With the aid of recently declassified intelligence documents, this book tells the story of the USA's wartime knowledge and encouragement of, and secret collaboration with, the German resistance to Hitler - including the 20th July plot to assassinate him.

The newly released documents also show that scholars in the OSS, many of them recruited from ivy-league universities, looked for anti-Nazi movements and leaders to help create a democratic Germany after the war.Such intelligence gathering was a major task of the OSS. However, OSS director Wild Bill Donovan and others favored subversive operations, spreading disinformation, and issuing propaganda. Unorthodox and often dangerous schemes were developed, including bogus resistance newspapers, anti-Nazi letters and postcards distributed through the German postal service, sabotage, and fake radio broadcasts from German generals calling for uprisings against the regime.This is much more than a documentary collection. Explanatory footnotes supply a wealth of background information for the reader, and a comprehensive introduction puts the documents into their wider historical perspective. Arranged in chronological order, these intelligence reports provide a fascinating new perspective on the story of the German resistance to Hitler and reveal an intriguing and previously unexplored aspect of Americas war with Hitler. }