The Gestapo and German Society

Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-0-19-820297-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks

This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. How were the Gestapo able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially `crimes' pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life? How could the police enforce policies such as those designed to isolate the Jews or foreign workers with such apparent ease?

Robert Gellately argues that there was a three-way interaction between the police, the German people, and the implementation of policy; and that the key factor in the enforcement of Nazi racial policy was the willingness of German citizens to provide the authorities with information about suspected `criminality'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gellately, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of maps; List of tables; Abbreviations and glossary; Introduction; I. The Gestapo: The emergence of the Gestapo; Local organization of the Gestapo and police network; II. German Society: Würzburg and Lower Franconia before 1933; Anti-Jewish actions in Lower Franconia after 1933; III. Enforcing Racial Policy: The Gestapo and social co-operation: the example of political denunciation; Racial policy and varieties of non-compliance; Compliance through prssure;
'Racially foreign': racial policy and Polish workers; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index