Gestapo Instrument of Tyranny

Gestapo Instrument of Tyranny

 

A history of the Gestapo has been based largely on the evidence of the Nuremberg Trials, and although a study of the men who shared with Hitler in its ugly hegemony and the techniques of terror they perfected, it is also an attempt to show that the Gestapo is not to be isolated as a scapegoat, for the acts it committed. It is impossible to disassociate the Gestapo from the Wehrmacht or from the German people who must finally be answerable for its actions. Crankshaw, a clear, cold, efficient analyst, traces the conquest of police power and the pattern of terror it developed, the men, from young illeterate toughs to the highly intelligent gentlemen thugs, who officiated, its leaders Himmler and Heydrich, Muller and Diels, its widening sphere of activity from within Germany to Poland and Western Russia, and finally the dossier of mass murder it compiled. Crankshaw's book, which is not only important as a document, is also a rebuttal to the apologists for Germany today, and a warning from history.

 

Edward Crankshaw

Hardcover with d/w 275pp Greenhill Books 1990

 

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Book Code:  SA0041

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