Title: The Gestapo : a history of horror /
Authors: Delarue, Jacques, 1919-
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Germany. History.
Abstract: From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art. 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 successful and heinous organization: Barbie, Eichmann, Himmler, Heydrich, Müller. The Gestapo's notorious reign led to the murder of millions. The Gestapo is an important documentation of what they did and how they did it.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: The birth of the Gestapo, 1933-34 -- The Nazis become masters of Germany -- Goering has recourse to the police -- The Gestapo is created -- Part Two: The Gestapo perfects its methods, 1934-1936 -- Himmler takes over the Gestapo -- Himmler's "Black Order" -- The Gestapo is everywhere -- The stranger personality of Heydrich -- The Gestapo versus Roehm -- "The Night of the Long Knives" -- The new organization of the police -- Part Three: The Gestapo prepares for the invasion, 1936-39 -- The Gestapo tackles the army -- The Gestapo installs itself in Europe -- Himmler shapes his organization -- Part Four: The Gestapo at war, 1940 -- In Poland -- The Gestapo in France -- The Gestapo and the army -- Part Five: The hell of the Gestapo, 1940-44 -- The Gestapo at work in France -- The martyrdom of the eastern territories -- The experiments of the Nazi scientists -- The Gestapo operates throughout the whole of France -- Part Six: Collapse of the Gestapo, 1944 -- Resistance in the army -- The wolves devour each other -- Appendices.