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How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case files, Enemies of the People explores the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Examining the Gestapo's policy of 'selective enforcement', J. Ryan Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing exclusively through ...

Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. ...

White wooden crucifix (grave marker) in a wide open field. A horse and plow move through BG. VS, wide angle and CU of Dubno prison. Four old women, sitting on a cement floor sorting through bits of rags. Dissolves into scene in a factory, several looms at work. Men operating the machines. VS pulleys, CU men at the machines. VS workers and peasants at work, in tattered clothing, MS and CU men, women ...

In der Opferdatenbank werden die Opfer des nationalsozialistischen Terrors der Jahre 1938–1945 im Burgenland namentlich erfasst. Es geht um Personen, die infolge von Zwangsmaßnahmen der SS, Polizei oder Wehrmacht verstorben sind, die von NS-Gerichten zum Tode verurteilt, die aufgrund der "Rasse", religiöser oder sexueller Orientierung ermordet wurden, dem nationalsozialistischen Euthanasieprogramm ...

"UN Leaders Meet in Middle East" President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek in Cairo. Shows Madame Chiang. According to UN contents sheet: "The leaders of China, Great Britain and the United States...meet face to face for the first time...The High Commands of the United Nations powers mapping the blows that will strip Japan of the vast empire gained through fifty years of terror and ...

Throughout World War I, Hitler never rose above the rank of Lance Corporal, and beforehand had been an impoverished drifter. Yet within a few months he had embarked on the path that was to lead Europe into years of war, terror and the Holocaust. This book looks at the events that changed him. 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

A fictionalized account of the terror that engulfed the Jewish people of Kovno, Lithuania, when the Germans invaded the city in 1941. "Intended for young teenagers." 324 pages ; 22 cm

"The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force. Popularly depicted as a central part of an all-powerful 'Big Brother' Nazi totalitarian police state, its primary aim was to hunt down 'the enemies of the people'. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing stories of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 432. Release date, 09/10/1945. According to UN advance information: "Hiroshima-Atomic Bomb Target No. 1" When Col. Paul Tibbetts, Jr. winged his Superfortress over Hiroshima, that metropolis became the first target city for the new destructive terror--the Atomic Bomb. This single bomb, equal to 20,000 tons of TNT in explosive power, levelled 70% of the city, killed ...

Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule, Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution' and a key springboard for the ascent of Heinrich Himmler and the SS to control of the Third Reich's terror and policing apparatus. ...

An Army rifle company, struggles against death, depression, and cowardice during the invasion of Guadalcanal in World War II. The author presents a realistic depiction of battle where ordinary people experience a mix of murder, fear, homosexuality, dread, helplessness, frustration, meanness, terror, and emptiness.