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German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler's War to the Cold War - Flawed Assumptions and Faulty Analysis (Hardcover)
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German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler's War to the Cold War - Flawed Assumptions and Faulty Analysis (Hardcover)
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In the Allies' post-war analyses of the Nazis' defeat, the
"weakness and incompetence" of the German intelligence services
figured prominently. And how could it have been otherwise, when
they worked at the whim of a regime in the grip of "ignorant
maniacs"? But what if, Robert Hutchinson asks, the worldviews of
the intelligence services and the "ignorant maniacs" aligned more
closely than these analyses-and subsequent studies-assumed? What if
the reports of the German foreign intelligence services, rather
than being dismissed by ideologues who "knew better," instead
served to reinforce the National Socialist worldview? Returning to
these reports, examining the information on enemy nations that was
gathered, processed, and presented to leaders in the Nazi state,
Hutchinson's study reveals the consequences of the politicization
of German intelligence during the war-as well as the persistence of
ingrained prejudices among the intelligence services' Cold War
successors Closer scrutiny of underutilized and unpublished reports
shows how during the World War II the German intelligence services
supported widely-held assumptions among the Nazi elite that Britain
was politically and morally bankrupt, that the Soviet Union was
tottering militarily and racially inferior, and that the United
States' vast economic potential was undermined by political,
cultural, and racial degeneration. Furthermore, Hutchinson argues,
these distortions continued as German intelligence veterans
parlayed their supposed expertise on the Soviet Union into
positions of prominence in Western intelligence in the early years
of the Cold War. With its unique insights into the impact of
ideology on wartime and post-war intelligence, his book raises
important questions not only about how intelligence reports can
influence policy decisions, but also about the subjective nature of
intelligence gathering itself.
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