Sublime

A country which has lost two world wars, undergone three revolutions, committed the crimes of the Nazi era, and seen its material wealth wiped out twice in a generation, is bound to suffer from deep psychological scars. There is an atmosphere of hysteria, a tendency toward unbalanced actions. A German friend, a creative writer, said to me that Germ

D’après les historiens les plus sérieux (Robert Conquest, Alec Nove, ma mère), vingt millions de Russes ont été tués par les Allemands pendant les quatre années de la guerre, et vingt millions par leur propre gouvernement pendant les vingt-cinq ans du règne de Staline.

All of these special operators made critical use of modern inventions such as the airplane and radio. But they were also inspired by the timeless lessons of history. SOE’s first leaders, the army officers J. C. F. Holland and Colin Gubbins, had fought against the IRA. In addition, Holland had served with the Arab irregulars in World War I and had s

An American band played the German national anthem. I saw how tears were running down the face of one of my companions, and I, too, was deeply moved. It had been a long and hard road from the total catastrophe of the year 1945 to this moment of the year 1953, when the German national anthem was heard in the national cemetery of the United States.[5

However, when Abwehr offices communicated the agents’ messages onwards to Berlin or got replies from HQ, they were mechanically enciphered using the Abwehr-modified Enigma machines. This more difficult and more important trunk system of secret communications was first broken by Dilly Knox on 8 December 1941 (the day after the Pearl Harbor attack),

Sefton Delmer

Schirrmacher nannte es den digitalen Zwilling : Bei jeder Transaktion unterstellt das System den Akteuren eine maximal egoistische, maximal nutzenorientierte Gesinnung. Diese Konzepte, die aus der nicht-kooperativen Spieltheorie des Kalten Krieges stammen, leben von einer größtmöglichen Paranoia: Niemand ist, wer er vorgibt zu sein, und die Wahrhei