Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America Summary
Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America
By: Michael Dobbs
In a nut shell this book was about a group of Nazis sent over to sabotage main American transport ways and aluminum plants that produced war time materials. The first couple chapters of the book give pre-operation information, including the creation of the operation and the individual men going on the trip. It begins by describing Hitler’s fortress, also known as the Wolfs’ Lair, stating the five mile route with road blocks “each more intimidating than the last.” Beginning with guards stopping and asking for papers and calling superiors at each stop, ending with a raise of the barrier and the guards arm, Heil Hitler. Where the fortress was located was in a land filled with minefields, electrified barbed wire fence, constant patrolmen, and anti-aircraft guns. While describing the Wolf’s Lair he speaks of two visitors, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris the Chief of Hitler’s Military Intelligence, and Colonel Erwin Von Lahousen-Vivremont Head of Abwehr II. The Abwehr was a military intelligence organization. The book states that Hitler was not impressed with the way Americans fought, as he saw from the trenches during WWII. “American ideas of democracy and free market capitalism filled Hitler with “Hatred and repugnance.”” He also claimed America as a “decayed country with no future.” The one thing Hitler had respect for was the industry, meaning the capabilities for mass production with less labor. With the US now switching its production lines from things like cars to making tanks/airplanes and things to supply the British with, Germany would have to find a way to counter attack the industrial power of America. This is where Admiral Canaris and Colonel Von Lahosen-Vivremont com into action, with Operation Pastorious. Operation Pastorious was an operation that directed attention towards a new enemy across the pacific, America. It focused on sabotaging transport ways and aluminum plants in the US. After giving
By: Michael Dobbs
In a nut shell this book was about a group of Nazis sent over to sabotage main American transport ways and aluminum plants that produced war time materials. The first couple chapters of the book give pre-operation information, including the creation of the operation and the individual men going on the trip. It begins by describing Hitler’s fortress, also known as the Wolfs’ Lair, stating the five mile route with road blocks “each more intimidating than the last.” Beginning with guards stopping and asking for papers and calling superiors at each stop, ending with a raise of the barrier and the guards arm, Heil Hitler. Where the fortress was located was in a land filled with minefields, electrified barbed wire fence, constant patrolmen, and anti-aircraft guns. While describing the Wolf’s Lair he speaks of two visitors, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris the Chief of Hitler’s Military Intelligence, and Colonel Erwin Von Lahousen-Vivremont Head of Abwehr II. The Abwehr was a military intelligence organization. The book states that Hitler was not impressed with the way Americans fought, as he saw from the trenches during WWII. “American ideas of democracy and free market capitalism filled Hitler with “Hatred and repugnance.”” He also claimed America as a “decayed country with no future.” The one thing Hitler had respect for was the industry, meaning the capabilities for mass production with less labor. With the US now switching its production lines from things like cars to making tanks/airplanes and things to supply the British with, Germany would have to find a way to counter attack the industrial power of America. This is where Admiral Canaris and Colonel Von Lahosen-Vivremont com into action, with Operation Pastorious. Operation Pastorious was an operation that directed attention towards a new enemy across the pacific, America. It focused on sabotaging transport ways and aluminum plants in the US. After giving