UK Surveillance of WWII German POWs Reveals Private Beliefs

There is a fascinating new twist for historians interested in German culture during the Second World War. When German historian Sönke Neitzel ran across a bundle of documents in Britain’s National Archives in 2001, he could hardly believe his eyes: He had found transcripts of conversations between German soldiers secretly recorded while they were being … Continue reading UK Surveillance of WWII German POWs Reveals Private Beliefs

Lewis Thumbs Cyber Nose at Chinese

Reuters gives us a story that says America is losing the “cyberspy vs. cyberspy” competition to China. They provide some amusing evidence to show how the scores are being tallied: In mid-2009, representatives of the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations, a nominally-independent research group affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security, contacted James A. … Continue reading Lewis Thumbs Cyber Nose at Chinese