GERMANS IN SPAIN; EUGENE DOLLMANN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00868310
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2023
• Case Number: F-2022-01506
• Publication Date: April 23, 1952

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OFFICIAL DISPATCH
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SUBJECT : GENERAL - Germans in Spain
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Eugene DOLLMANN
DATE:
23 April 1952
1, Is. has been informed by I
that former SS Colonel Eugene DOLLMANN has recently arrived in Madrid. He
allegedly obtained his Spanish visa in Italy thro the intervention of
the Catholic Church and travelled to Spain in the bit of a Francilman monk.
He is said to have re-established contact Ot SKORZENY following his
arrival in Madrid.
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3. Eugene DO S Ofl A t 1900 in Ratisbon, Bavaria
(Germany), of father. He lived in Italy m.m.:EIL.
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for many years t his yo th b e timateIy acquainted with the
countryr, He join t Nazi t ho after its inception and, during X -----Z.--1--.:-
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the early phases o t Seco orld , acted as HITLER's personal
representative in I newspaper Iini, in its edition of
C3 10 September 1950, r as N1luomo UTIIducia di Hitler in Italia.")-
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4:c As the war progressed, DO becane the high-level personal liaison officer
OC between the GermanscSS nt WOLFF And Field Marshal Albert-VSSERLING) and
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pn the Italians Field Marshal-(RAZIANI,:Ninister of the Interioti.BOCCHINI and
C) others). As such, he served as a key personality in maneuverings between
-J Allied -and enemy officials in March-April 1945 which brought about the surrender
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21C DOLLMAN was held for interrogation for a considerable time by the AlliPc.
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SubseqUently, in 1948, he appeared in Switzerland, where he lived under the ic)
name Eugeniirvon AMONN (using false Italian documentation), sporadically
6 trying to sell.his memoirs and alleged correspondence between important Nazi
ii officials. He refused to return to Germany for fear that he might be assassin
ated by ax-Uazis who regarded him as a traitor. Concomitantly, he wee advised
that should he return to Italy he would be arrested And tried for what the
3 Italian press described as "acts of violence and murder committed against
Itali.-,r hostages"--e.g., the Arde ins Caves episode. In c4m1-1, Febrilmrsx lo,
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he was expelled from Switzerland, travelled clandestinely to Milan, sad
left for Spain on or about 22 February in the company of an unidentified
man who was also dressed in the habit of a Franciscan monk.
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I ), However, we warn against operational use of bOLLMLNU
during his stay in Spain because he has,s1ready been involved with several
intelligence organizations in Western EUrope since 1945; his reputation
for blackmail, subterfuge aid double-dealing is infamous; he its a homosexual.
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