WIEDEMANN, FRITZ
German Consul General in Tientsin and San Francisco; formerly Adjutant to Hitler.
WINKLER, KARL
Manager of the Party Chancery.
WISLICENY, DIETER
Hauptsturmfuehrer in Slovakia; Specialist on Jewish matters in Slovakia with Amt IV A4, Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) 1940-1944.
WOLFF, KARL
Supreme SS and Police commander in Italy; Commander of the Italian SS Legion; General of the Waffen-SS at the Fuehrer’s Headquarters; chief of the personal staff of the Reichsfuehrung SS; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer.
ZEITZLER, KURT
Generaloberst.
CODE NAMES AND WORDS USED BY THE GERMAN HIGH
COMMAND FOR OPERATIONS AND MEASURES
DURING THE WAR
| ACHSE | Measures to be taken when Italy declared a separate armistice. |
| ADLER | Capture of coast between Zara and Fiume. |
| AFRIKA | Two Italo-German convoys from Italy to Tripoli/Bengasi, end of December 1941. |
| AIDA | Occupation of Egypt and the Suez Canal. |
| ALARICH | Occupation of North Italy and Unoccupied France. |
| ALPENVEILCHEN | Invasion of Albania. |
| ANGELHAKEN | (a and b) Attacks on British ships in the North Atlantic by Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Hipper, etc. December 1940-January 1941. |
| ANTON | Occupation of Unoccupied France, with Italian cooperation. |
| ATTILA | Occupation of Unoccupied France; renamed ANTON on 17 June 1942 when land and sea operations were separated. |
| AUGSBURG | Delay attack, in Operation GELB. |
| AURORA | “Luetzow” operating against UK-Russian Convoys in 1942. |
| BARBAROSSA | Attack on Russia. |
| BEOWULF | (I & II) Occupation of East Baltic Islands, 5 November 1941. |
| BERLIN 11 | (a and b) Attacks on British ships in the North Atlantic by Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Hipper, etc. December 1940-January 1941. |
| BIRKE | Withdrawal of troops from Finland. |
| BLAUFUCHS | Attacks in Baltic Islands and near Finland. |
| BLUECHER | Part of planned attack on Caspian Sea, 1942. |
| BRAUNSCHWEIG | Operation around Stalingrad. |
| CERBERUS | Transfer of “Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen” through the English Channel, 1942. |
| CHURCHILL | Danish fishing vessel “Sursum Corda” spying on English Coast and later called ERICH. |
| CORSI/CORSO | Part of operation GRUEN. |
| DANZIG | Execute attack, in Operation GELB. |
| DELPHIN | Clearance of Dalmation Islands. |
| DOMINO | “Scharnhorst and Gneisenau” operating against UK-Russia convoys in 1942. Name changed from FRONTTHEATER. |
| DOPPELSCHLAG | Scheer and Hipper operating in Arctic, 1942. |
| EDELWEISS | Operation around Baku and Caspian Sea. |
| EICHE | Rescue of Mussolini, 1943. |
| EISBAER | Attack on Cos, 1943. |
| EISENBAHN | Moving of the “Hipper” to Drontheim. |
| ELISABETH | Blockade running, Bay of Biscay, 1943. |
| EISPALAST | “Koeln” operating against UK-Russia convoys. Name changed to MEIS-ENBALZ, 1942 |
| ERICH | See CHURCHILL. |
| EUROPA | Part of operation SEEKRIEG, planned landing on East English coast. |
| FELIX | Occupation of Canary Islands, North Africa, and Gibraltar. |
| FEUERZANGE | Combing out certain Adriatic Islands. |
| FEUERZAUBER | Capture of Leningrad. |
| FISCHREIHER | Operations along the Volga, to Astrakan. |
| FLIEGERPILZ | Intended mining of Dardanelles, September 1944. |
| FREISCHUETZ | Capture of Vis and other Adriatic Islands, 1943. |
| FRISCHES HAFF | Defense of Danzig. |
| FRONTTHEATER | See DOMINO. |
| GANGES | Operation in French area. |
| GELB | Invasion of Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. |
| GISELA | Occupation of Spain. |
| GRUEN | Invasion of Czechoslovakia. |
| GUSTAV | The plan to assassinate Gen. Giraud. |
| HAIFISCH | Attacks diversionary to BARBAROSSA by troops from Norway against Scotland, 1941. |
| HARPUNE | See HAIFISCH. |
| HECHT | See ANGELHAKEN. |
| HEFTNADEL | See ANGELHAKEN. |
| HEKTOR | Attacks on Arctic convoys. |
| HERBSTREISE | Landing on Scotch Coast; diversion to SEELOEWE. |
| HERBSTSTURM | Evacuation of Adriatic coast. |
| HERKULES | Attack on Malta, 1942. |
| HOFFNUNG | Naval operations in Baltic and North Sea, against Convoy P.Q. 19. |
| HOLZAUGE | Meterological expedition to Greenland. |
| IKARUS | Invasion of Iceland—planned 1940. |
| ILONA | Defense measures against an Allied invasion of Spain, changed from ISABELLA in June, 1942. |
| ISABELLA | See ILONA. |
| JUNO | Norwegian operations, 1940. |
| KIRSCHBLUETE | Voyage of Japanese submarines to Europe. |
| KONSTANTIN | Occupation of Italian-occupied Balkan territories; changed from PRINZ EUGEN. |
| KORALLE | Unidentified operation circa February 1944. |
| KAMELIE | Projected annexation of Corsica, 1941. |
| KORSIKA | See GANGES. |
| KURFUERST | Projected operation against Gibraltar. |
| LABYRINTH | See GANGES. |
| LACHSFANG | Attack on Murmansk railroad near Kandalakscha. |
| LANDWIRT | Naval operational group in Mediterranean, 1943-44. |
| MANDARINE | See GANGES. |
| MARCO POLO | Operation involving collaboration with Japan. |
| MARITA | Invasion of Greece, 1941. |
| MEISENBALZ | See EISPALAST. |
| MERKUR | Invasion of Crete, 1941. |
| META | Ship cruising in Swedish water gathering various information, 1935. |
| MONSUN | Operation involving use of Japanese Bases. |
| NAUMBURG | Capture of Narvik, 6 June 1940. |
| NORD | Operation in Norway. |
| NORDLICHT | Withdrawal of troops from Norway. |
| NORDMARK | Bergen/Shetland Islands operations, 1940. |
| NORDWEST | A planned landing in England. |
| OLDENBURG | The economic counterpart of BARBAROSSA. |
| OTTO | Annexation of Austria, 1938; also frequently refers to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-38. |
| PRINZ EUGEN | See KONSTANTIN. |
| REGENBOGEN | Attacks against Arctic convoy, P.Q. 20, 1942 and 31 December 1943. |
| RENNTIER | Operation Norway, 1941 (blocking Kola Bay). |
| RHEINUEBUNG | Operations of the Bismarck. |
| ROESSELSPRUNG | Attacks on convoys (P.Q. 17), 1942. |
| ROT | The main effort in the West. |
| ROTBUCHE | Defense of German bases in Estonia. |
| SAFARI | Countermeasures against Danish sabotage. |
| SCHAMIL | Paratrooper attack around Maikop. |
| SCHLESWIG | Part of operation SEEKRIEG (Landing on East English coast) including attack on Norwegian convoy, February 1940. |
| SEELOEWE | Invasion of Great Britain. |
| SILBERFUCHS | Operation in Norway, 1941 (cutting off Murmansk). |
| SILBERSTREIFEN | Naval operations in Baltic and North Sea, against convoy P.Q. 15. |
| SK | (SEEKRIEG?) Invasion of East Coast of England. |
| SONDERSTAB F | Military mission to assist Iraq rebellion 1941. |
| SONNENBLUME | Capturing Tripoli and Malta (1941). |
| SPORTPALAST | Transfer of capital ships to Norway. |
| TAIFUN | Autumn 1941 attack against Timoshenko army. |
| TAMARA | Encouraging and preparing revolt of natives in the Georgian Republic, June 1941. |
| TANNE | Withdrawal of troops from Finland. |
| TANNE OST | (Aufgabe Hochland) Occupation of Eastern Russia. |
| THESEUS | Attack by all arms in North Africa, May 1942. |
| TIRPITZ | Operation against Convoy P.Q. 12, 6-9 March 1942 and return from Narvik to Drontheim on 13 March 1942. |
| TORERO | See GANGES. |
| WALLENSTEIN | See LANDWIRT. |
| WEISS | Invasion of Poland. |
| WESERUEBUNG | Invasion of Norway. |
| WESTRAUM | Defense operation in France, 1944. |
| WIESENGRUND | Attack on Northern Russia. |
| WIKINGER | Attack on fighting vessels, Dogger Bank, February 1940. |
| WUNDERLAND | Operations in White Sea, August 1942. |
| ZAREWNA/ZARIN | Mining operations, Murmansk Sea, 1942. |