This book answers the question of how biographical imprints from the time of the "Third Reich" influenced the BND from its beginnings in 1946 to 1968. Based on 3650 curricula vitae, it also reconstructs the social composition of the secret service and its changes with the greatest detail over two decades. The study does not offer "agent stories", but a structural-analytical examination of the personnel composition of an important agency of the young Federal Republic and provides a deep insight into the aftermath of the Nazi era. This empirically well-supported social profile analysis provides a hitherto unique basis for a differentiated understanding of the inner life of a secret service.
Volume 1 of the series "Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945-1968".
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Rass, C.
Title
Das Sozialprofil des Bundesnachrichtendienstes. Von den Anfängen bis 1968
