I took the latter option, not being at all sure that I could look after a baby and drive at the same time. Two days later, mother and child were reunited, tears of joy were shed and now our apartment in Paris is filled with the sound of gurgles, wailings and much laughter.

I hope you like the photo. Please accept our regards and pass on our felicitations to you and your family. I wish your wife every success in securing a place at medical school.

Your friend,

Angie Gray

What Happened to the Witnesses?

What Happened to the Witnesses?

WALTER SCHELLENBERG

SS intelligence chief

Smooth, highly educated, multilingual and one-time lover of Coco Chanel, Schellenberg was the ultimate Nazi fixer, acting as both efficient bureaucrat and spy. Despite his later protestations, Schellenberg was up to his neck in organising the annihilation of the Jews. In one memo, he even refers to ‘The Final Solution’ and he played an important role in persuading the army to support the Einsatzgruppen – the mobile murder squads who slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Eastern Europe. He was at the heart of Himmler’s SS machine before and during the war, rising inexorably to be his master’s second-in-command. But he played a dangerous game at the end, conspiring to do a deal with the West by offering the lives of Jews in return for favourable peace terms. He also urged Himmler to depose Hitler – and even maintained later that Himmler had poisoned the Führer. Schellenberg was captured in Denmark by the British and was interrogated over a long period. He was accused of war crimes but mitigated his sentence by testifying against other SS leaders. He was sentenced to six years for complicity in the murder of Soviet captives, but was freed early because of ill health. He died aged 42 in 1952.

HANNA REITSCH

Celebrity aviator and test pilot