Nazi terror the Gestapo, Jews, and ordinary Germans

Nazi terror : the Gestapo, Jews, and ordinary Germans

"Central argument is this: the Nazis did not rule by terror and terror rarely touched the lives of most ordinary Germans. The terror apparatus at the dark heart of Nazi Germany, set in motion by the Nazi Party leadership in Berlin, employed a selective terror that concentrated almost exclusivel...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Johnson, Eric Arthur 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Basic Books, 1999
Schlagworte:World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Nationalsozialismus NS Terror Überwachung Verfolgung Judenverfolgung Geheime Staatspolizei mehr... Gestapo Deutschland Deutsches Reich Nationalsozialistisches Verbrechen Geschichte 1933-1945 Köln Judenvernichtung Krefeld Bergheim Drittes Reich
Umfang:XX, 636 S
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Locating Nazi terror: setting, interpretations, evidence
  • Inside Gestapo headquarters: the agents of the terror
  • The course of Jewish persecution in the prewar years
  • A closer look: survivors' recollections and Jewish case files
  • Destroying the Left
  • The cross and the swastika: quieting religious opposition
  • Nazi terror and "ordinary" Germans: 1933-1939
  • Nazi terror and "ordinary" Germans: the war years
  • A summation: defendants, denouncers, and Nazi terror
  • Persecution and deportation, 1939-1942
  • Murder one by one, 1943-1945
  • Mass murder, mass silence
  • Christmas presents for the Gestapo.