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The Third Reich´s Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg
Katrin Paehler
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Description for The Third Reich´s Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg
hardcover. A pioneering study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service and its head, Walter Schellenberg. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBW; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
This is the first-ever analytical study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service, Office VI of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and its head, Walter Schellenberg. Katrin Paehler tells the story of Schellenberg's career in policing and intelligence, charts the development and activities of the service he eventually headed, and discusses his attempts to place it at the center of Nazi foreign intelligence and foreign policy. The book locates the service in its proper pedigree of the SS as well as in relation to its two main rivals - the Abwehr and the Auswärtige Amt. It also considers the role Nazi ideology played ... Read more
This is the first-ever analytical study of Nazi Germany's political foreign intelligence service, Office VI of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and its head, Walter Schellenberg. Katrin Paehler tells the story of Schellenberg's career in policing and intelligence, charts the development and activities of the service he eventually headed, and discusses his attempts to place it at the center of Nazi foreign intelligence and foreign policy. The book locates the service in its proper pedigree of the SS as well as in relation to its two main rivals - the Abwehr and the Auswärtige Amt. It also considers the role Nazi ideology played ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
382
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107157194
SKU
V9781107157194
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Ref
99-14
About Katrin Paehler
Katrin Paehler is Associate Professor at Illinois State University. She was a member of the Independent Historians Commission on the German Foreign Office and Nazism and its Aftermath, and is co-editor of A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe (2015).
Reviews for The Third Reich´s Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg
'This book will appeal particularly to - and be read with profit by - specialists in intelligence history.' Alaric Searle, German Studies Review '[The Third Reich's Intelligence Services] offers a tightly woven argument about one of Nazi Germany's foreign intelligence arms.' Kristie Macrakis, American Historical Review