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At a time while intelligence successes and screw ups are on the middle of public dialogue, this ebook presents an exceptional inside of examine how intelligence organizations functionality in the course of struggle and peacetime. because the direct results of the 1998 Nazi struggle Crimes Disclosure Act, the quantity attracts upon many files declassified below this legislation to bare what U.S. intelligence companies discovered approximately Nazi crimes in the course of global conflict II and in regards to the nature of Nazi intelligence enterprises' position within the Holocaust. It examines how a few U.S. enterprises came across how you can benefit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the valuables of German Jews. The paintings additionally unearths startling new information at the chilly conflict connections among the U.S. executive and Hitler's former officials.

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All these events help to explain why certain kinds of Holocaust information did not go through OSS channels. Dulles did not need to reconfirm the obvious, especially because it was politically sensitive in Washington. Later, Nazi Germany supplied some solid evidence of its intended actions against Jews. On February 24, 1943, Hitler commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the naming of the Nazi Party with a speech in which he again promised that the war would lead to the annihilation of the Jews. 53 This kind of propaganda offensive had several different rationales.

MI-6 did not acknowledge Jews as the primary victims of the extermination camps. Certain populations, according to MI-6, were killed simply because they represented unwanted mouths to feed or because they were in the way, occupying areas needed for German colonization. The second category of death camp victims, according to the report, were “worked-out” victims of all nationalities condemned to death because they were no longer fit or were security liabilities after their labor on certain sensitive projects, such as V-2 rockets.

Later, Nazi Germany supplied some solid evidence of its intended actions against Jews. On February 24, 1943, Hitler commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the naming of the Nazi Party with a speech in which he again promised that the war would lead to the annihilation of the Jews. 53 This kind of propaganda offensive had several different rationales. Nazi leaders used anti-Semitic themes generally to try to convince people in Allied countries that the Jews were forcing them to carry on a costly war.

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