Himmler's aide captured. Lieutenant Colonel Paul J.

Himmler's aide captured. Lieutenant Colonel Paul J. Danahy (center), intelligence officer of the 101st Airborn Division, Seventh U.S. Army, is pictured at Meisbach, Germany, with Nazi General Gottlieb Berger (right), commanding general of Waffen SS troops and aide to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler. Lieutenant Colonel Danahy found the enemy officer living in a trailer high in the Austrian Tyrol near Schwendt and took him to Berchtesgaden, former headquarters of Adolf Hitler, for talks with U.S. Army commanders. Gottlob Berger was a SS General who was one of Himmler's experts on racial selection in the SS. From 1940, he was Chief of Staff for the military SS and head of the SS main leadership office. After the war, he was tried for his role in the murder of European Jewry and given 25 years in prison, of which he served only 6 1/2 years.