ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses exclusively on the CHISEL mission and the German exile recruited for this mission into the Ruhr Valley in northern Germany by Army Lieutenant Joseph Gould. His name is Kurt Gruber. While he died in the service of the war against Hitler, his sacrifice has gone relatively unnoticed – until now. A letter written about Kurt Gruber in 2006 by a boyhood friend and fellow coal miner named Kurt Julius Goldstein and which reflected Gruber's courage in standing up to the Nazis in the early 1930s illustrates the strong impact he had on the youth of Ahlen, where both men grew up. The prior mission dispatch dates had been canceled due to bad weather in England. Colonel Forgan concluded his recommendation by observing that Kurt Gruber had sacrificed his life in support of the war against Hitler and that "his bravery and desire to serve the Allied Armies was of the highest order".
