Introduction: Three Pertinent Questions; Part 1 Two Test Cases from History; Part 1 Chapter 1 The Political Police Under Napoleon I; Part 1 Chapter 2 The Political Police Under Napoleon III; Part 2 Secret Control in Our Time; Part 2 Chapter 1 Mussolini's Ovra; Part 2 Chapter 2 The SS—The Forming of An &lite Force; Part 2 Chapter 3 The Gestapo : Structure and Development; Part 2 Chapter 4 Organized Hell: The Concentration Camp; Part 3 Terror and Resistance; Part 3 Chapter 1 Techniques of Terror; Part 3 Chapter 2 Lawlessness Legalized; Part 3 Chapter 3 Propaganda and Terror; Part 3 Chapter 4 The Impact of the Secret Police on the People; Part 3 Chapter 5 Hitting Back; Part 3 Chapter 6 Hitting Back (continued);