Frederic Ponten is Assistant Professor of German studies at the University of Regensburg.

'This book attempts to do for German exile culture what Mark McGurl's The Program Era did for American prose. Ponten shows how various masterpieces of mid-century literature and social science were the product of intellectual networks connecting émigrés with US scholars and with government institutions. The result is a highly exciting revision of the standard picture of wartime culture!' Tobias Boes, author of Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters

• Acknowledgements; List of figures; 1. Introduction: the rise of gray literature; 2. Cool collaboration; 3. The invention of the intelligence report; 4. Applied German folklore; 5. Nazi German media theory; 6. Germany as a conceptual scheme; 7. The identity of the enemy; 8. Epilogue: to whom it may concern; Bibliography; Index.

Frederic Ponten is Assistant Professor of German studies at the University of Regensburg.

'This book attempts to do for German exile culture what Mark McGurl's The Program Era did for American prose. Ponten shows how various masterpieces of mid-century literature and social science were the product of intellectual networks connecting émigrés with US scholars and with government institutions. The result is a highly exciting revision of the standard picture of wartime culture!' Tobias Boes, author of Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters

• Acknowledgements; List of figures; 1. Introduction: the rise of gray literature; 2. Cool collaboration; 3. The invention of the intelligence report; 4. Applied German folklore; 5. Nazi German media theory; 6. Germany as a conceptual scheme; 7. The identity of the enemy; 8. Epilogue: to whom it may concern; Bibliography; Index.