By Jacques Delarue

From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo used to be Nazi Germany's leader software of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by means of the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven increased sadism to an exceptional artwork. The Gestapo: A historical past of Horror attracts upon Delarue's interviews with ex-Gestapo brokers to bring a multi-layered heritage of the strength whose paintings incorporated killing pupil resisters, constructing Aryan eugenic unions, and enforcing the ultimate answer. it is a probing examine the Gestapo and the enthusiasts and megalomaniacs who made it this type of profitable and heinous organization—Barbie, Eichmann, Himmler, Heydrich, Müller. The Gestapo's infamous reign resulted in the homicide of thousands. The Gestapo is a crucial documentation of what they did and the way they did it.

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Thus parliamentary democracy was erased at a single blow and Germany became legally a dictatorship. A. squads massed around the building could be heard in the hall, creating a disturbing, noisy background to the setting. The house voted. The Socialists alone had the courage to vote against Hitler. The plan was adopted by 441 voices to 94. Nothing remained except to dismiss the assembly. The old Field Marshal himself was dispossessed, since his signature was no longer necessary at the foot of the decrees.

Includes index. : alk. paper) 1. Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei—History. I. Title. 28’3094309043—dc22 2007042961 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America The Gestapo: A History of Horror This edition published in 2008 by Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 47 Church Street, Barnsley, S. com Histoire de la Gestapo by Jacques Delarue World copyright © Librarie Arthème Fayard, 1962 This edition © Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2008 New Preface © Jacques Delarue, 2008 ISBN: 978-184832-502-9 All rights reserved.

Was in charge of the security of the Party. In 1934 it became the only intelligence service of the Party. A. without becoming a state organization, its members remaining civil servants of the Party. This was a complicated hybrid formula typical of the Nazis’ administrative structure. This strange mixture ruled over all the occupied countries and caused the most terrible devastation. ’s role was supposedly confined to research, but, in reality, on the ground everybody did a bit of everything, using the same methods.

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