Research Catalog

Title

The Gestapo : a history of horror / Jacques Delarue ; [translated from the French by Mervyn Savill].

Author

Delarue, Jacques, 1919-

Publication

New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2008.

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Details

Description

xii, 372 p., [6] p. of plates : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Histoire de la Gestapo. English

Alternative Title

Histoire de la Gestapo.

Subjects

• History
• Germany > Geheime Staatspolizei > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-364) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781602392465 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1602392463 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007042961

OCLC

175057169

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library