 There is speculation that Jahnke was somehow involved in Hess's still-puzzling flight to Scotland in May 1941; true or not, he fell out of favor with Ribbentrop and the Gestapo and his accumulated files were confiscated.Later in the war, Jahnke served as intelligence advisor to Walter Schellenberg.He and his wife were captured by Soviet SMERSH agents in April 1945, interrogated, and executed.