Verschärfte Vernehmung Or, As We Know It, Enhanced Interrogation
With the release of the Senate torture report, I took a look back to see if I'd ever done a post on torture, either in our present context or as…
Doctors In the Third Reich
Given the Nazi emphasis on the maintenance both of pure blood and the body of the German volk, it should surprise no one that the Nazis had a special interest…
Block Wardens: The Eyes and Ears of the Gestapo
One of the things that surprised me when I started researching the Nazi police apparatus for Summer of Long Knives was how small the Gestapo really was: 40,000 agents and staff to…
Wilhelm Frick: The Man Who Nazified Germany
Frick was many things to the Nazi party. As one of their earliest members of parliament he drafted legislation which would eventually become the Nuremberg Laws. Frick was also the…
Reinhard Heydrich: The Young Evil God of Death
Like all the most ambitious people, Reinhard Heydrich was a collector of titles: SS Obergruppenfuehrer, Head of the SD, Head of the Prussian Gestapo, Head of Gestapo for the Reich,…