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要素。由于档案证据的破坏，它如何为实现政权的意识形态目标和政治生存发挥作用和实际作用的问题仍然是近代国家社会主义历史研究的中心议题。该项目的目的是分析盖世太保的作用，通过一个有据可查的区域案例研究的南部莱茵兰边境地区周围特里尔（RegierungsbeenkTrier）集中在三个主要方面：-法律行政，法院和区域盖世太保单位之间的合作和冲突。- 盖世太保作为新的国家社会主义“人民共同体”、独裁政权的新社会秩序的包容或排斥的中心实例的作用，以及地区盖世太保作为政权的监督者或作为新社会秩序的监护人的不同方式。- 盖世太保区域组织的结构和功能，其行政管理实践，物质资源和行动自由。非正式的个人网络对于更好地理解像盖世太保这样高度移动的和快速发展的组织的功能特别有意义。- 该项目的基础是最近在文森斯法国国家军事档案馆提供的特里尔国家警察局的新档案材料（起诉档案）和大量来自纳粹政权各种党或国家办事处的关于区域盖世太保的资料。这个档案的基础允许深入了解该地区盖世太保在莱茵兰南部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无声地融入西德社会，并回顾了魏玛时期普鲁士和赖希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.