Manchester University Press, 2017. — 329 p. This book is an in-depth examination of the relations between Ireland and the former East Germany between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explores political, diplomatic, economic, media and cultural issues. The long and tortuous process of establishing diplomatic relations is unique in the annals of...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2023. — 275 p. On January 16th Witzke and several confederates departed Mexico City for the U.S. border. After crossing 1500 miles of rugged territory, encountering bandits and other hazards along the way, Witzke reached Nogales. But unknown to the saboteur-assassin, the German espionage network in Mexico had been penetrated by Allied...
Новейшая история России. — 2022. — Т. 12, №4. — с. 870-883. В статье рассмотрены формы и методы борьбы нацистских оккупационных властей с партизанским движением на пограничной территории Беларуси и Северо-Запада России. Немецкие оккупационные органы и службы с самых первых дней оккупации региона уделяли значительное внимание выработке наиболее эффективных форм и методов борьбы...
WBG Academic, 2021. — 234 p. Franz Josef Huber war Beamter der Politischen Polizei in München, während der NS-Herrschaft gehörte er der Gestapo an. Obwohl kein Anhänger der Nationalsozialisten, gelang ihm ein schneller Aufstieg bis zum Kriminalrat. Nach der Annexion Österreichs wurde er Leiter der Gestapoleitstelle in Wien, die er bis Ende 1944 führte. Nach Kriegsende galt er...
Исторический формат. — 2022. — №2. — с. 82-86. Термин «крысиные тропы», широко распространившийся в публицистической литературе, означает пути бегства высокопоставленных нацистских преступников от осуждения и их инфильтрацию, а затем использование в годы холодной войны. Цель настоящей статьи - рассмотрение истории Федеральной разведывательной службы Германии (БНД), созданной...
ACTA HISTORICA: труды по историческим и обществоведческим наукам. — 2021. — №4. — с. 22-24. В кратком сообщении описаны руководства нацистской Германии по завоеванию Северного Кавказа. На основе научной литературы и исторических источников проанализированы захватнические проекты немцев, а также показаны способы их реализации и причины последующего крушения.
Наука. Общество. Оборона. — 2023. — Т. 11, №1 (34). — с. 2-14. Проблема формирования тоталитарной системы и способов полного контроля над обществом, подавления любых форм сопротивления и оппозиции в гитлеровской Германии не теряет своей актуальность спустя более 80 лет. Данная тема на протяжении последних лет приобретает особый интерес, как у западных историков, так и у...
Журнал российских и восточноевропейских исторических исследований. — 2021. — № 3 (26). — с. 97-123. В публикации представлены материалы, характеризующие деятельность подразделений немецкой Тайной полевой полиции (ГФП), сосредоточенных на советско-германском фронте и прифронтовых оккупированных территориях, подконтрольных действующей армии в 1941–1942 гг. На основании трофейных...
История: факты и символы. — 2023. — №1. — с. 130-139. Залогом успешной деятельности любой армии является налаженная работа ее подразделений, ответственных за контрразведку. В вермахте эта функция была возложена на абвер-3 - один из отделов абвера (германской военной разведки и контрразведки). В основу источниковой базы положены трофейные германские документы, комплект которых...
М.: ОГИЗ, Госполитиздат, 1942. — 52 с. Разветвленный институт агентурной военной разведки, политический и экономический шпионаж, многочисленные органы агитации и пропаганды, аппарат тайной полиции — гестапо — и ряд других глубоко законспирированных организаций были поставлены на службу гитлеровским планам «большой войны». В основе «работы» фашистских шпионов — стоят убийства,...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 432 p. The Stasi played a far more extensive role in the judiciary, legislation, and judicial cadre policy than previously recognized. This work describes the conspiratorial aspect of the Stasi's investigations, its scripted preparations for the penal process in military tribunals, and its verbal and written arrangements with the Court and state prosecutors....
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 320 p. The incredible true story of the first four Nazi spies to infiltrate British soil is revealed in this WWII history. After the swift takeover of France and the Low Countries, Nazi Germany was on the crest of a wave. Only the United Kingdom stood in its way. Hitler quickly devised plans for the invasion of England, codenamed Operation...
Berghahn Books, 2014. — 277 p. The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the...
Frontline Books, 2023. — 559 p. As the Second World War progressed and defeat for Hitler’s Third Reich in all theatres became ever more certain, the tight Abwehr network, built so effectively by its head, Admiral Canaris, began to unravel. High-level defections to the Allies and bitter disputes with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) added to a collapse in morale. Most notably was the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 272 p. The true extent of Nazi secret agent activity in Britain during the Second World War has received little attention. In large part this is due to the highly classified nature of the subject. This fascinating book uses recently released documents to explore how German agents penetrated our borders and explains methods of agent recruitment....
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 196 с. В книге рассказывается об одном из подразделений охотников-егерей (коммандос), созданном вермахтом для борьбы с партизанами и заброшенном в район белорусских лесов. В длительной и беспощадной борьбе у каждого члена группы было свое боевое задание, в результате развернутая антипартизанская война становилась схваткой человека с человеком. В....
Northern Illinois University Press, 2015. — 200 p. On the morning of April 27, 1935, Louis N. Hammerling fell to his death from the nineteenth floor of an apartment in New York City, where he lived alone. Hammerling was one of the most influential Polish immigrants in turn-of-the-century America and the leading voice and advocate of the Eastern Europeans who had come to the...
LSU Press, 1999. — 380 p. Published first in Brazil as Suástica sobre o Brasil, this examination of the rise and fall of German espionage in that country spent months on the best-seller list there and generated a national furor as former spies and collaborationists denounced it as a CIA ploy. Here, for the first time, are the colorful stories of such German agents as "Alfredo,"...
Canelo, 2021. — 288 p. During the Second World War there was, behind the scenes, a bitter conflict was stamped 'Top Secret'. It was a war of infiltration and misdirection, espionage and assassination. And the Nazis were determined not to let anyone best them. Revealing the full extent of Nazi's secret intelligence networks, bestselling author Charles Whiting takes the reader...
Big Sky Publishing, 2022. — 228 p. Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War there were sizeable Fascist groups active in Britain, working to overthrow the British government. Most of the Fascist leaders were interned in 1940 as soon as Churchill came to power, but were freed in the better times of 1944, all the more embittered and just as intent on installing a...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 375 p. Modern historians have consistently condemned the Abwehr, Germany’s military intelligence service, and its SS equivalent, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), as incompetent and even corrupt organizations. However, newly declassified MI5, CIA and US Counterintelligence Corps files shed a very different light on the structure, control and capabilities of...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 352 p. Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into English in their entirety for...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 248 p. This collection of vivid essays examines some of the most fascinating aspects of the German resistance to Hitler. It includes the first translations into English of pioneering studies on the role of a leading Nazi in the July Plot, the flight of Rudolf Hess to Britain and the vigorous controversy over Hugh Trevor-Roper's investigation of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 314 p. From the summer of 1940 until May 1941, nearly twenty German Abwehr agents were dropped by boat or parachute into England during what was known as Operation Lena, all in preparation for Hitler's planned invasion of England. The invasion itself would never happen and in fact, after the war, one of the Abwehr commanders declared that the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 176 p. Drawing together hundreds of images, Hitler's Sky Warriors presents a unique examination of the German airborned soldier in World War II. Comprehensive and authoritative, it includes chapters on the corps's recruitment and training, its specialized equipment, its operation in the Low Countries in 1940, its seizure of Crete in 1941, and its...
Greenhill Books, 2022. — 161 p. In March 1940, Oberleutnant Wilhelm Walther transferred from Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5, an armored reconnaissance unit, to Bau-Lehr-Bataillon z.b.V. 800 - forerunner of what would soon be known as the 'Brandenburger'. Two months later, he led a commando action in the Netherlands and became the first of his unit to be awarded the Ritterkreuz...
М.: Прибой, 1997. — 205 с. — Перевод на русский: Н. Непомнящий. Отто Скорцени — родоначальник нацистских коммандос. Прежде всего, очень сложно найти как в реальной жизни, так и в художественной литературе более невероятные приключения, чем те, что выпали на долю этого офицера СС — личности, к счастью союзников англичан и американцев, так и не сумевшей реализовать себя до конца....
Lucknow Books, 2016. — 238 p. Seldom can the true history of a secret service be revealed but the total collapse of Nazi Germany provided the opportunity and Dr. Paul Leverkuehn has taken it. He was himself a senior member of the Abwehr, Germany's Military Intelligence Service, and one of Admiral Canaris's trusted collaborators. He has sought out some of the most important...
Eumenes Publishing, 2019. — 241 p. They Came to Kill, first published in 1961, is the fascinating World War II story of the U-boat landings of eight Nazi spies on beaches on Long Island and in Florida in June 1942, equipped with explosives and a large amount of U.S. money. Their mission, known as Operation Pastorius, was to disrupt and destroy vital war manufacturing plants and...
Casemate Publishers, 2017. — 224 p. Wilhelm Canaris was the great protector of the German opposition to Hitler - but at the same time, he was the one who prepared all the major expansion plans for Hitler and the Third Reich. This biography follows his career from the age of 17 when he joined the German Imperial Navy. This biography of the Nazi intelligence chief who spied both...
Victor Gollancz, 1951. — 180 p. This vintage book contains a fascinating and detailed biography of the heroic chief of German military intelligence who opposed Hitler at the cost of his own life - Wilhelm Franz Canaris. Admiral Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1887 - 1945) was chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, between 1935 and 1944. He was a key figure in the...
Good Press, 2019. — 195 p. British and other official circles know more of the German secret service than the public are aware of, and there is little that is done by German agents without the cognizance of the countries affected by their work, at the present time. The following pages make no attempt at unveiling all the secrets of the German system, for that would involve not...
Routledge, 2009. — 272 p. This edited book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counterintelligence. The contributors broaden the conventional view of East German foreign intelligence as driven by the inter-German conflict to...
Independent Publishers, 2017. — 82 p. What was it like to read one's own secret police files after the German government made the East German Stasi files available to people the Stasi spied on? Karen Margolis found out what the secret police knew about her, and which of her friends and acquaintances had spied on her in 1988-1989, the days before the Berlin Wall fell.
Sidgwick and Jackson, 1985. — 255 p. Paul Ernst Fackenheim (born 1892) was a German Jewish Army lieutenant who fought in World War I and received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. In 1939 he was detained and transferred to Dachau concentration camp; he was prisoner number 26336. In 1941 Fackenheim was recruited by the Abwehr to serve as a spy; the German Military Intelligence...
Arcturus Publishing, 2016. — 239 p. The names Klaus Barbie, Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaltenbrunner struck terror into law-abiding citizens let alone those who resisted Adolf Hitler. These men were leaders of the Gestapo, the secret police during the times of the Nazis. This book outlines who the Gestapo were, how they...
Irish Academic Press, 2002. — 414 p. Irish Secrets graphically tells the little-known history of German military espionage activity in Ireland - despite Ireland's neutral stance - before and during the Second World War. It details illicit contacts between officers of the Abwehr (German military intelligence) and leaders of the Irish Republican Army with the intent of...
Collier Books, 1985. — 717 p. A German patrol wiggles through Russian lines to return with details of Soviet defenses. An expert Luftwaffe interrogator teases secret information from downed Allied airmen. Two spies steal ashore in Maine and make their way into New York City. Filled with episodes of intrigue and adventure, Hitler's Spies reveals the workings of German...
University Press of Kentucky, 2004. — 375 p. The abbreviation "Nazi," the acronym "Gestapo," and the initials "SS" have become resonant elements of our vocabulary. Less known is "SD," and hardly anyone recognizes the combination "Sipo and SD." Although Sipo and SD formed the heart of the National Socialist police state, the phrase carries none of the ominous impact that it...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 329 p. This book is an in-depth examination of the relations between Ireland and the former East Germany between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explores political, diplomatic, economic, media and cultural issues. The long and tortuous process of establishing diplomatic relations is unique in the annals of...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 182 p. The Untold Story of Régina Diana tells of the rebellious daughter of working-class French-Italian parents from a run-down area of Geneva who, trained by the most ruthless spymaster of them all, Elisabeth Schragmüller (aka Fraulein Doktor), became a much-adored French ‘café-concert’ singer, a discreet and highly prized prostitute plying her...
Casemate Publishers, 2017. — 224 p. Wilhelm Canaris was the great protector of the German opposition to Hitler - but at the same time, he was the one who prepared all the major expansion plans for Hitler and the Third Reich. This biography follows his career from the age of 17 when he joined the German Imperial Navy.
Potomac Books, 2021. — 342 p. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy. This...
Air World, 2020. — 264 p. Drawn from German and Russian sources, much of the latter only recently declassified, the authors expose for the very first time the Luftwaffe’s secret operations in WW2. On the night of 14/15 August 1944, the roar of an unknown aircraft was heard over the dense forests to the southeast of Moscow. Flying past the Soviet capital, the aircraft turned...
University Press of Kentucky, 2019. — 264 p. Cover Name: Dr. Rantzau is a gripping diary-like personal account of espionage during the Second World War and is one of very few historic memoirs written by an ex- Abwehr officer. Detailed is how Colonel Nikolaus Ritter, following a brief World War I career and over ten years as a businessman in America, returned to Germany in...
Coronet, 2015. — 320 p. A Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week'. Professor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. Frank McDonough's work has been described as, 'modern history writing at its very best...Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist' by renowned historian Andrew Roberts. Drawing on a...
Potomac Books, 2021. — 342 p. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy. This...
Public Affairs, 1999. — 411 p. General Markus Wolf was known to Western Intelligence Officers only as the man without a face. Now the legendary spymaster has emerged from the shadows to Reveal his remarkable life of secrets . lies. and betrayals as head of the world's most formidable and effective foreign service ever. Wolf was undoubtedly the greatest spymaster of our century....
World Pub, 1972. — 440 р. So startling and dramatic are these memoirs, the entire history of World War II will have to be rewritten because of them. Gehlen's revelations cannot fail to embarrass governments, cast doubts on famous leaders and causes, frighteningly underscore the fantastic power of espionage in world affairs. The Service is the memoir of General Reinhard Gehlen,...
Mondadori, 1974. — 430 p. Le due vite di Reinhard Gehlen, prima responsabile del servizio segreto della Wehrmacht nell'Est Europa, poi a capo dei servizi della Germania Occidentale per conto della Nato. In quest'ultima veste ha organizzato un'efficiente rete spionistica contro i paesi del Patto di Varsavia, costituita da ex nazisti. Si ritiene anche che abbia avuto parte...