Interrogation of Schellenberg, 20 Apr 1948
• He avoided answering whether he was "Dr Schellenberg" by providing only his name Walter Schellenberg. His doctoral degree seems all the more dubious.
• The most interesting part is his reckless speech in his first personal conversation with Hitler, which is mostly consistent with his memoir. What he did not mention in his later memoir was that Max Wünsche was on good terms with him and phoned to warn him the next day, informing him of Hitler's inquiry about his identity and complaints about legal men:
"Well, you don't know how things are around the old man, nobody dares to contradict him."
Only visited the Reich Chancellery twice as he claimed , and befriended AH's adjutant, fine.
• His opinion on Hitler's arbitrary behaviour and rationalisation of making use of Himmler's powerful status:
...and I was always asked in these many interrogations why should I like to work with a man like Himmler with these things to do, and I always replied, well, how long could anybody else in my situation that I was in could have helped me more, who would have had more power.
• Here he gave the date of his conversation about an alternative ending of the war with Himmler as August 1942, in the Zhitomir field headquarters. He elaborated in his memoir on this event: a report started at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and lasted until 3 o'clock in the morning. However, no midnight meeting with Schellenberg was recorded in the August official journal of Himmler. It was possibly another separate conversation at 22:00, 14 Sep 1942.
• His activities in the last days of the Reich, his participation in the writing of Count Bernadotte's book, conspiracy theories about Prof. de Crinis' involvement in murdering Hitler, etc.
