Anna Krauss

Anna Krauss (née Friese; 27 October 1884, Bogen[a] – 5 August 1943, Plötzensee Prison, Berlin)[1] was a German clairvoyant, fortune-teller and businesswomen who became a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, through her association with a Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra ("Rote Kapelle") by the Abwehr, during the Nazi regime.

Since 1936, Krauss, who had undergone commercial training in her youth, had become the owner of a paint and varnish wholesaler in Berlin.

Krauss would eventually volunteer the use of her apartment to Graudenz, to host two mimeograph machines to produce anti-Nazi leaflets for the group.

[5] Many of Krauss's customers were superstitious German officers looking for advice and as they described their upcoming campaigns, she would pass the details along to Schulze-Boyzen via Toni Graudenz who acted in the role of cutout.

[6] Krauss used her own apartment to host duplicate mimeograph machines that John Graudenz ran to create the leaflets that were known under the name AGIS.