Secret Reports on Nazi Germany
Subtitle: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780691134130
Subjects: Frankfurt school of sociology; Reconstruction (1939-1951), germany; World war, 1939-1945, economic aspects, germany; Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945; Germany, politics and government, 1945-1990; Germany, social conditions
Description: "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."--Amazon.com.