Nazi terror: the Gestapo, Jews, and ordinary Germans

"Central argument is this: the Nazis did not rule by terror and terror rarely touched the lives of most ordinary Germans. The terror apparatus at the dark heart of Nazi Germany, set in motion by the Nazi Party leadership in Berlin, employed a selective terror that concentrated almost exclusivel...

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Main Author: Johnson, Eric Arthur 1948- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Basic Books 1999
In:Year: 1999
Reviews:Book-Reviews (2001) (Browder, George C.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Germany / Deutsches Reich, Geheime Staatspolizei / National Socialist crime / History 1933-1945
B Cologne / Jewish persecution / Jews / Krefeld
Further subjects:B National Socialism
B Surveillance
B NS
B Jewish persecution
B Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (Germany)
B Atrocities (Germany)
B World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities
B Persecution
B Geheime Staatspolizei
B Germany Geheime Staatspolizei
B Terror
B Gestapo
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Summary:"Central argument is this: the Nazis did not rule by terror and terror rarely touched the lives of most ordinary Germans. The terror apparatus at the dark heart of Nazi Germany, set in motion by the Nazi Party leadership in Berlin, employed a selective terror that concentrated almost exclusively on Jews and other specifically targeted enemies of the Nazi regime. It depended for its implementation and effectiveness, however, on the cooperation and often voluntary participation at the local level of the broad mass of ordinary German citizens who themselves suffered little or not at all from Nazi terror." -- Jacket
"Central argument is this: the Nazis did not rule by terror and terror rarely touched the lives of most ordinary Germans. The terror apparatus at the dark heart of Nazi Germany, set in motion by the Nazi Party leadership in Berlin, employed a selective terror that concentrated almost exclusively on Jews and other specifically targeted enemies of the Nazi regime. It depended for its implementation and effectiveness, however, on the cooperation and often voluntary participation at the local level of the broad mass of ordinary German citizens who themselves suffered little or not at all from Nazi terror." -- Jacket
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [595]-619) and index
ISBN:0465049060