The Gestapo : power and terror in the Third Reich / Carsten Dams and Michael Stolle ; translated by Charlotte Ryland.

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The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the Nazi regime: socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be an 'anti-social element'. Its prisons soon became infamous - many of those who disappeared into them were never seen again - and it has been remembered ever since as the sinister epitome of Nazi terror and persecution. But how accurate is it to view the Gestapo as an all-pervasive, all-powerful, all-knowing instrument of terror? How much did it depend upon.

Cover; THE GESTAPO: Power and Terror in the Third Reich; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF PLATES; PREFACE; 1: FOUNDATION AND EARLY YEARS; The backstory: state security in the Weimar Republic; The Gestapo is formed; 2: ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; V̀erreichlichung:́ Himmler and Heydrich take over leadership of the Gestapo; The construction of a völkisch police force: police and SS systems in the Reich and the occupied territories; The Gestapoś self-understanding and ideology; 3: GESTAPO EMPLOYEES; Developments in personnel; The Gestapo leadership: Diels, Heydrich, Best, Müller.

The leadership of the Gestapa and the Reich Security Main OfficeThe governors in the provinces; The variety of Gestapo officers; 4: THE MODUS OPERANDI; Frameworks; Gestapo informants; The role of denunciations; Co-operation with the police, SS and Nazi Party organizations; 5: THE PRACTICE OF PERSECUTION IN THE REICH; Phases of persecution; Political persecution: communists and Social Democrats; The persecution of religious communities; The implementation of Jewish policy; Dealing with homosexuals, the ẁork-shy, ́ and àsocials;́ Persecution of f̀oreign nationals;́ 6: THE GESTAPO IN EUROPE.

The nature of f̀oreign deploymentT́he beginnings of expansion: Austria, Sudetenland, and Czechoslovakia; Poland 1939: the beginning of the war of extermination; The Gestapo in Northern and Western Europe; The escalation of the extermination: the Gestapo in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe; Zones of deployment in the second half of the war: Africa, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia; Radicalization in ruins: the repercussions of f̀oreign deployment;́ 7: THE GESTAPO AFTER 1945; Suicide, flight, persecution: from the end of the war to the Nuremberg Trials; Spruchkammer trials and denazification.

Criminal prosecution in German courtsCareers in post-war Germany; CONCLUSION: WHAT REMAINS OF THE GESTAPO?; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; Official Titles, Organizations, Abbreviations; NOTES; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Foundation and Early Years; 2. Organizational Development; 3. Gestapo Employees; 4. The Modus Operandi; 5. The Practice of Persecution in the Reich; 6. The Gestapo in Europe; 7. The Gestapo after 1945; Conclusion: What Remains of the Gestapo?; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-227) and index.

Translated from the German.

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