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J. Ryan Stackhouse

Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo

Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo

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Explores the Gestapo's complex system of enforcement and control to reveal the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing only through terror and totalitarianism, drawing on research in hundreds of secret police case files.

Format: Hardback
Length: 330 pages
Publication date: 21 October 2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.

Weight: 630g
Dimension: 260 x 454 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108832601
Edition number: New ed

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