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

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2022) Subject Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei -- History SUBJECT Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei fast Subject Secret service -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Nazis -- Germany Government, Resistance to -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Dissenters -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Authoritarianism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Authoritarianism Government, Resistance to Nazis Political culture Politics and government Secret service SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640 Subject Germany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020049625 ISBN 9781108961677 1108961673

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