Nazi Terror - The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans (Paperback, New Ed)

Quite a good academic study - and topical, round about the time of the Irving libel trial - but even as an academic study not quite satisfactory. (Kirkus UK)

Destined to become a study of terror in the Nazi dictatorship, and the benchmark for the next generation of Nazi and Holocaust scholarship, Eric Johnson's history tackles the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship - terror - head on. By focusing on the role of the individual and on the role of the society in making terror work, he is able to definitively and dramatically answer such questions as these: Who were the Gestapo officers? Were they merely banal paper shufflers, as Hannah Arendt depicted Eichmann, or were they recognizably evil? What tactics did they use? Were they motivated by an eliminationist anti-Semitism? Did the average German know about the mass murder of Jews and other undesirables while it was happening? Exactly how was Nazi terror applied in the daily lives of ordinary Jews and Germans? Johnson spent years of research in Gestapo archives in three Rhineland communities, reading and analyzing more than 1100 Gestapo and special court case files.

General

Imprint:	BasicBooks
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2000
First published:	2001
Authors:	Eric Johnson
Dimensions:	203 x 137 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	664
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-465-04908-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
LSN:	0-465-04908-7
Barcode:	9780465049080

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