Hanyok, Robert J., eavesdropping on hell: historical guide to Western communications intelligence and Holocaust, 1939 – 1945 (second edition republication), Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005
As a historian and intelligence analyst for the US Department of Defense, Hanyok has created a thorough analysis of communications intelligence of World War II. Thanks in part to the declassification of Allied communications from World War II known as “Ultra”, Hanyok was able to produce a clear interpretation of its use. This compelling book also provides visual representations of intercepted communications and equipment, a glossary of terms, and an impressive list of sources.
In the first section of chapter 1 “the context of European and Nazi anti-Semitism”, Hanyok reveals the plight of the Jewish people as animosity between other cultures and Jews was perpetually changing in potency. He discusses that during the medieval period hostilities were more “anti-Judaic than anti-somatic” . And that “the later …show more content…
Hanyok offers that other intercepts directly related to the concentration camps reported “only the slave labor population and not those being executed upon arrival at the death camps” . Hanyok, offers a suggestion that provides an explanation as to why some messages were potentially overlooked during the decryption process, “the message itself contain only the identifying letters for the death camps followed by the numerical totals” . However, Hanyok is quick to inform regardless of the capabilities of Ultra, it is still limited by the lack of extremely sensitive information that was being traveled by other
As a historian and intelligence analyst for the US Department of Defense, Hanyok has created a thorough analysis of communications intelligence of World War II. Thanks in part to the declassification of Allied communications from World War II known as “Ultra”, Hanyok was able to produce a clear interpretation of its use. This compelling book also provides visual representations of intercepted communications and equipment, a glossary of terms, and an impressive list of sources.
In the first section of chapter 1 “the context of European and Nazi anti-Semitism”, Hanyok reveals the plight of the Jewish people as animosity between other cultures and Jews was perpetually changing in potency. He discusses that during the medieval period hostilities were more “anti-Judaic than anti-somatic” . And that “the later …show more content…
Hanyok offers that other intercepts directly related to the concentration camps reported “only the slave labor population and not those being executed upon arrival at the death camps” . Hanyok, offers a suggestion that provides an explanation as to why some messages were potentially overlooked during the decryption process, “the message itself contain only the identifying letters for the death camps followed by the numerical totals” . However, Hanyok is quick to inform regardless of the capabilities of Ultra, it is still limited by the lack of extremely sensitive information that was being traveled by other