#schellenberg

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В четвёртом часу ночи на Альбрехтштрассе зазвонил телефон:

"Генришек, ты сейчас умрёшь!"

[cursedreverie1945]

I'm only posting this because of the University of Texas.

"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. Schellenberg was not a thinker. He was an enforcer, career gossip, and manipulator, and his moves were guided by self-preservation and opportunism that trumped any ideological loyalty to the Nazi Party. He backed winners, and in Nazi Germany they did not come much bigger than Himmler. Realism is not a word that can be attached to many of his fellow Nazis, but it was a characteristic ingrained in Schellenberg’s personality. While fellow Nazis puffed out their chests and talked of victory in the East or likely failure of the Allied landings in Italy, he was busy preparing for a German defeat. At heart, he was a bureaucrat, comfortable with the details. He was happiest when involved in complex intelligence operations that required precise moves and deep knowledge of his opponents, both German and Allied. The shadows were his natural home. Far from the politics of the High Command and whims of Hitler, he preferred to stay in the background pulling the strings." - CrimeReads

Oh and he was a fucking jackass.

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Schellenberg, Liechtenstein, 5 September 2021

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Landscape by Schellenberg, Bavaria, Germany

German vintage postcard

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I was going through my CapCut and found this video I made like a 7 months ago or something like that 🙏🏻😭

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Ein Totentanz (c. 1718 / Radierung) - Johann Rudolf Schellenberg

[lonelychristiana]

*slurs f word*

[hurglewurm]

old men yaoi. no this isn't any fandom, these are prominent academics in my field (and the field adjacent). the two in the comic hated each other a lot but those are real quotes or paraphrases that they said about each other. i will not apologize

[miuarchiv]

Klaus Harpprecht on Heinrich Müller's implausible defection to the USSR

Harpprecht opined that WS had made up such an assumption to justify his own role and complicity, and WS's claim of Müller's increasing respect for Stalin and his regime was dubious.

It was not impossible that Müller might have expressed "respect," since WS himself had made similar remarks during the Amt VI meeting on 19 Nov 1941:

"How far behind we are in our work is best demonstrated by the Russian intelligence service, for example, which is precisely informed about our tasks and has even recorded the details of all the people right up to the Gestapo referents. The deputy Amtschef mentioned what we have learned from other countries in such matters. Even if Russia was able to secure and seal off its borders in a completely different way from Germany, for example, due to its geographical location, it is still remarkable how the Russians worked. For example, it is still unknown what kind of armies the Russians still have in Siberia. The statements and examples given by the deputy Amtschef are by no means intended to be reproaches, but only to serve the purpose of our work. The group leaders and referents should take their time to think through all of this and make suggestions and proposals to the deputy Amtschef." (Translated by Deepl, with manual corrections)

Klaus Harpprecht also mentioned certain matters concerning Sven Hinnen. (For the story of illegal entry into Switzerland, see previous posts.)

"At any rate, I remember this much: Schellenberg seemed to be firmly convinced that Müller was still alive and had nothing more urgent to do than to seek his own life. In his stories, he repeatedly pointed out that from 1943 onwards, Müller had expressed increasing respect for Stalin and his regime. His sympathies for the communists had become more and more obvious. I don't know whether there were other employees of the Gestapo chief, apart from Schellenberg, whom I don't regard as a very reliable historical witness, who thought they had observed a similar development. In any case, Schellenberg based his assumption that Müller had defected to the Soviets during the final phase of the siege of Berlin on this thesis. Schellenberg was prepared to see an informer for Müller in every old gardener and every second waiter. I don't know whether he really lived in fear (after all, there were some reasons for deep existential anxiety), but there is no doubt that he was unable to wriggle out of the web of intrigue, suspicion and mystification in which he had worked for so long, even if this jungle atmosphere was only imaginary during his Italian emigration. I wrote in the preface to the book that Schellenberg might have used the Müller thesis as a basis for his own justification. It would not be an unusual psychological process if he had chosen this general scapegoat and the legend of a deadly enmity in order to get away with it in the permanent conversations and soliloquies about his role and his complicity.

One thing might be interesting: in the autumn of 1951, Schellenberg was also in close contact with a French Swiss man called Sven Hinnen, or even just called himself that. (The rather Scandinavian name sounds a little strange for a citizen of French-speaking Switzerland). Hinnen was probably an officer in the Swiss intelligence service during the Second World War; he seems to have played a role in the contacts between Schellenberg and the Swiss General Mason.

Schellenberg also said that Hinnen had pulled off some amazing feats, such as hijacking a new model of tank in the uniform of a German officer from Stuttgart across the Swiss border - but that may have been the usual fibbing of these adventurers, who were amateurs rather than solid craftsmen in their trade. Hinnen seems to have helped Schellenberg enter Switzerland illegally after his release from prison. During or after Schellenberg's imprisonment, Hinnen concluded a contract with Alfred Scherz Verlag in Bern for the publication of the memoirs, in which, as I recall, he claimed 50% of the total income for himself - an arrangement that Schellenberg complained about bitterly and which ultimately led to lively disputes between the two. (The contract later played a role in the legal dispute over the memoirs between Scherz Verlag and the magazine Quick). I met Hinnen once or twice in Pallanza. That's why I recognised him when I met him at Frankfurt airport in 1952. As far as I remember, he had asked me for a meeting in connection with his legal dispute with the widow Schellenberg. He claimed that he was coming straight from Moscow from a world economic conference and he remarked that he had seen Müller there. -I didn't pay much attention to this suggestion, because I thought he was a big braggart. But perhaps it would be worth the effort to feel him out a little. At the time, he had his permanent address in Lausanne and officially dealt in machines of some kind. But he had enough time to act as a courier for Schellenberg, for whom he was in Sweden, for whom he probably also arranged a meeting with Skorczeny in Madrid, and it may be that he also met the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on Schellenberg's behalf. I later heard from Swiss sources that he was also involved in the arms trade. Someone claimed that he was also involved in equipping the People's Police. After the brief encounter in Frankfurt, I lost contact with him completely because the man seemed to me to be as unpleasant as he was opaque.

He can certainly be found with some effort. He is certainly taller than 190 cm, very broad, has jet-black hair, dark eyes, a coarse, almost brutal face, his speech sounds harsh in both French and German, and he had a certain barber-like elegance. That's all I can tell you. I agree with you that Müller is worth investigating in detail. Even the destruction of a legend, as you say, would be important enough."

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Hellenhahn-Schellenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate.

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• During Kaltenbrunner’s 1944 birthday banquet he drank a lot with the guests and started to comment on Heydrich

• Schellenberg complained about his work not being recognized in the RSHA

[traces-to-nowhere]

12 months and 50+ films later, the great Conrad Veidt experiment of 2023 - 2024 has done nothing but made me more feral for that old man.

[cursedreverie1945]

Wally, Wally, Wally.

Walter Schellenberg was employed by Heydrich in SS intelligence effort to unmask all internal resistance and plots against the Nazi regime.

Yes, yes. Hello, Reinhard. Now get out. Damnable moose.

Schellenberg's first claim to fame was his involvement in the Venlo affair which resulted in the SS kidnapping of two British SIS agents in the Dutch border town of Venlo.

He also took part in the plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Portugal, but fell severely ill from food-poisoning during the adventure and later claimed he was poisoned by British intelligence. Of course he claimed he was poisoned. Fucking nazis couldn't claim they screwed up.

Although educated as a lawyer, Schellenberg distrusted administrative attorneys and was intent on ensuring that the SD could operate outside the constraints of normal law. Subscribing to the Führerprinzip, Schellenberg also regarded Hitler's directives as beyond the framework of the legal system and believed it was best to "unquestioningly" carry out anything ordered by the nazi leader.

The official SS personnel report on Schellenberg described him as "open, irreproachable, and reliable"; the file also depicted him as "firm, tough, possesses energy" and as "very sharp thinking"; his National Socialist worldview was labeled "thoroughly fortified". Many of the SS street-brawling types despised men like Schellenberg, considering them effete, but for the most part Schellenberg made a good impression on the nazi elite.

After Heydrich's death in June 1942, Schellenberg became the "closest professional confidant" of Himmler. Himmler bestowed upon Schellenberg a unique position beyond that of a simple aide, making him his special plenipotentiary (Sonderbevollmächtigter).

Looking to recover as much information as they could from Schellenberg, the British sent him to London in July 1945 where he was extensively interrogated; their intention (along with the Americans) was to extract information on any remaining nazi resistance yet to surface and to gather what they could on Germany's possible postwar intelligence activities.

Schellenberg confirmed to the Allies that no such plans were in place, which was supported by Allied intelligence efforts. The fact that Schellenberg had been on the opposite side of the RSHA faction which included Kaltenbrunner, Müller, Ohlendorf and Skorzeny, along with other war criminals, was the "best thing" he had going for him at the end of the war. Additional independent signals intelligence also proved helpful in evaluating Schellenberg.

After the war, Schellenberg was arrested by British military police and eventually stood trial in Nuremberg. To spare himself from a long prison sentence, Schellenberg testified against the SS organisation and the nazi leaders in its fold during the postwar trials.

During the Ministries Trial, he wrote his memoirs, titled The Labyrinth. Historian Robert Gerwarth describes certain content of Schellenberg's memoirs as "questionable."

On 4 November 1949, he was sentenced to six years in prison for failing to prevent the murder of Soviet POWs who were utilized as agents in Operation Zeppelin. The tribunal found that near the end of the war, Schellenberg had started aiding victims of the Nazi regime. It questioned whether he was acting out of good faith, but nevertheless credited him for his actions.

He was released from prison after two years on the grounds of ill-health, due to a worsening liver condition, and moved to Switzerland, before settling in Verbania-Pallanza, Italy. In 1952, he died in Turin, Italy of cancer.

He authored approximately 6 books.

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View of Schellenberg, Bavaria, Germany

German vintage postcard

[eternalspring1945]

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Планировался просто обычный скетч с ехидным Шелленбергом, но скетч внезапно эволюционировал.

It was supposed to be a regular sketch with a sarcastic Schellenberg, but the sketch suddenly evolved.