Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper, Ph.D., is a long-standing research assistant and senior archivist at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance.

• List of Figures and ChartsAcknowledgementsNotes on Text and TransliterationList of AbbreviationsGlossaryIntroductionChapter 1. The Gestapo as the Central Terror Instrument of the Nazi RegimeChapter 2. Establishment of the Gestapo in Austria and of Its Regional Headquarters in ViennaChapter 3. Hotel Metropole: Headquarters of the Vienna GestapoChapter 4. The Gestapo in the Network of the SS and Political Structures – Organization of the Vienna GestapoChapter 5. The Officials and Employees of the Vienna GestapoChapter 6. Working Procedures and Methods of the Vienna GestapoChapter 7. Informants and Cell Spies – ‘Radio Games’Chapter 8. DenunciationsChapter 9. Mass ArrestsChapter 10. The Vienna Gestapo and the Persecution of the JewsChapter 11. Persecution of the Catholic Church and other Religious BodiesChapter 12. Suppression of Organized ResistanceChapter 13. Suppression of Non-organized ResistanceChapter 14. Oberlanzendorf ‘Labour Education Camp’Chapter 15. Vienna Gestapo Officials on ‘External Deployment’Chapter 16. End-Phase CrimesChapter 17. The End of the Vienna GestapoChapter 18. Prosecution of Vienna Gestapo OfficialsSummary and ConclusionBibliographyIndex

“An outstanding new study about the largest regional Gestapo headquarters in Hitler’s realm.” • American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance