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U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis Illustrated Edition

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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.

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"Thanks to the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, the CIA, US Army, and FBI were required to declassify documents in their files dealing with Nazi war crimes and criminals during and after WWII. Richard Breitman, Norman J.W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe have analyzed these files. The result is a fascinating series of essays...This volume will be an important addition to every collection dealing with WWII...Highly recommended." -CHOICE, K. Eubank, emeritus, CUNY Queens College

"One can only commend the authors for their diligence, thoroughness and erudition in undertaking what was obviously a daunting task. In working through this enormous quantity of material, they have rendered an invaluable service to other historians working on topics related to the Holocaust or the use by Allied intelligence services of Nazis as intelligence assets.... this sobering and illuminating volume does much to improve our understanding of both the Holocaust and U.S. intelligence during and after the war."
- H-German, Devin O. Pendas, Department of History, Boston College

"They have shown how historians and citizens can profit from even a long-delayed disclosure of important documents. Breitman, Goda, Naftali, and Wolfe have told an important but depressing story with skill and objectivity. Scholars concerned with Nazi criminality and its sordid aftermath will long be in their debt." - Robert E. Herzstein, University of South Carolina

"Breitman, Goda, Naftali, and Wolfe have done the scholarly community a service by demonstarting the value of these newly available sources. The book--and the effort that produced it--offers a model for how primary sources records can inform both historical inquity and topics of current interest." The International History Review Thomas G. Mahnken, Johns Hopkins University

"[An] outstanding volume...a great deal to offer the serious Holocaust reader...This is heartily recommended to them. This is a volume which is an eye-opener, to say the least."
Dr. Diane Cypkin, Martyrdom and Resistance

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This book is based on the unprecedented declassification of thousands of US intelligence files.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition (April 4, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 508 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521617944
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521617949
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.63 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.27 x 9 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2014
I'm trying to work my way through this but keep putting it down in disgust. I've already caught at least one of the writers out in repeating some blatant falsehoods. The index is also terrible- lots of things in the book aren't indexed at all and the index itself is also full of errors. Finally, the footnotes are a mess. Especially irritating for this researching is that fact that some footnotes are just missing. Must have been a rush job for the editors. I can't make any excuses for the writers of what is supposed to be non-fiction.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2004
Inevitably some reviewers will see this book as repeating things they think they know and most of the time do. We are aware of former nazis working for the CIA, We are aware of the nazis having forged Sterling Pounds. We are aware of the sightings of Bormann in Argentina, we are aware of the searches for Gestapo Mueller: so what's the difference.

The difference is double.

First it's in the proving value of the details.

There are things that we do know by inference about the nazis but the authors of this book have found their proofs in the documents. Readers should realize the unbelieveable amount of work it takes to get through thousand of fragile documents so that one can match a little point in a huge field of knowledge. Naturally these document do not come nicely and timely in the right order for a specific study. The researchers need to have an enormous and thorough knowledge of several subjects to notice the proper value of one document. Having been through this on Walter Schellenberg, this reviewer can only be very respectful on the work reported here ad on its result.

The second difference lays in the honest capacity of writers to reconsider pre-existing writings (sometimes including their own).

Reporting on documents which reconsider what we thought had been well established: that's another feat which this book achieves namely on the Red Orchestra, on the cooperation of some Americans with the nazis, or on the looting.

Admittedly the reader would appreciate less of an American slant for these studies (which succeeds here not to become a bias). History is neither American nor European it aims at remaining factual and global.

Anybody interested in documented important facts about the war of intelligence services will be fascinated. The book covers documents recently declassified on a lot of names which are known but rarely documented.

Furthermore the authors have not been satisfied in just making a name index, they have rebuilt the context for the readers.

A superb work for specialists on a subject where nothing is black nor white, where most agents work for two or three powers, where interrogations are twisted both by the captive and the victor.

This is not a book for beginners looking for true spectacular spy stories, it is a no BS book on the spies war: a war which saved (and sometimes costed) thousands of lives.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2007
The American interaction with the Nazi personel at the end of WW II was very uneven. Some Americans did their job. While others treated these most horrible Nazi's with undeserved deference. This book contains individual articles by one or more ofthe co-authors. The information in each article is very important, drawing on the latest declassified (at the time of publication)documents. However, the book is weak at putting the info in context and in drawing conclusions.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2006
This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Why it took legislation in 1998 to uncover "secret" documents of collusion between the United States and Nazi war criminals is outrageous on its face. Still, that a book like this finally exists is better than no book at all.

It's badly written, and full of long, run-on sentences that practically require decoding to get to the point. That in itself is frustrating. There is a lot of U.S.-apologist logic in attempting to explain why thoughtless, careless, and short-sighted decisions were made to hire Nazi war criminals in the United States that not only defied justice, but put American citizens at ongoing risk -- a point this book never gets around to making. Did Nazis stop being Nazis because they were working for the U.S.? Did their belief system suddenly change because their paychecks did?

The book makes the point that Nazi criminals were deluded by their own self-importance, that the U.S. bought into it, and that their incompetence was purchased with tax-payer dollars and were a waste of time and money.

And what else? What else can the book say (other than what is documented) but that the documents are pretty much useless. Probably why they were released at all. What else don't we know?

What was not reported (besides the fact that, for example, the Gehlen organization refused to report the names of the SS criminals they hired or what they were doing)? Look at all the insidious (and networked) crimes that were taking place in the 1950s and 1960s, and it makes one wonder what the connections were. But there will be no documentation of that; largely because the U.S. does not want to be "embarrassed" in front of other countries it must have credibility with, particularly now. In the interest of National Security, don't you know. For the same reason, other countries with documented information keep that information secret. For shame.

Never again! is the rallying cry whenever the holocaust is mentioned. Perhaps in 1945 not enough was known of the depths of depravity that comprised the holocaust. There certainly wasn't the scholarship that there is today. Still, that is no excuse. Those who refuse to learn from the past, as it is said, are condemned to repeat it. And we cannot, and will not, learn from the past while there is any support for keeping any of it secret.

The holocaust continues, as its supporters and defenders continue to exist, influenced to a great extent by Nazi criminals that were never brought to trial, and who continue to peddle their ideology in this country and others. Now more powerful (and high-tech) than ever, the danger of keeping war crimes a secret should not escape the authors of this book, the people who read it, and the scholars who are impressed enough to go on from there.
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