The Third Reich S Intelligence Services

Author : Edmund L. Blandford
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025166369

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SS Intelligence by Edmund L. Blandford Pdf

"In the early thirties Hitler concluded that to achieve his ambitions of power in Europe, absolute control must be established within Germany. He entrusted this task to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, who decided that he needed a small intelligence unit within the SS to monitor Nazi Party members and also anti-Nazi factions. The Nazi SS Security Service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) was formed for that purpose. It was created by Reinhard Heydrich and under his dedicated, methodical and ruthless hand it grew into one of the most professional and dangerous espionage services in the world. SS Intelligence traces its early beginnings, its struggle against underfunding and the rival organisations--to its triumphs across Europe, including the successful operation of spies in Allied countries. Of particular interest is a series of events that took place in the late summer of 1940 when the exiled Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson were targeted by Hitler as potential allies in his battle to overcome Britain's determination to fight. An elaborate plan was hatched to snatch the ex-royal couple from Portugal before they departed by sea across the Atlantic. It is a fascinating episode involving Hitler's agents, Spain, Portugal, Churchill and the British Secret Service. This book reveals many new facts and gives insights that will fascinate every student of Hitler's Third Reich--and the spying game."--Dust jacket.

Author : Katrin Paehler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Intelligence officers
ISBN : 1108224601

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The Third Reich's Intelligence Services by Katrin Paehler Pdf

A pioneering study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service and its head, Walter Schellenberg.

Author : Christopher Vasey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476624587

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Nazi Intelligence Operations in Non-Occupied Territories by Christopher Vasey Pdf

Drawing heavily on recently declassified sources, this examination of German wartime intelligence services traces the logistical and strategic expansion of the Third Reich's foreign covert operations in World War II. Beginning with the changes introduced to counteract institutional neglect, the author describes attempts to penetrate both neutral and adversarial nations outside territories occupied by the Wehrmacht. The Nazis created covert teams for counterintelligence and penetrating border defenses. Strategies were formed for assembling saboteur divisions in North and South America, while data were gathered on industrial installations to target. American fascist movements of the 1930s are discussed, along with Nazi sabotage missions in the United States and intelligence penetrations and domestic collusion in Latin America.

Author : Jurgen Heideking
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429981982

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American Intelligence And The German Resistance by Jurgen Heideking Pdf

Even paranoids have enemies. Hitler's most powerful foes were the Allied powers, but he also feared internal conspiracies bent on overthrowing his malevolent regime. In fact, there was a small but significant internal resistance to the Nazi regime, and it did receive help from the outside world. Through recently declassified intelligence documents, this book reveals for the first time the complete story of America's wartime knowledge about, encouragement of, and secret collaboration with the German resistance to Hitler?including the famous July 20th plot to assassinate the Fuehrer.The U.S. government's secret contacts with the anti-Nazi resistance were conducted by the OSS, the World War II predecessor to the CIA. Highly sensitive intelligence reports recently released by the CIA make it evident that the U.S. government had vast knowledge of what was going on inside the Third Reich. For example, a capitulation offer to the western Allies under consideration by Count von Moltke in 1943 was thoroughly discussed within the U.S. government. And Allen Dulles, who was later to become head of the CIA, was well informed about the legendary plot of July 20th. In fact, these secret reports from inside Germany provide a well-rounded picture of German society, revealing the pro- or anti-Nazi attitudes of different social groups (workers, churches, the military, etc.). The newly released documents also show that scholars in the OSS, many of them recruited from ivy-league universities, looked for anti-Nazi movements and leaders to help create a democratic Germany after the war.Such intelligence gathering was a major task of the OSS. However, OSS director ?Wild Bill? Donovan and others favored subversive operations, spreading disinformation, and issuing propaganda. Unorthodox and often dangerous schemes were developed, including bogus ?resistance newspapers,? anti-Nazi letters and postcards distributed through the German postal service, sabotage, and fake radio broadcasts from ?German generals? calling for uprisings against the regime.This is much more than a documentary collection. Explanatory footnotes supply a wealth of background information for the reader, and a comprehensive introduction puts the documents into their wider historical perspective. Arranged in chronological order, these intelligence reports provide a fascinating new perspective on the story of the German resistance to Hitler and reveal an intriguing and previously unexplored aspect of America's war with Hitler.

Author : Christer Jörgensen
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Espionage, German
ISBN : 1473823064

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Spying for the Führer by Christer Jörgensen Pdf

Spying for the Fuhrer is the story of German intelligence agencies leading up to and during World War II. From the fledgling beginnings of the Nazi SA, or Stormtroopers, grew an espionage machine to rival any in the world. The words SD, Abwehr and Gestapo are some of the most evocative words associated with the war, and all these were German intelligence units. Tasked with suppressing internal unrest, planting agents abroad to gather intelligence or sabotage, the Third Reich's espionage machinery had a long reach. Spying for the Fuhrer is a detailed examination of all the varied facets of the Nazi intelligence apparatus, ranging from the dreaded Gestapo,the daring Brandenburg battalions through to the SD under the Central Security Service of the Reich. The book examines the history of each unit, its formation, the missions, and its importance in the war as a whole. It also explores the nature of the myths and mysteries that have grown up around the German intelligence agencies, with rumours of their activities still rife over 60 years after the defeat of the Third Reich. Similarly, it explores the rivalry rife throughout the intelligence community, and analyzes the effect that this had in damaging Germany's intelligence, especially the rivalry between Canaris, head of the Abwehr, and the SS intelligence service.1)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aryanization
ISBN : 0013124676

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U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis by Anonim Pdf

This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some U.S. corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. This book also reveals startling new details on the Cold War connections between the US government and Hitler's former officers. At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis also provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime.

Author : Christer Jörgensen
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119435464

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Hitler's Espionage Machine by Christer Jörgensen Pdf

An in-depth study of all the varied facets of the Nazi intelligence apparatus ranging from the dreaded Gestapo, the daring Brandenburg battalions through to the SD under the Central Security Service of the Reich.

Author : Richard Breitman,Norman J. W. Goda,Timothy Naftali,Robert Wolfe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521852684

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U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis by Richard Breitman,Norman J. W. Goda,Timothy Naftali,Robert Wolfe Pdf

At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, this book provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime. As the direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, the volume draws upon many documents declassified under this law to reveal what U.S. intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some U.S. corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. The work also reveals startling new details on the Cold War connections between the U.S. government and Hitler's former officers.

Author : Katrin Paehler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107157194

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The Third Reich's Intelligence Services by Katrin Paehler Pdf

Gaining a foothold -- Rising star -- Intelligence man -- Office VI and its forerunner -- Competing visions: Office VI and the Abwehr -- Doing intelligence: Italy as an example -- Alternative universes: Office VI and the Auswärtige Amt -- Schellenberg, Himmler, and the quest for "peace"--Postwar

Author : Stephen Tyas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781558671

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RSHA Reich Security Main Office by Stephen Tyas Pdf

Author : David Alan Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Anti-Nazi movement
ISBN : 1633889998

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Admiral Canaris by David Alan Johnson Pdf

"Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Adolf Hitler's chief of military intelligence, accomplished something that neither President Franklin D. Roosevelt nor Prime Minister Winston Churchill could ever achieve - he saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish refugees and other racial and political undesirables by rescuing them from Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries. Admiral Canaris is a page-turning story of one of the most important and least likely saboteurs within the Third Reich"--

Author : John Loftus
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011310243

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The Belarus Secret by John Loftus Pdf

After World War II, with the outbreak of the Cold War, numerous Belorussian Nazi collaborators were admitted to the U.S. and received citizenship. The U.S. intelligence agencies gave them sanctuary due to their opposition to communism, in order to make use of their knowledge of Eastern Europe. The U.S. took this action despite strong evidence that these people were guilty of war crimes. Shows that all high ranking Belorussian Nazi collaborators (Radaslaw Astrowsky, Frants Kushal, Stanislaw Stankevich, Emanuel Jasiuk, etc.) took part, in some form, in the genocide of the Jews, in particular in the mass murders in Borisov and Kletsk in 1941.

Author : David P. Mowry,Center for Cryptologic History,National Security Agency
Publisher : Military Bookshop
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1782661611

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Cryptologic Aspects of German Intelligence Activities in South America During World War II by David P. Mowry,Center for Cryptologic History,National Security Agency Pdf

This publication joins two cryptologic history monographs that were published separately in 1989. In part I, the author identifies and presents a thorough account of German intelligence organizations engaged in clandestine work in South America as well as a detailed report of the U.S. response to the perceived threat. Part II deals with the cryptographic systems used by the varioius German intelligence organizations engaged in clandestine activities.

Author : Eric Lichtblau
Publisher : HMH
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547669229

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The Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau Pdf

A Newsweek Best Book of the Year: “Captivating . . . rooted in first-rate research” (The New York Times Book Review). In this New York Times bestseller, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of Nazis—from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich—who came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own as self-styled war “refugees.” But some had help from the US government. The CIA, the FBI, and the military all put Hitler’s minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers, whitewashing their histories. Only years after their arrival did private sleuths and government prosecutors begin trying to identify the hidden Nazis. Now, relying on a trove of newly disclosed documents and scores of interviews, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau reveals this little-known and “disturbing” chapter of postwar history (Salon).

Author : Wesley K. Wark
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501717079

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The Ultimate Enemy by Wesley K. Wark Pdf

How realistically did the British government assess the threat from Nazi Germany during the 1930s? How accurate was British intelligence's understanding of Hitler's aims and Germany's military and industrial capabilities? In The Ultimate Enemy, Wesley K. Wark catalogues the many misperceptions about Nazi Germany that were often fostered by British intelligence.This book, the product of exhaustive archival research, first looks at the goals of British intelligence in the 1930s. He explains the various views of German power held by the principal Whitehall authorities—including the various military intelligence directorates and the semi-clandestine Industrial Intelligence Centre—and he describes the efforts of senior officials to fit their perceptions of German power into the framework of British military and diplomatic policy. Identifying the four phases through which the British intelligence effort evolved, he assesses its shortcomings and successes, and he calls into question the underlying premises of British intelligence doctrine.Wark shows that faulty intelligence assessments were crucial in shaping the British policy of appeasement up to the outbreak of World War II. His book offers a new perspective on British policy in the interwar period and also contributes a fascinating case study in the workings of intelligence services during a period of worldwide crisis.