For one of my history classes this semester, I am going to be doing a semi-lengthy paper on Reinhard Gehlen. This class is a historical methods class, however the focus of the class is the history of espionage. I was assigned the topic of Reinhard Gehlen because I can read German primary sources without the need to translate.
Reinhard Gehlen in 1945
For those of you who have no idea who Reinhard Gehlen is, he was the a major-general in the German army during World War II. After the war, he was recruited along with several other high-ranking Nazi officials by the CIA to setup an spy ring directed against the Soviet Union. He is essentially considered the founder of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) which is more or less the German equivalent of the CIA.
For more information about him, click here.
About ScratchPad & History
Dear Alex,
I love the product and I’ll send a donation when money becomes available.
I have two questions/suggestions about ScratchPad.
1. A way to title pages would be valuable so that some kind of search or clickeable index could get to a subject fast. I put one subject per page and I’m up to P. 323 in 4 months.
2. I can’t seem to retain a default font and size of font. I know about ‘Paste and Match font” but that doesn’t retain Times New Roman 18, my default. I am constantly having to go back to “Fonts” to reset the default I want.
Would you give me feedback on these two subjects? Thanks.
History
Have you read David Irving’s translation of the memoirs of Reinhard Gehlen? Probably. I’m sure you know not to be put off by Irvings scholarship and books because society has made such a pariah of him. He has written many other good books in history, all taken from original source material. His website is http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/index.html
Best regards,
Rafael Montserrat
Writer, researcher & novelist
UC Berkeley—Post Graduate work in European History