Book description
A study of how Allied communications intelligence organizations reported intelligence on the Holocaust. Explains how the Western COMINT system operated during WWII; describes how the wartime records of SIS and GC&CS are organized in the U.S. and UK; summarizes what information is available from SIGINT records about the Holocaust.
Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Background
- 2. Overview of the Western Communications Intelligence System during World War II
- 3. Sources of Cryptologic Records Relating to the Holocaust
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4. Selected Topics of the Holocaust
- 4.1. A. The General Course of the Holocaust and Allied Communications Intelligence
- 4.2. B. Jewish Refugees, the Holocaust and the Growing Strife in Palestine
- 4.3. C. The Vichy Regime and the Jews
- 4.4. D. The Destruction of Hungary's Jews, 1944
- 4.5. E. Japan and the Jews in the Far East
- 4.6. F. Nazi Gold: National and Personal Assets Looted by Nazis and Placed in Swiss Banks, 1943 – 1945
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5. Some Observations about Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust
- 5.1. What Was Known from Western COMINT
- 5.2. When the COMINT Agencies Knew about the Holocaust
- 5.3. Some Further Observations Regarding the Available Archival Records
- 5.4. The Western communications intelligence agencies collected many more intercepts than they finally processed during the war.
- 5.5. There are pertinent uses for the available records from the COMINT agencies related to the Holocaust.
- 1. Selected Allied Monitoring Stations (MS) and Designators (USA=United States Army, USN=United States Navy)
- 2. Annotated Sample of Diplomatic Translation and German Police Decrypt
- 3. Attached Documents
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Bibliography
- Allied Communications Intelligence Organization, Operations, and Knowledge of the Holocaust
- General History of the Holocaust
- The Refugee Problem
- Einsatzgruppen and German Police Atrocities
- Concentration Camps:
- Vichy and the Jews
- Roundup of the Hungarian Jews
- Jews and Japanese in the Far East
- "Nazi Gold," Swiss Banks, and Looted Assets
- Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
Product information
- Title: Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2005
- Publisher(s): Center for Cryptologic History, NSA
- ISBN: 01120090002SI
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