Description
Book Synopsis The Vienna Gestapo headquarters was the largest of its kind in the German Reich and the most important instrument of Nazi terror in Austria, responsible for the persecution of Jews, suppression of resistance and policing of forced labourers. Of the more than fifty thousand people arrested by the Vienna Gestapo, many were subjected to torturous interrogation before being either sent to concentration camps or handed over to the Nazi judiciary for prosecution. This comprehensive survey by three expert historians focuses on these victims of repression and persecution as well as the structure of the Vienna Gestapo and the perpetrators of its crimes.
Trade Review “An outstanding new study about the largest regional Gestapo headquarters in Hitler’s realm.” • American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance
Table of Contents List of Figures and Charts
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text and Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Gestapo as the Central Terror Instrument of the Nazi Regime
Chapter 2. Establishment of the Gestapo in Austria and of Its Regional Headquarters in Vienna
Chapter 3. Hotel Metropole: Headquarters of the Vienna Gestapo
Chapter 4. The Gestapo in the Network of the SS and Political Structures – Organization of the Vienna Gestapo
Chapter 5. The Officials and Employees of the Vienna Gestapo
Chapter 6. Working Procedures and Methods of the Vienna Gestapo
Chapter 7. Informants and Cell Spies – ‘Radio Games’
Chapter 8. Denunciations
Chapter 9. Mass Arrests
Chapter 10. The Vienna Gestapo and the Persecution of the Jews
Chapter 11. Persecution of the Catholic Church and other Religious Bodies
Chapter 12. Suppression of Organized Resistance
Chapter 13. Suppression of Non-organized Resistance
Chapter 14. Oberlanzendorf ‘Labour Education Camp’
Chapter 15. Vienna Gestapo Officials on ‘External Deployment’
Chapter 16. End-Phase Crimes
Chapter 17. The End of the Vienna Gestapo
Chapter 18. Prosecution of Vienna Gestapo Officials
Summary and Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
