The fascinating first-hand account by a top defector of the ruthlessness, spy intrigues and curious personalities of the Third Reich. A unique and intimate record, full of surprises, sardonic wit and tragic endings. "Gestapo tactics: " Espionage, intrigue, and subversion. Cunning, cynical, and ruthless in exploiting every human weakness - and murdering anyone who got in the way. Koehler was a special agent working for the top Nazi cop Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, the Secret State Police. He earns his spurs as spying in ...
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The fascinating first-hand account by a top defector of the ruthlessness, spy intrigues and curious personalities of the Third Reich. A unique and intimate record, full of surprises, sardonic wit and tragic endings. "Gestapo tactics: " Espionage, intrigue, and subversion. Cunning, cynical, and ruthless in exploiting every human weakness - and murdering anyone who got in the way. Koehler was a special agent working for the top Nazi cop Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, the Secret State Police. He earns his spurs as spying in France, disguised as a Trotskyist refugee, laying the groundwork for Germany to annex these provinces, and matching wits with French and Communist intelligence services. A keen observer and skilful narrator, Koehler reveals how the Gestapo secretly financed and supported the Rumanian Iron Guard and the Spanish Fascists. Then he is sent undercover to a concentration camp to finger a fugitive. What he sees there, and the flogging that puts him in hospital, sows the seeds of his plan to escape. His next mission is to recover "The Fatal File" - documents showing that Hitler's grandmother became pregnant while working as a maid in the Rothschild mansion in Vienna - the Austrian chancellor's secret blackmail weapon to hold Nazi Germany at bay. Heydrich advises Koehler to employ a beautiful Countess to inveigle the file - Austria is disarmed - and the Wehrmacht marches into Austria. Koehler is then promoted to the detail guarding Hitler's residence in the Alps, and gets his chance to escape to Switzerland, where he writes INSIDE THE GESTAPO. In 1943 the OSS commissioned a psychological profile of Hitler by Walter Langer, who drew on the revelations in this book. In 1972 Langer followed up with The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report, which became a mass-market bestseller.
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Good. 287 pages. "Perhaps the most startling of all books about Germany under the Nazi regime. Author worked for several years as a Gestapo agent, where he was immediately subordinate to Himmler. Provides a detailed account of the general organisation of the whole of the German Secret Police, and the inside story of the notorious purge (Night of the Long Knives) in June 1934. Author worked as a spy in the Saarbrucken territory before the plebiscite, and in Spain while Germany planned the Franco revolt. Most sensational of all is the story of the "White Book", collected by Dolfuss and Schuschnigg as a weapon against Hitler."-dust jacket (not included). Portions of four pages blacked out by publisher for legal reasons. Book unmarked with average wear to red cloth-covered boards. Bright yellow lettering upon spine. Foxing to edges. Endpapers toned. Moderate cant to spine. Binding intact. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. [Kehr & Langmaid 3270; Madden p.345].; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Gestapo Geheime Staatspolizei History Adolf Hitler Heinrich Himmler Germany Nazi WWII White Book Solfuss Schuschnigg.
