Introduction -- The Gestapo is born -- Himmler and the S.S. -- Heydrich and the S.D. -- Gestapo and revolution -- Vendetta and intrigue -- Confusion as a fine art -- The totalitarian state -- The end of the S.A. -- Gestapo ueber alles -- The dustbin of the Reich -- Streamlined violence -- The Gestapo goes to war -- Terror and extermination -- The final solution -- Massacre in the East -- Auschwitz -- Night and fog in the West -- Full circle -- Appendices