The Gestapo 19331945 The Myth Reality Of Adolf Hitlers Secret Police Service Reissue Frank Mcdonough by Frank Mcdonough 9781510714670, 1510714677 instant download after payment.

This fascinating and absorbing new book, drawing on original Gestapo files, provides a wide range of vivid and fascinating stories that explore the tragic human plight of victims of Nazi terror, and the motives of the German citizens who denounced them. 

By examining in depth how the Gestapo dealt with Jews, Communists, religious dissidents and those on the margins of society, McDonough has produced a brilliant, readable and deeply significant examination of Hitler's notorious secret police. 

- Andrew Roberts

The Gestapo was Adolf Hitler's secret police force. 

Popularly depicted as a central part of an all-powerful 'Big Brother' type of Nazi totalitarian police state, its primary aim was to hunt down 'the enemies of the people'.

Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing stories of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. 

It also tells the equally disturbing stories of their friends, neighbours and sometimes even relatives, people drawn into the Gestapo's web of intrigue, either as paid informers or as voluntary staff. 

The book reveals, too, the cold-blooded and efficient methods of the Gestapo officers themselves.

This book will reveal that the Gestapo lacked the manpower and resources to spy on everyone, that it was reliant on tip offs from the general public. 

Yet this did not mean the Gestapo was a weak or inefficient instrument of Nazi terror. 

On the contrary, it ruthlessly and efficiently targeted its officers against clearly defined political and racial 'enemies of the people'.

This new and detailed work:

- Provides a chilling new doorway into the everyday life of those inside the Third Reich.

- Gives powerful testimony from the victims of unspeakably brutal forms and methods of Nazi terror.

- Offers a range of fascinating and poignant life stories of those who opposed Hitler's regime, both survivors and those executed for doing so.

- Unearths new evidence from long secret Gestapo case files & Challenges popular myths on the Gestapo.

- It explains the controversies surrounding the methods used by the Gestapo.

Frank McDonough is Professor of International History at John Moores University, Liverpool. 

He was born in Liverpool and He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford where he gained his PhD from Lancaster University.

He has written many books on the Third Reich, including: Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party (2012), Sophie Scholl-The Woman Who Defied Hitler (2009), The Holocaust (2008), Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany (2001), Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement (2002), and Hitler and Nazi Germany (1999).

He has also published many other books, most notably, The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective (2011), The Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations (2007), Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War (1998) and The Origins of the First and Second World Wars (1997).

Frank has appeared on TV and radio numerous times discussing the Third Reich. 

He featured in a six part series 'Nazi Secrets' for National Geographic in 2012 and a 10 part series 'The Rise of the Nazis' for the Discovery Channel. He has appeared in Third Reich documentaries for BBC 1, Channel 5, and Russia Today and has acted as an 'Historical Consultant' for the BBC 'History of the World Project' and the 'BBC World War One at Home' series of programmes.

Originally Published 2015; this is the earlier digital version of that book and not the later versions released by a different publisher with an all new covers in 2016 & 2019.

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