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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 ...
Nov 7, 2023 · Walter Schellenberg had few redeeming personal attributes and could easily be characterized as just another career Nazi. He owed his lofty position as head of German intelligence to the patronage of Heinrich Himmler, and he remained personally loyal to the Reichsführer until the end.
Walter Schellenberg was employed by Heydrich in SS intelligence effort to unmask all internal resistance and plots against the Nazi regime. He was involved in the Venlo affair which resulted in the SS kidnapping of two British SIS agents in the Dutch border town of Venlo.
Aug 19, 1997 · In the fall of 1939, the young and ambitious ex-lawyer Walter Schellenberg, who was about to become chief of the counterintelligence bureau of the Reichssicherheitshaupamt (RSHA, or the Reich Central Security Office), proposed using these emigrés to initiate a sting operation against the Best-Stevens team.
Apr 2, 2019 · Walter Schellenberg had a fear-inducing title and pedigree: he served as the last head of Nazi Germany’s Reich Security Main Office, Office VI (the Foreign Intelligence Service), worked in the security service of the SS, headed the Gestapo’s counterintelligence department, and was a member of the Nazi Party and the SS.
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Jan 6, 2000 · Walter Schellenberg is one of those enigmatic figures that emerged from the ruins of the Third Reich. Like the memiors of Hitler's armaments minister, Albert Speer, Schellenberg's account gives us a penetrating look into the inner workings of the Nazi regime.
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Nov 22, 2020 · On Jan. 4, 1946, Col. John Amen, Assistant American Trial Counsel at the Nuremberg Trial, called as a witness, Walter Schellenberg, head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany following the...
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