U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis

Based on the recent and unprecedented declassification of thousands of US intelligence files.

This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some US corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. This book also reveals startling new details on the Cold War connections between the US government and Hitler's former officers. At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, US Intelligence and the Nazis also provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime.

Part I. Espionage and Genocide: 1. OSS knowledge of the holocaust Richard Breitman with Norman J. W. Goda; 2. Other responses to the holocaust Richard Breitman; 3. Case studies of genocide Richard Breitman with Robert Wolfe; 4. Nazi espionage: the Abwehr and SD Foreign Intelligence Richard Breitman; 5. Follow the money Richard Breitman; 6. The Gestapo Richard Breitman with Norman J. W. Goda and Paul Brown; Part II. Collaboration and Collaborators: 7. Banking on Hitler: Chase National Bank and the Rückwanderer Mark Scheme, 1936–41 Norman J. W. Goda; 8. The Ustasa: murder and espionage Norman J. W. Goda; 9. Nazi collaborators in the United States: what the FBI knew Norman J. W. Goda; Part III. Postwar Intelligence Use of War Criminals: 10. The Nazi peddler: Wilhelm Höttl and Allied Intelligence Norman J. W. Goda; 11. Tracking the Red Orchestra: allied intelligence, Soviet spies, Nazi criminals Norman J. W. Goda; 12. Coddling a Nazi turncoat Robert Wolfe; 13. The CIA and Eichmann's associates Timothy Naftali; 14. Reinhard Gehlen and the United States Timothy Naftali; 15. Manhunts: the official search for notorious Nazis Norman J. W. Goda.

This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust.

Richard Breitman, Professor of History at American University, is the author or co-author of seven books and more than forty articles. One of his books, The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution, won the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History, and another, Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Holocaust Studies. Breitman serves as editor of the scholarly journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Norman J. W. Goda is an Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. He is the author of Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa and the Path to America and numerous scholarly articles. He is currently completing a book entitled: Tales from Spandau: Cold War Diplomacy and the Nuremberg War Criminals.
An Associate Professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, Timothy Naftali directs the Presidential Recordings Program and the Kremlin Decision-making Project. Co-author of One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958–1964, he is currently completing Khrushchev's Cold War and Blindspot: The Secret History of US Counterterrorism. Naftali was most recently a consultant to the 9/11 Commission.
Robert Wolfe was the senior research specialist for more than thirty years for the National Archives' massive captured German and World War II war crimes trial records, as well as for the records of the postwar occupation of Germany and Austria. His publications include Americans as Proconsuls: US Military Government in Germany and Japan, 1944–52 and Captured German and Related Records.