In the quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history.Įxplore the most technologically advanced plane of World War II, the Messerschmitt Me262, a fighter jet that inspired a revolution in aerial warfare. The first ever long-range rockets were designed and built by the Nazis in a network of top-secret research labs, underground silos and hi-tech launch pads.
To create a haven in port for their lethal U-boat submarines, the Nazis built massive, impenetrable concrete submarine pens. I think I would rather live in a society where I worry about secret police spies than a society where I’ve got to worry about everybody.To protect occupied Europe from an Allied invasion, Hitler demanded the construction of a defensive wall stretching thousands of kilometers from France in the south to Norway in the north. As Chris put it, “that almost sounds scarier. Rather than the myth of shadowy organization staffed by ardent Nazis operating a network of spies lurking on every corner, we get a sense for the bureaucratic routines of the criminal police detectives who staffed the organization sorting through letters of denunciation from the public. The chapter uses the Würzburg station as a microcosm to weave together different threads of research spun by other historians who challenged the image of an omniscient and omnipotent secret police. We’ll be looking at Gerhard Paul’s chapter in Die Gestapo: Mythos und Realität about continuities and departures with the Weimar political police in the Würzburg Gestapo’s development.
I’ve just finished editing a forthcoming episode of the podcast that should be of interest to anyone who wants a broader overview of research about the Gestapo up to the mid-1990s.
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