Title: Hitler's intelligence chief : Walter Schellenberg /
Authors: Doerries, Reinhard R.; Weinberg, Gerhard L.
Publisher: Enigma Books,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Schellenberg, Walter,; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Germany.; Military intelligence Germany History; Nazis Biography; Intelligence officers Germany Biography.
Abstract: "A law degree, a high level of professional engagement, and a personal relationship with Heinrich Himmler, the much feared head of the SS and German Police, helped ensure the rise of Walter Schellenberg. Head of SS Foreign Intelligence since 1942, Schellenberg was among the few to predict the dramatic collapse of Hitler's regime and Germany's military defeat at an early stage of World War II. Using his close contact with Himmler, he managed through the harrowing final months of the conflict to free large numbers of Jews and other concentration camp inmates by transporting them to safety in Sweden. In doing so he saved many lives. He survived the war to testify for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials of War Criminals."--Jacket.
Contents: Years of apprenticeship -- Chief of Amt VI foreign intelligence -- Twilight of the gods -- Postlude to Hitler's Germany -- Appendix I: Brigadefuehrer Schellenberg. Amtschef VI, Autobiography, compiled during his stay in Stockholm -- Appendix II: Annexe written by Hauptsturmfuehrer Goring to Schellenberg's report on his transactions with Count Bernadotte and events in the last weeks of the German Reich -- Appendix II: Annexe written by Hauptsturmfuehrer Goring to Schellenberg's report on his transactions with Count Bernadotte and events in the last weeks of the German Reich. Part II.