The Gestapo

Author : Carsten Dams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019966921X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gestapo written by Carsten Dams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the latest research to present a history of the Gestapo, from its creation during the Weimar Republic to the fate of its officers after World War II, and unravel the truths and mysteries behind its rule.

Author : Frank Mcdonough
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 1444778080
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gestapo written by Frank Mcdonough and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the Spectator A Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015) Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Ranked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily Telegraph Professor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. Frank McDonough's work has been described as, 'modern history writing at its very best...Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist' by renowned historian Andrew Roberts. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of their friends, neighbours, colleagues and even relatives who were often drawn into the Gestapo's web of intrigue. The book reveals, too, the cold-blooded and efficient methods of the Gestapo officers. This book will also show that the Gestapo lacked the manpower and resources to spy on everyone as it was reliant on tip offs from the general public. Yet this did not mean the Gestapo was a weak or inefficient instrument of Nazi terror. On the contrary, it ruthlessly and efficiently targeted its officers against clearly defined political and racial 'enemies of the people'. The Gestapo will provide a chilling new doorway into the everyday life of the Third Reich and give powerful testimony from the victims of Nazi terror and poignant life stories of those who opposed Hitler's regime while challenging popular myths about the Gestapo.

Author : Jacques Delarue
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848325029
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gestapo written by Jacques Delarue and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'Gestapo' has become synonymous with the terrible brutality and terror of the Nazi regime in World War II. The Gestapo came into existence in 1933 as Department 1A of the Prussian State Police. Under the SS, the Gestapo grew in power, and was given the job of investigating and combatting 'all tendencies dangerous to the state'. Schutzhaft (protective custody) gave the Gestapo the power to imprison without judicial proceedings, often in concentration camps. It was also responsible for destroying opposition to Hitler. By early 1942, as the Nazi regime became increasingly unpopular in Germany, a number of protests took place. The Gestapo's response was brutal. Thousands were arrested and executed, and all dissent was crushed. The History of the Gestapo provides an authoritative overview of this sinister instrument of repression. Never before had an organisation attained such complexity, been vested with such power, or reached such a pitch of 'perfection' in efficiency and horror.

Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952712800
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Gestapo written by Rupert Butler and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Crankshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448205492
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gestapo written by Edward Crankshaw and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grim story of the most vicious Terror Agency of all time-Its sinister Power and Barbaric acts, and the twisted men who led it-Hitler, Himmler, and Eichmann. This is the brutal expose of the rotten core of Nazi Germany. Here is revealed the true story of Hitler's terror police, the in-famous Gestapo-the madmen who headed it, the sadists who staffed it, the degenerate party that spawned it.

Author : Helene Moszkiewiez
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751509441
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Gestapo written by Helene Moszkiewiez and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the invasion of Nazi Germany, Helene, a young Jewish woman, risked her life to participate in the resistance disguised as a secretary in the office headquarters of the Gestapo. This book details some of her experiences there, and also testifies to some of the horrific times her fellow citizens had to endure.

Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908273941
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gestapo written by Rupert Butler and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its creation in 1933 until Hitler's death in May 1945, anyone living in Nazi-controlled territory lived in fear of a visit from the Gestapo, the secret state police. This is a lively and expert account of this notorious but little-understood secret police that terrorized hundreds of thousands of people across Europe.

Author : Eric A. Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Terror written by Eric A. Johnson and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 1999 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson's exhaustive new history tackles terror, the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship, focusing on the role of the society in making this tactic work, and delving deeply into the how and why of this horrendous regime. Illustrations.

Author : Krystyna Wituska
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332948
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside a Gestapo Prison written by Krystyna Wituska and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling firsthand account of life behind bars in Nazi Germany, from the point of view of a young member of the Polish Underground.

Author : Hansjürgen Koehler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930852399
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Gestapo written by Hansjürgen Koehler and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating first-hand account by a top defector of the ruthlessness, spy intrigues and curious personalities of the Third Reich. A unique and intimate record, full of surprises, sardonic wit and tragic endings. "Gestapo tactics": Espionage, intrigue, and subversion. Cunning, cynical, and ruthless in exploiting every human weakness - and murdering anyone who got in the way. Koehler was a special agent working for the top Nazi cop Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, the Secret State Police. He earns his spurs as spying in France, disguised as a Trotskyist refugee, laying the groundwork for Germany to annex these provinces, and matching wits with French and Communist intelligence services. A keen observer and skilful narrator, Koehler reveals how the Gestapo secretly financed and supported the Rumanian Iron Guard and the Spanish Fascists. Then he is sent undercover to a concentration camp to finger a fugitive. What he sees there, and the flogging that puts him in hospital, sows the seeds of his plan to escape. His next mission is to recover "The Fatal File" -- documents showing that Hitler's grandmother became pregnant while working as a maid in the Rothschild mansion in Vienna -- the Austrian chancellor's secret blackmail weapon to hold Nazi Germany at bay. Heydrich advises Koehler to employ a beautiful Countess to inveigle the file -- Austria is disarmed -- and the Wehrmacht marches into Austria. Koehler is then promoted to the detail guarding Hitler's residence in the Alps, and gets his chance to escape to Switzerland, where he writes "Inside the Gestapo". In 1943 the OSS commissioned a psychological profile of Hitler by Walter Langer, who drew on the revelations in this book. In 1972 Langer followed up with The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report, which became a mass-market bestseller.