An illustrated history of the Gestapo
By: Robert Butler
Publisher: Ian Allan
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Shepperton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780711020399
Subjects: Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei; Germany; Pictorial works; World War, 1939-1945; History
Description: For twelve years, Hitler's secret state police--the Geheime Staats Polizei, better known as the Gestapo--spread a reign of fear and terror over Europe. Spoken of in whispers, a law unto themselves, the Gestapo was the power behind the power. Torture, betrayal, execution, utter ruthlessness, were the stepping stones by which the Gestapo under Göring, Himmler, and Heydrich climbed to the top of the Nazi bureaucratic pile. As Nazi power spread, so did the evil reputation of the Gestapo, spying into every compartment of the individual's life, backed by concentration camps and the state-sanctioned right to extract confessions under torture. As the war ended, the Gestapo tried to eradicate all trace of its crimes. In this, it failed. It left photographs; it left witnesses; it left records. From these it is possible for us to be eyewitnesses to the Gestapo in its grisly heyday.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p233-235) and index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Lidice Committee; title: Introduction / Richard Overy; title: The Gestapo is born; title: Heinrich Himmler and the SS; title: Heydrich and the SD; title: The slaughter of the Brownshirts; title: The Gestapo is everywhere; title: The Gestapo's road to war; title: The Gestapo campaign in the East; title: The assassination of Heydrich; title: Night and fog in the West; title: The Gestapo and the enemy within; title: The reckoning and the price; title: The Gestapo today; title: The survivors; title: The internal structure of the RSHA.