Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove

A matter of intelligence (eBook, ePUB)

MI5 and the surveillance of anti-Nazi refugees, 1933-50

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526110466
• Artikelnr.: 48795083

Autorenporträt

Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove

Inhaltsangabe

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