• 1940, Jakobs was sentenced to death and shot by a military firing squad. He was not hanged since he was captured as an enemy combatant. Jakobs, who was...
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    August 1941, the last execution at the Tower was that of German Cpl. Josef Jakobs, shot for espionage during World War II. Since the 1960s, there has been...
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    Mossop's death. Another theory comes from an MI5 declassified file about Josef Jakobs – the last man to be put to death in the Tower of London, on 15 August...
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  • Jens Jakobs (1985), Swedish ice hockey player Johannes Jakobs (1917–1944), German footballer Josef Jakobs (1898–1941), German spy Julian Jakobs (1990)...
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  • Josef Jakob (sometimes spelled Iosif Iacob; born 11 September 1939, Carani, Romania) is a Romanian-born former handball player and coach of Banat Swabian...
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  • Jakob Josef Petuchowski (1925 – 1991) was an American research professor of Jewish Theology and Liturgy and the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of...
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  • Hermann Görtz Herbert Hans Haupt Stephanie von Hohenlohe Kurt Jahnke Josef Jakobs Werner von Janowski Johnny Jebsen Tyler Kent Edward Kerling Simon Emil...
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  • Schmidt (Tate) Nathalie Sergueiew (Treasure) Dušan Popov (Tricycle) Werner von Janowski (Watchdog) Eddie Chapman (Zig-Zag) Josef Jakobs Mutt and Jeff...
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    of 31 January 1941, the German spy Josef Jakobs parachuted into the Ramsey area, landing near Dovehouse Farm. Jakobs broke his ankle during his descent...
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    Yeomanry. During the Second World War, the courts martial of German spies, Josef Jakobs and Theodore Schurch, (both tried under the Treachery Act 1940) were...
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