Episode 119 [PATREON EXCLUSIVE] -- American Gestapo

As ICE descends on multiple American cities, abducts and maims people, kidnaps children, hits toddlers with teargas, and kills people just for standing up for them, one frequent comparison is with the German gestapo of the 1930s. This episode delves into that comparison, and into the story of the "Geheime Staatspolizei", its origins and its function in the "Third Reich".

Here are some of the books we cite in this episode:

Robert Gellately, The Gestapo and German Society

Frank McDonough, The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

Eric A. Johnson, Nazi terror : the Gestapo, Jews and ordinary Germans