Eavesdropping on Hell Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945

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ISBN: 9780486481272 | 0486481271
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Copyright: 4/19/2012

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This official government publication investigates the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. It explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. It also summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years.

Preface and Acknowledgments A Note on TerminologyAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Background The Context of European and Nazi Anti-Semitism Previous Histories and Articles Chapter 2: Overview of the Western Communications Intelligence System during World War II Step 1: Setting the Requirements, Priorities, and Division of EffortStep 2: Intercepting the Messages Step 3: Processing the InterceptStep 4: Disseminating the COMINT From Intercept to Decryption – the Processing of a German Police MessageChapter 3: Sources of Cryptologic Records Relating to the Holocaust The National Archives and Records Administration The Public Record OfficeMiscellaneous Collections Chapter 4: Selected Topics from the HolocaustA. The General Course of the Holocaust and Allied COMINT B. Jewish Refugees, the Holocaust, and the Growing Strife in Palestine C. The Vichy Regime and the Jews D. The Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, 1944E. Japan and the Jews in the Far East F. Nazi Gold: National and Personal Assets Looted by Nazis and Placed in Swiss Banks, 1943–1945 Chapter 5: Some Observations about Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust What was Known from COMINTWhen the COMINT Agencies Knew Some Further Observations Regarding the Available Archival Records There are limited COMINT agency records about the Holocaust There are significant differences between the archival records holdings of the cryptologic agencies of the United States and Great BritainThe Western communications intelligence agencies collected many more intercepts than they finally processed during the WarThere are pertinent uses for the available records from the COMINT agencies related to the Holocaust Appendix 1: Selected Allied Monitoring Stations (MS) and Designators Appendix 2: Annotated Sample of Diplomatic Translations and German Police Decrypt Appendix 3 Attached DocumentsVrba-Wetzler Cable, 26 June 1944 German Foreign office message to Buenos Aiers regarding a pension applicant’s Jewish wife, 13 January 1943Spanish diplomatic message referring to Raoul Wallenberg VN 1260: German translation of intercepted U.S. Department of State message from embassy in Bern, Switzerland, 19 October 1944 [DOS Nr. 6927] Regarding the status of interned Hungarian JewsGerman report of results of deportation of Hungarian Jews, 30 December 1944. From O.S.S. source “George Wood.” Bibliography Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and AcronymsIndex

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Eavesdropping on Hell Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945

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