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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
0719099803
ISBN-13
9780719099809
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215307706
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Matter of Intelligence : Mi5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-50
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Military / World War II, Intelligence & Espionage, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Intended Audience
College Audience
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"Given the wealth of literature that has appeared in recent decades on the victims of Nazism, it is now rare indeed for a book on the refugees from Hitler in Britain to open up to its readers an almost completely unexplored area of that history. Yet this is the case with Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove's study, A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-1950"(Anthony Grenville, Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, July 2014)"An immaculately researched study"(Nicholas Jacobs, Camden New Journal, 10/07/2014), "Given the wealth of literature that has appeared in recent decades on the victims of Nazism, it is now rare indeed for a book on the refugees from Hitler in Britain to open up to its readers an almost completely unexplored area of that history. Yet this is the case with Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove's study, A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-1950" (Anthony Grenville, Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, July 2014) "An immaculately researched study" (Nicholas Jacobs, Camden New Journal, 10/07/2014), "Given the wealth of literature that has appeared in recent decades on the victims of Nazism, it is now rare indeed for a book on the refugees from Hitler in Britain to open up to its readers an almost completely unexplored area of that history. Yet this is the case with Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove's study, A Matter of Intelligence: MI5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-1950"(Anthony Grenville, Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, July 2014)
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Table Of Content
Introduction Part I: I Spy 1933-39 1. Defending the realm: MI5 in the making 2. Liddell in wonderland: MI5 and the Prussian secret police 3. The undesirables: political refugees from Germany and Austria after January 1933 4. The mysterious case of Dora Fabian 5. Nazi spies and the 'Auslandsorganisation' 6. No more peace: Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt and German rearmament 7. Flying and spying: Claud W. Sykes, Karl Otten and the 'Primrose League' 8. The 'Red Menace' 9. 'Peace for our time' Part II: Secrets, lies and misinterpretations 10. 'A state of confusion which amounted almost to chaos': MI5 1939-41 11. The internment of 'enemy aliens' 12. 'The largest communist sideshow in London': the Free German League of Culture 13. The Austrian Centre - and 'the great Eva' 14. 'About the most dangerous of all these organisations': the Czech Refugee Trust Fund 15. Whispers and lies: the informers 16. Friends in need: British supporters of the refugees Part III: Preparing for the Cold War 17. Red alert: keeping watch on the communists 18. Tube alloys: the British atomic bomb project 19. The spy who was caught: the case of Klaus Fuchs 20. The spy who got away: the case of Engelbert Broda 21. Parting company Conclusion A note on sources Select Bibliography Index
Synopsis
This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria. Based on the personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on political refugees during the 1930s and 1940s - which have only recently been released into the public domain - this study also fills a considerable gap in historical research. Telling a story of absorbing interest, which at times reads more like spy fiction, it is both a study of MI5 and of the political refugees themselves. The book will interest academics in the fields of history, politics, intelligence studies, Jewish studies, German studies and migration studies; but it is also accessible to the general reader interested in Britain before, during and after the Second World War., A matter of intelligence concerns the surveillance of anti-Nazi German refugees during the 1930s and 1940s by the British security service MI5. When Hitler took power in 1933, the Nazis began a reign of terror against their political opponents: communists, socialists, pacifists and liberals, many of whom were forced to flee Germany. Some of these political refugees came to Britain, where MI5 kept them under close surveillance. This study is based on the personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on them during the 1930s and 1940s - or at least those that have been released to the National Archives - making it equally a study of the political refugees themselves. Although this surveillance exercise formed an important part of MI5's work during that period, it is a part that it seems to have disowned or at any rate forgotten: the recent official history of MI5 does not even mention it, nor do its 'unofficial' counterparts. This study therefore fills a considerable gap in historical research. It traces the development of MI5 surveillance of German-speaking refugees through the case files of some of its individual targets and of the main refugee organisations; it also considers the refugees' British supporters and the informants within the refugee community who spied on fellow-refugees, as well as MI5's tussles with the Home Office and other official bodies. Finally, it assesses how successful - or how useful - this hidden surveillance exercise actually was. The book will appeal to academics in the fields of history, politics, intelligence studies, Jewish studies, German studies and migration studies; but it is accessible to the general reader interested in Britain before, during and after the Second World War., Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria, This is an unusual book, telling a story which has hitherto remained hidden from history: the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria. Based on the personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on political refugees during the 1930s and 1940s - which have only recently been released into the public domain - this study also fills a considerable gap in historical research. Telling a story of absorbing interest, which at times reads more like spy fiction, it is both a study of MI5 and of the political refugees themselves. The book will interest academics in the fields of history, politics, intelligence studies, Jewish studies, German studies and migration studies; but it is also accessible to the general reader interested in Britain before, during and after the Second World War. -- .
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