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   Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume Two, Chapter XIV


        CODE NAMES AND WORDS USED BY THE GERMAN HIGH
             COMMAND FOR OPERATIONS AND MEASURES
                       DURING THE WAR
                              
                                                 [Page 1078]

ACHSE
Measures to be taken when Italy declared a separate
armistice.

ADLER
Capture of coast between Zara and Fiume.

AFRIKA
Two Italo-German convoys from Italy to Tripoli/Bengasi, end
of December 1941.

AIDA
Occupation of Egypt and the Suez Canal.

ALARICH
Occupation of North Italy and Unoccupied France.

ALPENVEILCHEN
Invasion of Albania.

ANGELHAKEN
(a and b) Attacks on British ships in the North Atlantic by
Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Hipper, etc. December 1940 January
1941.

ANTON
Occupation of Unoccupied France, with Italian cooperation.

ATTILA
Occupation of Unoccupied France; renamed ANTON on 17 June
1942 when land and sea operations were separated.

AUGSBURG
Delay attack, in Operation GELB.

AURORA
"Luetzow" operating against UK-Russian Convoys in 1942.

BARBAROSSA
Attack on Russia.

BEOWULF
(I & II) Occupation of East Baltic Islands, 5 November 1941.

BERLIN 11
(a and b) Attacks on British ships in the North Atlantic by
Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Hipper, etc. December 1940-January
1941.

BIRKE
Withdrawal of troops from Finland.

BLAUFUCHS
Attacks in Baltic Islands and near Finland.

BLUECHER
Part of planned attack on Caspian Sea, 1942.

BRAUNSCHWEIG
Operation around Stalingrad.

                                                 [Page 1079]
CERBERUS
Transfer of "Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen"
through the English Channel, 1942.

CHURCHILL
Danish fishing vessel "Sursum Corda" spying on English Coast
and later called ERICH.

CORSI/CORSO
Part of operation GRUEN.

DANZIG
Execute attack, in Operation GELB.

DELPHIN
Clearance of Dalmatian Islands.

DOMINO
"Scharnhorst and Gneisenau" operating against UK -- Russia
convoys in 1942. Name changed from FRONT THEATER.

DOPPELSCHLAG
Scheer and Hipper operating in Arctic, 1942.

EDELWEISS
Operation around Baku and Caspian Sea.

EICHE
Rescue of Mussolini, 1943.

EISBAER
Attack on Cos, 1943.

EISENBAHN
Moving of the "Hipper" to Drontheim.

ELISABETH
Blockade running, Bay of Biscay, 1943.

EISPALAST
"Koeln" operating against UK-Russia convoys. Name changed to
MEISENBALZ, 1942.

ERICH
See CHURCHILL.

EUROPA
Part of operation SEEKRIEG, planned landing on East English
coast.

FELIX
Occupation of Canary Islands, North Africa, and Gibraltar

FEUERZANGE
Combing out certain Adriatic Islands.

FEUERZAUBER
Capture of Leningrad.

FISCHREIHER
Operations along the Volga, to Astrakan.

FLIEGERPILZ
Intended mining of Dardanelles, September 1944.

FREISCHUETZ
Capture of Vis and other Adriatic Islands, 1943.

FRISCHES HAFF
Defense of Danzig.

FRONTTHEATER See DOMINO.

GANGES
Operation in French area.

GELB
Invasion of Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

GISELA
Occupation of Spain.

GRUEN
Invasion of Czechoslovakia.

                                                 [Page 1080]
GUSTAV
The plan to assassinate Gen. Giraud.

HAIFISCH
Attacks diversionary to BARBAROSSA by troops from Norway
against Scotland, 1941.

HARPUNE
See HAIFISCH.

HECHT
See ANGELHAKEN.

HEFTNADEL
See ANGELHAKEN.

HEKTOR
Attack. on Arctic convoys.

HERBSTREISE
Landing on Scotch Coast; diversion to SEELOEWE.

HERBSTSTURM
Evacuation of Adriatic coast.

HERKULES
Attack on Malta, 1942.

HOFFNUNG
Naval operations in Baltic and North Sea, against Convoy P.Q. 19.


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