Family punishment in Nazi Germany : Sippenhaft, terror and myth / Robert Loeffel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Sippenhaft, Terror and Fear : The Historiography of the Nazi Terror State -- The Consent and Coercion Debate -- Method of Transmission -- Importance of Rumour in Nazi Germany -- Outline of this Book -- A Word on Sources -- Conclusion -- PART I: SIPPENHAFT AND GERMAN SOCIETY, 1933-1945 -- Sippenhaft and the Rise to Power -- Sippenhaft and Resistance during Second World War -- The German Home Front after Stalingrad -- Conclusion -- PART II: "IMPRISONMENT OF RELATIVES, LIFE OR LIBERTY" : SIPPENHAFT AND THE WEHRMACHT -- The Foundation of Sippenhaft in the Wehrmacht -- Sippenhaft and the Wehrmacht, 1939-1944 -- Sippenhaft against Volksdeutche Germans -- Sippenhaft after the 20 July 1944 -- Codification of Terror -- Conclusion -- PART III: SIPPENHAFT AND THE NKFD AND THE BDO -- Background -- The German Reaction -- Cherkassy -- Effect of 20 July 1944 181 -- The Limits of Sippenhaft -- Sippenhaft and the Political Significance of the NKFD and BDO -- Conclusion -- PART IV: "IF A MAN IN THIS REICH IS UNTRUE, THEN HE AND HIS FAMILY WILL BE PUNISHED" -- Sippenhaft and the 20 July 1944 -- Establishing Sippenhaft and 20 July 1944 -- Sippenhaft put into Effect -- Continuing Rhetoric, Fear, Expansion and Limitations of Sippenhaft -- The Fate of the von Stauffenberg Family -- The Transformation of Sippenhaft and the 20 July 1944 -- Challenging Terror: Interventions, Representations and Release -- Confusion and Fear -- Those that Remained in Sippenhaft Detention -- Conclusion -- PART V: SIPPENHAFT KINDERHEIM : THE CHILDREN IN BAD SACHSA -- The Sippenhaft Prisoners of Bad Sachsa -- Life in the Camp: Determining Intention -- A Change of Plan -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.