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New MI6 Head Has Second Connection to Nazis—a Factor in Her Recruitment?

The new head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Blaise Metreweli, has already been exposed as the granddaughter of the infamous Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Constantine Dobrowolski—known to Germany’s Abwehr as “The Butcher.” From 1941-1943, Dobrowolski rounded up Ukrainian Jews for their slaughter and bragged about his personal role in the “extermination of the Jews.”

However, it is also the case that Metreweli’s father, Constantine Dobrowolski, Jr., was raised by yet another Nazi collaborator—his stepfather, Davit Metreweli, who evidently worked at an Abwehr-run Special Preliminary Camp at Auschwitz. (The camp was in the town of Auschwitz itself and was not the same as the nearby concentration camp.) Davit taught radio technology to operatives for the Abwehr. It is also likely that Davit, a Georgian, was providing instruction to members of the infamous World War II Georgian Legion, also collaborators of the Nazis, brought to the Auschwitz facility.

In 1947, Davit became the stepfather of Constantin Dobrowolski, Jr., when he married Constantine’s mother Varvara Dobrowolski, in Yorkshire, England. Varvara had been brought to England from Germany, after the Nazis earlier had brought her from Ukraine to Germany. (In 1943, the Nazis had brought her to Germany, along with the infant Constantine, Jr., when the Red Army began pushing the Nazis out of Ukraine. Varvara’s then-husband was kept in Ukraine, continuing his work as a paid agent of the Nazis.) Davit Metreweli was also brought to England after 1945, where the two guests of the Nazis—Davit and Varvara—met each other and married. Blaise Metreweli’s father only changed his name from Dobrowolski to that of the less notorious Metreweli as an adult.

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