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by Gerson Moura
Review by: Ricardo A. Silva Seitenfus
The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 1981), pp. 778-779
Published by: Duke University Press
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iarity with social-science concepts and Weberian theory will find those
insights worth the searching out. Others would do best to begin by reading the conclusion (pp. 180-184) and then to see how far their perseverance will take them.
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Hitler's Secret War in South America, 1939-1945: German Military Espionage and Allied Counterespionage in Brazil. By STANLEY E. HILTON. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 353. Cloth. $20.00.
Stanley E. Hilton, whose Suastica sobre o Brasil (1979) was the first
scholarly study to pierce the veil of secrecy shrouding German military
intelligence (Abwehr) operations in Brazil during the Second World War,
has now written a much revised and expanded version of that work in
English. Hitler's Secret War in South America deals tangentially with
Abwehr activities in the United States, Mexico, Ecudaor, Chile, and
Argentina, but focuses appropriately on Brazil, which was the center of