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Walter Friedrich Schellenberg (16 January 1910 – 31 March 1952) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.He rose through the ranks of the SS, becoming one of the highest ranking men in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and eventually assumed the position as head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.
Nov 7, 2023 · Learn how Walter Schellenberg, a senior Nazi intelligence officer, survived the war by betraying his colleagues and cooperating with the Allies. Discover his role in a smuggling network that aimed to install a Nazi king in Britain.
Aug 19, 1997 · How a Nazi spy chief used a sting operation to expose British Intelligence in Holland in 1939. Learn about the Venlo incident, the role of Walter Schellenberg and its impact on World War II.
Walter Schellenberg wanted to be the man who ended the war. He claimed time and again that he broached the idea of peace negotiations with Himmler as early as August 1942 and made several attempts to contact the West, only to be held back by Himmler at the last moment.
Apr 2, 2019 · A review of a book that examines the career of Walter Schellenberg, the last head of Nazi Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Service, and the history of his office. The reviewer praises the book as a comprehensive institutional history but criticizes its lack of biographical material and its close reading of the documents.
- Kristie Macrakis
- 2019
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Sep 15, 2017 · Katrin Paehler, a history professor at Illinois State University, explores the career and role of Walter Schellenberg, the head of the Nazi political foreign intelligence service (Office VI) in her book. She reveals how Schellenberg used Nazi ideology to advance his own interests and how he tried to take over other intelligence and diplomatic agencies.
SS General Walter Schellenberg, the chief of the RSHA Department VI (SD Foreign Intelligence Agency) and even Himmler himself; Facing unyielding demands for unconditional surrender, the SS men who sent out feelers, lacked the authority—or the conception of themselves in a post-Nazi state—to offer unconditional surrender even to the western ...
