The Nazi Apparatus of Terror: SS, SA, Police

doi:10.1017/9781108990158.005

2 - The Nazi Apparatus of Terror: SS, SA, Police

from Part I - Structures, Players, and Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2025

Jochen Böhler

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Mary Fulbrook and

Jürgen Matthäus

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Mary Fulbrook: Affiliation:
University College London
Jürgen Matthäus: Affiliation:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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This chapter exemplifies key areas of regime terror (concentration camps; police and judiciary; forced labor; media control) and their agents (hierarchies in the Reich and occupied territories); explains the scope, transformation and limitations of the terror apparatus after the beginning of the war; discusses the regime’s tendency to combine stoking fear with cooptation/integration; and explains the relevance of postwar legal/political discussions (IMT and beyond) of (German) culpability.

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concentration camps terror SS police

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 51 - 71

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108990158.005 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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