The Gestapo Power and Terror in the Third Reich

Tells the true story behind the Nazis' infamous secret police force, using the very latest research. Tracing the history of the organization from its origins in the Weimar Republic, through the crimes of the Nazi period, to the fate of former Gestapo officers after World War II, German historians Carsten Dams and Michael Stolle investigate how the Gestapo really worked - and question many of the myths that have long surrounded it.