Gestapo

Edward Crankshaw (1909 - 1984) was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs.Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in the Nonconformist public school, Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. He started working as a journalist for a few months at The Times. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German caused him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return he went back to write for The Times and began to write reviews - mostly musical - for The Spectator, The Bookman, and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth. Crankshaw's book on Nazi terror, Gestapo (1956), was widely read and in 1963 he began to produce the ambitious literary works, often on historical or monumental moments in Russian Political history.

• IntroductionAcknowledgements1 The Gestapo is Born2 Himmler and the S.S.3 Heydrich and the S.D.4 Gestapo and Revolution5 Vendetta and Intrigue6 Confusion as a Fine Art7 The Totalitarian State8 Gestapo Ueber Alles10 The Dustbin of the Rich11 Streamlined Violence12 The Gestapo Goes to War13 Terror and Extermination14 The Final Solution15 Massacre in the East16 Auschwitz17 Night and Fog in the West18 Full CircleA Note on the Author