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German WWI Model 1910 Crown Button Lot $35.00 Time Remaining: 39m

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World War I German 1914 Iron Cross Second Class $70.00 Time Remaining: 2h 43m

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GERMAN WWI HAT CAP $178.25 (11 Bids) Time Remaining: 5h 5m

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WW I German Pilot Lt Emil Thuy 32 Victories Standing By His Fighter Plane $12.50 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 5h 20m

WW I German Pilot Otto von Beaulieu Marconnay 25 VictoriesStanding By Plane $15.50 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 5h 35m

4x6 World War I Photo Wilhelm II German Emperor $2.75 Time Remaining: 28d 5h 55m Buy It Now for only: $2.75

WW I German Photo Pilot Hans Joachim Buddecke13 Victories Walter Hohndorf 12 $16.50 Time Remaining: 5h 54m

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WWI German Soldiers Full Body CDV Photo Wearing Bayonet $4.25 Time Remaining: 7h 46m

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German Iron Cross 1914 World War I $18.50 Time Remaining: 6d 18h 11m Buy It Now for only: $18.50

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WW I German Photo Pilots Buddecke Hohndorf Bernert von Althaus And Others $24.50 Time Remaining: 7h 56m

Prussia German Highest Military Order Pour le Mrite Blue Max Blauer Max WW I $29.99 Time Remaining: 28d 19h 48m Buy It Now for only: $29.99

Large WWI German Soldiers Oval Photo EKII Ribbon Bar $24.99 Time Remaining: 7h 58m

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WW I German Pilot Fritz Rumey Jasta 5 Flew Fokker D VII Parachured Sept1918 $12.50 Time Remaining: 8h 28m

Unknown antique German made sword or saber Yugoslavian or Russian WW2 WWI old $339.99 Time Remaining: 9h 13m

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German Album Der WeltkriegWW I $110.00 Time Remaining: 20h 2m

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Original WWI German Soldier Picture Portrait Photograph Paper Frame $1.15 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 1h 24m

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Original Rare WWI German Prussian Cavalry Bugle $200.00 Time Remaining: 1d 1h 33m

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RARE WW I German Empire 1921D Five Pfennig GREAT COIN Real Coins Real Auction $0.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 3h 59m

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VINTAGE WWI GERMAN MILITARY HELMET $152.50 (8 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 4h 1m

WWI German Hindenburg Cross With Swords Medal $9.99 Time Remaining: 1d 4h 16m

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WWI German shoulder uniform board strap $76.50 (5 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 5h 3m

WWI German shoulder uniform board strap $62.09 (7 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 5h 7m

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Imperial German WWI tunic uniform shoulder straps boards $60.00 (6 Bids) Time Remaining: 1d 5h 16m

WW I Four Original Photos German Planes And Pilots One Is Of A Balloon Crash $49.50 Time Remaining: 1d 5h 34m

ORGINAL WWI German M17 Steel Helmet With Liner $599.99 Time Remaining: 20d 21h 46m Buy It Now for only: $599.99

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DRGM German WWI Era Desk Calendar Copper RARE $29.95 Time Remaining: 1d 7h 15m

4 pc WWI ERA GERMAN FRENCH WWI PHOTOS AND SOME TYPE OF IMPORT DOCUMENT 1920 $5.99 Time Remaining: 1d 7h 28m

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MI6 and C the First Head of MI6 from 1911

1. I have decided to create this article about the first head of MI6 as it's one of the Icons of Britain.

2. Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming (1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923) was the first director of what would become the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6. In this role he was particularly successful in building a post-imperial intelligence service.

3. Born into a middle-class family, Smith attended the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and, upon graduation, was commissioned a sub-lieutenant. He was posted to the HMS Bellerophon in 1878 and for the next seven years saw sea duty in the East Indies. However he increasingly suffered from severe seasickness, and in 1885 was placed on the retired list as "unfit for service".

4. He was recalled to duty into the foreign section of Naval Intelligence in 1898 and undertook many missions. He would travel through eastern Germany and the Balkans pretending to be a German businessman, even though he didn't speak any German. His work was so successful that he was recruited to the Secret Service Bureau as the director of the foreign section. During this period he married the extremely rich May Cumming, and as part of the marriage changed his name to Smith-Cumming.

5. In 1911 Cumming's became the new head of the Foreign Section, responsible for all operations outside Britain. Over the next few years he became known as 'C', after his habit of initialing papers he had read with a C written in green ink. This habit became a custom for later directors, although the C now stands for "Chief". Ian Fleming took these aspects for his "M", Sir Miles Messervy - using Cumming's other initial for the name and having M always write in green ink.

In 1914, he was involved in a serious road accident in France, in which his son was killed. Legend has it that in order to escape the car wreck he was forced to amputate his leg using a pen knife. Hospital records have shown however that while both his legs were broken, his left foot was only amputated the day after the accident. Later he often told all sorts of fantastic stories as to how he lost his leg, and would shock people by interrupting meetings in his office by suddenly stabbing his artificial leg with a knife, letter opener or fountain pen

1. Budgets were severely limited prior to World War 1 and Smith-Cumming came to rely heavily on Sidney Reilley (aka the Ace of Spies), a secret agent of dubious veracity based in Saint Petersburg. He described pre-1914 espionage as ‘capital sport', but was given few resources with which to pursue it. His early operations were directed almost entirely against Germany. Between 1909 and 1914 he recruited part-time ‘casual agents' in the shipping and arms business to keep track of naval construction in German shipyards and acquire other technical intelligence. He also had agents collecting German intelligence in Brussels, Rotterdam and St. Petersburg.

2. At the outbreak of war he was able to work with Vernon Kell and Sir Basil Thomson of the Special Branch to arrest twenty-two German spies in England. Eleven were executed, as was Sir Roger casement found guilty of treason in 1916. During the war, the offices were renamed: the Home Section became MI5 or Security service, while Smith-Cumming's Foreign Section became MI6 or the Secret Intelligence Service. Agents who worked for MI6 during the war included Augustus agar, Paul Dukes, John Buchan, Compton Mackenzie and W. Somerset Maugham. When SSB discovered that Lemon Juice made a good invisible ink his agents adopted the motto "Every man his own stylo".

With the outbreak of the First World War, Cumming's control of strategic intelligence gathering as head of the wartime MI1c was challenged by two rival networks run by general headquarters. Cumming eventually out-performed his rivals. His most important wartime network, 'La Dame Blanche', had by January 1918 over 400 agents reporting on German troop movements from occupied Belgium and northern France. Cumming was less successful in post-revolutionary Russia. Despite a series of colourful exploits, his agents obtained little Russian intelligence of value.

Secret Service budgets were once again severely cut after the end of WWI, and MI6 stations in Madrid, Lisbon, Zurich and Luxembourg were closed. Cumming succeeded, however, in gaining a monopoly of espionage and counter-intelligence outside Britain and the empire. He also established a network of SIS station commanders operating overseas under diplomatic cover.

To the end of his life Cumming retained an infectious, if sometimes eccentric, enthusiasm for the tradecraft and mystification of espionage, experimenting personally with disguises, mechanical gadgets and secret inks in his own laboratory.

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Why did the German scientist migrate to the United States after WWI and WWII?

I read that after the world wars a lot of German scientist migrate to the west for job opportunity. If this is correct, please name me one company that started after WWI & II started by a German or any works that were done by Germans during or after the first and second world wars?

The most famous example is as good as any, Wernher von Braun was regarded as the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century in his role with the United States civilian space agency NASA.

He was also a decorated Nazi war hero, member of the SS and was responsible for the V1 and V2 rocket technology. Plenty of people were imprisoned or even executed for less, but he happened to be a rocket specialist and that was exactly what the US needed after WWII to develop both their rocket missile technology and then the space programme. Von Braun and many others were spirited out of Germany under Operation Paperclip.