Reinhard gehlen biography of martin luther king
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Reinhard Gehlen organized West Germany’s spy network. Under his leadership, which lasted until , it became one of the most important intelligence services active during the Cold War. He was nicknamed the “faceless man” thanks to his unique abilities as a secret agent. Gehlen was born on April 3, in Erfurt, in Germany. He entered the German army in He advanced rapidly, becoming a lieutenant colonel. World War Two was underway, and the Nazi command put him in charge of their secret services on the Soviet front. When he foresaw the imminent defeat of the Third Reich in , Gehlen surrendered to American forces. As part of an agreement over his own safety, he gave 52 boxes containing precious information about the Soviet Union to the United States. Historians believe that he also exploited his bargaining position to facilitate the escape of leading SS members into South America.
Shortly after the end of World War Two, the United States and the Soviet Union entered into the Cold War, a political and ideological conflict that would divide the world for the next 50 years. The two superpowers split Germany between them. The Soviets took over East Germany. The US and its allies led the western part of the country. Germany became a new battlefield in the superpowers’ undeclared confli
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The generalised tendency prevalent in the world shows a dominant shift to the right. This is happening when neither any revolution is in sight nor any movement based on a ‘great refusal’ is threatening the status quo anywhere in the world. The lack of a revolutionary movement is where the etiology of a rightward shift in reality rests.
Before the end of the Cold War, in both the developing and developed world a general but false consensus about equality, liberty, and fraternity – the hallmark of the French Revolution – as an exclusive and integral feature of Western norms existed. Tempered by false consciousness, the common perception of progress and development alluded to two alternatives: either liberal democracy or a hideous, sullen and stifling Iron Curtain painted red, led by a hegemonic ‘evil’ power ever ready to impose its ideology over the ‘free’ world through revolts and revolutions. Life was strictly divided into the categories of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘virtuous’ and ‘vile’, ‘human’ and ‘inhuman’. Nothing lay beyond that, not even metaphysics.
The reality, on the contrary, was entirely different. “The bourgeois revolutions,” Horkheimer states, “have always repressed the egotistic and hedonistic demands, thereby producing aggression, terror and prevention of hopes for l
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