When World War II came to an end the Allies competed for access to top Nazis, Walter Schellenberg being one of the most important. The British took Schellenberg into custody before the Americans or Russians could reach him. This is the first time that the transcription of the British interrogations have been made available; and Professor Doerries provides an extensive and scholarly introduction explaining the significance of Schellenberg within the Nazi Reich and the importance of the information that he provided to the Allies.

Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916. German military intelligence and the Imperial Foreign Office had far-reaching plans to use the Irish in the war against Britain. Radical Irish-American leaders were behind Casement's mission to Berlin. It took some time for the highly sensitive and idealistic Casement to realize that neither the German General Staff nor the Imperial Chancellor was able or willing to lend full military support to the Irish. When Casement began to see that the rising would be a bloody massacre, he left for Ireland to halt the fatal development and, if necessary, sacrifice his own honour and life. The carefully edited documents contained in this volume, mostly from the German Foreign Office archives in Bonn, present a full record of Casement's activities prior to Easter 1916. Over 80 years later, these papers have lost none of their emotional intimacy.

When the curtains fell on the 'Thousand-Year Reich', in May 1945, SS-Brigadefuhrer Walter Schellenberg left for neutral Stockholm, only to be takn shortly thereafter to Frankfurt and London for interogating. The 'Final Report' on the Case of Walter Schellenberg is the revealing product of those Allied interogations. Reinhard R Doerries has written the first scholarly appraisal of Schellenberg as a Nazi leader and Hitler's final head of foreign intelligence.

Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916. German military intelligence and the Imperial Foreign Office had far-reaching plans to use the Irish in the war against Britain. Radical Irish-American leaders were behind Casement's mission to Berlin. It took some time for the highly sensitive and idealistic Casement to realise that neither the German General Staff nor the Imperial Chancellor was able, or willing, to lend full military support to the Irish. When Casement began to see that the rising would be a bloody massacre, he left for Ireland to halt the fatal development and, if necessary, sacrifice his own honour and life. The carefully edited documents contained in this volume, mostly from the German Foreign Office archives in Bonn, present a full record of Casement's activities prior to Easter 1916. Over 80 years later, these papers have lost none of their emotional immediacy.

Erst seit wenigen Jahren befassen sich deutsche Historiker ernsthaft mit der Geschichte der Nachrichtendienste. Die in diesem Band zusammengetragenen Forschungsresultate erlauben ganz neue Interpretationen der vom Ersten Weltkrieg bis zum Kalten Krieg im Zentrum der deutschen Aussenpolitik stehenden Beziehungen zu den USA. In Krieg und Frieden haben die Aktivitaten der Nachrichtendienste einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der internationalen Beziehungen ausgeubt. Die Offnung zahlreicher, bisher fur die Forschung nicht zuganglicher Aktenbestande in deutschen und auslandischen Archiven hat massgeblich dazu beigetragen, dass die haufig sensationellen popularwissenschaftlichen Publikationen auf diesem Gebiet zunehmend durch zuverlassige und wissenschaftlich nachvollziehbare Untersuchungen ersetzt werden konnen. Somit bietet der Band fur Historiker, Politikwissenschaftler und Journalisten neue Sichtweisen der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.