Gehlen, Reinhard, born 03-04-1902 in Erfurt,
the son of a Prussian officer who in the first war was fighting for the empiror Wilhelm II,
joined the Reichswehr in 1920.
He attended the German Staff College, graduating in 1935, after which he was promoted to Hauptmann and attached to the Army General Staff. Under the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler, he was on the General Staff during 1935-1936. In 1939, Gehlen was promoted to Major. At the time of the 1939 German attack on Poland he was a staff officer of an infantry division. In 1940, Gehlen became liaison officer to Army Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal, Walther von Brauchitsch.











It was in this post he had created a right-wing group made up of anti-Soviet Ukrainians and other Slavic nationalists into small armies and guerrilla units to fight the Soviets. The War Department Identity Card issued to “Hans Holbein,” the cover name of Generalmajor Reinhard Gehlen.
The group carried out some of the most extreme atrocities that took place during the war. Gehlen was responsible for a brutal torture interrogation program of Soviet prisoners of war that resulted in the murder of three to four million Soviet prisoners.


This special treatment extended to included SS Brigadeführer
Franz Six




In the watershed year of 1942, according to Gehlen’s memoir, he was approached by Oberst, Henning von Tresckow,
Oberst der Kavallerie, Graf Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
















Death and burial ground of Gehlen, Reinhard.












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