Schellenberg, Walter Friedrich, born 16-01-1910 in Saarbrücken,
the seventh child born to the piano manufacturer Guido Schellenberg and his wife Lydia, born Riedel and they moved with their family to Luxembourg, when the French occupation of the Saar Basin after the First World War triggered an economic crisis in the Weimar Republic
. Schellenberg returned to Germany to attend university, first at the University of Marburg
and then, in 1929, at the University of Bonn. He initially studied medicine, but soon switched to law. After graduating he joined NSDAP-nr.: 3 504 508, on 01-04-1933 and the SS
, nr. 124817, in May 1933, age 23. He met Reinard Heydrich

















Captain Sigismund Payne/Best
Major Richard Henry Stevens
. Best died in 21-09-1978 at the old age of 93 in Calne, Wiltshire, England and Stevens died age 73 of cancer, on 12-02-1967. Stevens ashes were scattered in the Garden of Remembrance of the crematorium in Swindon. The Venlo Incident was a covert German SD-Security Service operation where two British SIS, Secret Intelligence Service, agents were abducted on the outskirts of the town of Venlo, the Netherlands, on 09-11-1939. The incident was later used by the German Nazi government to link Britain to Georg Elsner’s
failed assassination attempt on German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich,
on 08-11-1939 and to justify Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands, while a neutral country, on 10-05-1940. Hitler awarded Schellenberg the Iron Cross for his actions. In 1940 he was charged with compiling the Informationsheft G.B, a blueprint for the occupation of Britain. A supplement to this work was the list of 2.300 prominent Britons to be arrested immediately after the successful invasion of Britain. He also arranged many other plots of subterfuge and intelligence gathering, including the bugging of a Berlin brothel. In 1940 he was also sent to Portugal to intercept the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Edward III

















Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel
the French fashion designer of women’s clothes and Founder of the Chanel brand, was a very close friend of Walter Schellenberg. Coco Chanel died 10-01-1971, age 81.


Death and burial ground of Schellenberg, Walter Friedrich.





In June 1945 Schellenberg stayed in Sweden, stayed with Count Folke Bernadotte (1895–1948), then Vice President of the Swedish Red Cross, and finally surrendered to the American military attaché. On 11-04-1949, the US military tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced him to six years imprisonment in the Wilhelmstrasse trial. He obtained the low prison sentence through cooperation with the Allied secret services. In December 1950 he was pardoned for health reasons. Since then he has lived in Pallanza (Italy, Piedmont region). During his two year imprisonment he wrote his memoirs (“The Labyrinth”). In 1951 he is said to have made a trip to Spain with the aim of making new connections with the circles of SS leaders in hiding.
Schellenberg was arrested by British military police and eventually stood trial in Nuremberg.
To spare himself from a long prison sentence, during the postwar Nuremberg Trials, Schellenberg testified against the SS organisation and the Nazi leaders in its fold. During the Ministries Trial, he wrote his memoirs, The Labyrinth.
Historian Robert Gerwarth describes certain content of Schellenberg’s memoirs as “questionable.” On 04-11-1949, he was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in the murder of Soviet POWs who were utilized as agents in Operation Zeppelin. He was released from prison after two years on the grounds of ill-health, due to a worsening liver condition, and moved to Switzerland,



Operation Zeppelin was a top secret German plan to recruit Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) for espionage and sabotage operations behind the Russian front line during World War II. Active from mid-1942 to the end of the war in spring 1945, the operation initially intended to send masses of agents to Soviet Russia to collect military intelligence and to counterbalance sabotage activities carried out by the Soviet partisans. To that end, Germans recruited thousands of Soviet POWs and trained them in special camps. However, this approach had to be abandoned in favor of more targeted operations due to a lack of reliable Soviet recruits and dwindling resources, such as aircraft fuel. Operation Zeppelin was particularly important for intelligence gathering in the Eastern Front, but its more ambitious missions yielded little results. It had some success in the Caucasus where the various peoples of the Caucasus aspired to become independent from the Soviet Union, but other missions, such as sabotage of power plants near Moscow or a plot to assassinate Joseph Stalin,
were abandoned or failed. A particular failure was the desertion of the Brigade SS Druzhina in August 1943. The Brigade was under command of Vladimir Vladimirovich Gil
; born 11-06-1906, Vileyka – died 14-05-1944, Nakol, also known by the pseudonyms I.G. Rodionov or Radionov was a colonel of the Red Army and the founder and leader of the German-backed Union of Russian Nationalists u] and the 1st Russian Waffen-SS “Druzhina”. This unit later went over to the Soviet partisans, still under Gil’s command.


In the years after World War II, Gil became the subject of many legends that his son, Vadim, has repeatedly rebuked. Rumors like that Gil was a Soviet agent covertly inserted into German-occupied Soviet territory persisted and was noted by Soviet historian Mikhail Tokarev. Tokarev discovered that the NKGB had quickly infiltrated the 1st Russian Waffen-SS and that Gil’s first lieutenant was an informer.
Walter Schellenberg died at the Clinica Fornaca in Turin, Italy of liver cancer on 31-03-1952, age 42. He was buried in “Campo Commune “, a burial place for those not buried by their families. He stayed buried there for 10 years, a period in which they expect the family to claim the remains of the deceased. His body was not claimed by relatives, and he was then moved to “Ossario Commune de la Grande Croce” in Turin, Italy, a common burial place.



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