6 edition of Gestapo found in the catalog.
Published
2002
by Greenhill Books, Stackpole Books in London, Mechanicsburg, PA
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Written in
Edition Notes
Originally published: London : Putnam, 1956.
| Statement | Edward Crankshaw ; new introduction by Charles Messenger. |
| Classifications | |
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| LC Classifications | DD256.5 .C7 2002 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3559257M |
| ISBN 10 | 1853674818 |
| LC Control Number | 2002021233 |
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE GESTAPO The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police By Frank McDonough pp. Skyhorse. The Gestapo (from Geheime Staatspolizei, or "Secret State Police") was essentially created by Heinrich Himmler (who would commit suicide in Allied custody) and his ruthless deputy Reinhard Heydrich (assassinated by partisans in ), and its aggression was forged by competition for influence with other factions like the army: "The first Author: Carsten Dams.
Heinrich Müller (28 April ; date of death unknown, but evidence points to May ) was a high-ranking German Schutzstaffel (SS) and police official during the Nazi the majority of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestapo, the secret state police of Nazi Germany.Müller was central in the planning and execution of the Holocaust and attended the Appointed by: Heinrich Himmler. The author freely acknowledges that the gestapo's actions were a lot worse in the occupied countries. The book makes a good case for the gestapo acting with some restraint and fairness in cases involving "ordinary Germans" which is certainly not the gestapo's image that the average person has/5().
Formed in , the Gestapo became one of the most feared state forces of the Third Reich before and during World War II. Chronicling the history of the organization, from its origins to the brutal and horrific offences that it perpetrated on hundreds of thousands of people, to its eventual downfall, Gestapo is a compelling tale of power and destruction taken to their most terrifying /5(5). The Gestapo: A History of Horror draws upon Delarue's interviews with ex-Gestapo agents to deliver a multi-layered history of the force whose work included killing student resisters, establishing Aryan eugenic unions, and implementing the Final Solution. This is a probing look at the Gestapo and the fanatics and megalomaniacs who made it such a.
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The Gestapo: A History of Horror draws upon Delarue's interviews with ex-Gestapo agents to deliver a multi-layered history of the force whose work included killing student resisters, establishing Aryan eugenic unions, and implementing the Final by: 6. The book reveals, too, the cold-blooded and efficient methods of the Gestapo officers.
This book will reveal that the Gestapo lacked the manpower and resources to spy on everyone, that 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/5(). As this brilliant book makes compellingly clear, the Gestapo grew.
It sought out resistance brutally suppressing it with torture and execution used repression to deter opposition, filled the concentration camps with political opponents and ethnic 'undesirables, ' and Gestapo book sought to promote the Nazi state's perverse policies more/5.
The book's main focus is on the leading figures of the Gestapo Gestapo book include Goring, Himmler, Heydrich and Kaltenbrunner and on the interagency politics between the Abwehr, SD, SS, and the Wehrmacht. Butler certainly pulls no punches, revealing the brutality of the Gestapo and the depravity of the mass murderers who led this twisted organization/5(13).
The Gestapo (secret state police) originated in under Hermann Goering and was ultimately merged with the SD. Just as the Gestapo had its secret operatives among the mass of the population, the SD had agents, known only to the chief SD officers, in every department of the German government, in the armed forces, in the Nazi party, among.
Gestapo book, most of the book describes the Gestapo's wartime activities. This is basically a catalogue of sadistic, depraved abuse of any individual or groups of people they were ordered to target or anyone they didn't like.
Usually torture, murder, and mass murder - /5(). "GESTAPO - The word brings a sense of dreaded evil. A collective of ruthless men who terrorised the German people and their enemies during the second world war.
Thankfully Frank McDonough has delved a little deeper to find that everything is not as it seems/5. The Washington Post calls Sven Hassel a brilliant storyteller, and his series of novels about life in Hitlers army have sold in the millions.
In this wartime adventure, his cast of characters is caught up with the Disciplinary Regiment, a tank regiment that doesnt actually have a tank to its name/5. Concentration camps. In Hermann Goering gained control of the Prussian police and transformed the Gestapo into an executive tool for the Nazis’ ambition to crush all : Robert Gerwarth.
Published in Germany in"The Gestapo: Power and Terror in the Third Reich" by Carsten Dams and Michael Stolle has been translated into English by Charlotte Ryland and is about to be published by Oxford University Press.
The authors bring an informed, scholarly perspective to the book/5. The Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.
The force was created by Hermann Göring in by combining the various security police agencies of Prussia into one organisation. Beginning on 20 Aprilit passed to the administration of Schutzstaffel (SS) national Headquarters: Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, Berlin.
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police - Kindle edition by McDonough, Frank, Savill, Mervyn. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police/5(30).
This book is one of the most detailed sources for the intricate detailing of Hitler's gestapo. It highlights the dangers of a police state and what can go terribly wrong when the people are no longer in control and the government becomes tyrannical/5(13). The torture of the Gestapo (25 photos) Март 2, Автор: Юлия Клюева It is a small neat house in Kristiansade next to the road in the port of Stavanger, and during the war was the most horrible place throughout the south of Norway.
Gestapo At the time of its original publication, early in World War II, this photo was captioned, “Nazis Round up Population of a Russian City for Deportation to Germany.
Photograph shows Russian men, women, and children receiving instructions from the Gestapo prior to their journey to Germany.” However, it is highly unlikely that reality followed this narrative. “In this thoroughly researched and elegantly written book, Frank McDonough confronts decades of myth-making to uncover the complex realities of Hitler's notorious secret police.
The Gestapo is as surprising as it is illuminating, and it sets a new standard for this vitally important subject.”4/5(). The Gestapo book. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From its creation in until Hitler's death in Mayanyone livin /5.
Outwitting the Gestapo is Lucie's harrowing account of her participation in the Resistance: of the months when, though pregnant, she planned and took part in raids to free comrades—including her husband, under Nazi death sentence—from the prisons of 4/5.
The Gestapo is as surprising as it is illuminating, and it sets a new standard for this vitally important subject.” — Roger Moorhouse, best-selling author of Berlin at War “A new look at Hitler's secret state police as a smaller crack force than is widely known a nuanced study of the Geheime Staatspolizei, or GestapoBrand: Skyhorse.
The Gestapo: A History of Horror draws upon Delarue's interviews with ex-Gestapo agents to deliver a multi-layered history of the force whose work included killing student resisters, establishing Aryan eugenic unions, and implementing the Final Solution.
This is a probing look at the Gestapo and the fanatics and megalomaniacs who made it such a /5(19). This book outlines who the Gestapo were, how they operated, what their numbers were, the terrible crimes they committed and how they paid for these in the end when they were hunted down after the war.
does not hold back on the barbarity and ruthlessness of the Gestapo. McDonough’s book is derived from research into a group of Gestapo records that amazingly survived the war: 73, records from the Dusseldorf region of Germany that document the interactions between the Gestapo and the German populace.The term “Gestapo” is a shorted form of “Geheime Staatspolizei,” which means ”Secret State Police.” The loyalty of this police force was not directed at people or the public good, but to Hitler’s increasingly oppressive fascist regime.
