Crime, Identity and Power : Stories of Police Imposters in Nazi Germany
This article is based on research for a larger project on the Nazi police and German society. In the course of studying rare Gestapo files that survive for only three regions of the country, I was struck by one case in which a man was caught by the police and charged with the crime of impersonating...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:chs_821 en https://journals.openedition.org/chs/821 2009-04-02T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dz6m All rights reserved Crime, Identity and Power : Stories of Police Imposters in Nazi Germany Crime, Histoire & Sociétés Librairie Droz info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1663-4837 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1422-0857 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs Gellately, Robert This article is based on research for a larger project on the Nazi police and German society. In the course of studying rare Gestapo files that survive for only three regions of the country, I was struck by one case in which a man was caught by the police and charged with the crime of impersonating a Gestapo official. In subsequent research, I found nearly 150 additional dossiers of people who were accused or suspected of the crime of impersonating a police official, usually a member or officer in the Gestapo. In this essay I map out some of the contours at the grassroots level of the timing, nature, extent, and variety of motives of these impostors, and offer some general reflections about this crime in the Third Reich. Cet article s'inscrit dans un projet de recherche plus ample portant sur les rapports entre la police nazie et la société allemande. En examinant les rares dossiers de la Gestapo, qui n'ont subsisté que dans trois régions du pays, j'ai été frappé par une affaire dans laquelle un homme fut arrêté par la police et mis en cause pour l'infraction d'usurpation de la qualité de fonctionnaire de la Gestapo. En poursuivant ma recherche, j'ai découvert près de 150 autres dossiers relatifs à des usurpations de la qualité de policier, en général de la Gestapo. Dans cet article, j'essaie de montrer concrètement la périodisation, la nature, l'étendue et les différents motifs de ces impostures, et je présente quelques réflexions générales sur ce crime sous le Troisième Reich. |
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This article is based on research for a larger project on the Nazi police and German society. In the course of studying rare Gestapo files that survive for only three regions of the country, I was struck by one case in which a man was caught by the police and charged with the crime of impersonating a Gestapo official. In subsequent research, I found nearly 150 additional dossiers of people who were accused or suspected of the crime of impersonating a police official, usually a member or officer in the Gestapo. In this essay I map out some of the contours at the grassroots level of the timing, nature, extent, and variety of motives of these impostors, and offer some general reflections about this crime in the Third Reich. |
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Crime, Identity and Power : Stories of Police Imposters in Nazi Germany |
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