Edward Crankshaw (1909 - 1984) was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs. Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in the Nonconformist public school, Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. He started working as a journalist for a few months at The Times. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German caused him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return he went back to write for The Times and began to write reviews - mostly musical - for The Spectator, The Bookman, and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth. Crankshaw's book on Nazi terror, Gestapo (1956), was widely read and in 1963 he began to produce the ambitious literary works, often on historical or monumental moments in Russian Political history.
Introduction Acknowledgements 1 The Gestapo is Born 2 Himmler and the S.S.
3 Heydrich and the S.D. 4 Gestapo and Revolution 5 Vendetta and Intrigue 6
Confusion as a Fine Art 7 The Totalitarian State 8 Gestapo Ueber Alles 10
The Dustbin of the Rich 11 Streamlined Violence 12 The Gestapo Goes to War
13 Terror and Extermination 14 The Final Solution 15 Massacre in the East
16 Auschwitz 17 Night and Fog in the West 18 Full Circle A Note on the
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