Hitler's Spies German Military Intelligence

The first full account of Hitler's extensive intelligence network-and the dramatic story of how Germany lost the battle of the secret services in World War II.

David Kahn spent eight years researching and writing this book, including a year in the German military archives. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Oxford and is also the author of the acclaimed best-seller The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing. He lives in Great Neck, New York.

Preface

ix

I. PROLOGUE

The Climax of German Spying in America

3

(24)

Protozoa, Speech, and History

27

(15)

The Institutions of Control

42

(25)

II. THE FINDERS

Cylinders

67

(6)

The Military Attache

73

(12)

Private Sectors, Public Secrets

85

(16)

Before the Main Body

101

(13)

The World from the Sky

114

(22)

Questioning the Foe

136

(16)

Betrayers in Paper and Steel

152

(8)

The Overt Factor

160

(12)

Hearing Diplomats Chatter

172

(17)

Electric Probings

189

(24)

The Codebreaker Who Helped the U-Boats

213

(10)

The Admiral and His Abwehr

223

(28)

Apparat

251

(21)

Operations of the Infrastructures

272

(30)

Battalions of Spies

302

(71)

III. THE WEIGHERS

The Military Economists

373

(7)

In the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine

380

(11)

O Qu IV and OKW / WFSt / Ic

391

(8)

The Third General Staff Officer

399

(19)

Foreign Armies East and West

418

(27)

IV. THE CASES

The Greatest Mistake

445

(17)

The Biggest Surprise

462

(17)

The Ultimate Failure

479

(44)

V. EPILOGUE

Hubris, Glory, Charisma, Fiihrer

523

(24)

Citations, Translations, Abbreviations

547

(6)

Notes

553

(60)

Bibliography

613

(34)

Illustrations Acknowledgments

647

(4)

Index

651

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Hitler's Spies German Military Intelligence In World War II

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