Title
- Schattenkrieg Gegen Hitler. English
Attribution
Christoph Mauch ; translated from the German by Jeremiah M. RiemerPublication Details
BookColumbia University Press2003Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) D810.S7 M34613 2003 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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“Christof Mauch is one of the world’s experts on what US wartime intelligence knew about Hitler and Nazi Germany. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of the famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we know of other methods, new methods of attack. The Trojan horse. The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs, and traitors are the actors in this new strategy." Having identified a new type of war - a shadow war - being perpetrated by Hitler’s Germany, FDR decided to fight fire with fire, authorizing the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to organize and oversee covert operations. Based on an extensive analysis of OSS records, including the vast trove of records released by the CIA in the 1980s and ’90s, as well as a new set of interviews with OSS veterans conducted by the author and a team of American scholars from 1995 to 1997, The Shadow War Against Hitler is the full story of America’s far- flung secret intelligence apparatus during World War II."- -BOOK JACKET
Contents
- I. The Setting
- Historical Perspectives
- Within the Secret Intelligence Service
- II. Donovan on the Offensive and America’s Path to War
- The Fifth Column as a Danger
- On the Eve of Confrontation
- The COI and the New "World Pattern"
- Between Opinion Research and Counterespionage
- Excursus: Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Franklin Carter and Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl
- The COI in Crisis and the Creation of the OSS
- III. 1943: The Turning Point
- Strategies and Discourses
- Lessons from Moscow and the OSS’ Answer
- Germany and the Germans
- Ideology and Economy in the Bombing War
- IV. Bern: The Big Window Onto the Fascist World
- Allen Dulles and the Establishment of the OSS Outpost in Bern
- V. Media War and Black Propaganda
- The Difficult Beginnings of the OSS Morale Operations
- From the Hamilton Plan to Operation Sauerkraut
- Blankenhorn’s Soldiers Councils Project and the "Neues Deutschland" Underground Movement - - OSS Radio War: Joker and Matchbox
- Operation Musac: American Pop Music in the War Against Hitler
- VI. Penetration of Germany
- Conceptions
- Excursus
- Operations
- VII. Gotterdammerung: Between War and Peace
- Phantom Stronghold in the Alps: The Redoubt as an Idee Fixe?
- Last-minute Putsch
- Good and Bad Germans
- VIII. The Dream of the Miracle War. The Legacy of the OSS
- The End of the OSS and the Origins of the Myth
- Outline of the Shadow War: A Summary
- The Legacy of the OSS
ISBN
- 0231120443
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