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Nome legale: Gisevius, Gustav-Adolf Timotheus Hans Bernd
Data di nascita: 1904-07-14
Data di morte: 1974-02-23
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: Germany
Nazione (per mappa): Germany
Luogo di nascita: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Luogo di morte: Müllheim, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
Attività lavorative: diplomat
intelligence officer
spy
memoirist
Relazioni: Dulles, Allen (controller)
Breve biografia: After studying law he was employed by the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and was assigned to the newly-formed Gestapo until 1936. Gisevius maintained links with Hans Oster, Hjalmar Schacht and Arthur Nebe, and joined the secret opposition to Hitler, gathering evidence of Nazi crimes. When World War II started, Gisevius joined the Abwehr, and was involved in secret talks with the Vatican. Gisevius met with Allen Dulles in 1943, and agreed to serve as a liaison with the German opposition to Hitler. In 1944, after the failed July 20th assassination attempt against Hitler, Gisevius first hid then fled to Switzerland in 1945.
Gisevius served as a key witness for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials in the case against Hermann Göring, his former boss in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. He also testified against Keitel and Kaltenbrunner. In the cases against Hjalmar Schacht and Wilhelm Frick, he served for the defence.

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Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill… di Hans Bernd Gisevius

When on July 20, 1944, a bomb—boldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg— exploded without killing the Führer, the subsequent coup d'état against the Third Reich collapsed. The conspirators were summarily shot or condemned in show trials and sadistically hanged. One of the few survivors of the conspiracy was Hans Bernd Gisevius, who had used his positions in the Gestapo and the Abwehr (military intelligence) to further the anti-Nazi plot. Valkyrie, an abridgment of Gisevius's classic insider's account To the Bitter End, is an intimate memoir as riveting as it is exceptional.… (altro)

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Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill… di Hans Bernd Gisevius

Chatty recounting of the July 20, 1944 asassination attempt on Hitler. Especially enlightning is the wordplay between the principals, which may be accurate or not.