Carsten Dams is Professor of Police Sciences at the School of Public Management of North-Rhine Westphalia. His main research interests are the history of policing in the twentieth century, and the relationship between policing and violence.Michael Stolle is an Executive Director of the 'House of Competence' at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, responsible for the institute's training and career development programs. He is a specialist in the history of the Gestapo in the Third Reich and has published widely in the field.

• Introduction 1: Foundation and Early Years 2: Development of the Organization 3: Gestapo Collaborators 4: How the Gestapo Worked 5: Persecution in the Reich 6: The Gestapo in Europe 7: The Gestapo after 1945 Conclusion: what is left of the Gestapo? Notes Selected Further Reading Index

this book not only offers a detailed study of the 12-year Gestapo reign of terror, but offers disturbing evidence about how the Gestapo assimilated back into German society

Carsten Dams is Professor of Police Sciences at the School of Public Management of North-Rhine Westphalia. His main research interests are the history of policing in the twentieth century, and the relationship between policing and violence.Michael Stolle is an Executive Director of the 'House of Competence' at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, responsible for the institute's training and career development programs. He is a specialist in the history of the Gestapo in the Third Reich and has published widely in the field.

• Introduction 1: Foundation and Early Years 2: Development of the Organization 3: Gestapo Collaborators 4: How the Gestapo Worked 5: Persecution in the Reich 6: The Gestapo in Europe 7: The Gestapo after 1945 Conclusion: what is left of the Gestapo? Notes Selected Further Reading Index

this book not only offers a detailed study of the 12-year Gestapo reign of terror, but offers disturbing evidence about how the Gestapo assimilated back into German society

Carsten Dams is Professor of Police Sciences at the School of Public Management of North-Rhine Westphalia. His main research interests are the history of policing in the twentieth century, and the relationship between policing and violence.Michael Stolle is an Executive Director of the 'House of Competence' at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, responsible for the institute's training and career development programs. He is a specialist in the history of the Gestapo in the Third Reich and has published widely in the field.

• Introduction 1: Foundation and Early Years 2: Development of the Organization 3: Gestapo Collaborators 4: How the Gestapo Worked 5: Persecution in the Reich 6: The Gestapo in Europe 7: The Gestapo after 1945 Conclusion: what is left of the Gestapo? Notes Selected Further Reading Index

this book not only offers a detailed study of the 12-year Gestapo reign of terror, but offers disturbing evidence about how the Gestapo assimilated back into German society