Gestapo: NS-Terror on the spot. The Staatspolizeistelle Trier in the southern Rhineland.

盖世太保是纳粹独裁政权权力结构的核心组成部分。由于档案证据的破坏，它如何为政权的意识形态目标的实现及其政治生存发挥作用和实际作用的问题仍然是最近国家社会主义历史研究的中心话题。该项目的目的是通过对特里尔周围南莱茵兰边境地区（Regierungsbezirk Trier）的一个有充分记录的区域案例研究来分析盖世太保的作用，重点关注三个主要方面：-法律行政部门，法院和地区盖世太保单位之间的合作和冲突。-盖世太保作为新国家社会主义“人民共同体”（Volksgemeinschaft）包容或排斥的中心实例的作用，独裁统治的新社会秩序，以及地区盖世太保作为政权监督者或新社会秩序保管人的不同方式。-盖世太保区域组织的结构和功能，其管理实践，物质资源和行动自由。非正式的个人网络对于更好地理解盖世太保这样一个高度流动和快速发展的组织的运作是特别有意义的。这个项目是基于特里尔国家警察的新档案材料（起诉文件），这些材料最近在文森的法国国家军事档案馆中公开，以及来自纳粹政权的各种政党或国家办公室的大量关于地区盖世太保的资料。这个档案基础可以让我们深入了解盖世太保在南莱茵兰边境地区活动的所有主要方面。该项目涵盖了纳粹独裁统治的整个12年，但也展望了1945年后前盖世太保成员被悄悄纳入西德社会，并回顾了魏玛时期在普鲁士和帝国边境地区的政治控制活动。

The Gestapo was a central element of the power structure of the Nazidictatorship. Due to the destruction of archival evidence the questionhow it functioned and practically worked for the implementation of theideological goals of the regime and for its political survival is still acentral topic of recent historical research on national socialism. Theproject’s aim is to analyze the role of the Gestapo by means of a welldocumented regional case study of the borderregion of the SouthernRhineland around Trier (Regierungsbezirk Trier) focusing on three mainaspects: - The cooperation and conflicts between law administration, law courtsand the regional Gestapo unit. - The role of the Gestapo as a centralinstance of inclusion or exclusion into the new national socialist“Volksgemeinschaft”, the new social order of the dictatorship, and thedifferent ways the regional Gestapo acted as a watchdog of theregime or as custodian of the new social order. - The structure andfunctioning of the regional organisation of the Gestapo, its practices ofadministration, its material resources and its freedom of action.Informal personal networks are of particular interest to betterunderstand the functioning of a highly mobile and fast growingorganization like the Gestapo. - The project is based on new archivalmaterial (prosecution files) of the Staatspolizeistelle Trier recentlymade accessible in the French national military archives in Vincennesand a huge collection of sources referring to the regional Gestapocoming from all kinds of party or state offices of the Nazi regime. Thisarchival basis allows insights into all main aspects of the activities ofthe regional Gestapo in this borderregion of the southern Rhineland.The project covers the whole 12 years of the Nazi dictatorship butlooks also forward at the silent inclusion of former Gestapo membersinto the West German society after 1945 and backwards at thepolitical control activities during the Weimar period in this borderregion of Prussia and the Reich.