Nazi Spies, Policing, and Gender

Was Hildegaard Beetz a lovestruck secretary or international woman of mystery spying for the Nazis? How did the Gestapo police women for political offences? In a grab bag episode, Jim Retallack tells us how his new book about political culture in the Kaiserreich suggests 1933 as a vanishing point and we conclude our discussion with Katrin Pahler about intelligence in the Third Reich. H-net News: Janosch Steuwer reviews Andre Postert’s Hitlerjunge Schall https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-26789 Call for papers on industrial vigilantism, strikebreaking, and patterns of anti-labour violence 1890s-1930s in comparative and transnational perspective https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-37331