Summary of Christopher Simpson's Blowback

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#1 The American anticipation of a new war between the United States and the USSR was reinforced by the balance of forces in Europe in the 1950s. The Soviets’ advantage in troop strength and geographical position gave it powerful leverage in Eastern Europe.

#2 The use of Nazis and collaborators in intelligence programs has left a mark on life in the United States itself. The existence of these programs has been a carefully kept secret in the West.

#3 The American government initially planned to enlist the brains of Nazi Germany, but they soon stopped beating a dead Nazi horse. They began importing German chemical warfare experts, submarine specialists, and the scientists who had once built Germany’s rockets using slave labor from Nazi concentration camps.

#4 The Gehlen organization was funded by the American military to track Soviet military threats in Europe, and they often exaggerated the threat in order to receive more funding. The German intelligence group was used to track Communists.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822522411

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Insights on Christopher Simpson's Blowback

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The American anticipation of a new war between the United States and the USSR was reinforced by the balance of forces in Europe in the 1950s. The Soviets’ advantage in troop strength and geographical position gave it powerful leverage in Eastern Europe.

#2

The use of Nazis and collaborators in intelligence programs has left a mark on life in the United States itself. The existence of these programs has been a carefully kept secret in the West.

#3

The American government initially planned to enlist the brains of Nazi Germany, but they soon stopped beating a dead Nazi horse. They began importing German chemical warfare experts, submarine specialists, and the scientists who had once built Germany’s rockets using slave labor from Nazi concentration camps.

#4

The Gehlen organization was funded by the American military to track Soviet military threats in Europe, and they often exaggerated the threat in order to receive more funding. The German intelligence group was used to track Communists.

#5

The CIA began large-scale programs to bring thousands of anti-Communist exiles to the United States as a means of rewarding them for secret operations overseas. The agency also secretly subsidized the work of right-wing refugee relief organizations aiding these immigrants.

#6

The American government employed Nazis during the cold war to help with its foreign policy. However, this did not produce the results that were desired, and instead it contributed to the influence of some of the most reactionary trends in American political life.

#7

The International Tribunal at Nuremberg concluded that the entire SS was a criminal organization. However, it made an exception for those individuals who were drafted into SS membership in such a way that they had no choice in the matter.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Allied Control Council Law No. 10 of 1945, which was the formal foundation on which the Nazis and their collaborators were tried after World War II, prohibits crimes against humanity. It extends to the administrative apparatus of the SS, the Nazi party, and the chiefs of German industry that profited from concentration camp labor.

#2

The Nazis used famine as a political weapon in the East, and it soon became the largest single killer. Entire regions of the USSR were to be cleared of the existing Communist apparatus and of Slavic subhumans to make way for settlement by Aryan pioneers.

#3

The Nazis made political warfare a key part of their strategy from the very beginning. They used collaborators and native anti-Communists to undermine the will of the Soviet people to fight.

#4

The German military had a political warfare faction