Explores the Gestapo's complex system of enforcement and control to reveal the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing only through terror and totalitarianism, drawing on research in hundreds of secret police case files.
Explores the Gestapo's complex system of enforcement and control to reveal the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing only through terror and totalitarianism, drawing on research in hundreds of secret police case files.
J. Ryan Stackhouse is an historian of modern Europe and Nazism. His PhD from Florida State University, as a Walbolt Fellow, was honoured with Distinction. He hosts The Third Reich History Podcast and interviews experts about the many faces of authoritarianism on the New Books Network.
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1. National and Regional Foundations, 1933-1945 2. Criminalizing Conversation, 1933-1934 3. Defining Opposition, 1935-1939 4. Discovering Offences, 1935-1943 5. Confirming Culpability, 1935-1943 6. Cooperation and Ascendancy, 1935-1939 7. Principles of Internal Security, 1939-1942 8. Enforcing People's Community, 1939-1942 9. Total War Policing, 1943-1944 10. Involving the Party, 1943-1944 11. Death Throes.
