Tower of London at the Tower was German spy Josef Jakobs who was shot on 15 August 1941. The executions for espionage during the wars took place in a prefabricated miniature rifle range which stood in the outer ward and was demolished in 1969. The Second World War also saw the last use of the Tower as a fortification. In the event of a German invasion, the Tower, together with the Royal Mint and nearby warehouses, was to have formed one of three "keeps" or complexes of defended buildings which formed the last-ditch defences of the capital. The Tower of London has become
Josef Kieffer to prisoners. During his cross-examination after the war by Vera Atkins from SOE, he began to cry at his interrogator's description of the death of Noor Inayat Khan at Dachau concentration camp. Atkins replied, "Kieffer, if one of us is going to cry it is going to be me. You will please stop this comedy." Kieffer was subsequently charged with war crimes. After being found guilty at his trial he was sentenced to death by hanging and executed on the gallows at by Albert Pierrepoint. Josef Kieffer Waffen SS Sturmbannführer (Major) Hans Josef Kieffer (4 December 1900 – 26 June