{"product_id":"9780930852399","title":"Inside The Gestapo","description":"The fascinating first-hand account by a top defector of the ruthlessness, spy intrigues and curious personalities of the Third Reich. A unique and intimate record, full of surprises, sardonic wit and tragic endings.\u003cp\u003e\"Gestapo tactics:\" Espionage, intrigue, and subversion. Cunning, cynical, and ruthless in exploiting every human weakness - and murdering anyone who got in the way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKoehler was a special agent working for the top Nazi cop Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, the Secret State Police. He earns his spurs as spying in France, disguised as a Trotskyist refugee, laying the groundwork for Germany to annex these provinces, and matching wits with French and Communist intelligence services. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA keen observer and skilful narrator, Koehler reveals how the Gestapo secretly financed and supported the Rumanian Iron Guard and the Spanish Fascists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he is sent undercover to a concentration camp to finger a fugitive. What he sees there, and the flogging that puts him in hospital, sows the seeds of his plan to escape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis next mission is to recover \"The Fatal File\" - documents showing that Hitler's grandmother became pregnant while working as a maid in the Rothschild mansion in Vienna - the Austrian chancellor's secret blackmail weapon to hold Nazi Germany at bay. Heydrich advises Koehler to employ a beautiful Countess to inveigle the file - Austria is disarmed - and the Wehrmacht marches into Austria. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKoehler is then promoted to the detail guarding Hitler's residence in the Alps, and gets his chance to escape to Switzerland, where he writes INSIDE THE GESTAPO. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1943 the OSS commissioned a psychological profile of Hitler by Walter Langer, who drew on the revelations in this book. In 1972 Langer followed up with The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report, which became a mass-market bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Progressive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49820626223344,"sku":"9780930852399","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930852399","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}