By Alfred M Beck
A unswerving German, von Boetticher had robust ties to the US. His mom used to be American-born, he spoke English fluently, and he used to be enamored of yankee army historical past. He used to be additionally anti-Semitic and believed that “Jewish wire-pullers” had undue effect over the U.S. govt and its guidelines. His specialist ties to U.S. military officials within the battle division have been so strong—supplying them, for instance, with information on German air energy and operations through the conflict of england in 1940—that they survived till August 1941 and lengthy after the German ambassador himself were recalled. Torn among his responsibility to Germany (though the Nazi regime had tried to hurt his son) and his deep affection for the USA, von Boetticher stood one of the large heart variety of German officers who have been neither culprit nor victim.
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24 Soldier, Scholar, Diplomat, Spy 31 Of more visible consequence were developments with one group of representatives in Berlin in the early 1920s. The T–3 section was also the intermediary between foreign observers and attachés stationed in the city and the German military establishment. Official Reichswehr news releases to foreign delegations, invitations to inspect “guard” units, and schedules of social functions for foreign officers other than those in the Inter-Allied Control Commission emanated from the T–3 section.
Given to grandiose gesture, Mussolini also resorted regularly to private, even clandestine, exchanges among foreign governments without informing his own diplomats. The often contradictory results were a feature of Fascist foreign affairs. Il Duce dabbled in German politics at this time by secretly sending a military emissary to Berlin (and von Boetticher was probably involved here, though no formal record of the conversations is anywhere apparent) with offers of assistance in a right-wing coup and went so far as to supply arms to radical elements.
75 Von Boetticher’s place in this august company was cemented by his own proven competence, but most tellingly by Groener’s continued patronage. His future seemed less threatened than that of many of his brethren. For the next years, he was at the heart of the effort to keep intact a German military capability, however limited. 2 Soldier, Scholar, Diplomat, Spy W ITHIN a humbled but by no means subservient Germany, the new Reichswehr shrank toward the size required by the terms of the Versailles treaty.