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Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort [Hardback]

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  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Jul-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691134138
  • ISBN-13: 9780691134130
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 704 pages, height x width: 235x152 mm, weight: 1106 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Jul-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691134138
  • ISBN-13: 9780691134130
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Declassified in 1975 and 1976, the documents presented in this volume were written by Neumann, Marcuse, and Kirchheimer between 1943 and 1949 for the Central European Section of the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The three were leftist German-Jewish emigres commissioned by the US government to thoroughly investigate and analyze National Socialism as a means of accumulating sophisticated knowledge about Nazi mentality and behavior to support the Allied efforts. Laudani (history of political thought, U. of Bologna) has assembled and arranged these writings under the broad themes of analysis of the enemy, patterns of collapse, political opposition, denazification and military government, a new Germany in a new Europe, toward Nuremberg, and a new enemy (world communism). Includes a foreword by Raymond Geuss. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

During the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School--Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer--worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi Germany, most of them published here for the first time.


These reports provide a fresh perspective on Hitler's regime and the Second World War, and a fascinating window on Frankfurt School critical theory. They develop a detailed analysis of Nazism as a social and economic system and the role of anti-Semitism in Nazism, as well as a coherent plan for the reconstruction of postwar Germany as a democratic political system with a socialist economy. These reports played a significant role in the development of postwar Allied policy, including denazification and the preparation of the Nuremberg Trials. They also reveal how wartime intelligence analysis shaped the intellectual agendas of these three important German-Jewish scholars who fled Nazi persecution prior to the war.



Secret Reports on Nazi Germany features a foreword by Raymond Geuss as well as a comprehensive general introduction by Raffaele Laudani that puts these writings in historical and intellectual context.

Recenzijas

"[ F]ascinating... [ T]his new volume ... conveniently collects a substantial chunk of the original documents penned by Neumann and his research team."--William E. Scheuerman, Foreign Affairs "[ A] fascinating collection... The history of wartime intelligence is a developing field, and this material is a welcome addition."--Library Journal "[ S]ome of the most brilliant analysis of Nazi Germany ever written and a valuable lesson in postwar planning... [ A] rich and multi-layered collection of political essays that will be of enduring interest to students of military intelligence, Marxism, Nazi Germany and the Allied effort in the Second World War."--John Bew, New Statesman "Editor Laudani laces the reports throughout the forward, introduction, and short biographies, placing them in the larger context of critical theory and as tools for assessing postwar liberal democracy. Overall, the reports offer highly readable, objective assessments and possible reforms."--Choice "[ A] highly valuable source for anyone interested in intellectual history, the history of ideas, the history of the Second World War, Nazi Germany or wartime intelligence... The texts presented within this volume will most certainly remain essential reading material for anyone dealing with the so-called Frankfurt School, as well as for those scholars and students dealing with wartime intelligence structures, Nazi Germany and the Second World War."--Goran Miljan, European Review of History "Secret Reports on Nazi Germany is a work of immense scholarly value that can serve as an important resource for scholars and students interested in the Second World War, U.S. postwar policy, the origins of the Cold War, critical theory, and the politics of exile. Most important, the reports in this collection provide a critical starting point for tracing the historiography on Nazism in the United States."--Anne Berg, H-Net Reviews "Secret Reports On Nazi Germany is a whole different, yet substantially significant, eye opening, scholarly saga, that simply needs to be read by all those who are remotely interested in what actually took place in wartime Nazi Germany. In other words, it's the real deal... Secret Reports on Nazi Germany is an exceptionally well put together account of a country simply gone mad. More importantly, it's fresh and it's incisive."--David Marx, David Marx: Book Reviews

Foreword, by Raymond Geuss ix Acknowledgments xv Notes on the Texts xvii
On the Authors xxi Introduction 1 Part I THE ANALYSIS OF THE ENEMY 1Franz
Neumann - Anti-Semitism: Spearhead of Universal Terror 27 2Herbert Marcuse -
Possible Political Changes in Nazi Germany in the Near Future 31 3Herbert
Marcuse - Changes in the Reich Government 38 4Franz Neumann and Paul Sweezy -
Speer's Appointment as Dictator of the German Economy 48 5Herbert Marcuse and
Felix Gilbert - The Significance of Prussian Militarism for Nazi Imperialism:
Potential Tensions in United Nations Psychological Warfare 61 6Herbert
Marcuse - German Social Stratification 74 Part II PATTERNS OF COLLAPSE 7Franz
Neumann - German Morale after Tunisia 95 8Herbert Marcuse (assisted by Franz
Neumann and Hans Meyerhoff) - Morale in Germany 100 9Franz Neumann, Herbert
Marcuse, and Felix Gilbert - Possible Patterns of German Collapse 106 10Franz
Neumann - The Social and Political Effects of Air Raids on the German People:
A Preliminary Survey 118 11Franz Neumann - The Attempt on Hitler's Life and
Its Consequences 133 Part III POLITICAL OPPOSITION 12Franz Neumann - The Free
Germany Manifesto and the German People 149 13Herbert Marcuse - The German
Communist Party 167 14Herbert Marcuse - The Social Democratic Party of
Germany 199 Part IV DENAZIFICATION AND MILITARY GOVERNMENT 15Otto Kirchheimer
- The Abrogation of Nazi Laws in the Early Period of MG 229 16Herbert Marcuse
- Dissolution of the Nazi Party and Its Affiliated Organizations 253 17Franz
Neumann - German Cartels and Cartel-Like Organizations 264 18Herbert Marcuse
- Policy toward Revival of Old Parties and Establishment of New Parties in
Germany 285 19Otto Kirchheimer - General Principles of Administration and
Civil Service in Germany 301 20Otto Kirchheimer - Administration of German
Criminal Justice under Military Government 318 21Franz Neumann - The Problem
of Inflation in Germany 345 Part V A NEW GERMANY IN A NEW EUROPE 22Franz
Neumann and Paul Sweezy - The Adaptation of Centralized European Controls of
Raw Materials, Industry, and Transport 397 23Franz Neumann - The Revival of
German Political and Constitutional Life under Military Government 412
24Franz Neumann - The Treatment of Germany 436 Part VI TOWARD NUREMBERG
25Otto Kirchheimer and John Herz - The "Statement on Atrocities" of the
Moscow Tripartite Conference 451 26Franz Neumann - Problems Concerning the
Treatment of War Criminals 457 27Otto Kirchheimer and John Herz - Leadership
Principle and Criminal Responsibility 464 28Herbert Marcuse - Nazi Plans for
Dominating Germany and Europe: The Nazi Master Plan 475 29Otto Kirchheimer -
Nazi Plans for Dominating Germany and Europe: Domestic Crimes 522 Part VII A
NEW ENEMY 30Herbert Marcuse - Status and Prospects of German Trade-Unions and
Works Councils 557 31Herbert Marcuse - The Potentials of World Communism 591
Notes 611 Index 659
Franz Neumann (1900-1954) was a labor lawyer and political activist in Germany before the Nazi period, and was a professor of political science at Columbia University after his work in the OSS and at the Nuremberg Trials. Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a philosopher who made important contributions to the Frankfurt School critical theory of society. He taught at Brandeis and San Diego universities after his work in the OSS. Otto Kirchheimer (1905-1965) worked for the OSS until 1952. Later he was professor of political science at the New School for Social Research and Columbia. Raffaele Laudani is assistant professor of the history of political thought at the University of Bologna.