Walter Schellenberg
Walter Schellenberg, (1910-1952) an attorney who became a SS-Brigadefuehrer, heading the Sicherheitdienst (SD) throughout WWII, which absorbed all other national foreign intelligence organizations of Nazi Germany. [1]
Early career
He joined the SS in 1933, doing administrative work and lecturing to SS members. He moved to the SD the next year, and becae a headquarters legal assistant in 1936.
Wartime
He was assigned to the Gestapo in August 1939 and put in charge of counterespionage. In 1941, he and his functions were transferred into the Political Intelligence Service, also known as the External SD, and became its department head in 1943.
Postwar
He testified against major war criminals at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg), but later received a six-year sentence; commuted before his death from liver disease. He received a light sentence in recognition both of his testimony, and his attempts, late in the war, to assist concentration camp prisoners.
References
- ↑ Walter Schellenberg (1946), Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, vol. VIII, U.S. Government Printing Office, Document UK-81, at 622-629