Eavesdropping on Hell
Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945
by Robert Hanyok
Source: www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00044.cfm
| Preface | |
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| A Note on Terminology | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Chapter 1: Background | |
| The Context of European and Nazi Anti-Semitism |
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| Previous Histories and Articles | |
| Chapter 2: Overview of the Western Communications Intelligence System during World War II | |
| Step 1: Setting the Requirements, Priorities, and Division of Effort | |
| Step 2: Intercepting the Messages | |
| Step 3: Processing the Intercept | |
| Step 4: Disseminating the COMINT | |
| From Intercept to Decryption — the Processing of a German Police Message | |
| Chapter 3: Sources of Cryptologic Records Relating to the Holocaust | |
| The National Archives and Records Administration | |
| The Public Record Office | |
| Miscellaneous Collections | |
| Chapter 4: Selected Topics from the Holocaust | |
| A. The General Course of the Holocaust and Allied COMINT | |
| B. Jewish Refugees, the Holocaust, and the Growing Strife in Palestine | |
| C. The Vichy Regime and the Jews | |
| D. The Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, 1944 | |
| E. Japan and the Jews in the Far East | |
| F. Nazi Gold: National and Personal Assests Looted by Nazis and Placed in Swiss Banks, 1943 — 1945 | |
| Chapter 5: Some Observations about Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust | |
| What was Known from COMINT | |
| When the COMINT Agencies Knew | |
| Some Further Observations Regarding the Available Archival Records | |
| There are limited COMINT agency records about the Holocaust | |
| There are significant differences between the archival records holdings of the cryptologic agencies of the United States and Great Britain | |
| The Western communications intelligence agencies collected many more intercepts than they finally processed during the War | |
| There are pertinent uses for the available records from the COMINT agencies related to the Holocaust | |
| Appendix 1: Selected Allied Monitoring Stations (MS) and Designators | |
| Appendix 2: Annotated Sample of Diplomatic Translations and German Police Decrypt | |
| Appendix 3: Attached Documents | |
| 1. Vrba-Wetzler Cable, 26 June 1944 | |
| 2. German Foreign office message to Buenos Aiers regarding a pension applicant’s Jewish wife, 13 January 1943 | |
| 3. Spanish diplomatic message referring to Raoul Wallenberg | |
| 4. VN 1260: German translation of intercepted U.S. Department of State message from embassy in Bern, Switzerland, 19 October 1944 | |
| 5. [DOS Nr. 6927] Regarding the status of interned Hungarian Jews | |
| 6. German report of results of deportation of Hungarian Jews, 30 December 1944. From O.S.S. source “George Wood.” | |
| Bibliography | |
| Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms | |
| Index | |