ABSTRACT
While Anglo-Saxon scholars are producing books on intelligence history at an ever-increasing rate, the interest in this particular branch of historical studies has been scant in Germany. Throughout the United States intelligence history is taught and researched at university level. It has expanded dramatically over the past two decades and become something of an academic fashion. It has begun to develop in various places around Europe, except in Germany where historians have largely ignored this new field. This is unusual because they have been quite keen to follow academic fashions, particularly those in the United States.
