Talk:Ivar Lissner

Discussion of sources relating to the Lissner article
First it is important to mention, that Höhnes “Der Fall Lissner” was published without giving any reliable archival/historical sources. This topic has already been discussed at the German Wikipedia article about Lissner. Nevertheless authors like Michael Müller or Winfried Meyer (Unternehmen Sieben) and also Jürgen Corleis quoted Höhne without verifying the reliability of his publications about Lissner. Michael Müller claims that Lissner and his brother served in the Schutzstaffel after entering the Nazi party in 1933 and that Ivar Lissner found out his father was jewish in 1939.

Like the wikipedia article shows (which is like Michael Müllers book also based on Heinz Höhnes “Der Fall Lissner”) Lissner found out that his father was jewish in 1937. It seems, that Michael Müllers citation of Heinz Höhnes “Der Fall Lissner” is wrong.

Müllers source for the SS-Membership of Lissner and his brother seems to be Winfried Meyers “Unternehmen Sieben”. If you take a look at Meyers own sources at the end of his book about the Lissner case, he only mentions a telegram (1942) in which Ivar Lissner himself claims that he has been a member of the Schutzstaffel. But this telegram isn’t a reliable source because Lissner made many untrue statements to protect himself. Later he even called himself “Gestapo chief for the Far East”, without having – in reality- any military rank at all. In addition Meyer doesn’t give a source for Lissners brother Percy’s supposed Schutzstaffel membership. Even Höhne, Meyers main scource, doesn’t claim anything like that in “Der Fall Lissner”. As the discussion (and the herein mentioned archival sources) at the German Wikipedia article about Ivar Lissner shows, Lissner and his brother where in fact never members of the Schutzstaffel. So Höhne, Meyer and Müller are incorrect in this regard.

The book of Jürgen Corleis is interesting because he remembers events in connection with the “Kristall” magazine which could never have happened this way. As Corleis remembers Lissner featured in Paul Carrell's (Paul Schmidt) "Operation Barbarossa" series. This is in fact untrue because Lissner was editor of “Kristall” only until 1956 ("Kristall” Nr. 9 1956). The “Operation Barbarossa” series started much later, when Horst Mahnke became editor of “Kristall” in 1960. It seems strange, that Jürgen Corleis, who claims that he “admired” Lissner, remembers how Lissner featured (the today strongly criticized) “Operation Barbarossa” series and at the same time remembers the end of Lissners career at “Kristall” in detail in his book. An event (if his description is true) which must have happened in fact 1956! StevenReading187 (talk) 12:46, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Significance to Japan
The details of the article are difficult to understand; there seem to be words missing, verbs especially, missing at key points, and the pronouns become jumbled. I suggest someone familiar with the subject proofread it. At any rate, it seems Lissner spied on Japan, and passed information to the USSR. His wartime involvement, contributions, or detrimental activities seem to be minimal and of minimal importance, thus I removed the WP:Japan banner. From what I understood, Lissner's activities were wholly inconsequential to Japan. The article may be more appropriate for WP:Soviet Union. Boneyard90 (talk) 15:07, 4 September 2012 (UTC)