Contributions To The Allied Cause
OW ZJ did not carry out many combat operations (in any case uncommon until the 1942-1944 period), but instead had a well-developed intelligence network. It also engaged in psychological warfare, with various propaganda operations.
Among many accomplishments of the ZJ Intelligence Unit “West” which played significant role in the outcome of the II World War were: obtaining information about Nazi aggression on Greece, obtaining a date of attack by the Afrika Korps, led by Erwin Rommel, towards Alexandria, establishing the location of Nazi battleship “Tirpitz”, establishing locations of ultra-secret Nazi V-2 rocket manufacturing facility in Peenemünde, establishing the location of the test-site of German V rockets along with their precise drawings and dimensions.
The ZJ also managed to infiltrate its agents into the Deutsche Werke Kiel repair shipyard in Gdynia in order to ascertain the number and types of vessels being repaired there, and the extent of their battle damage – this allowed them, in turn, to locate the German battleship Gneisenau which escaped the British Navy seeking to destroy it amidst the Norwegian fjords .
ZJ is credited with the destruction of a Nazi experimental submarine in Gdansk.
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