With the Gestapo out of love and conviction: Magdalena Siwy, a Gestapo secretary in Moravská Ostrava Cover Image

Gestapačkou z lásky i přesvědčení. Sekretářka Gestapa v Moravské Ostravě Magdalena Siwy
With the Gestapo out of love and conviction: Magdalena Siwy, a Gestapo secretary in Moravská Ostrava

Author(s): Lenka Geidt
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Gestapo; Magdalena Siwy; organisation; Moravská Ostrava; WWII

Summary/Abstract: Love in the time of the Gestapo. That could be the subtitle of Lenky Šteflová- Geidt’s study. It tells the story of Magdalena Siwa, who became a clerk at a Gestapo branch in Ostrava, where she found not just employment but the love of her life, a Gestapo investigator. She was tried after WWII for her actions and sentenced to death.

  • Issue Year: IX/2015
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 88-97
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Czech
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