Labyrinth, The: Memoirs of Walter Schellenberg, Hitler's Chief of Counterintelligence Book

A chilling memoir by the head of Hitler's Foreign Intelligence Service-the only SS-man to describe the inner workings of the Nazi bureaucracy This unique account of Hitler's corrupt regime illuminates more vividly than any other the deepening atmosphere of terror and unreality in which the Nazi leadership lived as the war progressed. Schellenberg recounts with firsthand knowledge the motivations and machinations surrounding the Nazi Army's every move in Poland, Austria, and Russia. But this remarkable inside account is perhaps most memorable for its riveting portraits of Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Heinrich Mueller, Ernst Kaltenbrunner-men whom Schellenberg calls, with stunning lack of irony,"Hitler's willing executioners." "[Schellenberg's] lack of self-consciousness, damning as a revelation of character, makes him the more valuable as an historical witness." -Alan Bullock "The interest of this book lies in the rich assortment of 'cloak and dagger' stories, some of them so fantastic that they could only have taken place in the loony world of the Nazis, and in the picture of the sinister, bloodthirsty world of the Gestapo." -William L. ShirerRead More