Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans

Eric A. Johnson

Basic Books, 2000 - History - 636 pages

Nazi Terror tackles the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship head on by focusing on the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work. Based on years of research in Gestapo archives, on more than 1,100 Gestapo and "special court" case files, and on surveys and interviews with German perpetrators, Jewish victims and ordinary Germans who experienced the Third Reich firsthand, Johnson's book settles many nagging questions about who, exactly, was responsible for what, who knew what, and when they knew it. Nazi Terror is the most fine-grained portrait we may ever have of the mechanism of terror in a dictatorship.

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Incredible research, difficult topic (obvi), well worth reading.

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User Review  - Thomas - Goodreads

A very long, and dry read. Regardless, the material conveyed was insightful and fascinating. The level of research and writing, academic or otherwise, that has been produced on the crimes committed by ...

About the author

Eric A. Johnson is the author of Urbanization and Crime: Germany 1871-1914 and The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages. A professor of history at Central Michigan University and a fellow of The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, he lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Eric A. Johnson is the author of Urbanization and Crime: Germany 1871-1914 and The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages. A professor of history at Central Michigan University and a fellow of The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, he lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans
• Author: Eric A. Johnson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Basic Books, 2000
• ISBN: 0465049087, 9780465049080
• Length: 636 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Germany; History / Holocaust; History / Military / World War II