NATO secret armies in Europe

NATO secret armies in Europe. Staged terror and covert warfare (English original title: NATO's Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe ) is the title of the doctoral thesis by the Swiss historian and publicist Daniele Ganser on NATO - stay-behind organizations . In 2001 he presented it in English as a qualification paper at the History Department of the University of Basel under the supervision of Georg Kreis . It was given the grade “ insigni cum laude ”. In 2005 the work was published by the London publisher Frank Cass with a foreword by the American security researcher John Prados . The German translation was published by Orell Füssli in 2008 with a foreword by Ganser's doctoral supervisor Georg Kreis.

In 2005/06 several reviews were published in scientific journals. The writer and journalist Raul Zelik reviewed the German edition in the taz .am weekend and the historian Gregor Schöllgen in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

A detailed discussion of Ganser's theses can be found in the Wikipedia article section Stay-behind-Organization # Research .

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(translated into different languages)

NATO secret armies in Europe. Staged Terror and Covert Warfare . Translated from English by Carsten Roth, Orell Füssli, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-280-06106-0 .
Abridged version: NATO secret armies in Europe. Staged Terror and Covert Warfare . 6 CDs, ABOD Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95471-450-6 . (Speaker: Markus Böker )

Scientific reviews (selection)

Print

Philip HJ Davies : Review of Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies . In: Journal of Strategic Studies 28 (2005) 6, pp. 1064-1068.
Peer Henrik Hansen : Review of Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies . In: Journal of Intelligence History 5 (2005) 1, pp. 110-113.
Lawrence S. Kaplan : Review of Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies . In: International History Review 28 (2006) 3, pp. 685-686.
Dieter Krüger : Book review by Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies . In: Military History Journal 65 (2006) 1, pp. 342–346.
Olav Riste : Review of Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies . In: Intelligence and National Security 20 (2005) 3, pp. 550-551.

On-line

Tobias Hof : Review by: Daniele Ganser: NATO secret armies in Europe. Staged Terror and Covert Warfare. With a foreword by Georg Kreis. Translated from English by Carsten Roth, 2nd edition, Zurich: Orell Füssli Verlag 2008 , in: sehepunkte 9 (2009), No. 4 [15. April 2009].
Bernd Stöver : Review of: Ganser, Daniele: NATO secret armies in Europe. Staged Terror and Covert Warfare. Zurich 2008 , in: H-Soz-Kult , January 26, 2009.

Web links

Document collection for the book at the Parallel History Project (PHP) at ETH Zurich

Individual evidence

↑ Raul Zelik : The secret state power . In: taz .am weekend , April 26, 2008, p. VII.
↑ Gregor Schöllgen : Gladiators in the Cold War. "Stay behind" troops against communist invaders . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 25, 2009, No. 96, p. 9.

[1] Raul Zelik : The secret state power . In: taz .am weekend , April 26, 2008, p. VII.

[2] Gregor Schöllgen : Gladiators in the Cold War. "Stay behind" troops against communist invaders . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 25, 2009, No. 96, p. 9.