The Size and Composition of the Anti-Nazi Opposition in Germany

PS - Political Science and Politics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 563-569

  Almond, Gabriel A ^a   Krauss, Wolfgang ^a  

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EID: 84937325030     PISSN: 10490965     EISSN: 15375935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/420646     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Gabriel A. Almond, (Ed) The Struggle for Democracy in Germany, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1948, Chapters 2 and 3.
2. The only Gestapo statistics which survived had been acquired by the OSS, and were from the Meldungen Aus Dem Reich, for the first six months of 1944. The Meldungen were the central reports of the Sicherheitsdienst, Himmlerʼns top intelligence organization, and to have gotten them was a great coup for the OSS. I got access to these reports through the coincidence that the OSS was anxious to get copies of USSBS interviews with opposition leaders which I had in my possession. Alex George, now my professional colleague at Stanford, and then a Young GI working for the OSS, trailed my team “through the underbrush” so to speak, and we struck a deal-the OSS Meldungen for my interviews. I suppose that these reports had been gotten by the OSS through an agent. I never saw anything more than the reports for the first six months of 1944, it may be that this is all that the OSS had. All government departments were under strict orders to destroy documents as the Allied armies neared. We encountered charred records in some of the Gestapo headquarters that we investigated. The copies that I received from the OSS had been “sanitized.” Anything identifying how they had been acquired, or from which unit of the Gestapo they had come, had been eliminated.
3. This particular report came from an OSS document (#F 1583).