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Who had been the Gestapo officials? Were they basically banal newspaper shufflers, or were they recognizably evil? Were they encouraged by an eliminationist anti-Semitism? Have the common German find out about the mass murder of Jews and other undesirables while they were happening? Exactly how was Nazi terror applied in the daily lives of typical Jews and Germans? Eric A. Johnson answers these questions as he explores the functions of the individual and of population in making terror work. Based on years of research in Gestapo archives as well as intensive interviews with perpetrators and subjects, Nazi Terror settles many nagging questions about who, exactly, was responsible for what, who realized what, so when they realized it. It's the most fine-grained family portrait we may ever before have of the mechanism of terror in a dictatorship. Destined to be the classic review of terror in the Nazi dictatorship, and the benchmark for another technology of Nazi and Holocaust scholarship or grant, Nazi Terror tackles the central facet of the Nazi dictatorship head on by focusing on the functions of the individual and of population in making terror work.