In what would later be called “the blood week in the Black Forest,” Gehrum, aided by his underlings, had murdered sixty-eight Alliance agents for the sole purpose of preventing their rescue by Allied troops. The killings were one more sign of the Reich’s remorseless vendetta against a spy network that had played such a major role in its looming defeat and, perhaps just as important, had not stopped actively working until the war’s end to achieve that goal. —
