to be a college professor,

living in Genoa with his Italian wife. Frau 13 g ETZ once brought him
5,000 dollars in UZI currency which she states was NOT '7) counterfeited
foreign mane
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19. ' a, Aliso of interest is (Iruther rAncno) Roman Catholic

Priest in the employ of the SD, Italy.
b..' After
s execution, IslUFs011ia attempted to
A by sending, privately, e.Fath r. PAWING
re-establi eh.- contact with
here Era had. been platted in a convent
to ItIG11130EL; ftitserl
ERTCKp PANCINO
by Swiss authoritial.
II cover ceriffwas
however betiasie an, Vent or SS General 11ARSTAR, h et' Of SIP and SD
for Italy.

Frau BEETZ statati Father PANCINO made a number

of :trips birtween:,::0Witzsrland and Italy * becoming confessor to
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to :114.1/

i'dee'iption is as follows:.. AgE

zed.ium build; dart
-/c :brmozt.*tes; liarrOw. racket *44 glaSiS
Ambiti ins torIVO'erence within Oburob..'
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TZ is an extrineli::intelligent"Perscii . with an
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