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Summary: "German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler's War to the Cold War is a very fine, deeply researched, nicely contextualized, and beautifully written piece of scholarship that evaluates the reporting of Nazi-era foreign intelligence agencies immediately before and during the early stages of World War II. Hutchinson shows how these reports-quite different from what intelligence practitioners claimed after the war-confirmed Hitler's political assessments and the Nazi Weltanschauung. He then carries the story into the postwar era and demonstrates how the continuity of people and ideas influenced West German and US intelligence efforts against the Soviet Union."-Katrin Paehler, author of The Third Reich's Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg "German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler's War to the Cold War is extensively researched and well written. Robert Hutchinson demonstrates that Nazi ideology pervaded the German intelligence services and that their collective body of reports, rather than countering Hitler's beliefs in fact supported and perpetuated them. Moreover, this book connects the wartime work of these services with the extensive work that hundreds of these former Nazi personnel conducted for the United States, Britain, and West Germany in the decades after the war."-Derek R. Mallett, author of Hitler's Generals in America: Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence "German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler's War to the Cold War is a deeply researched and well-written investigation that illuminates a hitherto shadowy corner of intelligence history. It will be welcomed by students of World War II and the early Cold War."-David Alvarez, coauthor of Spying through a Glass Darkly: American Espionage against the Soviet Union, 1945-1946 "Hutchinson offers a well-researched, clearly written reassessment of German intelligence before, |
