intelligence

In this thread discussing which country had the best espionage during the Cold War, people brought up the Soviets quite a bit (and the votes for them were nearly half). And looking at some of their feats, it's not hard to see why people think that way. Stalin knew about the A-bomb before Truman...

It is known that men like Oster and Canaris, as fierce anti-Nazis, have deliberately sabotaged the German war effort and Intelligence service during WWII. The underperformance of the German intelligence services compared to the British ones can be partially explained by it, in many cases giving...

What if the Romans, during the height of their power, had established a completely centralized secret police that eventually increased in power and took over the state? What might this look like? Historically, the Romans were not unfamiliar with espionage. In the 2nd century, Hadrian...

To finish things off, we have Adolf Hitler as the final poll of the subject. Plenty of people simply deride him as stupid, and others regard him as a genius. What the final verdict on this? Was Hitler truly a revolutionary genius who failed the war out of extreme circumstances, or was he...

Dr. Joseph Goebbels is highly regarded for having stellar intelligence amongst the Nazis. But is it really true? Could his extreme fanaticism indicate that he's really not too smart? Or could his manipulation really point to an extraordinary intelligence? How intelligent was Joseph Goebbels?

Time to test Hitler's "Shadow Man", huh? Bormann couldn't be tested for his intelligence because he killed himself before he could be even captured. Bormann's time as Hitler' secretary could show he's very intelligent, or perhaps any common man can be a madman's secretary. So what was...

Probably the most questionable one. Dr. Robert Ley did not have his I.Q. tested because he killed himself before he took such a test. On one hand, he was known to act like a madman and even Goering commented that he would be an embarrassment at trial. On the other hand, he was reported to...

Since I got good results with polling for Himmler's I.Q., I guess I'll find out the intelligence of someone as equally as infamous, Reinhard Heydrich. I reckon that there will be 6 of these in total. I've heard some rumors that Heydrich was even smarter than Himmler was. But I don't know for...

Heinrich Himmler is, without a doubt, one of the most notorious Nazis in the regime, if not of the most infamous humans in general history. I've always been perplexed on how smart he really is. Some may argue that he's not that smart for being so mystical in his beliefs. Others may argue that he...