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The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police Hardcover - 2017

by Frank McDonough


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Written with access to previously unpublished records, this is the fullest and most definitive account available on Hitler's secret police, the Gestapo. The book illustrates how, despite its material constraints, this group was able to extend its reach widely and quickly by manipulating and colluding with the general public during World War II, making ordinary German citizens complicit in the rendition of their associates, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. Though it was a powerful institution, it was not an all-powerful institution, and McDonough also relates the fascinating and underreported accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime and its oppressive governance. The Gestapo will provide a chilling new doorway into the everyday life of the Third Reich and give powerful testimony from the victims of Nazi terror, while also challenging popular myths about the Gestapo and its inner workings.

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  • Title The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police
  • Author Frank McDonough
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Skyhorse Publishing, New York
  • Date 2017-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781510714656 / 1510714650
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Germany, World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.283

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2016, Page 0

About the author

Professor Frank McDonough is an internationally renowned expert on the Third Reich. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford and gained a PhD from Lancaster University. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Origins of the First and Second World Wars and Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement. He has appeared on several TV and radio programs on the BBC, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and the History Channel. He currently lives in Liverpool, England.
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