Hitler's Enforcers: The Gestapo and the SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution
George C. Browder
Language: English
Pages: 384
ISBN: B000UDE3V4
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This first socio-organizational history of the Gestapo, the SD, and the regular detectives of the Third Reich, 1932-1937, this book explores the roots of their roles in police terror and programs of mass murder. These personnel helped to form the character and missions of their organizations, which were not simply created from above by Hitler, Himmler, or Heydrich. Hitler's Enforcers is based on research at 34 archives in Germany and the United States, including the personnel files of over 1,000 former members, and is the first such study to benefit from the German documents captured by the Soviets and Poles and kept secret until recently.
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Districts of Berlin erupted into near civil war. Thirty-one people died; more than a hundred were injured. Innocents along with insurgents became victims of police gunfire. The press also accused the police of beating up reporters who filed derogatory reports. For months thereafter, part of the press attacked the police for bloodthirsty and callous behavior. Whatever the real public response was, it was irrelevant: the critical press and Communist propaganda told police that respectable citizens.
Tightened the structure and built an ever larger and more far-reaching Gestapo office (see Appendix B.I). By late summer, it had expanded to five departments and undergone further transformations toward service to the Nazi regime. Formal links with those agencies of the Movement that supported the Gestapo had emerged: the Intelligence Service (Nachrichtendienst, ND) of the Party, the SA, and the SS—most notably, the SS-Commando at Columbia Haus, the SS-run detention facility. The military's.
Frequently are desirable alternatives to Nazi and Nazi Party. It is my goal to add Sipo (Sicherheitspolizei) and Kripo (Kriminalpolizei) to the language of scholarly and popular awareness of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. The genericsounding English words "security police" and "criminal or detective police" will never carry the appropriate force. Consider what would be lost if one had to say political police or secret police instead of Gestapo. Sipo should be as familiar as KGB or FBI. Sipo.
Controlling and eliminating all other threats to "social order." Combined in the Sipo, they came under the command of SSGeneral Reinhard Heydrich, who was also chief of the Security Service of the SS, the SD. Thus Sipo became fused with the SS through its special intelligence branch, the SD. The effects of the marriage of Sipo and SD on all of its members is the focus of this book. That special combination of agencies became the linchpin of the Nazi horror. Its members became Hitler's executive.
Focused on authoritarian and compulsive character structure that allegedly explains German receptiveness. Unfortunately, all such efforts founder on the problem that the identified personality traits or shared experiences were held in common by Germans and non-Germans, by pro- and anti-Nazis.18 Nevertheless, opinion remains polarized over how pathological the Nazi membership was, especially SS men. Given the nature of Nazi inhumanity, one easily assumes that the perpetrators had to be sick. They.