- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Defending the realm: MI5 in the making -
2 Liddell in Wonderland: MI5 and the Prussian Secret Police -
3 The undesirables: political refugees from Germany and Austria after January 1933 -
4 The mysterious case of Dora Fabian -
5 Nazi spies and the ‘Auslandsorganisation’ -
6 No more peace: Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt and German rearmament -
7 Flying and spying: Claud W. Sykes, MI5 and the ‘Primrose League’ -
8 ‘The Red Menace’: keeping watch on the Communists 1933–39 -
9 ‘Peace for our time’ -
10 ‘A state of confusion which at times amounted almost to chaos’: MI5 1939–41 -
11 The internment of ‘enemy aliens’ -
12 ‘The largest Communist sideshow in London’: the Free German League of Culture -
13 The Austrian Centre – and ‘the great Eva’ -
14 ‘About the most dangerous of all these organisations’: The Czech Refugee Trust Fund -
15 Whispers and lies: the informers -
16 Friends in need: British supporters of the refugees -
17 Red alert: keeping watch on the Communists -
18 ‘Tube Alloys’: the British atomic bomb project -
19 The spy who was caught: the case of Klaus Fuchs -
20 The spy who got away: the case of Engelbert Broda -
21 Parting company - Conclusion
- A note on sources
- Select bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- A matter of intelligence
- Author(s):
Charmian Brinson
Richard Dove
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
The introduction outlines the overall subject of the book: the surveillance of anti-Nazi refugees from Hitler's Germany by MI5 during the period 1933–1950. It broaches the major themes pursued in the narrative, such as the distinction between ‘racial’ and ‘political’ refugees and MI5’s preoccupation with the surveillance of Communist refugees throughout the 1930s and 1940s. It also evaluates the scope and content of intelligence in the security files which furnish the subject-matter of the book, including the files relating to the major refugee organisations – the Free German League of Culture, the Austrian Centre and the Czech Refugee Trust Fund. The introduction also poses the question: why has this extensive MI5 operation hitherto remained hidden from history?
Keywords: MI5, Security Service, Surveillance, Intelligence, Anti-Nazi refugees, Free German League of Culture, Austrian Centre
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Defending the realm: MI5 in the making -
2 Liddell in Wonderland: MI5 and the Prussian Secret Police -
3 The undesirables: political refugees from Germany and Austria after January 1933 -
4 The mysterious case of Dora Fabian -
5 Nazi spies and the ‘Auslandsorganisation’ -
6 No more peace: Otto Lehmann-Russbueldt and German rearmament -
7 Flying and spying: Claud W. Sykes, MI5 and the ‘Primrose League’ -
8 ‘The Red Menace’: keeping watch on the Communists 1933–39 -
9 ‘Peace for our time’ -
10 ‘A state of confusion which at times amounted almost to chaos’: MI5 1939–41 -
11 The internment of ‘enemy aliens’ -
12 ‘The largest Communist sideshow in London’: the Free German League of Culture -
13 The Austrian Centre – and ‘the great Eva’ -
14 ‘About the most dangerous of all these organisations’: The Czech Refugee Trust Fund -
15 Whispers and lies: the informers -
16 Friends in need: British supporters of the refugees -
17 Red alert: keeping watch on the Communists -
18 ‘Tube Alloys’: the British atomic bomb project -
19 The spy who was caught: the case of Klaus Fuchs -
20 The spy who got away: the case of Engelbert Broda -
21 Parting company - Conclusion
- A note on sources
- Select bibliography
- Index
