Did the Soviets impersonate Germans as spies during World War II?

Infernal affairs in World War II: Soviet spies were the principals of German spy schools.

During the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, there was a German spy school in Belarus called Saturn, which was occupied by the Germans. This school trains students from Germany to engage in espionage in the Soviet Union. Who would have thought that kozlov, the vice president in charge of teaching in this school, was a Soviet spy. Even more bizarre, he also trained spies for the Soviet Union in this school.

Li became a German spy under the cover of being captured.

After the outbreak of the Soviet Patriotic War, kozlov's troops were surrounded by German troops. After the breakthrough, the unit was sent behind enemy lines and mixed with local guerrillas. Kozlov was appointed as the battalion commander of one of the mixed formations. He won the Meritorious Medal and the Red Star Guerrilla Medal here. In a subsequent encounter, he was seriously injured and was captured by Germany with his wife.

At this time, German spy agencies were eager to develop their strength and engage in espionage activities in the Soviet Union, so they selected some soldiers from Soviet prisoners of war as spies. Kozlov soon became the training object selected by the Germans. The reason is that kozlov's wife was pregnant at that time, and she was going to give birth soon. Germans think this is a good bargaining chip. Putting such a person in the Secret Service will be more reliable and easier to control.

In view of the situation at that time, kozlov felt that there was no better way to deal with the current situation, so he decided to ostensibly agree to cooperate with the German spy agency and wait for the opportunity to act in the future.

He tricked the German anti-espionage agency into checking.

When kozlov graduated from Saturn Spy School, he accepted an important task: he went to Tusk, Malahov, a suburb of Moscow, handed over 500,000 rubles, radio equipment and various documents and forms to the German secret service there, and then returned. The Germans promised kozlov that if he returned to the occupied area after completing his mission, they would give him the rank of German officer and reward him, and he could also stay as an instructor in a spy school. So kozlov was secretly sent by the German army to Malahov in the Soviet Union four days before the baby was born. As soon as kozlov landed, he immediately used the skills he learned from Saturn to find the Soviet counterintelligence agency, and told what he knew was badly needed by the Soviet Union at that time.

When Soviet intelligence agencies were eager to put their own eyes and ears in German spy agencies, kozlov naturally became the best candidate. So with the help of the Soviet intelligence, kozlov experienced "ups and downs", "broke through" the layers of defense lines of the Soviet Union, successfully "completed" the tasks assigned to him by the German intelligence, and then returned to Germany to continue to play the role of a German spy.

German spy agencies were happy for kozlov's successful completion of his mission and his return to German-occupied areas, but they did not relax their necessary vigilance and conducted long-term observation and investigation on him. Kozlov fully demonstrated the excellent anti-espionage skills he learned at Saturn School, and solved the problem of setting up German anti-espionage agencies. Finally, the Germans were convinced that kozlov was reliable, so they sent him to Saturn spy school as an instructor.

In order to cultivate students' adaptability in the Soviet Union, everything in Saturn spy school was designed and built according to the Soviet model. The students are all wearing Soviet military uniforms, learning the rules of the Red Army, and even eating habits are exactly the same as those of the Soviets. Therefore, kozlov worked well there, and was soon promoted to be the vice president in charge of teaching because of his excellent work.

He trained Soviet spies in the German spy school.

With the promotion of his post, kozlov had the opportunity to get in touch with the trainees, thus mastering a lot of valuable information. But the biggest problem now is how to transfer the important information of these German spy departments to the Soviet intelligence agencies.

Kozlov had a brain teaser: Since Germany can train spies for the Soviet Union, why not use German schools to train spies for the Soviet Union? Soon, kozlov developed some people loyal to the Soviet Union at school. He mixed these people in batches among the graduates of each period. On the one hand, he continuously transmitted their information to Soviet intelligence agencies, on the other hand, he used them to monitor the espionage activities of other Soviet students, thus making an inestimable contribution to Soviet intelligence agencies.

Later, with the defeat of Germany in World War II, most of the staff of Saturn School in Germany were captured by the allied forces when they retreated. Because kozlov didn't get reliable contact from the Soviet spy department at that time, he couldn't fully prove his identity. Like others in Saturn, he was thrown into the Karelia concentration camp in the Soviet Union as a prisoner of war. The arrest warrant reads impressively: "kozlov is the vice president of teaching at Saturn Spy School in Germany, and has made some sharp anti-Soviet remarks, threatening Soviet spy agencies."

After many efforts, kozlov finally got in touch with the Soviet spy department. Moscow court restored his reputation as a military scout and awarded him the KGB medal.