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

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Sky here with another episode of the History Unplugged Podcast.
0:08.2	Heinrich Pfeiffer was a senior member of the Nazi Deep State, who defected in 1938 and
0:13.1	hid out in Switzerland throughout the war.
0:15.0	He wrote a memoir describing a complete x-ray of the structure of the Nazi Deep State,
0:19.5	named all of its heads, most of whom who worked on their false names, as he did himself,
0:23.7	and described the international infiltration of Nazis into key institutions in every country
0:28.2	in the world.
0:29.2	Now, he definitely had the dirt.
0:30.9	Pfeiffer was personally involved in the night of the Long Nives, the selection of Franco
0:34.7	to lead Spain, and the commencement of the Spanish Civil War, the Austrian Anschluss,
0:39.1	and the disinformation which facilitated the rapid conquest of Poland.
0:42.6	In his memoir, he identified, unrecognized key Nazi agents abroad, and gave insider accounts
0:47.2	of all the key people of the SS, their personal habits, their nicknames, and above all their
0:51.7	horrible and ruthless actions.
0:53.6	Pfeiffer returned to Germany in 1949, but was assassinated by a Nazi vengeance squad that
0:58.2	same year.
0:59.2	Most copies of his book were destroyed by partisans, and it was left untranslated into
1:02.7	English, until now.
1:04.4	Today's guest is Robert Temple, who translated Pfeiffer's book, which he titled Drunk on
1:08.3	Power, Volume 1, a seer defector's inside account of the Nazi secret police state.
1:12.9	We see how far, wide, and deep Nazi infiltration occurred throughout global institutions in
1:17.8	their early 20th century.
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