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The Nazi terror : Gestapo, Jews and ordinary Germans / Eric A. Johnson.
Van Pelt Library DS135.G33 J64 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Eric A. (Eric Arthur), 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei.
- Germany.
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Jews.
- History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- New York Public Library (stamp) (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 636 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- Johnson's exhaustive new history tackles terror, the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship, focusing on the role of the society in making this tactic work, and delving deeply into the how and why of this horrendous regime. Illustrations.
- Contents:
- Part I Nazi Terror and the Gestapo
- 1 Locating Nazi Terror: Setting, Interpretations, Evidence 3
- 2 Inside Gestapo Headquarters: The Agents of the Terror 29
- Part II Nazi Terror and the Jews, 1933-1939
- 3 The Course of Jewish Persecution in the Prewar Years 83
- 4 A Closer Look: Survivors' Recollections and Jewish Case Files 129
- Part III Nazi Terror and Potential Opponents, 1933-1939
- 5 Destroying the Left 161
- 6 The Cross and the Swastika: Quieting Religious Opposition 195
- Part IV Nazi Terror and "Ordinary" Germans
- 7 Nazi Terror and "Ordinary" Germans: 1933-1939 253
- 8 Nazi Terror and "Ordinary" Germans: The War Years 303
- 9 A Summation: Defendants, Denouncers, and Nazi Terror 353
- Part V The Gestapo, "Ordinary" Germans, and the Murder of the Jews
- 10 Persecution and Deportation, 1939-1942 379
- 11 Murder One by One, 1943-1945 405
- 12 Mass Murder, Mass Silence 433
- 13 Christmas Presents for the Gestapo 463.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [595]-619) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has stamp "Withdrawn. For free use in city cultural and welfare institutions. May be sold for the benefit of the New York Public Library only" on half-title.
- ISBN:
- 0465049060
- OCLC:
- 43320224
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