... what do you think ? Now heres an interesting man ... how much is fact and how much is fiction we'll probably never know .... but what a life he led - makes you breathless just reading about him ! A few years ago I picked up a secondhand book about his life and became enthralled reading about his escapades !! Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne (sometimes spelt Du Quesne pronounced in English as “Doo-Cain’’) (September 21, 1877 – May 24, 1956) was a South African Boer soldier, prisoner of war, big game hunter, journalist, war correspondent, Anglophobe, stockbroker, saboteur, spy, and adventurer whose hatred for the British caused him to volunteer to spy for Germany during both World Wars. As a Boer spy he was known as the "Black Panther", but he is also known as "the man who killed Kitchener", since he claimed to have sabotaged and sunk HMS Hampshire, on which Lord Kitchener was en route to Russia in 1916. As a German spy, he went by the code name DUNN. In 1942, he and 32 other members of the Duquesne Spy Ring were convicted in the largest espionage conviction in the history of the United States. http://www.viswiki.com/en/Fritz_Joubert_Duquesne http://angloboer.com/artduquesne.htm http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/spyring/33_members.htm
A notable case they say ..... http://books.google.com/books?id=Vn...=onepage&q=FREDERICK JOUBERT DUQUESNE&f=false
