Third Reich''s Intelligence Services - The Career of Walter Schellenberg

A pioneering study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service and its head, Walter Schellenberg.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Gaining a foothold; 2. Rising star; 3. Intelligence man; 4. Office VI and its forerunner; 5. Competing visions: Office VI and the Abwehr; 6. Doing intelligence: Italy as an example; 7. Alternative universes: Office VI and the Auswärtige Amt; 8. Schellenberg, Himmler, and the quest for 'peace'; 9. Postwar; 10. Concluding thoughts; Appendix.

About the author

Katrin Paehler is Associate Professor at Illinois State University. She was a member of the Independent Historians Commission on the German Foreign Office and Nazism and its Aftermath, and is co-editor of A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe (2015).

Summary

A pioneering study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service and its head, Walter Schellenberg. Katrin Paehler examines Schellenberg's career, as well as charting the development and activities of the service he eventually headed, and his attempts to place it at the center of Nazi foreign intelligence and foreign policy.

Product details

• Authors: Katrin Paehler, Katrin (Illinois State University) Paehler, Paehler Katrin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781316610145
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61014-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General