| Gerit Van der Waals Gerit (Gerrit) Van der Waals was a fair-haired young Dutch officer known for his numerous contacts in Budapest. Lt. Van der Waals not only functioned at times as a British courier, but also worked for Raoul Wallenberg, making false ID’s. Arrested and imprisoned with Karoly Schandl by the NKVD/SMERSH in December 1944, Gerit Van der Waals did not survive his Soviet captivity. Both he and Karoly Schandl had been ordered by the British to report to the Russians, though in later years, Whitehall did not seem willing to acknowledge this fact. Karoly Schandl, however, survived to tell what really happened ... Source: The London-Budapest Game (2007) |
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