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

October 19, 2023
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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 State. It is the first complete description of the Nazi “Deep State” by its most senior defector, Pfeifer. We discuss a complete X-Ray of the structure of the Nazi Deep State and describe the international infiltration of Nazis into key institutions in every country in the world.

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Scott Rank is the host of the History Unplugged Podcast and a PhD in history who specialized in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Before going down the academic route he worked as a journalist in Istanbul. He has written 12 history books on topics ranging from lost Bronze Age civilizations to the Age of Discovery. Some of his books include The Age of Illumination: Science, Technology, and Reason in the Middle Ages and History’s 9 Most Insane Rulers.. Learn more about him by going to scottrankphd.com.
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