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The Gestapo : power and terror in the Third Reich /
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 beca...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.