Mata Hari from Cheb

Czechoslovak Intelligence Service (2. Department of the Czechoslovak Army Headquarters) was in the 1930s renowned for its high professionalism and efficiency. When the Nazis came to power in neighbouring Germany in 1933, and Henlein's Sudeten German Patriotic Front (later the Sudeten German Party) established itself in the Czechoslovakia in the same year, the Czechoslovak party was forced to take power. the intelligence service was increasingly confronted with espionage on behalf of the German Reich, carried out overwhelmingly by members of the German minority in the Czechoslovakia. Among the German spies who were discovered and subsequently punished was Anna Dienelová, a young German woman from Cheb, whose case became a sensation in 1935 and was also reported in the foreign press. "The Dienelová and Co. case" had extensive connections and actors who have forever been written in the annals of Czechoslovakia. intelligence. In addition to Anna Dienelová, nicknamed "Mata Hari of Cheb", there was, for example, the mysterious Georg (Jiří) Le Gros, but also intelligence officers František Jandera and Josef Bartík. Mapping the "Dienelová and Co." case and its context is essentially an unintentional thriller, giving a specific insight into the history of intelligence services before World War II.