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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George C Browder |
| ISBN: | 019510479X 9780195104790 |
| OCLC Number: | 32924466 |
| Description: | xii, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | I. Inside the Gestapo -- 1. The Weimar Police -- 2. From Police Detectives to Gesatpo, 1933-1934 -- 3. Transformations, 1934-1937 -- Preliminary Conclusions -- 4. From Kripo to Sipo -- II. Inside the SD -- 5. The Emerging SD, 1931-1934 -- 6. Early SD Membership. 1932-1934 -- 7. Toward a Theoretical Perspective -- 8. The SD into 1937: In Search of Image and Mission -- 9. The Foreign Intelligence Mission -- 10. The SD: Personnel and Images -- Preliminary Conclusions |
| Responsibility: | George C. Browder. |
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Abstract:
As the keystone of police state terror, these organizations earned a reputation for all-seeing efficiency and sadistic inhumanity. Such reputations are tested against available evidence and the growing body of scholarship. Some do not survive the test, while others are redefined. These new insights into Gestapo, Kripo, and SD grew from research at 34 archives in Germany and the United States, including the personnel files of over 1,000 former members. This is also the first such study to benefit from the German documents captured by the Soviets and Poles and kept secret until recently. Hitler's Enforcers sheds new light on the early decisive steps that carried Germany to programs of ethnic cleansing and to total war. It will be invaluable to scholars and students of German history, along with anyone interested in the origins of Nazism.
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