The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80073-259-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

The Vienna Gestapo headquarters was the largest of its kind in the German Reich and the most important instrument of Nazi terror in Austria, responsible for the persecution of Jews, suppression of resistance and policing of forced labourers. Of the more than fifty thousand people arrested by the Vienna Gestapo, many were subjected to torturous interrogation before being either sent to concentration camps or handed over to the Nazi judiciary for prosecution. This comprehensive survey by three expert historians focuses on these victims of repression and persecution well as the structure of the Vienna Gestapo and the perpetrators of its crimes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boeckl-Klamper, Elisabeth

Mang, Thomas

Neugebauer, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Politische Unterdrückung & Verfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Charts

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Glossary

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Gestapo as the Central Terror Instrument of the Nazi Regime

Chapter 2. Establishment of the Gestapo in Austria and of the Gestapo Regional Headquarters in Vienna

Chapter 3. Hotel Metropole: Headquarters of the Vienna Gestapo

Chapter 4. The Gestapo in the Network of the SS and Political Structures: Organization of the Vienna Gestapo

Chapter 5. The Officials and Employees of the Vienna Gestapo

Chapter 6. Working Procedures and Methods of the Vienna Gestapo

Chapter 7. Informants and Cell Spies: ‘Radio Games’

Chapter 8. Denunciations

Chapter 9. Mass Arrests

Chapter 10. The Vienna Gestapo and the Persecution of the Jews

Chapter 11. Persecution of the Catholic Church and other Religious Groups

Chapter 12. Suppression of Organized Resistance

Chapter 13. Suppression of Non-Organized Resistance

Chapter 14. Oberlanzendorf ‘Labour Education Camp’

Chapter 15. Vienna Gestapo Officials on ‘External Deployment’

Chapter 16. End-Phase Crimes

Chapter 17. The End of the Vienna Gestapo

Chapter 18. Prosecution of Vienna Gestapo Officials

Summary and Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Boeckl-Klamper, Elisabeth
Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper, Ph.D., is a long-standing research assistant and senior archivist at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance.

Neugebauer, Wolfgang
Wolfgang Neugebauer, Ph.D., was Director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance from 1983 to 2004. He was made an honorary professor of contemporary history at Vienna University in 1995, and has written extensively on resistance and repression in the Nazi period. His publications include The Austrian Resistance 1938–1945 (Edition Steinbauer, 2014).

Mang, Thomas
Thomas Mang, Ph.D., pursued a business career in Germany from 1971 to 1991. Since 1998 he has published numerous scholarly works on the Vienna Gestapo.

Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper, Ph.D., is a long-standing research assistant and senior archivist at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance.