The Nazi Secret Service"The S.D. unmasks the adversaries of National Socialist ideas and thus orients the activity of the police .... The S.D. will be a police of the mind, the instrument for measuring and controlling thought." Thus was the Secret Service of the S.S. described by its founder Heinrich Himmler, and no sooner had Hitler come to power than the S.D., under Himmler's lieutenant Reinhard Heydrich, who had eliminated his rivals by poisoning them in Hitler's mind, set to work "controlling thought." In this book, journalist André Brissaud recounts the achievements of Heydrich's Secret Service up to 1940: the capture in 1934 of Sosnowski, the Polish spy with the glamorous helpmates, in a tragicomic climax to his farewell party in his Berlin flat, where the waiters turned out to be disguised S.S. men; an anti-Hitler plot invented in order to liquidate Röhm and the entire Brownshirt leadership--and anyone else on the S.S. expendable list; a reactionary plot which led Stalin to make a murderous clean sweep of his officer corps; the broad comedy of the Gleiwitz incident, when S.S. men dressed as Poles raided a German border radio station. Based on all available written and spoken evidence, including a long private interview with Walter Schellenberg, S.S. counterespionage chief.--Adapted from book jacket. |
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... Heinz Jost was to tell me that the items were at first meagre : gossip , the discovery of a few small - arms depôts , some more - or - less seditious remarks by S.A. chiefs after drinking ... in fact nothing that could really allow Röhm ...
... Heinz Jost was to tell me that the items were at first meagre : gossip , the discovery of a few small - arms depôts , some more - or - less seditious remarks by S.A. chiefs after drinking ... in fact nothing that could really allow Röhm ...
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... Heinz Jost , whose sentence had been reduced to ten years , was free . Through different correspondents I tried to estab- lish contact . In vain . On each of my visits to Germany I asked , ' Where is Jost ? ' He was as elusive as the ...
... Heinz Jost , whose sentence had been reduced to ten years , was free . Through different correspondents I tried to estab- lish contact . In vain . On each of my visits to Germany I asked , ' Where is Jost ? ' He was as elusive as the ...
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... Heinz Jost ? ' ' Jost ? It's impossible . I don't believe in it any more . Certainly . you take me to him ? ' Can ' Yes , tomorrow if you're free . ' There are men who imprint their image on things . An organisa- tion - particularly in ...
... Heinz Jost ? ' ' Jost ? It's impossible . I don't believe in it any more . Certainly . you take me to him ? ' Can ' Yes , tomorrow if you're free . ' There are men who imprint their image on things . An organisa- tion - particularly in ...
Contents
Authors Foreword II | 11 |
The Curtain Rises | 13 |
Meet a War Criminal | 15 |
Copyright | |
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