- Summary
- During World War II, several U.S. and British intelligence agencies, assisted by agencies in British Commonwealth countries, developed a communications intelligence system (known as COMINT) that intercepted German, Japanese, and their satellites' radio messages, subsequently decoding, translating, and disseminating them to interested military and political agencies. The COMINT amassed hundreds of Nazi dispatches describing the Holocaust in occupied Poland, the USSR, and elsewhere. After World War II these records were deposited in different archives of various cryptological agencies that had taken part in COMINT, situated in various countries, which created an obstacle for historians. This book presents a guide to the collections held in U.S. and British archives which contain material pertaining to the Holocaust. Provides a selection of topics that can be researched in the COMINT records, including the genocide in Eastern Europe, Vichy's policies concerning the Jews, Jewish refugees, the destruction of Hungary's Jews in 1944, and Jewish assets looted by the Nazis and placed in Swiss banks. Notes that as much as 85-90% of all messages collected by the Allied COMINT were not processed to the point of formal dissemination. Of the perhaps few hundred translations and decrypts published during the war, those containing information pertinent to the Holocaust number between 700-900. After the war, most of the unprocessed information was destroyed. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
- Format
- Manuscript language material
- Author/Creator
- Hanyok, Robert J.
- Published
- Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2012
- Locale
- United States
Great Britain
Germany
Grossbritannien
- Edition
- Second edition
- Contents
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BACKGROUND
The context of European and Nazi anti-semitism.
OVERVIEW OF THE WESTERN COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM DURING WORLD WAR II
Step 1 : setting the requirements, priorities, and divisions of effort
Step 2 : intercepting the messages
Step 3 : Processing the intercept
Step 4 : Disseminating the COMINT
From intercept to decryption
the story of one German police message.
SELECTED TOPICS OF THE HOLOCAUST
The general course of the Holocaust and the allied COMINT
Jewish refugees, the Holocaust, and the growing strife in Palestine
The Vichy regime and the Jews
The destruction of Hungary's Jews, 1944
Japan and the Jews in the Far East
Nazi gold : national and personal assets looted by Nazis and placed in Swiss banks, 1943
1945.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT WESTERN COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE AND THE HOLOCAUST
What was known from western COMINT
When the COMINT agencies knew about the Holocaust.
- Notes
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Originally published: Fort Meade, Md. : Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005. With new pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
BACKGROUND -- The context of European and Nazi anti-semitism.
OVERVIEW OF THE WESTERN COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM DURING WORLD WAR II -- Step 1 : setting the requirements, priorities, and divisions of effort -- Step 2 : intercepting the messages -- Step 3 : Processing the intercept -- Step 4 : Disseminating the COMINT -- From intercept to decryption -- the story of one German police message.
SELECTED TOPICS OF THE HOLOCAUST -- The general course of the Holocaust and the allied COMINT -- Jewish refugees, the Holocaust, and the growing strife in Palestine -- The Vichy regime and the Jews -- The destruction of Hungary's Jews, 1944 -- Japan and the Jews in the Far East -- Nazi gold : national and personal assets looted by Nazis and placed in Swiss banks, 1943 -- 1945.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT WESTERN COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE AND THE HOLOCAUST -- What was known from western COMINT -- When the COMINT agencies knew about the Holocaust.
