Nazi Terror

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"With carefully grounded archival research and interviews, Eric Johnson adds an insightful contribution to the issue of ordinary Germans and responsibility for the Holocaust." -CHARLES S. MAIER, Director, Center for European Studies, Harvard University "How powerful was the Gestapo? What role did ordinary Germans play in implementing the Nazis' policies of racial and political oppression? These and other hotly-debated questions pertaining to the Third Reich and the Holocaust are penetratingly examined in this remarkable book. Using largely untapped primary sources, Eric Johnson shows how the persecution apparatus functioned at the grassroots level. His book is the most convincing and level-headed treatment to date on the nature and scope of the Nazi terror." -DÁVID CLAY LARGE, author of Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich "A superb and fascinating read. I have always thought that the idea of Nazi terror has to be revised considerably and this book takes a giant... Tovább

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"With carefully grounded archival research and interviews, Eric Johnson adds an insightful contribution to the issue of ordinary Germans and responsibility for the Holocaust." -CHARLES S. MAIER, Director, Center for European Studies, Harvard University "How powerful was the Gestapo? What role did ordinary Germans play in implementing the Nazis' policies of racial and political oppression? These and other hotly-debated questions pertaining to the Third Reich and the Holocaust are penetratingly examined in this remarkable book. Using largely untapped primary sources, Eric Johnson shows how the persecution apparatus functioned at the grassroots level. His book is the most convincing and level-headed treatment to date on the nature and scope of the Nazi terror." -DÁVID CLAY LARGE, author of Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich "A superb and fascinating read. I have always thought that the idea of Nazi terror has to be revised considerably and this book takes a giant step in that direction. It should make a complete hash of Goldhagen's thesis." -GEORGE L. MOSSE, author of The Crisis of Germán Ideology and Fallen Soldiers "This is not simply one more study of the horrors of the Third Reich. Through his meticulous attention to the personal involvement of 'ordinary' people, Johnson is uniquely able to illuminate the nature of everyday life under Nazism [and] a society that, despite all its later denials, increasingly came to understand its own murderous, genocidal nature." -STEVEN ASCHHEIM, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Vissza