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 ...

As West Germany picked itself up out of wartime ashes, it had Walther—which had to relocate its factory out of East Germany to Ulm—start producing the P38 again.

As Zella-Mehlis was in the Soviet occupation zone, the Walther business was reduced to little more than designs and patents, but Fritz Walther set up a new shop in Ulm, West Germany and began new ...

A high-ranking Nazi officer who helped develop a mobile gas chamber became a spy for West Germany after World War II, archives reveal.