Mader attended business college, followed by an apprenticeship as a draper. Then he began to study in the fields of government and law, economics and journalism at the Universities of Berlin and Jena, the Institute of Internal Trade in Leipzig and the German Academy for Political and Legal Science in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Mader's military and political writings covered the period of the Nazi era and the Cold War. His books have a circulation of several million[citation needed], including translations of some books into other languages.[2] He was the author of the book Who's Who in the CIA.
^Boris Chertok, Rockets and People, Volume 3: Hot Days of the Cold War, NASA History Series, 2009, (p.278, footnote 62)
Paul Maddrell, "What we have discovered about the Cold War is what we already knew: Julius Mader and the Western secret services during the Cold War", Cold War History, Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 235–258, doi:10.1080/14682740500062127