Transcription of The Gestapo: Control Through Fear
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90 The Gestapo: Control Through Fear91 Jill LauermanJill Lauerman is a graduate student in the Historyprogram. This paper was written for a seminar inEuropean history with Dr. Dan word Gestapo conjures up images of arrests, strangedisappearances, beatings, concentration camps and above allfear. From 1933 until 1945, the Gestapo established andenforced a reputation of terror among the German reputation helped the Gestapo to effectively carry out Nazipolicies against the Jews and other enemies of the regime, aswell as keeping the rest of the German society in line. TheGestapo will be remembered as one of the most feared groups inthe Nazi regime because of the terror it inflicted on Germansociety. Despite this world view, a topic of interest for historiansis whether or not the techniques used by the Gestapo has any realimpact on society?
8 Bernt Engelmann, In Hitler’s Germany: Daily Life in the Third Reich, trans. Krishna Winston (New York: Pantheon Books, 1986), 41. 95 of the Gestapo. Fear of being sent to the concentration camps also forced people to change their behaviors. The camps were
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