Gestapo

by Edward Crankshaw

Overview

The Grim story of the most vicious Terror Agency of all time-Its sinister Power and Barbaric acts, and the twisted men who led it-Hitler, Himmler, and Eichmann.

This is the brutal expose of the rotten core of Nazi Germany.

Here is revealed the true story of Hitler's terror police, the in-famous Gestapo-the madmen who headed it, the sadists who staffed it, the degenerate party that spawned it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448205493
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/28/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Edward Crankshaw (1909 - 1984) was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs.

Crankshaw began work as a journalist at The Times. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German lead him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return he went back to write for The Times and wrote reviews for The Spectator, The Bookman, and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth.
Edward Crankshaw (1909 - 1984) was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs.

Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in a non-conformist public school, Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. He began his career as a journalist at The Times, a position he only held for a few months. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German led him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return to England he went back to working for The Times and also began to write reviews-mostly musical-for The Spectator, The Bookman, and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth. Crankshaw's book on Nazi terror, Gestapo (1956), was widely read; in 1963 he began to produce more ambitious literary works, often on historical or monumental moments in Russian Political history.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements

1 The Gestapo is Born
2 Himmler and the S.S.
3 Heydrich and the S.D.
4 Gestapo and Revolution
5 Vendetta and Intrigue
6 Confusion as a Fine Art
7 The Totalitarian State
8 Gestapo Ueber Alles
10 The Dustbin of the Rich
11 Streamlined Violence
12 The Gestapo Goes to War
13 Terror and Extermination
14 The Final Solution
15 Massacre in the East
16 Auschwitz
17 Night and Fog in the West
18 Full Circle

A Note on the Author