Topography Of Terror: Gestapo, SS and Reichssicherheitshauptamt on the "Prinz-Albrecht-Terrain"- a documentation (1989) By Reinhard Rurup (Editor), Werner T. Angress (Translator), Frank Dingel (Collaborator)
"The documentation was put together as part of the exhibition 'Berlin, Berlin--the exhibition about the history of the city' in the Martin-Gropius-Bau, and opened on July 4th, 1987"
It aims to inform about the institutions that were operative in the area, the administrative center of the SS-State, between 1933 and 1945, about their organization and structure, their ways of functioning and the effects of their activities.
Table of Contents
Administrative center of the SS-state: addresses and institutions --
History of the city district and its buildings --
A quiet area at the edge of the city (1732-1880) --
Career of a city district (1880-1918) --
Changes and crisis (1818-33) --
Institutions of terror --
The Reichsführer-SS and his empire --
Assumption of power and early terror --
The secret state police --
The security service of the Reichsführer-SS --
The Reich security main office --
Gestapo prison ["Hausgefängnis"] and political prisoners (1933-39) --
"Protective custody" --
Concentration camps --
Persecution, extermination, resistance --
The German Jews 1933-38 --
The German Jews 1939-45 --
The Gypsies --
Nazi rule in Europe: Poland --
Nazi rule in Europe: Soviet Union --
Nazi rule in Europe: other countries --
Political resistance and Gestapo prison ["Hausgefängnis"] (1939-45) --
From destruction to rediscovery --
Bombs and ruins --
The first postwar years --
History made invisible --
Return of a repressed past --
The interim solution.
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