Western Intelligence Services and Former Members of Waffen-SS, Gestapo, and German Wehrmacht in the early Cold War: Cooperation, Networks, and Strategies of Communication

冷战初期的西方情报部门与党卫军、盖世太保和德国国防军的前成员：合作、网络和沟通策略

• 批准号: 389340318
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Michael Wala
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Geschichte Nordamerikas
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/389340318?language=en
• 关键词: Western; Intelligence; Services; Former; Members

To acquire dependable information about the USSR and activities of Communist groups in Western Europe, Western intelligence services after 1946 increasingly cooperated with a large number of former members of SS, Gestapo, and German Wehrmacht. These were consequently often able to escape prosecution, but the Western need for information also enabled them to utilize knowledge they had constructed before 1945 and adapt it to the period of occupation to serve their own needs and goals. This cooperation extended far beyond a simple exchange of information or of a utilization of Germans for stay-behind networks, it led to substantial exchange of ideas and visions about the political future, rationalizations and theories about the ideological enemy.Recently declassified documents in American, European, and German archives now make it possible to open the Black Box of internal structures of communication and decision-making in these relationships and related networks encompassing victors and vanquished and to research the terms of exchange. The market for information and knowledge thus originating, can be analyzed, the modifiability of agency researched, thus shedding light on how the anti-Bolshevism of the NS-period affected the post-war Western security architecture. This allows for an analysis of changes of perception of the relative other and of the production of knowledge about the now common enemy, knowledge that helped to legitimize the new transatlantic Cold War anti-Soviet security paradigm. The research project will thus provide important insight into a missing dimension of the history of the early Cold War, the nascent Federal Republic of Germany, and the intertwined beginnings of the transatlantic security cooperation.

为了获得有关苏联和西欧共产主义团体活动的可靠信息，1946年后，西方情报机构越来越多地与大量前党卫队、盖世太保和德国国防军成员合作。因此，这些人往往能够逃脱起诉，但西方对信息的需求也使他们能够利用他们在1945年之前构建的知识，并将其适应占领时期，以满足自己的需求和目标。这种合作远远超出了简单的信息交换或利用德国人作为留守网络的范围，它导致了关于政治未来的思想和愿景的实质性交流，以及关于意识形态敌人的合理化和理论。和德国档案馆现在有可能打开内部沟通和决策结构的黑匣子，在这些关系和相关的网络，包括胜利者和失败者，并研究交换条件。由此产生的信息和知识市场可以分析，机构的可修改性可以研究，从而揭示了纳粹时期的反布尔什维主义如何影响战后西方安全架构。这使得分析的变化的看法相对他者和生产的知识，现在共同的敌人，知识，有助于合法化的新的跨大西洋冷战反苏安全范式。因此，该研究项目将提供重要的洞察到早期冷战，新生的联邦共和国的德国，和跨大西洋安全合作的相互交织的开端的历史缺失的层面。