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Informationen zum Autor Edward Crankshaw (1909 - 1984) was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs. Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in a non-conformist public school, Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. He began his career as a journalist at The Times , a position he only held for a few months. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German led him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return to England he went back to working for The Times and also began to write reviews-mostly musical-for The Spectator , The Bookman , and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth. Crankshaw's book on Nazi terror, Gestapo (1956), was widely read; in 1963 he began to produce more ambitious literary works, often on historical or monumental moments in Russian Political history. Klappentext The Grim story of the most vicious Terror Agency of all time-Its sinister Power and Barbaric acts, and the twisted men who led it-Hitler, Himmler, and Eichmann. This is the brutal expose of the rotten core of Nazi Germany. Here is revealed the true story of Hitler's terror police, the in-famous Gestapo-the madmen who headed it, the sadists who staffed it, the degenerate party that spawned it. Zusammenfassung The Grim story of the most vicious Terror Agency of all time-Its sinister Power and Barbaric acts, and the twisted men who led it-Hitler, Himmler, and Eichmann.This is the brutal expose of the rotten core of Nazi Germany.Here is revealed the true story of Hitler's terror police, the in-famous Gestapo-the madmen who headed it, the sadists who staffed it, the degenerate party that spawned it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Acknowledgements 1 The Gestapo is Born 2 Himmler and the S.S. 3 Heydrich and the S.D. 4 Gestapo and Revolution 5 Vendetta and Intrigue 6 Confusion as a Fine Art 7 The Totalitarian State 8 Gestapo Ueber Alles 10 The Dustbin of the Rich 11 Streamlined Violence 12 The Gestapo Goes to War 13 Terror and Extermination 14 The Final Solution 15 Massacre in the East 16 Auschwitz 17 Night and Fog in the West 18 Full Circle A Note on the Author ...
