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A Deal with the Nazi Dictatorship?: Himmler's Alleged Peace Emissaries in Autumn 1943

During the second world war, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union declared that nazi Germany had to surrender unconditionally. For his part, Hitler was determined to fight on to complete victory or defeat, but not everyone on the German side was so rigid. Unofficially, some subordinate nazi officials sought to explore the possibilities of a compromise peace. Reliable evidence of what ensued is hard to come by, however, because of gaps in the documentary record, wartime disinformation by intelligence officials and postwar fictions. In selections from his (alleged) wartime diaries first published in 1947, Felix Kersten, physician and masseur to Heinrich Himmler, presented a detailed and dramatic account of his initiative to bring about a separate peace between nazi Germany and the West in late 1943. Kersten met in Stockholm an American named Abram