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 Jakobs the 4th Foot Guards. In June 1940, ten months after the outbreak of the Second World War, Jakobs was drafted into the "Wehrmacht" as an "Oberleutnant". However, when it was discovered that he had been imprisoned in Switzerland from 1934–37 for selling counterfeit gold, he was forced to resign his commission in the Wehrmacht. Jakobs was demoted to a "feldwebel" (NCO) and placed in the "Meteorologischen Dienst" (meteorological service) of the German Army. Shortly afterwards, he also began working for the Abwehr, the intelligence department of the German Army. On 31 January 1941, Jakobs was flown from Schiphol Airport in