Doing „Volksgemeinschaft": Wissensproduktion und Ordnungshandeln der Geheimen Staatspolizei. (German)

When the National Socialists came to power, the Gestapo gained access to the card files of the Prussian Secret Police. The Nazis' Secret State Police quickly recognized the potential of such repositories of knowledge for the regime's mission to realize the "Volksgemeinschaft." In the following years, it massively expanded its card indexes and developed them into a central resource for its relentless work, meticulously recording its brutal efforts to implement the National Socialist's vision of a social order. This paper reconstructs the Gestapo's doing of the 'Volksgemeinschaft' and emphasizes the complex dynamics of this process by digitally analyzing the card index of the Gestapo's Osnabrück branch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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