[23][15] Koch accepted Poulsen's proposal, and took him in as an official member of the expedition,[27] with the role of a radio operator under Count Eigel Knuth,[26][23] from 1933 to 1934,[2] his "ambition" and evidently his goal in and from the request.
[24] Shortly thereafter, the Count appealed to the German Authority to send Poulsen, the Count and two other Danes named Kurt Olsen, at the time a 17 year old radio operator, and Marius Jensen, contemporarily about 30 years of age old, and who was beforehand a hunter in coincidentally Northeastern Greenland prior to the outbreak of hostilities.
[23][9] This was the first of many clues that led to the discovery of German forces at Germaniahavn on the southern coastline of Sabine that very day.
[9] There was no time to ready the dogs the Patrol relied on for travel in the wake of the attack, so, fleeing the raid was a task accomplished on foot by Jensen and his team, all of whom successfully escaped the engagement but fled without adequate winter clothing or supplies and the team had split from Jensen accidentally along the way.
[15] Poulsen immediately dispatched member Eli Knudsen to rally the dogs and set off to intercept the individual so that he could bring the figure over, while he went into the camp and prepared.
When they had helped Jensen indoors, they discovered that he was reportedly grey with fatigue, frostbitten (though, rather fortunately only in the first degree), and missing his boots; he had been walking in the snow with mere socks to protect him.
[9] Poulsen understood that the problem of the base at Sabine would be taken care of by the American Air Force sometime later, but in the moment he prepared for a German attack of Eskimonæs.
[15][33] Thanks to Poulsen's "tuition" of them, Kurt Olsen had reportedly matured mentally and physically,[15] whereas cousins Bjarne and Oddvar Akre thought that, in spite of the patrols activities, at least Ib Poulsen and Eli Knudsen,[36][41] and at most them and all the other Danish elements of the Patrol were in fact German collaborators[42] or at least sympathizers,[36] who wished to kill the pair.
[36][42] The cousins and Ib Poulsen disagreed on effectively every decision made by the latter,[36] and they were generally unhappy with their Danish peers.