MODERN GERMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY ON THE MECHANISM FOR CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION OF THE NAZI STATE: GESTAPO AND NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Abstract

The paper describes the process of the 1990s deployment of German historians’ works to analyse the repressive structures of the Third Reich on the basis of regional and European sources. The major trends and research methodology are analyzed in the paper. The novelty of the research and its value for the science and the society are assessed.

Keywords

• nazism
• gestapo
• nazi concentration camps
• german historiography
• mechanism of suppression and control