PSKOV: Operation "Cliff" — Ambushing 14 Abwehr Saboteurs in a Single Night
🔍 In this video:
• Real SMERSH methods near Pskov – October 1943
• Fourteen men landed in a field and were handcuffed within sixteen minutes – they had been expected since two in the morning
• A letter on the group commander's clipboard, addressed personally to the head of the SMERSH department, and two "mechanics" in the repair shop with the shell trains
• A moral dilemma: Zotov betrayed the group and wrote a letter – his daughters were taken to Germany in the fall of 1943, their fate unknown
• The atmosphere of a rear-area town where Schwarzkopf disappeared, his real name never revealed
⚠️ Based on real SMERSH counterintelligence methods. Pskov, October 1943. Fourteen men, sixteen minutes, one clipboard with a letter. Twelve outside, two inside. Schwarzkopf gone. The last entry in the file is that the search continues.
📽️ A request on standard letterhead from Leningrad—the incoming number remains, but there was no response—and the cost of one letter in the commander's notebook, where Antonov's burial site cannot be found: the rows were mixed up during the cemetery's expansion in the 1950s.