Walter Schellenberg, SS Brigadefuhrer and Chief of Counterintelligence for the SS in Nazi Germany. Joined the SS in 1934 and was a lawyer by education. His intelligence and language abilities won him the patronage of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SD. In 1944, after the arrest of Admiral Canaris, he became head of the combined secret services. Sentenced to prison for his wartime activities, he was released in 1950 because of ill health. After his release, he took refuge in Switzerland briefly before being discovered by the police who asked him to leave the country. He then moved with his family to Pallenza on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy. There he wrote his memoirs which would be published after his death. Walter Schellenberg died at the Clinica Fornaca in Turin, Italy of liver cancer 03/31/1952. He was buried in "Campo Commune " (a burial place for those not buried by their families). He stayed buried there for 10 years, a period in which they expect the family to claim the remains of the deceased. His body was not claimed by relatives, and he was then moved to "Ossario Commune de la Grande Croce" in Turin, Italy, a common burial place.
Walter Schellenberg, SS Brigadefuhrer and Chief of Counterintelligence for the SS in Nazi Germany. Joined the SS in 1934 and was a lawyer by education. His intelligence and language abilities won him the patronage of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SD. In 1944, after the arrest of Admiral Canaris, he became head of the combined secret services. Sentenced to prison for his wartime activities, he was released in 1950 because of ill health. After his release, he took refuge in Switzerland briefly before being discovered by the police who asked him to leave the country. He then moved with his family to Pallenza on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy. There he wrote his memoirs which would be published after his death. Walter Schellenberg died at the Clinica Fornaca in Turin, Italy of liver cancer 03/31/1952. He was buried in "Campo Commune " (a burial place for those not buried by their families). He stayed buried there for 10 years, a period in which they expect the family to claim the remains of the deceased. His body was not claimed by relatives, and he was then moved to "Ossario Commune de la Grande Croce" in Turin, Italy, a common burial place.
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