SPIEGEL live - Military historian Sönke Neitzel in conversation: The world of espionage
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The glamor of James Bond, the scandals of the CIA or the alleged unscrupulousness of the Mossad: intelligence services have a dazzling image.
But what role do they really play in the self-image of a country? How crucial were intelligence operations during the Second World War or during the Cold War? And what do Bond & Co. have to do with reality?
The SPIEGEL editors Uwe Klußmann and Eva-Maria Schnurr discuss this with the military historian Sönke Neitzel from the University of Potsdam. He explains why the current BND boss will probably never write a spy novel - but it would be good if he did it anyway.
The interview was recorded at the end of October as part of the event series "Spiegel Live" at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg.
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This episode was created in cooperation with the Bucerius Kunst Forum.