Episode 22. Epilogue -- Whatever happened to ....?
Frau Kranke -- survived the war, although her boarding house on Bülowstrasse did not. After the war she relocated to Prenzlauer Berg in East Berlin and established a new boarding house, where (true to form) she supplemented her income by informing on her guests for the Stassi.
Gerd Kutscher -- was killed in the first large (440 bombers) RAF raid on Berlin during the night of 18–19 November 1943
Max Feldstein -- closed the doors on the Apollo on 11 November 1938, the day after Kristallnacht. He fled to Paris, where he opened a cabaret and nude revue nightspot in Montmartre, which flourished after the Germans occupied the city in the summer of 1940 and became the Allies most reliable source of intelligence, extracted from the drunken Wehrmacht and SS officers who frequented the establishment's after-hours orgies. Unfortunately Max was apprehended and shipped to a concentration camp in the July 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup", the first Nazi directed raid and mass arrest of Jews in Paris by the French police
Brunhilde Teufel -- was demoted and reprimanded for her mishandling of the Moore affair. She spent the next three years smarting over the fact that she had to answer to her rival Horst von Hassel. But, when Ravensbrück opened in November 1938, she transferred there and became notorious for her brutal mistreatment of the camp’s women inmates. She was killed during the March 1945 ‘Death March’ evacuation of the camp, presumably by her surviving victims.
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda -- was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov in late September of 1936, shortly after the "Moore-Goebbels" operation debacle. In 1937 he was charged with the crimes of espionage and conspiracy. He was found guilty in the infamous "Show Trial of 21" and shot.
SS Sturmbannfuehrer Horst von Hassel -- became increasingly involved over the years with fellow German military officers opposed to the Nazi regime. He was arrested following the unsuccessful 20 July 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life. Under torture he confessed involvement in the plot, in addition to confessing his role in the 1936 “Moore-Goebbels” affair. He was hanged at Plötzensee, along with other conspirators in August of 1944.
Barbara Moore – reached Prague safely late in the afternoon of 3 August 1936. She, Klaus and Katrin enjoyed a sumptuous meal that evening in one of Prague’s best restaurants, and a most "pleasurable" night in Prague’s Grand Hotel Bohemia. The next morning she went out for a morning stroll and never returned. Official NKVD documents uncovered and made public in 2014 revealed that she was abducted and taken to Moscow, questioned and tortured in the Lubyanka, and shot.
Katrin Klein -- waited anxiously for several weeks with Klaus Erbe in the hope that Barbara would return, but then decided to make her way to Paris where she found employment as a showgirl in Max Feldstein’s Montmartre cabaret. After Feldstein’s arrest and deportation, she entered into a partnership with a young French resistance leader and Feldstein showgirl, known as Messaline, to continue the cabaret’s clandestine intelligence gathering activities.
Klaus Erbe -- eventually made his way to the U.S., where he parlayed his fluency in German along with his contacts among Nazis and Communists to land a position within the fledgling U.S. intelligence community that would eventually become known as OSS during World War II. He used his position to search unsuccessfully for word of what may have happened to Barbara Moore. After the war, he married a brown-eyed Midwestern girl and settled down in Chicago. They named their daughter "Barbara".
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