Awards

• Winner of Honorable Mention in for Central European History Group Book Prize 1992 (one of two `runners up' - winner Kaplan: Jewish Middle Class).

Overview

This book is an examination of the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. How were the Gestapo able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially `crimes' pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life? How could the police enforce policies such as those designed to isolate the Jews, or the foreign workers brought to Germany after 1939, with such scrupulousness and apparent ease? Robert Gellately argues that the key factor in the `successful' enforcement of Nazi racial policy was the willingness of German citizens to provide the authorities with information about suspected `criminality'. He does not charge the nation with `collective guilt', but demonstrates that, without some degree of popular participation in the operations of institutions such as the Gestapo, the regime would have been seriously hampered not only inside Germany, but also in many of the occupied countries.

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`... he has brought some fascinating and disturbing material to light ...' Richard Evans, Jewish Chronicle `This book deserves a wide readership because it helps redress the balance of much current research.' W. Carr, History Today `well-written and scholarly ... This book deserves a wide readership because it helps redress the balance of much current research.' W. Carr, History Today, Vol.40, December 1990 `well-written and scholarly ... This book deserves a wide readership because it helps redress the balance of much current research.' History Today `Gellately's observations are valuable and disturbing.' Times Literary Supplement `based on a meticulous analysis of some of the few surviving local Gestapo archives ... he has brought some fascinating and disturbing material to light, and raised a whole new set of questions about the nature of ideological enforcement and popular collusion in the Third Reich. This is no mean achievement.' Richard Evans, Jewish Chronicle `This convincingly argued and meticulously researched and documented book makes an important contribution to redressing the balance ... fascinating and original contribution to the social and administrative history of the Third Reich.' Charlie Jeffery, University of Leicester, Politics and Society in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Vol 4 No.1, 1991 `One of the book's strengths is the wealth of individual case material presented, which makes it fascinating, if depressing, reading ... this is a substantial study which makes an important contribution to the social and institutional history of the Third Reich and to research on the fate of the Jews.' Elizabeth Harvey, University of Liverpool, Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1991 `This convincingly argued and meticulously researched and documented book makes an important contribution ... fascinating and original contributon to the social and administrative history of the Third Reich.' Charlie Jeffery, University of Leicester, Politics and Society in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, 1. 1991

'well-written and scholarly ... This book deserves a wide readership because it helps redress the balance of much current research.' History Today 'well-written and scholarly ... This book deserves a wide readership because it helps redress the balance of much current research.' History Today 'Gellately's observations are valuable and disturbing.' Times Literary Supplement

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