The Gestapo
Subtitle: a history of horror
By: Jacques Delarue ; translated from the French by Mervyn Savill.
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.; Frontline Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781602392465
Subjects: Germany. -- Geheime Staatspolizei -- History
Work titles: Histoire de la Gestapo.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-364) and index.