Nazi terror : the Gestapo, Jews, and ordinary Germans / Eric A. Johnson

"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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Hauptverfasser:Johnson, Eric Arthur (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:New York : Basic Books, [2000]
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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.