Subversion deutscher Herrschaft. der britische Kriegsgeheimdienst SOE und Österreich

English summary: The book examines the activities of British subversive warfare against the Third Reich. It focuses on the Special Operations Executive's Austrian Section. Beginning in 1940, SOE pursued a strategy to separate Austria from Germany and re-establish an independent nation-state in order to prevent long-term German hegemony in Central and Southeast Europe. This study offers a new interpretation of the re-invention of Austria during WWII. Furthermore, the author analyzes the activities of SOE's Austrian Section in Great Britain, USA, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Slovenia and Austria in organizing resistance among refugees, Wehrmacht soldiers and opponents of the Nazi regime inside the Third Reich. Drawing from a wide range of sources, the author reveals that the systematic supply of weapons to the Slovene partisans in Carinthia was SOE's most important practical contribution in fostering resistance inside the Third Reich. However, the anti-German cooperation was soon disrupted by the broader ideological and geopolitcal conflict, reaching a dramatic highpoint when SOE officer Alfgar Hesketh-Prichard was murdered on order of the Communist Party of Slovenia. For…

Издательство

V&R unipress GmbH

Год

2012

Страниц

587

Язык

немецкий

ISBN

9783899719901