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Fritz Joubert Duquesne
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Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne (sometimes spelt Du Quesne pronounced in English as “Doo-Cain’’) (born Cape Colony 21 September 1877, died New York City 24 May 1956) was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, Anglophobe, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred for the British caused him to volunteer to spy for Germany during both World Wars. As a Boer spy he was known as the Black Panther, but he is also known as "The man who killed Kitchener" since he claimed to have sabotaged and sunk HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener was en route to Russia in 1916. As a German spy he went by the code name DUNN. In 1942, he and 32 other members of the Duquesne Spy Ring were convicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the largest espionage conviction in the history of the United States.
Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Second Anglo-Boer War
- 3 Career in the USA
- 4 First World War Activities
- 5 Activities 1919 to 1939
- 6 Second World War Activities - Duquesne Spy Ring
- 7 The Legend
- 8 Footnotes
- 9 External links
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