Friedrich von Boetticher

Friedrich von Boetticher (October 14, 1881 in Berthelsdorf; September 28, 1967 in Bielefeld)[1] he served as Lieutenant General in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II and served as military attachés of Germany to Washington, DC from 1933 to 1941.[2] While serving as attaché, he provided many intelligence reports to Berlin documenting the isolationist movement in the United States, and the state of military preparedness before Pearl Harbor.

References
  1. Alfred M. Beck: Hitler's Ambivalent Attaché: Gen.Lt. Friedrich von Boetticher in America 1933–1941. Potomac Books, Washington DC 2005, ISBN 1-57488-877-3, S. 232.
  2. Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 (2013) ISBN 978-0812982145 by Lynne Olson
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