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Summary of Jacques Delarue's The Gestapo
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On January 30, 1933, the fate of the world was decided in Marshal Hindenburg’s study. Hitler had just become Reich Chancellor. Von Papen became Vice-Chancellor and Commissioner for Prussia. The terror immediately descended upon Germany. It manifested itself in riots and street fighting. #2 On February 1, Hindenburg received the decree for the dissolution of the Reichstag, which he then gave to Hitler. The elections were set for March 5. The Nazis now operated within the framework of legality. But since victory was not certain, they needed to eliminate their opponents. #3 The Nazis were worried about the opposition still resisting them. They needed to crush the Communist party legally, so that they could eliminate its leaders and discredit the Party before the elections. #4 The German government began arrests of Communist party members and Democrats on March 1, the same day the fire was announced. The Nazis feared a general strike from the Left, which could be the only effective weapon against them.
The Gestapo
Perhaps the most terrifying embodiment of a government's disregard for the value of human life, the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police force, was a veritable killing machine, the iron fist that Hitler and his henchmen used to strangle dissent and smash resistance to his rule. In The Gestapo, Jacques Delarue unflinchingly probes the organization's history, and explains how such a horrific institution could come into being, who was behind it, what they did, and why. Drawing upon interviews with ex-Gestapo agents and the organization's published and unpublished archives. The Gestapo and its leaders, Himmler, Barbie, Eichmann, Heydrich, Müller, and others, devised and implemented some of the most exotic and abhorrent torture and extermination techniques the world has ever seen.
The Gestapo
The word 'Gestapo' has become synonymous with the terrible brutality and terror of the Nazi regime in World War II. The Gestapo came into existence in 1933 as Department 1A of the Prussian State Police. Under the SS, the Gestapo grew in power, and was given the job of investigating and combatting 'all tendencies dangerous to the state'. Schutzhaft (protective custody) gave the Gestapo the power to imprison without judicial proceedings, often in concentration camps. It was also responsible for destroying opposition to Hitler. By early 1942, as the Nazi regime became increasingly unpopular in Germany, a number of protests took place. The Gestapo's response was brutal. Thousands were arrested and executed, and all dissent was crushed. The History of the Gestapo provides an authoritative overview of this sinister instrument of repression. Never before had an organisation attained such complexity, been vested with such power, or reached such a pitch of 'perfection' in efficiency and horror.
Histoire de la Gestapo
Gestapo, ces trois syllabes ont, pendant douze années, fait trembler l'Allemagne, puis l'Europe entière. Jamais, dans aucun pays et à aucune époque, une organisation n'atteignit cette complexité, ne détint un tel pouvoir, ne parvint à un tel point de " perfection " dans l'efficacité et dans l'horreur. Jacques Delarue a voulu démonter son mécanisme, montrer comment le régime nazi n'a pu s'imposer que grâce à cette armature qui soutenait les moindres éléments de son édifice. Malgré tous les ouvrages publiés sur le régime nazi, les hommes qui tinrent les leviers de commande de cet ensemble sont aussi mal connus que la machine elle-même. Il a paru indispensable à l'auteur de...
