
A high-ranking Nazi officer who helped develop a mobile gas chamber became a spy for West Germany after World War II, archives have revealed. Former SS officer Walther Rauff worked for West German intelligence service, the BND, between 1958 and 1962. In hindsight, his recruitment was "politically and morally incomprehensible", said BND historian Bodo Hechelhammer. Rauff died in Chile in 1984, having evaded...