https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.4849
In 1931, Captain Joseph Marie Abel Sauzey, a liaison officer of the French military intelligence assigned to the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, turned to the General Staff’s Second Division with a request for intelligence regarding the convention of Der Stahlhelm, a German paramilitary organization, that had been scheduled to take place in Wrocław. Polish and French intelligence agencies had been collaborating since the early 1920s in an effort to monitor German nationalist organizations. However, the impetus to investigate the Stahlhelm, an extreme nationalist and anti-Polish organization, did not originate with Poland’s ally. The Stahlhelm had been closely monitored by Sections 3 and 4 of the Second Division of the Polish General Staff since the early 1930s when the organization’s membership had peaked. The request filed by the Deuxième Bureau gave rise to a detailed questionnaire and an intelligence report describing the course of events during the Stahlhelm convention in Wrocław on 30–31 May 1931. These documents are edited in the article.
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