The Long
Insurgency

Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort

Book

Editions

Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse and Otto Kirchheimer, Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort, edited by Raffaele Laudani (Princeton University Press, 2013). Editor's introduction and notes translated by Jason Francis McGimsey

2013

Notes from Office of Strategic Services

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Sources

1 Raffaele Laudani, “Notes on the Texts,” Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort (Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. xvii–xix, PDF pp.17–19. Editor's account of sources, selection, collaborative authorship and omitted appendices. Introduction and editorial notes translated by Jason Francis McGimsey; reports originally English. Original archive PDF inspected October 18, 2026. ISBN9780691134130.

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2 Laudani, “Introduction,” same volume, pp.1–8, PDF pp.25–32. Named scholarly reconstruction of recruitment and intellectual setting, distinguished from the reports themselves.

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6 Otto Kirchheimer, “The Abrogation of Nazi Laws in the Early Period of MG,” Secret Reports, pp.229–231, PDF pp.253–255; R&A1655.7. Undated preliminary draft, editor estimates end of March 1944; author attribution and dating rationale in editor's note.

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7 Franz Neumann, “German Cartels and Cartel-Like Organizations,” same volume, pp.264–266, PDF pp.288–290; undated preliminary draft, provisional R&A1655.30 in editor's reconstruction. Three original decree appendices omitted from the edition.

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8 Herbert Marcuse, “Policy toward Revival of Old Parties and Establishment of New Parties in Germany,” July 22, 1944, same volume pp.285–287, PDF pp.309–311; R&A1655.1. Editorial note identifies War Department Pamphlet31-116; that edition itself was not independently inspected here.