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Summary:

Scope and content: "Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen reveals long-hidden interrogation systems that were set up by Germany's Western occupiers to protect internal security and gather intelligence about the Soviet Union as the Cold War brought millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies to Germany"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Migrants, spies, and security in Cold War Germany
• Part I. Places
• The Allied enclave of West Berlin
• Debriefing in West Germany
• Part II. Personalities
• British initiators : Scientific, Technical and Intelligence Branch
• American liberators : the Counter Intelligence Corps
• West German administrators : the Federal Intelligence Service (BND)
• Part III. Practices
• Westward migration and East Germany's Stasi
• Shared approaches to security questioning
• Conclusion: Refugee screening : the past as prologue
• Appendix: The changing state of archival access.

Author/Creator:

Allen, Keith R. (Keith Richard) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Interrogation nation: refugees and spies in Cold War Germany [by Allen, K.R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Interrogation nation [by Allen, K.R.] (Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017 — ISBN 9781538101513; LCCN 2016057002)

Subjects:

Germany — Politics and government — 1945-1990

Germany (West) — Politics and government

Germany (East) — Politics and government

Refugees — Germany — History — 20th century

Spies — Germany — History — 20th century

Questioning — Political aspects — Germany — History — 20th century

Internal security — Germany — History — 20th century

Cold War — Political aspects — Germany

Western countries — Foreign relations — Soviet Union

Soviet Union — Foreign relations — Western countries

Cold War (1945-1989)

1900-1999

Spies

Questioning

Internal security

Politics and government

Diplomatic relations

Refugees

Germany (West)

Western countries

Developed countries

Germany (East)

Soviet Union

Germany

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 09, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 276 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DD257.4 .A5886 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781538101520 (electronic book)
1538101521 (electronic book)
9781538101513 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017022744

OCLC Numbers:

986788869