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In 1962 Jacques Delarue's history of the rise and fall of the Gestapo was published in France. This translation includes a new foreword by Delarue. A former resistance fighter in France, Delarue brings the passion of his memories to the narrative, which is occasionally novelist. His other research included interviews with Gestapo officers during their trials and with other members of the resistance who survived the camps. He also reminds the reader of the universality of the persecution. The Nazis murdered, tortured and degraded anyone they perceived as threatening or inferior. This chilling history is an important reminder of how insidious the growth of the Gestapo was and that what happened once, can happen again. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a fine art. The Gestapo: A History of Horror draws upon Delarue's interviews with ex-Gestapo agents to deliver a multi-layered history of the force whose work included killing student resisters, establishing Aryan eugenic unions, and implementing the Final Solution. This is a probing look at the Gestapo and the fanatics and megalomaniacs who made it such a successful and heinous organization—Barbie, Eichmann, Himmler, Heydrich, Müller. The Gestapo's notorious reign led to the murder of millions. The Gestapo is an important documentation of what they did and how they did it.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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