Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence: Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg

Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence: Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg. By Reinhard R. Doerries. Portland, Oreg.: Frank Cass, 2003. ISBN 0-7146-5400-0. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bihliography. Index. Pp. xvii, 382. $114.95.

Reinhard Doerries has done the fields of the history of intelligence and of Nazi Germany a great service in explaining, annotating, and publishing the report of the British interrogation of SS-Brigaclefuehrer Walter Schellenberg, the last head of the German World War II intelligence service. Doerries's fine and informative introduction to the report is particularly helpful in establishing the context of the interrogation and the personal history of this ambitious and skilled young functionary who rose quickly through the SS ranks...