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This is a unique document published here for the first time, giving new insights into Hitler's personality and how Nazi Germany's military and intelligence apparatus operated. Published for the very first time, the top secret report "Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933-1945" was prepared by Whitehall's highest intelligence body, the Joint Intelligence Committee, and presented to Britain's Chiefs of Staff in 1946 to 'set down certain aspects of the War whilst there are still sources available who were closely connected with the events described...when it is finally possible to make a balanced historical survey, some of the acutely critical moments which are vividly remembered now are likely to become confused with the passage of time, and there will be a tendency...to underestimate the great and evident strength of the German war machine'. The report encompasses the peculiar idiosyncrasies of Hitler's personality and the failures of Germany's military organisation, and charts the rise and fall of the Third Reich through 200 pages of intelligence reporting.Paul Winter sets this unique and important document in its historical setting, providing biographies of key figures referenced in the report and a timeline of the crucial events of the Second World War.
Dr Paul Winter specialises in wartime intelligence and has published articles in Intelligence and National Security and in War in History.
Introduction; Part I - i. Hitler's Grand Design; ii. Events which Interfered with the Execution of the design; iii. Decline and Final Defeat; Part II - i. Hitler; ii. Machinery of Joint Command; iii. The Weakness of German Intelligence; iv. Organisation of German War Production; Appendices - i. The Forging of the German War Machine; ii. The German Political Scene; iii. Nazi Machinery of Government; iv. The German Secret Intelligence Services; v. The Organisation of German Military Supply; vi. Poland 1939; vii. The West (to December 1942); viii. The Balkans (to Winter 1941); ix. The East (to the Fall of Stalingrad); x. The Balkans (1942 -45); xi. The West (1943 - 45); xii. The East (1943 - 45); xiii. The Mediterranean; xiv. German Naval Strategy; xv. The U-Boat War; xvi. German Air Strategy.
Dr Winter has placed us all deeply in his debt by making available this historic document, which is as valuable for all students of Intelligence as it is for those of the Second World War.
