Book cover for Drunk on Power Volume 1: A Senior Defector's Inside Account of the Nazi Secret Police State by Franz Pfeiffer

Drunk on Power Volume 1

A Senior Defector's Inside Account of the Nazi Secret Police State

2023 Released
530 Pages
8-12 Hours
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Eglantyne BooksISBN 9781913378103
Available in English for the first time, this meticulously detailed account of the Nazi 'Deep State' by one of its leading counterintelligence chiefs reveals the deepest secrets, and names foreign Gestapo agents whose identities have never before been public knowledge.

Heinrich Pfeifer, the "man of a thousand names," was one of the strangest spy chiefs of the Nazi SD (Security Police of the SS and Gestapo). He reported directly to Himmler's chief deputy, Reinhard Heydrich. He accomplished many daring and incredible missions in various countries. Heydrich insisted that Pfeifer work under a pseudonym even in his own office. And he had at least twenty aliases, including 'Heinrich Orb', the name he used for this book.

Before his death, Pfeifer left this priceless record of the mechanism of evil of the Nazi Deep State, its methods, its procedures, and its zoo of crazed personnel, all of whom he knew intimately as his own working colleagues. He reveals their peculiarities and personal characteristics, and even their private nicknames for each other.

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