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The French Secret Services
The French secret services have a long history dating back to the "ancien regime. "With the founding of the Third Republic (1870-1940) the famous Second Bureau was created as France's principal intelligence-gathering organization. After the Germans invaded France in 1940, however, the services splintered and diversified, with Vichy agencies and Collaborationists, the Free French and the internal resistance all in contention. More recently, since 1944 the activities of the reorganized French secret services have extended across a surprisingly wide area, sometimes with spectacular results as in the 'Greenpeace Affair' in New Zealand in 1985. This volume deals with the French secret services ac...
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.
Fascism's Return
The past fifteen years have witnessed the renewed presence of fascism in European political and cultural life. In addition, there have been scandals surrounding the fascist pasts of numerous renowned intellectuals, including Martin Heidegger, Paul de Man, and Maurice Blanchot. In Fascism’s Return, eleven leading American and European scholars examine the resurgence of fascism from many angles, providing an essential and timely view of this troubling moment in European political, cultural, and intellectual history. Intellectual and public scandals surrounding the fascist past—including the highly publicized Barbie and Touvier trials in France—are addressed. Other writers focus on contro...
Vichy
A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.
Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945
Simon Kitson's Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 offers a ’history from below’ analysis of the attitude of the Marseille Police between the Popular Front and the Liberation of France. Kitson highlights the specificities of policing France’s largest port: clientelism, corruption, a floating population and high levels of criminality, including organised crime. But he also demonstrates why many of his conclusions about Police attitude can be generalised to other parts of France and, in so doing, challenges many of the assumptions of the existing historiography. Although they zealously hunted down Jews and communists, the Police were not as reliable for the Vichy government as is commonly assumed and were, undoubtedly, far more involved in Resistance than most sectors of society.
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.
Torture and Democracy
This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique after another in these settings, he reaches startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argu...
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.
