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Article: Nazi Terror. The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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by Eric A. Johnson. New York, Basic Books, 2000. xx, 636 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cloth), $21.00 U.S. (paper).
Nazi Terror is Eric A. Johnson's attempt to evaluate the magnitude and extent of Gestapo terror in everyday German life and its role in the Holocaust. He makes use of primary archival research material from three Rhineland communities: the Special Court records of Bergheim (nearly one hundred files), the Gestapo case files for Krefeld (more than one hundred), and "a random sample of more than nine hundred Gestapo and Special Court case files (dealing with all segments of the German population) for the cities of Cologne and Krefeld" (p. 25). He augments this ...