The Gestapo: A History of Horror

The Gestapo: A History of Horror

Jacques Delarue

Language: English

Pages: 384

ISBN: 1602392463

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art. The Gestapo: A History of Horror draws upon Delarue's interviews with ex-Gestapo agents to deliver a multi-layered history of the force whose work included killing student resisters, establishing Aryan eugenic unions, and implementing the Final Solution. This is a probing look at the Gestapo and the fanatics and megalomaniacs who made it such a successful and heinous organization—Barbie, Eichmann, Himmler, Heydrich, Müller. The Gestapo's notorious reign led to the murder of millions. The Gestapo is an important documentation of what they did and how they did it.

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the next village where he would rejoin him on foot, to take the “stiffness out of his legs.” Hardly had the car driven off than Stuelpnagel fired a bullet into his temple and slumped into the ditch. Fished out by his chauffeur and taken to the Verdun Military Hospital, Stuelpnagel’s life was saved. But the bullet which had pierced the skull made him blind. He was sufficiently recovered to appear on August 29 with the other prisoners before the bloodthirsty Freisler and his “People’s Court.”

distorted dwarf, Dr. Goebbels, “a shriveled German.” It is also significant that, at the period when genealogical researches became the fashion on S.S. principles, Hitler strongly forbade all researches into his own personal origins, which, according to his enemies, were very mixed. Himmler wanted to turn his S.S. into a new chivalry. He saw this as the surest foundation of the Nazi Reich. In an order signed by him in Munich on December 31, 1931, he defined it as follows: “The S.S. are a union

Writers reported to the Ministry anything that appeared noxious in old or new works. The libraries were purged. The Booksellers’ Federation completed this muzzling of thought. Lawyers, doctors, and students were regimented in associations of the same order. The German Medical Society, founded in 1873, known throughout the world, was absorbed by the National Socialist League of Doctors, which “purged” the profession by eliminating Jews and Socialists, and ultimately all political non-conformists.

remained in Berlin to direct in person the revolutionary action,” whereas everyone knew that Ernst had been arrested in Bremen just as he was about to embark upon a holiday cruise. The argument, according to which Hitler’s action had prevented a “national bolshevist revolution,” was little appreciated. People could not understand how conservatives like von Bose and Klausener could be embroiled in such an adventure. Finally, he declared that according to an “eternal iron law,” he had made himself

former national glory, the enemies of the Republic were able to install themselves in most of the key positions. It was by playing the democratic game with stacked cards that the Nazis and their friends made the whole edifice collapse. By provoking ministerial crises (involving constant elections) they persuaded an enormous number of citizens to turn from the government and to lend a more attentive ear to Nazi propaganda. In the face of this strategy the Left Wing parties were incapable of

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