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EPISODE · Dec 1, 2017 · 1H 7M

The Gestapo: Myths and Realities

from The Third Reich History Podcast · host Ryan Stackhouse and Chris Osmar

How did the Gestapo operate? What were the day-to-day routines of Hitler's political police? What have historians written and rewritten on the subject since 1945? Join us for a discussion about the latest research on Hitler's secret police! In this episode, Chris and Ryan discuss Gerhard Paul's Continuity and Radicalization: Gestapo Station Würzburg. Paul provides a great overview and plenty of excuses to get into the detail about how political police functioned in Nazi Germany. Discussion begins at 14:52 H-net News: Wolfgang G. Schwanitz' review of Stefan Ihrig, Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016).

How did the Gestapo operate? What were the day-to-day routines of Hitler's political police? What have historians written and rewritten on the subject since 1945? Join us for a discussion about the latest research on Hitler's secret police! In this episode, Chris and Ryan discuss Gerhard Paul's Continuity and Radicalization: Gestapo Station Würzburg. Paul provides a great overview and plenty of excuses to get into the detail about how political police functioned in Nazi Germany. Discussion begins at 14:52 H-net News: Wolfgang G. Schwanitz' review of Stefan Ihrig, Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016).

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