A popularly written history of the SS and Gestapo - the main tools of Nazi political and racial terror. Inter alia, highlights the role of these bodies in the "

The true story of the Gestapo - the Nazis' secret police force and the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich.

The military and political police who enforced the policy of genocide are depicted.

Johnson's exhaustive new history tackles terror, the central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship, focusing on the role of the society in making this tactic work, an

For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay p