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Hitler was Nazi Germany and Nazi Germany was Hitler."" Though true
to the extent that Hitler's personality, leadership, and
ideological convictions played a massive role in shaping the nature
of government and life during the Third Reich, this popular view
has led many writers since the end of World War II to overlook
important aspects of Nazism while centring attention solely on
Hitler's contributions to the Nazi Party. This book seeks to ?ll a
significant gap in the literature by concentrating particularly on
the Nazi Party and its growth during the years of the Weimar
Republic, examining the paramilitary presence in Germany and
Bavaria after World War I. Most of the book describes the
development of the Nazi Storm Detachment (Sturmabteilung, or SA)
before and after the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. By the time
Hitler came to power in January 1933, there were perhaps as many as
400,000 of these brown-shirted men, often self-styled
revolutionaries, creating violence on a daily basis and destroying
the underpinnings of the Weimar Republic. The book features several
photographs captured from the Nazi Party's Central Publishing
Facility in Munich and passed to the author in the late 1950s.
The coverage of The Cold War in Germany: Overview, Origins, and
Intelligence Wars is indicated in the subtitle. The "overview,"
like the "origins," concentrates primarily on the historical
development of the Cold War. But the "overview" concentrates more
heavily on World War II in terms of background while the "origins"
goes back in time to the beginning of the modern era in Western
Society. The book also deals with the various "wildcards" of the
postwar era including Eurocommunism and the developments of
terrorist activity in the 1970s. Author Otis C. Mitchell, who
served as an Army intelligence operative in North Germany,
interweaves his counterintelligence experiences with newly
declassified documentary evidence (particularly those of the C.I.A.
operation in "battleground" Berlin called Base of Operations
Berlin, or BOB). Combining these two sources, Mitchell paints a
broad picture of the West and East German intelligence and
counterintelligence services. He shows that the Cold War had, by
the time of the building of the infamous Berlin Wall, already
established basic patterns that lasted until its end and beyond.
This system became anachronistic after the end of that long
struggle, and was not adequate to face the challenge of Islamic
fundamentalism as it developed in the 1990s and the early twenty
first century.
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