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Updated: June 16, 2025
After his graduation Oertel had been given minor practical training in politically disruptive work in anti-fascist organizations across the Czech border where he had posed as a German emigré. There he had shown such aptitude that his Gestapo chief at sector headquarters in Dresden, Herr Geissler, sent him to Czechoslovakia on a special mission. Oertel hesitated.
Smith, to whom the unidentified man in the gray suit told Oertel to report, was a minister of the Church of Scotland in Prague, a British subject with influential connections not only with English-speaking people but with Czech government officials. Besides his ministerial work, the Reverend Smith led an amateur orchestra group giving free concerts for German emigrés.
Anna Suchy, when Oertel reported to her, gave him specific orders: "On August 16 , at five o'clock in the afternoon, you will sit on a bench near the fountain in Karlsplatz in Prague. A man dressed in a gray suit, gray hat, with a blue handkerchief showing from the breast pocket of his coat, will ask you for a light for his cigarette. Give him the light and accept a cigarette from the gentleman.
In a few instances I learned the details of the Nazis' inexorable determination and their inhuman indifference to the lives of even their own agents. Arno Oertel, alias Harald Half, was a thin, white-faced spy trained in two Gestapo schools for Fifth Column work.
Pushing it to overexertion, however, will not accomplish improvement. Some of the simple "tests of heart strength" described under that heading may be used with these patients. Graded exercise was first used scientifically by Oertel and Schott, and has been for years designated by their names. Modifications of their rigid rules are generally advisable.
The experiments of Oertel indicate that loss of weight due to fatiguing exercise arises more particularly from dehydration, which is made good by absorption of the fluids employed as beverage; the fluids are claimed by Germain See to act as accelerants of oxidation.
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