Intelligence services in GR and the neighboring post-war order 1943–1945

In her documentary film "Davos, the German Citadel", historian and filmmaker May B. Broda revealed, among other things, the espionage and broadcasting activities that the National Socialists carried out in the Landwasser Valley. These activities were discovered at the beginning of 1943, but continued until the end of the war. Allied intelligence services increasingly got involved. The intelligence service of the Swiss Army was also on site.

With the victory of the Red Army over the German Wehrmacht in Stalingrad in February 1943, the advance of the Western Allied armies in southern Italy, the armistice between Italy, the USA and Great Britain on 3 September 1943 and the subsequent occupation of northern and central Italy by the Wehrmacht, neutral Switzerland gained in importance as a base of operations for many secret services. In German-occupied northern Italy, partisan fighting broke out. In Austria, on the other hand, which had belonged to the German Reich since March 1938, there was hardly any resistance. The "Moscow Declaration" of 1 November 1943 held out the prospect that Austria would become an independent state again under certain conditions.
The intelligence activities in the canton of Graubünden, driven by the war and the turnaround in Allied foreign policy, will be traced and classified in the lecture.

May B. Broda, lic. phil. I, is a historian and filmmaker; she lives in Zurich.