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Zusatztext " 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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. They 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 1 Franz Neumann - Anti-Semitism: Spearhead of Universal Terror 27 2 Herbert Marcuse - Possible Political Changes in Nazi Germany in the Near Future 31 3 Herbert Marcuse - Changes in the Reich Government 38 4 Franz Neumann and Paul Sweezy - Speer's Appointment as Dictator of the German Economy 48 5 Herbert Marcuse and Felix Gilbert - The Significance of Prussian Militarism for Nazi Imperialism: Potential Tensions in United Nations Psychological Warfare 61 6 Herbert Marcuse - German Social Stratification 74 Part II PATTERNS OF COLLAPSE 7 Franz Neumann - German Morale after Tunisia 95 8 Herbert Marcuse (assisted by Franz Neumann and Hans Meyerhoff) - Morale in Germany 100 9 Franz Neumann! Herbert Marcuse! and Felix Gilbert - Possible Patterns of German Collapse 106 10 Franz Neumann - The Social and Political Effects of Air Raids on the German People: A Preliminary Survey 118 11 Franz Neumann - The Attempt on Hitler's Life and Its Consequences 133 Part III POLITICAL OPPOSITION 12 Franz Neumann - The Free Germany Manifesto and the German Pe...
