Enemies of the people : Hitler's critics and the Gestapo / J. Ryan Stackhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stackhouse, J. Ryan, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei--History.

Germany.

Secret service--Germany--History--20th century.

Secret service.

Authoritarianism--Germany--History--20th century.

Authoritarianism.

Political culture--Germany--History--20th century.

Political culture.

Dissenters--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Dissenters.

Government, Resistance to--Germany--History--20th century.

Government, Resistance to.

Nazis--Germany.

Nazis.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 332 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case files, Enemies of the People explores the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Examining the Gestapo's policy of 'selective enforcement', J. Ryan Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing exclusively through terror. Instead, he reveals the complex system of enforcement that defined the relationship between state and society in the Third Reich and helps to explain the Germans' abiding support for Hitler and their complicity in the regime's crimes. Stories of everyday life in Nazi Germany paint the clearest picture yet of just how differently the Gestapo handled certain groups and actions, and the routine investigation, interrogation, and enforcement practices behind this system. Enemies of the People offers penetrating insights into just how reasonable selective enforcement appeared to Germans, and draws unavoidable parallels with the contemporary threat of authoritarianism.

Contents:

Introduction: A code of new law

National and regional foundations, 1933-1945

Criminalizing conversation, 1933-1934

Defining opposition, 1935-1939

Confirming culpability, 1935-1943

Cooperation and ascendancy, 1935-1939

Principles of internal security, 1939-1942

Enforcing people's community, 1939-1942

Total war policing, 1943-1944

Involving the party, 1943-1944

Death throes

Epilogue: The pillars of popular dictatorship.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Oct 2021).

ISBN:

9781108963190

1108963196

9781108963336

1108963331

9781108961677

1108961673

OCLC:

1227836075