Dictatorship and Political Police The Technique of Control by Fear
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In this offering we have a 1945 edition of Dictatorship and Political Police, The Technique of Control by Fear; from the International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction, Written by E.K. Bramstedt (Ernst Kahn Bramstedt) and Edited by Dr. Karl Mannheim. Published by the Oxford University Press, New York, 1945.
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Title of Book:
Dictatorship and Political Police
Author:
Ernst Kahn Bramstedt
Editor:
Dr. Karl Mannheim
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (New York)
Date Published/Copyright Date:
1945
Contents:
Foreward (by E. K. Bramstedt)
Introduction: Three Pertinent Questions
Part One: Two Test Cases From History
Chap
I. The Political Police Under Napoleon I
1. The Cry for Security as a Motive for Napoleon’s Dictatorship
2. Fouche: the Career of a Political Cynic
3. The System of Fouche’s Political Police
4. Fouche’s Bulletins and Napoleon’s Orders
5. The Treatment of Political Prisoners
6. Policing the Press
7. The Intellegentsia under the Regime–the Trials of Mme de Stael.
II. The Political Police under Napoleon III
1. Louis Bonaparte as a Dictator
2. Measures of Repression and of Control
3. Organization and Tasks of the Political Police
4. The Technique of Resistance
Part Two: Secret Control in Our Time
Close up of front cover of Dictatorship and Political Police
(As developed by Fascism and National Socialism)
I. Mussolini’s Ovra
1. The Origins of the Fascist Secret Police
2. The “Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State”
3. Organization and Personnel of the Ovra
4. Methods of the Ovra
II. The SS: The Forming of an Elite Force
1. Party and State
2. Himmler
3. The Early History of the SS
4. The Purge of June 1934 and its Meaning
5. The Training of a Leading Caste
6. Code and Ideology
7. Organization.
a. The General SS
b. The Professional SS
c. The Waffen SS
8. The Function of the Waffen SS as a Super-Police Force
a. A significant document
b. The purge of the “traitor-generals” in July, 1944
c. Foreign auxiliaries of the Waffen SS
III. The Gestapo: Structure and Developement
1. Before its Centralization under Himmler (1933-34)
2. Himmler introduces the “Soldier-Official”
3. The New Significance of the Political Police
4. Organization and Scope of the Gestapo
a. The set-up of the German Police
b. The position of the Gestapo
c. SS Finance
5. The SS Intelligence Servie (Sicherheitsdienst)
IV. Organized Hell: The Concentration Camp
1. “I Shall Spread Terror”
2. Categories of Prisoners
3. Degrees of Punishment
4. The Behaviour of SS Guards
5. Prisoners Amongst Themselves
Part Three: Terror and Resistance
I. Techniques of Terror
1. An Attitude of Contempt
2. Techniques of Control and Destruction
a. Methods of gathering information
b. Methods of collective detention
c. Methods of intimidation
d. Methods of elimination
3. The Annihilation of Potential Leaders
II. Lawlessness Legalized
1. “Right” vs. “Law”
2. The Gestapo “Justifies” its Deeds
III. Propaganda and Terror
1. The Totalitarian Monopoly of Propaganda
2. Some Aspects of the Relationship between Propaganda and Terror
a. Propaganda for terror
b. Terror without propaganda
c. Propaganda through terror
IV. The Impact of the Secret Police on the People
1. The Myth of the Secret Police
2. Suspicion and Renunciation
3. Other Reactions
4. Outlets and Escape-valves
a. Rumours
b. Allusions and hints
c. Political Jokes
V. Hitting Back–Resistance in Germany 1933 – 39
1. Resisting Workers
a. Socialist re-adjustment after 1933
b. Two types of underground organization
2. Religious Opposition
a. The Gestapo persecutes Catholic Priests
b. Pastor Niemoller and the Confessional Church
VI. Hitting Back (Continued) — Resistance in Occupied Countries 1940 – 44
1. Three Attitudes of Reaction to the Occupation
2. The Problems of Re-adjustment (The Dutch Case)
3. Do’s and Dont’s, Guidance to Proper Behaviour
4. The Clandestine Press
a. Some Polish instructions
b. Some Belgian instructions
c. National and political variety
d. Technical problems
e. Tricks of camouflage
f. Heavy odds
5. Passive Resistance (The Norwegian Case)
Conclusion: On the Road to the Future — Legacies and Lessons
1. Neurosis from Total Control and the Chances of Neo-Fascism
2. Two Major lessons
3. Social Integration in War and in Peace
4. The Problem of Germany
Appendices
a. The Mentality of Heinrich Himmler
b. A Session of the German People’s Court in Berlin
c. Conditions in a Prison for Political Prisoners in Milan
d. A Secret Network of the Rexist Party in Belgium
e. The Conqueror’s Imprint
Notes and References
Index
The Foreward of this book is as follows:
As its aims are set out in the Introduction, it is perhaps sufficient to mention here that this book was begun in the summer of 1942 and finished in August 1944. A few notes here and there in the text and the Appendices were added at the beginning of 1945 to bring the material up to date so far as it was possible under the difficult circumstances of war-time.
The chapter on the Italian Political Police was largely written on the basis of material compiled by Miss R. Lowenstein, who lived in Italy until 1939. Mrs. T. K. C. Cordes has revised the style of several chapters and Miss Joan Osborne has assisted in reading the proofs. Mr. Herbert Read was good enough to discuss problems of editing with me. To all these persons I wish to convey my sincere thanks. The responsibility for the views expressed in the book are, however, entirely mine. These pages could never have reached the press without the continued help given by my wife. My particular thanks are also due to her for the many hours spent in typing the draft.
I further acknowledge the courtesy of the Polish Ministry of the Interior in London for allowing me in 1942 to make use of one of its reports on the persecution of the Polish Jews by the Nazis. The full sources of material used will be found in the notes at the back of the book, but I wish particularly to record here my debt to the works of F. A. Simpson; J. Galtier-Boissiere; G. Salvimini; H. Rauschning; M. Dodd and P. Wallner.
E.K.B.
London, February 1945
*** End of Foreward***
275 Pages in all, this book a complete case study on the political police necessary to impose and maintain a
Here is the Spine on our copy of Dictatorship and Political Police
dictatorship, starting with Napoleon in France and concluding with Hitler in Germany (WW II).
The book is Ex-Libris (library) from the Mary Reed Library at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
The pages do have some yellowing and someone has written very few notes in the book. On the title page the Dewey Decimal # and the Authors Full Name are neatly printed.
Pages 52 and 53 contain a couple of notes (6 neatly written lines in the margins) and a couple of hand made brackets around a few lines of text, about the OVRA in Mussolini’s Italy. On page 201 is a light pencil mark after “of their own free will” in the 15th line on the page.
Pages 228 and 229 contain several dark brown spots which are all less than or about the size of one letter, although none of them actually block out any letters or words.
The cover is in good shape and the spine is still good. There is some paper torn on the inside of the books back cover, exposing the inside of the spine, but otherwise it’s in good condition. Coloring is good with the cover being green and the lettering on the cover and the spine being gold. Library number is on the lower third of the spine, along with being written on the title page.
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