RIESS, CURT. Total Espionage. Pp. xii, 318. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1941. $2.75

DOI10.1177/000271624222100145
Date01 May 1942
Published date01 May 1942
Subject MatterArticles
208
coming
a
&dquo;potent
force
for
civil
reorganiza-
tion&dquo;
because
of
its
demands
upon
British
industrial
production.
This
type
of
war
produced
&dquo;The
Liberal-Reform
Solution.&dquo;
Chapter
five
presents
the
&dquo;Realpolitik-
Imperialist
Solution&dquo;
of
Bismarck
and
Moltke,
the
influence
or
menace
of
which
explains
the
new
British
imperialism
of
Joseph
Chamberlain
and
Cecil
Rhodes.
So
we
come
to
the
&dquo;Planned
Wave
Solu-
tion,&dquo;
anticipated
by
&dquo;infiltration&dquo;
tactics
of
the
first
World
War
but
finding
its
full
expression
in
the
present
war,
and
produc-
ing
in
the
political
field
the
tactics
of
the
Bolshevists
and
the
Nazis.
This
type
re-
quires,
above
all
things,
correct
timing,
syn-
chronization,
a
planned
sequence
of
suc-
cesses
won
point
by
point.
This
leads
on
to
the
&dquo;Sandbag
Solution&dquo;
and
the
&dquo;Science
of
Victory&dquo;
which
com-
prise
the
last
two
chapters
of
the
study.
DAVID
PRESCOTT
BARROWS
University
of
California,
Berkeley
RIESS,
CURT.
Total
Espionage.
Pp.
xii,
318.
New
York:
G.
P.
Putnam’s
Sons,
1941.
$2.75.
Numerous
readers
of
this
exciting
book,
especially
police
scientists
and
law
enforce-
ment
officials,
have
asked
me
whether
To-
tal
Espionage
is
a
fact
or
fiction
book-
whether
we
can
learn
something
from
it
or
not.
My
answer
is
as
follows,
after
having
checked
the
major
part
of
its
contents:
The
book
is
a
significant
contribution
to
the
literature
on
military
and
police
intelligence.
The
facts,
disclosed
or
compiled
by
the
author,
are
mostly
correct,
sometimes
not
100
per
cent
accurate,
because
&dquo;it
isn’t
done
with
mirrors,&dquo;
as
the
author
himself
states
in
his
Foreword.
Riess
covers
the
period
of
the
Axis
prepa-
rations
for
World
War
II.
He
starts
with
the
birth
of
the
total
espionage
machine
of
the
Nazis
and
describes
the
different
branches
of
the
apparatus:
(1)
the
mili-
tary
branch
headed
by
General
Walter
Nicolai,
who
was
chief
of
the
intelligence
service
in
the
German
Supreme
Command
during
World
War
I;
(2)
the
Secret
Police
headed
by
Heinrich
Himmler,
whose
&dquo;espio-
nage
by
terror&dquo;
works
inside
Germany
and
abroad
in
the
interest
of
the
security
of
the
regime;
(3)
the
Ministry
of
Foreign
Af-
fairs
of
Mr.
Joachim
Ribbentrop,
whose
Foreign
Service
not
only
does
&dquo;society
espionage&dquo;
but
also
acts
as
a
diplomatically
protected
communication
line;
(4)
the
Nazi
Party
Abroad
headed
by
Gauleader
Ernst
Wilhelm
Bohle,
whose
job
is
the
gathering
of
material
through
the
members
of
the
foreign
sections
of
the
Nazi
Party,
the
Nazi
Labor
Front,
and
similar
organizations;
and
(5)
the
Propaganda
Ministry
of
Dr.
Joseph
Goebbels,
who
is
interested
in
&dquo;espionage
of
the
mind.&dquo;
Riess
describes
and
analyzes
numerous
espionage
cases
performed
by
these
agencies
of
the
Nazi
machine,
but
does
not
confine
his
book
to
the
Nazi
system.
It
deals
also
with
activities
of
the
Japanese
and
Italian
Axis
partners,
and
of
the
Spanish
Falange
which
works
especially
in
the
South
Ameri-
can
countries.
Two
chapters
of
the
book
are
dedicated
to
prewar
activities
of
the
French
Deuxième
Bureau.
The
facts
revealed
in
Total
Espio-
nage-and
in
a
French
publication
of
1940
-show
that
this
once
very
effective
intelli-
gence
unit
has
sunk
to
a
very
low
level
dur-
ing
the
last
years.
But
how
should
an
ad-
ministrative
unit
maintain
morale
when
even
active
French
cabinet
members
served
consciously
or
unconsciously
as
intelligence
officers
of
the
Nazis!
The
conclusions
we
have
to
draw
from
the
material
presented
in
Total
Espionage,
combined
with
our
own
experiences,
are
as
follows :
1.
Total
war
requires
total
counter-espio-
nage.
A
fundamental
change
in
intelligence
work
is
imperative.
2.
Only
a
thoroughgoing
knowledge
of
the
intelligence
and
administrative
machin-
eries
of
the
Axis
Powers
enables
our
na-
tional
defense
agencies
to
perform
their
duty
successfully.
3.
The
respective
agencies
must
acquire
this
knowledge
through
highly
specialized
courses
and
research
centers.
ROBERT
M.
W.
KEMPNER
University
of
Pennsylvania
CORBETT,
P.
E.
Post-War
Worlds.
Pp.
ix,
208.
New
York:
Farrar
and
Rinehart,
Inc.,
1942.
$2.00.
That
the
movement
for
a
stable
world
order
goes
relentlessly
forward
despite
the
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