After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort ironically, he was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after the war's end. During the war, he sold information to both sides. Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence, then moved to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish radio and set up an intelligence organization. He began to use his position for insider trading, buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.įoreseeing World War II, Blofeld made copies of top-secret wires and sold them to Nazi Germany. He then took a communication position with the Polish government, at the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. He later went to the Warsaw Technical Institute to study engineering and radionics. Blofeld attended the University of Warsaw where he studied economics and political history. Ernst Stavro Blofeld was born on to a Polish father and a Greek mother in Gdynia. In John Griswold's 'Ian Fleming's James Bond', George Almond provided illustrations depicting Blofeld in each novel, based on Fleming's own descriptions of the character.įleming details Blofeld's background in the novel Thunderball none of his background is ever revealed in the Bond films. In the novel series by Ian Fleming, Blofeld makes three appearances in what is considered the 'Blofeld Trilogy'.
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