| LC control no. | n 94059300 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Purwin, Hilde, 1919-2010 |
| Variant(s) | Beetz, Felicita, 1921- Burkhardt, Hildegard, 1919-2010 Drex, Felicita, 1919-2010 Drex, Hildegard, 1919-2010 Beetz, Hilde, 1919-2010 Beetz, Hildegard, 1919-2010 Blum, Hilde, 1920- Felizitas, 1919-2010 |
| Birth date | 1919-09-16 |
| Death date | 2010-03-29 |
| Found in | La spia che amò€ Ciano, 1993: p. 17 (frau Felicita Beetz) p. 235 (Hildegard Burkhardt; b. 1921, Weimar; married Gerhard Beetz and assumed forename Felicita in 1943; subsequently married Henry Drex) Sisters in resistance, 2022: CIP galley (German spy, Hildegard Burkhardt; twenty-three in January of 1943; better known to history, following her marriage to a high-ranking German officer named Gerhardt Beetz, by her married name: Hilde Beetz; native of Weimar; spoke fluent Italian and excellent English; member of the Nazi party; joined the intelligence services first as a mail clerk and then as a translator; executive head of Amt VI in Rome; promoted on an ad hoc basis from secretary to an active intelligence agent; assigned to seduce Galeazzo Ciano to get his diaries) Gedenkseiten.de website, viewed November 12, 2021: Obituary for Hilde Purwin (September 16, 1919, Obernissa; March 29, 2010, Bonn: journalist Hilde Purwin, Felizitas Beetz; died on March 29 at the age of 90 in Bon; born Hildegard Gertrud Burkhardt; She was assigned to the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano by the security service as "Felizitas"; After the war she became a translator for the American military administration in Berlin in 1946; she received a new identity from the Americans as Hilde Blum, born in 1920; The American secret service tried to persuade her to act as an agent for the West in the looming Cold War, on Operation Gambit; she did not see this espionage activity as the purpose of her life and preferred to write about the redevelopment of Germany after the war; she began her journalistic career at the Berlin Telegraf; In 1950 she moved to l Bonn, where she married the journalist Carl-Heinz Purwin) <https://www.gedenkseiten.de/hilde-purwin/> Frauen, 1979: t.p. (Hilde Purwin) |
| Associated language | ger ita eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 80134093 |
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