The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

Infamous for their brutal repression of the German people, the Gestapo didn't have the resources to keep tabs on everyone so relied on denunciations to weed out political opposition. This study of their methods examines a range of Gestapo case files from 1933 to 1945, which offer a window into the lives of ordinary people in Nazi Germany and reveal how officers investigated potential dissidents - and the diverse and arbitrary decisions they reached following their interrogations.