A Nazi Defector Revealed Germany’s Infiltration in All Major Governments in His 1945 Memoir

History Unplugged Podcast · Oct 19, 2023 · 46m

Heinrich Pfeifer was a senior member of the Nazi deep state who defected in 1938. He wrote his memoirs in 1945, with the goal of describing the inner workings of Nazi intelligence with enough detail to keep any of the members from escaping justice from the encroaching Allies. However, he was assassinated in 1949 after a pro-Nazi hit squad killed him, and copies of his work were mostly destroyed. However, today’s guest, Robert Temple, was able to obtain a copy and recently translated it to English.

Temple is author of Drunk On Power: A Senior Defector’s Inside Account of the Nazi Secret Police…