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HITLER'S INTELLIGENCE CHIEF
Walter Schellenberg
by Reinhard R. Doerries
ISBN#978-1-929631-77-3 •
$ 25.00
July 2009
THE FINAL COLLAPSE OF THE THIRD REICH AND THE SECRET INITIATIVES OF A KEY NAZI OFFICIAL
Hitler’s Intelligence Chief Walter Schellenberg
The Man Who Kept Germany’s Secrets With His Autobiography written in 1945
Introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg
(Author of A World At Arms and Hitler’s Foreign Policy 1933-1939)Adolf Hitler's chief of foreign intelligence, SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg, was a cultured and highly educated Nazi functionary driven by relentless ambition and ruthless pursuit of his goals. Surviving the vicious internecine struggles within the SS hierarchy, he became a close intelligence and foreign policy advisor to the murderous Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, whom he served and feared until the very end. 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.
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